that they will train ukrainian pilots and hand over mirage 2000 planes, are there any details about this, about this assistance and the time frame? literally just now journalists asked this of the french president at a press conference in paris and emmanuel macron gave some details, he specifically said that literally these days, actually immediately... france is starting to train ukrainian aviation technicians and pilots so that they can to use planes, fighters, french mirage 2000 fighters, which france promises to provide to ukraine, how many exactly such planes will be provided to ukraine, emmanuel macron did not want to say, he said that there was no need for this in the first place, because now now again... and he said that it

would be to the benefit of the enemies to reveal too much such deep details, on the other hand on the other hand, he said that when we approach, france will actually approach handing over the planes, then it will be known exactly how many of them can be collected for ukraine, and then, obviously, a specific figure will be announced. bohdan, i know that you also followed zelensky's meeting with by president macron, what did you say during this meeting? well, actually, about this meeting, we are also talking about the press conference, an excerpt of which you have just seen, other details that have become known, obviously from the conversation between the presidents of ukraine and france, what happened before this press conference, for example, the french president emmanuel macron emphasized... insisted that france

is working on the secondment of instructors to train the ukrainian military in ukraine, and interestingly, he added that it is about creating a coalition, that is, france is working with several, with several states so that instructors from those countries work precisely on the ukrainian, as emmanuel macron emphasized, sovereign territory where ukraine is. has the right to invite whomever it deems necessary, including military instructors to train its troops, to defend its territory, in accordance with international laws, and emmanuel macron confirmed today that france will continue to help ukraine. ukraine knows that it can count on our long-term support. in his struggle and

that we will help as long and as intensively as necessary. it also knows that the un charter and european integration, inspired by the struggle waged by the allies 80 years ago, will always be our most reliable compass. and also, a few more interesting details that just came out in paris, for example, the french president was asked. whether he will participate in the peace summit that will take place literally in almost a week in switzerland, the french president confirmed that yes, he will go to switzerland, he agreed with the ukrainian president that this is a very important first step for the peace process, for stopping the war, for establishing a just peace, for determining further steps, as macron emphasized for... the future and

he also said that he will come to ukraine, thank you very much, contact us our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin was in charge. to repair and protect the electricity network of ukraine. these are the priorities that ukraine's partners set before themselves for the next six months. this was said during an event in washington on june 6 by geoffrey paet, us assistant secretary of state for foreign affairs energy resources. we, ukraine, the united states, and all our international partners must act now to repair and rebuild ukraine's energy sector and make it sustainable, more decentralized, modernized, and fully compliant with european standards. currently, our priorities are to repair existing generation before winter, help deploy new distributed power generation, and repair and protect ukraine's power grid. since february 2022, the united

states has allocated more than a billion dollars to meeting the needs of the energy sector of ukraine by sending equipment for the repair of electrical networks. remove all bans. on the use of long-range atacoms missiles. such an appeal was received by the secretary of defense of the united states, lloyd austin. the chairman of the house intelligence committee, republican congressman mike turner, addressed him with a corresponding letter. the recent partial lifting of restrictions on the ukrainian army is a positive step, but not enough, turner believes. the republican is calling on the biden administration to remove all of them restrictions on ukraine's use of atacoms missiles and other long-range weapons. we will remind, earlier the intelligence committee. sent a bipartisan appeal from democrats and republicans to the biden administration calling for ukrainian forces to be allowed to strike russian territory using american weapons. the leading democrat tedliu joined the calls to remove all restrictions from the ukrainian army. he said this in a commentary for the voice

of america this week. from the sixth elections are held in the eu countries until june 9 of the european parliament. citizens of 27 member states across europe elect a new parliament of 720 members for the next 5 years. observers believe that these elections are key for the eu democrats, and determine the global role of the union and the future of neighboring countries seeking to join the eu, primarily ukraine. myroslava gongadze, head of the east european bureau of the voice of america, tells the story. after working for 15 years as an official in brussels , joanna kaminska is running for the european union parliament. a security and defense specialist, she is the only polish person a politician running on the platform of the green party. i decided that now my experience and

