it seeks to maintain the world's dependence on its energy sources, how can this conflict along the lines of opec, the usa, well, you see, this is not a conflict along the lines of opec, the usa, it is a conflict along the lines of opec plus, and yes, plus it is russia. so when i spoke about such a saudi-russian, there are coincident interests so if they agree to maintain the high level of oil prices, but apparently the current saudi prince muhammad benzelman has forgotten the catchy phrase of the great, without exaggeration, the minister of oil of iran sheikh sheikh ahmed in the 1970s, who actually moderated the famous global oil

crisis at the time, who very clearly responded to the whims of the iranian leadership at the time to double oil prices to add to the west, what did the west say if we let's do it like this, they will fall first, but we will fall after them, because nobody will need our expensive oil there and nobody will be able to buy it, so these games of the sadites with the russians, of course they anger washington, but one thing must be said here, why they act like this, they act like this because, strictly speaking, washington does not fulfill certain obligations that, from the point of view of riyadh, they have taken on for the security of saudi arabia, we see that

the yemeni ushits periodically attack saudi arabia's oil infrastructure as well they and the german houthis are so typical of the iranians. and in this context, precisely what the united states also added, they were going to soften the sanctions regime or, in general, even remove them from the sanctions regime, so that its oil is greater than captured by the global the market but of course it cannot be liked with the audits for which iran is an existential threat and therefore they would show washington that we can play differently and therefore this is the situation that is drawn ambiguously but at the same time, no matter what, i think that saudi arabia, the united states they will get along much faster than you imagine . somewhere in moscow, thomas friedman writes that putin has a new plan and the bomb will not be a dirty one, but a gas one. and with it, he will terrorize everyone

this winter for as long as he can the situation was similar. last year, the only goal of blackmailing the gas company was to launch nord stream-2. it didn’t work. the algorithm is the same now, even more so. now everyone in europe has seen through it. last year, there were still some doubts and the european commission is somehow strange. did not notice that russia is limiting supplies to the european market, which automatically raises prices to cosmic heights. now all the heads of the european commission and other european institutions have seen through it, so i do not think that this blackmail will succeed to the russians, well, the numbers speak for themselves, if we say that last year, practically taking into account the fact that the supply of liquefied gas from russia

, as a share of russia, reached almost half of the european union as a whole, and 55% of the market volume in germany actually, it is called figures of the order of seven percent, russia's share of the euro in the supply of gas to europe is nothing. in general gas supply to of the european union, well, they actually do not have much of such intentions and are hiding it, not those over 40%, which would really have a fatal impact on the gas market and on consumers and would certainly cause social protests and so on, but the

money there is money and interests, they can be compensated, will these high prices and a cold winter be able to, the regime was launched earlier, but because at some point they will start to persuade us to go to some negotiations and on the terms of russia, well, money as an argument for western countries, the high price well in in principle, taking into account the fact that the countries of the european union and the european union as an institution have already spent, well, it is probably not tens of billions, hundreds of billions of euros to compensate for these negative effects, they are finally beginning to understand that it is not just you understand that on the european gas market, russia is operating in a theater of war, and therefore, if this ship of the european union were to be turned around, the

capitulian side, i think it will not be possible, europeans are starting to feel a sense of dignity. well, how are we in ukraine in 14 -th 13th 14-14 years thank you, mr. mykhailo. thank you for your participation, because unfortunately we have limited time. mykhailo honchar, president of the center for global studies of strategy 21, an expert in international energy and security relations . edgarsom rinkevich som please watch it is very interesting well yura said that it will be a very interesting thing so let's watch it then we will come back it will be interesting to watch yuriy feeder greetings my name is yuriy fizer ukraine and latvia are our relations. this is a very difficult time for us. what help from latvia is coming to us now and how will we, together with our brothers and

