[000:00:00;00] greetings, we are looking for this boy, his name is maxim pokalov, he is 16 years old, maxim disappeared on the first day of the full-scale invasion of russia, at least since february 24 , 22, there is no connection with the boy, and nothing is known about his fate at all , before the war , maxim lived in the city of... svatov, luhansk region, where he was seen during the uprising, but after the russian occupation, the boy disappeared without a trace and until now there is no information about his whereabouts. so, if you know anything about maksym pokalov or where he is maybe now, please notify magnolia children's tracing service. and i ask the residents of the luhansk region and the city of svatove to look especially carefully into the boy's face. perhaps you will see this video on youtube

or social networks and. you will recognize maxim. you can contact us at number 11630. this is the hotline of the child tracing service. calls from all mobile operators in ukraine are free. if, for example, you are in the temporarily occupied territories and you have no way to reach us, please send us a message or the children's search service in telegram. i also encourage you to share this video on your social networks. the more people learn about the search for the child, the more... of course , there will be more chances to find him, so please don't remain indifferent, and let's try to find maxim together. we are also looking for 15-year-old sashka ivanov, who is now considered missing. the boy was in one of the boarding schools in donetsk, and on february 20, 2022, four days before the start of the full-scale invasion, all the inmates of this boarding school were taken by the occupation authorities allegedly exported to russia. this was told to us

by grandmother sashka, who is now in the territory controlled by ukraine and is looking for her grandson. we took them out of donetsk the other day, just on february 20, we took out the entire boarding school, just loaded them in and took them out, there are many children there. he studied at a boarding school in donetsk. above all, svitlana oleksandrivna wants to find her grandson, if he really was taken to russia, then to return him to ukraine and take him into custody. the boy's grandmother also said that she has information: that sashko is currently in one of the boarding schools in taganrog or rostob on the don, in the summer they were taken to yevpatoria. there is no more information from sashko's grandmother, but there is a very high hope of bringing her grandson home, and although it is likely that sashko is actually in russia, it is still inaccurate information that is being verified, so i am asking absolutely everyone who is watching this video right now, please , look closely at sasha's face. he looks

14-15 years old. of medium build, has light brown hair and brown eyes. so, if you know at least something about sashka ivanov, then no do not delay and immediately notify us on the hotline of the child tracing service by calling 116:30, which is free from all mobile operators. also, it is possible that this program will be seen on the internet in russia, and if you know any information about sasha ivanov and can confirm that he really is there, then write to us on the website or on facebook or to the child tracing service, and i want to note that in the search, any information about the child is important. i also ask you to take just a few minutes of your time and go to the website of the child tracing service. here in the section disappeared children of ukraine, you can see boys and girls who are currently wanted. look closely at their faces, and i will be very grateful if you share information about missing children in your facebook or

instagram. if you happen to recognize one of them personally, call our hotline 116.30 immediately. calls from all mobile operators in ukraine are free. we have created a resource where you can report any crime against a child, anywhere, anytime, simply go to the site and report, and we will launch all possible mechanisms to punish the criminal. stop edge. ua, people and ideas that protect and create ukraine. the sixth via karpatia forum, the future of tradition, ukrainian in the global world. ivano-frankivsk on october 14 and 15. discussions about the challenges of time and the projection

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of the united states secretary of state, former director of european and eurasian affairs at the national security council of the united states, will be working on tv channel uso. glory to ukraine, dear mr. ambassador, i congratulate you. speaker mccartney's unexpected resignation. which led to a second extremely unpleasant story. in particular, it is about the 45-day budget of the united states without aid for ukraine. the fact that we in ukraine are worried, well, that's an understatement. in fact, the fact that money for ukraine was removed from the bill on temporary financing of the government came as a complete surprise. support for ukraine is quite strong in the united states congress, even among the re and only a small group the most radical republicans who support trump do not want to support ukraine for reasons i still do not fully understand. they were the ones who wanted the government out of business, depriving it

of money, and to avoid that, then- speaker mccarthy had to compromise. he chose a compromise, which was that there would be no aid to ukraine in this budget, but another budget would be passed in 45 days, and of course, everyone except the radical republicans would hope that there would be money for ukraine in it, but now most importantly, who will be elected to replace speaker mccarthy? there are two main candidates, steve scullis, a senior republican from the state of louisiana, is in favor of more support for ukraine, citing biden, as long as it takes, and his opponent, jim jordan of ohio, is opposed to more support for ukraine. so the newly elected speaker will decide which bills to put to the vote and can block them. aid to ukraine if he so chooses, president

