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are views transformed europeans for all these things. let's talk today in the night watch. oleksandr shcherba, ukrainian diplomat , ambassador on special assignment of the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine, is our guest. mfa and for ukraine thank you for inviting mr. oleksandr, i immediately want to ask a question in the context of our declared topic. i talked recently with my friends who live in germany, and they frankly shocked me with the news that in germany they started testing air for alarms, they started testing applications that we have, such as emergency services applications, which are alarm notifications, and in german cities, sirens sound

, people are told that you should, uh, keep a supply of food and water at home because a possible development of events in the direction that you will need all of this. and here are my friends. they tell me that well, we are ready for this. yes, we perceive it as normal, but we are very interested in following the reaction of ordinary germans , for whom it is they who take it very seriously they stop and start to think about the fact that what is it, what is it all really, to what extent do europeans at such a household level, in your opinion, are impressed by the events taking place in ukraine, how far do they objectively realize that you know what is happening here. i wrote an article a couple of weeks ago called the end of the age of pink clouds, but in europe, the end of the age of pink clouds , they lived on a pink cloud, thinking that the 21st century had come for everyone, thinking that uh, we

live in a time when any problems can be solved through diplomacy, through goodwill, and now, in principle, it was of course an absolute shock, well, we now live in an era when people read newspapers as much as they watch e -twitter and watch the news on television, and these shots of this absolutely brutal e-e war from which with which russia came to us they they changed their attitude not not declarations not statements not words they saw well, for example, london , the english saw uh, 1940, they saw themselves in us, they remembered me, that's why the english are so strongly uh, well, i got attached before us , the germans, in general, they are basically how many 75 years ago, ukraine was destroyed, they remembered something from fit-fi in them -

some kind of echo took place in the heart, so, yes, europe has changed and europe is waking up at the everyday level, including but i remember what interview mrs. merkel recently gave to the former chancellor of germany about what was happening, she kept silent for a very long time and gave such optical comments, and now she said a very interesting thing, allegedly, the minsk agreements, to which ukraine , in particular, and german politicians, have been inclined for years, were in fact nothing more than the opportunity to give ukraine time to prepare for such a brutal confrontation that is taking place starting from february 24, i can tell you exactly what she said the minsk agreements of 2014 were an attempt to give ukraine time she also used this time to become stronger. as you can see today, ukraine of 2014-15 is not ukraine

today, i very much doubt that then nato countries could have done as much as they are doing now to help ukraine, this is an attempt. by the way, these words greatly angered mr. putin he expressed himself to the effect that what we thought, we believed, means that uh, ukraine is inclined to reconcile with us, but they turn out to be simply abandoned. sorry for the jargon, but it's russian jargon. and in general, we should have attacked ukraine earlier. that's the story of... it's me mrs. merkel's statement just doesn't seem sincere enough. to be honest, i think that this is an attempt to save her own reputation as a politician , because now being putin's stooge in modern germany, in general, in modern europe, is a little shameful, and mrs. merkel, even though she is already in political retirement is trying to somehow correct its own image. whose rights is it ? maybe i am wrong and it was really a cunning

plan. well, to me, it also looks like an attempt to adapt to new trends and realities of the information space in europe. answer so to speak, well, definitely. this is already such an attempt to make excuses. unfortunately, mrs. merkel, who for me was in principle an example of such a moral politician. who is the most influential woman in the world who travels, flies, uh, on vacation with budget airlines, who, well, devoted herself essentially to serving her nation without doing any uh things behind the scenes, for example, i really liked it, uh, i even wrote about it, but now, to be honest, it's a big disappointment that ah in that day and age when all the europeans say we were wrong we did something is wrong, mrs. merkel says that it

was actually a cunning plan. well, then we must agree that it was also a cunning plan for putin to send his tentacles into donetsk luhansk in the crimea and gain a foothold there, and then we must agree that at the time when she allegedly gave an opportunity for ukraine to prepare. and she filled the russian budget with simply incredible amounts of money for the preparation of this war , including through such projects as northstream 1 northstream ii, she gave russia the confidence that well, just as in in the 14th year, just like in 2008, in georgia, cesium is getting away with it, everything will be forgiven because yes, and to be honest, very, very strongly, one of the so-called old-timers in german politics, waldenshoi

