the results of super tuesday and the course of the presidential campaign in the usa, we spoke with maria ulyanovska. president joe biden will address congress on march 7 with his annual state of the union address. the first lady of ukraine olena zelenska, among others, was invited to this event, but she declined the invitation. zelenskyi's office informed that she could not take it. participation in connection with the events planned in the schedule, in particular , the visit of children from the orphanage to kyiv, which was planned in advance. however, in the press release, they write that this is the probable reason for the refusal there was an invitation to the congress of the widow of the russian opposition leader oleksiy navalny yulia. the white house said that zelensky's decision was likely due to scheduling conflicts. we will talk more about this with yulia yarmolenko, who had the opportunity to talk with the white house communications adviser. in

the field of national security by john kirby. congratulations yulia! hello, natalya! yulia, how did the administration react to the rejection of the first lady of ukraine from the invitation to congress for biden's speech on the state of the country. natalie, the white house said they respect it the choice of the first lady, it was confirmed that she received such an invitation, and when president biden met with the widow of the russian opposition leader oleksii navalny, yulia, he invited her to take part in this speech. what is it all about, to what extent. such an invitation is possible. we know that every time the president of a nation addresses a joint session of congress, lawmakers, americans, and the world at large, it's one of the most important speeches of the year. and during that speech, the first lady invites special guests to watch the speech along with her. and depending on who the first lady invites, it is very easy to determine what the priorities of the administration of this or that president are, as well as domestic priorities and.

and foreign policy priorities, and today john kirby, when we talked with him, i recorded the interview, he said that this is really how the white house wanted to once again emphasize its commitment, america's commitment, to help ukraine, and when i he was asked about which month the biden administration wanted to send, inviting the ukrainian first lady at the same time, and the widow of the russian oppositionist navalny, and this is what john kirby told me and this is how he commented on the refusal of both women. of course, we respect their decision to refuse participation, but ukraine is an important, key country today. ukrainians have been fighting courageously for two years, more than two years, and this would definitely be an opportunity to recognize america's commitment to ukraine and the struggle of courage and resilience of the ukrainian people. and again,

we all share the grief over the death of oleksiy navalny, we recognize his courage and we continue our efforts to hold the kremlin accountable for what happened. the president had the opportunity to meet with navalny's wife and express both his personal condolences and the condolences of all americans. yuli, given that congress has been unable to approve funding for ukraine for several months now, does biden plan to call on congress to approve aid to kyiv and is the administration looking for alternative ways to provide that aid. natalya also asked john kirby about it today, he said that he will not run ahead of the president's speech, but said that definitely joe biden will pay attention to a lot of domestic issues, domestic political issues, will talk about his own. achievements in these 3.5 years

of the presidency, and it is also important to note that we are now dealing with the beginning of the general presidential campaign, so this speech will be seen as a de facto presentation, as president biden's plan for his second term as president, and in that way he will motivate americans to vote on foreign policy, certainly how said john kirby, joe biden will talk about the importance of american leadership, about the national... about the national security of the united states, and in the matter of the national security of the united states , the support of ukraine plays an important role, as he said, so it is really expected that the president biden will talk about this, too, but natalya, i asked john kirby, after all, whether the biden administration is as confident as president biden once was that congress will approve the request for additional funding for ukraine, and will hear these calls from president biden, and for the first time, natalya, john kirbin... was

so sure, he said that he can't predict that, that everything depends on speaker johnson, and he said that the white house is looking for other options on how to help ukraine, but admits that the best option was all... such additional funding, because it offers great opportunities. let's listen. we will continue to work with congress to secure additional funding. we are also working with allies on the contributions they could make. it is not means they don't do them, they do, but we want to see what else can be done. and, of course, we're looking within our own system to see if there's anything else that we...could do to support ukraine, but none of those efforts can replace the magnitude of the additional funding that we would get. but can there be a plan b? there was no way we weren't

looking at other options, but whatever they are, they won't be like additional funding, there's no substitute for it. as i have said many times, there is none magical source. that can do what additional funding can do, and are we looking at options, absolutely, we should, given the situation on the battlefield, especially in the east. but do you still believe that the request can be approved? it's hard to say for sure, it's up to speaker johnson , we know, and speaker johnson knows, if he brings it up for a vote, the bill will pass, there's enough bipartisan support, there's no question, the real question is will he bring it up and only he can to answer him. natalie john kirbin doesn't say exactly what options the white house is considering, and again, tomorrow we're probably going to hear some pretty tough calls from president biden to congress and

