reservists and conscripts, in particular personal data, the presence of a foreign passport, the results of a medical examination, or participation in hostilities. importantly, the register does not provide for sending summons through electronic offices. and one more innovation: there will be no more conscripts of limited fitness. men between the ages of 18 and 60, who previously received the status of limited suitability after passing the vlk, will now have to undergo the vlk again. we will talk about all these innovations now . stanislav aseev joins the broadcast, a soldier of the armed forces of ukraine and in civilian life, journalist, writer, stanislav, good evening, good evening, we want to talk with you about innovations, yes, which ones, in particular, which have already been signed by the president in the form of laws, let's start with this status suitable and unfit, these are the only two statuses remaining, there will be no limited fit, the vlk will determine how fit or unfit a person will be for service. as your brothers, the military

with whom you serve, and you personally feel about this innovation, whether it is welcomed in army? with skepticism, because these are still certain corruption risks, again it falls from the point of view of passing the vlk, because it is not known how, how objectively the vlk will evaluate people who are of limited suitability, and in which direction they will do it , whether they will do it with any benefit, or , well, for health reasons, so most of the fellows with whom we discussed it are skeptical and somewhat distrustful. you mentioned corruption risks, but i want to ask you what kind of risk: do you admit that on the front there will be people who are not fit for war, well , maybe they have very bad eyesight, or some diseases that are simply not compatible there with active combat operations, well, listen, i don't just allow it, i see it with my own eyes, starting from the forehead . that's why this situation, it

already exists in our army, unfortunately, and this draft law, this law, it can somehow correct it, if again the vlk will approach more objectively, and not as, well at least as i saw it in the middle, in the middle of the way to the front, let's say, we partially, very much your column was partially quoted on the radio svoboda website, but if we start from the topic when... people with disabilities get to the front, and what did you have to see on the trailer? please repeat the question, the last sentences, and you mentioned your handicap, and what did you have to see there, when people with disabilities get to the front, well, first of all, i saw a person who was visually impaired and he was recorded sniper, you know, it's almost just an anecdote, secondly , i encountered people already when i was in the hospital. they took elementary, they took them

a blood test and detected hepatitis, that is, it is not, well, it should have detected vlc already at the level at which these people were passing, and not when they already got a typhoid, they got sick, they went to the hospital, and only then during the first analysis it turned out that they were sick with hepatitis, well , there are quite a lot of such examples, in my experience, maybe others had it somehow, i got it, i got you, another innovation from... 25 years a person will be subject to mobilization, as before this news , how this news was received at the front your peers, the people you discussed it with? most people are positive about it, including me, i don't see a big difference between a 27-year-old and a 25 -year-old, the key point here is only in motivation, this is the category that is generally underestimated in our country at all levels, from political to military, and you can... teach any person at 20 years old,

at 25, at 27, and at 40, depending, it depends on the person, and we think more, you know, about some numbers and weapons , but a person who is not motivated, he throws any weapon, even the newest, so i would focus more on motivational moments, and not only on cypresses, let's say so, but, but everything is equal, now we will talk about motivation, but with regard to age, and you can say at... approximately what is the average age of people, well, who are serving with you in your unit or brigade, or is it known, it really depends on the unit and brigade, if these are assault groups, then of course they should be young guys just under 30 years old, this is ideal in general, if they are under 30 years old, in my unit it is on average 40 plus, and you said that age is basically secondary, after all

, motivation is important here... but what about motivation? again, depends a lot on the unit, it varies a lot depending on what tasks a person performs. and what does one set before himself when he goes to the army, if he goes voluntarily, of course, some people frankly say that they, well, for example, are at the level of a hitchhiker, yes, when i was there, they went just for money, they needed there was money, as far as i know the experience of, for example, the third separate assault brigade, then they have the majority volunteers, and they are by no means going for money, they are going to perform combat tasks and liberate the ukrainian land, this is not the only example of such a relationship, of course, but you have to understand that motivation is the key after all... but you know everything anyway , if we talk about this law on age, then i said at the beginning that the president did not sign it for 10 months, the verkhovna rada passed it on may 30 last year, do you understand why, what, what were

the risks or the fear of not to adopt such an initiative is, of course, understandable, because the president, like any politician of this level, thinks. first of all, because these are risks, well, not meeting the expectations of your electorate, including, yes, those mothers, who, well, seeing the lowering of the conscription age, they will be afraid that it will soon be lowered, for example, to 20, to 18 years, yes, as they say, more children will go to the front, although of course these are not children anymore, but at least they are consciously composed personalities, yes, that's why i think that they were here first of all, well , they were considered political. and not only for some military ones, well, only some army ones there, and however, today volodymyr zelenskyi said that russia plans to mobilize an additional 300,300,000 troops, maybe this is intelligence data, we do not know how you

