and it needs to be assured in the white house on the eve of the third meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine, which will be held in brussels tomorrow, like the first two. it was initiated by the united states . process, we will talk about all this with my colleague yulia yarmolenko, who is currently contacting the studio from the white house. congratulations yulia congratulations natalya so yulia, 4 himers installations that the usa provided to ukraine, where are they now and can we expect additional systems, because we hear criticism that these four installations are not enough for ukraine to carry out russian attacks natalya, if we are talking about these four gamer installations, they are actually already in a region not far from ukraine, but in order for them to arrive directly on the battlefield must be passed by the ukrainian military because, again, this is a nato-style system, but

today kolen kal is the deputy secretary of defense of the united states, he stated that the ukrainian military is just now undergoing training on how to use these installations, as well as the melares rocket systems, and he said that the pentagon was convinced that in the near future these installations would go directly to the battlefield, he also noted that of course these installations would be very useful for the ukrainian military because they are extremely accurate, and they can also count targets at a distance of 70-80 km, which will allow the ukrainian military to keep at a sufficiently large distance from the russian forces. also, we hear certain calls from the congress that of course this is not enough. we hear from the pentagon that in fact, if it is about these four installations, it is only the first tranche, but today mccon's sword is the leader of the republicans in the senate

. although he praised the biden administration for the fact that they help the ukrainians militarily, but he called to do more and faster than the taste cone , in particular, called on president biden to provide the ukrainians with everything they need, and in particular, artillery installations with long-range missiles and he also urged to put pressure on the allies and partners in europe to provide the same weapons. karin jeanpierre is the spokeswoman of the white house. she said that the united states will coordinate the efforts of the united states with its partners regarding military assistance to ukraine tomorrow at this meeting of the contact group in brussels and she also emphasized that while all these efforts continue, american military aid is coming to ukraine on a daily basis. we heard these assurances on the eve of the third meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine, which will be held in brussels tomorrow the result of the first two were specific decisions

regarding defense assistance to ukraine, what can we expect this time, so natalya, let's first remind you what the results of the first two of these contact groups were at the rammstein base in germany, this is an american base, and according to the results of this meeting, germany in particular announced for the first time that it would provide ukraine of heavy weapons, namely 50 cheetah tanks, the second meeting, which took place virtually, based on the results of this meeting, 20 countries announced new military aid to ukraine in particular, denmark announced that it is providing ukraine with anti-ship harpoon systems, which is also a very important weapon. lloyd austin, the head of the pentagon , on the eve of this new meeting, which will take place tomorrow, said that this will be another very important opportunity for the partners to coordinate efforts and provide the ukrainians with the same what they need now on the battlefield, but also in the long term, they were able to make the defense of ukraine stronger in general, and he was actually

asked whether the united states is ready to provide the systems that ukrainians need. we hear calls from kyiv that it is necessary to provide more howitzers and more systems of reactive systems of salvo fire and this is how the lloydsian responded to this, the usa is ready to provide everything and help ukraine to succeed, but not only that, we also have partners from all over the world who are ready to significantly help ukraine you saw that we provided a significant number of howitzers and a significant amount of ammunition for them along with many other things other countries also provided 155 mm howitzers we will continue to work to provide the ukrainians as much as possible as quickly as possible so that to help them succeed, we focus on helping and giving them what is needed to protect their sovereign territory. president emmanuel macron's meetings with his romanian and moldovan colleagues are

continuing. ukraine is therefore worried that they will try to persuade ukraine to enter into negotiations with russia . what is the position of the usa regarding the possibility of dialogue with russia ? do you know the details? the general position of the administration of the united states so that only ukraine can decide when it is time to sit down at the negotiating table with russia and in general is it appropriate and we actually hear from the state department from the white house that in fact now there are no signals that russia is ready to go to serious negotiations, except for the jingles of the spokeswoman the white house was asked the day before whether the united states does not think that ukraine should think about it. at least about the negotiations with russia, she once again emphasized that the position of the white house remains unchanged, nothing about ukraine without ukraine, only ukraine will solve the

tasks of the united states and other partners, this will actually strengthen the position of ukrainians both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, let's listen to the direct language to you, we will continue to help ukraine protect their democracy, we have already said many times that this is war putin's aggression is putin's unprovoked aggression against another country's sovereignty. this is putin's war and he must end it, not ukraine. ukraine needs to defend its country and they are doing it incredibly impressively. we hoped that this would end in negotiations. but as of now, we do not see steps in this direction from the kremlin. and therefore we want to make sure that ukraine is in the strongest possible position and if this happens, they will be ready. so this is the position of the united states . thank you yuli for this information let me remind you that yulia yarmolenko was in direct contact with us from the white house. it is impossible to stop him in ukraine without nato intervention. this is the position expressed by the former

