unusable, that it needs repair and it will take a very long time to deliver it. for example, in conversations with ukrainian friends, we learned that certain equipment that was promised last year will be delivered only in 2027, despite the fact that the calculations and promises and announcements and headlines were already in 2023. you know the promises of supplies, unfortunately, the soldiers on the battlefield are forced to fight with what they have now, and the supplies are dwindling, and as you know, putin has. reliable friends, northerners the koreans, the iranians, are able to deliver to russia what they promised, so there is this difference. sometimes we tell good stories to show our citizens that we are fighters for good, but when it comes to supplies, sometimes it 's a different story. bohdan, we have literally 40 seconds left, does he offer the eu or nato a solution to this problem? the ukrainian minister was asked what are the reasons for these problems and delays. he said that the explanations to him...

called various, bureaucratic delays, political confrontations within countries, even elections in some countries, so how it seems that each individual state, each partner of ukraine, has its own specific problems, and they must be solved within those donor countries. thank you bohdan, my colleague bohdan tsyupin was on the phone from london. first to the full staff. since the invasion , russia has launched more than 9,600 missiles, almost 1,400 attack drones and more than 33,000 guided aerial bombs on ukraine. only on the attack on august 26, russia spent one billion and 300 million dollars. this was stated by the permanent during the meeting of the un security council on wednesday representative of ukraine, serhiy kyslytsia. at the meeting, which was convened at the request of ukraine, un deputy secretary general myroslav yencha shared the organization's latest data on victims.

and destruction in ukraine. according to his information, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in ukraine, 11,662 civilians have died, including 639 children. july has become the deadliest month for civilians in ukraine - yencha added. despite the continuation of aggression, russia will not be able to subjugate ukraine - emphasized robert wood, the deputy permanent representative of the us to the un. he expressed hope that ukraine will be able to celebrate the next independence day peacefully. russia cannot and will not conquer ukraine, ukraine and the united states made concrete progress by signing a historic bilateral security agreement in june, but we are not alone with ukraine. 32 nato allies and partners have pledged to support ukraine's urgent security needs. the independence day of ukraine is a reminder that the fundamental principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity are at stake at kona. our commitment to these principles as

and our devotion to ukraine will not waver. russia cannot redraw ukraine's borders by force. the united states once again calls on russia to stop its incessant attacks on ukraine and immediately withdraw its troops from the territory of ukraine. we hope that next year ukrainians will be able to celebrate independence day in peace. almost a thousand ukrainian soldiers lost their sight while defending ukraine from the russian invasion. serhiy railyan is among them. he is a mortarman and commander of the 79th brigade. serhii met a full-scale invasion at positions in the luhansk region near the city happiness. the fighter received numerous injuries and fractures in october 2022, when his car blew up on an anti-tank mine. only the operation on the face lasted 8 hours. for more than a year, he and his wife fought to regain their sight, but without success,

even a complex operation in one of the best ophthalmological hospitals in the united states did not help. iryna solomko will tell the defender's story. serhiy railyan joined the armed forces of ukraine immediately after he turned 18, he says, after graduating from university and going to the military. he admits that his decision was influenced by 2014 and russia's occupation of crimea and parts of the donetsk and luhansk regions. from mykolaiv, so he dreamed of joining the ranks of the 79th brigade. it did not succeed immediately, but he met a full-scale invasion already as a soldier of this unit. before the great war, another important event took place in his life: he got married. in june of the 21st year, we went on a rotation near luhansk, and from there at the end of october, i got a leave and came to get married. so he got married, returned back. a full scale invasion. on combat

positions, even before the 24th, they started shelling us very heavily, and then already on the 24th , tanks, tank columns went, with the support of... artillery and aviation, at first they were near luhansk, a settlement of happiness, one might say, then there was severo-donetsk, then bogorodychnia sviatohirsk, there was an attack on crimea, and we tried to stop it, well, with the forces we had, after that there was liman, after liman there was bogorodychnia sviatohirsk, and after that marinka, serhiy minometnyk, often his unit stood very close to the skirmish line with the infantry. sergey valery's wife says that she repeatedly thought that her husband had died, because the front line is moving, because the front line is moving, there deepstate draws maps, and you see that your husband is here, and the front line is already there, and he is somewhere all day i didn't get in touch, i remember, i didn't go to work,

