and voice of america services, i'm yuliya yarmolenko . i congratulate nato countries, they are closely cooperating with defense enterprises to ensure more supplies of weapons and equipment to ukraine - stated the genset of the north atlantic alliance ian stoltonberg in an interview with reuters, we provide a lot of support, but we need to do even more and be ready to a long race, stoltenberg stressed, meanwhile, the day before the us senate ratified the agreement on the accession of finland and sweden to nato, the governments of 20 of the 30 countries of the alliance have already done so president shajobaden welcomed the decision of the senate and promised to sign protocols on the accession of the two countries in the near future. putin tried to use his war in ukraine to divide the west, instead , today's vote shows that our alliance is stronger than ever, said the leader of the democratic majority in the senate, chuck schumer, more about this and others the main news let's talk with ostap yarysh ostap i congratulate ostap on the decision to join nato

finland and sweden were pushed by the war that russia started against ukraine how important does he see in washington, the expansion and strengthening of nato for european security at a time when russia continues its war against ukraine. you know, it seems to me that the most important thing here will be to recall the words of the senators themselves, how they commented on the accession of sweden and the future accession of sweden and finland to nato. marconal, the leader of the republican minority in the senate, i said that in his opinion, the accession of these two countries would be an unequivocally positive step for the allies, and sweden and finland would be able to strengthen alliance also, we heard from the president of the ballroom that he really will not delay such a decision , he will not delay signing the ratification and the accession of sweden and finland to nato . knowing they do it seems to me that in this context it is also very important to mention that many senators when they spoke they

mentioned ukraine mentioned ukraine in the context of sweden and finland joining nato as one of those senators who mentioned this was in the game, we can now listen to a fragment of his speech shivray john mccain i wish you were alive today and we could celebrate what we managed to achieve in response to putin's invasion of ukraine, we reminded everyone in the world that when you are dealing with hooligans they must be confronted before it's too late our friends in finland sweden have decided to join nato this is a good thing but first let me put the ukrainian perspective our military leaders and experts told us that in four days after the invasion, the russians will be in kyiv, what did they miscalculate, they overestimated the capabilities of the russians and they definitely underestimated the determination of the ukrainian people, this struggle has been going on for 160 days, ukraine still stands bloodied but unconquered, these were the words of the hellenic senator

graham yulia, you know, almost unanimously voted yesterday, on the rarefaction of this agreement, the only senator who was against it was senator josh hawley. he says that in his opinion, the main rival of the united states is now in asia, it is china and the united states need to spend less effort on europe and focus on asia he says senator bob has the answer for him now we can listen to what he says about such words in the case china and yet there are some who say that we should not accept sweden and finland to nato, after all, china, not russia, is our biggest foreign policy threat. let me say one thing. if you want to make sure that you can cope with the challenge of china, it is first of all possible to defeat russia in ukraine . everyone is watching what is happening in ukraine. to ukraine, he looks at the west's response in ukraine and makes his calculations regarding taiwan and other countries of the world. it is important to make sure that russia has been

defeated in ukraine. an important statement is indeed from bogomanendus ostap. if you have already talked about china, now beijing is conducting military exercises around taiwan. and today, in particular, several rockets were fired close to the territory of the island, this is all happening the day after the visit of the speaker of the house of representatives of the us congress, nancy polos, which in china was dubbed a provocation as a response to such an escalation on the part of beijing in washington and we heard a lot of reactions today, in particular from secretary of state anthony blinkin, he said that he really hopes that china will not further inflame this crisis and will not continue to resort to military aggression and escalation against taiwan, and also made a statement from the representative of the united states airborne security john kiwi he said that china's reaction is excessive and that it is completely unnecessary because previously visited and as well as taiwan , other representatives from the united states made a similar statement very similar to started also from secretary general of nato genzas-stopton stoltenberg, he also

called china's reaction to it and emphasized that in the past both delegations from the us and other nato allies visited taiwan, and therefore now there is no need to stir things up and somehow overreact, as he tells china to the visit of nancy pole secret faith, this is also another top news in russia, the american basketball player brittney greiner was sentenced to 9 years in prison over the released, how does the white house work, how do they comment on this in washington, and should we expect that the secretary of state antony blinking will try to resolve or discuss this issue with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov in cambodia yuli immediately when we heard the news from russia the first reactions appeared here in washington in particular joe biden reacted he condemned the conviction of er brittney greiner to nine years of imprisonment said that she should return as soon as possible to her family and friends and that his administration will do everything uh depending on

