there will be no clear support, then we can see a real increase in readiness for the occupation, but still the majority will be against it, you even asked the question of what ukraine should do if western aid is significantly reduced, almost 60% say that they will continue to fight anyway, to put pressure on the authorities and not the decapitation authorities and prevent the russians from gaining a foothold in the occupied territories. i thank you very much, mr. anton, for your analysis, anton hrushetskyi, executive director of kmisugist of our broadcast, we talked about surveys of organizations, about how ukrainians feel in various ukrainian... cities to territorial concessions for the sake of peace. this is svoboda ranok, a project about what is important, and you will see it later in our broadcast. he again said that part of the territory of ukraine, despite international legislation, should belong to russia. we will do without contacts with western leaders, and there will be peace - i quote, when we achieve our goals. they do not change. this was a direct quote, and this is a very short list of russian president putin's answers. held a simultaneous press conference and

direct line on the results of the year, for the first time, verbatim, since the full-scale invasion of ukraine. as far as what has been said, the russian president corresponds to reality and how experts treat his theses. the european council decided to start negotiations on the accession of ukraine and moldova to the european union. the decision in kyiv is called historic, and what's next, how long is ukraine's path to full membership in the eu. i remind you that every comment you make in... fables helps this video become popular on the web, so keep up the quality content. the summit, which did not become a failure. the leaders of the european union the night before reached an agreement on the decision to start membership negotiations for ukraine. politico reported that german chancellor olaf scholz offered hungarian prime minister viktor orbán to leave the meeting during the vote. how exactly it was possible to overcome the hungarian veto, see the article by elena abramov. on thursday morning

, one by one, the leaders arrive at the summit. the hungarian prime minister is one of the first here. breakfast awaits him in a narrow circle with the leaders of france and germany, as well by the head of the summit, charles michel. he already had a conversation with the latter the night before and flew to paris the other day, and despite everything, arriving at the meeting, he again repeated his promise to block the decision on ukraine's membership in the eu. enlargement is not a theoretical issue , enlargement is a legally detailed process, based on merit and with preconditions, we put forward seven preconditions, and even according to the commission, three out of seven have not been fulfilled, so now there is no point in negotiating ukraine's membership. according to the european commission, as of a month ago, no only 10% of the conditions were fulfilled, on the eve of the summit, the president of the european commission. reported

that kyiv had practically completed them during this time, but orban was not concerned about it, so the leaders prepared to fight to the last, immediately warned journalists that the summit could be delayed. the prime minister of portugal began to worry about whether he had taken enough clothes, while finsky, on the contrary , boasted about his stocks. i am ready to negotiate, i have packed a lot of shirts, it will take as long as it takes. if it is a complete dead end, if we sit here for many days until christmas, maybe until the new year, then we will think about plan b. there was no plan b in the issue of expansion, the leaders agreed, without it, there can be no solution for ukraine and for nine other states that were expecting the fateful conclusions of the summit: moldova, georgia, the western balkans. volodymyr was not invited to the meeting for the sake of constructive conversations with viktor orban. today

is the day when determination will be either in brussels or in moscow. people in europe will not understand if the reward for the meeting in brussels is putin's satisfied smile. don't give him this first and only win of the year. europe must win agreements must be kept, words must have meaning.

how it became possible, the diplomats explained, after eight hours of arguments, german chancellor olaf scholz told orban, if you do n't want to vote, you can just leave, which orban did, although, diplomats say, such a scenario was pre-agreed. in less than an hour, the hungarian prime minister published an explanation on social networks. it is an absolutely senseless, irrational and wrong decision to start negotiations with ukraine under such circumstances. hungary will not change its position. on the other hand on the other hand, 26 countries insisted that this decision be adopted, so hungary decided that if 26 decided to do it, let them do it. hungary does not... want to share this bad decision with them, after that it was possible to reach a number of other decisions, and the 12th package of sanctions was agreed and agreed to take care of the increase of the fund from which they help ukraine with weapons. from brussels , olena abramovych, marok hajduk, radio liberty.

