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[00:00:00] same, but the problem is obvious here is that
[00:00:03] Russia has a huge network of oil refineries, and Ukraine does not have a single
[00:00:07] functioning oil refinery at the moment, so
[00:00:10] it's very difficult to imagine what Ukraine could
[00:00:14] gain from such an agreement, Guoda? Augustinas, this Trump's move and
[00:00:17] agreement is seen as pre-election, as really
[00:00:21] aimed at the domestic audience and the domestic market. On the other hand,
[00:00:24] the latest polls actually show that residents
[00:00:27] see that the cost of living is rising and they directly link it to Donald
[00:00:30] Trump's policies, what are the republican sentiments and
[00:00:34] polls for them before the November third
[00:00:37] elections?
[00:00:40] Indeed, this is a huge problem for Donald Trump and the main motivation
[00:00:44] for Donald Trump, why Donald Trump is now looking for those
[00:00:46] additional diesel sources, your mentioned polls
[00:00:50] show that even 78%
[00:00:52] of United States voters currently blame the White
[00:00:56] House for prices rising faster than
[00:00:59] their incomes, and for Donald Trump, another very
[00:01:02] worrying statistic should be that
[00:01:05] 57% of republican voters say that currently
[00:01:09] prices in the United States are rising faster than
[00:01:12] incomes and the situation before the congressional elections is
[00:01:16] such that even in states
[00:01:18] like Iowa, where President Donald
[00:01:22] Trump's voters dominate, where democrats have not won since Barack Obama's
[00:01:26] time, there Donald Trump's voters, farmers are suffering from...
[00:01:30] high diesel prices and currently in polls in such republican
[00:01:33] states like Iowa even a democratic
[00:01:37] candidate for the senate is leading, therefore Donald Trump is now resorting to such
[00:01:40] measures, looking for additional diesel fuel sources,
[00:01:44] however, the obvious problem is that the diesel promised
[00:01:47] by Donald Trump from Russia, the first batch
[00:01:50] of 3000 tons of diesel, later half a million, half a million tons
[00:01:54] of diesel, these are small quantities, these are not quantities
[00:01:58] that can reduce diesel prices in the United
[00:02:01] States, and Donald Trump in exchange for that small
[00:02:05] amount of diesel gives Russia something potentially much bigger, that is, the easing
[00:02:08] of United States sanctions.
[00:02:11] will only become more emboldened, he understands that Thank you, Augustinas Šemelis, live from Washington, we leave you to wait for new
[00:02:15] Donald Trump's statements, and we continue the topic with diplomat Viktoras
[00:02:19] Sidabris in the studio and public relations expert and business consultant Arūnas
[00:02:23] Pemkus. Welcome. Mr. Pemkus, from previous conversations you
[00:02:26] have said more than once, I don't necessarily agree with Trump's
[00:02:30] actions, his statements, but you saw their
[00:02:33] logic, do you also see the logic
[00:02:37] of this Russian diesel
[00:02:38] and and and again there, well, this time? Yes, this is a typical Trump
[00:02:41] move, to create chaos
[00:02:45] in communication, in order to
[00:02:48] achieve some other goal.
