00:00I spoke also exclusively to the EU's ambassador to Kyiv, Katarina Matarnova, who has a very different view on that,
00:06because she actually lives in Kyiv and lives through every single Russian attack in Ukraine's capital.
00:12What happened since the end of August of this year is that Kyiv became a true frontline city.
00:21And this is not only the nighttime attacks that we are almost used to,
00:26but the daytime attacks that started on the 27th of August are relentless.
00:33And people can't really imagine when they're outside that when you have an alert, kids have to stop studying, go
00:40to the shelter.
00:42Doctors stop carrying out medical procedures, metro stops.
00:47With the intensified attacks by Russia since the end of August, Moscow has been using more and more as well
00:52of jet-powered drones,
00:53which are much harder to intercept.
00:55And very often, the targets have nothing to do with the military.
00:59I think this is quite a specialty of Russia, is the attacks on civilian targets.
01:06And let's remind ourselves that attacking civilian targets is a war crime.
01:13It goes against the laws of war.
01:15So apart from aggressing peaceful country in the first place, the war crimes are happening on a daily basis.
01:24There is also diplomatic escalation happening these days between the United States and Ukraine,
01:29which is one of the important topics regarding how much more Europe can step in to help.
01:35With your experience, first-hand experience of living through all of that in Kyiv,
01:40what do you communicate with your colleagues, diplomats and the European leaders here in Brussels?
01:46Europe has been and is proving itself to be really the steadfast, the most reliable supporter of Ukraine,
01:56both on the financial side and the military side.
01:59President Kostov was very clear that we are certainly not going to release any sanctions on Russia until the war
02:10stops.
02:10And also, you know, right now, the European Union is carrying about three quarters of the financial support for the
02:21for Ukraine.
02:23And I think there is determination to continue.
02:26But we also will be talking to our like minded partners to step up their effort as well.
02:32One of the aspects of Europe's bigger support and more of the European Union stepping in
02:37also comes to supporting Ukraine when it comes to Ukraine's right to strike Russia's oil facilities,
02:44refineries to target Russia's money-making machine, the one that is financing the war.
02:48We have heard from Kaya Kalas, who told Euronews that Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries constitute legitimate self-defense.
02:56But this support of Europe can also put Europe and Brussels at odds and in trouble in its relations with
03:03the United States.
03:04Well, I would prefer not to comment on that.
03:08I look at it from the perspective of Kiev and living there.
03:13And I certainly support the view that the high representative expressed
03:18because it's the fossil fuel industry that is fueling the war on the on the Russia side.
03:27And I look at it from the perspective of the European Union and the European Union.
