and the shortest subway appeared in the place of cossack winterers nicknames and freedom lessons of the occupation the hitlers all shot from 17 to 21,000 jews in the dnipro after the expulsion of the nazis remained under the attack of enemy aircraft but did not stop working for victory as they do not stop and now they are the first to meet those fleeing the war and in spite of everything reliably keeps the rear of the dnipro just space and dnipro unconquered

i congratulate on the air the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america time and the host ostapesh the leaders of the countries of the bucharest nine, which unites the member states nato of central and eastern europe met in romania to discuss the challenges faced by the alliance on the eastern flank. during the meeting , the president of lithuania and called himself declared that nato should consider russia as a long-term threat to the democratic world because it has violated too many taboos and red lines in the meantime another congress of the copenhagen summit for democracy is underway in denmark. in his virtual speech at the event, volodymyr zelenskyi, the president of ukraine, called on the european union to take a historic step and to prove that the ukrainian people belong to the european family, so the first thing is to finally remove the gray area that so tempts the russian state. it is necessary to move from words that

ukraine is part of the european family to actions. that the words about the belonging of the ukrainian people to the european family are not just words. since june 23, the statement of european representatives gives reason to believe that the european union may agree to grant ukraine such a status, but at the same time, europe still has some reservations about this. we will talk with bohdan tsyupin , who is joining us from london. it is important to get the status of a candidate for joining the eu, what will this mean for ostap, first of all

, it is worth going back to the words of ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyi, who just it sounded like he said that ukraine no longer wants to remain in syria, a zone where it is a victim of russian aggression, that is, the euro-atlantic integration of ukraine has always been declared as the state course of ukraine, and this is written in the constitution of ukraine, we do not forget and in fact, that ukraine will be able to be one of the states of the european union denies the claims of the aggressor russia, where president putin insists that ukraine is not a state and in fact has no right to exist, it is also important to keep in mind that ukraine and its advancement to the european union especially now, the members of the european union have two points. although it is not a military

bloc, there is a provision in the eu treaty that obliges countries to help each other in security matters. also important is the point of economic support for ukraine, which obviously, help is needed now and help will be greatly needed. with the reconstruction as a result of this devastating war, voices are already being heard that it would be good to combine the preparation of ukraine for eu membership with the gigantic project of rebuilding ukraine from devastation of the war bohdan and what are the reservations of individual european countries and exactly how the ukrainian government is trying to address them today there is a reservation of its own despite what you said that uh we hope is that so ukrainians and

ukrainian leaders hope that this will be the status of the candidate this month it is possible that it was approved for ukraine against the guarantee, there is no uh, the majority of countries are obviously in favor of, we know, separate statements, we know that on june 8, the european parliament deputies approved the resolutions calling grant such a candidate status, but on the other hand there are voices, for example, a few weeks ago, we heard from representatives of the netherlands and france that there could not be an accelerated procedure for acquiring membership for ukraine, today the agency cited documents and unnamed representatives of denmark in which it is said that denmark is likely to speak against granting ukraine the status of a candidate in view of the fact that, as transmitted there, it seems to be

said that ukraine is an immature democracy and that ukraine still has serious problems with supremacy and for example, recently the former chancellor of germany, angela merkel, said that when she assessed the state of affairs in ukraine, she came to the conclusion that, at least until recently, as she expressed herself, oligarchs ruled in ukraine and had too much influence. therefore, in ukraine, this e- the preparatory process is obviously necessary and some even here in europe claim that the actual candidacy is not yet membership and in principle the european union could grant such a status to ukraine already after the following questions and very the big question is how long this candidate process could last, or very quickly, as they say. in ukraine , the optimists say, for example, two years or, on average, 8

or even 10 years. how was it for other countries? and is there a much longer period, for example, turkey passed the membership the eu already at the end of the 80s, in the year 99, its right to membership was actually approved as a candidate, but turkey not only did not come close to membership in the eu , and the candidate status now does not at all mean the possibility of joining the european union, bohdan. thank you. thank you, we will monitor how the events will develop, i will remind you. it was bohdan tsyupin who joined our broadcast from london. meanwhile, the united states is closely monitoring the hearings of the special commission of the house of representatives, which is investigating the storming of the capitol by supporters of donald

