and thank you for the communication and for the reassurance. thank you oleksandr komarida, the first deputy minister of health of ukraine was with us in contact with you, i was iryna koval and the program about health take care, watch the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, time in the studio nataliya leonova congratulations , the united states will give ukraine an additional billion dollars in security aid, this was announced after the meeting in brussels of the contact group on the defense of ukraine, said us defense minister loydostein, as well as the two previous ones initiated by the united states. ukraine, as well as the strengthening of nato in cleve, not russia against ukraine, were also discussed by the defense ministers of the

alliance at a separate meeting . during bilateral meetings with romanian and moldovan colleagues , french president emmanuel macron also raised the topic of confronting russian aggression. my colleagues yulia yarmolenko and bohdan tsyupin are closely monitoring everything with these platforms they join our airwaves right now. congratulations colleagues. congratulations to yulia shag . ukraine will be given an additional billion dollars of security assistance when this money arrives and on that should be directed to transfers specifically about funds and about military aid that is allocated for this amount and today president biden announced a new military aid package directly in a telephone conversation with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyi minister osin, who is actually in brussels today, announced the details of this package of military aid, so it provides for 18 more 777 howitzers and 366,000 rounds of ammunition for them, it also talks about additional ammunition for

rocket launcher systems, and it also talks about on the financing of two more launch systems against the harpoon naval system, these systems, as a senior pentagon official said, can be useful for the ukrainians from the point of view of unblocking the ports on the black sea. also, mark miley, who is also currently in brussels, said that military aid is arriving at an unprecedented speed now to ukraine from the moment it is approved until it falls into the hands of the ukrainians, if for days, then literally a week, the only delay was caused by reactive volley fire systems, the ukrainians had to undergo training on these systems and mark miley reported that this training is being completed and by the end of the month the himers system will also arrive on the battlefield for their effective use by the ukrainians. yulia from the meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine had great expectations regarding the armament of ukraine that ukrainians have a yes at

the exit. receipts of all military aid allocated by one or another country, however, it wants to allocate several countries, in particular germany, as louis dostin said, will provide ukraine with several more systems of rocket launchers and ammunition for them, and therefore germany, the united states and great britain will work together, according to lloyd gostin over the strengthening of ukraine's artillery power, he also singled out volleyball slovakia and said that it will provide additional mi-17 helicopters as well as the necessary ammunition for missile launchers you know, natalya, a lot of questions were asked by journalists today, and they were related to whether or not he actually thinks that western aid for ukraine is now too late and in a small amount, what do you still need? he said that in fact, western countries fulfill the very urgent needs that are in the ukrainian military and

which are directly voiced to them by the minister of defense of ukraine, and oleksiy reznikov, and he said, indeed , when there is a war, everything sounds too little and too late, but for a certain battle, the countries will move the earth and the sky so that the whole desire aid has reached the ukrainian military let's listen to what he said dynamic and changing needs over time the ukrainians have identified that currently these needs are longer range fire systems for armored vehicles and medium range anti-aircraft and howitzers separately from the himers system so we are focusing on their current needs and also in the near term looking ahead a few weeks and months when you're in combat there's never enough and it's never fast enough so that being said we will work hard to make sure that we do everything humanly possible, we will

continue to move heaven and earth to provide ukrainians with the necessary capabilities natalya, you know what is needed, there is criticism about the relatively small number of rocket launcher systems, in particular hymeris, which western countries pay attention to ukraine and brand milli, the top american general pointed out that the russians still have an artillery advantage, to which mark milli said that quantity does not mean quality, he drew attention to the fact that the russian military uses its artillery in such a way that they hit everything possible, but the ukrainians use their artillery capabilities very effectively and are very capable. let's listen to what he said in particular about the hymers artillery systems and their use with other capabilities provided by the united states and other countries and it is said that this is a high-precision weapon and with the amount of ammunition that we provided if they used it properly and they came for certification training in the past 48

hours they will be able to hit a significant number of targets and this will be of great importance in combination with the m-77 howitzers and mortars, i must say the artillery capabilities of the ukrainians are very, very high , they are the best gunners and the gains they are getting now with the m-77 howitzers are very effective and we expect that the same will happen with bohdana's schemes, in parallel with the meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine, a meeting of defense ministers of nato countries took place today, what do you know about the details of this site, well, in general, we can talk that nato now, during these last four months, after russia's frank and open attack on ukraine, has two main directions with which the alliance is currently working. the first is the strengthening of the eastern flank , that is, the strengthening of military units located in some countries of eastern europe, and