but as far as financing is concerned, the hungarian prime minister managed to block the approval of a multi-year financial support package for ukraine for more than 50 billions of euros. this was reported by the president. of the eu leaders, which lasted until late at night, however , this financial mega-package was not rejected, but postponed, they will return to this issue in brussels in january at an extraordinary summit. yulia osmolovska, director of the kyiv office of globsec, a diplomat, joins our broadcast, i congratulate you, i congratulate you, thank you for joining, please tell me, in your opinion, the decision of the summit, is it overestimated, underestimated or not? not as it should be? well, evaluated by whom, i can only comment on the decision itself, evaluations are subjective different people, and we look at the fact , a hysterical decision has been made, i can only congratulate all ukrainians, ukraine

, the president's team, first of all, the president's office , the ministry of foreign affairs, the minister of foreign affairs, all our diplomats, my former colleagues, with that, with the result of this... hard work that has been going on for a year, and i'll tell you more that even with closed eyes, i just got back from europe, they gave very pessimistic estimates of what we should expect in december and gave estimates these are very competent, knowledgeable people who are involved in decision-making, so what happened can be considered unequivocally our victory, all other nuances are ready to be commented on, please tell me. this is essentially one of the stages , there are still difficult stages ahead, what are these stages , let's explain to the audience, and from your point of view, understanding how european legislation works, how other countries joined on the way to eu membership, in a few months , years ukraine can become a full member

of the european union and what will this mean depend? let's start with the fact that it was extremely important to make this political decision, first of all, it has no retroactive effect, that is... the countries of the european union, well , it is unlikely that they will withdraw it, and it was very important to make this decision precisely with such a composition of the political leaders of the european union, like charles michel, ursula fonderlainen , leaders of countries, members of the eu, who are now presidents or heads of government, because during this time president zelenskyi, during the first full-scale invasion, president zelenskyi his... in the team and our diplomatic service managed to build personal contacts, especially of our president, personal contacts with the leaders of the countries of the european union, and directly these persons invested a lot of their time, energy and put their political

reputation on the line and formed this personal position in support of ukraine, because such the statements that we heard from... ms. ursula fonderlein, well, from the point of view of the entire history of ukraine's relations with the european union and the position of the heads of the european commission, this is absolutely unprecedented, so for me the main fear was that this decision could be postponed until next year, when the european union enters a cycle of political changes, elections to the european parliament take place, the formation of a new composition of the european commission, the re-election of... the president of the european union, and this creates for us additional building challenges, once again losing time to build these personal relationships and contacts, so this is definitely a victory. as for the further format of work on negotiations on

joining, if we focus on the average statistical time, which was taken by various countries that passed this way to us, and became. members of the european union from the status of candidate, the start of negotiations and the acquisition of full membership, it is an average of nine years, but the country is absolutely atypical. country when it comes to the nature of the negotiations and the patterns of how we move towards eu membership, from the speed with which the decision to grant candidate status and the passage of all these stages before the opening of official negotiations on the stupa, so i believe that we should not focus on the average statistical indicator here, in principle , it is up to us to do everything. in order to go through this path as soon as possible, and it may

take several years, it won't be 10 years or 20, definitely, er, well, but to a large extent it will still be oriented, including on er terms the end of the war with russia and our victory. and there is one more topic that i would like to discuss with you, and which is also probably worth discussing to navigate, or at least to understand that it has an influence, this is exactly the position of the hungarian prime minister. mr. orbán, please tell me what you know, because there are different opinions about why orbán left his own hall when the vote was taking place, or whether he was asked by olaf scholz, as the content says with reference to diplomats, someone says it was an agreed position, someone says it was a sudden position, what do you think, is it really a scenario that was discussed and actually, after which everyone was satisfied, european union, he showed his commitment to ukraine and his readiness to start negotiations, and viktor orban, who did not participate in the vote, which was unpleasant for him. kyiv itself is not necessary either, because what ukraine wanted, it actually achieved, for me it does not matter what

actually led to this result, for me the result is important, and here the main thing to note is that during my experience working in the ministry of foreign affairs on the european direction, which has been there for more than 15 years, i do not know of such a case when the decision had to be made unanimously, and... the one country that was against just came out in a constructive way to enable such a decision to be made, because as orbán said at the beginning, i will block this decision and just not vote for it, but abstain, that two different things that lead to completely different results, if there had been a veto there would have been no resolution, to come out just to give the opportunity to vote is what satisfied. all other european countries and, of course , ukraine in the first place and sent a very powerful

