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20:00, the sponsor of the show bitter, hypoallergenic pet food partner of the show - the vibet company, together we are stronger, turn on and cheer for ukraine, congratulations on the broadcast of the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america time and host ostap yarysh after russia's shelling of the odesa port united states together with ukraine, they are working on plan b for food exports, although they hope that the grain agreement signed in turkey will work, said the administrator of the international aid agency over time, man and paver in odesa, the military administration says that they plan to export 3 million tons of grain by sea every month, earlier in the un they hoped that after the signing of the agreement will make it possible to export 5

tons of ukrainian products per month, and more about the reaction to the russian shelling of the port of odessa, we will talk with yura yarmolenko, who is joining us from the white house yuriy welcomes you i congratulate you yuriy in ukraine stated that russia's shelling of odesa violates the grain agreement signed by it, how did the usa react to this attack, including in the context of the possibility of ostap's further negotiations in the usa, he and the eu immediately condemned the russian attack on the port of odesa, and us secretary of state anthony blinken said that this the attack in fact casts great doubt on russia's commitment to the agreements signed in istanbul, it undermines, in his opinion, the un efforts of turkey and ukraine to export the transportation of vital food to world markets secretary of state link he also stated that russia is responsible for the deepening of the food crisis in the world and must immediately stop aggression and fulfill the promises that it

actually signed in this net price agreement - this is the spokesperson of the state department. the prospects of fulfilling the terms of this agreement, and he specifically mentioned the humanitarian corridors that russia agreed to but repeatedly violated their terms. - this is the administrator of the us international aid agency, she was in africa this weekend. and she said in particular that half of the population of somalia suffers from hunger, more than half of the grain , more than half of the wheat, somalia receives from ukraine, semen and paver emphasized that if russia does not fulfill the terms of the agreement, it will lead to more deaths here are clips from her e video she recorded somalia uh uh stations the only small

glimmer of hope i have heard in my discussions here with people who are so vulnerable and have become so poor because of this drought. it's that russia finally agreed to let 20 million tons of grain stored in ukraine come out. people said, ok, prices may drop. maybe we'll have access to wheat. we just found out that russian troops bombed the port infrastructure in odesa , the same port infrastructure that necessary for the transportation of grain through the black sea is absurd and it is only the latest manifestation of vladimir putin's cold indifference to the cost of the war in ukraine, a man-made war that he created for no reason, as well as to human lives and to a chain reaction all over the world . power spoke in an interview with cnn about this plan b, which the usa and ukraine are currently working on. and what development of the situation is seen in ukraine and the un today, you know ostap, the very existence of this plan would show

how much the united states and other countries do not trust anything that putin says , samantha power herself stated this in an interview with cnn. plan b is to transport grain by land transport and by trains, and by large trucks , but also to transport the potential by rivers however, we have repeatedly heard from experts that in this way it is possible to transport and export only a part of ukrainian grain, approximately 30%. in ukraine and in the un, everyone hopes that plan a will work. actually, we heard from the un that they hope that in the coming days there will be the first deliveries, the first grain will leave ukrainian ports and from ukraine. we also hear that despite the russian shelling, they are ready to carry out a their obligations regarding this agreement hope that ukrainian grain will be exported to the end week and above the price, the spokesman of the pentagon also said today that he hopes that the agreement will be implemented, but he emphasized that the whole world is

closely watching and wants to make sure that russia will fulfill the conditions in this context, another important event for the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov went on a tour of africa where in particular, he calls on the countries of the continent to demand the lifting of sanctions against russia, at the same time, the eu ambassador to the usa said in an interview with the voice of america that the sanctions imposed on russia in no way affect the food crisis. why else did he emphasize, do you know ostap, today in the administration of the ukrainian president, mykhailo podalyak said that lavrov's tour of african countries is the personification of russian sadism. he said that on one side of russia, the russians are signing agreements in istanbul, on the other hand, they are shelling the port of odesa, first they create an artificial famine and then he comes to pat me on the shoulder, so to speak, according to mykhailo, he is scared, what about this tour, during it, lavrov tries to promote narratives that putin is

it is not russia at all, but someone else is to blame for the food crisis in the world, in particular, as lavrov says, it is western sanctions and also the apparent reluctance of the ukrainian authorities to enter into peace negotiations, and you know ambassador shav - the ambassador has said by ear that in fact these are very dangerous narratives, someone is starting believe in them so you have to make sure that everyone understands who is behind the aggression who is behind the food crisis it is putin and russia let's listen to angel these are the russian hunger games and we must stop them they cannot blackmail the world and they spread the disinformation narrative that worries me the most is that they say that somehow it is the sanctions introduced against russia that are causing the food security crisis, this is so absurd that some people can say if it sounds so crazy, it is possible there is something in this, but it is absolutely

