and here you see how they go positive negative positive negative and now journalist oleksandr makhov died from shelling my condolences a-a ukrainian railways resumed the intercity service between kyiv and the dnipro and here you know an interesting story means first invasions in russia have become more frequent, arson attacks on military checkpoints simply break the glass and they throw a molotov cocktail there, of course, to burn documents, that's the story, i'm dear yuriy zaliznyak, i'm very grateful that you came to us , thank you and we'll be happy to see you again and now what you will see will be eurovision is true and ukrainians will sing there. i hope that the russians will not be allowed there. as far as i know they will not be

there because they will be burned there right on the stage. what will they sing about love? or what will they sing about there? how are you? hopes for peace, for peace, yes, they will come out, what about peace or about fascism or about the jews, that zelensky is a jew, the main nazi. well, what can i say here? everyone to us watched with us interestingly went la la la la la la the field is blooming and she is my mother lullaby i want to

hear your native word debakiya mother mother of the sky no i am the field is blooming and she is my son friends congratulations we are returning to our broadcasts voice of america my names are ostap and yarosh this is a live broadcast i remind you that if you are watching us, you can ask your questions in the comments and write where you are also watching us from. and it is important for us to know this, friends. we will start today's broadcast with news from ukraine, operatives , we know that ah literally not long before our on the air, in particular, there were attacks also on western ukraine, we know that rockets hit one of the railway substations in zakarpattia in particular, and we also know that at least three electrical substations in lviv were damaged, is this the latest news

from ukraine? but if you have any questions, ask them, i will try to read them, and answer your questions if i have answers. so, friends, if we are talking about america, then we know that today joe biden, the american president, gave a factory in the city of troy and a factory to lockheed martin, which , among other things, produces javelin missiles, and the president addressed the workers of this factory with a speech and said how important their work is , including that it is important in the war in ukraine, that their work supports the ukrainian people , he also stated that this moment is now a turning point and everything must be done to support ukraine . at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia, about five and a half thousand anti-tank

missiles were provided, and we know that according to the statements of the white house of the pentagon, ukraine now has approximately 10 javelins for every russian tank, this is what american officials say, and that is why joe biden emphasizes on the importance of the production, in particular , of this type of weapons, both for ukraine and for the united states itself, and today, i will remind you, the new head of the pentagon was also asked about this, as to whether or not the united states had exhausted states have their reserves, because as we know , the united states has already provided approximately a third of its own reserves, javo-in has provided a third of its own reserves for ukraine oh-oh-osin, the head of the pentagon said that no, the united states has not exhausted its reserves and can quickly replenish them to the end this year, my friends, i suggest that you view now a brief fragment of the statement, a fragment of the address of the american president joe boyden to the workers of the plant in alabama where the javelin is produced

, these words also resonated with the people in ukraine i think we can listen to him now, in fact , javelins were so important that there is even a story about what ukrainian parents called their newborn children. i am not joking javelin or javelina without jokes, the brave people of ukraine, including many civilians who took up arms to defend their country, deserve every some credit for giving age or the russian attack and spoiling putin's desire to dominate ukraine we are at a watershed moment in history actually this happens about every 6 or 8 generations when things are changing so fast that we have to stay in control the people of the world have been in a struggle between autocracy and democracy since the start of the russian invasion just over two months ago we have sent over $3 billion in security aid to ukraine

just us not counting our allies this money is a direct investment in protecting freedom and democracy itself. because if you don't resist, history shows that there are more of them, their appetite for power continues to grow, and every worker at this factory is also an american taxpayer directly contribute to the development of freedom, i urge congress to quickly approve funding to help ukraine continue to successfully resist russian aggression, just as they did the winning show in the battle of kyiv, and to ensure that the united states and our allies can replenish their own stockpiles of weapons to replace what we sent to ukraine, as i said from the very beginning, this battle will not be cheap, but giving in to aggression would be even more expensive, friends, the address of president jobile, and now we will switch to the second part of our program, which

in fact, we also stated in the description of the pair that we will talk to oleksiy kovalenko. this is my colleague, we will talk with him about journalism in ukraine , about the journalistic war, oleksiy. i congratulate you. but first, let's read it. i want to read it from where the users are watching us. in italy and lviv in warsaw in bukovina in kyiv e greetings from uman zshko e from kharkov e from kyiv colorado dnipro rome ivano-frankivsk e lviv oblast krakow e ternopil kryvyi rih many cities friends thank you for your comments uh, i want uh, now to talk to oleksia behind you about our second a part of the program. so, we agreed that we will talk about journalism in war conditions, about how ukrainian journalists are working now, we know that today is world press freedom day, and unfortunately uh- unfortunately, we have a sad

