the territory of the church of the 17th century was on fire, the flames engulfed the building near the peter and paul church in the lefortovo district, according to previous reports, the baptistery was occupied, local emergency services noted that the fire affected about 150 m², although the structure of the church itself was not affected. there are also no victims, instead there is information that the occupiers have damaged and generally destroyed more than 60 religious buildings in ukraine since the beginning of their full-scale invasion. considering the fact that the person who calls himself a patriarch from this church constantly supports both putin and the war, it is possible that this is not the church. well, for today, i have everything in the world about ukraine column, but only for today i am preparing for the next editions so that i can tell you everything about more objective now, don't switch, our broadcast continues unconquered cities of

ukraine, this is the cossack city of izyum, where one of the oldest buildings of the slobozhanshchyna is located, the transfiguration cathedral was the center of the famous izyum regiment , the citizens survived the first famine thanks to active in the fight against prosaic forces in the second world city twice found itself in the center of fierce battles today raisin is again on the line of fire, burned and on it, but ready to stand for victory raisin ukraine is at the center of the main

discussions of the world economic forum, which are ongoing in switzerland foreign minister dmytro kuleba used the platform or of the middle to call on washington to provide kiev with multiple rocket launcher systems as soon as possible , the minister said, without them, the situation in donbas will become even worse and the ukrainian military will not be able to liberate kherson, meanwhile, discussions continue and about when and under what conditions should negotiations with russia be started and whether the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, speaking from the podium, said that after the war, negotiations will definitely take place, but it is not known whether vladimir putin will be the president of russia. more about the military help and diplomacy, let's talk with my colleague bohdan tsyupan, who is joining the broadcast from london bohdan congratulations, this is not the first time that the ukrainian authorities have publicly voiced the need for the ukrainian army to american mls systems, the

head of the pentagon told journalists earlier this week that he will not publicly comment on the situation with specific weapons, but they know the needs of ukrainians. in general, not only the united states provides military aid to ukraine, but also dozens of countries in europe perceive requests for heavier weapons from ukrainians of the military. i think that it is approximately the same as in the united states in north america. that is, we have countries from which we have been hearing for a long time. there are many reports about what it is the weapons that are supplied to ukraine that refer to the so-called heavy weapons that ukraine is talking about and that the ukrainian minister of foreign affairs dmytro kuleba said in particular, now in davos at the world economic forum, so there are certain nuances, let's say, for example , poland very clearly states that she

supports the provision of heavy weapons to ukraine as well. we also have information about e tanks, for example , from that country for ukraine, but this information is provided e . a certain military value, maybe there is an element of mystery here, and there are countries that are criticized , for example, germany, and many talk about it as a country that, on the one hand, promised so-called heavy weapons, but they have not yet arrived. we hear about delays. but in general, in europe, they say er, such political slogans can be said to be political commitments, which consist in the fact that europeans understand the needs of ukraine and are ready

to provide everything they consider possible, at least according to what they have and what they believe that ukraine can use, and this is how the prime minister of slovakia said about it today, in particular, with putin, we held back for too long, we need to be braver , the democratic world must be braver and show everyone a better way of life and show it with actions, actions consist of supporters of ukraine, they must win. we will help them humanitarianly but also with military aid because they defend themselves. they defend our values ​​by shedding their blood . if ukraine falls, slovakia will be next. bohdan's many excursions from the submission of the former american secretary of state henry kissinger raised the question of ukraine's potential negotiations with russia, whether there is a single opinion on the davos grounds in

europe and in ukraine itself on what conditions and with what ultimate goal kyiv should sit down at the negotiating table with moscow and are there any opinions? there are many opinions that appear to be democratic and open countries and societies, but certain trends are emerging, and about which the analyst from london, orysya lutsevich, would probably say better. now, by the way, she is in davos and today she said the following. from there, this discussion reflects perhaps two such camps that are currently forming regarding a possible resolution or termination of this war. the first camp says that russia must lose on the battlefield and this will force russia to sit down at the table. negotiations, where the ukrainian position will be stronger, the second group of people who say that in fact the west must demonstrate a certain

limit of its support, including weapons, because russia is a nuclear power, defeating russia will it is difficult and it will actually have very far-reaching consequences regarding the food crisis, the energy crisis, and that is why we need to realistically look at the situation as far as the prolongation of this war on the battlefield and, let's say, from repelling these territories, the liberation of ukrainian territory is in the global interest of the west led by the united states and coordination with great britain, the eu is still trying to say that it will do everything that is in the national interest of ukraine and support this second phase, it is not in donbas so that ukraine kept its territory as much as possible but again, the question of the third phase of the war after russia seizes some territory and ukraine wants to counterattack, it will be a question of whether the measure will support, let's say, this counteroffensive and the liberation of ukrainian territory, in fact, there is

