are destroying the second army of the world. i want to ask our people to believe in lies and to believe in the armed forces of ukraine, glory to the heroes, glory to ukraine, it is very important in this difficult time to be aware of what is happening, we tell the news and help to understand the events, but the war can make its corrections in if the broadcast signal is lost, watch espresso on the satellite, now espresso is available on two satellites at once, if you do not have a satellite dish and the broadcast signal never appeared, search for espresso on the internet, our youtube channel espresso ukrainian view thank you for watching participation in the second meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine pentagon spokesman john kirby said the purpose of the meeting is to coordinate

efforts for further military support to ukraine, the urgent needs of the ukrainian army will be in the middle of a telephone conversation between the us secretary of defense lloyd austin and ukraine by oleksiy reznikov later this day, meanwhile, additional american howitzers, counter-artillery radars and other military equipment and ammunition are going to ukraine within the latest package of military aid to ukraine in the amount of more than 100 million dollars, the next tranche of aid was announced the day before by us president joe biden, and the ministry of defense released a video in which the american military loads m-77 howitzers onto a plane to deliver more than 20 billion military aid to ukraine and provides the new aid financing package in the total amount of 40 billion dollars, which was finally approved by the american congress the day before after the signing of the document by the president, will be legally valid and president biden will be able to allocate new

tranches of military aid to ukraine and the pentagon says they expect this to happen very soon and assure that there will be no interruptions in the supply of weapons to the ukrainian military. auto medical transport and temporary bridges was announced by the us deputy assistant secretary of transportation carol petsong, who showed the cargo to journalists according to the words officials from belgium the ship will go to germany and from there the equipment will be delivered to ukraine by land mrs. petsing emphasized the importance of vehicles for providing logistics and providing medical aid on the battlefield, these are vehicles for ukrainian defenders armored cars that can withstand air strikes and bombs there are also medical transport as you know in this terrible war, a lot of people

were injured and died in ukraine , medical equipment is urgently needed, the ability to move these supplies to the places where they are needed and this is what these vehicles will guarantee on this ship you could also see the temporary bridges that can be unloaded from this ship to be loaded onto the military equipment that is on this ship and installed to ensure the passage of heavy vehicles this is very important the means to ensure the connection and this delivery - it guarantees meanwhile, the leaders of the financial institutions of the group of seven agreed on friday to allocate to ukraine more than nine and a half billion dollars of new aid and promised to keep the ukrainian economy afloat while the ukrainians resist the russian invasion in general at the beginning of 2022. the united states, japan, canada, britain, germany, france and italy agreed to provide almost 20 billion in financial aid to ukraine, and is the european union and europe in general doing enough

to support ukraine? is happening with sanctions against russia about this and other results of the week, in particular from the applications of sweden and finland for membership in nato, we will talk with bohdan tsyupan he bohdana joins the broadcast from london. i congratulate you. good evening in the announcements of the group of seven financial aid to ukraine. the united states promises the largest share of this 7.5 billion, followed by germany with a billion dollars. european countries have a role to play in aid efforts. i suggest focusing on the european union as an organization of 27 states on the european continent, because it is, after all, the largest the economic power on the continent is a huge financial power and what does the european union do as a neighbor of ukraine, a big neighbor is very

important eu representatives state that since the beginning of this russian invasion, the organization has already been involved in helping ukraine when it comes to financial economic support as well as humanitarian 4 billion 100 million euros of funds, which is a serious amount if we are talking about other expenses. and there is another separate article that was not unique to the european union, which stated that it would help with the supply of the eu has never done this to ukraine with weapons before , and now the european union has already allocated one and a half billion euros, and this money is used to help compensate those countries of the european union that send their own weapons to ukraine, and recently in brussels they announced that they

are adding another one and a half billion euros to ukraine 500 million, that is, we are talking about serious funds, and as stated this week by the high representative of the european union, joseph borel, the representative for foreign relations and security issues, the european union is focused on so that ukraine does not run out of the necessary equipment at this crucial moment, these are his words. i believe that our support is shown on the battlefield in the fighting capacity of the ukrainian army. because the war has reached a decisive turning point and we cannot allow ukraine to run out of bohdan equipment, the administration of the american president has repeatedly repeated its strategy with the help of

ukraine and countering russian aggression this is military and financial support for ukrainians and powerful sanctions for moscow, but the next round of sanctions from the european union, which could be the most effective, is an embargo on energy carriers from russia. it looks like it is being delayed, what is the status of this step? well , it is necessary to divide the issue of energy carriers from russia in at least three main parts, i.e. first we will mention coal and the european union, also catching up with the united states and great britain, decided to abandon russian coal and in fact, this ban should enter into force already in august of this year, and it will already be in effect when it comes to other two important sources of energy , such as oil and gas, and as for gas,

