analyzes of usage per conversation, we are just time is running out. it was very interesting to talk to you in our audience. i would like to remind you that our guest was yury brovchenko, director of the league of defense enterprises, and serhiy zgurets, director of the information consulting company defense express, spoke with you. watch us on the espresso channel on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america time, i am yuliya yarmolenko congratulations , the 114th day of the full-scale russian war against ukraine was marked by the fact that the european commission recommended that ukraine be given the official status of a candidate for joining the european union, and the ukrainian government terminated the visa-free regime

with russia from july 1. russians will not be able to enter ukraine without a visa. the large-scale program of military training of ukrainian soldiers, we will talk more about all this with my colleague bohdan tsyupin, who joins the broadcast from london. bohdan, let's start by congratulating let's focus on the recommendations of the european commission to grant ukraine the status of a candidate for eu membership. what is the significance of such a decision and why is it actually such a thing? i used to avoid direct answers to the question of ukraine's rapprochement with the union. now i have changed my position. the meaning is obvious and symbolic and extremely practical because ukraine long ago declared its desire to be a european country, a normal country that enjoys well-being and security, like the rest of the majority of countries on the european continent that are members of the european union, and of course that

this path for ukraine was recognized but long declared that it will be long, no time frame of any kind was given and in fact there were quite a few steps, only the war actually pushed and accelerated this process and this was recognized by the european leaders of the president of the european commission ursula fondelain stated that ukrainians actually give their lives for what europeans value so much and she stated that under these conditions and considering what ukraine has already done, the answer for ukraine is now positive, here are her words, ukraine, and it is that ukraine deserves a european perspective, so ukraine should be congratulated as a candidate country this is with the understanding that the

important work has already been done but a lot still needs to be done, everything about it depends on achievements so it will happen according to the rules and therefore the progress will depend entirely on ukraine, ukraine itself holds it in its own hands and what could be better than building it ourselves our future, bohdan, if we really look at this issue, it is symbolic from such a pragmatic point of view, when we can actually expect that ukraine will become a member of the alliance of the union, what is needed for this well, let's start with what she said mrs. universala fund deryan ukraine has already done a lot, let's not forget that ukraine became an associate member of the european union a few years ago, signed an agreement on a free trade zone with the european union, and started a program of reforms agreed with the european union, and as said by e. p. fonderlyan

about 70% of the issues that still need to be resolved and need to be done, she said, in particular, about the rule of law in ukraine, about reducing the influence of oligarchs, she also talked about other important important things, the fight against corruption, she i mentioned separately what the time frame is, now they don't talk about it, we heard earlier about the terms of years, someone said decades, but let's take croatia as practically the last to enter the european union, it applied in 2003, officially it had the status of a member in 2013. so for that country, this period lasted for 10 years, although from the application to the beginning of the backlog process, it took place there. there was such a break for about a year. ukraine can start these accession negotiations

much faster, that is, reducing it by several years, but as they say again in brussels , this process is not guaranteed, it can be accelerated, but if ukraine does not act as it has committed, then it can slow down or even be suspended, as for example in the case of turkey, which in the late 80s submitted an application for accession to the european union, but in 2018, the eu officially announced that the process of negotiations on turkey's accession was frozen due to the fact that turkey actually withdrew from some serious principles that are considered very important in the european union, such as the rule of law and democracy thank you bohdan, let me remind you that bohdan tsyupana was in touch from london. read more about boris

johnson 's visits to kyiv on our website. members of the negotiation group with russia, david arahamiya and rost umar, told the voice of america, together with other people's deputies , they visited washington, where they raised the issue in conversations with american officials speeding up the supply of weapons for ukraine more details ostap yarysh negotiations with russia are currently focused on two aspects, says we are growing in the mayor's office, a member of the ukrainian negotiation group on the humanitarian exchange of prisoners and the evacuation of civilians from the occupied territories and on the issue of food security, in particular, regarding the unblocking of ukrainian ports and the resumption of grain exports our vision is that 100% we have weapons and we have our

own corridor that we have proposed so that these vessels can go along the route that we have provided in the proposal, that is, at the moment, the un is still communicating. we haven't received an answer yet. but we know that probably the next step will be a potential meeting, where exactly this meeting will be, we do not know one of the proposals. ukraine, the united nations, turkey and russia, some western analysts called to consider the possibility of international escort of ships from ukrainian ports, but kyiv insists that before discussing such options , russia must fulfill a number of important language russian ships are located in our waters, if they do not go somewhere a little further east than the

