therefore, this is a political statement that should have been made when, at the international level, in some backroom ways, russia announced that it considers it a direct threat to itself, since the flagship of the black sea fleet, moscow, was destroyed, and a number of really high-ranking generals who died there seem to be 12 - you are a man, this is the greatest result in the entire history of the 20th century. who is included? when such a number of high-ranking officers of one country die in a military armed conflict. therefore it is obvious that the russian side left. i think in the backroom such routes to the american side saying that this is an open aggression against russia on the part of america and in order to appease them. i think that the political position of the united states required such a public disclosure . how do you to mention. it seems to me that this has nothing to

do with it. it is an objective ongoing daily hourly work that takes place between ukrainian, american, and other agencies, including the special services, which include the active the british, including some countries of the european world, you actually calmed down with this consideration and how they shared intelligence with us and will continue to do so, thank you very much for joining in a quiet peaceful night without arenas without air alarms dmytro zolotukhin - expert of the institute of post-information society well, just now, friends, let’s go to the voice of america program and meet at 11:00 p.m. here with you. and the package of aid to ukraine about the role of the united states in the investigation of russian war crimes military and, first of all, about the course of finland and sweden towards nato finland should apply for nato membership immediately with such a joint statement

today the president and prime minister of finland confirmed to the world that the russian war against ukraine forced them to reconsider their neutral status and moscow's threats to respond in case of the introduction only emphasizes the urgency of such actions. finland is expected to officially formalize its decision already on sunday; a final decision from sweden is expected on monday immediately after the publication of the president's statement finland's sauli nyinistu spoke by phone with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyi and assured of ukraine's unwavering support. finland's entry into nato, if it happens, will be a historic step, pentagon spokesman john kerby said in an interview with mc nbc, adding that the process of integrating the country into the military alliance will not be a difficult decision . the authorities have already congratulated the american legislators and the famous american strategist from axelrod, commenting on the announcement, said that putin chose his place in history and he he achieved it as a war criminal and the author of one

of the most egregious strategic miscalculations in modern history more about finland's course towards nato and its importance for ukraine let's talk with my colleague in london bohdan tsyupan bohdan congratulations good evening so finland 80 years of neutrality 1300 km border with russia how important this is currently an oral announcement of the course towards nato by the athens authorities . well, not only verbally, it is an official statement that was published today on behalf of the head of state of finland and on behalf of the head of government, that is, standing the signatures of the heads of state. we also actually have the vote of the parliament of the parliamentarians in finland. all parties and political groups support this step . we also have the mood in society, while last year,

about 25% of finns spoke in favor of finland joining nato, so now this is an indicator more than 70%. that is, we are talking about specific , very specific steps, which mean that at least the political part of the accession to finland. is it so that the promotion of finland to nato accession is actually completed and we are reaching a specific final the path, a part of the path, which, for example, has already been announced in nato, will be very, very fast, and as yanstontomberg hladkyi said, and the president of finland emphasized that this decision was made after very serious consideration. that's what he said, fodder, it's nothing here, eniparia, our accession to nato would not be directed against someone we want

to strengthen our security in one way or another and are thinking about joining the alliance, but this does not mean that someone will lose if finland increases its security , then it is not at the expense of someone else if you if you ask how they consider the possibility of the finns joining nato, then my answer would be that you caused it. look in the mirror, bohdan, what exactly will finland's accession to nato mean for the security of europe and for ukraine? it's interesting how ukraine is often mentioned in this matter every time, although it is about the accession of the scandinavian countries to the nato of the northern countries, and this means that precisely the northern part of europe, the external part, so to speak, adjacent to russia, will be stronger, europe will be more protected believe in nato itself and also in

finland in particular. of course, we are still waiting for specific decisions from sweden, but he spoke about the fact that this step is positive and that it is caused by specific reasons, and already many european countries have actually offered military support to finland during the accession process, in particular about this and the british prime minister, mr. johnson, who recently visited stockholm and helsinki, these countries have traditionally been neutral. sweden, finland are countries that do not pose any threat to russia, but it is necessary to look at what is happening in ukraine , everyone is focusing on this, it is another country that did not pose any threat to russia, but suffered a brutal unprovoked attack. and now we say that we are swedes and finns. in the event of an attack, we will come to each other's aid, this is clear without words, but

it is worth saying that in the current circumstances we will build a closer partnership in the field of defense and security bohdan russia is already threatening to respond in the event of the accession of finland and sweden to nato and the finnish mass media also report that tomorrow russia can stop the supply of gas. do such threats have any effect on the aspirations of the finns? from the smallest moment, the threats obviously have an effect, but probably not as much as they hope in moscow, because finland has obviously decided that not joining nato in this situation would be worse than taking advantage of the opportunity when russia is now preoccupied war in ukraine and join the defense alliance. thank you, bohdan . my colleague bohdan tsyupin was with us on the call from london. the american senate will soon vote on new aid to ukraine in the amount of more than 40 billion dollars that on tuesday the bill

