[000:00:00;00] to make concessions means to a certain extent propaganda still works , you can draw a target audience on whom russian propaganda works in germany, france and the united states and in general throughout the west well, of course, german and in germany and in france and in europe and russian propaganda is trying to influence to those who go to the polls to the voters, that is why they are also convinced that the rise in prices is inflation, that high tariffs, gas prices, fuel prices are high, because ukraine does not surrender, because the governments of britain, the european union, and so on that they are helping ukraine and if all this ah all this support will stop, the conflict will stop, putin will no longer come and, accordingly, everything will be normalized, that is

, they are trying to play on such feelings of the common people, of course ah, we understand that all this is not true and any concessions to putin only provoke a new escalation only encourage him to new crimes to new aggression russian propaganda is a big enough machine that invests millions if not billions of us dollars in order to promote certain fakes, counteract this we can, for example, you have been successfully working for many years simply exposing these fakes , can this lead to some logical legal conclusion , bringing someone to justice , even creating a special court for the spread of these fakes, well, first of all, we are engaged in refuting fakes of russian propaganda for almost 9 years, we understand that this alone

is not enough to counter disinformation and russian propaganda , and much more must be done in many other areas however, we managed to undermine the reputation of the russian media as a reliable source of information, and now they are perceived only as propaganda, and one of the steps that i am sure will be taken in the future is the prosecution of those who create these fakes, create this propaganda and spread it it seems to me that the final chord could be the international court of justice, where all these people would receive real prison sentences, and on our website we have already collected more than 50,000 stories where uh, well, actually refuting objections uh, on purpose

created fake disinformation and we are ready and have already transferred all this information to the ukrainian law enforcement agencies that are investigating the case against russian propagandists and i am sure that the time will come when these evidences will end up in international courts and all these people will receive what they deserve and it seems to me that this is very it is important not only for the historians of the future to have reliable data and history written on real facts and not fakes, and secondly, it would be a very important lesson for future media workers so that they understand if they will be involved in such activity, then they will definitely end up with what solovyov skabeeva kiselyov and many other propagandists will end up in the dock and in prison, i hope it will be long , in fact, thank you, thank you for our conversation, ruslan tinichenko, executive director of stovfey.org. ua of our partners in this column was a guest

of spotlight ukraine, the ukrainian version , the balloon finally shattered the hopes of improving relations between washington and beijing, the chinese balloon that was discovered in the american sky was probably spying on military facilities united states president biden ordered to shoot it down secretary of state anthony blinkin's visit to beijing, which was expected to act on the diplomatic thaw between the two countries, was also canceled the united states' response will have long-term consequences for efforts to stabilize relations with china, which are already close to a historic low, experts emphasize . it was this flying object that worsened relations between washington and beijing, which were already experiencing a crisis, according to experts, the chinese aerostad can collect intelligence data and transmit information to chinese satellites, and already from the satellites the data will reach the command center of the chinese army, although in beijing

they are convinced that it was a civilian airship that conducted meteorological research but deviated from its course and accidentally took to the sky over latin america, the chinese side explained many times situation this incident was a complete accident caused by uncontrollable external forces the us department of defense stated that this bullet or this airship did not constitute a military or a personal threat to any ground personnel, but the american side, despite china's repeated statements, insisted on the use of force, which is an obvious deviation and china strongly opposes this, a representative of the us department of defense said when a chinese balloon was discovered near the air force base in mamostre, montana, where one of the of three us missile mines, the pentagon immediately intervened in order to prevent a dispute of secret information, which measures were

taken, the ministry of defense does not report as a result decided to shoot down the balloon with a missile fired from an f-22 as soon as the ball flew to the united states from canada i told the ministry of defense to shoot it down as soon as possible but they concluded that we should not shoot it down over land it would not be a serious threat that we should wait until the ball crossing the border , we made it clear to china what we are going to do, they understand our position, we are not going to retreat, we did the right thing with cross balloons during military operations in the early 2000s the ministry of defense launched over iraq and afghanistan tethered arostats equipped with a payload for reconnaissance last year, politico reported that the budget

