there was some possibility that this is just a certain game with which he plays from the west and salvation or to miss some concessions by blocking the entry of a more responsible version for this. the eastern game is eastern politics and the eastern library, so it is not always necessary to look only not literally, but to understand which he wants us to have preferences from all these political manipulations, sir, and this is not just the way it is done, and we europeans can say that. i found that internet, i wish you good health, please take care of yourself and thank you for your protection, serhiy parkhomenko, a soldier of the armed forces of ukraine, the director of the center for foreign policy studies, was just now on direct e-mail with us. well, let me remind you that now we are all watching the news together the voice of america and i

'm also returning to the air ukraine, according to pentagon estimates, the russian military continues to lag behind its own schedule of military operations by at least two weeks, morale remains a problem and ukrainian artillery disrupts efforts russia to conquer new territories in the donbass, this was announced by a senior official of the us department of defense. meanwhile, 370 ukrainian soldiers have already trained on american howitzers and 700-77 artillery pieces, which washington provides to kyiv. today, for the first time since the beginning of the war, the head of the pentagon, lloyd austin, spoke by phone with the minister of defense of russia serhii shoigu during the call here he called for an immediate ceasefire in ukraine more about this and the status of the draft law on additional aid ukraine in the amount of more than 40 billion dollars, we will talk with my colleague ostap yarysh, who joins the broadcast from capitol hill

ostap, congratulations, i am commenting on this the first since february 18, the call between ossetyn and shoigu in the pentagon and what signals do american experts see in this body, you know, the journalist tried to find out as much information as possible, i asked a lot of questions about this call, but the pentagon was not verbose, they only said that this call was professional from what we know i want to emphasize attention to several important points, so first of all, as you already correctly said, this is the first call in 84 days by the officials of the us minister of defense to the minister of defense of russia, the last one was made almost a week before the start of a full-scale russian autograph invasion, now this call was made on the initiative of the pentagon, the pentagon also added that during the full-scale invasion they tried periodically to establish contact with the russian ministry of defense, but in moscow these requests and any attempts to call were ignored also the second point on which it is important to emphasize

the fact that the pentagon called for a general cease-fire. when asked about this , the pentagon also complained, he said that it basically coincides with the vision of the allies and partners of the united states in europe regarding how journalists comment experts and journalists also asked the representative of the pentagon whether this attempt to establish contact does not mean any change in the position of the united states regarding ukraine and russia , the pentagon assured that there are no changes. in fact, the thesis of which was voiced lazily in front of the fact that ukraine must win and cause as much damage as possible to russia, what will the united states do with you, the pentagon adheres to this opinion, and nothing has changed for yuli, ostapa is one of the key people in this during the week , there was also a vote on the draft law on additional aid to ukraine in the amount of more than 40 billion

dollars . we know the delay and when to wait for approval. the white house emphasizes that the current funds for military aid to kyiv are running out. this is exactly how, according to the white house, the pentagon, according to their calculations, should run out of this last aid package allocated by congress for ukraine . that's why joe biden called on the legislators to pass it as soon as possible, and in principle, the legislators were ready as soon as possible with this bill of their own sick to pass it on for signature of the president, however, there is one senator rentball - this is a senator from zantuka, a sanatorium, a republican in his opinion differs from the majority of both the republican and democratic parties, he introduced his own amendment, which proposes to introduce a special inspector who should supervise the use of funds for ukraine. - the comments of other senators that in fact supervision is carried out and there are inspectors,

what kind of supervision is it, they are already going a-a rentball is in his turn in the comments when he explained the actual why he is carrying this amendment that delays the vote. he said that he swore to the us constitution and not to any other country, and according to him, you cannot doom the us economy by helping ukraine, these are the words of this senator, although we expect what the leader of the democrats in the senate said and chuck schumer said that there will still be delays, but they expect that this bill will be put to a vote next week , so we hope that we will have some news soon and will be able to report it, but once again i emphasize to yulia that the majority and all present are yes democratic senators and all republican senators support this and there is a consensus here, but we know that the system of the united states is such that even one senator in our country can block or temporarily postpone

