easter is on the same day and christmas is on different days, this is exactly the same thing, and the tsar is concerned with easter, and this is just a small problem. because the whole world, i communicate together, celebrates christmas, and easter is different in different churches, catholics, orthodox, armenians, well, that's the difference, so much remains to be thanked thank you for watching. all the best, ladies and gentlemen, and we'll see each other in a week, next friday, i'm already watching with doubts. this time just thought with lie but don't address the dog, we won't see each other later, but i will see you, so we will see each other somehow. well, merry christmas.

i congratulate you. dear viewers, on the air of the espresso tv channel, the studio program will analyze the event . we will analyze the most important events. of course, the key was the meeting between presidents biden and zelensky in washington understands how much will depend on it, but the key issue remains on the table, in particular , it is about heavy weapons for ukraine and, of course , about the introduction of new additional sanctions packages and this applies not only to the russian federation but also to iran. our guests today are daniel fried, one of the architects of the american sanctions policy, who has worked in the american state department for more than four decades. he knows about the sidelines of world politics, if not

everything. on our broadcast, our second guest will be a sociologist, a journalist, a former deputy of the state duma from the opposition russian party, an apple, ihor yakovenko, our first guest , daniel, congratulations from the glory of ukraine, glory to the heroes the visit of president zelenskyi to the united states was implemented, he met with president joseph biden, he met with representatives of the american parliament how do you assess what, for example, was left out of public notices what was the most important in your opinion, mr. ambassadors, i think that president zelenskyi had three goals: first, to encourage the americans to send more weapons to ukraine, and more modern weapons, the second , even more important goal was to invest in and increase american political support of ukraine. it is important that this

support continues, and i think that zelensky's address to the congress was aimed at continuing and increasing this support. the third goal is to hold strategic consultations with the president of the united states . went to war now, i don't think the united states is going to war with russia we are not going to, we don't want it, but we want to continue to support ukraine, that's why it was necessary to have two presidents the face-to-face conversation about the survival of ukraine in vienna with the russian aggressor, which is ongoing, and it was the legs for ukraine, as president zelensky said, and the clock should have been checked. however , where are we going, this was the most important summit. dear mr. ambassador, the key issue is, without

a doubt, this issue war and peace and, accordingly, the question of how far the united states will be willing to go in helping us to defend our sovereignty and our independence, and taking into account the genocidal practices used by the russian federation, it is possible it is also about saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of ukrainians, because the russians are preparing to destroy the facilities of our energy infrastructure and people can simply freeze, the russians will physically kill them with cold . approximately how many tanks do we need in order to carry out our counteroffensive operations, to return our territories, and this is a question of long-range systems, and so on, abrams m1 tanks, and so on. and so on, ukraine is fighting for its life

americans know this. i think that president zelensky coped very well with his task, he thanked the americans for their help and also pushed them to provide even more help. the task was not easy, but he succeeded. putin does not win on the battlefield , that is why he is trying to destroy ukraine by destroying its energy infrastructure. i don't think he will succeed, but we in the west should help ukraine both militarily and in terms of supporting its infrastructure. it costs a lot of money, now the us congress is considering a huge budget package in the amount of 45 billion dollars of aid to ukraine, i hope that it will be approved we will soon find out about it, you are absolutely right that the

united states should continue to provide ukraine with weapons, increasing their quantity and quality ukraine has proven that it knows how to fight and use these weapons america made an excellent decision to send petri systems to ukraine, there should be more of these systems, and ukraine is right to insist on this. the americans have already done a lot, so this is a war in which more there are many uncertainties. and we do not know whether the next ukrainian attacks will be successful. we suspect that if the russians try to attack and they fail. we also know the stress that the ukrainian economy is currently experiencing due to russian attacks, but there is also certain evidence that russia is under no less stress.

