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ukrainian journalists for the whole world , my name is yury fizer and mykola in russia , there are no victories, he can no longer motivate his society, everything that the kremlin announces should be treated with skepticism announced a new $300 million package of assistance to ukraine , which will include, in particular, additional ammunition for haimas air missiles, hydras 70 mortars and artillery shells, and modern fighters are extremely necessary for the future counter-offensive ukraine still hopes to receive from its western partners about the preparation of the offensive and the situation

at the front further in our review of the section of the front in the direction of bakhmut in the area of ​​soledar , which the russians managed to capture in january. divides approximately 400 meters of open field, there is a fight going on around the clock , and with the rpg, how are they now behaving recently , week two three, what are they doing, running as

mice are running across the field and i still don’t know what to do with them in bakhmut itself in recent days without significant changes the defense forces are fighting in the western part of the city and continue to control the road to it in the last 5 months russia has lost more than 100,000 soldiers killed in the direction of bakhmut and wounded, the spokesman for national security of the white house, john kirby, recently visited the defenders of bakhmut, the commander of the eastern group of troops oleksandr syrskyi and reported that the armed forces managed to counter-attack and repulse the invaders in certain areas in the bakhmut area we continue, despite all forecasts, advice to keep baku, you are the most combat-capable units of the russian army, we make it possible to communicate with our reserve and we are preparing ourselves for further actions when the ukrainian army goes on a counteroffensive, because they will significantly decrease in the direction of bakhmut

, the russians will take defensive positions, they will be transferred through reserves for deterrence the expert roman svitan believes that our troops have a very shaky position in the zaporozhye and kherson directions due to geography and the location of the front line, there is no flat surface water obstacles or heights, it is very difficult to hold out in such conditions, therefore, an army that is ready to advance will definitely throw into the sea an army that is pressed against the azov coast . in my opinion, this will be one of the main results of our future offensive, but without modern aviation, the advance will be much slower and losses at offensive operations are much larger, but ukraine is still hoping for modern fighter jets from the west, the process, in particular, was said by supreme commander-in-chief valery zaluzhny on may 1 in a telephone conversation with the head of the united of the us joint chiefs of staff committee mark milley and also during a meeting with the supreme commander of nato's combined armed forces in

europe christopher kavoli and now i will talk with the ambassador permanent representative of ukraine to the united nations from 2015 to 2019 volodymyr yelchenko kosov my fafe of the innocent ukrainian people, and in fact the arrest warrant issued by the international criminal court against putin did not lead to the fact that russia was excluded from the un security council and in the end russia continues to preside over the security council, what other mechanisms are there to completely limit the aggressor to the international arena has several mechanisms to implement this. and i would actually prefer that our diplomats raise the issue

of suspending the authority of the russian delegation, and in fact there have been such precedents in history, in particular in 1956 when the soviet union attacked hungary and established its government there. the powers of the delegation of hungary were suspended and frozen for almost two years . democratic elections in 1994, when nelson mandela was elected president, then the authority of the delegation of couples was also suspended, and in fact the delegation did not have the physical ability to participate and

vote in meetings, make statements , and the like, this is the easiest way, the easiest option, because if we let's think from the point of view of russia's exclusion from the un, we will need more time. if we talk about the fact that russia is recognized as an aggressor in ukraine, then the un charter is not so clear. in this regard, in reality it is very difficult from a legal point of view to get a sufficient number of votes during the un general assembly in order to exclude russia from the un. yes, it is possible, but it is a long way , because many countries are simply afraid of the president, today they are afraid of russia , pielchenko. how much longer do you think?

i think that the best time for you may be at the beginning of the next session of the general assembly, which will be in early august or early september this year, in fact, it will be about the suspension of powers delegation, because in fact there is such a preliminary meeting a few days before the first session, that is, the committee that actually has the authority to suspend the delegation's authority should meet in the first or second week of september. another way is to use the mechanisms of the un security council. we understand that this is an institution, it is only one of the un agencies but they actually have their own e code and their own e regulatory procedures e-e more delegations e

can actually question the proper authority and ultimately the presence of the delegation of russia in the un security council, and you can vote for it in order to suspend the powers of the russian delegation, this procedural question is quite weighty, and in this case, you need to actually collect approximately 9 out of 50 votes, and the chances of actually achieving such a decision are much greater, mr. ambassador, why did china change its attitude towards of russian aggression in ukraine during the voting at the un general assembly session to say that this is a rather difficult question and first of all after the visit of the ukrainian people's republic to

moscow, and they achieved several of the agreements that russia actually began to violate only a few days after they were signed . i mean that we are actually talking about the transfer of nuclear warheads on the territory of belarus, this was one of the key points that worried china a lot, in particular, regarding the use of nuclear weapons is not , and therefore, in fact, precisely the issue of belarus was one of the key items on the agenda of the negotiations between asizempin and putin, and in fact it can be said that russia actually generated the agreements that were reached in moscow secondly, during the visit of french president macron to beijing, they also discussed the same question, the same problem , and in fact the reason why china tried to maintain neutrality at that time. and in general

