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00:00:00same, but the problem is obvious here is that
00:00:03Russia has a huge network of oil refineries, and Ukraine does not have a single
00:00:07functioning oil refinery at the moment, so
00:00:10it's very difficult to imagine what Ukraine could
00:00:14gain from such an agreement, Guoda? Augustinas, this Trump's move and
00:00:17agreement is seen as pre-election, as really
00:00:21aimed at the domestic audience and the domestic market. On the other hand,
00:00:24the latest polls actually show that residents
00:00:27see that the cost of living is rising and they directly link it to Donald
00:00:30Trump's policies, what are the republican sentiments and
00:00:34polls for them before the November third
00:00:37elections?
00:00:40Indeed, this is a huge problem for Donald Trump and the main motivation
00:00:44for Donald Trump, why Donald Trump is now looking for those
00:00:46additional diesel sources, your mentioned polls
00:00:50show that even 78%
00:00:52of United States voters currently blame the White
00:00:56House for prices rising faster than
00:00:59their incomes, and for Donald Trump, another very
00:01:02worrying statistic should be that
00:01:0557% of republican voters say that currently
00:01:09prices in the United States are rising faster than
00:01:12incomes and the situation before the congressional elections is
00:01:16such that even in states
00:01:18like Iowa, where President Donald
00:01:22Trump's voters dominate, where democrats have not won since Barack Obama's
00:01:26time, there Donald Trump's voters, farmers are suffering from...
00:01:30high diesel prices and currently in polls in such republican
00:01:33states like Iowa even a democratic
00:01:37candidate for the senate is leading, therefore Donald Trump is now resorting to such
00:01:40measures, looking for additional diesel fuel sources,
00:01:44however, the obvious problem is that the diesel promised
00:01:47by Donald Trump from Russia, the first batch
00:01:50of 3000 tons of diesel, later half a million, half a million tons
00:01:54of diesel, these are small quantities, these are not quantities
00:01:58that can reduce diesel prices in the United
00:02:01States, and Donald Trump in exchange for that small
00:02:05amount of diesel gives Russia something potentially much bigger, that is, the easing
00:02:08of United States sanctions.
00:02:11will only become more emboldened, he understands that Thank you, Augustinas Šemelis, live from Washington, we leave you to wait for new
00:02:15Donald Trump's statements, and we continue the topic with diplomat Viktoras
00:02:19Sidabris in the studio and public relations expert and business consultant Arūnas
00:02:23Pemkus. Welcome. Mr. Pemkus, from previous conversations you
00:02:26have said more than once, I don't necessarily agree with Trump's
00:02:30actions, his statements, but you saw their
00:02:33logic, do you also see the logic
00:02:37of this Russian diesel
00:02:38and and and again there, well, this time? Yes, this is a typical Trump
00:02:41move, to create chaos
00:02:45in communication, in order to
00:02:48achieve some other goal.