autonomous republic of crimea and sevastopol and give a hundred percent guarantee that they will not bomb and bomb civilian ships , then there is no point in meeting at all now, only after that it will be possible to discuss these safe e routes and e-e ways of approach to our ports are not stopped and negotiations regarding the return of the military to ukraine and for australia assures the mayor that negotiations are underway e-e i cannot disclose them but we are in constant contact and i hope that soon we will hear progress, but the resumption of peace negotiations with russia is currently not being considered, ukrainian representatives say, at least until the moment when ukraine does not strengthen its forces and russian troops do not return to the positions they

were in before 24 in february, says the head of the negotiation group with the russians, davyd arkhamia, viber minimum, the minimum acceptable agreement would be if we expelled them or they voluntarily withdrew to the positions they were in until february 24 after that, participants say negotiating group, it will be possible to talk about the return of all sovereign territories, including crimea and donetsk and luhansk regions, we could consider some kind of political agreement like the one we proposed in istanbul . will make no concessions to russia and contribute to strengthening ukraine's position at the negotiating table when the time comes for this, our people, our values, our territories. for us, this is a red line and no one does not force us not to discuss this issue with us so that we leave any territories, that is, these

proposals, i do not see any more discussion now, how to supply weapons, how much they need to be supplied, in quantity, in strength, gives his assessment when ukraine will be able to resume negotiations from a strengthened position end of a what will happen at the end of august. we don't want to share our plans with the russians because they can see it in open sources, but there is a counter-offensive in some places. the other day, the annual parade dedicated to emigrants and the cultural diversity of the city was held. this year, among the participants was a ukrainian column, which the residents of the metropolis greeted with loud applause from the apparatus in the center of manhattan

. voice of america journalists watched. of the american metropolis this year, the colorful procession through the streets of the city was joined by a ukrainian column of embroidered blue and yellow flags and placards with words of thanks new yorkers, we are taking part in the parade for the first time and we are very proud to participate in it. and we want to use this opportunity to thank the new york community for the great support of ukraine and for solidarity with ukraine these days. as you know, there are many ethnic communities in the usa, including in new york and all of them have now rallied around ukraine and this is our chance to show them that we are very grateful for their support. you know it is felt even in the details when you walk through the city and you have some ukrainian symbol, whether it is a flag or

icon people sometimes stop you and say words of support or even glory to ukraine, despite the fact that it is difficult for many to pronounce, the authorities of new york pay me for legal services and document processing, in addition, millions of dollars for assistance to ukraine have already been collected by the new yorkers themselves or it is amazing that in the organization together we were able to collect 55 million dollars, many residents of new york supported us, 123,000 people donated to the organization together, and with this money we buy medical equipment and medicines that help save life to ukrainian heroes i came from ukraine 20 years ago and i sympathize with everyone who is there now and i am very grateful to everyone who helps us and you know there are not enough words to express this gratitude, we are here to remind people about ukraine and to keep them informed of what is happening in to ukraine

, as well as so that support for ukraine does not fade away , we feel the support of the ukrainian community and ukraine in general from the residents of new york, the ukrainian community of new york is one of the largest in the usa, according to certain estimates, 150,000 live in the metropolis of ukrainians and this number will only increase in the near future yurii mamon yevhen maslov voice of america today in many schools of ukraine graduation is usually by this day eleventh graders prepare for months by choosing dresses and costumes and plan loud celebrations until the morning and because of the war holiday in some cities it is impossible and in others it is easy it is inappropriate how to celebrate the end of school in ukraine today, lesya bakalets was found out chernihiv was shelled from the very beginning of the war 11th grader olya babinets remembers her last day at school on february 23 this

it was wednesday and he remembers how everything stopped after that, our studies resumed remotely, it seems on the 11th or 12th of april, but before that, we had such a pause, we had such a pause, so studies were suspended , we didn't even have a ruler yet, and we will finish it at school on the 24th of june, that is, we are still studying for the graduation of the voluntary school, so far everything that was planned before the war had to be canceled, we had already booked the place of the graduation, that is, this is our city palace of culture, where we all had to be nice, so come to our place should have been such a certificate presentation ceremony there once you wear it you form a cry the last waltz and now there was already a graduation photo shoot in vola and her friends,

but not festive and not against the background of the destroyed buildings of the city, the idea belongs to the photographer from ivano-frankivsk stanislav usenikov this story is being written right now and i am sure that it will be important for the students and for the people in order to save these moments in the graduation albums. each class chose a different location from this, i conclude that chernihiv is one large location of ruins in kyiv, some schools dared to gather students for graduation personally, a teacher of the ukrainian language and the winner of the global teachers price 2001 award in ukraine, artur proydakov, is graduating from the 11th grade today, says for students invented a mixed format of the event, i.e. 12 students.

