we will protect our own, and we will restore the economy, and we will pay off all the debts who once gave us what, but in our person, any country, any organization, will get a very strong -willed partner in all its affairs, and it can always will rely on ukraine's shoulder in any troubles, not problems or cataclysms or something, but while ukraine is fighting with all possible means and... asking for an invitation to nato. the alliance, recently joined by finland and sweden, says the door is open to ukraine, but is currently not ready to extend an invitation to ukraine join nato. myroslava gongadze, voice of america, starokostyantiniv, ukraine. meanwhile, magate ceo rafael grossi confirmed the explosions at the russian-occupied zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. experts of the organization who examined the place of the attacks. they write that one of the drones was

aimed at the object of observation and communication, which the russians placed right on the roof of the sixth reactor of the station. at other places where debris fell, experts found damaged military transport of the occupiers, although the damage did not endanger the nuclear one safety, this was a serious incident that could have potentially undermined the integrity of the reactor's containment," grossi said. russia blamed ukraine for the strikes. at the same time, kyiv denied involvement in the incident at the nuclear plant. power plants meanwhile, on march 22, at another facility in zaporizhzhia, the dniprovsky ges, which was blown up by the russian-russian military, a completely destroyed engine room, two stations and part of the road surface were shelled. due to the fire at the dam, ecologists recorded an increase in combustion products in the air of the city, and in the water of the dnipro from a large amount of fuel and lubricants got into the destroyed machine shop. what are the prospects for restoration of the hydroelectric power station and is there a threat of a dam breach? java myronova and

oleksandr oliynyk. after the shelling by the russians of dnipro-hes, at least five specialized commissions went to the scene to assess the environmental situation around, as well as the scale of destruction of the electrical infrastructure and road surface. the first is the energy part, which is destroyed by scientists. today, i have no idea how long it will take to recover for ukrhydroenergo. today, only specialists are working to analyze how extensive the damage is, but it is definitely months and hundreds of millions, and maybe even billions of hryvnias. the construction of the dnipro hpp began in 1927 and lasted for more than 50 years. the station consists of two parts: hpp-2, which was built in the second half of the 20th century, was also affected by the explosions. c-2

was built from 1969 to 1980, and in fact, well, it was a rather large- scale reconstruction, it is not only the second mashzal, it is also the second airlock, it is also, well a special road overpass, it was expanded, well, that is , they tried to solve the transport problem, the russians launched a dozen rockets at the zaporozhye dam, which... at least five were hit, including the roadway, so currently only two lanes of traffic are open on the dam only for passenger vehicles. to date , half of the highway has been destroyed, and an institute and an expert environment have already started working to prescribe a recovery plan. it is not an easy path, today we can talk about what may be needed completely overlapping platinum in order to restore, most likely. but we

are trying together with the design institute to find ways to restore a full-fledged road connection without completely blocking this section directly. civilians were also hit during the shelling. one of the rockets, presumably intended for hess, exploded under a high-rise building near the dam. first there was a fire show here, and then everything happened so quickly, i was in the bathroom. i come out of the bathroom and there i am wearing only a nightgown and slippers, i ran out to the entrance and, well, opposite the neighbor, we ran to the yard and, well, outside, honestly, well, it's just terrible . daria, a displaced person from the occupied energodar , she is already running away from russian aggression for the second time , the same fate happened to elena who ran from shelling. from

his native gulyaipol, which is now close to the front and almost completely destroyed by the russians. it flew into our apartment after 6 o'clock and completely destroyed it. the door, ceiling, damaged things in the kitchen, everything was destroyed. russian missiles that day too demolished dozens of private sector houses, taking the lives of two children. after the attack of the russians on the dniproges, the biggest worries of zaporizhzhya residents and residents of neighboring regions are related to the threat of a dam breach. however. care for the past, historians assume that it is unlikely when the dnieper hessian dam was blown up, that is, during the second world war, there are different data, well, for example, when the soviet troops blew up, they say about 20 tons of explosives, when the germans blew up, there are different

