the netherlands is appointed secretary general of nato, he was and remains a supporter of ukraine, and today in his program speech, rutte called ukraine one of the main priorities in his future work. let's listen to what the new secretary general of the north atlantic alliance said. my second priority is to strengthen support for ukraine and bring it closer to nato, because there can be no strong long-term security in europe without strong. independent ukraine. i know from my own experience after the downing of flight mh-17 in 2014 that the conflict in ukraine is not limited to the front line. so we have to do our part. we must fulfill the package of financial obligations agreed at the washington summit and confirm ukraine's irreversible path to membership in the future, as ukraine's rightful place in nato. beautiful words, mr. dmytro, said

vrutte, but membership in nato is not only the desire of the ukrainian authorities and what we constantly articulate that we need the north atlantic alliance, all ukrainians understand this, but we understand that the north atlantic alliance is also a series of requirements to the country of ukraine, not only of a military nature, but also regarding... the development of various institutions, regarding the development of democracy, well, that is, the fight against corruption, the fight against corruption, yes, that's when the ukrainian government, which insists that biden until the end of his presidential powers , he announced that ukraine would be invited to nato, or he made some such significant statement, which the foreign press wrote about, that the ukrainians insist on this, does he mean zelenskyi's team, or is the team ready now zelensky... to such

drastic actions regarding the implementation of these points, which are necessary for joining nato, that is, relatively speaking, so that ryute clearly understands that he is not only making statements that we will support ukraine, ryute's next statement may already be that ukraine has started this movement, it does something, and we will see what they are doing there and how it meets our criteria, let's go, if the other side allows. act, i will also ask questions, and we will come up with an answer with you: first, when we talk about the fight against corruption, and that a number of corruption scandals that have been shaking society for several months, most of them are somehow related to the representatives of the authorities, as i said today, everything is managed from the office of the president, that is, the answer to the question of fighting corruption... it is obvious , how many were handed over

and did everything to prevent the law on baby from passing through parliament, now they also did everything to prevent the law on customs from passing through parliament, because these are all the structures that today generate shadow cash for representatives of the authorities, there part of they are supervised directly by gitmantsev, plus tax, customs - this is also their area of ​​responsibility, well, answers. it is obvious where these rivers and streams of these gray or black finances run that these structures earn. the second question, you said about democracy, freedom of speech, you and i all know very well what a single marathon is, and when today the representatives of the authorities are shouting from everyone, from every iron, telling why taxes should be raised, because there is no money to provide. of the armed forces of ukraine, they

forget to tell the truth that, for example, in this year they didn't want to, i offered others, by the way, the people's deputies proposed to take 1.5 billion hryvnias from a single telethon and send them to the armed forces of ukraine, they also pledge 1.5 billion hryvnias for the next year, it is in the state, which allegedly has no money, i am silent about the fact that they are forming a road fund for the next year. 46 billion hryvnias, in the 27th they plan to spend a quarter of a trillion hryvnias on roads, they will reduce the army, so this is not exactly about democracy and the rule of law, freedom of speech, but about, and this is about efforts for the state the cost of creating a warm bath for yourself and such a resource that will praise you, and only for you, because no one else watches that one telethon. first,

secondly, when the president, where is he in america, yes, said that it was the journalists themselves who united in order to cover the truth and show the truth in ukraine, well, first of all, i... if they themselves united, i have a question, why i and why you, as citizens of the state, should pay for their desire to cover it in a single marathon, then, if they themselves made this decision, they themselves have to provide for it, financially, including, but i think that here the president told a lie, or in other words lied, because we all see how the single telethon works and for whom it works today, if we are talking about elections. this is also one of the requirements for being a full member of both the european union and nato, and elections are not about appointing yourself to a position, it is when you are really elected, and for this they must be completely transparent. clear, fair electoral processes,

unfortunately, if we are talking about today, and how to hold elections in the realities that exist today, then comply with all those requirements. and the principles according to which elections are held in normal democratic states today will be either impossible or almost impossible, definitely impossible, because the desire to hold fair elections does not exist today, that is, the question that zelensky once asked biden at the beginning of his presidential career , why ukraine is not in nato, this question can be asked , including within the state and asked, but you see in us, which is very strange and... specific history, it is cyclical, i think that many of the questions that presidential candidate zelensky asked at the stadium, another candidate could be addressed today to president zelensky himself, and the answer, and he

would hardly dare to answer them, well especially about why all the president's friends have two hands, and about nepotism and about many other things, let's talk about one more topic, mr. dmytro, actually about russia and about their already planned, nuclear plan, new nuclear plan, because they announced what they are nuclear doctrine is being changed and, rather, the concept of nuclear deterrence, nato members should not refuse to provide more military aid to ukraine because of the irresponsible nuclear rhetoric of russian dictator putin, said the now former head of nato, jens stoltenberg, he... reuters, let's hear what he said whenever we increased our support for ukraine with new types of weapons, battle tanks, long-range artillery or f-16s, the russians tried to prevent it, they failed, and this latest case should not either

