yuriy the physicist will talk for two hours, still be aware of economic news, oleksandr marchenko protested. he tells us about the economy during the war and new sports. yevhen pastukhov is ready to talk about sports for two hours in the company of favorite hosts about culture during the war. lina is ready to talk, or something else that many people have become as if the weather will give us some optimism . natalka didenko is ready to tell us, as well as the distinguished guests of the studio . two hours of vasyl winter's big broadcast, a project for smart and caring people in the evening, espresso good evening we are from ukraine today with our american colleague lloyd austin in the pentagon and already on thursday, president biden will receive the president of finland and the prime minister of sweden at the white house to discuss prospects the accession of these two countries to nato the us state department announced a new

initiative within the framework of which it is possible to identify, analyze and disseminate evidence of war crimes committed by the russian military in ukraine 40 billion dollars of aid to ukraine was put to the vote of the senate on thursday morning, it's just that we will talk with my colleague yulia yarmolenko, who is joining us live from the white house. congratulations to lyula. congratulations to natalya. so, yulia, what is the status of this 40 billion aid package to ukraine, what are the chances of its acceptance and how soon will ukraine receive aid within the framework of this package in case of its approval natalya, as you already said, they will really vote for this bill tomorrow morning washington time and chuck schumer is the leader he said that he expects to approve this bill and we have heard the same messages before and from republican leaders in the scene, the only thing is that when chuck schumer spoke today, he did not really choose his words and expressed his disappointment

that this bill actually still has not passed the senate's approval and he spoke in particular about one senator, a republican, because of whom this process slowed down in the senate, he in particular told chuck schumer that it is disgusting that in fact there is only one opposition to the quick approval of this bill and held back the provision of such critically important aid to ukraine right now, but again, both republicans and democrats are saying that they expect the approval of this $40 billion bill with an overwhelming majority. we also heard today at a pentagon briefing that a high-ranking official said that they also expect that the bill will be approved quickly and that in the end president biden may soon approve a new package of military aid to ukraine, the senior pentagon official also emphasized that while the draft law is delayed in the senate, the

pentagon is not sitting idly by, they are not waiting for the draft law to be approved and sent to the president for his signature, and while the signature ink hardens, they are already working on it. nato met with the head of the pentagon, lloyd austin, do you know what the officials talked about, and in general, what is the position of the chance to replenish nato with two new members of natal today, the president of the united states joe biden of the united states issued a statement in which he said that he extremely strongly supports the applications of sweden and finland to join nato. he said that the addition of two members to the alliance will only strengthen the collective defense and today, when jake sally vanse, the national security adviser of the white house, today spoke about the chances in general that finland and sweden will become nato members, even in spite of the way turkey's opposition looks at the moment. he said that he has no

doubt that the process will go quickly and efficiently , and he said that sweden, finland already are working directly with turkey in order to minimize the concerns that turkey has and also said that secretary of state blinking president biden will help in this effort to speed up this process and in the end he expressed the hope that in fact it will all end positively and also when the swedish defense minister gulqvist spoke today with his colleague here at the pentagon, lloyd austin. he said that sweden's application for membership in the alliance is actually a manifesto and an expression of support for the absolute and sweden's commitment to collective security and transatlantic unity, and it is extremely important that he said this at a time when russia, by its actions in ukraine, shows its true face and its true motives in europe. let's listen

. propaganda russian propaganda can no longer hide the essence of russia's corrupt and autocratic leadership. russia wants to change the european and global security order is the attack on ukraine poses a long-term threat to the security of europe sweden has applied for membership in nato russia however, it does not recognize this as our right russia demands to have a legal that before the choice of sweden, this is unacceptable, we make the decision ourselves and count on the full support of the allies, and in particular the united states, to create another topic that i would like to talk about is an important shareholding initiative, which was announced by the state department the day before, a mechanism for collecting analysis and disseminating evidence about war crimes of the russians in ukraine, how will this new mechanism work, how does it differ from the existing ones and who will be able to use it, it is available to everyone, it will be

an online resource called the conflict observatory and in fact, the mechanism of this resource is a little different because, as the spokesman of the state department said, it will allow all countries to join their efforts, as well as non-governmental organizations, in order to really present data on evidence of the possibility of atrocities and war crimes by russians in ukraine, this will allow also be a resource not only for the public, but the prosecutor on the ground will be able to use this resource in order to initiate actual cases about potential russian war crimes in ukraine. thank you let me remind yulia that my colleague yulia yarmolenko was in direct contact with us from the white house, and we continue the program. the advisor of the state department of the direct show is visiting chisinau these days. at the recent meeting of the foreign ministers of the group of seven countries, fears were expressed that the war in ukraine could to spill over into moldova, the former minister of defense of the

