to protect decent salaries for the top executives of state-owned companies, and on the other hand, we will control them so that they do not steal and work efficiently. thank you for those monday inclusions. serhii fursa, an investment banker, was with us from dragon capital. and i am andriy yanitskyi. news of the economy during the war on the espresso tv channel is all on this today. watch us on weekdays in the morning at eight and a repeat at 11. together we will win on the air from washington. the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america is time. i am yuliya yarmolenko. i congratulate the efforts to restore ukraine after a full-scale invasion of russia,

they may cost more than 700 billion dollars and the key source of financing should be the confiscated assets of russia and russian oligarchs, this was the opinion expressed by ukrainian prime minister denys myhal at the conference on the reconstruction of ukraine in lugano, switzerland. the european union, as european commission president ursula von der lyagin will create a central platform to coordinate recovery efforts after years of close cooperation with ukraine europe has a special responsibility and a strategic interest in helping her - she said more conferences about the conference in lugano let's talk with my colleague in london bohdan tsyupin bohdan i congratulate the artist of this conference - it is to develop a single concept for the reconstruction of ukraine, what are the requests of the ukrainian side at this time and whether western countries are ready to provide exactly those resources ukraine needs yulia , you just repeated what the ukrainian

prime minister said in lugano, switzerland. he said about 750 billion dollars. this is a fantastically huge amount, but in fact we are not yet we know how much will be needed in ukraine for reconstruction because the war is ongoing and when the ukrainian leaders spoke today, they emphasized the fact that hostilities continue. in some places, ukraine is even escalating, and ukraine, while defending itself , is already forced to carry out reconstruction, for example, in chernihiv oblast, today the participants of the conference heard and there is a lack of drinking water, the ukrainian government is already forced to invest money and restore the supply system. bridges in kharkiv oblast and other regions are destroyed. ukraine must be forced to rebuild what will happen in a few days? i don't know.

once upon a time, the ukrainian president recently said that he wants this war to end by winter. what will happen to ukraine by winter ? very firm promises were heard on the line. this is how she talked about it. ukraine, we are a ship, this is the military and political destruction of ukraine. they want to undermine the very existence of ukraine as a state. we cannot allow this to happen. and we will never let's let this happen since the beginning of the war, we all mobilized, for example, the european union found six and 2 billion euros for financial support . as you know, more is needed and there will be more,

bohdan, really hundreds of billions of dollars. these are huge sums, do you know now where the funding will come from, again, you already mentioned about the proposal made by the ukrainian prime minister denys shmygel that it is possible to allocate frozen russian funds frozen in the west for the reconstruction of ukraine about approximately 300 or 500 billion dollars. even he himself could not name the exact price of the already frozen funds. so it is possible that some part of those funds, but i would be quite careful here , because it is one thing to freeze funds, in particular funds that belong, for example, to specific russian entrepreneurs or companies and it is another matter to confiscate them and transfer them to something else, for this, a legislative

framework, legal grounds, simply to take money from someone and give it to someone else, will be required, e.g. western governments in countries under the supremacy they won't be able to pass the law just like that, but besides , let's say for actions, maybe for the use of frozen funds, maybe part of the funds are promises of governments, there are statements of support from international organizations, such as the international monetary fund of the world bank , and there is a very interesting proposal today. it was announced by the minister of foreign affairs and the british head of the ministry of foreign affairs, who said that britain had offered ukraine to take care of it, or maybe they once said to take it under its auspices. a reconstruction program in the kyiv region is possible, it is really an interesting idea in which there is some separate country, for example, will a european country take

over some part of some region of ukraine for reconstruction, if so, it would be very good. and by the way, a representative of the british government also reported that the next conference on the reconstruction of ukraine is planned to be held here in great britain next year. bohdan, in ukraine, the concept of reconstruction is often called the marshall plan. to expect that the plan for ukraine will really be so comprehensive and historically important , and it would be very important, it is possible for sure and it is worth comparing it with the marshall plan, there are obvious differences, uh, we know that the original marshall plan was that in the united states america primarily helped to rebuild europe, now on the contrary, it is europe, the european union primarily

has the responsibility to support ukraine, to support ukraine in its defense against the russian attack, and also, obviously, in economic reconstruction, and here perhaps one of the one of the very important and serious aspects of helping to rebuild ukraine will be ukraine's efforts to become a member of the european union, because just recently the eu granted ukraine the status of a candidate for membership in the european union - this is what the ukrainian leadership, in particular, ukrainian president zelensky, called a breakthrough. and by the way, today in the speech addressed by the ukrainian leaders, he emphasized that it is not just about reconstruction, but about building better than it was. thank you, bohdan , bohdan tsyupan was really in contact with lon in lugano, they promise

