[000:00:00;00] by actions and means that are usual for them, but they still stopped the russian army and they continue to hold this line, the most interesting thing is that i am now in a separate mountain assault unit of the edelweiss, and these are people who have been holding the line of contact for a very long time. not leaving out the russian military, and in fact, these people , in fact, as they claim, no longer know what to be afraid of in this life, because since february 24, people went into combat operations in the first line and defended, in particular, kyiv, in my film, which was presented the day before same this unit that we are in now, namely they defended kyiv and the heroes

depicted in this video, they are the ones who continue to defend donetsk and luhansk regions now, the situation is difficult, but it is controlled by the armed forces of ukraine, and in the end, as they say, the fighters will protect ukraine, so the situation, i will only tell maryana thank you, i'll just say for our viewers , here is the full film of maryan kushnir, it 's called a year of war together with the troops of the armed forces of ukraine in the chronicle of military commander maryan kushnir, and the film is on the youtube channel of radio svoboda, you can plan to watch it for the weekend maryan kushnir thank you very much the european union clearly and unequivocally said that ukraine belongs to europe, this thesis has not changed and is still stated by the president of the european parliament, robert matsol, in an exclusive interview with radio svoboda , she told how she was inspired by a trip to

kyiv and announced that the eu is already thinking about the reconstruction of ukraine after the war, listen to the first high-ranking eu official who visited kyiv after the beginning of large-scale russian aggression against ukraine, your visit was support for ukraine and ukrainians because you have shown that ukraine is now a full -fledged member of the european family. how do you assess the relations between the eu and ukraine now and what was or is possible still remains your main challenge and main success? i remember well how i said on april 1 that i will go to kyiv to express solidarity and give hope to ukraine to support my colleague in the verkhovna rada, but as a result, i returned with greater hope and the courage given to me by the ukrainians, the resilience and fortitude of the ukrainian people in the face of such illegal and brutal aggression became an example not only for us but also for the whole world, and this is what created this

unprecedented unity, which i could not even imagine a year ago between the countries of the european union and also between european institutions, we were able to say as clearly and unambiguously as possible that ukraine belongs to europe and we will do everything to help ukraine win the war, and this thesis does not change and still a year after the invasion on february 24 , the culmination was the visit of president zelensky on february 9 to the european parliament and the european council, but now the biggest challenges are still ahead, we must strengthen sanctions and continue to send the most powerful signals to make our position clear that what russia is doing is unacceptable, and it must be brought to justice. visit to brussels called on the european union to impose sanctions on the russian nuclear industry, as well as on the manufacturers of missiles and

drones. do you think that the eu will also take into account its next package of sanctions and also do you think it is possible that one day all russian frozen assets will be confiscated and sent to ukraine for its reconstruction regarding the frozen assets, this is what the european parliament has already called for. it is now up to the european commission to propose a legal basis for launching this process in reality we often discuss how exactly these funds can be used to rebuild ukraine ukraine will need many billions of euros for such basic things as ukrainians' access to electricity to a clean of drinking water. we should also think about rebuilding cities, because many cities are simply razed to the ground due to constant russian bombing. if we do not manage to send a clear signal that all those assets that have already been frozen can be used, then in my opinion it will be wrong. but i definitely think and now i say as a lawyer that this solution must be found so that we are a powerful united and financially secure force to help ukraine in this reconstruction

, as for sanctions, we cannot delay the 10th package, there must be a strong blow. really felt, because effective sanctions are those that oppress people from putin's closest circle, and it is important that russians see the result of these sanctions in person. the very fact that we are already preparing the 10th package of sanctions already means a lot, this process is not easy, each new package of sanctions is more difficult than the previous one and the european the parliament calls for the inclusion of natural persons in the sanctions package , this sends a clear signal that not only are we not tired, but our response is not threatened by russia, is proportional for ukraine and ukrainians, it is very important to have hope that finally russia will be held accountable for all war crimes in ukraine, and a special international tribunal can give this hope . do you, as a lawyer, imagine that putin and lukashenko will one day stand trial? i studied international law and my colleagues and i worked on this issue. there are four previous examples

