do not make such statements just like that. military aid to latvia in ukraine in latvia supported thevision of necessary weapons to ukraine from allied countries without restrictions, the head of the ministry of foreign affairs of latvia , edgars linkevich, said that our country, that is, where ukraine should not limit the use of weapons since the weapons are being used to protect against the aggressor , he told the agency, it is not such a market. rita avize. maybe i'm wrong, i'm wrong. i don't read latvian. the minister emphasized that there will be discussions now not about providing ukraine with long-range artillery systems of tanks and an even more effective air defense system, and until then, discussions between nato are ongoing and allied countries and the head of the foreign ministry said that some countries are worried that ukraine will use weapons to break through the territory of russia to protect themselves from the destruction of their energy system. my opinion is that we should give the ukrainians weapons, there is no need to limit their use of these weapons if the goal

once again i want to emphasize that latvia is clearly aware of who we are dealing with and latvia understands that a full set of restrictive measures is needed in addition to military aid, which latvia receives one of the largest aids from latvia countries that have a certain budget, of course, other large countries help uh, actually more, but if you take the budget , the number of population, etc., then latvia, estonia and other baltic countries, they are the leaders of our aid to us, but recently latvia gave us six uh artillery installations and four helicopters, we understand that just to remind mr. oleksandr, latvia is not just for us, it really helps us on a large scale according to its gdp, for example . whining, no matter how it sounds, about the fact that we ourselves are exposing our defense capabilities in order to help ukraine , unfortunately, other countries also sometimes use their rhetoric, oleksandr i would like to clarify in a few more moments, if we understand the situation with tourist visas, then actually in latvia there are principles according to which temporary residence

but why is it so important for the people of latvia ? we see in this trend a bad trend these war crimes have not appeared right now and exactly in ukraine ukraine ah there were before in ukraine war crimes were committed for the sole reason that they were not stopped earlier that the war criminals did not answer for this in any way before , neither in georgia nor in fact in 2014 after the struggle in donbas and in crimea." part of the race, it can spread everywhere, if you, its criminals, do not see the consequences, then all this will go on and continue to grow, and we must stop it with all our might. there is simply no other way out. in fact, i believe that the criminals are those who are involved in the committed war crimes, i believe. i am even convinced that they will appear before the court and be punished it will be a little more difficult for the political leaders, those who ordered to do it with them will be a little more difficult , this does not mean that we should surrender. but why then some countries? countries, their gover

they receive it while they are in latvia.hough they can also legally stay in latvia for three months with valid documents even without registration, so i can’t say the exact number, but it’s definitely more than 20 thousand more than 14 thousand received a work permit in latvia ukraine they live mostly in host families or in some specially prepared premises for this purpose. they live in families, but the municipal authorities of many cities and villages also provide housing , for example, they give away various school premises and other social infrastructure buildings are also used for housing refugees or temporarily of displaced persons, latvia was one of the first countries that provided us with military assistance, you gave us your own stinger anti-aircraft systems, which helped a lot during the defense of kyiv, i am defective do you still continue to provide us with military aid i can answer yes but without any details although military aid military equipment continues to arrive in ukraine that is why my answer is yes th

there are many ukrainians in latvia now. you know the exact number. how many numbers are constantly changing. the latest number, which is more or less stable, is about 40,000 ukrainians who were registered or who applied for help to both national and local authorities. authorities, but you know. we also see that there is a constant stream of ukrainians crossing the latvian-russian border, those who are trying to escape through russia and from the occupied territories as well we see that some ukrainians are returning to ukraine , now some are using latvia as a transit country, that is, in fact, the figure that we can call more or less stable is 40 thousand. but do you know about the number of ukrainians who are starting to come to latvia ? it was a bit of a mystery because we saw several hundred citizens of ukraine crossing the border between latvia and russia in the summer and in september. now, for some reason, this flow has stopped and we have a suspicion that it is somehow related to the internal border management of russia and possibly also with t

what can latvia do to help, first of all, it really helps.ain, uh, all the challenges we had, from defense, deficits to the result of terrible attacks on the power system, i.e. different energies , something and everything. this is really us as much as possible. we see what is happening, it is happening all the time, we always know, somehow we start from ourselves , then we start all the others, and here we are grateful for the advocacy of our baltic friends, it is true, latvia, lithuania, estonia, and also poland, these the states always support the maximum in the european union , everything that we see, we work. with some sanction steps, compromises, this makes a quick victory impossible, because the military infrastructure in the russian federation depends on it, we must do everything to give them the opportunity to produce the amount of these weapons with which they they came to us and they can still come, but the soviets are acting, it is important to press it is important to press partners both in europe and the whole world, this is whe

