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00:00:18in the topic of the day. Good evening, Mr. President. Hello. The
00:00:21Minister of Foreign Affairs regrets
00:00:24Donald Trump's agreement with Vladimir Putin and says that it
00:00:28weakens the West. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius
00:00:31is less diplomatic and says that it is a shameful and
00:00:35dishonorable decision. What is your
00:00:38position, does Lithuania consider this agreement harmful to
00:00:41Western efforts to stop Russian
00:00:45aggression, and are you, as the leader of our country,
00:00:49prepared to say that to ally Donald
00:00:52Trump? Friends should speak openly
00:00:56and if decisions
00:00:58are good, we will never forget to thank and
00:01:02say that those decisions are good, but this decision
00:01:05is definitely not on their list, so
00:01:08my reaction is unequivocal, this is a bad
00:01:11day, especially considering
00:01:14the entire context of Russian aggression against Ukraine,
00:01:18and this decision can only be viewed through
00:01:22the prism of elections, because it cannot have a real impact on diesel
00:01:25prices in the United States
00:01:29for many reasons, primarily because
00:01:32fuel prices are primarily determined by crude oil
00:01:36prices, and crude oil, as you know, is expensive because there are
00:01:39tensions in Hormuz,
00:01:42because Russia cannot significantly increase its
00:01:46diesel supply, because it desperately needs fuel for its domestic
00:01:50market, including for its army, because
00:01:53Ukraine has quite successfully destroyed almost
00:01:5650% of its oil
00:02:01refining capacities,
00:02:04and sometimes, well, you think
00:02:07that one thing should be
00:02:10clear: in a geopolitical conflict,
00:02:13economic arguments should not take precedence,
00:02:17even though I was an economist once, but I say that
00:02:21economic arguments should not outweigh geopolitics, because
00:02:24in this case, we are dealing with an aggressor who
00:02:27completely ignores economic arguments.
00:02:30He can sacrifice everything on
00:02:34the altar of this war, and he is
00:02:37prepared to do so, therefore, we must
00:02:41first support Ukraine itself, and
00:02:44this last decision certainly does not make Ukraine
00:02:48stronger, Europe must make twice
00:02:51as much effort for Ukraine to hold
00:02:54on in this fight, and what is also
00:02:58difficult about this latest
00:03:01decision, as I said, it does not have a very
00:03:04clear economic and positive impact, although
00:03:08perhaps an attempt is being made to present the situation differently, but
00:03:11it opens the floodgates for Russia's
00:03:14isolation to decrease. We
00:03:18see such efforts,
00:03:21Ukrainian infrastructure, well, dozens, hundreds in the world of sports, in the world of culture, to try
00:03:24to break through those paths to the international market and
00:03:28portray that nothing special is happening here, we are just continuing
00:03:31our military operation, but
00:03:34we cannot allow this, and in the context of the Ukrainian
00:03:38war, we must increase Russia's isolation, that
00:03:41is why I hope that this week at the European Council
00:03:45we will have a very serious discussion about what Europe
00:03:48must do in this unenviable
00:03:52situation, and that
00:03:55Europe must also do its homework, so that
00:03:58there are no grounds for, they are trying, by the way, with
00:04:02a certain pretext to say, look, you yourselves
00:04:05are not entirely honest, because you continue to buy Russian
00:04:09liquefied natural gas, natural gas, and you buy Russian
00:04:12oil. Lithuania already in 2022
00:04:16managed to say, that's it, no more energy resources from
00:04:19Russia. Meanwhile, Europe, which probably had
00:04:23more time to prepare, I'm not talking about all of Europe, but I'm talking about specific
00:04:26European Union countries that are doing all this and,
00:04:30to this day, unfortunately, even in smaller quantities, but
00:04:34they are helping Russia to finance its war machine by buying
00:04:37energy resources, so we have such a sad situation,
00:04:41I am not going to try to wrap in a nicer
00:04:45paper what we are now in. Mr.
