botek's grandfather also went through the european union during his speech. aid that in europe now the pseudo-unity of the nuclear power plant has finally lost its political sovereignty, because all the decisions of the european political elite are made as their masters tell them, and it is the europeans who are suffering from these decisions. there was a speech, uh, no one expected anything new from him. that 's what everyone thought. that's how it was. and at the end, oops, how unexpected. that's how i want to uh, start this information. in russia, an ex-leader was found dead. russian armament of alexei ogaryev, according to local media, the body of a 65-year-old man was found in his own home in the suburbs of moscow, according to preliminary information , russian investigators found no traces of violent death. well, you could have thought of something else, then they will say that it was obviously a heart attack. this death, some rather strange person led the disarmament and died after it turned out that russian weapons are far from what they always talked

the history of the european union also began with the economic union, i.e. first the economy went on, then it was already increasing. other governing bodies were created and thus the european union became an influence because without an economic basis it is quite difficult to talk about some kind of geopolitical influence. but is the candidacy for joining the eu a mandatory step? can we somehow bypass it ? why don't we immediately take it and join? why don't we accept it there? why is this a candidate ? to say that what kind of organization is the european union very clearly regulates the procedures for accession and the procedures for cooperation with other countries that are not members of the european union, why is candidacy necessary candidacy is a kind of negotiation process by the european union that is, we we come, we apply, we made the application , the european council accepts it, it did it, it helps the european commission to consider these applications and propose to the members of the european union either to support and accept the country as a candidate, to grant candidat

if we take the context of the war and are the european union countries of the european union ready to ukraine to invest money to ukraine to support ukraine to accept ukraine in the future a-a in the eu well, what we see uh-uh after the beginning of russian uh-huh large- scale aggression is a change fundamentally variable fundamental variable of public opinion of ukraine among eu members, we now have, according to the results of the euroborometer, two-thirds of the citizens of the european union, 66% support ukraine's accession to the european union in the future, and, by the way, this was one of our key arguments in the discussions on the granting of candidate status by the countries members of the eu and the fact that our country receives the status of a candidate - this is just a guarantee that we will already be considered officially as a future member, sometime in the future it may take really different terms , we have discussed it now, but it is actually official the status of a future member of the european union and this , including how it will be, including means that they wil

, this moment is important because the european union is the countries of the european union . of the european union, but not the countries of the european continent, but nevertheless, there are problems with turkey related to political processes, but at the same time, we must not forget that turkey is, relatively speaking, half of as a member of the european union, it entered the common market. it implements a common foreign economic policy, primarily in industrial goods, and regulates trade in agricultural products. therefore, in this sense, this country is, i would say, a plus candidate. that is, it is largely integrated in the common european market, but with is not yet a full-fledged member of the european union. well, there are questions about the extent to which it is a democratic country . as far as i understand, there are also questions about well, for example , the independence of the central bank of turkey where erdoğan directly affects the discount rate, which has already led to an increase in inflation in this country to more than 70% in annual terms, that's right, i woul

thank you, you understand, you worked with various institutions of the european union and you were representative of the eu in ukraine in 2016-2019. you know very well, how to say it, the internal european cuisine. therefore, maybe you will tell me and our viewers about when ukraine will be able to obtain the status of a candidate country for admission to of the european union the european commission will announce its opinion on ukraine's request for candidate country status in june in june the opinion of the european commission will be in a few weeks, but as we know the european union does not have a consensus on this issue, but all the political leaders of the eu have already very clearly said that ukraine is part and member of the european family , there is no doubt about this. however, there is currently no consensus on how to best integrate ukraine into this european family, some eu members such as the baltic countries or poland clearly state that the status of a candidate country in the country must be granted immediately and that we must also immediately start negotiations on the inclusion

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 countries. that is, there was no such thing in ukraine at that time, but the war changed a lot, that is, it essentially reset the painful geopolitical reality. and now we actually see this historical decision. ukraine needs full membership of the european union, we know that in the european union they

because it was they who interested the idiots in joining the european union relatively quickly, mr. minvareli, i really hope that our government officials will watch our interview and hear what you just said and what you proposed, and this will help speed up the process. i really hope so. thank you. so some european leaders at least i have read about it say that it is time to abolish the article on unanimity in decision-making they say that it can help to make very important decisions faster in the european union and what about you do you think that the law in the eu can do this? it is clear that the principle of unanimity is being applied . today i am a serious obstacle to the adoption of a whole series of laws. nothing to be adopted despite the fact that the management of migration and migration flows is one of the main problems facing the european union today and we cannot adopt such a policy due to the lack of unanimity, so i believe that we should think very seriously about the possibility that would allow the european union to move forward in certain sectors without such unanim

