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congratulations on the air the program of the ukrainian service voice of america time and host ostap yarysh the minister of defense of the united states discussed lloydus with his ukrainian colleague oleksiy reznikov he emphasized the supply of additional heimers multiple-launch systems to ukraine - he emphasized that the usa is moving as fast as it can to supply the necessary equipment to ukraine, it is said in message in the pentagon, and at this moment united states secretary of state antonio blinken is addressing the press , he has already devoted a significant part of his speech to ukraine, and you have already been followed by my colleague yuliya yarmolenko, who is now joining the broadcast of yury, i congratulate you, i congratulate ostapenko, the secretary said that in the coming days, he plans to talk with the minister of foreign affairs of russia, sergey lavrov, about what exactly antonym blin, yes, ostap also told about this

, this rework is literally happening now, the state secretary is speaking anthony blinken in the state department, he really announced that in the coming days, for the first time in the beginning of a full-scale russian war in ukraine, he will talk with the minister of foreign affairs of russia, sergey lavrov, according to anthony blinkin, the first thing they will talk about is the americans illegally detained in russia, in particular , brittney igrainer and paul whelan. also emphasized that another important topic of their conversation will be the so-called grain agreement , also called the istanbul agreement, which was concluded at the end last week they will talk about the fact that ukrainian grain will still be able to reach world markets in order to overcome this food crisis , which was actually caused by full-scale russian aggression and invasion of ukraine

. according to anthony blinkin , they will not talk about what they will talk about. regarding ukraine directly blinking with lavrov, he emphasized that all the conversations that will be held about ukraine should be held only under the condition of the presence of ukraine, he emphasized that the position of the united states, nothing about ukraine remains unchanged. without ukraine, therefore, once again, he emphasized that they will not directly discuss the issue of ukraine, which concerns and other important topics raised by anthony blinking. during this speech, he also emphasized that russia has suffered a strategic defeat, all plans that she had strategic goals for ukraine, she did not achieve them, and he also expressed his belief that ukraine will remain a democratic, free and prosperous country, the secretary also shared assessments regarding the possible future development of events

in ukraine, in particular, the russian full-scale invasion, what he told in the press and no, we saw it before the start of the full-scale invasion in the first week and month, this is the first time in the past few months that the state department again warns about the next steps of russia, according to the secretary of state of the enko according to anthony blinkin, according to the state department's estimates, the next steps will be that russia will try to hold illegal referendums in several regions of ukraine at once in order to use it as an excuse to use the false results as an excuse to illegally annex some other territories of ukraine, he emphasized instead that the united states will never recognize such falsely annexed or annexed territory captured by russia

as the territory of russia and will stand its ground that ukraine must remain independent and indivisible in order to preserve its territorial integrity and su yes yulia, if we have already touched on the topic of sergey lavrov and antony blinken, we know that today sergey lavrov completed his tour of american countries during his trip he put the responsibility for the food crisis in africa precisely on the west, as such statements are being reacted to in the united states and also in other western countries, and where the administration directly from dened price, the spokesman for the state department, that at the beginning of the week we heard that they are perfectly aware of what the goal is lavrov in african countries is to convince them of false narratives, but also to reduce the pressure and protest against russia's actions, which is currently in the world,

he also emphasized that the state department is less worried, but with whom exactly meets sergey lavrov more about how they react to his statements directly in those countries and also what dangerous narratives sergei lavrov and the russian authorities in general are spreading around the world. also today we heard a statement from two influential congressmen from capitol hill , republican michael mccall and democrat gregory mix, they emphasized that during this trip lavrov is promoting these narratives of dangerous disinformation and the cia throughout the continent and also talk about the fact that russia is not avoids using food as a weapon in the introduction

of his war. a speech criticizing the actions of russia and the fact that russia uses not only food but also energy and other resources as a tool of its war let's listen russia has actually started a new type of hybrid world war is a reality and i have decided that information is energy and is fed by military tools at the service of the continental imperialist war against ukraine. i would sum up everything that is happening without embellishment like this. russia attacked ukraine. this is a territorial war of the kind that we thought had disappeared from european land. which suffered from colonial imperialism russia is one of the last imperial colonial states it decided to invade a neighboring state to protect its interests there when you see how they stick

