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the program of the ukrainian service usu america time taim studio nataliya leonova congratulations ukraine is clearly convinced that it can win like everyone here such a statement was heard from the head of the pentagon, lloyd austin, at a meeting of 40 countries dedicated to the defense of ukraine, the discussions held at the german military base ramstein were attended by officials of nato member countries and partners on defense capabilities of ukraine and us assistance to kyiv, secretary of state blinkin was questioned at the capitol by the regional businessmen. all these events are being followed by my colleague yuliya yarmolenko, who is currently joining our studio from the white house . congratulations to yulia. congratulations to natalya. statement in support of ukraine, what concrete results were

achieved, do you know nataliya, probably the biggest practical announcement today is the allocation by germany of 50 anti-aircraft and in cheetah this a powerful weapon that previously germany did not mind providing to ukraine, this statement was made again today at this very conference called by the american head of the pentagon, lloyd austin , and they also regret. here he announced that canada will provide additional armored vehicles to ukraine, that great britain announced the day before that will provide additional anti-aircraft capabilities, that is, decisions continue to arrive that today it was also important at this conference in germany that allies and partners developed a plan for both the short term and the medium and long term in order to really help ukraine so that the aid was uninterrupted

and the ukrainian minister of defense oleksiy reznikov was also present, he did not conduct a briefing for the allies-partners so that they really knew from the first what is the first thing that ukraine needs, and what is the price? is coming must be coming smoothly and very quickly let's listen to his call for allies to partners we can't waste time today's briefing clearly showed why the next few weeks will be so critical for ukraine so we have to move at war speed i know all the leaders are leaving this meeting today determined more than ever to support ukraine in its struggle against russian aggression and atrocities of the regime, this is it for today, they also asked what he meant the day before when he said that i want russia to be

weaker to get out of that war is getting weaker, he said that it is obvious that the goal of the western allies in general now is to make russia have fewer opportunities in the future to carry out such attacks and such aggression against its neighbors, and precisely because of this, the whole world has united so that russia does not there were such opportunities, and until now he also said that already from what is happening, russia will suffer human and also material losses, and russia will not have such opportunities due to sanctions to make up for these losses, which it has suffered in particular materials on the battlefield julia you mentioned at the beginning that the head of the german ministry of defense lamberg announced that germany will provide ukraine with the cheetah system, what does this decision mean for ukraine, what else did we hear from the student of the ministry of defense, this is actually a very serious decision because we know that germany refused to provide certain types of weapons in general weapons at the beginning when russia just started

this war against ukraine on a full scale now we see how the vision is changing although when the minister of defense was asked in german why were the decision was changed, she said that in fact germany always had this position, they said that they would do the same thing that the allies are doing, that is, they will do it, everyone will provide assistance in coordination with the allies, and when she said that they saw that other countries provide such systems, then germany also implemented this decision, one more point she emphasized today, she said that at this conference , the allies also talked about the medium and long -term perspective of supporting ukraine and in this context they will also work together and germany and the united states and all the other allies who have gathered today at the conference let's listen to them we have always made our decisions in consultation with the allies and it has just become clear that others

will provide certain systems we have supported them we will also agree on how to organize our delivery more in a more coordinated way in the future, because the goal of this conference is to deliver quickly, but also to make sure that the ukrainian army is able to protect itself and its population in the nearest dovha perspective, who just returned from kyiv today at the hearings of the senate committee on international relations, reported on american aid to ukraine in countering russian aggression. what did sanatoriums hear from blinkin or do they receive from the usa? for kyiv, and he emphasized in particular that he was extremely impressed by the way ukrainians are fighting and their bravery, what about the united states' help to him in general the senators specifically asked if the united

states really provides ukraine with what the ukrainians need, and anthony blinkin briefly said yes, and he also explained that the united states began providing military aid to ukraine even before russia carried out this full-scale invasion, and you, as he said, are now continuing in the united states to be in constant contact with the ukrainian authorities in order to really understand what the needs are now and to provide exactly what is needed, he also said that the nature of the war is changing now and therefore all western partners who help ukraine must also adapt and this was the main goal of this conference held in germany. let's listen to the direct speech of state secretary antoniblinkin for every tank that the russians had in ukraine, together with thirty allies and partners we were able to provide 10 anti-tank systems for every plane that the russians sent 10