statistic that at least 20 journalists, three media representatives, have died in ukraine, you followed this, work with this topic, can you tell who exactly was among the dead reliable people, and that all of them died in hot spots while performing their duties congratulations to ostap. congratulations to our viewers. unfortunately , we actually have very sad statistics according to the national union of journalists in ukraine. 23 representatives of the media in ukraine have died, including journalists, media representatives, and teachers. of them died with weapons in their hands on the battlefield, some of them died as civilians during the shelling of houses, some died as journalists who fulfilled their duties to the last and among those who

among those journalists who covered the war until the end, there were at least seven. and according to the committee for the protection of journalists, the operator of live tv channel yevhen sekun, ukrainian journalist oleksandra kuvshinova, operator and photographer of fox tv channel , was among those beaten while performing their professional duties. news citizen of ireland pierre zazhevsky photographers documentary filmmaker maksym levin american journalists and director brand renault russian journalist oksana baulna and lithuanian director and documentary filmmaker mentas some representatives of the media who also worked until the end as journalists and covered the war until the end died as civilians during the shelling of their houses, among them was the journalist and producer of radio svoboda vira virych who died as a result of studying russian in the house in which she lived in kyiv and in many of these in many cases, there is testimony and evidence in many of the

cases when a journalist was killed or killed while covering the war, there is evidence that a journalist was killed precisely for the work they were doing. this is how we see with the photographer and documentarian maksym levin, whose body was found in my meridiy guta, he had two fatal wounds, yevhen sakun, a journalist, or rather , an operator of the live tv channel. he died during the shelling of the tv tower in kyiv in the case of oksana bowlina there are testimonies of oksana baulna's colleagues who said that she died during the coverage of shelling in the shopping mall in kyiv, the retroville shopping center, and this center had already been shelled the day before that and on the moment when oksana bowlina was killed, there were only journalists and only rescuers at that place, that is, there was no other

point in shelling this building. it had no strategic significance otherwise. how is it to kill journalists and rescuers who were at this object at that moment, you know that indeed, there were many of those names that you mentioned. it is like colleagues with whom we were familiar from when we worked, and in fact, as anthony blinken said today, the secretary of state, he also addressed, he asked some of the names of our colleagues in ukraine who died as a result of russian aggression, and he actually remembers it here in the united states, oleksiy, what is the role of ukrainian journalists now, he is not only ukrainian, but also other journalists from other countries who are currently covering this war in ukraine, russia's unprovoked aggression. you spoke with colleagues of journalists who worked with them, and with those colleagues of those journalists who died during this war, how

do they now see the role of journalism in reality there are a lot of journalists working in ukraine who are currently covering the war, it is at least for information, the ukrainian government has at least six thousand journalists, and i think that when talking about the role of journalists in this war, their role in covering this war should be mentioned by a quote by a swedish journalist, a military journalist, no, not yelgren if i quote, if journalists do not do their job, history will be written by criminals, so it is worth mentioning here that journalists are our eyes, they show everything that happens there, where is the information there is difficult access, they cover events in hot spots and uh, journalists record what is happening there, journalists record war crimes, there will definitely be court proceedings, and we talked about it with the representative of the committee for the protection of journalists, we talked about it with the head of the

national union of journalists of ukraine, whether there will be legal proceedings and those who must be brought to justice will be brought to justice, but the so-called quick evidence is provided by journalists who record what is happening now there are violations of human rights, freedoms and murders, what happens there is recorded by journalists who directly see everything and record and document what is happening there, you are really talking about this documentation, and i, for my part, also talked to ukrainian journalists and investigators, you know it is also interesting how their work has changed since the beginning of this war, when before it was primarily focused on investigating corruption , now it is investigating the crimes of the russian army and the russian military, and what do you think if you watched now, journalistic approaches have changed in ukraine since the beginning of this war, we can now see that many journalists who were not

war correspondents, who previously did not study journalism, are now engaged in this business. many journalists did not retrain , but simply began to cover journalism and do this work because there is a war in the country, otherwise it was simply impossible. an interesting quote from a representative of the committee for the protection of journalists that there are no countries where all journalists are ready for this are ready for that to cover the war. but if this happens , journalists go there and cover the war. another interesting thing was said by a colleague on the former editor of photos of the murdered reporter maxim levin. anastasiya franko. when she said that many journalists stay in the cities it remains in the occupied cities and they are trying to transmit information and from there they are trying to prove some facts