00:04:48President, in addition to this agreement, as announced by
00:04:52President Trump, he also stated that Ukraine
00:04:55should choose another president, so how much
00:04:59is that an interference from your perspective
00:05:01in Ukraine's internal affairs,
00:05:04which is, well, defending itself from Russian aggression at the moment, and
00:05:08that kind of statement is especially favorable, it is simply
00:05:12Putin's repeated words, and does Lithuania
00:05:16and again, do you have a concrete and
00:05:20clear position on this matter? Ukraine has
00:05:23the right to have such leaders as it
00:05:26elected. Ukraine already
00:05:29in 2019 elected Volodymyr Zelensky as its president,
00:05:32who proved to be worthy of all this respect
00:05:36and all
00:05:39the admiration for his person during these extremely difficult
00:05:42years, always standing firmly in defense of Ukraine's freedom,
00:05:46yes, without a doubt, in a normal situation,
00:05:50elections should be held again in Ukraine, because the president's term has
00:05:53ended, and if there were even a small
00:05:57window of time, which the president himself mentioned, 60
00:06:01days, at least 60 days, elections could
00:06:04be held, but the people of Ukraine have the right
00:06:07to elect the same president, whose
00:06:11last name and first name is Volodymyr Zelensky,
00:06:14he could be an excellent candidate to continue
00:06:18his term, and only the people of Ukraine can
00:06:22choose one or another person, because no one else from
00:06:25outside can dictate their candidates. So would you
00:06:29consider such a statement by Trump an interference in Ukrainian affairs?
00:06:32You know, perhaps it was said spontaneously, I would not
00:06:35dramatize the situation here, but it would
00:06:38certainly be great if our great ally
00:06:42would simply contribute to giving Ukraine such an opportunity
00:06:46to organize elections. What
00:06:49Russia's Foreign Minister, Mr. Lavrov,
00:06:52said, "We can give one day
00:06:55for Ukrainian elections to take place," well, that is simply
00:06:59a mockery, and Russia continues to behave in this way because it
00:07:02sees that it is unpunished and it can do whatever
00:07:06it wants, and as long as it continues to think this way,
00:07:09peace negotiations will simply be impossible. The
00:07:13Financial Times reported that over the weekend
00:07:17American officials called European officials and
00:07:20Ukrainians and demanded that Ukraine should not
00:07:24bomb oil refineries in Russia. Does
00:07:28Lithuania receive anything similar to your knowledge or not? No, we
00:07:31do not have such information, as far as I know, what is
00:07:35more reliably verifiable, it is still
00:07:38possible that there were such contacts, primarily because
00:07:42they are directed primarily at Ukraine itself, because we are talking about
00:07:45it, but well, that really
00:07:48should not be done, because if
00:07:51there is a ceasefire, then I understand that a ceasefire must be
00:07:55from both sides, right? We are somehow now
00:07:58talking about the fact that Ukraine must fulfill the conditions
00:08:01of the ceasefire, but we are not talking about what Russia will do,
00:08:05whether it will comply with those ceasefires or not. If Russia
00:08:08is prepared to comply with those ceasefires,
00:08:11then Ukraine agrees to such conditions and
00:08:15is, as the President himself mentioned, prepared for those
00:08:18ceasefires, but if we are talking about a
00:08:21situation where Ukraine stopped its operations
00:08:25against Russian oil or other energy
00:08:29facilities, and Russia continues to bomb
00:08:34excuse me, this is no longer a ceasefire, this is simply
00:08:37being lined up against the wall to be shot. I did not ask
00:08:40you in vain about that pressure
00:08:43from Americans on Europe and Ukraine, because just recently
00:08:47last week a disinformation conference was held in Lithuania,
00:08:50and then, under Washington's pressure, the Ministry of Foreign
00:08:54Affairs withdrew
00:08:56its support for this conference
00:09:00and also asked to remove the logos. So again, at this
00:09:03point, I want to ask if this was an independent pressure from Lithuania, or can
00:09:07it also be said here that Lithuania experienced pressure from its
00:09:10ally? "Well, there is an official
00:09:13position,
00:09:16I would have very serious doubts whether we can
00:09:19label a state as some kind of disinformation
00:09:22spreader, but without a doubt, an unofficial
00:09:26position of both Lithuanian representatives and representatives of other countries
00:09:30can be expressed, when they may have one or
00:09:33another opinion regarding our great ally,
00:09:37however, let's distinguish between the personal position of people
00:09:41or specialists, experts, from the official position, which is already associated
00:09:44with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or
00:09:47other state institutions. I also want to ask you about
00:09:51today's speech by the NATO forces commander in Europe,
00:09:54in which he said that if necessary, NATO would strike
00:09:58not only military forces attacking any NATO
00:10:01state, but also the command post, that is, those who
00:10:04control those forces, who command them. But Mr.