of the ministry of defense for 2023 included funding for balloon production projects and was even increased from three billion 800 million in 2021 to 27 million last year of the year professor of political science, historian and director of the chinese institute of oriental and african studies at the university of london director of the chinese institute of soas mr. stivtsang eats spotlight ukraine good evening. greetings. let's talk about the so-called spy balloon in the sky over the united states, because china says that the balloon simply went the wrong way , and the united states says that the balloon was used by the chinese military for espionage. who do you believe? and if you, the chinese government really sent

the balloon or it’s a long time ago with will. if she deviated from the course, then i think they wouldn’t be able to say that. neither to the americans nor to others. of such a diplomatic case of course they should have found a way to lower the level of such a balloon or the americans saw that it really is that this balloon is really there for meteorological purposes therefore i am still a supporter of the theory of the americans and the usa also say that the chinese used balloons for espionage not only for by the americans, but in this world. is this true, and

what is their goal? maybe they just want to provoke the united states in order to visit the situation between china and the united states. of course, the government china would not want a bullet to really worsen the already bad relations between the usa and china, and also if we compare with the situation with taiwan or other cases , china does not have such power to win such a confrontation with the usa, they can also send such bullets in order to show what they can do and because they want to get certain pictures from the satellite that they are already collecting. well, you go and of course they

use such bullets for some kind of espionage purpose or to gather information they do this on a regular basis, in particular, there are such bullets in the sky over china and this is not the first time. so you think that this is actually such a spy routine between the two largest countries in the world. yes, i am afraid that this is actually the case and both countries understand that they are each other there is a competitor in the country and a competitor, and it is necessary to deal with them somehow, and that is why espionage actions are carried out, actions are carried out one after the other

. i also want to talk about a third country, which is one of the largest countries in the world. that china is everything somehow provides military aid to russia. if we consider such a situation, then who is china for ukraine, a friend or an enemy ? china or the position of xi jinping regarding the invasion of russia on the territory of ukraine from the beginning. we see that they support putin's actions, they support the fact that he is not involved in responsibility and in fact china does not pay anything for this, and ukraine had good relations with china before the invasion

. the need for deteriorated relations with ukraine, which would lead to the end of the food supply, but uh, all the calls have a very powerful close relationship with putin, he undertook to support him, and of course they signed an agreement on unlimited support on the eve of the war, of course china is not happy with what was solved by russia, but we actually did not see that china officially provided any installations to russia, but nevertheless, some spare parts were definitely provided . thank you. so, china is watching what the reaction is

measures regarding a specific act on the territory of ukraine what is russia, you have already said that china can even start some military actions if they are ready for how serious is this and will there be such readiness in particular in the near future, the chinese government and they are committed to the policy of when china is ready and able to take over taiwan they want to do it regardless of the price they have to pay of course china has china will not start a war against taiwan until they

show their power to the americans they want to do everything so that the united states does not intervene and prevent this, so if china does dare to seize and uh, when china dares to seize taiwan, then we will see how it will be, what will be the effectiveness , in particular, of the defense equipment that the united states provided to ukraine, and what will be the reaction measures regarding their unity in aid will be the same and accordingly there may be predictions that the same with the same support will be provided to taiwan in the event of an invasion, at the same time china does not want to start any conflict with the usa or with by european countries regarding the introduction of a new wave of sanctions, so they do not want new sanctions against china now, and that is why they maintain such a certain neutrality about

what they, what china will do to help russia, even if, despite the fact that everyone knows that they have a certain friendship and support thank you, mr. tsar , the professor himself was on spotlight ukraine. thank you. the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, toured europe , visited london, paris, and brussels, great britain, spoke in the parliament and called to hand over powerful english tanks and also had an audience with king charles iii amid the visit, london introduced new sanctions against russia's military enterprises and provided another military aid to ukraine in paris zelenskyi met over dinner with french president macron and german chancellor scholz, who specially arrived for this purpose, both leaders assured that their countries will support ukraine as long as possible. for this, the issue

