er, if you can give a compliment, er, to me, i am a very pleasant, pleasant person. i think it 's ok. so brigitte bring is now a candidate running for the position of ambassador or ambassador of the united states of america in ukraine, a secretary, a tambasadorka, then it's normal to form enough, enough, this femininity is all there is to it. we're going to see the voice of america now, and then you can come back, you and i will still talk about the economy, we'll have an injury, i'll spare the sbu, viktor and agun, we'll have a few interesting topics, by god's word, come back after and we will be together until 12 a party resolution in the senate on recognizing russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and, first of all, a hearing on the approval of a new parcel of the usa in ukraine bridge brink i yuliya yarmolenko we start the release the house of representatives of the

american congress tuesday begins consideration of additional emergency aid to ukraine in the amount of almost 40 billion dollars west on sent by the president of the united states the day before, joe biden called on lawmakers to approve additional funding as soon as possible and send the document to him for signature in the next few days, the president emphasized the urgent need, because he has almost exhausted the resources previously provided by congress to support ukrainian fighters. we cannot allow interruptions in supplies, joe biden emphasized. the leader of the democrats in the senate, chuck schumer, promised to bring the document to the senate for a vote as soon as it is approved in the house of representatives. republican leader michma also expressed his support. at the moment, the candidate for the position of the new us ambassador to ukraine, bridget bring, is currently trying to secure party support with the support of the party. of foreign affairs, hearings on the approval of her candidacy are ongoing, more about the diplomat who can head the most important us representation abroad and the chances of her

approval, let's talk with my colleagues kateryna lisnova and tetyana voroshko, who are joining the broadcast from capitol hill, welcome colleagues, welcome to you first you are joining the broadcast directly from the senate, where the hearings on the approval of the ambassador are ongoing. brinky flowers had the opportunity to hear the first speeches of both senators and the diplomat herself. what are the main theses? have you already heard them? congratulations julia, well, in fact, the hearings started literally 20 minutes ago. and i will note that in addition to today's consideration of the potential ambassador of the united states to ukraine , two more uh, two candidates, uh, two diplomats are being considered during these meetings of this committee, but i will note that the hearings regarding bridge brinka are already are the main hearings and the most attention is drawn to them, the senate foreign affairs committee itself consists of 22 representatives, 11 democrats and 11 republicans, the committee is chaired by democrat robert menendez, so he actually started it

meeting and in his speech, he noted that despite the state of war in ukraine, american diplomats continue to work actively and the appointment of an ambassador will strengthen their work . on the real war front against the russian federation and also the second point is the recovery economic recovery after the end after the victory of ukraine in this war after her speech e further, the members of the committee will already ask questions about how she herself plans to implement her wishes and her statements katya what is the procedure for approving the ambassador in general, what are the chances that the senate will approve the candidacy of bridget bring, in general , open hearings are now taking place because everyone believes that they can listen to e- this is a meeting and find out what is going on during this

meeting, what specific questions are being asked by these candidates. hours, and after that the members of the committee will send written questions to bridget bring about clarifying issues and she will have, in a certain sense, a limited time to quickly respond to all representatives of the committee, and only then if the committee on foreign affairs of the senates approves this nomination, in fact this committee will send it for consideration on voting in the senate and beyond, everything will depend on the 100 senators who will vote for or against whether there are chances of her confirmation, according to all experts and analysts, there are chances of her candidacy being approved very high, at least because there has been no us ambassador in ukraine since 2019, therefore, in addition to the fact that the very approval of this contact in a certain sense has been delayed, today after the full-scale

invasion of the russian federation on the territory of ukraine, the issue of a permanent us ambassador is necessary for the united states of america itself and directly, it is definitely so important. i want to go to tanya. tanya researched the candidacy of bridget bryant and talked in particular with the previous us ambassadors to ukraine. what is known about the diplomat and what are they saying about her qualifications ? head the representation of the united states in ukraine, and really, in principle, two main things can be said about her career: first, we know that now she is in solkosha slovakia, but in fact this is only her pe- and her first experience of sitting is exactly that high position, i.e. if the us ambassador to ukraine is appointed, it will actually be the second time she will head the embassy, ​​nevertheless, she has a 25-year career in the state department, she began this career in belgrade at the us embassy in serbia and all this time they were dealing with the issues of the countries of eastern

