and that he is engaged in economic and political expansion there, let it be, well, yeltsin times, uh, this is a guarantee that we live peacefully, how many states there will be in this territory, one or 40, that is another story, but even one, but adequate, it's better than 40 inadequate ones, you know, because it's not easier for anyone if you're being fired upon by the kuban kazakh republic or whatever they call themselves there.' or the russian federation, a bomb is a bomb, a missile is a missile, you understand, if there is a nuclear weapon at the disposal of some central russia, then it also a nuclear weapon, it does not cease to be a nuclear weapon due to the fact that russia does not control the caucasus, so i say that the road must be taken from the point of view of adequacy, that is what the modern problem is, that there are no even hints of it, to building some kind of normal russian statehood, but again , taking into account the history... from the previous years and

centuries, in russia, as you know, nothing changes for ten years, then it changes in one day, and i believe that we also have this get ready because i'm worried if something changes in russia in one day, so that our compatriots with you do not pluck all the flowers from all the flower beds and run to kiss, hug, oh, what happiness,

unite, let them, let them unite with china, not us, well, yes, but doesn’t it matter, these are their problems, i say once again, if we join nato and the european union, we have a real life, then what are they doing, they can simply become china, this is their problem, we will keep the verse in the translation ukrainian language, and let them read it in chinese, it's their choice, ugh, 55% turnout for the result on the second day - reports the russian tiki enthusiasm like this, but a rather interesting opinion was heard today from one of the interlocutors, that putin is actually madly interested in a high turnout, because the result of the election is already clear to everyone, but relatively speaking, that there would be no questions about the legitimacy and legality of these elections, it is necessary to show that people are going, people are going, and here yulia navalna with her call...

come at 12 o'clock, it doesn't matter for whom, if not for putin, but come, well, a lot such things, in general, is putin really interested and is already thinking about the options, how about these elections in general, to be recognized by someone in the world, to be recognized as the president, i don't see any reason why he should not be recognized, even that that the number of territories that he captured in ukraine has significantly increased, in these territories, of course , no one will recognize the elections, i... recognized them in crimea, yes, regarding the non-recognition of putin, there is a problem here, you do not recognize him, how then all this works, ugh, negotiations, direct communication between the ministries of defense and the general staffs, you see, from time to time the head of the central intelligence agency and the director of the foreign intelligence service meet, from time to time the chief of the general staff and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the united states meet. is happening, there is this

nuclear emergency hotline, if you believe that the power in russia has been usurped, how are you going to talk to them? well, this is a problem, the problem is not that they are legitimate or not , the problem is the need to keep contact with such a state, look at how it happened until the 70s with china, the united states had no contact with the government in beijing, they were considered usurpers. had contacts with the government in taipei, but it could not last forever, it was the same with the soviet union, they believed that it was an illegal government, a government of usurpers, well, only in the 1930s they decided to establish diplomatic relations, the first american president, who established diplomatic relations with the soviet union were generally franklin-detached, it was already the 1930s, and the bolsheviks came to power in 1917, as you remember, but what was the problem, the united states... believed that

there should be some government that would pay off the debts of the russian empire, uh, and the bolsheviks said, excuse me, and that's very good wishes of yours , but you don't admit that... how can we pay you something when you think that we are not the government, we are from whom, on whose behalf we will pay you money, we are usurpers, you do not have diplomatic relations with us, you don't negotiate with us, not you who should send money to the post office, beloved of the american aunts, aunts, well, here is the united states hoping for this money, the great depression began, ugh, and every dollar was in the account, they did not pay them anything in particular, you understand. they decided that they would establish diplomatic relations, well, this is such a mechanization, although they did not think that this government was legitimate, they just wanted to have contact, including with putin, i think that in principle nothing would happen, it would not be bad, if they did not recognize it as legitimate, but