anti-aircraft munitions into the airspace, but the nature of the war in the east and south of ukraine is changing, they are adapting, we ministers must also adapt austin in germany together with representatives of 40 countries seem to be focused on making sure that we either provide ourselves or find countries that can provide the ukrainians with what they need . blinkin said that the united states really wants to return its representation with its mission to kyiv this week. it is expected that american diplomats will start returning to ukraine after that, he said anthony blinking and the american diplomats will do everything possible to understand and how it is possible to restore the work of the american representative office in kyiv, the ukrainian capital, and he said that he hopes everything will happen very

soon. yulia is another important topic that we cannot ignore by the president of moldova after the explosions in transnistria, she called for a meeting of the supreme security council. here is the price. he said that they really shifted their focus to how events are developing in moldova at the moment, he cannot say any more information, but of course the goal is to prevent russian military aggression from spreading over a larger territory. therefore, this is an absolute focus for the american and the white house and the pentagon are monitoring how this situation develops. thank you yulia for this information. i will remind you that yulia yarmolenko from the white house was in touch with us, and we continue the program

. the use of the right of veto by the permanent members of the un security council, the general assembly voted for a resolution whose purpose is to give the general assembly a mandate to hold debates, when one of the permanent members of the security council uses the right of veto and blocks the decision of the entire body, the state that used the right of veto must explain by genas blade why it did it by the author document was presented by liechtenstein, and more than 80 un member states put their signatures under the resolution. the decision was adopted by consensus. this is an important step in the direction of reforming the un according to according to diplomats, he will help ensure accountability for the use of the veto in the future. how has russia treated him? we are extremely concerned about russia's abuse of its veto power over the past decade. it is a long

list of shame. the russian federation has vetoed resolutions calling for prosecution in syria. the creation of an international tribunal to investigate the downing of flight mh17 over ukraine, she imposed a resolution on the ato when russia tried illegally annexed crimea and recently, most outrageously, the russian federation imposed a veto on the security council resolution condemning its aggression against ukraine and obliging it to stop using force and withdraw russian troops from the territory of ukraine, using the right of veto, giving the international community to hold russia accountable, russia reduced its role and the reputation of the un security council, it undermined the un charter and tarnished the un as a whole, meanwhile un secretary general antonia otelish is visiting moscow he held a working lunch with the minister of foreign affairs lavrov and met with president putin at a press conference following the negotiations with

lavrov. at the hotel, he informed that he had arrived in moscow as a peace envoy and his agenda was to save lives and reduce suffering, he noted that according to russia it conducts a military operation, but according to the un, which is reflected in the resolutions, russia invaded ukraine, violated its territorial integrity and the un charter, he also said that he repeatedly called cease fire in order to protect the civilian population and promote political dialogue, however, this is currently impossible, the un secretary general declared his readiness together with the red cross committee to ensure the work of a humanitarian patient from the territory of the azovstal plant in mariupol, and also called for an independent investigation into reports of war crimes in ukraine, allegations that the second is visiting ukraine where he will meet with president volodymyr zelensky and minister of foreign affairs dmytro kulev, zelensky himself criticized the day before in

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it. we are finishing the first part of the program. the time will be there in a few seconds. we will continue the broadcast. we have for you a story about the situation at the chernobyl nuclear power plant after it was abandoned by russian troops, as well as material about a new nuclear threat that arose in connection with the seizure by the russians of

zaporizhzhya npp. lounova let's move on called abnormal the level of radiation at the chernobyl npp after the russian occupation , the head of the international atomic energy agency, rafael rusi, on tuesday, during a visit to the chernobyl npp, he said that the seizure of the plant by the russians the military was absolutely abnormal and very, very dangerous, the money noted that the level of radiation was increasing due to the movement of heavy equipment by the russians, he emphasized that megatep continues to monitor the situation day by day, to have the

honor to deliver equipment to carry out radiological assessments and restore safety monitoring systems wrote on twitter to the chnpp obrosi was captured by russian troops on the first day of russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine february 24 march 31 the ukrainian authorities announced the withdrawal of russian troops from the territory of ukraine called the action of the russian military at the chernobyl nuclear power plant as nuclear terrorism and at the beginning of march appealed to megates with a request to demand that nato close the airspace over the nuclear facilities of ukraine about the sacrifices and destruction brought by military intervention in the exclusion zone and what risks remain see further in the story of my colleague kateryna lisova as a result of the accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant during the past 36 years, the city of pripyat, chernobyl and all settlements within a 30 km radius remain uninhabitable

