but according to the american media and actually the senators with whom i spoke in the house of representatives, the resolution should also receive strong support, in particular, due to the strong position in support of this resolution by the speaker of the house of representatives nancy, but from the value it should be noted that this is a resolution and does not yet recognize russia as a sponsoring state terrorism, but only calls on the state department to make such a determination because the state department is directly the executive branch of government . of terrorism not only on the territory of ukraine, but also in georgia, chechnya, and syria, and the poisoning of violinists in great britain, the creation of a group of wagner mercenaries, and even an attempt to assassinate the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, are mentioned, but what a practical session from this uh, not only this resolution, but in general, the recognition of russia as a state that sponsors terrorism well, there were already today

the authors of this resolution, the republican senator linzigram and the democrat senator richard blumenkol offer to listen to their statements, just now there is one the thing we didn't do in washington that could be of real importance is to recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism under us law, what does this mean, it means that doing business from russia with such a designation will become extremely difficult, it imposes a second layer on the sanctions , they will have a double effect, they will limit export of goods that can be used in both civil and military fields, and most importantly, such recognition removes sovereign immunity and opens the way to try russia in us courts, the law on sovereign the immunity of foreign states, which usually protects the country from lawsuits by private citizens or other persons in our courts, will not apply to russia

if it is recognized as a sponsor of terrorism, there are other stronger economic consequences, for example, an embargo on exports to russia, and of course there is world condemnation and mora's influence on ukrainians, so this designation is not it is just symbolism, it has a practical meaning, in addition, in its comments, the grm and damn the united states of russia, a state that mounts tourism will also encourage other partners in europe, democratic countries to make a similar admission and accordingly strengthen sanctions against russia, katya, another influential senator jamrish, in response to the voice of america request and said that the adoption of this resolution sends a serious signal to russia that its crimes are being closely monitored in congress and, i quote, that russia will bear responsibility for its actions you had the opportunity to talk exclusively with the senator about the decisions about these and other topics that he also told you, he noted that in this answer about the resolution

regarding the call for the recognition of russia as a state that constructs terrorism, he also noted that if this resolution does not yet recognize russia as a state that sponsors terrorism, it clearly demonstrates that the congress puts russia on the same level with the dprk, with syria and with iran and cuba, respectively, other states that the united states considers to be states that sponsor terrorism, jim rich himself e is a re senator and is also the semi-main committee on international relations of the senates, through which a lot of ukrainian issues pass, and in particular, the decision itself is a co-author of a low initiative regarding ukraine, in particular , on the recognition of russia's actions on the territory of ukraine genocide against the ukrainian people, as well as another recently announced initiative of the act on global food security, but what exactly these bills can do in support of ukraine, i suggest listening to an interview with our viewers you are you now outer author

and co-author of several resolutions and initiatives on for ukraine, one of them is the resolution recognizing the actions of russia as genocide of the ukrainian people. why would you tell us more about this resolution, what is its main essence, the main purpose of this resolution, i believe that the main and most important point is the recognition of what is really happening so that the united states of america officially recognizes this as genocide because it should be so these are cruel acts it is hard to believe that people can do such things to other people but putin did it the russians did it and they should be brought to justice to responsibility, and this should be pointed out to the whole world with whom i spoke , the resolution is not as powerful as the law and it may not have a great impact. so, if this resolution is adopted by the congress, what will be the practical impact on support for ukraine to help the ukrainian people, the

purpose of the resolution is to point out the fact of recognizing it and accepting the situation as genocide in terms of how this resolution will affect it, it will help us promote other legislative acts along with those that actually bite, such as the resolution recognizing russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and the like of course that the resolution on genocide goes along with this issue it emphasizes it it strengthens it it strengthens our statements also this wednesday you introduced another legislative initiative - this is an act on global food security could you tell us more about this document what it is about what is the essence of this legislative initiative as you know with 8 billion people on this planet we are constantly faced with the problem of world hunger we as the united states are the main

supplier of food regardless whether it is ours or whether we buy it from others to help people who desperately need it the global food security act means prioritizing where the food is most necessary and this is one of its points, this bill also calls for helping people who do not have food to produce the necessary food on their own, the bill contains many important provisions related to global hunger, which is a big problem when talking about global hunger and the current situation in the black sea the day after the signing agreements in istanbul, russia attacked the ukrainian port in odesa, in your opinion, what signal does this give to the western world, to the democratic world, does it make sense to conduct diplomatic negotiations now with russia it's very frustrating because you can't trust the russians everything they do is

