[000:00:00;00] so, how long does it take for such a statement from the technical staff to come, and again, it is necessary to take into account how quickly ukraine is learning to use leopards, because again, and sometimes in europe it takes years, but you can see that ukraine is doing it significantly much faster because there is no time in ukraine and therefore we also hope that the fighter jets will be in ukraine in the near future in the coming weeks or months where this is the best scenario. so, after the successful start of our counteroffensive, can the russians commander, do you understand that they have actually lost so many russian commanders? they already understand that they will lose the war, we see what prigozhin says, he does it publicly , he makes statements against the russian minister of defense

and also appeals to other commanders , he is in despair and in fact also according to ukrainian intelligence we understand that it does not matter when ukraine will win and when these occupied territories , including crimea, will be liberated, because the entire international community will put putin's regime on knees and thanks to additional military aid to ukraine, and therefore we hope that the leadership of russia will realize that they are really losing, and russian society will understand what kind of criminal regime putin ruled over them, and that he actually moved , destroying, dragging the russian economy with him, as well as the question of russia on the international arena and we hope that only after that will come peace, peace in europe, peace in ukraine and

ukraine ukraine is practically now very important to win back bakhmut and actually liberate every city and every village, and therefore, in fact, i do not i think that the russian command will somehow publicly admit its defeat, no, but in fact it will be a powerful blow to the putin regime , which is already fragile, mr. cossack. thank you for joining. and thank you for answering my questions and thank you for the support we receive from our allies about the situation on at the front about our future victory, and of course about the help and support from our western partners, i spoke with taras kozak, a military-political expert and reserve officer of the canadian armed forces - this is

spotlight ukraine, the ukrainian version will follow europe continues to actively help us to return the temporarily occupied territories , the leaders of the european union countries in the overwhelming majority in unison confirm their full support for ukraine as much as it will be necessary for our victory, not only in words but also in deed. to several european states well, more about this tour in our story, our priority is offensive actions, so the president of ukraine volodymyr zelensky briefly outlined the main the purpose of his meetings with european colleagues in rome, berlin, paris and london, he once again asked our partners and allies to provide more weapons to start a counterattack on the enemy's position and the liberation of temporarily occupied territories, and in london he even announced the creation of a ukrainian-british fighter coalition to protect our skies , according to volodymyr zelenskyy still needs very few details, he did not reveal

three alone and our soldiers of our state remain stronger. i am sure that we will return home much stronger with new defense packages more new more powerful weapons for the front more protection for our people more political support so the main results for these days new weapons for ukraine respect for ukrainians we managed to make our victory closer and we will add more support the main thing is that some european leaders have demonstrated a radical change in their attitude towards of how it is possible to end the bloody russian war in ukraine if , from the beginning of the full-scale aggression, some heads of european states immediately expressed their support for ukraine, then there were those who at first preferred to talk with putin, fortunately, and their attitude changed drastically, for example in

france following the results of the meeting between volodymyr zelenskyi and emmanuel macron , and which france initially provided to ukraine not to enable it to defend itself, but continues as new aid packages are being prepared that constantly take into account the most urgent and urgent needs of ukraine to strengthen its defense capabilities france aims to provide full support in all areas in the coming weeks france will prepare and equip several battalions with dozens of armored vehicles and light tanks, in addition, france is concentrating its efforts on supporting ukraine's wind defense potential to protect its population from russian strikes and the larger leadership of the european union also uniformly appealed to the member countries of the so-called big seven not just to expand the provision of military aid to ukraine but also to speed up and expects that the leaders of the g7 will support two main conditions, firstly, that we will continue to support ukraine as long as

necessary, secondly, nothing about ukraine without for ukraine, as much as needed means basic financial aid including after 2023, as well as accelerated military aid with a focus on the here and now and nothing about ukraine without ukraine means strong support for president volodymyr zelenskyi's plan, while in ukraine and abroad they are thinking about when will our counteroffensive in europe begin, let's clearly understand when it will begin, the whole civilized world will be with us until our victory.

