russia will continue to carry out the peacekeeping function in pridnestrovie , the presidential press secretary said today. dmitry peskov comments on the statement of the new moldovan prime minister, who spoke about the need to demilitarize the region and withdraw russian peacekeepers from there to communicate with you, minister of foreign affairs of transnistria vitaly ignatiev vitaly viktorovich, well, such statements. eh, make it clear. not just like that. eh, and i would even say that even sandu was talking here the day before about what we are doing in russia, allegedly against moldova's hybrid war and so on, that is, they stir up public opinion. and here is the statement. how do you rate it? and why is it on you? and in your opinion it can lead.

good afternoon. well, unfortunately such a statement. we have heard quite often over the past many years. you know that the moldovan side has been declaring for almost three decades that the military operation needs to be reformatted. uh, declares that russian troops should be withdrawn, and so on, here in this case there is nothing new moldavian the representative told me, but the situation is very disturbing and the context is also quite complicated, so we believe that the only way. uh, let's put it this way, according to which one can think, the end of the deadly operation is the achievement of the final fair radiance of the settlement of the young twin conflict. only in this case. we can think something about the world friendly operation. everything else is, of course, unacceptable and counterproductive. and you know the past statements of the moldovan leadership. they had no prospects, because they were the only guarantors. security and

stability in the industry are two factors. this is the mero-creative deadly forces and statehood of pridnestrovie a vitaly viktorovich well, a new example spoke about the need to carry out economic social integration of citizens. transnistria , where chisinau's integration is, in my opinion, there are a lot of problems themselves. eh, how is this also to be understood and will the citizens want to integrate or what? is that what he meant? what do you think, and the fact is that i let me remind you that in general, the negotiation process in moldova over the past few years has been in a state of stagnation. you know that the leadership of transnistria has repeatedly been offered leadership by the president of transnistria. moldova to the moldovan president to sit down at the negotiating table to discuss problems to discuss issues of world security in the interests of the people, many documents have been signed that the moldovan side does not comply with. that is, this is the international negotiating mechanism in the five plus two format that we have

there is a large such construction. it actually does not work, because the moldovan side. well, this is the position. she is not ready for dialogue, i'm on literally just recently less than a month ago. probably, we have already begun to be in a new reality, that is, moldova has adopted tightening changes to the criminal code, according to which now under the article for separatism for the creation of some illegal structures for some kind of causing some damage to moldova or a conspiracy, anti-catching repression , may be subject to all pridnestrovians, regardless of their positions and so on. that is, essentially. this law. now entered into force. it was signed by the moldovan president just the day before. here in this new reality. this is a statement that chisinau is ready for some kind of dialogue and other elements related to socio-economic issues. in fact, i think that this is a declaration that has nothing to do with

reality; in reality, chisinau is doing everything in order to, on the one hand , destroy the negotiation structures that we have. well, they do not fulfill the previously taken upon themselves. obligations, creating new problems, that is, how can one talk about the economy, if food supplies in transnistria are difficult, yes , cargo is delayed if we have literally from february last year to the present, problems with the import of medicines, these problems, have not gone anywhere, although experts have developed models for resolving issues, so today is actually the only way to prove chisinau's readiness for constructive actions. this to return to the normal mode of work within the framework of the negotiation process, to execute the documents that they signed earlier. well , as i understand it, tiraspol offered chisinau to hold an informal meeting in the five plus two negotiation format. yes, this is moldova transnistria osce russia ukraine a. also eu observers usa well, first of all, why is such a list, uh, representative and how

much is it? how do you think he would react to such a proposal? well, the fact is that indeed pridnestrovie is generally ready for a dialogue of any levels. and you know that we have contacts through political representatives. true , they do not end with any positive results in view of the unpreparedness of the moldovan side for a responsible dialogue. eh, the idea of ​​the need to hold a meeting in the 5 + 2 format. it was also repeatedly voiced by the pridnestrovian side of the russian federation a. we hear a lot of speculation about the ukrainian factor, allegedly. this interferes with the negotiation process. e work can not collect a meeting, so we proposed during a recent meeting of the president of pridnestrovie with the osce chairman-in-office mr. bujar osmane, we proposed to hold a meeting of this format, and in such an informal mode, which , in our opinion, will give a certain impetus to the dialogue, as for the composition of participants,