passed the approval of the payment of representatives in the white house, they emphasize that it must be done as soon as possible so that there are no interruptions in the sending of weapons to the ukrainian military. did you talk directly with american senators today, when, according to them, should we expect the approval of this bill and do the democrats and republicans have an agreed position regarding him, in fact, the democrats today announced that they expect this bill. it is as if they started today, on the other hand, the republicans with whom i spoke claim that they support the bill itself, but they cannot say for sure when it will be approved. the main question is that the democrats want the bill to be approved. it was exactly what kind of representatives, because if additional amendments are brought to the senate, it can be delayed for at least a week, and president joe biden previously stated that the fact that time is now of the utmost importance, at least because

financial aid to ukraine is coming to an end, i will also note that one of the amendments that can make changes in the sonnet is called the amendment of republican senator rand lapaul, which requires that the finances provided to ukraine be checked by a separate instead of the inspector, the democrats claim that such inspectors already exist about what they think is in the bill and when they plan to vote. talked about today the problems with the vote today is republican obstruction there are one or two members who may try to slow it down if we had unanimous support to continue we could vote for it today and we could quickly send this aid to ukraine it seems quite likely that there will be one or two member of the republican party who will object because to continue today in this case is to take a week because it takes so long to miss something even when it is

about 85 or 90 votes, we should provide economic and military support to the courageous people of ukraine to protect them and also give them the opportunity to see this war through to the end. i think everyone hopes that this bill will be voted on today, but who knows, we received the bill as i remember yesterday afternoon and there is no 100% cooperation in the senate. and this means 100 senators. in order to pass such a bill , it takes more than a week. so, if all 100 members of the senate do not agree with the process and also with the substance the draft law can take a longer period of time, we hope we can adopt it already today if it happens and i expect that the draft law will have mainly two party support, it will have my support and we will also watch how the events in the senate of ukraine develop, among others, representatives of the administration took part in them

biden has singled out what massages to go, so julia actually talked to democrats and republicans and senators today during this meeting , and in particular during this meeting, the head of the... of the senate committee on foreign affairs, robert menendez asked karan donfel, assistant secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs, when exactly can this war, the russian war against ukraine, be considered over and when exactly can it be said that the aid of the united states of america can end and is already exhausted, for which kara anton should have replied to robert of the management that it completely depends on ukraine that the war against russia is the russian war against ukraine will be completed when ukraine itself will announce it besides an important statement was the statement of bedvanshak, the ambassador of the special mandate of the world criminal justice, this is one of the topics, uh, one of the topics that was raised during this meeting - how to bring to justice people who committed

war crimes during this conflict, the russian conflict in to ukraine, and in particular she noted that in a few days a major initiative will be launched jointly with great britain and the european union and the united states to assist the ukrainian prosecutor's office in the investigation of these crimes, in particular, there will be help both in kyiv and on the ground at those headquarters and at those points where investigations of these crimes will take place. documenting testimony spoke the day before in the house of representatives of the congress, ambassador shav all michael carpenter separately paid attention to the issue of the so -called filtration camps group so cold fashing so we have information that the so-called filtration camps operate in the east and south

in ukraine, the ukrainian population of these regions are forced to pass through them, they are interrogated, their mobile phones are taken away, they are forced to hand over their passports. if these reports are true, then they are war crimes . there are fears that tens of thousands of civilians died as a result of the barbaric siege of mariupol in the liberated territories near kyiv and kharkiv evidence of mass murders and sexual violence committed by members of the russian armed forces against civilians, how exactly ukraine uses the help of international experts and innovative technologies to collect evidence of war crimes in the russian military, iryna matviychuk will tell more than 50,000

law enforcement officers work in combat zones of ukraine, in addition to helping the military, their task is to investigate war crimes almost 21,000 criminal proceedings were opened on the territory of ukraine during the war, including almost 9,000 criminal cases proceedings on the facts of crimes committed on the territory of ukraine by servicemen of the armed forces of the russian federation and their guides, the mission of experts under the auspices of the osce in europe declares that they have identified what they call clear signs of violation of international humanitarian law, there were cases of murder, cases of torture, cases of rape due to danger, they could not leave for places of potential crimes, however, they say that it is not necessary to enter, because there is a huge digital archive of information, all of this can be seen on the internet in fore videos, photos or

