is trying to keep ukrainians in the dark about what experts say about how partners can help ukraine protect damaged infrastructure, repair damaged facilities and protect the energy structure in general. yes, yulia and i spoke on this topic with atlantic council analyst suriya jayanti, she cooperates, including with the ukrainian government, and here's what she says, probably the most effective for ukraine was the use of so-called small modular reactors. has been talked about for quite some time, these are the so-called mini-nuclear plants that are easy to deploy, they are small, including, by the way, she says, they can be deployed underground, given the russian strikes, but there are two problems with them, so far they are at the development stage, although ukraine is already cooperating with the united states on this issue, and secondly, they are expensive, about 3 billion dollars, one such station was built, so for now, according to the expert, the most effective in this situation would probably be...

ukraine, when it lacks 65% of electricity, sometimes less, renewable energy sources will be very important because they can be built quite quickly. wind and solar power plants. can be built, depending on supply, in as little as 6 months or a year, this is what will help ukraine quickly restore supplies, but it can only do so if it has the ability to store energy, so battery storage systems are extremely important. and of course, other experts also say that the best way to help ukraine's energy infrastructure is to provide more air defense systems to protect them. thank you very much, andrii, for contacting me from the studio was my colleague andriy borys. and before

the us presidential race, this week the trump and harris campaigns are heading to states that will play a decisive role in determining the winner of the election. republican vice-presidential candidate jaydee vance is in michigan today, while democrats kamela garis and tim walsh are on a two-day trip to georgia on wednesday. in the meantime, my colleagues decided to investigate what role asian voters will play in the... wagons this year, because they are a group of voters in the us, which, according to researchers, shows the fastest growth. houston, texas offers many opportunities to taste delicious foods from asia. the food featured here reflects the mix of asian cultures that have filled the houston area. one such area is fordbend county in the suburbs, where asians make up more than 21% of the population. jj clem, an immigrant from china, lives here. i believe

that neither side can afford to ignore the asian community. according to census data, asian americans belong to the ethnic groups in the us, number which are growing the fastest. voter turnout among this group also increased to record levels in the last two presidential elections. democratic presidential candidate kamela garis has taken notice and recently released two commercials targeting asians. more asian americans identify as democrats than as republicans. for one reason, more than half of asian-american voters are immigrants. i believe that trump's policies are very harmful to minorities. it has many directions policies were directed not only against illegal immigrants from mexico or south america, but also restricted legal migration. meanwhile, a survey of asian american voters in 2024 found that 22% identify as republican.

asians want less government, more freedom and less taxes. the survey also found that 31% of asian americans identify as independent voters, but 42% of asian american voters surveyed say they are not contacted by political candidates or party daniel vonk, a former local elected official, says the voters themselves are partly to blame. we are not organized, we do not understand the american political system. that is why we do not know how to gather all our energy to achieve some common goal that we do not have. the 15 million voting asian americans have roots in different countries. uniting asian voters is difficult. getting asians to donate to the campaign is also a challenge. that's something wong realized when he ran for city council. asians are not used to it donate money to political causes. they don't understand how it works. clemens also

ran for local office. i don't think the asian society like the christian society is in the habit of giving, so you have to teach them, you have to... reach out to them. about 60% of asian americans voted in the last presidential election. political activists say building relationships with new asian american citizens and educating them about the political process mobilizes them to get involved in the act. iryna shynkarenko, elizabeth lee, voice of america, houston. you watch we continue the issue. pavel durov's detention in france is connected with investigations of serious crimes, child pornography, drug trafficking, fraud and money laundering. the french prosecutor's office announced this on tuesday and continued the arrest of the businessman of russian origin. the day before , french president emmanuel

macron also commented on the situation. he assured that the detention has nothing to do with politics. the founder and owner of the telegram platform was arrested on august 24 lebze airport near paris. for... menyadura gave impetus to a number of discussions, both about freedom of speech, and about the privacy of information on the internet and the use of cyberspace by criminals. we will continue the topic with my colleague in london, bohdan tsyupin. hello, bohdan. greeting. bohdan, on tuesday, the french prosecutor's office finally clarified why durov was detained. in what case is he involved and what is he suspected of? actually, the explanation is only partial, because from the statement she made public. the french prosecutor's office, we know that pavel durov was detained in at lebourg airport outside paris on august 24 in connection with the case, which was opened only last month in early july, and it

emphasized at the outset that the case was brought against an unnamed person, that is, it does not say what the charges are. made public by the prosecutor's office, presented specifically to pavel durov, i.e. what exactly, what pavel durov is personally accused of, we should probably find out, maybe tomorrow, because 96 hours are running out, during which the polish, sorry, french court has the right to detain suspects without announcing they will be charged, so tomorrow... either pavel durov will be released, or specific charges will be announced against him, as regards the case for which he was detained, as the prosecutor's office says, there are a lot of words complicity in many points