[00:02:51] My colleague, friend, Viktoras,
[00:02:54] who will probably contradict my opinion
[00:02:57] a said that everything should
[00:03:01] be read
[00:03:03] as it is said, I, on the contrary, I say
[00:03:06] that there is something hidden behind all that
[00:03:10] chaos, but not necessarily good hidden, not necessarily good for
[00:03:13] Ukraine and so on, it seems that in general, the Ukrainians have
[00:03:17] said, both unofficially and officially,
[00:03:20] that if there was some
[00:03:23] agreement that the Russians
[00:03:25] would stop bombing energy installations,
[00:03:30] energy points in Ukraine, then the Ukrainians
[00:03:34] would do exactly the same, so
[00:03:37] this small step, in reality it's a small step, the media,
[00:03:40] politics have inflated this bubble enormously,
[00:03:44] that small step was supposed to be
[00:03:47] like a litmus test for the Russians, whether
[00:03:51] they would really pass that test,
[00:03:54] on the same day when it was announced that
[00:03:58] Americans would somehow... ease sanctions
[00:04:01] a into the Kharkiv
[00:04:03] power plant was hit by missiles, so
[00:04:07] the question is whether the Russians
[00:04:10] will adhere to that verbal
[00:04:13] agreement, let's say, at the moment, but it's not the first time they
[00:04:17] don't adhere to Donald Trump's agreements. Mr. Sidabras,
[00:04:20] how do you assess, if we look from within, that
[00:04:24] this is a decision for the domestic market, this is for Americans, this is for voters
[00:04:28] whom they are still trying to retain, do you see that it can be effective,
[00:04:31] such a move? In my opinion, this is an expression
[00:04:35] of Trump's desperation, um, he
[00:04:38] is very, very unpopular, according
[00:04:41] to polls, all polls, only about 30%
[00:04:45] of voters support him, and 2/3rds rate
[00:04:48] his presidency as bad or even, well, as
[00:04:52] a bad presidency,
[00:04:56] um, diesel prices in America are now over $6
[00:05:00] per. ton, which is like like four liters a is almost
[00:05:03] $7 and they have doubled since last October,
[00:05:07] yes, yes, and um the cost
[00:05:10] of living in America is high and rising,
[00:05:14] a the war in Iran is very unpopular and I
[00:05:17] think Trump is trying, I agree that this is both
[00:05:21] an expression of chaos and an expression of desperation,
[00:05:25] mhm, Mr. Pemkus, the Republican position, in your opinion,
[00:05:28] we talked to Augustinas, just a few, just isolated ones, on the
[00:05:32] other hand, what also seems to show in polls and trends
[00:05:35] is that voters see that
[00:05:39] Republicans supported Trump's decisions on Iran.
[00:05:51] opportunities for Republicans perhaps to oppose a bit more sharply
[00:05:55] until November and perhaps to show a slight difference with
[00:05:58] the president? Well, there are several
[00:06:00] layers
[00:06:02] through which such a question should be answered, it's quite complex, if
[00:06:06] we only talk about elections, that is,
[00:06:09] all Republican representatives and...
[00:06:12] senators who are running, who will be elected on November
[00:06:16] third, some e really try
[00:06:20] to distance themselves from Trump, in order to maintain their
[00:06:24] position, the Republican position in their state,
[00:06:27] a similarly, on the other hand,
[00:06:30] if looking from a diplomatic point of view, from a negotiating point of view
[00:06:33] a
[00:06:35] the statements of several Republican senators and in quotes
[00:06:38] their opposition
[00:06:41] to Trump. unties Trump's hands
[00:06:44] somewhat, there is such
[00:06:47] a saying, if you want an ass to move forward, you can either with a stick or with
[00:06:51] a carrot, so at the same time Trump cannot
[00:06:55] move Russia forward, so in
[00:06:58] this way senators say,
[00:07:01] we will introduce even stricter
[00:07:03] laws, and Trump meanwhile can
[00:07:07] go to Putin and say, listen, I can't do
[00:07:10] anything, Congress is cornering me,
[00:07:13] well, somewhere we need to find common ground,
[00:07:17] because otherwise it will be even worse, and the third thing
[00:07:21] is that through such a
[00:07:24] small step, as I mentioned earlier, it in a way
[00:07:27] corners Putin,
[00:07:30] well, let's remember when yesterday the day before yesterday
[00:07:32] e
[00:07:35] the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Sikorski, perhaps
[00:07:38] somewhat jokingly, said, I wonder if the Russians at all
[00:07:42] will have enough of that fuel to
[00:07:45] export, when even in Moscow itself there is a shortage
[00:07:49] in the streets, aha, so the question is whether
[00:07:52] it's really true, or is this not a verbal cornering?
