and trump is trying to use the image of orbán , who, firstly, secondly, are building themselves, as they call it, the last rational politicians who do not want a world war, who want peace, who promote these ideas, respectively , orbán within europe, trump - within of the united states, within the pre-election process, and that is why orban decided to drop such a tough, strong thesis, it is worth saying, and even trump himself did not voice such a thesis, as you and i talked before , trump's ideas are completely different, but orban's. .. is trying to gather around itself anti-ukrainian forces in order to oppose within the european union, to oppose within nato, any ideas of supporting ukraine. why does he need it, it is part of the same blackmail and the same system of literally blackmailing the european union for concessions, money, whatever, which he used at the stage of negotiations with ukraine. remember how many times he previously stated that no negotiations can be started with ukraine, that ukraine should not exist in any case. neither a member of the eu nor a member of nato, and

do you remember how many times he tried to lure concessions from the european union for 10 billion financing and certain political decisions and so on. this is a continuation of this cavalcade, provocation and blackmail of orbán, and he decided to use his visit to trump in this way. and returning to help, i want to mention the oscar here, so the film 20 days in mariupol, in ukrainian, by ukrainian journalists, won the oscar from... you know, many in ukraine, even political observers, assumed that perhaps this event would contribute aid decision-making do you think that's possible because well the oscars is to some extent a political event as well , probably not just a film event, yes, absolutely, and it's actually a very powerful informational argument, so we definitely use it , we see even the fact that this... part

of the prize was not included in the abbreviated version of the award, has already provoked a huge information wave, and not only in the ukrainian-speaking infospace, but even in the english-speaking infospace, we see that the topic of ukraine has really risen from this upstairs, we see, it has significantly updated the issue of even our financing, so whether it will become a decisive factor, unfortunately, i doubt it, but whether it will become an additional plus, an additional argument in our discussion, undoubtedly, and by the way, before our broadcast. .. i have already seen the news, maybe it is not related to oscar, but that the usa is allegedly preparing the first large package of military aid in several months, so far reuters writes about it with reference to sources, and they say that it is about 400 million dollars, this of course not 60 billion, but 400 million , what can you say, there are several options, firstly, let's not forget that biden said that in parallel with the big package of 60 billion, he and the senate are looking for ...

additional sources and opportunities funding, and just these small packages at the level of 4 billion from the pentagon from their insurance funds, these are just these options for at least something in exchange for nothing, that is, as long as there is a debate in the congress, as long as the house of representatives is not able to make a decision, biden, the democrats and some they are looking for adequate republicans opportunities, they find money, they find opportunities to somehow finance us, and i really agree, well, compared to the big package, 400 million looks like a frivolous amount. but again this is a question of at least some sort of interim option until congress can make a decision. thank you very much for your comment. oleksandr kraev, director of the north america program of the ukrainian prizma foreign policy council. we talked about the prospect of ukraine receiving american aid. thank you. vitaly shabunin, the head of the board of the anti-corruption center, said that the state bureau of investigation registered two criminal charges against him. proceedings:

the first, about evasion of military service, the second - for forging an official document from the national military academy. as shabunin himself later told in an interview with nv, he was not personally informed by the sbi about the opening of cases. he says he learned about it from bloggers and media reports. on march 9, ukrainian blogger volodymyr boyko reported that the sbi had allegedly opened two criminal proceedings against the head of the anti-corruption center. shabunin himself stated that there are cases against him quote, and he believes that their appearance demonstrates the trend of attacks on anti-corruption officers. the head of the central committee also published a photo of a military ticket, which states that he took a military oath on february 25, 2022. the tatariv dbr registers criminal proceedings against me for evasion of military service. despite the fact that i voluntarily mobilized to the armed forces in kyiv in the first days of the war. also, the tatariv dbr registers another proceeding for forging a document by me. despite the fact that the nzk has electronic

document management, so it is impossible to do this. tatarivska is probably a derivative of the surname tatarov, oleg tatarov, the deputy head of the president's office, who... supervises the entire law enforcement direction from the office, well, in this story with shabunin , the position of the sbi is not enough, until this moment they did not comment on the information about the cases regarding shabunin, but i hope that we will fix it now, tetyana sapyan, communications advisor of the state bureau of investigation, joins the broadcast. tatiana, good evening. good evening, vlasto, and good evening to all viewers, of course, with your help and fruitful cooperation, we we will be able to find answers to almost all questions. well, i wouldn't say. let 's start with the fact that in october of last year, the department received a statement from the head