also another direction - this is aid to ukraine, in particular armed aid, and by the way, it is being transformed from an effort to send ukraine as soon as possible ex-soviet-style weapons from former eastern european countries that were part of the soviet bloc to the warsaw pact now somehow . for example, we can understand from the words of the secretary general of nato that the focus is on ensuring that ukraine is now armed with weapons in accordance with nato standards. these are his words. i expect that at the summit nato allies will approve a comprehensive package of aid for ukraine in order to to help ukraine in the long-term transition from soviet-era equipment to modern nato equipment in order to improve the ability to interact with nato bohdane france is one of the key countries that provides both financial and defense assistance to

ukraine together with that president, macron is blamed for nato's lenient attitude towards putin, today macron met with his romanian and moldovan colleagues, did we hear any explanation of his position from him, so the french president once again has to clarify his position and what he said today in romania i think that first of all we should pay attention to what he said i want ukraine to win but he was again forced to return to the issue of negotiations with russia he insists that in the future negotiations with russia will be necessary, moreover, he hints that france , like europe in general, sees its place at the negotiating table, here are his words because at a certain stage when we will do as much as possible to help

the resistance and i i want ukraine to win and especially for the fighting to stop, then we will have to negotiate, the ukrainian president and his representatives will have to negotiate with russia and we europeans will be at the table with questions security guarantees, the elements of which apply to our continent. this is the reality. thank you , colleagues. let me remind you that yuliya yarmolenko from the white house and bohdan tsyupin from london were in direct contact with us. ukraine needs everything and as soon as possible. this is how ukraine is strengthened in the usa. oksana markarova commented according to the voice of america, the expectations of the ukrainian side and the work of the contact group on the defense of ukraine, according to her, ukrainian diplomats are actively negotiating with 20 countries that already provide arms to ukraine and in total, with 40 countries that are permanent members of the contact group, we expect everything, and in fact , this work is carried out by our team here

in washington, but in fact, by a large team. each of the 20 countries that already give us weapons and in each of the 40 countries in total that discuss with us it's clear that we need our priorities are very clear we need everything from volley fire systems to artillery to air support and a whole lot more do we really share in great detail with our strategic partners we need everything in order to win , and it is with this message that our team, the minister and the deputy commander-in-chief, went to the congress of the united states. they also welcome today's talks between the ministers of defense in brussels . and according to republican senator rob portman , nato and other partners should provide kyiv with more weapons life dubious support for ukraine

has always been the driving force in the us house of representatives , the house of representatives is the first to vote for additional aid and we will continue to do so, however, ukraine is a nation that exists in the european context and frankly, i expect that our allies will also contribute their share, this is a difficult joint effort to once again unite the nations it is time to move forward and recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism which will require additional sanctions nato must step up and do more to provide ukraine with defensive weapons now long-range artillery is needed because the russians can fire at ukrainian positions and sit quietly unharmed, since ukrainian artillery cannot reach them, so nato and all

freedom-loving people in the world must provide more weapons, some of these countries have the necessary types of weapons and artillery, the most famous ukrainian nationalist stepan bandera, whose putin propaganda portrays him as a nazi collaborator . in fact, he spent almost the entire war in a nazi concentration camp. he was arrested by the gestapo in 1941 for proclaiming the act of independence of ukraine. refused to revoke the act of independence and did not go to cooperate with the nazis, the sagsunghausen concentration camp, now turned into a museum, the memorial oksana ligostova visited there, saw the prison in which bandera was imprisoned, and also the letter zet near the furnaces of the crematorium of the arbeitmacht frei labor liberates, says the inscription on the gate for tens of thousands of prisoners who crossed this threshold, there was even time to come up with

a more cynical slogan, the oxhausen concentration camp in the vicinity of berlin, it was given a special role in the system of nazi camps, there was a training ground here the ss, which practiced the techniques of mass murder and trained management personnel. for the rest of hitler's death factories, most of the wooden barracks did not survive in their place. now the concrete curbs are covered with gravel. the conditions of keeping prisoners can be judged from the few buildings that survived. three-story bunks on each floor slept two or three people at a time, the sanitary block here washed and washed clothes, the solitary confinement cell drove several dozen prisoners into a tiny room and locked them up for the night with almost no access to air, according to estimates historians became victims of oxenhausen, thousands of people died from exhausting work, diseases, torture, mass suffering, jews, roma, soviet prisoners of war, this is a shooting pit, or a shooting range