head in the door of your house, don't take it as something else, even if they tell you the opposite ira thank you very much for your inclusion, i will remind you it was yulia yarmolenko who joined our broadcast from the white house blaming the western countries for the food crisis was one of the main messages of the kremlin during sergey lavrov's visit to africa during a briefing in the capital of ethiopia, adiza bebi, he stated that the increase in grain prices is the result of american and european sanctions against russia during his visit to egypt, congo, uganda, and ethiopia lavrov tried to strengthen the support of african countries, a large part of which did not condemn the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine, and more about the purpose of the visit of the head of the russian foreign ministry, what nations russia is trying to promote in africa, how is ukraine resisting this? issues of the middle east and africa maxim congratulations thank you for

agreeing to talk with us, in your opinion , what is the main purpose of the visit of the minister of foreign affairs of russian affairs, serhii lavrov, to four african countries, the purpose of the visit is, first of all, to gain wider support at the international regional level for the criminal acts committed by russia in relation to ukraine. russia is somehow trying to return to the implementation of those project agreements that it announced many years ago. the visit began with a visit to egypt by the league of arab states and was address to the ambassadors of the member countries of the league of arab states, that is, russia is trying to spread

its disinformation narratives on the african continent in order to accuse ukraine of accusing the western countries of our allies that they or we caused the crisis that africa is currently experiencing and countries of the middle east to the food crisis. first of all, of course, in this regard, we are reacting absolutely adequately and, hmm, we plan to carry out a series of measures in order to counteract this er with these narratives of this disinformation, actually, this is also what we do constantly, and as for the selected countries, these are obviously the countries on which russia has great hope that they will promote its narratives and will implement the plans that russia has to discredit ukraine in the first place queue in order to prevent or disrupt those contracts that ukraine already has in certain countries. and you know

that the countries of north africa, in particular, are the largest trade and economic partners of ukraine - they are the largest recipients and markets for of our grain for wheat, first of all, at the same time, in many african countries, these messages are a colonial message, and there is a response from russia. that is, we see in the statements as much as ukraine why this is happening and how ukraine is trying to resist this, russia is trying to monopolize that the role and the policy pursued by the soviet union. and by the way, i conducted my research and, uh, got acquainted with publications where there were surveys of africans from representatives of different african countries, which positively evaluate the role of the former ussr in the issue

of their gaining independence and the struggle with the colonial past, but they do not associate it with russia, so a-a er-e russia is trying in every way to present it as its personal merit and the fact that russia allegedly did not have any a - and there is no role in defeating the colonization of african countries, these are the narratives of the russian side, which in fact do not reflect and do not influence public opinion in africa, in my opinion, and in addition, it should be mentioned that the messengers of russia that it was not colonial the state can never stand it either critics because yes. maybe this did not happen in africa, but in central asia in the 19th century, russia occupied many countries of central asia and the caucasus. that is, it pursued the same

imperial policy as the great european empires at that time, but in another region it it is also necessary to inform our african partners that, at the moment, russia in ukraine is also pursuing a neo-colonial policy, seizing ukrainian territories and turning the lands and territory of ukraine into its own appendages or something like that the formation of analytics communicated there, they say that russia can offer less and less to the countries of africa. do you agree with this and will you know that this is a political bluff, this is political bluffing, and announcing large-scale multibillion-dollar contracts, in fact, russia practices this, it announces many different projects that do not find their practical implementation, this is especially characteristic of the last decade a and b in the conditions of aggression against ukraine i

personally have doubts about the practical possibility of russia to implement them and if you compare the level of investment attraction of russian capital on the territory of african countries. it is ten times inferior in financial terms to china or the united states or the european union in the markets of africa, but the presence of russian wagnerites in africa is beneficial to the russian perception of russia in these countries. is this a resource, or is it the other way around, they harm, well, from the point of view of russia, apparently she thinks that it is beneficial, but by changing the regimes there in a forceful way and violating the constitutions of these countries by organizing by organizing there state insurgencies and the bringing to power of illegal regimes a-a from the point of view of some momentary situational

