it is already happening now, it has been going on for a month, even a little more, since the beginning of april , the forced evacuation of children from two communities, these are medrenobutsk and velikopyserivska, has been going on for a week . the evacuation from the khotyn community has been going on for a week, and today is the second day of the renewed evacuation of all people from the velikopyserivska community. yesterday, for example, six people came for this evacuation, and today the evacuation began from bilopol, and these... which are closer to the border in the bilopol community, despite the fact that there are somewhere around 70 people signed up for this evacuation, 28 came beforehand, six of them were children with their parents, all the rest were elderly people. i understand that we have some kind of video, from sumy oblast, which we can now show how the evacuation is taking place. yes, at least we were working there today, talking to people, the evacuation itself was a bit... complicated,

because there was just an air raid, and we found all the people in the shelter, when they came out of the shelters and started loading the buses, then it was we can hear the enemy flying over us drone, he was watching what was happening, but fortunately the convoy managed to move and basically the people left, they hope to come back, yes, let's, let's look at your footage that you managed to film, well, let's... constantly these the body can no longer withstand the shelling, especially since the wife has a disability of the second group. when the authorities announced the evacuation, they realized that the matter was serious, decided to evacuate, we have a place to live, we will go to the cherkasy region, since we are jehovah's witnesses, they give us a place to live, and there we will see if the situation will worsen, we will have to stay there, of course, we want to come back here, winter things have not been taken yet, we are counting on the month. one and a half, and

we don't know where, about 40 people are being evacuated from the city of bilopil, social support and psychological support are provided, people will be placed in sums for the night, they will receive everything necessary to meet basic needs, then local authorities and partners of the humanitarian mission will already lead escorting them, leading them on, well, actually... is happening in bilopillas, in fact, we were there today amazed, because two weeks ago, the city lived more or less normally, now there is only one store left for the entire city that works, the post office is closed, there are almost no people on the streets, we wanted to meet and talk with those who decided to stay, but in fact we have not met such people, that is, people are actively leaving, people are actively leaving, and it is impossible to calculate how many people remain at the moment. they travel

by their own transport, their cars, there is a railway connection, people also leave by train, that is, how many remain is unknown, and those who remained in the five-kilometer zone in those villages, they all wrote receipts about refusing to evacuate, and what do you associate such activity with, alyona, it is because of kirill budanov's statements that it may begin in the near future attack on sumy oblast, because his statements are popular. i will say this, is it possible that because of the offensive in kharkiv oblast, or is it possible that the shelling there has simply intensified, is there any explanation, because you say that the evacuation was actually announced back in july that year, in different communities, in fact the situation is different, for example, in the same bilopil, in the bilopil community, shelling really intensified there, that is, in two weeks, more than 10 cabs flew into the city center, and they destroyed all the civil infrastructure that was there in the city.

also, artillery began to reach the city, that is, the residential quarters are simply covered with buildings, and there are many stories, there are houses that are on fire, windows are constantly broken, that is, people are not ready to live in such conditions, there are no social, normal conditions for life , it is in bilopol', in velika power supply has not yet been restored to pyserivtsi, there is no question of any large-scale restoration, and it is not very comfortable to live there, so it is the same in bilopyl after last week, electricity has not been restored there after the flights, we saw two open enterprises that were working on generators. alyona, thank you very much, alyona yatsina, our colleague from sumy oblast, told us about the situation in the region. well, us secretary of state antony blinken arrived today with an unannounced visit to...

the country to kyiv, as the reuters agency writes from referring to the representative of the us administration, with his visit blinken hopes to send a signal of confidence to ukrainians who are going through a very difficult moment. his task, as the interlocutor of the agency stated, is to discuss how the assistance of the united states can strengthen the defense of the armed forces. during the meeting with blinken, zelenskyi said that two additional patriot anti-aircraft missile systems are needed to protect kharkiv and the region. listen to their dialogue. we are grateful for bipartisan support. i know you do too did a lot for this positive decision, and of course, we are very grateful to the americans, the american people. against. air defense is the biggest deficit we have, i think this is the biggest problem, we really need two patriots today for kharkiv, for the kharkiv region, because there people are under attack, civilians and soldiers, all there are under russian missiles. we all admire your extraordinary resilience, your