[00:07:55] Mr. Sidabras, how would you assess that possibility
[00:07:59] to institutionally stop and oppose Donald
[00:08:02] Trump in the United States, or in a way, aren't they
[00:08:05] cornered, in a way perhaps both
[00:08:08] politicians and institutions in the United States, well, according to all
[00:08:12] polls, Democrats
[00:08:16] should win the House of Representatives and there's a very good
[00:08:19] chance they can win the Senate, and here
[00:08:22] Trump is very afraid of this, because he could be
[00:08:26] impeached again, there will be investigations
[00:08:28] into his corruption, into his family's corruption and into
[00:08:32] the corruption of the Republican party, which is now his
[00:08:35] party. I want to ask both of you very briefly,
[00:08:38] speaking on an international level, are there
[00:08:42] situations where Trump gets angry, and indeed, some political scientists say, we are returning
[00:08:46] to those times when Ukraine is pressured and Ukraine is
[00:08:49] accused and Ukraine has to make
[00:08:52] concessions. Mr. Pemkus, would you agree that
[00:08:55] well, Zelensky's rhetoric is indeed once again somewhat
[00:08:59] ungrateful, too sharp, and some even say
[00:09:02] interfering in America's domestic elections? I don't look
[00:09:06] at what the media, with all due
[00:09:09] respect, says about those negotiations, I believe
[00:09:13] that from the very beginning
[00:09:15] the Ukrainians, the Ukrainian government
[00:09:18] coordinated steps with Trump, I have said this more than once
[00:09:22] and even in this case, the Ukrainians have
[00:09:26] stated that for a ceasefire we would agree to
[00:09:29] reduced sanctions, it must be remembered
[00:09:33] that that message is also going
[00:09:36] to Europe, why to Europe, if
[00:09:40] we calculate how much Trump in quotes
[00:09:43] agrees with Putin to buy
[00:09:47] that diesel fuel, it's 2/3rds
[00:09:51] of that amount that Europe
[00:09:54] spent buying liquefied natural gas, ordinary natural
[00:09:57] gas from the same Russia, so if
[00:10:00] there are sanctions, then what Trump says between
[00:10:03] the lines is, dear Europeans, please,
[00:10:07] if we impose sanctions,
[00:10:10] then you also abide by them. So they said, well, all of America
[00:10:14] said with the Lindsey Graham sanction package that
[00:10:18] we will punish buyers of Russian
[00:10:20] energy, but we are buying it ourselves now, but going back to
[00:10:24] that. and Trump's relationship, you
[00:10:27] would indeed see that well, perhaps it's an overreach from
[00:10:31] Volodymyr Zelensky's side and as I say, some say that it's already
[00:10:35] a tendency of interference in domestic elections? Yes,
[00:10:38] I would agree, when
[00:10:41] Zelensky criticized Trump on Saturday, Trump said that
[00:10:44] Ukrainians must elect a new president, also,
[00:10:48] when the energy ceasefire was announced
[00:10:51] on Sunday and for two months.
[00:10:55] it will be with good, as the president
[00:10:58] himself has said, Putin is my friend, Canadians
[00:11:02] are awful, so after two, after a few hours after the ceasefire
[00:11:05] announcement the Russians attacked,
[00:11:08] as we talked about, the Kharkiv
[00:11:11] power plant, so I think
[00:11:14] that Zelensky knows what he is doing, thank you
[00:11:17] very much for your insights, Arūnas Pemkus and Viktoras Sidabras in the important
[00:11:21] hour, and earlier interviewed defense and security center Tallinn.