prove every time they can't be trusted but that doesn't mean we have to stop talking to them in most cases we keep talking to people even if we don't agree with them but definitely the bombing of odesa immediately after the signing of the agreement was a signal from the russians, which sounds like this: okay, we agreed to it, but we will not necessarily abide by our obligations, this is their essence, what is happening now in ukraine will never end, the russians are demonstrating the uncharitable nature they are capable of , this once again proves to the world that russia cannot be trusted and this will continue for a very, very long time even after the fighting in ukraine stops and in the comments, but let's go back to your legislative initiatives, now we hear about the creation of a number of important initiatives that concern ukraine, but most of them have not yet passed the congress. what do you think when both of your initiatives will be

a resolution recognizing the genocide or an act on global food security will be passed, the congress grew correctly the act on global food security is probably a little behind the others because it is the newest, but we certainly have high hopes for the adoption of a resolution recognizing russia's actions as genocide against the ukrainian people in the near future. next week, on tuesday, we are also going to to adopt a resolution on accession to join sweden and finland to nato, of course this resolution is not directly related to ukraine, but at the same time it is very connected with ukraine because putin brought it upon himself he forced these two countries to join nato and as we have always repeated the door to nato remains open russia has no right and in fact has no opportunity to decide who can join international organizations and who does not act

or similar res are destroyed in both chambers, it works as follows: a resolution or a bill must first be passed in one chamber and then go to the other chamber for a vote; sometimes mirror documents are created in each of the chambers, this is a strange procedure this does not always happen, so when we finish passing it here in the senate, these initiatives are simply sent to the house of representatives for approval there. could you share what other initiatives related to ukraine you are currently working on ? both in military and humanitarian aspects, and this is part of the work on armaments that we want to deliver there. the same applies to sending humanitarian aid. therefore, this bill is already passed but the processes cannot be instantaneous and in

many cases it requires a push that we are doing it now a large-scale effort in the congress there are people who are involved in persuading the administration to advance both the issue of weapons and humanitarian aid and finally, would you like to add anything to this topic about the current work of congress to support ukraine so far only a few members of congress have visited ukraine and seen this devastation they have spoken with people who witnessed the brutality of the russians i would like that all my colleagues have the opportunity to go there to talk to these people and see with their own eyes what the russians have done there, everything will not end even when the fighting stops, the hostility that, in my opinion , the world and ukrainians rightly feel towards the russians for what they have done, this feeling will be transmitted through generations future generations of russians

will pay a heavy price for what russia has done. thank you, senators. it is interesting to talk to you. i have one more question for you. yesterday there was a closed-door briefing for members of congress a representative of the administration shared her assessment of the course of the war in ukraine, however, some legislators told journalists some of what they said at this bracketing that we learned so far. lost more than 75,000 of its troops both killed and wounded, which, according to estimates by the new jordan times, means that russia could lose almost half of the troops involved in a full-scale invasion as i would like to remind you that according to the preliminary assessment of experts, this number was 150,000 russian soldiers , also according to the words of the sweet, there is bipartisan support for providing ukraine with missiles with a longer range

, in particular up to 300 km. assert for the development of this topic, let me remind you that we were contacted by kateryna lisunova, who was joining from the congress, we will move on to other news from washington today , president biden had a telephone conversation with by the leader of the people's republic of china, sisinping, this is their first call since march of this year. yuliya yarmolenko , who is currently in contact with the white house , followed more about this and other important statements of the administration. what did they say so ostap you now we are waiting for more details from the administration we know that this call lasted for more than two hours and it was another attempt in essence to resolve certain differences and to resolve the tension that exists on several fronts at once in these diplomatic relations between china and the united

states, the most tension is now concentrated on the issue of taiwanium, we know that the united states is worried that after russia attacked ukraine, china may carry out some aggression against taiwan from beijing, in the last few days we have heard great concerns that arose after the announcement of plans nancy polozi the speaker of the house of representatives to visit taiwan what is the problem here the visits are not confirmed at this time but in beijing it is a cause for concern because they are considering visits of official officials of the united states to taiwan as an attempt to build diplomatic relations with taiwan, currently we know that the united states does not recognize taiwan's independence, but supports unofficial, diplomatic , unofficial relations with taiwan, and they share common values ​​and also already accept and support ivan's membership in international organizations as a result of

today's conversation, a message was received from the white house that the white house of the united states maintains the same position, its position on taiwan is unchanged and they are also against unilaterally changing the status quo and they are also against certain attempts to unbalance and no longer contribute to peace and stability in the taiwan strait, which directly affects russia and ukraine, we know that this should also be a topic from today's conversation between the two leaders, we know that the united states repeatedly, at the beginning of the full-scale russian war against ukraine, tried to call on china to officially oppose russia's actions in ukraine officially oppose this aggression. we have not heard such a position until now, and also what is important is that the united states , with sanctions against russia, also tried to send a signal to china as well not to call on china, after all