no understanding yet. thank you, bohdan, for contacting my colleague bohdan tsyupin was in london. the struggle of ukrainians for their own freedom and sovereignty inspires people all over the world. graduation ceremony of the us air force academy, he expressed hope that the example of the ukrainians will be a reminder that freedom cannot be taken for granted, he in particular quoted the words of the late congressman lewis, democracy is not a state, it is an action, and emphasized that the people of ukraine stand with the brutal and unprovoked invasion of russia in ukraine has dragged europe into the biggest security crisis since world war ii today america's opponents are testing the same values ​​you swore to defend putin's war of choice the international order is based on rules

and it is a challenge to free people everywhere, but the courage of the ukrainian people has inspired the whole world and i know that you too, we stand firmly with ukraine, which defends its democracy and sovereignty. i hope that their struggle will remind us all that we cannot accept our freedom for granted today the united states mourns the victims of a mass shooting at a school in yuvalde, texas, an 18-year-old gunman shot dead 19 children, most of them only 10 years old, and two adult attackers shot by police this is already the 27th school shooting and over 200th mass shooting in the us since the beginning of 2022 enough means enough

vice president shakam lagaris tweeted as a nation we must have courage and act so that this never happens again she added president joe biden addressed the nation with an emotional speech , he expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and called on congress to act to strengthen control over the circulation of weapons and is there enough political will for this, let's talk with my colleague kateryna lisunova, who joins the broadcast with the senate, katya, congratulations. what words did president biden address to the families of the victims and what actions did he call on the american legislators, first of all, in his extraordinary address yesterday to the nation, he called on his fellow citizens to pray for the relatives and loved ones of the victims, they need a lot of support right now, dozubayl emphasized he has also already appealed to the congress with the demand to strengthen the legislation on the control of arms turnover in the state, he particularly emphasized that if other states have similar problems as in the united states of america in the field of medical health care in the field of

social issues, the issue of mass shootings is exclusively an issue of the united states of america, here it is worth noting that less than a few weeks ago, on may 14, there was a shooting in the city of buffalo in the state of new york, and it is important to emphasize that the sagittarius in new york and the sagittarius in texas were only 18 years old, and the president of the united states of america directly emphasized that, in fact, teenagers can easily buy heavy weapons i suggest you listen to an excerpt from the speech of the american president right now as a nation we must ask ourselves when for god's sake will we push back against the gun lobby when for god's sake will we do what we all know must be done i spent my career as a senator and vice president working on passing common sense gun laws will not prevent every tragedy, but we know that

these laws work and have a positive result when we passed a ban on automatic carbines mass shootings decreased when the law expired, the number of mass shootings increased threefold the very idea that an 18-year-old boy can go to a gun store and buy two guns is bad katya, every shooting in the usa raises the debate about the circulation of weapons in ukraine, because there is no one opinion on this issue what are the current arguments of the parties and should we expect a change of position in the senate in general, especially regarding weapons from dances, according to social polls, 90% support such an additional check, resoundingly yes, respectively the bill has not yet passed a vote in congress, you know if two years ago such a bill was voted on in the house of representatives and later it actually got stuck in

the senate today the leader of the democrats chakshumer introduced a new bill on bacon checking additional checks of people who buy weapons but during their speeches the democrats emphasized that they lacked the votes of ten senators among the republicans, but among the republicans the views were directly divided. today i spoke with congressman brian physpatrick who directly voted for this bill in the house of representatives and said that he absolutely supported it during the vote, on the other hand, senator tet cruz stated during this shooting that it was not a matter of strengthening the legislation, but on the contrary of providing more weapons to the security guards, they could cut down and to prevent such incidents if they happen, they offer to listen to the speeches of both the leader of the republicans and the leader of the democrats today in the senate, our

