Harding also agrees with him german political analyst mattianelis wrote on twitter minister reznikov did a great job rallying support for ukraine at the International Level but the scandals with purchases shook his ministry, and as zelensky said, it is not time for a new approach , a number of analysts speak favorably of rustam omer, the head of the state Property Fund whom president Volodymyr Zelenskyi will ask for the position of minister of defense instead of reznikov, a reformer and capable manager of the mayors office, according to Atlantic Council expert andrew dayary, he will be well received in the west. Although he will have to build relations with key defense officials from scratch , he shared his expectations from the potential next minister of defense with my colleague kateryna lisunova, the former Us Ambassador to ukraine john herbstv i would not exaggerate the impact of the release of reznikov reznikov respected defense minister austin they had Good Relationship and i think other defense ministers in the west also respected him. So we should expect some upset among these officials that this Good Relationship will no longer be a working relationship, but i know mr. Umerov quite well. He is a very intelligent person. Officials and the fact that reznikov was fired because his department did not control the situation and there were problems with corruption is a signal that, in my opinion, the west considers positive, minister reznikov himself said that it was an honor for him to serve the people of ukraine and work for the armed forces of ukraine in the most difficult period of modern ukrainian history, and president zelensky, announcing the resignation of the minister, stated the need for new approaches and other formats of interaction both with the military and with society in general , this morning my colleague tatiana vorozho asked the representative of the office of the president of ukraine, mykhailo podoliak, about why they are taking such steps. Right now, and are they not worried that this may affect International Support ukraine, in my opinion, is a completely democratic procedure. The president is transparent. He publicly speaks about what he thinks is the need to change the work formats of the ministry of defense. It is necessary to make it more effective and more active. 558 days of war is a long period of time when a person can no longer answer, not because he is doing something wrong or right. And so on, and simply not meeting the needs that exist today, and in my opinion, the president absolutely clearly says that the war is not a reason not to strengthen the capabilities of certain institutions of the executive power as such, especially since this is the vertical of the president. He is talking about what you see. There is a candidacy for omyrov , it is symbolic because it is the crimean tatars. The release of the key element for him, as it seems to me, is the crimean peninsula, and therefore it seems to me that this is absolutely within the framework of the democratic tour of strengthening er executive institutions. The effectiveness of state institutions. And besides, it is expected that the reputational components of state institutions will increase. That the Verkhovna Rada can vote for both resignations and appointments already this week and so on. Russian president vladimir putin, on monday, announced that russia will not resume its participation in the black Sea Grain Initiative until the west fulfills the kremlins demands regarding russian agricultural exports. He said this after the meeting with the president of Turkey Erdogan in sochi, ukraine and western allies have repeatedly rejected the kremlins demands, saying that in this way russia is simply trying to advance its own interests , at the same time, the turkish leader expressed hope that a breakthrough in the negotiations could happen in the near future, according to him, turkey and the un, which acted as mediators in the initial agreement, made a new package of proposals to unblock this issue during a joint press conference with putin and mordogan, in particular , called on ukraine to soften its position in negotiations on the resumption of grain exports this has already caused criticism from observers, such as the british economist timothy ash, who asks how ukraine should soften its position to recognize russias right to bomb its ports and sink grain ships earlier. Today, in the voice of america briefing program, Senior Researcher of the Atlantic Council, yevgenia gabr emphasized and the very fact of erdugans visit to sochi and the prospects for the erosion of the sanctions regime against russia are negative and dangerous. Leaders and meeting with putin, and the bigger one going to see him in russia, must be ready for that that he will become the background against which the world will listen to putins outright lies. Unfortunately, we had the same situation when putin talked about how the measure is bad , he is introducing sanctions against the alleged Agricultural Products of russia, how he does not fulfill his obligations as the only one to blame for the disruption of these here, of course, there is ukraine and the west, well, that is, everything in itself does not look very beautiful, as far as it can be solved now. Somehow, this issue is obvious that erdogan talked about some additional proposals that were worked out by the pendant and turkey, turkish, er, turkish information about