not true, it was russia's war that destroyed ukraine's export opportunities, and ukrainian exports made up the majority of supplies to a number of african and other countries and when ukraine is bombed and its food supplies are deliberately hit and when companies it is forbidden to enter the black sea to export this grain and when russia does something else worse that makes the hair stand on end and steals a lot of ukrainian grain in order to export it itself , we have a situation in front of us where there is no doubt that this is a man-made crisis and this person has a name and this name is yulia putin. thank you very much for this analysis. i will remind you. it was yulia yarmolenko, who joined us from the white house and there is no predicting

more favorable conditions for business work than before the war. canadians in ukraine roman vashchuk, he emphasizes that it will depend on how much foreign investors want to be partners of ukrainian business after the war about this and more with roman, who did you talk to myroslava dongadze how do you see in general how effectively today the ukrainian government generally copes with the challenges facing business, it is clear that the ukrainian economy has fallen extremely, businesses are suffering, are certain steps being taken to contribute to the stabilization of the situation in some way? what we saw in the first weeks and months of the war uh, it was a certain kind of liberalization that would allow

business to survive and move away from the shock of the beginning of the war if you look at the assessment of the business mood, i'm not saying exactly the mood statistics, then they improved between march and let's say so, because people realized that you can relocate, you can change the activity profile, and or even find new others, now that things are normalizing again still to a certain extent productions, the stabilized front, uria, and the people who write the laws, by-laws, are a bit stingy to return to the status quo, that is, before the military court, where there were obvious positives . but it seems to me that this shock is also an opportunity to rethink certain practices that were and not

necessarily just let's say it's a little flawed stupidly to return to them of course that taxation must be the state cannot be completely dependent on foreign funding in order to finance the war business in the first months i voluntarily put the money on the table, the state should now evaluate it with what is less. i would say yes, the punitive method conducts inspections, conducts taxation. i see that there are fears in the business environment that the expropriation, which some actors talked about, may once again become the main method communication between the state and business without business from the smallest to the largest as an engine

of recovery, there will be no economic recovery of ukraine , that is, business is not a donor at the moment, it is an engine, it must be given the opportunity to earn those money, so to speak, demolish your golden testicles, advise chernihiv to twist, there are a lot of such nuances, for example, some businesses, er, you are talking about the location, they moved, for example, from the border er, parts close to belarus to russia, moved to western ukraine, is there any possibility and way in order to return them, for example, are there any special tax benefits needed in order for this business to return, that is, today it would be effective for the ukrainian government and the ukrainian legislator to do in order to promote the development of some start-ups, the small and medium business support program has now been launched, right, very

right, it is necessary to let people earn and delay it enough to be able to reinvest in the rapid growth of their business, and thus sustain the recovery of business, and we also need to deal with the fact that where they are in the form of, in particular, large e-e enterprises in the south and east will never be restored, it is necessary to understand that the full political geography of ukraine will hopefully be restored in our country, but the economic geography will already be changed before the war, we talked a lot about the need for reforms, about reforms in the judicial system, about the fight against corruption, well, a lot of things that were constantly emphasized today, all these

discussions stopped due to the fact that there was an urgent problem, do you think that we need to talk about it when do you think it's time to raise this issue again for the opportunity to make changes for it exists even now er so do we need to talk about it so we need to lay the foundations now er again the government er this part made in the form of the council for the national recovery of ukraine, but this is a huge document, a large number of people worked, it is necessary for ukrainians to hear not 24 out of 2,500, but 3-5 priorities, which would be the credo of the economic recovery of ukraine, so to speak, and to whom, above all, ukrainians could be mobilized again, they often say, well

, will there be foreign investments? will only the success of ukrainians in ukraine encourage foreigners to invest more, which is important, and here we return to the question of the motivation of ukrainians themselves. ukraine is that that all this should be presented openly and clearly that the rules will be equal for everyone and that so to speak no one will be able to privatize the victory, the victory will be one for everyone and this is important because then people will be able to see themselves in ukraine and in its development after the victory this is how the interview was with roman vashchuk and we move on to the next stories, volunteers from chernivtsi and kyiv evacuated from eastern ukraine more than 600 people who cannot move on their own