endurance, your strength and your leadership, and we know this is a difficult time, but we also we know that help is on the way, something has already arrived, something is still waiting. and it will really affect the current russian aggression on the battlefield. well, i will remind you that on sunday also, when the offensive in kharkiv region began, blinken commented on these russian offensive operations, he said that there is no doubt, i will quote here, there is no doubt that the multi-month delay with the approval of additional funding and the shipment of weapons to ukraine from the usa, had a price, well , it means... that until there was no help, there was still a huge a threat to the front, including this attack on kharkiv oblast, perhaps it is the same, including the same price that blinkin spoke about. our broadcast was joined by oleksandr musienko, head of the center for military and legal research, good evening, good evening, i

don't know if you heard this dialogue between zelensky and blinken, maybe today, but zelensky asked for additional patriots for kharkiv oblast, and here is from blinken's answer so much for... i didn't understand whether there will be patriots or not, i think they will, globally the decision has already been made that ukraine should be supported, aa patriots, and you see that the start of this process will be from germany, which has already promised a battery that should arrive, and first they will deliver airisti, well, it is not anti-ballistic missiles, but it will the patriot is the same, and there is a ukrainian request for six more batteries, in addition to this one. which is being transferred to us now , germany is planning to transfer, so i hope that we will get additional systems, in principle, why i say that the decisions have been made, because the g7 also talked about it, about this was also said during the meeting of the ukraine-nato council, and not only, the only thing is that

it is a matter of time and how quickly it can be, and in any case , we need patriots for... , so that this wandering patriot worked and was in russian aviation, well, we have another need, we should not forget that we also need to deploy f16, and you understand that the process is actually with f-16s, he tied to the supply of air defense systems, one way or another, we will receive additional ppu systems, here you and the answer is when we will receive the planes, because now it is normal... which is connected with the fact that we need to increase, again, to reach a coefficient of 70, 75-80%, which will be shot down by the ukrainian forces, well, then the process will improve, so i think that, in principle

, these issues are being resolved now, in the usa there is an understanding of this, well, as far as is clear, another issue is that it is not possible as quickly as we would like now, yes, because in kharkiv'. the direction of the offensive is already underway, and by the way, kharkiv social media has just announced that in two volunteers disappeared in vovchansk, and according to the police, they were shot by the russian military, and one of them may have died. we actually see to some extent a repetition of the situation in 2022, when people ended up in basements, shooting civilians. oleksandr, what are your forecasts for the kharkiv region? do you allow that the city, for example, vovchansk can be reoccupied ? well, first of all, i will say that it is necessary to close some zones now. i think that the command will make a decision, because you know that many of you are going to us now areas of hostilities. perhaps it is more expedient to do it from kharkiv and transfer something directly to kharkiv, then

the military will give them a lift, because it is the safety and life of the volunteers, this must also be understood here. as for what can happen directly, it will be shown... only actual combat operations, i will tell you that somewhere two days ago, vovchansk was probably even closer to the fact that the enemy could advance there and capture it. now managed to somewhat situation. to stabilize, and in principle, due to the fact that ukrainian forces reinforcements have been sent over, they are repelling enemy attacks, at the same time the enemy has sent large forces there, this is a lot, in fact, as for vovchansk there are at least five battalion groups and they continue to send over more, and they are possible, well, that's why, strictly speaking, the fighting continues quite fierce and they actually continue on the streets there at the entrance directly to vovchansk. well , the rest will be shown only directly by the results of hostilities, but the situation here

in general, you know, in the kharkiv region, has it improved in what sense? in the sense that well, it was such a certain shock when the russian troops invaded, and it seemed that their offensive would develop quite rapidly, and for many it was even unexpected, but in the end it was possible to more or less stabilize the situation and prevent at least topics the development of operations for the enemy to develop stabilize on the border is meant after the capture of those 10 settlements there, so i mean this, i mean this breakthrough, when it seemed that the enemy was rapidly trying to develop, but managed to break the pace of the operation, so i think that i would not rule out that, taking into account these trends, now with the aim of stretching our line of defense in the kharkiv region, the enemy may become more active in one or two directions in the kharkiv region. and attack there in parallel with those that are now. oleksandr, we already partially mentioned this today,

