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00:00:00This includes not only the attacking forces but everything that
00:00:04supports, maintains, or controls those
00:00:06forces.
00:00:09The European Union has approved the largest and latest list of sanctioned Russian
00:00:12companies and individuals, with 1500 names on it.
00:00:16The sanctions list, which is related
00:00:19to the Russian military industry, as
00:00:23well as to fictitious Russian elections in the occupied Ukrainian
00:00:26territories.
00:00:30Severe floods struck again, overflowing rivers
00:00:33swept away homes and bridges, and damaged part of a hydroelectric power plant.
00:00:48The NATO force commander announced that if necessary, they would not only
00:00:51fight on Russian territory but also destroy its command
00:00:55and control. General Alexus Grinkevičius did not mention
00:00:58Russia once. But the long-prepared speech was intended
00:01:02to signal its exact alliance position, that NATO
00:01:05does not intend to seek a strategic Russian defeat, but only to defend
00:01:09its allies. The General, who also commands American forces in Europe,
00:01:13America, well, stated that he does not see an immediate and inevitable
00:01:16conflict, but he would make any enemy attack
00:01:20meaningless.
00:01:22So that a NATO-Russia war does not break out due to miscalculation. This
00:01:25speech, long prepared and carefully coordinated within the alliance, is intended not
00:01:29so much for an audience in Warsaw as for everyone in the Kremlin.
00:01:33The NATO force commander does not name a plan, he says he has no plans to fight
00:01:36Russia, but he has a theory
00:01:39only becomes even more emboldened, he understands that of how the alliance will make the attack completely meaningless.
00:01:43My theory of victory is simple: we will block the initial
00:01:46attack. If the attack continues, we will stop it and prevent
00:01:50the enemy from moving forward, and if necessary, we will break his forces
00:01:54and the system of war operations lined up against
00:01:57us. Western intelligence warns that Russia,
00:02:00currently incapable of a large-scale war, could seize a small area of NATO
00:02:03and expect the alliance to be reluctant to retaliate, but the force commander
00:02:07insists he will not allow even the slightest attempt. When Moscow
00:02:10justifies its nuclear threats to NATO with the Estonian doctrine
00:02:14of fighting on Russian territory, Grinkevičius himself sends a message
00:02:17that, if necessary, he would even instruct the command. If
00:02:20the enemy decides to continue the attack and deploy
00:02:23reserves, we would break the very system
00:02:26of warfare directed against us. This includes not only attacking.
00:02:37"He hopes to never order it, but the only important thing is that
00:02:41the enemy's conclusion is that today is not that day.
00:02:45In my assessment, the conflict is neither delayed nor
00:02:48inevitable, it is not Senate is leading,
00:02:51conflict is helped by the fact that we have clearly stated our
00:02:54defensive intentions and maintain open lines of communication
00:02:58for misunderstandings to be resolved and transparency
00:03:01to be promoted, but deterring conflict also requires preparedness
00:03:05for war, and preparedness requires planning
00:03:08not only for what is likely, but also for what is
00:03:11possible. The General, who also commands all
00:03:14American forces in Europe, denies the old Kremlin thesis
00:03:17that his wars sought a strategic defeat for Russia. According to him,
00:03:21there are no plans, intentions, or ambitions to attack. The alliance
00:03:24will defend its allies. In addition, NATO is ready to respond to
00:03:28every step of escalation. Even when the US
00:03:31diplomacy chief warned last week that only Russia can
00:03:35dangerously escalate. This is very dangerous in the context of the Russia-Ukraine
00:03:39war, as escalation can turn into a campaign
00:03:42of sabotage in neighboring countries that
00:03:45are NATO members. The Polish Prime Minister, who speaks most loudly about possible Russian escalation,
00:03:49says it is not because he seeks conflict, but to stop Russia from seeking
00:03:53domination.