, complicity in, for example, the distribution of pornographic products with minors, images of minors, so-called pedophile pornography or... drug trafficking or the organization of criminals to commit a crime, fraud, so that the charges are very serious, whether they relate to mr. durov, we do not know yet, there one allegation that is very interesting, and it sounds like it is about not meeting the demands of authorities or authorities. to provide relevant information, that is, again, the charges are serious, whether pavel durov will be charged specifically, we should find out soon. bohdan, immediately after the arrest, some well-known commentators, in particular the owner of the ex-network, elon musk, began to talk about

an attack on freedom of speech, whether the publication of these accusations and today's statements of the prosecutor's office clarifies the situation and calms some critics, only partially. clarifies, as i said, but probably the most important aspect is that from the allegations that we see from the statement, it is clear that it is not about, say, any problems with content, political statements, or with questions, for example , about which we talked a lot about the incitement to some political protests there, no, it is about crime. on criminal cases, as i said, fraud, pornography, drug trafficking, etc., very serious, mostly criminal charges, and in that regard french president emmanuel macron considered it necessary to make a statement, emphasizing

the impoliticity of what is happening in france with pavel durov. i have seen false information about france after the arrest of pavlo durov. france is deeply committed to freedom of speech and communication, innovation and entrepreneurship. and so it will continue. in the legal state of freedom, both in social networks and in real life. they are supported in the legal field to protect citizens and respect their fundamental rights. provide enforcement of the law rests with the judiciary, which is completely independent. the arrest of the head of the telegram company in france took place as part of an ongoing judicial investigation. this is by no means a political decision, it is up to the judges to decide this issue. bohdan, we have 30 seconds left. in ukraine , they have been talking about the dangers of the telegram platform for a long time. what can the arrest of a fool mean for the future of this and similar? he is obviously drawing attention to the problem, he is drawing

attention to who is such a fool, about him connections with the authorities in russia, about his connections or interactivity with the authorities in europe, whether this network will survive, whether it is really as secure as some people think, we will hear about it later, vkontakte the network he left behind in russia in 2014. we'll see whether the telegram survived or not. thank you bohdan, my colleague bohdan tsyupin was on the phone from london. the group of seven countries continue to work on implementing a plan to use frozen russian assets to help ukraine. the project for 50 billion euros was also agreed at the beginning of summer. latvia strongly supports the idea of ​​using frozen russian assets. at one time, this country was a safe haven for russian money, but the war changed everything. myroslava gon tells from riga. during the soviet union , jurmala, near the capital of latvia, riga, was

a prestigious vacation spot for wealthy soviet citizens. after 2004, when it joined the european union, latvia offered the so-called golden visa, a residence permit to those who opened a bank account and invested in real estate in the country. the city has become a gateway to the european union for many russians, says senita emberga of the baltic center for journalistic discrimination. people in the soviet union used to come here, so for them it's nostalgia and a window to europe. then, when we started selling real estate and banks, on this street you could meet any russian oligarch who owned property here. as a journalist, sanita tracks the flow of russian money in latvia. over the past two decades, she says, the russians have created a safe haven in jurmala for himself. the legislation of latvia at that time, the journalist explains, allowed easy movement of russian

money in and out of the country. the scheme worked even after russia seized crimea in 2014 , says paulos iljankovs, latvia's leading financial investigator. until 2018 , latvia was indeed considered a haven for money laundering. however, he says, everything changed in 2018, when the european commission accused latvia. in insufficient efforts to combat money laundering, and the us accused the bank of latvia of institutional money laundering and circumvention sanctions there was a very strong political will to reform our financial system very quickly. and it was done in a very short period of time. there were many changes in the legislative framework. a lot of resources have been made available by the competent authority to fight financial crimes. latvia reformed its financial sector by creating a finance department. intelligence, which is engaged in the fight against money laundering and ensures the implementation