testimonies, someone says about seven trucks, someone says about 10-12 wagons. explosives brought by the germans. the historian emphasizes another nuance: during the second world war, both in 1941 and 1943 , the dniprogez dam was blown up from the inside, so the dniprovska hpp was blown up by the soviets and germans in the last century, and now the russian occupiers are trying to do it. in the same way, the russians acted on the kakhovskaya dam in june 2023, blowing it up from the inside. if we are talking about kakhovska gre'. the masterminds blew it up from the inside, if we are talking about missile attacks, then this is an action from the outside, and the action from the outside is less destructive than the action that is being taken from inside. at the same time, ecologists say that

no one can guarantee the safety of the hydropower project, which depends on the water supply of zaporizhzhia and the cities of neighboring regions upstream of the dnipro river. the peculiarity of this type of school. also in the fact that the significant damage to the hydraulic unit, the limiting dam, and the drop in the water level from three meters, will cause significant problems with the drinking water supply of populated cities upstream , including the part of the left bank of the dnipro city. that is why any attacks on this hydro-infrastructure are a war crime and attempted genocide. experts note that... after the russian attack on dniproges , it was necessary to increase the generation of electrical energy at other facilities. first of all , thermal power plants, which led to an increase in emissions of pollutants. eva mironova, oleksandr oliynyk, for voice of america from the zaporizhzhia region. let's move on to

other news. hundreds of americans are fighting in ukraine as volunteers, and their families are calling on congress to continue supporting kyiv. voice of america. tells the story of career military man andrew weber who died in donetsk region. according to his mother, if the ukrainian military had enough protective equipment and artillery, her son would be alive. now she is trying to convince american lawmakers to support ukraine. karla weber told kateryna lisunova about her son's fate and her own desire to continue helping ukrainians. this is andrew. and his lovely wife elizabeth, they 've been married 13 years, they have little girls, gweny, who's nine and vera, who's 2.5, so that's them, he was very handsome, he was a very good boy, everyone was charmed by his smile. let's

start our conversation with a story about andrew himself. please tell us more about him. andrew attended the us military academy at west point. he had three military missions. he was an infantry officer, then the commander of a sniper and reconnaissance unit in afghanistan. he also served in the afghan army and spoke several languages. after the army, he earned a law degree from northwestern's pritzker school of law. he moved his family to seattle near us and started a career international corporate lawyer. andrew believed in justice, he operated according to the principle: everything must be right or nothing, there is no middle ground. andrew despised putin and this regime, as he called it, and he believed that this invasion was the greatest threat to democracy here and abroad.

he felt obliged to go to ukraine, as a result he became a platoon commander in his chosen company. andrew was very proud of the boys in his mouth, but he was concerned about the lack of necessary for effective... did he share with you the situation on the battlefield, as he described it? he shared a lot with us about what he lacked, what they lack, what ukrainian soldiers need to be effective and win this war, and that's why i 'm here now to ask the legislators to give them what they need, and that's good rifles, ammo for those good rifles, imagine you go into combat and someone runs out of... it's ammo, someone in your unit just has a different type of rifle. they also lack artillery

shells, if they could that day use artillery, this would not have happened. walkie-talkies too, they used walkie-talkies they bought on amazon, they don't have enough range, they only had one walkie-talkie that day and it was lost. they don't have enough military humvees to quickly move soldiers to the right locations. kevlar - protective equipment. gave his, if he had protection that day he would be alive. do you know how he died? yes, i know how he died, they were on a mission and all the things i just mentioned were the problem of the day. you may ask yourself why go on a mission in such a setting because they simply don't have what they need. so... they can either not try to win back their country and just retreat, or they, the ukrainians and the people who

support them, like the americans, australians and others, can go ahead and keep fighting no matter what, and that's what they do, and they do it baseless things. andrew told me if they don't get what they need, they're going to pick up pitchforks and fight with those pitchforks until the end. he said that we can't let that happen, he especially wanted american lawmakers... to have a broader idea of ​​what that might mean. so here's what happened that day: they went on a mission, all these shortages just piled up. andrew and his fellow munitions officer, lance lawrence, provided covering fire so they could escape. andrew and lance were dead, his wounds were in such a place that if he had been wearing protective gear he would have been alive. he did not die instantly. the brave soldier remained with him, even though he risked his own life. if he...was in the us army, he would have gotten a medal for bravery, for what he did this guy, he stayed with andrew and eventually