benefit. maybe so, but in the long term , even in the medium term. there is absolutely no future because these regimes are subject to sanctions from the african countries themselves. take for example the republic of small e- after the rebellion, which was inspired in particular by russia and the wagnerites, yes, russia may have received some advantages at the local, national , intra-malian level, but small state maria immediately turned into a state of exile and sanctions were imposed on it, in particular by the eco-vas block of economic cooperation of west african countries and the african countries themselves that respect human rights, the rule of law and democrats and

democratic principles. the usa marie harvard appointed the coordinator of the investigation of russian atrocities in ukraine and scolds rosenbaum, who is called a nazi hunter. rosenbaum devoted most of his the careers of prosecuting war criminals of nazi germany, those responsible for the crimes should not underestimate the determination of united states prosecutors, said rosenbaum in an interview with the voice of america, recalling the atrocities of the russians. crimes may take time in some cases even years to create conditions for bringing to justice those who commit such crimes in ukraine but i said although recent history shows that the civilized

world is more than ever committed to ending impunity for these crimes by those who would even think about giving a criminal order or carrying it out in light of russia's illegal invasion of ukraine, it would be good to consider the example of the nazi criminals of world war ii for the guilty not there will be a reliable remote control and they will at least have to spend the rest of their lives looking over their shoulders, thinking that they have finally been recognized and whether they are going to detain them, this is a problem for the us department of justice to investigate military crimes in ukraine, read on our website and we move on to other topics, the city of izyum in the kharkiv region became the central command post for the russian army in the battles for donbas. at the beginning of march, the city turned into a real hell for its residents, from which it was almost impossible to get out. managed to make 88-year-old petro borodenko the grandfather-correspondent of the voice of america in kyiv, anna chernikova, his story continues with the beginning of a

full-scale invasion of russia, the city of raisin is associated with fierce battles terrible destruction and human suffering, this city is special for me because it has many happy memories from my childhood. his house was destroyed. he lived in the same cellar as the parents of my grandmother, love borodenko, used as a shelter during world war ii. for us, it was 117 days of hell and pain, because they could not help me. managed to get my grandfather out of the raisin with the help of volunteers and the armed forces of the russian federation. the russian military did not want to release him to the territory not controlled by ukraine , but the grandfather managed to persuade them. he is still very exhausted, but happy that he is alive and in relative

safety in kyiv with his family. i remember one thing: rockets are fired and until a rocket hits me just in the garage, after 5 minutes i come out of the cellar , the door is opened, the neighbor's house across the street is on fire, another and the neighbor's garage is broken, i'm watching everything in a creepy way, but it happened the scariest thing grandfather remembers was experiencing air raids by the russians. his house was seriously damaged. almost all the buildings, not his streets, were destroyed. an airplane is flying. we run out of the house, run to the cellar, and he enlightened us, and i think . dropped the bomb. i don't know 5 tons or how many ditches there were, the pit from it is very big and one house

was destroyed . one house was destroyed. another one was destroyed on our street. he says to the soviet army that his attitude towards the russians has changed radically. so i feel so upset. they forgive me for this word. they are bad people who broke everything like that. what can no longer be broken to break the life of the city. grandfather remembers one of the bloodiest russian missile attacks on raisins. there were many, the most victims were when the bomb hit the bomb shelters in the house, 260 people died at once, a direct hit, no one was able to escape, a tragedy, a terrible tragedy of the eyes, a terrible life path, 8-year-old children, it happened to him again trials this is a small bag and a photo, all he has left is my copper, it hurts that i am

sorry and it hurts that my life is falling apart. i wish there was no war and live a free life . next to my wife and son and never again to experience the horrors of war i plan to return home i want to return home and on chernikov voice of america kyiv this was the story of petr borodenka from raisin and among international institutions that

they help people like him. it was founded by an actor who is a non-profit charity organization. she has been working in conflict zones and natural disasters for 12 years. they came to ukraine at the beginning of a full-scale invasion in the first weeks of hostilities. the co-founder of the organization enli said that civil society is the same as in ukraine. she used to be there . i didn't see it, my colleague nataliya leonova said, you have been involved in charity work for quite some time, since 2010 you have been in conflict zones due to natural disasters, why and how did you decide to work in ukraine ukraine sasis now this is one of the biggest and main crises of our time when we look around in the united states and look at the attacks on democracy. this is something like what is happening on a global scale in ukraine .

