The fighter of the freedom battalion yaroslav lysenko , we will talk about all this a little later before starting our conversation, i suggest you watch how today the fire near yevpatoria in the crimea on the russian complex air defense triumph, the cost of 1 billion 200 Million Dollars has arrived, lets see , im going to blow myself up at 5 30 in the morning, there were 14 explosions, one thing above us was scary or usual, the first time because thats what it was far away in itself and here it was close, it didnt explode, its okay, even though it didnt reach crimea and the occupiers who are on the annexed peninsula are gradually getting used to the strikes of the Defense Forces of ukraine on military facilities, friends for those who are now watching us on youtube , i suggest you take part e in the survey today we ask you about whether ukraine needs diplomatic relations with belarus now yes no your option please write in the comments why we are asking this because today it became known that the European Parliament recommended issuing a warrant from of the International Criminal court, oleksandr lukashenko, to the selfproclaimed president of belarus for the forcible deportation of ukrainian children, will this happen or not . It is not yet known, but the question of whether we need diplomatic relations with the republic of belarus is relevant , so we are actually asking you, we are waiting for the inclusion of Volodymyr Yelchenko, diplomacy, when the permanent representative of ukraine prion and the former ambassador of ukraine to the United States of america, we will naturally start our conversation with what is happening in crimea that over the past few days, we have seen that ukraine systematically destroys the air defense shield over the annexed peninsula. Todays defeat of the triumph antiaircraft missile complex was already the second such Successful Operation by the ukrainian Defense Forces in recent years. On august 23 , the triumph antiaircraft missile complex was also destroyed in crimea. Also the radar station of the teenager alone , which ensured the control of the air situation over the western part of the black sea and the actual destruction of these antiaircraft systems that protected the sky of the annexed peninsula allows ukrainians to hit targets located on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula and in the black sea before that it was hard to imagine that the ukrainian aviation would begin to destroy the submarine fleet of the black black sea fleet right in the docks in the docks the sevastopol Ship Repair Plant also managed to hit the large Amphibious Assault ship minsk and well, of course, this is a great victory for the Defense Forces of ukraine, we have a video of how they damaged the russian Amphibious Assault ship minsk, lets see girls if you can be quieter because i will the armed forces of ukraine have already announced an attack on two russian ships of the project 22 160 type vasyl bykov. The ministry of attack of the Russian Federation said that these two ships, which were in the black sea, did not suffer any damage. The western part of the black sea. What is project 22,160, these are patrol ships, corvettes in russia, they are on the water , 4 are vasiliy bykov, dmitry rogachev, Pavel Derzhavin and sergey kotov, precisely about the attack on the latter today and reported by the Ministry Defense of russia, but they said that it failed, as we can see everything was successful, we are starting to hit the ships of the black sea fleet and those who are in or use social networks maybe you have already seen such a meme where there are a lot of ships of the black sea fleet in the picture, there are somewhere from 60 to 70 of them they are located in the black sea area of the black sea. There was a sign similar to a sea battle where large ships are crossed out. That is, we have already crossed out many ships of the black sea fleet and hit the ships of the black sea fleet. By destroying the air Defense Systems on the Crimean Peninsula , we will have more opportunities and hit these targets more. Well, of course, when ukraine receives longrange missiles, it will be much easier to do it. Taurus tau missiles are longrange missiles that strike at a distance of 500 km, and these longrange missiles allow you to reach, including the crimean bridge, if ukraine receives longrange missiles and taurus and attacks from obviously, the problem of liberating the occupied crimea can be solved considering that the peninsula can always turn into an island , and we already have Volodymyr Yelchenko , a diplomat and a person who represented ukraines interests at the United Nations and the United States of america in 20152020, in contact th years and earlier mr. Volodymyr i congratulate you for the sake of seeing you on our air, we have already started with the joyful news from the Crimean Peninsula about the destruction of the antiaircraft system, the triumph that was this night, the system that was struck, which is worth 1 billion 200 Million Dollars, and last night there was also good news with the waters of the black sea and my sevastopol Ship Repair Plant, can this all be considered as the beginning of the deoccupation of crimea, the beginning that ukrainians talked about in 2022 in a low voice and maybe even tried to take it beyond the scope of the agreement or beyond the Framework Agreements on security guarantees for ukraine, as it was in march 22, er, crimea was outside the framework of these guarantees, without any negotiation process at all. How do you assess the process of er deoccupation, which is starting . That is what is happening. This is exactly how we have heard about it for a long time, and our military said that the protest against the occupation of crimea will actually begin with strikes on the military infrastructure on the peninsula. Well, of course, i am not a military