knowledge will be useful in the european parliament. i know how to make good deals. i know how institutions work, and i think that's very important today. because now the situation in poland is such that we are a front-line country, and security and defense become a priority in these elections. she is campaigning on the streets of warsaw and other cities with a group of volunteers to convince voters that these elections are crucial for the future of europe. the stakes are very high high because right-wing parties are actually coming to power everywhere in the european union, and we need to work and have this... european integration cooperation between progressive parties who want the eu to be stronger and more integrated and to defend european values. kaminsky's german colleague, experienced politician viola von kramon, a former member of the german parliament, is campaigning for her

second term in the european parliament. this time it is about protecting democracy, it is about security in europe. this time we are talking about foreign policy, it is about war. it is about supporting ukraine. the war in ukraine is often mentioned when she talks to german voters. many people do not like that we send weapons to ukraine, support ukraine. we are forced to explain to our fellow citizens why the security of ukraine is also our security, and what is at stake. support for right-wing parties is growing in europe, the european council on foreign relations and others predict. that radical-right populist parties will get more seats in the european parliament parliament when the center-left and green parties lose them. nicola procaccini, a member of the european parliament from italy's ruling national conservative party brothers of italy, hopes to gain more influence.

one thing can be said for sure: in the next term , we will occupy a more central place in the european scenario than in recent years, because i... these elections will be of decisive importance for shaping the future of the eu, says magda jakubovska, vice president of the respublica foundation think tank. there is a trend of increasing influence of populist governments and politicians in power, and if we do not work on this, if we do not stop this trend, sooner or later the eu and the european project may become very divided and... in the report, analysts say that russia and others influence elections by using critical public issues, such as immigration or budget spending, to conduct disinformation campaigns. experts say that these campaigns are aimed primarily at countries on the eastern border of the eu, such as

the baltic states and poland. since these states are at the very edge of europe and may be crucial to the next steps and the next order. analysts say that after the election, security, economic stability and the protection of democracy in europe will be key to the future development of the eu, and it will require. joint efforts of the new eu leadership and the us administration. miroslava gongadze, voice of america, warsaw, poland. among the last bells ringing in secondary schools this month, some sound special: about 7,000 ukrainian teenagers study in more than 20 military lyceums, and most of them become cadets and later officers of the armed forces. since the beginning of the full-scale war with russia, the approach to education in such institutions has changed, because

the realities of military operations must be taken into account. details in the story of omylyan shodlyak and yuriy dynkevych. let's get to know something that is not like an ordinary school. a cool school, that's how the heroiv krut lviv lyceum advertises itself in a new video published on the eve of the admissions campaign. computer simulators, drones, e-sports, hip-hop and even girls. which will appear here from september, for the first time in the 32-year history of the traditional men's institution. this year we have an innovation. oh, whatever happens, everything will be fine. it's normal, but everything will be cool. the country inherited the system of schools of this type for students from 13 to 17 years old from the times of the ussr as re-education institutions for troubled teenage boys. today, they are trying to turn them into elite educational institutions with strict selection and elements of military

training. one of the tasks of lyceums, in addition to knowledge and training, is to be leaders. he when comes already as a cadet, he becomes a junior commander. our main task is to form in him both responsibility and leadership qualities so that at first he was a junior commander and everyone else followed him. bohdan, roman and pavlo, trinity from vinnytsia. when we first came to... everyone was confused, now they are already saying that we are all completely different. their parents are not in the military, but the boys, who were born one or two minutes apart, decided to leave regular school at home to embody own dream at first, the lyceum had already decided that we would join the air force, it was like a dream, either to become a pilot or to become an engineer. it was the most difficult to get used to the regime, the fact that every... minute of the day is scheduled, and we get up at 6:30, the war affected

the triplets' lesson schedule for medical training, orienteering, mine-explosive work, paintball with practicing tactics, military english, from traditional multi-sport and tournaments. last year, for the first time, they started and tried to hold a competition among operators drones, it was five teams, but we saw how much interest it is, like in a schoolboy. and a lyceum student, every year we are at field camps in žalgeres, our students, and we see how and what types of competitions our friends, colleagues from the baltic countries and from poland are currently holding, and they ask us to justify new types of competitions, share with them. during the last competitions, students of half of the military lyceums from all over the country gathered in lviv. rochelle senator, a spectacular canadian bmp accompanied by omega fighters, also entered the facility,