this is the bratislava format format 5 + 2 or permanent meeting on transnistrian regulation. ah, it was created back in 2002 and, in fact, the composition of the participants that exists is, well, a generally recognized mechanism. e negotiation process russia the osce ukraine is co-mediators of the european union and the usa observers. that is, as it were , there are no questions here regarding the composition of the participants. and as for the real readiness to conduct a dialogue, then, of course, there are questions , because literally on february 17, talking with my counterpart, the political representative of moldova suggested thinking about the prospects for dialogues, including in this informal mode, especially before, this was the practice we were going to, and formally , there were no formal questions, my moldovan colleague, visa, and stated that he was not up to end understands what it is, that is, in fact. eh, moldova today is not ready for such a full-fledged constructive and meaningful dialogue, and

the moldovan country has already learned to justify this unwillingness for various reasons over many years. and you have already said that there are difficulties with deliveries. e essential goods or medicines, a and so on. well, uh, after all, uh, they also noted that there are mechanisms that allow this to be done. what's stopping you? as a result, to implement all these projects. it's the first necessary thing medicines and so on. these are not some luxury items, there and so on. something like this. what hinders there is a problem the problem of medicines is generally very convex, because this is an exclusively humanitarian issue, not a political one, and moreover, moldovan health experts, together with pridnestrovian specialists, have developed a mechanism. e, which will resolve this issue by expanding the list of drugs that can be imported to pridnestrovie , including russian belarusian drugs from other countries, yes, so molova imposes

we need to buy medicines, either, uh, on the territory of moldova, or import only medicines from the european union, and then they are limited in terms of nomenclatures , but the absence of political will, the lack of readiness to remove barriers to people's lives, that is, the desire of chisinau to create a certain pressure to escalate tension prevents us from accepting this mechanism and do. so the transnistrian people experienced, well, difficulties in finding the necessary medicines. do you know that the health care system in transnistria, the regulatory framework in this area is practice they are curative our practice is focused on the russian federation , our doctors conduct training courses, improve their qualifications in russia, moldova, respectively, in romania in the eu countries, therefore, of course, the situation remains open, only the lack of political will for a constructive dialogue is the cause of these problems. this is how i understand that chisinau is trying to establish relations with you in view of the restrictions. uh, and act in such a way restricts the supply

of drugs. ah, introduces criminal liability for separatism, respectively. what do they call it and so on. and how adequate is any position in general, and in general all the news from moldova well, in russian , speaking moldova a. they, as it were, recently lead to the fact that e is pumped from the atmosphere around transnistria in order to justify e, well, let me just say some armed ones. provocations against you how uh how do you feel it from the inside? well , firstly, the situation is extremely tense, and it is tense not today, not yesterday. eh, actually. you know that last spring transnistria was subjected to syria tourist acts, and so uh, one of the acts of terrorism on may 13 last year. this is an attempt to set fire to the city military registration and enlistment office in the capital of transnistria and, according to our information, our last. e from

the investigating authorities. yes, the knowledge was inspired by the special services of moldova, that is, well, in fact, we are in a very difficult situation for a long time, this is the first, the second from the point of view of a diplomatic politician. yes , indeed, moldova, in fact, instead of establishing communication, says one thing builds an insurmountable wall, either on the contrary, yes it increases the insurmountable here, the insurmountable gulf between the parties, that is actually from the moment of signing the publication of this new version of the criminal code. any resident of transnistria, citizenship of moldova, who pays taxes there, which are social, who speaks out for freedom of independence, expresses his opinion , wants to live there, and within the framework of his identity, the culture of the language, in fact, can be subjected to repression, therefore, where is the fact, a truly moldovan country does everything to avoid equal transparent civilized dialogue. we regard this as a manifestation of a hybrid war, in which we have been

