dogs in balka dubova, ukrainian archaeologist oleksandr pol - discovered the remains of smelting furnaces , which indicate that metallurgy was still practiced here scythians during the years of nazi occupation, the head of the city administration, serhiy sherstyuk, led the popular resistance, introduced the official use of the ukrainian language and anthem , ukraine and glory and will are not dead yet, because even under enemy fire, the people of kryvyi rih fearlessly work, help and defend independence, because in addition to an iron heart, they also have a steel cossack character .

voices of america time time i am yulia yarmolenko congratulations russian president vladimir putin did not achieve any of his goals of a full-scale invasion of ukraine at first and russian troops are losing the ability to advance such an assessment of the course of hostilities was given by the head of british intelligence, richard moore , the discussions at the aspin security forum , among other things, moore pointed out to the fact that it will be increasingly difficult for russia to provide both the human and material base for carrying out attacks, especially at a time when ukrainians continue to receive a large number of high-quality, powerful weapons just today, great britain announced a new package of military aid for ukraine, the next package of weapons from sabile house should be approved by the end of the week. more about the gift of british intelligence and the future tranches of aid, let's talk with my colleague ostap yarosh, who joins the broadcast from capitol hill congratulations, what is included in the newest package of military aid announced today by the united kingdom, yes yulia, you know yesterday according to the results

of the meeting in the rammstein format, some countries the united states, lithuania publicly announced their military aid packages, today great britain did it, and we saw that the british ministry of defense announced the provision of dozens of artillery pieces to ukraine, as well as hundreds of drones and more than 1,600 donetsk anti-tank weapons. if we are talking about artillery, then we are talking about 20 self-propelled installations of 155 mm caliber and 36 installations of 105 mm caliber are also britain to give ukraine more than 50,000 shells for soviet-style artillery, which is already in service with the armed forces forces of ukraine counter battery radars there other equipment let me remind you britain has been one of the largest donors after the united states since the beginning of the full-scale invasion and has already provided aid to ukraine in the amount of almost 2.5 billion pounds. it is very important whether the flow of western weapons to ukraine

has not subsided today at one of the panel discussions of the aspen security forum, the head of british intelligence said that according to their data, russia is beginning to exhaust itself first, what exactly said the head of the mi-6 and what this can mean for the walker, you know yulia, the head of british intelligence said that these temporary gains of russia in the east of ukraine, that it temporarily took control of the population of the points, in fact, russia succeeded with great efforts and at a high price, and really , according to his words, russian the army is now exhausted, he mentioned that according to the estimates of british intelligence, the cia in the usa also agrees with these data: russia has already lost approximately 15,000 since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of ukraine of its military and this is yulia according to cautious estimates . that is, this number can be higher. richard moore says that it is already more than russia has lost, moreover, 10 years and ten years of the war in afghanistan. as for the size of the russian army there now,

he says that the army is exhausted the combat morale of the russian military remains at a low level and this, according to british intelligence, can and this can be used by the ukrainian army for an effective strike in response let's listen to what he said i think they are getting exhausted our assessment is that it will be increasingly difficult for the russians to supply manpower and materiel over the next few weeks they will have to take a bit of a break and that will give the ukrainians a chance to strike back their morale is still high they are starting to get more and more good weapons to be honest i also think that will be important as a reminder to the rest of europe that the ukrainians are capable of winning this campaign because we are facing a rather difficult winter, this thesis from the head of british intelligence ostap at the beginning of the week is important of american senators wrote a letter to the head of the pentagon, loyd oze tsena, and the chairman

of the joint chiefs of staff, general markamily, with a request to increase military aid to ukraine, speed it up , and also consider the possibility of providing ukrainians with american fighter jets. is the administration actively considering this possibility? training on american fighters here in the usa, by the way, the general was asked about this yesterday, mark emilia asked if the united states is really considering such a possibility he confirmed and said that yes, among other options, such a possibility is also being considered, but there is no specific decision from the military leadership of the united states on this matter. so far, i would like to remind you that in the draft of the defense budget, which was adopted by the house of representatives , the amendment of two congressmen was also forgotten, it is about adamakinsingar and christie geologists, they call for 100 million dollars to be allocated for the training of ukrainian pilots on american fighters for 15 and f-16, but we know that this is about the long-term perspective rather than immediate provision and we also talked about this with the

ukrainian pilots when they came here to washington, they said that if such a training program is indeed adopted and approved , then this training could take yuria well, about six months, and this is according to the accelerated procedure and taking into account the fact that ukraine is in a state of active hostilities in a state of war what about that, that is why it is rather a long-term perspective to help ukraine in the future to switch to western-style fighter jets, in particular american perhaps the europeans also asked about this at the austin forum to the head of the united states air force, charles brown. this is what he answered to the question on which fighter jets the ukrainian military can potentially train on. i think we have some responsibility as we do with all our allies and partners to be ready to train them in different capabilities