biden in such a case cannot do anything except try to convince him, therefore, this is a completely unexpected turn of events, and to me, it is deeply embarrassing to the democratic system of the united states of america, because it shows how close we are to complete dysfunctionality, we understand that the united states is helping us in a way that few people in the world are helping us. but we hoped for the strengthening of this assistance, in particular, taking into account the winter campaign on the great front of the russian-ukrainian war, so we hoped that america would dare, that president biden would dare and sign the relevant documents on allocating to us atakamsiv a few weeks ago, mr. borkowski, you and i talked about the fact that the biden administration is finally ready to provide atakams to ukraine and is moving well in that direction. delivery of the f-16, because it is finally clear

that ukraine really needs these weapons and is not going to use them for attacks on russian territory. without such resources , ukraine will not be able to do what washington expects of it, that is, to make progress on the battlefield. and then everyone was caught by surprise in the political system of the united states, which is why it is impossible at the moment say what will happen next. in addition, i think that in the long run. in the future, it will be politically unprofitable for whoever becomes the speaker of the house of representatives not to restore support to ukraine, but at this time it is simply impossible to say how quickly this may happen and how large this aid may be, as far as i understand, there is still unused aid to ukraine in the amount of 5 billions of dollars, based on the fact that on average ukraine receives from sp

dollars per month, we are talking about two months of aid that has not yet been provided. we also saw how much iranian weapons were seized and will be transferred to ukraine. it is about millions of cartridges and thousands of iranian-made machine guns, which were apparently transported by sea for the houthi rebels. however , ukraine cannot win the war based on such random findings. weapons, the united states must provide funding. second, mr. ambassador, i understand what you are talking about, on the other hand, the concern does not stop, yes , the so-called signals are beginning to multiply, very often they are anonymous sources in the white house, very often they are retired generals who begin to say, it is not only about the united states, for example great britain, they are starting to say that maybe our warehouses will run out of something. well, we are talking about the british statement: we will help ukraine, but

it should be taken into account that our help is also not rubber and so on, i reluctantly try to predict the situation that may develop in a couple of months, yes, when they may appear in the united states, for example, trump's supporters will say, we already helped ukraine enough and name the amount in 100 billion dollars and they will say, let's reduce aid, but you have a feeling, right? about real schedules in american and european politics, in particular, it is about two key stories, namely money and weapons. the foundation of politics is money and spending, and in the united states system, it is congress that decides how much money will be appropriated for the goals the president wants to achieve. this is where the united states congress has the most power, and it is why our democratic system is difficult to govern, sometimes it happens. but, as winston churchill said, americans

will eventually do right after trying everything wrong. we are now in a regime where we have a group of extreme republican supporters of president trump who are nihilistic. they would like to bring down our government because they think it will make biden look bad and trump look good. so ukraine is a hostage of this process. in the long term. i think that help will be given, based at least on what churchill once said. at the end of the day, the united states will do the right thing, the positive in the short term... is that it also sends a certain signal to our european allies to get them to do more. great britain has done a lot, it is true, germany has done a lot, estonia has done the most per capita, but there are other countries, like bulgaria, which have not done as much as they

should have done. i hope that now there will be a small political crisis also within the european union, so that they understand what they should do. dear ambassador, in any case, we understand that international politics is going through, maybe not the best times for ukraine, we feel that certain changes are taking place, i will not say that these changes are tectonic, but in any case, except for the hungarian prem orban's era, we got the slovak prime minister robert fitz, well, rather the prime minister and so on, we understand that ukrainian-polish relations have deteriorated, rapidly deteriorated, although... believe that they can improve, well, in the near future , yes, thanks to certain specific ukrainian and polish efforts politicians, but in any case there is a feeling that the world situation may be getting worse for us. it's true, every political issue, every political problem