commander-in-chief of us forces in nato, wesley clark, regarding the current situation on the fronts, general u retired joined the discussion organized by the atlantic council, a military expert recalled the actions of the nato nations of yugoslavia when, with the informal consent of the un security council, on march 24, 1999, the alliance troops began an operation in the then war-torn federal state, mainly naval and air forces of the united states, great britain were involved in it france and germany. i think that for nato it is time to understand whether nato goes beyond the defined territory or ceases its activities, the idea of ​​the secretary general which today i found support that nato cannot do anything unless there is a direct attack, this idea was debunked back in the 90s. it is time

to return to the lessons we have learned. nato must intervene. let's officially announce it and not tell the russians to cease fire. the war cannot be stopped without intervention. to the alliance, what are the conditions for this to happen, how much territory will have to be surrendered, how it will look on the battlefield, diplomats like to argue about this. but it all starts with the determination of national leaders, you see the program of the ukrainian voice of america service time we continue the release for the first time in the history of the international institution doctors without borders, it organized a medical evacuation train in ukraine , this was facilitated by the extensive ukrainian railway system, the train is a real hospital on wheels that allows you to deliver the seriously injured from the east to the west of ukraine throughout visited and talked with the people

whose lives were saved omelyan oshchudlyak and yuriy dankevich svyatoslav and ihor teenagers from donbas who became roommates in both of lviv came under shelling both miraculously survived our hand is bad practically our hand is bad practically does not work contused and so good he is already playing online games his favorite won online lyubymye olena rychkova nurse from lysychansk due to constant shelling her native hospital has not been working for a long time and we were just approaching our gate, we were just approaching our gate , we saw our neighbors, they were just leaving, we waved to each other kolya, a little boy, 8 years old, and then there was a whistling and then a whistle and everything and kolya fell to one side fell to one side

zhenichka fell to the other and i didn't see sviatyk my husband rushed to help and sviatyk screamed my mother tore my arm off oh my mother tore my arm off already in lviv medics removed her 13-year-old son from the right lung here is this fragment of a russian projectile , it looks like a bent bullet from the lysychansk dobahmut, they drove 60 km under fire on the same t-13:02 route, known today to all ukrainians as the road of life, this is the only way for evacuation and humanitarian cargo that has been trying for weeks to block the russian army after being wounded, sviatoslav was in such a serious condition that the military medics postponed the evacuation of several soldiers in order to get him and his mother into the ambulance as soon as possible. at that time, they did not know that a huge fragment through the neck had entered sviatoslav's right lung, but they did not know that it has fragments inside it and the saints sat there." when we

get to bakhmut i felt as if they started to beat me on the back and then they told me that the wreckage started to fall already when in bakhmut they did when already in the bachmut they looked and saw that it had pierced the lungs and from trembling on the way somewhere it jumped and it went down even lower. and when they got here they did an mri and they saw that it not only went through the lungs but also lay on the diaphragm svyatoslav was saved by evacuation to lviv by a special medical train from doctors without borders and ukrzaliznytsia, under the constant supervision of resuscitators, the boy was one of the most difficult patients evacuated from donbas on the first flights, since then the train has already taken more than 650 wounded, some of them simply did not survive the journey by other means of transport if you imagine the average distance of 1000 km from east here to west , it is extremely difficult to safely transport the seriously

injured over such a distance, and this is exactly what this project helps us to do. we can transfer 30 serious patients. we have five intensive care beds. and there is an opportunity to keep two patients on full mechanical ventilation the need for this is as great as at the beginning of the war here in this room we have seven oxygen generators this is the same oxygen production as in the hospital the egyptian has curds of youth working for lee without borders for 10 years, but for the first time in a medical train, he says this invention is specifically for ukraine due to the developed railway network that functions even despite the russian shelling never and nowhere before doctors without borders have taken patients on specially equipped trains, there are even owners of oxygen stations mountain summa in the averstsev engineerifes here in this room we have seven oxygen generators this is the same oxygen production

as in the hospital on this train we have a large energy generator from it the wires diverge along it also supports the operation of oxygen generators in all carriages, these oxygen producers provide an intensive care unit, which is located in a nearby carriage, patients are accompanied on each flight by a medical team of 14-18 nurses and doctors, most of them ukrainians natalya kiniv from uzhgorod says that this train is something between an ambulance and the intensive care unit of doctors without borders for a long time, i thought that i would work with them somewhere abroad , i had such a dream, you can say, but i i never thought that i would work for doctors without borders in ukraine, but the war forced me to help ukrainians in ukraine with our team, what i like about our train is that we can take whole families, family with friends, that we can take them all out at once, so bittersweet story another patient of the medical train, anastasia from papasnaya,