to speaker johnson himself, who will be sitting behind president biden, but to bring up a very important draft law for ukraine. thank you yulia for your work, yulia yarmolenko was in direct contact with us from the white house. you can find her interview with john kirby in full on our website. in the conditions of war, ukrainians have limited experience in learning foreign languages. almost half of the ukrainians surveyed by the kyiv international institute of sociology say that they have not used any method to learn english in the past six months. for a third of ukrainians, the main lack - the main barrier - is the lack of finances. at the same time, the majority of ukrainians have a desire to improve their level of knowledge of a foreign language. the main motivators are called greater travel opportunities, more varied leisure time and the opportunity to work in international companies. our

next story is about three ukrainian women in the usa who founded projects that allow all willing ukrainians to learn english with a native speaker for free. ivanna pidborska met with them. now kateryna manov, a graduate of harvard university, speaks english more fluently than ukrainian, but remembers when she came to america in 1995 as an eight-year-old girl, she did not understand anything. i was scared, unpleasant, and other children laughed at me. inna has been in america since the early 90s, but she worked a lot with ukrainian teachers of foreign language, and noticed that even they have a language barrier. not they spoke english, but they were afraid to speak with the native speakers, with the americans who were in the village at that time, and tatyana was still surrounded by the military all her life. at first, dad is a veteran of the war in afghanistan, and later she married an american soldier and moved to the united states in 2000. i

know what life in a military family is like. it seems to me that this is discipline. you have to be ready for anything. each of these women. helps ukrainians learn english with volunteers, native speakers, free of charge. inna works with teachers in small towns and villages. tatiana is a war veteran, and kateryna decided to make english accessible to everyone. a woman seeks to help others overcome the psychological barrier of communication that she once had. she was helped to do this by volunteer marlen, whom kateryna met when she was eight years old in... the library, we worked for less than a year, i'll say about six to six months, and you know exactly how programs work, i didn't even think about it, she was like mine american grandmother, sorry, a little emotional, i didn't think that i would go into the distant past, but i

i never understood before talking to you that it is the same thing, that i was given it then, and i am building them now, it is a bit like that for me, i do not know the emotions of the moment... and she helped me to speak, and i want too, i want every child in ukraine to be able to find their merles, inna golovakha teaches ukrainian for american diplomats, and mastering... helps ukrainians in her free time, and for kateryna and tatyana it became already a full-time job, for which they attract grant funds. kateryna has already assembled a team of almost 30 people i have never done it, i am afraid every day, i am very scared. i had to fundraise 300,000 there in 23, how will i fundraise 300,00, i don't know how to do it, and it's scary, i think that if i don't succeed, the whole organization will be closed. so i was afraid, but everything is fine. all three of them first invited their friends and

acquaintances to study, and now there are so many willing people that they have to sign up in a queue, almost 500 military personnel, about 800 teachers and more than 20 thousand ukrainians of various ages and professions have already gone through english courses thanks to these to women each has its own programs and approach to learning. inna holovahy is a village, teachers speak in mini-groups every saturday on different topics with volunteers from different states. and that every 3 months we change the volunteer so that people hear a new, well, new pronunciation, new accents. in tetiana shay's organization, people of ukraine, military personnel learn english in large groups using songs, books, and face-to-face communication. volunteers from the usa and ukraine find a special approach to veterans. topic, where do you like to travel, or do you want to to travel, well, that is, we try

to avoid these topics, because, well, what kind of travel can be when a person defends his country. and as part of the engine project, which kateryna manov founded in 2019, each participant chooses what to focus on. the classes take place individually with volunteers aged 14 to 70, of whom there are more than 18,000 in total . then we ask whether you are better with a man or a woman, what interests you have, to make a couple based on interests. this is how ukrainians learn english, and native speakers learn more about ukrainian culture and the war. jeff bloch, the vice president of a large american bank, spent a whole year working online with maxim from kyiv. there were conversations during which sirens went off. conversations had to be interrupted to leave the bomb shelter. the classes

really helped to understand that it is so serious that the struggle is going on in ukraine and that they need help. according to the engine project, 98% of ukrainian students overcome the language barrier in the first three months of classes with native english speakers. i would say to those who are afraid of something that... you shouldn't let fear win, yes, that is, live with your fear, tell him, okay, you are here, fear, but i will move on, and i will move on, i will reach for my dreams, the main thing is to know what you need it for, and watch a lot of television programs, listen to music, have positive after these courses, positive, but believe in yourself, believe in life, believe in victory. ivanna pidborska, voice of america, washington.

