Of the Procurement Department of the us army de watermelon said that the Biden Administration has announced that it is preparing a new request for additional funding for ukraine, what details do you have about this request, ostap, further on, we will explain that all these aid packages that we know you and i talk about on the air, they are allocated at the expense of funding that the congress praised, let us first remember that the last time the congress allocated additional money for ukraine was in december in 2022, it was about 45 billion, and this included military, humanitarian and economic support , as well as aid to allies, so these funds were allocated approximately until the fall, when the new Financial Year begins, so it is expected that what will happen next the white house will either ask the congress for additional funding or, in the case of the supply of weapons, it can use the llease mechanism, which will provide assistance in the case or lease, there are such signals that the white house is ready now, a new request is currently not mentioned, the amount that will be requested from the congress, but they say that will have serious arguments to try to convince the legislators i think this amount we will hear soon but again we know about this for a long time will require the approval of the house of representatives will be required deposed by the senate, and by both parties, and we know now, uh, there is no such great unanimity , part of the legislators, in particular, the republicans, are not like that, they do not have such a great desire to allocate additional money, some of them will therefore watch this debate and how far the congresses will manage to shave off this new aid package but again, for now this is only a statement from the administration, we are waiting for specifics or numbers, we are waiting for more specific proposals , we have another important decision for ukraine that was just adopted, this is the transfer of heavy tanks abrams, what do you know about this decision at the moment . We remember that this decision was made earlier and since may, the Ukrainian Military has been training in europe on these abrams tanks, and the training, as reported in the pentagon, is coming to an end and the transfer to the United States has already been officially approved the first batch of such tanks to ukraine is expected that they will arrive on the battlefield at the beginning of autumn, in principle, like this and expected earlier together with the tanks, as explained to the pentagon of ukraine , ammunition, spare parts, fuel and other equipment necessary for support and maintenance of these tanks, all this is expected already in the fall on the battlefield, the first batch, and i remind you that in the usa these tanks are somewhat modified to meet the needs of the ukrainians, they are different from the tanks used by the United States , and therefore we expect that they will already be in the hands of the ukrainian defenders soon, along with it, a message appeared to natal that ukraine will soon receive a new batch of belgian leopard2 tanks. I apologize for the leopard 1. And which were purchased in belgium by an unnamed country, the belgian media write about it. We expect that the Ukrainian Forces will soon be replenished on the battlefield with new abrams and United States tanks and new leopard 1 tanks from European Countries for whom ostapa, according to your explanation , was in direct contact with us ostap yarisha we are moving on russia is using the tactics of burning in donetsk land because there are no expected successes on the battlefield , pavlo kyrylenko, the head of the donetsk Regional Military administration, said this during an online briefing organized by the center for the analysis of european politics in washington he noted that the most intense battles in Donetsk Region are currently taking place in the bakhmut, mariinsky, ughledar and lyman directions, according to him, if the Ukrainian Armed forces are defending themselves in the lyman direction, then in the bakhmut and mariinsky , the Ukrainian Army is attacking only private residential buildings, as of today, one can even say that they have been destroyed practically, in fact, 81. 5 thousand private residential buildings, 5. 4. 5400 are, e. E. , multiapartment buildings, either completely destroyed or damaged objects infrastructure 1,000 more than 1,300 objects of social infrastructure, that is, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, etc. , in educational other educational institutions , 260 objects of life support and transport infrastructure, if you take it as bridges, the Main Transport interchanges, road crossings , more than 90 units were destroyed in Donetsk Region , that is in fact, in ukraine, this is probably not the largest number of destructions that the war brought to Donetsk Region, but Donetsk Region is a key formpost that deters the enemy without having the successes and those that they were counting on front, the Russian Federation is simply demonstrating to the whole world in ukraine its inhumanity in general, that for them any rules of war, International Conventions are simply unwritten, that they did not observe them, they will not observe them, and it is their anger and inability to achieve a result that is manifested in the fact that they are destroying civilian cities along the front line, of course, in fact, the entire front line in donetsk has been destroyed by attacks , the cities are relatively far from the front line , the settlements are not even small, they are destroyed by the Russian Federation out of all types of weapons that they only have and of course no one chooses in this case, the civil infrastructure there is critical for the local population and that is why there is such a large number of victims among the local population because 492,000 people currently live in the Donetsk Region. This is quite a large number and approximately 51 of the entire territory of the region is under the control of the ukrainian authorities. Ukraine has the right to fire at objects in russia. Most of the military experts interviewed by the voice of america agree on this , although they note that these attacks are not play a significant military