the process of reforms of the european union will now unfold and we as the ministry of foreign will make every effort to ensure that the interests of ukraine as a future member of the eu were taken into account as much as possible in those changes and those reforms that will be implemented by the european union in the coming years within itself, that is, to reform the procedures to reform the mechanisms of its functioning, this is a big mega-project of a political nature, and in parallel my colleagues from other ministries will work on the implementation of european legislation in their spheres, the parliament will work on the adoption of legislation, the vice-prime minister for european integration will coordinate the activities of bodies in the e-e of ukraine authorities in order for us to get as close as possible to the european legislation, implement the necessary reforms, the president will control all this and set tasks, that is, the machine continues to function, but there is this new element related to the eu reform, in which it is extremely important to take into accou

rationality, in fact, in this case, it was not a visit to the european union. it was a visit by the leaders of the states, which usually have a decisive influence on the position of the european union, and in this case they are much more free in formulating the formulation of their approaches to certain political issues and they are elected by the people of their countries and have sufficiently wide powers. at the very least, you can talk about a frenchman or a german. well, the prime minister of italy is exactly the same, that is, i think they were ready for that to decide in our favor what they ultimately decided but finally what is called already to ironed out what they probably had doubts when they saw what they saw during the visits to to to everything they saw with their own eyes i at all always er in my experience means based on it i believe that not taking into account the emotional component of those who make decisions on behalf of the state is a huge mistake because sometimes it is emotion that prevents us from deciding what was rational well, we see o

the european union wonders how a country with such standards could enter the european union . ill ever make such a mistake again. this is the second moment. what happened with the elimination of e-e er, ombudsman, all these attempts to introduce remote remote voting of deputies is a common blow, and it seems to me that the people whose so-so it was a trip of an official delegation approved by the chairman of the verkhovna rada actually wrote all the first schools of news that actually eclipsed and this is a shame the news from the front and the question arises why did anyone need this, it was an anti-ukrainian provocation, when poroshenko left two days later for the next international conference, the participants of which he was invited, it is difficult to understand this, but it is absolutely obvious that let's put it this way, those who do not want ukraine to become a member of the european union are a candidate for the european union, they will use this as an argument in favor of why they take such a position, of course. and i i will say right away that if this is maintained

it was very difficult for the european union. they reasoned for a long time. some people had to be convinced to prove the arguments and still it was accepted. now we are waiting for the seventh energy package. it concerns the embargo on russian gas. in your opinion, what will be the fate of this package of sanctions, how many countries will have to be persuaded, because we know that it will not be easy for countries to give up russian gas, not all of them have such technical capabilities and desire, not so much desire. so, what will we see as a result ? and the most important thing is when well, first of all, yes, really the sixth package was given to the european union very difficult, in fact, if we take the full amount of time, then we can analyze that it was actually accepted for the longest time, almost two months, that is, in terms of time, it took well, more than the acceptance of all previous five-year packages, yes, even the voters are for it already in their european countries they have been criticizing their politicians for a very long time, for a ver

hysteria in the kremlin, our country received the status of a candidate for joining the european union and the decision was unanimously supported by all the leaders of the european union during right here in brussels on june 23, mrs. ivanna, you were at the forefront of the european integration process of our country during all the years after the revolution of dignity. what does this mean for you day and this decision of the european council , i am very happy because we received this status, that the european union showed value and did not manage to say no to ukraine at this stage and it is fundamentally important for us because this signal is also for our society, which supports this path of development and the opportunity to have a legally fixed future as an opportunity for us to have this european perspective, of course it hurts to the point of tears that we are now on this in this line for the last four months after the application was submitted with the beginning of a full-scale, full- scale invasion of russia into ukraine, and we ran this c- this piece of e-e sprint, of course,

north macedonia is a candidate for e-e members of the european union. since 2005, she has been a candidate, since 2005 the negotiations have not yet started because 17 years have passed, it is quite serious 17 years. the republic of macedonia is waiting for these negotiations. at first it was against it, greece was against it, now bulgaria has hope that next week the bulgarian parliament will unblock this story with negotiations with macedonia and albania and they will start, but we repeat macedonia was waiting for the start of negotiations, it fulfilled all the conditions for 17 years and is still waiting. well, let's hope that we can have a faster deadline that will allow us to hold these negotiations faster, let's look at some ideal options. croatia, a neighbor of macedonia, is already a member of the european union . it became a candidate in 2004. negotiations began at the end of 2005. then there is a process of checking the legislation for the possibility of negotiations. then there is a year of delay because the republic of slovenia, which was alre