, during the first year of the war, they were not sure what the course of events would be in in this war, they now see that if they choose the path of supporting russia , they will actually end up on the wrong side of history, and therefore china's diplomacy and in the end , they are quite wise people, the chinese, they calculate, they make their assessments, they are very they are careful in their calculations, they calculate the consequences, they calculate the scenarios and they understand that the first consequence will be precisely that there will be new waves from the western countries from the side of the usa against china, and for them this is unacceptable, they want to develop further

, they really depend on the european market on the market of the usa and canada and therefore similar also from the technology on the side of south korea, and that is why if they have such a choice, they will of course choose the western one, stand on the side of the west and not on the side of russia and after the telephone the talks between the leader of china and zelenskyi have actually made a final decision , they are not ready to support ukraine . but again, we hope that this will happen, but at least china from such a neutral position step by step. the first result was the same as they voted in the general assembly

so this is only one of the resolutions that was adopted there is nothing so important before that but the important thing is that china for the first time and after many months of neutrality, they even start from 2014. when this war actually started, china voted positively for the first time, supporting a resolution that actually recognizes russia's aggression against ukraine. countries like brazil, india or, for example, kazakhstan, armenia, they also supported this resolution, they voted positively. so, in fact, you are the permanent representative of ukraine at the un. you know what this organization is from the inside. so

based on your experience, is the un organization important in its current format in order to solve such security problems that we currently have, in particular in ukraine, and this is a very difficult question for me, because i have already devoted half of my professional life to the un and the issue which were raised or the un, but i think that in its current format it has pretty much exhausted itself , exhausted its potential, so the united nations still produces many good results, in particular when we talk about the economic and financial sphere of consequences climate change and even in the fight for human rights in the con- we understand which countries are now supporting russia, but a lot of uh, also iran and a few more

are supporting russia, and these countries are still in the un and this is actually the biggest violation of human rights in history, but despite this, i want to say that out of the 193 members of the un , the vast majority of countries are committed to the protection of human rights and democracy, as i said , also to fight to change the consequences of climate change, as it is called, they are not urgent, especially for ukraine, they are not urgent, but they are very important, and of course there should be such an international organization that should deal with this. but if we are talking about the year 1945-45, when the yalta conference was held, in fact, when the un charter was signed, this organization was the first and the first to be created in order to keep the peace and in fact the system of collective security

which was then adopted which is actually guaranteed by the un charter hmm actually was there was added a lot more and created a lot of regional organizations such as the osce and many other international organizations that are also there and the african union and others are just the same organizations of asia , they actually work in unison for many decades, but now we see that the system is actually on the verge of collapse, you can say that it has already collapsed. does not work and is not the only reason for this, the invasion of russia into ukraine, it all started during its slavic conflict in the 90s. we saw the problems faced by many africans of the country, we had the syrian conflict

. we saw and the invasion of russia into georgia later the annexation of crimea and eventually the full-scale invasion of russia into the territory of ukraine, all of this together in the complex of all this could have been avoided if the un charter , if the organization was as such, if it was recognized by all countries. but russia ignores all the current international norms of the un charter, the principles of the osce it ignores everything and this means that if the organization does not have the power to warn the huge weight on the european continent, that is, there is every chance that other wars, whether it is in yugoslavia or in africa or the conflict in israel, the syrian conflict means that in fact, all this happened. so the system does not work, and that is why we know what happened

to the left-wing nation before the second world war, and that is why i think that something will also happen, something similar will happen to the un organization. i do not believe that this organization can somehow be reformatted in an extreme way measures until then, as long as there is a russian delegation present there and russia is a member and therefore actually permanent members of the un security council and volodymyr yelchenko was a permanent representative of ukraine at the united nations from 2015 to 2019, this is sportlife ukraine, the ukrainian version will continue. they do not have the status of prisoners of war, so they have much less chance of returning home. almost 20,000 ukrainian civilians are taken captive by russia among the prisoners, and adults and children who were kidnapped, illegally imprisoned or deported to the territory

of the terrorist country are hostages of the invaders. and residents of the occupied territories, who are forced by the enterprise to renounce ukrainian citizenship, how russia terrorizes the civilian population, see in our review she put on a black fur coat and gave her her uggs when are they leaving the house? she kissed me and asked to say goodbye to her father. mrs. kateryna's daughter was taken prisoner by the russians on march 25. last year , the invaders came to their house in the village of stary bikiv in chernihiv oblast to search the 25-year-old teacher victoria's phone . they found correspondence with the ukrainian military in her phone. was accused of adjusting the fire, the woman spent six months in the pre-trial detention center of kursk, russia, when they took me, they asked where she was. they said to everyone, to everyone, this meant that i had to go the