he calls already in the evening, i say sonechka, how are you, he asks me about what is happening in other places of the front, and then it was just scary all the time. serhiy received his injury in october 2022 under the marienko, which is now, yes just like bakhmut, destroyed and occupied by russia. serhii remembers that the roads were washed away and he and his comrades were blown up by an anti-tank mine. the explosive wave came from serhiy. in addition, a combat kit detonated in the car. we were in touch. he said that he would go, see the boys and be there by 12 o'clock. at 12 o'clock he did not get in touch. he did not get in touch, and already in the morning of the next day i was told that he had been blown up by a mine. at first, he was in the dnipro , and in just a few days he was evacuated to kyiv, where he was more or less treated. already in kyiv it became clear that he would live. already in kyiv, it became clear that he would live, the fact that his legs were torn off was immediately clear,

but whether he would see, whether he would hear, whether he would feel his legs, because the spine was broken, the entire jaw was broken, there was an operation on the face, and sergey's face is gathering... at that moment i was thinking about the worst. i did not know at all whether i would have a husband at all, whether he would not be a vegetable, because he had a serious head injury and cerebral edema. will he see, will he hear? serhiy spent at

comey almost a month, he had about 30 operations. thanks to the doctors, as well as valeria's care and support, he managed to recover almost completely. the only thing that never came back was his sight. according to valeria. lost time because they were focused on solving serhiy's other health problems. the couple understood that the only chance to regain their sight is treatment abroad. meanwhile, one of the american charitable foundations offered sergius prosthetic legs in the usa. they agreed that they would help me find an ophthalmologist who would be able to operate on me, because at that moment i had already been looking for six months where it could be done, because such an operation was not done in ukraine at that time. in the usa , serhii got to one of the best ophthalmologists... his sight never returned, serhii says, it was important for him to try, and now he finally came to the realization that he would spend the rest of his life in the dark.

he says that now there are many devices that make life easier for the blind and allow them to be more independent. yes, this is this device that signals. water level, when water is added to this level, it starts squeak. serhii says he tries to be as independent as possible from valeria. the signal has changed, well, if i get used to a certain house, i take a shower myself, that's all, i know where the shower taps are, ugh, how to turn it on, how to switch it on. kim valeria is always next to her husband, she became his eyes and support. well, mostly we watch some recognition programs with nets, because there you don’t have to imagine so much, as there are some films of the heroine genre, plus, if there is such a need, lera gives me typho comments on the films, that is, explains what is happening on

on the screen, art therapy also helps, volunteers gave serhiy a guitar and he is trying to start playing again, because he can't... move his fingers quickly and know which semadu he is on . a group was made, where i ask for a song, they throw me chords for it, so i can go and look, well, who will read this message, serhiy has the end of prosthetics ahead of him and the long-awaited return home, where he is waiting for several more surgeries to restore his face, he also wants to finally stand on his feet, learn to navigate using the navigator and start walking independently, and also dreams of special glasses for the blind, some of which have built-in functions. if you choose the recognition of interior items there, then you look somewhere, it

tells you there is a bed there for the second hour, there are 12 doors, they cost 2,500 in the basic version, i always spare money for myself, dude, but i can easily buy some kind of drone, says he has already felt that there is practically no culture of communication with the blind and people with disabilities in ukraine disability, and this should be changed. says his example and strength of spirit inspires others not to give up. when i arrived in odesa, i was placed in a ward with a guy who just had one bullet wound there, he was lying, dying, and a couple of weeks later he was already calling his friends and family there, telling them that, well, his legs are there, his eyes can see , i'm fine. serhii admits that he does not want ukraine to repeat the approach of the soviet union, when people with disabilities did not go out into the streets. or they were taken to the village, the wounded fighter wants him and his crippled brothers could freely walk

around the city and be full members of society and plans to choose these opportunities both for themselves and for others. from philadelphia iryna solomko, pavlo terekhov, voice of america. before the great war in ukraine , american football developed, in particular in... now it is impossible, because a large part of the vinnytsia wolves team and others are fighting at the front. instead , the non-contact game of flag football is gaining more and more popularity in the city, but it is mainly played by children and teenagers. about training under sirens, help with equipment from american volunteers and dreams for the future, the vinnytsia wolves told tetyana kukuritsa and serhiy repchinsky. i am very proud, very proud of us, who are we? vinnytsia wolves school

