we are convinced that by helping the real economy to work, by making people's lives more bearable, we are preparing ukraine for reconstruction, because when the time for reconstruction comes, money will be important, but human capital will be no less important. in your opinion, will ukrainians return from abroad? survey of ukrainian refugees, we were struck that only a small number of people indicated that they intend to settle abroad and the intention to return is equally strong in different age categories, different genders, different levels of education, this indicates that people will return, of course the unification of families will be a powerful stream. the international community is considering risk insurance options for companies.

risk insurance is not a silver bullet that will solve these problems. investors are interested in ukraine, but they will enter when the situation stabilizes, and of course, they carefully monitor changes in the environment for business, institutions. a big positive was the approval of the new law on the management of state enterprises. this is a step in the right direction. the imf recently improved its gdp forecast for russia. do sanctions work? event? the russian economy has been under sanctions since 2014, so i think those who expected western sanctions to cause an economic or financial crisis in russia had unrealistic expectations, sanctions are working but slowly, they are depriving russia of knowledge that is contained in capital goods , which russia cannot import knowledge acquired by international corporations. such corporations would normally be there. but they left the russian

market. we will see the impact of sanctions, but in the medium term in the form of performance slowdown. read the full interview with the chief economist of the european bank for reconstruction and development on the website of the ukrainian voice of america. to the us to talk to americans about the importance of supporting ukraine, uses every opportunity to do so, including joining an advocacy campaign in congress on the eve of the approval of aid to kyiv, which forces a volunteer from the us to defend a country with which he had no ties before the war -

black bracelets like this are what we use in the military here in america and some other countries nato as a reminder of some of the brothers in arms we have lost in battle. american veteran matthew sampson wears memories of his comrades in service in ukraine on his arm. these two men were wounded at the same time in bakhmut, they were in my team in ukraine. one of the greek men was a canadian of ukrainian origin. he was one of our translators as well as the chief medic in our team. another, daniel swift, came to ukraine much earlier than i did. he was a good man, a good fighter, whom we miss very much. he fell into a coma for several days before he died. we miss them very much, but they showed us what it means to be a warrior, a brother in arms and just a good person. also from brought to the usa memories of

how he almost died himself. this piece struck me when i was on the outskirts of bakhmut. luckily it went through some trees first so it actually hit some of my gear and just fell to the ground. so i wasn't in pain. and i am very grateful for that. but friends were wounded and killed. and that's what happens when we're under artillery fire and tanks. the californian spent almost two years on the battlefield in ukraine, a veteran of the us army, a professional sniper with experience in iraq and afghanistan, went to fight against the russians in may 2022. i was living in new mexico at the time, and when the invasion happened, my first thought was that this war would be over very quickly, so now i'm very disappointed, i really am. didn't know anything about ukraine, but i

know russia pretty well, i've studied it for almost 20 years as america's number one enemy. and i know that when she invades the country, for it's okay to rape them. and killing civilians just for fun, so i knew it was very terrible for the country they were invading, and that was something that touched my heart very deeply, and i immediately knew that i wanted to do something to help. soon after arriving in ukraine, sampson realized that the war was going to last longer than he had expected, in part because of delays in weapons. for me, the war in ukraine turned out to be extremely different. when i was in iraq and afghanistan. we had the full support of the us authorities with all relevant consequences, the enemy we were fighting, whether it was the insurgents or the taliban, they had no artillery, no tanks, at the time i arrived, there were no drones or air support in ukraine. the russian army has it all, artillery, tanks and air

support. the ukrainian government simply does not have the finances to support its troops in the way that the united states can. a veteran joined the international legion at the central intelligence agency, says that thanks to the experience gained in the us army, he was able to become one of the platoon commanders, performed tasks a sniper and a medic. i remember, as comrades in the service, the ukrainians were still surprised by his presence on the battlefield. they were just really, really wondering why someone would leave a place like california to come and jump into a hole in the donbass to be fired upon by the russians. the veteran says that he fought in the zaporizhia, mykolaiv, kharkiv and donetsk regions, and spent almost the entire last year in bakhmut and its surroundings. ultimately, in february 2024, he decided to temporarily return to the united states in order to convey more information about ukraine to americans in