the adoption of certain decisions, so ostap really has bipartisan support in the ukrainian hills of aid to ukraine let's finally remind the audience about what this new $40 billion package is about. is it only military or are there other things yuliyu not only military military aid has the largest volume in this bill, but in addition to this, economic support and humanitarian support are also laid down. the united states emphasized that these three channels are important for support in order to help ukraine win in this war, however, and in order to keep the government of ukraine functional and also to support the ukrainian people who are suffering in this unjustified, as they say in the white house, and unprovoked aggression and russia against ukraine. thank you ostap, we will keep an eye on the development of the events on capitol hill will obviously have some news. next week we will definitely inform you about them. i will remind you that my colleague ostap yarysh was on the phone. russian

troops continue their attempts to seize azovstal . on friday morning, the russians tried to break into the territory of the plant and are not letting up. and artillery and aerial bombardment of mariupol, however, soldiers of the azov battalion and marines of the armed forces of ukraine continue to put up strong resistance and push back the russian soldiers from captured positions on the territory of the plant, vice-prime minister iryna vereshchuk reported the day before that ukraine is conducting negotiations through the mediation of turkey on the evacuation of military personnel, primarily the relatives of severely wounded soldiers who have almost no contact with their relatives are calling on the international community to intervene, meanwhile, the wives of soldiers continue to believe in their the return of one of such stories of zhanna and oleg will be told by anna kostyachenko. zhanna

calls oleg the love of her life. they met in the medical office. oleg is a masseur - specializes in complex cases, treated children with cerebral palsy, he rehabilitated athletes with injuries , and began to treat zhanna. he has a very long experience, more than a dozen. he has a very long experience, more than a dozen years. he is a professional in his field. in the following state, they met for two years, and by the new year 2022, they decided to get married on december 31st, here we were just planning to enter the championship in the same way.

i was not released. oleg was taken thanks to his experience in 2014, when the separatists captured donbas, the man voluntarily went to the front at 2 p.m. he said that it was often in the battles in mariupol, er, about the 14th year, he told that he took part in the battles of mariupol under shirokino under yuryavka from there. he brought the dog. it turned out that they were passing by the village and he saw a man beating the dog very hard. now the dog gerda, together with the mistress, is waiting for the return of the owner, and oleg is also waiting for oleg from azovstal in the united followers of missionary judaism of kyiv, or as some of them call themselves jewish christians, oleg joined them in the 17th

year in search of spiritual development, says the elder nagromat kostyantyn herdov i know oleg for several years i know oleg for several years he became a member of our community 5 years ago thank you very calm person what a kind doctor who tried to help different people he is not a nazi at all similar to noses we put it completely not similar konstantin says that he is not surprised that russian propaganda portrays the defenders of mariupol as nazis he compares the modern kremlin rhetoric with the information techniques of hitler's germany, lies are easier to believe, that's why russia uses such tricks such tricks i'm trying how can i zhanna says oleg wanted to go where, in his opinion, he was most needed and joined the azov regiment in mariupol, he went there himself and he says he went there himself, he says i am needed there more

with my combat experience, through his comrades , through his comrades, i learn that they saw him alive , not injured, on april 19. after several weeks without contact, oleg sent short video messages to slavjani, and then silence again. and to guarantee their non -combat participation until the end of the war, i am constantly praying that some wonderful solution will be found, that i will be constantly praying that some wonderful solution will be found so that they are not simply taken out, because i understand the ambitions of some major powers above all else, the liberators will not let them out just like that, above all, they will not let them out just like that zhanna believes in the return of