, convey information from there, some documents of what is happening there on the ground, and it is they they do not do public deeds, but they do it not to say that we are heroes, but because it is necessary to do so, because there are doctors, and there are journalists who must do their work, who are also doing their work there, now on the spot, oleksiy , you know, talked to the representatives of the committee and protection of journalists, it was an interview, if you can briefly explain what it was about, and after that i think we can also watch it on our broadcast and share it with our viewers a-a yes, i spoke with the program director of the protection committee journalists, we talked about how important the work of journalists is now for documenting what is happening in cities and on the ground in order to counter russian disinformation and propaganda during the war in order to record the war crimes that are currently taking place in ukraine during the russian aggression against ukraine and we also

talked about how journalistic coverage of the war can be compared now with previous conflicts , and in the 21st century, how much has it changed in general, how much have journalistic approaches changed how much the vision of the war by journalists has changed and the fact that we now see the war in ukraine almost online and i received updates from journalists who are on the ground almost online, all of them thank you very much for your detailed analysis for following on the subject, i think we can now review your material, your interview with the representative of the committee for the protection of journalists, they will thank you for this, let's see the interview and material of oleksiy kovalenko somehow nations in ukraine listen to you information of the national union of journalists about 20 journalists died in ukraine during the war approximately nine of them died covering the war or can we say that journalists

who cover the war were caught in the crosshairs of the war teleation for the working to the stars it is very difficult to establish a rumor connection to to state that journalists were the target, we can only say that journalists were killed in situations when they were engaged in journalistic work, we can say that at least seven journalists were killed it has been confirmed that journalists were covering the events when they were killed, but there are many other cases that require investigation. this is a conflict zone. it is difficult to access information. it is difficult to verify and confirm. i will not be surprised if the number increases . the role of journalists in supporting freedom of speech and countering russian disinformation and propaganda journalists play a critical role in

this war they bear witness to the horrific invasion and also document and leave clear evidence of what is happening, thanks to this, future generations will have evidence of what happened, it also makes it possible to investigate what happened and bring those who should be held accountable to justice, the role of journalism, the importance of journalism is as obvious as it can be, it plays a critical role the historical role of the church to document the war by looking at photos from the hot spots of the bombed hospital in mariupol destroyed houses and mass graves in buchi and irpeni, do you think that journalists are the first to record the war crimes of russia from ukraine, the role of journalists is critical, in particular, in countering the very insidious waves of propaganda that exists around the conflict, this is very useful and important today and will be critically important in the future to

keep our war as far as we see this war is different in social media if we compare it with other wars conflicts of our time what is the role of journalists in war to provide us with useful true and timely information is also what is the difference in the safety of journalists during the war in ukraine compared to other conflicts of our time? starting from the end, at least seven journalists were killed in ukraine during the seven weeks of the war, then during the first weeks of the invasion of iraq by the us-led coalition forces, nine journalists were killed - eight died during the comparable time in syria between november 2011 and february 2012, the dynamics of the conflict are changing rapidly, it contains many threats to journalists, the same ones that threaten and the civilian population, they need the same protection in their work, which is also needed by the civilian population, we see how in this war it is not possible to

ensure this, the aspect of social media plays an important role, journalists also have to respond to the challenges of disinformation and propaganda, they must constantly confirm their work by meeting with trolls, networks and independent people who claim denying the facts. they are in a mode of constant confrontation on many fronts , this makes the work of journalists difficult and dangerous. in addition to ukrainian journalists, the conflict in the war ukraine is covered by many representatives of foreign journalists, you can compare what is the difference in the coverage of the war by representatives of the ukrainian and international media, ukrainian journalists cover the war literally at home, all journalists see the scale of attacks, the scale of documented crimes, the destruction of the media infrastructure, it is difficult on all levels, including emotions, i cannot imagine putting yourself in the place of any ukrainian journalist can only imagine

what they go through and continue to work , you can only respect them for the work they do are being conducted for the future, but i can’t imagine what they are going through now. many of the ukrainian journalists were not war correspondents before the war. how can you assess the technical readiness of ukrainian journalists and ukrainian newsrooms to cover the war again? can we compare this with how prepared they were ? until now, international media. i am sure that journalists are doing everything possible to learn new things, undergo training , get equipment for protection, so far it has been difficult for all journalists who have been trained in who has experience in covering war they are ready for many it is the first time they are catching up understand how to cover war the dynamics of war they need training and equipment for protection what media should consider before deciding whether to send as a journalist to a hot spot in a situation with

any journalistic the task is to fully consider the situation of threats that will be faced by journalists, it is necessary to try to prevent or reduce the risks, to provide journalists with equipment for protection, to conduct appropriate training should provide instructions on how to behave in different scenarios, including the most difficult ones, such as being captured, kidnapped or held captive for a long time, in difficult situations, to rest, to get access to drinking water and food, the plan should be very detailed , the specifics of the one that is at the interview with the program director of the committee for the protection of journalists and my friends, i see a few questions, i want to read them and as i promised, so what olga