trump in january 2021. the first public hearing of the committee took place on the evening of thursday, june 9, it was broadcast by most of the major tv channels in the united states, this and other important events in the congress were monitored by kateryna lisonova yaka joining us from capitol hill is katy hello, the investigation into the storming of the capitol and the events of january 6th is a really important topic for many americans what we learned and heard in the first day of committee hearings the specially created committee to investigate the events of january 6th, 2021 released previously unseen videos of the storming of capitol a a number of witnesses also heard the same, in particular, among them , a representative of the law enforcement officers who was on the front line of the storming of the capitol testified, and in particular she stated that this storming was very brutal and very showed fragments of the testimony of the then members of the office of president donald trump, who claimed

that they convinced the 45th president that he lost the election, but donald trump allegedly refused against hearing it and again claimed about the so -called falsifications. one of such important testimony was the testimony of the then attorney general near mar, i suggest listen to the lyceum fragment just now i recall three conversations with the president on this topic on november 23, december 1 and december 14 i made it clear that i do not agree with the idea of ​​stolen elections and i will not declare it, i told the president that it is delusional and you know i did not want to be a part of this, this is one of the reasons why i left office, you cannot live in a world where the current administration remains in power based on its point of view, not confirmed by specifics evidence that there were falsifications in the elections , in general, the investigation lasted 11 months, more than a thousand people were questioned and more than

700 participants of these events were arrested, but i would like to point out that the committee itself does not have legal authority that it can advise the united states department of justice america to prosecute individual participants in these events." well, directly donald trump on his social network, which he actually created, a coward, social truth, made a number of statements in which he called the members of this committee political thugs, and other republicans directly made a statement in which they claim that these hearings are absolutely political and, in general, these actions of this committee are illegitimate, at least such a statement was made by the leader of the minority in the house of representatives, republican kevin mccarthy offers to listen a fragment of his speech is also the most political and least legitimate committee in the history of america, he used subpoenas to congress to attack republicans, violated independent procedure and

violated the right to political statements of private citizens . mid-term elections to the congress and, according to experts, the committee is trying to publicize the results of the investigation, not in case this autumn most congresses receive republicans who may not welcome these hearings so much and do not give the same publicity to these hearings in general, as of now we know that we are waiting for at least eight such hearings. three of them will take place already next week. another important hearing was held today in the congress, it was about in ukraine, the oversight committee of the house of representatives met to discuss the humanitarian response of the united states to the full-scale invasion of russia. you also followed this event . what topics did its participants focus on? and you know what? during these hearings, such

organizations as doctors without borders, the international rescue committee, also save our children were present today, and they spoke directly about what exactly needs to be done to help ee in the process of humanitarian aid and for ukraine both at the international level and at the level of the united states of america and one of these speakers was jose andreas, the head and founder of the world centl kitchen, which is currently leading a large-scale assistance program for the provision of food and nutrition in ukraine and he directly stated that he does not see the sense in the fact that the united states of america provides products directly to him in ukraine, that the united states of america should do this by sponsoring the restoration of factories in ukraine , the restoration of the restoration of the work of marketing markets in ukraine, in order to get rid of this problem as such, i propose to listen a fragment of his speech just now that the world food program

is importing food to ukraine and at the same time they are saying that we need to find ways to export food from ukraine if we we have food inside ukraine, why shouldn't we buy it? and those foods that the world food program is trying to bring to ukraine. why not send them immediately to syria, ethiopia, and the countries that need this food right now? i also believe that we need to start factories and markets inside again it will be in the interests of ukraine's national security by providing such humanitarian aid. we will multiply every dollar that america gives because we will create jobs and help ukrainians feed themselves, as well as many representatives those who testified at these hearings stated that they criticized the logistics of aid for ukraine and claimed that it is possible to help ukraine by being directly on the ground, recruiting directly in ukraine, and not by solving the issue somewhere on the territory of a third country, so there was also a

lot of criticism towards the united nations the nation directly, edward gramp, a representative of the charity organization wallet seventh - said that he and his representatives did not particularly see the representation of the organization of the united nations on the territory of ukraine and that it is primarily related to the bureaucratic system of the un offers to listen to his fragment of his speech also just now it is an organization that has many opportunities but it is a huge bureaucratic system it moves slowly also trying to maintain neutrality they cannot work or hire directly to people on the ground in ukraine, i don't work at the un, so i don't know what challenges they face, but i know that public organizations are more agile and can work directly with partners on places like we work with the local church and it is the church that feeds the people that is how we work and it is very operational work we were there on the second day of the war