republic of italy in italy, mary nutsa, believes that the russian threat to moldova is real. he told my colleague oleksandr yanevsky about this, the situation in the field of security in moldova has always been very fragile after a 30-year conflict in transnistria, russia also wants to regain the territory of all the former soviet republics, the former minister of defense of moldova vitaliy marinutsa expressed this opinion, at the same time , he believes that there is no imminent military threat. yes, russia wants to take over moldova, and not only transnistria, if you return go back in time and look at the primakov doctrine, consider the views of putin and his administration, then we will see that they consider some parts of the republic of the ussr to be historical lands of russia based on statements of russian high-ranking officials, both politicians and the military, it becomes clear that we are under threat in their military plans, according to

political scientist dmitri lekartsev in chisinau, the recent statements of russian politicians regarding moldova were taken with alarm by the minister of foreign affairs of russia sergey lavrov in an interview with al-arabiya tv channel that the citizens of moldova quote should worry about their own future because they are being dragged into nato, the british publication the times with reference to the ukrainian military reported that moscow developed appropriate plans for the capture of moldova in transnistria, we have a contingent of the 14th russian army in transnistria, and now, taking into account the situation in ukraine, we are all under quite a lot of tension, and you know, before the attack on ukraine, no one didn't believe until the end, even though all the experts talked about it about moldova. we don't even know what to think, in any case, we definitely understand that there is no faith and we wouldn't want to, but we understand that this could be the worst scenario for according to vitaly marin, russia can create

problems not only in transnistria, but also in gagauzia in the south of moldova, as well as in the north of the country, where the pro-russian population lives. what will be the kremlin's next step? i can make some assumptions when it comes to a rational player. but russia and a national player from whom anything can be expected. therefore, if political and economic instruments do not bring success, krevel can use military instruments to achieve his political goals in moldova. therefore, we are now in a very difficult situation of the situation, the former minister of defense of moldova adds that transnistria has the largest military warehouse in eastern europe, which poses a danger not only to moldova, but to the entire region, and this is a little bit. this is a huge underground storage and it contains more than 20,000 tons of ammunition, the deadline for receiving which has passed in the last 20 years, no one except the russians had access there, there were neither international observers nor

moldovan ones, therefore we do not know exactly what is happening there, how this ammunition is stored, and what danger it poses in the warehouse firearms can be used to arm the troops of transnistria and use them against ukraine or against the republic of moldova, this caused and causes concern if the russian federation decides to strike this region or use transnistria in its military plans, it will use this composition, the former defense minister adds that the united the united states is the main partner in strengthening the security of moldova, and if russia's military plans extend to moldova, then chisinau will have support in the worst-case scenario." was the first to start work in warsaw the international office of the project is a business project launched by the ministry of digital transformation of

ukraine designed to help ukrainians who came to poland because of the russian war in ukraine to start their own business. the office was not planned to be opened in poland, but the war made adjustments in this temporary format. the office will work for at least a year after that, there is an intention to turn it into another business institution of ukraine abroad, the center was opened by the minister of digital transformation of ukraine mykhailo fedorov, he told my colleague myroslava gongadze how it is happening the construction of a digital state in the conditions of war, what was achieved, what is the focus of his work now, myroslav is now with us on a direct link from warsaw. greetings, myroslav. i greet you , the audience . new realities for ukraine, how the work on the digital transformation of ukraine has changed since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia,

i spoke with mykhailo fedorov in this very center in this center of action that they opened for in order to actually stimulate the opportunity for ukrainian refugees here in poland, we know that more than 3 million refugees are here or abroad in neighboring countries, and it is possible to help them, so to speak, to start a business. of course, the ukrainian authorities understand that not everyone can do it, but at least in which to somehow help and stimulate this was the task of opening this center. and this is one of the directions that the ministry is currently engaged in, in particular, and the vice prime minister, among other things. he says that they have switched in fact, e-e very skillfully switched to other services that can be provided during the war, also mykhailo fedorov claims that in fact it has increased . more than a million people have joined e-e to the action, and all the services of the action are still working today,

he also drew attention to the fact that they help in these conditions, so to speak, the internet and cover the country with the internet. and here he is, as we know samantha power, and thanked ilona mask for this opportunity and for providing star links in ukraine. 11,000 old-timers are working today. all over the country, let's listen and hmm, you just started taking new actions in the direction in those directions. well, for example, they started services in one direction, they heard that they were launching e-e services related to the war . to create a new and new level e-e network there for other territories e-e were previously engaged in the development of the digital economy write to deal with the digital blockade of the russian federation and the development of new directions in new cities e-e

