[000:00:00;00] congress also plays a role in american politics. last week, we saw bipartisan calls from lawmakers to lift restrictions on ukraine's use of american weapons, and in the end, the biden administration did make some concessions. are congressmen going to press the white house further. we will ask our congress correspondent kateryna lisynova. katya, hello, i welcome you to our broadcast. congratulations ostap. and katya, according to the legislators, is the permission we saw from the administration sufficient? i know what you feel succeeded talk to leading representatives of both parties, what did they say to you? that's how ostapa managed to communicate with both the leaders of democrats and republicans, in short, representatives of both parties claim that the current partial withdrawal from defense for the ukrainian army by the biden administration is not enough. important, especially important in this context is the statement of the leaders of the democrats, that is, biden's fellow party members, in particular, the deputy leader of the democratic faction in

the house of representatives, congressman tedliu. yesterday answering my question about whether these partial removals of restrictions from the ukrainian army are enough for him, during the press conference he stated that not only are these removals, these partial removals of restrictions not enough for him, he actually advocates the complete removal of all restrictions on the use of american arming the ukrainian army, i suggest listening to his actual comment. last week. secretary blinkin testified before the foreign affairs committee. i want to thank third secretary blinkin for his decision to go for the win. he made this decision long ago, when we were just fought to increase air defense for ukraine. and regarding the question you just asked, he basically said that ukraine will do what it should do. i hope the restrictions will be lifted. i support the bipartisan letter sent by our

intelligence committee on exactly that. reason, and we see how ukraine is beginning to use these weapons better, especially in crimea. this is quite a significant shift in the statement of the democrats, because i will remind you, before the voice of america, the democrats said that everything should depend on the decision of the administration, then declared that the lifting of restrictions should be partial, in particular on the border with kharkiv oblast, which we actually saw now, and now the leaders of the democrats are declaring that they are in favor of the complete lifting of restrictions from the ukrainian army. in turn, i also wanted to talk with the speaker. rep. mike johnson, republican, you see him on video now, and he reiterated that he is in favor of a complete lifting of restrictions on the ukrainian military and also emphasized that he will have separate conversations about this with the biden administration. i suggest to listen i don't think we should micromanage the war effort in ukraine. i think we need to give them the weapons they need to defend themselves and fight back against the russians. that's why i'm against the president

on this. i already said. i will talk about it again, we will have a conversation with the white house about it. katy, thank you for raising these questions with us lawmakers, but if they believe that the current authorizations are not enough, do they plan to continue to pressure or influence the white house in any way, as it is here? in fact, this influence of the congress on the american administration can be, the influence and pressure on the biden administration can actually be only political, because this is the political position of the biden administration, and there is no legislative ban that could be removed, and this political pressure and. .. lies in such statements that we are now hearing from the congress, but in terms of actual steps, we can now characterize two, two pieces of information, two points that were voiced to us by both democrats and republicans, in particular, the speaker said that he would have separate conversations with administration biden on this issue, and in particular the leader of the democratic faction in the house of representatives, pete aguilar, told me yesterday that he believes that the ukrainian side should also talk about this issue with the house of representatives committee on international relations,

i suggest... listen to his statement right now. the biden administration and the national security council are working with ukraine's allies to give them the tools, resources, and authority they need to fight and win the war. i believe that these conversations are happening and that the administration biden takes the initiative. i also believe that if there are additional opportunities that ukraine needs, they will work with the foreign affairs committee. of the house of representatives, particularly with the co-chairman of this committee, gregory meeks, and the chairman, michael mccaul, about the empowerment and other things that they need. these two legislators have a track record of working together on important issues, and i believe that will lead to smart and necessary solutions. how much time can it take for further development and change of this positions further. it

is actually difficult to say the exact time when we can expect the next developments, but we can say that... now we see a fairly quick reaction of the biden administration, because after the first statements and calls to the biden administration to partially lift the ban on some of the ukrainian army, we literally less than a week later we already saw... the reaction of the biden administration. an important point in this is also the statements of the democrats, who also support the complete removal of all restrictions on the use of the ukrainian army american weapons. certainly. katya, thank you, kateryna lisynova, our congress correspondent, was in touch. meanwhile, the state department does not believe that the permission to strike with american weapons on the territory of russia is an escalation. state department spokesman matthew miller said this at a briefing today. russia is an aggressor and russia. deploys its troops on the border for attacks on civilian objects, so the united states will continue to take appropriate measures in response so that ukraine can defend itself, he said. at the same time, the patroness spokesperson of the pentagon, sabrina singh, to the voice of america's question, added

