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, today, february 27, is the 369th day of the ukrainian people's heroic resistance to the russian occupiers. at night, the russians attacked 11 drones hit ukraine with drone strikes nine of them were shot down over kyiv in khmelnytskyi due to an attack by three drones , residential buildings were damaged, one person died, four were injured in zaporizhzhia it is reported about two hits on the object of civilian infrastructure against this background, forbes magazine estimated that the year of the war cost russia almost 115 billion dollars, and this is without future reparations, meanwhile, the russian occupiers continue to lose manpower and equipment in ukraine as of the morning of february 27 russia has already lost 148,697 armor in ukraine in just the last day ukrainian forces have destroyed 560 orks since the beginning of the great war

russians have already lost 3,385 tanks 6,621 armored fighting vehicles 2,380 artillery systems 475 jet systems in ukraine volley fire 247 anti-aircraft defense equipment 300 aircraft 288 helicopters 5248 units of motor vehicles 18 boats boats 873 cruise missiles 2048 drones 230 units of special equipment but how putin predicts the collapse of russia lukashenko flies in china and partisans in belarus attacked the airfield in belarus that's all let's talk for the next hour, growth valeriy chaly politician-diplomat extraordinary plenipotentiary for ukraine in the united states

of america in 2015-2019 p valeriy dobrogo day and good health to you. thank you for joining our broadcast. i congratulate you. glory to ukraine . glory to the heroes. let's begin the results of this great foreign policy week, which is passing by chinese peace initiatives, because in principle, eh and eh, the united states of america and the russian federation are made it clear that they will remain in their positions. during his visits to europe and kyiv, biden said that russia will definitely be defeated. russia , through the mouth of putin during the federal assembly , said that they will fight to the end

and if something happens to russia, it will certainly happen to the world at the same time. china, on the anniversary of the russian to combine in one sentence that both sides must stop the fire and the world must remove unilateral sanctions and peace must reign in the world, that is, isn't the emphasis clearly placed on who is the aggressor and who is the victim, and the two sides must end this war or whatever they say the conflict according to you is such a position of china and such a peace plan for whom and what it is designed for. i would like to respond to what you said about russia, i will say a thesis that has a greater right to exist that if russia collapses, education will not be worse because of this will become

100%. because such situations already existed when aggressive countries and empires collapsed and nothing bad happened after that, after some time, of course, it was necessary to settle the issue of the growing influence of the other poles , but at the time of the collapse of the aggressor empire and those whoever started the war, it will even benefit the world and not the other way around. now , does the whole world understand it, including china, but it has its own interests and has its own vision of how to win in such a rapidly changing world , new geopolitical circumstances , china has always relied on its own ancient philosophy, well now it is such a strange combination of the communist ideas of confucianism and simply, er

, its own ideas developed in the very history of china, and there very often force and knocking go hand in hand, er, there is honesty and er lies , that is, the chinese line is always very specific well, in the same style, their proposals or positions, rather, china , you know that many people in the world called it a peace plan, i mean, journalists from an easy presentation of journalists called it a peace plan , the plan is not there, all the more peaceful, because the basic things are avoided to be called that is, the aggressor is not even named, who is the opponent of aggression, that is, neither russia nor ukraine is named , that is, there is no correct understanding

of the role of these or other mechanisms of the world, well , that is, it can be seen that all this was seen through the prism of the competition of china, the united states, or such a chinese i am already thinking about the emotional anti-americanism and came out with such an interesting position. it turned out in fact much better than expected. but all the same, this is neutralism, neutrality on the beech on the side of the russians . for you, in principle , it is edible and interesting, for example, you cannot help but support china's position against the non-use of nuclear weapons or threats of nuclear weapons, and the second is the use of the mirny atom, nuclear plants , and everything else around this pollution

territories as components of the war is a very strong position, it was expressed. well, all other positions are either neutral for everything good against everything bad, for example, for sovereignty and territorial integrity, but at the same time , well, it’s simple. it is noticed that it is unlikely that this is the position that will be the basis of the real steps of china, and i think that it is necessary to look at the actions of china, and not at the statement of even such people from a high platform there in any case, such statements are political, well, everyone in the world assesses that this is not the platform on which the situation can be resolved, but china understands that the matter is coming to a climax, and