, too, latvia is preparing airfields where nato landings can be received. and latvia is preparing, well, all the infrastructure that is needed, well, to, to, our allies had the opportunity to help us, and they are also preparing weapons, the armed forces of latvia are also preparing. before that, and for example , once in more peaceful times, the latvian army was, well, it operated on a contract basis, and now, now latvia has resumed conscription, that is, that is... eh, young guys of the appropriate age should train eh, so that eh if we were able to resist russian aggression, we understand that this is exactly what should be happening now in all countries that understand that russia is a threat. quite real, we also know that events are taking place in latvia on a slightly different level, the process of deportation of almost 1,000 citizens of the russian federation has begun, who do not comply with immigration legislation, do not fulfill the requirements set out in the law, and of course that in russia is very indignant about this, how come, please tell me a little more, this is such a

i'm a live journalist from latvia. we were on radio freedom.this was first reported by the adat telegram channel, referring to the data of its informants in europe and chechnya. this adap channel positions itself as the people's movement in the chechen republic against the kadyrov dictatorship, and later the blogger's colleagues confirmed the information about his murder to the russian service of radio liberty, the first information about the possible death of abdurakhmanov appeared on december 1, journalists unsuccessfully tried to contact his blogger brother about their whereabouts is also unknown to chechen human rights defenders based in europe, the police of sweden, where the blogger lived in recent years, does not confirm at the moment does not comment on the report of the murder of e.e. tumsa abdurakhmanov , this is stated in the official response to the request of the editors of kavkaz realiya in february 2020 to abdurakhmanov was already committed in his apartment in sweden, the blogger then managed to disarm the attacker and call the

but do you know about the number of ukrainians who come to latvia?s you said through the russian-latvian border, it was honestly a bit of a mystery because we saw several hundred citizens of ukraine crossing the border between latvia and russia in the summer and in september, now for some reason this flow has stopped and we have a suspicion that it is somehow related to the internal border management of russia and maybe also with the mobilization of the population we don't have the exact reason why the flow decreased but i would say that most of these people use latvia and lithuania as a transit to reunite with their families or sometimes to just to return to ukraine, having no other option but to make such a long journey for such ukrainians. latvia can be a transit point, so most of them cross the border and he goes on. there are some who remain, but you see, we do not necessarily require the registration of ukrainians in latvia. if they need any help from the government they usually register they get a temporary residence permit or a visa if they h

rights in united latvia, and then it was renamed to the russian union., i remember it wrong, well it is really pro-russian a pro-russian party can, but are you sure? are you sure that the government will be formed precisely from representatives of non-pro-russian parties , european-oriented parties that oppose russia 's war in ukraine? russian a-a this union russian union there more or less if they are the same there er there will be er the same parties as now and maybe something will change a little maybe there will be some additional and the whole intrigue of these elections er elections who exactly will there is also such a party, the union greens and peasants, and greens, and i don’t know christians, not a representative office, yes, and this union . because he has been for many years somewhere, i think more or less 40 40 years already mervynstok all kind of sports it is a port and this is my hometown and uh it is such a port uh a port city on the baltic sea a and uh and he is like that uh sometimes he is pro-russian he is alti for uh more than 40 ye

janis borda bordens minister of justice of latvia of the republic of latvia i hope to hear him now butswitch to the russian language because i hope that your vlad at least this language is still remembered by someone hello mistress yanis good evening good evening ukraine thank you for finding time on sunday, i will tell you honestly that we are all, well, i definitely follow the russian mass media, namely topics that they call themselves and that everyone calls liberal, but i find a lot of strange things in particular i will now speak and give a speech. how do you understand the rain from the water television, which is under the fire of criticism and not for the first time already in latvia? so er edifyingly inserted questions about what you are doing correctly what are you removing monuments and is it good or bad and what would it look like from the outside well yes journalists question but because we are both of you and you know what russia is and i know what russia is i know you questions which are not really questions, but this is my emotion, but your reason, mr. minister, so that

went to ukraine, he he also thought about e about that and how popular he will be in latvia, becauseport of ukraine in latvia is very popular, very popular among latvians and among the voters of the voters of the parties that now have created a ruling coalition in this battle, the parliament , the parliament of latvia, therefore, this visit is big a plus for our president well, they also signed a joint declaration of the presidents of ukraine and latvia based on the results of this visit , confirmed support for the principles of international law, non-violation of borders , the right of the state to choose its own path , security measures, as well as latvia's support for ukraine in its efforts to become a full-fledged member of the nato bloc and the european union are also interesting. there, the position is regional, so for some residents of ukraine it will be interesting. that simply chernihiv region will now be assigned to latvia, latvia will personally take care of chernihiv region , that's right, but i understood that it already has a certain certain time, and this is this choic