europe, the caucasus, and central asia, she held high positions in the embassies of georgia and uzbekistan. and actually, i asked her to what extent she was ready for this position, and our interlocutors are also a former ambassador, one of them. and when another temporary representative of the united states of america for the affairs of ukraine, william taylor, is another, as well as the former ambassador, daniel fry, they actually said that they are ready, actually. well, because she understands very well what russia is, she worked in countries that have significant influence and to oppose this influence, let's listen to under at this time, we need someone who understands the entire region, understands the politics of relations with russia, understanding the importance of ukraine for the united states of europe and for the world, because ukraine, as we know, is fighting against the russians for its own sake and protects europe, protects american values, if we talked to her at the beginning of this week and she is doing everything she can to

prepare for the job she wants to start as soon as possible six that right parking lot say she is perfectly qualified for this position more part of her career, she worked in russia's neighboring ukraine, including georgia and uzbekistan, and therefore she understands the dynamics of russia's neighborhood in these circumstances, in the circumstances when putin is in charge, so the pressure on ukraine, which is defending itself in a war of aggression that putin started without good reasons , she she was very familiar with this, she was in georgia when putin put pressure on them, this is familiar to her, besides, she is not the first time to be an ambassador . it is very pleasant to say that she is kind and does not feel the need to demonstrate her strength except when she needs it. tanya, what do diplomats say about the

challenges that bridget-bring will face as the us ambassador to ukraine? well, at first, i wanted to say that kateryna already mentioned that she really already an ambassador and not a temporary attorney like william taylor, just like now. as an estimate, i asked our interlocutors about the difference, they assured that in principle the function is the same, but it will have more access, easier access to high-ranking officials in washington, they also noted that it is very important that the embassy has now come to kyiv, and that doing this work, which we will now talk about, will be much easier, but as for the priorities, she herself told about them at the hearings, and this is the coordination of efforts to support ukraine in the fight against russia, and also, according to my interlocutors, this is not only coordination with the usa, but also with ukrainian officials, but there is also coordination with allies. well, the second is the second priority that we hope will come as soon as possible, this is the reconstruction and reconstruction

of ukraine, let's listen more, and of course , this is a war, discussions, communications, requests of ukrainians to americans, proposals and advice of americans to ukrainians. the support that washington can provide to kyiv is focused on winning the war. the ukrainians will win this war and he will be there to help them move to the next stage of reconstruction and reconstruction here in many ways relies on the contributions of the temporary moderate ambassador and the embassy so that they can poison updates on the ground as well as the latest information from ukrainians from president zelensky from the minister of foreign affairs and the minister of defense, however, what issues, what important things need to be resolved in washington that are transmitted through the embassy, ​​the embassy provides a very important context and information, as well as background information, intelligence , data on how work is going on in kyiv and in ukraine in general, it is best to do it in kyiv. that is why it is so important to bring the embassy back into the game

will be responsible for coordinating the united states' efforts in ukraine that means she will have to look at military aid efforts and make sure they make sense make sure they meet the needs i expect she will have to coordinate the efforts of the u.s. government when reconstruction begins and that will require coordination on the ground you you can't do it from washington, the commitment of the usa to ukraine is serious, we americans are conducting a major military logistics operation to support ukraine in the war for its life we need a strong ambassador in warsaw, and we have him in the person of mark bzhynski, because poland is the base for this logistical operation, we will need a strong ambassador, i hope in kyiv, not in lviv. tatyana vorozko and kateryna lisunova russian president vladimir putin is preparing for a protracted

war in ukraine, and in the next few months it may become sharper and more unpredictable, while kremen is counting on the fact that in view of world crisis with energy sources and food shortages, the support of kyiv from the western countries will weaken over time, during the hearing of the us senate armed forces committee, director of the national intelligence agency, evrel heinz, stated that, according to heinz, putin wants to strengthen the land connection between crimea and donbas, occupy kherson region to take control of supply lines to crimea and get land connections to transnistria, however, without mobilizing the population of russia - this is unlikely to succeed - said the agency, next month two wars will be important after all, the russians will try to intensify their efforts , but even if they succeed, we are not sure that the struggle in donbass will really end the war, according to our estimates, putin is preparing for a long