the steering wheel of china probably does not suit them. they are thinking how to divide this skin you wanted to say the russian bear, they didn't finish the bear yet, well, not in ukrainian, of course, of course , the russian bear, they don't want it to happen without them, that's why the americans say to them, uh, sorry, and you're here, and if you have such a seemingly neutral approach, well you see, we already had someone who tried to play this role in our country, well, some of them declared very loudly about themselves, er, self-proclaimed lukashenka , but from the 24th he lost every opportunity to talk about any mediating functions there, for example, yes, unfortunately, an earthquake turkey has forgotten many of the dead. and now president erdoğan has a lot to do, that's why he's there more, and that's why now is the moment

for china to say something more about this. it's not an accidental arrival in this context, it's a separate topic, but after all, the minister of foreign affairs of saudi arabia in kyiv, and these countries began to look at the situation in a slightly different way, even though the help of saudi arabia was provided earlier. he wants to participate in the post-war reconstruction of the world. well , he called his document not a peace plan, but china's position on the political settlement of the crisis in ukraine, for today there is a reaction from belarus, there is a reaction from kazakhstan, until today it has not been articulated the position of russia, but piskov said today that

russia supports the so-called chinese peace plan, but at the moment the kremlin does not see the prerequisites for its implementation, putin's press secretary said about this in an interview with the russian media, let's hear what piskov said about any attempt to develop plans that would save kyiv from conflict in in peaceful russian, they serve the attention with such great attention. the operation continues and we run to the side to achieve the goals that were set by valery, but in the context of the fact that both takaya and lukashenko immediately articulated and supported china's peace plan, and russia waited a little bit from the reactions to make this reaction public, doesn't

this indicate that and belarus and kazakhstan . they are now clearly focused on china, so that they are more focused on china. kazakhstan was also focused on china before, and belarus. well, belarus, in this case, and lukashenka's planned visit to china shows that the fact that lukashenko is also looking for his plan to get out of this co-authorship of the russian-ukrainian war, well, you know , everything is clear from belarus with lukashenko. yes, he is trying to show more and i will say as much that he has been successful lately, which is very strange of course, but it doesn't make any difference to us that he doesn't speak from his territory, 24 of them are attacked from his

territory, that's uh, well, the key point is that there is support for weapons training, but if with your territory and you allowed that just all your violated the boundaries and you promised well, he is shot down the pilot and now he just needs to think that their lava with putin at the tribunal, which sooner or later will take place, they were at least not on the same row, this is his chance, what does he have, can he stand in the same row there, even with kazakhstan, i don’t think i don't think that belarus and kazakhstan are supporting the position of china as a kind of their own, because i think that in this form everything is equal, this position of china is gaining more, it plays into the hands of russia, but if you take only this document, well,

at least there are definitely russians right away for it we grabbed each other because i want to translate for you this good man from the kremlin whom i quoted who said three days before the war piskov what do you think that russia does not need a war in any case there will be no attack well what to believe in him i don't know how and to comment in general if they are liars and well, not just cynical people, but vile and treacherous, so no commenting. i read this only everyone's hysteria, this is about as we are now at the peak, we already understand that we will not be able to continue. ukraine is gaining more and more opportunities on the battlefield at weapons on the fronts is coming. we are trying to beat somewhere tonight so that this does not happen, but it is happening. what should we do next? now we have to fix what we have stolen, and if they start taking it from us, what

will happen next? and here they said about crimea what the americans already said that russian military facilities on the territory of crimea are legitimate targets, but here they are hitting the bases already near mariupol at a distance of much more than 80 km, and they have started such a runaway, so try to attract everything you can to stop them, record their capture well, the second if it will not be possible to co-opt china as well and jointly say, look, we offered some kind of peace there, but if we didn't go for it , we will now supply weapons, well, that is, everything is obvious here, and you should not listen to direct quotes, but read them the way cynics should read them and liars, but the position is there, it is between the lines, the director of ts, william benson, gave a long interview with the news, and in particular he spoke