the moment when the fate of the new aid package was decided. he says he noticed the great influence of russian propaganda on americans. russian propaganda penetrates. into our country at an alarming rate, friends that i've known for over 10 years who were taught the same thing i was, particularly in the military, that russia is our number one enemy, they repeat some of the things that what the kremlin wants to hear from them is that it was nato that started the invasion, that nato did something, and that russia had no choice but to invade a peaceful country. the influence is very strong. i have many people ask, do you think zelensky took a lot of this money for himself? and i explain that firstly, it is almost never given in cash, and secondly, there is enormous oversight from the west, especially the us, to which the funds are allocated. sampson speaks not only to ordinary americans about the importance of supporting ukraine. during the week

of the house of representatives' vote on the aid package for ukraine, he, along with other activists , met with representatives of the us congress as part of the ukrainian summit. i shared with nimiki. realities, i gave them understand that although the battlefield may be thousands of kilometers away from the usa, russia actually touches america, from russian land to american land is about 4 km, it is in the area of ​​alaska, where you can see the russian territory from the us territory and vice versa, so we have a common border with russia, like ukraine, and the fact that the battlefield is far, i think, should not be a topic of conversation, we have a common border with russia for a very long time. they routinely violate our airspace with nuclear bombers, and they've been ours all along enemy number one. for almost two years of being on the front line in ukraine, matthew sampson never came to the united states. he hurried home from the front, in particular

to hug his mother, who was sick with cancer. however , he did not have time to see her alive. i was on my way to the hospital, but she died 40 minutes before i arrived. i wanted to surprise her, i was dressed in the same camouflage that i am wearing now. it would have been a pleasure to say hello for the first time in a few years, but unfortunately she passed away 40 minutes before i got there. metiya does not regret his time in ukraine, and plans to come back again after settling things in the us. he says that although the war has dragged on, his faith in victory is as strong as it was at the beginning. i went to ukraine as soon as i got there and saw that there was a war. will last a long time, i decided that i will also continue to fight together with the international legion and with the ukrainians, because i fully believe that ukraine will end it with victory. i think it will be easy as long as they can get the support they need from the west, especially with weapons and ammunition,

and they are happy to continue fighting until they drive all the russian invaders out of their territory. so yes, ukraine will definitely win if it continues to receive support from the event. iryna shinkarenko, vyacheslav filyushkin, dmytro melnyk, voice of america. it was the story of an american volunteer who went to fight in ukraine and is now involved in advocacy for ukraine. in the usa. we are moving on. 30 years ago, the balkan countries found themselves in the vortex of war. after the breakup of yugoslavia, the desire of several of its former parts to declare autonomy or independence, caused the armed aggression of the serbs. in terms of intensity, these wars are hard to describe in 1991. even now, 30 years later, i feel the effects of what i had to go through in the war. this is, for example, increased sweating. even at night you have to turn the pillow on the other side, otherwise... in the morning the pillowcase will be wet. constant internal anxiety is always present, and the most important thing to calm down is

to learn to work with yourself. when i watch the young guys we work with, i see myself. today, rene is in charge by all divers of the civil defense service of croatia, and 20 years ago he founded a wing club together with his military comrades. since then , veterans who suffered from the war have been taught here the basic techniques of diving, working with equipment, etc. diving is, as it were, about self-discipline, about the ability to somehow regulate your breathing, to calm yourself down, and it is something similar to meditation, it replaces working with a psychologist for sure, currently in search, in search of your style, because if in me alone hand, foot, it's diagonal, and to find your own style, it takes a lot of practice, well... a lot of work mykhailo, sergeant of the 95th brigade, a participant in the battles near izyum in

