us defense secretary austin recently mentioned that he is having face-to-face talks with his european counterparts to convince them to send their patriot batteries to ukraine. he said they should take more risks. do you think this is a legitimate request, given the fact that the us itself sent only one patriot battery to ukraine. the states have much more power than any other country, and they can do much more. i don't understand why tanks and bmp should gather dust in the desert and not be used in ukraine. and when it comes to about air defense systems and missiles for air defense, especially systems produced by american companies. i believe that ... the states

could and should do more. at the same time, it is true that the european countries that use patriots are also the ones that have old batteries, hawks and ammunition for them. all this must be delivered to ukraine. there are countries like poland and sweden that use patriot, but they are very close to the northern and eastern flanks of europe. you should not ask them for patriot. but germany, which agreed to deliver another one patriot battery, maybe it could. bet two, but all eyes on spain and greece to join the effort. at the same time, there are other air defense systems, such as irst. germany should ramp up production to produce them faster, but this remains a problem, as no one was ready to use anti-aircraft on such a scale. if you look at everything that is needed for an integrated air defense, including radars, missiles.

the united states should have sent airstrikes to ukraine much earlier. they change the situation. high-precision, long- range missiles are very necessary for ukraine. also, due to russia's significant capabilities in electronic warfare, certain types of ammunition and weapons are more capable of penetrating the target. now that attacks with a longer range are delivered.

it's good to have a constant flow, a significant amount sounds good, but i don't know if it will be enough for ukraine's long-term struggle. we should consider other systems, including the german taurus and possibly more stormshadow and scalp missiles from other countries. question production of high-precision long-range projectiles in ukraine, i consider also relevant. and the usa and other partner countries of ukraine should gradually transition from supplying their systems to ukraine. to the supply of components and spare parts so that ukraine can produce its own weapons. because let's be honest, high-precision long-range missiles, drones, cruise missiles, all of these should be used against relevant military targets also on the territory of the russian federation, especially if you do not have strong enough air defenses, then you have to hit airfields and launch pads. simply defending yourself without

trying to destroy the core of the threat from a military point of view makes no sense. so, if ukraine can independently manufacture long-range missiles, they will be able to use them against these guns. i think this is important. do you think that one of the reasons why germany still does not want to provide ukraine with the taurus is because germany is... concerned about the potential use of these missiles against targets on russian territory, or is there something else behind it, because germany tries to act in tandem with the united states. now washington says it is providing kiev with long-range attack missiles. why is scholz still against it? you are right , it is not germany, but chancellor scholz and his team. the majority in the parliament supports it. also, almost all experts

are in favor of this and have been promoting this issue for a long time, and now no one understands the arguments that are used against the decision to transfer these capabilities to ukraine. they should have been delivered a long time ago, i think the pressure on the chancellor is now increasing because he always wanted to act in tandem with by the united states, and now that longer-range attacks are already in ukraine, this argument can no longer be used against the delivery of the taurus, but we also see that the chancellor is now actively campaigning in the run-up to the european parliament elections and trying to give the impression that the refusal to provide taurus is kind of... i think it's the other way around, but that's the situation we have. we are talking to you in washington, in a few months the 75th

nato summit, the anniversary summit, will be held here. what do you expect from this summit for ukraine? are there any changes? in the direction of providing ukraine with a clear path to nato membership. shouldn't we count on it? stoltenberg. recently said that he would seek an invitation to this summit. first, i believe that nato and transatlantic security are more important than the us election alone. and secondly, the us should not be afraid of leadership. and it annoys me when i have conversations in this place and i feel that the united states is afraid to be a leader because of domestic reasons or because of elections. there are important issues to discuss. it's not just a celebration. there is a big war going on in europe. to us nothing to celebrate now. what we must do is to ensure peace and stability, and also to start negotiations on the accession of ukraine to the nato council, and to bring

ukraine to a position where it can become a full member of nato. i think this is part of a peaceful solution on the european continent. and it should be perceived as such. illogically. if nato meets in washington and neither ukraine nor russia receive the right signal? how do you think this will affect the course of the war? will russia take this as another green light to continue the pressure on ukraine and continue aggression russia will stop aggression when it is stopped, it does not depend on our political negotiations and our political decisions. war is fought on the battlefield, and the