prevent nato allies from supporting ukraine. mr. dmytro, how and in what way ukraine. must respond to new realities, because one way or another the nuclear concept has changed, the concept of nuclear deterrence, it is clear that this is rather a signal to our western partners who also have nuclear weapons, but here is the question, how in the current situation to a non-nuclear state, which, which is trying to protect itself from the nuclear state of russia, what to do when this neighbor constantly waves a nuclear club, well, he waves. and starting with full-scale invasion, where in principle it was done before, and i think that russia also understands the consequences that will be if nuclear weapons are used, here the question is different, where they will do it, either on the battlefield or on their

territories, in order to demonstrate to the other nuclear-armed participants that they are serious, and there is a real question here. because there were talks that they could strike even on their territory, and knowing the completely inadequate and inadequate approaches in the kremlin, it could be that, but in fact we have to continue to do what we do, to defend and try to protect our country, despite the fact that the enemy is serious, i always believe that one should not underestimate the enemy, one must understand that... we are fighting a big country, with nuclear potential, but nevertheless, thanking the armed forces, by the way, i would also like to congratulate everyone who defends our state, today at the front and not only at the front, we must understand that this is a serious

enemy, and we must still go our own way. thank you, mr. dmytro, for the conversation, it was dmytro razumkov, people's deputy of ukraine, chairman of the verkhovna rada of ukraine in 2019-21 , friends, we are following what is currently happening in the middle east, the situation is developing, that is, literally from minute to minute. this is changing, biden has already instructed the american military to help israel shoot down iranian missiles, now there is a massive attack by iranian missiles on the territory of israel, but we will talk about this after the story on our tv channel, we will have diplomat oleksandr hara in touch, we will analyze this situation for all components, so far look at our wonderful employees, employees of our tv channel, 22 employees. defending the motherland in the war zone. today, on the day of defenders of ukraine, we

will talk about our courageous colleagues who are protecting our peace. let's see. russian castles in kherson. russian castles in kherson. in the frame is a military correspondent and news anchor, vitaly bakumenko. in the war zone and... occupied territories, the journalist made many operative inclusions and interesting reports. in 2023, vitaly joined armed forces of ukraine. we know what we are here for, we know who we are up against and we know the main thing, for what? we stand for our freedom, for our families and for our future as a state. therefore, i congratulate everyone on the holiday, everyone who is now side by side. defend our freedom, our country in the trenches, in the rear. and this is another

espresso guy: ilya vlazh, a graduate of the kyiv-mohyla academy, worked as a correspondent for the tv channel. he met the beginning of a full-scale invasion of russia in the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine, in particular, he headed the press service of the operational and strategic the khortyts group of troops, and in march of this year, he became the spokesman for the air force. all of us are doing our best to bring... our victory closer, to bring peace closer on our ukrainian terms, and this is the most important thing that unites us. i want to wish all our defenders endurance, strength, inspiration and mandatory unity. together we are invincible. glory to ukraine. pavlo worked as a director at espresso, received a summons and joined the armed forces, he chose the appropriate director for his callsign. i want to congratulate all defenders and defenders of our country, please. to them endurance, strength, spirit, to all ukrainians,

i call for unity, to help the armed forces. another correspondent, ilya berezenko, is on this video. since 2013, he has been covering events on the euromaidan. he was in the hottest spots of donbass in 2014, after the start of a large-scale war, he immediately joined the army. we have already been able to prove to the whole world that we are a nation that cannot be broken, now it remains for us to unite ourselves, remember this and clearly understand, as you know, the night is darkest before the dawn, so continue to support defenders, i want to congratulate you all on this bright holiday, let's continue the fight. investigative journalist yevhen mikushka created the collaborators authoring program on espresso. yevhen is currently an external pilot of the national guard of ukraine. fight, fight for... god help, only the consciousness of our citizens can

save us from disaster. take action every day that will bring our victory closer. in that case, we will be able to regain our borders, we will be able to end this war. and here taras chkan worked as an editing director in civilian life. senior soldier taras chkan. he wishes everyone health and victory. military serviceman yuriy konanchuk, with the call sign dziga, wrote news for espresso. currently, i am a serviceman of the 47th ombr magro. i congratulate all ukrainians on the day of the intercession of the holy mother of god. victory will be ours. glory to ukraine. 22 espresso employees protect the country. among them are andrii snishko, artem shevchenko, iryna lyutkevich, serhii didenko, tetiana chornovol, oleg. evgeny pastukhov and others in october 2022, a tragic news came from the front

news about the death of our colleague, director vasyl yavorskyi. as part of the 103rd brigade, he defended the eastern direction of the front, fought mainly in donetsk region. glory to our defenders, our colleagues who are now fighting at the front. friends, we are about... we continue to work live on the channel, as well as on our platforms in youtube and facebook, for those who are currently watching us live there, please subscribe to our pages, take part in our survey, today we... we conduct a survey, ask about such and such, whether waiting for a long distance permit from the united states of america at the next ramstein on october 12th in germany, so yes, no, it's pretty simple on youtube, unambiguous answers, and if ambiguous and you have a different opinion, please leave it in comments under this