assess this threat, whether they are talking about it at the front, and if it is really russia, we do not know at the same time , is it possible that it will be stretched in time to mobilize 300 thousand soldiers, or? will ukraine be able to resist and does this figure of 300 00 matter? you asked questions that i cannot professionally answer, first of all the intelligence should comment, if this is its data and how ready the army is in general for that in which area, for example, the front, such a large number of people will be primarily concentrated, here you just need to have professional information in order to analyze this question and answer, and in general, at the front, well, we hardly discuss it, because we live in a very ... strange world, the world of military tasks, and we don't care how many people, and who exactly is coming at us. our task is, firstly, to kill the enemy, and secondly, not to die ourselves, that is, in principle , two tasks with which there are soldiers at the front and such global things that concerning the general staff or the main

directorate of intelligence, we hardly discuss among ourselves. stanislav, are you talking about, are you following, for example, how the verkhovna rada passes the bill on mobilization, another such bill that looks like... that it will not be very popular politically for the president, now it seems that everything is there depends on the government or the military, the military leadership, but sooner or later it will also have to be approved and signed, are you following it, maybe the guys are watching, i am not watching at all, we have i repeat, there are problems in those areas, but how to solve them on... about this topic of lowering the draft age from 27 to 25, i learned literally in a few hours, because there is not even time to follow the news that one lives by maybe society, civil society, the country, on the front you already think in different categories, the last question, it will no longer concern the draft laws,

you say that on the front people live in different categories, and in military circles , zelensky also said about it that russia is preparing some large-scale offensive in the summer. and do you feel in that part of the front, where you are, any kind of preparation for this offensive? whether before this offensive, or in general , i cannot say, but we feel a revival, a significant revival precisely on our part of the front, is this true, yes, does it refer to the plans of the general staff of the russian federation to advance with some kind of wide front, or is it just , let's say, reconnaissance of battles in our area, it's hard to say, again, i'm... limited in principle by the system of my trenches, which are there stretch for a number of meters, that's it , that's it, in principle, people who are higher in rank and position are already thinking about it. stanislav, thank you very much for taking the time to join. stanislav aseev, a fighter of the armed

forces of ukraine, journalist, writer and also, laureate of the shevchenko national award in 2021 for the book in isolation. thank you very much. in orichov, this is the zaporizhzhya region, there is not a single house left that was not damaged by shelling. the city has actually been living on the line of hostilities for two years. tim no less, people still live there. according to the state emergency service , between 15 and 2,000 people still remain in the city, while before the full-scale invasion , about 14,000 residents lived in orichov . this is a consequence of what? there was a hit, i have passed by today, there is none. in any case, either the roof or the windows or

the broken houses, this is the hit of a guided aerial bomb on a residential building, unfortunately there are deaths, come in, come in, come in, it's already here on a plane, intense hostilities are going on, not far from the city, it arrives often, both day and night. we have arrivals, there are approximately 1.5-2 people left in orichov, the category is pensioners, since they cannot leave, they need everything, we deliver both drinking and technical water, we help with humanitarian aid, 39, mother dear, how are you doing here, how are you living?

she is deaf, she can't hear, and i suffer, how old is my mother, she will be 93 this hour, we hear that she is flying and hear that we need to get ready, but i... i cover myself and lie down, thinking, suddenly, suddenly, when it flies, nothing, yes, it flew by, thank god, why not you, but why don’t you leave, well, you see, i still owe a little to people, i’m the head of the kortsev committee, a humanitarian it is up to me how i will get, give out to people, a hot mug, come on, what about soup, soup, soup, of course, we overwintered? with god's help, they gave me coal, they gave me smoke, there was something

to burn, and it's not scary to go out, it's already the second year on the front line, it's scary, well, i guess we 're used to it, i don't know why you don't leave, at first my mother was lying down, no that's it, then my mother died, the dogs remained, relatives moved out, dogs were left behind, there were 10 dogs, now nine are left, one was killed, 16 cats, well, it's a pity they throw them away and... as you might think, prosperity is only up to that point, they canceled it, they shoot all night, all night, day and night, that's how we hold on, why don't you leave, two houses will be lost, i'm guarding, two houses of my son-in-law for myself, it's already the 81st. i will not go anywhere, this is as long as my house is standing, there is a roof over my head, as long as

i live, i am here all the time and my children grew up and studied, everything was here, this is my garden, i don’t know how, how to quit, how to leave, i can't even imagine, we have everything for today, i urge you to subscribe. to radio liberty 's internet pages, like this broadcast, in this way you will support our work, questions, remarks, wishes, comments, you can leave in the chat under this video, and see you tomorrow.