of the public organization, the civic council of integrity, regarding possible illegal actions of the head of the anti-corruption center. accordingly, we are fine with you. we understand that the head of the anti-corruption center is a public figure, therefore the sbi investigation decided to check first whether the reliable facts indicated in this statement, and whether the investigation also saw insufficient grounds for in order to open criminal proceedings, accordingly, a statement was sent to the central administration of the military service of law and order in kyiv and the kyiv region. in order for them to conduct an official investigation and help the investigation to set, let's say, accents, but the events unfolded enough, and if the statement was received in october, then literally a couple of weeks passed and already at the beginning of november

, the sbi received a decision of the shevchenkiv district court of kyiv, which obliges ordered the investigation department to enter criminal information into the register of pre-trial investigations offense, and accordingly you and i understand that according to the law, which is the criminal procedure code, this court decision is subject to mandatory and unconditional execution, and accordingly, on december 23 of last year, investigators opened criminal proceedings under two articles, one article this is 358, as you already sounded on the air, this is falsification of documents, the second article... this is 409 evasion of military service. you and i understand that the state bureau conducts the pre-trial investigation, but the prosecutor's office conducts the procedural management and, accordingly, in last december, a decision was made to combine these two criminal proceedings under

these two articles into one criminal proceeding under the article of forgery of documents and evasion of military service. currently, the pre-trial investigation is ongoing. tatiana, what is the status of the shabud? in this case, currently shabunin does not have a procedural status in this criminal proceeding, that is, he is not a witness, not a suspect, but the case is opened against him, so criminal proceedings are not opened against him, they are opened based on the fact, and when there is already a status with a person, in particular with a person involved in criminal proceedings, then we will already be able to talk with you that this is how a possible offense is being investigated, while... criminal proceedings have been opened based on the fact, the procedural status of the head of the center, as i have already noted, is not yet, but see , i just want to say that we are not always watched by people who are lawyers who understand all the nuances that you are talking about, do i understand correctly that both cases, which were later

combined into one, were opened at the request of rostyslav kravets, this is a lawyer, i remind you who at one time was known for the fact that he supported the judges, the judges of the maidan, and the actors in the films. and filed lawsuits in which pavlo vovk was interested, it was based on his application and was opened, i want to note, i emphasized from the very beginning that this criminal proceeding was entered into the unified register of pre-trial investigations based on the fact and by court decision, that is, the court issued a decision and obliged the sbi to open criminal proceedings, after which it appeared. i told you before the story how it all happened, so who went to court then, i just can’t understand, the same applicant, the same one who, in fact, who wrote a statement to the sbi, who is rostyslav kravets, yes

, this deputy is a lawyer, whom i just mentioned, yes, yes, that is, he wrote a statement and in the dbr appealed to the court, and for him, and then the court decided. in this resolution and you have already opened a case, yes, look, but shabonin says that this is all an attack on anti-corruption officers, because he showed his military id, that he has been in the army since february 25, he also said that there are no falsifications of documents of the national academy of sciences maybe because the nzk has electronic document management and that this is all just some kind of attack on anti-corruption officers, and in this, they say, the sbi is keeping the vanguard in this attack, what can you say about that? i can only say that everything is clarified in the course of the pre-trial investigation, and in fact, in order not to fuel manipulations, the sbi refrains from commenting on this. criminal proceedings, when the investigation will be completed, then perhaps the investigation

will give more information and you and i will be able to discuss, i understand you, how much how long do you think the investigation will last, it will last within the limits of the law , it will take place, as long as the law allows, as far as i know, on average it can be in various criminal proceedings , the investigation can last a year, if more is needed, maybe they will ask. but everything will happen within the limits of the law, this is what i would like to draw attention to, that according to the results of work in 2023, the sbi investigated almost 72,000 proceedings, that is an average of 150 cases per sbi investigator, and with all due respect to head of the anti-corruption center in the sbi there are much more important cases that require a quick reaction and gathering of evidence and referral to court, i think you... it is true that the sbi has many cases, one of them, by the way, and shabunin also mentioned it , what they said, they

