00:01Tuesday marks exactly four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
00:07On the anniversary, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the country has preserved its
00:12statehood, while allies promised continued support and peace on Kyiv's terms. Talks between Kyiv
00:18and Moscow were relaunched last year by the United States, but have so far failed to stop the fighting.
00:3012 years from the beginning of the aggression of Russia, for someone's whole life.
00:36Of course, we all want, to be the war ended, but no one will not allow, to be the end
00:42of Ukraine.
00:43We want a strong and strong peace, long and long.
00:47Putin did not reach his own goals, did not destroy Ukrainians, did not make it in this war.
00:54No, we protected Ukraine, and we will do everything to achieve peace, and to be the right.
01:03Leaders of Ukraine's allies, including European Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen, Finnish
01:08President Alexander Stüb, and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson traveled to Ukraine to mark
01:14the anniversary.
01:15Many European countries are increasing their defense spending in anticipation of a possible
01:21confrontation with Russia. Over the past years, Moscow often threatened Europe while
01:26refusing to come to an agreement over its invasion of Ukraine.
01:30The fallout from the war has been immense. The higher end of the estimated number of soldiers
01:36killed, wounded or missing on both sides is 1.8 million, of which Russia suffered around 1.2
01:43million casualties. Meanwhile, 2025 marked the deadliest year for civilians in Ukraine,
01:49Ukraine. And this winter, the country suffered the worst energy crisis since the start of the invasion.
01:59Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the EU to unblock the 90 billion euros loan to Ukraine and to speed
02:05up his country's accession to the EU. Ukraine President addressed MEPs on video during an extraordinary
02:11session of the European Parliament commemorating four years of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine.
02:17Protect ourselves. There is an important decision, important decision on the table, 90 billion
02:24euros in support for Ukraine over two years. This is a real financial guarantee of our security and
02:32our resilience, and it must be implemented. And it is important for us to receive a clear date for
02:40joining the EU. Hungary blocked the loan to Ukraine and new sanctions against Moscow over an
02:47unrelated energy dispute. As a result, MEP slammed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
03:12In the meantime, EU and European leaders joined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv to attend a
03:20ceremony honoring fallen Ukrainian soldiers during the war.
03:29Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorsky has accused Hungary of deepening its obstruction of EU support for Ukraine,
03:36describing Budapest's latest move to block a 90 billion euro loan and fresh sanctions as an escalation that favors the
03:43Kremlin.
03:43Speaking to Euronews' flagship Europe Today morning program, Sikorsky said Hungary had repeatedly chosen
03:49energy arrangements that indirectly benefit Moscow.
03:52Hungary has had plenty of opportunities over the years to do what the rest of Europe has already done,
03:58namely to sign long-term contracts for the delivery of oil and gas from the south,
04:05without having to buy it directly from Putin, and thereby oiling Putin's war machine.
04:11Sikorsky pointed to previous Hungarian blockages, including the suspension of around 7 billion
04:16euros from the European Peace Facility Funds intended to reimburse member states that supplied military
04:22equipment to Ukraine. With US support for Kyiv increasingly uncertain, Sikorsky argued that Europe's
04:28leverage should not be underestimated. Well, I think our cards, to use a terminology that is close to
04:36Donald Trump's heart, are quite strong. We have supported Ukraine more than the United States.
04:43We are now the sole source of support for the Ukrainian state, for the Ukrainian armed forces,
04:50for the Ukrainian defense industry. And sooner or later will come a point where the United States and Putin
04:58will realize that Ukraine will make its own decisions based on the support that it has from Europe,
05:06and therefore that Europe's view and Europe's security interests cannot be ignored.
05:14Over the past four years, Russia forcefully deported at least 20,000 Ukrainian children.
05:20Kyiv managed to bring back 2,000 of them. Among them is Vlad Buryak. He was 16 when Russian forces
05:27abducted
05:28him at the checkpoint as he tried to evacuate from occupied Melitopol to Zaporyzhye. Vlad was taken first
05:34to the filtration camp and then to a Russian prison. He spent 90 days in captivity.
05:41One of my job was a cleaning torture room. After torturing, in this special room was lots of bloods,
05:53was lots of like medicine bandages and everything. And after torturing, I most of time cleaned a
06:02torture room. After blood, just mop the floor, take off some rubbish from this room. Lots of Russian
06:09soldiers and lots of Russian special forces who torture people. They say that Ukraine not already
06:18exists. Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab placed the number of deported Ukrainian children closer to 35,000.
06:26Moscow claimed that the number could be as high as 700,000.
06:31The actions of the Russian Federation towards Ukrainian children are not isolated incidents or
06:37humanitarian decisions gone wrong. They are part of a deliberate strategy, a state policy of demographic
06:43engineering and identity erasure. This is the arc of Russia's design. Isolate, reprogram, deploy.
06:51If we speak about the scale, the true numbers are only known to Russia.
06:58According to Ukrainian officials, over one and a half million Ukrainian children currently remain under
07:04Russian occupation.
07:34The scale of the large number is not related to Russia.
07:37The number of the number of people who have been in front of Russia.
07:40The number of people who have been in front of Russia and have such a big
07:42country that is not a big company, but a commercial tale. It was not just a bad idea.
07:46It was difficult, but we put the number of the data. We can calculate the same amount in this
07:59and we are going to look forward.
08:03many will be closed or they will fall in the dark.
08:07What would you like to tell us about this situation
08:09in the conditions of a serious change in the law of the law?
08:13The business of the transition to the new system of the law
08:16should no longer be affected by the daughter
08:20and your job that is called.
08:36There appears to be no discussion about returning to the situation where small businesses did not have to deal with
08:45VAT.
08:45I think that's now a permanent change, whatever the rate.
08:48I'm scared for the day. I've never experienced such emotions.
09:36Telegram founder Pavel Durov is being investigated as part of a criminal case on suspicion of aiding terrorist activities, according
09:43to two Russian outlets who did not cite a source.
09:46Both articles, which mention Durov's criminal case, are written in an identical tone and use similar expressions.
09:54In particular, they state that as a result of terrorist attacks carried out using the Telegram messaging app, journalists Daria
10:02Dugina and Vladlin Tatarsky, along with nine high-ranking Russian military personnel, were killed, while four others were wounded.
10:10The articles also state that since 2022, the Russian Security Service has prevented 475 terrorist attacks against the military, government
10:20officials, and infrastructure facilities, all of which were claimed to have been planned using Telegram.
10:29France has banned access to government ministers for U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner after he failed to show up for
10:36a meeting to discuss comments made by the Trump administration about the killing of a far-right activist in Lyon.
10:43According to a statement from the French Foreign Ministry, Kushner would not be allowed direct access to members of the
10:49French government.
10:50The statement, however, added it would be permitted to continue its diplomatic duties and have exchanges with officials.
10:59Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barraud had summoned Kushner, the father of U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law and
11:06advisor Jared Kushner after the U.S. Embassy in Paris, reposted comments by the Trump administration about Quentin Derong.
11:14Derong died from head injuries following clashes between leftist and far-right supporters on the sidelines of a 12 February
11:22protest against a politician from the left-wing France-en-Bout LFI party in Lyon.
11:29The 23-year-old activist killing highlighted a climate of deep political tension in France ahead of next year's presidential
11:36vote.
11:36Kushner had already failed to show up for a meeting he was summoned for in August over his letter to
11:43French President Emmanuel Macron alleging the country did not do enough to combat anti-semitism.
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