and now what interests us the most is our victory, when we will defeat the enemy, so predict the course of the war, the saturday political club program returns to the espresso airwaves to help understand the events and predict the consequences that on saturdays vitaly portnikov and maria gurska will discuss the most relevant to draw appropriate conclusions, you want to know how what is happening today will affect our tomorrow, watch saturday's political club, that saturdays are not espresso, i congratulate you on the air, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, time, time, me and the host, ostap yarysh, united the states announced a new package of defense aid to

ukraine in the amount of 775 million dollars, among other military equipment, it included more ammunition for hammer missile launchers, which, according to the pentagon, significantly changed the dynamics on the battlefield . who is joining us from the white house yurii i congratulate you i congratulate ostap so yulia what other types of weapons for ukraine did pantogony carry and did we see anything new in this new package yes ostap definitely immediately saw several new capacities. in the artillery plane, these are howitzers of 105-mm caliber, which were previously provided by great britain, but now the united states also provides 36,000 shells for them. previously, the united states only provided such shells for these howitzers, now they have decided to provide these too artillery installations 16 of them in this package and the

pentagon explains this by the fact that in fact the ukrainians use these capacities very effectively on the battlefield, especially in combination with other artillery installations, also from the new - these are light unmanned aerial vehicles scan eagle aerial vehicles - 15 of them are included in this aid package in the pentagon that it will give ukrainians better opportunities for reconnaissance on the front lines - these are light unmanned aerial vehicles and do not require a special platform to launch them, they are launched from a special catapult and the pentagon also said that other partners previously provided such capabilities, also in this package, for the first time, 1,500 e anti-tank missiles were laid in the pentagon, they say that in fact the russians rely very heavily on their armored therefore, such missiles, together with another thousand javelins, will definitely come in handy on the battlefield,

also from the new in this package there are 40 more light and stable domains, fords, not armored personnel carriers, armored personnel carriers - this is max pro em rap, which , according to the pentagon, will enable the ukrainians to transport troops in difficult conditions we also know that this aid package also includes anti-harm radar missiles, which the united states had previously provided to ukraine in previous packages, but they did not openly talk about it, it became known later that such a voluminous list in this package does not have long-range missiles, attacks are all long-range missiles up to 300 km, the importance of which is now emphasized by ukraine, or does the pentagon explain why they have not been provided so far ostapa today this question was asked at a closed briefing of high-ranking pentagon officials, to which they replied that

currently the ukrainians use those missiles provided by the united states the states are hymns to systems and heimers and use them extremely effectively and can be able to hit point logistics points and also command points of the russian troops points, and in fact, according to the pentagon, all of this weakens the russian army and the ability to go into the next sequence. the pentagon also asked whether the ukrainians can at this time win back some temporary territory. the pentagon says that they do not see this very strongly, but they say that they weaken the russian army. the ukrainian military is just that . such a high-precision weapon, also with regard to the hammer installations themselves, there are also no additional ones in this, only both misses directly indicate that not only the united states provide such systems, but so do other countries, and

the number that is available now is effective on the battlefield, but they are monitoring the development of events, and of course they will provide the assistance that will be needed. if we talk about the latest developments, we have recently seen a lot of explosions at military facilities in russia, in the occupied crimea, as the shaq administration mounts the legitimacy of such goals. the united states administration does not specifically comment on what exactly happened in crimea. something sabotage, as they say in russia, but regarding the legitimacy of the points in crimea. today, again, the question was raised whether the united states imposes certain restrictions on the use of its weapons and says that it is not possible to use weapons in crimea, to which a senior pentagon official emphasized that the policy of the united states remains unchanged that crimea is ukraine and also a senior pentagon official said today that the united states continues to provide ukraine with assistance and also

share intelligence data that helps ukraine defend your territory or thank you for such an analysis, we will monitor how events will develop further. i will remind you that yulia yarmolenko was with us on direct communication from the white house. the strikes on the russian air base in novofedorivka on august 9 disabled half of the combat aircraft of the black sea fleet . gave an official in the intelligence of one of the western countries, who acets roydra and other publications, in turn, the director of the british intelligence service, the government communication center, claims that moscow has failed on the cyber and information front we will talk about this and others with bohdan tsyupin, who is joining us now from london. bohdan, and i congratulate you. so, the first question before we talk about intelligence, i want to ask you about military aid from european countries. today we saw another package of weapons from the united states , which we they have already talked to yulia, but during the summer it seems that the pace of arms deliveries from europe