00:03:55In
00:03:57Poland, with our history, geography, and common
00:04:00sense, nobody, absolutely nobody, wants escalation
00:04:04and war, we all dream of peace,
00:04:07the path to that leads not through weakness, the path to that leads
00:04:11through stopping the aggressor by all available means and
00:04:14forces. When the Ukrainian president stated at the Warsaw
00:04:18forum that after the strikes on Yandex data centers, it suddenly
00:04:22became easier to breathe on social networks. The Lithuanian
00:04:25Prime Minister proposes a concrete way to stop the aggressor.
00:04:29We should ask Mr. Zelensky to
00:04:32attack more data centers in Russia, that could
00:04:36Berlin and Paris are so far only calling for tougher
00:04:38sanctions. Russia will negotiate in good faith only
00:04:42under pressure, which is why we maintain our sanctions
00:04:44on Russia. German intelligence today stated that the goal of hybrid warfare
00:04:48is a new map of Europe and a new role for Russia
00:04:51in Europe.
00:04:54The goal of the shadow war being fought now far surpasses anything
00:04:57we saw during the Cold War. It is clear. Its goal, ultimately,
00:05:01is to destabilize us, to destabilize us to the core,
00:05:04let's put it this way, the goal is not to defeat us in war, but to defeat us politically and
00:05:08socially. When today even Czech intelligence
00:05:11warned that... it is leaning towards more dangerous operations within
00:05:14NATO. The alliance's force commander says allies must unanimously
00:05:18tell Russia where the fatal line is. It is important
00:05:22that allies continue to consult, think about how
00:05:25to respond, and ensure that our message to Russia is clear
00:05:28and concise, where our red
00:05:31lines are. He says there are no things that keep him awake,
00:05:34it's his job to keep others from sleeping
00:05:37peacefully.
00:05:40Less than a month before the midterm elections, Donald Trump repeats that
00:05:44in the agreement on Russian diesel, what matters most to him are American
00:05:48farmers and truck drivers, but polls show that voters tend
00:05:51to directly blame the president's policies for the rising cost
00:05:55of living. We are discussing this and other topics with our correspondent in Washington,
00:05:58Augustinas Šemelis. Hello Augustinas, I want to
00:06:01ask you, we heard that a few, but only a few
00:06:04Republicans publicly say the president is wrong, the president may
00:06:08even be breaking the law. Why only a few?
00:06:14"Hello Guoda, I greet you from the White House, where we await President
00:06:18Donald Trump's latest statements, and speaking of Republican criticism
00:06:21of Donald Trump's diesel deal with Vladimir Putin, yes,
00:06:25you are absolutely right, there are only a few of those Republicans,
00:06:28only a few have dared to publicly criticize Donald
00:06:31Trump, not publicly, Donald Trump is criticized
00:06:34much more often among Republicans, but here it is also very
00:06:38important what argument those critics of Donald Trump
00:06:41use. It is very important that they
00:06:44use not some value argument, which
00:06:48would be very easy for this administration and the White House to dismiss, but they use a very
00:06:52concrete legal argument, so yesterday the Senate Foreign Affairs
00:06:55Committee,
00:06:58both Democrats and Republicans, issued a statement in which they very
00:07:01simply call Donald Trump's agreement on Russian
00:07:05diesel simply illegal, and they call it illegal because
00:07:09in the spring of 2022, after a full-scale
00:07:13Russian invasion of Ukraine, Congress passed a law
00:07:16that explicitly prohibited the United States
00:07:20from importing any Russian energy, and that law leaves
00:07:24only one exception: if the president wanted to stop such a ban
00:07:27and still wanted to start importing Russian
00:07:31energy into the United States, then the president must submit
00:07:35an official certificate to Congress, in which the president
00:07:39determines that Russia has ended
00:07:42its aggression against Ukraine and the war is over on terms
00:07:46acceptable to Ukraine. In that certificate
00:07:49to Congress, the president must also state that
00:07:52Ukraine, that Russia no longer poses any
00:07:55threat to Ukraine's independence and no longer threatens NATO.
