our correspondent tetyana blinova is following the event . a meeting was held with nato secretary generaljens stoltenberg, he confirmed that president volodymyr zelensky was invited to the upcoming nato summit, which will be held on june 29-30 in madrid, and volodymyr zelenskyi in particular, will be able to participate in the format in which he will be comfortable , given the circumstances, soltenberg also confirmed that tonight the defense ministers of the countries of the aa alliance will already announce the allocation of new military support to ukraine, including heavy weapons and long-range outer, but the nato artillery is also preparing a plan for the complete transfer of the ukrainian army from post-soviet weapons to the weapons of the alliance, i will remind you that today representatives of the defense departments of forty countries of the world, headed by the minister of defense and shaloid austin will discuss the further support of ukraine in the war with russia. the meeting in the so-called rammstein format will already take place for the third time and it will begin at 5 p.m

what is in touch with us tetyana blinova tetyana, what did it look like to make a historic decision foring of the council of europe in brussels ? yesterday was a historic historical event granting ukraine the status of a candidate for the eu, this decision was unanimously supported by all european leaders and it was burned on the basis of the recommendations of the european commission adopted on june 17 . and the candidacy of er-er is such a er-er is such a signal to the whole world that ukraine will advance precisely in the european direction and the head of the booth denys myhal to naivnytskyi opportunities that opens up to the ukraine's obtaining this status, in particular, is access to financing that each member country receives for the further implementation of preparations directly for accession to the eu, and it is also a signal to investors and the continuation of reforms in the country, at the same time, in order to advance in this way, ukraine must fulfill all the requirements for further european integration require the fight against corruption to continue the reform of the j

provision ukraine's status as a candidate for eu membership is monitored by our correspondent tetyana blinovae will tell all the details tetyana i welcome you on espresso air well, we know that the european parliament supported granting ukraine the status of a candidate for joining the eu, but this is more of a recommendation, the final decision will still be up to all countries that are members of the eu. what do you know at the moment and what are the forecasts for what we can expect here in ukraine anna eva congratulations to you too the parliament really passed the resolution, the parliament supported the parametric resolution, 529 deputies actually passed it, this shows that ukraine has every chance to get the candidate status, and i will tell you that it can happen already today, a very interesting thing happened a support action near the european parliament, such a flash mob, a 30-meter flag was unfurled, there were also flags of eu member states that support and stand in solidarity with ukraine, especially in solidarity with the accession to the accession of ukraine to the eu. the hea

ukraine and what additional military assistance they can provide to our country, our correspondent tetyana blinova knows more about the course of the meeting. she is with us on in direct contact with brussels tetyan vitau please tell us more angelika vitau is currently ongoing the meeting of the ministers of defense has already announced the allocation of about 27 million euros for the construction of platforms for rotorcraft, the funds were allocated by six countries, france, germany, greece, italy, the netherlands and great britain in the morning of the aircraft capabilities project of the new generation, also according to the results of wednesday, it is known that by the end of june, himers rocket systems for defense in the donbass will arrive in ukraine this was stated by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff committee, mark milley. i will also remind you that yesterday , president joe biden, president of the united states joe biden, had a telephone conversation with volodymyr zelenskyi and confirmed the provision of a billion dollars in security assistance today at 16:00 kyiv time. there

and what was agreed upon, our correspondent tetyana blinova knows. she is with us on a direct call from brussels, tetyana. i congratulate you . they listened to jens stoltenberg's press conference, and there were statements that nato will of course do everything for in order to carry on the peace, that this is putin's war, that the north atlantic alliance supports ukraine in every possible way and is the main messenger for us, of course, it came up about the supply of weapons, and jenstoltenberg said that nato is doing everything possible to deliver as soon as possible to make these deliveries, it is possible that some terms are already known, tell me, really , janstoutenberg said that they are doing all these procedures now, and this is extremely important in order for the weapons to reach ukraine as soon as possible, that was was one of the messengers. in general, the final press conference of nato secretary general ionsi stoutenberg lasted half an hour. he started it by saying that the president of ukraine volodymyr zelensky agreed to participate i

the council building, what they demand, we will find out from our correspondent from brussels, tetyana blinova , she is with us on a direct line, tetyana. congratulations, so when we finally learn the decision of the europeans, now and people are demanding that ukraine be given a candidate , many are even sure what will happen next. and she was signed, more than 300,000 signed people all over the world and a rehearsal in support of this status in ukraine, and i will remind you that the meeting of the european council was talking about ukraine at 4 p.m. for a few hryvnias georgia and moldova were added on march 3 and i have to fulfill a number of conditions, and uh, ukraine has been prescribed uh, seven uh, in europe, which should be there from this, uh, the next stage will be uh, the next step and procedures, one of the admissions gives it exactly uh, for the most part, it is uh- e regarding the rule of law and the fight against corruption of the anti-corruption council of ukraine we hope that they have a candidate and an optimist adds that last week e-e was recommended by a doctor to european

uh, ukrainian military official, ukraine needs a powerful one, unfortunately, we cannot hear tetyana blinovafrom brussels, in full, there will be this same meeting today at the nato headquarters in the steinmeier format - these are the defense ministers of the 50s countries, she mentioned the president of germany, for some reason, yes. well, the chancellor of germany, the president of france, and who else do we have, the italian leader, yes, the dredges should come to ukraine. and even if it does not take place, the information about it was thrown around, possibly in order to see the reaction, and we have another decision expected on our membership or candidacy for membership in the european union, and there should also be information about it this week and in june will be the same, this june is very full, meanwhile, at a great cost, at the cost of great losses, ukraine is fighting the occupier in anticipation of heavy weapons. on the defense of ukraine was initiated by the united states of america and the state department back in april, the first meeting took place in the german rammstein a

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a very comprehensive answer, thank you for this conversation and right now the correspondent tetyana blinovaith us, who is in brussels and is ready to tell everything about the main results of this contact meeting of the contact group that is taking place today to support ukraine, this event which is called the third rammstein meeting on the support of ukrainian defense tetyana, you have a word eh masha greetings greetings to andrii , a meeting of representatives of the defense departments of the ee on the provision of military aid to ukraine is currently underway, with about 50 participants and ee in the introductory the words of the us defense minister catch austin stressed that the victory of ukraine is a matter of security for the whole of europe in relation to the office of the president, so there are very high hopes for this meeting, they say rammstein 3 should be the day when world leaders will stop looking for a compromise with the aggressor e.e. according to the results of the negotiations ukraine expects to receive e.e. heavy weapons and also agree on operational training of our mi