once more well, once again, based on the results of the work of the verkhovna rada for yesterday, we can talk about maintaining the recognition of the chechen republic of ichkeria temporarily occupied by russia, condemning the commission of genocide of the chechen people, contact us inna kurochkina, journalist, producer ain yuzychkeria inno, we congratulate you glory to ukraine heroes glory greetings dear friends dear viewers i'm sorry but i will speak in russian i'm sorry thank you for trying to speak ukrainian it's very important so what are the prospects for your opinion, mrs. inno, on the real support of the exiled government of the chechen republic of ichkeria from the side of ukraine, we understand that the verkhovna rada has taken an extremely important symbolic step, but we understand that the key question is how effective will ukraine's aid be in practice, well , we are talking about the decolonization of ichkeria and there were occupations of

ichkeria a- besides, i want a favor from the king of the ukrainian people of the verkhovna rada deputies for this step. i can’t imagine how happy the chechen cheritsy who live in immigration and those who remain in the occupied territory are a great great joy and great gratitude to the ukrainian people, and in addition to the fact that yesterday there was such a historic and significant event that the verkhovna rada recognized the facts of the annexation of the chechen republic of ichkeria, which means the fact of the independence of the chechen republic of ichkeria and the genocide of the chechen people of russia in addition, you will find out that on the side of the appetite of journalists serhiy harmash on the website of the president of ukraine, which was previously collected by the federation

the number of votes is 25,000. citizens of ukraine voted on this petition to recognize the independence of the chechen republic of ichkeria. and now it’s finally up to president zelenskiy . конечно we very much hope that other countries will join. georgia, which was overthrown legally, and this history will also unfold, and of course the most important thing now is that we all understand that the russian federation is a generally illegitimate entity that was created in 1991 in a very dreamy way. - э sergey kislytsia many times about that and

until now, on the un website, the russian federation is recorded as the union of soviet socialist republics, take the history of succession, it was illegitimate and of course, this now opens the door for a big discussion for work and at the diplomatic level for politicians well, actually, of course, the tribunal that you will now see behind me is a poster made by our italian friends, and uh, this is a tribunal that also calls for italians and you know that the stitches that ukraine made were preceded by several steps on february 24 of this year, when this terrible full-scale war began, several politicians made a very important gesture at the political level, for example, the

deputy foreign minister of italy mr. beneditu delovedov invited the prime minister of seych republic ichkeria ogned zakaev to rome and officially held a meeting with him, that is, this is a very serious step diplomatically at the international level. and the club of decent countries that didn't look at what they are defending the truth defending honor huge thanks to ukraine and to all of you, of course, for this step to understand how much everything is, what are you talking about now tell me how much all this is now highlighted by society, especially in the chechen republic of ichkeria, which is actually under internal

occupation, can we say that in any case, we understand that you also believed that he lived there, so it was called very differently, but it does not want any evaluation to give any occupation in any case by the russian federation, but well, internally there are also such positive letters and there is one more important point: we saw protests in dagestan, but protests in chechnya against russian intervention in ukraine against the mobilization and against the open mercenary carried out by the russian federation, in particular, i use the chechens in chechnya, we did not see this, what about the speeches in chechnya, let's do it right away . i will answer your first question. that the chechen republic of ichkeria has been an independent state since 1991 and

in fact on the 15 the necessary documents that were sent in the parliament to the verkhovna rada, these documents are recognized as a fact there, that is not what he is talking about if propaganda and interested politicians exposed these facts - this does not mean that this fact is not present in the chechen republic, which is a independent state. as for the protest against mobilizatsii e in chechenskoy respublika ichkeriya seychna styanutyy 150,000 e-e of the russian federation army of the russian federation whom putin does not let into ukraine and they are there only in order to hold back these protests, and when the time and time will come when the occupation of the chechen

