has its own strategy, there are some additional opportunities with iranian help, how can we adapt to this, what can we counter with these terrorist attacks from the air? land, they decided to use the dominance of the air, especially for drones and medium-range missiles , which ukraine does not have, which ukraine simply cannot do anything in response, that's why the development of our own anti-aircraft defense should be a priority, they will give us now, they will give us maybe next year, but we see that the russian information company, which is aimed

at the population of countries that are our partners, works in the complete absence of a similar information company from the side of ukraine that ukraine finances some moronic freedom channel. and the russian-language channel, which uh, i do russian uh, on the russian-language channel of radio svoboda, but at the same time, we absolutely do not uh, we work with the audience which is critically important for us, so there is a chance and a high probability that the governments will change and the aid to us will definitely not decrease . it has been a tactic for a long time, since the moment when russia, uh, announced that, more precisely, not russia, russia bought about uh, these

giant palalaikas, and informed the development of our partners about it. of air defense, these are anti-aircraft complexes, and to install them near the places of the energy industry, because they are from key nodes in the energy industry and military facilities, because it was clear a long time ago, in the summer, remember, they talked more than once about the fact that in the winter , they will attack the facilities of the energy industry. well , they didn't even wait for it to change in the winter. they were commanding russian forces and one of them appeared , so in this case it's only a matter of ensuring the security of those facilities with the forces. air defense from drones from missiles

well, i understand that they provide such a massive amount that something will fly in, but at least we turned out in this case, we simply did not buy, prepared , did not prepare the actual air defense system, although even a year ago kb luch claimed that for 40 million dollars and two years can make its own unique good air defense system, understands that now if we don't start it, we literally had to start it yesterday, then we will find ourselves in a very difficult situation after the government can theoretically change, and in the west we need to do this to prepare only in such and such a way, i don't see others. and you, personally, how did your family prepare for this winter and how to survive it? we are studying in kyiv, and the only thing that we bought was

gas cylinders and a small burner for so that if there is no light, it would be possible to at least cook something there, some hot old food, and well, it is clear what will happen as simple as it can be very difficult, but especially in cities if there is a complete blackout of electricity and there will be no supply of hot water leading to this is motorization well, then it will be an extremely difficult situation. about that, i am sure that the energy infrastructure of ukraine as it is will not lead to such a situation, and if there are blackouts, then the blackouts will not apply to some critical objects, although , again, you need to prepare for everything and to protect the critical objects of the critical infrastructure. today, it should be a priority

to communicate. well, if only so, buy thermal underwear, buy thermal curlers, which are used by me to keep warm, and other recipes just no thank you, mr. volodymyr, we hope that you won't have to use all kinds of thermal blankets. well, but you have to be ready, let's look at the british in them there. they said that they will have to turn off the electricity for 3 hours , then they are already buying flashlights and generators, what do you mean people who want to think ahead. thank you volodymyr archive people's deputy of ukraine was with us. thank you also for being with us despite the fact that air alarms drove us to shelters that spent these 5 hours in our company andriy saichuk, we'll see you tomorrow at seven in the morning, and now there's an interview with yuriy yuriy fizar, too, with the minister

of foreign affairs of latvia, because yurkov's words to the feeder well, to us and to us and we're going to rest greetings my name is yuriy fizer ukraine and latvia our relations in this very difficult time for us, what help from latvia is coming to us now and how we, together with our brothers and sisters in this country, will fight aggression, push putin from our territory and eventually defeat him about this and other things i will speak with my guest today, this is the minister of foreign affairs of latvia, edgars rinkevich. i welcome you mr. rinkevich, congratulations. thank you very much for joining us today. it really helps us in the fight for

our freedom and for your freedom as well, i will remind our viewers that according to the latest studies of the kiel institute of the world economy, which were published a few days ago latvia took the first place among the countries that help ukraine in proportion to their gdp, and this is quite a lot, and it is about violations of this perspective. ddp and deads white a lot. you, but do you have plans to help ukraine in the near future, first of all, thank you very much for inviting me. i want to say that we believe that your struggle against russian aggression is also our struggle, because we understand that

it is about serious problems of peace and security in in europe and even in the whole world before military aid, at some point we did a lot. i think that now we are number one when it comes to the percentage of gdp, which is 0.9%. but if we talk about the cost, it is 300 million euros. and it is of various kinds military equipment against air for defense weapons howitzers etc. really we are looking for ways and are in constant communication with our ukrainian friends and partners from the ministry of defense and the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine trying to understand what we can to do more, but we also encourage our friends from nato and the european union to do more, so there are some specific options that we are currently considering, but i do not deal with them and do not have the right

to speak about them, because the challenges of war are simply constantly changing, there are great needs in the ukrainian armed forces forces, and if we find an opportunity to help with weapons or in some other way, we will do it. that is, you are going to continue to help us like this, we are constantly providing the armed forces of ukraine. can we both military and not military financial aid. thank you, mr. rynkevych. there are many ukrainians in latvia now. you know the exact number. how many numbers are constantly changing. the latest number, which is more or less stable, is about 40,000 ukrainians

