ukrainian patriotic channels, we will not allow freedom of speech to be destroyed in ukraine, i congratulate the voice of america ukrainian service program on the air, time, i am its host, ostap yarysh, 100 days of full-scale russian invasion and powerful ukrainian resistance, this time showed that the kremlin's hopes for a quick takeover of ukraine did not come true, the us state department stated according to the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi , about 20% of the ukrainian territory is currently under the control of the russian forces of the occupiers, while vselenskyi expressed confidence that in the end victory will be ukraine's, the same words were heard from us secretary of state anthony blinkin. we will talk more about this with yura yarmolenko, who is

joining us from the white house. and the day of the full-scale invasion of russia and what statements we heard today ostap as we heard from the spokesman of the state department not to the price he said that some in the kremlin hoped that they could that the war would last only 100 hours that they would be able to gain control over ukraine but of course this did not happen instead the ukrainians won the battle for kyiv instead they made it so that russia had to review its military goals and of course said above price the fighting continues in the east of ukraine in the south of ukraine russia continues to bring suffering to the ukrainians however the united states will continue to provide all possible assistance to ukraine, and today we also heard a statement from the united states secretary of state anthony blinkin. he said that since the beginning of 24 in february, the united states provided ukraine with more than 6

billion in security, humanitarian and economic aid so that ukraine could win , he also said that this aid will continue, he called on president putin to immediately stop the war and stop the suffering, and he addressed the ukrainians themselves, and the ukrainian families who lost their loved ones who were separated by violence, whose villages, apartments, schools and hospitals were hit by bombs , shelling and rockets, who were sent and who survived after the russian so-called filtration camps i want to say the united states stands with you we will help you protect your sovereignty and territorial integrity and we will help you to happen when this war is over ukraine will win really important words from antoni beyka to us secretary of state julia but at the same time we see how some in the west

calls ukraine to negotiate compromises or even make some concessions, how loud are such voices of ostape now? ostape is not too loud, but they are generally the same position. in the biden administration, only ukraine can decide when and whether to sit down at the negotiating table with russia today, i told a journalist that in fact there will definitely be negotiations at some point, but when they will take place, on what terms, no one can predict right now, i spoke the day before with a former employee of the representative of the state department and now by the director of global politics of the george w. bush institute, david kramer, and he says that he generally considers such attempts by some western leaders or western analysts to impose his position and to force or urge ukraine to sit down at the negotiating table right now and it is also possible to make some concessions . he once again believes that it is up to the

ukrainians to decide, and the task of the west, according to david kramer, is to strengthen the position of the ukrainians by providing them with weapons, let's listen. i think we we have to support the idea that ukraine should win and putin suffer a serious defeat , this is the only way to prevent the recurrence of such a situation and the only way to resolve the current situation, these are all calls from western leaders and analysts to negotiations and a truce - it's not for us to decide, but for the ukrainians, for president zelenskiy, they, ukrainians, are fighting and dying for their country, that's all they ask us for weapons for defense, and it seems to me that this is the least we can do, in my opinion, it's outrageous, if i'm honest when someone tells ukraine that it should make concessions, if the ukrainians decide that it is time to sit down at

the negotiating table, it is their decision and we should support them. but we should not put pressure on them to start negotiations and go to concessions, this would mean rewarding putin and the russians for the terrible crimes they committed for violating this week approved a new package of military aid worth $ 700 million, we know that congress approved $ 40 billion in financial aid half of this aid should go precisely to guarantee that ukraine has all the necessary weapons for defense, another important massage. we heard from anthony blinkin today, he actually said that this aid will continue and he said that the goal of the united states remains the same. for ukraine to be democratic, independent, sovereign and prosperous, and this is exactly what the united states is doing now. all efforts

are directed towards this. with ukraine, the prime minister of slovakia, eduard hecker, is also convinced that it is our duty to help ukraine win so that we can win together with them, the slovak prime minister said at the sactg 2022 security conference, which is currently taking place in the capital his country to bratislava about what today i am europe's vision of supporting ukraine in its struggle, we will talk with myroslava gongadze , who is currently in bratislava and these days has been closely following the speeches at the gobsek conference myroslava i congratulate you i congratulate you anton myroslava from russian aggression now ukrainian cities are suffering. but we often hear rhetoric and threats from the kremlin that european countries that provide aid to ukraine may be next. as far as europe is concerned about its own security is felt by this tension that