, here the guards practiced shooting at live targets, for years, the victims were tied to rings, their feet were hammered into blocks, and this is a medical barak projektorska camp doctors conducted experiments on prisoners, infected them with typhoid fever , inflicted burns and studied the specifics of the reaction of a weakened organism, the corpses of test subjects were taken to the basement to spacious morgues, station z is called here yes, according to the last letter of the german alphabet, if the entrance gate is marked with the letter a, then here - z is the end of the crematorium, the nazis did not classify it with exenhausen. it was more like a death camp here. it was about developing a technique for honing skills on prisoners . they tested different mixtures of poisonous gases . shot in the back of the head under the pretext of a medical examination, there was a

camp prison where particularly important prisoners were kept, among them the leader of ukrainian nationalists stepan bandera, his cell is marked on the plan under the number 73 only one wing of the prison remained, in solitary cells sat vip-persons, ex-prime ministers and generals of the countries occupied by hitler, opposition german politicians, church leaders, valuable hostages whom the nazis planned to use, were better fed and were not forced to work on this basis, soviet historians told the stories of bandera lived here as in a hotel. what kind of hotel was it? it is clear from the fate of one of the most famous prisoners, the son of stalin, yakov dzhugashvili, who committed suicide by throwing himself on the barbed wire under the current of another inmate of the prison the active oun of oleh olzhych was put to death in a cell during interrogation, the wall from the axenhaus was almost close to the houses of the german town of

oraninburg, the residents did not know that there was a death camp, they were told to burn, we are dangerous criminals who need to be isolated and people believed that they were scumbags oksana ligostova voice of america everyone a dozen ukrainians were forced to go to europe in search of safety from russia's war against ukraine, our next story is about a resident of mariupol, vlad shorokhov, like many mariupol residents. he could not get into ukraine and the only way to salvation for him lay through russia, now he is in finland in an interview with the voice of america and he told how he was filtered by the russians, although every single fact of his story cannot be verified, his experience is similar to the experience of other ukrainians escaping the war and his story is one of over a million ukrainians who, according to the un, found themselves on the territory of russia, the first uh, such a

widget arrival, he was on the second of march, hello, he was on the 5th floor, in one apartment with us women they tore off a leg, the concrete walls fell, the floor fell to the fourth floor. this day, the blockade of our city began because they cut off our mobile network, they cut off the internet, the input, the light, the gas, we already had about three days left. to the basement, somewhere on the third day, we began to understand that the water we had left was not enough. i went to fetch water. two more men from our division went about 10

, probably 10-15 times, and we were constantly shelled. here, for example, a tank on one side, at one end of the street, a tank on the other side, ukrainians, russians , and they are shooting each other. what about going to the wells? you have to cross this street, and you have no choice. well, of course, the weather . you're just lying on the asphalt. well, you'll leave it on the concrete. it's a terrible cold so that you can understand what it looked like . our bow, so let's call it a lookbook, a basement. this is a t - shirt. a warm jacket is so maximal, that is, in this we slept in this we walked and covered ourselves when we

went to sleep well, with about three or four blankets we stayed there for 20 days on march 19, there were very strong natures from 12 to two in the morning 11 tank arrivals at our house what are they what did they find there? it's not a military facility. from march 19, in the morning . mom was no longer in her room there was such stuffing vacuum stuffing and you go into the room and everything that was, the door, the drawer, the closet, everything was

sucked into the er supreme frame well, i didn't recognize anything. that's the only thing that makes me so happy that all these thieves will what to steal with my least because you don't have an apartment, we recently found out they got into a punishing car there, for some reason the refrigerator was broken, the door was taken from the 20th, from the 19th to the 20th, there were about 50 shellings, so you understand, two nights we in fact, at 20:00 in the morning i left the entrance and that was it it was a horror alone chests stones chests bricks