geopolitical signal to the russian side as well unequivocally, and if we look at hungary's position in general to lower the package of macro-financial assistance to ukraine, and once again hungary read this, and at stake were the issues of freezing the assets that the european union had to provide to hungary for... i don't want to interrupt you, because this important topic, but here is a brief clarification at the end, we literally have 20 seconds left, and if there is a vote there in a few years conditionally, on the fact of accepting ukraine as a full member of the eu, there may also be an option, if, for example, the position of hungary it will not change that hungary simply cannot not participate in this vote, or after all, for ukraine to become a full member of the eu when this final vote is held, and hungary's word must also be there and all eu members must vote. come on, it's a very long term, well at least a few years, and everything can change in

hungary as well, the configuration, and orbán will no longer be in this place where he actually has the ability to block such decisions, so we'll wait and see, i'm optimistic. thank you for your analysis, julia osmolovska, director of the kyiv office of globsec, diplomat, guest of our broadcast, we talked about the decision of the eu, about the start of negotiations with ukraine and moldova on joining the european union. for the first time, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, russian president putin held a direct line of answers to questions from citizens of the russian federation and a press conference with journalists. in particular , he was asked when the war with ukraine will end. my colleague kateryna nekrecha chose the most important moments from this event. and ready will tell us about it. katya, my congratulations. tell me what you should pay attention to. hello, oleg. greetings to all viewers of svoboda granu. and in order to understand all the statements, and especially those concerning ukraine, you have to really watch and

listen to a lot of putin, this year it's four hours of video. the straight line is such a december tradition, but last year this event did not take place, but now it took place, and from year to year visually these events are not much different, it is a large hall, hundreds of journalists and myself putin, who answers unexpected questions, as if sharp questions, which are an integral attribute, also the presence... a kind of humor and an attempt to create a relaxed atmosphere, and this year the director added a new video broadcast, on the screen next to putin was his other putin , his clone, that and... the other was generated by artificial intelligence, introduced himself as a student from st. petersburg. while he was speaking, putin was carefully writing something down. there was no surprise on his face, but when answering the double, he opened his eyes unusually wide and noted that this is his first double. is it true that you have many doppelgangers? like myself, only one person should speak with my voice, and that

person will be me. during putin's direct line... they showed a number of uncomfortable questions about the war and problems in russia, they were shown on big screens, and photos and videos from the hall were actively distributed by the russian media and telegram channels. i will quote a few inscriptions, this is how you can move to russia, which is talked about on the first channel, why does your reality differ from our reality, when in reality russia will not differ from tv russia when black caviar is eaten in russia. putin even discussed the prices of eggs, which, by the way, was actively... circulated on russian social networks, and the discussion of the prices of chicken eggs became one of putin's so-called jokes. believe me, just recently i spoke with the minister of agriculture, i asked how he is doing with the eggs, they say that everything is fine with them, to which i answered him, honestly, this is direct language, i say, but our citizens have a problem. as for ukraine, there are noticeable changes in

his rhetoric did not happen. putin spoke about the so-called nazi views. about the leadership and the fact that ukraine's economy is declining, he again mentioned stepan bandera and noted that, i quote: the issue of denazification is urgent. he also repeated that , in his opinion, some ukrainian territories should allegedly belong to russia. putin said that odessa is a russian city, and ukraine has no relation to the black sea, it was a direct quote. well, according to him, there will be peace when russia achieves its goals. putin wants the neutral status of ukraine, which is possible to achieve in two ways, if not through negotiations, then... then through military measures, speaking of the war, he promised that there would be no new mobilization in russia, he explained this by the fact that many volunteers are supposedly ready to go to the front, and he also informed , that the russian group on the territory of ukraine has 617 thousand people. 486,000 contract workers have already been recruited, and the flow of men who are ready

to defend their homeland with weapons in their hands does not stop. people per day, that's half a million. military people at the front, why do we need mobilization? by the way, recently the edition of new the york times reported that since the beginning of the war in ukraine, the russian army has lost 315,000 soldiers killed and wounded. officially in russia, losses are not announced. putin also spoke about patriotic education in russia, answering a question, he promised to allow the military to raise children after the war, he said this to the fighters of the brigade, which allegedly buys those mobilized into slavery for several thousand rubles and sends them to the so -called... clear assaults, the russian publications astra and vajna istorii wrote about it. we are already starting, we are already starting to do it. more than a thousand retired soldiers work in schools with children's teams. it's one thing to read in books, another to convey by personal example. who can do it better than you? according to putin, the rules of the world order do not exist, and he will do without