of supplying ukraine with modern aviation became the number one topic at the eu summit in brussels however, it will be possible to talk about specific results already according to the results of the meeting of the rammstein contact group on february 14, the european union for the first time in its history began to provide such large-scale and consistent military assistance that we receive from you and, together with the appropriate leadership at the level of the member states, security cooperation with ukraine has created such a historical example for any aggressor. we should guarantee the security of all european states . thank you very much for your attention. glory to ukraine. to a jewish wedding on that terrible morning of february 24, he says that the entire wedding community took children and

women to the border, away from the war. after saying goodbye to his relatives , hillal cohen took up the evacuation of refugees and later began to help the ukrainian military with bulletproof vests and stories. now he is the only jewish chaplain in the armed forces of ukraine and like no other the other knows if there are fascists in ukraine , whom russian propaganda scares the world so much, this is an interview hillel cohen gave to an israeli radio station in the first days of the full-scale invasion, his cry of the soul reminds me of that time convinced millions of israelis that a terrible war would actually start in ukraine a week before the invasion, a friend from america wrote, flee, there will be a disaster, biden warns. i sent a message to our communities that there is a person who is ready to pay for your tickets, but no one

took it seriously. on february 24, i was in odessa in hebrew wedding in the morning, everyone woke up and took women and children to the border in one caravan. i slept in duty-free for two weeks , met buses, helped old women and children, one woman remembers having a heart attack she left the salon, fell down and died, it is impossible to forget later the rabbi got involved in the evacuation of people from hot spots, my friend oleksandr borisov was next to me, we did not sleep for 50 days and nights, in fact, we just traveled all over ukraine, bringing humanitarian aid , taking people out, later requests began to arrive from mobilized to bring body armor, helmets, and we began to bring everything necessary from israel, so gileyun began to help the ukrainian military, and last fall he became the only rabbi in the armed forces, where he says that now

about a thousand jews are serving, this is the torah that we handed over, dedicating to all of ukraine, a special one to the jews who serve in the armed forces of the ukrainian armed forces. i know i'm going to the jaeger boys . i stand on the street sideways, get on the train and do not hide that i am a jew. i have only seen respect from people. my nine children were brought up in kyiv and have never had any problems . there are no fascists in ukraine, and i believe it is their task to tell the whole world about it among the ukrainian military, hats made by rabbis with the inscription jews defend ukraine are worn even by ethnic ukrainians to once again disprove the myth of nazism mazal llc and glory

to ukraine, you all watched this spotlight ukraine ukrainian version don't forget subscribe to our official youtube channel peaceful evening until the meeting exactly one week before the meeting with vladislav yeschenko, a 24-year-old deminer was injured while performing a task next to him broke against infantry mine at the moment of the impulse i completely remember what happened, that is, up to a second. my comrades in arms helped me. that is, i left the field leaning on two guys, and when , uh, we started to move, i constantly felt as if i was being wedged in the right side, it turned out that we let's go round and round, i understood it was a contusion, a severe contusion, i understood that i couldn't hear anyone, a very

loud ringing in my ears and instant darkness, who was in a coma for months in the hospital, my eyes were in the dnieper so that i could not save them, it was already unreal how they are this is what they describe at the moment when the explosive wave squeezed out the eyes, this is about how to crack an egg, and all the contents are just mixed , that is, they would not have saved my eyeball, plus he survived, 30 fragments were taken out of me, my neck, shoulders , arms, legs, thank god, the body took the entire blow i received a bulletproof vest, my face was torn, they sewed it back on , but it turned out quite beautiful, it still turned out, i lost my hearing almost completely, the right ear was torn , the eardrum and a dead nerve, the left eardrum was torn, and

the nerve is almost dead, it is slowly recovering thanks to the hearing aid, i can now communicate with you. the bones of the skull were depressed and developed. i understand this because i have a titanium plate in my cheekbones and volva. because i understand that i was already mild, short of a large scale, influenced the authorities, glorified the military oath and continued to carry out tasks in the area of ​​bakhmut, told my relatives that the summons had arrived, my dear friend, told you that the summons came because he perfectly understood that he would not let go. and vladyslav himself came as a volunteer. they sent him to the engineering and sapper troops because he had experience in

