committee on national security, head of the verkhovna rada's permanent delegation to the nato parliamentary assembly, congratulations you , mr. people's deputy, and on the air of the espresso tv channel . well, what do you think the minister of defense of great britain ben wallace and his american visavi yes, we understand that russia appointed the aleppo-based cashier surovikin to the post, who began to talk about difficult decisions, and so on. and so on. and to what extent we understand some unconventional decisions on the part of russia. well, i am absolutely sure that our partners on both sides of the atlantic understand the state of affairs in ukraine and understand that the russian federation is currently changing its tactics, in principle, its strategy. we were aware of such an option that is currently being played out in ukraine, they were one of the options on february 24. i mean that first the entire energy system of ukraine, the military infrastructure is completely knocked out by missile strikes from the territory of the russian federation, and then the equipment comes in, but they on t

you good day likewise ihor chernigov head of the delegation of the verkhovna rada in the nato parliamentary assemblyngratulate you good day of the day and bohdan fest on skype, an expert on international issues, mr. bohdan, greetings to you, mr. igor, the first question for you is, after all, was it an impromptu announcement that ukraine was applying to join nato, or was it a prepared work if it was being prepared in advance, why is there such a strange reaction on the part of the united states, in particular, after the madrid summit? when the decision was made regarding sweden and finland, we worked, in particular, at the level of the parliaments of the countries of the united states, in order for ukraine to have a if there is such a precedent, provide the possibility of obtaining a-a membership, in particular , at the parliamentary assembly of nato, they also raised this issue, and in principle, we saw the agreement of many countries who said that a-a, ukraine can really count on such a story, why is the reaction now, for example, of the white house i think that it was definitely not a surprise fo

i would like to separately note the decision of the nato parliamentary assembly, as well as in the parliamentuania and latvia regarding the creation of a support group for the crimean platform in their composition. i urge you and your parliaments to join these initiatives by creating such associations in their highest legislative bodies. we organized this first parliamentary summit of the international crimean platform as a wide complex of peer-to-peer, multifaceted events aimed at the development of parliamentary of the selection of our initiative let me remind you that these activities began with the october 18 online address to the verkhovna rada of the prime minister of the republic of croatia, andrej plenković, as an important concomitant an event within the framework of the summit was successfully organized yesterday by the project office and the expert network of the crimea platform, an offline discussion program where various important topics related to and around the occupied crimea were raised. ukrainian and croatian human rights defenders we must state that the russian federation i

children as a weapon of war, this goes beyond the limits of waging war, the president of the nato parliamentary assembly jeral ekoneli said in his speech, well, the main thing is that now in ukraine it is not just a war for ukrainian territory from ukrainian lands it is not just that we are liberating our territory precisely because of democratic values, education, that we are protecting the whole world, the whole of europe and that now it is very important that ukraine wins and wins in this battle because if you are, this is his direct speech, if ukraine falls, then you can put an end to all freedoms in the world studio thank you colleague for your work it was our correspondent khrystyna parubiy who told her about what is being discussed today at the first parliamentary summit of the crimean platform meanwhile the international the expert conference on the restoration and reconstruction of ukraine began in germany, the countries of the european union plan to select certain sectors in which it is possible to quickly help our country, the head of the european commission, ursova von der lien stated that t

eighth convocation , as well as the head of the permanent delegation of ukraine in the nato parliamentary assemblyas well as daria yurchenko dmytro kozatsky's sister, call sign orest, worked live on the espresso tv channel at 5:42 p.m. let's move on khrystyna yatskiv, also on the phone now yevhen magda, director of the institute of world politics and maria ionova, people's deputy of ukraine, welcome, dear ones, greetings, good evening, representative, good evening, respectively ukraine undertook and signed all the additional papers , it is about the accelerated accession of ukraine to nato, so there was a certain reaction from nancy pilos, who said that they were not in the states until the end ready for such, of course, here we brought the situation to the moment of truth, so to speak, and i would like to ask you, ms. maria, what do you think will be the steps of the international community, and in general, what should we tighten up in ukraine, because nato is not only about security moments, it is also about certain civilizational social things eh you know i think that we have already reached su

deputy of the eighth convocation, as the head of the permanent delegation of ukraine in the nato parliamentary assemblygratulate you glory to ukraine and also a person whom we already know well, whom we saw in particular in the material of our colleagues, daria yurchenko, sister of dmytro kozatsky orest daria we congratulate you. glory to ukraine. good day. glory to the heroes . well, accordingly, ms. oksana, i would like to ask you what we will receive in the dry balance, of course, in addition to the very necessary declarations, as a result of the meeting of the warsaw security forum . on the part of the countries of the european union of heavy tank equipment, well , look at the first one, it is necessary to make it safe. this year, the warsaw security forum had more than 2,000 registered participants, 60 - more than 60% - these are our colleagues, congressmen, senators from the united states, all key ministers of foreign affairs of other ministries, this is the president of latvia, with whom we also had a separate meeting, this is actually an important event from the point of view of what we heard a

