amen , i will watch the program of the ukrainian official speech of america, time studio nataliya leonova . i congratulate the allies of ukraine. this week, ukraine's allies are holding a

series of meetings in europe aimed at agreeing on further steps with the help of ukraine to carry out russian aggression. in particular, french president manuel macron will be in romania on tuesday and will fly to moldova, based on the report of the german publication amazon, there are speculations that macron together with the chancellor of germany olef schulz and the prime minister italy's mario bastards will arrive in ukraine, all these events are closely monitored by our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin. he is joining our studio right now from london. he greets bohdan. good evening. so, bohdan, what do we know about president macron's plans? do we have any official confirmation and why is there such attention in general ? chained to these visits, there are official confirmations about the plans of president macron scholz and drago to be in ukraine this week

, there are no official confirmations of this kind at the moment, actually paris and berlin say that there are no concrete plans that we could share with this capital, at the moment we only know for sure that tomorrow french president manuel macron is leaving for romania, where on the 14th he will visit the french contingent as part of the nato force located there, which was actually located after russia attacked ukraine in february and they also expect that from romania he will go to moldova and of course it would be very logical to immediately fly from neighboring moldova to kyiv and it would be very logical that the leaders of other major countries that have not yet visited kyiv during these last three months, namely

german chancellor polafsholtz and italian prime minister maria draga. of the cabinet of ministers or representatives of the president’s office in paris bohdany has criticized president macron recently for his calls not to humiliate putin. has his rhetoric changed since then and are the assumptions justified that ukraine macron's words will lead to concessions, and what he says about russia and ukraine changes over time, that is, he often spoke about the possibility of negotiating with russia, he used to talk more about the possibility of achieving peace now, and this is from the french president and from other representatives of europe, from his colleague olef scholtz

, one of the reasons for this is that russia itself does not talk about peace, and the russian president actually ripped off his own mask, saying that he equates himself with the russian emperor peter the great is currently working on the conquest of new lands or the return of lands, as he said to the russian empire, and this is one of the reasons why european leaders, even those who once not so long ago believed that it was possible to negotiate with russia, now they see that their own words are shattered by the fact that is heard from the kremlin, changes are also taking place in general in the position and in the rhetoric of e-e, let's take france for example, which is now saying that in the words of president macron, the country e-e, like the rest of europe, is actually in a state of war

of the economy today in paris, he was at the military exhibition at the arms exhibition, and there he specifically made it clear that france considers it necessary to respond positively to the calls of ukraine to provide it with the latest modern heavy weapons. here is an excerpt from his speech, as you understand. of the changes in which we live, if anyone doubts the urgency of those efforts, look again at ukraine, whose soldiers demand quality weapons, and they also have the right to respond. so, we learn from from the experience of past years, from what is happening in ukraine and in the world of bohdan, it is obvious that european leaders during this week's meetings will

discuss the issue of arming ukraine. russian occupiers from ukrainian territories , ukrainians need parity of heavy weapons, the minister of defense of ukraine said last week that they have already provided four himers installations of which weapons and it is important when we can expect from the europeans, well, actually, when it comes to the supply of weapons, it is possible that such a big last announcement we heard from great britain about the supply of several rocket salvo systems. also, i remember there was a report about a large number of self-propelled howitzers from poland, but on the other hand, i think it should be borne in mind that sometimes we do not have information about what kind of arms supply from some countries was

taking place or what is planned, for example, last week we learned about e howitzers from norway about which countries have not officially reported either . pay attention to france. france officially reports very little about the supply of weapons to ukraine, but we know that the ministry of defense of ukraine recently officially very loudly expressed its gratitude for french- made caesar howitzers, which, as already mentioned, are operating in the east of ukraine but from the ukrainian side, calls are being made more and more loudly and, one might say, more desperate, that ukraine needs heavy weapons much, much more mykhailo podolyak wrote on twitter today that it is about thousands of guns and hundreds

of missile salvo systems that ukraine needs - this is a huge number. thank you bohdan , let's hope that these appeals will be heard. our european correspondent from london, bohdan tsyupin , was with us. of president biden to strengthen ukraine in its resistance to russia, not to slow down the supply of weapons to ukraine, including artillery installations, and also to do everything for help at the negotiating table if ukraine decides to hold them, in particular, in an interview with the voice of america, the republican congressman michael mccall said that the situation is now critical because the russians are gaining momentum. and i hope to surpass them in i worry that the more time it takes to transfer these latest weapons