role and do not solve military tasks. Iryna matviychuk asked experts in washington and ukraine how justified the shelling inside russia is and whether it is possible to win the war without shelling the enemy s land. Military or strategic objects that are permissible by International Norms of warfare, director of the Eurasian Program of the institute for Foreign Policy research Robert Hamilton tells the voice of america although how the expert notes that these shellings do not change the course of the war, it is not necessary to attack the enemy on his territory in order to win the war, the way to defeat the enemy in the war is to comprehensively defeat his army on the battlefield or to exhaust his army so much that he revises his military goals on your benefit ukraine can do this without attacking targets in russia it is more difficult but it is possible what ukraine can achieve with drone attacks on targets in russia is to undermine confidence in the russian government inside the country continues expert that in my opinion it undermines the perception of some people in russia and that their government is powerful and capable of defending itself against a much smaller neighbor that the russians invaded without any reason, the former Supreme Commander of nato forces in europe , American General philip pridlav, agrees and where are you petty . I think that the military significance of these attacks is probably not very great, but they have an emotional significance. I consider it important that the russians now have to see that putins inhuman and immoral war is illegal will also lead to an attack on them themselves, but ukrainian professor andriy haruk from the Petro Sahaidachny National Academy of Ground Forces considers strikes on the territory of russia necessary, according to him , Russian Military logistics are concentrated on the objects attacked by drones, if their airfields and ammunition positions are not destroyed, then the liberation of the occupied territory of ukraine will be extremely difficult, he says, victory will be achieved only when russia loses the opportunity for another aggression against ukraine in all other cases, it will be unrest, it will only be a truce Robert Hamilton agrees that daily drone attacks reduce russias ability to increase its combat power, but he says that they will not be able to completely destroy the russian army, it is too large and has the ability to renew harry schmidt, an expert at the conservative American Enterprise institute, who also deals with issues of defense and security calls the strikes of drones and missiles quite reasonable , but such that they will not change the current warfare , according to schmidt, if even the countries of the west allow ukraine to use missiles longrange shelling of russia outside its borders is not the most useful way to use these weapons. They have every right to do so, but the question of whether these types of weapons are worth doing will be most useful if they are used for strikes on crimea and Russian Military capabilities in the occupied territories. Of the need to provide ukraine with more longrange missiles and allow ukrainians to independently choose targets we must provide ukrainians with longrange strike capabilities that will allow them to effectively hit key targets targets on russiancontrolled ukrainian territory and in russia itself, these targets will include command and control centers, communication lines , bridges, roads, railways, warehouses where they store supplies, fuel, only weapons , these are all legitimate targets. We should not restrict ukraine in such a way that ukraine wins this war. Should receive american atakams and this should be only the beginning , emphasizes general breedlovecar. Capable of penetrating and causing incredible damage to the Russian Military forces, we have a situation that is called very unnatural for this type of war, western countries actually forbade ukraine to use their weapons to attack russia, but how many times did russia attack kiev . Hundreds and hundreds of times if they do not allow shooting in ukraine western weapons against russia, then kiev should be given some security guarantees, for example , nato guarantees, sums up the Ukrainian Military historian andriy kharuk of the spread to Ukraine Security guarantees of nato would allow to eliminate this danger and, lets say, the need for strikes on the territory of russia disappeared, because now we are in the situation of two boxers , one of whom has his hands tied, so he cannot use them to their full length, while the other would due to all kinds of restrictions ee is striking blows, hitting the painful ee places , and it is in the end that he is unfairly the best guarantee of security for ukraine, the majority of american experts also called membership in nato and ukraine has a high chance of joining the alliance, they say for this it is not enough to defeat the russian army iryna matviychuk kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america this week the world marks the anniversary of the beginning of russias war against georgia 15 years ago, russia led troops into the territory of georgia under the pretext of protecting the selfproclaimed South Ossetia of the United States the European Union and the International Community mark august 7 as the beginning of a fullscale russias military aggression against georgia, which resulted in a fiveday war in which hundreds of georgian soldiers and civilians were killed , thousands of internally displaced persons and in fact, the occupation of South Ossetia, which is still ongoing, now 20 of the territory of georgia is occupied by russia, the Georgian Service of the voice of america spoke with the former Us Ambassador to nato, kurt walker, and the excoordinator of the sanctions policy of the us state department, daniel fried, but what was the support of georgia by the west during the war and how was the aggression against georgia became only one of the first soldiers of russia in europe in this century, i think that now people look at 2008 and understand that putin had the same strategy, his strategy of attacking ukraine and the seizure of territory is no different from the attack on georgia in 2008. The same person, the same