ukraine, we will talk more about the main details of this meeting with our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin. so, bohdan, i congratulate you. the first question will be about how a nato country evaluates the chances of ukraine not only to defend itself now, but to carry out an effective counteroffensive. and what, according to the western partners, is needed for this more weapons are needed, better training is needed, and all this must be done faster, eh, these are the main messages that were heard in brussels at the meetings. in fact , i would say that several very similar ones were heard striking phrases, that is, for example, general satanatu, and jens staltenberg said that now is a critical time, that ukraine has a window of opportunity in order to tilt the advantage to its side on the battlefield, and, for example , the american ministry of defense lloyd austin spoke about the fact that it is about decisive battles that can to begin in the coming weeks and here is a quote with his assessment of the situation in particular , our goal is to make sure that we provide ukraine with additiona

we will talk more about this with our european by the correspondent bohdan tsyupin, who joins the broadcast from london bohdan i congratulate you, can ukraine, according to expectations , join the european union even before the end of the full-scale war unleashed by russia ostapa, i dare say that these two things certainly cannot be connected with each other because ukrainians want the end of the war today, right now, and in particular, representatives of the european union and western partners and allies of ukraine say that it can end immediately, because it is enough for putin to give an order to stop the fire and take away russian troops from sovereign ukrainian territory to honor internationally recognized ukrainian borders. if we are talking about the process of ukraine joining the european union, then here , for example, if we take croatia, the last country to become a member of this organization, it acquired membership in 2013, from the time the application was submitted to that moment, 10 years have passed that is , the duration of ten years, the ukrainian government , in particular

we will talk more about this with our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin, who these days works fromsaw and now i hope he can join our broadcast bohdan, i congratulate you, thank you for joining , and the visit of the american president in general is now called unprecedented by many. from a security point of view, tell us a little about how it was planned for which events pretended that we knew about it for the moment, the main event and the main result of those events was that a huge group of international journalists here in warsaw, and in particular i flew in from london, we were waiting of the american president joe biden here in warsaw, in the capital of poland. and he ended up in kyiv today. many journalists woke up with these shots of the american president in the ukrainian capital that you see on your screens. that was a surprise for journalists, in particular , even for me. american colleagues of many here here in warsaw clearly indicates that this part of the security measures was successful , the fact that your ringtone alerted moscow to at least a few hours actually befor

visit to kyiv, from where he went to warsaw for the meetings of allies in warsaw correspondent bohdan tsyupindcast greetings bohdan so, bohdan , what is the format of the bukhara nine what was on the agenda of this meeting and what was agreed upon the leaders of the bukhriz nine - these are nine nato countries on the eastern edge of this organization, that is, from south to north, so that bulgaria, romania , hungary, slovakia, the czech republic, poland, as well as the three baltic countries of this country, gathered and exchanged their views, in particular, on defense issues after the beginning of the russian war in 2014 year, when the russians captured crimea and began to intervene in donbas, their first meeting in such a group took place in november 2015 , and it is obvious that this particular group became even more relevant after

volodymyr zelensky's visit is being followed by our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin. he is joining our studio right now from london. greetings bohdane. so president zelensky is visiting a western european country for the first time since the start of a full-scale war. why right now why was london chosen and what can this visit change in the course of the war for accuracy it is worth noting that er during the visit on the way to of the united states in december of last year, the ukrainian president visited poland, and of course this is eastern europe, but nevertheless , every foreign official visit of the ukrainian president during the active phase of the russian war in ukraine obviously deserves serious and special attention as regards the visit to great britain, why now? i think it is certain. i think the time has come . i think the visit to the united states showed that the ukrainian president can visit allies, that these visits are necessary to mobilize support for this visit to the united states. showed that allies and partners of ukraine in response to this increa

our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin is following the events in brussels. greetings to us from london bohdane so he will be traveling to brussels, minister reznikov informed that on the agenda of these discussions will be, in particular, issues of protecting the ukrainian sky, the development of the tank coalition and the training of the ukrainian military, so what decision do we expect from these meetings? in fact, it should be emphasized that there will be two meetings or meeting formats: a meeting of the defense ministers of 30 nato countries and also a meeting of the so-called contact group in the defense of ukraine , and that's where it goes about a much wider circle of countries outside the 30 nato members - these are several dozen countries, we know that in past similar meetings representatives of more than 50 countries of the world, i.e. western countries , as well as their allies concerning the main topics on which ukraine's partners are currently focused, listening to the press conference of the nato secretary general and jens stoltonberg today, it was possible to conclude t

wednesday he will negotiations with the countries of the bucharest nine , our european correspondent bohdan tsyupinllowing the president's visit. he joins our studio from the royal square in warsaw . congratulations bohdan so bohdan we just heard the words of president biden during his speech sounded several powerful theses, which of them would you highlight separately and what were the main accents natalya, i would also like to say here that we have already managed to move from the royal square i in the center of warsaw and in particular here now journalists are talking to representatives of the white house about what we saw today and what to expect, and today a little further from here in warsaw, in the old town of the polish capital, we saw and heard the american president, who was actually the star of a giant rock concert thousands of first vian mostly people with polish flags, but here you see also ukrainian and american people gathered to hear the president he didn't talk much about numbers he didn't talk about the billions of dollars that ukraine helps the usa help ukraine he didn't name any

[000:00:00;00] we are meeting allies in warsaw, we are following our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin he is joining our broadcast congratulations bohdan so, bohdan , what is the format of the bucharest nine what was on the agenda of this meeting and what was agreed upon by the leaders of the bucharest nine - these are nine countries nato on the eastern edge of this organization, that is, from south to north, bulgaria, romania, hungary , slovakia, the czech republic, poland, as well as the three baltic countries of this country, gathered and exchanged their views, in particular, on defense issues after the beginning of the russian war in 2014, when the russians seized crimea and began to intervene in the donbass, their first meeting in such a group took place in november 2015, and it is obvious that this particular group became even more relevant after the february invasion of russia in 2022, since then these are already countries that can be said to feel the breath of russian aggression on us we also discussed a number of issues on which we must move forward, primarily regarding the f

further on the air the european correspondent of the ukrainian service of the voice of america bohdan tsyupin my greetings to you congratulations well to begin with tell us how the uk is reacting to volodymyr zelenskyi's visit to his speech. did he impress the british public, what the local press writes, the local press probably hasn't been published yet, if we're talking about the printed one , because the ukrainian president's visit was kept secret until just a few hours before the plane by the way, the plane of the british air force with the ukrainian president landed at the airport today and actually i think that many of my colleagues er were for them it was a very big surprise so we can only talk about the fact that this is a very big news today and a big event when i was today at andrew's in london, in particular, i was lucky to be in the middle of the prime minister's residence at 10 old street, when today the ukrainian president, together with the sunnyk river, went there they came in and they literally er. i think they didn't have time to drink tea. because we were told that they wou