part of that is understanding where it wants to go ukraine and how we respond to it and how we look at opportunities not only from the united states many of our allies and partners are interested in ukraine being able to guarantee its own security ostap a little more than a minute remains more active now calls from capitol hill to the administration and that to recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, is there promotion at this price? yes, irina, i will remind our viewers that this decision is made by the secretary of state. the state department determines exactly what to include this or that state in the list of the countries that sponsor terrorism, now politico, with reference to own sources, writes that the speaker of the house of representatives of nancy polosi had a telephone conversation with antony liker, the secretary of state, and once again urged him to take such a step. she said that if the state department does not do it, then congress can do it, some legislators they say that for this it was necessary to adopt additional legislation, because now the authority belongs to the state department

and not to congress. therefore, this way would potentially be longer if the legislators really decided to resort to it, for now we will be watching, we are really waiting for the adoption and adoption of the resolution in the senate, which pushes the state department to recognize russia as a state that sponsors terrorism, so we will see how the secretary of state and the undertep will react. yes, of course. thanks ostap for the communication from the capitol my colleague ostap yarosh was infected with the coronavirus about the positive result of the test for covid-19, white house spokeswoman karin zhanr reported this morning according to her words at the president mild symptoms, however, he has already started a course of antiviral drugs paslovit, they are recommended for patients and from the risk group, in particular for the elderly , currently president biden is isolating himself in the white house and continues to perform his duties remotely, president biden himself noted on his twitter page reported that he is feeling well and continues his work. joe biden

is fully vaccinated against covid-19 and received two booster shots, and the day before, a group of creditors of ukraine, which includes the united states, canada, france germany, japan, and great britain agreed to ukraine's request to postpone the payment of foreign debts . against her and which has a devastating effect on the people of ukraine and the economy, more about the meaning of this decision and about the state of the ukrainian economy, let's talk with our economic correspondent oksana batertenko oksana hello, thank you for joining the broadcast, let's first tell you how experts evaluate the decision to limit debt payments. hello yulia, in general,

experts are sympathetic to this decision . there is a war in ukraine and everyone believes that experts and investors e- they have to go to a meeting in ukraine on the issue of debt repayment, and in particular , lina rybakova, an analyst from washington, says about this in her twitter, she noted that it will be moral correct er if investors go to ukraine for a meeting er british economists from the company tell meler er stewart culverhause note that investors would be sympathetic even if ukraine completely stopped paying all debts. he believes that it will not be er is a scar on ukrainian finances and ukraine will be able to easily renew access to international financing, especially this will be extremely necessary at the stage of reconstruction, but other british economist timothy is disappointed that it has come to he believes that such a scenario could have been avoided if the

west did not delay in providing assistance to ukraine . it is disappointing that they did not take actions that allowed ukraine to partially use the frozen russian assets of 300 billion of the central bank. and that about 100 billion of other frozen debt servicing assets about 6 billion i don't quite understand why the west didn't move faster to allow ukraine to use these resources obviously who is doing the damage it's russia i don't understand why it wasn't this support would have been released if the event had been more proactive ukraine would not have had to think about freezing debts, this is a reality western countries did not come together quickly enough to help ukraine service the debt under the original contract it is worth noting yulia also that the usa and western allies support the use of russian funds for reconstruction ukraine, on the other hand,

this week, for example, the eu commissioner for justice and ddrnal, noting this, many legal questions arise, that is, how to get these funds to direct them to the reconstruction of ukraine without long legal proceedings without trials and here he pointed out that in fact the usa, canada, and italy have experience with civil confiscation, but from the point of view of the eu, in order to justify such a decision, a link is needed to some crime, for example, to corruption , or otherwise, a legal decision is a difficult situation oksana, what are the next steps if the western countries do not develop mechanisms, how can they allow the use, for example, of freezing russian assets in order to help ukraine, and how much will the ukrainian economy, ukrainian finances, and what can await the ukrainian economy, so let's look at the numbers, in fact, if at the beginning of august the creditors vote and

approve the proposal of ukraine to restructure these payments, then ukraine will save 6 billion dollars, this is according to the estimates of the ukrainian government and the ukrainian government says that the monthly deficit of the budget of ukraine is 5 billion dollars, economists say five months of war. it can be assumed that it is 25 billion dollars, this figure will increase by the end of the year, the minister of finance of ukraine announced today that ukraine expects to receive 17 billion dollars, the headline means that there is not enough money. for example, elina rybakova on her twitter calls on the eu to immediately allocate the promised 9 billion dollars to help ukraine. she says that it is a miracle that the economy is relatively stable now ukrainian economy and finances,

