[000:00:00;00] because all this information that will be collected by the bank, it will immediately lie on the desks of all leaders, branches of the party servants of the people , and the servant of the people party, having spent funds from the budget, will receive, well, let's say, an unpaid, unpaid benefit, that is, as soon as these documents, certificates will turn out to be a hundred. actually, it's a very strange story, because uh, the real living parties, they themselves have such portraits of the territories, and they have these references, they're just in dynamics, that is, the living parties analyze the changes in the mood of the people, changes, for example, well, the main financial players in these territories, investors who appear, taxpayers are changing, and

now we are watching others. moment, the budget voted by the verkhovna rada took away the pddfo of local self-government, well, where there is a military pdf, and this means that now the economy of these regions will simply collapse, by the way, mr. volodymyr, about the investors and sponsors of future races, i can’t not to mention ihor kolomoiskyi, because today kolomoiskyi's defense asked to refuse it, well, that is, the lawyers said that his health is bad and they asked to change... the preventive measure to house arrest, the lawyers explain this by the deterioration of the oligarch's health during his stay in sizo, let's listen to what kolomoiskyi's lawyer oleksandr lysak said, who explains the need for kolomoiskyi to have get out of siso we are a quick decision, we believe that this decision does not meet the requirements of procedural

legislation. well, we will continue to comment after the appeal decision, because if, for example, the appellate instance leaves it, as they say, it will not be considered of our appellate complaint, it is a known fact that we will appeal to the supreme court about this, so that the supreme court will give an assessment. kolomoiskyi in sizo is a certain sign, probably for the western community and the united states of america, that with and obviously, it is also an answer to all the reproaches of european countries that we... there did not fulfill the points regarding limiting the work or actions of oligarchs in ukraine and did not we are fighting corruption, including political corruption, what do you say about the future of kolomoisky, taking into account the role he played a role in bringing zelensky to power? well, in fact, kolomoisky entered

his role in the second round, and that's 73%. this is essentially the work of kolomoisky, too, because it seems to me that the oligarchs just between the first and second rounds managed to extinguish several plots extremely sensitive for zelensky, which would simply break the entire logic of the race. and, i understand that zelsky is grateful for his place and role, then we can say that he is really a figure, uh, who, because of the arrest, got into, well, into an interesting media field, that is, he, he is one of those who knows how to take advantage of the opportunities that these lawsuits bring to himself, and he , on the one hand, protected himself, so to speak, from the american themis, because he is wanted by

the american and judicial authorities of several states, and not one state, but the second, that his stay in the ukrainian system really protected him from another ukrainian structure, from nabu, which is conducting several other cases, and here it seems to me that there is a quite, well, realistic suspicion that the sbu and beb saved protected of kolomoisky himself from nabu, and there already tens of millions of cases are going on, no, not 500 million, what or some more , well, billions also arose here, but not so terrible, that is, kolomoisky in the current situation, he, all that remains

as a player, because the main media resource of the government is the channel, well, relatively speaking, letter plus letter, and the co-owners of this channel, the co-owner is medvedchuk, this is when the government from day: until night tried to tie all this to the channel, the owner of which is medvedchuk, well kolomoiskyi has already handed over management to the team there, a funny procedure, but this whole action with kolomoiskyi is actually a surrogate, or can we say a hybrid game regarding ukraine's fulfillment of the criterion of lobbying and influence... oligarchs, look, look, the most interesting thing in this story is that the 2024 budget was approved

yesterday, the verkhovna rada of ukraine, and there is an item on the financing of a single telethon, 2 billion hryvnias for next year, for a single telethon, this is a pool of tv channels owned by oligarchs, and in fact these 2 billion hryvnias will be distributed between the groups of kolomoisky, pinchuk, created by some through the channels that came from rinat akhmetov, and what about then, how to explain to our western partners that we are fighting the oligarchs, and at the same time we are taking this money from the budget, money that should go to defense, but we are still financing or refinancing , how to say it correctly, the tv channels of the oligarchs, mr. sergey, here there are two violations of the criteria, because in the allegedly... one of the criteria that was adopted is about, electronic media services, this is also an electronic media service, that is, for this law on electronic media services actually predicted freedom, well, improvement of the issue