republic will happen, according to the estimates of chechen politicians in 2-3 days, this is what concerns why there are no trials now, because they are very strongly restrained by this army and of course throughout the caucasus, protest action, process actions, and of course everyone thinks and dreams about the decolonization of the russian federation so that it will soon be freed from this monster. connect now you are waiting for an interview of yuri fizera with the minister of foreign affairs of estonia, and for your attention we will return to the air very soon, what help from latvia is coming to us now and how we, together with our brothers and sisters in this country,

will fight aggression and push back and putin from our territory and in the end we will defeat him about this and other things. today i will talk to my guest, this is the minister of foreign affairs of latvia, edgar from rinkevich. i congratulate you, mr. rinkevich. i congratulate you. thank you very much for joining us today. it is a great honor to talk to you. with you and to have the opportunity to thank you for the help and support that we receive from your country from your government, 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 that's why latvia took the first place among the countries that help ukraine in proportion to their gdp, and this is quite a lot, and it's about the piston in terms of gdp

and dead squad a lot. we are very grateful that you are you doing for us for all the help you have given, we will already receive two do you have plans to help ukraine in the near future thank you very much for inviting me i want to say that we believe that your fight against russian aggression is also our fight because we understand that we are talking about serious problems of peace and security in europe and even in the whole world before military aid, at one 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, then it is 300 millions of euros. and this is all kinds of military equipment

against air defense, weapons, howitzers, etc. really . from the allies in 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 i do not have the right to talk about them, because the challenges of war are simply constantly changing, there are great needs in the ukrainian armed forces, and if we find any opportunity to help with weapons or in another way, then 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 provide both military and

non-military material assistance? thank you, sir rynkevych, there are many ukrainians in latvia right now, you know the exact number, how many numbers are constantly changing, the last number, which is more or less stable, is about 40 thousand ukrainians who were registered or who sought help from both the national and local authorities of orlovka, but you know. we also see that there is a constant stream of ukrainians who cross the latvian-russian corner, who is trying to escape through russia and from the occupied

territories, we also see that part of the ukrainians returns to ukraine, and now some use latvia as a transit country, that is, in fact, the figure that we can call more or less stable is 40,000. but do you know about the number of ukrainians who come to latvia? how you said through the russian-latvian border, it was honestly 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 suspect that it is somehow connected with the internal border administration of russia and possibly also with the

mobilization of the population we do not have the exact reason why the flow has decreased but i would say that most of these people are using latvia and lithuania as a transit to reunite with their families or sometimes to simply return to ukraine, having no other options but to make such a long journey, so 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 the registration of ukrainians in latvia, 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 are simply staying in latvia for a couple of days, they don’t ask for any advisory help, then we don’t have any information at all. and how many of them are valid, we would ask. it is a deliberate political step that we do not register everyone so that there are no bureaucratic problems. especially if they come only for a couple of days, it is clear mr. 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. i understand that we in ukraine have to do our homework to become an active member of nato and to be honest we

are doing it but still you personally have in mind some realistic terms when it can happen i mean when ukraine can really become a member of nato and when some of your partners from the european union will agree with what you say in the baltic states and poland. »

view vail although there are countries in the equatorial region, 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 in order for ukraine to become members 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 not very realistic, to say the least. but i also believe that if we cannot establish realistic terms or conditions, then at least we need to discuss what nato can do to speed up ukraine's membership in the alliance, we influence

that in bucharest in 2008, we as the alliance directly said that one day ukraine and georgia will become members of nato and we wanted this day to come as soon as possible with our partners and allies in nato to develop a clearer policy in this regard for 20 years now and i know that any unrealistic deadlines and forecasts actually harm everyone ukraine in general, so let's focus on work with the european union, when only 5-6 months ago everyone said that for ukraine the status of a candidate for joining the eu is unrealistic, and look what happened after very of the active work of the ukrainian government, friends in the