in new york, ukrainian artists showed americans how ukraine and ukrainians lived before the full-scale war. the project is called time capsule. on its creation curators inspired a nasa project when it launched a capsule for other civilizations. most of the artists who were represented at the exhibition are from kharkiv. this city is on the list of ukrainian cities that suffered the most and continues to suffer from. shelling of the russian military, iryna solomko and pavlo terekhov visited the exhibition. the concept in this painting is that i make some images that resemble something, but i don't bring them to such a complete stage that you can tell that it's a person depicted, or that it's some kind of animal, or something, some kind of hint, that is , well in this is us... this is the meaning and this is a new experiment for me, that is, to move away from

the direct reflection of a person or some animals. denis saradzhin, representative of kharkiv school. foreigners predominate among those who appreciate his art. he has been cooperating with one of the new york galleries that represents his works in the usa for eight years. denys calls his style modern realism, says that the war forced artists to rethink their art. and therefore. probably my work, which is presented here at this exhibition, is it really a little different from my previous works, the very style of the work, that is, it is a little er... separated from what i did before. denys says this is his first military job. a day before the start of a full-scale war, he and his wife flew to the united states. denis himself comes from kherson. and i received my first message from ukraine from my father, and he sent a simple photo of him at a gas station, and it is being bombed, it is already

on fire, and tanks are just going to kherson, that is, to the kherson region. the war did not allow it to paint pictures - says denys. there was simply no strength to do something on canvas - explains mytets, when your hometown and country are destroyed. when i started working, returned to penzel, i realized that i cannot depict the war as it is, as it is. art , after all, in my opinion, is a little about something else, that is, it should not be a poster, it should tell what a person feels, ask some questions and something. tell. serazhyn's painting is one of the key ones at the exhibition, says project curator maria manuylenko. after all, according to her, denis is one of the most famous contemporary ukrainian artists abroad. here in america, he has more than 200 thousand followers, yes, who come specifically to him, they follow him. he generally specializes in

figurative art, and this work that he gave us is completely different, it was written under the influence of war. the goal of the project is to show the world how talented a nation ukrainians are, maria explains. the very concept of a time capsule echoes the time capsule launched by nasa. launched nasa for extraterrestrial civilizations. what, what could we say alien civilizations, should we meet them. and they launched us, such a golden capsule with a recording of the baby's heartbeat, with music. and this project is such a parallel between this nasa and our war, our life, we wanted to show the americans how we lived before the war, here is a beautiful painting, to see here the paintings of modern artists who are famous in the world. most of the artists whose works can be seen at

the exhibition are representatives of the kharkiv art school. manuylenko is also from kharkiv, she says that the war greatly affected the work of kharkiv... artists, the majority left the city, but there are also those who continue to create under russian shelling, their works were also brought to new york. kostya zorkin, art objects, you see him, he is a conceptual artist who has not left kharkiv, works constantly, yes, these are his graphics and these are his metal art objects. you also saw children's drawings at the exhibition, which were drawn in the subway, under the guidance of the founder. the studio of aza nizi maz nikolay kolomiyets, who came down and lived with the children for several months when, at the beginning of the war, kharkiv was heavily attacked by the russians rockets, and in order to support children and preserve mental health, he began to create art objects that still decorate the kharkiv metro. we put

the pictures together again, when people come in they see pictures of the kids who made it, who drew it. during the harshest bombings of kharkiv, that is, it evokes simply incredible emotions. another object that attracts attention is a sandbox with wax toy soldiers. it was created by a well-known kharkiv sculptor who also did not leave kharkiv during the war, he is a great volunteer, and i here presented part of his exhibition, which was created a year before the full-scale invasion. two days before the war. he opened an exhibition called infanta ribo, boys who play soldiers. we were just amazed at how well he was able to predict the war. this exhibition is dedicated to the war. and we come and see this sandbox. soldiers are burning in this sandbox, and children are playing near the sandbox. co-curator of the exhibition, artist polina kuznetsova. several