humanitarian demining. yes, they passed on the information about the found threat via sms. our task was to ensure full access to ammunition . so that fellow odessans could carry out demining even in a lying position. this was our main task , specifically detonation or removal. we did not work in the zahala trust. vladyslav was not by chance, because the war came to his family's home when the boy was in high school. vladyslav was born and grew up in horlivka in donetsk region, which has been occupied by the russians for almost 9 years, and that 's not bad. this war took everything away from me. as a businessman, we lived enough and at the moment when in the 14th it really started for me the war, this war started back in the 14th

, so when i moved to slavyansk and i had a concrete difference between the something is happening between what is happening in slavyansk on the territory under the control of ukraine, absolutely all the puzzles fell into place and it immediately became clear where the black is, where is the white, where is the good, where is the evil. currently, the soldier continues to exercise in the gym with the coach and says that the doctors have done everything for him today it is possible to return exactly normal human vision, my eyes will not be cured, there is no such thing as transplanting eyes or artificially growing eyes, but there are doctors in spain, i don’t know how much

it will restore my sight, but the point is that the camera installed in the glasses will be connected to the sensor. i also don’t know how to get there , it’s possible to get there now, i need to fully understand all the documents that i need to register for a disability group and receive compensation and waiting for an invitation from doctors in alicante, the ukrainians managed to quickly close the collection for an estimated amount that would be needed , and even more, the family decided to continue the collection so that vladyslav could help other ukrainian soldiers. there is an idea to found an organization that will help soldiers in the same situation as i am

both morally and materially and everything that i can do is in the same condition for ukraine. i will do it. i cannot at the moment protect my family being in in the armed forces of ukraine, but i can bring this benefit , they are in the rear, i will do everything possible for this. we answer videos and make people understand that we don't just post videos .

that when vladyslav was in the hospital , such and such a proposal was made. you will marry me or you will be my wife. i don't remember anymore. i speak without reservation . yes, of course. будет зрейне всё раво мы распышимся call sign of vladyslav the samurai soldier says that this is the philosophy of his life, because a soldier has no goal and there is only a path, his path today is to live and help others not to lose hope i do this because i believe that i am now someone who -that is due no it's a debt a little differently

, we were born with such psychology and morality , that's why i can proudly say that i'm a ukrainian. encouragement for guys , let's try my example if there are problems with this, the link will be in social networks , write me, i'll type myself, i'll talk myself, i'll help again art in the country of war, a series of documentary films, each of which will tell about one of the ukrainian artists, artists who did not go abroad and continue their creative path. in ukraine, there is an impression that history just entered now, yes, at such a moment , where everything came together simply in it happened in a linear way, as we remember then , it was a kind of drag, but now it is as if it is all at one moment and we see that well, everything

repeats itself against how the place and meaning of the artist and his work change. in a country that is fighting, watch the new tv series from the studio doknotfiling and the association babylon 13 art in the country of war from january 16 on weekdays from monday to friday at 11:10 on espresso join the community with a ukrainian view of the world become a sponsor of the youtube channel espresso and this access to exclusive content , personal thanks, fixed comments , special icons and the possibility of personal communication with the espresso team, click to sponsor and become part of the community with a ukrainian perspective, the war raised

its head again in europe, reminding of the blackest hours of our history, franz 24 constantly covers events in ukraine, our team on the ground and in the studio will inform you about the dynamics of the event, more relevant news from franz 24 in ukrainian on espresso , you can watch the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, i am nataliya leonova , i congratulate the new big russian offensive in ukraine already has begun, said nato secretary general jen stoltenberg at a press conference on monday, we will increase and make more sustainable aid to ukraine, said the secretary general and emphasized the need to speed up providing ukraine with ammunition, fuel and spare parts against the background of possible new offensives