the testimony of victims, the latest examinations help prosecutors in ukraine to collect thousands of photo and video evidence, the prosecutor general of ukraine iryna venediktova tells that on the official website of the department, they created crowdsourcing, gathering evidence by involving a large number of volunteers , social media are also very important, because they are open resources that we can use in our country there is a team of about 100 prosecutors working with open resources analysis of this information is very important for us to make this evidence acceptable to use in international courts, such a task was set by a british public organization that launched the i'vestreet racery application, which is translated into ukrainian as an eyewitness to cruelty, the application for each individual piece of evidence collects information about the time of the crime, the place of its commission and other possible data that prosecutors can submit to the court first where and when the footage was taken to ensure that we know this information

to ensure that the footage has not been edited so that its integrity has not been damaged to ensure that we we can trace the duration of this frame to know that no one had any access to make any changes, this is a ton of information that the ukrainian government needs to put in order before going to court. the united states, among other things, has taken it upon itself to protect this valuable information from hackers, which is now in the information field is as active as what is happening on the battlefield, we are trying to provide broad support to the ukrainian authorities to help them get through all the emergency situations they will face during the investigation of these crimes, the prosecutor of the international criminal court, in addition to khan, told the voice of america that the latest technologies do not replace traditional tools of criminal investigation, on the contrary, they expand the power of human

memory, you can imagine a witness who is very often traumatized over time, his memories and this naturally changes, they can waver, they can disappear years until these testimonies reach the international tribunal, the russian authorities reject accusations of involvement in war crimes, however, ignore numerous requests for interviews on this topic accusations of war crimes are also committed against the ukrainian military, although they are much less . the prosecutor general of ukraine assured that her department will investigate each individual case and that the state of ukraine will cooperate with the international criminal court. has already led to an increase in prices all over the world, president joe biden said this during a visit to the farm of vilinay sidevi applied

about the measures aimed at the development of american agriculture, analysts say that this agricultural shock can lead to long-term global problems, especially in low- income countries, oleksiy kovalenko tells under threat global supplies of wheat, corn and barley, oil crops, oil and fertilizers, global prices for food products from plants by almost 13%. from the beginning of full-scale russian aggression, the white house declares, president joe biden said on wednesday during a visit to kankata that if he does everything possible to help american farmers fill this gap, which he does not blame russian president vladimir putin, you are really the backbone of our country, this is not an exaggeration, but you also feed

the world and we see that with putin's war against ukraine you have also become the backbone of freedom on wednesday biden announced a series of measures for farmers they include additional support so that farmers can to plant two sets of grain per year, technologies that will allow the use of less fertilizers and a two-fold increase in the financing of domestic fertilizer production to 500 million dollars, the president of the european investment first sounded the alarm this week, he said that a significant amount of wheat is blocked in ukraine, ukraine, the wheat basket of europe, now wheat is blocked there from last year's harvest worth 8 billion euros, they cannot export it, they have no access to the sea, this is one of the key issues that we must solve, because they are working and people are now sowing like crazy and in a few months they will probably expect a good harvest, maybe 70% of last year's and then what to do with it, the consequences of the problem are already visible

last month, only a few farms participated in strikes due to the increase in food and fuel prices, these events led to the resignation of the sri lankan government and the prime minister, the crisis is likely to hit the hardest in those parts of the world where resources are already limited, according to analysts." this is a real turn back in the world economy of the countries that suffered the most states that are very dependent on the import of food and energy sources, they will really suffer very much and politically it will be extremely difficult for these countries, history shows that, of course , grain can lead to significant changes in the world. when in 1788 in france, the price of bread rose, the peasants started an uprising, demanding governance according to principles freedom, equality and fraternity next year was a revolution anita pavel oleksiy kovalenko dmytro savchuk voice of america a the

day before, the annual awarding ceremony for outstanding leadership was held in washington, one of awards were given to the ukrainian people for their extraordinary courage and resilience in the face of the harsh and unprovoked invasion of russia, the ceremony is organized by the atlantic council think tank, in the past its laureates were us presidents george bursh sr. and jr., then vice president joe biden, president of the european commission ruslan von derlyant and others this year, the award for international leadership was presented to the prime minister of italy mario draghi, and the award for leadership in art was awarded to artists of ukraine who defend their culture during the russian invasion on behalf of ukrainian artists, the singer jamala received an award the event gathered influential officials , diplomats, businessmen and cultural figures from the usa and other countries the guests

dedicated a large part of their speeches to ukraine we must continue to support the courage of ukrainians who are fighting for their freedom and for the safety of all us we must continue to inflict damage on russia without delaying our latest sanctions package, but we must also do everything we can to achieve a ceasefire and long-term peace and the conditions of this peace will be decided by ukrainians and no one else in the meantime we must prepare for the world we will live in tomorrow we must be ready to support ukraine long after the end of the war the destruction of its cities , industrial enterprises, fields will require enormous financial support ukraine will need its own marshall plan every day, the world admires the bravery, heroism and determination of the ukrainian people, who are experiencing unimaginable suffering and are faced with unequal chances for victory, brave ukrainians spoke at