ukraine is fighting for its own the future of russia is fighting for putin's imperial vanity, and fighting for the tsar's wishes so courageously cannot be done, a lot is at stake, it is not known how it will turn out recently putin paid a visit to the belarusians, he met with lukashenko, because we understand what was the main goal of putin's visit to belarus, we understand that they may not have enough military forces to try to break through our border, but in any case they can use powerful missile systems for shelling our cities , it is about central and western ukraine, in your opinion. what did the meeting between putin and lukashenka lead to? lukashenka supports putin politically and in general but like franco, the spanish dictator

of the second world war, he is not quite ready to undertake to support someone else's aggressive war, i can't give you an answer. will belarus enter the war on the side of russia, and i can't say what will happen if it does try to do this, i do not think that the belarusian army and the belarusian people are delighted with this idea, because the belarusian democratic opposition is in a certain sense fighting the same struggle as the ukrainian people, the struggle for independence and freedom, but i do not i cannot and will not predict whether putin will try

to carry out a new offensive on the territory of belarus. weakened the russian army as well as russia as a whole but it doesn't matter that i think putin may try new attacks and we in the west should be ready to continue our support for ukraine russia in particular putin is preparing for the so-called long war which there are still tools left in the hands of the west, particularly economic and financial ones. perhaps there are some additional ones that would hurt the russian economy so much that they would be forced to negotiate with all civilized humanity. we see that the sanctions package is being implemented one by one. the russian economy is standing . with the help of which they begin to rebuild certain missile systems so

that they then fly into our peaceful cities and kill us and forms of economic pressure on what collective measure has russia recently started or is planning to strengthen? first of all, we are talking about limiting russian exports, and the last and biggest example of this is limiting the price of oil. it is a complex mechanism. need, so russia's profits from the sale of oil are decreasing, you should not be complacent about this, because russia will be cunning , this restriction on the price of cars must be ensured, because its purpose is to reduce the incomes of putin and russia, and there is every chance

that it will be possible to do it a second time. automotive and other types of production, so we see that it works, it will not and should not work perfectly, and yet it works well enough. the question is whether there are other areas of export restrictions that we can try. i think that europe and the united states are considering their next steps in this regard i would not be surprised if we see some action after the holidays and at the beginning of the new year so you are absolutely right we can

put more pressure on the russian economy it will work but it will take time because the main tool in our hands is of course weapons for ukraine and support of the ukrainian energy infrastructure is our most urgent task, then the economic pressure on russia will increase over time, i remember the 80s, when the economic pressure on the soviet union was not as strong as it is now and the soviet economy eventually collapsed. therefore, we need to increase the pressure on russia and my former colleagues. the us administration is thinking about how to do this, so i suspect that this is their plan . a picture that could not predict that certain negotiations are possible, which tracks will be productive now, and what do you think is happening in this

huge diplomatic pyramid, because there are many people coming forward with various initiatives and it is difficult to say whether they are do they do it on their own behalf or do they represent certain environments, maybe certain financial or industrial groups and so on, this does not only apply to a on kissinger - it is generally about world great diplomacy, you remember the speculations about the negotiations during and immediately after the visit of president macron to washington then president biden said that , in principle, he was not against negotiations, and president macron said that he did not want to force ukraine into negotiations, so the talks about potential negotiations did not make him wait the very next day, the kremlin stated that the negotiations should begin with the recognition that russia has acquired new territories

, that is, the russians are ready to negotiate only on the basis of the capitulation of ukraine and the west, this is not a serious negotiating position, so i am not very interested in hypothetical discussions about negotiations when the kremlin clearly does not take negotiations seriously at all on my own terms i read henrikeisin's article the only interesting point in this article was that he said that ukraine is nato should deepen their relations he also hinted at something like serious security guarantees for ukraine and this is already interesting, however, the whole concept of ideas of some injector is based on the fact that ukraine surrenders millions of people, as well as territories that russia illegally occupied by force, in particular, donbas and others, i do not think that the kremlin is serious,

at least so far, the biden administration is right, it does not speak against negotiations but she is helping ukraine achieve the best possible results on the battlefield so that she can negotiate on her own terms as much as possible and not on putin's terms i think president biden was quite clear regarding this, during the negotiations with zelensky , there are still too many people who really want to go to the negotiations, and for them the negotiations begin with ukraine handing over its territory to its people, how long do you think the war can last, the main thing will happen on the battlefield, but there is no a less important issue is, after all, a question of resources. in your opinion, how ready will the russian economy be to seriously switch to the so-called