[00:11:25] Tomas Jarmalavičius believes that such an agreement between Washington and Moscow
[00:11:29] greatly harms allied relations and
[00:11:31] trust. With this deal
[00:11:34] a an attempt is made to simply
[00:11:38] perhaps begin a certain economic
[00:11:41] relations renewal, warming, because well, the main, the main goal
[00:11:45] of the administration after all is to do business with
[00:11:48] Russia, and Ukraine, the war between
[00:11:51] Ukraine and Russia is simply an obstacle to that and and. "if
[00:11:55] it's necessary to press the weaker, at least as they
[00:11:58] imagine, side, then they will do that,
[00:12:02] diplomatically, politically, it undoubtedly sends a very
[00:12:06] bad signal that after all,
[00:12:09] America is walking in circles, returning
[00:12:12] to the beginning of 2025 and the autumn period
[00:12:16] of 2025, when there was again
[00:12:19] a main pressure being exerted
[00:12:22] in the direction of Ukraine and and..." that signal, in reality
[00:12:26] every such signal has consequences not only
[00:12:29] for Russia's behavior,
[00:12:33] for Russia, the Russian regime, Putin
[00:12:36] well, the United States is the weak link and
[00:12:40] that pursuit of business, pursuit of profit is the weak
[00:12:44] point through which one can put pressure with various
[00:12:47] promises, which ultimately will probably not be fulfilled,
[00:12:51] but every such episode also
[00:12:55] has the potential and it used to be that it causes
[00:12:58] a crisis in transatlantic relations between
[00:13:01] Europeans and Americans, so I think that in diplomatic, political
[00:13:05] terms, this is truly a very harmful step and
[00:13:08] now a lot depends on how
[00:13:12] Ukraine will act, how Europeans will act,
[00:13:16] aiming to again reverse Trump's
[00:13:19] position 180 degrees, I think it will succeed,
[00:13:22] it has succeeded in the past, but there is that political nuance,
[00:13:25] that mid-term elections will be held in early
[00:13:29] November, and that political situation,
[00:13:33] in which Donald Trump and the administration,
[00:13:36] the Republican Party are one of the main factors,
[00:13:39] also when taking these steps. Mr. Jermalavičius, as you
[00:13:42] mentioned, pressure on Ukraine, reminiscent of 2025 and indeed
[00:13:46] in March 2025 the promise to stop sharing
[00:13:50] intelligence information with Ukraine was implemented, and these threats
[00:13:54] are being returned to. "Has the situation practically
[00:13:57] changed at all over these past eighteen months, and is the world, in this case Ukraine,
[00:14:01] less dependent on such information from
[00:14:04] Americans?
[00:14:06] A little less, both Europeans and Ukraine itself
[00:14:10] understood that vulnerability,
[00:14:13] made steps to reduce such
[00:14:16] dependency, but it's still not 100% successful,
[00:14:20] and Ukraine is still
[00:14:23] dependent..." quite seriously on satellite
[00:14:26] intelligence, here European capabilities are significantly
[00:14:30] weaker than American ones,
[00:14:32] perhaps Europe has perhaps a quarter of what the United
[00:14:36] States can offer, Americans are also, their
[00:14:40] support is essential for early
[00:14:44] warning about Russian missile
[00:14:47] strikes in the system, and and
[00:14:50] here again it is also a life-saving
[00:14:53] capability, because
[00:14:57] the public can be warned in a timely manner about a
[00:15:00] new attack that has begun
[00:15:04] and also finally for the protection of critical
[00:15:08] infrastructure, and also those intelligence
[00:15:12] capabilities of America are very important when
[00:15:15] it is necessary to carry out strikes that are, let's say,
[00:15:18] time-sensitive when targets
[00:15:22] can change positions, and when "the situation is really
[00:15:26] dynamic, and here American intelligence
[00:15:29] again has an advantage and greater capabilities than
[00:15:32] Europeans, but well, this is again not only not only
[00:15:36] a technical aspect,
[00:15:38] let's say, but also a political one,
[00:15:42] intelligence information, sharing it is probably one of the main
[00:15:45] indicators of mutual trust, it is one of the most sensitive
[00:15:49] pieces of information, one of the most important currencies
[00:15:52] in international relations, and
[00:15:55] here a decrease in that information exchange
[00:15:58] would really show that well, those bilateral relations have really
[00:16:01] deteriorated significantly, Mr. Jermalavičius, briefly, do you see
[00:16:05] such a cognitive dissonance, when well... Trump tries to renew
[00:16:09] economic relations with Russia and on the other hand, the commander
[00:16:13] of US forces in Europe, General Grinkevich, clearly
[00:16:16] warned Russia today that NATO
[00:16:19] would be defended and that the enemy would regret it if
[00:16:23] it tried to test that unity?