projects are related to the dio business well, today you and i are in action, the business is precisely the task of helping ukrainians who are in poland to find themselves, find a new direction for their activities, one of the main tasks of the ministry is to ensure cyber security in war conditions, it is even more important than - how do ukrainian cyber experts cope with these, mykhailo said that in fact, when before the war, they mostly defended themselves , ukraine mostly defended themselves against cyberattacks, but today they go on the offensive and on the offensive, and how says the deputy prime minister of russia today . just as she showed her power, not her power, but her dubious power on the battlefield, she also shows her dubious power in matters of er cyberspace, let's listen, we er learned very

flexible and quickly build key such components of cyber security that are needed in order to, as we now see, know how to survive the war , survive and, er, attack in response, at the same time launching services, well, this cooperation with business and buck bounty when we do not have ethical factors with of this world for them to test our products, we paid millions of hryvnias to those who would find vulnerabilities, uh, hackers from all over the world participated in the action. they could attack when we when we didn't attack back and when we were just defending and building a digital country that's why today uh we use many vectors attack response uh and they are very uh, well, uh, many basic

registers of the russian federation have been destroyed, uh, many services have stopped working. that's exactly what i wanted to say about that. i asked mykhailo fedorov about efforts to organize electronic voting even before the war. today, many ukrainians are outside the country, and he says that they are ready. to do this if the central election commission and the parliament decide that such electronic voting is possible, but he believes that in fact everything should be done to help ukrainians participate in political process of ukraine as soon as the war ends in the future . thank you myroslava. i will remind you that my colleague myroslava gongadze was in direct contact with us from warsaw. thousands of ukrainians chose the united states as their place of temporary residence . territory of the country for a year and a half, and the main thing is to work to help ukrainians with documents and

the application procedure, volunteers in new york organize special legal clinics, we know more about iryna solonko, oleksandr frenkel and his the family are residents of kharkiv, sashko, a teacher and businessman, says that before the war, the family had everything, their apartment is located on saltivka, this is a suburb of kharkiv, from which the border with russia is a little more than 30 km. we went to western ukraine , then we went to europe, er, we were in europe for 5-10 days and then we came here. oleksandr and his family were lucky after wandering around europe and where it was difficult, you know, and his wife found a home in on the internet, a family from new jersey who invited sashka and his family and provided us with accommodation for free, they received us very, very well and to this day they take care of us, help us

morally and provide us with a place to live, er, completely strangers , sashko. the families were able to come to the shaba already had tourist visas, such visas here allow the owner to legally stay in the united states for six months, but do not allow him to work, because it is not safe for the family to return to their hometown, their house is damaged, and the surrounding infrastructure is practically destroyed, sashko decided to apply for temporary protection status. this is one of the programs introduced by the us government to support ukrainians. ukrainians who were legally in the united states as of april 11 can apply for it. which dozens of other ukrainians came for a consultation at the so-called legal clinic, a lawyer and a volunteer of a public organization together maria khorun, one of its organizers, we are free

migration consultation we also have representatives of several organizations and also providers of legal services present, people want to help with what they can with their skills, their education, to help the ukrainian people who are now arriving, so i would say that it is such a call of the heart to help ukrainians who are currently suffering from wars, it is already the second clinic in new york organized by maria, as practice shows, 30 to 50 people who want to receive free migration assistance sign up for each such consultation, the vast majority of participants plan to apply for the status of temporary protection, the role of our organization is to provide information so that people know there is such an event, you can come, you have access to a lawyer, a lawyer speaks your language, it is free, most of the people who came to us today are new arrivals, that is, they have no contacts here, there are no in their earnings, many people had a very good life in ukraine, but now everything

has changed during the consultation of a lawyer, they check whether a person can apply for status, then the participants go to the stage of filling out documents what do lawyers also help with, these legal companies pay and all the expenses related to submitting an application, moreover, we were promised to cover financial expenses with government tax levies, which add up to more than 1,200 dollars for my family of four or four people. that is, it is a big help for us natalia she is also a volunteer and co-organizer of the event. she has been representing the public organization ukrainian the city of tales for two months. they are trying to help ukrainian immigrants so that they can get documents and be safe here. some rights, for example, the right to work, we also help with other consultations, for example, regarding

the registration of children in school or health insurance, and offidas. the first wave of immigrants was immediately after the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion. these were people who had tourist visas. after a few weeks, ukrainians who crossed the mexican or canadian borders began to break through. new york seems to be calling everyone to itself, because it is a big hub here, there is a community and help and connections, people help each other for some reason, according to natalya, currently she is trying to organize the same clinic in jersey city, where many forced migrants from ukraine already live, says the authorities are very interested in this format of helping ukrainians, one of the reasons why i am here today is to let the community understand that they should not be afraid of the immigration service, because we are here to help we also want them to know that they should rely on trusted legal companies, because if they don't, the wrong help will just hurt and we don't want people who are already victims to be even more traumatized

unscrupulous lawyers says this with very preliminary data of a calm service more than 100 thousand ukrainians in the usa can claim to receive the status of temporary protection and calls not to be afraid of this procedure so that this process is as comfortable as possible maria khorun is already preparing the third legal clinic, its holding is scheduled for the end of may from the new yorka iryna solomko the voice of america called today's actions of russia a terrible echo of the cruelty and persecution of the past the us embassy in ukraine thus, on the occasion of the day of struggle for the rights of crimea of the tatar people and commemoration of the victims of the crimean tatar deportation american diplomats condemned the continuation of repression by russia in may 1944 stalin deported approximately 200,000 people from their homeland for three days in