, every war in my life has at some point lost the interest of the international community, but the international interest in this war was... and remains strong, it is still very strong, but the political systems do not stand on the spot, do you remember what kind of support ukraine had in slovakia at the beginning of the war, how many ukrainian refugees they accepted, the same was of course the case with poland, but then it intervened internal politics, economic conditions in both countries have become more difficult and difficult for farmers, in particular because of ukrainian grain. i can't say what they are. their support has dissipated, no, it has, and i think that in slovakia and poland everyone still realizes that it is very important that ukraine wins, but people have become more closed, more selfish, more focused on their own situation and less sympathetic to ukraine,

but it is absolutely clear that slovakia and poland know that ukraine must win this war, people are now a bit...washed, a bit forgot all the seriousness of this war, a kind of stalemate was created on the battlefield, but with the passage of time, when the polish elections will be held, when the slovak political system will calm down, after fico, who has long remained a supporter of putin, has been reprimanded, then i think that support for ukraine will be restored, but it's easy for me to say sitting here, if i were a ukrainian, i would be very concerned, after all i am... also concerned, it's terrible how poland and yaroslav kaczyński are behaving towards ukraine. to impose additional charges on ukraine economic difficulties due to the interests of polish farmers in elections, this is at least selfish,

and at most it is strategic suicide. in istanbul, perhaps another meeting of the so-called istanbul format is being prepared, which may be the agenda of this meeting, what will be discussed, because the issue of the so-called peace formula, it can be interpreted quite differently in different states, in different political structures, we have a ukrainian position, it was voiced by our president volodymyr zelenskyi, but we understand that in different cabinets may want to see their own solutions to the issue of the war, great question, and i quite agree that the different countries of the trance... ancient families have different visions of how the war should end, or how it should end continue on so, president erdoğan has been consistent on some issues, and i assume that he will play a major role in shaping the agenda. from the very beginning, he clearly condemned russia's invasion

of ukraine, supported the territorial integrity of ukraine, condemning the annexation of crimea and other four regions, as well as the occupation of donbas. he was consistent in ensuring turkey's provision of significant military aid to ukraine. at the same time, he managed to be consistent in his desire to remain a potential mediator and maintain his contacts with putin. erdogan is really proud of the grain agreement, because he was not the last to conclude it. i think that the renewal of the grain agreement will be on the agenda, while ukraine seems to be complying with it, sending its grain and other cargo by ships along the coast romania and bulgaria, which are members of nato. so erdogan will try to restore the original agreement. also his consistency is that he just wants the war to end. and for peace to come. he sees turkey's role in international relations as a stabilizing force and a country committed to seeking peace. even

regardless of how unjust the political situation on the ground may be, in this case in ukraine, as a human being, he just wants to stop killing people. the biden administration follows another positions, on the one hand, they believe that ukraine itself should decide how to end the war. and on the other hand, they are afraid or were afraid of escalation by russia and the use of nuclear weapons, which in my opinion is a mistake. the european union expressed itself very clearly: ukraine must receive all the necessary support and must decide for itself how to end the war. here are the issues that will be on the agenda of this meeting. how can we achieve peace, how can we be mediators, how can we achieve respect for the territorial integrity of ukraine and how can we make it so that. he restored his grain normal pace. dear mr. ambassador, a couple of weeks have passed since the visit of president zelenskyi and the ukrainian delegation to

washington. there were a lot of emotions, there were very loud statements, we in ukraine tried to analyze all this, but there were also meetings, in particular, a meeting with one of the patriarchs of american diplomacy, kissinger, so he met with representatives of our ukrainian delegation, and accordingly we understand that american diplomacy, well , it is declaratively extremely eloquent and extremely powerful, but there are very different currents, and if we talk about how they will now try to develop ukrainian-american cooperation, i again return to the beginning of our conversation, because the best way to show help, in particular, in the allocation of heavy weapons, is how the russians would like to turn the russian-ukrainian war into land war, into an infantry war, our key task is to get heavy artillery , missile systems, heavy tanks, not 30 abrams,

but 130 or 230, yes, but this means that the russians can use certain unconventional the threats they hint at. let's start with former secretary of state kissinger. he is considered the most experienced and one of the wisest diplomats. in united states history. interacting with him during my diplomatic career, i found his views profound, but i did not always agree with them. so i can assume that maybe the ukrainian delegation that met with him didn't quite agree either. we remember how kissenger suggested at the beginning of the war that perhaps it would be better for ukraine to find a way to peace as erdogan does, rather than continue the war. and then he changed his point of view. henry