organized an american football team under that name in vinnytsia back in 1996, although the team ceased to exist in the early 2000s, but the club was revived in 2006. during this time, the vinnytsia wolves were renewed, they were also the winners of the championships of the first league of ukraine, cheerleaders and girls from the flag football, after a few years we started to train children too, let's go bobks, three four, bobks, now the vinnytsia wolves are a big sports family, men, women and children play american football, there is a support team. vinnytsia is an example of that, and how cool it is to have a sports team, a sports team, and to have a cheerleading team at the same time, what can i say. that it is much more spectacular, the match looks more spectacular when there are cheerleaders, when there is a

support group, when there are cheerleaders cheering for success, for victory. one, two, three, four the best season for vinnytsia wolves was 2021. the team had sponsors, legionnaires from the united states of america, canada, great britain and germany. since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, american football has not been played in ukraine, but some teams have been able to resume. flag football practice. half the team is in the armed forces, several players are dead and the story, well it fits any american football team. since we are further from the front, we can train, well, that is, we are not the same as in conditionally, we are in a very safe place, if we talk about the kharkiv team, they did not even start training at all, they do not even train for flag football. kyiv teams, except for one, at that time there were five of them at the end of the 21st year, now there is one. of the more than a dozen teams

that were developing before the full-scale invasion of russia, six remained. no one is ready to restore anything until the end of the war. it's simply impossible. there will be no adult american football until the end of the war. the only option i see is more or less possible - these are children, these are young men who... and up to 25 years old, starting from 16, who will start training. full-fledged american football needs money and people, but its variety - the flag. football is cheaper and requires fewer players, we recruit in schools, we recruit from the age of eight, both boys and girls, that is, we have primary - this is the u-11 category, the smallest, the youngest, and you gradually move from u -11 to u-13, to u-15, to u-17, and from there you move to an adult team.

american teams are helping to develop flag football in ukraine volunteers according to the national football teams, they collected equipment and handed it over to ukrainian clubs, our children and children from the dolbuniv eagles, there is a team in uzhhorod, they all train with these belts, which were provided by the pataki foundation, the balls are also blue, we have nfl nerf there , this was also given to us by the pataki fund, we lost a few leather balls, well, that is, this help, it was very timely, and it made us think about what is needed from these... just in our club, a develop it in schools. thanks to american help, the vinnytsia wolves did not spend money on equipment for themselves, instead they bought it for four dozen schools, flag football, and later they want to make american flag football more popular in the region, and when you start, i say, to watch this

sport, well incredible, incredible, and you understand why in america this sport is fascinating to everyone. people why is it the richest sports organization in the world the national football league it is richer than any other sports organization than what we have fifa yeah it seems than the olympic committee than any, it's a national football league, it's not just because it's an interesting sport, it's an incredibly intellectual sport, it's, well, it's something incredible, i mean, it's something that's already on at the next level than the usual sport that you are familiar with, that's why he likes american football, american... football in vinnytsia is planned to be restored after the war. vinnytsia wolves want to find a sponsor to help buy equipment. the club also hopes that the players who are currently fighting will return to the team at the front. tetyana kukuriyka, serhii repchynskyi, for the voice of america from vinnytsia. home for all friends of ukraine. thus,

toloka, the first non-religious ukrainian cultural center in seattle, describes its founders. here they help refugees, organize art workshops and language courses. and cultural events, in the future they are also planning events for americans who want to learn more about ukraine, says khrystyna shevchenko. two ukrainian women, olena bedenko zvarychuk and oksana kraveziuk, moved with their families to the united states eight years ago of the states olena osha obtains a law license, oksana holds the position of head of the personnel department in local self-government bodies, and despite their busyness, they... have become engines of the ukrainian community in seattle. last year, the friends decided to direct their energy to the benefit of the ukrainian community and set about creating a ukrainian saturday school for ukrainian children, later a whole center for the ukrainian community, which was named toloka. school is only on saturday, and we understood that you

rent a room that is needed only for saturday, it's, well, just using the room for nothing, and we with... decided to invite all the projects that want, who need the room, to join and try to organize it as a group. since last august , a dozen projects have settled here: yoga and painting in ukrainian, theaters for children, various creative master classes and language courses. we have two groups for children and for adults, you who study ukrainian as a second language, that is, the students have not taught, have never communicated in the ukrainian language, from zero, from zero and... this year there will be a third group, and from the second year, this year we are opening a third group for teenagers, during its existence , toloka has become a real incubator for ideas and projects of ukrainians, those who want to can realize their idea for free or for a small donation, take some kind of mother-of-pearl color, yes, it should be bright, children here also actively help

