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glory to ukraine this program verdict my name is serhiy rudenko good day and good health to all. today, president zelenskyy delivered his annual message to the people's deputies of ukraine and talked about ukraine's foreign and domestic policy plans for the coming year 2023. well, he summed up what happened in ukraine during the past year kyrylo budanov, head of the intelligence directorate of the ministry of defense of ukraine, visited the advanced positions of the ukrainian defense forces in the city of bakhmut in donetsk region, where ukrainians are fighting fiercely with the russian occupiers. medvedev urged not to let russians who support ukraine into the russian federation, and the minister of defense of italy declared that by re-threatening a possible

defeat, russia can use tactical nuclear weapons, meanwhile, the russian occupiers continue to lose manpower and equipment in ukraine, as of the morning of december 28, russia has already lost 103,000 in ukraine 1,770 people in just the last day, the armed forces of ukraine destroyed 550 orks with the beginning of the great war, the russians have already lost in ukraine 317 tanks, 6,037 armored fighting vehicles, 1,999 artillery systems, 418 jet systems volley fire 212 means against air defense 283 airplanes 267 helicopters 4660 units of automotive equipment 16 ships boats 653 cruise missiles 177 drones 179 units of special equipment why lavra is

afraid of putin's assassination what zelensky said today in his annual message to the ukrainian parliament and why russia refuses to leave the occupied territories , we will talk about it in the next hour . yelchenko, the editor has already told me that our guest is already on the phone, volodymyr. good day, good health to you, and i am glad to see you on our air. so, volodymyr, today volodymyr zelensky delivered his annual message to the verkhovna rada of ukraine, let's listen to a fragment of the speech of the head of the ukrainian state where he said that nothing will stop ukraine and the future will be ukrainian

, ukrainian soldiers expelled the invaders from kyiv and this was the first turning point in a full-scale war, it showed the strength of our the ukrainian soldiers freed the serpentine resistance, and since then every occupier knows the only answer he will hear from the ukrainians to any of his yawns. it seemed that nothing would stop ukraine in the black sea. it somewhat reduced the a1 flagships. if it works and it has shown what the future will be like, it

will be ukrainian. so, mr. volodymyr, since we are summing up the passing year and talking about the future, we rely on our victory in the future, how do you see ukraine's place in the world after our victory over russia, you know. i really wanted to see ukraine finally, er, fix the status of a subject of international relations under international law, because there were many of us who were the object of abuse from inside the country and from outside, er, but first the war and with the beginning of this heroic resistance of the ukrainian people against the russian enigmas, i think that we have become a subject, this was confirmed well, at least the last visit

of the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi to washington and before that there were many events that confirmed this today ukraine is in she is the center of attention of the world. i mean the country and the president and the ukrainian people and the ukrainian armed forces. they are on the covers of all mass media from around the world, and time is the icon of all many other magazines of other publishing houses. that is, we would we finally let the world know who we are but it is clear that our victory is still ahead, we still need children, that's what i wish next year for all of us to make it happen as possible mr. ambassador, please tell me whether ukraine has a chance to become a

regional leader in eastern europe after of our victory yes, of course, i think that it has already become a regional summer, the only thing is that it is clear that the conflict that is taking place today, er, well, he is that he is installing ukrainians, she is interfering with us, er, let's say that we should direct our efforts, er, in a peaceful direction, because there are many of things that we could do that could help not only europe, not only eastern europe, even the european union and nato, and i hope and am almost sure that we will become members and there is a senate, but today we are already the leader. well, you can argue uh there about weight and influence, let's say between ukraine and poland that they are in eastern europe, but you know that at the olympic games, we don't compete for who is the main, who is better, who is bigger . the fact is that ukraine is listening today and

in fact we are already standing at the threshold of uh, well, let's say at which the hulk already begins, that is, between uh, between europe uh, and russia, our state is located . europe in general and everything so i think that there is a perspective. we have very good ones, we have already earned the title of such a doctor. well, relatively speaking, and i think that this will be confirmed after our victory, when the future system of collective international security begins to take shape. i think that we will definitely be involved in this. because with the experience we have, we have the full right, morally and physically, not only to

participate in this process, but also to dictate our own terms, i mean the safety of not only ukraine, but also all other european countries from the russian federation by the way , zelenskyi spoke about security guarantees today and in his speech before the verkhovna rada of ukraine, he said that there is a need for reform of existing organizations that are supposed to guarantee peace but are unable to do so. well, obviously, we are talking about the organization of the united nations have worked for quite a long time in their lives. we know that in 1939 , when the soviet union attacked finland , the soviet union was expelled from the league of nations for this attack, for aggression, and we know that the league of nations after the second world war war was also reformed and it was actually transformed into the organization of the united nations, we know that now the ukrainian delegation

to the un is demanding the exclusion of the russian federation from the security council of the united nations, since it did not illegally become a member of the security council in 1991, taking the place of the soviet union. well, not only in the security council and and at the un today, the ministry of foreign affairs of estonia stated that the majority of the member states of the security council do not share ukraine's approach to the issue of russia's membership in the organization, accordingly, the question of russia's exclusion in the opinion of the estonian ministry of foreign affairs is now almost without promising well, is it possible to draw analogies between 1939 and 2022, when the ussr attacked finland, and in 22, russia attacked ukraine , and between the league of nations, which failed in 1945 , and the un model of 2022? i think