then the question arises, why now, and not earlier, one can think that the previous elections were more legitimate than these, a larger number of territories, well, the largest number of territories is possible. recognize it legitimately, logically , which was not recognized in the same way in crimea, just then , you know, the idea of ​​world democracy is that elections should be democratic, should take place according to certain rules, should, well, all this should have a certain form for that , to be able to talk about anything at all for the state of legitimacy of power is not always connected with democracy, the united states has good relations with states that have never known that that's democracy. this is a question of the legitimacy of the government, you may not recognize a certain government that came to power through a coup and depriving the mandate of the government that received the popular mandate, so the russian federation has not recognized ukrainian governments since 2014, as

is known, and they say that ukrainians they didn't hold elections, it was a coup d'état, but here 's another interesting thing, they sometimes recognize it, sometimes they don't, ugh, they said: it's a junta, remember the 14th year, it's a junta, they came to power through a state transfer , this is an illegal president, the elections are not recognized, when putin came to a meeting in normandy, he did not want to meet with poroshenko, because he believed that he was an illegitimate president, then he walked, walked, seriously, you remember how it all went, he saw that everyone was talking to poroshenko , merkel, hollande, all world leaders, and somehow he looks strange, and he is simple. started these contacts because he decided that he would then declare him legitimate for a certain time, then again the junta, the illegitimate president, the coup, and zelensky the legitimate president, his people elected, we will talk with vladimir alexandrovych, then again the junta,

the illegitimate president, you see, you can play with african countries like this, not only the united states, but other countries. they don't talk, then suddenly they talk, do you remember when the government of the syrian opposition recognized bashar al-assad as legitimate , but now everyone is returning, some are returning but not all, many are returning to damascus, so in order for sharasat to really control syria, you need to talk to him, question real control, he, and his elections, me sorry, very similar to putin's election, and there are countless examples , but an election in... in a territory that is not obvious from the point of view of international law, may not be recognized even in the most democratic state, uh, and control may not be recognized even in the most democratic country, that is why there are no embassies in jerusalem,

except for the embassies of the united states, other countries, they are in tel aviv, because the status of jerusalem is not fully settled, but there absolutely... but transparent democratic elections and local elections transparent, but also, when there are local elections in jerusalem, the residents of east jerusalem do not always participate, because they do not believe that they should participate in israeli, even local elections, but now the local elections in jerusalem begin there is a change because there are arab candidates running there who say listen, the problem is not whether it is legitimate or illegitimate that we can't solve the sewage issue. 20 years, and this is also a problem to some extent, well, how to act in such a situation at the local level self-government, when the territory is not settled, so there are a million different things in this regard in the international plan , everything is transparent with putin, it is

a newly conquered territory, well, there is an occupation regime, when he holds elections or referendums there, it looks comical , everyone understands that. let's, if we've already talked, let's take a look at the middle east, at what's happening directly in israel, in my opinion, very sharp. was joseph biden's thesis regarding mr. netanyahu, his approach to war can harm israel, yes, that is, even from the mouth of the american president there are already doubts about the severity of the military tactics that were chosen in relation to the gaza sector, more precisely, the terrorist hamas, which paid off there properly, eh, how do you now see the development of this in general look at the situation, president. very difficult situation electorally, uh, because a large number

of voters of the democratic party, they really consider this policy of israel to be excessive from the point of view of operation in the gas sector, and they believe that president biden's support for israel in this situation seems archaic, and these people are protesting, even during the primary they will be protesting. and biden understands that this could hurt him to some degree in the presidential election, as you know, because these people are definitely not going to vote for trump, uh, because they're going to know that trump is going to deeply care about all of these opinions of theirs, but they may not go to vote for biden, they may simply not go to vote, think that this and that candidate are equally concerned about this problem, and biden needs to prove, it is not about israel at all. which is not the same, huh, and that's why he talks about humanitarian aid to gaza, but

