are they the attention of legislators? in fact yes, more and more often legislators mention in their speeches in the congress the protesters, the rallyists, the bright blue flags that stand under the congress in rain and bad weather, and they mention this both during the hearings and during their own meetings of the congress, as in the house of representatives and the senate. therefore, even this wednesday, when the house of representatives and the senate in general returned, the congress returned to work, after a short break, the protesters, both ukrainian and american, came to the... march to the house of representatives, that is where the aid to ukraine is currently stuck, and they came with placards and flags, as the protesters themselves claim, they want to remind the house of representatives and american lawmakers in general that aid to ukraine should be approved as soon as possible if it is an urgent matter. i invite you to listen to more details about why they are protesting, who exactly is protesting, and how these protests took place this wednesday in our short report. we

have gathered today primarily because the congress returned to the session, and that means that soon we can expect a vote on the aid package for ukraine, and we want to show that yes, the anniversary of the war on february 24, it was a very powerful event, but it does not mean that we have finished there and we we will continue to gather and stand here until help is approved. it is a crime not to support our state at such a difficult moment for it. to inaction, because right now ukraine is choosing freedom and those values ​​from which the united states of america was founded in about 200 years ago. dressed in blue and yellow flags and carrying placards, not only ukrainians, but also local americans of various origins came to the protest. in particular, those whose countries are currently suffering from dictatorships and political repressions. as part of the performance, the participants brought the soviet flag and symbolically trampled it. he was sprinkled with earth. those of you

who escaped communism, whether you are from cuba, north korea, or venezuela, support ukraine because they are helping to stop putin from rebuilding the soviet empire and restoring communism everywhere the world, he is helped by china and north korea, so help ukraine stop communism. many americans, like myself, are very concerned. seven out of ten are american. and many other friends of ukraine support the continuation of military aid to ukraine. everyone should be encouraged to reach out to members of congress and ask them to provide military aid to ukraine now. no, i do not have any national connection with ukraine, but as john kennedy once said, you are all free people, if the ukrainians do not mind accepting me, i would be proud to say that i am in... in general, in this

that day, several dozen people gathered under the capitol, despite the rain and bad weather, they stood until the legislators finished their work, at the same time as this rally, other american activists made video projections on the museum building on capitol hill with demands for continued aid to ukraine. in general, protests have continued throughout this week and activists say they will go outside the capitol before agreeing to help ukraine. and even after that. thank you, katya. my colleague was in touch with congress kateryna lisynova. we summed up the week. according to the us secretary of defense of the time of barack obama and the former head of the cia, leon paneto, there is bipartisan support in the congress for funding aid to ukraine. and if the bill is put to a vote, it will be approved. in an interview with the georgian voice of america service, penata emphasizes that if speaker johnson does not bring the bill to a vote, it may worsen the political image of the republican party. because it

will look like republicans support russia. here is his comment. ukraine has critical to our national security, since in many ways ukrainians are also fighting in our war, trying to protect democracy. all the time that i worked in intelligence, i received information about what putin was up to. it was very clear that putin's main goal was to undermine democracy in the united states and elsewhere. the main goal, and obviously to protect our national security, we have to make sure that putin does not succeed, so it is very important that we provide all the necessary military assistance to allow the ukrainians to continue the fight against putin. what will happen now, i think there is a good sign in the congress. i know that there was a meeting at the white house between the president and the leadership of congress in which they talked about the importance of getting this vote on military aid to the fore. the good news is that there are strong members

of congress from both parties who support the relief package. in the end, the senate passed it by an overwhelming majority of what appears to be 70 or more votes. and in congress, i think it would be fair to say that if in the house representatives, there would be strong bipartisan support for this bill. the key now is to convince the speaker, the house , that it is extremely important to our national security to hold this vote. i think that at the end of the day, the speaker has to understand that if he can't secure that vote, he and the republican party will be seen as supporting putin. i don't think they want that. if they are going to retain control of the house of representatives, that would be bad politically, if they were believed to be supporting putin and not ukraine in this war. therefore, i am confident that this issue will eventually be resolved by a vote in the house of representatives. this was the comment of leon panetta,