, which fought for the independence of latvia.tor of its russian-language atmod newspaper there, because it was also in latin , of course, but in russian, by the way , we printed a lot there ukrainian materials and ukrainian authors, anarchists from kharkov and there, er, from lviv. i remember there was such an article, and chornovil came to me, and vyacheslav chornovil. i remember him very well , and there was also, as i remember, an interview i'm with him , and we used to say that russian schools in latvia is such a factory, interfront, interfront, it was a russian organization for the soviet union, for everything soviet and such, and many teachers who worked there were the wives of soviet officers, and in general there was such an atmosphere, and i suspect that that's how it is and still is, and to some extent it has remained in riga, there was such a monument, we just don't have much time left, i want to ask this again because in ukraine right now there are terribly fierce discussions around the monument to the mother of the p

alex, nice to see you and happy holiday, how big is this holiday for latvia? is quite a big holiday, and now there is already such a tradition, there is that it is called the white holiday. tinny, that is, that is, there is a tradition to use white, if so, more festive, tablecloth, on this, on this holiday, and this is the holiday of the restoration of independence latvia, i, i was then, on the fourth of may 1990, i was a deputy. a newly elected deputy of the supreme council of latvia, and it was the second day of work of the new, new supreme council, and on the second day we voted for this declaration of restoration of independence, very important for us. it should also be that latvia was already independent for 20 years between the wars, interwars, and we, independently. restored, i.e. if we were to return to the latvia that already was, i.e. we were to return as, which, which we already had, and it was taken away from us, i am not you, how is it, no, i do not know. and how is it because of the occupation, that is, in the 40th year , the soviet union, that i

there, which i i just have from trips to latvia as a child, i don't believe that a person who lives do this, i don't believe, this is a position, this person just wanted to continue living the way he lives, to believe that our migs will sit down in russians , as they like to say, here are such people, and here... as a result, after the transition period , she was forced to leave the republic of latvia, well, it is such a thing, i think that russia will simply promote it as proof that it is a fortress, which is surrounded by enemies, and these enemies are still tormenting and persecuting the russian language population and russian citizens, you know that now russia is generally developing a... mandatory form of consular registration for its citizens abroad. there will be a change in the legislation, you will be obliged to be registered. and report all your data to the embassy of the russian federation in different countries, i don't know how they will ensure this, but there may be some measures of responsibility, let's say, in case you want to return, well, you will just be arrested

, well, as an occupied country, and they actually believed that latvia somehow does not exist in latviabut it will soon be assimilated , uh, thank god, another situation happened, and there is no such situation. what well, not at all speaks latvian . i think that now 90 percent of all russians know latvian, and someone asks if they speak . i would like to say that the latvians themselves should also be self-aware, and how can this be ensured by the legislator on the walls, where everything has actually been provided a decade ago, a couple of decades ago, since the restoration of independence, latvia adopted all laws which protects er-er practically or er-er well, it legally protects the latvian language a-and develops its use and the matter is actually in practical application, but until now, until the last time, in fact , it is a treaty of russian aggression in ukraine er-er mmm well russia acted very aggressively in the business sphere and in the economic sphere, and here too, there were places uh, well, such an attack by the russian hypocrites and in latvia in such strategic spheres

they are recruiting, yes, and it will be, we will have a latvian story, a story about latvia, then we will return to ukraine again, but i would like to say that these thoughts about the future of ukraine, the distant future, as we just understood from mr. darish, are not close . this not so close prospect of transforming ukraine into a normal european, i would say a normal european, boring country, well, i say boring, because i am a journalist, and as a journalist, i understand that when there is, when you live in such a simple country, there is definitely something to write about, there is always something to write about, people are different, people people make mistakes, people are criminals, they are heroes, but nevertheless such fundamental moments will be clarified, andruhovich, somewhere, i don't know, 20 or 25 years old, he lived a lot in europe at that time, and he, he was still said that now we are on the border, and we have some such processes that are interesting to describe, and these are such creative processes, that is , for artists, for poets, for er, musicians, this is

russian-speaking citizens and neo-citizens of latvia who live there in latvia when we make these decisionse gates of hell just opened, and the regime that became the regime of terrorism, and in reality the fascist regime, they kill ukrainian children, mothers, sons, and it is necessary to stop this if it is not stopped, then this spread will not stop. we were the first to symbolically support uh, i am a quick act, we raised the reshki flag at home already on february 14th - it was the day after well, to raise the plugin, the solution is about russia is recognized as a country of terrorism that supports terrorism and other solutions. we simply do this because we understand that it is logical. uh, at every action that appears, but well, i understand that a very large majority, yes, they clearly understand, uh, who attacked whom, that is, russia, ukraine, what they are saying there, and what our steps are logical, and it's understandable, edward, thank you very much for the work you do, thank you for everything, your country, and especially for the support of the ukrainians in riga, too, now

