without, let's say, a semantic context, it's the same, if you remember when the visit to crimea was, that is, a little different, because after all, crimea, crimea was visited by violators from russia, and remember, here they are coming from the side of ukraine, i don't know if there is a big one, so that's your point, they are coming from the side of ukraine, and ukraine is carrying out stabilization measures, and russia has positioned it there, and politically for the politicians. well, lawyers here, it can be like this, let's say, a diplomatic legal discussion, if we speak, regarding the law of the land of our country to protect and stabilize the stabilization zone there, probably, then of course, well , the situation here is quite obvious, but this is already a concretely valid matter of the military, the matter of the special services, regarding what... they are currently

working there, maryana, i have one last question , well, at the beginning of our broadcast, i quoted a publication in zaekonist and they write, they state that the long-term prospects of this operation largely depend on how russia will react, and they say that now the ministry of defense of russia , as of now, receives double approach, on the one hand, they are increasing the number of troops in the territory of the kursk region, well, they are raising reserves there, but on the other hand, they are maintaining pressure on other areas. front there in donbas, we do not know how long it will all last, this pressure from two sides, but how long will ukraine be able to maintain this simultaneous pressure, and are the partners ready to sign up to maintain this pressure for as long, because on their, they also have a lot of things in their weapons that are now, let's say, like proactive actions in the war, they are extremely powerful, have huge the risks, the more proactive, the more...

bold, the greater the risks, that is, well, the simplification of pan or lost is very relevant here, that is, we can observe a picture when the russians will not reduce the pressure in other areas of the front, and accordingly, and we cannot, well, our reserves are much smaller, and accordingly now, well, it is quite obvious that this is happening in the donetsk region, in particular because there are a little... fewer units here, compared to how it was before, and not a little, accordingly, here they can continue the pressure and even intensify and take the territories more intensively than even they had before, and they may not be able to withstand, well , such a situation with the front and taking into account these political risks. which are going

to build up for them, in terms of what's going on in their territory, and the pressure will be reduced here, that's one example, so right now, right now this week, it's very difficult to make any kind of predictions, as you can see, even the professional experts on everything of the world, they are quite careful in assessing the prospects, but already somewhere in a week, even more so in one and a half and even more so... by the end of the summer, we will be able to to see what it led to, well, such a bold action. maryana, thank you very much, maryana bezugla, people's deputy and deputy chairman of the committee on national security, defense, and intelligence, we talked about the situation in donbas and the situation on the kursk front. thank you very much. well, what is happening directly in the donbas, in particular in the turkish direction, where our fellow journalists were at the present time, about how the military there are holding the defense, how they are commenting on the situation in kurshchyna. listen to

the gunners from the people police brigade you have to get there before it's dark, it's not easy to find a position in these thick bushes on the turkish side, but we had time for a coffee before dawn, and you can eat three in one, there is only regular coffee with condensed milk, and there is condensed milk, yes, and enjoy a hot mug after the military does not succeed on a cool night, there is a goal and a command for battle. at the moment, the enemy is very actively attacking, trying to advance, artillery battles are going on around the clock, while they were firing, the coffee has already cooled down, we need to put the kettle on again, some fighters are hiding their faces, their home is under occupation, but for them it is the main motivation to fight, guests come to relatives, ask where i am, what i am doing, where i am doing so that no one knows every day.