has decreased, what is the reason for this, yes, the amount of american aid to ukraine is impressive. they remain the largest compared to others states in relation to europe, the situation here is quite heterogeneous. it should first be recalled that, for example , in the middle of august, a number of countries, including great britain, as well as several scandinavian countries , announced that they were providing assistance to ukraine, in particular , for the training of the ukrainian military. for example , here in great britain, a large international the program was also announced to create an aid fund for ukraine worth one and a half billion dollars. that is, it was announced in august, but the kyiv institute in germany, which

researches and actually collects data about the announcement aid to ukraine from various countries, why in july there was actually no promise, no commitment, no promise of aid to ukraine, for example in july, namely from the largest countries of the european union from germany, italy and france, this remark worries many people in this situation when the war in ukraine continues and russia is actually advancing, and why this happened there are several explanations, on the one hand, it is possible that this is a certain political period because in europe it is a vacation period, if it is something else, then it is probably a reason for possible more active work for example, ukrainian diplomats and international activists, we will really monitor whether this situation will change. bohdan, now i still want to

talk a little about the topic of intelligence. so, the british now claim that russia has lost the cyber war. from the british special services, which here in britain is called the abbreviation jcq. and we often call it a-a government communications center and here is its director, uh, jeremy fleming wrote an article author's essay for the weekly economist, in which he claims that the first shots, as he writes in that article, which took place in cyberspace, were fired or fired even before the first bombs fell and the first bullets flew into ukraine from the russian side on february 24, and he says that various tragic sadder predictions about the ability of ukraine

to resist or resist a cyber-attack from russia eh pessimistic forecasts were not found ukraine was able to counteract in many cases eh russian cyber attack as at the level of eh government services that have improved their work since 2014 , since the beginning of the russian-ukrainian war, and thanks to the ukrainian so-called cyber-activists, cyber warriors, you can now see, in particular, video footage of such activists from odesa, with whom the correspondent of the agency spoke a few months ago reiter so the situation is very encouraging. at least from the mouth of this manager, what was feared most about the possibilities of cyber attacks from russia so far have not come true bohdana, and what about the

information war, how much did it turn out to be? effective ukrainian resistance, the same jeremy fleming also, in particular, not in this article, earlier he expressed admiration for how skillfully, in his opinion , he communicated with different audiences. different audiences , this is presented as a plus from this specialist, it is also obvious that the actions of ukraine are taking place in the west, which have turned off russian tv channels in europe, as well as in america in others in other western countries obviously had their results, but he also admits that outside the west, outside of ukraine, russia has certain successes, for example in

the countries of the so-called global south, such as india, and many african countries , for example, did not vote for the resolution condemning the russian attack on ukraine in the organization of the united nations is therefore actually a loser in the russian information war when it comes to the west, europe, ukraine, but there is also, again, room for work, in particular in such countries as india is the ukraine of africa bohdan, thank you very much for your inclusion, i will remind you that it was bohdan tsyupin on the connection of iceland, let's move on to the next stories on thursday, new york welcomed the ukrainian freedom orchestra with a standing ovation, a concert of ukrainian musicians took place within the limits of the world tour, the orchestra founded the world famous kerilis wilson a canadian conductor of ukrainian origin, she calls her musicians soldiers and sees the mission of the project

as defending ukraine with the help of music, iryna solomko attended the concert, caroline wilson one of the most famous female conductors in the world. she was born in canada in a family of musicians, but her grandmother was from chernivtsi, so the woman always felt a close connection with ukraine, that's why when the full-scale russian aggression began, cyril could not stay away. this project is significant on many levels. first he was about turning to my friends, musicians or refugees who were forced to shut up because they lost their musical freedom and their homes , and to help them, this was my first reaction, however then the idea arose to create an orchestra of refugees to give them their voice back, this became my dream, we are fulfilling our mission i like to call my musicians soldiers of music who fight on the cultural front, this is very important because music

proves that ukrainian culture is alive ukraine is full of amazing talents and a rich cultural heritage and you can't keep silent about this, realize kirill's dream, her husband piotr help, the world-famous music manager and general director of the metropolitan opera, geot, who has been closely involved with almost his entire professional career associated with russian culture and music says february 24 changed him from that moment i decided that further efforts of the support of the metro will be directed to the protection of ukraine and we did it we immediately severed ties with the big theater as well as with any organizations or performers who support putin, we fought to help ukraine, that's why when the karilins came up with a brilliant idea, i pounced on it, because it was the perfect, biggest and most important step that the metropolitan opera could take to support ukraine

involved the governments of poland, ukraine, the united states, as well as the world's leading concert agencies, one of the challenges was to find funding, in addition to support from the metropolitan opera itself. peter also received funds for the implementation of the project from well-known american philanthropists . side. i think that today this is one of the largest e-e projects in support of ukraine . it is because of the culture that i do not know that we have another project that would have visited so many european capitals in such a short period of time and eventually ended up in new york and the grand finale, as they say in art, will take place in the kennedy center in your tone. rehearsals began 10 days