, not to take any aggressive actions against taiwan. we will follow more details of this conversation . this is that we have yura, one more important thing i also want to talk about. secretary of state antonio blinking shared with the journalist important assessments of the united states regarding what russia's actions in ukraine might be next. in particular, he mentioned that russia is preparing ground for the fictitious annexation of some ukrainian territories, what exactly did the secretaries of state say, do experts comment on such plans of russia, yes, in fact, ostapa, this is a very serious message. we know that the state department repeatedly warns about the next actions of russia in ukraine according to their intelligence. the fact that the so-called heads of certain regions of ukraine were planted by the russians, and they, according to the notification of the state department, will most likely hold such fictitious referenda in order to to use these false results of such referendums in order to justify their illegal annexation of certain ukrainian territories, to

which anthony blinkin said that the united states would never recognize such a thing and called on the international community that adheres to the rules of international law to never recognize such attempts, which we also heard from the white house earlier, john kirby, a representative of the national security council, said that even if russia tries to illegally annex some more ukrainian territories, this does not mean that it will be able to keep them because in fact now the resistance of ukrainians in all regions to russian aggression is extremely strong and we also told our colleagues about this the former us ambassador to ukraine and also russia john yes let's listen to uklon when i was ambassador to ukraine in 2011-12 years of the international republican institute together with the well-known help organization, they conducted polls in crimea and each of these polls, which were issued in the years immediately before the russian invasion, showed that either the

majority or at least many residents of crimea want to remain as an autonomous region of ukraine. did not want to be part of russia. the support that russians think they have in certain russian-speaking regions of ukraine was not there then, it is definitely not there now, after what russia did during this war. the very idea that if you speak russian, you are a supporter of russia and not of ukraine in my opinion, this is one of the most fatal miscalculations made by russia in the past years before and during the war yulia thank you very much for your inclusion i will remind you it was yulia yarmolenko who joined us from the white house as an educational cinema marathon of ukrainian cinema cinemaite started in new york screenings will last the whole of august at the discretion of the audience 11 tapes of full-length films are presented and from which they

tell about the history of ukraine the collected funds are planned to be transferred to the support of the ukrainian film industry as well as for the treatment of wounded warriors of cinematographers iryna attended the opening of the festival solomenko, donors for the price marathon initiated by the state agency of ukraine for cinema issues, it was joined by ukrainian producers who united and provided their films for showing and somewhere already included in this longlist, which also includes documentaries, game films of any genre, and precisely from this list of films well , we will promote it, we started with toronto with the opening film , and shchedrik was there, according to one of the co-organizers, producer artem kolyubaev before new york, screenings of ukrainian films have already taken place in turkey, jordan, and several european countries. kolyubaev's film shchedryk opened a festival in new york, sir, look at the

shed. shchedryk was presented by distributors on february 22 as part of the a-a winter winter festival. film market in kyiv and we said that there will be a rental in december and we have already started a distribution company there. as you know, the war started a day after that and what i want to say is that it is basically a world premiere, that is, this film is not was in cinemas and was already shown in europe. that is, it has not yet been seen in ukraine, but in europe they have already seen a lot of such films from the list. the festival opened with the ukrainian national anthem, which was performed by the singer alyosha ukraina and the husband of the leader of the antitila band, taras topoli, together with colleagues musicians of the paramedics of the 130th battalion, alyosha's trio with children since march in new jersey, where the singer's mother has been living for a long time, i try to support all the events, all the events, which are created for, let's say, raising the spirit of the ukrainian association to

raise funds for ukraine as for ordinary people and for the army, that is, i try to be wherever possible because i am not in ukraine, i am here, i am with my children, so i would have been in ukraine for a long time, let's say, i would not even leave there , but since we have to take the children out, that's why we do here all we can do here our weapon is our voice our prayers ukrainian patrons yuriy and tetyana logosh curators of the festival in new york for more than two decades they take care of the international literary contest coronation of words among its nominations there are also film scripts a significant number of the winning scripts have already been screened including shchedryk tetyana says that unlike other countries where there were mostly single screenings of us films, they managed to organize a whole

festival, i wanted to show a little bit of the first ones films, show a little bit of history because you can, history repeats itself take the same shchedrik in the 39th year when the jews and ukrainians were exterminated and the poles settled in siberia and it was all shown to you like this or cool take 300 of our boys who are dying now young people are dying and we showed but in order to show all genres, to say that ukraine is rich in different genres, that it is integral to its traditions, that is why we chose films that are also romantic and tell an obvious story and have already sat down . had some understanding of ukraine, the types of ukrainians , many filmmakers went to the front, says artem kolyubaev, they not only protect ukraine, but also