if this happens as soon as possible, the speaker of the house of representatives also reacted read excerpts of her statement. she said that congress supports president biden's own decision, supports efforts and prioritizes the return of britney greiner, and she said that every day that britney greiner remains in prison is a reminder of putin's disregard for human rights and human dignity. and law what about anthony blinken will he raise this with sergey lavrov really john kirby representative of the national security council of the united states said that the secretary of state on the margins of that asian will is trying to raise this issue with sergey lavrov one way or another, and we have seen, at least now, anthony blinkin's public reaction to brittney greiner's sentence. let's hear what he has to say about the russian court's sentencing of us citizen brittney greiner to 9 years

in prison. further exacerbates the injustice of her illegal detention, this move underscores our serious concerns with the russian legal system and how the russian government uses illegal detention for its own purposes using individuals as political pawns, russia and any other country that engages in illegal detentions pose a threat to the safety of everyone who travels, works and lives abroad. i don't know. i heard this important statement from anthony blinkin, the secretary of state of the united states. lavrov emphasized that the united states wants to achieve the release of not only britney greiner, but also another imprisoned american, illegally imprisoned in russia, this is actually paul villain. after this conversation, we did not hear any positive signals from russia that would indicate that moscow will go for it. thank you ostap,

my colleague ostap yarysh was on the call from the capitol hill, these days fierce fighting continues in the area of ​​the city of bakhmut in donetsk region on sunday, july 31, founder of the donbass front liner online publication andriy dubchak , together with his son, aspiring journalist danylo , came under cluster bomb attack on the way to bakhmut, they managed to record certain moments of the attack on video, the journalists reached the city and visited a front-line hospital. talked with the locals who don't leave the city

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, yes, wow, what happened just now. on one of them there was a field near the cemetery and you don’t need a very large area, well , a steep steep option, thank god that somewhere there, here, here , here, here, here

, if you analyze the statistics, for example, for the last 3-4 weeks, on average, two or three a day be careful here. we provide assistance and transport to the next stage. we provide assistance. our team of military medics provides assistance to everyone. is the experience of a traumatologist doctor and a military military doctor on a

ten-point school completely different by 10 points? bleeding, but the principles of working with the wounded, especially in the context of the evacuation stage, are fundamentally different from civilian purges . let those who came to us here go somewhere. in the crowd, we didn’t invite them here, it’s scary in general, but it’s scary in general, it’s scary to me, say

hello, bahmut, you won’t leave. yes, i know it’s scary to be here. where will i go? many people have already left. yes, we had about 100,000. people remain the main reason why there are mostly old people who are lying down, they are my friends, my mother is 95 years old, where will she go, she has a fractured neck, hip

, he went about his business, he returned, and now he has gone high, you have a dog, two dogs, one is left scared in the morning there were planes and she ran. but she drove, drove anyway, she went there. people live under shelling there every day. they say that planes fly every day or so. well, every 5 minutes, the city is being bombarded, mines are flying, and you think that one of them is not coming. it's just how it feels live on you. yes, when you see the first explosion of a blowgun or a projectile, what kind of feeling do you have? well, now i understand that the war is more aggressive than it was before, that is, for sure. well, there were not such experiences

because it was more rewarding, the war is perceived as a part of life is considered a part of life because in the 14th year, in principle, er, it was in us er, we fight for our independence, for freedom of speech a-a we are still free people we have the right to speak, we have to express ourselves as we have as we want ah and if it is not stopped it can go further and it can go to europe as well at the beginning of a full-scale war more than 300 thousand ukrainians tried to find temporary shelter in bulgaria, now there are almost 80,000 displaced people in bulgaria itself is currently developing political crisis government liberal kirill petkov