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against a child. in any city, at any time, just go to the site and report, and we will launch all possible mechanisms to punish the criminal. stopcraim ua. welcome to voice of america in ukrainian and our program chas time, my name is ostap yarish ministers of foreign affairs of nato countries gathered in brussels to agree on the further role of the alliance in supporting ukraine. prior to that , a message about the secretary general's plans appeared in the press. jens stoltenberg's nato to create a special five-year program for arming ukraine for 100 billion euros. we will talk more about this and other things with our european correspondent bohdan tsyupani, who,

i hope, can now join the broadcast. bohdan, i congratulate you. bohdan, so tell me in more detail, yes, about this proposal of gentsek nato regarding the hundred billion fund for ukraine. what kind of initiative is this and should we expect its agreement at this meeting in brussels? as for the agreement, we can already say that today's first day of two-day meetings at the level of nato foreign ministers in brussels has ended, and nato secretary general jen stoltenberg said that the allies agreed, as he said, to start working on planning such steps. about creating a financing program. of military aid to ukraine for 5 years, to be over it, over it the program was overseen by nato, and there are even

suggestions that the aid or work currently being done by the so-called ramstein group, a group of about 50 countries around the world coordinating aid to ukraine, for nato to actually take over, if not most of it. at least an important part of that work, he said that already the main amount, the main share of assistance in that program is provided by nato countries anyway, and therefore, according to jens stoltenberg, such a step, taking over from nato, most of these coordination powers , would be very logical, the reason such a plan or needs of such a plan, according to jens stoltenbe. are that aid to ukraine should be predictable and on a solid basis, this is how he stated it in brussels.

we are now discussing ways to institutionalize much of the support within nato to make it more predictable, to make it more reliable, because we firmly believe that support to ukraine should depend less on short-term voluntary offers and more on long-term. obligations of nato. yes, we will provide what ukraine needs, namely long-term, predictable and reliable support. and it will also be a signal to moscow that they will not wait for us to leave. bohdan, we know that a meeting of the ukraine-nato council will also take place within the framework of this meeting in brussels tomorrow. can we hope that the positions of the allies regarding ukraine's membership in the alliance will also be agreed at it, in particular before the summit planned for this year in washington. ostape, a few more words about the aid plan or fund to help ukraine under the auspices of nato. now it is worth saying that have already arisen at this stage. there are certain

disagreements, i.e. the planning takes place in those conditions when, for example, the representative of hungary stated that his country does not want nato to take over such coordination of military aid, because it would threaten the transformation of nato from a defensive organization to an offensive one, there are others the caveat regarding the issue of ukraine's membership in nato is here... we know that, in particular, us secretary of state anthony blinken, the day before in paris, stated that the alliance must work, the allies must to work on the development of the so-called road map or route for the acquisition of ukraine's membership in nato. how much more concrete is this than earlier statements about open doors for ukraine, and what today's general. the nato secretary

said that the question is not only whether ukraine will join nato, but only when ukraine will join nato. well, in fact, for many ukrainians, it is a very important question, when remains, because promises about ukraine's accession to nato have been heard, in fact, officially since 2008. absolutely, bohdan. thank you for this inclusion. ours was in touch correspondent in london, bohdan syupen. on the eve of the meeting. in brussels , us secretary of state anthony blinken visited france, where he also met with representatives of the french government and president emmanuel macron, among other things. one of the key topics of his visit is the continuation of cooperation to support ukraine, however , assurances of support from american officials are heard against the background of the lack of help from the united states itself. how convincing are washington's arguments, let's talk with our correspondent in the white house yuliya yarmolenko. yuli, i congratulate you. congratulations step. yulia, so about

this one. meeting, yes, but before that we also want to talk about the arguments from the united states, we know that the administration places the responsibility for the lack of aid on the congress of the united states, but are they looking for other ways to provide support to ukraine without the decision of the legislators, or all- does it hope that congress will approve the necessary assistance? you know, astap, the last time i talked to john kirby, the interview was being recorded, and he couldn't to say with certainty whether he is 100% convinced that... after all, the house of representatives will approve this aid for ukraine, and we know that the white house has been tirelessly calling on the house of representatives and speaker mike johnson personally for almost six months. we know that the speaker of the house of representatives has recently said that he is preparing his own legislation, including the idea of ​​bailouts, as well as the use of frozen russian assets, but the american press is also reporting this week that in fact speaker mike johnson has not yet decided exactly from

which side, so to speak, to approach this ukrainian issue, and yet he is greatly influenced by internal quarrels and problems within the republican party, so it is logical that we are interested in the white house, whether they have other plans, i asked the day before at the briefing in the white house whether the white house has any deadline, after which they will no longer hope for the support of congress and will try to find another way to bypass congress. let's listen. president ukraine's zelensky warns of a new offensive by the russians at the end of may or in june. meanwhile, speaker johnson is ignoring calls to bring up senate-passed legislation and is proposing a new bill to help ukraine. does the administration have a deadline after which you can consider any emergency measures to support ukraine without congressional approval? we have already resorted to some emergency measures. you saw that

the pentagon was able to take $300 million from the... to support them with this emergency aid package, we'll continue to look and see what there's more we can do, but frankly, our hands are pretty tied here, we need the approval of the request for additional funding. yulia, such arguments of the white house, they are not the first time they are perceived in europe, especially when us representatives call on other countries to increase their support. ostape, first of all it should be said that europeans are also aware of their own gaps, in particular the leaders of the baltic countries, also a number of experts say that europe can and should do more to help ukraine, in particular, niko lange is a former official of the german ministry of defense, and now he is an analyst, an expert at the european policy analysis center, he said that one of the goals of antony blinken's visit to france, in particular, is to encourage france to do more.