contacts with western leaders, and the war was led by the unstoppable desire of the west, quote: to approach... our borders by taking ukraine into nato. they forced us to take these actions, putin said. and so far , he does not see the conditions for the restoration of relations with the usa. usa is important necessary the usa is an important and necessary country in the world, but this absolute imperial policy is hindering them. when there will be some internal changes, when they will start to respect other people, other countries, when they will look for compromises, and not with the help of sanctions and military actions, they will try to solve their issues. that's when the fundamentals will be created. conditions for the restoration of full-fledged relations, so far there are no such conditions, but we are ready for it. according to putin's press secretary piskov, the hotline received more than 1,300,000 questions, the event lasted 4 hours and putin managed to answer 67 questions. oleg, my word to you. thank you katya. katryna nekreche summed up putin's statements on the direct line, actually, which the russian

president conducts annually, but this year he conducted it for the first time since the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine. we will now try to analyze putin's statements during this direct line and communication with journalists in our studio, and igor yeterovych, a political scientist, is also joining the broadcast at this moment. i welcome you. congratulations. well, to begin with, i would like to hear yours reaction to putin's direct line. how was it? well, it was standard, nothing new, sad enough, and even the russians noted it, by the way. observers, that is, they did not hear any big promises that putin used to make in the socio-economic , first of all, plan, and it was noticeable that his entire speech was aimed at the whole. this speech was aimed at a kind of pacification of russian society, which will definitely not get worse, but well, this is far from being a fact, so it is an absolutely passing story that did not,

well, show anything new, any changes in among the russian leadership, the only thing that probably needs to be paid attention to first of all, and what distinguished this speech from his previous speeches, was that he spoke quite cautiously about the west in general. countries, he did not directly insult them, that is, he did not allow any insults, which he used very often before, and in principle , he constantly hinted regularly that we are ready to agree on something there, to sit down at the negotiating table, and so on, that is, a certain message was transmitted, nothing new in everything else, the same narratives as before, pseudo-history, some incomprehensible threats, her ignoring the subjectivity of ukraine, the authorities of ukraine, i actually wanted to stop, because we are watched by ukrainian viewers, and this is important, you said that you have not heard anything new, in fact, russian viewers also note this , but in the context of the russian-ukrainian war, and taking into account

the situation at the front today, the successes and losses of the russian federation, the successes and losses of the ukrainian side, how putin behaves, he is sure , he is not confident, he doesn't know, maybe scared, he feels cornered, on the contrary , he feels what he can do. even more than he did, so how can you evaluate his behavior and answers to those questions that were heard? you know, there is such a good saying, he tried to make a good impression about a bad game, that is , he usually said that there is a certain improvement on the front in all areas, russian troops are advancing, which contradicts the reports of the same russian military commanders, in fact, pay attention, he took even some individual examples, well, where did i try to tell what losses the armed forces of ukraine are suffering and the russian armed forces are not suffering any... losses at all, but the problem is that the story he took for the sake of an example is very well-known, it is maximally presented even in the russian information space, and there the situation

is diametrically opposite, there there were huge losses of precisely elite troops on the part of the russian army, so even here he tried to somehow expose it and show that the situation is under control, that is, in this context, well, he did not show any confusion there, because he could not demonstrate it, probably by design, according to the protocol, he tried to convince everyone. there are no problems in russia today, they are ready to fight as long as necessary, and they do not have, well, apparently problems with people who go to the front. this mention of volunteers was not made by chance, because at least before the elections they will not really start the next wave of mobilization, it is disadvantageous in terms of the election. however, putin forgot to add that these so-called volunteers, they are like as a rule, they come according to plan, that is, there is a plan for volunteers, which are brought down from top to bottom, and in enterprises there are many... people are just forced to voluntarily sign these contracts, but in fact, well, this is a kind of, you know, a hidden scenario of mobilization, and another very interesting point , he named

