Went without zelensky; as a member of the twenty , they managed to avoid the bullshit of ukraine ; fugitive russian artists are asking to return to their homeland. Whether the motherland is ready to take them back, look right now. Hello, is this Meeting Place on ntv a place where everything becomes clear . Im Andrey Norkin my colleague ivan trushkin. We are working live. As you can see from our announcement. Today we have a lot of different topics. Well, we will start, as always, with the news. I would like that said, even with the good news about annulina berba. Well, really, i even felt a little sorry for my aunt. So she finally solved her transport problems. If you remember, she tried to fly away some time ago , tried to fly away twice, in my opinion, she couldnt do it both times to australia because two planes broke down in a row. Then that week she wanted to go somewhere by train, the train broke down. Well, thats all, its good now. Yes, yes, the train has been repaired, where should we go . Well , naturally to kiev. Here she is there this morning arrived, everything is the same as in the case of the us secretary of state, such a veil of secrecy and mystery. Well, nevertheless, something is already done now. You can tell after the fact, it means you have arrived, i repeat again on the train at the station. Now you will see her met by the ambassador of uh, germany in ukraine, his name is martin jager. Well, thats probably it anyway. Uh, man. And this is his wife. I dont know, this is probably the german ambassador, but it doesnt matter, and the head of german diplomacy assured representatives of the kiev regime of unwavering support from at the same time, berlin really called on kiev to continue the reform , including that aimed at fighting corruption in the official kamenka , which was published by the german, saying that verbak made an unexpected visit to kiev as a sign of support for ukraines efforts to join the European Union. Stefan steffing what to expect from the visit of the head of the ministry of Foreign Affairs to ukraine, the minister will meet with the president of ukraine, support for ukraine will be discussed , one of the topics is the supply of longrange cruise missiles, of course, the situation in ukraine will be discussed at the front, they will also discuss such issues as ukraines accession to the European Union and the further implementation of reforms. Including in the fight against corruption in ukraine, well, us secretary of state anthony blinken, who, as you remember, recently visited kiev for 2 days, barely left the ukrainian capital, began to give a very peculiar interview. For example, there is an interview with the abc tv channel where he reflects that if moscow shows interest in negotiations on ukraine, then ukraine tells us blinkin is ready for such a peace process, in fact, he says that ukraine is ready for negotiations, which directly contradicts the position of kiev, which was enshrined in law a year ago. As for negotiations, it takes two to make a difference, and so far we have not seen any signs of diplomatic interests on the part of Vladimir Putin, and if he shows interest, then i think the ukrainians will be the first. Who will enter into negotiations . And we will be right behind them, Everyone Wants this military conflict to end, but it must end on fair and sustainable terms, reflecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine. Well, the terrorists feel the shame of the jewish people. Zelensky, apparently, feels like the ground is slipping from under his feet. Yes, its better to have a kind of interview with the british edition of the icon. There he appeared as such an offended blackmailer, firstly. He says that he feels that the consensus of western countries on ukraine is somehow falling apart and moving apart and threatens those who try to make things worse from this concept. When i read hear and see in their eyes, we will always be with you, but i see that he or she is not here with us when some partners say, so what about the counteroffensive, when will the next step be . My answer today is that our steps are probably faster than the new sanctions packages, interview. This came out as a subtitle. This is a bad moment for diplomacy. And there , the terrorist zelensky called on western politicians to abandon the idea of negotiations with russia altogether and believe in ukraines chance to carry out a successful counteroffensive. He also assured that he himself is physically and emotionally ready for a protracted war of attrition in russia, but for this he lacks according to zelensky, western resources will not stop the curtailment of aid to kiev. End of the conflict. She is against his words. This will lead to a prolongation of hostilities, but moreover, the terrorist zelensky threatens that stopping funding for ukraine could provoke an unforeseen reaction from thousands . Ukrainians who have now settled in western countries after the start of the conflict, well, the pentagon believes that they have a month left, but maybe a month and a half in order to do something with their counteroffensive, because otherwise nature will already intervene, the roads will become soft due to the rains and some opportunity for maneuvering at the front will disappear. You see, this is general miles, the head of the American Joint chiefs of staff, but according to us, this is like the chief of staff. Here he speaks directly about this ukrainians are still making sustainable progress. There is still plenty of time left, probably about 3045 days , before bad weather could hinder them. So the ukrainians are not finished yet. The fighting is not over yet. They did not complete the combat part what they are trying to achieve is too early to say that the ukrainian counteroffensive has failed or has not failed; heavy fighting is taking place. Well, here we can andreevich move from the battles that are already underway to battles. I wanted to close the topic of blinkins trip, because over the past few days there have been a lot of different pictures related to how