this is the european union. kiev will cope with all this it is difficult to even imagine in the ranking of corruption of the international transformation organization international ukraine competes with niger 32 points and it became possible does it need the most corrupt country in europe? 122 place ahead of the niger, but lagging behind the wedding with such a result, ukraine turns out to be the second most pomped country in europe. what can you say about such a devastating outcome. i don't want to make excuses. this is the state of affairs, and we must correct this if we see the prospect of man and the performance in the european union - this is the first step towards membership. this perspective will allow us to eradicate the evil of corruption from that perspective. ukraine would remain in the gray zone between russia and the european union, and nothing would help it with anything after the eu itself will remain, georgia, which, at the same time as moldova, the offended prime minister garibashvili, called the

you are right. at that moment, the european union did not react properly. ou already said in 2014, after the russian aggression in crimea and in the luhansk and donetsk regions, the european union introduced sanctions , then decided to stop holding certain meetings at the ministerial level, then also decided to exclude russia from the g8 and did several things with which they wanted to convince russia that aggression against ukraine was unacceptable, but this was not enough, so a number of european political leaders who continued to conduct dialogue with putin must have convinced him that he could continue his aggression against such countries as ukraine, moldova, georgia, that is why i believe that at that time we had the opportunity to show more confidence and strength towards putin and then we could make him pay the highest price for this aggression to explain to such politicians that it is impossible to conduct a dialogue with a country that does not respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors, so i completely agree with you that t

well, it turns out that we were in the soviet union for a long time, then we left the soviet union, bute were still in the orbit of the russian federation. which was and remains the heiress of the soviet union, do we put a cross on the, relatively speaking, the eastern direction, which constantly pulls us back to the last time, the historical day that this cross will finally be placed , and you know, mr. serhiy, i think that he has putting the cross is not as formal as it is in the cities of all our citizens, because unfortunately there are still quite a number of those who, until the 24th, were at least nostalgic for the soviet union, then remembered the sausage 2.20 are there potatoes for 8 kopecks each and so on, that is, we must hold the last revolution in our cities and if it does not happen, there will always be those who will say that we are doing something wrong we are not going there, but the ussr was great and we had a good time in it, actually you know because of that to me it seems er well, although it is small, but still er, well, a noticeable fate of collaborators who are

entered the european union and looking ahead, i will say that now the european union has to think is possible to impose sanctions against the uk, but they don’t know how to do anything else means of persuasion no, well, here, uh, and instead of deepening european integration. they followed the path of expansion in 2004, plus 10 countries, then added 3 more. well, the topic is over. today they have hungary, have poland, have an angel that came out. after all, they still have ukraine that promises either membership or candidacy for membership. that is, if there seems to be less talk about joining the date, then somehow all this endless discussion continues with the european union. here he comes running georgia that speaks. no, excuse me, please, we stood in this line earlier and we, in fact , love ukraine very much, but, nevertheless, the european union is stronger and really want to go there, but here, how to be. what to do with the fact that, like, under the auspices of ukraine, all these endless sanctions are being introduced and the suk on which the european union sits is sawn,

ukrainian side, kyivstar vodafone and lifecell joined the statement, and from the european unione, more than 30 operators ukraine continues to take measures to ensure free or reduced roaming tariff for ukrainians in the eu in the long term or at least until the end of the war and we are actively communicating with the european union regarding joining the single roaming space of the eu and concluding a corresponding bilateral agreement. thank you, ms. olya olga krevska, she was in touch with us. she is a state expert of the expert group on european integration and euro-atlantic integration. we will pass on and win the news together . we are a strong ship, madam

ukraine's retention of the status of a member of the european union, a candidate for a member of the union. yes, i think that this is a very important strategic decision for ukraine, including that it is important for many states that declared their intentions to join the european union, but we understand that the european bureaucracy of the european countries, first of all, the founders of the european union, the countries of western europe, they proceed from the necessity of making such decisions , the analysis is carried out in a sufficiently long-term perspective, this is still not the stage when it was 2000 and these issues were the beginning of two when these proposals for joining the european union and the countries of the former socialist camp were resolved much faster, but of course i think that this is a certain degree and a test for the european union to what extent it is able to react to the critical crisis situation that arose in connection with the war with russia with the support of the lukashenko regime in relation to ukraine, i am convinced that both ukraine and the