wanted to join and we saw the number of people who actually left the country and became refugees. for us it was obvious that we should join such specific things that your organization does for ukrainian refugees abroad and it is possible on the ground". in ukraine in several cities including odesa, kyiv and lviv. and we are also in poland in the border cities of rzeszów and czemez. and we are also in krakow. in addition, we are also in romania in all these places. we provide support to local shelters. those who have undertaken to help and often these are people from the private sector hotels that are converted into shelters to support a large number of refugees and displaced persons we also provide food and water also a large program is cash support for victims of conflict and of course one of the biggest things on which our focus is the protection of women and children who have left the country. and how can ukrainians talk to

you directly or can they ask for help directly? yes, we have a number of partner organizations in ukraine, and it is through them that we can identify needs and carry out a lot of work on the ground and again, this is very different from many other crises because the ukrainian civil society and the non-governmental sector are very strong, unfortunately, the fact that a large part of the huge financial the aid that comes from the usa and other countries does not reach the recipient quickly enough to support local organizations and civil society, there is no connection, they cannot get this money quickly enough on the ground, so we are trying to create a bridge , we are working on creating long-term potential and additional support for these local organizations so they can serve their communities the funding you mentioned where did they come from our funding comes from

private individuals we also get some funding from the american red cross, which has always been our leading partner in all the disasters that we have responded to, they are very, very responsive, they are efficient, so they have been great partners for us, but a large part of our funding comes from private individuals, and this is a huge part of the americans are interested in helping . they know that we get to the place very quickly integrate in this community and in that local organization and provide very targeted assistance and you mentioned that the crisis in ukraine is significantly different from the other conflicts that you saw last year, the level of international support turned out to be staggering, in addition, there are many ukrainians in poland, ukrainians abroad who literally rushed to help people who had no previous experience did so much and it is impressive and finally of course these are local organizations if you look at the number of organizations in ukraine that were there before

this crisis, which are now somehow repurposing to focus on supporting their compatriots, it is impressive and this is such a level of response, the reaction to at the local level, the response of the local authorities that we have not seen in other places who do you think are the most vulnerable groups and what are the biggest problems and challenges they are dealing with that need to be solved this is the national team of ukraine as we all know many men cannot leave the country so the majority of people who left ukraine are women, children and the elderly, unfortunately , sexual exploitation and violence occur after the disaster, and when you have so many women and children without complete families, they fall into the risk zone. we we also have many elderly people who have never left their regions and it is extremely difficult for them. i would also like to touch

on the issue of the long-term impact of this war, how to mitigate it so that generations of ukrainians do not suffer from post-traumatic syndrome for many years, i consider mental help to be very important as we have seen during various crises in the beginning there is a lot of support and a lot of open arms but soon it runs out and that is why you need to constantly encourage those who help the country and receiving communities do not lose goodwill. and we need to support such communities that also experience difficulties. if you have a community that absorbs a group of ukrainians, it is not only about supporting these ukrainians, but also about supporting the host side that absorbs these people, they also need resources to be able to do this making the immigration issue very important to integrate into these communities is very important at an early stage to help these people find livelihoods to create long-term shelters that do not exist in these communities this is very important we know

winter is coming we have less than six months left people are staying in school gyms in emergency centers they will not survive the winter we need to focus on long term solutions at a higher political level we as a community the international community must continue to put strong pressure on our governments so that they do not reduce the pressure on russia and do not refuse to support the ukrainian people who are suffering so much now when it seems that war fatigue has set in as to ensure that the ukrainian war remains on the radar of the international community and that efforts to help ukrainians do not stop... i think president zelenskyy provides an excellent example of how to do this, he knows how to speak directly to ordinary people, explain what will happen if the conflict is forgotten , there are millions of displaced people, we do not see them because they are not in traditional tent cities they are with

other families they are with people they don't know in group care centers you know we need to highlight this how do you do it remind the world that this crisis has not gone away this crisis will affect several generations that is why we need to continue to draw attention to these people and tell their stories regularly thank you very much for your time and thank you for your work thank you very much download the voice of america mobile app the app allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read news, watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts of the voice of america service in ukrainian, and this is the end of our issue. also join our daily briefings at 6:00 p.m. on youtube and facebook, where you can ask us your questions live. thank you for being with us. have a good night and

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