today, when he speaks, he talked about aid to ukraine, about aid to israel and , of course, about humanitarian aid to gaza, building a pier there, this will not solve the problem, but it at least it will show his interest in the humanitarian problems of gaza, israel lives properly. political life, prime minister nittanyak has absolutely no interest in who is elected president of the united states states, and more, he does not absolutely do not want biden to be elected, uh , he does not need biden at all, he will absolutely not mind if his turn is trump, so no one will bother him, he will calmly finish this operation, drive out hamas from gaza, and that's the end of the story, they don't seem to care as much about aid as we do, they care about aid, it's harder for them to fight, but i 'm just telling you that biden... not soyu-netaho not an ally of biden, just biden is not an ally, he is one, you see, even a leader

the democratic majority in the senate chuck shumir says that israel needs new elections because this government will not listen to us and it could cost us an election victory, or congressmen, democrats victory not before the election, ugh, this is absolutely an electoral story, on the other hand on the other hand, there is another problem here, that when... the democrats say that about gas, they may lose the traditional electorate, because american jews vote for democracy, this is the nuclear electorate of the democrats, and i have already read the texts of the american media, they say, that they are all more watch fox news because they believe that all these democratic party media, there is cnn and so on, they just do not give an adequate picture of the middle east from the point of view of these people, and this can be an additional electorate of the republicans. and so they got confused, this is not a story about the middle east, there is

an anti-terrorist operation in the middle east, uh, and the goal of this anti-terrorist operation should be to destroy the terrorist group hamas, of course there are serious problems for the civilian population in the gas sector, and for the civilian population russian the federation has problems when we hit belgorod or go to graivoronsky district, we want to go to some village of tsotkina there, these are serious problems of the civilian population, by the way, this is a civilian population unlike the sector. they can be ethnic ukrainians, because they live there, you see, there are two villages on the border, there is tiotkina, this village is ethnically ukrainian, opposite the village on the territory of ukraine, ethnic russians live there, that ’s how it happened, that’s how the borders look, and these ethnic russians , who live on the territory of ukraine, they want the rdc to do something with these ethnic ukrainians who live on the territory of russia. well, we, no one, we will not tell our citizens, you know, you are some kind of animals

, you do not feel sorry for the people who are currently suffering under shelling in belgorod, because they will say, let these people stop the war, we did not start, ugh, what is different from the point of view of the civilian population of the gas sector, 90% of whom are supported by hamas, keep these hostages in their families, help terrorists, of course. any child, any woman, any a civilian who dies, but this is the situation, if you conduct an anti-terrorist operation, the civilian population is used by terrorists as shields, becomes involuntarily. victim of this whole catastrophe, if you want terrorism to continue, you can stop listening to the international community, europeans and americans, and then there will be a new raid, if you want to ensure security, you spit absolutely everyone's chatter and finish this matter, from the point of view netanyahu, i'm just giving you a position because netanyahu understands what if he won't do it, he'll lose power

, he might lose it anyway, but he has a chance if he completes this task, if he doesn't, what's left of him, and that's why they 're maneuvering, the americans are talking to the opposition leaders who are now in netanyahu's office with the benigans, the benigans went to washington, ugh, met with kamala hadis, the vice president of the united states, without informing the prime minister, can you imagine, he's part of the cabinet , ugh, well imagine if we had that. so that we have, say, there prime minister shmyhal would go to paris or washington without informing zelensky about it, and there he would have some conversations of his own, this is impossible, but these are the political realities in the middle east, others, why do the americans talk to benigans, because

they need to show that there are other political forces in israel that are ready for a more cautious approach, but none of these... people who are talking to them are going to finish any operation either, and that's why it's such a tedious negotiation process , in agreed it is clear what, every day, they are negotiations continue, everyone hoped that there would be a truce in ramadan, unfortunately, it did not happen, but the negotiations do not end for a single day, well, they go on all the time, and some of them, maybe.. . some of them we don't know, well at least that's what some of the media say, of course, but the fact that they are happening in qatar, that they are happening with the mediation of saudi arabia, says that the arab world does not want a confrontation with israel, uh, and wishes for an armistice and the end of the war, and that too very much an important point, a few words still in iran,

