fire effort, that is, for understanding, they got there the maximum amount of artillery, we are talking about 12 divisions, including high-caliber self-propelled tulip tents, which are 240 mm caliber, which are designed simply to demolish whole blocks of urbanized terrain, and that is where, for example, a significant amount is sent munitions, for example, there are already significant problems with regard to which mines, that is, it was even noticed that they have a gap with them, which is intended for export, for example, you are from azerbaijan, they have already in other words, this is, well, anomalous let's put it this way, an event in principle, and in any case, now it seems to me that the first target of the russian federation will be bakhmut. from the website defense express well, khrystyna yatskiv and i pass the word before we note that for the last hour there was a kharkiv zrk s-300 from the belgorod region. but luna, so to speak, is

moving across the border and something in the belgorod region also restless and also skadovsk temporarily occupied kherson region is a defeat of the enemy's enemy positions and i think that we will detail this literally very soon for now time of news and ulyana panasyuk will present them like this congratulations again colleagues what will i add more information about the operational situation in the east is also waiting us inclusion from abroad from the european parliament wait for the news on espresso in the studio of ulyana panasiuk congratulations to the european parliament adopted a landmark and long-awaited decision european deputies voted for a resolution recognizing the 1933 holodomor

genocide of the ukrainian people and also called on other states and international organizations that are still hesitating with recognition to finally do it on the sidelines of the european parliament in strasbourg, france. my colleague, espresso correspondent tetyana vysotska, is working. she is in touch with us. and tetyana vitay tells more about how everything happened congratulations to the studio. congratulations to ukraine. today, in fact, a long-awaited and significant event for ukraine took place. the european parliament finally voted for a resolution that recognized the holodomor in ukraine as a genocide of the ukrainian people. a very large number of deputies voted for the european parliament, 507 against only 12, and only 17 abstained. the resolution states that the artificial famine of 1932-33 was caused by the purposeful policy of the soviet union, which aimed at the physical destruction of ukrainians, and therefore, of course, there is

genocide . e voting for the resolution e broadcast the debate and in the adjacent hall, of course, they mentioned not only the past but also the present and in particular russia's attempts to use hunger as a weapon even in the present times, let's listen to the direct speech on this matter european commissioner stela kyria kiedis today's debate shows our constant desire to preserve the sad memory of the holodomor, the lives of innocent people who were taken from them are not forgotten. it is important that we do not allow the repetition of similar tragedies. let me emphasize once again that the european union will continue to act and prevent efforts . to use hunger as a weapon e.e. and also the european parliament in its resolution particularly emphasized that russia is the main legal successor e.e. of the soviet union and called

russia to apologize to ukraine and ukrainians for all the crimes committed by the soviet union against the ukrainian people, and the second important issue that was resolved at this session by the european parliament was the allocation of 18 billion euros of macro-financial assistance to ukraine, for which the deputies already voted last month and e- today this issue was supposed to be put to a vote in order to approve the amendments of the european commission made with the aim of overcoming the hungarian veto and actually such an interesting thing happened for the european parliament there was no vote because this resolution was approved automatically because none of the european deputies came forward with any amendments or sentences regarding the fact that ukraine should be allocated these funds next year, now the european parliament has done everything in its power to ensure that ukraine receives these funds, but there are some problems with on the part of the

european council, a meeting of the european council is currently taking place in brussels, at which , in particular, the issue of the final approval of the allocation of this tranche of eur 18 billion is being decided, and so far they are waiting for the national press conference because there are problems and there is a possibility that this issue will be reported by poland and thus we all read on what the european council decided today, friends . we continue about the situation in ukraine, the enemy is shelling kharkiv, there is a hit in the holodohir district with damage to complex premises, the head of the regional military administration, oleg synegubov, said that previously the russian invaders had struck by s-300 complexes, at the moment there are no casualties

and two people were injured as a result of an enemy attack in the zaporizhzhia region, the occupiers fired rockets from an airplane at the city of orihiv, the head of the regional military administration, oleg start oleksandr starukh , said. condition and the enemy continues to press furiously on donetsk region, the shelling does not stop day or night, our correspondent vitaliy bakumenko is near the front line, vitaliy vitayu tells about the situation in more detail in more detail the russians continue to try to storm the positions of the ukrainian defense forces, we are here now in the area near the coal mine and for some reason very fierce fighting is going on there, as they say the military russians are using self-propelled

artillery installations, mortars, heavy artillery and today we talked with the mortarmen they are there in their positions, uh, they say that they are waiting for the coordinates today, today they still had to shoot, they are waiting for the coordinates in order to strike the piglet, they say that the russians are constantly they are trying to storm storm and now even an enemy helicopter has taken off, the military says that it is because of the fact that, well, there are no green leaves in such weather conditions, and it has become more difficult to hide, and enemy drones are constantly circling overhead, and even a drone is flying in, and well, there a drone, several drones, i don't know, and they drop grenades there, the grenades can hit, if a good professional operator, you can hit directly into the dugout, so they try to hide as