00:07:58Obviously, these conditions are not met, and even if they
00:08:02were met, after such a certificate was submitted,
00:08:06it would still be necessary to wait 90 days until
00:08:10the ban on Russian energy imports
00:08:13could be lifted. It is obvious that these conditions are not
00:08:15met, the argument that is on the White
00:08:19House's side, their lawyers can try to argue that
00:08:23the Treasury's announced weekend
00:08:26exemption for Russian diesel until
00:08:29April takes precedence over this
00:08:32law, all these legal ambiguities
00:08:35can be resolved by another Republican member of the House
00:08:39of Representatives, Congressman Brayan Fitzpatrick, he promised
00:08:42another bill that would completely, without any
00:08:46legal ambiguities, once again prohibit any
00:08:49import of Russian energy into the United
00:08:53States. Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican congressman, promises that such
00:08:56a bill would be passed by an overwhelming
00:08:59majority in the House of Representatives. Donald Trump, by the way, could
00:09:03veto such a bill. Well, generally, we are now awaiting
00:09:06Donald Trump's latest statements here in the White House. In a few hours, he should leave the White
00:09:10House. and will have the opportunity to speak
00:09:13to the cameras again, and it will also be very interesting to hear
00:09:17what Donald Trump will say about his announcement regarding those so-called
00:09:21energy truces in Ukraine,
00:09:23Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has already announced that Russia is not abiding
00:09:27by those truces, after Donald Trump's announcement attacked
00:09:30a power plant in Kharkiv, and Axios reported over the weekend
00:09:34that Donald Trump's interpretation of those truces is simply that
00:09:37those truces are an energy
00:09:41oil refinery for an oil refinery,
00:09:45Ukraine would commit not to attack
00:09:48Russian oil refineries if Russia
00:09:51committed to doing the same, but the obvious problem here is that
00:09:55Russia has a huge network of oil refineries, and
00:09:58Ukraine does not have a single operational
00:10:02oil refinery at the moment, so it is simply very difficult
00:10:05to imagine what Ukraine could gain from such an agreement, Guoda.
00:10:09Augustinas, this move by Trump and this agreement is seen as
00:10:12pre-election, as truly aimed at the domestic audience and the domestic
00:10:16market. On the other hand, the latest polls show that
00:10:19residents see that the cost of living is rising and directly attribute
00:10:23this to Donald Trump's policies. What are the moods of Republicans and
00:10:27the polls for them before the November third
00:10:30elections?
00:10:33Indeed, this is a huge problem for Donald Trump and the main motivation
00:10:37for Donald Trump, why Donald Trump is now looking for those additional
00:10:40diesel sources, your mentioned polls show that even
00:10:4478% of United States voters currently
00:10:47blame the White House for prices rising
00:10:51faster than residents' incomes, and for Donald Trump, well, a very
00:10:55disturbing statistic should be that
00:10:5857% of Republican voters say that currently
00:11:02prices in the United States are rising faster than
00:11:05incomes, and the situation before the congressional elections is
00:11:09such that even in such states as
00:11:12Iowa, where President Donald Trump's voters dominate,
00:11:16where Democrats have not won since Barack Obama's time,
00:11:19there Donald Trump's voters, farmers, suffer from
00:11:22high diesel prices, and currently in polls in such
00:11:25Republican states as Iowa, even the Democratic
00:11:29candidate for
00:11:32Trump is now resorting to such measures, looking for additional diesel
00:11:36sources, but the obvious problem is that the diesel promised by Donald
00:11:40Trump from Russia, the first batch
00:11:43of 3,000 tons of diesel, later half a million, half a million tons
00:11:47of diesel, these are small quantities, these are not such quantities
00:11:51that can reduce diesel prices in the United States.
00:11:55And Donald Trump, in exchange for that small quantity of diesel, gives Russia
00:11:59something potentially much larger, which is the easing of United States sanctions.
00:12:03Thank you, Augustinas Šemelis, live from
00:12:06Washington, we leave you to await new statements from Donald Trump, and we
00:12:10continue the topic with diplomat Viktoras Sidabraitis in the studio and
00:12:13public relations expert and business consultant Arūnas Pemkus. Hello. Hello.