of freedom of speech, i.e. the launch, return to broadcasting of patriotic channels, including espresso. instead, they played this hybrid game with this law. and with the landing or detention of kolomoisky, they are playing a hybrid scenario instead of adopting it, because we know that democracy is laws and procedures, so instead of adopting a law about oligarchs, they want to present to the europeans a plot with the criminal prosecution of kolomoisky as a mechanism for solving the problem with was approved by oligarchs, and the register had to start work on may 1, 2022, and since the war started, they said, well, we already have almost no oligarchs, zelenskyi said, despite the fact that at the same press conference where

he spoke about it, pinchuk was sitting next to him oleksandr kwasniewski, the former president of poland, well, there are his old connections, there are connections, let's say, through and including the democratic party of the usa, well pinchuk and ale, in fact, well, relations with the oligarchs, they are not , that is, there is also a law on lobbying it is necessary, there, there in fact, well, we need a systemic, a set of systemic distancing measures, limiting the direct influence of oligarchs on ukrainian politics, this is important, i... think that it would also be worthwhile to revise the law on, well, for example, political parties must be made transparent so that the party's finances, i want the parties

to report on their finances through nazk, almost 200 ukrainian parties write reports to nazk, even those that are allegedly deregistered, but the procedure is not yet not completed all of them report to the central committee, but this is not enough, because suddenly, during the elections, we will get a situation when, without extra, payments, er, representatives of certain parties will simply begin to dominate certain tv channels, and we get absolute, inequality, different, i.e. ukrainians, ukrainians are once again given some kind of tv product, not real political power. sir volodymyr, as a political technologist, how do you assess these political jealousies that exist at the level of the civil command of ukraine and the military, you

know, zelenskyi and his entourage, they come from a feudal environment, that is, everyone knows very well that our private business is such feudalism, i am the boss, you are a fool, i am the owner of the business, i can wipe your feet at any time, that is, the hired worker is not protected anywhere, and so in the situation of such monopolization of everything and everything, we see that they monopolized even the parliament, monopolize, they forbid the deputies. not only from one's own faction, but also from other factions, to attend all kinds of international conferences is generally ridiculous, just during a war, any, it is easier to defend one's interests on various sites in the world, here we see the united states, where the republicans are fiddling with the law on aid to ukraine, why not send a huge landing force there, including deputies,

no, deputies are not allowed to howl. today, for example, they specifically did not let volodymyr arev, an honorary, by the way, an honorary delegate of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe, to the conference, because he criticizes the government too much, well, this is ridiculous, this is bullying in general, to be honest, this, i think, that stefanchuk after that, not that there are no places in parliament, i think that he will be persecuted by other... ukrainians for the rest of his life. thank you. thank you, mr. volodymyr. our program is running out of time. thank you for participating in the program. this was volodymyr sybulko, a political expert on espresso, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms, for those who are currently watching us on youtube. buy it, please like our video, because i see that a lot of people are watching us, but not everyone liked it. also, vote in our poll. we are today we are asking you about this, whether you trust

the head of the armed forces. zaluzhny, so 98% on youtube trust and only two percent do not trust, the results of our telephone survey, our survey will take place over the next hour, literally in 15 minutes we will return to the studio, we will have three journalists as guests: olga, len, maryna danylyuk yarmalayeva and bohdan butkevich, so wait, goodbye. greetings, dear viewers, on the air of the television channel, the program studio zahid, we will analyze the most important events of this week, and in particular we will try to predict what the meeting between president joseph biden and xi jinping will bring, which will take place literally in a couple of days, and in particular, i am also personally interested in why... putin suddenly went to

kazakhstan. matthew bryza and general alnur musayev talk about this and other things on our broadcast. our first guest is matthew bry of the us national security council. i congratulate you, dear mr. ambassador, glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. well, the key question is what is happening now in the united states, around money for of ukraine. we understand, there were several versions. the latest events are the democrats blocking the republics. if they do not support the connection of two aid packages for ukraine and for the state of israel. i think that everything is not like that anymore. and yet they are a minority in the party. the democrats did the right thing tactically in this situation, because they know that far-right republicans, especially evangelical christians, want to help israel. and many of them would rather help israel than ukraine. so. they are wisely promoting aid