their parents, relatives in kyiv and eight students are ready to join us in an offline format. to date, some of our children are ready to join in an online format. specially came for this holiday and they will literally go back there on monday the 20th, according to artur, they thought for a long time about whether graduation is appropriate now, but in the end they decided that this is an important event for 11th-graders, the school has a bomb shelter, the event will end long before curfew the hours of the tonal holiday have been completely changed, no one wants a carnival, no one wants pathos, no one wants a red carpet, some super mega special effects, no one talks about it in any way. at the same time, my children and i talked about the fact that the only option for clothing the graduation will be ethnic style, it is embroidered clothes, it is possible simply because of the clothes themselves, i.e. front-line mykolaiv, the teachers believed until the last that they would be able to

organize a graduation for the students and expected until the last that even at the beginning of may, they still believed that the main part would return home, the children and us and the teachers believed that we would return home and it will be in the gymnasium m.m. more shelling happened in our district, we are in such a district of the city. our gymnasium is located, which, as they say, is just closer to kherson and suffers more shelling than shelling because, well, we understood that, for the time being, the usually big holiday in the courtyard of the gymnasium has completely switched to an online format, almost all the graduates left the city today, each of them from different countries of the world will join the zoom conference , there will even be a waltz, they found a video of the last rehearsal before the war we will also welcome every family. and every family in our family will hear some words about themselves, about their child and words of gratitude.

then there will be a broadcast of the recording we made, it will be on the screen, the certificate of this child will be thanking the parents, there will be a photo of the child, olya is happy that after the evacuation she was able to return home to chernihiv and thanks to the photo session she saw her classmates for the first time at the beginning of the war. she plans to enter a medical university in ukraine and is only a little sad that she will not have a real graduation. and this is how we understood it, the most important thing kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america dnipro became a place of refuge for tens of thousands of displaced people from the east of ukraine , thousands of children were forced to leave their homes in the local the window to america center at the regional library organized english language courses for such children. this is one of the useful ways to distract children from the

sad reality in which they found themselves. read more in the story of yaroslav movchan. he dreams of becoming a villain. his board books are collections of architectural and construction design. and he also studies she speaks english, the boy will communicate with his foreign colleagues shevchenko hello for ukraine dmytryk's family was evacuated from a small town in the luhansk region, volunteers settled them in in one of the hotels in the city, in the shelter, all the rooms are occupied by refugees with children, so that the little ones have space, a special corner has been set up for them, here they not only draw, but also have fun, oversees the children olga, a refugee from sarzhev and a soledar by

education, a psychologist, working with children is familiar to them, while their parents visit centers for immigrants , she accompanies them on various excursions and groups , this time they have visits to the language club in the educational center window to america, learning a foreign language, says the psychologist, is a great way to distract children from the situation in which they found themselves because of the war, this is such a psychological release for the children, and for me, the more they distract themselves with various activities by learning the english language, how they adapt, well, to another world, they leave their premises. and a completely different environment. hello, the children are met by the head of the center at svitlana usenko, everything is ready for activities felt-tip pens and coloring pages with the latin alphabet seven-year-old mykytka chooses another task the boy writes old-fashioned in a school notebook describe the dnipro in which language in english and who are you

taught me how to describe beautifully i myself, well done, the window to america center was opened at the regional library almost two dozen years ago with the support of the us embassy in ukraine, not only do they teach english for free, but educational programs are also running, now the center has taken up a new job in the city immigrants. they came with their children. the main task for this group of children is to entertain and psychologically calm them so that the children have those unpleasant memories. if they already have classes in the center, the children visit three times a week. usually the group twice more than now this time dmytryk shevchenko missed the english lesson at this time the pediatrician scheduled the boy for a routine examination yaroslav movchan oleksandr khoroshun from dnipro

for the voice of america and zaporizhzhia since the beginning of the full-scale war has become a transit content such a hub for immigrants, currently more than 90,000 internally displaced persons and the number is growing every day, but most of the evacuees stay here only for the night and go on. who is visiting relatives or acquaintances in ukraine others abroad kindergarten the rainbow gives temporary shelter to all those whom the russian occupiers left without a home work or everything necessary kateryna markova and viktor petrovych tell me where you came from, what you experienced and tell us if we received you well, how are you молодцы тебя благо большое вам спасибо i no it was expected, they didn't say that the volunteers were speaking at all. the frost is coming, yes , thank you