00:02:51My colleague, friend, Viktoras,
00:02:54who will probably contradict my opinion
00:02:57a said that everything should
00:03:01be read
00:03:03as it is said, I, on the contrary, I say
00:03:06that there is something hidden behind all that
00:03:10chaos, but not necessarily good hidden, not necessarily good for
00:03:13Ukraine and so on, it seems that in general, the Ukrainians have
00:03:17said, both unofficially and officially,
00:03:20that if there was some
00:03:23agreement that the Russians
00:03:25would stop bombing energy installations,
00:03:30energy points in Ukraine, then the Ukrainians
00:03:34would do exactly the same, so
00:03:37this small step, in reality it's a small step, the media,
00:03:40politics have inflated this bubble enormously,
00:03:44that small step was supposed to be
00:03:47like a litmus test for the Russians, whether
00:03:51they would really pass that test,
00:03:54on the same day when it was announced that
00:03:58Americans would somehow... ease sanctions
00:04:01a into the Kharkiv
00:04:03power plant was hit by missiles, so
00:04:07the question is whether the Russians
00:04:10will adhere to that verbal
00:04:13agreement, let's say, at the moment, but it's not the first time they
00:04:17don't adhere to Donald Trump's agreements. Mr. Sidabras,
00:04:20how do you assess, if we look from within, that
00:04:24this is a decision for the domestic market, this is for Americans, this is for voters
00:04:28whom they are still trying to retain, do you see that it can be effective,
00:04:31such a move? In my opinion, this is an expression
00:04:35of Trump's desperation, um, he
00:04:38is very, very unpopular, according
00:04:41to polls, all polls, only about 30%
00:04:45of voters support him, and 2/3rds rate
00:04:48his presidency as bad or even, well, as
00:04:52a bad presidency,
00:04:56um, diesel prices in America are now over $6
00:05:00per. ton, which is like like four liters a is almost
00:05:03$7 and they have doubled since last October,
00:05:07yes, yes, and um the cost
00:05:10of living in America is high and rising,
00:05:14a the war in Iran is very unpopular and I
00:05:17think Trump is trying, I agree that this is both
00:05:21an expression of chaos and an expression of desperation,
00:05:25mhm, Mr. Pemkus, the Republican position, in your opinion,
00:05:28we talked to Augustinas, just a few, just isolated ones, on the
00:05:32other hand, what also seems to show in polls and trends
00:05:35is that voters see that
00:05:39Republicans supported Trump's decisions on Iran.
00:05:51opportunities for Republicans perhaps to oppose a bit more sharply
00:05:55until November and perhaps to show a slight difference with
00:05:58the president? Well, there are several
00:06:00layers
00:06:02through which such a question should be answered, it's quite complex, if
00:06:06we only talk about elections, that is,
00:06:09all Republican representatives and...
00:06:12senators who are running, who will be elected on November
00:06:16third, some e really try
00:06:20to distance themselves from Trump, in order to maintain their
00:06:24position, the Republican position in their state,
00:06:27a similarly, on the other hand,
00:06:30if looking from a diplomatic point of view, from a negotiating point of view
00:06:33a
00:06:35the statements of several Republican senators and in quotes
00:06:38their opposition
00:06:41to Trump. unties Trump's hands
00:06:44somewhat, there is such
00:06:47a saying, if you want an ass to move forward, you can either with a stick or with
00:06:51a carrot, so at the same time Trump cannot
00:06:55move Russia forward, so in
00:06:58this way senators say,
00:07:01we will introduce even stricter
00:07:03laws, and Trump meanwhile can
00:07:07go to Putin and say, listen, I can't do
00:07:10anything, Congress is cornering me,
00:07:13well, somewhere we need to find common ground,
00:07:17because otherwise it will be even worse, and the third thing
00:07:21is that through such a
00:07:24small step, as I mentioned earlier, it in a way
00:07:27corners Putin,
00:07:30well, let's remember when yesterday the day before yesterday
00:07:32e
00:07:35the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Sikorski, perhaps
00:07:38somewhat jokingly, said, I wonder if the Russians at all
00:07:42will have enough of that fuel to
00:07:45export, when even in Moscow itself there is a shortage
00:07:49in the streets, aha, so the question is whether
00:07:52it's really true, or is this not a verbal cornering?