thinking to return home from the first day of the war, we will return, everything will be fine. you will not often meet a woman in the artillery crew. for 11 years, svitlana worked as an investigator, investigating murder and serious injury. i had to work in the de-occupied territories, and it was after that that i dared to go to the combat unit, working as an investigator i went to the kherson region as part of a joint police unit, saw what remained after the occupation, heard people's conversations, and having already left the unit, i finally made a decision. just because of the conversations about the kurdish operation, about its development and possible consequences for the eastern front, where it is now the most difficult, everyone understands that something so new is happening, not on us, but on us. we are glad that our

troops were able to achieve something a little, to repel the enemy, everyone is very happy with these events, even many of our brothers, who also want to... get there, help there in someone else's territory, as they say, well, it is perceived somewhere at 200 percent, they did the right thing, it was necessary to attack their territories a long time ago, after the breakthrough of the russian border, here in the turkish direction it is still easier it doesn't stop, the enemy continues to press, but the fighters of the people's brigade hope that maybe eventually his grip will begin to weaken, i think in the future... it will become much easier when they are still entrenched in that territory, well, maybe there will be more movement from here to there than now, they are still not aware of the situation that has developed at the moment, we hope for the best, therefore, as of now, we can

state that it is too early to talk about the reduction of fighting in the donbass, or about the transfer of russian troops from there to the kursk region, but more we see that the fighting has become more intense and... in pokrovsk and in the turkish directions, well, just now maryana bezugla said on our air that in a week, for example, pokrovsk may be, may end up under occupation, or in view of that's all, is it profitable for the kremlin, primarily with political reasons to transfer troops from donbas to kursk, is it in principle beneficial for the kremlin to exchange territories, for example, from kursk to donbas, or at least to talk about it, and if not, then what ukraine should do with kursk, that is what we will talk about now , serhiy armash, journalist, editor-in-chief... of the ostrov edition, has already joined our broadcast. sergey, i congratulate you. good day i will also tell our audience that you were also in the past a member of the minsk tripartite group, the contact group. what do you think, the kremlin now interested in exchanging kursk for donbas, or, in principle, kursk for some other ukrainian

territory, if there are any negotiations on the horizon. well, here it is necessary to understand that the donetsk region is already within the administrative borders. written in the russian constitution as a russian territory, therefore the kremlin cannot, at least as long as putin is sitting there, and change territories, he can change the same course, for example, unofficially, of course, yes, to a part of the zaporizhzhia, kherson regions, which, on unlike luhansk and donetsk, not recorded, completely within the ukrainian administrative borders, as the territory of the russian federation. wrote the entire kherson region and the entire zaporizhzhia region into the constitution? no, last week i specifically studied this issue, yes, there is a very interesting thing, it seems that in the zaporizhzhia region, in the regional charter, they have regional charters, yes, and the so

-called republics, that is, there are more subjects of the federation than regions, they have there its own legislation, and the regional charter, that is , one in the kherson region, it seems that there are no mentions in the charter of the kherson region at all about... borders, what are they, yes, in which borders are they, in the zaporizhzhya constitution it is written that at the time of the referendum, but we know that the referendum was not held on the territory controlled by ukraine at that time, ugh, but there are such interesting legal points that allow us to trade those territories, regarding donetsk and luhansk, unfortunately, no, the problem can be solved here only if there is no putin. there will be the political will of the new leadership and simply the decisions of the duma that made amendments to them will be canceled constitution at that time and annexed this territory, i also dealt with this issue there, there are legal points that allow

us to cancel these decisions due to incorrect procedure, but of course it will not be under putin, how interesting, listen to how many such legal points and details there are , because i was... that in principle any decision can be implemented in russia, if there is political will for it, the constitution and laws can be adjusted quickly, well, they need to save face, and for them... the most important thing is to save face, because they understand, just recently petr tolstoy, yes, the vice-speaker of the duma, said an interesting thing that if we lose ukraine, we will also lose central asia, in general everything will fall apart, and everyone is watching now, that is , they will stop fearing moscow, and it is very important for moscow to maintain the role of this gendarme of the entire post-soviet space, because already now, by the way, very interesting things are happening on the eighth. august takayev published an interesting