00:10:07President, do you, for example, have guarantees today that that order will be given
00:10:11by the European forces, the NATO forces
00:10:14commander in Europe, not President Trump, and seeing how he
00:10:17behaves, that decision could be completely different. Well, first of all,
00:10:21let's talk about the content of the statement itself, because it is
00:10:24based on expert opinion, it is based on
00:10:28NATO's defensive
00:10:32was, among other things, very strong, so in terms of content, I would say
00:10:35it is one of the better news of these
00:10:38past weeks, in a very cheerful
00:10:41context, and it shows that NATO has a very
00:10:45clear strategy based on military
00:10:49dominance, how it would act in the event of a Russian attack,
00:10:52if Russia attacked a NATO state. And
00:10:55most importantly, it is based on dominance in different
00:10:59domains, that is, both land, air,
00:11:02and sea, and what is more, it was very clearly
00:11:06stated that targeted attacks would be directed against
00:11:09command posts, which were even geographically identified, Kaliningrad, Saint
00:11:13Petersburg and
00:11:17similar, Belarus, and this is very
00:11:20correct, because in my opinion, such a very
00:11:23clear signal is the best deterrent
00:11:26factor. If someone in Moscow thinks that, oh,
00:11:30perhaps they will, as always, overthink it
00:11:33and will not have a clear opinion on how they will act on day X,
00:11:37then we have pretty good conditions to test
00:11:40them. Well, after such a statement
00:11:43from a person who will certainly be one of the most important in making
00:11:47decisions, I think, after such a statement, they should think
00:11:50very carefully, and it was said very clearly there, perhaps
00:11:54not today, but perhaps sometime in the distant
00:11:57future. So here we are talking about a general,
00:12:01I am also asking about the president, do you have guarantees that I
00:12:04have no reason to believe that
00:12:06President Trump could have some other
00:12:10position, yes, perhaps some will have doubts about
00:12:13it, but there are many signals that
00:12:17we received from our great ally, positive
00:12:20signals regarding their commitment to the security
00:12:24of our region, regarding the deployment of United States soldiers,
00:12:27so the line of the United States
00:12:30is visible, but I say, some decisions still
00:12:34cause concern, because these are decisions that
00:12:37will certainly not help Ukraine in its
00:12:40difficult fight against the aggressor. Thank you, Mr.
00:12:43President. We return
00:12:45to Panorama.
00:12:53We lost a colleague, journalist, editor Henrikas
00:12:56Vaitekūnas passed away. He was 77.
00:13:00Henrikas Vaitekūnas worked in various newspapers, magazines, taught
00:13:04at Vilnius University, was a long-time LRT employee,
00:13:08worked as a reporter for the Panorama editorial office, hosted Labas Rytas,
00:13:11and later created various television
00:13:151949,
00:13:18Panevėžys. The future journalist had many television
00:13:21admirers for his masterful words and wit. But when
00:13:25Henrikas Vaitekūnas was three months old, his family moved to Klaipėda.
00:13:29In the port city, Vaitekūnas finished high school, music schools, and worked
00:13:32as a loader at a canning factory. Later, Vaitekūnas worked and studied in Vilnius,
00:13:36Kaunas, and after more than 40 years, he returned to Klaipėda again, because, as he
00:13:39said, he became the captain of the show, he began to host Lietuva, a maritime
00:13:43state. We are almost at sea.
00:13:46The show started airing in 2012, but
00:13:49Henrikas Vaitekūnas became a well-known television personality much
00:13:53earlier. Henrikas was attracted
00:13:55to strange people and he didn't resist.
00:13:58For example, in the 90s, a woman calls
00:14:02on a landline phone (there were no others at that time)
00:14:05and complains to Henrikas that her
00:14:09neighbors are letting gas into her apartment through the phone. What does
00:14:13Henrikas say? "Madam, I'm slowly turning
00:14:16the tap, is it better?" Oh, better, thank you Henrikas,"
00:14:19says Henrikas's interlocutor. We get
00:14:22skim milk, from 77.