[00:16:26] Well, indeed, sometimes it seems that there are
[00:16:29] two Americas, one a traditional
[00:16:32] one that supports, say, the
[00:16:36] bureaucratic, administrative, military apparatus, intelligence
[00:16:39] apparatus, here we can also include the head of
[00:16:43] the Central Intelligence Agency and and
[00:16:45] so on, where the assessment
[00:16:49] of the threat is adequate and the understanding of what
[00:16:53] needs to be done is adequate, where allies are
[00:16:56] respected, where the importance of allies
[00:17:00] for American power and freedom of action
[00:17:03] is understood, well, and there is that other Trump's America, where...
[00:17:07] "where business,
[00:17:09] money,
[00:17:11] enrichment of families
[00:17:13] or related technology oligarchs,
[00:17:16] political ideological nuances are
[00:17:20] much, much more important, well, and those two Americas sometimes
[00:17:23] really don't create such an impression
[00:17:26] of unity, so I think that this only
[00:17:30] strengthens a certain uncertainty or
[00:17:33] a lack of knowledge, how it
[00:17:37] would really be..." during a crisis, which instincts,
[00:17:40] which America in this dynamic,
[00:17:43] let's say, would be superior and would make the main
[00:17:47] decisions.
[00:17:50] As Donald Trump announced, Putin agreed to immediately release
[00:17:54] 3000 tons of diesel into the American
[00:17:57] and world market, which is about half of the quantity consumed
[00:18:00] daily in the United States. In November, the Russians promised Trump
[00:18:03] another half a million tons, and later another million.
[00:18:07] "Until 2025, Russia exported
[00:18:10] an average of about 1.5 million tons of diesel per
[00:18:14] month by sea. If Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries
[00:18:17] continue at similar rates as now, such
[00:18:21] an export without harming
[00:18:24] Russia's own market will become impossible. Alexander Kolyandr,
[00:18:27] Europe Director at political risk consultancy Eurasia Group,
[00:18:31] told the Financial Times that if Russia were to transport
[00:18:34] 3 million tons per month, consumers would earn
[00:18:38] about 1.2 billion dollars more in six months than
[00:18:41] if the current restrictions remained in force, and the federal
[00:18:45] budget, from which the war is financed, would receive
[00:18:48] up to only 100 million
[00:18:50] dollars in additional revenue.