former us secretary of defense. read more on our website. californian jericho. kai magalon died defending ukraine when he was 28 years old, his body remained on the battlefield near bakhmut, and four months after the soldier's death, he had a child. jericho's mother tells the americans about the crimes in memory of her son a russian, explains why he went to fight for ukraine and asks lawmakers to provide kyiv with the necessary assistance. details in the story of iryna shinkarenko. he was a veteran. of the american army, he flew to warsaw, then hitchhiked to kyiv, where he joined the ranks of the foreign legion, and a few months later joined the ukrainian special forces. alison magalon shows a photo of her dead son jericho, who

decided to fight in ukraine in the early days of the full-scale war. already on march 5, 2022 , jericho left california for kyiv. he told me that it was still like watching bullies beat a child, the world watching from the sidelines without helping, and that's why he went there. i didn't support him at first, but then i realized that my son was going because he had such a big heart and i needed to support him, so i did. he believed in justice, he believed in democracy, he believed in freedom, he believed so much in what he did. he was fighting to save lives, and that's why he left. he was not involved in politics, i am not involved in politics, he left to save life. he even said: "i don't want to kill russian boys, but what they are doing in ukraine" is terrible. jericho served

as a military policeman in the us army for four years, but what he saw in ukraine was unlike anything he had ever seen before. in an interview with the american press, he described russian soldiers as "absolute evil, one of the reminders of the atrocities of the russians, jericho's mother carries with her are the drawings of a girl whom her son helped to evacuate during the liberation from the occupation of izyum in kharkiv oblast. when he released izyum, he helped a wonderful girl, i won't mention her name, he helped her leave ukraine, she was tortured for two weeks, her father was shot, her mother was mutilated, shot and killed, and in front of the girl's eyes , the rampage continued. the dead body of her mother, who was seven months pregnant. now the girl lives in germany and here are some of her drawings, through them you can see the pain and suffering she went through. after 10 months of service in ukraine, jericho returned to california, he visited his family and went

to ukraine again for 10 days to train the military. however, during this trip, in early september 2023, he died near bakhmut. and she is. he went out with the boys to try and help them in the first fight, they managed to take the russian position, but he couldn't get back. jericho's comrade-in-arms, the american wolfgang hagarty, who is currently fighting in ukraine, recalls that his friend was a unique soldier. he was working with stingers at the time and showed me how to work with them and much more. he always made friends i can't name a single person... who didn't love this guy, everyone loved him, and it doesn't matter how many different people liked him, they might not like each other, but they enjoyed being around him, he was able to motivate people to work together, he was like a magnet, i heard many

stories from other people, how he would run out into the open to check if anyone was dead and if there were wounded, to pull them away, the type of guy who never backs down from a fight. jericho's body could not be taken from the battlefield, because of this it is considered official missing, he is survived by his lover and two sons, the eldest is seven years old, in the usa. the son was adopted, the youngest was born already after his death in january 2024. in addition to the grief of loss, jericho's mother says, his family continues to feel the cruelty of the russians. we may never get his body back, the trolls, the russian trolls, were after me and my family. i defended them against the messages i received from trolls, from death threats to what they did to my son's body. they said they captured him, hacked him and fed to the dogs, so the trolls were another

important part of everything and still are. after jericho's death, his mother visited the us congress to ask lawmakers to help ukraine. in my opinion, what is happening to innocent civilians is another form of genocide. so i really think we need to send more aid to help ukraine win this fight. for my country, for freedom, and this is what my son stood for, and i will support my son, his memory, to help ukraine in whatever way i can. we telling our stories, there are four or five mothers here whose sons also died in ukraine, and we are asking congress to help, so that senators and congressmen help pass a bill to increase aid to ukraine, and it needs to be done now, they need to act. it's a personal story, it's my child, it's my son is still there, and here are american mothers who shouldn't

be here right now, i shouldn't be doing this interview if they were doing what they were supposed to be doing, not even a year has passed since our children died in ukraine, and yes, it was theirs choice, but it was their choice, because they saw a gap, saw an unsolved problem to help ukraine, to gain freedom. it was the story of iryna shinkarenko. you are finally home. packages with such an inscription are being prepared for defenders of the rodyn azavstali volunteer association who have been released from captivity. the idea of ​​giving special packages with all the necessary things appeared after the girls saw the condition in which ukrainian defenders return from russian captivity. khrystyna shevchenko spoke with the volunteers. in this. three girlfriends work every day: hanna, yevgenia and valeria, volunteers