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into the territory of israel, biden has already instructed the american military to help israel shoot down iranian missiles. a video appears of these rockets flying over israel, israel says that it is a declaration of war, and an unprecedented response is expected, how the current situation in the middle east will affect, well, first of all, ukraine and the russian-ukrainian war, and will the emphasis and attention of the world community now be shifted to the middle east and... is this what putin was trying so hard at the time? well, before everyone should say that despite the difficult situation, israel has luxury that ukraine does not have. that the united states has supported israel's defense capabilities for decades, this is the first thing, and secondly, they did not have much influence on the government of israel and, in particular, on this one. and

actually, in order to survive, in order to punish everyone who... committed terrorist acts, to free the hostages of israel, kamas first cleaned out the terrorists, and then took up fesbal. here it is very important to understand, for those who are not interested or do not know, no familiar with the middle east, that iran's strategy was to support various terrorist organizations, this is the so-called ring of fires, that is, it is such a circle of fire, and in this way to prepare for... on israel, and in the case of israel's readiness to fight with iran, to inflict intolerable, irreparable damage to israel, but israel actually destroyed the backbone, the main part of hamas, now a very good clean-up has taken place, and the leadership, above all, of hezbollah, a more powerful force, well, to

the great detriment of israel, and of course tehran had to respond somehow, and is responding. missile terror, but i don't think that this war will develop into a direct confrontation there already on the ground, i don't think that the iranians want it or are ready for it, and most importantly, i was talking about this advantage, this luxury that israel has, the united states can criticize netanyahu, can say something, suspend the supply of armed forces, but the situation will soon escalate and there will be a threat. israel, the united states will not look at any escalation steps or anything, they will defend israel and of course until allies will join this. we do not have such a luxury, we are of course grateful to the americans for the help they provide us, but there are ridiculous restrictions on the means that

are provided to us, and even more so, how we can use them in relation to the russians. territory, i hope that naramtai will take half a step forward and allow the european allies to not forbid ukraine to beat stormshed and french scalps on russian territory, and later, since there will be no nuclear escalation, then it is possible will hit atakamsk, and i think that it is not necessary to give permission, and then to strike, first you have to strike, you have to move away from the foolish, incorrect, very expensive strategy for ukraine, when putin had many options, and ukraine and our partners, they narrowed. these options, that is, that we cannot do something, something like that, and of course, that we would like ukraine to be like israel, to have stable support for any government, any

president, unfortunately, we now see that ukraine is a hostage of domestic politics problems in the united states, and one, one candidate says that it is necessary to support ukraine, another says that it is necessary to stop the war, and those statements that he voiced, they definitely do not coincide with our nation'. fair and lasting peace in ukraine, but why, mr. oleksandr, during the last visit of volodymyr zelenskyi to the united states of america, we got such a result, that is, even in trump's behavior there was such disdain for the president of ukraine, maybe the ukrainians made some mistake by going to of pennsylvania to that plant which, by the way, was recommended by... the pentagon, it wasn’t the ukrainians who chose this plant in the town where biden was born, but even after

zelensky’s meeting with trump, the republican candidate for vice president of the united states of america, jd vance, at a pre-election rally criticized the president of ukraine for his visit to the pennsylvania plant in the company of democrats, this is after zelenskyi met with trump, let's hear it. what did jady say. he came to the election campaign with the democratic leadership of this country. we spent 200 billion dollars on ukraine. you know what i would like zelensky to do when he comes to the united states of america, to thank the people of pennsylvania and everyone else. well, one could say to zelensky that he would like the people of pennsylvania to... thank that this plant was built, because it produces weapons, and taxes and jobs remain in pennsylvania, why is it so urgent now

