[000:00:00;00] of a new group of criminal authority yesho in the form of arrest without the right to deposit bail. what kind of criminal authority is it easier for leshe and what did they do? the members of a transnational criminal organization terrorized and intimidated the residents of the capital region. they were elected without an alternative to the west. they will not terrorize, well, that's the end of the story , actually, we'll put an end to something with you until sunday. i wish you a good day and a good evening, a good day. now to for your attention, a news release from my colleagues from the editorial office of bbc new from ukraine well, then portnikov september, wait good evening we are from ukraine good evening on bbc news from ukraine live from london i am yevgenia shadlovska and today in the release the leaders

of the european union came to kyiv to talk the prospects of ukraine's membership in the eu, has kyiv become one step closer to the desired future of countries that own both 16 they have begun rearmament on the f-35, respectively , the diplomatic front my colleagues asked dmytro kuleby, but what weapons can ukraine get them who influences the appointment of ambassadors and the balloon of discord over the united states chinese drone discovered linken postpones his visit to china ukraine eu summit held in kyiv first such high-level meeting since the full-scale invasion of russia

european union leaders came to the war-torn country to the president the president of the european council, charles michel, of the european commission near the village of von der lägen, and they saw what had become commonplace for ukrainians, an air alert for european officials had become as a direct reminder of the war and before talking more about the results of this meeting from the statement of promises, i suggest to see how correspondence is still working in kyiv . by president zelensky, and even now on this important day, sirens are sounding , this is a reminder of the threat that kyiv and most of ukraine faces every day despite eu representatives are in town, they have already discussed the extension of russian sanctions, economic punishment of russia and assistance

with infrastructure, as russia continues to strike at power plants throughout the country, and they also talked about the country's european path. president zelensky said that the country deserves to start negotiations with the eu about possible membership last year, ukraine became an official candidate, but joining the european union takes years, if not decades, and the country's membership must be approved by all 27 eu member states, but itself the topic of the european union and ukraine is very sensitive because it is about the fact that ukraine demonstrates its sovereign right despite constant attacks and also shows the political will to further rapprochement with the west and distance itself from moscow, and despite the fact that the leader has assured of the irreversibility of ukraine's european integration, the future of ukraine in the eu this is what they stated, however, even the approximate time frame for when this future may come was not named. president zelenskyy hopes that negotiations on joining the european union can

begin this year, because i will remind you now that at the stage of preparation for negotiations, which in cases with the assistance of other countries with long hands. so, ukraine submitted an application for accession to the european union immediately after the full-scale russian invasion . this application was very quickly supported in june . yes, in ukraine, the status of a candidate for accession and a list of the european commission promises to give an interim assessment of the seven requirements that kyiv must fulfill before starting negotiations, in particular the requirements for judicial reform, already this spring, and the representatives have stated that there is no time frame only the goals, but not only ukrainian european integration, were discussed at the summit in kyiv during the meeting, the leader of the register supported mir zelenskyi's formula, the right of ukraine to occupy all its territories, including crimea, in addition, the eu supported ukraine on the issue of bringing the russian leadership to justice for the crime of aggression, the european union will coordinate the creation and the work of the international center for prosecuting russia for the crime of aggression in asia is still ready to immediately

invest a billion euros in the reconstruction of ukraine as soon as the war ends, in particular to use frozen russian assets, my colleague zhanna bezpyachuk, who was following this, talked about a lot, and that's why kyiv sums up its results: your fate is our fate . that's how he summed up the results. when could ukraine officially start negotiations with the european union regarding its accession to it , this process is still ahead in ukraine, so far it only has the status of a candidate for accession, and as char-michel and the president explained of the european commission, the ursula derline foundation, this process does not have a clear schedule, everything will depend on the achievement of specific goals, on the unanimity of the eu member states to support ukraine at the next stage

of interaction with the european union, i.e. to support direct negotiations on accession. therefore , we have not heard specific deadlines except of course, it was also about how to prepare ukraine , together with the european union, for new possible threats of a new wave of full-scale russian invasion of ukraine, which is being talked about today as something that really can to take place in the next two or three months, according to the ukrainian president. he spoke about this in the presence of charles michel and russula von der laeln. ukraine is not going to retreat from bachmut, moreover, if it receives long-range weapons, it will de-occupy the entire donbas. if there are accelerated weapons, namely long-range weapons, we not only will we not move away from bahmut, we will start where to buy donbas, which was occupied in the 14th

year, and volodymyr zelenskyi admitted that one of the mobile directions of russia's offensive at the end of winter at the beginning of spring is donbas east the direction to the estuary of the territories that ukraine won back in the fall of last year. at the same time, according to the president, he is worried about the fact that some cities of ukraine are living like this , the country should not be at war, and instead they are resting . he called for the unity and solidarity of all ukrainians on the eve of the fact that the country may face new dangers and it was also about sanctions, the leader of the european union assured that the 10th package of sanctions is being prepared, which will be adopted as soon as possible by the anniversary of russia