there is no need to draw analogies here. they don't work properly. i'll try to explain why. the fact is that at one time the soviet union was expelled from the league of nations , according to which the soviet union was a full member if we are talking about the organization of the united nations, so i would rather half the conversation not about the exclusion of the russian federation from the un members, its automatic expulsion or, to put it more simply, the deprivation of the powers of the russian un delegation and all organizations of the un system, including behind the security, where the operation illegally uses the right of veto on all of them why because, first of all, in in december 1991,

the russian federation did not go through the procedure established and recorded in the un charter to become a member of the united nations; they simply changed the nameplate of the soviet union to the russian federation and to this is the end of the matter. it was not discussed, it was not discussed, it was not voted on, no decisions were made about the entry of the russian federation into the un. neither is it pleasing to the security of the un general assembly, secondly, even if you were legally correct, that is, not as i say. to argue with me, then i have a question why so far the parliament, the state duma or the council of the federation of the russian federation has not yet ratified the charter of the

united nations, that is, if ukraine, for example as the former ukrainian ssr is one of the founders of the un and the verkhovna rada of ukraine. well, at that time the supreme council falsified the un charter, this was reconfirmed in 1991 by the decision of the verkhovna rada of an already independent ukraine, or rather, not yet independent, but in 1994 we already became a full-fledged independent a member of the un, and by the way, they changed their name in the un from the ukrainian ssr to ukraine, this was not done, even this was not done in the case of the russian federation, that is, they simply changed the name there based on the letter yeltsin and it is very doubtful that the decision is more true even to the decision and the declaration of the so-called almaty declaration, which not all cis countries signed. by the way, and ukraine at that time,

they later were not full members of the cis, only a participant, because i want to remind you that the verkhovna rada ukraine has never risked the cis statute, that is, it cannot be considered that the signature of the then president of ukraine kravchuk is the basis for the fact that ukraine was a participant in that decision, but even if it was a declaration that was absolutely not means that ukraine, the cis, by its decision, included the russian federation in the un. i repeat this small decision once again based on the recommendation of the un security council, which would then be approved as the final feature of the un, as it was, well, at least 1.5 dozen times in the history of the organization. slovakia, when is the stadium slovakia or all

six former republics of the former yugoslavia well, before that there were many other countries in africa and asia, they should not be named now , but always, that is, the only case in the history of when the country e-e was never accepted as a member of the un by any decision, but is a member of the un , so i will once again return to the beginning of our conversation . i'm not talking about massive violations of the un charter, but again, you know, maybe that's why russia behaves so defiantly and behaves uh and uh, because it is in no way legally connected to the norms and principles of the un charter because it has never ratified it but, mr. volodymyr, then it turns out that all decisions where russia had a decisive vote, whether in the security council or in the united

nations organization. with the participation of the russian delegation where their vote was decisive correctly no no absolutely no i am with them later because any one is absent i will tell you that all that was for this it was this is history no one questions the decision of the un between er-e let's say 46 -m year and 81st when to things from the composition of the security council and address information was recognized as the republic of china, what we call taiwan today. instead of it, the people's republic of china was included, that is, the china we know today. the absence of the people's republic of china , the presence of taiwan, all of this is illegal and

that is, it does not say the same thing can be said about the last 30 or even 31 years, mr. volodymyr so, in an interview with the tas news agency at the end of the year, the minister minister of foreign affairs of the russian federation sergey lavrov accuses the united states of america of wanting to conduct a constructive dialogue between the two countries, but emphasizes the readiness to discuss security issues with the united states of america both in the context of ukraine and in the strategic plan, we will hear and see lavrov at various levels, including the highest repeatedly emphasized that we do not shy away from a constructive dialogue, but to establish it, it is necessary to create the conditions, and the possibility of meetings should not be held for the sake of a tick, as they say in our country. they must be filled with the specifics of any significant ideas in this regard from the americans. they are not ready to discuss

security issues both in the context of ukraine and in a broader strategic plan . we will wait until washington matures to realize the inferiority of its current course and without the alternative of building relations with us on a mutually respectful and equal basis, subject to mandatory consideration of legitimate russian interests, well, that is, as far as i understand, lavrov said that we captured part of ukrainian territory and now we will talk with the united states of america about security issues and now if someone takes these occupied territories from us, it will threaten the security of the russian federation, and if the united states of america is not ready to discuss this with us, we are not talking about anything at all let's talk correctly, i understand. and lavrov is in place, as he is. by the way, i know him very well