they don't have relatives and even after moving to safe cities, they need constant care from maryana every day and yuriy dankevich will talk about volunteers who set out to help just such people , all people yes, this is really a french lecture on the lysichansk-bakhmut highway, yes, this spring ihor loginov spent before for my students, we have some intonation issues, it goes upstairs while we go to the evacuation, we have a 4-hour drive, we accordingly contact the students online. i always apologize to the students for the fact that there may be some problems with communication on that spring day, a teacher of the french and chernivtsi universities took 160 people lying down on a road that was periodically shot at by the russians, his success depends on logistics,

correct addresses, a tight schedule, the task was to be in time when we arrived for evacuation and we were a little late, and the house is no longer there and what about these we don't know people. that is, we arrived at the address, and there a funnel with the help of dozens of local volunteers. ihor evacuated hundreds of people with special needs from all the hot spots of eastern ukraine. severodonetsk bakhmut lysychansk kramatorsk today some of these routes are no longer available, so the french teacher is planning other directions dmytro maksimovich from kyiv met igor when he moved to chernivtsi at the beginning of the war and was looking for someone who could evacuate his mother from the kyiv region, we received calls from a lot of volunteer movements and volunteer organizations, but unfortunately there were such figures, just uah 30,000 per person uah 20,000 per person well, ihor was in shock. we will take dmytro for a day and for free, so they became a team, they offered

the woman asked if you could take out the lying person, in fact there were many such calls and, uh, we always refused, but when the woman said that it was already the 10th refusal, and igor offered, he said, " let's take these people out, it's a miracle. imagine what it's like to wash a lying person in the basement of a house that is 60-70 years old, well, it’s almost unreal, each of their evacuations is like a special operation, the route is developed with the help of the police and the people, most of whom cannot move on their own, are taken out in specially converted cars we pulled out the seats and put high orthopedic mattresses there and that's why people with disabilities feel relatively comfortable there. that is, we can easily cover up to 600 km in this way, although we try to use

rail transport - it's easier for people. ihor is still returning from the mission to in the east of ukraine, and dmytro in the west is already meeting the evacuees quietly at the railway station of lviv, those who, because of their condition, could not withstand the exhausting journey in that car are being taken from the train, now the main question is what to do next hospital and hospice shelters in the western regions are overcrowded, but already do people need constant medical care? dmytro is looking for shelter in each specific case. he has already been found. he is located in the kyiv region, uh, and the first evacuation of bedridden people will be carried out there, it will be 30 people, it could be some kind of hospital wing that is no longer functioning. but there is water there is heat and there is light, we just

find the funds to buy beds, buy mattresses, bed linen in the corridors of chernivtsi university, silence, the yard is empty , vacations, and igor's new exit, it is quickly called numbers 25 confirmed addresses 3000 km 300 liters of diesel next at 6 o'clock in the morning, one bag packed by a humanitarian leaves chernivtsi, four more join in the dnipro igor knows for those who are waiting for them, this is the last hope, for example , of a citizen every day yury dankevich voice of america chernivtsi - ukraine this is the history of chernivtsi we continue our program crossroads in betrothal that in new york the ukrainian road will soon get an additional name, the city council noted that this is recognition of the victims of russia's military aggression in ukraine the decision was supported by council members of one council unanimously, now it must be approved by mertyrkanams did the residents of

7 brooklyn like this decision ukrainian volunteer and activist oleksiy prokopenko learned from iryna solomenko, one of those who started a company to rename a new york street in honor of ukraine in march this year, he managed to deliver to the mayor of the city, eric adams, an appeal from the community, he says about the decision of the city council to give the intersection of two key avenues of the legendary brighton beach an additional name. won in terms of information and in terms of ideology, because this is a kind of ukrainian injection into semi-soviet brighton, which has needed changes for a long time, and in fact today ukraine is interpreted in the world and not only in the world in america in the entire civilized world it is interpreted as a country that chooses democracy in this world i absolutely see the logic of the city council

in the fact that at this intersection at this very place dial it to give the name of the ukrainian road dream community was implemented by a member of the new york city council and non-believers. she was born in chernivtsi and moved to new york with her family at the age of twelve last fall. she won the election in the district that covers brighton beach in the summer made a proposal to give the intersection of brighton beach and coney island an additional name ukrainian way i think most of our community was really devastated watching what is happening in ukraine and we want to express our support to the victims and families of the victims of this terrible war we support the people who are fighting in ukraine vernikov is a republican in the city council, her political power is in the minority. that is, this issue received full support both among republicans and among democrats and independents before this initiative, the woman also became the author of a resolution in support of ukraine, she received very strong