blinkin and kuleba sat at mcdonalds and in kiev. And i liked it most of all. Eh, just a little bit yesterday, its the latest one. Eh, i came across this picture, and its interesting such an angle and right on top of them, how was it filmed there . Well, apparently someone raised the camera there and its very clearly visible, which means that there s a bag of fries lying next to the kuleba in the hands of the pie and its written that the kuleba is talking. Or maybe well take something else, and theyll celebrate the blinkin, eat it, lets have it, its delicious , period, i liked it, so lets get to the news. We will come back again, and now the next one is ours. Eh, this one is the first one today. And i would like to start blok in the program again with the classic saying of zemaner alter coumarin to the republics, if you remember in the film mimino the phrase people like you disgrace the republic , uttered by professor khachak, extremely dissatisfied with the activities of his namesake. It seems to me that now professor khachaan probably has the same thing. It would be possible to say this phrase in some broader sense over the last few years. There has been so much news related to armenia. Ahh. Of course, we couldnt ignore this topic anymore, but this is the proposal. This means that armenianamerican military exercises began today. Thats right today we will start from this moment with this fact and gradually we will rewind all these events, all this news back, because i want to raise, in general, what is happening. On monday, a tenday joint exercise with the United States called eagle partner 2023 started in armenia ; the composition of the participants, however, is quite modest, only 85 american soldiers and 175 armenian ones in yerevan , against the backdrop of another aggravation of relations with neighboring azerbaijan, the event was called important and they are already promising to prepare an Armenian Army so that it meets nato standards. The decision to conduct the us exercise is a sovereign decision of armenia. I understand that various parties may have concerns and express dissatisfaction. The decision taken is also a reaction and result of the deepening armenianamerican relations. The maneuvers in armenia naturally alerted russia. Moreover, after yerevan in january refused the planned exercises of the csto forces on armenian territory, which includes armenia, the kremlin said that they would monitor the situation with the americanarmenian exercises, the head of the Russian Foreign ministry spoke out more straightforwardly, the aggressive country nata and is trying to penetrate the transcaucasus, uh, we dont see. I dont think that this is good, but its good for someone, including armenia itself, wherever the americans appear. They know, they have hundreds of bases all over the world nowhere. This doesnt do any good. Against this background, armenia is also actively inviting armenia into its ranks; such an invitation was made last week by the president of the nato European Development committee , gunter felingar. Federation council of russia armenians are warned against rapprochement with the western military bloc, but in yerevan itself they assure that they were not invited to nato. Nobody in nato called on armenia to join the alliance, but yerevan is ready to continue cooperation with this organization, as for the partnership between armenia and nato, it is being implemented, we have been cooperating with nato in various formats for several years and the armenians themselves are ready to continue this process. More and more people identify themselves with the western world, especially those living in the United States. Last friday, Rolling Stone magazine published an open letter models Kim Kardashian and armenianamerican director Eric Israelian to president biden. They called on the United States to intervene in the conflict with azerbaijan and prevent a new genocide of the armenians in january from reilian, together with the singer of armenian origin, cher wrote an article for the american magazine newsu and where he also called on the white house to help her ivan we ask our political leaders in the United States and the people of all of the world who care about justice and decency boycott and sanction these bloody regimes shutting down the neverending flow of money and applying more consistent standards when it comes to protecting human rights. Come on, destroy the shera. This, of course, is impossible for cher forever or 20, probably back at her farewell concert nothing grandma sings like this gevorg valerievich why is such cosmic speed just in the last few days, but was taken by yerevan in the process of rapprochement with america and with nato, is this rapprochement at all, and you think no, maybe it could be shown then, like two questions would be good . You they took it as an epigraph, and it became professor khachakyan. I would take another word from the minister. Lavrovs two words much acceptance reflects everything that the armenian leadership is doing now. And it would seem, yes, well, people are engaged in collective suicide by destroying their own state, but in reality , everything, unfortunately, is much more complicated. So you say, why has everything accelerated so much . Because what we see now is part of a great strategy that the armenian leadership has. Its not like pashinyan has been developing over the past years and i know yours relationship, but still try to explain to me, you are saying suicide to the state, but it is unlikely that the person who occupies the main position, well, the president. Eh, a little aside, the main person in armenia is the Prime Minister. Yes. So he occupies such a post and he wants to destroy his country, he probably has some kind of logic of his own, fish quote, i dont really like it, theres no need to confuse your fur with the state. Yes, in this case , mr. Pashinyan is not guided by the interests of the armenian state. Somehow someone, because he is interested in the armenian state obvious and, unfortunately, for him there is no