[000:00:00;00] art well, if we do not take into account the meeting of the head of the international department of the chinese central committee and, accordingly, our minister of foreign affairs on the sidelines of the munich security conference. so, ukraine and china are still meeting. they communicate, they have met many times, and in this case lukashenko is interested in receiving from china, first of all, this visit, this visit, here are two goals, the first is again, china remains the only opportunity for belarus to break out of moscow's orbit. lukashenko perfectly understands what the situation

is leading to in belarus , the russian-belarusian union state, or rather, and the second is economic economic cooperation, because again, after the introduction of sanctions, european markets are closed to belarus and in in this case, only china can become the country that, in addition to russia, can help inquisit lukashenko yes this is rather precisely china's support for belarus in this situation and from the side of belarus. i understand that there is also what to offer, what to offer so that it does not reach the russian federation. thank you andriy karakuts, head of the center for applied research, an international expert was in touch with us .

for now let's talk about how we are heading towards the european union exactly one year ago on february 28, 2022, ukraine officially submitted an application to join the eu, since then the process of european integration of ukraine continues in turbo mode and so far retains the chances to join the eu the fastest in history, let's remind you what the path to the eu is. we have already gone further in the plot. february 28, 2022, the fifth day of the full-scale russian invasion , it is already clear that putin's blitzkrieg has failed. however, the fate of kyiv has not yet been decided under such conditions, ukraine has applied for accession before the european union, our goal is to be together with all europeans and the main thing is to be on equal footing. i am sure that this is fair. i am sure that we deserve it. i am sure that all this is possible

. then i took an unprecedented step and for granted ukraine the status of a candidate for membership through an accelerated procedure, but with the language that it fulfills its homework of seven points because of them kyiv has already implemented the verkhovna rada passed laws on national minorities and the media more difficult with anti-corruption policy and judicial reform but here too there are achievements the supreme council of justice has finally been formed it is a kind of judicial system of a new manager as a result of a transparent competition , the anti-corruption prosecutor's office received a competition for the director of the nabu, the implementation of several x pooh , in particular, the eu is not satisfied with the adopted version law on the reform of the constitutional court, because instead of depoliticization, it gives the authorities the opportunity to establish political control over it. however, so far, the european commission evaluates ukrainian work rather positively , brussels officials emphasized this during the ukraine eu summit on february 3 in kyiv , the ukrainian government is well organized

, digitized, we get a lot of information, really things are being done and there are changes for the better how quickly you make progress depends on each candidate country but the speed and ambition really impress the final the european union plans to give an assessment of how ukraine has completed its homework in kyiv in the fall. they hope that the conclusion will be positive and that kyiv and brussels will be able to start negotiations on membership already this year. and we are talking about practical steps, in particular , from the accelerated integration of our legislation , our so-called written and unwritten economic laws of the handbooks in the european union, we will talk about this and the other with maria mezentseva, the patroness

chairman of the verkhovna rada committee on integration of ukraine with the eu chairman of the permanent delegation of ukraine in a couple glory to ukraine ms. maria congratulations well, the president of ukraine zelensky reminded that exactly one year ago the application for ukraine's membership in the eu was signed and called on european officials to start negotiations on accession. so we understand that the war is ongoing , daily tragedies of death, maiming, injury , but on the other hand, we understand that the accession of ukraine to the eu is also extremely important. if you allow me, i'll start a little with emotions and, er, memoirs, er, in 2014, i was in your studio, and then we talked about the revolution of dignity, about why the er, very important document was not signed, the agreement requests this er,

not signing which was caused by the revolution and subsequent events, after which the war began, a war that today we call full-scale. despite this, our european integration path continues , did the ukrainians and those who work in the government in the parliament expect that the application would be submitted so quickly at the beginning full-scale invasion, i want to say that i definitely did not expect it, for example. my colleagues , i think, have the same feelings, but hmm, in independence, we were all united for this and are united to this day by the european integration agenda, the ukrainian parliament continues to vote on important bills not only those that were determined a -a in june of last year when our application was

processed was supported by 27 eu governments unanimously e-e we continue to vote physics on projects that depend on the daily life of our state, the life of ukrainians, that is the european integration agenda or the agenda is not always just there, you know the seven points that the latest bills were voted on on december 13 of last year, and this is daily work , of course we are very much looking forward to technical support from the european union, more precisely the government of the european commission and the representation, there is more detail about what technical support means because how many grants were laundered or used for the corresponding , so to speak, legislative or some other activity, so we understand, there were a lot of expert

