both the government and businessmen still help ukraine directly to the city of erpen, and they are very worried that while listening to these statements of the congress, i actually asked about their opinion, and what they think about the congress and what they think about the only candidate for vice -presidents -elect donald trump in jade vance. his track record is not very good, we are very worried that the social benefits provided to ukraine... refugees will run out. the vice president has clearly and openly spoken out against immigrants, against refugees, against social programs, and of course, we know his views on ukraine, so all this together causes us great concern. well, i think that for local ukrainians, this meal is an opportunity to say their point of view about what they think about ukraine's aid, how important it is. we are worried, yes, because of the situation in ukraine, we are on... of course involved in all

the political news that happens in the united states, because our future of ukraine also depends on the news in the united states. probably, like all ukrainians, ah, not very positive, but in any case we are must cooperate with the future government of this country, as representatives of the ukrainian diaspora, no matter who they choose, we must work to ensure that support for ukraine is two-way. however, vance has proven that given new evidence and circumstances, he is capable of changing his position, so i hope that as he learns more about ukraine and the struggle that the ukrainian people are waging and understands the importance of winning and defending freedom and democracy, he supports ukraine and supports military and financial aid to ukraine. we, the ukrainians of wisconsin we do our best. we try to advocate. we believe that this is a bipartisan issue because regardless of which

party, republican or democrat, they all stand for democracy, they all stand for freedom. well, actually, at the congress itself , representatives of the organization razom work, who explain to the delegates and other participants of the congress why supporting ukraine is in the interests of the united states. thank you tanya. let me remind you that tetyana borozhko told us about what she says about ukraine at the congress of the republican party. meanwhile, the voice america found a ukrainian priest. of holy trinity greek catholic church, who prayed for donald trump's safety at a campaign rally in pennsylvania moments before a bullet grazed the former president's ear. father jason charon said that representatives of the trump campaign contacted him a few days before the rally and asked to bless the gathering. in a conversation with natalka churikova, he shared what he talked about with donald trump before his speech, why he considers it right to support him and how, without having ukrainian roots, he... became a ukrainian priest and

supports ukraine. father jason, how did you end up at former president trump's campaign rally. the trump campaign contacted me a few days before the rally and asked if i wanted to open it with a prayer. they knew there would be a lot of people there, but they didn't make any demands on me. they did not ask me to show the prayer, did not ask what was in the prayer, did not restrict me in any way. it was. a very impressive initiative on their part, no strings attached, so i said this: what have you been praying for? i prayed for a relationship, i can repeat my prayer here, it was from the bottom of my heart and etched in my memory, that in this new relationship we would make our society great, our country great, and ultimately our world great. you also said something about the danger to former president trump, that he was in...safe,

how did you feel about that? this is again very strange, a coincidence, i was one of the last to leave the stage, i walked along the security perimeter, along the crowd, some people asked me what i had experienced, and i said that i had just met with him, with former president trump, and he will leave the stage very soon. i said i did my part, meaning i prayed, but now they had to pray for his safety because there are people who want to shoot him. i said it very loudly. and as soon as i said it, i started to regret it a little bit, because you know, it's a public event around secret service agents, reporters, and it was wrong, i wouldn't say it was one of the most sobering moments of my life, when you shout something like that, but it happened, huh i didn't plan it, i've never said it publicly before, but i went and hoped that people would really pray seriously, because without prayer it is impossible to untangle the affairs of a person, you must have thought about this situation after that, did you have...

feeling that your prayer saved him? the ways of the lord are unfathomable, so if he acted through me as an unworthy vessel in his hands, then he may have chosen this way: yes, i think that not only god was involved, but he sent his mother, the holy mother of god, and she acted in a very unique way. the way of the day. did you have a chance to talk with former president trump, did you have a chance to talk with him about ukraine, about the situation in ukraine, what did you have time to tell him? i talked with him, it was very short, and we talked about ukraine, but i don't think it's necessary to go into details here. i can tell he's supportive. ukraine's position on ukraine's right to self-defense, i think that his actions during his reign were ignored, i talked to him about it, he was not evaluated on his merits, and that's why i thanked him for that, and then we talked very briefly about the situation with ukraine, i don't want to go into it now, but i will say it as a ukrainian catholic, i was

very encouraged after this very short meeting, let's just pray that his actions under during his first administration continued in the same vein in the next administration. if he is elected president, this was an excerpt from natalia churikova's interview with father jason charon. as a canadian who does not have ukrainian roots and did not know anything about greek catholic church, accidentally became a ukrainian priest, learned ukrainian and helps ukraine. read and watch on the website and youtube channel of voice of america ukrainian. and to another topic. today from... the world remembers the leaders of the mh-17 tragedy. on july 17 , 2014, the world was shocked by the news of the downing of malaysia airlines flight mh-17 over donetsk region. all 298 people died. an international investigation led by the netherlands found evidence that the plane was