. reception points for evacuees are working here in the kindergartens near the zaporozhye frontline. this is the first night in the territory controlled by ukraine. conducted by residents of occupied mariupol, kherson , berdyansk, melitopol and other cities of the south , kindergarten director veselka, nataliya kuzmenko , takes over from the evening of the previous day, rarely manages to sleep through the night, most often people arrive late at night, they are brought by buses from filtration centers, about 100 people arrive at the same time, all of them must be fed and provided the opportunity to take a shower and provide a warm and more or less comfortable place to live now is such an adrenaline rush and now the feeling is that you have to do it and do it the people were fine. and did everyone have a drink? let them drink coffee. let them go to lviv, and then who will go to poland. who needs to be told something so that they have an understanding. where are they going ? to do where to go where to run if there is nothing

left at home when i talk to people i listen to their stories you know they are so vital and very dear to my heart my heart aches after everything i remember then their stories i remember their faces we cry together we say together that ukraine will be free what will be victory, the child lived in the basement for two months. we left advertising. it is very difficult to say that two months in such a place, where there is no light, no gas, the water was already a little bit on sunday, probably there was already water. the people do not have water. from wells and cattle how many of our cattle have killed cows, calves , pigtails, how many plagues it is, words cannot tell you, the main thing is that they got

drunk and how they fought, they shot each other. to protect and who from whom? no, i am right or not, from whom they came to me is impossible, it is not seen with human eyes, the human heart cannot bear this anymore, please, look, stop the invaders so that they never come to our land again, they worked all their lives, they earned, they would not want to they are throwing literally two houses away, an armored personnel carrier hid between us, it is clear to everyone that everything will be there already, everything is already because of this we are forced to run away from the fact that these are abnormal people, normal military people will not hide among peaceful people, it is very scary

a very woman was swept into the carpet because there was no coffin and fast and that's how they went, they asked that the man had died, what should we do during your time from six in the morning to ten everything. this is the time you have to dig a hole and capture the person because then we have shelled people here they resettle every three days at the beginning of the war , about two thousand displaced people have already visited here, they only stay for one night, then they go to relatives in ukraine or abroad, kindergarten workers see all the guests off personally, saying goodbye to them as if they were close relatives exchange contacts and stay in touch with many, and

you know me somewhere. well, maybe for a day or so, i can't leave. i remember every word and think about whether they have reached me. they write to me. not all but some people reset viber. i still give my phone who were very worried who were completely confused and didn't know what to do and then write and thank me i still got to kryvyi rih i got there to odesa i tell them not to go to kryvyi rih don't go to odesa after all the children maybe to western ukraine and still most people go to their relatives go to what kind of people you know are afraid to go anywhere, you have golden hands, very big, warm, beautiful soul.

thank you, these people. thank you. this is very important . well, sometimes a thread of financial assistance for the child well, that is, as it were, well, everything, everything, and they will eat for free, we will win, yes , everything will be ukraine, for now, how do you leave, this way you leave, this is how you leave, this is how you leave racism begins, it’s some kind of horror. no one here knows half of what’s going on there, they’re

so dirty there, we’re the one from mariupol, she says i’m the sea, now i’m the water, black water, black water, black water, it’s just full of mockery of people here, at least a little. well, it feels like warm work and so on. kateryna markova viktor petrovych for the voice of america from zaporizhzhia and that's it. thank you for watching the voice of america in ukrainian. see you on monday. good luck, dad. there are no problems at all with work in canada for ukrainians in this status, it is absolutely one of the countries actually compared to european countries, because we are also

interested and know that this is a country that provides simply at the airport a person who arrives under this program, he immediately receives the so-called work transfer sometimes before immigrants, when they flew in, they waited for months and years for this enemy to move, people get jobs right away, there are plenty of jobs, maybe not as professionally as people expect and make some plans what will they work for profession is the second question, but the fact that a person from the first days without having received a wall can use to work, i have a lot of canadian e-e canadian firms and canadian companies open their doors for newcomers