with his guest michal kaminsky, vice-speakersonate of poland and former member of the european parliament greetings good evening to ukraine heroes glory to ukraine that september will be a critical moment regarding the continuation of military and financial aid to ukraine here is a quote from the article if we if september comes and ukraine fails to win significant counteroffensive successes, then there will be international pressure on the west to bring both sides to the negotiating table, and we actually rely on our armed forces, but still, can the topic really be actively discussed in the west. we must understand that the peculiarity today, when everyone is expecting a ukrainian counteroffensive, is a huge political and a big political and

intelligence game regarding what this counteroffensive will be like here and what the consequences will be, that is, to be honest, i do not believe such information that is now published even in the western media because in fact there are a lot of different games that are played inside western countries, and that's why i think that a lot of such information is false, because even if there is a very successful counterattack, there will still be pressure on ukraine from the west in september, what's the point? what's the point of reconciling with russia, control over its territories that were occupied by russia , i don't believe it, it's not quite, it can't be possible, and the west can't so quickly have a completely opposite opinion about the general picture of the world regarding war in ukraine, and therefore we actually know that all western countries

are expecting a counteroffensive, but we must understand that, speaking in military terms, ukraine has already achieved enormous success in this war, because they are holding on. you managed to hold on. to hold out militarily for more than a year, and that is why ukraine has already begun to win back its territories, and russia is now experiencing a decline not only militarily, but also morally, and this is already a sign of great success , because the west can still wait. russian forces, unfortunately, they receive very large funding, in fact, for the past 30 years, they have been financed by western countries. european countries, let's talk about the council

of europe, about the summit of the council of europe that was held in iceland, the leaders of the countries who were present there adopted a resolution that includes the creation of a special register of damages caused by russia to ukraine during the war and , accordingly, the compensation of expenses should come from frozen russian assets. so this is a very big question. i think that we must do everything possible to really make this mechanism work as soon as possible, because there must be great interest from the west, because what should be used for the reconstruction of ukraine is that money, yes, that money will also be used for the benefit of western countries, but in fact these funds do not come from the pockets of taxpayers of western countries, but again from the pockets of those closest

to putin, putin's closest friends , that is, we are talking about reserves in western financial institutions, and therefore it is logical to use them for the reconstruction of ukraine in order to cover all the damages that ukraine suffered after the full-scale invasion and before that, that is , in fact, every ukrainian family suffered from those actions that russia brought to territory of ukraine and russia itself must bear responsibility for what it has caused. that is, it must be reparations , it must be full coverage of costs, and we need to bring russia to account for everything it has done since 2014, all of us in ukraine want our country became a member of the eu as soon as possible, i understand that the first thing is to end the war, can

you tell us some realistic time frames , referring to you, when ukraine succeeds in doing so, i have a lot of experience behind the shoulders regarding the process of integration of different countries, that's why i asked and that's why, in fact , in 2007, i submitted the first document, it was a report, in some it was said that ukraine will be a member of the eu in the future, and i remember how difficult it was in 2007 to vote for such a small amendment, which was very important, now i think it will be much easier to reach an agreement on ukraine's membership in the eu, but we also have to wait, because right after the victory in ukraine, we will have these 5 minutes in order to take

a huge step towards the progress of ukraine as soon as possible and of ukraine's accession to the european union, and that is why we call on all friends of ukraine, we will demand a specific date as soon as possible, and i have this date, we must say that ukraine will be a member of the european union in 2029, that is, by this time, ukraine should already be a full member. an ambitious plan in my opinion, but i think that it is possible if there is political will from the european side. i also remember the debates about the date of poland's accession back in the 90s, we wanted to have a specific year and then there were actually meetings and i was still working in the polish mass media at that time. i remember exactly these words in the polish parliament that poland will become a member

of the european union in 2000. yes, he was wrong, because poland joined the european union in 2004, but despite this, we had an approximate date and therefore i emphasize that ukraine sought a specific date of a specific year, and then already do everything in order to actually meet this deadline . that is, these are such historical moments, today we need to make such statements in order to go to our er, to our dreams, now our dreams they are limitless. and that is why we are talking to you right now, and this moment someone dies on the territory of ukraine , he dies for my freedom, and for your freedom , as well as for ukraine's membership in the european union and the western world, so we have a moral obligation to fulfill that to justify those the efforts of those who actually sacrifice their lives on the battlefield and today this week in

stockholm i said that now is not the first war on the european continent, but it is the first war in which the future of the european union is at stake and in fact the eu has now have an obligation to end this war as soon as you can, because as fate would have it, ukrainian soldiers are dying now, and that is why we need to help ukraine join the eu as soon as possible, and if someone says, for example, that uh, someone says that it is impossible for ukraine to join the european union, i will say that 5 years ago no one could have predicted a full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine, but you see that it happened, that's why today i say that ukraine will become a member of the european union , and we want to know a specific year and about