of course they deny it, but information appeared in the media that secret negotiations may take place between this country and the united states. despite all the rather sharp assessments of each other, well, we have actually been following similar stories, now in the focus of attention, i will just remind you, the red sea is just a crazy economic zone in terms of intensity, and it would be good if the yemeni houthis would still withdraw from the practice shelling the waters of the red sea, the usa is trying to achieve this, allegedly in negotiations with iranians, who actually control this terrorist. biden in oman, our beloved oman, talked to the deputy minister of foreign affairs of iran, and no one knew about it, that is, incredible things are happening behind the scenes, incredible things, you

see what politics looks like, we live here all the time in oman, while the matter is happening in delusion. the secret talks are not a story we created, which we will learn about only after the change of power in ukraine, i think that after that we will learn what really happened in oman, something was happening there, obviously, well , but we know now how it can be in oman, not in qatar, not in qatar, and don't forget that this meeting in oman was in january, and now it's march, now imagine that we... you and i know about the political process in general. we will learn in 2024 that there were intensive consultations 22 regarding the use of nuclear weapons by russia. yes, when everyone convinced us: "no, no, no, it's all fiction, it 's all delusion, it's all propaganda, no one seriously discusses it, at that time serious adults the uncles were having meetings about what they should do if this

nuclear bomb was actually dropped because they had intelligence on the table. it's been two years, we're discussing it." as a political fact, now it's march 2024, we 're discussing what happened in january 2022, as if it's news, it used to be like this once 100 years ago, when i was in march someone found out that somewhere, the emperor of one country had a secret meeting with the emperor of another, until the telegraph agencies reported it, and someone found out, and in the newspaper that was published it was printed, that's how we found out, and now we don't we get news day by day, but the main news. somehow we don't get it, so, well , some of the news, frankly, and it's good that maybe we don't get it, or we get it in a shortened format, especially when it concerns real armed assistance there. for us from partners, a few words just from you, mr. vitaly, scholz, macron, yes, germany and france, er, the front-runners, you know,

such in europe, er, very important players, in general, what is happening between the leaders of these countries and or, let's say, they are now engaged in pulling the ukrainian blanket, each on his own, in an effort to prove that each of them helps more. what is happening is that, in principle, always happens in the electoral environment, there is a struggle for leadership, that is, germany is the absolute leader in helping ukraine in europe, but macron is trying to be a leader in terms of intentions and, if you like, the spirit, the zeitgeist, what scholz is absolutely not ready to do, that is, macron starts talking to putin in putin's language harshly. moving the red lines, saying that there are no red lines, we used to hear that only from putin. scholz tries to act, you know, not so much as a politician, but as an accountant, and therefore becomes

weaker than macron. of course, if merkel were the head of the german government now, macron would not do anything like this, because merkel would be the leader of the situation in her role. how she would do it, i don't know, but i am absolutely sure that she... germany's help to ukraine, uh, well, in political intentions, statements and her weight, and if she doesn't want to do it, why doesn't he is interested in it, or is he simply not it turns out, i think he is not interested in this, because he believes that if he behaves like this, then it creates unnecessary confrontation, escalation, he does not want escalation, he is ready to help, but he does not want escalation from russia, merkel yes does not look like the woman who dreamed of this escalation. she always dreamed of leadership, yes, if you remember, in the minsk process , merkel was the leader, not hollande or macron, it's true, yes, and merkel talked to putin the way she wanted to talk, that's just now

merkel's legacy, for trying to keep her putin from the war seems contradictory, and maybe we are not talking about this, and by the way, you remember this story that i told about putin, which i told william beross that if, that since merkel is not there, then there is no europe leader, and these are also conditions for the fact that i can... fight ukraine, so putin was aware of the weight and influence of merkel, more than many of them, but we are not talking about that now, just about these efforts to show macron , that he is the leader, it is expressed in public statements, these public statements create a certain background in france itself, they force other politicians to catch up with him, and that is why marine le pen goes to the podium of the national assembly and says that russia is an aggressor, which, you know, was hard to imagine. even a month ago, yes, everyone understands that they have to work out this agenda if they don't want to lose to macron, especially before the european parliament elections. that's