resigned after only six months in power, another interim parliamentary election was scheduled for october 2, how does bulgaria help ukraine, how does society accept refugees, and can political turbulence affect this support, let's talk about it with my colleague tatyana vorozko, who is working on the filming of a documentary film in bulgaria and joins the broadcast from the capital of sofia. congratulations tanya, we do not often talk about bulgaria, tell us what is the general position of the bulgarian authorities regarding the russian war in what kind of help does sofia provide to ukraine and how can it be affected by political changes in this country? well, first of all, it must be said that bulgaria is a member of the eu and a member of nato. that is, it automatically joins the sanctions regime, as political scientists told me. well, in principle, it is a regime is observed, but at the same time, military aid is not provided, the only thing that was signed was the reached agreement on the repair of ukrainian military equipment, and in bulgaria, well,

some aid is also provided to refugees, which i will explain in a little more detail i will tell you later. and as for the crisis that is happening now, in principle, the expectation is that the position will be less pro-ukrainian. the government of kirill pekov was the most liberal, the most pro- western government in recent times in bulgaria, and the influence of russia was decreasing. of bulgaria, the bulgarian government in that regard and what happened in bulgaria is a parliamentary republic, and the coalition consisted of four parties, there was a certain demarcation, one of the parties of the elections is a coalition as political scientists told us, and actually people who shout against politics, one of the moments of this disagreement between the members of the coalition was precisely the support for ukraine, and many in the bulgarian society believe that it is very insufficient , and the party left the coalition, the coalition fell apart, what

happened very such a unique feature of bulgarian politics, when the coalition collapses, a-ah, the president who is, well, nominally, but in principle , no, he is in charge, he automatically appoints a new government. he appoints all the ministers, and this president he is considered to be sufficiently pro-russian. and when the new government was sworn in on tuesday, it was the task of the president. yes, in this government, it is to ensure that bulgaria is not involved in the conflict, that is, he does not even call the war free. so we we don't know what will happen, but in the elections, which party can, but until october 2. rather, some positive changes will not take place. what is my attitude to the russian war against ukraine in bulgarian society in general? in general, well, we even talked with sociologists. bulgarian society in general is probably more pro-ukrainian than the bulgarian government. two-thirds of bulgarian society is strongly in this regard. about the

european camp. about the ukrainian camp. understand that the ukrainian army protects not only ukraine. it protects bulgaria. there are people here who believe that if ukraine falls, bulgaria will be next. well, bulgaria is ethnically bulgarian. they also suffer from russia's wars, but we also have a third, maybe less, population who are, well, perhaps not pro-russian, rather so russophilic, that is, these people who, well, they, let's say, traditionally hold such a-a positive view of russia historically, there is such a common history, and besides , these are people who are dissatisfied on a personal level with these changes that have taken place. maybe they lost, and personally, because of the fact that ukraine became a member of the eu, and actually in bulgaria there is quite powerful russian propaganda, it works and it works

it is precisely this stratum of the population and the attitude is not that they support the war, but they have such an attitude that it is none of our business. we should not get involved because we do not know who is to blame, let them figure it out for themselves, this is such a narrative, it is present in bulgarian bulgarian society, the question according to the bulgarian authorities, there are currently approximately 80,000 migrants from ukraine in this country. what kind of help do refugees receive in this country and how does society treat them? half a million ukrainian refugees are refugees. and that 's the thing. when they arrive, they tell their own stories. that is, this is also one of the factors that influenced the attitude of bulgarians towards russia, towards ukraine, regarding aid, and the bulgarian government resettled the refugees because they broke through the hotels in february. in february, march , the hotels were practically empty, and they were

accommodated in these hotels with little money for this, the government paid the owners of these hotels, which was better than nothing. well, they were empty, and it is interesting that in fact, the majority of this money came from the structures of the european union, and the government also provides a small amount of assistance, financially very insignificant. we heard a lot of dissatisfaction with the fact that the government does not do enough, and non-governmental organizations, as well as bulgarian businesses, are very active in helping, and here practically everything is possible. what is possible, and bulgarians even went and brought ukrainians to ukraine, and hmm, from ukraine, and they help with resettlement, there are such points where they distribute food, distribute more necessary products, and hmm, there is such and such a thing and what the most interesting thing in bulgaria is that there are no bureaucratic obstacles in bulgaria for ukrainians to get a job, that is, any business owner can hire a ukrainian woman just like a bulgarian woman