are developing a global concept for the restoration of ukraine on the ground in settlements destroyed by russian troops, volunteers continue to work next our story is from barodyanka near kyiv, the inhabitants of which passed through the russian occupation, a number of houses there are now destroyed and many locals are unable to cook food permanently, volunteers began to fix food , anna kostyachenko tells and pavlo sukhodolsky 900 servings per day, that is how many volunteers prepare daily for the residents of borodyanka village in in the kyiv region, this initiative came to the mind of 35-year-old daria sayet, when she visited the village after its deoccupation, they found out that the residents were starving due to the consequences of the russian bombing. then daria gathered like-minded people and organized the first lunch for the villagers , and the first days when we opened the doors of the dining room , people sat at tables and many of them cried, they received their first plate of

hot, fresh food and there were tears on their faces. although the village was liberated from the russian occupation at the beginning of april, most of the local residents still eat in this to the school, because their houses are so damaged that it is impossible to cook food there, this school is the only surviving building in borodyanka, and when we first came here, it was a complete mess , and the kadyrovs lived here during the occupation, the former director of this school, nataliya chernenko, also eats here, a woman she remembers that she laid her first brick in the distant 1985. on january 2, i live nearby, i hear lip lips, lips, i think what it is, i look like thieves, and here came the machinery and started to hammer theirs, a retired woman was escaping from the russian occupation in the czech republic, but the village was just liberated , i returned home. i was in shock, but it was already cleaned up, it was already cleaned up, well

, harry smelled like this in the air, hmm, everything was destroyed, then russian air raids destroyed almost all high-rise buildings in the village, the streets are being fired upon by the occupiers from tanks cars of local residents, many residents of the village, especially children, are preparing for this from shock, say the volunteers, because to alleviate their condition, they organized a children's camp here , professional art therapists work with children and psychologists, when we already had a kitchen , many children visited us and we saw that adults were busy with their own affairs, well, they forgot about the children a little bit, and for us the most important thing is to be their friends, not teachers, and we understand that they need attention, they need to be listened to they were hugged more often in order to

ensure the operation of the children's camp and a five-day meal for the residents of bordianka , to donate, her team spends more than three and a half thousand dollars a month, the volunteer attracts funds for this initiative from charities contributions, says that things have improved. when caring it people from the usa got involved and created a professional fundraising platform for ukrainian volunteers. currently, we are cooperating with an american it-consulting company . made this platform because of russia's war against ukraine, many residents of bordia have lost not only their housing, but also their jobs, therefore, for many of them, volunteer lunches are the only way to survive, and on kostyuchenko pavel sukhodolsky for the voice of america from a warthog

kyiv region the united states today celebrates independence day america is an idea president joe biden wrote this day on twitter an idea is stronger than any army more than an ocean more powerful than any dictator chiteran july 4 celebrations are taking place all over the country and probably the most celebrations here in washington , the day ends with a grand salute, but it begins with a festive parade. this year , for the first time , ukrainians took part in the us independence day parade. let's talk more about it with my by my colleague oleksiy kovalenko, who watched all the celebrations personally. and now he is joining the broadcast from the center of the american capital, oleksiy vitaya. first of all, tell me about the very tradition of the us independence day parade and why the participation of ukrainians in it is important.

congratulations yulia. today, july 4, americans celebrate the 246th the anniversary of the independence day of the united states and many americans call it the main holiday of the year the main national holiday of the year is the anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence of the united states from a-a of the united kingdom of great britain in 1776 and, of course, many celebrations took place today here in washington, as in many other places, and one of the largest parades in the usa took place . participation for the first time in the parade on the occasion of the anniversary of the independence day of the united states and the parade was attended by a-a representatives e-e representatives of the embassy of ukraine in the united states representatives of public organizations such as youth have ukraine and us and ukraine

activity and other public organizations that support ukraine and offer to hear now from the organizers of this event and from representatives of these organizations. the very values ​​of the united states and freedom , independence, democracy, in fact, this is what unites our peoples, although there are many thousands of kilometers between us. but this year, i think the holiday of the independence of the united states is especially because at this time, unfortunately, after eight years of war, such a phase of war has resumed. when it is everywhere in our country, it is a full-scale war, and the united states has once again confirmed its commitment to the same values ​​of freedom, democracy, independence, sovereignty , and these days it stands side by side with us and helps, well, actually, on each of our fronts, this is very important, because you know in