[00:18:54] According to Ukrainian media, the first tanker to deliver diesel
[00:18:57] has already reached the eastern coast of the United
[00:19:00] States today. The international shipping route portal
[00:19:03] confirmed that the tanker Minerva Zen departed from St. Petersburg
[00:19:06] on September 22 and reached
[00:19:10] the port of Wilmington in North Carolina yesterday evening
[00:19:13] US time. Žygimantas Mauricas, chief economist at Luminor
[00:19:16] Bank, says that it seems the agreement reached some time ago
[00:19:19] shows inconsistency in American politics, but it
[00:19:23] will not bring significant financial relief to American
[00:19:26] consumers. Well, it certainly demonstrates
[00:19:30] a very specific policy of the United States, because
[00:19:33] one day it says that we ourselves are the most powerful, have the most
[00:19:37] of our energy resources and will supply the whole world with
[00:19:40] gas, oil, oil
[00:19:43] products, then the next day it is said that we will impose
[00:19:47] sanctions and huge tariffs on all other countries that buy
[00:19:50] from Russia and at the same time it seems that
[00:19:54] an agreement was already made in advance possibly with
[00:19:57] Russia regarding certain oil product imports into the United States,
[00:20:01] the quantity of which will essentially change
[00:20:04] nothing, because that quantity is very small, the United
[00:20:08] States will consume it in less than one day, and essentially the markets will
[00:20:12] not move at all, they even
[00:20:14] moved in the opposite direction today, both oil
[00:20:18] and diesel went up in price, so well, a very
[00:20:21] strange decision, such an economically hard
[00:20:25] to explain decision, politically, as I understand, also hard to explain,
[00:20:28] so maybe something strange is happening behind
[00:20:32] the scenes, let's talk about those practical aspects, there are
[00:20:36] those who believe that Russia is generally not capable of supplying
[00:20:39] such a quantity of diesel to the United States, I
[00:20:43] understand that there is a bigger problem with gasoline, Russia supposedly
[00:20:46] still has diesel reserves, but that doesn't mean that after such political
[00:20:50] decisions, production capacities in Russia
[00:20:53] would increase? No, Russia does not have and does
[00:20:56] not even promise large quantities, the quantities mentioned in
[00:21:00] thousands, millions, may sound impressive to someone
[00:21:04] who is not interested in this field, but
[00:21:07] it is simply a drop in the ocean, it is Russia's quantity that will
[00:21:11] be delivered to America, Trump also says that this will supposedly curb price increases
[00:21:15] worldwide, that is, it
[00:21:19] does not even cover one hour of global
[00:21:22] consumption, if the entire agreed quantity, which still needs to be
[00:21:25] supplied in the future, it is unclear under what circumstances Russia will be able to, but even
[00:21:29] if it can, there are still quite small quantities,
[00:21:33] making up 1% of total global consumption and this
[00:21:37] is a significantly smaller impact than the release
[00:21:40] of agreed reserves by the world's
[00:21:43] major economies, the G7, according to current
[00:21:47] figures, Russia would be able to provide such a quantity.
[00:21:50] But the situation is such that it is unclear how much more of that quantity Ukraine
[00:21:54] will probably damage infrastructure, it would probably
[00:21:58] be able to, as that quantity is not large, but the question is whether that quantity
[00:22:01] will help at all, so as I mentioned, from an economic perspective,
[00:22:05] that decision is essentially not fundamental, it's more of a
[00:22:09] facade for something
[00:22:12] deeper, perhaps some message being sent
[00:22:15] or or simply, well,
[00:22:19] everyone is surprised. both political scientists and economists,
[00:22:22] and it's unclear who is more surprised, economists or political scientists, because the quantities
[00:22:26] officially agreed upon are certainly not
[00:22:28] those that would fundamentally change the situation for Russia itself,
[00:22:32] well, Russia, as Russia, again, there
[00:22:35] the economy does not always play the first violin, they can sacrifice their
[00:22:39] citizens or some partners of theirs, and if it's really
[00:22:43] necessary, then, you know, Russian people will suffer, it often happens that
[00:22:47] day, speaking of prices, you yourself said that internationally those prices even. "have
[00:22:50] gone up, not down, Trump clearly says, my priority is
[00:22:54] farmers, truck
[00:22:57] drivers, on the other hand, and again, what economic
[00:23:00] logic is there here, if well,
[00:23:02] in the global market, diesel will not increase,
[00:23:06] simply Russia will redirect some of it to the United States.