shot down by a russian buk missile. and it is russia that is responsible for it placing. in november 2022 , a dutch court convicted three russian-backed members in absentia. those formations to life imprisonment for their role in the downing of mh-17. and in june 2024, the european court of human rights began to consider the claim of the netherlands against the russian federation regarding the tragedy. we talk in more detail about this case and the consequences of this russian war crime with our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin. congratulations bohdan. russia has traditionally denied its involvement in the downing of mh17. and for many years it was even possible to hear in the international community about unknown ukrainians. separatists, but 10 years later an official investigation confirmed that russia and its proxies were to blame. how did this case affect the perception of the war in ukraine, and was it possible to dispel this russian fog of war? maria, this tragedy itself, then

the multi-year investigation, then the court and all the cases related to the downing of the airliner, actually showed that even those people... in the west, who had previously renounced what was happening far to the east in the steppes of ukraine, even those who said that they did not understand who was fighting with whom, what was being fought for, and why, it became more difficult for them to renounce the fact that, after the terrible death of almost two hundred dutch people, as well as dozens of representatives of other countries of the world, australians, british, americans... that is, it was difficult now to say that this is a distant war that does not concern the west, does not concern the world, of course, that there remain groups of people who are always more interested in tracking mysterious theories from language than

proven facts, but also from a distance of 10 years we see how little has actually been done because the whole world was. shocked, but this shock was not translated into actions that, theoretically, could probably have smothered that war in the bud 10 years ago, and about this, in particular, today on the anniversary, michael botsyurkiv spoke to me, he was a representative of the osce mission, which observed the situation in the east of ukraine in those days. the deputy head of our mission at the time, as soon as we received the news that the airliner had crashed, said: "that's it now , the americans will come and help ukraine fight, but that never happened. it is easy to evaluate the past, and if the obama administration even before that in 2014

had resorted to much tougher measures to punish russia for the illegal annexation of crimea, then everything would be different now, because bandits are acting. that's right, if they are not repelled, if clear boundaries are not established, but only gray lines, then they go on and on. and on this... on this occasion, i also asked michael botsyurkev, who worked in the east of ukraine, then or now, the talks about russia's readiness for some kind of armistice, an end to the war, or an end of fire, in his opinion, or those years from 2014 to 2022, when the so-called minsk agreements were in force, were declared... many ceasefires, was it really peace? michael botciurki believes that no way. despite

the minsk agreements and everything else, the russian side violated every promise, every humanitarian corridor, every document it signed, i don't call it peace, i wouldn't call it a desire for peace. i can talk about the absurdity of those times before the disaster, when we spent a lot of... time in donetsk, i remember this because we were witnessed the creeping occupation, that is, there was one or two days when i was with ambassador apakan, the head of our mission in the donetsk city hall, half of which was controlled by pro-government, pro-kyiv forces, the other half, pro-russian groups, who eventually took over the entire building, then they took over the airport, then most of the territory, despite our very clear reports, frequent reports of what was happening, the west responded... very slowly, and it continues to this day, such a trickle-down approach to helping ukraine. bohdan, can we hope that

will such people be held responsible and punished? the irony of fate is that at least one of the three convicts, igor girkin, is currently behind bars in russia. he fell out of favor with the russian authorities. the fate of the other two is actually unknown. the only thing that can be said is that hardly many people will envy their fate. and what they did is a lesson, probably, to many other potential perpetrators, and history shows that, for example, in the former yugoslavia, some people also did not expect to face the court, the international court to answer for their actions, but they rebelled. when the situation has changed, let's hope for it, bohdan, thank you, i will remind you that

bohdan tsyupan told us about the events surrounding the anniversary of the downing of the mh-17 plane from london. the ukrainian general prosecutor's office and the un monitoring mission in ukraine document numerous cases of torture and sexual violence against ukrainians by the russian military. priest chudynovych from the city of kherson became a victim of such violence in march 2022. to a man managed to escape from the russians, but says that he is still recovering from what he experienced. he told his story to anna kostyuchenko. kherson archpriest of the orthodox church of ukraine serhii chudynovych arrived at the russian torture chamber in kherson dub. it happened on march 30 , 2022, after the russians captured the city. at once. a cap over the eyes, yes, and they tie it up, at first they just talked to me, and then

they started beating me and strangling me, whatever, and the most problematic situation for me that happened, it's sexual violence, i think that in order to break a person, you need to get into his pandora's box, his inner fears, 51-year-old serhii chudynovych comes from kropyvnytskyi, he is a priest in... he received his theological education in the 90s in kyiv spiritual academy. in 1997, he began to serve in kherson, later he became the abbot of the local church. since 2014, chudynovych unofficially helped the ukrainian military as a chaplain and volunteer. on the first day of the full-scale invasion of the russians, he managed to get his family to a safe place, and he himself returned to the city and set up a humanitarian headquarters for the people of kherson in his church. began to accumulate a food warehouse, began to form a medical office, we simply

