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, welcome to the broadcast of the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, time, i am its host, ostap yarysh, as a result of the explosions at the airbases of the new fedorians in the crimea, russia lost a number of fighter-bombers and of reconnaissance planes and ammunition depots, such assessments were shared in the pentagon in the us. the ministry of defense did not confirm what exactly caused the large explosions. they said that the us did not give ukraine anything. what amount could be used to attack crimea, but they added that it is a ukrainian war, so it is the ukrainians who decide what the goals are . them to choose and in the united states this week a lot of noise was made by the fbi searches in the estate of former president donald trump in folarea, it became almost the main topic of the week that concerns

of the internal politics of the united states, we will talk in more detail about this and other things with kateryna lisunova, who is joining us from the congress. katya, i congratulate you. parties in the congress before the midterm elections, which should be held this fall . as i would correctly say, this is actually the main news in the american media, the most discussed news about the searches of trump's residence the 45th president himself reported, and there was not much information from the prosecutor's office and the fbi, in fact, they were silent for most of the week, and we learned most of the information from the american media and their sources, in particular, a series of sources, we learned that the searches were incredibly related to classified documents that contained such information as possible information about nuclear weapons at the same time literally yesterday the attorney general of the united states of america mary says that the merchant has published - published a statement that

said he would publish two key pieces of information regarding these searches, this is directly the warrant for this search. and that it was possible to remove the special agent. and, in addition, the court ruled that today by three o'clock in the afternoon, donald trump must agree or object to the publication of such documents. it was donald trump's turn literally 30 minutes ago. published a statement back, which said that these documents were not classified, were in a safe place in the military estate, and the special agents only had to ask to keep these documents, but not to search them, and that in fact there is no no big situation from this process at the same time . both republicans and democrats actually started discussing this issue and split into two camps

. the case itself suggests that today's statements from both the republican and democratic sides deserve credit, the issue of handling classified information is an issue that our committee deals with and which we are very concerned about, but what classified information is being discussed now and the tactics that were used that are the reason for our concern today, the attorney general and the director of the fbi had several options other than a 9-hour margalago raid on the house of the former president, in particular, it was possible go to court and request the execution of the original subpoena, there are a number of legal actions and steps that could be taken that would not result in the presence of agents at the margalago residence for 9 hours, we all we know that donald trump has more classified

information in his head than on his desk, but they claim that there was an urgent need for the presence of agents in trump's house, our committee deals with intelligence and national security issues. demanded just such actions and not all other levers that could be used instead. i believe that now it is important to understand the seriousness of what these documents are about, at least as this is being stated at the moment we don't know for sure i hope we will see more at the same time we don't want to reveal too much because it could threaten our national security also when we talk about this it is important to understand that there are laws that prohibit the mishandling of this kind of material and we have to recognize that according to information that we are hearing and in the future we hope to learn more now we are hearing that these documents are highly classified

well above the top secret level and it concerns our national security at least that's what they tell us, katya, let's talk a little more about the congress, now the american legislators are on vacation, but today they are returning to vote for a comprehensive bill on reducing inflation, why is it so important for americans in ukraine, as the speaker of the house of representatives said during a press conference today that inflation has affected the country many countries of the world, in fact, the whole world and the united states of america have not become exceptions to this, and the reason for this, in particular, is the russian war in ukraine, as well as the results of the pandemic at noon and other factors and behind it in words - this bill to reduce inflation is more than necessary for the united states right now, in particular, the democrats directly claim that this bill will help because it will raise taxes for certain large corporations, it will also prohibit raising the prices of medicines and

will further promote green energy, instead, the republicans claim that the increase in taxes for large operations, uh, this was pressure on employers, and what will affect the people who have these jobs, they also think that uh, there is a big pressure on the production of oil and natural resources , thanks to which the united states of america can now maintain more cash income and which can in itself help the fight against inflation. the bill itself was already voted last week last sunday in the senate. and today, as you correctly noted back to the house of representatives, the countersmen and counter-somersmen - less fur coats to figure it out and it is possible to vote and this bill is already in the house of representatives, just now there is a debate there, but i will note that in in the senate, from the republican side, this

bill received a minimum of support, katya . thank you very much for your detailed analysis. let me remind you that we were joined by kateryna lisunova, who joined the broadcast from the congress. and we move on to news from europe. and eastern europe with china it happened on this greater alertness of europeans in anti-western chinese rhetoric among the subjects of disagreement between europe and china now is the russian war in ukraine more we will talk about this with bohdan tsyupin, who has carefully studied the topic and is joining us now from london bohdan, i congratulate you bohdan, let 's find out what is the importance of this step of estonia talatvia and why it attracted so much attention ostap, as you already said china is now attracting a lot of attention, it is

