iron vessels, the russians will have nowhere, how many more docks need to be cleaned in the crimea? well, in sevastopol we need two more, and one more floating dock at the same time, in addition to dry docks, in fact, the fact that kirchiia in feodosia is being hit is very good, because the russians have dispersed from sevastopol, but the repair base is mainly. we remembered this number, mr. pavle, you announced the goals, thank you, pavlo lakiychuk , the head of security programs of the strategy 21 center for global studies was with us, they are reporting an explosion in kharkiv, be careful, take care of yourself, and we are approaching 9 o'clock, 9:00 a.m., the time when all of ukraine remembers those who died defending us, our independence in the russian-ukrainian war. a moment of silence. let's honor

the memory of ukrainian soldiers and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia with a moment of silence.

the final line or a symbolic gesture about ukraine's accession to the eu, about the liberation of our lands and the hellish struggle at the front, and also about the largest war in the middle east in the last 50 years. about all this and much more in today's issue. recommended to start negotiations with ukraine regarding membership, what are our chances of joining the eu? who blocks the polish-ukrainian border and why? ukrainian and russian troops have been activated almost along the entire front line, where are the fiercest battles going on? budget 20:24 how much we depend on financial infusions from abroad. another war for independence. israel has been fighting

for more than a month, what has the israeli army achieved during this time? greetings, iryna koval is in the studio, and this is the news, the results of the week on the espresso tv channel. in less than two weeks , we will celebrate the anniversary of the beginning revolution of dignity. 10 years ago, ukrainians came to the main square of the capital to defend their european future. then... ukraine receiving the status of a candidate for eu membership and even more so the european commission's recommendation to start accession negotiations seemed like something fantastic. this week, the european commission recommended starting membership negotiations with ukraine. the final decision of the european commission brought surprises, both pleasant and not so great. so, should ukraine hope that the european union gave it the green light. let's see further. one step closer to

of the european union. on november 8, the european commission published key findings on ukraine 's progress towards eu membership, and as a result, recommended that member states begin negotiations on ukraine's accession to the european union. more details will be discussed at the december summit in brussels, but negotiations will begin only when ukraine fulfills all the conditions for accession. president of the european commission urs. funderlein said that ukraine has already fulfilled 90% of the recommendations, but three of the seven conditions remain to be finalized, they are about the fight against corruption, anti-oligarchy legislation and the rights of national minorities. and then the council must make a political decision in mid-december. if she makes that decision, work must begin immediately. ukraine still has to complete some reforms, and we will be able to report on them by march.

progress, by that time ukraine must adopt a government draft law on increasing the number of nabu staff, amend the law on prevention of corruption, adopt the recommendations of the venice commission on national minorities, the state language, media and education, as well as adopt a law regulating lobbying, so to speak, according to european standards, it is interesting that even in the eu there are no european lobbying standards mentioned by the european commission, there is neither a common european regulation nor a unified approach of the eu countries. the european commission plans to prepare the next report in march 2024, after which the eu countries will gather at an intergovernmental conference where they must approve a technical document called the negotiating framework, for example, albania and north macedonia have been waiting for the approval of such a document for two years, however, the european commission developed

a unique accelerated accession procedure for ukraine, which did not exist until now. ambassador of the european union in ukraine kateryna matarnova emphasized. our country has already made great progress, but there is still a lot of work ahead. and regardless of whether the negotiations will start or not, the european perspective that ukraine receives makes it already a part of this family, an increase. there may be some criticism, comments, it will be a constant normal process that will last a long time, so. you it is necessary to get used to this style, which we use in the european bureaucracy. the leaders of the ukrainian state assure that kyiv is moving step by step towards eu membership and will fulfill all recommendations. our country should be in the european union. ukrainians

deserve this for their protection of european values ​​and the fact that even during a full-scale war, we keep our word. developing state institutions. accession negotiations are the penultimate stage before joining the european union. at the december summit, i will know when they will start negotiations on the accession of ukraine. and don't forget, there is a rule of consensus of 27 participating countries, among which is, for example, hungary. so, can we be happy and hope that we have reached the finish line, or are we still ahead of us. a lot of work and no need to relax. let's talk about this now with tatiana vysotska, spress correspondent in european institutions, who worked in brussels during the meeting of the european commission. tanya, i congratulate you. good evening, iryna. therefore, the european commission

recommended starting accession negotiations of ukraine to the european union. but we still have a lot to work on, and the solution needs everyone's solidary support. 27 members of the european union. the next eu summit will be held in brussels in mid-december, and here is the question: what were the talks this time. was there a sense of unanimity and are there any warnings regarding those countries that may not support us? it must be acknowledged that the vast majority of the member states of the european union still support ukraine in the european union and the beginning of negotiations with ukraine as soon as possible. and actually without this, the european commission would not have announced its intention to start negotiations with ukraine in the near future, that is, the political decision that ukraine should be a member of the eu at the eu level has been made, but it is no secret for anyone in ukraine that there are two states, it