her husband and even prepared a gift for him, our joint portrait, he will return in a second way, he will return differently and it cannot be that such a great love and god have divided anna kostyuchenko oleksiy yakushev for the voice of america from kyiv the azovstal metallurgical plant has been surrounded almost since the beginning of russia's war against ukraine in april the ukrainian defense forces were told that they were running out of ammunition and medicines, the first call to organize an extraction procedure for the fighters was voiced to world leaders by the commander of the 36th brigade of marines, serhii volynskyi, what kind of procedure it is and whether there is a chance for it to be carried out, lesya bakalets learned for two and a half months, surrounded by marines the zsu and the azov battalion, despite the greater forces of the enemy, do not surrender the azovstal metallurgical plant to the russian troops at the end of april, commander of the 36th marine brigade serhiy

volynsky appealed to the world community, the defenders of the plant need help. we are asking you to vote for us in the extract procedure. literally, extraction or exfiltration means the process of moving personnel from the territory under the control of the enemy to a safe zone. there are approximate examples of such a process in world history. there is an option . when the country itself frees its soldiers, for example, operation dynamo in dunkirk during the second world war, where the allied troops were surrounded on the coast and there was little hope for rescue, then the british authorities organized a rescue operation, asking for the help of civilian owners of boats, there was another similar operation in 1976 in luganda .

freely opens a humanitarian border, this is not uncommon in military history, if the soldiers defended themselves well and defended themselves with honor, often the attackers let them go , the defenders of azov still ask for the intervention of a third party of the state, which means that it evacuates them from mariupol and keeps them on its territory until the end of the war. the edition of crimea realia quotes the words of the leader of the crimean tatar people, mustafa dzhemilyov, that turkey was ready to become such a mediator, but russian defense minister serhiy shoigu refused and stated that the ukrainian military should appear as the last such they do not consider the option of surrendering, said the official kyiv. they not only understand that they are fighting for ukraine, but also realize what is happening to the prisoners of war in russia. they rape and kill no one wants to be captured by the russians at the end of the second world war the russians captured 100 thousand japanese and only 10,000 managed to return a second time the russians talk about

denazification and believe that the azov battalion is nazi, so these will be the last people whom the russians will release to influence russia are trying with the help of international organizations, so the relatives of the azov soldiers have created a petition to the un and the secretary general personally with a request to save the soldiers at the time of writing she has already collected more than a million and 300,000 signatures . experts suggest that even stronger economic sanctions could work. if alina kabaeva was deprived of all her accounts, she would also freeze the property that is counted on her , on her mother, on her against the last great britain introduced sanctions today to release the defenders of mariupol through a military operation , there is no chance at the moment, says the official kyiv, but experts

are sure that he can appear. either putin's decision has changed, or the possibility of receiving real aid, or the ability of the ukrainians to continue defeating russia in places like kherson, and we will start a counteroffensive. the minister of reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories of ukraine, iryna vereshchuk, is negotiating the exchange of 38 seriously wounded ukrainian soldiers from azov and stalin for russian prisoners, says the negotiations are going hard lesya bakalizer ruslan baidyuk voice of america while ukrainian soldiers continue to resist russian aggression people all over the world help ukrainians who are in trouble modern war has already changed the sphere of charity for the first time

crypto-currencies play a big role in efforts charitable companies spread in social media allow intermediaries to transfer money in a matter of seconds funds between countries about the role of cryptocurrency in the war, the benefits and risks of such donations, and also about how russia can use financial innovations to bypassing sanctions my colleague oksana bodratenko asked us experts cryptocurrencies at war crypt new deadly weapon of ukraine against russia crowdfunding war yes world media react to unprecedented use of new digital assets to raise funds in support of ukraine after the ukrainian government announced that such donations are possible number of donations cryptocurrency exceeded 130 million dollars according to the estimates of the american company of digital assets tiaremleps this is a real breakthrough in the development of cryptocurrency russian invasion have coincided in time and we see how through cryptocurrency they finance the resistance and help refugees i think