for a long time, and in fact, moldova has been implementing these methods of pressure for quite a long time with varying intensity. now the pressure is complex. and we also see this, and, of course, we are taking the necessary actions from a demonological point of view in order to maintain the negotiating context, so that international attention would be on the transnistrian issue. and, of course, we must take into account all the different scenarios of the development of the situation in order to protect the freedom, independence, life and safety of our citizens. and vitaliy viktorovich and in moldova itself, uh, the situation is how it is now. here, according to your feelings from the outside, is it possible, so there will be some kind of forced movement towards the unification of romania and moldova. we have repeatedly spoken and, frankly, very , probably, it is important to understand that many processes do not occur by themselves and

are not in a vacuum process of integration moldova in the western space of the process of development of moldova by nato, he actually started there. eh, well, 15 years ago and even more than 20 years ago, it’s just, probably, uh, including in russia , you know, they somehow looked at these processes through their fingers and underestimated the young. signed up. the first strategic plan partner, sosnad, back in 2006. that's since then. in moldova, there are already three nato centers open there. today we see how young armored vehicles are being armed, german, damn it, protractors, widespread exercises are being carried out, etc. that is, the situation is very complicated, because indeed we are witnessing the processes of militarization and we also hear statements from representatives of moldovan politicians. there , the officials of the representatives of the parliament are also of such a militaristic character, i would say very short-sighted and dangerous, so the fact that all these processes are taking place, of course. uh, one of the important reasons

is that moldova is essentially a territory that is controlled from a military-political point of view . this factor must be recognized by the west and nato. should be considered. well, we are already seeing this. now, probably, the term is well-established ukrainization of the country. but you know, in moldova there are different tendencies, someone claims that he is a romanian and young, by the way , lives, a million citizens of romania, they have an old dream of e, the so-called university, that is, this is the unification of moldova with romania, a kind of re-creation of historical integrity . yes, this territory, so, uh, there really are some processes, but it seems to me, of course, that the young man is trying to implement his interests. i use, i use that conflict in ukraine. uh, the support of the west , the support of nato, as i said, of course, such negative features of ukrainization.

we also see vitaliy viktorovich, probably the authorities of moldova need to study history and they will probably see there that if it weren’t for the soviet union , there would never have been any moldova and moldova at all, and the west would never make these territories some separate country. well, whoever knows history poorly ends up badly, and i thank you very much vitaly viktorovich for my political future vitaly, ignatiev, minister of foreign affairs of pridnestrovie, was in touch with us. russian troops took control of the settlements in raskovia in the donetsk people's republic . this was reported today in the ministry of defense, the military department also stated that a complex fire defeat was inflicted on the armed forces in the area of ​​​​ugler. donetsk direction in the course of successful offensive operations volunteers of the assault detachments in cooperation with units of the airborne troops, with fire support from the groupings of troops completely liberated the settlement, paraskoviyivka of the donetsk

people's republic in a day. in this direction, the enemy lost over 115 military personnel infantry fighting vehicles three armored combat vehicles two vehicles two installations of the rso grad howitzer d-30 anti-tank gun, as well as a revolutionary counter-battery combat station in the production of the united states in the donetsk and zaporozhye direction of operational-tactical aviation and artillery of the group of troops . vostok inflicted a complex fire defeat by a unit armed forces of ukraine in the areas of settlements . ugr. volunteer of the donetsk people's republic the field and yurkovka of the zaporozhye region are walking. yes, lightning informs ria novosti again due to a violation of safety requirements in the evo unit in the kursk region . defense killed six people,

the incident is being investigated by law enforcement agencies together with the commission of the western military district. chinese foreign ministry urges us to stop spreading disinformation about chinese military assistance to russia, as emphasized by the official representative of the department. wang in bingbing is the united states and not china continuously supplying weapons to the battlefield that washington has some data on possible plans. earlier , us secretary of state anthony blinkin told china to provide military assistance to russia in more detail about how beijing reacted to these statements, we will learn from our support correspondent in china alexander balitsky alexander i welcome what the chinese authorities say in response to these accusations. well, not only, of course, the story with the chinese ball is now intensifying the chinese american friction. well, the americans blame the ukrainian crisis in china for helping russia at the same time,