exists today, especially in the countries of eastern europe, the leaders and leaders of these countries, the prime ministers and presidents, as well as experts, have gathered here, and they are discussing this aggression of russia, and everyone says that russia is the biggest enemy of europe today, and they are looking for ways to stop this war and force russia to stop its aggressive actions, but everyone understands that if ukraine is not provided with sufficient financial and military aid, this may lead to an even greater escalation of the conflict and to possible even consequences for these countries, and the leaders here are clearly the countries of eastern europe. the idea was also very interesting here that the countries actually argue about how much they help ukraine, how many

have already provided support in ukraine, and the idea that it is possible should still be reviewed these are the ways in which this assistance is provided, namely, to allocate assistance in accordance with the gross national product of the country that provides this assistance so that there is a certain percentage from percentages, just as it works in nato, for example, when they allocate countries, allocate money to support their defense capabilities, such ideas also exist here . only our story interests are not only our strategic interest, but also our moral obligation to do everything possible to they joined the european union and for us to pave the way for them to our union, but our standards and conditions of the eu accession processes must already be respected.

the process will be fast, everything depends on the country itself and our support, and this is important again . no substitutions, no short cuts, all standards and conditions of entry must be respected because this is fair for all of us in the european union and we know how difficult it is to maintain these standards among everyone every day 27 countries have heard we have just heard the comment of the head of the european commission , eurosol von der lagin, in fact myroslava in kyiv, on the fact that european integration is critical , there is a lot of talk now that we are still hearing about it from european leaders, maybe they said about this also on globsec, of course, there was a lot of talk about it and we just now you heard er orsula fande hey she talked a lot about the fact that it is the moral duty of europe to do this and in fact it will contribute to the development of ukraine, but i have to say that it is not all countries are not so convinced that ukraine should be given this path for joining the european union already this summer, in particular, there are questions about

those countries that once opposed ukraine's accession to nato, these are countries such as france , germany, austria, they express themselves very brussels is very careful about whether it is worth or possible to find some other way to join ukraine and find a new form, but as we hear today, the leadership in the european union believes that ukraine should be accepted but we need an agreed position of all the countries, and here we will have to ask for more , and president zelenskyi and minister of foreign affairs kuleb and the ministry of defense also spoke at the conference. that is, today everyone is turning to this group of countries, namely the countries of the danube danube region and of the visegrad quartet, myroslav, finally

, briefly, what specific steps is the european union taking to support and restore ukraine, there is already a lot of talk today about restoration, plans for a platform are already being built, and in particular, the european union, together with ukraine, will build a special platform for all tools and ideas who will proceed with regard to the reconstruction of ukraine, let's listen to what mrs. pantelyan said, unfortunately we cannot show it now, but thank you myroslav for your inclusion or i would like to see you on the air until of the following meetings, one of the most influential countries in the european union, on which the support of ukraine depends, is germany. these days, the chancellor of this country, olafshol, announced the transfer to ukraine of a new defense package, which includes modern howitzers and a pva system. tim berlin is often criticized for insufficient and slow help to ukrainians, my colleague oksana ligostova decided to ask the germans themselves

what their opinions are on this matter, what the residents of hanover answered, see further, i think our government is not doing enough, they they say that we need to send special heavy weapons to ukraine, they say, they say, but they don't do it, i don't know why, because we have weapons, we still buy oil and gas from russia, why don't we stop, they realize that if we don't want to continue buying gas, oil from putin, then we will have to pay higher prices for it prices by inflation and i think it's ok, i'm ready to pay for it. if it were up to me, i would deliver heavy weapons to ukraine, which it needs, it would be great if germany did so, but we are forced to live with such decisions that are made politicians. but the german government is not doing enough. i would say that you should spend more on military aid to ukraine, somewhere on par with the united states . i think it would be possible to help ukraine more,

because the security of all of europe depends on who wins this war. i wish from the bottom of my heart to the ukrainian refugees that they could return home and hug their loved ones to a normal life, our german politicians are acting wisely and prudently, germany cannot be involved in this war, who knows what putin has in mind if we help more than now it is not known what he will do , it is obvious that we need to help ukraine and we are doing it, but we need to avoid the spread of the war outside its territory and we continue our release, the american actor and director, the creator of the film and everything became clear tells that before the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, he did not particularly follow that what is happening in ukraine, however, everything changed quickly and already in march zhraiber became a co-founder of the blue check-ukraine network, which