who were registered or who applied for help to both national and local authorities. authorities, but you know. we also see that there is a constant stream of ukrainians crossing the latvian-russian border, those who are trying to escape through russia and from the occupied territories as well we see that some ukrainians are returning to ukraine , now some are using latvia as a transit country, that is, in fact, the figure that we can call more or less stable is 40 thousand. but do you know about the number of ukrainians who are starting to come to latvia ? it was a bit of a

mystery because we saw several hundred citizens of ukraine crossing the border between latvia and russia in the summer and in september. now, for some reason, this flow has stopped and we have a suspicion that it is somehow related to the internal border management of russia and possibly also with the mobilization of the population we don't have an exact reason why the flow has decreased but i would say that most of these people use latvia and lithuania as a transit to reunite with their families or sometimes to simply return to ukraine with no other options but to make such a long journey for such ukrainians, latvia can be a transit point, so most of them cross the border and then go on, some stay, but you see, we do not

necessarily require registration of ukrainians in latvians, if they need any help from the government, they usually register. they get a temporary residence permit or a visa if they have children. they can start their school year here. here is where we see such a figure. if there are people who just stay in latvia for a couple of days and do not ask no advisory help, then we don’t have any information at all. and how many are there? it’s a deliberate political move that we don’t register everyone. so that people don’t have bureaucratic problems. especially if they only come for a couple of days. it’s clear, sir. the minister, representatives of the government of latvia, as well as

representatives of the governments of other baltic countries and the governments of some eastern european countries, including poland , constantly say that they want to see ukraine in nato as soon as possible, we in ukraine must do our homework to become an active member of nato, and to be honest, we are doing it, but that's all - do you personally have some realistic terms in mind? when can this happen, when ukraine can really become a member of nato and when some of your partners from the european union will agree with what you are saying in the baltics and poland. in fact, this is a very simple question for me and my baltic colleagues, because latvia

, together with other baltic countries, has been advocating the membership of ukraine and georgia in nato since 2006-2008 after the bukhara summit. year, unfortunately, as we know, not all vaians at that time shared our solidarity, and also, as you correctly said, the wiled player says that there are such countries as the equator, poland , lithuania, estonia and some other countries that say that we really need to see a certain plan of action, a kind of road map for ukraine to become a member of nato, the opinions of the alliance are still unfortunately different, so i will not make any predictions about the time because, frankly, at the moment it would be, to put it mildly, not very realistic i i want to see

the next discussion at the level of foreign ministers of nato member countries sometime at the end of november, but i also believe that if we cannot set realistic terms or conditions, then at least we need to discuss what nato can do for acceleration of ukraine's membership in the alliance, we do not forget that in bucharest in 2008 we as the alliance directly said that one day ukraine and georgia will become members of nato and we would like this day to come as soon as possible with our partners and allies in nato to develop a clearer policy in this relations for 20 years now, i know that any

unrealistic terms and forecasts are actually harmful to all of ukraine, so let's focus on work so that how with the european union when only 5-6 months ago everyone said that for ukraine the status a candidate for joining the eu is unreal and look what happened after the very active work of the ukrainian government friends in the european union ukraine now has the status of a candidate now it's time to take the next steps i hope we will become a member of the nato bloc as soon as possible as you said on thursday you wrote in i quote on my twitter: no one wants a world war, so we must stop russia now, ministers. and if crazy putin decides to

press the nuclear button, that is why i believe that we should intensify aid to ukraine. we provide a lot and now i'm not only talking about latvia i 'm talking about a collective event somewhere you're coming contact but i think we also see where there are certain shortcomings now we clearly understand that after those deadly attacks on ukrainian cities on monday, those rocket attacks with many dead that in ukraine, it is necessary to deploy more air defenses. and by the way, if the air defenses prove to be quite effective, then the probability of any scenario with the use of weapons of mass destruction will decrease secondly we need to give ukraine more tanks more heavy armored vehicles everything you

ask for you should get dot online and if weapons of mass destruction are used i think everyone will have a psychological breakdown of consciousness how did it happen on february 24th i still think that mine did a lot mistakes before russia attacked ukraine on february 24, i even remember the 8 years when , in the 14th year after the occupation of crimea, everyone for some reason thought that let's impose sanctions and try to return to the usual business with russia. now i i think that we have thought about this, because in the second place , it is the partners and allies that are compact, our reaction is not only in the form of a statement, such as how concerned we are, but also in fact, also how we

are going to respond. i know that the discussion is ongoing . there are different scenarios but i think that after february 24th we can expect all kinds of unpleasant things from putin's kremlin of russia and therefore we need to be ready regardless of whether it will be military figures or some other i think that at the moment at the moment there is a conscious decision not to make public predictions, mr. ministers, why is putin really afraid? i think he is afraid of his own security apparatus and generals because if he fails and you guys do everything for it and pay a high price for it in human suffering, human