when brunken talked about this to swami, the following sounded. if china helps, then china will face consequences. if china helps, that is, after all , washington understands that china is not helping. but who is really directly involved in the conflict in beijing is well known and pointed out directly. weapons on the battlefield continue to be supplied by the united states and not china. the united states does not have the right to give orders to china. what to do we will never accept instructions and even pressure from the us regarding russian chinese relations china's policy on the ukrainian issue can be formulated as promoting peace talks. international community. he clearly sees who is calling for dialogue and striving for peace. and who kindles the flame and provokes confrontation? actually, the chinese spoke about the dialogue in munich with american politicians and with european heads of the office of foreign affairs of the central committee of the communist party of china and announced a document being prepared for a single document with a proposal

to resolve the ukrainian crisis, negotiations negotiations once again negotiations, which are believed in china and not without reason believe by all forces. they are trying not to give up, in principle, and who exactly is throwing themselves delicately did not specify back, by some forces. that's all, and who, firstly , are not at all interested, but in the lives of ukrainians. and, secondly, but all of europe is applied, while still remembering what position china initially took, it repeatedly declares, that this whole ukrainian crisis, but provoked by the united states and nato's actions to move towards the russian borders. now, when the western camp continues to pump weapons, beijing clearly sees that the west is not in the mood for negotiations at all, and besides, as beijing claims, further deliveries of modern weapons to ukraine will inevitably provoke russia into even more powerful retaliatory strikes. and then the conflict. actually never ends. and nobody needs it. in general, this is why the chinese say that here we are, and the chinese, in

unlike the collective west , we don’t sit on the sidelines and don’t add fuel to the fire . by the way, linkin said directly to the baths that the americans shouldn’t try to analyze sino-russian relations. yes. and in general, after this story with a chinese balloon that the americans shot down , which, according to beijing, was not justified by hysteria, but by the use of force and you are inflating the whole story, and not to teach the americans someone in a good manner. thank you alexander e, for example, there was a connection. and what about the reporter in china , alexander balitsky? less than a day left start of a major political event. tomorrow vladimir putin will address the federal assembly. putin is working. tomorrow at noon in gostiny dvor. today , some public events are being prepared unplanned, usually in preparation. the text of the message is being worked by the president , and they have numerous contacts with the vice-premiers, with

shadow players, with the heads of specialized departments, you specify or otherwise and agreeing on the position, foreign guests are not invited to the message, there is no such practice of writing articles on the traditional one. naturally. this is the largest number of invitees , after all, these are our deputies and senators. well, there will be participants in a special military operation, especially such a characteristic. well, and many other representatives. our correspondent dmitry gurov is watching the president's message from work, in the most active phase , they are working on what is called in a short time, but effectively, but already, uh, everything, they have time and they say it will be ready by tomorrow. everything of course, 100% for one of the main events of the year, the week everything must be perfect for the stands, for which protrude. uh, tomorrow the president has already set up the flags. and them now. uh, carefully carefully smoothed out so that there are no creases in the occupations, the decoration has already been installed.

but, among other things, work continues on setting up large multimedia screens , which will also broadcast everything that happens on the stage, simultaneously testing both the video equipment and the lighting that was installed here . these people will say that we have 13 cameras involved in broadcasting. we have two, respectively, uh, cranes, two camera heads, so-called for shooting, respectively the first. well, as if the people who are closer to the all-russian state television and radio broadcasting company, i can say that tomorrow there will be about 50 people with 150 controlled heads . we are now calmly bringing all the devices to the condition, that is, we send them in 3 days.