goals, only a target, maybe because it was a smaller country like georgia. In 2008, the Bush Administration sent ships to the coast of georgia to show strength and warn russia not to go too far. Far we provided informational and coordination assistance to the georgians in the same way. With the return of their soldiers, we were very actively involved diplomatically together with the eu and france. Trying to stop this is something. Russias war against georgia was not crushed in prison. Was only the first of putins wars aimed at rebuilding the russian empire, we did not know that it was only the first, but we had a bad feeling about this georgia not ukraine, it is much smaller in terms of territory and the idea that the usa could supply georgia with weapons and help repelling the attacks of the russians would not have worked because by this time it would have been completed in a few days, russia had an advantage in georgia already now it can be argued that after the war we should have helped much more in building the Georgian Army but this would not have affected the result of the war itself, the russians were unable to capture significant territories, they captured the territory of South Ossetia and the fact that they did not manage to capture more territory , the stagnation of the georgian resistance army, constant shelling , broken homes and the loss of parents. All this is lived by the children of the kherson region, the left bank of which is still under russian occupation, to distract the local children at least for an hour from the difficult weekdays, volunteers from odesa organize improvised shows for them, sometimes on the way to remote villages of odesa odesa animators they spend 5 hours each way, but this does not stop them, because they say their activities are needed by local residents. Anna kostyuchenko and pavel suhodoskyi will tell you more about odesa volunteers in Kherson Oblast. Such shows and programs for children from the liberated part of Kherson Oblast are organized by odesa volunteers every week. It belongs to two friends 35 year old photographer oleksandr medvedenko and physical Education Teacher andrii beglitsov, 36 , the first time was on november 20, it seems , a few days after the release, as soon as we were allowed to drive there by truck, we went to the very first day, in principle, since then, we ride there once a week, later a small team of likeminded people gathered around friends, sometimes volunteers spend 10 hours on the road to remote villages, but this does not stop them, says andriy begletsov. We saw the most important face of the children, how happy they were because we saw that they really lacked it, and it was so that they seemed to be alone for about 1520 minutes, they talked about all the negativity and somehow got distracted, somehow returned to the life that was before the war together, volunteers they bring sweets and clothes for the children who buy them with the money of benefactors. Wheelbarrows, boys on the side, on the side, the families of local residents viktor and lilia fedotov are needed. The help of volunteers is especially valuable. After all, at the beginning of the war, the family lost its sources of income. In addition , the russians bombed the new apartment where they moved six months before the invasion. The family lives in the grandmothers house. And sometimes the children ask to come to the apartment to play and take some toys from oleksandr medvedenko also has a little daughter growing up, the tragedy of the kherson children does not matter to him, says the husband, i am very surprised by that how do they go through it all and that they keep this positive for themselves even after they have experienced it . Well, thats what we come plus sometimes we hear stories there about children, they tell us, we can somehow be more purposeful there and help there too well, once we met a very positive and cool boy there, 6 years old, uh, his mother flew into his home and killed him. Oh, and well, i say, and then we still came to them there, brought him a tablet for studying, uh, thats me already i dont remember. Well, they handed it over and he met us so joyfully as acquaintances there, or we also came and brought a generator for a large family who moved a little further from the front line, or their house was bombed, we gave them a house for a while, acquaintances and we brought it to the generator and it turned out that just us at the childrens holiday and its cool that they are already there, well, we give eggs there for creativity and they have already managed to make something out of them and show the result there, so the trip odessa animators cover about a hundred children aged two to 14 spend on gifts about 100,000 hryvnias for one trip six to seven visits to Kherson Oblast so far will continue as long as there is a need volunteers say we will continue to help we see that our help is still needed a lot of forces that we could not go we know that there is a force that we could not go because there is constant shelling and there are many children, so we understand that our mission will continue for a long, long time. Hello, hello, anna kostenko, Pavel Sukhodolsky for the voice of america from the odesa and kherson regions , the first restaurant of ukrainian cuisine appeared in los angeles an institution called mom place, please, was opened by a family of entrepreneurs from mariupol who moved to los angeles after the war, the institution has already become a center for gatherings of the ukrainian community, what is cooked there and where did the name of the Institution Come from, Khrystyna Shevchenko will tell you in los angeles, which is the largest city in the state california has not had a single ukrainian restaurant until now, and with a new wave of refugees after the start of a fullscale russian invasion , the situation began to change, and we, the people of mariupol, simply started over make frozen products and everyone liked them very much and we discovered that there is such a request that people want to come to a Ukrainian Institution before the start of a fullscale invasion and did not live in kyiv , where she was a coowner of a chain of coffee shops , feeling a request from immigrants to los angeles. She