protection of one's people to preserve one's motherland and to protect democracy for one's state for the world that is how the struggle for freedom in ukraine is the struggle for freedom in the world and america will be with the ukrainians until this struggle is won, the paramedics leader of the ukrainian antibody group taras topolya from on the first day of a full-scale war serves in territorial defense, first in kyiv, now in kharkiv, in between military assignments, the musician has time and successfully cooperates with world stars adam shirom and bono from youtube about the clip in which taras talks about his february 24 concert at the khreshchatyk metro station and the billboard that saved his life, the musician told in an interview with lesya bakalets that he shoots clips with ed as the characters. the plot is hot here, how many more

rockets, i promise, when it's all over and he performs with bonus at the khreshchatyk metro station, but creativity and concern activity in the leaders of the band antitila are now only in the breaks between combat tasks, friends . in general, we have a new album mlnl released today and we should present it in which studio but the studios don't work, after all, ukraine works a little differently since the first day of the war, he and the other members of the band are serving in the terrodefense of the armed forces of ukraine. this is our group, as it were, with a full lineup on the first day and arrived at the place of deployment and there already began serving in kyiv 24 february began for taras in the same way as for most ukrainians, from the explosions. it was this moment that he showed in the clip for the joint song with ed

sheeran . the car farm of one of the law enforcement agencies, and at this car farm there was a siren and she was our windows, so the children were scared and started crying . we already had all the necessary documents and essentials in the prepared places, we just packed them quickly into suitcases. i drove the car out of the parking lot and parked it i took my wife, children, and i together with them to my father's house. i handed my wife over to my father, and my father got behind the wheel , and he and his wife and three children drove a car with two canisters of gasoline that i specially stocked up on even before the start of the war, they went to the west of ukraine. i waved my hand, kissed them and got on my bicycle

because i gave the car, got on my bicycle and rode my bicycle from one end of kyiv to the other to kill in the battalion, then i left my bicycle and began to serve, that's actually my whole story tarasov's wife knew about the decision to go to serve for a long time, now she and their three children are temporarily living in the usa with the singer's mother, she accepted it of course that she is worried, but she supports and prays for me there and understands that and how else did i have any another general moral right to leave somewhere knowing that i am a healthy person, i have arms, legs , brains on my head, and i can fight. taras had a little experience as a paramedic, but he says that his baptism by fire took place literally in the first days of the war

, on the third or fourth day of the war in our battalion had already been killed and wounded, and we got into it quickly and head on, and it was very stressful. i 'll tell you honestly, and if you knew, you could be ready for a lot of things, but when the situation starts unfolding live, of course, i'll be able to say about yourself, what are you worried about, you try to keep yourself in your hands, but do what you have to do already there in the kyiv region, when it was still under occupation, taras and the team recorded their part of a joint song with ed sheeran, the musicians met, just taras turned to tik toku to the width of he replied with a proposal for a joint concert, the performance did not go well, but the singer offered to record the song and shoot a music video for it

. they all agreed, they didn’t have any comments on this matter, and then shir introduced taras to bon, the leader of the youtube band, a probable story of some kind . well, because ed sheeran wrote in uh, where are we on instagram, in my opinion, he wrote to me that and can i give i had your phone number, of course, he said that of course you can give it, and after a certain period of time , i called him and said that taras, i am going to kyiv. i will be there tomorrow. i want you to come and sing this song with me. we asked permission from our command, they gave us an official business trip for two days they filled us with diesel fuel and we bailed out in our 20-year-old mercedes, which we have in a bargain mercedes on a bus, then taras was already serving near kharkiv and the band was driving to kyiv all night. i'll

be honest, i was worried because we didn't have rehearsals with him none when we arrived, we went down to the subway. they had already done a self-check, they had already done their referee. as they say, and we arrived, they already started playing and i went on stage and sang this song for the first time with him. and then, in the middle of the song, i turned to the world leaders and us i am asking you to help to our president and our diplomacy to take ukrainian soldiers out of mariupol with them to the concert, the musicians brought the fragments of a rocket that almost killed their unit, it did not reach the target 50 m, the rocket flew directly into our two-story building where our unit was located. if it had hit, it would have blown everything well, i don’t know if there would be people there, if there would be any

people alive. but she had an advertising billboard on the road, and she got into its rib after successful cooperation with two world stars taras hopes to see sir elton john, mykola mccartney and lady gaga in ukraine. he says that it is difficult to be creative during the war, but he keeps a field diary every day and promises that after the victory, the band will release a new album and songs. there will be only positive things. thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian in your tomorrow, good luck. take care, my friends. analyze analyze the main events this day discuss the 78th day of ukrainian