the unions say the government blocked negotiations.he government could have made a move to settle this dispute but instead they are escalating. the lies they are telling about railway workers and the railway industry are outrageous. 90% of trains cancelled here in scotland, with no services outside the central belt. how is the strike affecting you? are you working from home? did you have a trickyjourney to work? do you support the strikes? we'd like to hear your thoughts. get in touch with me on twitter @annitabbc and use the hashtag #bbcyourquestions. in other news, a senior ukrainian official says russian forces have almost captured the strategic city of severodonetsk, with ukrainian forces holding on to just one factory. a russian nobel peace laureate auctions his medal for £81; million to raise funds for children displaced by the war in ukraine. and to mark his 40th birthday, new photos are released of prince william selling the big issue — we look back at his four decades in the spotlight. good morning. the biggest rail strike in

or the european union. ant, they are ready to help us avoid our mistakes and at the same time what if buty here and here and here with your examples in your opinion as far as possible it seems and on the other hand well, in ukraine a certain culture prevails a little different political it was said by the teacher to live help financially we ourselves all we know and we want to manage everything, as it were, here are the ambitions of our political elite to somehow re-educate the fact that we were moving fast, everything is very simple, i will answer you here in the words of our great genius taras shevchenko, learn from others, learn from your own avoid it, it is very correct to learn like all smart people from mistakes or from problematic moments that others have already passed and know how to properly address them , and here it seems to me that not only the polish experience will be useful for us, we have already learned a lot. by the way, we have learned from the polish experience including in relation to t

and use the legislation of the european union and its construction standards and etc. efore, ukraine, through its civil society and the government, should develop this vision , this plan. i know that the government is working on this. many working groups have already been created, and i think that some of these plans will be presented in lugano. this is what dorobok and businesses and the government and civil society will do, and this should inspire not only donors but also the people of ukraine, first of all, so that people understand that what will be built will be built for them in terms of sources of funding, then here there will be different categories. i will focus on the first , the most important, first of all, it is the confiscation of russian assets. i know that in each and every jurisdiction where russian assets were frozen, specific laws must be adopted, a procedure developed, and this will also be accompanied by court cases, of course but no matter what, the assets of russia should be one of the main sources that should be used in the country for the recove

this is the highest political body of the european union, to which the heads of state and government of all eu members belong. at this meeting , the issue of granting ukraine the status will be discussed. e.e. candidate for joining the european union, this issue is of course of fundamental importance for ukraine and this goal is very difficult, will ukraine receive the status of a candidate for membership in the european union in june, e.e. who supports ukraine, which forces, for what reasons, are cautious about accelerated integration. what homework should ukraine do and, in principle, how do we see our immediate and medium-term prospects in relations with the european union? we will discuss these issues today with our respected participants and guests of ivanka klymkostinzavdze very, very coolly said once that the european integration of ukraine has a female face and it is indeed so and it is a great honor and pleasure for me to introduce our participants, first of all ms. olena kondratyuk, deputy speaker of the verkhovna rada thank you for your knew olha stefanyshyn , deputy prime

our government will find tools of persuasion orbán is so because hungary remains a member of the european union where the principle of liberal veto applies , that is, if one country resists, well, unfortunately, it is very difficult to overcome it in a direct public on the other hand, we understand that there are still very clear requirements for ukraine and i do not know what is happening in the decision-making centers there, but i would like to receive very specific feedback in terms of the implementation of this issue of the constitutional court and so on. and so on, in fact, the question is a lot, and so to speak, it would be wrong to just write it off for the war, because the specialized departments of the ministry and the verkhovna rada are working. well, in fact, this work continues in one way or another, but we have to show the results of the reforms, because in general there are there is a theory among many of my colleagues that the war, on the contrary, can facilitate reform because, due to the aggression of the russians, due to the coherence of the public response, once again, we hav