00:07:55Mr. Sidabras, how would you assess that possibility
00:07:59to institutionally stop and oppose Donald
00:08:02Trump in the United States, or in a way, aren't they
00:08:05cornered, in a way perhaps both
00:08:08politicians and institutions in the United States, well, according to all
00:08:12polls, Democrats
00:08:16should win the House of Representatives and there's a very good
00:08:19chance they can win the Senate, and here
00:08:22Trump is very afraid of this, because he could be
00:08:26impeached again, there will be investigations
00:08:28into his corruption, into his family's corruption and into
00:08:32the corruption of the Republican party, which is now his
00:08:35party. I want to ask both of you very briefly,
00:08:38speaking on an international level, are there
00:08:42situations where Trump gets angry, and indeed, some political scientists say, we are returning
00:08:46to those times when Ukraine is pressured and Ukraine is
00:08:49accused and Ukraine has to make
00:08:52concessions. Mr. Pemkus, would you agree that
00:08:55well, Zelensky's rhetoric is indeed once again somewhat
00:08:59ungrateful, too sharp, and some even say
00:09:02interfering in America's domestic elections? I don't look
00:09:06at what the media, with all due
00:09:09respect, says about those negotiations, I believe
00:09:13that from the very beginning
00:09:15the Ukrainians, the Ukrainian government
00:09:18coordinated steps with Trump, I have said this more than once
00:09:22and even in this case, the Ukrainians have
00:09:26stated that for a ceasefire we would agree to
00:09:29reduced sanctions, it must be remembered
00:09:33that that message is also going
00:09:36to Europe, why to Europe, if
00:09:40we calculate how much Trump in quotes
00:09:43agrees with Putin to buy
00:09:47that diesel fuel, it's 2/3rds
00:09:51of that amount that Europe
00:09:54spent buying liquefied natural gas, ordinary natural
00:09:57gas from the same Russia, so if
00:10:00there are sanctions, then what Trump says between
00:10:03the lines is, dear Europeans, please,
00:10:07if we impose sanctions,
00:10:10then you also abide by them. So they said, well, all of America
00:10:14said with the Lindsey Graham sanction package that
00:10:18we will punish buyers of Russian
00:10:20energy, but we are buying it ourselves now, but going back to
00:10:24that. and Trump's relationship, you
00:10:27would indeed see that well, perhaps it's an overreach from
00:10:31Volodymyr Zelensky's side and as I say, some say that it's already
00:10:35a tendency of interference in domestic elections? Yes,
00:10:38I would agree, when
00:10:41Zelensky criticized Trump on Saturday, Trump said that
00:10:44Ukrainians must elect a new president, also,
00:10:48when the energy ceasefire was announced
00:10:51on Sunday and for two months.
00:10:55it will be with good, as the president
00:10:58himself has said, Putin is my friend, Canadians
00:11:02are awful, so after two, after a few hours after the ceasefire
00:11:05announcement the Russians attacked,
00:11:08as we talked about, the Kharkiv
00:11:11power plant, so I think
00:11:14that Zelensky knows what he is doing, thank you
00:11:17very much for your insights, Arūnas Pemkus and Viktoras Sidabras in the important
00:11:21hour, and earlier interviewed defense and security center Tallinn.
00:11:25Tomas Jarmalavičius believes that such an agreement between Washington and Moscow
00:11:29greatly harms allied relations and
00:11:31trust. With this deal
00:11:34a an attempt is made to simply
00:11:38perhaps begin a certain economic
00:11:41relations renewal, warming, because well, the main, the main goal
00:11:45of the administration after all is to do business with
00:11:48Russia, and Ukraine, the war between
00:11:51Ukraine and Russia is simply an obstacle to that and and. "if
00:11:55it's necessary to press the weaker, at least as they
00:11:58imagine, side, then they will do that,
00:12:02diplomatically, politically, it undoubtedly sends a very
00:12:06bad signal that after all,
00:12:09America is walking in circles, returning
00:12:12to the beginning of 2025 and the autumn period
00:12:16of 2025, when there was again
00:12:19a main pressure being exerted
00:12:22in the direction of Ukraine and and..." that signal, in reality
00:12:26every such signal has consequences not only
00:12:29for Russia's behavior,
00:12:33for Russia, the Russian regime, Putin
00:12:36well, the United States is the weak link and
00:12:40that pursuit of business, pursuit of profit is the weak
00:12:44point through which one can put pressure with various
00:12:47promises, which ultimately will probably not be fulfilled,
00:12:51but every such episode also
00:12:55has the potential and it used to be that it causes
00:12:58a crisis in transatlantic relations between
00:13:01Europeans and Americans, so I think that in diplomatic, political
00:13:05terms, this is truly a very harmful step and
00:13:08now a lot depends on how
00:13:12Ukraine will act, how Europeans will act,
00:13:16aiming to again reverse Trump's
00:13:19position 180 degrees, I think it will succeed,
00:13:22it has succeeded in the past, but there is that political nuance,
00:13:25that mid-term elections will be held in early
00:13:29November, and that political situation,
00:13:33in which Donald Trump and the administration,
00:13:36the Republican Party are one of the main factors,
00:13:39also when taking these steps. Mr. Jermalavičius, as you
00:13:42mentioned, pressure on Ukraine, reminiscent of 2025 and indeed
00:13:46in March 2025 the promise to stop sharing
00:13:50intelligence information with Ukraine was implemented, and these threats
00:13:54are being returned to. "Has the situation practically
00:13:57changed at all over these past eighteen months, and is the world, in this case Ukraine,
00:14:01less dependent on such information from
00:14:04Americans?