sisters in this country, fight aggression from putin and push him out of our territory and eventually defeat him? other i will speak with my guest today, this is the minister of foreign affairs of latvia , edgars rinkevich, i welcome you, mr. rinkevich, i congratulate you. thank you very much for joining us today . we receive from your country from your government, it really helps us in the fight for our freedom. and for your freedom, i will also remind our viewers that according to the latest studies of the kyiv institute of world economy, which were published a few days ago, latvia ranked first among countries that help ukraine proportionally to their gdp and this is quite a lot he uh about the piston this

there respective ddp and dads white a lot we are very grateful for what you do for us for all the help provided we have already received a lot from you but do you have your plans to help ukraine in the near future , first of all, thank you very much for inviting me and i want to say that we believe that your fight against russian aggression is also our fight because we understand that it is about serious problems of peace and security in europe and even all over the world when it comes to 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

anti-aircraft defense weapons howitzers etc. indeed 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 else we can do but we are also encouraging our friends from 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 have no right to talk about them, because the challenges of war are simply constantly changing. great needs in the ukrainian armed forces, and if we find any opportunity to help with weapons or in another way, we will do it. that is, you are going to continue to help us like this, chancellor, we constantly provide the armed forces of ukraine. can

we provide both military and non-military material assistance? thank you, mr. rynkevich in latvia now there are many ukrainians, do you know the exact number, how many numbers are constantly changing, the last number, which is more or less stable, about 40,000 ukrainians who were registered or who appealed for help to both the national and local authorities of orlovka, but you know. we also see that there is a constant flow of ukrainians who cross the latvian-russian border, those who are

trying to escape through russia and from the occupied territories, we also see that some ukrainians are returning to ukraine 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? as 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 have a suspicion that it is somehow related to the internal border management of russia and maybe also with the mobilization of the

population we don't have the exact reason why the flow 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 just to return to ukraine, having no other option but to make such a long journey for such ukrainians. latvia can be a transit point, so most of them cross the border and he goes on. there are some who remain, 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 number if there are people who just stay 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 there are, it’s a deliberate political step that we don’t register all of them, so that people don’t have bureaucratic problems, especially if they only come for a couple of days, it’s 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, what should we do in ukraine my 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. in fact, this is a very simple question for me and my baltic colleagues, because latvia, together with other baltic countries, is advocating for the membership of ukraine and georgia in nato and for the years 2006-2008 after the bucharest summit and we also advocated providing ukraine with an action plan regarding membership in the alliance since 2008, unfortunately. as we know, not all alliance members at that time

shared our solidarity, and as you correctly said, there are such countries as the equator, poland, lithuania, estonia and some others 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, unfortunately, the opinions of the alliance still differ, so i will not make any predictions about the time because, frankly, at the moment moment this would be not very realistic to say the least i want to see the next discussion at the level of the foreign ministers of the 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 to speed up ukraine's membership in the

alliance, let's not forget that in bucharest in 2008, the hookahs 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. i know that any unrealistic terms and forecasts actually harm all of ukraine and us in general, so let's focus on work so that how with the european union when only 5-6 months ago everyone was talking that for ukraine the status of a candidate for joining the eu is unrealistic and look what happened after the

very active work of the ukrainian government of friends in the european union ukraine now has the status of a candidate now it is the turn to do the following steps 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 is why we must stop russia now ministers and if crazy putin decides to press the nuclear button that is why i believe that we have intensify aid to ukraine, not only about latvia. i am talking about a collective action. i think that

we also see where there are certain shortcomings. we understand that after those deadly attacks on ukrainian cities on monday, those rocket attacks from many dead that ukraine needs more air defenses and by the way, if air defenses prove to be effective enough, then the probability of any scenario with the use of weapons of mass destruction will decrease, secondly, we need to provide ukraine with more tanks, more heavy armored vehicles, everything you ask for should get a dot online and if weapons of mass destruction are used, i think that everyone will have a psychological breakdown of consciousness, how did it happen on february 24, i still think that what should have been done