one of the most elite ukrainian special forces, which has just left for recovery from the hot spots of the front. a set of cadex sniper rifles of various calibers for added effect. a war is won as infantry, but without technology, no one can win the war now. fpv drones, attack drones, reconnaissance vehicles, ground release vehicles, whatever types there are, they now play a key role, you could say. in the evening, on the big screen in the club, lyceum students present their board game to colleagues from other cities. the action takes place in january 1918 near kruty railway station. this will help to better understand what military management is. there are many games that recreate the historical events of the first world war and the second world war, and they are all connected there with england, france, america, germany, and something else. and now we have a game about ukraine. of course, we have a simulation of this game in the pc version, we put it on steam and now

the whole world has access to it. every year , more than 2,000 graduates graduate from ukrainian military lyceums, these are young men with a special mission: to be an example for others omaliano shchudlyak, yuriy dankevich, for the voice of america from lviv. anton tymoshenko, the first stand-up comedian from ukraine, came to the usa with his first charity tour. he has. to visit 17 cities in the usa and canada and hopes to raise, as he says, a lot of money for the needs of the armed forces. his first show in the american capital was attended by our correspondents yaryna matviychuk and kostyantyn golubchyk. a long line on the steps of the jewish cultural center in washington, mostly young people, some of them in military uniform, about 200 people waiting here for the show of ukrainian stand-up, anton tymoshenko came to the usa with a tour. it is good to see how many ukrainians support ukrainian artists. nazar dubchak has been living in the usa for 20 years, he recently moved to the outskirts

of the american capital from the state of colorado. he says he is hearing about tymoshenko for the first time, but wants to know more. these soldiers came to the usa from ukraine for prosthetics, they were brought to the concert by local volunteers, ihor from lviv, a great supporter of ukrainian stand-up, to cheer themselves up, well, to see anton tymoshenko again, already saw him that is, i have been a stand-up artist more than once, i am an open person, that is, i accept everything, well, you will have all the jokes better than you, but his brother vladyslav from the city of izyum, kharkiv region, has never been to the performances of ukrainian stand-up artists , this is something new for me, i think to discover some new emotions for myself, the military assures, they are ready and

even hope for black humor, they say, it helps to overcome the stigma against people with disabilities. let's say so, if there will be jokes about the consolation of not being able to resist or something similar, that is, about people with disabilities, on prostheses or something like that, i am completely normal about it, that is, it will not bother me at all, there is one such wonderful saying of ours, one leg here, the other there, i was more lucky, i left two feet there, so i have nowhere to turn, that is, i am completely open to such conversations . jokes humor the concert starts an hour late, according to the organizers of the milk company, the reason for the delay is a lack of chairs, too many people came to stand-up. good evening, washington, finally, my first tour in the usa, i will be the first comedian to come to the usa and the first comedian

to return to the usa, which is also important, well, after zelensky, of course. tymoshenko jokes about ukrainian politics, about the telethon, about her experience of staying in the usa during her student years. i want ukrainians to write, so that they also convey only the mood, you know, so that they can be heard, as they said today in kyiv, in germany, i think the telethon looks like that, in principle. there are not many jokes about the war. in an interview, anton says that writing has become more and more difficult lately jokes on the military theme. already now. it's much harder to switch, because when the war goes on for a long time, well, it's a very strange feeling actually, when you write jokes against the background of war, you seem a little, well, like you look a little bit schizophrenic, because you have, you laugh with this smile against the background of deaths, of these explosions, sometimes it is very, sometimes it is often very strange to realize. at the beginning, tymoshenko is noticeably

tired, he just got from the airport, and his mood changes when people join in on the jokes... it is useful to joke about injuries - he says tymoshenko calls this block of jokes budget therapy, humor is ours now that. mental weapon, because you know, some psychotherapist can be expensive, you have to go to a psychotherapist, you have to pay 1000 uah at least for a session, and a stand-up can cost a ticket of 300 uah, and this is also an hour where you spend your time more or less well , that is why it is possible very budgetary psychotherapy in this regard. tymoshenko's tour of the usa and canada lasts almost a month and includes 17 cities, from montreal in canada to