00:14:06A little less, both Europeans and Ukraine itself
00:14:10understood that vulnerability,
00:14:13made steps to reduce such
00:14:16dependency, but it's still not 100% successful,
00:14:20and Ukraine is still
00:14:23dependent..." quite seriously on satellite
00:14:26intelligence, here European capabilities are significantly
00:14:30weaker than American ones,
00:14:32perhaps Europe has perhaps a quarter of what the United
00:14:36States can offer, Americans are also, their
00:14:40support is essential for early
00:14:44warning about Russian missile
00:14:47strikes in the system, and and
00:14:50here again it is also a life-saving
00:14:53capability, because
00:14:57the public can be warned in a timely manner about a
00:15:00new attack that has begun
00:15:04and also finally for the protection of critical
00:15:08infrastructure, and also those intelligence
00:15:12capabilities of America are very important when
00:15:15it is necessary to carry out strikes that are, let's say,
00:15:18time-sensitive when targets
00:15:22can change positions, and when "the situation is really
00:15:26dynamic, and here American intelligence
00:15:29again has an advantage and greater capabilities than
00:15:32Europeans, but well, this is again not only not only
00:15:36a technical aspect,
00:15:38let's say, but also a political one,
00:15:42intelligence information, sharing it is probably one of the main
00:15:45indicators of mutual trust, it is one of the most sensitive
00:15:49pieces of information, one of the most important currencies
00:15:52in international relations, and
00:15:55here a decrease in that information exchange
00:15:58would really show that well, those bilateral relations have really
00:16:01deteriorated significantly, Mr. Jermalavičius, briefly, do you see
00:16:05such a cognitive dissonance, when well... Trump tries to renew
00:16:09economic relations with Russia and on the other hand, the commander
00:16:13of US forces in Europe, General Grinkevich, clearly
00:16:16warned Russia today that NATO
00:16:19would be defended and that the enemy would regret it if
00:16:23it tried to test that unity?
00:16:26Well, indeed, sometimes it seems that there are
00:16:29two Americas, one a traditional
00:16:32one that supports, say, the
00:16:36bureaucratic, administrative, military apparatus, intelligence
00:16:39apparatus, here we can also include the head of
00:16:43the Central Intelligence Agency and and
00:16:45so on, where the assessment
00:16:49of the threat is adequate and the understanding of what
00:16:53needs to be done is adequate, where allies are
00:16:56respected, where the importance of allies
00:17:00for American power and freedom of action
00:17:03is understood, well, and there is that other Trump's America, where...
00:17:07"where business,
00:17:09money,
00:17:11enrichment of families
00:17:13or related technology oligarchs,
00:17:16political ideological nuances are
00:17:20much, much more important, well, and those two Americas sometimes
00:17:23really don't create such an impression
00:17:26of unity, so I think that this only
00:17:30strengthens a certain uncertainty or
00:17:33a lack of knowledge, how it
00:17:37would really be..." during a crisis, which instincts,
00:17:40which America in this dynamic,
00:17:43let's say, would be superior and would make the main
00:17:47decisions.
00:17:50As Donald Trump announced, Putin agreed to immediately release
00:17:543000 tons of diesel into the American
00:17:57and world market, which is about half of the quantity consumed
00:18:00daily in the United States. In November, the Russians promised Trump
00:18:03another half a million tons, and later another million.