hungary and, with some reservations, slovakia, which constantly block pro-ukrainian initiatives at the level of the european union, and if slovakia, for example, is now more concerned with defense and security issues and tries to block ukrainian defense packages aid, hungary is blocking everything, and literally yesterday, hungarian prime minister viktor orbán said that negotiations on ukraine's membership in the eu should not begin, that is, the radical position of the hungarian leader was announced yesterday, but no less, despite the fact that hungary's opposition is strong, and it will still suck the blood of ukrainian european integrators and european officials, but europe has a large lever of influence on hungary, it is money, €22 billion, which is frozen from the european budget and not come to the budget accounts of hungary, through the fact that it violates the rule of law and

does not meet eu standards in public policy, and right now there are rumors that perhaps 13 billion euros from this frozen amount will still be transferred to the accounts of the state budget of hungary, and this will allow orben should agree to all proposals regarding ukraine, as it was actually the case last year, tanya, well, don't bother about it. of course, headlines appeared in the western press that ukraine does not meet the criteria for admission to the eu, someone writes that corruption is flourishing in our country and abuse of office, that we are not competitive enough, and even if we manage to overcome all this, our country, despite the war, remains one of the largest producers of grain in the world, so there may be fears that if we join the eu, we will receive billions of subsidies , aren't there already talks about whether

ukraine should not be given full membership right away, and could there be any other proposals? absolutely, precisely in the agricultural sector, if we take only the agricultural sector and do not touch any other sectors economy, then if ukraine joins the eu right away tomorrow under the existing rules and current directives, then the union exists only on subsidies to the agricultural sector, it will have to allocate more than 10 billion euros every year, that is 96 billion euros in seven years, as experts have calculated, and of course the european union cannot allow this, therefore, the european integration of ukraine should logically slow down, until the european union carries out its internal reforms, changes its main directives, changes the main economic rules, so that after all, a large state, the country accepts and correctly

digest it, that's why it's still so much homework for the european union , but nevertheless, we cannot slow down the european integration of ukraine, because if we are already on this path, we must get closer to europe, and thus now precisely at the initiative of germany and in a certain way, france is talking about making the european integration of ukraine more gradual, that is, for example, giving ukraine the status of an observer in the european council, giving ukrainian deputies the opportunity to sit in the european parliament, it can also at the beginning, how to stand up as observers , but nevertheless to integrate, to unite in some way, that is, this is what we are talking about, it is being talked about, but concrete plans have not yet been announced, we will wait for the meeting of the european council in december. well, we all understand that there will be no miracle and we cannot be accepted into jesus just like that at one moment. this is quite a long process. which will continue for a long time. on average, it is seven years, so it was with the countries of the social camp.

finland was accepted the fastest in 3.5 years, but turkey was not have been accepted since 1999. there is a war going on in our country, at the beginning of 2023 there were already talks in the european commission that ukraine will not become a member of the eu while the russian military is on the territory of the country. under such circumstances, isn't it... this statement regarding the negotiations on ukraine's accession to the european union is just a symbolic gesture, and what could be the real terms regarding ukraine? actually, it is not necessary to say that this is a symbolic gesture, because in europe, as i have already emphasized, a political decision has been made in europe and ukraine they are waiting, but of course they are waiting for a changed ukraine, they are waiting for a reformed ukraine and they are waiting for a ukraine without corruption.

we can all recall the words of the president of the european council, charles michel, who recently stated that ukraine can become a member of the eu by 2030, that's exactly the seven years you mentioned, but on the condition that ukraine carries out reforms and curbs corruption, that is, the conditions are absolutely real and adequate for us, and it is also worth reminding that the baltic states and poland have finished negotiations on eu membership as well in 3-4 years, years, that is, if the state has a desire to reform, if the government of the state has a desire to change, then the political decision of the eu can be adopted, thus the answer on the side of ukraine is how ukraine will demonstrate its desire to carry out reforms and fight against corruption, this is how the european union will react. let's hope for that. tanya, thank you, it was our correspondent, tatiana vysotska, and we are moving on. and while we are looking for a short one. on the way to joining the eu , polish carriers are blocking the borders, through

it is not only ukraine that suffers, but also poland and other european countries. as of november 6 , checkpoints such as yagodyn, dorogusk, krakowiec, korchova, rava ruska grebenne have been blocked. the polish authorities tried to reach an understanding with the protesters, but to no avail. it is indicative that the organizers of the picket have a clear anti-ukrainian position, they are the owners of polish companies that previously worked on the markets of russia and belarus. one of the active participants in the blockade is rafal mekler, the owner of a transport company and the chairman of lublinskyi a branch of the confederation, a polish far-right party with an anti-ukrainian position and known for its ties to russia. during the five days of the strike, the protesters did not even give a clear list of their demands. the main thing that is noted is the cancellation of transport visa-free for ukraine, separate queues for trucks with european license plates, separate