to be honest i saw very few un vehicles while i was there katya thank you very much for your inclusion i will remind you it was kateryna lisunova, who joined our broadcast from capitol hill, what should be further aid to ukraine remains an important topic of discussion in the us congress, now in washington there are ukrainian days in order to get more active and support from their legislators, representatives of ukrainian communities from different states arrived in the american capital about how ukrainians in the usa communicate with their representatives in congress and what messages they want to convey to them, let's talk with iryna, a representative of a public organization from shifin, together in the form of a crane. iryna welcomes you to our studio. see, we know. iryna that the support for the congress is actually large in both parties, democratic and republican. but still, why, even though this support is important in the future talk with the american aggressors, senators

, and talk with them about ukraine. you know, the ukrainian issue was very important and important for america in the early days, there was party support, but it is necessary to develop and strengthen the work of ukrainians. american ukrainians with their representatives in the congress because ah, from what we heard from our communication, i see that some of them do not have enough information, they do not have enough access to ukrainian experts, so it is necessary to talk to them so that the ukrainian issue is not resolved without ukrainians from which states. by the way, ukrainian communities came to the congress today, you know this, and from many states, i will say that yes, for example . today we had a meeting with you, you know

. one voter representative is anna, she is from atlanta, and we joined her in order to deliver our main e-e messages that we would like to emphasize. hmm, we rallied very well. this should be done at the moment . but with our situation ya i think that it is necessary to contact the e-e of your representative and how they are ukrainian issues, is there all the information, and also we are still finding out how other voters in their district react to the support of ukraine for the vote, do they have any reservations, because we see that people are already tired of the war

, questions are being asked like this, russian propaganda is about inflation being connected with ukraine, that a lot of money is being spent on individual when they leave, and it is also necessary to find out whether the representatives of the councilors have something to answer to their voters. have information. what is the need for some information from us and e, so we need to strengthen our cooperation so that this bipartisan support exists in the future. because we need to continue to vote for er and end this war, convey the main message that er, we need to end this war as soon as possible, it will be more effective for everyone and it is in the interests of america that these are the key messages that you are talking about during these two days of meetings

with american legislators. the american legislator. and now there is one of the most important issues under consideration, especially today , the issue of two bills of resolution on the recognition of russia as a sponsor of terrorism. principles, the main people who proofread these laws and already from their expertise, then the senators speak separately and vote. that is why it is very important that the offices receive this from the voters. districts and mine, they also support ukraine, they vote on all resolutions on all

draft laws, hmm, we also talked with georges today, and it too, although it has different goals and a different audience, and other products, they have different needs, but everything one thing, she also voted. and we reported those things that we have in common , these are still human rights and children 's rights. information, that is, it is such small things that need to be developed, and we are not professional, we are lobbyists, like in russia, there are a lot of lobbies, but we are ukrainians who feel that it is necessary to strengthen support for ukraine from this side of ours, what is a minute left, iryna, what else, if we

summarize, what feedback is the answer i heard from american legislators on your questions on your e-e requests. i think that it is mostly positive and even if a person voted, they should be contacted and they should explain what reservations they had and how their voters e-e want to the representative voted and maybe we can convince them and i think that it should be done more often and come and there will be another virtual days where we can also emphasize everything that we spoke again and you can say that we will receive feedback, they will not vote. i am sure that in our district they will vote for that proposed bill, and also what message they will convey about

inflation, first of all, that it started before the war and is not related to ukraine and where the budget money goes, it is really very important iryna thank you very much for that who came to the studio today. it was iryna shafinska, a representative of the public organization ford ukraine, from an emigrant from ukraine to a candidate for congress from the republican party. in the suburbs of washington about the story of life, the path to great politics and why the candidate criticizes the democrats and president biden, yuriy mamon tells i am running for congress in the eighth district of virginia i lived the american dream and i see how this dream is taken away from others due to the weakness of current politicians with such a powerful statement in her pre-election