our european integration aspirations and how europe is helping us on this path, i spoke with michał kaminski, vice-speaker of the polish senate and ex-deputy of the european parliament, this is spotlight ukraine ukrainian version ukrainian version as always debunking russian myths, they are making maximum efforts to create them in addition to efforts and a lot of money and time well, our stopfake partners are also working day and night to debunk these fakes, and together in the program spotlight ukraine, the ukrainian version, together with our stopfake partners, we are doing exactly that. oleksandr zamkova fact checker stop fake i congratulate you mr. oleksandr good day i congratulate you ready to enlighten new myths of course then let's start from the first greece spoke out against the supply of weapons to the country such a fake was obviously created by russian propaganda after a small rally of sympathizers in the kremlin

in athens, the capital of greece, but who a few dozen protesters were sorted out by our journalists, we are watching the russian media spread the information that mass rallies were allegedly held in greece against the supply of arms to ukraine by the allied states tsargrad edition writes on the eve of victory day, the residents of athens, including our compatriots, held the immortal pole action . the participants once again declared that the supply of nato weapons to ukrainian formations was a crime against peace and a deliberate escalation of the conflict, which could very quickly turn into the third world war. on may 7 in athens, a pro-russian rally was indeed held. rally, but by no means mass, as ria novosti writes , up to 200 people took part in it, although judging by the photo of barely a few dozen, the propagandists

recognize among the participants russians zamitin are affiliated with the kremlin immortal pole communists and left parties that have no political weight in their own country dmitriev's communism fell asleep and in general, the personal translator of vladimir putin and received his education in moscow i was lucky to get the best education in one of the best universities in the world, more precisely the best moscow state university named after monosova , the so-called russian mass media often present the opinion of patelis as the position of official athens, although this is clearly manipulation, the greek government condemned the russian large-scale invasion of ukraine supported sanctions against russia and took part in the supply of weapons to the ukrainian army. on april 6, while meeting with the minister of defense of ukraine, the minister of defense of greece emphasized that we will continue to support ukraine as much as it will be needed. this is a very clear position that we took from the very beginning

. i correctly understood that the main purpose of this a fake is to create such an illusion that within the european union there are disagreements, and in some places maybe even disagreements regarding support for ukraine is it true or not, or is there something else, everything is true, the russians who are in the eu, and in fact, a lot of them were formed both by russia itself and by, let’s say , sympathizers who sympathize with russia, and, of course, also by russians who simply live on the territory of the eu and constantly take part in political events for such measures are necessary in order to show that the opinion of the europeans is not so clear-cut. well, there is a dispute regarding the support of ukraine as to whether it is necessary

to... crimean sources do not mention the fact that the organizers are pro-russian organizations or, in principle , the citizens of the russian federation take part in these events. everything is as it really is. actions are held by european and eu citizens. sometimes in ukraine, for example, they refuted a fake like in slovakia. there were demonstrations against the leader of one of the political forces, yes . such a demonstration was also mistaken for an anti-ukrainian demonstration, that is, they are trying to do it out of all public events

some kind of evidence that the europeans are already on the brink and that's their flaky patience with regard to supporting ukraine oleksandr, let's close this fake with a short question and a short answer 20 so-called russian journalists - is it a lot or a little is it a failure well, now, because europeans have become more aware and the european media are more aware of who is really an agent of the kremlin and an engaged, let's say, an engaged person, this is because of the attendance at such rallies and the participation of, for example, other parties in these rallies, for example, left-wing populists parties or ultra-radical european parties, it has significantly decreased, and we can say that

the kremlin is really opening the last concerts and even promotions with 20 people, giving out something very, very big, look at the canned food in the kremlin is getting smaller and smaller, well, let's move on to the second fake, the head of the main administration the intelligence of the ministry of defense of ukraine called to kill russians, as in his time hitler was such a manipulative fake created by russian propagandists , obviously, taking the words out of context, what did kyrylo budanov actually say, let's look at on social networks and on russian websites, information is widely distributed that the head of the main directorate of intelligence of the ministry of defense of ukraine called for the killing of russians before budanov, in an interview for yahoo news, said that the killing of russians will continue throughout the world until the complete victory of ukraine, from the words of budanov , you can see what kind of attitude is being promoted there i heard similar statements only from hitler and his followers who spoke in the name of the russian