to ukraine, and this aid to ukraine is a must come on, this is just a short-term political struggle that the country will not get anything from would change the current situation in the war in our favor. we understand that our enemy has extremely large resources, we are talking about military resources, we are talking about financial resources and technological resources, we need correspondingly relevant support. i certainly agree with you that president putin is betting that he can reorient the entire russian economy to sustained arms production while the united states and its european

allies continue to provide ukraine with both tactically and strategically important weapons. which you mentioned. we should look at how successful ukraine has been recently. even if general zaluzhnyi talks about a stalemate, to which we will now return, even though there hasn't been much land progress, i mean... since the start of the counteroffensive, ukraine managed to recapture only 17 km, but in the black sea the situation is much more positive for ukraine. we will return to all this. what i 'm trying to say is that the more accurate, longer-range weapons that the united states and other nato allies are providing to ukraine are having a powerful effect on the degradation of russia's naval capabilities, and that's really important. however, over time, some people begin

to tire of giving billions and billions of dollars to ukraine or any other country. this is one of the key reasons why it is so important that ukraine continues to make progress on the battlefield. dear mr. ambassador bryzya, well, in any case, you know very well how the american political and military establishment thinks, how they think in the pentagon, how they think in the white house, we understand that general zaluzhnyi actually sent an extremely powerful message, an extremely powerful signal. i think that some of the american generals read it correctly. i think a lot the national security advisors in the white house also read them correctly, but of all the states, this is the head of the congress, if of course the congressmen vote, so the issue of strategic targeted aid to ukraine

in order to change the course of the war. that is how the american military establishment simultaneously understands the deep strategic interests of the united states. it is important not just not to lose, but actually to beat russia. here we can talk about what is meant by this, the problem lies in the domestic politics of the united states. many american voters not so much understand what is happening in ukraine. they 've been hearing about it for almost two years now, and now there's a new problem with israel, so they 're tired of the war in general. this is why president biden has been so determined to withdraw american troops from afghanistan for several years. that's why congressional leaders, especially senate majority leader mitch mcconnell of kentucky, are confident of a delay in the majority of senior officials in the us congress. however, there is a cohort of eight republicans who are trying to get voters' attention and shift the country's attention to themselves by saying,

as possible, the united states should stop supporting ukraine. what worries me a little more now than when we last spoke with you is that this is the new speaker of the house of representatives. then we predicted that from the point of view of the help of the u.s. congressmen. that of the two potential candidates, one is very supportive of aid to ukraine, and the other is not. so none of them were chosen. whoever was elected is a big supporter of president trump, and president trump, as we know, wants an immediate end to the war. and he will be until to weigh it, if. he will be elected president, even though he will not succeed, it shows that he would not want to continue to support ukraine, so with the exception of this very powerful person, the speaker of the house of representatives, i think that the political elite in the american government understand how important, that the united states should continue to support

ukraine, and that there is no real need to reduce support for ukraine by increasing support for israel, is a false comparison. we understand that there is a big game going on right now, just a few days away in san finpinom and we will obviously hear a lot of different correct protocol statements, but the key story is how they will look at what in simple language is called spheres and zones of influence, so we understand that two superpowers can communicate in the person of their presidents, we understand that we can only to predict how these conversations may go, but i would ask you to outline the perimeter along which the american president will move in relation to russian aggression against ukraine. thank you for such a smart question. so, the purpose of the meeting in san francisco, to try to find a way to reduce the degree of high tension in

us-china relations. we all remember house speaker nancy pelosi's visit to taiwan last year. it was a visit, biden didn't want to, but he didn't tell her not to, i mean he couldn't stop her from going because of the separation of powers in the us, but he could put political pressure on her, and yet he let her go. so this visit created, in my opinion, unnecessary additional attention in the us-china relations since then, there have been a series of visits by american ministers to china trying to find ways. how the us and china can not only reduce political tensions, but also cooperate on certain issues, for example, in the fight against climate change. so i expect there will be some. discussions on climate change and how to mitigate the effects