conflict in ukraine, during which he still wants to achieve goals outside donbass, we believe that putin's strategic goals probably not changed, combined with the reality that putin is faced with a discrepancy between his ambitions and russia's current core military capabilities. this probably means that in the next few months, we can to see a more unpredictable and potential escalation trajectory, meanwhile, two american senators, republican lindsey graham and democrat blumenthal, presented a new resolution that calls on the administration of president biden to recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. putin is a criminal , he will pose an increasingly greater threat to europe if he is not stopped, said senator blumenthal , presenting the document, saying about the importance of recognizing russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, his colleague senator graham emphasized that such a step can become decisive in the course of the war, and russia will find itself in the

company of four other states that the united states has identified as sponsors of terrorism. and early in the series of cuba and north korea, the senators propose to include the resolution as a provision of a new package of aid to ukraine for almost 40 billion dollars in the event of an official request from the legislators for a decision on determining that whether another country is a sponsor of terrorism should be approved by the us state department, senators say there is enough evidence putin defied the world, he questioned lutseva what do we believe if he stand when this is over and russia will not be recognized as a state sponsor of terrorism we have missed every law in the war crimes book every rule of international law has been turned upside down for 20 years he has gotten away with murder it is time to call him what he has done he is a terrorist and russia is in the hands of a terrorist government headed by putin and the director of anybody in paris, if there is

anyone who personifies terrorism, totalitarianism and torture , it is vladimir putin and, unfortunately, russia is in his hands and that is why this resolution is absolutely appropriate and it puts russia outside the united nations of civilized nations. it puts russia outside the family of nations that adhere to the basic standards of honor and morality, and we condemn the acts of terror by volodymyr puti not only as war crimes but as the actions of a state that sponsors this terrorism this week, finland and sweden can announce their position on nato membership and submit applications for joining the alliance by the end of the month, both countries say that their decision to review non-aligned status was influenced by russian the invasion of ukraine was a topic investigated by our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin for many decades, even in the most dangerous periods of the cold war. finland followed a

cautious neutral course, balancing between the soviet union and nato, but this course changed dramatically. literally in a matter of weeks, it is obvious that everything changed when russia started a war in ukraine. now we have to decide independently, taking into account our national interests, how best to guarantee the safety of finns and finland, we are part of the event and now you see that membership in nato is the end of our western integration russian invasion of ukraine changed public opinion last year only a quarter of the finnish population supported joining nato, the latest poll shows that 76% are in favor of joining the alliance. and sessional and anaferi, we can no longer live with such an unpredictable neighbor as we once did. nato is the only option for solving the security issue if you look

at the geographical facts, therefore it is the only european country that is a member of nato that russia has not yet invaded therefore, i believe that this explains well why we need to join, i don't really trust russia. finland can apply to join nato together with sweden, which until recently also maintained a non- aligned status in nato. and finland and sweden are members of the european union, their military regularly participates in nato exercises, they would significantly strengthen the capabilities of the alliance in the baltic region and in northern europe. where russia keeps large troops, this means that the alliance will increase the representation of the northern countries. the second important thing is that military resources will be strengthened. we have modern

, effective armed forces that we have been building for many years. russia threatens that in the event of finland and sweden joining nato, it will resort to military-technical measures, including the placement of nuclear missiles in kaliningrad. but such threats cause the opposite of the desired consequences in moscow, and somewhere there is a sticky note. we did not see exactly such statements even during the cold war. and this causes concern and is one of the reasons why the finnish political elite says that even our strong army does not give us nuclear protection, the only way is to join nato before the invasion of ukraine , russian president putin demanded that nato withdraw its forces from eastern europe, in return, the alliance will surely have new members in that part of the continent, how radically in a matter of months, the thinking regarding security and defense has changed in these two countries; it should be