many mistakes before russia attacked ukraine on february 24, i even remember 8 years when , in the 14th year after the occupation of crimea, everyone for some reason thought that let's introduce sanctions and try to return to the usual business with russia. now i think that we thought about it because secondly, we discuss with our 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 to you i note i know that the discussion is ongoing, the dialogue is also being conducted with the ukrainian by the government also i know that there are different scenarios but i think that after february 24th we can expect all kinds of unpleasant things from the kremlin of putin 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 there is a conscious decision don't 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 human suffering of human lives, despite the feeling that this war was unleashed rashly, 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 think that his own generals, his

own chiefs of the security service will really think . replace i am not such an optimist to talk about a popular uprising there, i don't think it is impossible now propaganda is working very well many of those who were against putin left countries 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. on one side in ukraine there is a russian war on the other side there 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 we can do and how we we are going to respond to the threats of putin and his government to use

tactical nuclear weapons against ukraine and latvia. nuclear weapons by putin, what will we do, how will we respond if our crisis management system, etc., these questions are 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 be forget that recently there was also a peaceful proposal from mr. is 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 believe

that we cannot bend the stick we should not do anything that will drive ukraine into a dead end but we actually need to help her to help her so that russia is so weakened that it can no longer dictate any conditions in the world or in ukraine. that is why it is to some extent a war of nerves . these countries are a wall of democracy site avdemocracy and flat on the match already broke his teeth against this wall it was at the beginning of march at least about two weeks after russia started a full-scale war against

of the ukrainian people. i think that at that moment there will still be some doubts whether ukraine can withstand uncertainty or whether the russian army can be as disorganized and weak as it turned out weeks and months later, but i think that there are really at least three points why we can say that russia has broken itself teeth, first of all, there is a lot of discussion, the unity of nato and the eu still exists. i think it is important. because we have discussed some elements of the sanctions. secondly, we continue to provide ukraine with weapons and military equipment. yes, we can provide

more. the illegal and occupation annexation of the ukrainian sovereign territories of ukraine that although some countries support russia, the majority of the international community still strongly feels that the violation of the charter the un and in fact violations of international law are unacceptable. well, finally, russia called this war a special military operation, during a special military operation they do not conduct mobilization, which shows that in reality everything is much earlier than expected, but let's also not be

too complacent, because we must understand that russia is all is still quite powerful and this game is far from over we still need your help unfortunately winter is coming european society will undergo another price resistance test and gas and electricity supplies, but to a certain extent i am cautiously optimistic that we will be able to winter over and then most likely spring will come, which will be somewhat different for russia and certainly not in a positive sense for it. my last question for today is latvia along with lithuania, estonia and poland stopped issuing schengen tourist visas to citizens of russia, and you even warned the russians in your twitter, i quote your

war against ukraine and get out of this beautiful country, think what happened to the russians, we stopped issuing tourist visas as early as february 25. we did it together with our baltic friends , poland, and now finland, and as far as i remember , the czech republic also made a similar decision, we also limited entry for russians who have any visa issued by any a country of the european union , that is, the so-called short-term visa is mainly about tourism, as well as 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

we actually saw that the border crossing was reduced by about 25%, no exceptions that we have applied since the beginning of september, this is an agreed solution for drivers of buses, trucks, and some other categories, we see that in fact the number of russians has decreased to come using different methods , in particular through other countries, answering your question to them it didn't work, sorry, not rynkevych. thank you for agreeing to speak with me today and thank you for the frank answers to my questions. well, i will

remind you that the minister of foreign affairs was with me today of latvian affairs, edgar serhinkevych, talked with him about the relations between our two countries, about the help we receive from our brother latvia and how we will defeat the russian dictator together, and i hope it will be very and very soon, my name is yuri fizer - see you at almost 11 o'clock in ukraine time of news on the espresso tv channel in the studio iryna koval welcomes everyone and i will tell you right now about the most important thing kyiv region with light ukrenergo canceled emergency power cuts in the kyiv region that were introduced the day before last night, the russians attacked the energy facility