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Yes, first of all, I have to say that we have a lot of issues on the table. I will start from MFF.

For me this is a very important document, and I really welcome the proposal of Irish presidency.

This proposal is very well balanced,

and I have to say with certain satisfaction that we have been.

Preserving the cohesion and common agricultural Policy funds,

also support to Ukraine remains untouched.

On the other hand, yes,

I am upset about the cuts to the Connecting Europe Facility, especially military mobility.

And also the cuts to the competitiveness fund, including other funds too.

So I think it's important to understand that this budget has to be ambitious and the budget size matters.

The budget size should be close to proposal of initial proposal of the European Commission and we will make further cuts in the future.

In the long discussions,

I think we will lose our priorities because I cannot imagine the priorities and the implementation of priorities without sufficient financial funds.

So I hope that we will find this consensus.

It would be great to achieve the consensus until the end of the year, but it will be tough.

But nevertheless,

Lithuania is ready to participate because we are preparing for the upcoming presidency which will start in the first half of 2027 on Ukraine. Of course we stand united with Ukraine.

We see how difficult and how challenging the situation is, and we need power to make the pressure on Russia, implement the sanctions,

to talk about possible blocking of grain exports through the Baltic ports,

and also support Ukraine militarily, politically, economically.

I am glad to say that I see that the two negotiation clusters they opened. I hope it is possible.

I do not see any big obstacles to open the remaining two clusters, so Ukraine has to receive some positive signals, and in the current situation, only Europe can provide those positive signals,

and one of the strongest signals is the chances and The light at the end of the tunnel regarding the integration of Ukraine into the European Union,

so many questions,

if you are talking about ceasefire.

I understand that the ceasefire is two-way traffic.

There is no one way traffic because if Ukraine stops attack Russian energy infrastructure,

and Russia will be absolutely free to attack Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

It will, it will be just collapse of of this war.

For me it's not understandable how we can talk about the ceasefire,

presenting the requirements and presenting the imperatives only for the one side.

Russia has to keep and to respect the international rules too,

but of course it is naive to expect respecting international rules from the country which broke out the war.

In 2022 and now we are living in the fifth year of this war. Sorry?

Well, My appeal is we all are the friends.

We are all on this side of history.

And we know very well who is on the other side of the history. We know these countries very well.

Please stay united in our family because Russia is challenging our style of life,

our rules, our rule of law, democratic rules, human rights, everything. They are challenging, not territories this time.

It would be naive to expect that they are, they want to conquer more territories.

They are challenging the Western's style of life.

How do you convince countries like Germany by talking, by discussing? Yes, I know it will be tough.

I know what is the pressure to reduce the budget.

I know what is the position of frugal countries.

On the other hand, we have the Cohesion Friends Group, and right now I'm going to the meeting of these countries,

and I hope very much that we will stay strong because again I switch back to my initial idea.

We have new priorities and we want to preserve all priorities like cohesion and competitiveness and common agricultural policy.

It's not possible to stay at the same level of the budget as in the previous MFF and say that we will reflect and we will take into account all the new priorities.

It's just impossible mathematically, economically, financially.

Thank you. Britain, UK, yes, absolutely.