that air defense remains one of the urgent needs for ukraine, and the united states, together with its allies, will work to strengthen it. moving on, we are talking about european topics. the recent escalation on the polish-belarusian border has prompted the polish government to tighten security and introduce a two-hundred-meter buffer zone along the border. poland views the latest influx of migrants from belarus as a tactic of hybrid warfare. myroslava gongandze visited the region and will tell you more. bialowieza forest, popular among tourists and nature lovers on the border between poland and belarus , became the site of recent clashes between polish soldiers. and migrants, which prompted poland to re-introduce a two-hundred-meter buffer zone. the forest reserve was divided by a high fence in 2001, when poland first faced an influx of migrants from belarus. then the polish government accused belarus of

using migrants as a tactic of hybrid warfare to destabilize the situation on the border with the european union and nato. michalbura, a senior officer in poland's border guard, says that border violence will increase this time. the situation at the border is very dangerous, every day we have several hundred cases of illegal crossing, migrants are very aggressive and attack polish border guards, just last week two polish border guards were hospitalized after being injured at the border, as a result of an attack from the belarusian border, and migration is artificiality, this migration is artificially directed by governments in moscow or minsk decide when and how many people to push across... the border. this is an unnatural process of migration. this is one of the elements of a hybrid war, it is a test of our forces, capabilities and distraction from the war in ukraine. attention to the conflict in ukraine. voa reached out to officials at the belarusian embassy in poland for comment, but did not

receive an immediate response. belarusian officials reject accusations that their country helps guide migrants to the polish border. after the recent visit of this territory by the prime minister of the country. donald tusk announced the restoration of a one-meter buffer zone along the border, which poland previously introduced in 2021 and canceled in 2022, when it completed the wall on the border. olivia harley is a volunteer with the border group, which helps migrants at the border and monitors human rights violations. she says that belarus uses migrants as pawns. they want to join the european union. want to be arrested and imprisoned for the murder of, for example, a polish border guard, but this makes a lot of sense from the belarusian point of view, since they tried many times to provoke the polish army and the polish border guards into a fight. harley says migrants tell stories of

the brutality they experience in belarus. beatings, rapes, starvation and high levels of bribery, so they beg the polish troops not to push them back to... harley shows us the border of the buffer zone, she says the zone won't solve the problem and could hurt local businesses. you are allowed to go this way, but on the other side 15 m into the forest, there is an invisible line that cannot be crossed. tourists have already started canceling their plans to visit the area. harley and others say a comprehensive solution is needed that provides border security as well as defenses. human rights and asylum seekers. the polish government is preparing comprehensive measures and even an information campaign to encourage migrants to go to belarus in order to enter the european union. myroslava gongadze, voice of america, narewka, poland. skystory from

poland. russia is a junior partner in cooperation with china, which was unimaginable a few decades ago - american publicist and historian en applebaum was convinced. in her opinion, now china may be... interested in weakening russia, she told voice of america journalist danylo halperovych about this. about vladimir putin's recent meeting with xi jinping and the future of relations between beijing and moscow. later in the interview. putin recently visited china and we saw another strengthening of at least the russian-chinese partnership, how strong do you think this partnership is and what is its future? putin and jin ping, it seems decided that they have something in common, it is not acceptance of a democratic world, democratic concepts and ideals of freedom, justice, the rule of law and from. coverts, and china intends to unite with russia to fight

against all this. that being said, i don't think china is interested in a major and destabilizing conflict, at least not now. i also don't think they are happy with russia's war against ukraine. i believe that she became a surprise for them. china has many business interests in ukraine, and there were many chinese students studying there who were not aware of the impending invasion. i also believe that china has been on high alert all along, fearing that this war will escalate into poison. a conflict that beijing is very clear about its desirability. china may also be interested in weakening russia because a weak russia would be forced to sell oil and gas to them at lower prices, and a weak russia is a more manageable ally and a less powerful player. i think that china is counting on this, and it is already clear that russia is a junior partner in this alliance, which was unimaginable a few decades ago. it is also clear that this alliance is potentially unstable. china has territorial claims to russia, i