expert, i cannot comment on this, but i am very happy that it has begun. And by the way, this is such a very good gift to our delegation led by president volodymyr zelensky, which is taking place a few days before new york for a general session, especially because any success i wish you more than such a scale of the armed forces of ukraine, of course they are are very widely covered by the world mass media, that is, the whole world will see and hear about it, and it creates such a good background for those negotiations and meetings that our delegation and the president personally will have eh well, of course, there will also be an increase in military aid, i dont know will there be a separate meeting with president biden, but i think that one way or another. Well , there were certain contacts with the americans in new york, of course there will be those public speeches and other things that are always included in the president s program when he is at a special un session for us. So this is it , i repeat once again, it creates such good meat for uh for the successful work of our delegation today. The germans are still thinking about the taurus, and obviously they are thinking until the decision on the transfer of the same class of missiles to the attack force is adopted by the white house, although yesterday i read ee on non englishspeaking resources about what seems to be already washington is close to handing over these longrange missiles. What do you think is holding back the Biden Administration in order to hand them over to the attacks and, lets say, speed up the counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine . To guess that on the one hand, everything that works is so certain , well, too careful, on the american side, we remember how the story was with tanks , airplanes and walls for bees and everything else, now it is already about such a, well, much more powerful and longrange weapons, but if we recall the statements of the same american factors, it was already several months, many months ago, about the fact that there was a question from journalists, is it possible to hit ukraine with such missiles on the territory of crimea . They said that crimea is the territory of ukraine. Therefore, ukraine made its own decisions and has every right to take any military action in relation to crimea, so i think there are no red lines here, we are not fighting against the Russian Federation, although i would like to, but you know, of course, there are certain conditions, there are certain negotiating positions, and we have to act in unison with our partners and allies. So, i think that after all, it will not be long before these media reports that i, like you, also saw i have no other information, but it shows practice, when such leaks of information appear , it means that well, the decision is here, yesterday, mr. Vladimir, uh, kim jongun and Vladimir Putin met in the far east, the leader of north korea came there in his armored train and pushed there a toast in honor Vladimir Putin and wanted him to win the war with ukraine, we have the reaction of matthew miller, the spokesman for the state department of the United States of america, who said that the United States of america is concerned about the deepening of military cooperation between russia and the dprk. Lets listen to what he said. We have not yet seen the full picture of this meeting and we do not know what its results will be, but when you see how kimshinin promises to provide full unconditional support to the socalled sacred struggle of russia for the protection of its security interests, which is certainly not what it does in war against ukraine this is of course a cause for concern and there is also a small synchronicity where miller talks about how putin started the war and what he now wants from north korea, please, a year and a half ago , Vladimir Putin started this war to restore the glory of the russian empire, but all his maximalist and imperialist goals have collapsed and now a year and a half later, after losing tens of thousands of russian soldiers and spending billions and billions of dollars, he is begging kim jongun for help. Here is evidence of what this war is like for russia. We remember putins meeting with kimchinin, when putin collapsed in a chair and listened to talk about what, what, what he wanted, who did what. Putin was a man who shook hands with the leaders of the whole world. Now he has turned into an exile, that is, two exiles met in the far east. Putin flew to kim chynin er to the far east and not kim chynin came to moscow in his armored train, doesnt this mean that putin is turning russia into north korea in this way, that is, but on a larger scale. That is, it is north korea only in on a larger scale and maybe even a little more with a potential that one way or another will someday be curtailed, you know, you can google it and find my statements there five years ago, when i said exactly that , that russia is gradually turning into such a huge northern korea, well, the only thing is that this size makes russia much more dangerous than north korea. We have seen the last years of the decade , how many problems north korea brings to this world, and russia is capable of causing even more problems. She actually speaking and is doing, and its not only the war in ukraine , but on the other hand, you know, one of my diplomat acquaintances said that two odnochestvos met, you are correct in saying that if before how he went to pay his respects to putin in moscow, there is only st. Petersburg himself, now in fact putin is going to pay his respects in this way, allow yourself to fly seven or more time zones , more than that, as far as i understand. This Vladivostok Economic Forum , socalled, was specially invented, where five and a half people sat in the hall, that is, not even russian taboranda i couldnt show a