the fact that we are talking about the return of the investigative daughter of the bank, at least here in the world, this means, in essence, the sanctions regime against russia, not only and primarily not in relation to Agricultural Products, but in general as a single system of a single mechanism of sanctions against the russian federation, so if such e steps are proposed by the un first of all and to turkey, this essentially means that the un signs its own inability to adequately respond to russian aggression. Not a word about the attacks on the ports of odesa. I am now in odesa every night, of course we are not out of the weather because they are attacking the south with drones. I do not know a single word about the grain that is illegally exported from ukraine. Well, unfortunately, it does not give us what we would like to see. In continuation of the grain topic , voice of america journalists recently met in istanbul with a local resident who, from the terrace of his own house, monitors how the russians transport stolen yeruka grain in ukraine and observes russian cargo ships in the Bosphorus Strait and detects those ships that leave from occupied ports in ukraine what started as a hobby has become a fullfledged and important business, and now his work is cited by leading world changers , says dmytro korchynskyi. His hands juice from his terrace , he films on his personal camera another russian cargo ship that passes through the bosphorus in istanbul from the black sea to european and world ports and everyone is a political scientist for him, it all started as a hobby, and now he founded the Online Edition of the bosphorus columnist, amen, Russian Foreign policy and watching ships on the bosphorus really gives clues about the russian of foreign policy. What are the russians doing and what are they planning in the coming months, since the Bosphorus Strait will narrow to a few hundred meters, it is relatively easy to track ships and the juice records the name of the ships, the cargo they carry and the flag under which the ship sails, it cooperates with an International Network of volunteers and nongovernmental organizations that share online data on the movement of russian cargo ships, this data is published by the isi on its own website , bosphorus obzover. Com, information from which is used by organizations that monitor compliance with sanctions requirements and the world media in particular, the greiderske agency, which uses its photos, ships that violate sanctions often turn off their automatic Identification System as, which allows International Bodies to monitor their movement and the work of the istika, exposes violators, says in an organization that works to expose russian vessels that violate sanctions, one of the i believe that such monitoring of vessels very valuable because a common practice is to manipulate the automatic identification signal a simply turn off the transmitting transponder another manipulation interferes with the operation of the transponder to make it seem that the ship is in another city. Therefore, all these tips from isyk are hypothetically valuable. Voloshin says that such monitoring helped to expose the export of ukrainian grain and coal stolen by russia from occupied ukrainian ports on the black sea coast. As isyk recorded, a large part of such exports passed through across the bosphorus, the water area near istanbul is under limited turkish jurisdiction and is an International Hub for hundreds of empty cargo ships and tanks which often change owners, experts say that this makes it difficult to track ships and creates favorable conditions for those who want to avoid sanctions. Additional difficulties in the application of sanctions are turkeys refusal to implement them. Ankara says that it is not obliged to implement them. Russias invasion of ukraine, on which the largest sanctions were imposed, thats why most people who trade with russia try to hide their activities, they are worried that somehow the sanctions will come back and haunt them already in 2015 isyk hijacked russian arms exports by sea for the Syrian Government fighting the rebels now the man spends most of his free time tracking ships from how does he expect this could last a long time as russia shows no signs of changing of his behavior dorian jones dmytro kolchynsky voice of america istanbul russia uses fraudulent websites to collect personal data of thousands of ukrainian soldiers and their relatives about it voice of america the officials of the ministry of defense of the United States told that in their opinion the collected information russia can use, in particular, against members of military families living in the temporarily occupied territories of ukraine, the information that these sites collect information by deception was confirmed to our journalists and the coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war in ukraine investigated this topic my colleague ostap yarosha, whose name will we ask for ostaps details. Hello, congratulations, tell us in more detail what you and our other colleagues managed to learn about the work of these sites how serious and dangerous is this, yulia, you know, two pentagon officials reported in the voice of america that russia, after the start of the full headquarters invasion, created two websites that seem to provide resources that help relatives of ukrainian prisoners of war or soldiers who have disappeared and supposedly