america there is such a phrase freedom is in free , independence is not free, we know that the usa gave many lives for this independence and fought a lot and fought now for ukraine too it is fighting and it is a symbol to the american society, first of all, that ukraine will also fight for its independence and that we are very grateful for the support of the american society in our fight against this russian war, how the americans themselves reacted to the participation of ukrainians in the parade, and in fact the americans demonstrated a lot of solidarity and support for the ukrainian participants and the celebration of independence day on july 4, we saw that the americans simply approached the ukrainian participants of the parade , chose e-e works, yellow-blue, spoke with by them, and also when the ukrainian procession went during the parade of the americans, they shouted words of support for ukraine and the desire

of ukraine to win the war with russia . the support that the usa provides to ukraine in a full-scale war against russia is very important, especially now, so that the whole world can see us. and this is a very big opportunity to thank america and its tavern for the fact that they do-do-help us and er, i think that this will be a very good opportunity to say that we are what we are what we are fighting for all the people to see oleksiy there is less than a minute left, something else is happening that day in addition to the parade

, in fact, today in washington, at the mount vernon house, there is a solemn procedure for the acquisition of 500-2 new americans a-and us citizenship, the minister of finance janet ellen was present there, also in many other cities of the usa, various events and celebrations are taking place, for example, in new york today the largest fireworks display will take place, it will be so big that it will be visible from other states of connecticut and new jersey, thank you oleksiy, we will monitor it live from the heart of washington, there was oleksiy kovalenko, but a number of communities in the vicinity of chicago are canceling the celebration due to the tragedy that happened in the city of hailen park, an armed man opened fire during the festive parade, six people died, more than 30 were injured, the police are currently looking for the perpetrators, according to law enforcement officers

, the suspect is 18-20 years old, a resident of the city they ask you not to go outside among the medical equipment that is most needed at the moment ukrainian military hospitals and hospitals that provide medical assistance to both military and civilians - these are devices for vacuum treatment of wounds and also fixators for bones american volunteers have already sent hundreds of devices to ukraine at the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion and fixatives, but the need is not diminishing, iryna solomko talked with volunteers and doctors, okay, valentina tobacco and since the beginning of march, it has been transformed into a warehouse for the last for several months, humanitarian aid worth several million dollars passed through it, mainly expensive devices and apparatus for orthopedic treatment of the wounded valentina, the second vice president of the union of ukrainian women of america, an organization that has experience in helping ukrainian hospitals since 2014, so after a full-scale invasion, volunteers immediately intensified their work together on the second day we

started calling our hospitals that we supported before and said that you need to allocate such amounts of money to them, i.e. they did you tell us, please, we have these medicines, can you please find us fixatives, we don’t have fixatives for the wounded , and they don’t say if there were. takes care of the early healing department of one of the hospitals in new jersey, the woman understands the importance of vacuum devices because she witnesses their activity every day, so despite the high price, one device costs about 7.5 thousand dollars, the volunteers undertook to provide ukrainian the hospital has such a sakshen vacuum that helps the blood circulation to be better, the blood circulation to be cleaned better and of course, to build up there, uh, granulation tissue, different tissues, so that the wound heals faster volodymyr vasylenko, medical director of the

zaporizhzhia city hospital of emergency and urgent medical care, which valentina has been taking care of since the beginning of the full-scale war, the hospital will receive from american benefactors 55 vacuum devices and more than 60 fixators, which doctors call among themselves strikers after the name of the manufacturer's company the hospital is located 50 km from the contact line. the city itself was shelled by the russian military several times with hurricanes. the hospital accepts the wounded, both military and civilian . asilenko says that before the war, the flow of patients was 15 times less than our doctors, more than our doctors. we had seven encounters and in the first days we had to have someone talk about it. with our medics, collect them and carry out the work. sometimes it is just a matter of introducing them to the departments where the first wounded were admitted so that people can see what it is so that in the next moment when to you will not admit them so that they can respond to the provision of help and not to the emotions that will rise in them and from the fact that they

will see the territory, the most common injuries are damage to the limbs, injuries to the head of the chest and the abdominal cavity, we need lacquer we need trikers it's for quick modeling. and let's say we work with those with that injury, which is more than this limb in order to save the limb in order to stabilize it and then move it further. we move the dust the same. the strikers themselves are very comfortable working with them, you guys say we simply admire what we have in our hands, a beautiful thing, a simple geometry that further saves a life, that saves a limb, look, the same person recovered thanks to american volunteers, the hospital is equipped with vacuum devices, and the fixators are constantly needed, says volodymyr there is also a need for intra-vaginal stabilization plates to satisfy these requests valentina tries to work directly with manufacturers to get the most favorable terms and they gave us a very good prices with big discounts and with very