of similar the tribunals were created to prosecute the crimes of greece, our parliament has already declared russia a state sponsor of terrorism and has already called for the creation of such a tribunal, now we call for a decision on the composition this tribunal and for this tribunal to start its work as soon as possible, because we see that lukashenko is still the leader of belarus, and we called him the last dictator of europe 20 years ago, and the fact that there are over one and a half thousand political prisoners in belarus, and the opposition simply cannot do his job, because if someone opens his mouth , it is quickly closed. look at how belarus is helping russia with its perverted crimes of aggression against ukraine, that's why for me responsibility is key and it must be do it right now, as you know, thousands of ukrainian children have been kidnapped and transported to russia, there they are trying to russify them and actually destroy their ukrainian identity

, what do you think about it, i am sure that you, as a mother of four children, share the pain of ukrainian families, what can the european union do to stop this and returning kidnapped children is an absolute horror. we started receiving information about this at the beginning of the war and now we also see that it is used as a weapon of intimidation and threats, but there is a fact on on our continent there are children who are kidnapped who are taken away from their parents in what world can this be supported so it is the european parliament that will actually strengthen its demands and condemnation of this terrible reality that is happening not so far from us we have not done enough for this it cannot disappear from our agenda even for one day i know that olena zelenska has been talking about this for a long time since the beginning of the aggression, we should pay more attention to this issue and the european parliament itself will strengthen work in this direction and my

the last question, do you believe that this year will be a victorious year for ukraine? i will always believe it . well , we will talk in detail about how europe has changed over the last year in our assessments of ukraine with my colleague who observed these changes with her own eyes, a correspondent of radio svoboda in the european union, in particular in brussels zoryana stepanenko joins our broadcast zoryana my greetings well, you all worked in brussels this whole year. you saw with your own eyes this change of paradigm and attitude towards ukraine on the part of european politicians, how has the attitude changed of the european union to ukraine, how has the perception of ukraine changed ? good evening. well, you know, i am not exaggerating if i say that it has changed completely from the beginning. very few european countries objectively believed that ukraine would survive, and this was actually one of the reasons why they did not sacrifice in such cases. they have weapons like now and ammunition because no one expected that

the ukrainians would fight so much about it now openly, in particular, high-ranking officials of the eu are talking about it well, now here they admire the resilience and courage of ukrainians about it, in particular in the joint in statements to the anniversary of the war, the leaders of the european union and nato countries mentioned that from doubts in ukraine, the west went this way to the certainty that russia does not intend to win in ukraine, in particular, the german chancellor said today that vladimir putin was defeated in ukraine, and actually to the extent that ukraine fought as it wrested back its lands , western support evolved from hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers to modern tanks, and the perception of ukraine is also evolving, if before the war they boasted that they had such good relations with ukraine is the european union, but at the same time they were not in a hurry to recognize even its european perspective, in the summer they granted candidate status and began real joint work with the ukrainian government to ensure that in time

ukraine becomes a full-fledged part of the european zoryan family. well, it’s true . western politicians admire ukrainian stability so much, at least publicly, they they say this and they constantly repeat it . and they also repeat that ukraine is europe, hinting that when ukraine will become a full member of the eu, but what they say is not publicly on the sidelines, when in reality ukraine and europe will be able to legitimize their relations and europe can really accept ukraine er into the european union into its family, officially we have zoryana, i just have small problems with the picture, but we hear you er, you know exactly what will happen, doubts are no longer heard either in public or on the sidelines, and literally in the last few days, you remember the head of european diplomacy announced that ukraine will become a member of the eu now after all the bombings and murders of russia. this is a quote