campaign video karina lipsman begins her congressional journey and it would seem nothing special a typical statement of a new ambitious american politician if only the life story of the woman herself i came only when i was 8 years old from odesa in ukraine. we came as refugees with my single mother and grandparents to america . the liebsman family came in 1993, which most emigrants at first survived by receiving small subsidies from the state, eight-year-old karina started going to school, where it was not easy to adapt among the local children, and in the meantime, her mother supported the whole family as a working seamstress, and in the evenings, when she found time to study english, the times were not easy, 37-year-old karina recalls today. i am grateful to my mother who did not give up and stayed in the usa for the better future of the daughter of the ussr when i turned 18 i applied for us citizenship

and it was a choice i made because i wanted to to be a part of america and after that, i had the opportunity to enter college, apply for a scholarship and do everything that an american citizen can do, followed by an education at a prestigious university and a successful career in the us defense industry, and here she is today, a young, successful strong and ambitious is running for the us congress, the next step to really run for congress or to decide to run for office began with the fact that i saw that our politicians are not able to do their job well, that's why they they're letting the people they represent in congress down and they're so disconnected from what's really going on in their districts and their states they're more concerned with how they can benefit from it and this is where you know when things start to get a little personal that's when people really start to stand up and want something to do no to congress karin liebsman is running from the republican party in the

eighth district of the state of virginia, the eighth district itself is located in the suburbs of the american capital and since 1990 to the us legislature only representatives from the democratic party were elected here to defeat the republican politician in this area, not just the opponents are experienced and rich, but karina and the manager of the company brian have a plan, it consists in the demographic changes of this particular area and the history of karina's life, that is, if the area used to be inhabited mainly by white americans now almost half of the population is represented by immigrants from all over the world and minorities. and this is karina's target audience, and that is why in her campaign videos she tells her life story and what she achieved on her own through hard work as an emigrant zero i believe that many people in this area, especially those involved in flying, come from wealthy families or

hereditary political families, but there are also many emigrants and their descendants who cannot be categorized white men who were not brought up in such circumstances, the history of the country is just about how it had to fight for everything it has now, i think that these are the stories from those life trials - these are the ones that are listened to the majority of the residents of this district. i think this gives her a wide appeal for this demographic, while the current elected representative does not look like his voters in his election campaigns. karina does not avoid the urgent problems that every american faces today. she actively criticizes the government and the president biden, in particular, due to the high inflation in the country, the increase in the price of gasoline and products and the high level of crime, the rapid

increase in gas prices, rental products, rampant crime and poisonous distribution policy it also affects the foreign policy of the american president. karina lipsman is certain that biden could have restrained putin even before the attack, however, i wish that the american president did not have enough political will to impose strict sanctions even before the war in ukraine began. my heart breaks from what is happening and i think that none of this should not have happened and again all because of the weakness of the leadership and we could have done a lot more to prevent this attack because we knew exactly what it would lead to we had information in we had the opportunity to stop this and our leadership decided that this is not what they are going to do and so we could have prevented all of this by introducing more severe sanctions even before the base in the political arena of the eighth district of virginia, opponents take karina seriously, she confidently

passed all the republican candidates in the internal party elections and won the right to be the main candidate of the party in the district i received 61.5% of the votes in the first ballot this is unheard of my closest competitor won in div a the candidate of 2020 won 15% of the votes. so, after the victory, literally crushing the congress, i gave a speech and it was about how an immigrant from ukraine is currently appearing on the stage as an elected candidate for the congress and how realistic this moment was, then a serious election campaign on which they are currently raising funds and this is mostly donated from donors and ordinary citizens in their plans to raise $500,000 in the next 30 days. as they say here, money does not win elections, but it certainly helps yurii mamon kostyantyn holobchuk voice of america, download the voice of america mobile application

, the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read the news, watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts of the ukrainian voice of america service, and this is the end of our issue. thank you for being with us, i wish you a peaceful night and have a peaceful weekend. see you soon, happy team there , we need to save putin's face, we need to end this war somehow, weapons do not help to solve this conflict, such theses are heard, and is it possible to principles. and let's remember putin's last statement and at the meeting here in the peter the great museum, and

at the meeting with businessmen and it experts, it is said that he wants to continue to collect land after all. their opinion of the patriotic war or the second one, not the second world war, a great national one, in fact, in principle, he voices his opinion on the one hand, i want to complete it, on the other hand, he voices his plans what does he want to continue the war here do you know anyone here contradiction with that