00:12:17Mr. Pemkus, from previous conversations you have said many times:
00:12:21"I do not necessarily agree with Trump's actions, his
00:12:23statements." but you would see their logic,
00:12:27do you see the logic of this Russian
00:12:30diesel this time as well? Yes, this is a typical
00:12:34Trump move, to create chaos
00:12:38in communication, in order
00:12:41to achieve some other goal, my colleague, friend
00:12:45Viktor, who will probably
00:12:49disagree with my opinion,
00:12:51will say that everything should be read
00:12:56as it is said, I, on the contrary, say
00:12:59that something is hidden behind all
00:13:02that chaos, but not necessarily good hidden, not necessarily good
00:13:06for Ukraine and so on, it seems that generally Ukrainians have
00:13:09said both unofficially and officially
00:13:13that if there were some agreement
00:13:17that the Russians would no longer bomb energy
00:13:21installations, energy
00:13:25facilities, then Ukrainians would do
00:13:28the same, so this small step,
00:13:32in fact, it is a small step, here the media has inflated
00:13:35this bubble endlessly, that small
00:13:38step should have been like a litmus
00:13:42test for the Russians, whether they would really pass that
00:13:45test. On the same day when
00:13:49it was announced that Americans would somewhat
00:13:52soften sanctions, a power plant in
00:13:56Kharkiv was hit by missiles, so
00:14:00the question is whether the Russians
00:14:03will abide by that verbal,
00:14:06let's say, currently verbal agreement, but it's not the first time
00:14:10they have not kept Donald Trump's agreements. Mr. Sidabras,
00:14:13how do you assess, if we look from within, that
00:14:17this is a decision for the domestic market, this is for Americans, this is for voters
00:14:20they are still trying to retain, do you see that it can be
00:14:24effective? In my opinion, this is
00:14:27an expression of Trump's desperation,
00:14:30he is very, very unpopular, according to all polls,
00:14:34he is supported by perhaps 30% of voters, while
00:14:38two-thirds assess his presidency
00:14:41as bad or even, well, as a bad
00:14:45presidency. Diesel
00:14:49prices in America are now over six dollars a
00:14:52gallon, which is about four liters. They are almost
00:14:56seven dollars and they have doubled since last October,
00:15:00yes, yes, the cost
00:15:03of living in America is high and
00:15:06rising, the war in Iran is very unpopular, and
00:15:10I think Trump is trying, I agree that this
00:15:13is both an expression of chaos and an expression
00:15:16of desperation, mhm, Mr. Pemkus,
00:15:19the Republican position, in your opinion, we talked with Augustinas,
00:15:23only a few, only isolated ones. On the other hand, what also seems
00:15:26to be shown by polls and trends is that
00:15:30voters see that Republicans would support
00:15:33Trump's decisions on Iran, on domestic policy,
00:15:37for example. on reducing federal funds for healthcare, which also costs them dearly,
00:15:40isn't this one of the last attempts,
00:15:44perhaps, for Republicans before November to resist
00:15:47a little more sharply, perhaps to show a difference from
00:15:51the president? Well, there are several layers
00:15:53through which such a question should be answered,
00:15:57it is quite complex, if we are talking only about
00:16:00the elections, that is all Republican
00:16:03representatives and a third of the senators who are running.
00:16:07who will be elected on November third, some
00:16:11are actually trying to distance themselves from
00:16:14Trump in order to maintain their position, the Republican
00:16:18position in their state, similarly
00:16:22from the other side, if looking from a diplomatic point, from a negotiating point
00:16:25of view, the
00:16:28statement of several Republican senators
00:16:31and their so-called disagreement with Trump
00:16:34unties Trump's hand somewhat.