of eu and us sanctions related to the withdrawal of russia to ukraine. we published a list of all persons whose funds were frozen in latvia on on the basis of sanctions, and not only of the directly sanctioned persons, but also of legal entities that controlled the property and assets of persons subject to sanctions. the frozen assets include 74. properties, including this building in jurmala, owned by ukrainian- born russian-israeli tycoon mykhailo fridman. it used to be a sanatorium, which was bought by mykhailo fridman's company. they wanted to build, probably, a hotel or apartments, because the sea is only 200 m from here. earlier this summer, the minister of foreign affairs of the three baltic states. including latvia urged the g7 countries to develop a mechanism for using frozen

russian assets for the benefit of ukraine as soon as possible. myroslava gongadze, voice of america, riga, latvia. de-occupation bench, project of kharkiv volunteers merim yol and natalia artyushenko to help villagers in the region. due to the occupation of villages and mined fields that remained after the russians were pushed out of the region, many local residents cannot cultivate the land and... therefore, kharkiv volunteers buy 100% of their vegetable garden from them and sell it in kharkiv. as this project is working, anna kostyuchenko and pavel sukhodolsky learned. these tomatoes, onions and melons are fresh from the beds in the kharkiv region, says volunteer maryam yol. we have our own bench, and we sell vegetables here, that is , anyone who wants to can come and buy fresh vegetables from izomsk, and not only from the district. 30-year-old miryam yol was born and studied in kharkiv, has

turkish roots on her father's side. before the war, they were engaged in the production of advertising for 5 years. at first before the invasion of russia, maryam was engaged exclusively in volunteering. in april of the 22nd year she became a co-founder of the volontersk charitable foundation. at first, medicines and hygiene kits were delivered to kharkiv residents, says maryam. after the liberation of the russian-occupied part of the kharkiv region, they began to make charitable repairs to the houses in the villages affected by the destruction, at the expense of benefactors and partners. and in the spring of 2024, a new project was launched to... my de-occupied villages have no work in the villages, because what they were doing before the full-scale war was agriculture, the agricultural sector, and this is the tourist business, the fields are mined, they cannot work. volunteers buy what the peasants can grow on unmined areas and sell in kharkiv. the project is non-profit, but social,

emphasizes miryam. about six hours of time and 2,500 hryvnias for gasoline are spent just on the road to one village. the villagers receive money immediately for all the purchased products, and the volunteers think about how to sell the goods. if you look at what is now in the shop, well, it is about 10% of what we carried, we also have a warehouse here, where they are stored in refrigerators, vegetables, but most of them are our partners that we knock down, these are local local restaurants, these are friendly projects with which we somehow crossed paths... in life, these are seven projects, friendly businesses, restaurants, cafes, gastro spaces, gastro points here, which are prepared for our products. currently, volunteers are digging up the vegetable gardens of about 21 households. one of the ladies participating in the project is forty-eight-year-old maria korchma from the village of studenok. the village was under

russian occupation from the beginning of march 2022, for more than six months. on the eve russian invasion. maria and her husband, who at that time was recovering from a stroke, decided to breed nutria and had about 40 of these animals. before the russian offensive, the couple evacuated, and the cattle and guts were released in the hope that they would survive on their own. we also went to kramotorskyi, slavyanskyi to kharkiv , we went, bought, bought them so that the offspring would be good, we bred only the money was counted for me, because we wanted to do it, well, since we let everything go, we thought they would survive, because they love. water, we have here is a little river and there is a pond that they grow, and then we can collect them, since we returned, only one came, without a tail, maria takes care of the only surviving nutria, but she does not dare to breed animals yet, instead she grows vegetables for the de-occupation bench . now i will show you

basil, dill, parsley. the greenhouse, which was given to her by kharkiv volunteers at the expense of the american organization nova yucrain. today i made a bed, it's dill and parsley. in the village of studinok, there are six more farmers, besides maria, who are selling for the bench de-occupation and live on it. regarding the price , the village store gives the goods to volunteers a little cheaper, says maria. the prices are certainly not the same as in our village, our prices are inflated for what everyone brings to us. i used to sell, i sell 35 melons, we have 46 in our store, i went in, saw, wow, so we have given birth to melons, how will it be next year, maria does not guess, god willing, everything will be fine, we have time we live in a war, the de-occupation bench works every day, says miryam's partner, 33-year-old natali