opinions gathered and what do you mean by the words technical support is meant. by the word laundering, the question now is that there are seven people working in the european integration committee. we have members of the ukrainian parliament who attended the meetings of the european committee three times. their names will not be mentioned. these are very well-known politicians. they had the highest state status . in the past, but less so, we have colleagues who left the country yes and represent a non-existent party, for example , opzzh they are also excluded from the committee thus, we currently have seven people working for us, we really hope that those colleagues who are not affiliated with the committees, they will move to the european integration structure of our parliament regarding the technical assistance of friends . i mean that we are working on about 90% of ukrainian legislative initiatives, and for

the expertise and processing of such a large volume, of course, we need an increase in expertise. we have recently expanded our secretariat is a little bit and we intend to do this in the future as well, but i would like all the stars of european integration who, uh, intend to do this , and they would join our committee professionally. i will remind the tv viewers that the recent decision to create so-called sub-committees in each committee on european integration so that we move faster this spring and i thank all colleagues from different parties working on european integration, we in brussels managed to get the european commission accepted by the eu government in october through joint efforts the decision on the evaluation of our seven so-star points , the execution of which we carried out at the end of the year of analytics and, in principle, so that we receive

an answer what steps do we need to take next if in the summer we have the implementation of the agreement on the association was approached at the level of approximately 62%, now it is already above 70% , the association agreement is very complex, it also touches water in some way. as for the packaging of baby food in the agricultural sector, even customs clearance is in effect, this also applies to the venice commission, how does it assess it, maybe a little insiders, we understand that she regularly gives certain recommendations. when we can, we carry them out . when we can't, we enter into a discussion . please tell us a little more. well , because we remember what was going on around the constitutional court, the venetian commission is active according to the principle of the recommendation, and it professes its principles very clearly, we are in the structure of the council of europe, where, again

, the multi-party representation works , the delegation is in constant contact with the balance commission, e-e, at the e-e winter sessions, we e-e voiced such an opinion e the committee of couples that works with the ivanychiv commission legally, the committee that we can get an additional opinion, an opinion regarding, for example, the law on national minorities and laws concerning anti-oligarchic directions, these two bills were included in the list of those that er, it is in accordance with er, eu regulations and eu law

, of course, well, nobody is afraid of anything. one night they don't have a war and in and they work in regular mode what do we expect in the future this is of course the same feedback from the eu government i will remind you recently despite everything and despite the great difficulties of the countries of the state and their er high the representatives approved the third functional package. by the way, very little was said about it on the air, if i may. it was very brief. it was 87 individuals and 34 euro persons. these are colleagues who are completely unlike your colleagues. these are structures like the satellite of our today. that is, they are finished up to for the 10th sanctions package , imagine that since the broadcaster was, for example, french, its operation was possible because of the french license, we

proved to colleagues that it is impossible to support propaganda, it must be stopped, important, interesting banks that are familiar to ukrainians alfa bank silpo banks that were banned a very interesting fact is that it was included in the sanction list of the youth fund e. they don't know, because he co-finances the brutal aggression of the russian federation, which has been going on for the ninth year, this includes the foreign intelligence service of the russian federation, this is also people, individuals and legal entities connected with a private military company wagner is a hundred characteristic organizations, which will be considered in the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe and we are sure that other international organizations are

literally two minutes . extremely clear and beautiful manifestations were heard. it is about the public part, which is possible. can you share something if it is about what, for example , they would like to help us with? to say is not a state secret, so on earth, you already know that in our country, i see behind your beautiful backs, uh, our military, about their faces, and this is 45 million euros allocated for co-financing training programs. we remember that for the first time in the history of the project's existence the european union was specifically allocated military aid, and as you noted , at the highest level, eu representatives are already discussing additional types of allocation of heavy artillery at the beginning of march, and not only this, but

also both supplies, but we must understand that training continues, they continue in various eu countries, from poland to great britain , our partners have the expertise, time and energy for this, we are also grateful to the eu, we do not forget about small and medium-sized businesses - these are not reciprocal grants, we do not forget about the macro-financial mechanism - this is 18 .5 billion euros, which ukraine has already begun to receive 1.5 billion in support of our payments to the social sphere for the military, for teachers, for doctors , etc., our state spends five times billions of euros every month and without external, more precisely, without the financial macro-financial assistance of our partners, so far we cannot sustain it on our own. despite this, cultural projects continue, educational youth