00:16:38There is a saying, if you want
00:16:41a donkey to move forward, you can either use a stick or
00:16:44a carrot, so at the same time Trump cannot
00:16:48move Russia forward, so
00:16:51in this way senators say,
00:16:54we will introduce even stricter
00:16:56laws, and Trump, meanwhile, can
00:17:00go to Putin and say, listen, I can't do anything,
00:17:04Congress is cornering me, well, somewhere,
00:17:07we need to find a common language, because otherwise
00:17:11it will be even worse. And the third thing is
00:17:14that, as I mentioned earlier, such a small
00:17:17step in a way corners
00:17:21Putin, well, let's remember when yesterday
00:17:24or the day before yesterday
00:17:27the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Sikorski, perhaps
00:17:31somewhat jokingly, said, I wonder if the Russians will even
00:17:35have that much.
00:17:46Is it true or is this not a verbal push into a corner? Mr. Sidabras,
00:17:49how would you assess the possibility of institutionally stopping
00:17:53and resisting Donald Trump in the United States, or
00:17:57in a certain sense, are not cornered,
00:18:00in a way, both politicians and institutions in the United
00:18:03States. Well, according to all polls, Democrats have.
00:18:07should win the House and there is a very good
00:18:10chance that they can win the Senate, and here
00:18:14Trump is very afraid of this, because
00:18:17he could be impeached again, there will be corruption investigations
00:18:21into his corruption, into his family's corruption and
00:18:24into the corruption of the Republican
00:18:27Party, which is now his party. I want to ask both of you very briefly,
00:18:31speaking internationally, there are
00:18:35indications that Trump is angry, and indeed some political scientists
00:18:38say we are returning to those times when Ukraine is pressured and
00:18:41Ukraine is accused, and Ukraine has to make
00:18:45concessions. Mr. Pemkus, would you agree that
00:18:48well, Zelensky's rhetoric is indeed now again somewhat
00:18:52ungrateful, too harsh, and some even say
00:18:55interfering in American internal elections? I
00:18:58don't look at what the media, with all due
00:19:01respect, says about those negotiations. I believe that from the very
00:19:05beginning, the Ukrainian
00:19:09government coordinated its steps with Trump, I have said this many
00:19:12times, and even in this case
00:19:16Ukrainians have stated that regarding a truce, we would agree
00:19:20to have sanctions reduced. It is necessary
00:19:23to remember that
00:19:25that message also goes to Europe,
00:19:29why to Europe? That amount, if you calculate
00:19:33how much Trump supposedly agrees
00:19:36with Putin
00:19:38to buy that diesel fuel,
00:19:42is two-thirds of the amount
00:19:44that Europe spent buying
00:19:48liquefied natural gas, ordinary natural gas from the same
00:19:51Russia, so if there are sanctions,
00:19:55then what Trump implicitly says is, well, dear
00:19:58Europeans, please, if
00:20:01we impose sanctions, then you also abide by them, but he
00:20:05said, well, all of America said, with the Lindsey Graham
00:20:09sanctions package, that we will punish
00:20:11buyers of Russian energy, but we ourselves are now
00:20:15buying, but going back to that relationship between Zelensky and
00:20:19Trump, would you really see that, well, perhaps
00:20:22the line has been crossed by Volodymyr Zelensky and
00:20:26when I say, some say that this is already tending to interfere in internal
00:20:30elections? Yes, I would agree, when
00:20:33Zelensky criticized Trump on Saturday, Trump said that
00:20:37Ukrainians must elect a new president. Also,
00:20:41when the truce, the energy truce was announced
00:20:44on Sunday, there are two months
00:20:47of aid with good. As
00:20:51the president himself has said, Putin is my friend, Canadians
00:20:55are nasty, so after two, after a few hours, after the truce
00:20:58was announced, the Russians attacked,
00:21:01as we discussed, the Kharkiv
00:21:04power plant, so I think
00:21:08Zelensky knows what he is doing. Thank you very, very
00:21:11much for your insights, Arūnas Pemkus and Viktoras Sidabras, who were pondering in Valando,
00:21:14and earlier, the head of research at the Defense and Security Center in Tallinn, Tomas
00:21:18Jarmalavičius, believes that such an agreement between Washington and Moscow seriously
00:21:22harms allied relations and
00:21:24trust. With this deal,
00:21:28an attempt is being made, perhaps,
00:21:30to start a certain renewal or warming
00:21:34of economic relations, because, well, the main, the main
00:21:37goal of the administration after all is to do business with
00:21:41Russia, and the war
00:21:44between Ukraine and Russia is simply an obstacle to that, and
00:21:48if it is necessary to press the weaker side, at least as
00:21:51they imagine it, they will do it.