etc. he warns that without immediate help, ukraine may face a balance of payments crisis, a budget crisis at the same time. came with a sufficient reserve, and he does not expect an immediate crisis, even if the measures will be delayed further. remember, at the time of the past debt restructuring, ukraine had only 5 billion dollars, now there is a buffer at the beginning of the crisis, ukraine had a sufficiently strong macro-financial position, it is approximately 28 billion dollars reserves, five months of imports, a good indicator, the public debt was slightly above 40% of gdp, this is very little, although these indicators have worsened defense there is also the main problem - a large budget deficit if western money does not remember, this will mean pressure on the national bank, it must print money and close this deficit, this will put pressure on the exchange rate, because such things are connected, so ukraine needs a quick influx of western money,

preferably in the form of grants, not loans, oksana, another important topic today, the national bank of ukraine adjusted the official exchange rate $1 hryvnia is now worth 20% 25% more. what kind of mechanism is this and what does it mean for the hryvnia , according to the experts? maintain financial stability that's what says about it, too, they are doing very well in an extremely difficult situation, they are trying to maintain macro-financial stability to win this war they manage to keep the exchange rate relatively well, it is obvious that there is an official rate and a market rate , today's adjustment is in the direction of the market rate on levels 38 apparently they want to preserve foreign exchange reserves, this was the motivation of the government and in the case of the fee,

they want to make the exchange rate more competitive and not cause panic in the streets because if people start to think that the exchange rate will continue to fall, this will cause concern about macro stability and the stability of the banking sector, i hope that this correction of the exchange rate will hold eh, in general, the experts are quite uncertain about the situation and everyone is waiting for the possible arrival of western support eh, so that more can be determined about what can what to do next national bank and what will be the exchange rate of the hryvnia yes thank you very much oksana with analyzes of the economic situation in ukraine my colleague oksana batratenko was in irpen, the center of medical rehabilitation of next step ukraine after the russian occupation of the city, the centers now accept not only wounded military personnel, but also civilians who suffered from russian aggression on expert ukraine were opened a few years ago with donations from americans and the ukrainian diaspora, now benefactors from the review soldiers ukraine fund

plan to open a second such center in the west details of ukraine in the report of anna kostichenko and pasha suhodolskyi denys gropny a veteran of the armed forces of ukraine suffered a spine injury during an operation of the joint forces. last year, he experienced a severe operation and implantation of the intervertebral disc." well, recover and return to the boys' fund. this rehabilitation center includes a wide range of services, and very often thanks to the hard work of rehabilitators and the high motivation of the center's visitors, people here return to normal life

. sewed up the right hemisphere of the brain, he was in a coma for two weeks, after which the skull was removed when his condition stabilized, volodymyr went to the center for rehabilitation since then. here, every day, here are your plates, how useful, they say to you, opa, you find your part among the boys, and such a friendly family comes out here. the ukraine center was created three years ago as part of the activities of a charitable foundation from the united states. reward is similar to ukraine , president of the foundation iryna vashchuk dcio, a former athlete back in 2014, set herself the goal of returning as many ukrainian soldiers as possible to a normal life, says iryna, that is why she gathered a team of professional rehabilitators in the center and

equipped it with modern specialized simulators, it is one of the best rehabilitation devices in the usa, so to speak, all rehabilitation centers in the usa have been using it for 15 years in ukraine, there was no such expert ukraine is located in the kyiv region and miraculously survived the russian occupation, says tetyana grubenyuk, director of the personnel center it was possible to take away the expensive equipment that is in the center and with those guys who were with us, well, for accommodation, because not all of them are local, those who work and later were able to evacuate after liberation from the russians the center has resumed its work, the war continues and there are only more patients, says tetyana, because now , in addition to the military, the center also accepts civilians who received war injuries after the 24th, the same sins that irpin and bucha and gostomel

experienced. to an equal extent, that is, to help with rehabilitation and the civilian population who suffered as a result of the war and military personnel. i was injured with a fractured femur when i was defending the donetsk region and now i am working hard to return to the ranks of the armed forces. it takes time for the bone to grow back, but because i was lying down for a long time, i developed a knee contracture and the knee does not bend. that is, it is more than 70° there, according to which it is now a when i came here, it was around 30-35°, that is, the result of 6 weeks of training here with the rehabilitation specialist, well, it’s pretty good. soon iryna vashchuk plans to launch a second rehabilitation center in the west of ukraine, he also will work thanks to the donations of the americans and