many young people are very concerned about social justice and other issues, they see the injustice of this war and strive to help the people and government of ukraine, that is why i am a movement from below twitter and facebook in combination with new technology that allows the transfer of assets with the speed of the internet on the government organization new ukraine from san francisco collects a donation for ukraine, there they tell the inhabitants of the silicon valley not to get used to the latest technologies, initially large-scale after the war, we really felt a large influx of crypto- currencies, different cryptocurrencies, that is, bitcoins, silver, and hmm usd. who are these people in general, who makes donations in cryptocurrency? we had people who work in the valley, that is, engineers, which was very interesting. the donation was given by people who are engaged in nfc i.e. people who make artistic drawings and

sell them sell them as editorials and then send us their donations new crane could collect 30 million i think one can 1.5% was cryptocurrency bitcoins allow you to send money quickly without banks western union and others of traditional fins, how can you make sure that your digital coins really went as intended, because out of 50 cryptocurrency fundraising companies for ukraine that investigated the fund, almost half turned out to be fraud. we have also seen widespread fraudulent schemes around ukraine. after all, people want to donate . and when there is such a desire, there may be less willingness check the charitable organization, they still exist . the scammer is in no way a reason to make such donations. it is worth checking more carefully what the scammers can do. they can do it . any missing - in social networks or buy

a website, they can create the same website as ours or our partners or other ukrainian organizations and just start e-e collecting cryptocurrency, make a qr-code and they can even open bank accounts it is necessary, that is, it can be done. it can be done very quickly, therefore, if a person wants to make a donation in cryptocurrency, it is very important to take the addresses of these wallets in verified places before sending bitcoins, analysts advise to make sure that the organization has a significant presence on social networks, ask acquaintances what the protocor organization is known to them, and whether this alternative financial system can help russia. for example, to bypass international sanctions, it is impossible to transfer the economy of a g20 country to cryptocurrency in the world with enough cryptocurrency to support

the russian economy and replace the invasion of ukraine hundreds of billions of dollars blocked in the central bank, but russian oligarchs who are under sanctions are trying to use cryptocurrency to get away from the sanctions. how do we know this, because over the past 10 years they have used everything to get around the sanctions, from luxurious houses to buying electronics , cars and yachts. the usa introduced sanctions against three cryptocurrency exchanges, these are institutions that allow you to exchange bitcoins, other cryptocurrencies, for dollars, euros, etc. all these three sub-stock exchanges are located in russia, says redford, oksana bedratenko, oleksia osyka - voice download the voice of america mobile application, the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read

news, watch informative programs and videos, and also listen to podcasts of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, and in new york the world stage, which refused to cooperate with russian artists after the start of a full-scale war against russia the ukrainian operator immediately stopped cooperation with two russian opera singers, anna netrebko, and a false hern-zava, who supported the putin regime metropoliten offered to perform their parts to the world-famous ukrainian performer lyudmila monastersky. her very first performance was met with a standing ovation by the new york audience. of the day ms. ludmila and you are a star of the world stage and a metropolis there, this is

probably the top to what extent of your career, this is not your first performance, but it was probably during the war under the time of some rather difficult and complex events, which are currently happening in ukraine, for sure, singing on this stage is a little different, it opens well, but still, hmm, regarding turandot, i already left her to sing this role already in 2015, it was my last performance at the kyiv national resistance, when peter i invited help personally and explained what the situation was about, how it all happened, then i already agreed because, well, there are already other priorities , why didn't i want to, that is, just grow into me, i have my own reasons for this, she is very like that loud, this role, dear, i love more, so

calm and calm, so more, like this, in the middle of the day , like this, like a song, that's the role, so you've already started talking about it, that is, you were invited not just because this part was performed by a russian woman before. a political decision on the part of the management of the metropolitenupara to simply remove her from the stage and probably to have the ukrainian woman perform, that's how they explained it to you and explained that they have no moral right to support the singer who actually supported the genocide of our people that is, without innocent victims, she supported this putin regime and what he is doing now, let's say, is creating , i don't know how to say it, on my earth, on my native land, i have this family now in ukraine, that is, i worry every second for them and