00:21:55Diplomatically, politically, this undoubtedly sends a very bad
00:21:59signal, that after all
00:22:03is circling back, returning to the beginning of the 25-year
00:22:07period and the autumn of the 25-year
00:22:10period, when there was again
00:22:14the main pressure exerted in the direction
00:22:17of Ukraine, and every such signal
00:22:20has consequences not only for Russia's
00:22:24behavior, for Russia, the Russian regime, Putin
00:22:29the United States is the weak link, and
00:22:33that pursuit of business, pursuit of profit is a weak
00:22:37point through which one can put pressure with various promises,
00:22:40which ultimately will probably not be fulfilled, but
00:22:44every such, every such episode also
00:22:48has the potential, and it used to be that it causes
00:22:51a crisis in transatlantic relations
00:22:54between Europeans and Americans, so I think that in diplomatic and political
00:22:58terms, this is indeed a very damaging step, and
00:23:01now a lot depends on how
00:23:05Ukraine will behave, the midterm elections at the beginning of November,
00:23:09well, and the political situation in which
00:23:12Donald Trump and the administration, the Republican Party, are also one of
00:23:15the main factors in taking these
00:23:18steps. Mr. Ermalavičius, as you mentioned, pressure on Ukraine reminiscent
00:23:22of the 25th, and indeed in March of 2025,
00:23:26the promise to stop sharing intelligence with
00:23:30Ukraine was implemented, these threats are being returned to, has
00:23:34the situation changed at all in those practically a year and a half, and
00:23:37is the world, in this case Ukraine, less dependent on such information
00:23:41from Americans?
00:23:44A little less, both Europeans and Ukraine itself
00:23:47understood that
00:23:50vulnerability and took steps to reduce
00:23:53such dependence, but it still has not achieved
00:23:57100% success, and
00:24:00Ukraine is still quite seriously dependent on
00:24:04satellite intelligence information, here European capabilities
00:24:07are significantly weaker than American ones,
00:24:10perhaps Europe has perhaps a quarter of what
00:24:14the United States can offer, Americans
00:24:17also, their support is essential.
00:24:20In the early warning
00:24:23system for Russian missile strikes,
00:24:27and here again it is also people's lives
00:24:31preserving capacity, because
00:24:34the public can be warned in a timely manner about
00:24:38a new attack
00:24:41that has started finally for the protection of critical infrastructure
00:24:45and also
00:24:48that intelligence" of America is very
00:24:51important when it comes to carrying out strikes
00:24:54that are, let's say, time-sensitive,
00:24:58when targets can change positions,
00:25:01when the situation is truly dynamic,
00:25:05and here American intelligence again has an advantage
00:25:08and greater capabilities than European, but that is
00:25:12again and not only not only technical, technical
00:25:16let's say aspect, but also political intelligence.
00:25:20information, the exchange of it is probably one of the main
00:25:23indicators of mutual trust, it is one of the most sensitive
00:25:27information, one of the most important currencies
00:25:30in international relations, and here the
00:25:33decrease in information exchange would indeed
00:25:37indicate that the bilateral relations have really
00:25:39deteriorated. Mr. Hermalavičius, briefly, do you see
00:25:43such cognitive dissonance when Donald Trump tries to renew
00:25:47economic relations with Russia, and on the other hand, the supreme commander
00:25:51of American forces in Europe, General Grinkevicius, today very
00:25:54clearly warned Russia that NATO
00:25:57shows the inconsistency of American would regret it if
00:26:01they tried to test that unity.