00:14:30Vaitekūnas also headed the reporters' department, hosted Labas
00:14:33Rytas and prepared reports
00:14:34for this program.
00:14:37He took it publicly, for a small bun. From '91, Vaitekūnas
00:14:41was the Deputy Director of the Kaunas Programs Directorate, and later
00:14:44he took over the directorate and created the show "Laisvės alėja".
00:14:48When I arrived at a gas station in Kaunas
00:14:52and the station was not working.
00:14:56"I'm knocking," I say, "give me
00:14:58gas." "Well, now," they say, "Laisvės alėja will end, then
00:15:02you can fill up." From that pathos, we had to return to
00:15:05life, from the whole Sąjūdis wave, freedom, and when
00:15:09difficulties began, he saw all that and
00:15:13tried to show it. Henrikas's main lesson is
00:15:16that a good show should leave
00:15:19the viewer wanting more. If the show ends and the viewer
00:15:22is simply happy, but went somewhere else, then it's a bad
00:15:26show. Vaitekūnas's path to journalism was winding. After
00:15:29unfinished journalism studies, he had to delve into librarianship,
00:15:33law, Lithuanian language and literature, but the master of words was
00:15:36persistent, and in 2000, at the age of 50, he still finished
00:15:40journalism. He was able to make people talk
00:15:44and to show them as they
00:15:47are, not to show them prettier, but to show those
00:15:50true ones, but with respect for that person.
00:15:54From 2012, Vaitekūnas was one of the hosts of the LRT show Laba
00:15:58Diena Lietuva. After some time, he left the show. I
00:16:01am not stopping journalistic activities. One only leaves journalism
00:16:04when the coffin is carried out. Then, after finishing
00:16:08his work in television, Vaitekūnas continued
00:16:10to write
00:16:13memoirs about it.
00:16:17Next year, the title of European Capital of Culture will be shared
00:16:20with the Portuguese city of Evora by Liepāja, located on the Latvian coast.
00:16:23The program of upcoming events was presented here from Liepāja by Jovita
00:16:27Gaižauskaitė and Paulius
00:16:30Juocnukis. Liepāja is already becoming
00:16:33the European Capital of Culture next year, the third largest Latvian city with
00:16:39residents, a port city and a resort will dictate next
00:16:43year's cultural trends. 500 events per year,
00:16:46Liepāja will invite to so many activities next year, having presented the program
00:16:50"Unrest." Unrest. We, living between the sea and
00:16:54the land, experiencing paradoxes and very much feeling
00:16:58that state of unrest. When the war started
00:17:01in Ukraine, we all found ourselves in chaos, feeling
00:17:04uneasy, lost, scared, but at the same time.
00:17:10The program has been developed for four years by a team of 35 people, and
00:17:14creators from 40 countries will also contribute
00:17:17to the Capital of Culture events, and joint projects with Lithuanian
00:17:20artists and cultural
00:17:22institutions are also expected.
00:17:25Our main exhibitions will be curated by the Lithuanian Raimundas Malašauskas,
00:17:29the biggest "Hypnic Twitch," the horizon of
00:17:32unrest in the Liepāja History Museum. We also
00:17:35invited talented Lithuanians.
00:17:40There will also be more joint exhibitions with the Palanga Amber
00:17:43Museum.
00:17:47The title of European Capital of Culture has been awarded annually for four decades
00:17:50to a different European city each time. Vilnius and
00:17:53Kaunas have both been Capitals of Culture. Liepāja will be a capital
00:17:57together with the Portuguese city of Evora. This is an opportunity
00:18:00to present both the city and
00:18:02the country.
00:18:05We have the longest-playing orchestra among all Baltic countries,
00:18:08we have the oldest theater in Latvia, so for centuries we have been creating cultural events
00:18:12and we want to share that, we say
00:18:15that music flows in our veins, we organize the choir festival
00:18:18Europa Cantat, but we also want to show traditional culture and
00:18:22contemporary art. Concerts, exhibitions, festivals,
00:18:26theater and dance performances, performances and events created specifically
00:18:30for the European Capital of Culture year will invite you to get to know
00:18:33Liepāja and discover the region of South Kurzeme and Kuldiga.