austin in texas. anton says he doesn't get it fees from this trip, collected at concerts and... these funds will be sent to the needs of the armed forces of ukraine to the serhiy prytula foundation and to cover the urgent needs of some individual units. at the auction, he is raffling off sugar from ukrazaliznytsia, packages from ukrainian supermarkets, and chevron. he says, things that ukrainian emigrants in the usa can cause nostalgia. there is a fierce struggle for a bag of sugar from ukrzaliznytsia. nostalgia and nostalgia plus a good mood gives us about 100 bucks. the most expensive lot a piece of shahed shot down in kyiv was sold in washington. it cost the winner $300. what exactly will be purchased with the proceeds? anton, there is no answer yet. sold, thank you, it is difficult to plan a purchase, because these needs, they change with requests, today you need a wheelbarrow, tomorrow you need an fpv drone and something else, so after the tour you will

understand what will be bought there, it was the same, the european one was mine tour and shelter then bought two armored personnel carriers and typed fvsha shorter, so i trust his taste, serhiy, in principle, knows how to buy some cool stuff, that's all, thanks for coming, let's go, but i'll be here, pay for the lots and who wants... let's take a picture, thanks, have a nice evening! after the concert, the audience does not disperse for a long time, those who won the auction complete their purchases, everyone who wants to take a photo with the comedian, hotly discuss the jokes they just heard. military serviceman ihor is satisfied with the concert, says: such ukrainian shows are very important for the promotion of ukraine abroad. this is very important, because ukraine is a rich country, and not only there are singers, writers, but also humor our jokes are also at a very high level, and you have to show yourself, you have to show yourself everywhere to everyone, so that everyone knows that we have comedies from washington, iryna matviychuk,

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send it back to russia. about who protects russian? peace, who needs the kremlin church in ukraine, and what needs to be done to stop its activity? in the new film , the investigation of the roc, the last battle. on saturday, june 8 at 22:00 at espresso. hello, well, how are you there? yes, normally, slowly. so we got a total of nine new tanks. guess? now turn on the video link, i 'll give you a tour. come on, we'll be here for another two weeks. i will take you for a ride and not only on a tank, like here near the station in grohivka, if you say that you are a student, they will let you through, well, student, then my call sign is like that, right here near the walls, grohivka, i will say that you are a student, you will be missed, it's nine o'clock there and a thunderstorm, a thunderstorm is here. student, student!

today you don't follow the information schedule security? iskanders will visit you tomorrow. the enemy hears, watch. today in the program is the verdict with serhiy. allied landings in normandy. the former partners in the anti-hitler coalition now demonstrate unity in the fight against putinism. what did presidents zelenskyi and biden agree on on french soil. mirages in the ukrainian sky. macron promised to replenish the air fleet of the armed forces with french -made multipurpose fighters. do restrictions remain? on

the use of western weapons by ukraine. the nuclear club of the kremlin. putin said that the event is wrong to believe that russia will never use nuclear weapons. why the kremlin dictator is again grasping for his last argument in the confrontation with the west. glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is serhii rudenko, i congratulate everyone and wish everyone good health. in the next two hours, we will talk about ukraine, the world, the war, and our victory. in the first part of our program, we will talk about the foreign policy results of this week. we will have a diplomat, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of ukraine, valery chaly, as our guest. in the second journalists larisa volushyna and maryna danylyuk yarmaeva will be part of our program.

friday journalist club at espresso, let's talk about sociology, about zelensky sociology, about servants and the people, and sociology, and about democracy and sociology. however, before starting our big evening and our big conversations, i suggest you look at how president zelenskyi's speech was greeted with thunderous applause today by the national assembly of france during his speech on new threats to modernity. in europe, zelensky switched to the french language, deputies of the assembly applauded standing, well, obviously, not only to president zelensky, but also to the courage of the ukrainian people, let's see how it all turned out. france, i am very grateful.

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