they were able to carry out a rescue mission. seven members of their unit were seriously injured during this rescue mission, but they did it anyway and retrieved the bodies of andrew and lance. can you describe your life after andrew's death, have you been attacked by russian trolls? yes, i also had several calls to my phone on facebook, messages on messenger, through such resources that they could easily access. they've been sending me propaganda texts saying horrible things about andrew, and i want you to know, i'm not bothered by that. first of all, these are very immature actions, this is a childish way to influence people. but what was really strange is that there is a website called "find a burial site". i am interested in things related to my ancestors, my background, so you can post

a photo and death notice with an obituary on this site, this site is open to everyone, and someone created such a page for him and published all russian propaganda there, the owners of the site deleted everything, they helped a lot, but such propaganda was published not only about andrew, they did it with all the americans who were killed in ukraine. why are you here in washington now? we are meeting with legislators to tell them the stories of our children and why they went to ukraine. we encourage them not only to continue helping ukraine, but also to provide what they really need. we also explain what it means on battlefield if you are fighting there, what does that mean for the soldiers? this is my mission. that's exactly what i'm talking about. in general, it's about many things, including the fact that a child who tries to shoot his... you can now turn to

the ukrainian people and other people who will see this interview, to say to them: from all of our family, i ... i would like to thank the ukrainian people for all their love and support, we receive letters from all over ukraine, from all over the world, but the ukrainian people even sent my daughter-in-law money, they sent over it was like one two dollars each. i know it's different in ukrainian currency, it's another sacrifice for them, but they want to show their love and support to our family, andrew and his cause. and i really appreciate that the people of ukraine will not forget his name. it was

an interview of kateryna lisonova with her mother. an american volunteer who died in ukraine. watch the full interview and stories about other americans who died for ukraine on the voice of america youtube channel in ukrainian. meanwhile close 32 million americans are watching a total solar eclipse with their own eyes right now. this is an astronomical phenomenon, when the sun, the earth and the moon are aligned in one line, and the moon completely blocks the dream. light for the earth. in the united states , such an occasion caused a great stir, and although the eclipse is only partially visible in washington, hundreds of people lined the national avenue to see this celestial phenomenon. together with them, oleksiy kovalenko observes the eclipse. congratulations oleksya. tell me, please, how it looks there. yes, in fact, the species is very

unique, and hundreds, if not thousands, of people probably gathered here. on the national mall in washington, d.c., and that's just a small fraction of all the people watching the solar eclipse right now in mexico, the united states of america, and canada. right now in washington dc, the solar eclipse is happening right now as we speak to you, and the solar eclipse here is at 87%, so it's not a 100% solar eclipse, a 100% solar eclipse could be seen today, like in texas, as well as some other places. in general, this is such a unique phenomenon. which happens very rarely and even more rarely does it happen in such densely populated areas as it did this year or seven years ago, but 7 years ago this eclipse was not as powerful as today's 100% eclipse and was not as widespread in the united states, as it happened today, the next total eclipse will take place in 21 years.

about 44 million people live right now in this area where you can see this total solar eclipse. and... also, among these people , many people gathered here in washington to see, it's just a unique phenomenon, it's being observed by people, it's being observed by scientists who are studying this phenomenon, studying also the effects of this phenomenon on humans, on animals, on nature, and they also study the sun itself, study the processes that take place on the surface of the sun, study this plasma that is on the surface of the sun. oleksiy, we know that in... the states today this is probably the main news, please tell me why people are interested in this, you talked to people who are watching it where you are now, what are they telling you? yes, actually a lot of people are very interested in this, firstly because it is very rare, as we mentioned the last time it was observed seven years ago and the next time it will be in 21 years

and it is unique to see this moment when the moon is located between the earth and the sun, almost completely covers it. him, now many people have gathered here who have special equipment, such as special glasses, to be able to observe this phenomenon and not to harm their vision, and also many people simply understand that in the future, in order to look at this phenomenon, it may be necessary to go to another country, so such a dense solar eclipse in densely populated areas in the future will be observed only in 26- m year in spain, for example. in the united states, we will have to wait more than two decades. scientists, for their part, as we have already mentioned, study this phenomenon, study how it affects people and animals, as well as what happens in general in space, what is happening with the surface of the sun, so this phenomenon, it is super interesting from different points of view, and all the more so because it is very