in ukraine, the 10th package of sanctions against russia on approach, we aim to introduce it by february 24, its volume will be about 10 billion euros, this is a large package , and the plan is to focus once again on technologies that may or may not be used by the russian war machine, in other words, we are studying more deeply the components found, for example in drones to make sure that these technologies will not be available for russia, such as for the production of drones in a wound that we are closely monitoring, we will also intensively focus on reducing the possibilities circumventing sanctions in the 10th package there will be proposals to combat these tricks and there will be new energy restrictions , in particular, probably about establishing an upper permissible price limit for russian oil

. other international partners, as of now, he noted that ukraine itself is facing missile threats from russia and has gradually learned to circumvent sanctions and resume the production of cruise missiles on its therefore, according to the ukrainian president, russia's missile programs, energy, and uh, personal sanctions should be the next priorities from the functional packages of the european union, in general , according to sharn michel, as the leader of the european union, he believes in what, in the future, i will build in ukraine and ukraine will be in the eu and we will be in touch analyst of the center new europe marianna fakhurdinova expert of the center ukrainian prizma oleksandr kray i welcome you on the air and the first question for both of you is whether

this met the expectations of the ukrainian authorities ourselves, that is, oleksandr, let's start with you, in fact, in many ways, we heard those messages, and first of all, the ukrainian authorities heard those messages that they expected , the support of the european union remains. keeps his promises and at the same time we need to understand that the main part of the summit was behind the scenes. that is, we understood that this summit is a certain intermediate assessment of our candidate status and this summit had for us to show when, after all, the european union will be ready to start negotiations with us about the beginning of the accession process, of course unfortunately , this information remains closed at the moment, but given the general positive nature, that is exactly what i believe in what is on the sidelines. we heard and our authorities heard what and we expected but at the same time specific dates, not about accession

, but when negotiations can begin, that's what was announced and that's it, mariano. how do you assess the results of this ? ukrainian authorities heard what they wanted. indeed, the ukrainian side tried until the last to get concrete commitments from the eu that it will be written down in the final document a-a that after a-a adoption of the implementation of ukraine's reforms, we will start negotiations on accession, and this was not written down by the leaders of the summit a nevertheless, it is still positive that the eu has recognized our progress in the implementation of reforms, and it is said that as soon as we complete the seven steps, the eu will talk about how we will move forward

, anyway, we checked the clocks with our partners and eh, we received a clear assurance from them that eh, the eu will fairly evaluate ukraine on the basis of its merits. if we talk about these seven directions, homework on the various reforms of oleksandra, in your opinion. when will kyiv be ready for negotiations, when will it be possible to do this? seven points that the eu expects in the event that the war continues well, unfortunately , every time we start a conversation about when those tasks will be completed, we focus on the subject that ukraine has not been able to pass for several years, that is, in this case, we even we look a bit duplicitous, and this is the moment when we will start talking about judicial reform, because unfortunately there are many other reforms and the fight against corruption and the open shame of governance, and everyone rests on the presence of fair, open and, most importantly, independent in

the court, and therefore one way or another all other reforms are currently tied to the fact that we have not been able to carry out an adequate judicial reform for several years, and unfortunately, as this year has shown, despite the war, you still cannot get rid of the fact that this system from the very beginning worked incorrectly, i.e. answering your question. when we can talk about the start of negotiations. when we can talk about the implementation of all seven points, unfortunately, only at the moment when we can deal with the judicial system. it is currently the most complex, multidisciplinary and, unfortunately , the most important reform for us. the success of which depends on the success of all others , so we have to orient ourselves precisely on them .

do you think that the judicial reform is the most difficult thing? i agree that it is one of the most difficult and important reforms, but we also see some progress here, so let's say ukraine has already succeeded after almost a year of non-functioning of the high council of justice, in fact one of the most important judicial bodies of ukraine managed to carry out the selection members to this body and start its work, so there are positive developments here. we are also waiting for the appointment of members of the higher qualification commission of judges and if we talk about another law in in the field of judicial reform - this is the law on the selection of judges to the constitutional court of ukraine on a competitive basis, here we saw a warning and a remark by the venice commission on the part of the european union that the legislation adopted by ukraine is not ideal. but at the same time, on the eve of the summit , we heard assurances from the ukrainian side that the government will make the necessary

