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00:00Well, indeed, Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the president of Azerbaijan to present his condolences,
00:07but also to call for a thorough investigation in what the Ukrainian president says looks
00:13very much like an air defence missile which would have struck this Azerbaijani plane.
00:20Of course, Ukraine is no stranger to such incidents since on the 17th of July 2014,
00:28the Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down by separatist forces with the help of the
00:36Russian army not far from the city of Donetsk.
00:40298 people died that day and an international investigation established a chain of responsibilities.
00:48There were three Russian officers, one pro-Russian Ukrainian separatist that were condemned years
00:57later in November 22 for this Watermountain 2 crime.
01:02So Volodymyr Zelenskyy is asking for the same international scrutiny over this plane being,
01:10having crashed and perhaps having been shot down by an air defence Russian missile.
01:16Indeed, the air defence, the Russian air defence was working above Grozny where this Azerbaijani
01:22plane was trying to land simply because there are Ukrainian long range drones that are operating
01:28also in the Chechen territory.
01:34And although Vladimir Putin has not acknowledged the use of an air defence missile, this is
01:39a probability that will be examined by external observers.
01:44At the same time, Emmanuel, Volodymyr Zelenskyy also denouncing the Slovak prime minister's
01:49what he called blackmail over electricity, threatening to cut off Kyiv's energy supply.
01:55Absolutely.
01:56So Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he talked with the Ministry of Energy, Herman Halushenko,
02:03as well as with the Ukrainian prime minister to address those concerns.
02:07He also said that the energy provided by the European Union to Ukraine in order for Ukraine
02:13to still remain afloat after Russia's numerous strike on its energy grid.
02:20Well, this energy transiting through Slovakia amounted to about 19% of the total energy
02:29provided by Brussels to Ukraine.
02:32And he called for the European Union to continue its policy of help towards Ukraine.
02:40Also, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he was hoping that the ties, the personal ties between
02:47Robert Fico and Vladimir Putin would not prevail over the European interests.
02:53He also said that clearly Slovakia had received an order from Russia to open a second energy
03:00front against Ukraine, the first being those strikes.
03:04We've had over 10 large-scale attacks this year only that seriously damaged the energy
03:11grid here in Ukraine.