battlefield will drive political debate, not the other way around. therefore, we must stop russia militarily. watch the full version of the interview with niko langa on the youtube page. voice of america in ukrainian and read it on our website. due to the war in ukraine , there is a significant increase in the number of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. only in the first two months of 2024 the same number of patients were diagnosed with ptsd as in the whole of 2021. american clinical psychologist and scientist skip prizo. wants to help ukrainians cope with the trauma of the war. he developed an innovative method of psychotherapy using virtual reality to combat ptsd among american veterans. for the last two years , the scientist has been working on transferring the protocols to his ukrainian colleagues.

khrystyna shevchenko will tell more about his research. in the institute of creative technologies of the university of southern california in dr. skip rizo, a clinical psychologist and experimenter, has been working in los angeles for many years. in the last two years , a new project has appeared in his schedule, he is trying to convey to ukrainians a protocol of psychotherapy and a technique that will help with ptsd, both civilians and military. if we can use virtual reality to trigger memories in people through simulation to help them go back and talk about the challenges they've faced, then we might have a tool that can strengthen the already evidence-based under. doctoral prizo explores innovative vr exposure therapy. the exposure method is not new in the world of psychotherapy. according to numerous studies, it is one of the most effective therapies for ptsd. it is based on early behavioral therapy and

traditionally involves the patient closing their eyes and talking about their trauma experience repeatedly under the guidance of a therapist. the therapist's goal here is to...help the patient confront and reevaluate difficult emotional memories. in 1997 , an element was added to exposure therapy for the first time: virtual reality. then the "virtual vietnam" scenario appeared. the combination of virtual reality and exposure therapy intrigued skip rizo back in 1995, and in 2005 he created a virtual iraq. the battlefield where american veterans experienced iraq for the second time. virtual iraq proved successful in treating more than 70%. people with post-traumatic stress disorder, and this therapy is now used in more than

two hundred hospitals that work with veterans. at first, many people think, oh, i 'll play a video game and heal mine post-traumatic stress disorder, but they soon learn that even though we use gaming technology to create worlds, it's not a game, it's about helping someone face a very difficult life experience. but in a way that can be systematically controlled so that they don't have to dive right in . skip rizo, like many americans, learned about the start of a full-scale russian invasion of ukraine in february 2022 through the news. this is a criminal invasion of russia. i really didn't like what i saw on the news. skip together with a ukrainian group of psychologists decided to create scenarios for ukrainians that

would simulate the traumatic situations of the ukrainian-russian war. skip shows us the first drafts, i put on my glasses and see what happens. it's only black. a scenario that imitates the events that took place at the beginning of the war in gostomel, but even now this world seems too real, although i do not feel an emotional trigger, probably because at the time of the return i lived in the united states, and the people who moment bumped into something seems like they're going to react very differently, says skip, they're going to need 10 dives to get over the injury. the script is developed by skip's ukrainian colleagues, and he coordinates. their director of the ukrainian institute of psychological education and counseling, professor olga zaporozhets.

we initially created such a working group of psychologists from our center in kyiv, who provided assistance, well, for several years and were very active precisely at the beginning of a large-scale invasion, and i asked them many times what situations you take the most in therapy, you work out which are the most traumatic. and we made such a list, it was, well, i don't know, 15-20 different situations. the situation should not completely reflect reality, but rather describe the collective experience. civilians, yes, it's evacuation, alarms, for some it's a train when they evacuated. skib rizo, using the examples of iraq and afghanistan scenarios, shows how the completed ukrainian scenario will look like. during the dive, the patient must

simultaneously tell what happened to him, what he saw and what he heard. meanwhile a psychotherapist in real time can change the sound and situation during the day. the ministry of veterans of ukraine was also interested in the project, because they believe that the game element of therapy can... attract veterans, especially young ones, whose number is increasing. in ukraine, unfortunately, there is no developed culture of going to a psychologist, turning to a psychologist for help. of course, in the last two years of the full-scale invasion, more people are asking for help, and more qualified psychotherapists have appeared who are able to work with such a direction, but everything exactly... there remains a category of people who find it difficult to go there, they are afraid, they have such