the kharkiv region. he became the first military man in ukraine to receive a bionic hand prosthesis at the anbroken rehabilitation center in lviv. six months after diving in the adriatic sea, mykhailo meets croatian instructors again, already in the lviv basin. one of them is boran martic, who volunteered for the war at the age of 19 in the early 90s, all these days works only with him. without taking a single step. i have never met with such a case as mykhailo's. it needs a special approach. when we first started, i was even more afraid than he was. when i worked on a tuna farm, i observed a lot of the swimming technique used by these fish, as well as their behavior in the sea. i think it helped me in the case of michael's training. his system of movements under water is similar to the technique of a fish, or even a dolphin. in the pool. we are free from everything superfluous and became fish, at the beginning i did not know how to swim at all, if and if

there was such a fear of water, but more fear was to swim if on the surface of the water, if, and when with the equipment, i understand everything, i tried that i i can breathe through it, then i don't have such fear, well, before diving, i tried to do somersaults under water, it was all very exciting, don't be afraid, i went, together with mykhailo in the lviv part of the project... ten more veterans of the armed forces of ukraine. i received bullet wounds in the abdomen. i was wounded in june cavity. i live in the center of the city and i have a few moments when i am too many people, it sometimes causes some kind of dissonance. but when you are a driver, if you are not disturbed, no one touches you, you are kind of okay, everything is cool, you do not hear anything, no one disturbs you, nothing... lives, does not fly, and it is kind of peaceful , peaceful time, for

yourself. filip visych, a croat who has lived in lviv for many years and raised a family here. it was he who first invited croatian veteran divers to ukraine at the very beginning full-scale invasion in march 2022. we have a daughter who will be 9 years old now, and maya was in croatia for a year and a half, she went to school there, and in fact mia was shunned by everyone. those very, let's say, terrible feelings from the war, alarms, explosions, all those pictures that are, well, i, as a croat, who was in all that 25 years ago, as a young boy of 16, i told my wife on september 21, our maya goes to school in ukraine, our maya must understand who the enemy is, she must understand how to live with that enemy for the rest of her life, and this enemy can be... active, or maybe passive, but it always remains as it is. by

the end of this project, croatian instructors and ukrainian veterans will have met in the water at least twice, probably the war is not over yet, but for them the healing from it has already begun. shodlyak yurii dankevich, for the voice of america from lviv, is exaggerated. the kyiv camerata ensemble performed on the stage of the legendary carnegie hall in new york. the concert consisted exclusively of works by ukrainian composers. before that, only the alexander chapel had such a repertoire on this stage. rakoshitsice, who in 1922 performed the shchedrik. conductor keri len wilson, who has ukrainian roots, became the head of the current project. she is the musical director of the ukrainian freedom orchestra, which she founded in response to russia's war in ukraine. iryna solomko and pavlo terekhov met with musicians in new york. people's artist of ukraine skrypalka bohdana pivnenko

led the national ensemble of soloists kyiv camerata almost a year ago. this is an orchestra where every musician is a virtuoso. and solo performer was created back in 1977 to perform music by ukrainian composers. my greatest task is that the music of ukrainian composers in our performance sounds on the best stages of the world. well, less than a year has passed, and today in carnegie hall we will present our music, our composers, and for me it's just a huge holiday today. despite the war. the musicians of the group remain in ukraine, they flew to the usa after the concerts in kharkiv, managed the kharkiv music festival, well, of course, it is difficult, a difficult feeling after that, emotionally, it is very difficult to see, because i'm from kharkov in general, you know, and seeing my hometown, there are a lot of destroyed buildings, and when you watch the news or

read about it, you understand how terrible it is, but when you come... and you go and you do you understand that there is a war here? the performance of the kyiv chamber of commerce in the united states was made possible thanks to the support of the us charity organization for ukraine. its president, olga letvenenko , appealed to the kyiv chamber of commerce with a proposal to organize concerts in the usa in order to renew attention to the war with the help of art in ukraine. from the war, it's constantly, it's on tv every day, and people got used to this news, and they stopped reacting like, let's say, the first months of the war. and she wanted to use these concerts to once again draw people's attention to the fact that ukraine needs help, needs attention and should not forget about it. bohdana approached the canadian conductor carolyn wilson, known for her support of ukrainian musicians, with a proposal for cooperation during these concerts. she immediately said yes, and that it would be an exclusively ukrainian program composers, that it is extremely interesting to her.