identifies, checks and finances humanitarian organizations working in ukraine my colleague tatiana had a magical conversation with the actor about the work of the foundation, impressions from a recent trip to lviv, and how hollywood perceives the war waged by russia against ukraine . svetayl not really, but in 2005 i made a film about ukraine, i think like many americans interested in their own origin i knew that my grandfather was from ukraine, he never told us anything about history his country or about my own history so i wrote a screenplay about a young american who goes to ukraine to find out what it's like to be ukrainian i made this trip myself and

had a great time i was in kyiv and odesa for a bit i also traveled through southern ukraine in search of the village where i was from grandfather, but i never found him, then my good friend wrote a book called vseyasno everting isilluminated, in general, he wrote a story that was published by the new yorker, and i decided to try to adapt this story in the movie girls world speaking from grand father in what you stressed driver , the context of ukraine, i have a certain origin however, i did not feel his awareness and wanted to know what it means to be ukrainian, the trip

then was wonderful, i liked it. people were very kind to me filming there. however, i did not think much about it and when the war started, all my friends and colleagues started calling me because they wanted to know how to support ukraine , because they thought that i was ukrainian and that i should know, but i didn't have a good answer, you know, everyone was thinking first of all about yuniseev about the red cross of course, these are large international charities and i also thought that this was the best way, but then i talked with some friends who know much more than me about humanitarian aid, then we organized a blood check and with the main idea that people are best suited to help ukrainians ukrainians themselves check charitable organizations to see if there is a lot

of mistrust in them, for example, how they spend money. does this apply to you? for us , the main idea was that people who want to support ukraine should be able to do so. as simple as possible because whatever problems there are when we talk to people we hear for example but how do i know where is my money going how can i check that this is a reliable organization how can i be sure that it is not engaged in black market corruption or something similar where do i knowing that the people who run this charity don't spend huge amounts of money on administrative needs and in response we invited ropes & gray , a great firm in dc and around the world, to help us for free check the groups and with which we would be interested to work and how it all works as you

predicted. that is, you were able to check many good organizations. the cat safe contract is a charitable organization that we checked and support . initially, pavlo had the task of finding 117 children registered with kidsafe as orphans , but since the time when cat safe signed a contract with him, pavlo together with his wife and team rescued or evacuated more than 20,000 displaced women and children, for me this proves that the people who do the real work on the ground in ukraine are the ukrainians themselves, that is why we should support them. they only need resources. i think that sometimes people pay attention to large

international charitable organizations because these are global organizations that conduct work all over the world, and we deal only with ukraine, we do everything exclusively about ukraine. we are also sure that the most effective people on the ground are those who care the most, and it is obviously themselves ukrainians or many of those you know personally help, or many people from the film industry or with famous names work with you and donate money to ukrainian organizations, and such people support ukraine is huge, at least that's what i felt in america people like mila kunis ashton kacher and the rest of them

hundreds and i think they are actively speaking and making sure that we keep an eye on ukraine a big part of this and you probably know this better than anyone is that this could go on for some time before we have to keep focus and support the topic. we have to follow this, you know, there are many things happening in the world and it is a saturated news cycle. therefore, we have to remind people that this is not going anywhere and we have to continue to support ukraine because i believe that the values ​​are put at the end of the values ​​that are being fought for the ukrainian people, in a certain sense, and our values, as well as many of the issues that are here, such a critical view. you could not continue this opinion, as ukrainians we see ukrainian flags everywhere, we see this support to a certain extent, it is unprecedented there were other wars, however, we did not notice such

significant support, so as you pointed out, there are certain questions about who, but what exactly affects this ukrainian one, especially people related to physical education who are trying to understand what is happening, why why did it affect wi-fi so much ios i can't speak for anyone but myself however, i can say that when i was sitting on the sofa with my children and we saw how the war developed as these big balding middle-aged men with cigarettes and kalashnikovs said goodbye to their families and went to a battle where the enemy greatly outnumbers them in men and weapons in order to defend their right to vote for their own leaders to decide what language they want to speak some freedoms they want