others russian colleagues, because she is not alone , did she write something to you, what was their reaction, they called, they wrote, how are you, what are you, we hope with your relatives, all is well and in general, it is a horror that this will be created, well, people, if they themselves were shocked, it is in this situation. these are the colleagues who let's assume they already are they don't live in russia, they were emirates for a long time, and they don't support this regime, this is a phrase there, culture outside of politics, sport outside of politics. yes , russian athletes or russian performers use it very often, but now it's manipulation, actually , because when it's beneficial for them, they talk about it. it's profitable. they're changing their point of view. what do you think, that is, this war has changed the approach of this word, what is the culture outside of politics? everything has changed here, and it should change in a different way. there's no way it can. my opinion already. let them sing. not for myself, but there are currently countries that are not ready, not

ready. for example, where there are ukrainian performers and from this same project, russian ones who support the regime. you already said that at the time of the war they were in ukraine. yes, but your family was in ukraine, that is in kyiv, that's what you felt that night. oh, it's terrible. what i'm saying is that it would be better for me to sit there. well, to be honest. during this period, when i usually go somewhere in my apartment, when my mother arrives, it was very scary . it was very exciting somehow for my mother i just watched at night, i couldn’t spend an hour or two alone. maria, i’m watching the news, what’s up with that ? you are returning to kyiv, not to warsaw. the fact is that peter help invited me, offered me participation in such a

project, the ukrainian freedom orchestra . that after the contract i i can't go home. i'm somewhere, i'm somewhere, but i'm not at home . it's very important for me to come home, and we'll say that you have another project with the subway that you're preparing. the management offered me instead of khila khila gerznava, they offered me longing in the next season now, with the wrong one, some contracts are also being broken by those who consider it necessary to do it as elie paia okista did it, it was in latvia, there was a huge classical concert in which i took part, a concert for the soprano from the orchestra was supposed to sing and the blue one, well, she was eliminated and i was invited to the tradition and i probably want to ask you a question about creative plans, but i understand that now, after all, everything is about the war

. peter and his wife again invited me to this project. i have to sing beethoven there. there is such an opera fidelio from him , and there is a sliator , such a character. hug millions well, that's not the case in the sense of a in the sense of the fact that she goes like this, like a voice, as they say well, as they say, a conscience or something like that, and like a thought, what is it like, like, like a direct appeal to even putin himself, somehow, the most important thing is that he still reigns peace and victory came sooner rather than later, we kicked this evil out of our land behind us, the truth is, i think so because we are on our land, it is right, my peaceful country, we are as if when we encroach on someone else's property yes, we live calmly, work calmly, raise our children, and so on.

that's what here come the young boys of the father of what they came here with what and who did they come when sloboda says, wait for something, she waits glory to ukraine glory to the nation death to the enemies to the heroes glory be to god that after all peace reigned and a peaceful sky was above us and we were once again able to live normally live think work and bring a peaceful and peaceful life and with these words lyudmila monasterska we conclude thank you thank you very much for watching voice of america in ukrainian see you on monday, have a peaceful weekend to you good luck pa-pa well, once again i congratulate all the viewers of live espresso my name is yuliya shpachynska, we are returning to the air, i remind you today the company is until midnight, so join us because i see that many viewers are writing, why didn't we warn you, we are always on youtube

, we appear on youtube for now because we do not have unfortunately , eh such an opportunity to appear on your screens now, and you know very well why and about the petitions. you also know very well why. therefore, i once again urge you to join our social networks and follow the link to go immediately and you will be with us in our family until the occupiers storm azovstal, and our military officers heroically resist them, surrounded by civilians who managed to get out of there during the last evacuation .