latvia is 33 years old. wanted to preserve and conserve the situation in which they were comfortable, like in soviet times, and aliens , mr. referee. yes, we would have told him that we would talk about crimea. half of the conversation was about latvia, but it is all connected, of course. there are also many foreigners in crimea and they are foreigners of different waves, how do they get along there, by the way, do they pack their suitcases back home? well, i can honestly say that there is no such explosion of departure, the masses do not stand in line for the kerch bridge, but if you follow the crimean public despair, hysteria, where almost everyone has demands, which is very strange for such a putin regime, that is, well , first of all, people ask if the authorities have any plan, what will happen next, where others predict that there will be new attacks and the third kerch bridge will be demolished, says where is this? the vaunted anti-aircraft defense system, that is, if we are talking about that part of

the president of latvia also said how is the situation the people of latvia to the fact that money is allocated, well, in fact, their taxes for ukraine and what future prospects can we expect from this office , what is this office, if you understand, the understanding is that we give ukraine more would be given if russia attacked on and this is er it looks like something very much everyone understands it, of course, in latvia there is a certain part of the population, er, a larger share of the russian-speaking population, which eh, which, or we will support it on a and and eh, how is it in the south and their russia, eh, at least from the point of view, not everything is like this and everything is like that, it happens like this, but what does such a thing do in us, such are the consequences of years of years of soviet families, yes , the soviet party, sir. the majority of the population supports ukraine and supports it by e- e assistance as payments e-e gives ukraine more than e-e now there was a dispute, collection of funds was taking place to help the country and er for these days

you know that a- ah latvia is the first of - for all the russian countries , there were residents who ones we don't let them in, but russian journalists, and this is one of the excluded ones, and uh, now, but we made up our minds here, he will work here, everything is normal, uh, against uh, against the kremlin ideal and against russian propaganda, and uh- eh palchinstvo almost all russian journalists who eh now lives in latvia well, for example, like real premium or specter or jellyfish for almost 9 years they are here normally i live and work if you are with us there are no complaints against them but the rain eh they they moved to riga to work received a latvian license and this time, according to the documents, they are a latvian tv channel, although they make their own materials in russian and of course latvia recognized russia as a sponsor of terrorism and took some money or things for the russian a-a military how did the rain propose a-a this a-a will be how uh sponsor sponsorship this is terrorism and uh of course latvia cannot allow it and uh already once the rain has already

myroslava gongadze, voice of america, riga, latvia.occupation bench, project of kharkiv volunteers merim yol and natalia artyushenko to help villagers in the region. due to the occupation of villages and mined fields that remained after the russians were pushed out of the region, many local residents cannot cultivate the land and... therefore, kharkiv volunteers buy 100% of their vegetable garden from them and sell it in kharkiv. as this project is working, anna kostyuchenko and pavel sukhodolsky learned. these tomatoes, onions and melons are fresh from the beds in the kharkiv region, says volunteer maryam yol. we have our own bench, and we sell vegetables here, that is , anyone who wants to can come and buy fresh vegetables from izomsk, and not only from the district. 30-year-old miryam yol was born and studied in kharkiv, has turkish roots on her father's side. before the war, they were engaged in the production of advertising for 5 years. at first before the invasion of russia, maryam was engaged exclusively in volunteering. in apri

story with a person who has already been sent to russia, the head of the association of russia in latvia seems something there was such a thing, and the man was 75 years old, it seems, they hyped it up all day, each quote was presented separately, however, is this russian aggression possible under the pretext of protecting the russian-speaking citizens of latvia, is another aggression possible? and this is not a russian-speaking citizen, this is a citizen of the russian federation? this is not for nothing, and the question always arises here, whether russia should insist that other countries demand that its citizens live on their territory, i do not think that this is exactly an excuse for aggression, it is just russia itself in this regard caught by the tail, because she always defended the russian-speaking. citizens of other states , usually troops were introduced, and when the majority of russian citizens were there, they were there in abkhazia or south ossetia, passports were distributed, but the situation is completely different in latvia, they gave people the opportunity to obtain