gorobets writes on facebook actually relates to the question of the topic that we just discussed through ekhne, someone from journalists in europe or yours i think we are talking about ukrainian or about a goal from america so visit mariupol and describe what you saw olga in fact the journalists were in mariupol before now we know that the situation in particular in australia is very difficult the shelling continues and here are these journalists who ah, at the beginning, from the first weeks of the russian full-scale invasion , they covered the war, documented everything that happened in mariupol, we know that they were photographers yevhen maloletka and mstislav chernov. i think you have also seen their famous photos, which of the fault, the turn of the house in mariupol, and other, other footage that they recorded. we also know that journalists try to work near mariupol, talk to people, talk to residents

who are allowed to evacuate . whether european or ukrainian journalists, photographers, representatives of the press are trying to properly cover and be there to see it, although we understand that it is almost impossible for you, for example, to get there yourself now and the world sees the footage that people record on their phones from there, or when these people who are currently blocked there become citizen journalists and show the world what they see with their own eyes. i also see questions on youtube about what kind of story there is. john kirby burst into tears , asks mason johnny, our regular viewer, i will explain exactly what was said last week, when john kirby is the spokesman for the pentagon, i will remind you when he commented on the atrocities committed by the russian army on the territory of ukraine, he did not cry to him it was hard to hold back the tears and it was such an emotional

emotional comment emotional statement by john kirby that we usually know he uh he tries to answer quite clearly without emotional uh pragmatically in essence but we saw that when journalists asked him about how the spokesman can comment pantheonically the actions of the russian army in ukraine, he called it cold, cruel brutality. and it was really difficult for him to hold back his tears. it was difficult for him to answer this question without emotion. we have this video on the voice of america on our website on our social networks, i think you can search john kirby on our website to find if you are interested in watching this video including a-and we will gradually round up what reads where we are viewed from so kharkiv - lviv akerman ternopil italy also watches in us prague oslo new york e kyiv e other cities friends thank you for your views i will remind you our e daily briefings take place at 6:00 a.m. kyiv time 10:00 p.m.

time-time program 11:35 p.m. our final briefing see you tomorrow peaceful night and peace to you in the morning, download the voice of america mobile application, the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read the news , watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts of the ukrainian voice of america service, that is, there are countries that do not hesitate to buy looted grain. of course, such countries as egypt, for example, or other countries where are my competitors, they are also in such and such a situation, with what this grain is needed, yes, they are faced with a choice or they do not buy grain in the same russia and they leave their people, to put it bluntly, without food,

yes, or they do it in such a way, that is, they don’t have an entirely simple choice either, and you can certainly understand them. unpleasant and in general, if uh, bargaining is buying superimposed blenders yes of course that is absolutely not, i’m just saying that well, i’m trying to put them in their place, but come on , here it goes, it happens every day now, yes and when it comes to the cold or food security in other countries is an issue. it takes such a long time to decide why. this is really about it. if you look at the discussion about food security in the west this way, everyone is trying to put the scales on schalke. this is exactly

the issue. there are many people in the world, about 400 million children suffer from being held in connection with these facts, the ukrainian grain association appealed to international grain traders to stop working in russia, in your opinion how realistic is it that large companies will stop working with russia, which is also, as you said, a large exporter of grain, and there is also the issue of food security, well, for example, i have not heard of large companies there withdrawing from russian grain trade, this is also difficult for them the question is, i think that even if there are large companies that feel a need for a reputation, yes, or that respect the deputy of the kyiv company, then they

should leave, but i think that there are other companies that are small there. maybe there are not many of them. who knows? they will not be ashamed of it and use it to correct the actor. and you know that the pharmacy does not need to be given to him when there are cases of symptoral oil , for example. the same is true of the screen in venezuela. at first, the white company, so to speak, left trade and did not do this, but there were campaigns that were in the gray zone, they traded oil from these countries, and such a situation occurred when , for example, in this legal oil and gray oil, they roughly exaggerate, so er, in other words, we have to see how it would be if to be followed, but there is a real economy and money, not a passport on the sides or e, and unfortunately we see that just business considering the fact that when large massifs of grain are exported, large volumes - this means that

technology and logistics must be involved and thought out. that is, this robbery takes place at the state level and not just individual looters who took away the carpet , for example thank you very much for joining our broadcast oleg khmilevskyi, the head of the center for food research and land acquisition of the kyiv school of economics, was a participant in the marathon which we continue the same news together we are strong support good evening dear viewers my name is maria klyuk i remind you that we have a joint broadcast of the tv channels direct and espresso today we are working for you two hours until one in the morning so please join us watch us and we will inform you and, of course, to sum up today's results, and today was just as tense as yesterday, especially in the evening, ah, an air alert was announced almost all over the territory of ukraine, they were flying at us