but did not discuss it, look, against the background of the offensive of russian troops in the kharkiv direction, on the very first day, the commander of the operational-tactical grouping of the kharkiv troops was replaced by mykhailo drapatiy, instead of yuriy galushkin , both of them supposedly have honors and a good reputation there, but what does this mean, on the first day of the offensive... they have a leader, what does this indicate in principle? and you, by the way, drew attention to the fact that it was the military command and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, he was almost the first to react to the situation that took place and even to the criticism that went on social networks and not only, and conversations about defense buildings, fortifications and so on, well, look, he actually took responsibility and who, who is he, i'm sorry, who is he? oleksandr syrskyi. he took responsibility and he

made personnel decisions. he didn't say anything that wasn't specifically specified, that someone was dissatisfied with something, or had complaints against someone. perhaps this should not be done publicly. like, one person was preparing, getting ready to repulse the attack, the attack started, and the person is changed. this means that what, what, first, it is possible that there was an understanding that under these conditions. another person is needed now to step up and act differently in this situation. well, basically i will tell you that it happens in the military command, it happens in the leadership, when a decision is made promptly, in fact, based on the fact of what is happening. maybe there were some questions, maybe there were some questions about what was happening in terms of defense, measures, actions, and the command had a different point of view, and accordingly, changes took place immediately, immediately. and in fact, look, the situation has been stabilized, i think it's because

responsibility was taken for it, probably for the fact that it is necessary to act immediately, to make personnel changes, do not be afraid, you understand very well that the understanding that such questions will be asked, they are, but i am to the point that whether we have seen any other actions there, let's say actions, as well as on fortifications and everything, let's talk about fortifications , because we have literally a minute left, and fortification is what we started with, i want to finish with this. e some soldiers complain about the lack of fortifications, fortifications, others answer that it was impossible to do it there in the immediate vicinity of the border line, was it possible from your point of view to build these fortifications and replacing territories, was it impossible under any schedules, it is very difficult to do exactly in the conditions in which we were, because constant shelling, i agree with this point of view here, but you understand, in order to to answer this question accurately, you need to understand... the design and intention of the defense, or the intention of the defense of this area, it was to create

a gray zone in the event of a powerful offensive of russian troops and to draw them out and beat them further, what we saw , or it was slightly different and it was not performed in full measure, here it must be raised, if it was supposed to be a gray zone, then there should not have been people there, and there were civilian people in povchansk, we see, and this, and this, and this is a whole question about what, well , first of all, again well, here the question is that in our country... it is not possible to use the forced evacuation of people to remove them by force, that is the question that exists according to the legislation, but this question is somewhat different, but with regard to the plan to defend the territory, it is there. it must be for each region, which provides plans for the location of troops, it is not necessarily public for obvious reasons, the plan of the location of defensive structures, plans and so on, and when it all opens up, it is very easy to check, and it will remove all questions, that's it, thank you very, very easy to solve, just solve it now they don't show it, because of course, it is secret and so on, but i

think that someday it will come to that, but to begin with, of course, it would be good for the head of the region to report... on what and to what extent money was spent on defense fortifications. thank you very much. oleksandr musienko, head of the center for military legal research, we they talked about the situation in the kharkiv region, where the repeated russian offensive began. that's all we have. subscribe to radio liberty channels on the internet until tomorrow. never seen the classic underpants, or what? i wrote a children's poem here, listen, a tractor in the field dir-dir-dir, so what are we for peace, the main event of world boxing is only on meggo, the undefeated usyk and fury will determine the first absolute world champion in super heavyweight since 2000, support the ukrainian on