fucking ex- he is the head of the bundestag couple, the former minister of finance, who has been in the bundestag for 40 years, is really just one of those dinosaurs of german politics, he said let's be frank northstream 1:0 stream 2 mistake decision to accept in 2015 so-called refugees in germany in an unlimited number well so-called and not so called a mistake, er, the whole policy regarding putin is a mistake. yes, mrs. merkel, you have had extraordinary achievements, huge, but let's not be ashamed and say. especially since we . especially since she is the daughter of a pastor, it should be easy for her to say. i'm sorry to say, i prayed and there is for some reason it doesn't work, and by the way, except for the same except for the quiet politicians that you mentioned, there is also the german president, the federal president, frank alter , who is also not there, who also simply changed his rhetoric and is now saying completely opposite things

because he spoke literally. recently, we all remember him because of this infamous steinmeier plan, which we perceived as no different than attempts to such a slow capitulation of ukraine, er, giving up its sovereignty piecemeal in exchange for a temporary truce, which everyone understood not it will be long because putin gives will go on and on and on like this from biting ukraine piece by piece biting it now frankl steinmeier came to ukraine and spent two hours in chernihiv in chernihiv in a bomb shelter with people he came and said simply amazing the speech in which he admitted all these mistakes, he did not say i'm sorry, but he said that russia injects poison into our heart and we don't have it, we have something to counter it well, you were really scared, in fact he said some things that are not so radical for a german politician why did such a sharp change in rhetoric happen to them? of course, we are glad because it

is not just a statement, it also affects the level of aid to ukraine. do you remember how our ambassador in germany, mr. melnyk, launched a picture with a snail carries a cartridge which to it is glued to its shell , demonstrating that with german help , everything is now much better and mr. scholz also makes statements at every step that russia must be punished for its aggression, there must be responsibility, and why did such a sharp break occur in them now in in their consciousness that even the united states of america looks less determined than the germans now, well , the answer is simply shock shock because, well, the feeling is that you know, every year in the month of may in austria it was may 5, the day of the liberation of the mauthaus in germany it was may 8-9 is the day of the signing of the capitulation, they

all gathered, they all said the traditional words never again never again, never a revolution and here suddenly it happened the same thing happened happened again came here these pictures that europe knows from the second world war that's why he thinks it's not from staimeier just of course it was unusually touching photos when the timer sits with the ukrainians in this bomb shelter and waits and you probably feel exactly that any ukrainians love him with such humanity and the germans love him for it as far as i know and he is it is known that because he gave a kidney to his wife after the operation, she needed a transplant of such an organ, he gave his kidney to his wife, how can this insight change the format of the existence of the european union and the processes that take place inside it today? i want to

recall the october speech of the head of european diplomacy, jose poborel. his speech, in my opinion, is the most demonstrative of the awareness and change of trends in the self-understanding of europeans in general, and he frankly talks about the wrong policy of the european union in recent decades, he has been criticizing energy dependence on russia, that is, he is talking about what europe was built on, and energy from russia, goods from china, the security factor of the united states, and what were we doing, and where are the europeans? we could offer ukraine separately as a european union, but almost nothing, and it opens the eyes of all europeans to the fact that europe has turned into such a really old lady that a-a from all sides she is being fed with something there, yes, russia with oil, gas

, and china with goods, the united states with a secure fact, and they sit and, uh, hold on to this kind of, well, very artificial subjectivity, that is, the recognition of fallibility at all levels a-ah , the last last years, the last decades what is this for this can lead to the opening of the eyes to the fact that friends, and you are sorry, except for your , except for the loud name, we are the european union, you can't do anything on your own, neither in security, nor in energy, nor in the production of goods to reality. who are you? self-awareness of this format of existence, what can it lead to, how can europe change, everything is being revised, well, a snail with a cartridge attached, of course, is a beautiful, very witty symbol, but it does not exactly reflect what is happening in europe , the processes that are happening now, well, by