same way, the same reception was still in the men used their special equipment. and it was different, but i don’t want to get into the details, because it’s not like yours , it will be difficult for my relatives to hear, then they didn’t threaten me, they even said that they would burn me alive , says a woman, captured ukrainians are abused both physically and mentally in the morning for hours, they are forced to sing the russian national anthem and so-called patriotic songs, they are forbidden to communicate with each other in ukrainian, for victoria, the horror is already over, she was freed by human rights defenders, according to the data of the commissioner of the verkhovna rada of ukraine for rights

per person, russia holds more than 20,000 ukrainian civilians in captivity after a full-scale invasion, law enforcement officers initiated almost 2,000 cases of kidnapping and illegal deprivation of liberty of the civilian population by the occupiers , there is no legal mechanism for the return of prisoners who were taken to russia in accordance with the geneva conventions, only the exchange of prisoners of war is possible, sometimes civilians were returned with groups of prisoners of war but it was not exchanges much more often the russian federation simply released some civilians if it exchanges ukrainian civilians for its prisoners of war, it actually gives ukrainians and civilians the status of civilian hostages. that is, it signs that it takes hostages. and this is a very, very serious crime. at the beginning of a full-scale war , only 140 ukrainian civilians were released from russian captivity, but the terrorist country holds not only adults hostage after

the invasion, more than 19,000 ukrainian children , including almost 5,000 orphans, were illegally deported to russia. the kremlin is proud to kidnap young ukrainians and separate them. families are illegally given up for adoption and re-educated by the grandfather of russian propaganda, you have pictures not up to 15 years old. hello, you know такой быть мамы ребенка from donbass. the deportation of ukrainian children, according to putin's decree , all residents of the occupied territories are threatened with deportation if they do not exchange their ukrainian passports for russian ones by july 2024 those who do not want to change their citizenship are denied medical care, threatened with dismissal from work and restrict their movement even over temporarily occupied

territories and more about kidnapped ukrainian citizens and their return to the motherland i will speak with oleksandr pavlichenko, executive director of the ukrainian helsinki union and for human rights russia continues to forcefully abduct ukrainian civilians from the temporarily occupied territories of ukraine, and in fact they have installed new torture chambers in order to keep them there the main a-a reasons thanks to which it is possible to release ukrainian prisoners of war, as of now, of course, there are not many options for us to be able to influence this situation, in particular, when it comes to civilian prisoners who are in captivity in the temporarily occupied territories of ukraine, the russian military or the current

regime receives them there of course, there are about hundreds of people who were abducted, they are civilians who continue to stay in the occupied territories and they became victims of such criminal acts. sometimes we talk about people who participated in various acts of resistance in various resistance measures, in particular during the first months of the full-scale invasion, and now such measures are continuing, resistance measures, of course, will it be possible to release these civilians who are not legally detained, or will it be possible to somehow influence their future fate, this is actually all in the hands of the first international

instruments of international organizations such as organizations the united nations and the red cross, but as practice shows, and in fact rona's high commissioner for human rights, he refuses to visit the places where they are held and captives and in fact they are not allowed to visit such places unless there is some prepared situation where their safety can be ensured where they can see er order and that there is no leveling of rules but we are not actually violating human rights er where there are no different there signs of torture and the like, but we actually understand the conditions under which our

people are supported, because it happens that the circumstances are presented as normal, but you talked about international instruments, but they often do not justify themselves, but you just said that that's what you're talking about. that's right, and they have some limited opportunities, limited access , they can't greatly influence the course of events , and to tell the truth, it's not such a justified tool or any medicine or panacea that could improve this situation and the conditions of detention of prisoners, at least this a single instrument, a single scenario, how international organizations can act, how third parties can be involved, an instrument that could

protect the rights of children who are held captive by playing the role of such a humanitarian mediator or a third party, e-e geneva the convention that a neutral party, a neutral country, can play the role of such an intermediary, it can be representatives of china, turkey, kazakhstan or other countries that both sides of the conflict, russia and ukraine , will participate in, but we see that until today , unfortunately, there is no such intermediary of such a country that could play this role, we have what we have. so, the russian occupiers continue the forced passporting of persons who are in the occupied territories, in particular

in the kherson region, and we see that people are being intimidated by any means, in particular deportations and alienation of property or such people can also be deported to russia. what is the mechanism of return to ukraine ? so we are talking about the recent decree signed by putin regarding passporting. yes, this is really forced passporting of people who are in temporarily occupied territories, they are actually called another term for the continuation of such a practice.

they want to cover the traces of the ukrainian nation as such . in fact, this is a manifestation of genocide, these are genocidal actions, a practice that was implemented in crimea from 2014, a practice that was implemented in in the donbass region from 2014 to 2015 and now we see that the russians continue the same actions, but this is to preach russian citizenship and change the passport to a russian passport. actually receive obligations that are related to the actual

obligations of citizens in the russian federation , including military obligations and other rights and obligations that arise from the moment when they receive a russian passport to avoid or what to do so that it doesn't happen like this , each case has an individual case because very often everything depends on the circumstances . they need this, they are simply forced to obtain russian citizenship in order to ultimately fight on the side of russia against ukraine, vulnerable groups