about one of the largest countries in the world, about the world's second economy after the united states, china is a country that has the status of a permanent member of the un security council, and it is a nuclear state, and russia's war against ukraine has become a kind of litmus test along with other situations in the world, of course, what is china, what is the role of this huge country in the world and what will this role be in the future, more and more countries are wary of that and when we already mentioned what china is doing in connection with by the russian war, before this conversation of ours, i found one of the reservations of american state secret agent plinken, who told reporters what he told his colleague, the chinese

foreign minister in england recently, in fact expressing doubts about china's position on a key issue of international politics right now. this is what he said there. he shared with a representative of the state council that we are concerned with the running of the position of the prc with the position of russia. calmly, we hear that he insists on his neutrality . neutral when it comes to aggression is an obvious aggressor and an obvious victim, there is a clear challenge not only to the lives and well- being of people in ukraine, but also a challenge to the international order in other european countries reacted to the decision of estonia, which generally has views on cooperation with china, now we can actually talk

about the change in the nature of relations between the west and europe, in particular with china, just recently. for example, here in great britain during the prime ministership of david do you remember this was the golden era of relations with china , here britain was ready to accept any investment from china, trade, work with the economy and so on, the european union concluded a huge agreement on economic cooperation and investment with china but still the agreement has not been ratified, er, china and europe had a particularly quarrel. you can say so because of the opposite assessments of what is happening with the hungarian minority in china, due to other problems, and in particular, the agreement is very symbolic, very revealing, now it is actually frozen , european relations are now very wary to put it mildly

, bohdan, as this week also in ukraine , we see that the statements of the chinese ambassador to russia were discussed, where he essentially put the blame for the war in ukraine on the west, what is beijing's current position regarding of a full-scale russian invasion of ukraine , so returning to this issue that we already mentioned at the beginning of the conversation, it is worth saying that the position of china is very ambiguous, if you can say so, that is, in february, literally a few weeks before the beginning of the russian invasion, when putin obviously knew that he was preparing what he does he visited beijing talked to chinese leader xi jinping they said then that their eh friendship their possibilities of cooperation eh have no limits when did russia

start this invasion when did the new one start the origin of the russian war against ukraine, china actually took a wait-and-see position, because on the one hand they say that they support the principle of sovereignty, they say that they are for peace, and this is heard, for example, from the leading e-e leaders of e-e foreign policy, but on the other hand, despite these statements, china actually does not is taking some concrete steps in order to force russia to negotiate to end its war in ukraine, moreover , we hear from the e-e chinese mass media, for example, in particular from the chinese diplomats, for example, in moscow repeating the excuses that russia makes when it comes to justifying its war against ukraine, that is, china is currently happy to repeat moscow's anti-western statements

when it comes to this confrontation, and to illustrate this, so as not to be verbose. and i found this explanation of the spokesman of the chinese ministry of foreign affairs, which he submitted literally at the height of the beginning of the russian invasion of ukraine in march, and the tradition has not changed since then, that is, what the chinese ambassador to moscow sounded the same as it did in march from the chinese ministry of foreign affairs in beijing, plus and we will solve it. nato's actions, led by the united states, have pushed russian-ukrainian tensions to a breaking point, turning away from its responsibility . russia and maintain us hegemony china strongly rejects any unilateral

sanctions and restrictions imposed by the united states the united states must take seriously china's concern in solving the issue of ukraine and in its relations with russia bohdaniv thank you very much for your analysis, we will also follow this direction, i will remind you to contact us, because bohdan tsyupin and from london consistently support ukraine for a full-scale invasion first expressed in taiwan by his minister of foreign affairs stated that he is happy to receive international delegations in the capital and ibey, this statement was made after the day before kataye reacted sharply to the visit of the speaker of the us house of representatives to taiwan nancy-pilosi, our colleagues at the voice of america talked with the minister of foreign affairs and ivaniv about the mood in the country and the threat from china will continue iryna matviychuk the chinese army came closer to taiwan than ever, demonstrating its strength around this island nation, for the first time beijing launched ballistic missiles on