of the rodyn azovstal association. the girls are united by common grief, the expectations of their relatives from captivity, and the common goal - to take care of those who managed to get free. the set became the embodiment of the idea , you are finally at home. and we set ourselves the goal of a small set of the most necessary things, in fact, which a person who has nothing now might need. box. the result of thoughtful planning. while waiting for the groom to return, hanna naumenko attended many exchanges. she saw in which the last ukrainian defenders return after russian capture. most of them, of them in those things that were still worn, that is, some kind of work jackets, peacoats, torn pants, shoes, all without laces, well , shoes in which they left themselves all the time, and they were. guys who were just in some towels. the set weighs 10 kg,

carefully packed in a strong cardboard box. its content is selected depending on the gender and state of health of the defender. underwear, socks and a t-shirt are packed at the bottom, then a sports suit, shorts and rubber slippers there is also a hoodie, also from the association volunteer valeria doli, who is waiting for her friend from captivity, showing what tracksuits look like for... released soldiers, it just has a print that was before, and, from hygiene products: cute , shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste , shaver and shower gel, for women's kits , skin care products, masks, on top of everything volunteers put cards with words of thanks and stories of liberation, and we understand that things are important. but the most important thing in this project is the act

worries the association estimates the cost of one box at uah 10,000. the implementation of the box finally you are at home project was made possible thanks to the support of numerous partners. among them are pharmacy chains, ukrainian companies producing sports goods and clothing. the folded boxes are handed over to the medical centers where the defenders are located after the exchange. here, for example, these boxes for the defenders from the exchange of prisoners on february 8. however, valeria's friend is not yet on the lists, as is evgenia's brother, their boxes have long been... collected and waiting for them liberation, i always think that i have the opportunity to sleep, i have a bed, i have the opportunity to eat, i have freedom, no one tortures me, no one beats me, and i just can go outside , i can go to the toilet whenever i want, if i have any health issues, i can go to the doctor, and you understand that all this

is impossible there, that is, the life of these people, the life of my brother at the moment it... doesn't belong to him, he doesn't make decisions, even when he can go to the toilet. according to the association's estimates, there are 1,500 defenders of azovstal remains in russian captivity since may 2022. since that time, the families of the prisoners go on pickets all over ukraine every sunday so that they are not forgotten. valeria, hanna and yevgenia also go there, after the pickets the girls return to this kyiv apartment, where they continue to carefully pack boxes and wait for their relatives. khrystyna shevchenko for voice of america. due to the war, the government of ukraine suspended the process of adoption of children by foreign citizens. the ministry of social policy says that in the conditions of war they cannot provide all legal rights norms of this process. because of this, several hundred american families who planned and even got to know the children have not been able to take in orphans for two years. many of them

ask, if not to allow official adoption, at least to invite the children to visit for this period. svitlana prystynska and volodymyr petruniv met in colorado with a family that adopted a ukrainian orphan before the war and talked with a family in georgia that did not have time to finish the adoption process. adopting a child from ukraine made sense for our family, because i am from the center canada, and when i was growing up, probably a third of my friends had ukrainian roots, so i was surrounded by the culture of my friends. in november 2018, the american-canadian couple josh and emily thesen from colorado officially adopted a ukrainian girl from khmelnytskyi, izabela. the girl is now 21 years old. in ukraine, izabela has older sisters and brothers. i was born in khmelnytskyi and grew up in an orphanage in the village of vovkovyntsi. until

she met her parents. i talk on the phone with my brothers and sisters in ukraine. for it is very important to me to know how they are doing with everything that is happening there. the adoption process is traumatic, it is not easy, it is not easy, and sometimes it is even very difficult, but it is worth it. and now, when there is a war in ukraine, i think about our izabela, who is the youngest of eight brothers and sisters. the story of izabela's adoption began in 2017, with a program in which american families took in ukrainian orphans during the summer vacation for six weeks. we were told about the possibility of adopting older children from ukraine. we decided to accept first, and later to adopt a ukrainian child. we have three children of our own. two boys and a girl. we

were not going to increase the family, we thought three was enough. but when we joined... we realized that she would be a wonderful addition to our family, and we still need four children. when you've spent some time, even six weeks, with a child who lived in an orphanage and is looking for a better future, you want to... do everything possible to help her, so we decided to adopt her. at the age of 14, isabella did not expect to find a family, because in her orphanage mostly adopted younger children the girl appreciates her american family very much and is grateful that emily and