there about ukraine, about russia, but also about china, he said the following literally, i think there is no foreign leader who would follow things more closely vladimir putin in ukraine and the course of the war more than any other day, i think he was disturbed by a lot of what he saw , i think he was shocked by the very bad military condition of the russians, i think he was also surprised by the level of solidarity of the west in supporting ukraine , in other words, the readiness and not only of the united states of america and others european allies to take on certain economic costs in order to cause more economic damage to russia in the future. he said all this, in my opinion, burns has to some extent sobered up all the ding-ping, we know that in the spring the visit of the leader of china is planned, well, at least the russians would like to see all the xi jinping in moscow instead of the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi during a press conference

dedicated to the year of the large-scale russian invasion of ukraine said that he also plans to meet with the chinese leader, let's hear what zelenskyi said first of all i i plan to meet with this zimpin and i believe that it will benefit our countries and security in the world . china and i have great trade relations, issues are not only war. the question is that we are a country that are interested in preserving economic relations, as far as i know, china respects territorial integrity, historical respects territorial integrity , which means that it must do everything so that the russian federation leaves our territory, because this is the respect

for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mr. valery, do we have such opportunities or do we have enough of such opportunities to convince china to influence the russian federation and withdraw from the territory of the ukrainian state, that is the statement of president volodymyr zelenskyi now was correct, these words are correct but this is what is called came out, that is, what is desirable, in fact, for what zinkein can come to kyiv only if he knows whether a meeting can be organized. he plans to fly to moscow, the russians want it to be on may 9 , so whatever it was not, of course, a visit to kyiv or a meeting in kyiv, it would have been a more balanced position, he would have shown himself as otto and secretary of the foreign policy central committee of the party

, he met with the minister of the draft law of ukraine, dmytro kuleba, and then went to moscow it's the same story. will it give us anything? i don't think so. in general, i think we need to look very carefully at whether it is possible to consider china as a future mediator of these talks or a mediator here, we need to be very careful because if china wanted to play such a role, it would i would have done it before february 24, when putin personally came to pay his respects and when the chinese, judging by everything , cannot confirm, but many assess the situation in this way, they said that during the olympics it is not possible to stir up the situation in the world, so

the chinese perfectly understood what it was all about they did nothing to stop whether such a country can be a mediator in conditions when even now about their support and indeed the importance of our relations with china, no one turns a blind eye to this. basic values ​​diverge so much now that i, of course, am undermined by the optimism of the president alone, but zelenskyi. but i think that this story will be very complicated . in general, i would think that this is the approach. it will work for sure it won't work we need to at least start with the basic things now uh well do send an ambassador i.e. appoint the first step next hold a meeting of the 3-economic government commission then make inter -parliamentary contacts and then you can go

to some level because you can talk about trade but we understand very well. i insist on this. ukraine cannot be put on trial again. the united states will tear china's pants . it won't be like that while we're talking about china . alexander lukashenko is heading to beijing or is going to go. institute for the study of war of the united states of america says that lukashenko is flying to china in order to agree on the supply of weapons to russia and, in violation of the sanctions, to hide the violation of the sanctions by china during the supply of heavy weapons to russia, in general , lethal weapons we remember how 10 days ago anthony blinken spoke about the fact that there is information

from the american special services about the intention of china to supply russia with weapons, lethal weapons , if this happens, if the world community witnesses the fact that china began to help to the russian federation with lethal weapons, what does this mean for the world and what does it mean for ukraine? well, not only not even with lethal weapons , even if now china will send what is called non-lethal means of waging war to the aggressor, and i emphasize this basic difference. that is, you can help the victim, you can help according to the statute the un is a country that has suffered aggression, but to help the aggressor, as this wound is doing, as belarus is doing, is also to participate in aggression, and china is on this side, well