amendments to the law, therefore i hope that ukraine will still be able to take positive steps in judicial reform, another difficult area was the anti-oligarchic reform that we did not have the opinion of the venetian commission about how good the anti-oligarchic law is. but again, literally . today, we received assurances from the venetian commission that they will submit their opinion, so here we see, in principle, readiness from the ukrainian side as well on the european side, let's move forward. we will also talk about other statements that were made at this summit. and now i suggest that we listen together to how this summit ukraine and the eu are evaluated by western diplomats and this is what the former british ambassador to ukraine, simon smith, said underbol it is clear that ukraine cannot wait, there is a sense of urgency for practical steps leading to membership in the european union. it is also

important to remember how important what is happening in kyiv, considering that putin's first invasion of ukraine in 2014 was actually aimed at trying to make ukraine problems of ukraine for the european union, i think this is a really big signal from the eu to show that they are serious about this, that they are here to achieve progress on this path, but it is obvious that the atmosphere is somewhat tense, there is a certain discrepancy between the sense of urgency on the part of zelenskyi and the very down-to-earth practical answers in the eu, they point to some aspects through which they cannot rush, i think that no one denies that the ukrainian side has to do a lot of work, in particular in the areas related to corruption in the court system, i think everyone knows about it, but in fact there has been great progress in this area since ukraine first suffered a serious attack from russia back in 2014

, and in this sense the association agreement that was then agreed became a certain impetus for solving these issues in ukraine and progress has definitely been achieved, i think the european union for good reasons will continue to say that it is in no one's interests to take a country into the european union that is not yet ready to join tomorrow or next week, but we need to continue working on it to find a way to show that relations between the european union and ukraine are special and unique and that no one refuses ukraine's accession to the union special and unique relations yes said the british diplomat between ukraine and the eu, and i will remind experts mariana fakhurdinova with me on the air, oleksandr kraev, at this summit they talked not only about ukraine's accession to the eu, but also about sanctions against russia, and that's exactly what i want to talk about. kyiv is worried that russia manages to circumvent sanctions , in particular, regarding the construction of the missile from maryan. what do you think about the new package of eu sanctions? send these

restrictions . he closed the stars. that the scientific son of the packages will still be restricted against the nuclear sphere of the russian federation, but for now , at least from official statements, we have heard only about the readiness of the european union to direct sanctions to certain technologies, and hmm, let's see if the european union will manage to advance and be as ambitious as it wants ukraine can see it, but at the moment, at least from official statements, we did not see a readiness to go into the nuclear sphere and into rocketry, and the same sanctions are expected to be announced on the anniversary of the full-scale russian

the second, and then we will find out what they will have and what else i want to pay attention to. this summit is taking place while there is a threat of a second great russian offensive. the ukrainian authorities talked about the need to get more weapons. oleksandr, in these final statements, you heard that the eu countries will be ready to give more military support for ukraine a-a let's say the direct text of what we wanted to hear in terms of hard security because we wanted to hear in the field of security , unfortunately it was not there, we saw absolutely support in almost all areas we saw readiness of the european union to stand with ukraine to the end, however, it becomes clear that in addition to the eu level, we have, of course, other formats where we specifically cooperate with the same countries of the european union. in matters of security , this is first of all, of course, the rammstein format. with central europe as the chests of the baltics , therefore, accordingly, the eu took on more responsibility specifically for ukrainian membership in the union, for our candidate status and for

evaluating our progress in this direction. of course, for the sanctions policy, as the lullaby correctly said, from whom we expected much more but who, after all, we have to admit it , is moving forward and creating the pressure on russia that we need, but i will repeat myself in the security component of course, unfortunately, this was expected we did not hear the absolute global support that many ukrainians hoped for and a very short question at the very end, the same for both of you . joining nato is a political decision, and joining the bright future involves the introduction of many technical details and the unification of legislation, so in principle, it is more likely that joining nato can happen even before oleksandr. what is your opinion of nato or the eu, and

that bloc promised us to join especially the promotion after our victory but i believe that in this promotion too much will be faster and the doors will be open, thank you, the analyst of the center for new europe maryana fakhurdinova and the expert of the center ukrainian prizma oleksandr kraev were on the air with us, thank you and for the year due to a large-scale war, ukrainian diplomats managed to attract a large amount of aid from western countries to support ukraine, more western countries understand the dangers of russian aggression, they are already from russia trying to prevent the balkan countries from joining the sanctions of the global rooster russia is trying to reorient its trade to these regions minister of foreign affairs of ukraine , dmytro kuleba told us how ukraine is resisting the growing influence of russia in the balkans in africa, where russia is not exporting resources to finance the war, and what efforts ukrainian

diplomacy is working to convince asian and african countries to support ukraine. my colleague, georgy erman, spoke with the head of the ministry of foreign affairs. ukrainians are most interested in what will happen next, what weapons will be produced next . ukraine can count on a fighter jet of great antiquity. this conversation did not start yesterday either. we already started a long time ago. to probe and raise both of these issues right from the very beginning of the war, but now we are coming to such a steep turn and to the finish line, i have a clear understanding. where are these weapons, with whom? to work and i think that these questions will also be resolved from which countries can you get these fighters? well, why? because in the press and in communication with diplomats , the f16 most often sounds for one simple reason, because it is almost the most massive fighter of the fourth generation, at the same time, although it is of the fourth and not the fifth generation, it is one of the most successful a-a aircraft on the arms market