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congratulations, the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas time is on the air, i am its host oleksiy kovalenko. united states secretary of state. america's anthony blinken made an unannounced visit to ukraine. during a meeting in kyiv with the us secretary of state, president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyy stated the need to deliver previously agreed american military aid to ukraine as soon as possible. first of all , air defense systems. blinkin remarked that us aid has been approved, it is already on its way and will soon arrive in ukraine. he held his last meeting at the kyiv polytechnic institute. with details from the scene anna chernikova. the us secretary of state antony blinkin's speech here at the polytechnic institute in kyiv has literally just ended. mr. blinkin spoke in particular about the three

main points of the usa's commitment to ukraine, and as he said, these are real steps of long-term assistance. first of all, of course, this is military aid. blinkin noted that the us will not work only with partners in order to provide ukraine. weapons and the necessary equipment, as well as on the fact that ukraine could independently provide itself in the long term by producing the necessary necessary weapons and equipment, and he said that yes, that quite active actions are already being taken in this direction and that ukraine can expect specific results. the second is economic assistance. mr. blinkin noted that the tasks of the united states and the obligations of the united states. not just to ensure the survival of the ukrainian economy, but also the prosperity of the ukrainian economy, and again, he listed a number of directions, and the third point, according to mr.

blinky, is that the united states undertakes to help ukrainian society in building a strong democracy. he noted that today he has a number of meetings and is convinced that the ukrainian nation is ready to build a stronger country, and the us will pay special attention to help in anti-corruption activities and the fight against corruption. antony blinken also met today with the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi. very nice again. in ukraine, it's great to see you, i also pass along warm greetings from president biden, we all admire your extraordinary resilience, your endurance, your strength, your leadership, and we know that this is a difficult time, but we also know that help is on the way, part of it has already arrived more to come, and it will indeed have a major impact in countering russian aggression on the battlefield, and we are determined, along with

many others.' it is ukraine's fault to ensure your success on the battlefield. we are also committed to ensuring that ukraine stands firmly on its own over time feet, in military, economic and democratic terms. they discussed , first of all, the situation at the front, especially the situation in the kharkiv region. let me remind you that the russians continue to actively advance there, there are very active battles, and president zelenskyy noted that ukraine is in great need of additional... air defense, he told anthony blinkin about this. a difficult period for ukraine and a difficult period for the east of our country and for our soldiers. thank you for specially coming these days to support ukraine. thanks for this signal. i also wanted to to thank you on behalf of my entire team, all ukrainians, for the important aid package for our troops, for our soldiers. thank you very much for this. thank you congress, thank you president biden.

best wishes from us to him and the administration, we're grateful for the bipartisan support, i know you've also done a lot for this positive decision, and of course we're very grateful to the american people, the american people. air defense is the biggest deficit for us. i think that's the biggest challenge and we really need two today patriot batteries for kharkiv, for the kharkiv region, because people are under attack, civilians and soldiers, all of them, they are under russian control. missiles, and of course, i want to discuss the security guarantees, how our teams are working on this and the peace summit, which is very important to us, we need the participation of not only the united states, we need the help of president biden, and yours, to get as many countries as possible involved in this the summit the future peace summit, which will be held next month in switzerland, was also discussed, president zelensky told mr blinkin that ukraine is counting on the participation of president joe biden in this summit,

that it will... will be a powerful signal to all other partners. the united states will soon announce a new aid package for ukraine. this was announced at a briefing in the white house on may 13, the adviser to the president of znatspeka, jake sullivan. he noted that the size of aid and the intensity of supply are important at the moment. salevan noted that the expansion of attacks by russian forces in ukraine may be related to the six-month delay in the provision of aid ukraine. according to his estimate of supply. air defense, this is a matter of primary importance. one thing i do every day is talk to at least one ally, if not more, about getting more patriot batteries to ukraine. we recently received good news from an ally about one additional battery and we are working on more . this is something we will continue to try to get. in addition to patriot, we are also looking for other systems, because we believe that

there are low allies. which have means which they could also share ways the united states could help with their replacement air defense needs. these conversations are ongoing. these issues are of primary importance. russian forces hit residential high-rise buildings in the center of kharkiv. 16 people were injured, including children. this was announced by the head of the kharkiv regional military administration oleksiiguv. since last week, russia has been conducting a ground operation in the north of kharkiv region, they managed to capture... populated areas, why exactly now have russian forces opened a new front and is there a threat of capturing kharkiv itself? our journalist andriy borys talked about this with george baros, an expert of the american institute for the study of war. mr. baros, the latest report of the institute for the study of war states that the russians' offensive in the kharkiv region is aimed at restraining and dispersing ukrainian troops. please explain what it is about? we believe that this is essentially a big one.