taiwan this is a response to the visit to taipei of the speaker of the us house of representatives, nancy polosi, however, china cannot prevent taiwan from receiving delegations from other countries of the world, emphasized the interview of the voice america's minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, joseph waugh, anyone who wants to come to thailand to show their support, we will be more than happy to receive you. china should not stand in the way. to anger beijing again we must remember if we are doing the right thing china's anger should not stop us they can always find an excuse to continue and ivan's war, china announced that it has already completed military exercises near taiwan, however, the threat of a military invasion has not passed. chinese aviation

continues to cross the sea border between countries in the taiwan strait. this is a clear sign that china is violating the status quo of peace and stability in this region. i think that the taiwanese are also this according to a recent survey in taiwan , only about one and a half percent of the population supports unification with china, some chinese diplomats even resort to threats, saying it is necessary to re-educate the taiwanese, however, the taiwanese leadership assures that its people should not be intimidated , freedom and democracy have become a part of our life and we believe in it, if the chinese government wants to change it, the taiwanese people will categorically disagree with this regarding the threats of official beijing, the chief diplomat of taiwan is convinced that no one has the right to interfere with them carry out one's own foreign policy iryna matviychuk bilgalo kostyantyn holobchyk voice of america watch the program of the ukrainian service of the

voice of america time time we continue our issue soviet enemy archives against the insurgent operation and the ukrainian nationalist movement, a book with the same name was recently published in english in canada and its purpose is to tell western audiences about the little-known pages of ukrainian-russian relations. the co-author of the book is ukrainian historian volodymyr vyatrovych, former head of the archives of the kdb, ex-head of the institute of national memory my colleague natalka churikova, a former people's deputy of ukraine and a fighter of the terro-defense force, spoke with him about how the events of 80 years ago affect ukrainians today, see in more detail, this is probably one of my longest-running publishing projects, which began 10 years ago when i worked at the ukrainian scientific institute of harvard

university. and before that, i worked as the director of the archive of the security service of ukraine. in fact, it was in this archive that i saw a huge number of documents that collected by the soviet special services about the development of the establishment and struggle of the ukrainian insurgent movement, this is the largest collection that gives an opportunity to understand the history of this insurgent movement of the 40s and 50s years, and when i had already worked for about a year in the united states of america, i saw how few actual primary sources on the history of the ukrainian insurgent army, the organization of ukrainian nationalists are available to western scholars. a textbook, i.e., a set of the most important documents from the history of the oun and upa and the struggle against the untoup by the nkvd during the late 1950s, a large book was published, this book explains a lot for foreigners, for english-speaking readers, there are a lot

of explanations for why ukrainians are able to fight russia so zealously now, on the one hand, and on the other hand, unfortunately, in this book they will see the same criminal methods of suppressing the ukrainian national movement that were used in russia in the 40s 50s, which are now being used in the war against ukraine, well, actually, now many historians and analysts who have studied the history of the soviet union and the history of the soviet repressive system say that the methods of russia are not have changed and the main thing is that even the rhetoric has not changed , that is, what you could hear before about ukrainian nationalists, that they were accomplices of the fascists, that they were murderers from bandera, and so on . trace the original source, where these things came from, how they appeared, how this rhetoric was born, i am absolutely convinced that this

book is indeed an opportunity to understand a lot of what is currently being done in this war. i am speaking to you now from the town of vorzelets in kyiv region a few hundred meters from my house, my neighbor was shot. during the occupation, a few kilometers away, 2-3 km from here, unfortunately, there is bucha, the photos of which excited and in fact scared the whole world when we saw the shot civilians, that's all that happened here on all the terrible weeks of the russian occupation of kyiv oblast, as a historian , reminded me terribly of what happened in western ukraine in the 1940s , precisely the documents that we publish in this book tell about these terrible facts of shootings of the civilian population, they tell about the deportations that were carried out, they tell about the attempts to abduct children and about the attempts to suppress the ukrainian national movement with hunger, that is, all these methods that were used in the soviet union in the beginning of the 20s and 30s to suppress the ukrainian

national movement in central and southern ukraine then in the 40s and 50s in western ukraine, all these methods are actually used, and now, moreover, the book is still important because it disproves one of the key myths between halogens that are used in russian propaganda about the collaborationist character of the ukrainian liberation movement, about the fact that all ukrainians allegedly collaborated with the nazis, in the book there is a separate large section for 50 documents, these are documents precisely about the struggle of the ukrainian rebels against the nazi totalitarian regime under the nazi occupation regime and from these documents clearly show that the soviets soviet authorities knew about this struggle recorded the facts of this fierce struggle of ukrainian rebels against violence less used it as propaganda to discredit the nationalists. we have a completely similar situation now, when these historical myths are used precisely in order to discredit ukraine, ukrainians, and the whole world, but we can see