a stigma, and we think that this will attract people more, the younger generation itself, on the initiative of skip, the university gave the code for the program to ukrainian developers for free , who have already developed three scenarios, but in the process, says the scientist, difficulties arose, it is not possible to raise funds for further development. so far, we have opened a donation site in the united states, and we have managed to raise about 11 thousand dollars. i think we'll... need about 400 to have a truly refined and polished system relevant to the ukrainian population. i think we will get more donations, i'm not sure if it's because of not knowing this project exists. you know, now ukraine is a laboratory cup of herbs, and there are

many people who, if they do not receive treatment, will suffer from injuries that can be effectively treated for the rest of their lives. if they ask for help. despite the lack of funding, skip and his ukrainian colleagues are not stopping. virtual worlds are already here tested by ukrainian psychologists, and at the same time skip with assistants. and already in a little more than a month, they promise to treat ukrainian patients. from los angeles, khrystyna shevchenko, bohdan shevchenko, for the voice of america. meanwhile , us vice president kamela harris is visiting pennsylvania as part of joe biden's presidential campaign. there, she will talk about the fight for american women's reproductive rights, an issue that is central to the us presidential race this year. donald trump defends the right states to regulate reproductive rights. at

the same time, joe biden says he will protect women's free choice and access to proper health care. these are told by iryna shinkarenko. biden's staff is putting reproductive rights at the center of his campaign. vice president kamala harris was campaigning in florida the day the new abortion law took effect. this is a fight for freedom. the fundamental freedom to make decisions about one's own body and not let the authorities tell us what to do. the new law in florida is one of the most. restrictive in the us and called for an initiative to include the right to abortion in the state constitution on the ballot in november. us states have been enacting their own abortion laws since a 2022 supreme court decision struck down federal constitutional protections for abortion rights. three of the six judges who decided this case were once appointed by president trump. garis says

voters should hold him accountable. in our country we are watching. despite trump's claims that florida's new law goes too far, he regularly takes credit for the abortion issue being decided at the state level now, it's the will of the people, he explained in a video on social media last month. many states will have different solutions, many will have different number of weeks, some will have more conservative laws. in the end, everything depends on the will of the people. you should follow your heart or in many cases your religion or faith. at a women's clinic in fort pierce, florida, a patient fears she will die as a result of the new law more young women. frankly, i think it would cause a lot more deaths, because six weeks is not a very long time. my

feeling is that abortions will still happen, whether it's legal or not, it's just going to be dangerous. the owner of the kendy's day clinic says that there was an influx of patients before the new abortion law was passed, and for her the six-week ban is too restrictive. many girls don't even know they're pregnant until they're six weeks along. they think it's four weeks because they haven't had their period yet, and then we do ours ultrasound, and it's already six. at the clinic , anti-abortion protesters try to make contact with every woman who enters. i'm here because abortion hurt me, and i certainly don't want to see other women hurt by abortion. they walk in the door and never come out the same. no matter how hard they try to continue living their normal lives, they will never be the same. although banning abortion motivates many republican voters. trump seems to be mindful of the political vulnerability of this issues in the presidential race.

always follow your heart, but we must win. we have. win we are a declining nation but we can no longer be a declining nation we will make our nation great. garis says trump's republican allies in congress want a statewide abortion ban. trump says there's no need for that now, as long as states can pass their own abortion laws. iryna shynkarenko, scott stearns, voice of america. friends, we will say goodbye on this. read breaking news and analytical materials. on the voice of america website in ukrainian, watch live broadcasts, full versions of interviews and stories on our youtube channel, and of course, subscribe to our social networks to always be aware of current and true news. thank you for staying with us, good night, good morning, see you tomorrow,