[00:23:10] Well, the logic is indeed very difficult to understand, because the essential
[00:23:13] component causing the shortage is
[00:23:16] the expanding conflict in the East, now again that
[00:23:20] rise today was mainly because the Houthis
[00:23:23] attacked a Saudi Arabian port
[00:23:28] the risk of escalation is
[00:23:31] enormous and also nothing there will solve
[00:23:35] Russia's problems, because those ceasefires, as I understand it, do
[00:23:38] not exist yet and it's unlikely that
[00:23:42] they could be energy ceasefires between Ukraine, if
[00:23:45] they don't happen, then even if Russia manages
[00:23:49] to export some directly to the United States, the
[00:23:52] entire system operates on the principle of interconnected vessels,
[00:23:55] if Russia simply no longer has sufficient production capacity,
[00:23:59] then someone else won't get it. You clearly
[00:24:02] stated that the main problem is the war in the Middle East, that is the topic
[00:24:05] on which Trump and Zelensky disagree. Zelensky precisely
[00:24:09] repeats that the Middle East is the problem. Trump says, your strikes on Russia.
[00:24:13] Can it be mathematically each of these
[00:24:16] sides' importance, Russia and the Middle East.
[00:24:20] The crisis in the Middle East is significantly more important,
[00:24:23] incomparably more important, because the Middle East, first of all, Russia has
[00:24:27] largely withdrawn from the market,
[00:24:31] the Western market, since 2022, as the European
[00:24:34] Union generally stopped importing diesel a long time ago.
[00:24:37] It did import some indirectly, but again,
[00:24:41] these are slightly older data.
[00:24:44] The main impact is the Middle East,
[00:24:48] undoubtedly, so this Trump's again, such an attempt
[00:24:51] to shift the blame to Ukraine is
[00:24:55] not very logical from an economic point of view and
[00:24:59] even more so from a value point of view, because, well, you still
[00:25:02] need to have the strength to admit that it is so,
[00:25:05] if something didn't go according to plan, you need to have the strength to admit
[00:25:09] that it is so and
[00:25:11] simply admit that
[00:25:15] the main challenge is precisely the Middle East. Very briefly, Mr.
[00:25:18] Maurice, do you think Trump has the leverage to make
[00:25:22] those prices in the country at least somewhat
[00:25:25] lower by November 3rd, so that voters
[00:25:28] would not be so angry at him, at least according to the polls? No, I think
[00:25:31] it's too late and he probably understands this, because again, there's very
[00:25:34] little time left and even if
[00:25:37] a miracle happened and the conflict in the Middle East subsided
[00:25:40] and Russia and Ukraine somehow agreed to an energy
[00:25:44] truce, by the time the entire chain
[00:25:47] cascaded down and supply chains were restored,
[00:25:50] it would still be too late. So I would say this is more
[00:25:54] a desperate move of a political campaign to blame someone
[00:25:57] else, not himself.
[00:26:01] The heads of diplomacy of the European Union countries do not condemn Donald Trump's agreement with
[00:26:04] Putin, but they do not believe in its benefits. The Lithuanian Prime Minister
[00:26:08] called it a shameful and dishonorable act.
[00:26:11] Ministers meeting in Luxembourg confirmed the largest sanctions
[00:26:15] list against Russia to date. The blacklist included over 1500
[00:26:18] military industry figures responsible for the production of ballistic
[00:26:21] missiles. From Luxembourg, Milda Vilikanskytė and Evaldas
[00:26:25] Labanauskas. Russia's strike on Kharkiv
[00:26:28] is reported to have killed three and injured nine.
[00:26:32] This explosion immediately after the United States President announced on
[00:26:36] his social network a new energy
[00:26:40] truce agreed between Russia and Ukraine, which, according
[00:26:43] to Donald Trump, came into force immediately.
[00:26:47] We saw a rocket hit a thermal power plant. Trump had
[00:26:50] promised a ceasefire. We did not expect it to hit
[00:26:54] a thermal power plant. Kyiv residents
[00:26:58] also do not believe in a truce. I don't know what kind of truce Trump
[00:27:02] means, we certainly don't feel it. Electricity sometimes
[00:27:05] appears, sometimes disappears, I think, like for everyone
[00:27:08] else. Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia
[00:27:12] hit six energy facilities in Ukraine
[00:27:15] today alone.