1989 the crimean tatars were allowed to return to their homeland in 2014 crimea was bought and illegal annexed by russia, the occupation was condemned by almost the whole world, in particular the usa, ukrainian activists and partners continue to fight for the rights of the crimean tatar people and the liberation of crimea from of the russian occupiers, today we will talk about these prospects with tsedilmusaiva, the editor-in-chief of the publication українська правда, who is part of a delegation of ukrainian politicians and representatives of civil society who is in washington. i congratulate you all, so what is the purpose of your visit to washington, what message did you bring to the american capital, and what did public figures hear? politicians, namely members of the verkhovna rada, journalists, as well as

human rights defenders, came to washington from the point of view of advocacy and for the sake of continued support for ukraine, we delivered important messages to representatives of the gost state department, to representatives of the pentagon, to senators and congressmen, as well as to representatives of syntenkas, that is, to the public, which studies what is happening in ukraine now and also tries to provide some solutions, we deliver information about human rights violations, as well as about that our army, our armed forces, ukraine needs weapons, needs support, including in order to protect human rights, we talked about what is happening in the territories occupied by russia, and including what the horrors of bucha borodyanka saw in the world, we can already see the number of victims, including that we can guess what is happening in mariupol, and

only the liberation of these cities can ensure safety for the people who are there now and it will stop, stop these tortures against the population and violations of human rights, deportations, filtration camps, and we said that the best humanitarian aid for ukraine today is support for military aid to our armed forces of ukraine, now our armed forces of ukraine need cover thrones, we need jet fire systems. that is, this is mls and we hope that they heard us and told us that the support of ukraine is unprecedented, but we will explain that the war is also unprecedented, and we thank you by the connecting states of america by the politicians of the united states of america for this and support for the fact that we are fighting and our allies help us in this, but we also need to take new steps in order to because only the liberation of all our territories will allow, let 's say, to ensure security in the entire region in

europe, because if, for example, the occupied crimea continues to be occupied, this will constitute, we know that russia uses the occupied crimea as a military base , it sends missiles after 40 years to the territory of the occupied crimea and tomorrow if even we will have a cease-fire if if there are any agreements, russia can still use weapons, it can send its missiles, but already in another country, and this security must be understood by you already they said that the russians continue to commit crimes against ukrainians, and currently there is an active collection of evidence of these crimes, in particular, the state department just announced, as we said earlier in the program , the creation of a new initiative to collect analysis and spread these crimes. and do you intend to use this creativity and how else can help shai in order to bring the russian

criminal to justice, of course these crimes that we see violate all the traditions of waging war, including those we have listed here at the meetings, the provisions of the geneva convention that russia has already violated, this violation is unprecedented, there are only crimes, it is unprecedented, therefore, of course, ukraine needs help in investigating these crimes, as well as the training of our investigators, our prosecutors who will deal with these cases, and the creation of an international platform in order to hold russia accountable. i already wrote today, today, may 18, is the day of remembrance of the sacrifice, which is not punished, caught and returned, if russia is not punished and ordered today for these crimes that she commits in ukraine and after some time those crimes are repeated not only in ukraine but already in other european countries, that is why

this issue is very important, we also advocate and insist on the creation of a hybrid tribunal that would help bring russia to responsibility, it would help, including in this tribunal, to see the russian propagandists who introduced the time shook russian society and fanned this fire of war. and we want to see the officials who made decisions about this war of the military and i think that such an initiative should be supported by the government of the united states of america. the information front is one of the key elements in this war against the russian occupiers. journalists have changed a lot, they are also in danger, we already know the

number of journalists who died, including while performing their professional duties, among them, unfortunately, my friends, this is also an american brand journalist renault, who traveled to ukraine and was unfortunately killed by the russian military, this is maxim levin, and vera vera just died in her apartment . including members of our editorial staff who have relatives in the occupied territory or have died, and i will remind you of the air time, there was musaeva in direct contact with us, you watched time time, everything is fine at the front, there is help to the ukrainian army in the international sports arena good evening. we are from ukraine. we are strong in spirit and will not defend our land, our people, we will not stand but

victory . this is a marathon, the only news is my name is anna cherednychenko