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six months ago , the movement of ukrainian trucks was actually frozen on the polish-ukrainian border. polish protesters began blocking the border on november 6, 2023 , at three main checkpoints: jagodin dorogutsk, ravaruska grebene, krakivets korchowa. and on november 23, the same promotion from there was also a doctor at the fourth checkpoint - sheghini. the main demand of the polish protesters was as follows: to ban the import of ukrainian agricultural products, to cancel

transport visa-free for ukrainians, as well as to cancel the so-called green course on the territory of poland, because, according to the poles, such conditions for ukraine created unhealthy competition between the parties. with the beginning of the full-scale invasion, kyiv received a temporary transport visa-free regime and the abolition of customs duties on ukrainian goods. to the eu, to at least somehow save the state's economy, after all sea ​​and air routes to ukraine were blocked. you are a huge competition for us, ukrainians have created all the conditions in poland, privileges, you are not even a member of the european union, instead, ukrainians do not respond to us with mutual compliance. it looks like you're just drinking our blood, so our carriers are blocking the border so you don't drink it all the way. in the first months, the border was blocked by a small group of polish carriers, led by the representative of the confederation party, rafal mekler. it was this party that opposed it

accession of ukraine to the eu. later, in the winter , polish farmers joined the blockade. protesters promised to allow military and humanitarian goods to ukraine. however, already at the beginning of december, ukrainian volunteers began to strike. critically important goods for the armed forces were delayed at the border. thousands of ukrainian carriers actually became hostages at the border. queues of trucks reached dozens of kilometers. ukrainian drivers waited in front of the border for more than two weeks. the supplies of food and fuel water were running out, the situation was bad access to a toilet and a shower, and while the blockade lasted, winter had already come, and in such conditions ukrainian drivers spent the night in their cars, in khurdelytsa and frost, at least three ukrainian transporters died during the blockade at the border, we have no leverage over them, the only thing we can do is go to the police, talk to them, because there is no point in going to the protesters, they.

they contact us there and that and that and that's it, i think it's paid for, there's nothing to talk to you about, the only thing is that we can also block the roads with the police, but the police can see if we're going there are 20-30 people there, immediately two more crews of some kind of help arrive, and they consult there and seem to let us in, that is, until we go, if we don't go , they won't let us in, we go, we achieve something, at least one car into the house, our fellow citizens were most shocked by the shots with... spilled ukrainian grain. the first such case happened on february 11 near the yagodin dorogusk checkpoint. there, the poles stopped a sealed ukrainian truck and deliberately dumped ukrainian grain. such cases happened several more times. usually these cargoes went in transit to other european countries. in total , more than 180 tons of ukrainian grain were scattered throughout the blockade. according to the data of the all-ukrainian agrarian

council during the blockade of ukraine. did not receive uah 8 billion in customs payments, the business lost more than eur 1.5 billion. meanwhile, the polish government could not do anything about the protests of its people. the previous prime minister of poland , mateor murawiecki, even supported a return to the military system, which was more beneficial to the poles. when is the chair of the prime minister the more pro-ukrainian donald tusk took over poland, and there were no successful steps to unblock the border. only this april. year, his words had a significant impact. we cannot harm ukraine in any way in a situation where the fate of the war is being decided. i don't think that anyone decent in poland wants to weaken ukraine today, so for now i'm counting on prudence and refusal of this form of protest. so far, the villagers have not experienced any bad treatment from the police or public services, and i would like it to continue. blocking the border, then

subsided, then gained. revolutionized, the protesters said that if their polish government did not listen, they would resume the blockade. meanwhile, from the first days of blocking the border, the ukrainian government called on the polish authorities to intervene in this situation, and also sought a compromise with their polish counterparts. the blockade of the border by poland has long gone beyond the grain blockade. today , this blockade threatens the national security of ukraine, threatens the supply of weapons and equipment for our security and defense sector. and supplies of critical necessities of fuel, and the issue of blocking the border should be resolved much earlier than march 28, the date when a joint meeting of the governments of ukraine and poland was supposed to take place. from the end of march , large-scale negotiations between the agricultural association of ukraine and poland regarding the transit of products and the unblocking of roads began. accordingly, it even stabilized the situation on the border. the parties agreed to exchange data every month to monitor the ...

situation, and these associations were absolutely interested in unblocking the border, because everyone was losing, because it was people and exports of polish products, in particular dairying , to ukraine, it far exceeds the import of ukrainian rural agricultural products to poland. protesters began to unblock the checkpoints from april 20, already on april 25 it became known that the polish government approved the order, which... determines the plan to help polish farmers. on april 29, the poles unlocked the last checkpoint. when polish farmers started their blocking actions on february 9 and they covered six directions, six checkpoints. practically on some even making it impossible to drive at all, as it was on...