00:18:07"Until 2025, Russia exported
00:18:10an average of about 1.5 million tons of diesel per
00:18:14month by sea. If Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries
00:18:17continue at similar rates as now, such
00:18:21an export without harming
00:18:24Russia's own market will become impossible. Alexander Kolyandr,
00:18:27Europe Director at political risk consultancy Eurasia Group,
00:18:31told the Financial Times that if Russia were to transport
00:18:343 million tons per month, consumers would earn
00:18:38about 1.2 billion dollars more in six months than
00:18:41if the current restrictions remained in force, and the federal
00:18:45budget, from which the war is financed, would receive
00:18:48up to only 100 million
00:18:50dollars in additional revenue.
00:18:54According to Ukrainian media, the first tanker to deliver diesel
00:18:57has already reached the eastern coast of the United
00:19:00States today. The international shipping route portal
00:19:03confirmed that the tanker Minerva Zen departed from St. Petersburg
00:19:06on September 22 and reached
00:19:10the port of Wilmington in North Carolina yesterday evening
00:19:13US time. Žygimantas Mauricas, chief economist at Luminor
00:19:16Bank, says that it seems the agreement reached some time ago
00:19:19shows inconsistency in American politics, but it
00:19:23will not bring significant financial relief to American
00:19:26consumers. Well, it certainly demonstrates
00:19:30a very specific policy of the United States, because
00:19:33one day it says that we ourselves are the most powerful, have the most
00:19:37of our energy resources and will supply the whole world with
00:19:40gas, oil, oil
00:19:43products, then the next day it is said that we will impose
00:19:47sanctions and huge tariffs on all other countries that buy
00:19:50from Russia and at the same time it seems that
00:19:54an agreement was already made in advance possibly with
00:19:57Russia regarding certain oil product imports into the United States,
00:20:01the quantity of which will essentially change
00:20:04nothing, because that quantity is very small, the United
00:20:08States will consume it in less than one day, and essentially the markets will
00:20:12not move at all, they even
00:20:14moved in the opposite direction today, both oil
00:20:18and diesel went up in price, so well, a very
00:20:21strange decision, such an economically hard
00:20:25to explain decision, politically, as I understand, also hard to explain,
00:20:28so maybe something strange is happening behind
00:20:32the scenes, let's talk about those practical aspects, there are
00:20:36those who believe that Russia is generally not capable of supplying
00:20:39such a quantity of diesel to the United States, I
00:20:43understand that there is a bigger problem with gasoline, Russia supposedly
00:20:46still has diesel reserves, but that doesn't mean that after such political
00:20:50decisions, production capacities in Russia
00:20:53would increase? No, Russia does not have and does
00:20:56not even promise large quantities, the quantities mentioned in
00:21:00thousands, millions, may sound impressive to someone
00:21:04who is not interested in this field, but
00:21:07it is simply a drop in the ocean, it is Russia's quantity that will
00:21:11be delivered to America, Trump also says that this will supposedly curb price increases
00:21:15worldwide, that is, it
00:21:19does not even cover one hour of global
00:21:22consumption, if the entire agreed quantity, which still needs to be
00:21:25supplied in the future, it is unclear under what circumstances Russia will be able to, but even
00:21:29if it can, there are still quite small quantities,
00:21:33making up 1% of total global consumption and this
00:21:37is a significantly smaller impact than the release
00:21:40of agreed reserves by the world's
00:21:43major economies, the G7, according to current
00:21:47figures, Russia would be able to provide such a quantity.