from jose papurel. the head of european diplomacy is impressed with the reform, stressed the head of european diplomacy regarding the question when what you asked is in the hands of ukraine , the president of the european commission emphasized today in her turn, reminding that in the spring the body she heads will prepare an oral presentation of the achieved progress. and it will be in writing in the fall and at the end of this year, kyiv expects to proceed to the next stage of the actual accession negotiations, and they are certainly not in a hurry to announce the terms of the public announcement, considering that all this depends on the result that ukraine will demonstrate but behind the scenes, you know. we actually hear different estimates from several years to several decades. when they talk about decades, they refer to the experience of other countries. well, at the same time, they understand that ukraine is really moving at an accelerated pace, and the eu is reciprocating accordingly. so in this particular case, we are quite careful with the forecasts here

well, it seems to me that it is worth taking into account when european politicians say that from several years to several decades, because from representatives of the ukrainian government, you can often hear very optimistic forecasts that say already next year, negotiations will begin there, and a year later there will be an accession, but here i think it is worth approaching such statements with caution, in the last year of the star , the anti-putin coalition expanded to more than 50 countries, and all this also happened in brussels before your eyes and according to your observations , how difficult or easy was it for european politicians and leaders to make this geopolitical reversal from russia-partner to russia-aggressor and whether it has already ended or it is still ongoing, you know here everything depends on the country to a certain extent, since some, for example, great britain, we remember. we include

it in this anti-putin coalition, since it is also on the european continent , part of the eu is already there, and immediately there they were determined to help ukraine as much as possible, and russia, respectively, to punish such powerful with sanctions to limit its ability to wage war, a similar opposition also occupied the eastern flank of the european union, ukraine, the baltics , poland, the czech republic, and not only and the regularity is such that the closer to russia geographically, the more the understanding that russia is an aggressor country and from the paradigm russia is a partner, more moderate-minded countries, as a rule , western european countries that had business with russia gradually left, but we remember that after such actions against russia were exposed in bucha, in particular , manuel stopped calling vladimir putin macron, who is now advocating for the reform of the un security council and, accordingly , russia is also excluded from it, and the german chancellor, who was convinced by almost the entire coalition to send

their leopards to the ukrainian steppes, as you actually pointed out today he said that putin suffered a defeat in ukraine, he must withdraw his troops from there, and unprecedented sanctions were also imposed on russia. well, what effect did they have? we asked the ambassador of the united states to nato , listen. russia, in particular, against two hundred individuals and legal entities in order to affect russia's ability to wage war, have you evaluated the impact of sanctions on russia's economy? how long will russia still be able to wage war, what pressure does the measure exert on moscow affect the russian economy, we saw that their gdp decreased by approximately 7%. we see that inflation is approximately 11%. hundreds of countries have come out of russia they are more isolated than ever before they find it difficult to produce almost everything

by themselves in terms of their own technological modernization they find it very difficult to move forward with any new technology because they will not be able to access the parts needed to move forward virtually in any industry so we believe that russia feels the impact of these sanctions, that it feels more and more isolated both in the medium and long term, they will continue to feel this and will not have easy solutions to eliminate some of these shortcomings. this was my colleague zoryana stepanenko from brussels about how changes europe's views on ukraine and how it is currently changing the vector of european politics from the paradigm of russia partners to the paradigm of russia the aggressor i will remind you that a year ago the svoboda life program editorship of the program made the decision to appear every day since then we inform you every day about what is happening in ukraine and the world about the full-scale russian

invasion in particular and about all its consequences svoboda life will traditionally return to the air on monday and in the meantime, i urge you to subscribe to the youtube page of radio svoboda until monday our gas station system has been hit by oil depots since the first days of the war kyiv oblast vasylkiv okhtyrka sumy okhtyrka zhytomyr oblast chernyakhiv chernihiv the outskirts of the regional center in the first months of the full-scale aggressor state destroys 27 naftogaz is at least 227 million dollars in losses once a week, a missile

is launched at the oil refinery in kremenchug. it no longer works . the russian federation hit kremenchuk with 12 missiles, most of them hit the oil refinery . we can't get fuel from abroad so quickly. we have to completely rebuild logistics. and vests from europe before the war were too dependent on rasytskyi in russia and belarus , they bought half of the gasoline we needed for a year and two-thirds of diesel fuel, so the fuel is starting to disappear from our gas stations in 1992 diesel is also in short supply, gas stations introduce restrictions on hydrogen, they pour 10