many european countries are so dependent on it that they are currently talking about it they are not talking about the fact that they are ready now to stop the use of gas from russia, but when it comes to oil, the situation here is very special. of the european commission said that the eu will refuse russian oil, but this question was hanging in the air, primarily because of the position of hungary. this country is the leader of which viktor orban, known for his former close ties with russia , president putin said that such an embargo would destroy would the hungarian economy, he stated that his country does not have access to ports to the

sea, that pipelines are oil pipelines from russia this is the only way to obtain oil for his country, and that he opposes it, and the impression is that it is only about hungary or maybe about some other forces in the european union, but the issue of oil cargo is related to russia, for now it is suspended, we know about regular meetings of representatives of 27 eu countries who, as we assume, convince hungary by persuasion, but at the moment this issue has not been resolved, as ursula fondulyan hoped, at least meanwhile, bohdana was sent to finland, and the official reason is the refusal to pay in rubles, but we also know that helsinki and stockholm submitted an official application this week for their countries to join nato as a response to still energy blackmail in europe.

by the way, this week the european union announced a program to solve these energy problems, which consists of this program in three main directions. to look for alternative sources of energy supply , and the third important point in this program is for european countries to switch to renewable energy sources as soon as possible of course, all these energy problems are connected with geopolitical issues and with the application for membership in nato by finland and sweden and with russia's demand to receive payment for gas in rubles, but the europeans for

now, in particular athens, also claim that they can find a way out without russian gas, thank you zhanna , secretary anthony the day before blinken visited the ukrainian institute of america in new york to demonstrate solidarity with the people of ukraine, he particularly emphasized that one of putin's goals in ukraine was the start of ukrainian identity, but its strength and culture, where i understand that putin's war will not be successful except for a purely cultural program, the american secretary of state also held a working meeting with ukrainian diplomats to discuss the issue of food security, all the details were taken by iryna solomko. the ukrainian institute of america is located in the very center of mangaretin, a few meters from of the central park and one of the most famous museums in the world, the metropolitan building itself is a unique palace and

in the register of national historical monuments of the usa in 1955 - it is a meeting place of the ukrainian community key cultural and artistic events take place here, this is a landmark place for the community and was chosen to be visited by the state secretary during the event anthony blinkin, in particular, was introduced to the music of vasyl barvinsky vasyl barvinsky is a composer who was sent to the gulag and spent 10 years in mordovia, the soviet government destroyed the entire his music after his return he tried to restore his works while he was in siberia he composed his music on wooden boards besides a small concert blinkin was also able to to see the installation pysanka, a symbol of hope, the

artist, the author of the project, sofia zillyak, personally spoke about the history and symbolism of pysanka for ukrainians, and also about the fact that the purpose of the exhibition is to collect pysanka all over the world in support of ukraine, this is a short excursion, but at the same time, especially an opportunity to hear extraordinary music and also to see extraordinary art, including this collection, these easter eggs are the hope for the future and the revival of ukraine, which will be the consequences of the aggression that russia is currently committing, one of the things that he tried to achieve president putin is to erase the ukrainian identity, but this identity is powerfully manifested through the culture and vitality of this culture, the strength of this identity makes it clear that the war of president putin will not be successful and we are looking forward to the day when these easter eggs will be brought to ukraine as another symbol of its renaissance in addition to the cultural part of the program of visiting the

institute included a brief working meeting of blinkin with the ambassador of ukraine to the usa oksana markarova and the permanent representative of ukraine about the united nations serhiy the latter once again raised the issue of unblocking ukrainian ports with sourness. there is a part of the country that hopes for some kind of miracle. that this can be solved by some uh, alternative way. but there will be no such miracle. and if concrete measures are not taken to unblock ukrainian ports in the next two months, it will be the tragedy over the issue of unblocking ukrainian ports, which you may have heard, including from the secretary general himself, not only ukraine is working, key partners of ukraine are working, according to kasla, ukraine is already can now send 20 million tons of grain, this is a significant volume that cannot be exported by land or the danube. yesterday, the american side had talks with the minister of agriculture of ukraine in new york. these were very specific, er, very specific

negotiations, where we were talking about specific numbers, volumes, routes, tariffs. this is very it is a difficult task, it is not just to open an e-e port, and it is also to convince carriers to go to a very dangerous area and export grain in such volumes. oksana markarova , in turn, draws attention to the fact that linkin puts a lot of effort into mobilizing partners for help in ukraine to all the events that are happening here in ukraine, he reacts, if not with public messages and flowers, then like today. for example, we see his personal presence even in such a rather busy busy schedule that he has during his stay in new -york, he found time to visit the ukrainian institute, markarov notes, despite the fact that the us government has its own procedures for public control over the use of the budget, which slows down some