stretched a part of the church on a piece of wire and a room of 30 square meters was obtained, and there we began to store potatoes here, onions here, zakatka here. on march 2, 2022 , the russians fired at the kherson territorial defense. chodonovych killed and buried ukrainian volunteers. pray for them. it was a feat and an extraordinary display of courage. and 16 in march, he sang in the church of a ukrainian soldier, he says that maybe this became one of the reasons why the russians detained him, it was like before the occupation, with flags, from a plein-pump, with all, as they say, these circumstances, as it happens, well, the only thing is that we didn't go to the cemetery. the russians

arrested the priest right in his church and took him to the basement of a residential building. during the interrogation, they beat the knees with a hammer and... serhii chudynovych testifies, and then they started threatening to rape. the wrong answer from their point of view, there splits, the belt breaks, something else is wrong, there is a blow, and then they undressed me, they put me on their knees, pressed my head, well , my head against the chair with my knee, and that's it, and they gave me a baton to hold, well, what is it, the baton is the one that the police use, well, i don't know how much the diameter is, well, it's quite large. diameter and said: now we will tear you, we will tear your anus and smear the final guno early. they really started trying to do it and here, as they say, maybe it was calculated, but this time moment, as they say, a salutary phrase sounded in quotation marks: will you work for us there? according to the office of the prosecutor general of ukraine

, 92 cases of sexualized violence have been documented in the kherson region since the beginning of russia's full-scale aggression. servicemen of russia, of which 57 are men. in general, as of june of this year , 301 cases of sexual violence by representatives of the russian army were registered in ukraine. the victims were 111 men, including one boy, and 190 women, including 14 girls. however, there are many times more cases that remain unregistered - says human rights activist daniel bell. currently, she heads the un monitoring mission in ukraine, which, according to her, has been documenting human rights violations for 10 years due to russia's attack on ukrainian territories. it is difficult to verify the exact number as we do not have access to the occupied territories. often, verification becomes possible only after the territory is liberated by the ukrainian defense forces, or when we

interview the victims. more than half of those we have already interviewed are men. first full-scale invasion, representatives of the un monitoring mission in ukraine conducted interviews with 600 ukrainian civilian and military prisoners, including those released during the exchange on may 31, 2024. we have heard horrific stories of widespread torture and ill-treatment on a regular basis, appalling conditions of detention and absence. assistance, as well as the problems of sexual violence that occurred in places of detention. according to the office of the prosecutor general of ukraine, 44 russian servicemen have been notified of suspicion. regarding five russian servicemen accused of sexualized violence against ukrainians at the beginning of the full-scale invasion have already been sentenced

to various terms of imprisonment. however, all criminal proceedings are held in court, according to... the procedure of sentencing in absentia, that is, without the physical presence of the accused. currently, the office of the prosecutor general is working to ensure that the relevant resolutions are transferred for the search of the relevant persons through the interpol system. the investigation is ongoing, the prosecutor general's office says. we still have a large number of indictments regarding russian military personnel, not only ordinary soldiers, but also officers, is under consideration in the courts. therefore, we expect a really big one. number of criminal prosecutions of russian servicemen , it is also important to understand that ukraine guarantees them a protection procedure in all such criminal proceedings. every detected case of conflict-related sexualized violence by russian servicemen is reported to the leadership of russia, the monitoring agency says

un missions. engagement with the russian federation regarding crimes they have committed involving sexual violence, we share everything with russia before we release the information. as a rule, they don't react to our reports, they watch and read them, but it's not the reaction we want to see. priest serhiy chudynovych says that during the torture he was asked to report on his fellow citizens, and before the threat of rape, he verbally... agreed to cooperate, but he fled within a few days. now the priest is being treated in kyiv through after surviving in the russian torture chamber, he says, he fell ill with ischemia of the heart. he also has problems with... sleeping and suffers from nyctophobia, that is, fear of the dark, because during the torture he had a bag on his head, the priest recalls, so he is sometimes forced to sleep during the day. his church in kherson was badly damaged

after the flood caused by the explosion of the kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in june of last year, so he temporarily serves in the kyiv church of the nativity of christ. about the salvation of ukraine from the invasion of the troops of the russian people, who are at war with us, about the protection of our country from. enemy army and restraining them from the war of aggression, and in addition, he continues volunteering through his pages in social networks, in particular, he helps displaced people from the kherson region, although he himself still does not have a permanent place of residence. anna kostyuchenko for voice of america from kyiv. download the voice of america mobile application. the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn. read news, watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts of the ukrainian service of "voice of america". let's

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