point number one, point number two is that they're forced to do all of this because they're actually doing a dress rehearsal of what they're going to do before the presidential election in the united states, uh, because if... the united states leaves europe, there will be a different configuration of forces and efforts altogether. i always say that you should not assume that this may not happen at all. the world role of the united states is not very old. it all started after the second world war, not after the first world war, after the first world war. the united states has given up its world role, it could have had one, but most americans felt it didn't need to. this decline'. president woodrow wilson was simply denied, and no one said that the legacy of the post -world war ii presidents will not be denied, because trump is about a different

legacy, a return to the traditional policy of isolationism, and this return did not begin under trump, but under nobel laureate barack obama, ugh , it's barack obama who came out with a policy of isolationism, we 're not going anywhere... we don't interfere, he was forced against his own will, because it doesn't happen that way, but he already set the tone, which was in a grotesque form, then repeated by donald trump, so for by and large real the heir of barack obama is donald trump, not joseph biden, because both hillary clinton and joseph biden, they are rather heirs of this post-war political line of role. america, that is, there is the america of reagan, bush, biden, clinton, there, i don't know, this is america from, relatively speaking, roosevelt and truman

to... uh, to biden, through bush jr., and there is the america of obama and trump, the left america and right-wing america, but very similar isolationist america, just like before world war ii, both democrats and republicans, both parties were absolutely isolationists, they did not have a disagreement on this issue, relatively speaking, the political program of obama's isocyanism and the political program of trump's isocyanism are not very different. well, trump is simply emphasizing migrants , which obama did not do, but if we do not interfere, these are both, they are the same, they are political twins, and this must also be understood, and this means that if such different people as donald trump and barack obama all profess the same religion while hating each other, then this means that we have problems, that what is that, that the world has problems, that america's isolationism is not an accident, it's...

not some, you know, anomaly associated with trump, it's a serious political movement that can win, and then, absolutely, europe will be left alone with russia and china, well, if china unless it attacks some area of ​​american interests and forces america to come back to life again, in a bloody way, and we need to prepare for this, i think, because it will be a serious test, i think that russia has all the possibilities in this case. to increase their chances of, if not war, at least political control in europe, because europeans may react to this situation differently than we think, they may be scared, not politicians, ordinary people, will look for those politicians who will agree with moscow, if we are not protected by washington, there must be someone who

will agree with... your marine le pen, the alternative for germany, sara wagechnet, geert wilders, matteo salvini, viktor orban , the polish confederation, robert fico, the party, as it was called, revival, i don't want such a european union, but i to you, i am simply calling you the forces that already exist and some are already in power, but some, but we are talking about a trend. in ukraine, exactly the same political forces will be in power, which will have 703% of voters, and zelensky will be considered by these forces to be the leader of the war party, well, these are not fleeting processes, and this should be understood about the consequences that may occur in the event if america goes into isolationism, that's a real possibility, it's not a political fantasy, it's just one option, another

option might be that this trend won't... win, i sincerely hope so, but guarantees, as you know, can't be given i can, i must to consider all these two options, the america of truman, eisenhower, kennedy, carter, clinton, ugh, reagan, biden, and the america we love, or america, obama and trump, huber, ugh, yes. america we don't know, thank you, thank you, it's a little scary, to be honest, but next saturday we will meet again and talk again about the main events of the week ahead. vitaly portnikov, khrystyna yatskiv and the saturday politkrup.

it's 2 p.m. in ukraine, for your attention a news release on the espresso tv channel in iryna's studio koval, i welcome all the viewers and now to the most important events. an 86-year-old woman was injured in an enemy attack on myrnograd in donetsk region. at night, the occupiers hit the city with three rockets, which are currently being installed, the regional police informed. eight apartment buildings, three administrative buildings, two shops, two trade pavilions, a utility company and cars were damaged. earlier, russian invaders attacked selidove, wounded an elderly resident, fired shells at a water pumping station, more than 12,000 people were left without water subscribers, also a lot of damage and destruction.