projects continue without culture, which they are trying to destroy. that's why they just finished showing the film about the ukrainian crimea uh recently there was a day of resistance everything started this invasion and creeping aggression began in the 14th year in crimea we we believe in crimea that it will end with the complete decapitation and restoration of our territories, and this support for the creation of a special table of the country is clearly expressed, they joined the creation of the so-called bark group that works on the fact of the crime of aggression , we also expect the creation of a special court for this, of course, and further support of the competence mechanism because it is russia that froze their assets, including $350 billion of the central bank and other assets of the oligarchs, it is they who

must go to the restoration of our state that it has already started in many regions of ukraine, god willing, it will not stop. we believe in victory. we believe in european integration, it is happening every minute, friends. mrs. maria has one question regarding one of the criteria that you have already mentioned, this is the legislation on the rights of national minorities in our country, and we are waiting conclusion of the venice commission, in particular , we continue to discuss everything that is this issue . we have neighbors who initiate these discussions, and this is hungary for example, but we understand that when we talk about national minorities, we do not we can also exclude from this list the russian russians, that is, as a national minority in our country, and to be honest, i had a small discussion with my colleague vitaly portnikov , we just drew some parallels, i don’t know

how relevant it is, but croatia-serbia in croatia ended with the fact that the croats granted the serbs these rights, they restored some of these rights and after that they actually became members of the european union. in other words, we will also need to go through this path, how it will look, how it will flow with public opinion in our country, see we need to finalize the issue in a very narrow plane. if it is necessary, if they think so, the village commission, by the way , the text was also worked out with it, including with the structures of the council of europe who directly saw this text. mr. dear colleague dmytro lubinets, who is very well versed in this topic, in which he has not only ukrainian blood, if i remember, but

also greek, for example, and this allows him to also be in an active professional phase he held more than a hundred working groups of discussions, it was very difficult, the draft law did not begin to be written last year, not because we got the candidate status, and speaking with mr. dmytro and other colleagues from the specialized committee, we passed this law in the european integration committee, issuing a positive conclusion regarding compliance we we have no reservations about it if our colleagues from hungary or, for example, romanian colleagues with whom i also directly communicated on the e-e platform of the european parliament and on the platform of the european parliament if they have specific remarks we will be very happy to get them to work. and i will just remind you of such a human example in the field of education . in

hungary, there are more than 60 schools that . e language e-e they speak ukrainian and hungarian, for example, if you ask how many such schools are in hungary, then the number is approaching zero, the ministry of hungary knows about this and the minister of foreign affairs of pansi-art, with whom i spoke several times at the council of europe in his speeches , therefore , we are ready to work out all the practical elements and comments, but they must be realistic. the same republic of poland, which if ukraine had certain

violations of the rights of national minorities in poland , there are no problems. poland, the community is quite large, and so on, they work actively and claims are only common, but we understand who gives him specific instructions to jump into the topic, and these are friends, and we do not forget . who voted ? it seems to me that the verkhovna rada voted even with a constitutional majority. what was the reaction of the russians? they began to shout that they are indigenous peoples, these comrades who are not our comrades at all , they cannot distinguish the indigenous people who does not have its own state, but has a culture, a language, other indicators of the indigenous people, from representatives of national minorities, etc., so i think that propaganda will continue

potentially, but we will avoid it in the way of direct work, explaining our partners to our partners of our obligations for your work and for this brilliant analysis on the air of espresso tv channel maria mizyntseva, deputy chairman of the verkhovna rada committee on integration of ukraine and chairman of the permanent delegation of ukraine in pairs 17:51 well, we will inform you about the most important thing is that from the 24th, all nuclear power units in ukraine will switch to american westinghouse fuel , that's how the process was announced on energoatom, a small quote , seven power units of ukrainian nuclear power plants, the sole operator of which is energoatom, have been completely switched to american westinghouse fuel, and from the 24th , this fuel all 15 power units of the domestic nuclear power plants must be supplied. that's how the russian nuclear power plants everything. as they say, and it's all happening before our eyes. well, yesterday

actually took place our event is that the chairman of the board of ukrzaliznytsia oleksandr kumyshyn announced his resignation, now there is information that he will head the office with european integration of ukrzaliznytsia in europe , and instead the temporary head of ukrzaliznytsia will be a member of the board yevhen lyashchenko and we are in touch with serhiy vovk , the general director of the center of transport strategies, serhiy, we congratulate you, glory to ukraine , yes, there is a problem with communication serhiy vovk , we are in contact with us, the ministry of transport has added the metro cash & carry company to the list of international sponsors of the war, the press service reports nazk, this is the story, according to the information of the researchers of the kechem kerry metro in the russian federation, the german subway network in russia sold wagner sledgehammers, this is a creepy attribute