support, almost everyone voted for it, everyone supports ukraine, the people of ukraine, their struggle for democracy and freedom, for the means of livelihood and survival, but the opinions of the residents of brighton beach are divided, this small neighborhood of brooklyn is popularly called small odessa is home to a large community of immigrants from soviet russia and ukraine who began to settle there in the mid-70s, so those who have no connection with the soviet union and russia news from the intersection support action i hope that the renaming of this intersection will give support and strength to all people who need it because of what is currently happening between russia and ukraine, the renaming will help people feel this support from people who are on the other side of the ocean on this continent is kateryna together with family moved to brooklyn from georgia the council's decision she will also support we only wish

they could do more more for ukraine to stop this war russia is evil - this is the only thing i can also say that kateryna says she knows people who are against the additional name of the intersection, according to her. they are mostly older and watch russian propaganda tv channels. voice of america managed to use loans to communicate with several opponents of the renaming. they are quite radical, but they refuse to argue their position on camera. love simenova from moscow has been living in brighton beach for 7 years, says he does not support the war against, considers the renaming superfluous, i understand that сейчас на украине i don't think that this good idea. i understand that now there is a war in ukraine and all the people support it and it is really terrible when both ukrainian and russian people die, but this is in my opinion, this is such a bend birnikov understands that the solution for the district that lives in the past is not easy, but considers

it the right one oleksiy prokopenko in in his turn he says with the news the name of the intersection, the process of de-occupation of brighton beach has begun, as he calls it, we have now reclaimed part of brighton, we reclaimed that time, that piece, that piece of great history that must be called ukrainian because this is our history here i also think and hope that this is only the beginning and the next in line manhattan central district of new york ukrainian path according to the activist can turn into a new symbolic place for rallies the first action against russian propaganda took place there last saturday from new york iryna solomko voice of america in the meantime , a charity concert was held in the washington suburb of warrenton with the participation of belarusian opera stars. at the event, funds were collected to support ukraine. this evening in the church in the suburb of vyshton,

belarusian classics were played, music by stanislav manyushka, works based on the poems of poets yanka kupala and maksym bogdanovich. in this way, belarusian opera singers margarita levchuk and ilya sivchukov raised funds for humanitarian aid for ukraine , and the belarusian council of culture organized a concert an institution that supports cultural projects is undesirable for the lukashenka regime, we did not have a national culture festival, and this is a very important country, we did not have a national culture festival it's strange because almost all peoples have it. we thought what kind of gas it could be and saw that marc chagall was born on july 7. yanka kupala yan chechot celebrates kupalia in one of the styles and we thought that let it be july 7 and around this date we can create such train, let's call it the days of belarusian culture all over the world, and to date, this year, about 50 cities from all over the

world are participating in the days of belarusian culture. margarita levchuk is one of the brightest and most famous belarusian opera singers the singer should arrest lukashenko's critic, she took part in the election campaign of svitlana tikhanovskaya, created the chervona ze project and releases satirical clips on youtube mocking the belarusian authorities against the singer, they opened a criminal case and arrested her parents, but despite this, levchuk continues to tell the truth about the atrocities of the lukashenko regime, i learn from you last birthday, i'm going nowhere and such a political activist became such a political activist during this time, these two years, and this is what i have now life doesn't complain and every day i wake up and say thank god that i'm not in prison, that i'm not in belarus, occupied by russia, lukashenko's country is scary when your parents are held hostage and you don't know what they can do to them, but i still won't stop and i will continue my

political activities and even songs i will continue to sing about the truth about what is happening, the life of my colleague margarita and the forest of silchukov was also divided into before and after the protests in belarus two years ago, he was also forced to emigrate as a singer and before that a lot toured the world, but after 2020, i noticed that belarusian diasporas appeared abroad . belarusians have always adapted very well. belarusians have always adapted very strongly and assimilated into the environment and could be in the diasporas of ukraine. appeared in the 20th year, the then unprecedented level of violence certainly woke people up, belarusian cultural centers appeared in all states, this tour is a confirmation of this in all states here is the tour, evidence of it. at the concert, you could also buy handmade products,

ukrainian crafts - ukrainian crafts, most of them were made by maria. here are these beautiful necklaces. these are hers . and here are these angels, we call them angels of support. they are from ukraine. all these inhalations are gifts . we are now collecting money for the children in the school of political prisoners in belarus and at the same time we are helping the children of ukraine . former us special representative for belarus julia fisher came to watch the performance of belarusian performers ukraine and belarus belarusians united by a common goal have an extremely negative attitude towards this war. to hear these voices tonight , especially margarita's speech, i would never forget such an opportunity to be here today together with the belarusian diaspora. it means a lot to me . there was an opportunity to get to know each other in person , the artists finished their performance with the unofficial anthem of free belarus, pursuit of the symbol of resistance to the lukashenko regime, the heart of every love, and

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