[00:27:17] It is clear that Putin does not read Truth Social.
[00:27:20] Zelensky says if there is no truce, Ukraine will continue
[00:27:24] attacks. Russia's Foreign Minister says
[00:27:27] Ukraine, and first and foremost Zelensky, does not
[00:27:31] deserve a truce.
[00:27:33] "I don't think he deserves a reprieve, I also don't think we will trust
[00:27:37] assurances and promises again," the president made that very clear.
[00:27:40] We continue to pursue the goals of the special military
[00:27:44] operation. European Union foreign ministers welcome
[00:27:47] a truce, if there is one, but say it is
[00:27:50] naive to expect good will from Russia. If a truce
[00:27:53] means that Russia and Ukraine agree not to attack Russian
[00:27:57] refining, oil refining factories, well, then
[00:28:00] that is probably not only not serious and not even an insult, I don't even know
[00:28:04] what to call it.
[00:28:08] The heads of diplomacy of the community countries also do not believe in Trump's agreement
[00:28:11] with Putin on diesel imports.
[00:28:15] I don't think this agreement will change oil or diesel prices. It
[00:28:19] is more related to the United States' domestic political situation,
[00:28:22] midterm elections are approaching. Europeans do not
[00:28:25] want to condemn Washington for deciding
[00:28:28] to cooperate with Moscow,
[00:28:32] the United States' stance on the issue of Russia and Ukraine
[00:28:35] often changes. This latest episode
[00:28:38] is not what we have seen, let's say, the worst in
[00:28:42] almost two years. However, the Lithuanian
[00:28:45] Prime Minister speaks boldly to Sky News journalists
[00:28:48] in Poland. Mindaugas Sinkevičius called Trump and Putin's
[00:28:52] agreement shameful and dishonorable.
[00:28:55] The Latvian Foreign Minister wonders if the community even
[00:28:59] has the right to be indignant.
[00:29:02] The European Union first removed two important oligarchs, some of the biggest
[00:29:06] supporters of Putin's regime, from the sanctions list, so before criticizing
[00:29:10] others, the European Union needs to look in the
[00:29:12] mirror. Sanctions are also on
[00:29:16] today's agenda.
[00:29:18] The sanctions we are imposing today on 1600
[00:29:21] entities are simply the largest set of sanctions we have
[00:29:25] imposed since the beginning of the war. They have deprived Vladimir Putin's Russia
[00:29:28] of 500 billion euros in resources, otherwise. Every dollar that
[00:29:32] flows
[00:29:42] into Putin's Russian treasury through energy purchases will be used so that
[00:29:46] Russia can use this money to produce and
[00:29:49] use new weapons against Ukraine.
[00:29:52] European moralizing is hypocritical, says the United
[00:29:55] States Treasury
[00:29:56] Secretary.
[00:30:02] Since the beginning of the war, it has given more to Russians than to Ukrainians, because it cannot
[00:30:06] shake off its dependence on Russian energy. Their
[00:30:10] energy policy has been unsuccessful, and they continue
[00:30:13] to finance Vladimir Putin. So their
[00:30:15] claim that we cannot give a reprieve due to diesel
[00:30:19] prices is completely hypocritical. There is a lot
[00:30:22] of truth in Scott Bennett's words. Media
[00:30:25] reports that in the first nine months of this year, the European Union
[00:30:29] imported a record amount of liquefied
[00:30:32] natural gas from Russia, over 12
[00:30:35] million tons, for which Europeans paid Russia
[00:30:38] eight billion euros.
[00:30:42] However, not only sanctions are now a headache, but also support
[00:30:45] for Ukraine, currently bilateral support,
[00:30:48] the lowest since the full-scale war
[00:30:51] began.
[00:30:54] Other events in the program will be reviewed by Marijus
[00:30:55] Žiedas.