processes that in december of last year, the usa quickly allocated additional funds for aid to ukraine, to date 3.9 billion have been allocated for military aid, this is the largest amount of all other countries that have allocated military aid to us, and today, just symbolically, secretary blinkin e approved the distribution of just the last 100 millions of dollars, which, uh, while we are talking, the pentagon is already actively working on it in order to start sending very important equipment that our defenders really need, well, we are very actively receiving it from the united states states 155th so-called caliber, that is, howitzers that have shown their effectiveness on the battlefield, as well as other useful things from our list of priorities eh, but eh, today is also a historic vote on changes to the budget, eh, an additional additional budget for ukraine of 40 billion - in which there is also military additional aid quite significant in which there is

budget aid and for the first time the united states allocates such a huge sum, namely 8.5 billion dollars, most of which will go directly to the budget in the form of non-repayable grant aid specifically in ukraine in at the same time markarova adds and the priority in cooperation with american partners remains the acquisition of more weapons, the strengthening of sanctions for russia, as well as the support of ukraine's european integration aspirations from new york iryna solomko voice of america to save civilian americans, ukrainians and citizens of other countries who are in serious danger under the conditions of russian the war in ukraine is the mission of an american non-profit organization, the project is an initiative of a former american soldier. kyiv exists thanks to donations from private donors. and has been operating in ukraine since the very beginning of the russian offensive on february 24. during this time, they managed to safely transport hundreds of people abroad, including women

, children, and even babies. and mother-in-law from russian captivity oleksandr became a us citizen with ukrainian smoking lived in the kherson region for almost a year until the second of april the occupation forces of russia arrested them on the second of the russian military they came to my home when i was a soul they beat me put on handcuffs they brutally attacked my wife they took me away they simulated an execution they beat me and kept me in a cell for 36-37 days with you it was brutally cold and dark i was treated terribly there my wife was treated terribly american kirill was falsely accused in the fact that he is a spy simply because he is an american, he did nothing simply because he is an american citizen, everyone in his community

knew that he was an american because why should he hide it, he managed to save oleksandr and his family by the efforts of a private initiative, the daynomo project was named after the operation to rescue soldiers of the anti-hitler coalition in 1940 in dunkirk last august, a group of former american servicemen started the daynomo-2 project to rescue americans and their allies from afghanistan, however, since the beginning of the russian war in february, a team of veteran volunteers has been rescuing and civilians in ukraine, says the co-founder of the bryanster project, he says that in 60 missions, their team managed to get them out of the most dangerous areas more than 700 people are different people, babies, older people, pregnant women, people who are accused of being american

spies , we save not only americans. what we do we do difficult things saving relatives or friends can be sent through the project website and volunteers carefully check each request the starter tells us we give preference depending on the circumstances it can be anything it can be a location if this is mariupol if it is an accusation of espionage we pay more attention first of all we help babies and children in ukraine many children born to surrogate mothers do not have a passport and their parents are not with them we have had many, many such cases from the field says that their team resolves issues at various levels, from document processing and providing transport to force operations, as was the case with the oleksandrov family working, we worked in two directions we were in contact with kirill in two days before his arrest which was great and also we were in

contact with his family in america it helped a lot we had two ideas about release but unfortunately i don't have leverage if it's a ransom they want millions we don't have that we don't have either of russian prisoners for exchange. i am not the government, but the second plan that we were developing at the time. it was a one-sided operation. we worked out many options. we talked about where he was kept. it was right on the dnieper. i could take a small boat and go down the river and pick him up with his wife. swim back, we were talking about an operation from the air or on the ground. in the project, they tell dain that they were in contact with the fbi and the state department in the process of preparing the rescue, intelligence data was received that oleksandrv is planned to be ferried to moscow to be used for propaganda on charges of espionage, he was threatened with 20 years in prison for the operation from the rescue, they named the detroit lions or kirill, originally from the state of michigan, he himself had the code

name lion one the operation began on victory day while everyone in moscow was watching the parade and watching putin on television and applauded and we joke that the russians had their victory day and the next day we had our own russian negotiator with whom we discussed the release of kirill, he called us after he had already been with us and he did not know that he was with us and said let's continue negotiations and i say the case is closed, and he asks and what should i do with him ? i answered, he is already with me, and he says that we need more than 20 russian checkpoints, 18 hours for dear ukraine at night in a conspiratorial apartment, and oleksandrov and his family got to poland and i was waiting for him to have the opportunity when i was released, it was the greatest relief i felt in my life, i was incredibly happy to see my family, my mother, whom i had not seen for almost a year, because it is