map of latvia.as a prospect of living free of charge until six months ago, i was tempted because during my stay in kyiv during the war, i spent a month. i was already exhausted enough and was mentally ready to go somewhere, but i did not want to go anywhere i had this prospect of going to a specific city, well, at a specific address, it’s normal if the place of residence i agreed and took a girlfriend and we’ve been here for three months, we met very nicely in latvian , very supportive and in general, all the baltic countries. as you know, watch the news, they are very supportive and support ukraine but the city is small, so for me, as a resident of a metropolis, it was quite difficult to get used to the fact that it is so calm at first. at first, i enjoyed it after the explosions , after the alarms, but now i want something more there is not enough kyiv noise so little, tea is very capital with work in latvia, what kind of help did you get from the authorities? our government adopted a cabinet reso

what does the integrated part of society mean, the feeling of being a citizen of latvia?l wants to speak here you are ours or now you are not ours for us - this is a language, that is, we are a small state if there are russians, a ukrainian, a chinese, an american, it doesn't matter if he speaks to us in latvian, then in principle we i admit that he is our uh, and the problem we had was due to the fact that basically 30 years had passed. the hotel speaks simply in latin in our country. and you understand the situation. where i live, how do you pay and my children, who have learned russian, they are going somewhere, for example, i don’t know, yes, i drank, yes, and they can’t speak the swallow’s language there. but they cannot get service in theirs state in its own language and this is definitely more impossible, that is, if people want to integrate, they must be loyal, they must learn and speak this language, and if they must choose between latvia and russia, they must choose latvia and not russia, if they choose russia, i you have nothing to do here, but you see, in fact

the speaker of the parliament of latvia paid a friendly visit. her country has been a true friend and partner of ukraine since the beginning of the great war. the speaker visited not only the capital, but also chernihiv oblast, which was partially visited last year survived the occupation. kateryna halko will tell more. the speaker of the diet of latvia, ms. daiga mierinja, made her first official visit to ukraine. in addition to the capital, she also visited chernihiv oblast in the region. with which her country cooperates fruitfully and helps with all its efforts to restore, a region that the russians tried to capture and destroy at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. life was 30 years here, then it suddenly disappeared, disappeared, and human life was lost here, and material goods, so we did not expect it, but thank you for telling us, that there is such a country that can help. this... ms. olena, a resident of yagidny, 18 km south of chernigov, her husband died at the hands of the occupiers, and the house was destroyed by russian shells

it is your fate that now you are a citizen of latvia and you are running for the european parliament,m not a citizen of latvia, i am a resident, moreover, this is such a mistake, yes, let's say, i am, in 2007 i received a maastricht scholarship for european studies and international relations, and in this way after that, well, after studying for a master's degree... i applied to the european commission for an internship and by some miracle in this very small percentage that was given to non-eu citizens, i got into an internship, an internship, and then somehow era was already developing and working mainly in the field of communications, but in projects that provided assistance to ukraine, as well as in this block of the eastern partnership there, so i traveled a lot, and actually... i was also in kyiv in 2014-15 , when there was a project, for example, the eastern partnership, i was, i moved to kyiv, so uh, and then i came back again for another project, which was an office in brussels, and this is more, let's say , a professional career than some such assignment to one place, uh, but

i am very satisfied with latvia.le in mind: 85-90% of russian citizens love aggression. they love the empire. they love putin . even those who don't like putin support the annexation of crimea and georgian territories. moldovan territories and so on and the like. now i know that we need 85.90% of those 85-90% conscious at the expense of that is already some 1%. half a percent is already units, it is not even tens, and it is necessary to study it specially, it is necessary to use a microscope and study these units. well, for example, leonid gnabzlin. yes, he clearly said that the disintegration of russia, the fragmentation of russia, not the preservation of the army, the cleaning was carried out by israel there 20 years ago, and we know people who also migrate to god's life sentence were condemned in russia as a non-existent crime, so there are a lot of such moments that we see former russian people or current ones, not many, but a certain amount, i assume a possibility , i don't watch a lot of rain, i don't watch a l

the speaker of the diet of latvia, ms. daiga mierinja, is officially speaking for the first time visited ukraine. in addition to the capital, she also visited chernihiv oblast, a region with which her country cooperates fruitfully and is helping to restore it with all its might. the region that the russians tried to capture and destroy at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. this life was 30 years. good, so we did not expect it, but thank you for telling us that there is such a country that can help, this is ms. olena, a resident of yagidnogo, 18 km south of chernihiv, her husband died at the hands of the occupiers, and the house was destroyed by russian shells, he admits, in rebuilding his own accommodation i didn't believe it anymore, but thanks to the help of the latvians, the new home will be so. mrs. daiga, who visited the construction, promised to come again, to stay in the already restored building. and then the delegation of the republic of latvia went to chernihiv to open a day center. the whole city, it is a