that this is not working. what is happening in ukraine about what is happening in particular in the occupied territories occupied by the russians , many people in the east of ukraine were surprised and shocked that the war had started and that russia really managed to attack ukraine. what was talked about in western ukraine for many three decades ago? has this memory been preserved, has it been preserved in families, or has this situation changed? do you see your neighbors now, absolutely now , understanding that russia is a dangerous enemy. it seems to me that -th understanding of this is already absolutely large-scale. and the absolute majority of ukrainians understand it, even if at the beginning of ukrainian independence, somewhere during the previous 20-30 years, such an opinion was suddenly marginal and really came more from the environment

those residents of western ukraine who still have the memory of russia's crime, now, following these fresh traces of fresh crimes in russia, they understand what existential threat russia poses to ukrainians and the desire to destroy ukrainians is absolutely massive, and this is extremely important, and i think that this is an understanding of the fact that, unfortunately, this war was inevitable, if we analyze the history of ukrainian-russian relations, this is not at all the history of some fraternal relations, as putin or others try to talk about themselves spokesmen of russia odessa is a history of constant confrontation - it is a history of constant attempts in russia to destroy ukrainians as a separate national community . unfortunately, these attempts continue in our time. the winner because now ukrainians are more united than ever, now all ukrainians have more than ever the

mass support of the world, yes, a ukrainian historian who can actually experience the events of the 70s and 80s when what you wrote about described in this book, uh, you were told by people who lived through it and you found yourself again in practically this situation against the same enemy, you know, uh, historians sometimes say that the past is another country , so uh, we got the opportunity to enter a whole other country and you will see that it is actually very close , very similar to the fact that uh, in the past actually lives in the present, we saw so much of the past, the present, we saw that you know our very optimistic expectations that war is something that will never happen again, that war crimes are that it will never happen again that people have changed, and civilization has gone much further. unfortunately, these expectations turned out to be in vain. unfortunately, we have not

moved so far from this past. of the war of aggression, they set us to return everything to the soviet past with these terrible soviet methods, eh, it is of course interesting to watch what is being done around us, the story will turn out to be growing, but on the other hand, it is scary when you see how a lot of victims. it costs ukrainians when you see how often these victims are killed. the reason for these victims is that ukrainians, in particular, did not know their history. again , there are many people living in these neighborhoods, even though they had the opportunity. we are talking about kyiv region . despite the fact that they had the opportunity to evacuate , they stayed in place because they did not consider the russians a threat to them, because they did not think that such terrible crimes could be committed by them as happened here during the entire month of occupation. it seems to me that if most ukrainians knew more ukrainians

the history of russian-ukrainian relations in the history of various russian occupations, their behavior in captured cities probably begins with baturino at the beginning of the 18th century. probably more people, most of the people, could save themselves by avoiding being in the russian government. i see that and you and many of your former colleagues from the institute of national remembrance now took up arms and went to fight. what is this, what is the motivation behind this? i actually took up arms on february 24, that is, the first day when the war began, when i received the opportunity to get this weapon was given by a 1971 kalashnikov assault rifle, a little older than me. it’s not the best possible weapon, but in principle it’s quite effective. i joined the territorial defense battalion, which stood right on the borders of kyiv, just waiting for an attack from

irpen and buchi. for two months, we actually defended kyiv trying to prevent a russian invasion of the capital of ukraine after that when the dangers for the capital passed. he has been moved to the south and is already taking part in the battles on the border of the mykolaiv and kherson regions. i come to the boys, i try to help them financially, to help them find some things that they need extremely now. we are talking about some radios, cars, etc. actually, this moment of danger showed us how much, in particular, my fellow historians are capable of mobilizing, able to unite, able to defend ukraine. i am glad that among those who now continue to be defenders of ukraine, my friends and a historian and a non-historical faculty member, ivan patrilyak, one of the co-editors of historical

truth and vakhtang filiania and volodymyr birchak and many others, i.e. those people who know history who probably know from this history the extent of the possible russian threat, they are being made against independence in order to protect his people from this threat, such was the conversation between natalia churiko and volodymyr vyatrovych, a historian and co-author of a book about the ukrainian insurgent movement, which, i'll remind you , was published in english in canada and called speak at the event about ukrainian-russian relations in the historical context of the liberation struggle download the voice of america mobile application the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service read the news watch informative programs and videos as well as listen to the podcasts of the ukrainian service of the voice of america and this is the end of our issue

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