considered one of putin's strategic failures for finland and sweden, membership in nato will mean profound changes, for example, finland was neutral and non-aligned since 1917, when the country gained independence from russia bohdan tsyupin - henry ridgebell kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america while the russian authorities continue to use the rhetoric of so-called denazification to justify their war in ukraine, the russian military is shelling babin yar, the jewish cemetery in glukhiv berkovtsi , kharkiv and bila tserkva about this is what the chief rabbi of ukraine says, maybe rhubarb osman hit the russians during the war and in the buildings of the synagogues, inside which hundreds of jews were at the time of the shelling, about the theses of russia

oleksiy kovalenko talked to us about denazification and the fight against the nazis in ukraine, the crimes of the russian forces, as well as israel's position regarding the war in ukraine and do it to us. in march, you told us that your synagogue was occupied by forced migrants from chernihiv. can you tell us how your synagogue is doing now? all on google, the synagogue became the center of the evacuation of people who suffered, who fled, who lost their homes and fled from the terrible war and aggression, we developed a system. at first, it was the anatevka center a small jewish town near kyiv, but later it became unbearable there was a theater of war there , it was right near buchi and the parking lot , heavy fighting took place there, through this center we managed to evacuate about a thousand people, later we moved to kyiv, they set up an evacuation system there, it was not so easy evacuate everything from chernigov. it was under fire. volunteers continued to bring us people to the synagogue. you say that russian troops are behaving like

criminals. russian troops fired at babin yara. a rocket of the russian troops hit the roof of a synagogue in kharkiv, do you find it symbolic that now the places of a-a crimes of the german occupation command during the second world war are becoming the place of war crimes but now the russian army has already been hit by the bullets that are shooting at the babayyar detailskoinnozification they are shooting at babyny yar in the manor in drobytsy europe, the jewish cemeteries and not only the jewish cemeteries in berkovtsi, in addition to the jewish part of the cemetery, the rocket hit the christian part, the rocket hit and on the monuments to the soldiers of the second world war, there was destroyed a monument to a woman whose photo had medals and orders, another destroyed monument to a man, a colonel of the second world war. i think this is some kind of symbolism from above says remember what you are doing you say one thing do another no matter how nazis act like nazis because of whom they

denazify, they kill people, torture, rape , this is called denazification, they just made such a theory to justify their crimes, recently you a recorded a video message about a's statements minister of foreign affairs of russia sergey lavrov , who commented on the jewish origin of the president of ukraine, zelenskyi, who spoke about hitler, and then apologized in a conversation with representatives of the israeli authorities, and the israeli authorities accepted this apology. in your opinion, whether this apology was enough, of course, no, i believe that, first of all, of course not, he apologized for israel inside russia, they did not hear it. while lavrov said this, most likely for the domestic audience, because people did not have it in their heads as if they were fighting against the nazis, and there the jewish president had to be justified in some way. there is criticism of israel regarding its soft policy towards ukraine and the failure to provide

certain types of weapons, including the iron dome. in your opinion, could israel do more? i understand, i understand the criticism of joy from israel to israel, i myself appealed more than once and from israeli television and radio with a request to sell the iron dome and provide ukraine with means of defense for the population, i also understand israel, the russian leadership blackmailed israel and continues to blackmail israel is fighting for its survival just like ukraine, in my opinion, changes have taken place in this direction, it seems that everything will be a little different. israel has begun to understand that ukraine is fighting not only for ukraine, it is fighting for the entire free world, including israel. russia's appetite is not limited to ukraine, i think that many people are beginning to understand in ukraine and america and in other free countries , they say we are anti-fascists and everyone else turns out to be fascists, but in fact the opposite is true, because if israel increases military aid to ukraine, are there

any fears for the jewish communities currently living in russia, i would not advise the jewish communities of russia today i would advise the jewish communities of russia to leave the country and many are already doing it, the iron curtain is coming down there, i lived there once, i was born there during the time of the soviet union, i was in the soviet union and tried for many years to go to israel from there. i understand what it's like , because when everything closes, it will be difficult to leave. the rhetoric that is in russia is very dangerous. the rhetoric there is now worse than the soviet union. if to talk about his last years, i am not talking about stalin’s times, but it is very similar to stalin’s times, among the dead in ukraine was zoreslav zamorskyi. as far as we know, he was buried in your synagogue and you were present during his burial, he was overgrown by russian troops to death and covered the russian invasion of ukraine on such did the russian troops