well as possible, and the weather conditions in donetsk region are like this now difficult here, there is mud everywhere, and it is very difficult to get anywhere, even to move between positions, but the ukrainian defenders hold , hold, hold the line and repel the russian invaders. take care, vitaliy bakumenko, a special correspondent from the front, was in touch with us. and we go on, digging trenches and they are setting up a barricade in the temporarily occupied crimea, the russians are preparing to repel attacks by the ukrainian forces , for this they are trying to additionally strengthen the coastline, they are afraid of the landing of ukrainian landing forces reports the main directorate of intelligence of ukraine, in particular, near the village of molochne in the sakva district , the equipment of a network of mine barriers, replicas and trenches is being installed along the coast,

the so-called dragon's teeth are additionally being installed, there is talk of rows of concrete pyramids, which are supposed to stop the advance of heavy equipment, and belarus is increasing its capabilities for airstrikes in ukraine, however an attack from there is still unlikely, said oleksiy gromov, deputy chief of the main resistance department of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine. added that the transfer of russian weapons to belarus is ongoing, at the same time gromov said that minsk continued restrictions on the entry of the border areas of the gomel region and brest that on the border with ukraine volunteers were campaigned to join the anti-terrorist forces, such actions of the lukashenko regime can testify to preparations for participation in the war in ukraine the general staff also commented on the enemy's desire to resume the offensive in winter. we are not victorious. we have our own fighting spirit. the enemy only has ambitions. the enemy has conducted one round of

mobilization. won't try won't try to capture a certain territory of ukraine for this he needs resources, first of all human resources a complete ceasefire from our side will only happen when not a single occupier remains on our land stronger than steel in lviv talk about the defenders of mariupol more 200 portraits were placed in the powder tower of lviv, a photo exhibition was organized in italy by the sister of the fallen hero of the azov regiment, yurya luchechka, these are photos of azov citizens who defended mariupol until the end of the week the exhibition will be in lviv and then it will go to other cities of ukraine. many people do not understand at what cost our independence and our state are being fought for, and for them to see first of all that these are very young guys , young people, it is possible to change the consciousness of those

people who have not yet understood what war is and at what price it is obtained and live in general and to remember them in general this is very important because he will live until the moment as long as he lives his memory is all the news for the moment the espresso team is already working on the next release i will return to you at 17:00 and you stay at espresso, there is a lot of interesting things. let's see how people who suffer from rheumatism and arthrosis live. it changes , yes. i applied dolgit in the morning. now let the dolgit cream relieve pain, reduce swelling and improve the mobility of the joints, because the joints are already broken by the only yellow cream for pain in the joints and back, ask at the pharmacies of good day pharmacy and one social pharmacy dolgit cream 100 g with a 20% discount. it

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address to the summit of eu leaders today now is the time to take another step, despite the war, we are not stopping the institutional transformation of our state just this week, the verkhovna rada of ukraine approved three european integration laws, the law on national communities, the law on modernization of the principles of the work of the constitutional court of ukraine and the sphere of the media, he emphasized that ukraine calls for speeding up in order to proceed to the opening of accession negotiations. well, it has become finally clear that the increase in the price of chicken eggs and chickens, the occupiers destroyed the largest poultry farm in ukraine, the owner estimates the losses at 330 million e.e. agroholding in the russian federation and putin failed to sell the war against ukraine if something ancient sweet and patriotic so we understand that the war has an extremely negative effect, but not a critical negative at the moment, not a critical negative

. these processes are taking on a threatening development for the kremlin, of course, yes, i agree in general with the assessment you gave, this is really an unpleasant development for him, but here i would move artem somewhat and say that putin is not selling war no, his goal was victory, and the fact that they did not achieve this victory as they saw it for themselves and they saw the destruction of the ukrainian state, the destruction of wrong ukrainians and the enslavement of those who were called right ukrainians, that is, ready to live in occupation and so on and so on the fact that putin did not manage to achieve victory is the main reason. i also consider the cancellation of this

press conference because the key issue is which mono- could sound differently in different formulations, but the key issue please tell volodymyr volodymyrovych and why with such a large economy and with such a large army with such great achievements in technologies whose analog is why ukraine is still not defeated and he does not have an answer to this and the answer is that in ukraine they are fighting not with the ukrainian army but with nato well, this is for such a temporary use, but it does not explain why russia did not win the victory and therefore what should be expected now, this press conference has been canceled, but i think here you can already quote the most recent interview of our commander-in-chief valery zaluzhnogo is an economist in an interview. he said very clearly and gave a sober assessment that there are already 200,000 young people, not the

mobilized ones we saw who would die under the bakhmuts and so on, but in this case i think of them as one . is the motive for all the actions they are taking towards us. by the way, a little more about the press conference that putin canceled. the annual press conference has been held for 10 years in a row. it has already been held at the beginning of this week. it was decided to cancel it literally at the last minute. about this states journalist petro kozlov, the author of the article for mozkotimes refers to six kremlin officials and government officials, and according to his information, a press conference was being prepared and putin personally canceled it at the last moment, allegedly in the kremlin, they were afraid that kyiv might stage a major attack on the eve of the event, no one can give from 100- percent guarantee that such an attack will not occur, moscow time said from kremlin officials on condition of anonymity, the president knew about it and this was a strong argument against holding a