country is outraged by the senseless evil that struck yesterday rob elementary school in wilde , texas at least 19 young children and two teachers were killed for no apparent reason the investigation is still ongoing local authorities are learning more details about exactly what happened and how it happened in the meantime we are also praying for the officer border patrol who was reportedly injured after arriving at the scene and for all the paramedics and law enforcement officers and first responders whose sacrifice yesterday saved the lives of mayor fraser madam president when i just heard the republican and minority leader say that he is outraged by what happened in walde tomorrow we have a bill on the floor that deals with the shooting that happened a few days ago in the city of buffalo i will ask the senator if he will join us and allow debate and amendment to this bill, which hangs on gun noise in america, there are not enough thoughts and prayers. we need actions,

it is really very difficult. thank you very much, katya . the tagaytay city of uvalde has already had 27 school shootings since the beginning of the year. thank you katya, we will continue the issue. the united states, together with the european union and great britain, announced the creation of an advisory group on violent crimes . bring the guilty to criminal responsibility, the international group is going . operational assistance, evidence of russian

military atrocities in ukraine continues to multiply, state secretary blinkin said, and therefore the creation of this group came at a critically important time. in the conditions of war , it is difficult to identify the enemy and it is forever possible , because it is about dead captured marauders and illegals, the ukrainian government is convinced that facial recognition software helps to establish the identity of criminals to document war crimes , you can recognize their face in minutes, the national police of ukraine has more than five departments that use this facial recognition program - it is one of the very, very useful tools that we use and it works ideally, we are talking

about the software of the american company clarva, which has billions of faces in its database, the company opened access to the ukrainian authorities to its archives to recognize the faces of the russian occupiers, images from sites such as facebook and other publicly available sites, among others, and russian social networks vkontakte and others in ukraine , the program was first used to identify the bodies of the russian occupiers. in some cases, the ukrainian government subsequently posted photos of the dead on russian social networks to announce their relatives they had photos of two dead soldiers one of them had id the other didn't with only photos they were able to get them through the system and to identify an online profile in social networks of an already dead person with only a photo of the face and then it is worth noting that there are

many complaints against the company because of how they received the photos and how they use technology for facial recognition during the first month of the war, the russian relatives of the dead said you are deceiving our the son is just on some military training, he does not participate in any war and he is not in ukraine in such cases when he and i are the best tool to tell the truth to the russian relatives of these soldiers. this company places them in an online photo album or on social networks for a completely different purpose and turns them into weapons that are used during the war. the company clearvi.ua has many critics who advocate stricter control over technology. however, they admit that such a program allows establishing the identity people who have committed terrible crimes and it is possible one day even to guarantee justice maria pros ulyana teliuk

julie tabu voice of america technology and themselves settled in captured houses of ukrainians where left behind where they left behind a mess on the walls of the basement, locals engraved the names of the dead and shot fellow villagers in yagidno, anna kostyachenko and oleksiy yakushev visited yagidno, 20 km south of chernigov. russian troops occupied yagidno on march 5, it was scary. russian soldiers broke into the house of taysiya petrovna in zbroyni and ordered her to move to the basement of the village school. sometime around 4:10 a.m. with machine guns, husband 3 and they say take your grandfather taisia ​​petrovna, born in belarus in the late 1970s, married a ukrainian and moved to him in the chernihiv region a year ago, their only son died of the coronavirus, the russian occupiers

drove all the villagers into the basement of the school, regardless of their health. i found 360 people in a basement with an area of ​​about 200 m², including 77 children. well, we already went there, we went there without anything. they first told us that we would be there for 5 days, and then they said until the 15th, the 15th the rebels allowed the villagers to leave the basement only in the morning, the toilet, and when the military operations of the russians ended in failure, they did not let them out at all, says taisia, and if it was an operation that did not succeed , it was already an operation that did not end successfully . one person carried a bucket and so they could not let us out for a couple of days, they could sit there, the residents of the village stayed there for almost a whole month, the adults slept sitting up, because there was no more than half a meter per person in the room of free space, ivan pulgu and the school superintendent

sat with his family in this part of the basement, there were benches, everything with benches was lined with trunks, these beds were two more, there was a reclining person lying here, mostly people died, old people began to die in the basement from oxygen starvation , their names were engraved on the walls, as well as how to find young fellow villagers who were shot by the russians, says mr. ivan, they shot hryshchenko, they shot radchenko slavik-n, the shell exploded, shevchenko took her home, they shot her shevchenko many of these brothers are relatives, the russians dug trenches around the school and installed multiple rocket launchers. taisia ​​petrivna believes that in the event of a direct attack by the ukrainian troops, the villagers would become human shields in the cellar and in our cellar. but the school was surrounded by pits 3 m deep . we covered the living target with logs,