we aspire and want to directly obtain membership in the european union. we will talk about this and other things now with maryna bardina, people's deputy of ukraine, deputy chairman the committee on foreign policy and inter- parliamentary cooperation, we welcome you. good evening. if we talk about timelines, timelines, when could we expect any change in the issue of ukraine's membership at the same time when we hear a lot of different statements from european leaders about that this is not a matter of the near future, even perhaps not a year, not two, but decades, well, first of all, i would not rush ahead and talk now about the month of june and the results of our work in june on the eu summit, because now the number one task is to get, of course, the official status of a candidate for full membership in the european union, and in the story it was said that the president himself this week, in order to participate in the meeting of the european council, said that this is the only way and no other alliances are related to membership in such a european famil

of the european union. very much appreciate serbia's courageous stand in this regard. uh, personally president aleksandar vučić, who emphasizes that he will not engage in anti-russian activities, but the european union wants exactly this. he wants exactly that, uh, all candidates take on obligations of a russophobic nature, but the situation has certainly shown what it's worth. membership of montenegro and north macedonia in north atlantic alliance and why does nato need such countries, they need it solely to , uh, punish russia in order to expand the anti-russian foothold in europe and create, uh, threats and create mechanisms, as i said, containment is not at all something, but what require article ten of the washington treaty on the establishment of the north atlantic alliance , which, as we quoted not so long ago, but assumes that the new members. first, they must meet the criteria. and secondly, the most most importantly, they should bring added value to the alliance in terms of strengthening the secur

the idea of ​​such a symbolic and initial idea of ​​ukraine joining the european union. litical decision, and secondly for hungary, it is an economic, purely economic decision, because i know that hungary was even overloaded by cutting some financial aid. from the european union, it is possible for mrs. yulia to say that they went to a meeting a lot, for example, in hungary, in the matter of sanctions, they removed kirill how much do you remember gundyaev from the sanctions package and made concessions in other eh let's say so in european moments, so i think that, but i will also tell you that hungary will be exactly that country that will look with a big magnifying glass at everything that we will accept, how we will go towards the path to the members will be to consider whether the one and only law on the protection of national minorities on which they pedaled so much is education. don't forget the question. here is the law on education where they uh let's say that they spoke like this and they raise it again and again they raise the issue even in private meetings of th

so you are asking about the general membership of ukraine in the european union. i would still make a clear distinction about the candidate right now, and now we are talking about the fact that today we are the first to take this fundamental step we are striving to anchor ukraine in the european future. you don’t know the fund so clearly and we must give ourselves a full report on the fact that we have enough problems with what we did not finish at home . we can definitely do some work with you to be proud of how much we managed to do in recent years after the revolution of dignity, and this is a huge list of things that seemed impossible at the beginning of february or march of 2014 and here all these people who are participating in this discussion today have definitely contributed to in order for us to succeed, we can regret that something uh, that something won't make it in time, but it seems to me that today we are not talking about any, we can't uh, talk about any bureaucratic legal casuistry, which should stand in the way today of the adoption of the politica

into the european union of the 21st century with of the state where it is now. uropean union is actually the 20th century with the procedures of the 20th century and the adoption of ukraine - this is a chance for them and a very big chance and profit and in the end a chance to become a geopolitical player. the future is the same, and as a chance for us to reboot into the future, one of the steps to this reboot happened or ukraine took the day when the european commission made a decision on the possible candidacy of ukraine in the union, this decision to introduce a visa regime with the russian federation at the same time as this arises completely a logical question, if we introduce visas for russians, why don't we introduce visas for belarusians, because ukraine actually understands that belarus is a base for russian saboteurs for the russian troops and for russians in general, why don’t we see this whole picture and only make fragmentary decisions on visas for russians ? i don’t have an answer . said about this. perhaps you remember. i always advocated a biometr

into the european union of the 21st century from the state in which it is now. uropean union is actually the 20th century with the procedures of the 20th century and in ukraine - this is a chance for them and a very big chance and profit and ultimately a chance to become a geopolitical player . the day when the european commission made a decision on the possible candidacy of ukraine to the union, this decision on the introduction of a visa regime with the russian federation, at the same time as this, a completely logical question arises, if we introduce visas for russians, then why do we not introduce visas for belarusians, because ukraine actually understands that belarus is a base for russian saboteurs. for russian troops and for russians in general, why don't we see this picture in full? and we only make fragmentary decisions on visas for russians. i have no answer. the visa regime from russia, let's be honest, and it should have been introduced much earlier and i talked about it. perhaps you remember that i always advocated a biometric visa regime with russia