00:21:50But the situation is such that it is unclear how much more of that quantity Ukraine
00:21:54will probably damage infrastructure, it would probably
00:21:58be able to, as that quantity is not large, but the question is whether that quantity
00:22:01will help at all, so as I mentioned, from an economic perspective,
00:22:05that decision is essentially not fundamental, it's more of a
00:22:09facade for something
00:22:12deeper, perhaps some message being sent
00:22:15or or simply, well,
00:22:19everyone is surprised. both political scientists and economists,
00:22:22and it's unclear who is more surprised, economists or political scientists, because the quantities
00:22:26officially agreed upon are certainly not
00:22:28those that would fundamentally change the situation for Russia itself,
00:22:32well, Russia, as Russia, again, there
00:22:35the economy does not always play the first violin, they can sacrifice their
00:22:39citizens or some partners of theirs, and if it's really
00:22:43necessary, then, you know, Russian people will suffer, it often happens that
00:22:47day, speaking of prices, you yourself said that internationally those prices even. "have
00:22:50gone up, not down, Trump clearly says, my priority is
00:22:54farmers, truck
00:22:57drivers, on the other hand, and again, what economic
00:23:00logic is there here, if well,
00:23:02in the global market, diesel will not increase,
00:23:06simply Russia will redirect some of it to the United States.
00:23:10Well, the logic is indeed very difficult to understand, because the essential
00:23:13component causing the shortage is
00:23:16the expanding conflict in the East, now again that
00:23:20rise today was mainly because the Houthis
00:23:23attacked a Saudi Arabian port
00:23:28the risk of escalation is
00:23:31enormous and also nothing there will solve
00:23:35Russia's problems, because those ceasefires, as I understand it, do
00:23:38not exist yet and it's unlikely that
00:23:42they could be energy ceasefires between Ukraine, if
00:23:45they don't happen, then even if Russia manages
00:23:49to export some directly to the United States, the
00:23:52entire system operates on the principle of interconnected vessels,
00:23:55if Russia simply no longer has sufficient production capacity,
00:23:59then someone else won't get it. You clearly
00:24:02stated that the main problem is the war in the Middle East, that is the topic
00:24:05on which Trump and Zelensky disagree. Zelensky precisely
00:24:09repeats that the Middle East is the problem. Trump says, your strikes on Russia.
00:24:13Can it be mathematically each of these
00:24:16sides' importance, Russia and the Middle East.
00:24:20The crisis in the Middle East is significantly more important,
00:24:23incomparably more important, because the Middle East, first of all, Russia has
00:24:27largely withdrawn from the market,
00:24:31the Western market, since 2022, as the European
00:24:34Union generally stopped importing diesel a long time ago.
00:24:37It did import some indirectly, but again,
00:24:41these are slightly older data.
00:24:44The main impact is the Middle East,
00:24:48undoubtedly, so this Trump's again, such an attempt
00:24:51to shift the blame to Ukraine is
00:24:55not very logical from an economic point of view and
00:24:59even more so from a value point of view, because, well, you still
00:25:02need to have the strength to admit that it is so,
00:25:05if something didn't go according to plan, you need to have the strength to admit
00:25:09that it is so and
00:25:11simply admit that
00:25:15the main challenge is precisely the Middle East. Very briefly, Mr.
00:25:18Maurice, do you think Trump has the leverage to make
00:25:22those prices in the country at least somewhat
00:25:25lower by November 3rd, so that voters
00:25:28would not be so angry at him, at least according to the polls? No, I think
00:25:31it's too late and he probably understands this, because again, there's very
00:25:34little time left and even if
00:25:37a miracle happened and the conflict in the Middle East subsided
00:25:40and Russia and Ukraine somehow agreed to an energy
00:25:44truce, by the time the entire chain
00:25:47cascaded down and supply chains were restored,
00:25:50it would still be too late. So I would say this is more
00:25:54a desperate move of a political campaign to blame someone
00:25:57else, not himself.
00:26:01The heads of diplomacy of the European Union countries do not condemn Donald Trump's agreement with
00:26:04Putin, but they do not believe in its benefits. The Lithuanian Prime Minister
00:26:08called it a shameful and dishonorable act.
00:26:11Ministers meeting in Luxembourg confirmed the largest sanctions
00:26:15list against Russia to date. The blacklist included over 1500
00:26:18military industry figures responsible for the production of ballistic
00:26:21missiles. From Luxembourg, Milda Vilikanskytė and Evaldas
00:26:25Labanauskas. Russia's strike on Kharkiv
00:26:28is reported to have killed three and injured nine.
00:26:32This explosion immediately after the United States President announced on
00:26:36his social network a new energy
00:26:40truce agreed between Russia and Ukraine, which, according
00:26:43to Donald Trump, came into force immediately.