kill zroslave overseas precisely because of the work he was engaged in and what did you feel when justifying the thesis of 11 classification and the fight against the nazis by the russian troops berezov, i was not present when they killed him. i was not present at the killing, but i saw his body, the body was shot, there were traces of bruises, i think they were traces of torture, he communicated on facebook until the fourth of march, and then his body disappeared found among hundreds of tortured people in buchi, we know what happened in buchi, the whole world saw these horrors. i knew what was happening in buchi even before that, but at that time i was not far from vagativka, that is not far from the local residents. we heard that there something terrible happened in those areas, you have compared the current russia with the soviet union several times. and you often record appeals to the russian-speaking population. in your opinion, will the russian population in russia be able to hear you through all the propaganda and disinformation that we have

now, after our days, the words that come from the heart enter the second heart, our books say that words that come from the heart enter another heart, if you speak from the heart, you speak the truth, the truth will still win, of course they are zombified, of course it is not easy for them to open up. i talk to people who seem to be adequate with their acquaintances, and they start talking about some zombified things. i understand that this is collective zombification, but it will still be revealed later . when the germans were obliged to the propaganda of goebbels, they were euphoric, and after 1945 their eyes were opened, they became they were ashamed to realize the atrocities committed by their brothers and parents immediately after the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine , composer and violoncelloist of russian origin jan maxen, who lives in california he immediately condemned the aggression to support ukraine. he decided with a series of concerts, the money from which he donates to charitable funds that help children with

details. i was scared. when it became difficult for nato to choose words to describe the war in ukraine. composer and cellist yan maksin put his feelings into music. charity concerts to raise money for the needs of ukrainian children, peace collapsed, the world fell apart, my own world around me, i literally had to collect everything the composer adds, he could not remain indifferent and continue to live as if nothing had happened, musicians, and i think that when it comes to musicians, most are afraid of losing their audience, i made my choice on the first day and lost all my russian audience and the chance to perform in russia, but i did not hesitate not even for a second a russian audience and the opportunity to perform in

russia. the funds collected from the concerts will go directly to ukrainian funds. our goal is to help children. our goal is to help children who have suffered as a result of the war. we collect funds for okhmatdyt and other hospitals okhmatdyt hospitals to collect funds for medical equipment and other things for children who suffered from the russian invasion of ukraine ukraine also all the money received from the sale of these paintings by ukrainian russian artists will be directed to ukraine and you to the children i want them to grow up mentally healthy most importantly so that they survive this period of pain from fear in the least directional way possible. i want them to grow up to be healthy people who will build our future. yan maksym also to reason

the future and believes that the responsibility for what is happening today lies with everyone yes i feel responsible for myself and i feel a certain responsibility i do everything possible to atone minimize the damage caused by my still native country my motherland i love my motherland and i will not allow no one accuses me of being a traitor or not a patriot ulyana tilyuk angelina bogdasaryak dmytro savchuk voice of america download the mobile application of the voice of america the application allows automatic bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read the news, watch informative programs and videos, and also listen to the podcasts of the ukrainian voice of

america service, we are returning to our air thank you to everyone watching us, oh my god, a lot of people wrote that they are glad to see me, and they like to watch, dear ones watch the actual er of my territory . thank you very much, i also like them very much, especially since today is actually my last broadcast, so at least in the lviv studio. since we are moving, p- is moving actually editorial office to kyiv i certainly have doubts that i will follow them as well, but in any case, friends, friends, friends, i want to say that we are again today talking about the death of leonid kravchuk, and i repeat this thesis if you missed it for those who just joined now i still believe that it is a mistake to call kravchuk the founder of the ukrainian state and the very person

who brought and gave and made ukraine an independent state. this is a great exaggeration and the main thing is that it actually insults the memory of those people which i truly believe that they are the founders of this state, and this is undoubtedly vyacheslav chornovil, this is undoubtedly levko lukyanenko, these are those who are no longer with us, this is undoubtedly also such figures who are still our contemporaries, until now they are very sorry that we do not pay tribute to them and respect for