liters per day, they control loyalty cards, two-thirds add diesel, the price of gas increases more than twice to provide ukraine with fuel, poland helps first stop demanding special permits from fuel carriers at the border, then generally gives fuel from its own stocks. at this time, other countries are increasing support for our economy and one by one they are canceling tariffs on the import of our goods. great britain is the first to announce this on the next day. the eu is two weeks from now. canada e will increase the opportunity for ukrainian processors to produce products for such an unquestionable amount, this is expert revenue, this is tax revenue, e.e., to state and local budgets, this is the company's profits, which means such salaries for employees, the problem is how to get our ukrainian grain there, which was grown to sell abroad, not one of them goes there of the main problems of the country's economy

in the summer remains open while ukrainian seaports are closed, our grain, which gave ukraine money and fed the world before the war during the war, every third dollar of foreign exchange revenue is kept in warehouses, it comes from agricultural exports, and our exports are important for the strengthening of the hryvnia, because exporters sell the dollar on the interbank market, and thus the hryvnia exchange rate is strengthened. the aggressor state blocks our attempts to sell its territory abroad. even what ukraine has grown on the territories under its control, the aggressor neighbor blocks access to our ports and does not guarantee the safety of sailors from those territories where russia itself temporarily dominates the rag and simply steals our grain, only wheat stretches at least a billion dollars, so they will calculate later, from the first

day of the full-scale invasion, russia did everything not only to close ukraine's access to the sea, but also to destroy the very potential of our exports, our port infrastructure railways, warehouses and elevators , not only the main wallet of the country loses money, but also almost every ukrainian farmer in the fall. because of this, we will sow winter crops on a 40% smaller area than usually the occupiers also throw stones into the gardens, literally mines in the fields of farmers, farmers in more or less safe areas, in order to cover the deficit from their colleagues, cultivate larger areas, here we see it is winter wheat , you see it is already bushy , additional shoots are coming, almost twice as much area has been sown with winter wheat there is hope that it will show a rather significant result. during the harvest

, ukrainian grain is not exported abroad. we fed the globe before the war, every 20th inhabitant of the planet depended on our harvest, and now the world does not want hunger, asks for ukrainian grain, russia does not want to hear about it for a long time, after a week of difficult negotiations, and signs an agreement on a grain corridor with turkey and the un over the mirror leaves its initials and the representative of ukraine directly warring states do not lay pieces of paper in august , ukrainian grain still begins to be woven abroad, this will surely become the main economic victory of ukraine during the war year, from the last month of summer until now, exported already more than 21 million grains, almost half of corn, a third of wheat, most of ours is now being built by china, spain, turkey and italy in the fall, the country is facing a new challenge , russia is trying to turn off our lights, the cities are purring in the dark, the economy, which has just

gotten used to working in the war, is again in shock october 10, russia for the first time on a large scale is shelling the ukrainian energy infrastructure, the lights are starting to be turned off according to schedules, and without us , the evenings and mornings and days are coming for us, and for the economy, a new challenge is how to hold on again the most astute entrepreneurs immediately invest in candles, lanterns, power banks, buy generators and portable charging stations, filling their counters with them, hooves on these products, the madman gets bigger and bigger every time after each mass shelling, and with it the prices rise, and the prices are not cheaper, a generator that a month before the mass shelling was worth seven tours through a month after already 13,200. however, the price does not frighten buyers , people and business are twice as expensive. the last thing is to work, despite everything , not to lose customers, and the income is spinning as well as

possible, and the main thing is that the usual battery works. the inverter for cars is also used when traveling in the car, just connect it to the battery on the label and plug it into the outlet, turn on the adapter, there is light, despite everything, thousands of entrepreneurs across the country are trying to work. that always have light , they become so of their own accord, and ukrainian gas stations and cafes and shops allow people to charge their phones and laptops for free, the same waiting they buy coffee, order lunch or stock up on groceries, and this also boosts the ukrainian economy. meanwhile, the state overcomes the consequences of the war and fights unemployment at the same