. the ukrainian-ru edition quotes the first deputy chairman of the international committee of the council of the russian federation, volodymyr jabarov, in fact, the words the head of the gur took out of context the answers to the question about the possible involvement of the gur in the murder of the daughter of oleksandr dugin , a well-known theorist of far-right views in russia. american intelligence places responsibility for the murder of dugin on the ukrainian government . topic we killed russians and will kill russians at any point with me bullets until the complete victory of ukraine and from the context everything he means is not russians by national a sign, namely those who are involved in the war in ukraine and hide war crimes against our citizens, but with such manipulation, russian propaganda wants to show the alleged flourishing

of nazism in ukraine, well, oleksandr will tell you honestly, it seems to me that the russian propagandists have some kind of systemic crisis, in the previous fake we saw that the crisis they can't recruit pseudo-journalists and here it looks like a crisis of imagination and tearing words out of context - this has always been a feature of russian propaganda, but in this case they did it. you know, if the users of the social network who come across these news and they are not very not very picky and are not inclined to check the information , it still affects some audience, well, this fake was first made for its own audience for the russians, there are those who have to show that budanov allegedly used usifov in such an open way that he just wants to buy russians for nothing and for nothing. russia unleashed against ukraine, it is justified, but it can also go further to the west and we are such

fakes too saw and when even such news they are not translated, and the residents of italy, france and other countries do not understand it enough, what is the mood of ukrainians in general, well, what do we think, yes , after a year of war, they may be afraid of some kind of escalation when they see such headlines that bohdanov allegedly wants to kill russians in general, i will not add to you, for example, i can mention a fake that we also refuted when president zelensky was during his visit to the eu, he gave an interview, it was recently , and he talked about what it is necessary to allegedly take preventive measures, it was necessary to take primitive measures against russia in order for it, uh, well, to not have to make a war, and this is exactly the message sent back to the west through

kremlin trolls, and then they began to broadcast as such that zelensky said that it was necessary to carry out preemptive strikes on the kremlin, and in that including nuclear ones, and they began to publish his words for some kind of thing. well, this is already madness. and it covered very well, for example , the french segment of social networks, we refuted this fake, it spread very, very much. yes as it turns out there is no time to look on the internet and check. well, yes, of course, for the russians. well, now let's move on to our third and last fake. in the russian mass media and social networks, they are actively spreading the information that citizens of ukraine who came to estonia are being forced to serve in the army of this country , and ukrainians are even threatened with deportation for their refusal, where did such

an absurd fake come from? look, ukrainians are being forced to serve in the estonian army. the staff of the embassy in tallinn personally called back. to every ukrainian who is in the country, such a fake is replicated by the russian media, the russians are actively spreading it in social networks, it seems that every ukrainian must attend a two -week training session in the estonian army in case of hostilities, and refusal threatens deportation from the country , the propagandists allegedly refer to the information of the ukrainian embassy in estonia , but to the request of the stop fake department reported information about the so-called conscription of ukrainians in estonia for a two-week military meeting personal calls of diplomats of the embassy of ukraine in the republic of estonia to ukrainians from on this occasion with a warning about a possible return to the homeland does not correspond to the truth is another example of fake news of the aggressor country, in addition, factcheckers

also checked estonia, chris and one mention of mandatory military service, russian propagandists also report that a similar situation is also in poland, but the stop fake is already i will repeat this repeatedly to you, oleksandr well , who is this fake for, because look here , a russian fake is collected about ukrainians in estonia, a european country of the european union, we are mostly russians, yes calculated to show that everything is so bad in ukraine with mobilization that we simply have to drag citizens from abroad to ukraine and force them to fight. well, also on those ukrainians who are abroad, for example, even if they are in the same estonia even access to such official sources, because they come out in a completely different language, and

this one, for example, in which they may have a desire to link themselves with a title, they will constantly wait for the fact that, allegedly, somewhere they can somehow be called to love armed forces or even to deport, although we refuted this interface that of course, more than once, the same thing has been said about poland, that it is allegedly conducting a covert mobilization, as russian sources wrote about the fact that in great britain they began to issue ukrainian subpoenas at those representations, but well, every time we emphasize that even if there is a function of the ukrainian representative office, there is some way to facilitate the return of ukrainian citizens to ukraine, but they are not military commissars, they cannot issue summonses and forcibly deport citizens.

it is impossible even to do it. well, ukrainians who are in ukraine when, for example, if they read such news and do not have critical thinking and do not check in other sources, they may also be scared because the reserves have all been used for mobilization and already we have to somehow attract people from abroad to ukraine. that is, this kind of triple action is ineffective , of course, because russian propaganda is currently experiencing such a catharsis. moods, but you don’t know. they take in quantity if you constantly inform and throw such things in social networks in this way, it will still be some kind of disturbing background, it will still be , well,