specific numbers, how many russians were at the front , how many were mobilized, how many volunteers came, and here is an interesting story, if you add up all these numbers and carry out very simple mathematical procedures, you can determine the approximate number of losses that suffered by russia, and according to his statements, it turned out to be almost half a million, that is, more... than our general staff submits, for example, so in this context, of course, he could have exaggerated some recruitment numbers, for example, but apparently these losses are absolutely real , and one way or another they begin to recognize them little by little. you mentioned putin's reaction and said that it could not have been different according to the protocol, probably, but the awkward questions that appeared on the screens, they were also according to the protocol, or were they still inconvenient, but look, here’s what’s interesting , these questions were not visible on television, they... were visible only to those who were there in the hall and filmed and taught, for example, it was in telegram or somewhere on some internet resources, as for the emergence of these questions, well , i do not rule out that this is such a controlled process

of pseudo-democracy, well, to show that some uncomfortable questions can also appear, and putin, well, if he should react to them, but pay attention, he does not respond to any did not answer this uncomfortable question, that is, it was a completely planned action, and if they they wanted to play... democracy, he could in principle try, at least give some answers, but this did not happen, but the story with the so-called double was played out and it was a prepared story, all other questions were simply ignored, on the other hand, well they are russian journalists, well, so-called, they got the opportunity to write that there were also uncomfortable questions, there were sharp questions, and in principle anyone could write to the president and ask, well, the russian federation, ask him what he really cares about, what he on this did not give answers, well, in the conditions of russia, this is a normal story. a story about, well, a sufficient level of such communication and something more , but now there is a blue-yellow background, and if you pay attention somewhere to those shots that are on the network and from

this press conference, you can have a direct line. to see a blue-yellow background against which putin answers, asks another question, another very important question, as you think, the actual answers, in particular regarding the mobilized, about the fact that there is such a large number of volunteers who come every day and he counted, that during there at some point it could be half a million people, it should mobilize russian society even more to the point that such military actions should be continued, it should be pressed to the end, it should be lost, but still try to capture something, or what was the purpose of this, well, here is the purpose indeed... social mobilization, but look, this is the goal of reassurance that if you don't want to, you wouldn't be taken into the army by force, well, although it's not true, and we know it very well, but for a large part of russians , this was probably enough that we will all be to be decided by the hands of contract workers , well, the professional army, which is actually being recruited for the second time, because the first one was actually destroyed, and by the hands of those who voluntarily want to go to the front accordingly, so

the element of reassurance was present here, but... well, on the other hand on the other hand, this is a direct signal to russian society that we will fight as long as putin deems it necessary, and the polls that appeared on the eve of this so-called press conference in russia that about 70% are in favor of starting peace talks , well, if putin is up to it agree, well, it seems to me that putin tried to give an answer to this, that this is not the time to raise these issues, forget about it, well, we believe that we can behave in a different way, as far as he is concerned... to calm society and to the extent that society believed him, believed him, i think that in fact, well, the key goal of this press conference was not achieved, because there are a lot of general phrases, not enough specifics, and look, the real actions are preliminary, they testify that putin can say one thing, and then after a couple literally, here i stop 20 seconds, we literally have this direct line and this communication with journalists, is this a direct line of communication of the current russian president, presidential candidate or permanent

russian president? i will ask you one more question, so in conclusion, this is the communication of the eternal russian president, and in march there will be elections not for the president of russia, but simply elections for putin. thank you, thank you for your analysis. ihor yeterovych, a political scientist, a guest of our broadcast, we talked about putin's direct line, which he conducted for the first time since the full-scale russian invasion of territory of ukraine in february 2022. this is the svoboda ranok project. traditionally, every morning at 9 o'clock we see you on the youtube channel of radio svoboda, as well as. on the air of the espresso tv channel , we raise important topics, talk about what is important, and in the comments under the broadcast you can write about those topics that bother you, maybe they will become topics of our broadcast as well, my name is oleg gal and the whole team of free morning i wish you a relaxing weekend as much as possible and i will see you from monday.

greetings, it's news time on espresso. in the studio kateryna shiropoyas works. at night, the enemy launched 14 rockets across ukraine. all drones were shot down by our defenders of the sky over mykolayivska, khersonska. khmelnytskyi and poltava regions. this was announced in the air force. the occupiers attacked with drones from the krasnodar region of russia. in particular, seven enemy drones were shot down by our defenders in the mykolaiv region. muscovites also attacked the city of ochakiv and the community with artillery at night. people were not injured. this was announced by the head of the mykolaiv regional military administration.