decided on something ukrainian it is necessary to open, and this is how the First Ukrainian restaurant mam please or мамо был пласка appeared. For us, it was very responsible that it was opened by the first in los angeles. Dumplings and different types of coffee, all recipes are from the notes of the motherinlaw and not of olena kochetkova. She is the mother in whose honor the institution was named together with her sons family. The woman also left for the usa and works in the Family Business until march 2022. Olena kochetkova owned a cafe and a Grocery Store in mariupol now its probably our familys recipes , or its our familys or familys recipes. In the kitchen, her husband was killed by a projectile, the woman says that only work helps to cope with grief, as if i didnt cook enough, i have the impression that i am in the kitchen cooking in the family and if i stop cooking, then i will die if i die from the guests favorite dish, says mrs. Olena, there are cheesecakes, all dishes are served in modern interpretations, the restaurant also offers ukrainian pastries in the cafe. I cook napoleon and also honeydew, the special feature is that it is a favorite dessert not only in ukraine, but probably in the whole world, which is not so easy to make. You have to put a lot of love into it he did it turn out tasty or is there a ukrainian soul hmmm i do it with love the restaurant has already become a Gathering Place for ukrainians in los angeles there are local americans among the visitors i come here and do my homework on my laptop enjoying my almond milk cappuccino the food is incredible i i strongly recommend dumplings napoleon cake and pancakes with chicken and mushrooms, they are delicious , the opening of such restaurants becomes a big event for the ukrainian community, because it is not so easy to find a job here, and in general it is important that to find a job because now it is very difficult to find a job specifically in los angeles due to the fact that many ukrainians have come here and it is difficult, and the main goal was to provide our newly arrived ukrainians with working cities because we know that it is very difficult here without knowing the language and very its morally difficult when you dont have the computers you had in ukraine. Inna says that they are planning to introduce a menu of ukrainian breakfasts and also to update the design even at moms. Please not only says you can taste the dishes, but also buy them in frozen form. They spread the Business Model through a franchise. We want places all over the usa where people can come and try ukrainian dishes and take frozen products home with them, so that they can prepare a cafe for her and mrs. Olenika its a part of the soul and a sense of home from los angeles khrystyna and bohdan shevchenko were from america download the voice of america mobile application the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the builtin vpn service read news watch Information Programs and videos as well as listen to voa ukrainian podcasts on this we will say goodbye you watched the voa Ukrainian Program time time also join our daily briefings from monday to friday at 18 00 kyiv time on youtube and facebook where you are you will be able to ask your questions live to our teachers ostap yarush and yulia yarmolenko. Thank you for trusting the ukrainian voice of america service. I am nataliya lagunova. Good night and good morning. We continue the search for fiveyearold yaroslav mayrora, who disappeared in september of last year in the thenoccupied territory of kharkiv oblast. I know that at the beginning of this year, yaroslavs grandfather managed to find out that the boy was a living man , and he even sent us a video of a conversation with his grandson and how handsome someone was. Someone knew me and recognized me. The boy was allegedly taken to russia and from there he only once contacted his grandfather who lives in the Kharkiv Region and is now doing Everything Possible to find and return his grandson. The last time the man met his grandson was before the war because the boy lived with his parents in kharkiv in the first days of the fullscale invasion. The situation there was quite uneasy and the family immediately decided to evacuate. The kupyan district of Kharkiv Region was occupied almost from the beginning of the war, so mr. Serhiy could not be contacted for about seven months. With his family, but he believed that everything was fine with them, he was small, he had absolutely no idea, then he knew what was important, and the cube was moving , it seems that it happened during the occupation, they blew up the bridge there. In 2015, the soldiers of the armed forces of ukraine quickly entered kupyansk, but the kupyansk node remained under occupation for some time, and it was there that mr. Serhiys family was located. It is known that the situation in the village was very tense. At one point, they organized an Evacuation Column for civilians. The maigr family took advantage of the opportunity and tried to leave, but on the road between the kupyan junction and the village of kurylivka, civilian cars were fired upon, as i would have it, they drove naked , rain, courage, hope is always an excess, what were they, koloniya, the daughter of mr. Serhiy , together with her husband, died, but here fiveyearold yaroslav survived, survived and baptized a boy who was also traveling in this convoy. He was sent to luhansk to the kryostny hospital. Well, how is the motherinlaw, and how is yaroslav, well, he is there with them , it was a good area, now they have brought the slogans. I dont know whats going on there at all, well, to this day, i cant do anything to get vernychenka back to, so that i know the last time they were and somewhere in the city of the city, is it true that mr. Serhiy is now in russia, or is he really in the belgorod region, it is absolutely unknown the shelling of the belarusian region is so painful. I dont know at all that now they have left , they got out, and what do you think . I dont know. Look carefully at the photo of fiveyearold yaroslav maykur. If suddenly someone has any information about him and his place do not delay your stay and immediately
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