00:18:41Liepāja thrives on traditional economic activities and tourism, so
00:18:44it is natural that we want to attract as many guests as possible, which means more
00:18:48investment in tourism, in the city, and the city would develop
00:18:51for tourists, but not as
00:18:53rapidly.
00:18:58When creating and implementing projects, local communities,
00:19:01youth, volunteers, artists and representatives of creative industries are involved,
00:19:05strengthening the cultural sector, just as some cities, after being capitals,
00:19:09successfully attract tourists
00:19:11further.
00:19:14Four out of ten tourists in Liepāja are Lithuanians. Last year,
00:19:1718,000 Lithuanian overnight stays were recorded in Liepāja. Perhaps
00:19:21next year this number will be even higher, when Liepāja begins its year
00:19:25as European Capital of Culture.
00:19:28Panorama continues with Barbora Jakilaitė, the most important sports news, so
00:19:32stay tuned and have a nice evening with
00:19:34LRT.
00:24:44evening with
00:24:45LRT.
00:24:53Hello, next week's weather forecast is full
00:24:56of changes, there will be short rain and smoke, on the surface of the soil,
00:25:00frosts are expected, in the middle of the week it will be windy, and
00:25:03on Friday, clear skies and frosts will return to many regions.
00:25:07The upcoming night in Lithuania will be variably cloudy, with brief rain in some places,
00:25:11light rain will prevail, with widespread fog, wind from western directions
00:25:14at 2.7 m/s, the temperature will be from one to 6, in
00:25:18some places 7-9 degrees Celsius. On the soil surface, local frosts from 0
00:25:22to 3 degrees below zero.
00:25:25Tomorrow during the day, the country will be variably cloudy, with brief light rain in some places.
00:25:28In the morning, widespread fog, wind changing
00:25:32direction at 3-8 m/s. The temperature will be from
00:25:3510 to 5 degrees
00:25:36Celsius.
00:25:40Tomorrow, clear skies are predicted in Šilutė, Klaipėda, Palanga,
00:25:43Telšiai and Tauragė, where it will be 12-14
00:25:46degrees. It will rain in Biržai, Panevėžys and
00:25:49Joniškis. The sun will shine through the clouds in Mažeikiai and Šiauliai, it will be
00:25:5311-12 degrees Celsius.
00:25:56Clear skies will be in Kaunas, Alytus, Druskininkai, Varėna and Marijampolė, where it will be
00:26:0011-13 degrees.
00:26:02It will rain tomorrow in Utena, Ignalina, Švenčionys, Vilnius and Ukmergė.
00:26:06Here it will be 10-11
00:26:08degrees Celsius.
00:26:11On Wednesday night, in some places during the day,
00:26:14wind at night from the south 17:12, during the day
00:26:17southwesterly to westerly 9:14, gusts up to
00:26:2015-17 m/s on the coast.
00:26:23Temperature at night 3.8, near the sea 10, Celsius.
00:26:27On the soil surface, local frosts from 0 to 3/ below zero.
00:26:31During the day 94. Celsius on Thursday
00:26:35night, brief rain in some places during the day, light rain will prevail, wind at night from western
00:26:38directions 6:1, during the day
00:26:42changing direction 4.9 m/s, temperature
00:26:46at night will be 4-9, near the sea 10:12, during the day
00:26:4911-16 degrees Celsius. We have reviewed
00:26:53the weather in Lithuania, now we just need to look at a wider map of
00:26:56Europe.
00:26:58Tomorrow, rain is expected in Oslo, Palistaline, Riga, Helsinki. It will be
00:27:02eight degrees, Stockholm 10, Warsaw 11,
00:27:05Celsius. Tomorrow in Dublin and Prague it will be
00:27:0916, it will rain in Brussels, London, Amsterdam and Paris.
00:27:12In Berlin it will be 15, in Vienna 17,
00:27:15Celsius. Tomorrow it will also rain in Antalya, here
00:27:19in Rome it will be 24, in Athens rain with thunderstorms, in Palermo
00:27:2223, Celsius, in Istanbul 20, in Venice 19
00:27:25degrees. Tomorrow in Lisbon it is still hot, here
00:27:2825, in Madrid it will warm up to 29. In Barcelona.
00:27:3224 degrees Celsius, that's all about the weather, have a pleasant
00:27:35evening.
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