european union, ukraine now has the status of a candidate, now it is the turn to take the next steps of the secondonexion reader ok google and i hope that we will become a member of the nato bloc as soon as possible as you said on thursday, you wrote on your twitter, i quote, nobody wants a world war that's why we have to stop russia now ministers and if crazy putin decides to push the nuclear button i think we should step up aid to ukraine we provide a lot and now i'm not only talking about latvia i i am talking about the collective sunset but i think that we also see where there are certain shortcomings, now we clearly

understand that after those deadly shelling of ukrainian cities on monday, those rocket attacks with many casualties that ukraine needs to spend more air defense means and by the way, if air defense means defenses will prove to be quite effective then the probability of any scenario involving the use of weapons of mass destruction will decrease secondly we need to provide ukraine with more tanks more heavy armored vehicles, all you ask for, you should get full stop. and if weapons of mass destruction are used, it is drastic. i think that everyone will have a psychological breakdown of consciousness, how did it happen on february 24, i still think that we made a lot of mistakes

before russia attacked ukraine on february 24 i even remember 8 years when, in the 14th year after the occupation of crimea, everyone thought for some reason that let's introduce sanctions and try to return to the usual business with russia. partners and allies, our reaction not only in the form of a statement like how concerned we are, but also in fact how we are going to respond. i know that the discussion is ongoing, the dialogue is also being conducted with the ukrainian government. i also know that there are different scenarios. but i think that after february 24, we can to 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 others i think that at the moment there is a conscious decision not to make public predictions sir ministers, why is putin really afraid? i think he is afraid of his own security apparatus and generals , because if he fails, 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 recklessly unleashed by more and more ukrainians territories will be liberated by the armed forces of ukraine those territories that are currently under russian occupation or illegally annexed by the russian federation i think that his own

generals his own chiefs of the security service they will really think about how to replace him. i'm not so optimistic as to talk about a popular uprising there, i don't think it's impossible now. propaganda works very well. many of those who were against putin have left the country or are in prison, but his own environment is probably the greatest 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 a very

tense situation. the russian war on the other side is a great war for the hearts and minds of the western public this is one part of this definition of a war of nerves this is exactly what you asked a few minutes ago what can we do and how are we going to respond to threats by putin and his government to use tactical nuclear weapons against ukraine, also in latvia, many people are interested in whether there will be a nuclear war with you, i gave an interview for a latvian tv show and i was asked the question how ready are we for a nuclear war in ukraine ukraine musical to the use of tactical

nuclear weapons by putin, what will we do, how will we respond if 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, yet you see that there is a big battle for hearts and in mine 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 is losing now 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 russia to be so weakened that it could no longer dictate any conditions in the world or in ukraine. that is why it is to some extent a war of nerves, mr. rynkevich, united states secretary of state anthony blinken in march visited the baltic countries and while in russia 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 there will still

be some doubts at that time can ukraine survive uncertainty can the russian army be as disorganized and weak as it appeared weeks my months later but i think there are really at least three points why we can to say that russia broke its teeth, first of all, there are many discussions, the unity of nato and the eu still exist. i think it is important. since we discussed some elements of the sanctions, we cannot agree with some of them, but in a broader sense they are present . equipment yes, 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 a special military operation during a special military operation does not carry out mobilization, which shows that in reality everything is much worse than expected, but let's

let's also not be too complacent, because 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 will be able to overwinter and then most likely spring will come, which will be somewhat different for russia and definitely not in a positive sense for it, mr. minister. my last question for today is latvia together with lithuania estonia and poland stopped issuing schengen tourist visas to citizens of russia, and you even warned the russians in your twitter quote and get out of this beautiful country

, think what happened to the russians, we stopped issuing tourist visas on february 25. we did it together with our baltic friends poland a now finland and, as far as i remember, 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 that is mainly used for tourism we actually saw

that border crossings decreased by about 25% plus and we have singing dead exceptions which we applied from the beginning 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 question did not harm them mr. rynkevych, thank you for agreeing to speak with me today and thank you for the frank answers to my questions