alternative. Armenia has no other options other than to completely rely on russia for its security , simply because not because we are good or someone is bad, but simply because there are no alternatives to russia; neither iran nor the United States nor france can ensure the security of the armenian states. Why is this all that we are showing now, because this is yet to come. As part of a strategy aimed at ousting russia from the south caucasus, which is implementing pashinyan, at least since the eighteenth year since his premiership, elements of this strategy were the release of karabakh in the twentieth year. An element of this strategy is also an attempt to explain to the armenians to explain to the armenians incorrectly that russia is not a reliable partner. Why are relations now being escalated, including allegedly with russia . Well, they demand too much from russia. Put her in the place of the russian leadership. Now there is a lot from russia that demands that russia defend there and do something. Believe in your peacemakers creative mandate. Thats the point of the russian leadership now doing something risky with a knife in the back from the tires. Lets maxim anatolyevich yes, i shook my head at the same questions, just yes, come on, come on, answer, why has it accelerated right now . Well, because a new war is approaching, because azerbaijan with a high degree of probability may start very soon. A new operation the azerbaijani troops were already concentrating, there were already a lot of personnel where they were so tactical like zet and in ours before 24 february. In general, uh, in this situation, pashinyan wants to explain the inevitable future defeat and the inevitable future concessions to his electorate to his compatriots in the easiest way, that russia is to blame for everything , its our ally who abandoned us, this ally allows the azerbaijanis to carry out a blockade of karabakh a and in general, now there is no choice left for us and a new election but to turn around. Yes, no , wait, please wait. And what, the United States, if events develop as you say, they will find that this its impossible to explain, because i agree with gevorg. Well, thats how it happened. This is the situation in armenia, what to protect . Maybe only russia if america wants to protect, it cant wont want to for many reasons, even the collective west, for example france, where the most powerful Armenian Diaspora cant do anything militarily that could affect aliyev, there wont be soso sanctions, because the west depends from Azerbaijani Energy resources, which have now been replaced, so europe does not depend. It seems to me that you are Alexander Nikolaevich they said that you admit that the americans will somehow seriously intervene on the armenian side. Why is it that armenian politicians come as a surprise to me personally, that for a long time i was convinced of exactly what gevorg said. So, in general, armenia is the representative of russia in the south caucasus , there are no alternatives, and so on. But i knew that there was a huge amount of american or socalled democratic ngos, there was soft power there, and so on. Further, but the ratio is this, uh, about 60 to 40, it remained in favor of russia and suddenly like this. Heres the turn. Well, what can i say, they were very offended. They expected appropriate steps from the state clinical hospital. Which ones, accordingly, will the dkb fully support them with armed intervention, including Alexander Nikolaevich alexandrovich themselves . The csto can intervene . When it defends one of its members, if armenia recognized, for example, nagornokarabakh as its territory, i dont know if it would have declared, im completely pashinyansky, if they recognized this as an independent fraternal state for themselves, and so on. They themselves have not recognized or declared any general mobilization, and they also want the territory, thank you, well, exactly. Thank you, it is impossible not to mention all these claims and they began long before , all these claims began when there was no incident. Now were talking were talking, now wait. Now, if about now there was a question that you have not yet answered now Alexander Mikhailovich lets see ah. And how is america . Hmm, physically, what can they do . Do . Well, in fact , they can put pressure on both ankara and baku, so they put pressure on ankara. Something doesnt really show up as a wolf. Lets see, because politics. And what is happening now in armenia does not appeal to me either, because after the last few months , from the point of view of yerevan, the main culprit, from the point of view of yerevan, of everything that is happening, for some reason, is russian inaction. And there is always any problem there. It was the russians who didnt do enough or didnt do it. Lets get the material on last this week, numerous videos appeared on social networks where columns of Azerbaijani Military equipment were allegedly moving towards the border. With armenia, footage later appeared of the transfer of armenian equipment. And it also seems like boundaries at the official level. Completely mutual accusations against azerbaijan. It has been accumulating troops along the contact line for several days. In nagornokarabakh and the armenians on the azerbaijani border , armenian hate speech has become more intense in the azerbaijani press and propaganda platforms. Armenian the military in karabakh left the barracks area and were transferred to forward positions. Which indicates high combat readiness, while in yerevan for some reason they decided to shift responsibility for the tension in the region to russia at the beginning of last week, armenia recalled its permanent representative from the collective security treaty organization; moreover, in the local Security Council they say that membership in the organization creates certain problems. And when the csto asked for protection, the anamul did not act, and the claim to moscow is said by Prime Minister pashinyan, according to him version, our peacekeepers allegedly do not fulfill their