? shall we say, the ukrainian theme, the ukrainian card is being played by the headquarters, in particular trump? but to say that these are double standards, speaker mike johnson, who delayed aid to ukraine for more than six months, he did it not because... the congressmen did not have the political will to vote on it or something, he wanted to and more precisely, he followed donald trump's instructions to block the resolution of the southern border , which was packaged together with the help of ukraine, israel, taiwan, and only with the prospect that something very bad could happen in ukraine, ukraine would lose a big city, and there could be some, well, absolutely catastrophic on... consequences for the ukrainian defense forces , because at that time trump, not wanting this evil to hang on him, he gave the go-ahead, and then, speaker

johnson put it to the vote, and in fact everyone voted, so, let's put it this way, accusing ukraine of interfering in internal affairs, it is completely groundless, we and is a factor, and trump, his team is trying to use us. the second point, well comrade orbán was... in maralaga, several leaders from the middle east were in maralaga, and then afterwards they were saying how they were looking forward to trump coming to power and bringing order to the world there, and what and something like that, there were no comments from the republicans regarding the inclusion of states in internal affairs, they like it when they say that trump should become the president, the presidents of the country did not say a single word... it was said that he is in favor of democracy, he came to this plant in pennsylvania in order to actually thank the american people,

the bipartisan support of ukraine, as well as president biden, who, by and large , is in charge of this strategy of supporting ukraine, and there is nothing wrong with this, it is definitely not interference in internal affairs, until things, it is very interesting that mike johnson demanded the release of the president of ukraine. the ambassador of ukraine to the united states, but during the negotiations themselves and after that the public part, i did not hear from trump that he said that yes, this was interference, and mr. president, i expect you to release this person, who you advised, i'm not talking about how all this was organized, which clearly, both the ministry of foreign affairs and our embassy in washington worked to ensure that the meetings were balanced, so that there were... both democrats and republicans, and both presidential candidates, because we do not know who the american people are fools, so this is a matter of domestic politics, and this

question... did not arise during the visit of the ukrainian president in the fall of this year, it was created in the 16th year, then trump accused us of the fact that we and the previous president sided with hillary clinton, that one of the ukrainian oligarchs helped hillary clinton, financed a certain program there so that ukrainian hackers interfered with the servers of the democratic and republican national committee, but you know that then the information was released exclusively against hilary clinton and it is clear that it was done by the russians, by the way, it was also proven by the american intelligence services, but trump has a negative attitude towards us, and in fact ukraine was chosen as a whipping boy, which the biden administration gives a lot of money to the corrupt regime in kyiv, which steals this money and launders some of it and gives it

back. this is a lie, this is a manipulation, because most of the help that comes to us is not at all, that is, it is not financial, we are given weapons, ammunition, equipment, or on our behalf they buy from other countries what we need, and so all these things, they are needed to show how bad joseph biden's government is, that he spends a lot of money on endless war against russia, which can start the third world war, instead of you... solves the problems of the average americans, here is a new topic, this is, then, this hurricane that was in the united states, and there were terrible consequences, and now the trumpians are blaming joe biden in because he spent a lot of money on ukraine, and does not want to spend money on americans in the affected states, although the republicans themselves, including jd vance, including matt gates, is another one. big

trumpianis, they voted against the allocation of money to fema, well, it's almost like the ministry of emergency situations, that is , they blocked these things, they blocked advance payments to other states for such spontaneous influxes that befell these americans, that is, this is such a disgusting policy of politics with double standards, where ukraine is a hostage of this situation, it is being used, and of course it was not intended. at least i can say from the point of view of trump and his inner circle with respect, understanding that we are doing here, that we are defending not only our lives, our existence, that we are not only defending european borders and security in europe, but that our battle, our war, it is extremely important to the security of the united states and other democratic countries of the world. mr. oleksandr, after the visit

of the ukrainian delegation. the british publication ft wrote that andrii sebiga, minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, allegedly conducted negotiations and discussed possible topics of territorial concessions in the war with the russian federation, the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine denied this information. georgy tykhi, the spokesman of the ministry, stated that there were no proposals at any meeting, discussing even hints of any territorial compromises. and here, well, the question is quite simple: can the answer of the american side to zelensky's victory plan be a proposal to suspend the war, and the suspension of the war can be temporary, let's say, temporary territorial concessions by the russian federation, when russia will control part of the ukrainian state until

a certain moment. but first of all, i think it should be noted and reminded that president joseph biden is a lame duck, that is, he is no longer capable of doing anything fundamental, well, on the one hand, there is a tradition that a president who is not re-elected does not make decisions of a strategic nature , so as not to burden his successor, and of course, given that it is not guaranteed that kamela harix can become the president, so far, she is leading in public... opinion polls and she has a good chance, but this is not a guaranteed thing, and precisely against this background, during the visit of the president of ukraine to washington, joseph biden finally said that the united the states are betting on the victory of ukraine. this is very good, but it would be nice if he said this in the 22nd year, and if there were not those limitations, first of all, in the 22nd, and then in terms of the means that were given to us for

a counter-offensive operation. which did not achieve its success among.