cars that's how they are scattered in different directions i saw blood i saw that people were lying somewhere on the roads there were parts of them i already wanted it i understood in the basement we have all eyes like that and my hut says well, if we don't try to run now, then we won't anymore. that's how we gathered in ten and ran under fire. at that time, i guess my strong nature failed because i had such tears, i probably would have screamed because i begged and talked about the day god let us get there, because these gifts were shooting in our direction and i made a decision, i

say everything we leave something here, we all take documents, take the children 's multikament in our hands, the dog and run. that's how we ran. that's it, here we are. i still shake darinka's hand and look directly at us because the kharkiv column was coming towards us. i see the letters z. and at that time, you know , i had such a thought, that's all, that's not enough here, i won't be able to protect either my mother or my grandmother with it no one at all because one shot is targeted and in we are not there, but everything went well because they were just going to our area, we followed them down to the descent, there we were met by a russian military, they told us that you need to go to the checkpoint to the block to put on foot, one more by one on the left

side, the members are 7 km here to did you understand, grandmother, who is more than 70 years old, children, heat, shelling, constant shelling. this is how we barely made it to this checkpoint, call it the green corridor, the tongue will not return because there were mortars 50 meters away and mortars were firing in our direction. we stayed there. there in the open air under fire for 9 hours in order to wait for their turn, they took us from a not so stone post, looked at the passport and said, this is the bus. he took you to the new azov and it just so happened that we all went together and thanks to this, we all stayed together somewhere around eight o'clock in the evening, we were brought to

zaputogolov by some force. luxembourg is also dnr territory. when the occupied territory was settled, we were placed in a school. people were given some old mattresses from the prison. eighth route from the prison was brought to us in some database went back and here we were detained at the border crossing of the dnr for a long time and deliberately they took me and my neighbor out because i was driving, our acquaintance, my goddaughter and my neighbor lesya, they took us out for this, they looked at me and said you are a bitch, you are a bitch, not russian, even смотреть не будем and you will follow us well, this is so that you understand, it was like a testimony, here they took our neighbor and marinated him for about an hour. then he came, there was no emotion on his face and began to

tell that they had him very, very hard they checked, they forced him to undress completely, well completely. then you didn’t see that he had 5,000 uah and they said he was not giving us cigarettes. he told my friends, i have two children. they have nothing to eat. they have no clothes and they took only 3,000 uah. well, that is it's for ukraine, it's rich, a lot of people, we were forbidden to stay in this village and were told to go back to different camps and wait for filtering . at the border of the dpr, a comical situation, you came filtering, we say yes, go through, we went to the border to

russia, we already crossed ukraine, we came to russia, they took our foreign passports and ukrainian passports, they looked for about 3 hours, they checked something there, it was deleted, we said, this is where the ministry of emergency situations can approach, can they you they will feed you and help you get to the city you will need. we decided to go by that year because there was a friend of a friend of mine who used to live in mariupol and he wanted to take us in. we understood that we will not live in russia. i was so uncomfortable to see, listen to the language, see these people because i had some kind of scream, scream to my soul that you are to blame, you are to blame, you are to blame for everything that is happening there, it is like this in all of ukraine, they came up with the next plan to

somehow get to peter in order to go to my mother 's grandmother and godmother to my brother in slovakia. and i got to finland, we got to the border, handed in our documents, and this is where such a very incomprehensible story began. they wrote a dossier, my interrogation was six and a half hours, well, that is, they started checking my phones , found that vkontakte was restored, these are all from the public that were blocked by ukraine after 14 , after the events of 14, i liked the question so much. tell me how you feel about the foreign policy of

vladimir puti i'm just sitting there looking at them and there were 6 people. tomorrow morning, go out from the balcony window and look down. trees and flowers are growing. when i go out, i will see mallows. i say what do you think about putin after this? they were negative because it is clear that they did not like what i told them, it was much easier because i understand that at some point i may not even go out at half past eleven. i tell the boy who was left alone with me because the others went from house to house to my own i say please let me go i just want to start a new life and he somehow i don't know what this is probably some kind of help from the universe and he agreed and he

caught a ride we sat down and drove off and we exhaled only when we approached the border with finland 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 the podcasts of the ukrainian voice of america service, you watched the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, nataliya

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