, the more it will contribute to a long-term conflict, in my opinion it should end quickly, but i you i assure you that the americans and our nato allies will be with ukraine as long as it is necessary for victory. i believe that it should be the policy of the united states and nato to do everything so that ukraine retains its sovereignty and pushes the russians to the borders . now many people are talking about the possibility of negotiations, but now it is difficult because of the war crimes of atrocities that we saw in bucha and what we see in mariupol we documented it all the hands of the clock are difficult to turn back or would we start negotiating with hitler to give he got slovakia and poland in exchange peaceful i think that putin has crossed the line so much with his war crimes that it makes the issue of negotiations very difficult in the end it will really depend

on the ukrainian people and president zelensky whether they want to agree on something the number of deaths of american soldiers in the field battle that could have been prevented if professional medical care had been provided in time in the early 2000s, 8%. after the introduction of new first aid kit standards and appropriate training the number of such deaths has decreased by almost three times today, new methods are available to the ukrainian military thanks to volunteer instructors and benefactors from the usa, they watched the training, and kostyuchenko and oleksiy yakushev, your comrades, were wounded in the legs, massive bleeding from the commander’s left arm and right leg, fire cover, this is a tactical lesson of medicine for recruits of the ukrainian armed forces, the instructor iryna kostenko recreates for the soldiers the real conditions of battle when the step boils with adrenaline and time for the rescue of a comrade was almost impossible. iryna has been working

as a tactical medicine instructor for more than 8 years and has practical experience at the forefront of tactical medicine training abroad in february. she was trained under the experience exchange program in washington. the beginning of a full-scale war forced her to urgently return to ukraine, but she did not return. with empty hands, the charitable organization of american ukrainians, united help ukraine , provided iryna and her colleagues with more than 50 suitcases with first aid kits, we got acquainted with the united help ukraine organization in washington. then i was part of a group that went to washington under the program open to the world. next , we were supposed to go to each of our states and study thematically to exchange experiences. but putin changed our plans a little. we were forced to return to ukraine and united help they helped us in washington

to collect first-aid kits and medical equipment so that we did not simply go to kyiv in ukraine, the public organization united help ukraine has been providing assistance to ukraine since 2014, when russia started a hybrid during the war, volunteers from the washington area thoroughly studied what exactly should be in a modern military pharmacy and established contacts with suppliers of quality materials at the beginning of the large-scale aggression of russia, they distributed more than 15,000 first-aid kits, this is a professional tactical first- aid kit, but without the ability to use all these accessories, it has no benefits, that's why first-aid kits are issued only to soldiers who learn all the rules of first aid on the battlefield, says iryna , her intensive training usually lasts eight hours during this time, people must learn to stop massive bleeding and in case of injury, take the tourniquet, open it, take the wounded out of the battlefield, valyu from here, quickly, then a big knee from him,

this is where the blade restores the patency of the respiratory tract, help is provided by whoever is nearby, and nearby is an ordinary fighter like that's why they have to understand what's happening to stop it. i believe that everything will work out, and i believe in my team that is working today that we will be able to convey basic things, basic skills and basic knowledge, that's why we in the process and they are all very good, i believe in them, everything will work out in iryna's team, there are three more experienced instructors. each of them teaches fighters at a separate stage of the general algorithm, and while i was pulling the tourniquet, it stopped being effective, it could be that this algorithm is based on the experience of the united states military which later became generally accepted in all nato countries, today will be training in accordance with t-23, it will take place according to the march algorithm, that is, massive bleeding air respiratory tract respiration circulation

hypothermia and plus there will be a station evacuation, where we will learn how to better take people from the battlefield, injuries, such briefings iryna , her team conducts for the military every week, the instructors work for free, they say the main reward for them is saved lives anna kostyuchenko oleksiy yakushev for america's vote from kyiv, according to un estimates, almost 2.5 million people crossed the border of ukraine from europe, however, it is difficult to determine exactly how many people returned permanently, some go home to assess the situation, visit their relatives or help them leave, while others remain in our the following story is about a woman from sumy who returned from her hometown from poland, what she saw in sumy and why she learned to shoot with a machine gun will be told by olena adamenko and mykhailo zayka. i never thought that