flew around the world. i have four field shrapnel and mono, 4 bullet wounds, one fragmentary, here is a cut and a fracture, there is no little finger. crossed out and everything just crossed out and everything was a 14-year-old student of the lyceum from popasnoy and drove 30 km behind the wheel of a car that was targeted by the russians and took four adults to safety, among whom he was seriously injured at speed and even managed to slip through a mined section of the road, the driver's seat bracket was it was somehow too high for me, it was high, i could barely reach it with my feet. i was lucky that it was high and that is why i saw the mines. i was driving at 110 km/h. 300-400 meters was difficult to pass, but somehow i passed. unbelievable stories of rescue accompany each of the evacuation flights of the medical train, the war continues,

which means that at this very moment, doctors without borders is again on the way to citizens every day, yuriy dankevich, voice of america, lviv, ukraine, the status of a witness to the terror of lenin and stalin, learn about the tragic gulag system and the spread of communism in asia, and also be inspired by the stories of those who fought and continue to fight against the most deadly ideology that ever existed, with these words they also announced the opening of the museum in memory of the victims communism, which started working in washington this week, ostap yarosh kalusky will tell more about the victims of communism in washington, this is an educational institution that tells the stories of the crimes of the communist regimes, the gulag, the holodomor, the picture cultural revolution, maus zadun and the khmer rouge regime, the history and geography of communist terror covers the whole world, but

the museum is not limited to history, it also demonstrates modernity, because communist ideology in one form or another still flourishes in some asian countries and south america in the last 100 years, communist regimes killed more than 100 million people both under stalin and the soviet empire , primao and his followers in china, and of course in cuba, venezuela, vietnam, north korea and other communist regimes, unfortunately, a lot of people simply do not know about these facts one and a half billion people today still live under communist regimes we want our visitors to understand what the communist yoke is here they start about the ideology of communism they learn about cruelty about all deportations and the rest about the gulag about suffering and about the oppression of society as a whole vlad freshion the opening of the museum was the culmination of more than 30 years of work, which was joined by a team

of historians, architects and artists and thousands of caring people with their donations, the founder of the space is the memorial fund for the victims of communism, which conducts educational activity among americans". starting from the bolshevik revolution of 1917 and up to the present, the museum galleries also present various concepts to explain what it is like to live under to be a victim of communism, as well as information about communism itself, so that visitors from the usa or other countries can understand what communism is and how it led to numerous victims. doctor of political sciences, edwards believes that recent events in the international arena indicate the need to intensify information work about the threat of communist ideology china has demonstrated what it really is, a regime led

by the communist party, which seeks to make china the number one power in the world, and we see its actions as china engages in the genocide of the uighurs how it stifles freedom of speech in the hong kong race, how china threatens taiwan, how it begins to carry out maneuvers in the south china sea , says lee edwards, is directly related to putin's imperial ambitions and communist ideology . putin worked in the kgb for 16 years. putin wants to create another russian empire. i 'm sure he's familiar with mao zedong's quote, political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, because that's the policy he's currently pursuing aiming weapons at the people of ukraine, in addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum will also have temporary exhibitions, now visitors can familiarize themselves with the materials dedicated to the 1989 protests on

tjagenmen square in beijing ostapyarish dmytro savchuk maksym moskalkov and oleksandr borgan voice of america left behind by the communist regime are you russia lives without putin, what is the hidden strength of ukraine and what will help it survive in this war , professor of harvard university, historian serhii plohiy discussed these and other issues with my colleague myroslava gongadze he told that the victory of russia in this war meant the victory of authoritarianism in the whole world from china to the usa, then the victory of ukraine in marks the victory of world democracy, which is the reason why russia became what it is now in history there was a time when the world had many hopes that russia can actually become a democracy in russia in the lake ited if you

look at what happened in russia at the end of the 80s, it was definitely one of the beacons of democracy and democratic development in the post-soviet space, president yeltsin was elected president russia, contrary to gorbachev's wishes, to support a huge democratic mobilization in russia , while nothing of the sort happened in ukraine in the 1989-90s, as well as in a significant part of the 1991s , it was almost natural to expect that russia would take the lead in terms of democratic transformations in this did not happen to the soviet union. ivan, already in 1993 it was clear that the same parliament that president yeltsin defended in 1991 was being shot at. i'm not talking only about politicians and the west, but about the