recently read that the chinese have started using the old chinese name of vladivostok and other places in the far east in their maps and books, so there is potential for a border conflict there, but now it is clearly an alliance by arrangement, and in fact it is part of a wider alliance, which i discuss in my next book. this alliance includes iran, venezuela, north korea, that is, a group of autocrats. modes that are used similar tactics to stay in power, to keep their funds and to prevent democracy activists from overthrowing them, so i think china and russia are just the two largest countries in a broader political bloc, and so far it will be in that format, what will happen in a few years i cannot tell you. in a recent article for the atlantic. that the main goal of current russian propaganda is to discredit the west and

democracy in general in the eyes of russians, but this was also the case in soviet times, i remember well soviet tv stories about the hawks from potomok and the unfortunate poor who suffer from unemployment and inflation, so what is the difference between soviet propaganda and modern russian propaganda? modern russian propaganda in general... differs from soviet propaganda in that it does not really offer russians or anyone else a vision of an ideal society. you remember that classic portrait of a soviet man on a tractor harvesting sheaves for the homeland, and this constant propaganda of achievements that we saw in the past. most of the russian propaganda now focused outward, it is focused westward. i believe that in some ways it coincides with former soviet propaganda in constant attempts to show that life in the west is much worse than.

it is generally accepted, however, that it focuses more on the politics of chaos and division, that democracy is chaotic and divided, that democracy is degenerate, and that it is more about people's lives, not so much about their prosperity, which, you know, the old soviet propaganda, as in capitalist ones societies have many poor people, etc., these modern propagandists do not talk about this, but mainly about what is happening ... the moral degeneration of the western world and democratic countries in general, and they directly attack the very ideas of democracy, ridicule and discredit them, they seek to show , that there is no alternative, there is nothing in europe, nothing in america, and in general there is nothing better that the russians could wish for, they say, well, maybe we are corrupt here in russia, but they are even more corrupt over there, or maybe things aren't going so well here, but

it's even worse there, these are the messages... you note in your article that the costs of the event to counter russian and chinese propaganda are incomparably lower than the funds that the russians and china themselves spend on this propaganda. does this mean that moscow and beijing can win in this information war. everything that will happen tomorrow depends on what we do today, so i do not believe in all these pessimistic forecasts, just as there is no guarantee of the inevitable victory of democracy. the question is whether they will realize democratic societies'. quite quickly that they need to rethink both how they talk about their own democracy and how they in some cases manage that democracy and they need to refocus on what is the real problem, not a secondary or side challenge, this is a real major challenge from an authoritarian world that attacks both their own citizens and

their allies around the world. i feel a growing awareness that the world has become different. and that the situation in it is different from the one that was before. now we just need to move from this awareness to planning alternatives and solutions. and we end the issue with a story about how ukrainian children adapt to american schools. at the end of the school year, we will tell about three ukrainian schoolgirls in los angeles: new country, new language. khrystyna shevchenko learned about the new culture, how children cope with these challenges. in one of the schools in the eastern part of los angeles, classes of the extended day group continue. most students of latin american and asian origin. last year , an 11-year-old student from ukraine started studying here, her teacher

, julie cortez, tells about her with her parents' permission. it's a bit complicated and i don't know the language, so she and i are... communicating through google translate. i would say the biggest obstacle is that she doesn't have any peers she can relate to here at school. no one speaks ukrainian, everyone speaks english. there are children who speak spanish, there are children who speak various asian languages, but no one speaks ukrainian, and because of this she is very isolated. the girl herself and her parents refused to speak on camera. julie says that the girl is silent in class because of her fear of speaking english. i know she misses her home, she misses her friends, she told me she really wants to go home. and 11-year-old kiyanka eva studies at a school in the north of los angeles. she

adapted very quickly to school and learned the language, thanks to the fact that she had a friend. here i am, i was a friend. a girl who was happy to show me the school and be me friends, she is a very good girl, but everyone, everyone else, everyone, and others, others, they, they, they were not like friends, friends, they, they just ignored me, although now eva forgets ukrainian, because in her family's mother is from donetsk, still sometimes speaks russian, although she is trying to switch to ukrainian. i communicate in english more and more, i'm getting stuck, i'm forgetting ukrainian, it's very very, very bad, and it's difficult, and i'm sorry