being a pacifist all my life i would have to learn to shoot a machine gun at the age of 37, but still i believe that living on the border in such a state of war. every person should be able to own a weapon in order to protect himself, his family, his loved ones, his home and his ukraine. iryna martynenko, a woman from sumy, has been learning to shoot a machine gun for a month and provide first aid before that, she worked in the field of tourism for many years, rented out kayaks, canoes, organized outdoor recreation in sumy, such a business. so, in december of last year, iryna went to work in poland and there she learned about the beginning of a full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine the first morning - it was a horror at the company where we worked, the vast majority of ukrainians were there, that is, no one

could do anything . day irina was going to return to sumy, but her friends informed her that the city was already surrounded and it was impossible to get home. well, i felt a bit sad. with other people from sumy in warsaw, iryna began to collect and send to sumy medicine, food, things separately, they helped the sumy military and a very valuable cargo came to us then from america and there were first-aid kits and, uh, there were some thermal imagers and something else, well, very a lot of people are just military there and he guessed when he had a day off and just like his own luggage brought all the bags at the end of april, i realized that everything can work in poland

without me and i decided to return home especially since all my parents brother, everyone stayed in ukraine, most of all, tuska was waiting for me at home. my dog ​​came and scratched at my door about a year and a half ago, i had to take her from the street. now, together with the words, with the beginning of a full-scale invasion, we became ukrainians are a kind of symbol of unity and they appeared a lot on t-shirts on the march. and when i was in warsaw, i couldn't afford to buy such a t-shirt, so i got a tattoo. and now i have a t-shirt that never comes off, well , of course there are fewer people in the city than it was before, but more than at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, of course the city has changed, cafes are closed at 10:00,

everyone should be at home, light, camouflage, darkness all around, of course, it feels completely different from how it was before, the city lives completely differently life from the constant wail of sirens under the constant sounds of shelling is scary like everyone else but this is my home here . i have been here all my life, but i never wanted to stay in another country, i was going home because i don't have a second home and never will over time, iryna is going to renew her tourism business. and she also dreams of opening a nursery of decorative plants and doing landscape

design. in particular, it affected the life of a six-year-old girl with special needs, bridget. on february 25 of this year, an american family was supposed to know the date when the child could be taken from the house, instead, the adoption was put on hold. in need from ukraine, who was adopted during the russian-ukrainian war by the americans phil and christy grace phil, pastor of the baptist church in the city of brandsfiek, maryland, christy is a doctor pulmonologist, the couple already has three biological children and one adopted girl from armenia, eight-year-old eliana with spina bifida, the girl is paralyzed in the lower part of her body in the usa, she has already undergone four vital operations and regularly visits the doctor and needs constant

care, however, the parents, despite their full workload with children decided in january 2021 that they wanted to adopt another child. kristiv saw bridget's photo for the first time on the website of the international adoption of children with special needs. i i told phil about it and i was sure that he would say nothing, but he didn't say that, but january, when we were installing eliana, we managed to raise most of the funds with the help of various charity events, we sold t-shirts as a family, we had to borrow some money from our retirement savings, i told my wife that i no longer want to spend so much time on fundraising, everything will work out if god shows us what he wants us to do, i wrote a post on facebook saying that we want to establish a child, but we need to start this the process needs $8,000. we collected this amount in a week, and every time we needed money, it somehow appeared quickly and unexpectedly.

in the end, the family managed to collect more than 40 thousand dollars, that's how much international adoption cost them. bridget was born in an orphanage in ukraine in the sixth month of pregnancy from surrogate mother, when the biological parents found out that the girl was born prematurely and has special needs, they gave her up because of cerebral palsy , foot deformity and eye problems, a local nurse, maryna boyko, took care of brezi, so her was called in ukraine while she was in the hospital, when the girl was placed in an orphanage in zaporizhzhia, marina was the only one who visited her in december 21st, her future came to the breezes for the first time, her parents told them to wait for news in february about when to take the child home february 24, russia invaded ukraine for us this means that everything is suspended, we started waiting for her to

pray does she have any information? i contacted the state department and the congressman from my district. they all told me the same thing. ukraine is defending itself against foreign invasion and nothing can be done. all i could do was wait, then sometime in april i received a message from nurse marina. she said that the judge was ready to conclude the adoption process meant that phil and christy had to go to ukraine at a time when the russian shelling was going on there under as soon as we saw her photo on the computer we realized that this was our child we started calling she's our daughter it's hard to explain if you're not a parent but this is the best way i can illustrate the situation if your child is in