would rather investigate the surveillance of journalists there, than they investigated my military id, so i can no longer ask, just on february 6, it seems that the case of surveillance of bigusinfo journalists was transferred to the sbi, whether there are any results , did anyone get a suspicion, did you get the customer? actually, again, you understand that i am not, let's say. yes, it is part of the pre-trial investigation in this or that criminal proceeding, so i only pass on the information provided to me by the investigation in this criminal proceeding, i can only tell you that the pre-trial investigation is also ongoing, and to find out more, you and i need to make a request to the investigation, so i won't be able to do it for you this time, then the last question, you still know the system inside out, i will remind you that journalists bigusinfo directly... in their investigation stated that they do not rule out that top officials of the president's office are behind the attack. does

the investigation plan to interrogate the officials of the president's office, andrii yarmak and his deputies. if the investigation considers it necessary that these testimonies, in particular those of the persons mentioned in the investigation of bigus-info, need to supplement the evidence base and will be needed, then of course they will conduct it. that is, the sbi is ready to interrogate andrii yarmak and his deputy. if there is a need for it? actually, i gave the answer to this question, i will not decide who to interrogate, who not, for the sbi there are people who cannot be touched? no, there is no such thing, it means that you do not rule out that andriy yarmak can also be interrogated, for example, if the investigation considers it necessary to interrogate those or other persons who were mentioned in the journalistic investigation, it will be done, all in boundaries law, but that's an argument, right, when journalists specifically mention the president's office in their investigation? not clear, is this again, or is this

an argument? yes, is it an argument for the investigators, it is the investigation will determine whether it is already an argument or not, ugh, i thank you very much, i hope that i will be back for a while, and you will visit us again on the air, there will be more information about the monitoring of journalists, and about the cases regarding anti-corruption officers, tatiana sap yan, communications advisor. the state bureau of investigation was on radio svoboda. thank you. we have everything for today. i encourage you to subscribe to radio liberty's website . like this broadcast. in this way, you will support our work and support independent journalism in ukraine. see you tomorrow.

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you are watching the ukrainian voice of america chas program. my name is marie olyanovska. congratulations. the white house announced a $300 million military aid package for ukraine. this is the first arms package from the us this year. the last such announcement was at the end of december. the new package includes artillery shells, ammunition for hymers, anti-aircraft missiles and other equipment. let's talk about this in more detail with yulia yarmolenko, who works from the white house. yulia, hello. congratulations, maria. please tell us what the new aid from the white house entails. it will be enough and how the administration can finance it, because we heard earlier that there is allegedly no more money to help ukraine. these are all very important questions, maria, first of all, what is in this

package, very important ammunition, these are rockets for stingers, and 105-15mm shells, shells for artillery, it is also a himlers rocket for himmers, for systems and also definitely rockets for air defense systems, so we really know that this package... and his allocated under the program of presidential powers, jake sullivan, the us national security adviser, said that these weapons should arrive in ukraine very, very quickly. earlier, we heard from the administration that they did have some authority left to allocate weapons from their own stockpiles, but they had no funding left to replenish their own stockpiles, and accordingly they did not provide any weapons to ukraine, because they did not was this funding approved by congress. this package became possible only because the pentagon managed to save time procurement and conclusion of certain contracts for the purchase of weapons to replenish their own stocks, so they

allocated this aid package precisely for these 300 million. a few important points were made by jack sullivan, he said that this armament would literally last for several weeks. this armament, this package, does not at all mean that it should somehow delay or cancel that request for additional funding for congress, on the contrary, it emphasizes it. the importance and urgency of the house of representatives as soon as possible approving the all-important relief for ukraine, after all , it is not worth counting on the fact that the pentagon will still be able to save somewhere, and after all, 60 billion is not 300 million, let's listen. this is the help ukraine desperately needs to hold its ground against russian attacks and repel the ongoing russian offensive in the east and elsewhere. these ammunitions will ensure the operation of ukrainian weapons for a certain time, and only for a short period. this is not enough to meet ukraine's needs on the battlefield, and it will not protect ukraine from