of her works, in particular ecological landscapes, which the artist writes in the so-called magical style realism, also... in the project, this is the landscape of slabazhanshchyna, before crimea was annexed, she constantly traveled to crimea and painted crimean landscapes, and then, when the annexation took place, she began to look for something beautiful in our strip, and found and taught to appreciate and honor the nature of our land, that's why we included that for the sake of this, for the sake of this, we generally fight to show... such an equal of artists for the fact that we showed such and such beauty of nature. the exhibition is designed primarily for americans, maria explains, or the second anniversary full-scale invasion, to remind the world that... ukraine continues to fight. from new york, iryna solomko, pavlo terekhov, voice of america. at this point, we will say goodbye, you

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russian oil depots are burning in the kursk and voronetsky regions. how far can the zsu go. limitation of freedom of maneuver. the defense forces push the russian fleets out of the black sea. how will this affect oil exports from russia? blackmail of the ministry of defense. one of the largest food suppliers threatens to fail for bidding, what is happening with purchases for the armed forces? during the next hour, we will talk about this and other things with our guests, colonel of the security service of ukraine, people's deputy of ukraine roman kostenko, journalist tetyana nikolaenko and head of the monitoring group of the institute of strategic black sea studies andrii klymenko. in the second part of our program, which will begin. political experts maksym rozumny and oleksiy koshel will be there in literally an hour. however, before we start our big talk, let's watch a video of the consequences of the russian strikes.

of ukrainian drones on strategic objects in the kursk and vorontsia regions of russia, in particular, there was a large-scale fire at the oil depot of the mykhailiv mine and beneficiation plant in zheliznogorsk, kurshchyna. let's see.

we are working live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms, for those who are currently watching us live there. please take part in our survey, because it will be on tv. and in youtube we conduct polls, we ask you about the following: do you approve of zelenska's decision not to attend biden's speech to congress, i will explain why the question sounds like that, because olena zelenska, the first lady of ukraine, refused to participate in the meeting where biden was supposed to deliver a speech, citing her business, one of the reason for this was that

they wanted to seat elena zelenska in... next to yulia navalny, the widow of oleksii navalny, that is why we are asking you whether you approve of zelensky's decision not to attend biden's speech to congress, and in this way not to sit next to the russian yulia navalna , yes, no, please vote on youtube, or with the yes or no button, write your comment if you have your own position on this poll, on tv, if you think that zelenska's decision is not from... to witness biden's speech to congress true 0800 211 381 no 0800 211 382. all calls to these numbers are free, call, at the end of the program we will tally up the results of this vote. today, the army of the russian federation carried out a missile attack on odesa, when the president of ukraine was visiting the city volodymyr zelenskyi and prime minister of greece kyriakos mitsotakis. publication, the greek

publication that first published this information, claims that the target of russian troops was the president's motorcade, zelensky himself confirmed the fact of the attack during his visit to odesa. let's listen. it seems to me that we only heard about moskar, we saw this relevant blow today, but you see who we are dealing with. so the point is no matter where to hit, i know that today there were victims, all the details, i don't know specifically, but i know that there are victims, i know that there are dead, there are wounded, because this blow, my condolences, please accept, but you see, it doesn't matter if it's military or civilian, whoever it is, there are

international guests, these people... it doesn't matter. and, as the spokesman of the naval forces of ukraine, dmytro pletenchuk, said. five people were killed as a result of an enemy attack on the port infrastructure of odessa. today. bright memory to these people. and we have our first guest, colonel of the security service of ukraine, people's deputy of ukraine, roman kostenko. mr. colonel, i congratulate you, thank you for being with us today. i wish you health. well, sir. colonel, today we started our program with information about the attack by the russians, it was ballistic missiles that fly very fast and hit the odesa near-port area or the port area from the occupied territory, and at the time when president zelensky and prime minister ministers of greece, it is clear that in the conditions in which the russians are waging war and which... or rather the absence of

rules of introduction.