, many of them were produced, we are talking about thousands, that is, it is not some kind of limited resource and they are in service in many countries and here is another positive argument in our favor of the countries that own the f16. they started rearming on the f-35, respectively, the f16s are being released. so we can claim them and it will be easier to share them. but we do not write off other e-e planes like such as the swedish gripens, such as the french mirages and rafales, so we are open to communication with all partners, but we always approach weapons issues very rationally and focus on what we can get, the main thing is to achieve the adoption of political decisions, but after we

resolved the issue of patriots with other anti-aircraft systems and a tank, i have no doubt that this decision will be made, it is sergey lavrov in africa. and how do you assess the results of this visit? as far as i know , two unpleasant surprises happened to mr. lavrov during this tour and he did not enter two countries in my memory, this is the first time you can name this country well, let them name it themselves, i know them and i know why he did not enter, but this is basically a signal, you understand, even yesterday it seemed that russia was unconditionally dominating africa and everywhere the doors open and everyone there welcomes them with a bang, and then some problems begin. well, such a life has problems not only at the front, but also on the diplomatic front . a certain part of society has developed the impression that personnel appointments, in particular ambassadors. they come from the office of the president

directly from andriy yermak, says the old proverb folk wisdom that when an impression is formed, one must first cross oneself . does andriy yarmak somehow influence this process or does he offer literally, er, to someone er offers e-e nominations of ambassadors suitable to me a lot of people offer e-e nominations of words well, we have a diplomatic team where everyone has the right to express this or that proposal but i have the right to either agree or disagree with it, the demonization of andriy yarmak in this context is firstly, it is incorrect, and secondly, it is completely unnecessary, because only those who do not understand how the system works can focus on one person . the most interesting appointment is the appointment of the weak bulgarian, who proposed this

candidacy and why did they choose this particular woman if through the prism of your previous questions so uh, not from andrii yarmak, i first learned about this candidate and she was interviewed. to be honest, her public image uh is very different from who she really is and now she is doing an internship uh she does it very conscientiously, very responsibly, but once again i emphasize that this is all irrelevant , only the result will not be a result , the person will be fired, and if there is no result, no one will stop me from signing the petition for her dismissal or any of another ambassador of ukraine, what is the ministry of foreign affairs doing now? what is the plan of action for this year to limit the influence of e-e and wagner and prigozhin in africa, or is there such a plan of action in the knowledge of the united states of wagner

as a transnational criminal organization, this is the result of the activities of the ministry of foreign affairs, the decisions are american, but they initiated this decision and advocated him in every possible way. and we, and you can read the full version of the interview with dmytro kulebov on our website bbc.ua. and also watch it on the youtube channel of bbc news ukraine and in the end over the united states high in the sky found a mysterious ball about the size of three buses. this is how the american media wrote about it, the officials said in amazement that it could be a chinese espionage apparatus. china has already recognized that it is their ball, but declares that its main purpose is to monitor the weather, not to spy, and that the ball would lose its course. the aircraft flew over the islands near alaska through canada to the american state of mentana where, by the way, there are some military facilities and this incident has already affected relations

between the countries us secretary of state anthony blinking, who was due to go to china in the next few days, postponed his visit and the details will be told by the bbc's stephen macdonald, we had several dramatic hours because of this bullet, who is it, is it or is it? first , the chinese government said that it was also trying to investigate whose territory this bullet is flying over . the united states and which state officials called espionage or a chinese intelligence-gathering device , the chinese government said it was trying to find out and get to the bottom of it and called on all parties to calm down while they tried to figure out what it is now the ministry of foreign affairs of china has released a written statement and i will just read some of it so according to the statement of beijing - this is a civilian airship that is used mainly for meteorology research, i.e.

the weather, it was picked up by westerly winds and due to the limited possibility of independent control, the airship deviated far from the planned course, we have now seen that it is above the mean west of the united states. however, according to the chinese government , they express regret about the unintentional the entry of the airship into us airspace and the chinese side will continue to communicate with the us government to properly deal with the unexpected situation caused by force majeure, so i understood the reasons are essentially unexpected, but now the chinese government admits that this is one of their balloons although it notes that this is a research balloon questions naturally arise whether the explanation will be accepted by the united states it is important that this statement came out a few days before the planned trip of anthony blinken secretary of state

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