what it may have in the coming weeks. run out of ammo. it goes without saying that this package will not replace and should not delay the critical need to pass a bipartisan national security bill. the house must pass a bipartisan supplemental request. funding national security priorities as soon as possible. yulia, we also know that on monday the administration of president joe biden published a budget proposal already for the 2025 fiscal year, and there the request provides for about 800 million dollars to support ukraine, both for jdep and for pentagon. can you please explain what these funds are? these are funds to fund these programs that are badly needed at the state department and the pentagon to help. in ukraine, but a few important points, maria: firstly, it is very early to talk about the budget for 2025, because the budget for 2024 has just been approved, and the second very important thing, those prescribed millions in... in

the budget, this is only a very small part of the american aid that is given by washington to kyiv, because most of the money, billions of billions of dollars in the military aid is provided by the united states by requests for additional funding, because that is the mechanism that the president chooses every time, because war is very unpredictable, and he sends requests to congress according to what the needs are and what the united states should fund, so again anyway, now the priority is... this is the approval of this more than 60 billion dollars request for additional financing for ukraine, and these are precisely funds that are completely different from what is prescribed in the budget. thank you yuli, and one more topic i want with you to discuss, today, march 12 , a polish delegation is visiting washington, president andrzej duda and prime minister donald tusk will convince american congressmen to continue aid to ukraine. what new arguments can they present to american

politicians and what will they discuss? meetings with president biden, well, the meeting in the white house is going on right now, but before that , the leaders of poland met with the leaders of the congress, both republicans and democrats. chuck schumer is the leader of the democratic majority in the senate, on the eve meeting, said that the polish leaders are coming to washington at a very difficult time, at a very defining time for ukraine, when the approval of aid to ukraine is stuck in congress, and when this financial... is extremely important for ukraine to continue to make progress on the front line and what arguments can polish leaders present? michal baranowski, the head of the german marshall fund in poland, he told our colleague today in an interview that poland has very strong arguments, such as to convince the washington legislators, because poland is a very conscientious member of the nato alliance, it fulfills its obligations, it

spends perhaps the most on... its own security, thereby strengthening the security of the entire alliance, and now poland will ask washington to the united states fulfilled its obligations. let's listen. it is important that this message comes from poland, because we are not asking congress to do anything for us. we are talking about the fact that the united states must remain a responsible ally for everything nato and for ukraine. and this message is coming from a country that... is a responsible ally, because poland spends almost 4% of gdp on defense, do i have high hopes that this meeting will affect the position in the house of representatives? no, i don't think this will be the last straw, but i hope that eventually, the whole chorus of voices calling for the house of representatives to wake up will work. and right now, polish leaders are meeting with us president joe biden , and they are meeting on the 25th anniversary of poland's accession

to the north. of the atlantic alliance, therefore they will definitely talk about what to expect from the nato summit that will be held here in washington in the summer, but also, maria, they will definitely talk about how important continued aid to ukraine is for the security of the alliance. thank you, yulia, i will remind you that yulia armolenko told us from the white house about the new aid package for ukraine and the meeting between presidents biden and duda. meanwhile, the former minister of foreign affairs of poland, anna fatyga, believes that there is no ukraine. another way out, who, how to win, in poland - to help this victory to get at the same time, a separate agricultural ramstein is needed to resolve the situation on the polish-ukrainian border with regard to ukrainian grain, as this tension between the two countries is a symptom of the global crisis. more about this in the interview with tetyana vorozhko. i want to start with a topic that is very painful for ukrainians. farmers are blocking the transportation of ukrainian grain through

poland. test, how do you see a way out of this crisis? i see this crisis much more broadly. this is not limited to ukraine and poland. in the war that putin directed to the detriment of the west, at the same time carrying out a full-scale attack on ukraine , in my opinion, there were three main consequences: the first - a migration crisis, pushing so-called migrants across the border with belarus, poland, lithuania and latvia, with the aim of destabilizing the countries that were most... ready and necessary for assistance to ukraine in military efforts. the second is energy, which was solved most likely because the most affected party, the biggest eu player, is germany, which has long-standing relations with russia and suffered due to its dependence on russia. it was global a crisis that needed to be resolved in solidarity. the third is the destabilization of world markets for agricultural products. the scope and scale of this problem.