better picture. That is, all this was done so that putin wanted to be there in one way or another and was planning to be there. Well, how else can he get there . So well see. Well, i dont think that north korea is capable of significantly strengthening the military the potential of russia, so this country has a lot of weapons, but we dont have anything about that , well, again, im not a military person, but ive read a lot about it, and by the way, i was on this line of separation on the socalled 38th parallel once in there i already knew a little about this country there the majority of weapons are, well, 4950 samples there of the fifth 59th year there, that is, there are really millions of shells there, guns of this other one , but its all there, i can imagine in what condition it lies there and was stored, so i dont think theres much there eh, these weapons can be used, they say that it is already about logistics. Imagine how many echelons of the entire north korea have to be driven to the european part of russia in order to transfer these weapons into the hands of russian agents. Everything else what russia needs most of all, it is clear that north korea will not give any of this. And i, by the way, well, i heard opinions that it could be such and such a gray zone, that is , they used north korea in order to transfer chinese weapons and chinese weapons to russia through north korea, but i dont think that china will work for you because , first of all, all this is being monitored very carefully and china will definitely fall under crazy sanctions, not among those that were introduced against china, if it directly started supplying russia with some serious weapons so thats all i think it will end with beautiful words, they will sign 28 moral ones about cooperation. Well, you will go in some way to manage this strange country and further, and then he will return and continue to turn russia into a great north korea. You know , the last decisive step is to turn on the internet and then everything will go smoothly steps by the way, we have a fragment of Russian Television where russian propagandists deny it, they say that there was no conversation about weapons, lets hear what propagandist popov said, lets talk about gossip of course, all the headlines are absolutely about who brought the shells here, well, what kind of shells are just not far away, our western colleagues. I think 100,000 north korean soldiers will be placed on the border. When you ask a member of the delegation about this , they simply laugh in response. They did not say a word to military technical cooperation. Well , there are already defined restrictions. Russia complies with all these restrictions, but there is a higher one, which we certainly can talk about , we discuss, we think about it, we do not know anything the last fragment is absolutely so eloquent, that is, even the gur spreads its hands and says well, i dont know if we will win or not, lets end this topic. Did putin always want to have russia as north korea, that is, what kind of example because what he is doing is in principle well, this is not china , this is north korea, typical, you know, maybe the main souls, because, you know, that is total control, not even by the state, but actually by one person over the country. This is probably well, putin had such a mysterious dream. Well, it is possible since the days of the kdb schools there, because well, if he misses the collapse of the soviet union and thinks that no one has done more for this country than joseph stalin, then of course everything must be done as north korea because this is exactly what happened in the soviet union in the last years and the victims are the same concentration camps, but in fact, look at the difference in how they live in north korea and south korea, they are one people and why they are not one people. As putin says, ukrainians and russians its really one nation that way well, what can one crazy dictator do to the country, who then passed it on to one son, then to his grandson, and so on . Well, putin probably wont have such an opportunity , well, but i think that this dream remains with him somewhere, that is, for the times that he considers his there are still people left to live there, and in others he is probably going to live for many more years, but you know, age will take its toll , but during these times, can he not do a lot of damage, first of all, to his own country, and to be honest, this is already happening there and which i started against ukraine, she has already rejected russia many decades ago, it wasnt even soviet times, well, maybe we still have to talk about the fact that there is no internet in russia anymore, that is, it will be complete orwells 1984 , thats it. Thank you, mr. Volodymyr, for this optimistic note about russia, and we will finish the conversation. It was volodymyr yevchenko, a diplomat, a former representative of ukraine to the reorganization of the United Nations and a former ambassador of ukraine to the United States of america, friends, we are working live and conducting a poll today on youtube. Today we are asking you about whether ukraine needs diplomatic relations with belarus right now, yes, no, and your option. Please write in the comments below, we are in touch. Olesya yakhno, a political expert, mrs. Olesya. A topic that is inside the country, not outside, inside is about corruption, because a lot has been said about corruption this week, and today the Anticorruption Court above arrested the former minister of Health Stepanov in absentia, he is suspected of involvement in corruption scheme what was the truth, as it were, before the transition to the ministerial seat 450 million uah violation during the reign of the stateowned enterprise Printing Office ukraine stepanov himself says that this is political persecution that such a thing cannot happen