but the european union has just shown its moral and political bankruptcy to fate. ner and the so-called supporters of the fact that the issue remained in the european union; you see, ukraine understands how important the unity of pro-european democrats is rushing to join the european union, and it is meeting them in spite of what difficulties they face. and we are turning into some kind of provincialism. they share interestingly, of course, that the bitch from the point of view of ukraine, everything looks completely different talks about a possible alliance became more active among the allies of the countries that most supported ukraine both militarily and humanitarianally, and great britain naturally belongs there, and countries such as the baltic countries, poland, even talked about a kind of military alliance that we call the union, which informally i doubt that i would exist in parallel with nato, but again, this is our perspective, the perspective of ukraine, do they talk about similar things in britain at all, and how does this relate to the idea more of a te

the union will write to the education secretary, nadhim zahawi, this week. rescue teams have been active throughout the region to bring people trapped by floodwaters to safety. the sylhet region in eastern bangladesh is among the worst affected, with much of the area without electricity and internet access. planes have been grounded and trains suspended. forecasters are warning the situation is likely to deteriorate in the coming days. western leaders are warning that the war in ukraine could last for years and sustained support will be required to defeat the russian invasion. britain's prime minister, borisjohnson who visited kyiv on friday has set out a four—point plan to supply weapons and economic assistance. and as fighting continues around the eastern cities of severodonetsk and lysychansk, nato's political chief, jens stoltenberg warned that the west "must prepare for the fact that it could take years. we must not let up in supporting ukraine and that it should do so even if the costs are high, not only for military support, also because of rising ene

possible, against the background of the tragedy that is happening in ukraine, to appeal to the european union that we need to get membership, but look at what led to our application led to the fact that there was a split in the european union that previously existed in terms of the expansion of the eu to the east of europe and it generally led to an even greater split and a number of countries oppose the acquisition of giving even us candidates put themselves in a difficult situation in the conditions of the war, as for me, such an application should not have been submitted at all. this is my personal opinion, of course, now returning to what you continued, i perfectly understand and realize that the institutions that we have formed in ukraine, they do not fully correspond to the criteria and requirements that should be a country that aspires to be a member of the common euro, as well as at the time on populist slogans, we included in the e-e constitution of ukraine our european and euro-atlantic aspirations as one of such very cool political-technological moves instead of reforms that would

i have always said that we ukrainians believe in the european union, although we remained formally then union was probably the most flags of the united europe in our country. they were in the hands of our people during the revolution. they were in the hands of our people . in the trenches since 2014, i believe that the flag of the european union will be in every ukrainian city. we still have to release from the fingers of the russian federation, the ukrainian and european flags will be together when we rebuild our state after this war and today i want to thank separately and precisely within the framework of our joint meeting i myself want to thank our heroes, each and every one who defends independence with weapons in hand ukraine protects the freedom of europe. i thank you for making possible the new history of ukraine, the new history of europe even stronger and freer. thank you very much to all of you. glory to ukraine, thank you very much for your an appeal for your kind words and also about the words of unification and here is the strength i am showing and we will really cooperat

, the main purpose of limiting the supply of gas to the european union on the part of russia is to achieve the lifting of sanctions from russia due to the war against ukraine and it is interesting now how much power there is in europe in general to get through this crisis unscathed from this gas war, well, it is doubtful, but in principle it is possible to get through it . gazprom really began to manipulate the volumes of supplies to the market of the european union . actually started when in may sanctions were imposed on the yamal gas pipeline to europe, and then there were manipulations with the use of the ukrainian route . thus, in fact, gazprom does not use the ukrainian route, it is used only 40% less than 40% of the paid capacity, the next step that gazprom resorted to is a reduction, a significant reduction in nord stream supplies, uh, arguing the standard argument, arguing that they are innocent, they are guilty of sanctions . miller also joked that you can resort to the use of the nord stream the second one, which was built, and not only that, they will also stop the tu

the union sa s could put on the table. the union says workers _ could put on the table.ld put on the table. the union says workers need a _ could put on the table. the union says workers need a pay - could put on the table. the union says workers need a pay rise - could put on the table. the union says workers need a pay rise that reflects the increased cost of living, and jobs, terms and conditions must be protected. last—ditch talks this afternoon failed to reach a settlement with the rmt rejecting payoff worth 3%. facing such an faced with such an aggressive agenda of cuts to jobs, conditions, pay and pensions, the rmt has no choice but to defend our members industrially and to stop this race to the bottom. labour and the unions have been calling on ministers to intervene to try to solve the dispute. the transport — try to solve the dispute. the transport secretary - try to solve the dispute. the transport secretary today insisted that wasn't his place. the employers have the facility _ that wasn't his place. the employers have the facility to _ that wasn't his place.