traffic lanes for empty trucks and access to the shlyah system. the deputy minister of infrastructure of ukraine, serhii derkach, responded to most of the demands of polish carriers. it turns out that they are unrealistic. some the agreement cannot be canceled because it is a matter of bilateral agreements between the eu and ukraine. and poland unilaterally cannot do anything, and it is impossible to do something, because there is a war in our country. so while the issue remains unresolved, and at this time , more than 20,000 vehicles cannot pass from both sides of the border, blocking convoys with military and humanitarian aid, including the necessary medical supplies to save our wounded soldiers. and to the events at the front. defenders of ukraine continue

free our lands from the russian invaders. over the past few days, ukrainian and russian troops. were activated almost along the entire front line. the enemy is trying to activate in the district of klishchiivka, but the armed forces of ukraine are in advantageous positions, military analyst serhii zgurets believes. it is likely that a situation arose when the armed forces of ukraine transferred part of their forces to the avdiyivka area in the kupien direction. therefore, the enemy decided that there is an opportunity to take advantage of such options and intensify hostilities. primarily in the zone ticks, for more details, see further in the plot. ukrainian soldiers confidently, step by step, continue to liberate our territories from the russian invaders. however, the enemy does not stop trying to advance on different areas of the front. in the lyman-kupin direction, the occupiers tried to storm the areas near

senkivka, kharkiv region and stilmahivka and novoyehorivka, luhansk region. in fact, every day russian invaders go on the offensive, trying to recapture klishchiivka and andriivka in the donetsk region. fighting continues in the direction of zelenopilya, kurdyumvka in the forest strips around bakhmut , the enemies have equipped defensive positions and are still trying to surround avdiivka. assault operations are underway in the marinsky and miner's directions. the defenders of ukraine firmly hold the defense and inflict damage on the invaders. significant losses. in the zaporizhzhia direction , the defense forces repulse enemy attacks in the verbovoy and rubotino areas, continue to advance in the melitopol direction, and exhaust the enemy along this front line. the armed forces of ukraine are confidently advancing on the left bank of the dnieper, in the kherson region and forced russians panic. our military gave

the occupiers a thoroughfare in the area of ​​the settlement of krynka. oleshka road, nova kakhovka was cut. in at least two districts, control was established over the positions between the two bridges, from the antonivsky railway bridge, north of poima, to the antonivsky road bridge north of oleshok. in general , in the kherson direction, our soldiers are conducting a counter-battery fight, inflicting fire damage on the enemy's rear. in response, the russians transfer reserves to the left bank. they also sounded in the temporarily occupied crimea explosions in the evening, in november, our forces destroyed the new askolt warship in kerch with a direct hit. the ship could carry up to eight kalibr missiles. after defeating the missile carrier, ukrainian forces conducted another successful operation in the south. on the night of november 10, ukrainian fighters destroyed two enemy high-speed landing craft, along with

personnel and armored vehicles. as a result of the attack, both ships of the black sea fleet of the russian federation went to the bottom. the armed forces of ukraine will continue to beat the russians until there is no enemy will remain on our land. they defend our sky. air defense units on the front line protect ukrainian troops from continuous raids by russian drones. for this purpose, mobile pppo units move along the front line several kilometers from enemy positions. in the film crew. espresso managed to communicate with the unit that destroys russian drones in luhansk region. more details in the story of artem lagutenko. follow jesus.

this song is a mandatory ritual of a commander with a call sign before each deployment task, a little artificial madness, so as not to actually go crazy. behind us, at a distance of a little more than 4 km, there are enemy positions. the climate unit is an anti-aircraft defense at the front. we cover the artillery so that the artillery can skilfully hit enemy targets, destroy tanks and their artillery. these soldiers work on the anti-aircraft installation 23.2, they say, they get it from the air. it is aimed at air targets, it can be simply

pointed in the direction of the flight, we imagine how it flies, we just set it up in the same way and it’s easier to calculate the course, targets, but the enemy is learning , the fighters say, so the russians are looking for a way to avoid being attacked by our anti-aircraft guns, they began to climb higher in order to make it more difficult to approach the positions and damage by us on them, as it were, they increase the height, and thereby, thereby, they make it difficult to hit them, it is better to work with ground weapons, it is more active, and it looks more beautiful, there the scatter is such an average scatter, if you work by landing, then just mow and

