andrea lucida. meanwhile, in new york times article has cited ukrainian journalist sounding the alarm about the key of government imposing increasingly draconian restrictions on the for journalists and groups monitoring press freedoms are raising alarms over what they say are increasing restrictions and pressure on the media in ukraine. under the governments of president's what demands the landscape, then go well beyond the countries war time needs. before february 2022, ukraine had a long track record of tolerating a pluralistic media environment, maintaining that culture has been one challenge of the war. well, the article mentions key of is cracked, done on any criticism of the government or reports about corruption among authorities wherever some of your printing and journalists say the problems with free speech and the country started long before the ongoing conflict. you go is the, the hasn't been any freedom of action for joan list and you train for many, many years. you've has have been, it's media to cover events in the east in any way that shows don't bus and the positive li

all right, let's cross live now to italian war correspondent, andrea lucida, who joins us from st. petersburg for more. andrea, good to have you on with us at the st. petersburg and international economic form, or where you are putting said russia may consider sending its weapons to countries that can use them against ukraine's sponsors. what do you make of that statement of the so what i can say about this stuff, because so we know that's now a lot of confidence of can give the information to ukraine to use a webcam. and so again, are i from 33rd? it's, this is another red line that the west, the one, the rule practically. and uh there are some concepts of course that 30 fuse to keep it so, so deep in the, in the war in ukraine because like some are actually representative as a seats. the west winds, such as the seasons, can we impose but directly in the conflict within our front. and of course, this can bring only is color and disconsolate. yes. so the, yesterday we hear the presidents were letting me put in an, a press conference with some intentional agencies like, uh, the natio