refugees, provide psychological assistance, conduct english courses. some come just to chat, some help them there to draw up papers and do the rest, yes, there are no problems with that, but there is no such emotional support, even just banal with someone other than family, to speak ukrainian, to do something, to drink coffee. participation in toloka activities for refugees and their children is free, and the same applies to saturday school. we are trying to figure out how to help children feel. the pride that they are of ukrainian origin, to preserve this pride and to build connections so that they do not feel that they are alone here, that they have connections with other ukrainians, children of their age, with whom ... they go to school together , and since we go to children with love, to families with love, children want to come back to us, especially if we give out more ukrainian candies, this is

olenka's trick, yes, well, they know that they, even if they make a stand on their eyebrows, we love them all the same, all the people who are involved in the organization of projects in tolokas do not receive salaries, and the rent of the premises is paid for at the expense of charitable contributions from the community, that is, as i said... toloka will exist when the community needs it. the community does not need it, there are no doneyshen, there is no toloka. toloka became the first on religious the ukrainian center in the state. therefore, his audience is a new wave of emigrants who do not belong to religious communities. by the way, these are not always ukrainians. sometimes caring americans who want to help refugees come here. so the next step is a series of english-language events to involve the local community in ukrainian culture and tell more about ukraine. is distorted, there is part of the information that is distorted, first of all, for example, our struggle for the fact that leontovych wrote shchedryka, and he is a ukrainian

composer, and not a russian one, for example, to the ukrainian, nasa owes the trajectory of the spaceship to the moon, yes, and the americans say, but no, it’s a rush, and you say so, but no, people, it’s not a rush, and you start telling, oksana and elena tell what a very according to modest estimates , more than a thousand people have already visited tuloka, and gather even in the summer. seattle, khrystyna shevchenko, bohdan shevchenko, for the voice of america. download the voice of america mobile application. the application allows you to bypass blocking automatically thanks to the built-in vpn service. read the news, watch informative programs and videos. and... also listen to podcasts of the ukrainian voice of america service. and that's the end of it. thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian.

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vasyl zima's big broadcast, a project for smart and caring people , in the evening for espresso. we honor the memory of those who gave their lives for ukraine. august 29 is the day of remembrance of defenders of ukraine. today in the verdict program with serhii rudenko. anti-aircraft shield over the western regions. ukraine is trying to agree with its partners on closing part of its sky the air defense forces of nato countries, which...

allies need more arguments to remove the last taboos and restrictions from aid. pointless dialogue. the ukrainian leadership does not see the point in negotiations with russia, but even in moscow they say that they do not want to talk with kyiv against the background of the kurdish operation. does it overshadow the prospects of a global peace summit. the unbreakable team of the president. zelensky gives a tough rebuff to the critics of his trusted five managers against the background of criminal prosecution of other powerful people, what are the other symptoms of the degeneration of the system of power in ukraine? glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is serhiy rudenko, for the next hour we are talking about the war, about... ukraine, and

also about what is happening in ukrainian society. today we commemorate the defenders of ukraine. today is the day of remembrance of defenders of ukraine. eternal memory to those who gave their lives for our freedom and independence in the fight against the russian invaders. during the next hour, the guests of today 's broadcast will be the major of the armed forces of ukraine. ihor lapin, political commentator and doctor of political sciences, maksym rozumny, and oleg rybachuk, former head of yushchenko's presidential office. let's talk about the ukrainian front, and not only the ukrainian front, but also the kursk front, including what is happening in the ukrainian sky, because right before the program there was information that an f-16 fighter jet crashed during attacks

of the russian occupiers on august 26, f-16 aircraft participated in the destruction of aerial targets launched by russia over the territory of ukraine. unfortunately, the pilot died (tragic) news that arrived just a few minutes before our broadcast. and of course, let's talk about zelensky's peace plan, with which he plans to go to joseph biden in september. we will talk about all this. over the next hour. however, before starting our conversation, i suggest watching a video of how the paratroopers of the 46th separate automobile brigade showed how to destroy the occupiers and equipment in the mariana direction, in particular, they managed to destroy the so-called pride of the russians, the t-90 tank. let's watch this enchanting video.

glory to the armed forces of ukraine and death to the russian occupiers. friends, in front of everything we conduct a survey on our broadcast. today we ask you about the current system

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