kissinger's profound wisdom, reflecting the need for ukraine to end this war on its terms, is what will ultimately prevail in washington. currently, we are witnessing real political madness in washington, due to which the supply of arms to ukraine has been politicized. butsimba thus deterring russia's potential use of unconventional or nuclear weapons, that is, it is not even a rational debate, it is simply a pointless struggle between by trump's supporters and opponents in the republican party, which will hopefully end soon, and the biden administration will receive increased funding for ukraine, including most of these topics of attack. in this way, ukraine will once again be able to control its destiny as much as

possible. and one more point. i think that henry kissinger, like many people in washington, does not fully understand how ukraine can push out all russian troops from crimea and donbas, because it is a very difficult task. but i have friends in washington military and political experts who see ukraine moving in this direction, firstly, through its gradual advance towards the sea of ​​azov to disconnect donbas and crimea, and secondly, with the help of atakams, other longer-range missile systems , as well as ukrainian naval drones, which pose a serious threat to the crimean bridge. so it is quite possible that soon ukraine will be able to cut off crimea. without killing all the russian military, and that would force putin to negotiate terms that would ultimately be

much more profitable for ukraine. dear mr. ambassador, you know, i am afraid of the so-called repetition of the afghan syndrome, yes, in particular, it is about the american election campaign, and , for example, the presidential candidate donald trump, or someone else from his political environment will start shedding false crocodile tears, saying, here you are you know, we helped ukraine very well, but now we have to focus on the problems of pennsylvania farmers. the american election campaign can bring a lot of surprises. unpleasant, and the key task of our ukrainian politicians is to be ready and act ahead of schedule, we received a number of advice and deadlines from the american authorities regarding the implementation of certain reforms, and here is the key task, i would ask you to analyze these reforms that we have to spend quickly, the time indicated there is three months, six months and so on and so forth,

that is, if we do not invest in the appropriate terms, can it... somehow affect the provision of full and irreversible assistance from the united states, and in general, i would like you to also mention the situation with lendlease. representatives of the republican party who are against supporting ukraine are looking for any excuse to justify their position because they think it will make them more attractive in the eyes of donald trump, so for their own benefit they will point to corruption. in ukraine, on any insufficient means, on the wrong forms of ownership, that is, they will put pressure on vulnerable places. as for the current progress of the zelensky government in carrying out reforms, i cannot give any assessment. at the end of the day, i don't think anyone is watching it as closely as before the war, because of course we 're all focused on the war, but if you look at how he's trying to weed out the corruption in

the ministry of defense, for example, in matters of procurement. and others, the impression is completely positive. in the end, not so much the situation with internal reforms in ukraine will determine whether the united states will continue to help. in fact, first of all , everything depends on who will be elected speaker of the house of representatives of the congress of the united states. and so, who wins the presidential election in 2024, and if it is trump, then we have already heard him, he will figure out how to stop the war in 24 hours, frankly, i do not think that he will stop helping ukraine, he understood when he was the current president that the united states should have given ukraine javelins so that it could defend itself, and thank god that happened, trump does not understand the intricacies of geopolitics very well, and everything he does is transactional, that is, he wants to know his benefit from one step or another, i think

president zelenskyi will find out in which way ukraine can reach those it needs. the speaker of the house, whoever it is, must ultimately listen to the president of the united states, because even when the united states gravitated toward isolationism, even when our first president, george washington, advised americans to avoid, as he called it, foreign ties, the united states always there was an inherent idealistic motivation, which was the notion that the united states would make the world... safe for democracy. i think these trends will persist in american politics and will persist as long as you and your viewers watch united states politics. regarding the lease, it is impossible to pedal this issue now, since the house of representatives cannot meet and engage in official business, since it does not have a speaker. only when a new speaker is elected. the house of representatives

will return to work and the speaker will be. what motions or bills may be put to the vote, so if the speaker is going to be the gentleman that i mentioned, jim jordan, i think he 's just never going to bring a bill like that up to a vote in the house of representatives, and biden won't have any legislative way to do anything, on the other hand, if steve is elected speaker scalise of louisiana, i'm sure he would want bills like the lendless proposal to come up for a vote in so if that vote comes up, i have no doubt that the bill will pass and become law, but it's impossible to predict at this point future, because the legislative schedule or agenda depends entirely on who is elected as the next speaker of the house of representatives. thank you very much, dear mr. ambassador, for this extremely interesting and honest conversation on the air of tv channel,