between europe and china now is the russian war in ukraine more we will talk about this with bohdan tsyupin, who has carefully studied the topic and is joining us now from london bohdan, i congratulate you bohdan, let 's find out what is the importance of this step of estonia talatvia and why it attracted so much attention ostap, as you already said china is now attracting a lot of attention, it is about one of the largest countries in the world, about the world's second economy after the united states, china is a country that has the status of a permanent member of the un security council, and it is a nuclear state, and russia's war against ukraine has become a kind of litmus test along with other situations in the world, of course, what is china, what is the role of this huge country in the world and what will this role be in the future, more and more countries are wary of that and when we already mentioned what china is doing in connection with by the russian war, before this conversation of ours, i found one of the reservations of american state secret agent plinken, who told reporters

moscow has failed on the cyber and information front we will talk about this and others with bohdan tsyupin, who is joining us now from london. bohdan, and i congratulate you. so, the first question before we talk about intelligence, i want to ask you about military aid from european countries. today we saw another package of weapons from the united states , which we they have already talked to yulia, but during the summer it seems that the pace of arms deliveries from europe has decreased, what is the reason for this, yes, the amount of american aid to ukraine is impressive. they remain the largest compared to others states in relation to europe, the situation here is quite heterogeneous. it should first be recalled that, for example , in the middle of august, a number of countries, including great britain, as well as several scandinavian countries , announced that they were providing assistance to ukraine, in particular , for the training of the ukrainian military. for example , here in great britain, a large international the program was also announced to create an aid fund for ukraine w

russians did not start the war , they support it, we will talk about this in more detail with bohdan tsyupino is joining us from london bohdan i congratulate you so, what are the main arguments for and against in this discussion now, so as you already mentioned on the european continent itself discussions about visas for russians, namely tourist visas, are not sought but ignited because, while individual countries have their own positions, even some of them are making decisions. estonia, for example, has already announced that restricts the issuance of visas to russians and that it will not recognize visas that it previously issued to russian citizens, e.e. the czech republic, for example, actually stopped issuing visas at the very beginning of the russian invasion, and there are actually obstacles or slowing down of the process for issuing visas to russians. in many countries, in fact, from embassies in many countries in russia. many of them are either closed or work with less intensity, but there are countries, primarily neighboring countries, which suffer from the actual increase in the i

about all this with my colleagues yulia yarmolenko, who is joining us from the capitol hill, and bohdan tsyupinwho is contacting the zone. congratulations, colleagues, congratulations. so yulia, let's start with you for what purpose did the minister of ostend of latvia come, what statements did he hear from him and what does this visit mean in the context of tomorrow's conference in copenhagen natalya, this visit is extremely important because it is actually the first visit of the secretary of defense of the united states to latvia in almost 30 years and it is a demonstration of support, especially when countries the baltics , in particular, and latvia are very worried about their security against the background of russia's full-scale war against ukraine, and lloyd austin once again emphasized this during these meetings that the united states is ready increase the number of military exercises in the baltic countries, but are also ready to send more american troops if necessary to latvia , as well as other baltic countries, what we heard is important from the point of view of ukraine - this was,

our european correspondent follows the events in the czech capital joining us live from london bohdan tsyupincongratulates bohdan so, bohdan, the head of the diplomat is already borel announced his intention to launch a new program the training of the ukrainian military, tell us about this initiative. and how exactly it differs from those programs. it is really worth reminding that the united states also trains the ukrainian military, and until now there were separate training programs in france and germany. we also know and talked a lot about the huge training program for the ukrainian military here . in great britain, from where i will talk to you , and it was this program on british military bases that became international when a number of countries joined it, but what the ministers of defense discussed was 27 countries of the european union, and let me remind you that britain is not currently a member of the eu, they talked about a joint program, and according to the supreme representative of the european union for foreign affairs and security, joseph borel , it is about using different s

40 countries, following the copenhagen conference, we are following our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin about its results and other important news from europe for ukraine, we will talk to him right now, he is joining us in the studio from london greetings bohdan bohdane so, what does ukraine get as a result of the copenhagen conference, what obligations did its participants undertake in answering this question i would say first of all, those, for example, our fellow journalists , who were expecting, perhaps, some impressive sensational reports about new batches of weapons for ukraine, were probably disappointed. we had reports yesterday about three additional missile salvo systems that britain has undertaken to send . to ukraine, but today it was about something else today the participants of the conference in copenhagen talked more about long-term long-term aid and how to preserve this military aid for ukraine so that it is permanent and in particular perhaps one of the key achievements was the announcement of the creation of a fund to which 1.5 billion euros have already been announce

expressed its reservations about such a step more about expansion of the alliance, let's talk with bohdan tsyupin, who follows the topic and joins our broadcast from london. they discussed the ratification of becoming a member of nato, what do the turks have any questions about now at this stage and how did this meeting end, we can start with the fact that the meeting in finland ended with the fact that the representatives of the three countries of turkey, sweden, and finland agreed that they will continue to discuss the issues that concern them in the following months, it is said in the announcement about what they are actually talking about, we know about the main warnings that were sounded by the president of turkey, recep tayyip erdogan, even at the beginning of the process of the accession of these two countries to nato in the spring this year, when he stated that he has claims, first of all, against sweden, but also against finland, in particular, in connection with what was called the provision of shelter to terrorist organizations or persons involved in terrorism, and primarily it is abou

the security situation project, we will talk about these and other issues with our colleagues bohdan tsyupin, who joins the studio from london, and ostap yarosh, who follows the american reaction to the latest events here in washington. greetings , colleagues. so, bohdan, first of all, in recent weeks, we have been hearing more and more statements that europe and its allies will help ukraine in its resistance to russian aggression as long as the need for this continues, in particular, on the eve of the prague meetings, the minister of foreign affairs stated this of german affairs olena berbok, what new steps did the ministers agree on on monday and what details do you have based on the results of the first day of meetings in prague, well actually the result of today in prague is only that the ministers have gathered. and these are first of all the ministers of defense who are starting their meetings tonight, tomorrow is their main day and tomorrow the ministers of foreign affairs of the european union are also starting their meetings. the russian war in ukraine was determined there in advanc