were there any protection for them, so we use the target there ukrainian troops liberated the village on march 31, then taisia ​​petrivna finally returned to the apartment, and there were five buratovs living with us after themselves, the russian occupiers left behind the bezlatants, sanitation is mentioned taisiya petrivna, the woman was surprised , the soldiers who lived in her house did not even know how to use the toilet, the occupiers also did not understand how the stove and hood work, we have an apron here this is how they wiped themselves there with our towels we had an apron here they we rubbed ourselves with our towels. i burned everything and hid it all there, then hid it all in the toilet. i had to put on gloves and pull everything out here . the water still doesn't flow, it stops and everything goes

in there, you see, we don't know what they did there. my husband and i can't break through the service, we can clean it. but here i had bricks lying, here was a brick lying, they decided that it was a chimney, everything was black. everything was black in my house . literary unimala отстырат это созедка у меня this is my neighbor lives with her daughters and grandchildren, pass taisiya petrovna lead to the neighbor where there are still traces of the stay of the russian occupiers and managed to leave before the occupation and return while he is afraid, the russian occupiers robbed every family in the village of yagidne, they took mainly household appliances, garden tools, bed linen and men's clothes and shoes, says taisia ​​petrovna , the telephone was taken from the residents under the threat of shooting at the beginning of the occupation. shoot your boys and every third

tablet from my house they took my tablet from my house, they took the music center, the welding machine, i kiss a bulgarian woman, they loaded a big car a whole covered car with chainsaws from the whole village, they probably have a lot of forest, they probably have to saw down. you need to saw down, but taisia ​​petrivna does not feel sorry for the stolen property, she says that the main house survived, about a third of the village population found their home in ruins in the middle of the village, unexploded shells are still sticking out anna kosyuchenko oleksiy yakushev for voices of america from the village of yagidne, chernihiv region, the legendary chamber of concert halls in the usa, which expressed their support for ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war, the institution stopped cooperation with the russians, conductor valery georgiy georgiev and pianist denys matsuev, who support putin. and this week there was a

charity concert there, all proceeds from the sale of tickets . and this is more than $300,000, carnegie hall will donate to help ukraine. weeks of the war we thought we should do something our artists were also delighted because it gave them a chance to get involved and do something for this country because on an individual level it is not very easy so we clearly understood from the very beginning of the invasion that we had to make our contribution with our idea dilinson came to the permanent representative of ukraine of uno serhiy kislytsia together with kislytsyt and they began to work on the program of the event, not only ordinary new yorkers were invited to it , but also of the cultural elite of the city, the diplomatic corps of carnegie hold has its own great history

. presidents and first ladies also performed at carnegie hall. the sounds during this time for us would be alarming sirens and the roar of shelling of russian communities. it is more alarming than them that waiting for a civilized person to participate in war is difficult even when we are sure of victory, so i categorically disagree with those who believe that the museum should be studied when the guns say the opposite music heals and inspires, music adds hope and confidence, the rainbow of the usa at the un, linda thomas greenfield, coming from the stage, noted that new york is a shelter for the huge ukrainian community, this city loves ukraine, your presence

shows that new york is with ukraine in the united states with ukraine and we do everything and when i say everything i mean everything in our power to protect ukraine, its people and culture let's celebrate today what it means to be ukrainian and also what it means to be according to billinson, the performers who participated in the event themselves chose musical pieces that would demonstrate their experiences related to the war in ukraine, as the conference will present artists, but still, this event is focused around music and words important, but in the end it is a musical tribute and a reflection of those events that take place in ukraine, as well as people's experiences" my girl,

ukraine, the invasion changed the world of music, for example, carnegie dove immediately stopped cooperation with the russian conductor valery georgiev and pianist denys matsuev, who support putin , our position is that any artist who supports putin openly or even covertly, any artist who identifies himself and uses his art for the benefit of the regime can't appear on stage, which is rude, this is very important because there is no music outside of politics, this is a very simplified attitude towards musicians, artists and athletes, so i am very grateful

to the heads of these institutions in new york, we will continue to work with them in addition to moral support the carnegie gold concert is also important because all proceeds from the sale of tickets, and this is more than 360 thousand dollars, go to help ukraine for seats 2800 spectators and all the tickets were sold a few days before the concert . even though there was not much time to sell just everyone wanted to be here everyone wanted to be part of this support also we hope that the viewers will make additional donations also we are planning to do a separate broadcast during which people will also make donations so we hope that in the end we will be able to raise a significant amount of money."

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