of mercenaries in nazk, they emphasize that their goal is to make any companies feel ashamed to cooperate with the terrorist state serhiy vovk, director general of the center of transport strategies in connection with the studio p . serhiy, we welcome you glory to ukraine to the heroes of the word , i would like to receive your comment and regarding certain personnel changes in ukrzaliznytsia oleksandr komyshchyna will head the office of european integration and ukrzaliznytsia in europe, on the other hand, in ukraine , its deputy member of the board , yevhen lashchenko, what can these staff rotations be related to, and to what extent can this affect the effectiveness of this strategically important enterprise in ukraine? that i communicated with ukrzaliznitsa literally in the morning of the same day and well , the presentations did not increase anything, that is, obviously , more information is needed, more communication

of the society about why actually this situation happened, i think that first of all you need to wait for the meeting of the supervisory board of the company, because you need to understand whether this is the appointment of plyashchenko and whether it is permanent or temporary this constancy of changes that have taken place with ukrzaliznitsa literally in a year, since i have been working with the company for more than 11 years and i have certainly not heard so many positive reviews about the company's work as at the level of even the leading international media as well as at the level of ordinary passengers. i think this is a very right step and ordinary passengers. i think it is a very right step and probably the role of the manager here was very important. who should become a customer-oriented person in

the segment of passenger transportation, and in particular in the segment of truck transportation, where there are many problems left and need to be solved. i hope that the changes that were laid down will be continued in in the future, we definitely agree with you, the changes were important, the only thing is that we always need to improve specific bathrooms in specific trains, you understand, this is such a paradox, well, just kidding, but we understand the volume facing the management of ukrzaliznytsia , in particular, it is about the fact that ukrzaliznytsia must now provide freight communication between ukraine and a huge responsibility falls on her, and we understand that the key problem is the reluctance or desire and the ability

of the broad ukrainian track to communicate with with a narrow european track, we understand that we inherited this business not even from the previous occupying soviet regime, but from the russian empire , which used a wide track, and how things are going with that now. i think that this process will definitely start first in the western regions , and secondly, we we have to use the maximum export capacity of the country, so i do not rule out that separate lines will be extended to the main points of generation of export cargoes, in particular grain cargoes and mmc cargoes, which form the basis of our exports to europe, as far as broad gauge prospects are concerned, i think that , well, at least in the nearest horizon, namely 5-10 years, we will retain our dominance in ukraine, because in order to completely replace the gauge, it takes a lot of

time and a lot of money. well, in the end there are countries, including in the european union, in particular. the same finland is similar to the so-called russian space. well , actually, it works normally with this, too. by the way, it also applies to the baltic states, and of course in a strategic perspective and from the point of view of the integration of european transport corridors with ukrainian transport corridors, we will maximally expand e-e coverage by european track inside at least on the main freight and passenger routes that generate a new daughter e-e the lion's share of the cargo flow of ukraine well, serhii, such a question is pragmatic, actually, we understand that ukrzaliznytsia is a strategically important company e is a national company, we actually understand that it provides itself partly independently , partly of the state budget, and under these conditions, we must at least maintain the quality that exists now, there is

efficiency, and it is also desirable to improve the infusions we need in this area in order for all of this to really be synchronized with the european level , at least it is not financed at the expense of the state , really we had a situation when there was direct budget financing of ukrzaliznytsia, but now it is financed at the expense of tariffs, i.e. at the expense of those revenues that it receives from freight transportation, that is, the economy pays, including for the transportation of passengers in including for the transportation of cargo e-e cargoes i apologize for the military payments that are not directly needed to ensure our joint victory if we talk about investments, well, you need to understand that even now i would not name any numbers, well, in general, we need to reach the amount of financing of about one billion dollars every year in order to carry out the gradual

modernization of rolling stock, in particular, our wagons, in particular, changes eh, changes eh , including tracks and modernization of ukrainian infrastructure, but these are very approximate figures. i think that the first thing we need to do, what we need to start with after we finally get the victory, is to sit down and understand in general what the next transport model will be, which role will be played by the railway, and then make some specific calculations. thank you serhiy vovk the general director of the center for transport strategies was in touch with us. thank you. and to you, auntie. thank you for this broadcast, as always . that's how i understand this day. well , it's six o'clock before tomorrow's meeting, and now the floor will be given to serhii rudenko and his guests verdict with rudenko well, we say goodbye until tomorrow glory to ukraine is a program verdict my name is serhii rudenko good day and