and if they must choose between latvia and russia. they must choose latvia and not russia.incidentally related to the topic of people who are now coming to latvia from russia, and this is to say, there are also questions about integration, yes, there is such a moment that this is a great culture . a great culture is so great. i don't know. well, you probably already know a lot, you know, i'm not statistically living in latvia. well, in general, historians are political scientists according to their dedication, yes, and i somehow don’t want to, in principle, mmm, mmm, mmm, they will choose positions that are big , there is a culture or a small one. the main thing is because uh, for a small state, even if you have a very good movie theater, a very good one, there are poets, a very good writer, of course, if you have 2-3 million inhabitants , it is very difficult in the world to say that they are so important. someone is coming there listens for a state whose 100 million is 500 million, of course it is much easier , but this does not mean that these 500 million , uh, there is

such a party from coming to power, to give it the opportunity... to promote russian peace in latvia, to give it the opportunity to continue to leave the semi-colonial state in which latvia was all the time of the soviet occupation, and of the russian imperial party, all latvian parties from liberals to national radicals, they united in a joint coalition, i remembered it from the beginning of the 90s, so i came to my friends who were. representatives of liberal political currents in latvia, and they sat with the ministers at the government meeting together with the party tevzemeon briviboy, fatherland and freedom, it was called, just like the all-ukrainian association of freedom, and it was such a radical national party, i would even say a party of ethnic project, and they don't hid, but what united them with these liberals, they wanted latvian statehood. and of course, there was a dilemma here: either you unite with what they called a national block, or you lose the opportunity to build a civilized state, which means you have to find compromises among yourselves, because latvia is th

artis, we are getting information from latvia, from the latvian media, from latvian officials that latviayet is also preparing for a possible war with russia, a shelter is being built, relatively speaking, some fortifications are appearing near the border, in your opinion, is such a threat real, relatively speaking, within the next few years? so far, but i'd be lying to you if i said there's no pe'. across all the border countries, from finland to poland, and of course the baltic countries, but you have to understand, this is correct, we get science from history, we already had it in the 39th, and... 40 years of occupation, we now have to do all right in the event of any war, however hybrid, whatever, god forbid, something happens on our borders, we have to be 100% ready, and this is our role, because the best way to fight back is, let's say, to reject any aggression, discouragement... this is our strength, and we hope that we will be strong, we will not let anyone break our border, and therefore we protect it, and in the worst case scenario, in his case, there will be no war, well, if th

russia will attack nato territory in estonia, latvia or lithuania. russia is stuck in its trenches in ukraine. ukraine has successfully pushed the black sea fleet out of its territory, and putin understands that if he starts military operations on nato territory, it will lead him to a state of war with the alliance, which he does not want. when i headed a think tank in tallinn after the russian invasion of ukraine in 2014. we were concerned and studied possible scenarios according to which, how and in the case of crimea, russia could send troops there, hiding the involvement of, say, the same little green men. these are the scenarios where they claim that russia has nothing to do with it. these troops occupy some minor administrative centers, and then putin says: these are russian troops, we captured nato territory. are you ready for a nuclear war to try to free? these unimportant buildings, it is not something that worries me, or something that is outside the scope of an article five response, should russia attack nato territory, which can permanent

for example, government coalitions were built in the republic of latvia for a long time, but when the independence of latvia was proclaimed, it turned out that the russian-speaking population of this country, for the most part, is a russian-ethnic population, but there are many representatives of other nationalities, there are ukrainians, belarusians who came to latvia in the period after its occupation by soviet troops, are also part of this community, they voted, as a rule, for one such large russian party. a conditional russian party, the task of which was to preserve the special relations between latvia and russia, not to let latvia out of the latvian and russian arms, and then, in order to prevent such a party from coming to power , to give it the opportunity to promote russian peace in latvia, to provide she has the opportunity to continue to leave the semi-colonial state in which latvia was during all the times of the soviet and russian imperial occupation, all latvian parties from liberals to national radicals, they united in a joint coalition, i remembered this from the begin