, i hope it will not happen, because even not only there is the sending of lethal weapons. as they say, well, in general, this is conditional. such a division into lethal is not lethal, that is, even if they send all the clothes for the mobilized russians, it will already have a very serious effect on the situation and really drag the war on. therefore, i understand their struggle with the usa is such a strategic global but it seems to me that they are making a serious mistake now because it turned out that there is indeed an element of rivalry, but there are basic broken basic things that china, as one of the most influential countries in the world, has behind it

otherwise, its role is then reduced to a completely different format, and it seems to me that here they still need to go beyond the purely logic of rivalry or confrontation between the united states and think about how to achieve the same goals in other ways as china, in principle, knows how to do. well, it is generally strange it looks, of course, because it is so, we know that the threat was considered by russia from china, it is actually a territorial threat there in the future in the east, now russia has actually exposed all these saws and china is doing russia a huge favor that it makes it possible to concentrate all possible forces for an attack on ukraine , so i emphasize once again that you can talk about anything, but if china seriously strengthens russia, it is at least the result of the attitude of prolonging the war for many years and

this is an unacceptable scenario, as i already said, tomorrow lukashenko should start visas to china and today the self-proclaimed president of the republic of belarus said that despite the sanctions, the republic and belarus , together with russia, produces various types of weapons and sells them to 57 countries of the world, according to lukashenka, belarus produces so many weapons that it can afford these exports , he also added that the republic and belarus are successfully developing modern weapons , obviously not with the russian federation, at the same time , lukashenko said that putin received insults from ukraine back in 2014, what did he say the self-proclaimed president of belarus and we will hear and in order to assess the causes of this conflict, a certain time must pass , this is purely in the chinese style, there is no need

to rush, the time will come. nad and we absolutely agree with president putin , who says that the root causes are not in russia mockery of the russian language, they were until the 14th year and all this was instigated by the western states, of course not one country, not america, they would not allow it to be mocked , but by their own compatriots the more insults reached the president of russia from the side of ukraine and all of the russian leadership, there is a whole mess of what lukashenko said. judging by the fact that he says that it is a personal insult, but still, in the current situation, lukashenko tries to act

as putin's lawyer and tell about why, why, or explain why putin attacked ukraine. in fact, he does not answer the question why belarus helped putin to attack ukraine before, although we remember how a year ago, a few days before the attack , oleksiy reznikov, the minister of defense of ukraine, spoke publicly about this, called his belarusian colleague viktor khrenin and asked about the situation in the republic of belarus, he swore to god that nothing would happen, no one would enter ukraine from the territory of the republic of belarus. to ukraine we pay a lot of attention to the russians

and putin and we talk less about belarus about lukashenka why do we talk less about it and why the world is less lukashenka, taking into account the fact that he brags that 57 countries buy weapons from us, well, that is, the question is quite simple, and who allows him and why why does he succeed, well , in terms of weapons , the situation is basically as follows. by the states of sanctions imposed by other countries. that's why he will change about the fact that he took the number, what they had, what they had, what 's being traded there, what used to be, these are different things, then, listen, i'm at home in the house

belarusian elevator hmm, unfortunately, ours was stolen probably there are belgian ones and as a result they installed belarusian ones, so it works, but it’s such a story, it’s like everything old that hasn’t been modernized, that hasn’t been invested in. it’s constantly necessary to repair it. it’s constantly necessary to do it. you will even find belarus there as a big exporter, well, that's all the style of this good day , earlier he was talking about the fact that kyiv is in three days and what to take there, and that ukraine is there, i don't know - you know, i'm tired of commenting on them, here's his for example, to comment because this explanation affects the chinese, it is

he who is making a huge difference. so that the war continues, he understands everything very well, that's why we have to work on this information line with china. by the way, this should be strengthened because, surprisingly, for many people, this story is unknown, i will remind you all the same of this thesis that the conflicts did not, uh, they did not arise in russia, that is, all of them were not found by russia that kills women's children, but they arose somewhere else. well, i would like him to look sooner or later in the eyes of the material, did the children die on this an unjust , unprovoked war. well, i don't know what else to say to this person. so, regarding