press conference, i.e. maybe not even in the mood some trends in russian society, namely the scaling up and the extension of the arms of the ukrainian defense forces into the russian rear played a decisive factor. at the same time, today putin held a meeting of the council of strategic development and national projects, and one of the statements there is necessary to bring cooperation with key partners to a new level, this is foreign trade, it switches to dynamic markets that are dynamically developing, to develop the agricultural sector, to create new payment transfer systems that will remove political risks, and also to expand logistics routes in asia, and analysts of the institute for the study of war believe that the war with ukraine undermines putin's geopolitical companies, in particular, the restoration of russia's position in

central asia, where he is unsuccessfully trying to create a tripartite alliance between russia, kazakhstan and uzbekistan, mr. peter, i have a question for you: putin's ambition in relation to there is still more to ukraine than ambitions for central asia or so far . well, it floats somewhere like that, well, russia has never hidden its expansionist plans invasion plans, neither in relation to ukraine nor in relation to central asia, and you know, er, from the 14th to the 15th, i had the opportunity to communicate with the military from uzbekistan, from kazakhstan, they a-a, to be honest, already then they made all the conclusions about russia for themselves e- they always said that we will never be openly on your side, but we concluded for ourselves that russia is our enemy, that is, russia since the

14-15th year. and ukraine they already consider their enemy as a reliable ally and are looking for ways to escape from this china. they also, by the way, do not perceive it normally because they are chinese, the same empire and imagine yes, they are also trapped we have at least on one side union and they are squeezed between two empires and on the other side there is afghanistan, that is, there is an islamic movement, the islamic state appeared in the 14th year, but in the new authoritarian regime feeling the risk from this side, that is, they are squeezed and in these conditions they forced to cooperate with a weaker and weaker party and the weaker side, especially now they see putin , so yes, they will take advantage of this war for them, this is a war for them, this is a chance to break out of russian custody and possibly establish contacts with the western world, it is interesting how long

russia will remain the weak side in relations with china today zvstrich magazine a-a published an article entitled january two in their bet on putin, the leader of communist china in recent weeks instructed the government to establish closer economic relations with the russian federation, while for nine months of a full-scale invasion of the russian federation took a wait-and-see position, and the island journal, referring to its sources among the advisers, all reported that the plans of the prc include increasing chinese imports of russian oil, gas, agricultural goods, strengthening the energy partnership in the arctic, and increasing chinese investments in russian infrastructure, such as railways and ports , for example, that is, whether in your opinion , is the rapprochement between china and russia already happening and why did we expect china to bet on the country which has the initiative in its own hands and will win in the long run, and is betting on the russian federation,

perhaps with regard to its own victory, you are now mistaken, forgive mr. burkovsky, so to speak, they are continuing . pocket , in particular, it is about the fact that right now, china is trying to stop the main directions of russian , so, accordingly, what is interesting to china, everything else, so to speak, the chinese conduct their own external demographic policy, which has probably not been conducted for more than a dozen years, but in fact we see that certain sectors of the russian economy, in particular certain sectors of russian economic sovereignty, will be relentlessly devoured by china, and in principle we can only welcome this matter. you in general, but fulfilled, we must all understand that in china they know perfectly well that russia hates them, they perfectly know

the mood in the far east and in siberia, and for some reason it seems to me that only china will try even in in the event of russia's disintegration, take some action there to annex russian territories, they will not be greeted warmly , the russians are very aggressive towards them , the chinese understand this very well, but the other option is that, as you correctly noted, that is used to weaken russia by completely, well , the beginning of the isolation of russia from the west and china, yes, purely for mercantile reasons, it will occupy, will try to occupy all the niches from which western companies have left, absolutely all of them, already now we see that russia is looking for ways, uh, to get imports, yes the russians of chinese semiconductor microchips to use them in their e-e military weapons and officially they complain to the russians officially complain of dissatisfaction they express officially in kommersant these days that china

does not allow the latest most transfers its chips that are used in the chinese defense industrial complex do not allow to supply in russia. that is, what does this say that china will continue to expect if russia loses the company in 2023? well , it will be a completely different conversation. of course, no, no. will supply their microchips, they will be afraid that since russia handed over all weapons in the kharkiv region, that chinese equipment will also fall into our years and, accordingly, will fall into the hands of our western allies, and the western allies will find a countermeasure for chinese weapons, this is actually what china is afraid of, that is, it will keep russia uh, at such a distance, on such a short leash, not letting anything near him, but uh, tying the russian economy more and more to his own, that is, he will turn russia into his colony in in the economic sense, yes, what will we do, as they say

, observe the process. thank you very much , peter, for this extremely interesting and meaningful conversation . petro burkovsky, political analyst, executive director of the ilko kucherev foundation for democratic initiatives, ex-head of the russian federation research center, let's go at half past five well, i will remind you that the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyy asked the european union to consider our european integration path .