help with search , but in fact these sites are engaged in the collection of personal data and information about Ukrainian Military personnel and their relatives in the Ukrainian Border headquarters for the treatment of military personnel on have confirmed that in fact it is not only about two sites of such resources, there are dozens that russia uses to collect information by deception, and it is not only that it uses web pages, it is also about telegram channels, it is also about ee groups on viber or on facebook, so what yulia is the danger of such and such resources , and russia uses the vulnerable position of relatives of prisoners of war or soldiers who have gone missing, who are trying to find at least some information about their loved ones and aa is trying to find out this information from them often asks whether these are the people who are on these sites. And as a rule, these are representatives of the Russian Special services. They try to find out Additional Information about the prisoners , which, for example, they may not reveal or reveal about the interrogations, but it can be inadvertently revealed by relatives, for example, about where the military man fought with who did he fight in, in which unit and other information such as this is how the headquarters for prisoners of war emphasize that relatives can unintentionally harm their loved ones and vice versa it is really about the fact that russia has such information and so often they also say that it can be about what kind of things the provision of such data harms yuli as well as the exchange of prisoners between russia and ukraine, do you know what volumes of data the russians managed to obtain such a fraudster using such fraudulent methods and how to protect oneself from such theft of peoples personal data, even for the future yulia, at the moment it may be about thousands of deceived people who, in the hope of receiving information about their loved ones , have arbitrarily transferred such and such data the personal services of the pentagon claim that in their opinion aa russia can use these names and phone numbers or track those people and those relatives who currently live in the temporarily occupied territories and use this information for their persecution, but in the headquarters with the issue of military prisoners of war prisoners say that not all resources are backed by the Russian Special services, sometimes they are just fraudsters who try to extort money and promise some kind of delivery of parcels or contact with relatives , but in reality there is no relation to them which methods or to be safe, well, first of all, yuli, it is not to trust any unverified resources to unverified persons, not to provide information if all the resources are russian, but to trust only official ukrainian structures that deal with the exchange of prisoners, we were told about this at the coordination headquarters together for literally one and a half minutes, what other methods are cyber war is being used by russia against ukraine now sharply attacks in the United StatesCyber Security specialists reported that the russians used Malicious Software on android phones to get access to confidential information, we know that the Ukrainian Security service and they also knew about it and they tried to repel such attacks and say that they found out exactly how russia used it. But we really know that russia , in principle, uses cyber combat methods actively to get information or to spread viruses or to get some information, in particular, about combat operations from the Ukrainian Military on their phones by attacking them through cyber means ostaps game thank you very much for including and for an important topic that you researched. It was ostap yarysh on a call from capitol hill, thank you, according to hombudsman Dmytro Lubinets , russia currently receives more than 20,000 civilian ukrainian hostages, volunteers yury kaev , one of them, was detained by the russians when he was on his way to get humanitarian aid from the thenoccupied kherson to zaporizhzhia in august last year, his wife says that her husband was interrogated in melitopol, tortured in the basements of kherson, held in the simferopol Pretrial Detention Center , and eventually transferred to moscow lefortov, where he is still awaiting trial russia he is accused of international terrorism, lesya bakalets communicated with the prisoners wife. He sent me this selfie and told me to take a look. Last august , yuriy was detained by the russians. 6 they called me and told me that he was an acquaintance who was in the same colony, only there were things in my husbands car, and he was taking people out and he reported that they detained a couple of kaivykhs from kherson when the war started, the family remained in the occupation for some time, then olga and her two children moved to ukrainecontrolled zaporizhzhia, and yuriy joined the volunteers in the red cross column, they brought humanitarian aid to kherson, which was still occupied at the time, they stopped for the night in a certain at one womans place, they are already there , well, how did she know them, they are hers, and they stood in line to leave vasyl, there was a whole line, it was impossible to pass and just that day they went back to spend the night there, the Russian Military arrived there, pointed to a car like, who is in this car , get out and they took him to an unknown direction later olga found