article in which he talks about the fraternal peoples of central asia, yes, about their formation, even a military bloc, although they are all members of the csto, yes, where russia presides the federation, which is its basis, calls for writing its own history textbook, that is, its own history without russian influence. ah, well, that is , we see that russia is already losing central asia, ah, and all this is happening, of course, against the background of our successes, that is, what is happening in kurshchyna, it affects the general perception of the russian federation in all post-soviet countries , and they all hate russia, but fear it, but when we hit russia, yes, when we entered the tushkur region and nothing happened, yes, the apocalypse did not happen, that there is a nuclear ... everything else, moreover, lukashenko says that there will be no nuclear attack,

then of course that is all this, everyone sees it, and of course that everyone, well, acts accordingly, yes, they try their advantages with this, to simply weaken the russian federation, its influence. so, from what i understood, you are convinced that, if the question of exchange were to arise, then donbas is a closed topic for the kremlin, and to exchange, relatively speaking, some... kherson region, theoretically it can be assumed, but politically they may be interested in such an exchange? well, let's go to say that in general they may be interested in negotiations if something changes in the united states, yes, if there is pressure on them, real pressure, that is, if they do not have the opportunity to develop their offensive, if there is, then of course they will not negotiate needed, but... if some so-called black swan appears, yes, and they will need to react somehow to that, then of course,

in case of negotiations, they, they prepare this map of theirs, and that's why they're trying , i think that before the elections, they are set a goal in the united states, i mean, to capture the entire donetsk region, to say that we are ready to stop, but we will not give it up, because this is our territory, yes and... this just explains why they do not reduce the intensity in donetsk region , despite the fact that they clearly do not have enough resources to protect their property. yes, absolutely not reduced. the last question, we literally have a little more than a minute: what should ukraine do with kurshchyna, if control, if ukrainian control over this region will drag on for months, or even a year? well, by the way, very much an interesting question, thank you, and i wanted, you know, to make my proposal, i just on... president zelenskyy recognized by his decree that kurshchyna is actually a historical territory

of ukraine, yes kurshchyna, there is a part of the aral oblast, so it must be mentioned and must to create ukrainian infrastructure there, and to say that we are protecting the ukrainian population there, and it is there, we have already admitted that it is there, and historically, at least, that is why this factor, this motive, so to speak, must be voiced in all over the world and... including in russia, so that they just remember themselves, yes, how they acted and understood that everything comes back, if they opened, so to speak, this pandora's box, yes, then they suffer from it, thank you very much, serhii arma, journalist and the editor-in-chief of the online publication ostrov, as well as a member of the tripartite contact group in minsk in the past, we talked about the prospects of the kurdish operation, which are primarily political, thank you very much. that's all we have for today, i urge you to subscribe to radio liberty's youtube page, like this broadcast, like

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the criminal. stopcrime ua. voice of america's ukrainian service chass time is on the air, i'm natalya leonova. congratulations. the us democratic national convention opens in chicago on monday evening. it will be a four-day event where vice president kakamela harris will officially become the only democratic presidential candidate. harris launched her own presidential campaign less than a month ago, after president joe biden out of the race. a series of national surveys. shows that kamela harris is currently ahead of republican candidate donald trump in a number of key states. our correspondent ostap

yarysh is currently working in chicago, he is joining our studio right now. hello ostap. ostape, kamela garis entered the presidential race as a democratic candidate less than a month ago. this is a record short period before the voting day in november. what is the current mood in the democratic camp and what can be done expect? at this democratic convention ? natalya, according to my impressions , enthusiasm and energy have increased among the voters in the democratic party, which was actually lacking a month ago, you said correctly a month ago, the campaign and the situation within the democratic party looked completely different, joe biden looked like that then, he was the only one the democratic candidate in this election, the party lacked energy, and we also saw joe biden struggling in the polls. to compete with donald trump, now the situation looks different, at least from the sentiments we see here today. the main program starts in 4 hours in chicago. what we are looking forward to