military rails? it seems that they are preparing to wage a permanent war , that is, they will try to freeze the situation on certain areas of the front in order to, for example, deconserve them in the future, i don’t know, half a year and so on, you are absolutely right that russia will probably consider a temporary suspension at a moment to take a breath and restore its forces and attack again. this is obvious considering which is exactly what happened after 2014. she used the minsk process to buy time and prepare the next attack on ukraine . it would be foolish to expect something else, but i don't like to behave foolishly, but the question is can putin succeed and it is not clear to me the russian economy is in a deplorable state russian society does not support the war it is forced to express

its support and if you listen to the hysterical fascist speeches on russian state television, i can imagine that outside the small extremist part of russian society the majority of russians do not care, and hundreds of thousands of young people who fled the country to avoid the draft are proof of this. this is a small patriotic war this is something similar to the russo-japanese war or the first world war, which russia lost, the suffering of the ukrainians, the huge russian people either have no idea or do not care, but they definitely would not want to experience what the ukrainians are experiencing now, and i think that putin understands this and that is why time does not necessarily play on his side if ukraine can survive this winter and if we in the west take economic pressure on russia seriously, in particular through military and economic support of ukraine, it is not easy, but president zelensky was right

the support of ukraine from the usa is uncharitable, it is an investment in our own security, yes, dear mr. ambassador, i agree with you, but on the other hand, we know the example of cuba, we know the example of north korea, that is, the standard of living fell rapidly and was at the bottom, but people followed the criminal orders of their generals and their secretaries of the communist party and, accordingly. allowed to put so much pressure on iran so that it does not supply ballistic missiles to the russian federation with which it will kill us it is true that russia is strengthening

its relations with iran and iran is supplying russia with weapons i suspect that north korea is doing the same with our pressure on iran we are doing a lot in this regard, and i do not think that additional pressure on men will put an end to the arms trade between russia and russia, their trade relations do not strategically affect the course of the war, weapons are not enough good, i don't think that iran will be able to influence anything in particular, it is not clear to me that russia will benefit from the continuation of this war, they can only lose. putin does not look like a confident person, he canceled his new year's press conference, the new year's reception, as well as his address to the russian duma. did he do this because of his poor health, or maybe he is afraid of a reaction, in any case, this is not a

sign of a confident leader. we must remember this. we are aware of our own needs, as well as the suffering of ukrainians, which we do not we know that this is the kind of pressure the russian system is under, and i suspect that it is under quite strong pressure, they will not win the war, they know this well. the west and the democracies have not turned out to be as divided and weak as putin expected and hoped. putin is in global isolation, do you think it will be satisfied with putin's relations with iran the next prime minister benjamin nataniyahu india has already canceled its annual summit with russia for the first time in 20 years russia is isolated and we must remember even when we decide our own disagreements that the differences in russia and russia's weaknesses can be even greater

, the former president of the russian federation, medvedev, the person who replaced putin in office, the person responsible for the war against georgia, and so on, the person who is now making simply inadmissible obscene statements, writing all kinds of nonsense on his twitter so dmitry medvedev met with sidzinpin. i don't know what powers he had, it is about medvedev, there is an assumption that he brought some possibly oral, possibly written proposal from the road, in general, i would ask you to decipher and what is the position of china and to what extent china will be ready to influence the russian federation in order to contain or suppress putin's imperialist desires, do you think that the chinese are shocked by putin's failed war against ukraine? i do n't think so, or do you think that they were

satisfied that russia started this the war immediately after the chinese and russians concluded an agreement that talked about friendship without restrictions . strategic miscalculations from her clumsiness in dealing with what she can neither control nor stop russia has always been china's junior partner at least for the last few years now it is quite obvious that she is an aggressive incompetent junior partner i doubt the chinese will take any risks for putin also don't forget that the chinese have big problems the chinese government has changed its decision on covid restrictions now covid is spreading very fast i leave what will hit their economy economic growth which is

on the low side, joe biden had a pretty good meeting within the framework of the g20, which means that the chinese may not want to intensify their confrontation with the united states, moreover, they saw that the west is not as weak as they could imagine and that they are not as strong as they hoped it would be means for russia, this should alarm any serious strategist in the kremlin, if there are any left, that china is not going to support russia, plunging more and more into the quagmire of putin's adventures, i think that the chinese will not risk violating american sanctions even limiting the price of oil, they will not agree to limiting the price of cars, but they can silently observe this. putin's position is not strong, they suffer more because of disadvantages, but strategically it is not the way that putin came up with, he made serious