out that the man was kept in melitopol and kherson and then transported to the simferopol season, this was in the middle of september , a person came out who then testified that he sat with them for five days in a cell precisely in the kherson cellars on lutheranska street and what they were tortured for. On october 6 , a lawyer from simferopol called me and she sent me photos and notes of her husband with my hand, i understood that he is really there and that he is alive. She said that there is a case against my husband under the article of international terrorism, that he is in simferopol, that he admitted his guilt, but for two months in the basements, plus you can admit anything, and then the lawyer informed yuriy that they were being staged by the season of the fort in moscow this october, it will be a year that he is a civilian hostage of russia and tens of thousands of such ukrainians, the authority of the Verkhovna Rada of ukraine on human rights declares about 23,000 , it seems or 25,000, that is, such a high number, the history of the kaiov family is one of of the four that were included in the film khersons, it was created on the basis of testimonies collected by the rafal lemkin polish center for documenting russian crimes, a film about kidnapped civilians from the kherson region, there will be four heroes. Three of them are currently in prison in russia. Two are in a Pretrial Detention Center in lefortova. In rostov, the fourth hero of this film, he spent 54 days in captivity in kherson in the lemkin center, they say they have hundreds of testimonies of russians kidnapping ukrainian civilians, there is at least 3 additional parts of the film, the further we work with the testimonies, the scarier these testimonies are, the people who were silent, the first time of the war, what they did not tell. Well, they have now gained strength. It was important for us to show not only the stories of specific people, but the mechanism of action of the soviet russian totalitarian machine. How are they . Act when they enter when they occupy the territory whom they choose in order to structure in order to influence steal International Publicity the main fact the only thing for civilian prisoners now can make their relatives and human rights defenders in general, because unlike prisoners of war, civilian hostages are not subjects of exchange of prisoners they have international status. There we can talk about prisoners of war. This is the concept that is used in the geneva conventions. And this is what is generally not the case the norm, but what accompanies the war is also the taking of prisoners, but when it comes to hostages, they are captured , there are no legal grounds, and his people explain to capture russian civilians and then exchange them for ukrainian ones illegally but it is also impossible to agree to the exchange of ukrainian civilians for russian prisoners of war in the captured territories, without exaggeration, millions of ukrainians and if the ukrainian state allows the practice of exchanging ukrainian civilians for russian soldiers, then we will have another 20,000 civilian hostages it is understandable to count on acquittals for ukrainians from the Russian Court , human rights activists say, that is why we need an International Mechanism to return civilian hostages home, we understand that in the end someday it will be through a third party and human rights organizations are working on it, will there be some platform where it will be possible to take our civilians and in order for that platform to exist . Yes, first of all, the state of ukraine must make efforts, and secondly, have lists and approximate locations of where these people are olga is now focused on supporting her husband as much as possible, she has already applied to the un red cross and the european court, found a private lawyer for her husband at her address in russia , yuriy can send letters that later the human rights activist takes photos and sends them to olga, now i dont even know what else i can do. To be honest, im just thinking. Well, besides attracting attention, they also give interviews there, going somewhere on some International Level. I dont know what else to do. Yuriy feels her support says olga , she is doing well now and believes that she will return home. Lesya mykolaichuk voice of america from warsaw immediately after the fullscale invasion of russia, the American Smithsonian Institute created a Cultural Rescue Initiative to help ukrainians to document russian crimes and help preserve objects of Cultural Heritage. How does this Initiative Work . What crimes have already been documented . My colleague iryna matviychuk asked the curators of the project at the zmitson museum in washington. Ratified this document, so in order to bring the culprits to justice , it is important to document the damage to cultural objects , the researchers set such an ambitious goal of the Smithsonian Institute in the usa when in 2022 the project of Remote Monitoring of the Cultural Heritage of ukraine was established we are trying to do this research to document the damage caused to the Cultural Heritage for potential future investigations of war crimes we have united academics investigating the conflict with colleagues in ukraine we are also working with government officials rare Katherine Hansen calls Satellite Photos of the Kherson Art Museum a success. During the occupation, they were taken