tonight is a speech by us president joe biden. he will address the participants of this convention here from the stage. we also expect other speeches, we expect hilary clinton, the former secretary of state of the united states and also a candidate for the presidency from the democratic party, and we expect speeches tomorrow as well as after. tomorrow and thursday including what is expected today and what people are saying on the ground is to express gratitude to joe biden, who is finishing his term, will not be running, and also they are waiting to hear what is the vision for kamegaris and tim walz, i am kamelagaris's running mate in this election, what is their vision for politics, in particular regarding foreign affairs, we expect the speeches of volz and garis on wednesday and thursday, we will also follow them on... well, watch and communicate here on the spot with the delegates, participants of the congress as well. ostape, one of the largest ukrainians lives in chicago communities what would they like to see from

the next administration regarding support for ukraine and, in fact, how do you evaluate the current work of the democrats in helping kyiv? definitely a very important question, and i'm sure that the ukrainian audience is also concerned about these things, what will be the politics of kamela harry, stim volz, if they are elected, will the americans choose in the elections in november, what to expect, what are their views, and yesterday actually here in chicago ukrainian festival was taking place, this event is not related to the democratic one. after all, it was a separate event, but we really know that it is one of the largest communities living in chicago, ukrainians in the united states, and we had the opportunity to be at this festival, at this event , and ask how ukrainians evaluate the work of the democrats and their policy towards ukraine, and what they would like to see from the next administration regardless of whether it will be a republican or a democratic administration. the majority of ukrainians with whom we spoke, as well as americans and friends of ukraine, say that they are definitely

grateful for the support that... currently receives, however, they believe that it is not enough and would like to see more decisive steps. let's listen. first of all, we want to thank you for your support, but since we haven't won yet, we expect more support and more weapons. i am not satisfied, we are american citizens and i believe that the us can do more to fight for democracy. what happened in ukraine can happen to any other country. country, so i think we should do more. in general, i am very grateful to the president and his team for the support they provided. at the same time, i think they could act more decisively. lack of authorization for long-range strikes, delay in pilot training for the f-16. personally, i don't understand these decisions, so i expected more determination from this administration. i think this government is doing pretty well, they

are consistently giving a lot of money. since the beginning of the war, so i am very satisfied with them. i think they could have done more, but given the enemy we are dealing with, it has to be done very carefully. we have minimal support. right now, the united states doesn't let us lose, but we do we want to be able to win. and unfortunately, this has not been the case for the past few years. sape, we heard a warning from one of your interlocutors regarding... the ambiguity of what garis's foreign policy might be, do we have an understanding of what her policy will be, in particular regarding ukraine, and will the issue of aid to ukraine be heard from the stage of the democratic convention? natalia, we hope to hear more from kamela garis, from tim walz, about their views on what this policy should be already as candidates for president and vice president of the united states, but people

with... with whom we spoke here on the ground including this in particular american legislators or representatives of the democratic party believe that in general the politics of kamela harris will be similar to the politics of joe biden, as we remember now she is the vice president, she is part of this administration and she is also part of the team that makes important decisions regarding ukraine. however, once again, the people who are here, and we have heard, in particular from the ukrainians, hope that this policy will be more decisive. of course we expect. in the prologue that she will also mention the issue of foreign policy, we do not know whether the issue of ukraine will be heard from the stage, we hope to hear it, however, our colleagues managed to ask representatives of the democratic party here in chicago about this as well, to what extent do they think foreign policy should be important in the story of this party, let's hear what they answered. i always wish the average american

voter would pay...more attention to foreign policy, but it's very rare that this topic is among the top priorities, even on fourth or fifth place. obviously, there are several key issues, in particular, the struggle for freedom in ukraine. jady vance has made it clear that he doesn't think this is an important fight for us and doesn't want us to put our efforts into it. so the key issue is the fighting between the israeli armed forces and hamas in gaza. more to come this week. efforts to try to secure a ceasefire, to release hostages as part of a peace agreement. people are scared, they watch every day what is happening in ukraine, what is happening in gas, the israelis anxious and nervous, so of course that's part of the conversation.