. in the last 10 months, he hasn't said anything, maybe nothing has been received, unlike putin and whatnot, but he has spoken a lot. i think that uh , well, 25 years in prison. this is what they think, what they say. they think differently. you say that you had enough communication with sergey lavrov. well, that is, he has always been, as they say , now we will try to be like this. so, and uh, consistent in relaying the position of moscow, did he ever try to engage what he had to would do, you know, if er well, there are 10 or a little less months ago, i could think about what er, what lavrov thinks differently than what he says , but today i am already completely

unsure of this, that i am sure that this is not the case a person who has completely transformed into something else, you know, and i would say not even into another person, but into another being, because uh, well, such a thing is to carry uh, well, in general, like all russian diplomacy at least of such a serious and high level, well, the same not benzene , vasyl, in case of security, the representative of russia at the un, some other ambassadors know what they carry. well, it just doesn’t fit into any logic at all, and it’s strange to me. to be honest, watching this because i knew many of these people personally like a laurel tree and i could never think how can such a transformation happen to a person literally in a few years? so this is no longer a question for

analysts, er, in the political plane. and well , after all, it is probably for psychiatrists or other doctors who deal with and better understand these issues, friends, we work in a straight line on the air of the espresso tv channel and also on our social platforms on youtube and facebook for those who are currently watching us live on youtube and on facebook i encourage you to like this video subscribe to our resources and also you can become one of the sponsors of our youtube channel under this video in youtube has a function and a button where you can click on the sponsor button and become one of the sponsors of our youtube channel, we continue to talk with diplomat volodymyr yedchenko, former permanent representative of ukraine at the united nations, about the situation that is developing around ukraine in the world and we are talking about the situation that is developing on the

russian-ukrainian front and also the situation that is developing around russia's war against ukraine, the same lavrov, vladimir, said about what the ministry of defense of the united states said the americans are threatening to strike the kremlin, as he said, with a decapitating blow, they went further than everyone else in washington, quoting lavrov, some unnamed officials from the pentagon actually threatened to strike the kremlin with a decapitating blow, in essence it is a physical threat removal of the head of the russian state, if such ideas are actually conceived by someone, this someone should think very carefully about the possible consequences of such plans. i may ask you, volodymyr, a non-diplomatic question, and it is difficult for a diplomat to answer this question, but we have been watching for

the last ten months, the world is watching as russia destroys ukraine and strikes ukraine and kills civilians, we have been watching this for the ninth year of our war against the russian federation, or why are the powers of this world, who see the threat posed by putin, not only ukraine and the world will not dare to do what lavrov is talking about, this is really not a simple question. well, i think that, first of all, it is a question of what, you know, that driven er dead end rat to whom by the way, later i already compared myself, if we remember correctly yatayu well, he will be forced to resort to some steps that are not completely unpredictable, for example, the use of

nuclear weapons, this is exactly what the same permanent members of the un security council were afraid of in december of the 91st year of the last century when they closed their eyes to all the violations and allowed the russian federation to take their place permanent member, well, they hoped that maybe russia has some kind of rosy future , but they were wrong and they were also afraid of the same self-slippage of nuclear weapons, some kind of chaotic disintegration of the former soviet union, now they may be afraid of the disintegration of the russian federation. but it seems to me that every day more and more an understanding is coming not only to the countries of europe, which see this situation better, but also throughout the world, even in distant countries, that something

should arise in the place of the russian federation something else that will not threaten er in the entire surrounding world, how was it, well, the last er, let's be honest, several centuries, we 're not only talking about the last 10 months or 8 or 9 years. let's call georgia syria, the former yugoslavia. afghanistan, and before that, the caribbean crisis, and the war in korea, and the munich conspiracy, the comintern, stalin’s politics, and before that, the mysterious policy of the russian empire in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, that is, during the entire

period of its the existence of the russian empire on which is claimed today by the russian federation, although putin is pushing for the creation of some soviet union there 2:0 but nevertheless, this is the same russian empire, which during its entire existence only lived by the fact that it was more trying to earn new territory. it gives the impression that there is nothing to do well, this is the largest country in the world, the richest in terms of minerals. but everything is still not enough. zaporizhia, kherson and kharkiv regions must be added there. i am not saying that life will become better then, and in ukraine they will not they will stop until there is a final understanding of this uh well, at least nothing

will change for the better for the ukrainians of the european continent as long as they are afraid of this russia well, at least for the fact that it has nuclear weapons, although you know there are more there are many questions , what is the state of these nuclear weapons and whether they are even capable of using them until this understanding comes, we will have the same problem, but the italian minister of defense, in a video about zet, believes that if russia is threatened with defeat in the war and we know what russia is constantly creating that russia must not lose in this war, that victory must necessarily be for russia and even if they have a part of the territory of ukraine for themselves and agree on some kind of peace there, and he says that russia can leave i mean the minister of defense of italy on the use of tactical nuclear weapons, this is literally today's statement, we know that in the

last few months this topic of the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons was the top topic in the world, until the time when the director of the cia met with the head of the foreign intelligence service in russia in ankara until they spoke there about all the issues concerning the united states of america and russia, we know that blinking talked about the fact that russia was warned about the possible consequences, strongly warned about the possible consequences the use of nuclear weapons, but the minister of defense of italy is again talking about these tactical nuclear weapons. what do you think? how diplomatically or not diplomatically did russia explain that this should not be done, as it usually happens in diplomacy when another the party is made to understand that