of the us-china trade war, as we all remember that president trump imposed tariffs on chinese imports to the us, starting the trade war that biden continued, will want to hear from biden about what he plans to do to reduce trade tensions , so president biden will naturally look for ways to persuade china to reduce its support for russia's war in ukraine, and will likely emphasize that the red line for the united states is to provide china with russian weapons. china is not doing this, china clearly does not want russia to escalate. china sees a war in china, but it is definitely not interested in the war in ukraine intensifying, or in ukraine losing, because ukraine is also important. commercial a partner for china, and of course they will talk about taiwan, which, like ukraine, will be

an important part of this discussion. i think president biden will remind president xi that if china attacks taiwan, we could see a desperate fight and a high moratorium on russian troops invading. so this meeting is a combination of the desire to reduce tension and the desire to cooperate with each other. at the same time, biden will definitely deter sympathizers from providing russia with weapons or from attacking taiwan. there are feelings, you know well, that's how it is established in politics, when you can't solve this or that specific problem now , you can postpone it so that someone after you in the next political cycle starts to solve it, so we in ukraine are waiting for very quick, very specific solutions . whether president joseph biden, taking into account the american election campaign, will take clear radical pro-ukrainian steps. recently

, biden just took such a radical pro-ukrainian step, asking for an additional 63 billion dollars to support ukraine until the end year after all, he helps provide ukraine with the weapons it needs. yes, it's not just the f-16. and yet atakams will already work. on enemy positions. previously, hymars and m1 abrams tanks were provided, so biden believes that he took a radical step by saying: well, we want to give ukraine an additional $ 63 billion, to help, because every dollar given will go to the killing of russian soldiers, which is really a radical step. if you look at it from the side and think about it in terms of how biden acted at the beginning of the war, when he hesitated whether to provide these... high-precision long-range weapons or not, i think that deep down in the hearts of biden and jake salevan there is always a fear that if they

take too radical a step, then russia may escalate to the level of nuclear use, the biden administration is less and less afraid , clearly false threats of russia to escalate to the nuclear level. when it comes to putin and the geography of his influence, i actually think that now he is much less influential in central asia, in azerbaijan, in armenia, maybe he is more influential in georgia, which is very difficult and problematic place. but you mentioned tokayev. do you remember how last year, when putin declared the autonomy of the donetsk, luhansk, kherson and zaporizhzhia regions, kaev , who was on the same stage with him during the st. petersburg economic forum, refused to recognize the legitimacy of this move by putin, saying that they believed in territorial integrity. i have spoken to the leaders of some of the countries i just mentioned, and it is clear that

they are no longer afraid of putin. putin has lost a significant part of his influence, and he even somewhat in despair, because armenia is moving in a direction he does not like. recently , armenia ratified the rome statute of the international criminal court, which means that if putin visits armenia, he must be there. will be arrested. prime minister pashinyan has repeatedly stated that russia is no longer their protector and that they cannot rely on russia. therefore, i think that if you look at this whole situation from a bird's eye view, it will become clear that it is really bad for putin, while for of ukraine, it is getting better and better. however, the key point is, as you rightly pointed out, the continuation of us aid and i think it will continue. we see how two, simultaneously, two

strategies have been set in motion, these are the euro-atlantic strategy and the strategy. china and its allies, in particular us, that is, we see simultaneously two strategies , two grand strategies, during the second world war, the united states managed to assemble what is called the euro-atlantic world, a large part of central europe did not get there, which was under occupation of the soviet union, now we see completely different players, and china appears to be much stronger than the russian federation, and in general, if we are talking about a grand american strategy, for example, a repetition of what we saw in the middle east, where the united states is very made it clear to hezbollah and iran that us aircraft carrier groups were not just approaching the coast, and if the ayatollah's government wants to escalate, then the united states will find a very clear missile response.

the main competition in the modern world of course. is between the united states with its economic freedoms and china , which wants more state control and wants to be able to set new rules that will allow beijing to have much more control over other countries, not to mention the taiwan issue. going back to the near east, i totally agree with you that the us deployment of these two carrier battle groups was intended to send a message to hezbollah and its proxies. iran, that if you expand the war into, as it was in 2006, and into its renewal, then years have passed, iran does not want