except for ukraine, belarus and russia are radioactive substances polluted a large part of europe, in general, 500,000 people died from radiation, more than 600,000 became liquidators such data are given by the ukrainian institute of national remembrance already in 2016, a special steel dome covered the old chernobyl sarcophagus. currently, it is the most mobile structure in the world, but none above modern security measures cannot protect the nuclear power plant from war in the chernobyl zone by itself , this 30 km zone is a nuclear power plant and cannot be in the international rules of warfare no e-e hostilities, military operations in the territories of nuclear energy, i.e., no one seized a nuclear power plant, this happened for the first time in ukraine, the fact that the seizure of nuclear plants in ukraine became the first and a precedent is confirmed by international experts, as far as i know, there is no

such example of the plant being occupied this is the first and, i hope, the last, geographically very close to the belarusian border , the station was captured by a foreign state on the very first day of the full-scale russian invasion on february 24, 2022, according to data on the ukrainian side, there were 500 russian soldiers and 50 units of heavy equipment on the territory of the chernobyl nuclear power plant, probably already at 4 o'clock in the evening, they were already at the station, that is, they arrived with heavy equipment right next to the station around 50 units of heavy equipment those few representatives of our soldiers of the national guard, they were seen anti-radiation shelter and there in fact they were blocked so in the occupied building the second shift

remained working until the exit of the russian troops on march 31, however, according to the representatives of the state agency of ukraine for the management of the exclusion zone, the russian military did not retreat empty-handed, looting the territory of all enterprises that helped to work on the elimination of the consequences of accidents . including several hundreds of very powerful radioactive elements and they took away all the servers uh any equipment even cleaning equipment they really took everything away and left something now continues demining of the territory of the chernobyl zone because in one of those laboratories that i told you about,

specialists found uh, at least 17 explosive devices of stretch marks that were placed in very a-uh, let's say this, in inconspicuous places and things uh, by the way, the entire territory of the enterprise is subject to demining 36 years after the accident at the chornobyl npp in the exclusion zone , restoration work is again underway, but this time after the military intervention of a neighboring country, in addition to the chernobyl nuclear power plant, there are four working nuclear plants in ukraine all of them are under threat due to the war, ukrainian officials emphasize, in particular , the zaporizhzhia plant, together with its employees, is still under the control of the russian military. well, today there is

information that another act of nuclear terrorism has been recorded: a cruise missile flew over the south ukrainian tpp and, god forbid, if a hit there we could have again not an irreparable catastrophe, in general, according to the information of the state agency of ukraine for the management of the exclusion zone, during the russian occupation of the chernobyl nuclear power plant and the surrounding territories, ten employees of the station were killed, ukrainian national guardsmen who were at the positions were captured, and due to the movement of russian troops and military equipment, the general level of radiation kateryna lisunova lesya bakalets kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america washington after the explosion at the chernobyl nuclear power plant western media in ukrainians were the first to inform the population about the tragedy and its dangerous consequences . voice of america's ukrainian videos were vadim from these changes

. iryna matviychuk will tell how it happened in 1986. in april 1986, journalists of the ukrainian department of voice of america in washington received information from sweden about the high level of radiation in zone of the chernobyl nuclear power plant, i remember how today i was working then on the morning shift, we had a morning program and a new item from sweden arrived, the first item from sweden about what is on the clothes workers at the swedish nuclear institute, they noticed radiation, where did the radiation come from, but there was no accident there, they checked where the wind was coming from, how fast it was blowing, they immediately directed the cameras from the satellites, so to speak, and remembers that there was a big red spot in the photos of chernobyl,

then in ukraine nothing else about it didn't talk that day, played games, walked with colleagues, became one of the first journalists to inform the ukrainian audience about the probable accident at the chornobyl npp, it was on short waves, a radio disaster voice america covered this topic in great detail from the first moment, while the ukrainian mass media kept silent about it for a few days after the explosion, this is one of the examples that demonstrates the importance of the work of the ukrainian service. i was very afraid that the whole of ukraine would be covered with that radioactive dust and that ukraine was threatened with a huge catastrophe. soviet the soviet union reported the accident only a few days after the chernobyl nuclear power plant accident later, soviet secretary general gorbachev admits that the authorities continued to hide