goes beyond the limits of war, because the speech is emotional of the president of the nato parliamentary assembly jarald econnelly, he noted that such a brutal war, which ukrainians are currently experiencing, has not happened for 80 years and emphasized that it is necessary to support ukraine by promoting democratic values, because if ukraine loses , the whole civilized world will lose. to be free people, some say that you need to negotiate with the kremlin, but tell that to the dead in bucha mariupol, tell that to the people who lost their lives, this generation cannot to lose too much the stakes are higher than just the geography of a certain city, the future of democratic values ​​on the part of our polish partners, in particular the marshal of the polish sejm, elzbeta wityk , proposed that each country of the european union should give a certain percentage of the gdp in order to provide as much aid as possible to ukraine. the russian army is one, and there are more nato countries, if each country gave aid to ukraine from half its gdp, this would help ukraine win the war and return its as a r

given the right to decide the fate of mankind, this was stated by the former head of the nato parliamentary assemblypierre lelouch, in an interview with a french newspaper li figaro , answered the strange alliance by supplying weapons only foment war and the conflict became global due to its consequences for the economy of energy and food lilouch, pointed to the inability ukraine itself. to smart decisions. the planet is very close to a global nuclear cataclysm. he added this and peace negotiations are needed. to russia from 50 servicemen returned from ukrainian captivity. as the ministry of defense was told in the territory controlled by the kiev regime, they were in mortal danger; now the military will be sent to moscow for treatment and rehabilitation. home to the motherland. i am very grateful to our command that we are not forgotten. we entrenched ourselves there, waiting for our victories in ukraine, we were constantly told that they would not change you. russia does not want to change you. as you can see , he wants. as you can see, i am here my comrades. everyone is happy here. i can't descri

stability and security in the region earlier in june, colleagues headed by member of the nato parliamentary assembly from france juel helio completed their taiwan tour european delegates deputies of the german bundestag. to the island. they arrived on october 2nd. under under the leadership of klaus peter wilsch from the green party, who oversee relations with the islands, politicians visited the science park and offered taiwan cooperation in the field of high technologies. and alignment. well, let's call it such a modest word for equalizing relations with the united states. america is hmm uh, well, you know, i really don't like the expression top priority, because there are no top priorities , but in this case it's really a priority of priorities. uh, national development strategy because of relations with the united states. in in all areas, first of all, in the economic sphere , it will light up to a large extent. e. strictly speaking, the dynamics of development. uh, china, so you know some such, here. uh, hmm crossroad situations, go right, political conflict, go left. uh, economic losses. well,

including the house armed services committee, and his presence is a mentioned earlier at the nato parliamentary assemblypert panel includes a former member of congress and others. one served as deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security from 2017 to 2020, over seeing the defense department intelligence agencies, defense intelligence agency, the national security agency accountant national geospatial-intelligence agency, the national reconnaissance office. she is now the director of the aerospace security project. jane harman served as a u.s. congresswoman from california during which time she was also ranking member of the house intelligence committee and brings a lot of expertise to this, and after her time in congress, she led the wilson center, and now is a distinguished fellow there. joining us virtually, i think you are in new orleans, right? >> that's right. i am just here offscreen. >> he is on mission for the atlantic council in new orleans. we are glad you are here. the acting director of our center started at the we encourage our audience on zoom to ask questions including

and security in the region was visited earlier in june by colleagues led by member of the nato parliamentary assemblyompleted the taiwan tour of european delegates. to the island. they arrived on october 2nd. under the leadership of klaus peter wilsch from the green party, who oversee relations with the islands, politicians visited the science park and offered taiwan high -tech cooperation. and alignment. well, let's call it such a modest word equalization of relations by the united states. america is hmm well you you know, i really love the expression top priority, because there are no top priorities, but in this case it really is a priority of priorities. uh, national development strategy for that's the relationship with the united states. in all areas, first of all, in the economic sphere , it will light up to a large extent. e. as a matter of fact, the dynamics of development of, e, china, therefore, you know something like this, here. uh, hmm crossroad situations, go right, political conflict, go left. uh, economic losses. well, it's probably like this schemes in the minds of chinese planners. n

europe and, accordingly, the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe, because there was not the slightest prospect when we say this in the parliamentary assembly. natoprove something to someone, they gathered there in order to put, so to speak, there, uh, a stamp, uh, not good for our country, and we, of course, are such a pleasure will not deliver to our opponents under any circumstances, but once again i repeat there are fewer sites, much more sites where you can and should work. even if at some stage we do not have our own majority to be convinced that we are right. this time, because everyone is watching how we behave, you know, everyone is watching. and there we read out some kind of instruction from the center, which we ourselves do not particularly believe. this is not so, of course, it would be better not to read anything at all, to say from the heart that we, in fact, doing to speak with conviction is the most important element. and i'm sure he makes an impression, but the second is no less important circumstance. learn to work together with other delegations, as our opponents do. that's before the vote in the general assembly. he's recent.