just as the exhibits were being removed from it. According to the researchers, starting from october 31, somewhere until november 4, 22, reports began to appear that the Kherson Museum was being looted, we looked at Satellite Photos, and this is one of those rare cases when it was actually possible to record the looting, you see here three large white trucks they parked right next to the museum and they coincide with messages from social networks and from the scene where it was indicated how these trucks are loaded with exhibits from the Kherson Art Museum this is another proof that the museum was robbed the photo has the exact date when it happened and was also documented because the trucks were involved. Another thing we try to highlight in our reports is that the looting appears to have been organized. The researchers assure that they are compiling reports on ukraine in compliance with all legal requirements to use them as evidence in future investigations of war crimes. We hope that our reports will meet the standards of evidence that will allow them to be used in court they are available to anyone who wants to use it as evidence the project is funded by the state department in the usa, according to the researcher, they are ordered by colleagues from ukraine , researchers of the ukrainian Cultural HeritageMonitoring Laboratory , for example, when the dam exploded and the flood started , our colleagues from ukraine contacted us, we asked them which place they want us to look at, and what we should Pay Attention and as soon as we received the images from the satellite providers of the usa we provided them with updated information about what is happening with the cultural objects, what is flooded and what not , among other things, the american colleagues were able to identify the flooding of the house of the museum of the ukrainian artist polina raikova in the occupied oleshk of the kherson region during the flood due to the destruction of the kakhovskaya hpp hels here is this buildingmuseum that was flooded yellow arrows indicate where the house was located and white ones show the flood or water level tesla for sex learned here you can see on june 6, there is a flood, the white arrow reaches the place where the museum is located, and the water floods all the houses in this area. And it is the seventh of june. The next day, it is already clear that the water has completely flooded the whole territory to analyze the state of cultural monuments, researchers use satellite Photo Technology developed at nasa to detect forest fires, Catherine Hensen said, this Technology Captures kinetic activity using infrared heat sensors, photos with kinetic activity are compared with a map of cultural objects and find out which object was potentially in a fire or shelling, we can inform colleagues who work on the preservation of cultural objects about the status of the object in an inaccessible area, we can advise them on how to save buildings need to be made a priority, it helps ukrainian colleagues to determine where resources need to be directed, 28,000 objects of ukrainian Cultural Heritage are marked on their map, which they can observe, these are museums, memorials, monuments , religious institutions, libraries, archaeological sites in just the first year of a fullscale war, an experiment documented more than one and a half thousand objects that may be damaged Cultural Heritage is the fabric of society and raising Public Awareness process aspect of life in ukraine which damage it causes war is actually very important, according to the ministry of culture and information policy of ukraine, it is currently officially confirmed that 664 objects of Cultural Heritage were damaged during the fullscale invasion of ukraine, how many were actually destroyed and who should be responsible for this ukraine is investigating in court after the deoccupation , in particular for with the help of researchers from the Smithsonian Institute iryna matviychuk vyacheslav filyushkin kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america download the voice of america mobile application the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the builtin vpn service, read the news, watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts of the voice of America Service in ukrainian. Thank you for watching the voice of america in ukrainian tomorrow in the program. Svyatoslav the wolf from heniche district, kherson region, this territory was occupied almost in the first days of the fullscale invasion, but communication with svyatoslav was cut off in february on the 23rd, and in fact, nothing is known about the childs fate for six months. I really hope that thanks to your care, the boy will be found. Look at the photo and remember his face. Sviatoslav looks like he is 12 years old. He is of medium build and has blond hair. If anyone has seen sviatoslav attendee or at least knows something about his possible whereabouts, do not delay and dial the short number of the magnolia child tracing service from any mobile operator 116,000 calls are free if suddenly there is no possibilities call and write to the chat bot service of the search for children in telegram, this is only one story of a missing child in general since the beginning of the war. We received almost 3,000 requests for help in the search, fortunately , most of the children have already been found, but the fate of many remains unknown, especially this