european standards, this er, well, this is a very high speed, er, and german weapons in ukraine, unfortunately, still on tanks, but still cheetahs, after all, already irises well, this was a year ago, it was absolutely unthinkable, absolutely unthinkable such a performance by borel such a review well, these are completely sincere words, these are not mantras that they spoke for years of work. this is a completely different europe, and i know that when i started my work in diplomacy in the 90s. for example , it was believed that one of the pillars of modern europe is in addition to the german -french partnership, there is also a german -polish-polish partnership, then somewhere this pillar was forgotten. it suddenly disappeared. and this week, andrzej duda went to berlin, and it began to sound again precisely under the influence of ukraine.

ukraine is her pain, her struggle, her strength. europe is somehow reinventing itself and it's extraordinary. it's simply hypnotizing when you see it, when you look, and when you realize that it's exactly our soldiers, ourselves, our, our people, uh, led to the fact that europe has woken up, europe has remembered that she is the same, she is not just an old lady. and what is she, well, really, this is a flag that can change reality and the world, but where to look for tools and how in practice to change the energy dependence on russia, yes angela merkel closed nuclear power plants in germany and it was a very popular trend green energy, which turned out to be more of a populist project than a practical one, because this energy was not enough for commodity dependence on china, because the

cost of production of german goods there is such that none of the european children can buy them anymore as a practical solution and the question is whether this will lead to the strengthening of e.e. complex processes inside europe, the same thing there, the rise in prices due to the discontent of the population, some kind of unemployment. well, to those processes that may appear after the rejection of e.e. chinese goods of the russian energy industry, you you know, we love a little bit like that and including that, and i like to joke a little bit, get close to the old lady, but in fact, europe is one of the most powerful forces in the world, economically, politically, and at this stage, in this situation, in principle, it has found its moral leaders in principle, this is this, this is a huge power, this is a huge economy, this is by population. well, it is more than the united

states, so you know this. so when i went to the ambassador, i dealt with the united states for a long time. a little so superior, this attitude towards europe is a little ironic from europe. and when i , er, came to the constitution as an ambassador in austria, i came with a little of this superior attitude , it quickly left me. i saw how enormous this power is and if this power on our side, if this force under our influence becomes er, another, more convincing, then in principle, in essence, we become an integral part of europe, we became not when we declared our desire, but when europe felt us, it started right now that's why we we have to absolutely believe in this power, in the end

it was the impetus for the euromaidan , which was called the euromaidan, which started everything in europe, it was even more important than at that moment its practical support, because when ukraine announced that it was choosing a european way, she announced it at first not by the voice of officials , but by the voice of ordinary people who went to the maidan and europe then realized that the son would have to do something, whether they wanted it or not, and influenced the fact that now ukraine should join this family and they just need to give an answer to that, not then. she understood. in the 14th year, they didn't understand anything, they thought. they had this feeling that these strange russians, these strange ukrainians, er, somehow the ukrainians didn't explain something, the russians didn't understand something, but in principle well they are part of the same space and we are

all part of the european space together , someday, somehow, it will, well, we will overcome these differences and there will be europe from vancouver to europe there from the urals to brest where the french a-a and only now are feelings of reality appearing i just now there is a feeling that ukraine is an outpost on which a lot depends, that's why i don't know, i'm looking at my beloved austria, you know, i see how this week austria adopted a resolution condemning the holodomor, they haven't called the holodomor a genocide yet, but they already stalin was called a terrible crime, well, a year ago, again, it couldn't have been possible, it couldn't have been among the countries that supported putin the most in the political arena, well, one of the countries that supported putin the most. i remember this minister, so she stayed on

i'm sorry for now, but we'll talk about it separately, but i want to mention this minister of foreign affairs, who you probably remember how she danced with putin at her own wedding. and what happened to all this? well, there is switzerland. the only country in the european union that absolutely believes in neutrality . neutrality is the secret of happiness in life. we are nobody's business and nobody touches us. you ukrainians should understand this, don't mess with russia. then everything will be very good for you too. it was like that abdication, you understand, in austria, the national holiday is not independence day, it is for victory day, not the day of the end of the national socialist dictatorship, it is the day of the declaration of neutrality, that is why it is such a