for their children they were ready to give their lives for me it was very american and as a grandson of the ukrainian amy. yes, i often feel that america is a nation of grandchildren. and i feel that we are in debt. people have already fought in these battles in the past. you understand what i mean, two wars that have already been fought, so i think that people are concerned about it because nowadays we see the same war because we have fought this war before and the fact is it's been 100 days since the start of a full scale war are you involved in fundraising are you seeing your interest waning or are you noticing that people are tired of so to speak ukraine. i think that this is the nature of the 24-hour news cycle, it has both great advantages and disadvantages. i think that trying to fill 24 hours with news has consequences

for the concentration of human attention, so they forget what is really important, they forget what is really at stake because they very quickly moved on to another topic but i don't think we should worry too much about it we should focus on what is really important and i think this is the main thing she was very impressed by your photos from przemyśl where you cook the corner center kitchen it was a huge pot god for how many 1,500 people share your impressions of this trip and trip to lviv organization what is happening on site and this was part of that work world centel kitchen - this is an amazing organization that believes that there is a deep connection between food humanity and aid so i started helping at world

centel kitchen and saw what they do one thing i realized is that needs are constantly changing it's a moving target sometimes it's food sometimes it's medical care sometimes it's shelter or help with mental health in part. that's how we formed our idea for bluche. if we create a portfolio of organizations with different types of services, it will make more sense. first, we visited przemyśl, then lviv and saw everything that people do there. it was very important to me. strong and touching in such situations it is always difficult to talk about positive things, but such conflicts at the same time show all the best that we have during my short stay in ukraine i felt that the war shows all the best in ukrainians and this is what we should have supported what i should have supported i wanted to be a part of it to some extent, as an

actor and as a person with a constant identity crisis, i like this side of my personality. i like that the ukrainian part of me that provided support was strong, hardy and brave. i want to identify myself with her. i like to better ukraine peasy paring angry birds your pensions. this is wonderful. you plan to somehow develop your experience in a creative sense, for example, create your own or star in a film or other project to tell the history of ukraine. they have already done it to me. such proposals are now in the acute phase of the war, the most important thing is to help, not to tell stories, if such stories will encourage people

to help more, then maybe so, but at the moment i am concerned with more practical issues in addition, i am too tall to play zelenskyi and zelenskyi is good and i was not offered such a thing by anyone i was not offered it if it was offered to me no but someone wanted to do it and i have friends who wanted to make documentaries and evict stories i think that there is something to show stories, in general, this is a good idea. this is another initiative that we are thinking about in our group, but this is a separate issue. the blue check is primarily about establishing a connection between those who provide humanitarian aid and those who need it and deliver it on the ground in ukraine today

the question is obviously that you actively follow everything. you are very involved in everything that will happen next. in your opinion, ukraine will win. how long will it last ? they will win i really think so it's only a matter of time and we have to hold on and continue to support i think we have to stand up for our humanistic values ​​and principles the idea that the pursuit of freedom defines us as people freedom and the opportunities that have been given americans, this is what ukrainians demand for themselves now, and this is the right side of the story, in my opinion, he himself is from the site in my mind

. thank you very much for the interview. thank you very much for all the work you do. it is very important. thank you. download the voice of america mobile application allows you to bypass blocking automatically thanks to the built-in vpn service read the news watch informative programs and videos and also listen to podcasts of the voice of america ukrainian service this is the end of our issue join also our daily briefings at 18:00 and 23:35 on youtube and facebook and have the opportunity to ask your questions. thank you for being with us. have a peaceful night and a peaceful weekend. see you later, ms. olena. tell me if you are recognized

on the streets in poland, in particular, since you have been on all the columns of the world media since the first days of the war. you on the streets of katowice, in particular, yes, the most interesting thing is that when i went to the store, the cashier recognized me , blew up a piece of paper from the cash register and asked me to leave an autograph, and today, when i got to the i was also recognized by the doctors at the hospital, the nurses hugged me and cried, they also sympathized with us. thank you, mrs. olena, for contacting us directly. thank you for your story. let's see each other, olena kurylo shgoyeva was with us live, and she told us what she experienced during

these 100 days of war, and in particular, we had the opportunity to hear everything about everything from her personally . thank you, ms. olena.