josh were not afraid to adopt her as a teenager . when i flew here for the first time, i was afraid and happy at the same time. i couldn't believe that there was a family that wanted to spend time with me and learn more about me. now i live alone, i moved away from my parents, i have a job, i work as a waitress. my life turned out well, my family always supports me, they are always there and i am very grateful for that. in connection with the martial law, the adoption of ukrainian children by foreign citizens has been suspended until the end of the war the clark family from the state of georgia started the process of adopting nine-year-old artem even before the war, but they did not have time to receive the dose. we always wanted to adopt a child, and in the summer of 2021 we adopted a little boy artem, our pastor's family

adopted a little girl from ukraine. artem is now 9 years old, he was seven when he was with us. we had no idea how difficult the adoption process would be, how much it would cost us. when the war started, it got even worse, we were so hoping that... that they would bring the children back to the family now nobody can adopt from ukraine, but we are not even asking for that, we are not asking for full adoption right now, but instead of them living in an orphanage, let them live with the parents who planned to adopt them. these children will have a much better life here, they will be with love in their families. these are children who already have families in america, who are suffering even more because of this terrible war, and we can help. this is his

home, we have his photo on the wall. we call him son, he calls us mom and dad. he calls our girls sisters. it makes sense that these poor children should be with their families now. the clark family is one of several hundred american families who find... in the future, the girl says, she wants to adopt a child from her native ukraine. i cannot visit ukraine because of the war, but as soon as it ends, i will go. in the ministry of social policy of ukraine, they say that in the conditions of war at this moment they cannot provide all the legal norms of adoption of ukrainians. foreign citizens. svitlana prystynska, volodymyr petruniv. denver, colorado. and that's the end of it. thank you for

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the program. let's talk about this. a powerful rush of the invaders at the time of yar. is a breakthrough in the ukrainian defense possible if the allies do not increase the supply of weapons and ammunition. help bypassing congress. the pentagon found 4 billion for ukraine in the presidential fund powers what might be the consequences of procrastination? putin's personal crime. while in russia they are saying goodbye to the murdered oppositionist... the kremlin threatens navalny with responsibility for unauthorized actions. well, until we started such a main conversation, i think today's most vivid event is in moscow, on march 1 they buried russian opposition politician oleksii navalny, who was tortured in a russian prison in february. thousands of people came to say goodbye to him, but only relatives and friends were allowed into the church, about 20

minutes this official farewell was held there, the territory of the church was surrounded by medal fences, the queue of those willing to say goodbye to navalny stretched for more than a kilometer, let's see how it was!

with the fact that yesterday, in its resolution, the european parliament expressed concern about the restrictions on the foreign trips of members of the verkhovna rada, primarily from the opposition. this can be considered as non-electoral restrictions on the political activity of elected people's deputies, in particular those who represent the opposition, as stated verbatim in documents therefore, we decided to ask you the following question: should people's deputies be restricted from traveling abroad during the war. if your

answer is yes, call. 0800 211381, if not, 0800 211 382, ​​well, or on our website , as far as i understand, it can also be done somehow, and our first guest today is serhii krivonos, major general of the reserve, former first deputy commander of the sso, from 2016 to 2019 year and ex-deputy secretary of the nsdc in 2019-2020. and with him, of course, we will begin to discuss, first of all, issues related to the military sphere. i congratulate you, mr. serhiu. thank you for joining us. good evening, glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. well, i can't help but ask you, of course, first of all what concerns, well, your so direct, former field of activity, that is what actually happened precisely

by the forces of the ssso. and... it became known that soldiers of the 73rd naval special operations center heroically saved themselves during a combat mission in a clash with russian invaders, this is an official announcement, ensuring the withdrawal of the main forces of the group after the completion of a special mission, they accepted their last battle, remaining in the ranks forever, this was reported directly to the forces of the sso. according to the publication militarny, it is about the battle on february 28. during the landing of the group in the occupied territory of the kherson region in the area of ​​tendrivska kosa, and there are now many different opinions, different conversations around this, it is obvious that you are a person who is directly in the topic, and you probably have your own view on this story, well at least , maybe have some information on this , i how do you feel about what happened, is it possible?