big discounts. now we have 75% , as before, there were much more 90% discounts because everyone was in shock from this war, not only ukrainians were in shock, americans were in shock, and everyone wanted to help because requests from hospitals and a number of public organizations joined their efforts to provide them as much as possible. i also try to cooperate with the ministry of health, we often talk to them, they give me lists, update the lists, and i share these lists with all of our organizations are ukraine on such a dad org where you can go and most of our organizations have united to know what needs to work in one direction . this is an organization that performs operations on children in other countries and they have had this

organization for a long time, they work very clearly, they send a lot of medical equipment, and now they have aid going to ukraine , according to valentina, they are currently active the number of donors and benefactors has decreased or they are giving less money, that is because there are people who have already given once and think that is all. there are people who have given a second or third time. i think that is enough. people feel that they have suffered from the war as well, but if we ask, they usually give . now zaporizhzhia needs a mobile hospital, says volodymyr vasylenko. and there is still a lack of exchange of experience with american doctors. he hopes that american volunteers from new jersey will help with that. iryna solomko voice of america american veteran james vasquez decided to fight for the independence of ukraine as soon as russia started the invasion on february 24 he packed his gear, waited until he got a

foreign passport and went on his first ever trip to europe on twitter . of his comrades in ukraine is selling his house and preparing to return to fight why american veteran is ready to risk his life for the sake of another country james told lesya bakalets james vasquez comes to the interview in an elegant suit of the trinity and immediately says that he is more comfortable in military uniform, but today is an official event to collect money for his colleagues in ukraine, he intends to return to them already at the beginning of august, because the show i'm just so used to being there and hearing the sirens of air raids when they shoot at me every day, it's strange to come back here to be among carefree people who don't know what's going on, the war started, james decided to immediately fight for ukraine, which he first announced on twitter, then at a rally in his native

in the state of connecticut i will be in i will fight together with our soldiers and with your soldiers and legion soldiers from all over the world the only reason why i was not in ukraine on the 25th i did not have a foreign passport i had to get one urgently so i was able to come only on march 14 let's go, here we are, there are equipment, medicines in all these boxes, his decision . he simply explains the stories of pro-russian soldiers, he heard it from his grandmother, who was originally from latvia, has a gou. this is mine, my whole family from my grandmother's line was killed by the russians, every one of them she was the only survivor and was forced to work in a workshop sewing uniforms for the russian military they said they had no choice she was so fed up she took two sewing knives went to a photo of stalin and just

poked his eyes out this would be a death sentence for most people but the soldiers were enchanted by the grandmother because she was very beautiful, in fact, she was simply told to go get out of here, otherwise they will kill you and she fled the country, you know that behind my back, a russian tank went to the front line in the kyiv region . james got there a few days after upon his arrival, his unit liberated ukrainian villages where the russian military had left death traps for civilians, this was intended to kill civilians, not soldiers, and it is not placed in the head, a wire is tied to a glass, when a person opens the box, the grenade explodes, that is, this trap was deliberately made for someone who he returns to his home to kill a person like this james serves mainly with ukrainians he already calls everyone brothers he speaks the language barrier in the service does not hinder them well i

met a british soldier who he was born in ukraine, he came back to defend his country, here we are foreigners in the unit , my translator is british, and many ukrainians speak broken english, that is, the communication comes from the east of ukraine and it is a long way home, but in america, james for a short time. i am literally selling everything i have, my car, boat, trailer, tractor and soon i'm going back to ukraine. james started collecting money for his fellow servicemen, first by himself, then through the american charity fund riplys heroes, says ukrainian soldiers need support so do foreign volunteers, volunteers need money, everyone came to ukraine at their own expense, i probably spent about 25

thousand dollars, the owner of savings, all the money we collect will go to protective ammunition, in other words, we do not buy ammunition, we do not buy weapons, but we provide soldiers with body armor, kevlar, drones, we buy cars james says he is amazed how ukrainians are ready to fight, even without combat experience, and clarifies that from the very beginning he did not believe that kyiv could be taken in three days. my second profession is a builder, i built high-rise buildings houses in new york and ukrainians often worked on my projects, that's why i know. these guys are tough. this time, jame is going to ukraine for a long time. it has become a second homeland for him. ukrainians are amazing people. i 'm going to spend the rest of my life there. i want to restore this country and i i wouldn't have turned back if i didn't believe that we would win artem kohan oleksii osika voice of america download the voice of america

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girl lived in the city of izyum, kharkiv region, the connection with was not interrupted at the beginning of april, and all this time nastya persistently, without losing hope, is looking for her friend, who has now been forced to go abroad, the girl turned to us and told very important details in a kilogram where the bodies are lying in the destroyed houses and on the 27th they were already terrified that they were shooting a lot , they were recording voice overs you can just hear the sound of explosions in izyum, there were very strong battles and even before her disappearance, nastya okopova told her friend in voice messages what horror she has to go through even now