oleksiy yakubin and i will talk now. litical scientist, candidate of political sciences, we are on direct contact with oleksiy, our congratulations. good evening. with you , let's start with those films that appear inside the russian federation, and there now the grandfather compares himself with peter the first. yes, but what is typical in st. petersburg, after such a comparison , placards began to appear with the inscription "you are not peter i, you are" before golf ii, is it so, in your opinion, and the consequences are political here for, well, again, so that our partners are not looking for any more understandings with putin . a deep, deep story there hmm about peter, about kateryna and so on and so on and so on and so on, whether or not in your opinion, in spite of this, here is the tour eh that comes from the head of the kremlin, some of our european partners still continue to seek a dialogue with him, well, look, i think that what are these comparisons? we hear from the side of er putin er there with peter the fi

implement the recommendations of the european commission already by the end of this year, and now oleksii yakubin, a political scientist , candidate of political sciences , is joining our broadcast. oleksii. for the european union, of course, i think that if you and i are talking about ukraine's candidacy in the european union, this is really a super historic decision, because for the european union, for example, the first time in its history when we make a similar decision, for example, with regard to ukraine, which is in a situation of a laundry war, that is, after russian authorization, well, for our country, well, actually speaking, er, europe, the atlantic european integration aspirations, er, these are key , let's say, key milestones, the horizon, which for ukraine defines a lot for itself years, and i want to say that if we think about it like that, let's say the war changed a lot, that is, if there was no war, then we remember that, in principle, the european union before that, it had an expansion plan that they presented, that's how they ruled first of all, there were the balkan countrie

also decided to allocate 9 billion euros of financial aid to ukraine with us in connection with oleksiy yakubinhom we predict what we have now in the sense of european union sanctions. of the european union, because you know, for me, the fact that the sanctions will be extended is already a certain discovery, because we heard from certain european politicians that we need to take a little such a pause, in particular, if i'm not mistaken, the minister if i'm wrong , correct me, i said that the pressure on russia needs to be reduced. are you surprised or, on the contrary, inspired by the fact that there will be a continuation of the sanctions pressure? look, if we talk about the sanctions, it seems to me that the key point is that after all, this story is medium-term and long-term, i.e. the strategic course is chosen. and if you and i are talking, for example, about the sixth show of sanctions, yes, we understand that, for example , not everything was adopted that we would like. i mean, yes , or even about oil cargo for oil and so on, we see that there are still exceptions, hungary, the time fram