rare. alexey, for us, the sun is behind you, unfortunately, the eclipse itself... you can see, we just see the sun in the clouds, you have special glasses, you saw what it looks like, describe what it looks like so that we can understand exactly washington, because it's not a total eclipse here, so actually, although it's not a total eclipse, but literally one minute, probably before our broadcast, i was looking at the sun and it was not visible, that is, in fact, almost the whole surface of the sun was covered by the moon, and it was so very post-apocalyptic. tic view, when you watch the sun close, like a cloud, suddenly rushed to the sun, when at that moment such a sudden slight change in temperature, we saw that all the... people at that moment were watching and all the people were looking at the sky, and even some researchers said that even animals, even pets, who look at

their owners and do not understand why all people behave so strangely and why all people react to this quite strangely fix their eyes on the sky. oleksiy, it's really a bit difficult to understand, thank you for your for your report on the unique solar eclipse, i will remind you what oleksiy kovalenko told us. i encourage you to watch more of our stories and e-interviews on the voice of america ukrainian website, also go to our youtube channel voice of america in ukrainian, there are more of our stories there, watch live broadcasts, full versions of interviews and stories, subscribe, of course, to our social networks to always be aware of actual and true news, and let me remind you that we also appeared on whatsapp and viber, there you can also follow our news from... the united states, ukraine and not only. thank you for staying with us, good night, good morning, see you soon.

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good evening, i'm myroslav oberchuk, this is a self-titled program, a joint project of the espresso tv channel and the ukrainian penklub. today we will talk about oleksandr dovzhenko. oleksandr dovzhenko, well, for me, at least, he is perhaps the most significant and , at the same time, the most controversial figure of ukrainian soviet culture. from one side, this is a volunteer in the army of the ukrainian people's republic. petlyurits, and on the other hand, this is a person who glorifies the january uprising at the arsenal plant. on the one hand, he is a ukrainian, and this is visible in his films, on the other hand, he is a person who admires and perhaps even befriends joseph stalin, at least he considers stalin his savior. today, we will talk about these paradoxes, about this discontinuity of the eternal dovzhenka, with my guest, olena honcharuk, the leader.

dovchenka center. greetings elena. thank you for coming to talk. thanks. you know the topic it seems to me to be very, very important, because it seems to me that we have not developed the language of such an honest narrative, yes, regarding dovzhenko. pen and i recently visited dovzhenka's homeland in the village of sosnytsia in chernihiv region. we were also in his house... the museum workers usually told a short story of his life, and here's what i notice, and the story is like this, to put it briefly: dovzhenko was born, there was such a family, 14 children, two children survived, then he studies , then he works, then he becomes a volunteer in the petliur army and

suddenly... and he is already in warsaw campaigning for emigrants to return to soviet ukraine. warsaw and berlin. what happened? we understand what happened, right? we understand the arrest, we understand that ivan blakytny saved him, so that he had some problems with the soviets and the bolsheviks. but what happened inside dovzhenko, that he suddenly changed himself, gave up on himself, or what happened to him? well, it was the time of his youth, and dovzhenko was actively searching, and he is a person who is very open to everything around it happens, er, he got to europe, another world opened up to him, where he mastered it. he

studied art there, that's how he learned to draw, in general, divzhenko was extremely talented in various arts, and he wrote, he drew, although it is not very popular, but it was one of his first steps in cinema, uh, it was just movie posters, very witty and so very funny, dovzhenko later became a director, that is, i think europe. he was very fond of, uh, and he had this contrast of country life that you mentioned, yes, yes, yes, earlier, and, uh, well, hardships, hardships, people in the village, in the province, he was extremely sensitive to this, if there were two children left in the family out of 14, then it is obvious that they were very unhappy, but dovzhenko had a very natural attraction to beauty,

he this was... extremely sensitive and it is possible that it was brought up by the nature in which he grew up, and i think that europe intensified it, that is, you are now, you are now talking about what the soviet authorities gave him, as if brought him into the european world, gave him the opportunity to get this education, and he sincerely, being at first a petliurite, yes, but he sincerely believed in the soviet government and began to work for the soviet government. that's right, well, i wouldn't say that it was given to him by the soviet government, after all, he took advantage of these opportunities himself, and they were his natural abilities, but the soviet government is actually an amazing construct, i think that even now, we all this is important, well, to deconstruct and understand this architecture, which allowed...