very convenient position and, unfortunately, it is sometimes a little too much for us, and we think it is fair sometimes a hypocrite because well, what kind of neutrality if austria among the top ten suppliers acquired military equipment for russia, then it's a little like that, it appears love, but about the wedding well, what was there, absolutely this minister is certainly a strange person who was not accepted. by the way, neither in austrian politics nor in austrian diplomacy, but for a certain time she became such a phenomenon that many depended on. i will never forget my meeting with her in march of 18 in principle, it very rarely happens there that the minister of foreign affairs invites the ambassador there for a conversation

. i will tell you that i had such an austrians are very fond of cultural projects, they are like the nation of mozart, so on, i said in luhansk before the occupation there was an orchestra under the leadership of a sharp conductor, a beautiful night orchestra . when the russians came, the orchestra was split into two parts, i say let's invite these musicians from on the one hand and on the other to vienna and let them hold one concert and play together again one evening without this occupation without all this and the answer was n ambassador if you have the money to bring this orchestra uh finance it better heating for this orchestra during the winter. well, she is so very superficial, and the whole conversation was in

this spirit, thank god that she left the political and diplomatic olympus quite quickly, and now you see the day before yesterday or when two days ago she replied that she is in moscow. well, what can you expect from your person? by the way, the sanctions prohibit european politicians from entering any of the company's bodies and so on. affiliates are even affiliated with russia, not that they are, not to mention e-e 100% russian companies i this is one of those points that i had to write down for people like this lady, for people like mr. shirioder and other friends of putin , how many of them are terribly upset about this terrible thing, it's just such an injustice, it's an injustice, but you see, it still works. yes, i want to to return again to borel's speech, he had a very interesting thesis that right-wing radical sentiments are increasing in europe and right-wing parties unfortunately receive a lot

of support from the citizens of the european union, and here are the recent events in germany when there were any it is unclear whether it was an attempt or something more like a pr story about a storming of the bundestag, a possible storming of the bundestag, what was a mutiny, let's explain the actual context for our viewers, yes, there was some kind of mutiny in which some, well, some strange people took part, we just call it the beer road joking of course it's not him and his he they allegedly even intended to kill mr. scholz, the current chancellor of germany, but they didn't succeed and behind all this the kremlin's ears are strangely sticking out, at least that's how it seems, or is it true that we will ask umanda's address, he is already in touch with us, he is an analyst at the stockholm center for the study of eastern europe. what

can this lead to, welcome, mr. andreas, to our broadcast, congratulations, thank you very much for the invitation , you heard our introduction to your inclusion , i want to ask, uh, finally, did we figure out what really happened in germany with this attempt to storm the bundestag who is behind this and is it really such a real event and more real than a media virtual one? well, i should probably say that there was no such assault or something like that, it's just like that well, the group is not even a party of so -called the rise of buggers or imperial citizens who believe that the old german empire still exists and who do not recognize the federal republic of germany, well, i would

say that these are local madmen. that is, it is a slightly different phenomenon than what we saw in washington when there was this storm of the chapter there were certainly crazy people there too. but there this ra- the radical right of the radical, they had a connection with the republican party and even with trump, and there was some kind of alliance between these we are glad people on the one hand and the political mainstream on the other hand, and there was no such thing in germany. this is really marginal , marginal people and it seems to me that there is no need to exaggerate this incident, well, this is happening, it was a shock for germany, what could it be, but on the other hand, well, it is not, i would say, not quite a political phenomenon - it is just such a marginal, rather

subcultural phenomenon, and here is what i said borel about the fact that i will quote at the same time a radical trial is taking place in our countries, the extreme right is getting stronger and this is the choice of the people, and how true is it and how threatening is it, or is it within the limits of such a normal democracy in europe, well now there is really such a wave. the new wave is the right of radicalism, and these parties even sometimes enter governments and they have relatively strong positions today, but as a rule, when they then enter the government, they are then more moderate and then partially. they they even change their ideology, hmm