wonderful to be reunited with my wife, my mother-in-law, it is impossible to describe my case, as brian says, it was simply horrible their most difficult task i had my doubts but brian and his team are the most noble hardworking brave and loving people i have ever met in my life they will save you you need to think clearly but also have faith i am alive here my family is alive only thanks to brian and his team, the russian authorities previously rejected all accusations of targeted attacks against the civilian population, meanwhile, in the draft, they say that they are in contact with the un, the international criminal court and the american government regarding war crimes committed against the oleksandrov tribute. and kirill himself says who is ready to testify in court about this and other operations to save civilians donations sounds funny but we really need funding we and the team are ready to work we

love to do these operations but the reality is that we need money everything costs a lot we are volunteers we are not paid we are with the team on the road since august 2021 and we do not earn maybe at some point this it will change, we are talking about it because it has been a long time and our families are not very happy because we have to pay the bills at home but our operations are very expensive but if i have a choice whether to pay them for gas in ukraine to get kirill out, how can i make money from it... decreased because people abroad are beginning to lose interest in the russian war in ukraine. therefore, he considers it important to continue talking about his missions to save people maria prus kostyantyn holobchuk voice of america download the voice of america mobile application

and continue to help resist the russian war from their cultural front, in particular by performing charity concerts singer zlata ognevich performed in denver, colorado for seven days. zlata donated 100% of the proceeds from her concert to the needs of ukraine visited by svitlana prostinska and volodymyr petruniv participation in a charity tour of the united states for zlata ognevich an opportunity to join the art front of ukraine as she calls it i call it the art front of ukraine which now gives concerts all over the world and talks about ukraine about the war about our people about our strength and about our indomitability and i am proud of every artist who is now protecting ukraine with his creativity and songs and

it is extremely nice that so many people come to these concerts in colorado to a relatively small the ukrainian community, stars of this level have not yet come and were very pleasantly surprised that zlata is giving all the funds from the concert to us zsu and uh, we wanted to connect to this charity and also bring this beautiful and golden voice of ukraine to us. zlata gives 100% of everything she earns in the usa will be given to the armed forces of ukraine this is very cool ukrainian songs this is what should inspire people now, at the beginning of the full-scale russian aggression in ukraine, local volunteers created a fund ukrainian and to which more than $16,000 was collected during zlata's concert in denver . first of all, we help the armed forces because we understand that our guys are on the front lines there, and we also help families who need

help, who have lost their homes to their children. we are all very happy. we are happy to help. we we are glad to do something together because we all have the same goal. i am from mykolaiv, all our parents are there. well, they left partially or the main part of the family stayed there, all aunts, uncles and grandparents, no one wants to leave, they are on the contrary, now they are planting potatoes and are happy trying to enjoy life as much as possible under the bombs russia's war against ukraine shook and united the ukrainians of colorado we gathered for rallies in support of ukraine from the first day of the war february 24 we were in denver in the center of denver we supported so we got to know many people who think the same way about supporting ukraine about what is happening in ukraine we decided to make our contribution i believe that everyone should make big

contributions to ukraine and say so on their front and it is important to stop this war but it seems so to me that we will continue to organize these events for help for a long time, besides the fact that we will have to help them rebuild, we will not leave them just like that. we are very far from ukraine, but my heart is home, it is our land, it is the duty of every ukrainian to rebuild ukraine in order to have somewhere to return to like a nest like memories, where is zlata ognevich, whose father did not leave his native kharkiv and continues to treat the wounded and injured. alyosha, who came to my dressing room and cried on my shoulder. we comforted each other. people help people at concerts, and i understand that if i give up, i won't have the strength to continue these concerts

. and i won't be able to help ukraine. zlata plans to give charity in the future concerts and the ukrainian community of colorado to help organize similar events and fundraisers for the needs of ukraine svitlana pristynska volodymyr petrunov for the voice of america denver - colorado and we will finish with this thank you friends for watching voice of america in ukrainian, see you next week, take care, papa, in 1827, the construction of the pier began, and in less than 15 years, the settlement was declared a city and renamed berdyansk, during the second world war, nazi troops entered berdyansk and mercilessly destroyed its inhabitants and infrastructure. and we

know that ukrainians cannot be overcome berdyansk unconquered today we live in a lot of pain, and even more great love, this love lives under a medical gown, a fire-resistant suit, a volunteer vest, a petticoat, an apron, a plate carrier and under ukraine cannot be divided with a green fleece jacket