time as the reconstruction army employs those who registered at the employment center. school russian program well, it was already impossible in the occupation yulia, one of the almost seven thousand employed in the reconstruction army, left her previous work in kherson region, from there they fled to the war with their son in kyiv region, the woman did not find a job went to help for free at the volunteer center so that there would not be big gaps in the gaps. well, so that there would not be such a clear pattern , they even said that they have several paid vacancies. the local authorities recognized their work as socially useful and created jobs for both women and men, whether it was for the improvement of the territory today there is a lot of work, and winter is being cleaned from them , he is engaged in the repair of premises. any situation

that can be connected, uh, with civil defense. this is where we are now starting work on the arrangement of the shelters themselves the simplest ones will also be involved, these people's salary is at least 6700, this is with taxes on their hands, but somewhere these people receive all social guarantees, that is, the first five days of temporary incapacity for work are paid if he is not sick, two days of unused vacation are paid for a month, and this is included in the length of service, in general, during the war year , the labor market was skewed, we have half as many vacancies as there were before the war, by a third, the ranks of the unemployed have also shrunk, and so far, among the searchers, every second person with a higher education is needed by an employer sellers, seamstresses, fitters, repairmen, or electric gas welders. russia has been testing the strength of our economy with its war for a year now. antonu state plant in kremenchugsk oil refinery in new kramatorsk

machine-building plant. this is only part of the list of damaged or destroyed large and medium-sized enterprises of the country. the irycha plant and its twin, one of the ukrainian symbols of the azovstal plant , a huge drop in the metallurgical industry production minus 70% of the pre-war volumes, in general, the year of the war cost our economy at least 642 billion dollars. for comparison , the annual pre-war revenues of the state budget are 20 times less . you and ukrainian business were able to fill only half of the state budget during the war year, the world financed us, other countries supported us by 32 billion 700 million

dollars approximately every second billion gave free of charge we will return the balance with our own hands as we strengthen our own economy we will rebuild house by house school by school and business by business and we will definitely restore the main thing is that there will be victory and our people will return the restoration of the ukrainian economy will be directly related to military scenarios the ukrainian economy will grow and will a to increase consumption and, of course , ukrainians we need ours who are currently abroad in the european union breaking through 4.6 million ukrainians this is a global and e the top-level task of the government of ukraine is to do everything possible for ukrainians who left the country today to create all the conditions for their return , the ministry of economy adds that the whole world believes in ukraine today because it saw that even despite all the crises and challenges, the state's economy was able to not only to survive, but even to stun , i will not embellish the reality. so we

asked a lot for a year, so we impoverished. however, not as much as it was predicted in the world, we were prophesied an economic hole, a crisis from which we will not to get out and live below the poverty line of the country's gdp for the year, that is, the total value of everything produced in the country was to be reduced by half. instead, we mined only 30%, this figure was obtained at a high price and with a lot of blood, the blood of our people, trials sometimes seem above human in spite of everything, we stand and prove even those who at the beginning of the full-scale did not believe in our desire to live in our free ukraine, nor were they wrong due to our economy. so let's continue to surprise them anastasia olinsky yevgenia olinsky

we are ukraine marathon the only news if not for us then our children will fight defend our year year of our independence we saw how ordinary people become extraordinary heroes how the hells of battle are born new ukraine ukraine that you protect our native friends neighbors colleagues you were not always military but you always you were ukrainians, you are our pride and our hope , this year we survived thanks to you a year of indomitability together to victory a smile, a look , acquaintance, the first flowers and silly jokes in

my head, i scroll again these minutes, hours and days we haven't met you for a long time, we learned to read minds how i just want to hug these minutes hours and days how i just want to say i love the whole universe it's you my son my daughter mom hug me i love and that's why your blood can fight in the war ministry of health i invite ukrainians to become blood donors, every healthy adult citizen of ukraine or