zoryana stepanenko, radio liberty.kade of the point on the border with slovakia was suspended. the pass, and the deputy minister of infrastructure of ukraine, serhiy derkach, announced this on facebook. mr serhiy has now joined our broadcast, i congratulate you, deputy minister of community development, territories and infrastructure of ukraine, i have the following question for you: the month of the blockade, we see from eu statements that they support ukraine there, nevertheless, and we hear the polish side, here is a new one prime minister mateusz morawiec said that poland will resolutely demand from the european union the renewal of permits for ukraine. what now with the negotiations? today, we have an agreed position with the polish ministry of infrastructure and the european commission on the measures that must be done, by both sides , in order to a unblock the border, but globally in order to improve the infrastructure of the checkpoints, the capacity of trucks to pass through the border and generally remove thi

our correspondent in brussels, zoryana stepanenko, will tell what's new in it. new restrictions appear, and current ones disappear. this mix is ​​more and more common in the sanctions packages implemented by the european union recently. the 12th is no exception. change suffered a rule that russians were forbidden to bring here, in particular, cars with russian license plates. in the same the list contained a lot of other household and tourist items: suitcases, laptops, sunglasses and more could be confiscated at the customs, because it is prohibited. no more, personal items from russia can be brought back to the european union. now about the bans that appear in the new round of sanctions, the eu limits, in particular, the import of russian iron. foils, pipes with a total value of more than 2 billion euros per year. liquefied propane is not allowed here during the one-year transitional period. the eu is trying to close it ways to circumvent sanctions. european companies selling tankers to third parties must now report this. this is how they want to prevent the ap

thank you very much, zoryana stepanenko from brussels.ill talk further about the further european prospects of ukraine , which in practice will mean the decision of the european union to start negotiations on accession to... the eu . kostiantyn eliseyev, the extraordinary plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine, and i will remind you, in the past, the deputy minister of foreign affairs, joins our broadcast , representative of ukraine to the european union and deputy head of the presidential administration. good evening. i congratulate you. mr. yelisev, how not was the news that ukraine was opening the way to negotiations on eu accession a pleasant surprise for you? well, i guess i won't be here... extraordinary as they say, but i took it as a sensational christmas miracle, because let's be honest, not all of us expected such a historic decision to be made in the way that we should have accepted, and so indeed, you remember, even yesterday experts began to analyze plan b, plan v, plan d and so on, but after... suddenly came out with his supe

zoryana stepanenko joins. zoryan, my congratulations. zoryan, you, i see that you hear me.when the vote was taken on the start of negotiations on ukraine's accession to the eu, viktor orban simply left the room and the decision was made in favor of ukraine. but now we see that when they voted for aid for ukraine, orban did not go anywhere and voted against it. how, what are the future prospects, what are they saying about it in the eu. the only thing i can tell you. that she managed to talk to a number of ukrainian politicians in the morning, and they say that ukraine really needs this money, that they say in brussels. good evening, vlasto , you know, here is clearly aware of the fact that you mentioned, and now they will act according to the following plan: they are leaving brussels, that is , the summit, which made many nervous, and surprised, and upset, as in the case with makrofin is really completed, and in january at the beginning of february there is no exact date yet. the leaders will return here, although they did not plan, there will be a new emergency summit and

thank you, zoryana stepanenko from brussels was in direct contact with us, where today a historic decisionto start negotiations. well, just now volodymyr fesenko, a political scientist, joins our broadcast, sir. volodymyr, good evening, my greetings, good evening, i congratulate you, and how do you like tonight, did such a decision come as a surprise to you, because if we talked with a colleague, literally no more than 30% , even the european officials themselves gave such a decision, i don't know how they evaluated it in the ukrainian parliament, we will talk to the deputies later, as a political scientist, did you expect that we would have such news today? well, to be honest, it was a pleasant surprise, i was rather a skeptic, i... knew about these forecasts, about 20-30%, i know that our famous diplomats who have connections in europe, well, about the same were assessed, well , taking into account orbán's public, rigid and categorical position, the chances looked like this not very high, i assumed that orbán could play such a long game, block the decision now. in the spring, well, at th

our european correspondent zoryana stepanenko will tell you all the details.ungarian official in the ukrainian summit agenda. the final preparations for this event are on the finish line. the degree of tension is surprisingly high in both brussels and kyiv. the european union's decision to start membership negotiations with ukraine and moldova, the latter in the same package, is at risk of disruption. it is missing, from one capital, at least one only declares its unwillingness to say it publicly, it is budapest. the negotiations between the top diplomats of ukraine and hungary, which took place here in the field of the minister, were not crowned with a breakthrough, no one announced it. meetings of participating countries the european union, where dmytro kuleba was also invited. by the way, this is their first bilateral meeting during russia's full-scale war against ukraine. i would like to note that, for example, with serhii lavrov, peter siya'. saw each other several times during this time. having discussed preparations for the summit with his ukrainian cou