everything, as an oblique, the call sign mahogany prefers to work on the enemy's manpower. the boys and i were sitting, i had just signed the contract, we were sitting, watching the police. the academy was burned down, and something like that happened, because there is also such a person, sometimes he is unruly, like the one of the magoons, and yet the main targets of klim's unit remain drones, they conduct reconnaissance, they conduct corrections of the artillery there, mortars, tanks and various weapons, like ours as well as theirs, so without... bp, there would be, there would be chaos and it would just be 45 years, somewhere, and therefore, if even one

drone goes astray, it is already a very significant contribution to our victory. unmanned aerial vehicles are no less important for our defenders. soldiers of the rubizh brigade have announced a collection for drones, and they need your help with this. you can now see the link to the bank. our guys from the division need mavic 3e and 3t drones for more effective detection and destruction of the enemy day and night. i ask all concerned citizens to join this collection via the link. artem lagutenko, oleksiy kutsuk from luhansk region for espresso. november 11, exactly one year since kherson again. free. on this day, in 2022, the ukrainian army entered the city. kherson was under occupation for eight difficult months. on the day of the release

, happy people went out into the streets, brought ukrainian flags and flowers, kissed and hugged the soldiers and shouted: "glory to the soldiers of the armed forces of ukraine." the people of kherson shared the terrible stories they experienced during the occupation. the russian barbarians, who invaded the ukrainian land, distinguished themselves here. cruelty and stupidity. seven months later, after exit from the right bank of the dnieper, the occupiers, either because of panic and fear that the ukrainian military would go further and force the river, or because of an innate desire to destroy everything around them, committed another terrible war crime, blew up kakhovskaya hess. 80 settlements were affected as a result of the russians blowing up the kakhovskaya hes dam. 18 cubic meters of water flowed uncontrollably from the kakhovsky sea, washing away everything in its path. the ukrainian ministry of defense reports that 32 people have died, and more... have gone missing.

how many people died in the occupied russian territories are not known for sure. in addition to human casualties, the russians caused a lot of damage to the ecology of the south of the country. how do people currently live in the territories where the water came from? dmytro didora learned. you see, this is here, she was the one who stood on sunday to report, because you see, these remained like that, you see , when it was sweaty, it would fall, and she was the one who stood because of the fact that they are even stripes we stayed because the water stood here for a long time. tetyana shapir lives with her family in afanasiivka, mykolaiv oblast, the village, like an island, is surrounded by the ingulets river on all sides. when the russians blew up the kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, a lot of water reached the woman's house in less than a day. the house

was almost flooded. completely, the man says, when he was here, he says, there was water , well, i heard, he came in briefly, there was water up to the wicket, he says: in the morning, i think i will take things out already, but he nods, the water has already risen to the top, he says , i open the window, and there is water for me, but it is impossible to live in the house now, as a lot of water has washed away the foundation of the house, temporarily the family tatyana lives with her parents, and this is a son, a husband and two daughters, but they still believe that they will be able to return here, the husband immediately said: "no, i don't want anything, it's water here again, this again, i'm like that, i say, well i convinced him, i convinced him again, because the children also want it, i hope that someday we will rebuild, and television should not only come when something bad happens, but something good should also come and we will have a house .

the water level in the local river ingulets rose" to more than 6 meters, flooded houses, animals, gardens, in total, 13 settlements of the region were under water, more than 370 families were flooded, and houses were flooded, now there are no problems with water supply in the snihorivska territorial community, well, maybe with the exception of some individual streets , individual houses, where there are gusts, it's a normal, normal thing, and that's how water is supplied to the entire population. points of the sniriv territorial community. when the high water receded and the rivers returned to their natural course, another one arose the problem: water quality, oil products, skotomolniki and local garbage dumps, all these were absorbed by reservoirs and groundwater of kherson region, mykolaiv region, and odesa region. in the snighoriv community, the locals still do not drink tap water, they buy purified water. we also have a fountain in our yard, well, we haven't drunk it yet, but

at least we have watered it. and so, later , they bought more, they brought us then they already gave us enough for two, according to the scientists of the ukrainian scientific center for marine ecology, an excess of petroleum products was recorded in the water after the explosion of the kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, toxic metals zinc and cadmium and chlorine organic compounds. in some points , even arsenic was found, but scientists cannot predict when the water will recover. toxic substances will continue to be in the water, having redistributed through food chains. dmytro didora and oleksandr burlevych from mykolaiv oblast, espresso tv channel. another topic that was actively discussed this week not only in ukraine, but also in the west - elections. according to the constitution of ukraine. the next presidential election should be held in march 2020.

fourth, the minister of foreign affairs, dmytro kuleba said, we are not closing this page, the president of ukraine is considering and weighing various pros and cons, but added that holding elections during the war with russia will lead to unprecedented challenges. some western politicians advocated that ukraine hold elections on time, even despite the war. earlier, i was talking about the fact that the elections should not be postponed