having served as president of the nato parliamentary assembly, i understand the fundamental role this organization plays in supporting freedom. finland and sweden's location in northern europe advanced decades of fighting alongside the u.s. and nato will strengthen the security. they have well trained armed forces, sophisticated modern weapon systems and have committed to allocating 2% of their gross domestic product to defense spending. both militaries are highly interoperable with nato forces, having participated in numerous nato-led operations from afghanistan, iraq, bosnia and hertz gogh vina -- hertz hertz and kosovo. they had a $12 billion. and i urge my colleagues to support members of nato to ratify sweden and finland's protocol to accession. it urges members of nato to meet their 2% defense spending pledge. president trump successfully pushed our nato allies to spend more on defense. putin's invasion has been another motivation to convince our allies to increase their defense spending and make concrete plans to reach the 2% requirement. a strong united nato is in the united s

, and now next to me is oksana yurynets, the head of the ukrainian delegation in of the nato parliamentary assembly in the parliament of the eighth convocation, we know, let's talk about the results of the nato assembly, which ended literally yesterday. ms. oksana , i congratulate you. and for europe, and that is, they also invited finland and sweden to nato, and for ukraine, whatever successes you would define this nato summit that took place, it was primarily from the point of view that at the beginning when it had a question for us that we have to change and how to transform, nato itself began to transform because in fact there are two participants, and these are two countries with enhanced capabilities. where does ukraine and georgia and also jordan and australia come in? that is why we have the format today that we remain at four and we hope that our turn is next, that is, for ukraine to become a member of nato, because this is the only security format that can be a guarantee for us in the future of territorial integrity, independence, the development of democracy and everything else, as of to

add yehor chernev of the people's deputy head of the calm delegation of ukraine in the nato parliamentary assemblye glory to the heroes i am glad to have the opportunity to speak with you well, just now we and the experts discussed the situation at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant they say that i have to share information from the wheels with you, they say that we should increase our presence as much as possible, we are talking about the organization of the united nations and we need to somehow speed up the process regarding the possible establishment of a demilitarized zone at the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and it is possible that a contingent of blue helmets be deployed there the un expert, nuclear energy expert olga koshharna, is talking about this, because otherwise a disaster can happen. well, all the more so because the enemy is now trying to prepare at an accelerated pace for the possible removal of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant from the ukrainian power system to the russian system, mr. igo, are there any prospects for mobilizing something somehow very quickly in that direction,

having served as president of the nato parliamentary assembly, i understand the fundamental role this organization plays in supporting freedom. finland and sweden's location in northern europe advanced decades of fighting alongside the u.s. and nato will strengthen the security. they have well trained armed forces, sophisticated modern weapon systems and have committed to allocating 2% of their gross domestic product to defense spending. both militaries are highly interoperable with nato forces, having participated in numerous nato-led operations from afghanistan, iraq, bosnia and hertz gogh vina -- hertz hertz and kosovo. they had a $12 billion. and i urge my colleagues to support members of nato to ratify sweden and finland's protocol to accession. it urges members of nato to meet their 2% defense spending pledge. president trump successfully pushed our nato allies to spend more on defense. putin's invasion has been another motivation to convince our allies to increase their defense spending and make concrete plans to reach the 2% requirement. a strong united nato is in the united s

of the eighth convocation to the ex-chairman of the permanent delegation of ukraine and nato parliamentary assembliesthe ex-chairman but to the person who continues to keep his finger on the pulse petro kostyuk, colonel, head of the lviv regional organization of the union of officers of ukraine, we also say good evening to volodymyr hirnyak, head of the party, head of the civic position party with us already on of communication is the secretary of the national security and defense council of ukraine, oleksiy danilov . at five in the morning we started receiving gifts from putin today, unfortunately, there are hits in the kyiv region , there are also victims in the kropyvnytskyi region how can you comment on today's shelling how can you call them what our enemies wanted to tell us 4.09 today the first shelling of our country took place these shellings are already in despair, they have been hitting kyiv region to date, they are currently in other territories of our country, only five regions each were hit by missile strikes of the russian federation today, i can they are the only way to say this. let's