i don't think there's any need for the _ of the union. the union. i don't think there's any need for the strikes at - of the union. i don't think there's any need for the strikes at all - of the union. i don't think there's| any need for the strikes at all and i appealed directly to people working for the railways, you are laid down a cul—de—sac by the union leadership telling you there is no pay rise memories. trying to create some sort of class war when there is none to be had. we people to be paid more, we want sensible reforms and modernisation of the railways to run it for their passengers.— it for their passengers. union leaders say — it for their passengers. union leaders say members - it for their passengers. union leaders say members are - it for their passengers. union i leaders say members are facing it for their passengers. union - leaders say members are facing a real terms pay cut. they're also what about conditions and job cuts. we do not want to be the cause of disruption — we do not want to be the cause of disruption and p

what are the standards required for membership in the european union? ecutor's office, the eu advisory mission, which was really here before the start of the last phase of the war on february 24, we also support the work of the international criminal court. we have joint investigative teams created between member states, because different countries and members can also investigate such cases, this is called universal jurisdiction in that country -members will cooperate as a whole in the euro is a body that leads the process by which law enforcement agencies of member states exchange information about crimes based on cross-border bases, it was set up to allow the preservation of evidence from ukraine for their further use, and we also established cooperation with the united states and the united kingdom, so cooperation with the prosecutor's office in cooperation with the international criminal court will continue and of course we continue to discuss with the ukrainian authorities so that eventually we brought to justice those guilty of war crimes and viol

itself, the attitudes of the citizens of the european union that we see now, except for hungary for sure, are also psychologically and according to these balls, they support ukraine supports the provision of asus and this will be a political fork in the heads of the european union countries and they will have to choose because right now we need to try to come up with a third option, this is actually an attempt to look good in front of our faces. no, this will be a betrayal of us. i believe that ukraine has definitely done a lot more to show the european society among many, many countries of the european union, especially such as vegetables , so in this case, i think we need to put pressure on the situation in order to give us candidates for countries like austria, well, it is not very favorable for us here, and there are other countries that are not such as the czech republic, poland, slovakia, other countries that are quite active and supportive, there is a high level of activity of the ukrainian diaspora of the historical i think that there are, according to this survey, signi

today in brussels , the historic summit of the european union is taking place. the 27 member countries of the european union have to give an answer to whether it receives candidate status. ukraine and moldova, meanwhile, the russians continue their offensive on severodonetsk and lysychansk, the enemy is also attacking mykolaiv, odesa, sumy oblast , dnipropetrovsk oblast , shelling of populated areas of ukraine is underway in almost all southern and eastern regions, while the occupiers continue to lose strength and live equipment , starting from february 24, the enemy has already lost in ukraine has almost 34,000 people, 15 tanks, 3,632 armored fighting vehicles , 756 artillery systems, 238 rocket launchers, 99 anti-aircraft weapons of defense 216 aircraft 183 helicopters 2548 units of automotive equipment 14 ships boats - 130 cruise missiles - 620 drones 61 units of special equipment today about ukraine in the european union as well as the prospects of ukraine's integration into the north atlantic alliance and russia's conflict with lithuania let's talk with our

this is a gross violation by the european union of its own international legal obligations temporarilycharge d'affaires of lithuania was summoned to smolenskaya square today, and the kremlin has already promised vilnius retaliatory measures. what and what will happen now with logistics elizabeth dealt with khramtsova? unpleasant, but decided to call the situation with the restriction of transit in kaliningrad after lithuania stopped passing some of the goods to the territory of the russian ex- clave to the new ferry line. and we brought to the line another dry cargo ship, which came to us from the black sea basin. now there are quite a lot of carrying capacities in the baltic free, which we actually already. uh, we are discussing their launch on the line in the coming days, and with several companies, so i am sure that there will be no problems with the delivery or export of goods, and from the territory of the region we will not have to replace the railway transit, we will need seven more ships, and according to anton alikhanov they can be provided within a week. in addition, in addit