miscalculations, and his current position is much weaker than last year. so now is christmas, as president zelensky said. i think that the ukrainian people who are fighting for their lives will succeed. i think that the victory is yours and that's why glory to ukraine heroes, glory to you thank you, mr. ambassador frit, for this extremely important conversation, and at the same time, thank you for all that you do for ukraine, and i want to remind our viewers that the former coordinator of the united states department of state for sanctions policy, a person who is one of the the creator of the american system of sanctions, and now our guest will be ihor yakovenko, a journalist, a sociologist, a former member of the state duma from the opposition party, an apple, glory to ukraine, igor, i congratulate you , a hero of words, putin and all his

the military-criminal clique held an extended meeting of the ministry of defense, and we understand the key issue - this is a new, possibly fundamental, new phase of the russian-ukrainian war, in particular , it is about the fact that they are going to increase the number of mobilized people to one and a half million people, and we understand that the so-called goals of the war in addition to certain genocidal practices, that is, the destruction of the presence of ukrainians in separate territories. whatever russia wants to occupy, they have not voiced, and still the puck says that instead of a million army , one and a half is needed million, instead of 4, we need 600,000 bird contract workers. well, that’s such an inertia. i already said that zhukovsky’s approach will fill you with corpses because the number of armed forces in the present

in today’s war has a finite meaning, but in the real world, what decides our what what it is important for hemmer to have uh-uh how much live meat he will turn into dead meat if uh -uh we are talking about the stoknoveni in today's war, that is, again, this is a demand to overwhelm the enemy with corpses, this is a demand for on in some degree was effective during the second world war, but now the us war is the second one, in fact, we are actually present at a complete war of a completely second type. m manpower, they are decisive, therefore, of course, what happened today at the meeting together with the defense

testifies to the fact that um, after all, so is putin. not to mention the defense ministers who are actually it has nothing to do with the events leading up to the war , but here is an interesting moment, that is, that it is managed by the ministry of defense, that it was held by one or another consultation with putin, in particular , it is about their rendezvous in taiz. i do not know what happened there, but how do they say it the matter is already in the past well, accordingly, we understand that he was among the initiators of the inspirations. and now the impression is that he was moved a little , perhaps he and the chief of the general staff gerasimov because new favorites appeared, that is, prigozhin is already beginning to take control all the same, but all the same, putin pulls out both shoigu and gerasimov, the thing is that this is putin’s bets, putin is obviously not going to hand over a puck to gerasimov, because this

will mean a public recognition of his defeat, and what about the new old shooting ranges of such favorites like prigozhin, kadyrov and so on, well, first of all prigozhin, of course, we are dealing here with the pure water of oprichnina when, er, the existence of such an out-of- system player like prigozhin, for example , has already become er, not just noticeable to you a lot of things have become our beauty, she has her own, in fact, private armies, she has absolutely unique powers, she comes to the prison, opens the doors there with her foot, takes away any number of criminals, mostly unrepentant, mostly serial killers, professional hired killers, take them to your private army and throw these people away to individualize them, in fact, from the

punishment is unique in general, not prescribed in any law, the powers of a private person, thin beauty, has no official status, and here he is received such opportunities and, first of all, this is explained by the fact that at the very beginning of the war it was clear that the ministry of defense was not able to cope with this war, it was not able to effectively fight in any way, it became clear literally in the first days of the war and if you remember that... at the very beginning , he was not allowed to participate in this war, so today he was not invited to participate in this war, although in general he already fought for a long time and fought on the side of russia in the donbass, fought in syria , fought in africa, and so on. did not show up found out that the russian army can't fight and that's why, among other things, prigozhin was sued, he really is one of himself, this is a

dude, the bow of the formation is one of the most effective units of the russian army, although what is he called a good man? away with words against a good man and samovtsa, what was revealed, for example, the collision on bakhmut, where for several months he tried to take bakhmut, but he collided with professional soldiers of the ukrainian army and in general, he broke his forehead, although during fasting by zelenskiy, bakhmut, he generally frowned. on the other side of the front, he said that dear vladimir sanich, we are waiting for you. here we are now , morzianka, and he arranged some clown demonstrative shots in the direction of ukrainians