film the chronicle of this war on their phones and cameras. irpini is saving children, so that is, there are already personal losses from cdma, which is happening in the united states, the funds will be sent to the treatment of the director and cameraman, who were injured and are currently being treated. yes this is a pilonsky and ruban fund-raising event to help film brothers. the goal of the festival is also to find funding that will allow the completion of films whose production was suspended due to the war. we have a list of films that are currently at various stages of production, roughly speaking, and we are looking for opportunities to finance them or find funds for post production because we have to be present at the world uh festivals and this year we had a very good presence at the world festivals we had uh three films uh in scans now

there will be two films in venice and, well, that means there will be a problem next year and the year after. when we come to the point that there is simply nothing to show anymore, that's why we are fighting to resume production. cultural diplomacy is now one of the pillars of ukraine's foreign policy, the consul general is convinced oleksiy golubov of ukraine in new york has something to film and something to show. i think that very soon the world will already start talking, but very soon they will say it in full voice about the ukrainian school and in the cinema, what are feature films, full-length films, what is a short meter on which we also take prizes at recognized international festivals, it all helps to understand what ukraine is what modern ukraine is film screenings in new york will continue in august at the ukrainian institute of america meanwhile the lugush couple is already preparing to continue the film marathon

in other cities in the united states from new york, iryna solomko, voice of america. americans are told about events in ukraine not only through movies , but also through fashion . the specialty of san francisco scarves is that they are decorated with illustrations of valuable memories from the customers' lives. and the latest works of the brand tell about the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine. khrystyna shevchenko talked with the creators of the startup . ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters . the girls designed such a beautiful scarf that depicts the unconquered ukrainian marichka making molotov cocktails from the car window and throwing them into russian tanks marichka with cocktails molotov map of ukraine in the war hutsul ornaments, children's drawings, handkerchiefs with such images can now be purchased in

san francisco, we came from kyiv, from buchi, this is a map of ukraine, it is written here. oh, in the meadow, a red viburnum bent down. this is also my favorite. among ukrainian women , they took handkerchiefs a year ago maria vyshnivska and iryna geza maria now lives in amsterdam iryna blisaboni we have the embroidered code sewn inside us, but for all ukrainians it is the genetic makeup of the nation and that it was such a charm and at the moment we want to point out that you wear it near your heart, it is such an accessory that is always with you and it warms your soul. and if there is also a memory of you there - it is incredibly

valuable . a client or a hidden message. as on this one with the ancient alphabet, we have the entire alphabet depicted along the contour of the handkerchief. here, already from this alphabet, we put the word glory to ukraine inside. that is, this is the alphabet during the russian invasion of ukraine the start-up was on the verge of closure, because they were sewing handkerchiefs in occupied buchi, at the factory they were just fulfilling a large order until march 8, when explosions began in the city on the 24th, a large-scale invasion begins and we lose communication, we do not understand at all what and how, whether they are alive or not everything is fine. at the end of march, they got in touch with us and said that everything is fine. and we say what is needed. well, what is needed from us, what can we do? she said we need to build a roof. the

walls survived in it, and we need it. restore us needed funds, the girls paid more than uah 100,000 to restore the workshop and completely revived production in bucha, and then decided to open sales departments all over the world in order to popularize ukrainian culture and support ukrainian production, first established sales in europe and recently launched in san francisco. ukrainian oleksandra shurikova agreed to develop brand in california, great demand. in three days, i sold 50 bones, completely everything to practically everything that i had, a lot of them buy our ukrainians, but they they tell their american friends and they also follow me on instagram and here the children of the workshop collected drawings of children affected by the war and printed them on handkerchiefs, part of the proceeds from the sale went to help displaced children san francisco california khrystyna

shevchenko bohdan shevchenko voice of america on this we we are finishing our release. thank you for being with us. have a good night and a peaceful morning. see you soon. we do not know the name of everyone who laid a stone upon a stone in the walls of the tithe church. we do not know whether the hands imprinted this sign of volodymyr the great the walls of

the ukrainian first empire preserved this symbol for us after 900 years it becomes the emblem of the ukrainian state after a thousand years a symbol of the struggle for ukrainian independence from small steps great things begin the next step - your state - it's us in the office of the head of the national bank the telephone rang call - asked one of the deputies, the history of ukraine was reflected on the new banknotes volodymyr the great yaroslav the wise bogdan khmelnytskyi ivan mazepa ivan franko - the head of the national bank calmly answered and assures you that

there are no traitors on our money, now ukrainians do not even think that there is someone extra on the money, from small steps big things begin don't stop - the state is us may 30, 1876 baden germany russian emperor alexander ii i sign hes the public use of the ukrainian language is prohibited, education and the printing of books in ukrainian, but it was too late ukrainians already had