, when the independence of latvia was proclaimed, it turned out that the russian-speaking populationf this country, mostly the russian ethnic population, but also many representatives of other nationalities, such as ukrainians, belarusians who came to latvia after its occupation by soviet troops, are also part of this community, they voted, as a rule for one such big russian... party, conditionally a russian party, whose task was to preserve the special relations between latvia and russia, not to let latvia out of latvian, russian arms, and then to prevent such a party to power, not to give it the opportunity to promote russian peace in latvia, to give it the opportunity to continue to leave the semi-colonial state in which latvia was during all the times of both soviet and russian imperial occupation, all... latvian parties from liberals to national radicals, they united in a joint coalition, i remembered it from the beginning of the 90s, so i came to my friends who were representatives of liberal political currents in latvia, and they sat at the government meeting with ministers to

and in the catch-up about latvia, the constitutional court of latvia recognized as legal such a stillesolution, the one that corresponds to the country's constitution, the immigration law, i'm sorry, the norm of the immigration law, which is required. citizens of russia who live on the territory of latvia, but are not considered its citizens and do not want to learn the latvian language at the same time, this norm now allows deportation. of these russians, that's right, but i believe that in latvia, lithuania, and estonia, all these countries that at one time experienced aggression on the part of the soviet in russia, you must have left the car , you are leaving, it is not there, by the way, in ukraine, today my colleagues told me that , in my opinion, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, a russian drove in a russian car, stuck a flag, well, but it can be seen that it is a russian car there, well, in a word, the flag sticker was peeled off that car. the numbers were torn out and thrown away somewhere, well, there is another story, what happened next, she is silent, but this is

and we already have a new ride, this is artis pabrix, minister of defense of latvia in 2010-2014. and director of the northern europe policy center, a former member of the european parliament. mr. artis, good evening. let's start with the elections to the european parliament, in which you are participating now, once again , one might say. president of france. macron called on europe to come to its senses now, he said about the efforts of the right-wing forces, which can win the elections to the european parliament, there are many pro-russian politicians among the candidates, you also have, you know that mrs. tetiana zhdanok, who represented the republic of latvia in the european parliament for many years, was kidnapped in cooperation with the federal security service of the russian federation. you and i are not surprised, but the audience is now surprised, of course, what the responsible politicians should do to stop this. populist march match, you know, when you live in a democracy, people can definitely choose their politicians taste and choice, in latvia, we also have quite a lot o

at 11:30 , wait for this, in particular, the proposal of latvia, how they form such a question is veryealing and very cool, but for now we are bringing in oleg buryaka, the head of the zaporizhzhia district state administration, oleg. congratulations, greetings. good morning . hryhoriy savych skovoroda, why is that so, please explain, well, we have such a person, you know, there are two philosophers in ukraine, shevchenko and skovoroda, for me, skovoroda's philosophy is quite close to me, when i read his works, read his biography, for me it is you know, such an enlightened person, because he did not eat meat, did not eat fish, did not eat eggs. he has traveled a lot in ukraine, he is an experienced person, and his philosophy is similar to buddhist philosophy, and when i read his works, then i myself he had spent three years in india and four years now in the himalayas. for me, this is a very close topic of philosophy that he revealed. that is, you are also a bit of a buddhist. it is a legend that hryhoriy well, it is not a legend, but it is a historical fact that hryhoriy savych skovor

, the soviet union, contrary to the will of these countries, separated the areas of latvia and estoniapart of estonia, and it is not with the current city of ivangorod in russia. by the way, i recently saw in the latvian newspaper nytka riga an article about what latvia will do in the future if russia weakens and how to integrate the local population into latvia in general because as we can see many people in the republic of latvia still consider this annexation absolutely illegal and it is absolutely logical angelika because the republic of latvia which was restored in 1991, they never gave consent to the transfer of this territory to russia for russia, it has no meaning, it is also very close. well, it’s just that japan has not disappeared from the political map of the world for 50 years, as a pure latvia, and she persistently always said, let’s solve this problem. i believe that ukraine absolutely does not need to stand in solidarity with the russian position, this territory has become the territory of the russian federation, as you know, the first secretary of the central committee

from coming to power, to give it the opportunity to promote russian peace in latvia, to give it theortunity to continue. .. to leave the semi-colonial state in which latvia was during all the times of soviet, russian, and imperial occupation, all latvian parties, from liberals to national radicals, united in a joint coalition, i remembered this from the beginning of the 90s years old, here i am came to his friends, who were representatives of liberal political currents in latvia, and they sat at the meeting... of the government together with the ministers together with the tevzemen briviboy party, fatherland and freedom, it was called, just like the all-ukrainian association of freedom, and it was such a radical national party, i would even say the party of the ethnic project, and they did not hide it, but what united them with these liberals, they wanted latvian statehood, and of course introduced a dilemma here, or you unite with that , what they called national... lok, or you lose the opportunity to build a civilized statehood, which means you have to find compromises among yours