00:26:04"Well, sometimes it really seems that there are some
00:26:07two Americas, one such
00:26:10traditional
00:26:14bureaucratic, administrative, military apparatus, intelligence
00:26:17apparatus, here we can include the head of the central intelligence
00:26:21agency and so on, where
00:26:25well, let's say the threat assessment is
00:26:28adequate and the understanding of what needs
00:26:31to be done is also..." adequate, where allies
00:26:34are respected, where the importance of allies
00:26:38is understood both for America's power and and freedom of action,
00:26:41well, and then there's that other America of Trump, where
00:26:45business,
00:26:47money,
00:26:49the enrichment of families
00:26:51or related technology oligarchs,
00:26:54political, ideological nuances are
00:26:58significantly more important, well, and those two Americas sometimes
00:27:01do not really create an impression
00:27:04of, let's say, integrity, so I think that this
00:27:08only strengthens a certain uncertainty or
00:27:10a
00:27:13lack of knowledge of how one would truly act during
00:27:16a crisis, which instincts, which America in this
00:27:20dynamic would, let's say, be superior and
00:27:24would make the main
00:27:25decisions.
00:27:28As Donald Trump announced, Putin agreed to immediate American and.
00:27:36That is approximately half the amount consumed daily in the United States.
00:27:40In November, the Russians promised another half a million tons from Trump,
00:27:43and then another million. Until 2025,
00:27:47Russia exported an average of about
00:27:5035 million tons of diesel per month by sea. If Ukrainian
00:27:54attacks on oil refineries continue at similar
00:27:57rates as now,
00:27:59exports of such magnitude
00:28:01will become impossible without harming the Russian market.
00:28:05Alexander Koliandr, Europe Director of political risk consulting firm
00:28:08Eurasia Group, told the Financial Times that if Russia
00:28:12transported 3 million tons per month, exporters would earn
00:28:16about 1.2 billion dollars more in six months
00:28:19than if the SMI restrictions were in force. And the
00:28:22federal budget, from which the war is financed, would receive
00:28:26only up to 100 million dollars in additional
00:28:28revenue.
00:28:32According to Ukrainian media, the first tanker carrying diesel has already
00:28:36reached the eastern coast of the United States today. The international
00:28:40shipping route portal confirms that the tanker Minerva
00:28:43Zen departed from St. Petersburg on September 22. And
00:28:47yesterday evening, American time, it reached the port of Wilmington
00:28:51in North Carolina. Žygimantas Mauricas, chief economist at Luminor Bank,
00:28:54says that it seems the agreement reached some time ago
00:28:57policy, but
00:29:01it will not bring significant financial relief to American
00:29:04consumers. Well, this really demonstrates
00:29:07a very specific policy of the United States of America, because
00:29:11one day it says that we are the most powerful, we have the most
00:29:15of our own energy resources, we will supply the whole world
00:29:18with gas, oil, oil
00:29:21products, then the next day it is said that we will impose
00:29:25sanctions and huge tariffs on all other countries that buy
00:29:28from Russia, and at the same time, it seems that...
00:29:32"it was agreed in advance, possibly with Russia
00:29:36regarding the import of certain oil products into the United States of America,
00:29:39the quantity of which will essentially change nothing, because
00:29:43that quantity is very small, the United States of America will consume it in less than
00:29:47one day, and essentially the market will not
00:29:51move at all, it even moved in the opposite
00:29:54direction today, both oil and diesel became more expensive, so
00:29:57it's a very strange decision,
00:30:00economically, let's say, difficult to explain, politically, as
00:30:04I understand, also difficult to explain, so perhaps there are some
00:30:08strange things happening after the climb,
00:30:11let's talk about those practical aspects, there are
00:30:14those who think that Russia is not at all capable of supplying
00:30:17such quantities of diesel to the United States of America,
00:30:21as I understand it, there is a bigger problem with gasoline, they supposedly
00:30:24still have diesel reserves, but that doesn't mean that after such political
00:30:27decisions Russia's production capacities
00:30:31would increase, right? "Russia does not have, and even
00:30:34does not promise, large quantities, there the quantities are stated in
00:30:38thousands, millions, there, it seems, perhaps."