and of course, thanks to kyrelin, josy didenat is singing with us today in the concert, this is... just a megastar, this is a huge event, a historical event, because they always say that ukrainian music is not well known, people will not buy tickets there, or else that something is needed, you know, for a long time russia, the soviet union, they invested huge amounts of money in the promotion of russian culture, and very often ukrainian artists, they were said here in america that they are all russians, and just now from behind. disasters we have a chance to say that we are, who we are and to say that this is our history, culture. kirilin admits that she dreamed of holding a concert of exclusively ukrainian music in her native new york. this was made possible by the help of my wonderful husband, the general director of the metropolitan opera. he addressed his colleagues at lincoln center and carnegie

hall. as a result, the team received the honor of performing at carnegie hall. in the program. concert works by world-famous composers valentina sylvestrova, myroslav skoryk, evgeny stankovych, as well as the younger generation. their works were first performed in the usa. i am very happy not only because the audience will hear them for the first time, but because it is a statement, a statement against putin and his regime, that he will not be able to silence ukrainian culture, it is strong and bright. but this is not only about music, it is also about the freedom of the ukrainian people and the future.

he describes how the invasion began and it was the first piece he wrote that expressed everything he felt, he dedicated it to the people who died in mariupol. sounded oleksandr shchetynskyi. his house and the institutions he invested in were destroyed by russian shelling. according to kerelin, the requiem is a dedicated and important message to the world. this is a moment that we can dedicate together to all the brave soldiers who gave their lives to save the country.

according to bohdana pivnenko, many ukrainian composers who turned to opera at an advanced age did not leave ukraine and continue to actively create, while some did not survive the war. one of them is oleksandr kozarenko. whose concert resounded in the carne gola. oleksandr kozarenko died, he has a heart stopped when the war started, in general we lost, we lost somewhere around six composers who passed away because they could not survive it, well, elderly people. that is why, since the beginning of the invasion, wilson, whose grandmother was originally from chernivtsi, has been helping ukrainian musicians. in the spring of 2022, she created the ukrainian freedom orchestra so that the world could hear their voices. the project continues and the start of its third season will be announced in a few days. wilson shoots in different countries, where he always meets ukrainian refugees. with

every day i feel more and more ukrainian, and every day i feel more and more angry. why doesn't everyone feel what i feel? you have to watch the news every day. i have an app that tells me when there are air alerts in ukraine. i feel. with you, it makes me incredibly determined to continue helping, and that won't change as long as i'm alive and as long as ukraine needs me, my anger, frustration and love for ukraine won't let me stop, and that fire is only getting stronger and hotter. on concert in karnaye gol wilson pulled off the cuffs that her aunt, who lives in chernivtsi, had embroidered. in a few weeks, caroline will visit the city for the first time. her grandmother emigrated, the dear friend also plans to perform at the lviv opera and to repeat the american concert of the kyiv camerata already at the capital's philharmonic. from

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ambiguous issue. eu wars diverge on intentions to help ukraine recover conscripted men to their homeland. what threatens evaders abroad? glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is serhiy rudenko, i congratulate everyone and wish everyone good health. for the next two hours, we will talk about ukraine, the world, the war, and our victory. victory, we will talk about it over the next hour with our guests, people's deputy of ukraine, former head of the security service of ukraine valentyn nalyvaichenko, military expert mykhailo samus and political commentator volodymyr tsybulko. in the second part of our program, which will start at 21:15, we will have people's deputies of ukraine, viktoriya syumar, yaroslav yurchyshyn and vadym galaychuk. however, before starting our

big one. i suggest you watch a video of the consequences of another terrorist attack on kharkiv, in the morning the occupiers targeted three guided aerial bombs in the kyiv and holodony districts of the city, as a result of the strikes, unfortunately, one person died, nine others were injured, let's see.