no , we remember how petro poroshenko was once not allowed to the nato parliamentary assembly. it seems that you have banned the departure of vladislav atroshenko, the mayor of chernihiv, why is it so selective in our border crossing? it seems that it is somewhere at the level of some higher mind, which , according to what principle, determines who is allowed and who is not . this is not surprising to me. this is the latest practice by the players from the office of the president. there can be more than six and more and more . supporters to the office to the president himself and what is most disturbing right now is this low-key response of one of the speakers yes tymoshenko what is there what is this a bell for others yes to mind your own business there yes and why do others go away why don't they mind their own business heads, that is, this is the choice of a wheel as revenge, and this is a very bad trend, and i know for sure that this is a consequence of this by our partners, which concerns uh, what uh, what are the dividends or the consequences of this conference, which is

committee yehor chernyav people's deputy head of the permanent delegation of ukraine to the nato parliamentary assembly well now it's an hour news time with anna eva melnyk, i hope you have some good news, not only bad, but also good news, of course, where would you go without good news, for example, 36,000 russian nazis have already mixed with our on the ukrainian land, this is not only about it, stay with us sloviansk in donetsk region under shelling from the occupiers is growing a strike hit the lymana neighborhood as a result of which four people died and seven more were injured. this was reported by the mayor of the city, vadym lyakha. 90 percent of the victims were on the street. during the shelling on slavyansk is being bombarded with shells and rocket systems of volley fire, russia continues to kill civilians , 5 civilians were killed in the past day in donetsk region, another 12 were wounded, he said the head of the regional military administration, pavlo korolenko, posipaki moskve killed four residents of sloviansk, one more person died in bakhti, in general, since the beginning of the full-s

i want to make one other point to, as you know, i'm a member of nato parliamentary assembly and all throughout the trump years. i would constantly get the question from fellow parliamentarians of mine, of other who, serv, i, they may, i should know, you just help to vote to support finland and sweden, bearing nato. and you were a big leader of that. that's right. and something i feel very strongly about and excited about finland and sweden joining our alliance. we will go to 32 members. that show is one more way in which fruit and strategy is attacked. literally backfired. but i raised this because at those nato meetings, i would have british parliamentarians, french germans, come up to me and say, what is going on in america's democracy, going to survive? these are questions people would never even think to ask. before the last several years, we have polls, i just want to bring up some polls. so, you know, when you kind of look at the question of whether joe biden could win tomorrow, and you see that a poll after poll, there is a, you know, we've got 44 and a half percent for trump and 42 and

or maybe you will correct me eight, but the parliamentary assembly and russia is nato, i myself am a ow. see how nato is using the current situation in several ways at once. the first is the integration of units and military equipment into the ukrainian armed forces in order to test directly their parts, which can become rotational. uh, somewhere in the area. uh europe second. they teach the world community that nato is a defensive alliance. see how they test the patience of our leadership of the military-political leadership by supplying daily the most serious conventional lethal weapons and now before our eyes. what is happening is that they are making a real terrorist state out of the state of ukraine, and there is an entire ideological basis for this, based on a-a traditions upa, based on the ideology of bandera, maybe some easier has a different opinion. i agree with igor nikolaevich. first, well, i will not argue on the subject of terrorism. but uh, what zelensky sometimes carries. well frankly. well, that's it. well, bullshit is a bad word, but something like this is real, but

council was adopted back in the 19th year on an appeal to the un and the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe, the natoy and the national parliamentarians of the countries of the world regarding the condemnation of the violation of the rights of indigenous peoples in the russian federation and in the territories temporarily occupied by it in ukraine. this is also a lot of work. which had to be accepted, and at that time even the ministry of foreign affairs did not support it because there were no public statements, precisely because of this i asked mr. danilov what kind of communication he currently has with the outside world regarding this issue, and that's why i wanted to draw this parallel so that you and i could understand and realize that russia is actually a big prison

council it was adopted back in the 19th year on the appeal to the un of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe, the nato assembly of national parliamentarians of the countries of the world regarding the condemnation of the violation of the rights of indigenous peoples in the russian federation and in the temporarily occupied territories it is also a big job that had to be accepted, and at that time even the ministry of foreign affairs did not support it because there were no public statements, precisely because of this, i asked mr. danilov what kind of communication he has with the outside world regarding this issue and therefore i wanted to draw this parallel so that you and i could understand and realize that in fact russia is a big prison estonia, in which today there are people who also do not want and do not want to see this great imperial and they did not exist in another format and were created as conquerors and the subsequent process of the existence of the soviet union. this was also the second phase of the russian empire as a variant of the rebirth of the russian empire. and what we see today