00:26:47We saw a rocket hit a thermal power plant. Trump had
00:26:50promised a ceasefire. We did not expect it to hit
00:26:54a thermal power plant. Kyiv residents
00:26:58also do not believe in a truce. I don't know what kind of truce Trump
00:27:02means, we certainly don't feel it. Electricity sometimes
00:27:05appears, sometimes disappears, I think, like for everyone
00:27:08else. Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia
00:27:12hit six energy facilities in Ukraine
00:27:15today alone.
00:27:17It is clear that Putin does not read Truth Social.
00:27:20Zelensky says if there is no truce, Ukraine will continue
00:27:24attacks. Russia's Foreign Minister says
00:27:27Ukraine, and first and foremost Zelensky, does not
00:27:31deserve a truce.
00:27:33"I don't think he deserves a reprieve, I also don't think we will trust
00:27:37assurances and promises again," the president made that very clear.
00:27:40We continue to pursue the goals of the special military
00:27:44operation. European Union foreign ministers welcome
00:27:47a truce, if there is one, but say it is
00:27:50naive to expect good will from Russia. If a truce
00:27:53means that Russia and Ukraine agree not to attack Russian
00:27:57refining, oil refining factories, well, then
00:28:00that is probably not only not serious and not even an insult, I don't even know
00:28:04what to call it.
00:28:08The heads of diplomacy of the community countries also do not believe in Trump's agreement
00:28:11with Putin on diesel imports.
00:28:15I don't think this agreement will change oil or diesel prices. It
00:28:19is more related to the United States' domestic political situation,
00:28:22midterm elections are approaching. Europeans do not
00:28:25want to condemn Washington for deciding
00:28:28to cooperate with Moscow,
00:28:32the United States' stance on the issue of Russia and Ukraine
00:28:35often changes. This latest episode
00:28:38is not what we have seen, let's say, the worst in
00:28:42almost two years. However, the Lithuanian
00:28:45Prime Minister speaks boldly to Sky News journalists
00:28:48in Poland. Mindaugas Sinkevičius called Trump and Putin's
00:28:52agreement shameful and dishonorable.
00:28:55The Latvian Foreign Minister wonders if the community even
00:28:59has the right to be indignant.
00:29:02The European Union first removed two important oligarchs, some of the biggest
00:29:06supporters of Putin's regime, from the sanctions list, so before criticizing
00:29:10others, the European Union needs to look in the
00:29:12mirror. Sanctions are also on
00:29:16today's agenda.
00:29:18The sanctions we are imposing today on 1600
00:29:21entities are simply the largest set of sanctions we have
00:29:25imposed since the beginning of the war. They have deprived Vladimir Putin's Russia
00:29:28of 500 billion euros in resources, otherwise. Every dollar that
00:29:32flows
00:29:42into Putin's Russian treasury through energy purchases will be used so that
00:29:46Russia can use this money to produce and
00:29:49use new weapons against Ukraine.
00:29:52European moralizing is hypocritical, says the United
00:29:55States Treasury
00:29:56Secretary.
00:30:02Since the beginning of the war, it has given more to Russians than to Ukrainians, because it cannot
00:30:06shake off its dependence on Russian energy. Their
00:30:10energy policy has been unsuccessful, and they continue
00:30:13to finance Vladimir Putin. So their
00:30:15claim that we cannot give a reprieve due to diesel
00:30:19prices is completely hypocritical. There is a lot
00:30:22of truth in Scott Bennett's words. Media
00:30:25reports that in the first nine months of this year, the European Union
00:30:29imported a record amount of liquefied
00:30:32natural gas from Russia, over 12
00:30:35million tons, for which Europeans paid Russia
00:30:38eight billion euros.
00:30:42However, not only sanctions are now a headache, but also support
00:30:45for Ukraine, currently bilateral support,
00:30:48the lowest since the full-scale war
00:30:51began.
00:30:54Other events in the program will be reviewed by Marijus
00:30:55Žiedas.