. job fairs, job fairs, employment fairs, and help , of course, with bulgarian english language courses and kindergartens, because ukraine needs somewhere to leave children. that is, this is also an important direction, that is, ukrainian women work here and they use them in demand, thank you, thank you, tanya , we will be very interested in waiting for your documentary film, and my colleague tetyana voroshko was in contact with bulgaria. through the passengers of regular flights, the so-called pilots have already helped to transfer more than 350 suitcases to ukraine. how it works was learned by khrystyna shevchenko at the international terminal of the san francisco airport a hectic day in front of the entrance ivan haid

is from odessa, he has been living in san francisco for 5 years, where he works in the tech industry, and today he has another job, it is suitcases with the help of the ukrainian military. during private flights from san francisco, they transported several tons of vital things from silicon valley, where to buy all these things that our military needs, but the problem is how to send them, because between california and there are almost 12,000 km in ukraine, because i saw that if all these flows can somehow be optimized, if, for example , this one person who flies will not take three bags with him, for example 10 or for example 20, then we will

be able to send real help that the ukrainian military needs. friends liked the idea ivan andriy and maksym created the core of the movement and called themselves pilots, although in reality the guys themselves do not fly, but act as mediators. if someone wants to ferry cargo with humanitarian aid, moments and protective equipment they turn to the pilots of the flight than in groups on facebook, they are looking for a person who flies from san francisco to europe and arranges for him to transport additional luggage, for example, they found arsen who flies to warsaw, he gladly agreed to the request of the pilots, in order to be useful, it is very difficult to feel included for something if this help is reduced only to the transmission of the transmission. thus, my trip seems less to me. arsen has already flown, but they are not

sending a new cargo this summer. the person who will fly with him to warsaw has decided not to advertise himself she will see the suitcases that she receives today . for the first time, the cells took care of the packing of valuable help and organized a whole movement to find suitcases and bags in san francisco and the area around the city. maksym pavlyshyn is doing this with me in the garage, we collect empty suitcases, the most i had was 83 empty suitcases, now around 20 or 30 suitcases? what do we do? we go to our friends, introduce them to the americans at work, and take their empty suitcases of different sizes, and then people who need to send something to ukraine don't need to go and buy a new one. a suitcase, they can come to me and take a suitcase of the right size, andriy gubenko says. before every flight, they do a luggage inventory, for

example . turnstiles, even some telephones transfer to another element of the system are agreements with airlines, because not everyone agrees to such an amount of additional cargo, for example, this girl agreed to transfer 52 forest with turnstiles with medicine and ammunition, the lieutenant helps to negotiate with airlines yarema kuzyshyn, the founder of the public organization, community a-a, prepares a letter, i go, i communicate with airlines, each time the story is different and the agreements are made differently, and someone gives a discount. meeting, most understand the scale of the tragedy in ukraine, most airlines agree to provide discounts or allow suitcases

for free in warsaw, says ivan, the organization has a person who collects cargo also in lviv there is a person who distributes them and sends them to specific units. time is very important. we had an example when a person was sending something to an acquaintance and unfortunately, when the bag was already on the plane, this acquaintance died. and you imagine if we were sending for example, by other postal companies that send for a month or a month and a half, how many such people would die in a similar way , ukrainian activists also send help in other cities of the country, san francisco, california, khrystyna ta bohdan shevchenko voice of america first mom thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian also join our broadcasts of briefings on youtube and facebook at 18:00 kyiv time from monday to friday for the best dad-pa our life will not

be the same as before and for the sake of the future facial reconstruction work is already underway, the work is being carried out according to the schedule, the task will be completed, they will restore our cities, and we will breathe life into them, the builders battalion is very grateful, our front, victor derevyanko, 31 senior lieutenants of the state border guard service of ukraine were wounded, 24 in february in chernihiv oblast, the

enemy fired at him and seven more employees at dawn. i am lucky that i survived after such a situation. first, the border guard was operated on in the chernihiv hospital, and then he was sent to kyiv to remove a fragment from the man's heart. the doctors wondered how viktor managed to survive, to which he replied, he needs to live more you have to serve , the story of a man with an indomitable fighting spirit, you cannot understand what freedom is until you lose it, they can beat us out just because we are ukrainians, it reminds me of a movie about hostages