the rmt trade union is striking — that stands for the national union of rail, maritime and transport f staff are due to walk out — staff working at network rail — responsible for the railways tracks and infrastructure — and, at 13 operating companies which run the trains. the rmt represents lots of different positions from guards to catering staff. the strikes are happening because negotiations failed. let's look at how this all unfolded — and what the different sides are saying. this will strike us one of the largest for years and is being led by one union. largest for years and is being led by one union-— largest for years and is being led by one union. every worker in this country deserves _ by one union. every worker in this country deserves to _ by one union. every worker in this country deserves to negotiate - by one union. every worker in this country deserves to negotiate a i by one union. every worker in this | country deserves to negotiate a pay raise an burden on their conditions because if you're not bargaining for strong trade union, you are begging. there bargaining on b

that is, it is not a question of the future of ukraine in the european union, it is a question of theean union if on today, the europeans will not be able to reach an agreement on ukraine's future application to the eu, well, this means that i think that serious processes will begin in the european union fragmentation and centrifugal processes because i think that some countries of the european union are our staunchest supporters well, they are unlikely to put up with such a statement of the question and such a blatant disregard for their position on the part of well, the so -called old europe, they are inclined to think that after all wisdom european leaders will have enough wisdom and the issue of the candidate will be resolved positively, but already the processes of acquiring a full-fledged member will definitely take much more time, but unfortunately now we see that apart from we also have ardent supporters of the opposition in the european union, in your opinion, who are the main oppositionists on our path to european integration? well, i wouldn't even say oppositionist, i would

the the union should only talk to the railway unions.— the union should only talk to the railway unions railway unions. the government has it within its power _ railway unions. the government has it within its power to _ railway unions. the government has it within its power to convene - it within its power to convene talks, — it within its power to convene talks, bringing _ it within its power to convene talks, bringing the _ it within its power to convene talks, bringing the trade - it within its power to convene . talks, bringing the trade unions together— talks, bringing the trade unions together to _ talks, bringing the trade unions together to find _ talks, bringing the trade unions together to find a _ talks, bringing the trade unions together to find a resolution - talks, bringing the trade unions together to find a resolution to| together to find a resolution to this _ together to find a resolution to this and — together to find a resolution to this and it _ together to find a resolution to this. and it is _ together to find a resolution to this. and it is beyond - together to

the european union granted ukraine the status of a candidate country for membership. a decisive moment for the european union of ukraine and democracy in our country. common continent because europe is our common home, russian armed aggression will not be able to deprive people in europe of the right to live a normal and dignified life, ukraine will win, europe will win, we will go through a long journey together, which begins today. membership in the european union with this historic decision the european union sends a powerful signal the ukrainian people are part of the european family of nations the future of ukraine in to the european union, ukraine and the eu continue to stand together in defense of peace. ukraine is incredibly grateful to you and to the european family. thank you. thank you . taras. cossacks after the october coup, the unr army led by peter bolbochan drove the bolsheviks out of the city." today, pavlograd is under fire, but it continues to help everyone who needs it because it is a pavlograd citizen it is well remembered that it was easier to dr

be the reaction of the various european unions to such a political decision, and will the european uniona result end up facing the threat of further stagnation, and in the future, collapse? well, that's why i started talking the words that we today, well , the president of ukraine zelensky spoke. he said that we will not agree to any surrogates, well, you understand the point, we do not need to offer any alternatives to the european union, but the problem is that the european union can really turn itself into such surrogates. well, when, for example, the same, as i already said, the higher countries, e. the opinion is not taken into account enough what is it that their interests are neglected here yes what is there some old europe well, i have lost a little sense of reality, i want to live in some kind of comfortable past, which today no longer exists and maybe on european. well, in this european continent , some different blocs may once again form . both military-political and economic blocs. let 's look at the story with brad. look , i just want to draw the attention of ukrainians . oh

who fought to preserve the union? as a president who present fought to preserve the values of our union. and thank you all for being here. and being part of this effort. have a great day.

well, how are our neighbors in the european union already helping us? et's call our lithuanian friends neighbors do you remember they collected for the bayraktar collected what now lithuanian journalist andriyu stafina will say that there are ideas, but for now he prefers not to reveal the details in an interview to the public, he said that he has no doubt that lithuanians will not tire of supporting ukraine , eh, can they, for example colleague from lanarmovsk, we are listening hello andriy thank you very much for your time, i think that a lot of ukrainians would like to say to you in principle thank you thank you for the efforts you are making to collect money for weapons for ukraine how did this idea come about to collect money for bayraktar, i really want to clarify, uh, was it somehow related to the fact that you were unhappy with the way uh , the weapon was dropped in other countries for ukraine well, yes, there could be some coincidence, but we are my tv company life of stb we help, we try to help ukraine with funds, at the beginning of the war we