this year , it was decided to increase the number of seats in the auditorium by almost half a thousand. as a result, it now amounts to 1,500 seats, and in the hall everyone has already arranged chairs all seats this year, the organizers plan to expand the circle of persons who will be present at the president's in-person address. and including the participants of the special military operation of the governor of the new russian regions will be present here , the exact list of issues is still not fully known. however, on the eve of the press secretary of the head of state. dmitry peskov said that the speech was the state will most likely be built around the course of a special military operation, as well as the economic and social development of the country in modern conditions, of course, at such a responsible and very difficult stage in our development of our lives. everyone is waiting for the message in the hope of hearing an assessment of the ongoing assessment of a special war operation for an assessment of an international one. the situation and, uh, the president's vision of how we are coping with this and how we are going to develop further, this, i

think, is the main thing that everyone is waiting for and the main thing is what one way or another will concentrate on as president. listen to all our lives. ana is now revolving around the topic of her own and a special military operation. anyway affects all of our lives affect life on the continent. and therefore, of course, we should expect that the president will devote less than a day to her for a long time, until the head of state addresses the federal assembly. we will have tomorrow february 21, the estimated start time is 12:00 noon dmitry gorny khlorenkov. danil prokudina nadezhda nefyodova news. from a company that used to oppose parallel imports. now they are successfully using it to continue working in russia, said dmitry moroka, dmitry moroka, dmitry greetings a. how many foreign companies have remained in russia, hello. in fact , most of them remained - more than two

thousand companies, mainly european ones. most european companies remain on the russian market. despite the sanctions, they managed to adapt to the new conditions, including thanks to parallel imports, against which they previously spoke about this, said the head of the association of european business tajio, a shilling in an interview with ria novosti, thus the departure of foreign players from the russian market was not as massive as the western media described last year in the country more than 2,000-200 subsidiaries owned by 1,400 continue to operate companies from the countries of the european union and the g7, of which almost 20% are german firms, more than 12 american and seven japanese. although the headlines are dominated by news of an understandable departure , there are still many european companies, especially in sectors less affected by sanctions or other problems associated with the crisis against this background. we will highly

appreciate the willingness of public authorities to listen to the opinion of both domestic and foreign businesses, as well as various measures that are being taken to support the economy. among the sectors most affected by the disruption of business ties , the association of european businesses names aviation logistics, the financial sector , the automotive industry, and the production of high-tech equipment. while the companies themselves, which left russia and only 8.5% of them, have already suffered significant losses; their losses over the past year amounted, according to various estimates, from 200 to 240 billion dollars , the rest considered that it was more profitable for them to continue working in the market and began to gradually adapt to new conditions . even taking into account all the complexities such as disruption of supply chains, problems with money transfers and reputational risks. the first is what is possible, the limitation on the settlement of operations, but sometimes you have to reconsider

interaction with a bank or interaction with new banks? uh, because part of the banks uh ended up being closed using stift. and so some companies began to use the new scheme, as it were, and the second is the limitation associated with logistics, that is, the usual channels began to change. ah, naturally. it seemed to start to affect certain costs. the program of parallel imports launched on the eighth of last year was a great help for european companies that remained in russia. it allowed to bring necessary goods into the country, even under the conditions of sanctions, by the end of 22, companies received almost two and a half million tons of goods worth more than 20 billion rubles. these are, first of all , automobiles, machine tools, electronics , light industry products. and if earlier representatives of foreign business acted against parallel imports, in the current conditions they consider it necessary.

under normal conditions, western companies have a rather negative attitude towards parallel imports, because they cannot fully track it and because it does not go through official representative offices, but at the same time, under the current conditions , parallel imports. it allows to support exports, for example, through state-owned cars or spare parts for them and, in parallel, the import of used car spare parts. it allows you to keep earning. the european business association believes that business relations between russia and the eu countries are by far the biggest crisis in history, but at the same time it emphasizes cooperation continues and new points contacts over time will be found. thanks dmitriy dmitriy hassle told european companies remaining on the russian market.

and that includes you, isn't it? why are you digging there? we're going to give him the title of righteous man of the world, that's a witness. so does not want to talk about it, how old we were then, 17.00 come to us with weapons. i use in the family there was one valuable relic, i raised it. i can't give. just show me you said you'd return the pipe.

but it's best to check.

today unannounced first visit to kyiv as president, he held talks with volodymyr zelensky, whom he assured that the united states would continue to support ukraine. in particular, biden promised a new military assistance package worth half a billion dollars , it will include missile systems, javelins, and artillery shells. and howitzers also according to biden.