from the population how dangerous the situation was the first information is ours from the verification day смотреть that's it now now it's clear there was such attention that there was an accident but no boiler explosions nobody spoke ukrainian voice of america journalists first of all started looking in washington for atomic energy specialists who would explain to listeners what radiation is and what the symptoms are radiation and what to do in case of radioactive contamination, it was the most difficult time for the ukrainian and russian services then worked very closely to find specialists in washington who explained what radioactivity is symptoms, we did not want to sow panic, but at the same time we were a voice available to the population during the crisis, the former head of the european division of the voice of america recalls how important it was then to take your time and check the information that came from different sources. i remember well when the

information about the explosion appeared at the chornobyl station at that time, the news routers reported that 2,000 people had died, and of course we wanted to report this immediately, but we did not have a second source of information in the voice of america, very seriously regard the fact that there were two sources of information, we had to wait despite the sensationalism of the news , and when the second source appeared and it was thought that two people died, not 2,000. and this once again proved the need to adhere to two sources of information, covering the subject of the chernobyl accident for journalists became one of the of the most important moments of their work, and for many ukrainians it was a source of information that helped protect themselves and their relatives from radiation in time after the chernobyl tragedy, ukraine found itself in nuclear danger again, this time due to the occupation of the zaporozhye npp by russian troops, how does the plant

function now and who will be responsible if an accident occurs at the npp, lesya bakalets explained ukraine is the only state in the modern world whose nuclear power plant was seized by another country russia occupied two chernobyl npps and decommissioned, but still remains an object of increased danger and zaporizhzhia, this station is the largest in europe, tea was released on march 31 zaporizhzhia station still under the occupation of the hero m slava so on march 2, the station employees and residents of the city of energodar, a satellite of the npp, tried to stop the russian troops, but already at night the station began to be shelled after that, after the shelling, which lasted for about two to two and a half hours, they actually entered the station on the site of the station of such precedents in the history of atomic energy, there has not been any such example as far as i know. this is the

first time, and i hope it will be the last time, that by occupying the nuclear power plant, russia has violated all possible norms of international law according to the decision of the international atomic energy agency for 2009, nuclear power plants should not be the object of an armed attack, an act of nuclear terrorism, that's what the occupation is called energoatom, the state regulator of all nuclear power plants in ukraine, except for six reactors, a storage facility for spent nuclear material is located on the territory of the crust, if they are now e- if they want to do something there, they can do it, they can steal nuclear material, create some kind of dirty bomb, village of nuclear material, international the atomic energy agency immediately expressed concern about the situation at the nuclear power plant, but many and other international experts agree that while the plant is operating normally , there is no question of nuclear danger for ukraine and europe.

but i think that russia is acting in accordance with its interests and the intentional damage to a nuclear facility , which will result in the release of radiation, does not belong to the interests of energoatom. such optimism is not shared . there was no action, megatelno did not respond to voice of america's request, now only 10% of the 11,000 ukrainian personnel are not working at the station. representatives of the russian rosatom also live on the territory of the npp, but so far they do not interfere with the work, the design is the same as theirs, but our units have gone through a comprehensive program to improve safety, the control system itself has all been replaced, they do not have such a thing in russia, they go e - to open the mouth after deoccupation, the energy atom will have to make sure that all objects at the station are working

as well as before the invasion of russian troops and report to the megate about any malfunctions all akalaians anatoly lukoshenko zoroslav baydyuk voice of america we watched the program of the ukrainian voice of america service from time to time join our special programs on social networks on youtube and facebook at 6:00 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. kyiv time, where you can ask questions to our presenters and journalists live in the studio. natalia leonova was in the studio. take care , have a peaceful night, dear viewers, i wish you all a peaceful night. good evening. with us, we have a joint broadcast of tv channels live espresso we thank you very much for watching it is very, very important for us today until one o'clock in the morning we are working for you well, let's start this hour with operational information eh hmm

not even operational i i'm sorry, we'll start with the equally important news about the telephone talks between the russian dictator putin and the president of turkey, mr. erdoğan, and today they had this conversation. this is actually the result of this conversation