sanctions were lifted as well as the parliamentary assembly of the council europe, why i think its work is now nullified is that you can't annoy the russians of nato't pay money or they won't participate in further meetings of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe until 2022 , only one ukraine left the council of europe. after the military coup in 1967, greece left the club of civilized states. seven years later, the junta fell and athens returned to the organization. yes, they will exclude you from the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe. petro kotin is already with us, the president of the state-owned enterprise. electricity supply to the zaporizhia nuclear power plant, are there any consequences there, what is the situation now from the fact that there was a shutdown due to shelling, they really connected the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the external power supply line yesterday - this is the line through which, of course, my mode of the zaporizhia nuclear power plant transmits its electricity to the power system ukraine, ukraine, but not at the moment, all the power units of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

collective appeal of the ukrainian people's deputies to the un, the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe and the european parliament , natornational organizations, as low volcanic islands in the pacific ocean fell under russian administration and how attractive the archipelago is for moscow anna basova unraveled the tangled historical odes ukraine confirmed its respect for the sovereignty of the territorial integrity of japan, including its northern territories that are still under russian occupation, the corresponding agreement with volodar before the occupation the crimean islands were recognized by russia, the verkhovna rada and later turned to the international community to help japan return the territories crimea is ukraine, they smoked it, japan was stolen by russia around the world, territories must be returned a month ago, russia once again decided to flaunt weapons in the region as part of the vostok 2022 military exercises, the pacific fleet conducted exercises with demonstrative firings and then they reported to the top management with a mandatory emphasis on the disputed territories of poland it is so large th

nato countries promise to provide. the general of the un assembly supported the territorial integrity of ukraine. the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe recognized the russian regime as a terrorist. what consequences will these decisions have? returned twenty soldiers from captivity about the exchange of prisoners, the head of the president's office, andriy yarmak, said, according to him, among the released 14 soldiers of the armed forces, four soldiers of the territorial defense, one national guardsman and one serviceman of the navy, at the same time, the russian ministry of defense reports that 20 people also returned to russia as part of the exchange. already the third exchange in the last month, since october 11, it was possible to return 32 ukrainians in september, 215 ukrainian fighters, including 108 azov fighters, at the same time from russian captivity a soldier of the azov regiment, lieutenant ilya samoilenko, returned. he told the bbc that he was kept in solitary confinement for 120 days and he was afraid that he would never return to ukraine. this is his first interview in the internationa

though there is opposition within nato, between turkey and greece, between turkey and germany, and this is very clearly visible, for example, at the parliamentary assemblies when they clash with each other, turkey is such a player on several boards at once, and they also understand that if there is such a mechanism that deprives them, for example, of turkey, of the right to vote, then they will not vote for it conditionally speaking as in how in the un the general assembly is the main decision-making body and it can make any decision conditionally speaking about changing the un charter about exclusion the russian federation from the security council and so on. and so on. in principle, 13 and 30 of these countries can initiate, but 30 are also needed for this, and a country that understands who they are playing against , well, that is, it is itself. yes, it simply will not vote against itself. i am not sure that there will be any restructuring in this contract or a change in the principle of voting, then one more small clarification, then we have a problem with hungary. well, for example, it is not new. that is, it did not appear there against the backgrou

2021, of the following member on the part of the house to the united states group of the nato parliamentary assembly to fill the existing vacancy thereon. the clerk: mr. crow of colorado. the speaker pro tempore: under clause 5-d of rule 20, the chair announces to the house that in light of the resignation of the gentleman from florida, mr. deutch, the whole number of the house is 432. pursuant to section 1 of house resolution 1230, the house stands adjourned until 1:30 p.m. on friday, october 7, 2022. >> a house meeting for a brief session today back for legislative work -- we continue on talks for funding the government and it is expect to expire mid december we will have live coverage here on c-span. -- the case is dealing with redistricting he had to leave the last few seconds of it you can hear the case in its entirety online or on our video app c-span now. >>'s afternoon a local u.s. role in supporting ukraine as the with russia continues we will hear from senator amy klobuchar and senator john coast of -- added discussion hosted by the atlantic council live at 12:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>