, too, because i don't speak ukrainian very well, six-year-old dominika. bobeliak began her studies in the first grade in lviv, and in january of this year she continued in the united states. she studies at an elementary school in the suburbs of los angeles. she says she really likes studying, but had to teach her classmates that she is not russian. well, one time, when i came for the first time, and i came, the teacher asked: are you from, i said ukraine, all the children said for some reason i'm from russia, i said no, i'm from... i'm from, and they just told me, type, they wanted to kill me, that i am. at first, the teachers used the russian language google translators to communicate with the girl, but after talking to the mother and the teacher, they switched to ukrainian. and it so happened that my child, almost seven

years old, does not know the russian language. since childhood, she has never watched russian cartoons in her life. our family never... spoke russian, we didn't have such acquaintances, friends, she watched cartoons either in ukrainian or in english exclusively, that's why she says, i don't understand everything that the teacher translates for me, and i immediately one day i approached the teacher and said, so situation, there is a war in our country, we were attacked by russia, she kills us every day, my child does not understand russian, and the teacher was very apologetic, like she is very sorry, she knows about our situation, but for some reason, unfortunately, such experience that people who came from ukraine speak russian a priori. now dominika says she understands almost everything in english. and the children no longer confuse her with russians, and everyone already knows very clearly, because she always identifies herself as ukrainian, she

draws ukrainian flags everywhere, she in her she always uses yellow and blue in her drawings, she is so well done, because the children generally all know, that is, there somewhere even in the game, everyone is always there, if any new children come, they say, yes, this is dominika, she is from ukraine, the parents of three ukrainian girls. they say that, in general, school employees are understanding and facilitate adaptation. teacher julie cortez says: an 11-year-old girl from ukraine met with the school psychologist many times and was only able to open up to one teacher who came instead, she spoke her language. and they just had a nice conversation and it was so great to see them smile and just feel so comfortable in the conversation. from los angeles khrystyna shevchenko, bohdan shevchenko. for voa . download the voice of america mobile application. the application allows you

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washington? competition of the formulas of the world. china has already collected over two dozen countries under an alternative plan to end the war in ukraine, what to expect from a global forum in switzerland without the participation of xi jinping. economic booking prospects. ukrainian business warns of a catastrophic situation in the industry due to the mass mobilization of men. how to avoid a crisis in the economy. glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is serhii rudenko, congratulations everyone and i wish everyone good health. for the next two hours, we will talk about ukraine, the world, the war, and our victory.

during our two-hour conversation , we will talk about democracy during zelenskyi's presidency, how ukrainians assess the state of freedom of speech and, in general, the state of people's freedom in... peace, which will take place on june 15-16, the july summit in washington, the nato summit, and a meeting with biden, two meetings will be held in june with the ukrainian president, on june 6 in france and on june 12-13 in italy, where the g7 summit will take place. before starting our conversation, i suggest watching a video of how ukrainian border guards and fighters of the 28th separate mechanized brigade repelled a russian assault in the direction of bakhmut, they managed to burn a t-80 tank and hit a t-90m, a breakthrough, three enemy armored personnel carriers - 82 were blown up thanks to remote mining, and the attack drones destroyed the damaged armored personnel carriers,

watch this fieric video. glory to the armed forces of ukraine and death russian occupiers. friends, during our on the air, we are conducting a survey, today we are asking whether authoritarianism threatens ukraine, a fairly simple question, yes, no, the answer is on youtube, either yes or no, your comment, please write in the video, in the comments under this video , and if you watch us on tv, pick up your smartphone or phone and vote 0800 211 381, if you think that ukraine is threatened by

authoritarianism, no 0.800 211 382, ​​if you do not agree that ukraine is threatened by authoritarianism, i want to present today's our first guest, this is dmytro razunkov, people's deputy of ukraine, chairman of the verkhovna rada of ukraine in 2019-21, mr. dmytro, i welcome you, thank you for being with us today, good evening, thank you, we ask our viewers whether ukraine is threatened by authoritarianism, you, as a person, are experienced and informed, what can you say about this, whether ukraine is threatened by authoritarianism, the desire to have an authoritarian in ukraine. always appears with some politicians, fortunately, so far it has not been successful, and this regime has not taken root in us, those who do not believe, can ask yanukovych, but there is always such a risk, and today just when they ask what ukraine is fighting for, for its land, for the future, it is all true, but it is fighting