the ukrainian diaspora of the usa, the second center is necessary after all, no one is safe from the repeated attack of russia on the kyiv region, irina is confident , i would like to have more military personnel here, but since many of the guys with whom we work , our patients, we will say that they are not walkers, and you know that the russians are now standing on the belarusian border , we cannot take them because the evacuation will be very difficult and we will not be able to take them from here. i think that we will win and the only thing is the consequences war we will have to fight that very, very many years at the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine, the charity fund developed volunteers from ukraine helps not only in the rehabilitation of soldiers and civilians, the background collected and provided aid for more than 5 million dollars, in particular, volunteers from the usa bought ambulances with which ukrainians evacuate from combat zone a to kostyuchenko pavel

sukhodolskyi for the voice of america from the kyiv region when russian troops invaded ukraine in february, a group of ukrainian businessmen created the volunteer center in poland, help ukraine to collect and deliver humanitarian goods, ukrainian refugees and international volunteers work here tirelessly, selecting, packing and delivering humanitarian and medical aid that comes from all over the world, and the winners of this year's eurovision, the band kalush, as myroslava gongadze will tell you, work here every day about 150 volunteers, most of them ukrainians temporarily evacuated from their homeland due to the war, the team also includes foreigners from all over the world for example, colton smith, who came here to work from california and is here to help a common cause, i've been here for almost two months

now. war in ukraine, i follow the development of events that since the revolution of the 14th year, i simply could not stand aside and continue working in california , when the invasion began, my heart broke and i could no longer smile until the war of volunteers was work friends family hobbies and plans for the future now they are all doing everything they can to help those who remained in ukraine who are ready to join us at any time we have another 40 people every day who come here to support humanitarian aid what are we actually doing we collect all the humanitarian aid that comes from europe and from outside the eu, we sort it and send it to ukraine, as olga describes, this is the largest ukrainian business cooperation in the history of large and small ukrainian companies united to help their citizens in ukraine, in cooperation with the government of ukraine,

they deliver aid to mariupol, mykolaiv , chernihiv, kharkiv and many other ukrainian regions where people need immediate help , at the beginning of the operation, the center collected and delivered to ukraine more than 6,000 tons of humanitarian aid , creative people also come here to help ukrainian music group, winner of the song of the eurovision 2022 contest, kalush okissha, spent a few hours here on the way to their favorite charity concert to express their support for the operation as well stopped by this largest volunteer center in europe to see how to get to know people here, to say thank you, to help, the leader of the band, oleg psyuk, skillfully handles the forklift, the team did not stop until they had fully loaded the car, saying goodbye, the tired but happy musicians and volunteers sang together the song stefania, which has become a symbol of ukrainian refugees they support each other to remain strong and united

for the sake of the future of ukraine because mother is music, she is blue sing to me on the engine i want to hear yours again native word myroslava gongadze voices of america poland glory to ukraine heroes glory to ukraine steve brodner famous american illustrator character journalist and

writer for the past few months all his works are focused purely on the war started by putin in ukraine brodner says usually the events in cartoons are exaggerated but to exaggerate the tragedy that is experienced it is impossible for ukrainians to tell about the war through the eyes of an american illustrator oleksiy kovalenko has noticeable cheekbones and a long nose, it is quite easy to draw just a few lines on a piece of paper and it's easy to guess who you're looking at art and politics mix in this small studio in verkhnyi mannequinis your hands remember employees must wash their hands you see it in restaurant toilets so here's the world ukraine is divided bleeding and he washes his hands with blood of ukraine steve brodner is considered one of the most outstanding and successful political cartoonists in the usa. he has an innate sense

of how to illustrate the most important topics of the world from the domestic political problems of america such as gun control election campaigns and abortion rights to international politics to putin the role of jolly roger in the last few months, brodner has focused his work on the war in ukraine , the situation is getting worse because it is turning into a long-drawn-out stalemate where putin wins something and then loses something in early april, brodner did kalash for diosangelestimes calling putin the emperor of this russia which i showed this image of john hardfield and where putin has a big ax for meat and he is a butcher of ukraine brooder has a large collection of works devoted to the war, he

turns every new tragedy into a picture, documenting crimes against ukraine and condemning putin in general, cartoons tend to exaggerate events, but in ukraine there is often no need for exaggeration." here is a man missing his son mariupol so you could see how he holds the boy's head in his hands and cries a bomb that fell at the train station people took pictures of the rocket and it was written for children someone could really do this say this is a bomb for children i just don't understand anything anymore every day when new alarming news is coming brodner sits down at his desk and fights russian disinformation and the only way he knows with a pencil oleksiy kovalenko dmytro savchuk nina vishneva voice of america download the voice of america mobile application

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