artyushenko, before the great war she and her sister was engaged in a small manufacturing business in... in march 22, their enterprise was hit by a russian missile and they did not resume work. currently, natalie devotes herself to volunteering, in particular to working with villagers. there is no such answer that i work there from nine to six, because you can be called late at night, early in the morning, and when my first trips to the de-occupied ryzyum were, you know, well, i can't say that there was something wrong there , but it just somehow became everything inside and... you understand that you have everything, and people now have nothing. customers in the shop de-occupation is also bought primarily to help other slobodans who found themselves in a more difficult situation due to the russian war, they say. people who buy from us, first of all, are people who want to support, and for many people, this is a return to

childhood, because everyone remembers their grandmother, these gardens. the bench is located in a modern area of ​​kharkiv, which opened four years ago, so part of the customers are young kharkiv residents. also a lot of conscious young people, it's very cool because... they come here because they they enjoy the aroma of shopkeepers and say, here you are, well, you should come, because it is real, recently a volunteer in kulavka became a regular customer, he buys fresh vegetables for the military hospital in kharkiv to treat wounded soldiers. anna kostyuchenko, pavel sukhodolskyi for voice of america from the kharkiv region. download the voice of america mobile application. the application allows. bypass blocking automatically thanks to the built-in vpn service, read news, watch informative programs and videos, and also listen to podcasts of the ukrainian

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legal expertise program on the espresso tv channel. there is a war going on, and not only for territories, it is also a war for minds. we are engaged in propaganda. russia - millions of petrodollars. he is trying to turn ukrainians into little russians. ukraine will become russia. countering russian information attacks in the chronicles of information war project with olga ley. tuesday-thursday at 17:15, repeat tuesday- friday at 22:00. hundreds of thousands of square meters meters of damaged property, apartments, houses that need to be rebuilt, about the situation with reconstruction in different regions of ukraine, about... this is how olga's house was last year, and this is what it looks like now. i am not spending money at the moment. however, how to unite the country in the process

of recovery. in the project is a program of urban reconstruction and development, every saturday at 18:30 at espresso. today in the verdict program with serhii rudenko. short range. zelensky called the kursk operation of the armed forces of ukraine a response to the ban on strikes by western weapons deep into russian territory. will the ukrainians succeed? convince the emissaries. the biden administration to lift restrictions. the sunset is coming. the kremlin considers ukraine's demand to allow the use of storm shadow missiles for strikes on russian territory to be blackmail. can the countries of the global south incline russia to peace? a plan to win. in september, zelensky will present to biden a strategy for overcoming russian aggression. with

ukraine's place in the world's security infrastructure, do the ukrainian and american points of view on the end of the war coincide? glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, me my name is serhiy rudenko, i congratulate everyone and wish everyone good health. in the next two hours, we will talk about massive missile strikes on... ukraine by the russian federation, zelenskyi's peace plan, which he is supposed to submit in september to the consideration of the president of the united states of america, joseph biden, and about how the world treats of the telegram platform, in particular in france, the founder and owner of the telegram platform pavel durov was arrested and taken into custody there, does this mean that ukraine should also review...

their attitude towards this platform, given that it is very actively used by the russians, they do not even hide the fact that this platform is one of the main ones for the armed forces of the russian federation and russian officials. we will talk about all this with our guests in the next two hours. in the first part of our program , we will have russian-ukrainian war veteran yevhen dyky, diplomat oleksandr khara and political expert volodymyr. we will have tsibulko at 2 o'clock, which will start at 9:15 p.m people's deputies of ukraine, viktoria syumar, oleksiy kucherenko, as well as mykyta poturaev. however, before starting our big conversation today, i suggest you watch a video of the consequences of the russian occupiers hitting a hotel in

kryvyi rih with a rocket that night, three civilians on... five more were injured, one person is considered missing, currently , the rescue operation continues, and let's watch a video of the consequences of another terrible crime by the russians in ukraine.

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