danger you're just what should i be asked if we weren't scared once we were on a train and we were trying to sleep the train was knocking on the track and swaying suddenly i woke up from the fact that the train stopped and there was complete silence i knew that the russian troops were shelling trains and railway objects i became afraid that maybe the railway tracks were blown up or something else window and saw that people were simply disembarking at the station. they arrived in kyiv in the afternoon when the un secretary general antonio was in the capital . when the city was shelled by the russians, they went to zaporizhzhia for court. however, the trial was postponed due to air alarms. they had to pick up their daughter later from lviv, where the orphanage was evacuated. also under the sounds of the air alarm white as soon as we arrived in poland and the danger

was behind me i felt a huge relief i felt that god carried us all this way in in the new family, the girl is literally carried in the arms of brizi, while she only speaks russian, they communicate through google translator, the family hopes that by the beginning of the school year, brizi will learn the basic phrases of english, she will go to a regular elementary school together with liana, she will have an individual study plan and additional help and for now, summer and the breeze are doing their favorite thing, swimming in an inflatable pool, can we hide in the parents' plans to pick up the daughter 's glasses by adjusting them and give her the opportunity walk filet christy is told that breezy is already trying to stand on her own we are going to operate on her feet in august the doctor says he

is 99% sure that she will walk they are beautiful look at her look at how beautiful she is and the other one is perfection god sees them as perfect as possible not to love these children is the latvian word of the un yaryna matviychuk anush avitisyan kostyantyn golubchyk the voice of america for some americans the war in ukraine is a very personal story the hero of our next story is a poet and writer james patterson is one of them. he was born in moscow in the family of an african-american and a ukrainian woman and already at the age of two he became famous throughout the soviet union by playing the role of an intersex child in the movie circus. for the past 28 years, he has been living in washington . voice of america correspondents met with patterson and found out what is he doing now and

how is he experiencing the events in ukraine? the boy who played the son of the heroine of orlova's love instantly became famous among soviet viewers , only unlike his film hero, james lloydovich patterson was born not in america, but in moscow in 1933 in the family of an african -american immigrant, lloyd batterson, who worked in the ussr as a radio announcer, and a ukrainian artist today james lives alone in a small apartment in washington, where he writes poems and prose about his life, which turned out to be no less amazing than cinema . wonderful actors were participants in this film

. i was friends with them all my life. i married my own . began to write poems and became a member of the union of writers of the ussr that you are the best, my friends joke that you are the best russian language expert among africans cats have a teacher pushkin my teacher is all my poems related to him i was brought up by him to emigrate james dared after divorce from his wife, the poetess iryna tolokonnikova, in 1994 he and his mother moved to the usa. james wanted to be closer to american relatives of his father, who died during world war ii. his mother died in 2001

in america but was buried in moscow. james never returned. but what is happening now in russia and ukraine is perceived very personally, it is very close to me because i was a sailor and was based in the places where everything is happening now, the fleet base was in crimea at the time. james remembers the emotions that on february 24, when i found out that the war had started, i felt unpleasant feelings, because it concerned my motherland, because ukraine was very close to me , and suddenly i knew the war in such places in many people. of course, it was very difficult to understand. i do not support this war because war is terrible admits that he tries not to follow the news from the front, because he is too emotional about what is happening, he often watches the circus, which is still his favorite movie, and has also

been translating his books for several months that is why he released the english version of his autobiography, the left hand chronicle, which was published in the soviet union in 1964. since then, it has not been reprinted. amy balart, a former employee of the smithsonian institution, provided him with help in preparing the edition. i was very lucky to meet mr. person in 2020. we started calling. i visited him and got to know my friends. he lives alone, he has no children, his american relatives live far away, and his brother is in moscow, too. he is also elderly . therefore, i decided to help him, in particular, with with the release of his autobiography in english. now james is almost 90 in health, that's not what he says, but he adds - he is not going to stop writing, but i want to dedicate my future poems to a

peaceful life. well japanese city yes this is a good remark, unfortunately for us we have to enter a separate conversation about this because now time is running out thank you for explaining this position and actually sharing the news about the cessation now until the end of hostilities the presence of russian literature in the school program and we were with vira gayev literature is known and a doctor of philological sciences and we continue the same news together we are strong will support the ukrainian army with money scan the code good evening our unbreakable country i congratulate you invincible ukrainians facts of the week analyzed the key events of the last days and we let's try rosie