lives, despite the feeling that this war was unleashed recklessly more and more ukrainian territories will be liberated by the armed forces of ukraine those territories that are currently under russian occupation or not illegally annexed by the russian federation i i think that his own generals, his own chiefs of the security service, will really think about how to replace him. i am not so optimistic as to talk about a popular uprising there, i do not think that it is impossible now. propaganda is working very well. those who were against putin have left the country or are sitting in prisons, but his own environment is probably the biggest risk for him personally. a few

days ago, mr. ministers, you called the russian war in ukraine a war of nerves. what exactly did you mean? i called the whole situation that we are currently observing tense situation on the one hand in ukraine there is a russian war going on a big war is going on for the hearts and minds of the western public this is one part of this definition of a war of nerves mete what you asked about a few minutes ago what can we do and how are we going to respond to the threats of putin and his government to apply tactical nuclear weapons against

ukraine and latvia. the use of tactical nuclear weapons by putin, what will we do, how will we respond to our crisis management system, etc., these questions are being asked in many countries, not only in ukraine, but also in europe and the world. i think that to some extent this is blackmail, let's not forget that recently there was also a peaceful proposal from mr. ilon, a mask that i consider absolutely unacceptable, however, you

see that there is a big battle for hearts and minds, to some extent it is a competition and who blinks first i think that at this moment you are losing and i think that russia now losing the war against ukraine on the battlefield they are still trying to influence us to push ukraine to some kind of unacceptable peace i think we can't bend the stick we shouldn't do anything that will drive ukraine into a dead end but we really need to help her to help so that russia is so weakened that it can no longer dictate any conditions in the world or in ukraine. visited the baltic countries and while in riga cold

boltic called these countries a wall of democracy or putin already broke his teeth on this wall it was at the beginning of march at least about two weeks after russia started a full-scale war against the ukrainian people i think that at that time there will still be some doubts whether ukraine will be able to stand there is some uncertainty whether the russian army can be as disorganized and weak as it turned out weeks and months later but i think there are really at least three points why we can to say that russia has broken its teeth, firstly, there are a lot

of discussions, the unity of nato and the eu still exist. i think it is important. because we discussed some elements of the sanctions. weapons and military equipment we can provide more, we must provide more and yet the aid process continues well, thirdly, i believe that we were able to mobilize and just a few days ago, the un general assembly again voted overwhelmingly by the majority condemning russia for this illegal and occupation annexation of ukrainian sovereign territories, these are elements that indicate that although some countries support russia, the majority of the international community still strongly feels

that the violation of the un charter and, in fact, the violation of international law is unacceptable. well, finally, russia called this war mobilization is not carried out as a special military operation, which shows that in reality everything is much worse than expected, but let's also not be too complacent about that that we must understand that russia is still quite powerful and this game is far from over, we still need your help unfortunately, winter is approaching , european society will undergo another test of resistance to prices and supplies of gas and electricity, but to a certain extent i am cautiously optimistic that we we will be able to overwinter, and then spring will most likely come, which will be somewhat different for russia and certainly not in a

positive sense for it. my last question for today is that latvia, together with lithuania, estonia and poland, have stopped issuing russian citizens schengen tourist visas and you even issued a warning to the russians in your twitter quote, the border is waiting, stop the war against ukraine and get out of this beautiful country, think what happened to the russians, we stopped issuing tourist visas on february 25th, we did it together with our baltic friends poland and now and finland, and as far as i remember now, the czech republic also made a similar decision, we also restricted entry for russians

who have any visa issued by any country of the european union, i.e. the so-called a short-term visa is mainly about tourism, and also about work and recreation, because there is no such thing as a tourist visa, there is a short-term schengen visa, which is mainly used for tourism, we actually saw that the border crossing was reduced by about 25%, here are the exceptions that we used from the beginning of this agreed solution for truck bus drivers and some other categories, the number of russians has decreased to come using different methods

in particular through other countries answering your the question did not reach them, it's a pity mr. rynkevych , thank you for agreeing to talk with me today and thank you for the frank answers to my questions. the minister of foreign affairs of latvia, edgar serhinkevych, was with me today. we talked with him about the relations between our two countries, about the help we receive from of our brotherly latvia and how together we will defeat the russian dictator and i hope it will be very and very soon my name is yuri fizer see you almost 12 o'clock

in ukraine this means news time on the tv channel espresso in the studio of iryna koval, so i will tell you about the most important events right now. this morning , two energy enterprises of detek energo in the capital were repeatedly damaged by shelling. according to preliminary information, seven people were injured. they were taken to the hospital and medical assistance was provided in time. ambulances are at the scene of the incident, our correspondent dmytro ditoro dima, i congratulate you. equipment, i want to ask you whether the consequences of the attack have been eliminated and when the company will be restored