general public, including ourselves, at that time we believed that this was a kind of end of history on the international arena, that countries were transformed because the pressure of communism eased, that almost naturally countries and peoples automatically became democratic, what if the communist layer has disappeared democracy will begin to flourish this was an unspoken understanding that existed and many people thought so now we know that history did not end then and that history matters and that democracy is a very complex way of introducing the political life of social life. churchill at one point said that democracy is the worst form of government in addition to all other forms of government in russian history from the point of view of intellectual traditions and from the point of view of institutions, there was really a limited amount of experience that could serve as a basis for democratic development, so history had a solution and the history of russia. it was a history

of undemocratic development where the state and the interests of the state were at the very center of political life where the state was dominant and when the russians began to experience difficulties, economic difficulties, difficulties with democracy and democratic institutions, what could unite the country then was the state and the government, the grounds for this had already been created in the constitution, which was adopted by boris yeltsin and which was obviously supported by the west immediately after the shelling of the russian parliament and the arrest of opposition leaders the opposition in russia was communist and nationalist from this point of view yeltsin really looked his best hope for russian democracy but how it was done really created the basis for a new russian state which would be as authoritarian as most governments and regimes in russia and doesn't me this does not mean that russia or any other country is really doomed by history to be an authoritarian if democratic or have any another form

of government but the lesson we have learned is that change in such transformations does not happen overnight it is a process it is a long process and this is a lesson of the 1990s which you should remember today especially given that we are increasingly talking about the future of russia about russia without putin and now that we are talking it is important not to fall into the same trap of the 90s in the same problems that we had in the 90s and then again we will be surprised why our perception of wishful thinking does not become reality you say that it is natural for russia to become an authoritarian country if compared to other countries of this region or the situation in ukraine in georgia is different parts

in the ussr, democratic changes and transformations began at the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s. these were the seeds that gave very, very significant results, and i am talking about the baltic countries, let's say the baltic countries, in terms of democratic features, today are ahead of such countries as poland and hungary, for example. and we also see that ukraine is the second largest soviet republic, it also remains democratic despite the fact that sometimes there were at least two attempts to crush this democracy, society responded to these attempts with maidans. we can also look at what is happening in moldova, so it cannot be said that democracy in this region has been defeated, although most of the post-soviet states have indeed returned to various forms of authoritarian rule. if you look at the geography of where this is happening, if you look at history, all these countries are mainly in central asia and partly in the caucasus, and you will find there more or less the same regularities that have recently developed in the history of russia, where there is a very small tradition of democratic

development with a very interesting ukrainian perspective an example is belarus, which is really very close, which has a lot of history in common with ukraine, including the fact that both of these countries were part of the polish-lithuanian principality, were divided between poland and the soviet union during the intervening period, and again, they chose the russian path. why and one of the answers, you can find in the history of ukraine the history of ukrainian regionalism , which in belarus actually does not have enough mirism a-a ukraine back in train regionalism was, of course , used against ukraine back in the 14th year as an attempt to destabilize the unity of the country , etc., but it is also the basis of our diversity and pluralism is the basis that can withstand this full-scale war of russia against ukraine tomako do you live democracy in this region after the war

after the great attempt to destroy the ukrainian nation and ukrainian democracy after the attempt to start a war against of the entire west, chats words ukrainiano fighting angry files of estation ukraine ukrainians who fight and die on the fields of eastern southern ukraine in donbas, they believe that they are not fighting for themselves and not only for their country. they believe that they are choosing european values, that they are fighting for europe, they expect to be understood and they expect support and help on many levels . they are really defending more than just themselves if the so-called military operation organized by putin and the general staff of the russian army a few months before this war. if it ended in success, if kyiv fell in a couple of weeks, if ukraine was in the hands of russia in three days, it meant not only a victory for russia, it was a victory authoritarian forms of government not only in the region but

also in the whole world, i reject to the united states of america where of course, this authoritarian model was considered very attractive a few years ago, the fact that ukraine is resisting this attack and that it is fighting and defeating the army that is most feared in the world , the army that represents authoritarian regime, and that is partly why it will lose, it is already a victory for democratic governments and democratic regimes, these authoritarian tendencies are very strong in almost every democratic country, that is why victory in ukraine today it is a victory not only for a particular region, not for a particular bloc, not for some country, it is a victory for democratic forces all over the world download the voice of america mobile application, the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read news, watch informative programs and videos, and also listen to podcasts of the ukrainian voice of america service

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