ukraine's state budget of latvia for 2024 provides 5 million euros. glory of ukraine., that's all the news for this hour, stay tuned for more. on our website espresso.tv, as well as on our social networks. join, put your preferences. my colleagues lesya vakolyuk and andriy seichuk are waiting for you on the air. don't switch, stay with espresso. well, dear friends, we are back on the air, continuing our marathon, we will continue as well our roll call, but before i introduce you to our next guest, let's talk about kharkiv, i want to tell you that our collection is ongoing, ongoing, because we need to collect as much as 5 million hryvnias, we currently have 793,949 hryvnias and 41 kopecks. it will almost be 800 thousand, and where there is 800 thousand, there is 1 million. let's set small goals for ourselves, mini-goals, before reaching the big goal of 5 million hryvnias. now you see card numbers on your screens, dear friends, private and mono, to whom is more suitable, please transfer the funds to... to our collection, we are collecting for the 93rd separate mechanized

hilovitz also said that latvia will support the restoration of the chernihiv region. in fact, they will be involved in this process, and also after the end of this visit, the ukrainian president and the latin president signed a joint declaration, which states that latvia absolutely and fully supports ukraine ukraine is also joining the european community and nato at the moment here are the news here are the results of the studio meeting just me thank you very much christ for the sake of the correspondent espresso told us the details of the working visit to lviv by the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi together with the first lady and the president of the republic of latvia with his wife . my colleague valeriya pashko valeriya congratulations, so what achievements did the current prime minister credit and did he mention failures good afternoon, he mentioned everything, both achievements and failures, they really have been working for almost three years already today 's ministers and prime ministers are led by denismagal. so he said that, as promised, the tariffs

from moscow on the last flight aerofotok february 24 flew to latvia from moscow i understand on the last flight of the air force, i was expelled from the university for my stance against the war for supporting ukraine in russia somehow i studied there at the baun mdtu after university oleksiy dreamed of working on oil rigs somewhere in europe or the persian gulf, the war at home changed the boy's plans for the future, now i want to continue my studies in latvia. then after graduating from university and after the end of the war, he returned to ukraine to rebuild the infrastructure as an engineer, the schoolgirls traveled very hard, we were traveling under shelling, we were leaving. by chance, we met volunteers from nizhyn. they brought a humanitarian woman and said , if you want 10 minutes, get ready, let’s go count. natalie and her children fled from chernihiv via lviv, poland and lithuania. she smoked fish in a supermarket in latvia, takes care of children, says such centers for refugees help to distract children, they run and relax of course, what is it already were left without

ukraine and latvia agreed on the creation of a coalition of drones during your visit to kyiv.er, many countries joined this coalition. how did this initiative affect ukraine's strategic goals on the battlefield? drones are a very important element on the battlefield in ukraine. we are watching the technological ones. trends, and of course, warfare is becoming more modernized. drones are not a question of the future, they are a question of today. the goal is to support ukraine, to supply ukraine with the equipment it needs, and drones are part of that. it is also a matter of developing one's production, drone production and military production, including to have the opportunity and potential to supply drones to ukraine. voices are appearing among world leaders, including in the west, calling on ukraine to start negotiations with russia. some even talk about a white flag, like a minister. defense of the country nato. what is your response to such voices? well, my answer is very clear: first of all, there should be a flag of yellow and blue . ukraine fights for freedom and contin

this week , the speaker of the parliament of latvia paid a friendly visit to ukraine. her country has become a true friend and partner of ukraine since the beginning of the great war. so ms. daiga visited not only the capital, but also chernihiv oblast, which partially survived the occupation last year. our journalists also went with the delegation. i saw the results of the trip. officially visited ukraine for the first time, in addition to the capital, she also visited to chernihiv oblast, to the region with which her country cooperates fruitfully and helps restore with all its might. the region that the russians tried to capture and destroy at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. life was here for 30 years, then it was gone. we did not expect this, but thank you for telling us that there is such a country that can help, this is mrs. olena, a resident of yagidnogo, 18 km south of chernihiv, her husband died at the hands of the occupiers, and the house was destroyed by russian shells, she admits , she no longer believed in rebuilding her home, but thanks... with t

the republic of latvia will continue to offer us a strong , friendly shoulder.ar , 5 million euros are provided for the reconstruction of ukraine in the state budget of latvia for 2024. glory of ukraine. glory. thank you. congratulations. i am olga len, these are the chronicles of the war. and first of all, i would like to inform you about our new collection, which is held by the espresso tv channel and the charity fund of our colleague iryna koval. we invite you to participate in the collection of funds for our defenders of the 141st brigade, who are performing tasks in the orichiv direction. this is the zaporizhzhia region. infantry, infantry and aerial reconnaissance need high-quality equipment to successfully carry out combat missions. we plan to buy walkie-talkies and batteries for. starlinks, binoculars, rangefinders, scopes, drone detection detectors and much more equally important at the front. every hryvnia is important, and thanks to you we have already closed more than one collection, we really hope for your help even now, it is what saves the lives o