before the first concert, which took place in warsaw , kirilin says. as part of the project, 74 musicians who have never played together were gathered on one stage. when choosing participants for kirilin, it was important to unite all of ukraine and involve musicians who became refugees. we also have several musicians. who left russia, they ukrainians worked in the st. petersburg philharmonic and immediately after the invasion fled, several performers joined from orchestras in brussels, poland and germany, and these musicians got together in a strange way and it was wonderful, you know how to get married very quickly, we are like a family . a phenomenal group of not only musicians but also people and we all came together for this mission to make our group special to fight against oppression you have to be a soldier of music you have to be strong to protect yourself and

kari lin now has the most impressive army of artists who are so serious, dedicated and passionate about their work in their professional career. i have not seen musicians who would perform with such a mission . their performances and viktora shmarin, double bassists of the orchestra, both from kharkov , spent the first few weeks of the war in the subway hiding from shelling, they are convinced that cyril managed to gather the best musicians of ukraine, so the project despite the lack of rehearsals, he was successful, the orchestra members are great soloists, er, they teach somewhere. yes, not only in ukraine, but also in europe, famous musicians, all musicians, er, except that's what they're famous for, they're also personalities, and here, er, such an ensemble of soloists when gathered different different-different

but they became so much one another that one began to form such a group and such an orchestra when they play they do not look they they heard heard well they hear three friends and that is why it is extraordinary when compiling the repertoire cyril tried first of all, to show the world ukrainian composers, in particular, during the concert, the 7th symphony of valentin silvestrov and a paraphrase from yuriy shevchenko to the melody of them in ukraine, we are there, which sounds as an encore, and the musicians and organizers are called the most emotional and powerful moment of the concert, the war helped the world discover ukrainian composers, the general director

of the mitropol opera is convinced that recently we did not ask why we are someone, we are ukrainian composers, the answer is that if we neglected, there is no and we neglected, now is the time to fix it and this the performance of the seventh symphony and the new year's eve is the american premiere of a work that has never before been performed in the united states. requests from leading concert venues for the orchestra's performances, therefore, in the couple's plans to gather musicians next summer , kirilin hopes that those tours will be dedicated to the defense of ukraine and its victory

iryna solomko pablo terekhov voice of america that's it musical history from new york has we continue our issue according to the reports of the snake, recently the number of russians who are in a hurry to get european visas has increased dramatically, it is exciting that a number of countries, mainly russia's neighbors, have already announced such restrictions and it is expected that this issue will be discussed at an informal meeting of the ministers of foreign affairs of the eu in prague at the end of august, how close the eu is to a consensus on this issue, nataliya churikova talked about it with the former spokesperson of the eu delegation in kyiv, and now senior analyst of the european values ​​research center david stulik in finland announced on august 16 that it will issue fewer visas to citizens of russia instead of a thousand visas per day. as the minister of foreign affairs said, only 100 or 200 will be issued. the czech republic

has done this from the very beginning the conflict of the large-scale conflict now between russia and ukraine, what are the results of this step, what are they saying about it in prague, here in the czech republic, at first there was a complete ban on issuing visas to russian citizens federation of belarus and this was a form of, let's say , punishment of these citizens for what the state does to them czech diplomacy it follows from the fact that citizens of any country are to some extent responsible for the actions of their own country but also clearly a program to help russians and belarusians who are persecuted by these regimes. that is, we do not have a complete ban on helping those who suffer from these regimes, and this policy has great political support and has support on levels of our society, of course. there are many good

russians, who, for example, lived in the czech republic before, who are ashamed to sit down now and even continue to support this. and the prohibitions are the same, this project, which already applies to specific citizens, and there is such a consensus here that this is one of the mechanisms by which you can try to convey to russian citizens that we can no longer relate to them as before, that it was their country that started the bloody war, and their country attacked another european country - this is russia and infringing country international law, and we simply cannot give them such things. it also happens to citizens of other countries of the country who behave in a civilized manner and do not attack their neighbors. since may, a forum was held at which russians living abroad who are in opposition to the russian regime talked about what is needed to create some kind

of passport of a good russian, that is, so that they can travel the world as they used to do it before, or is this not just a way to make life easier for themselves, but in no way affect that course which keeps the kremlin to this day. this is such an anthill and an ethical issue, such a dilemma as it relates to such people. i meet on a personal level with various colleagues from russia, some of them here complain that their rights are really limited and so on. and what do i answer to them? that they will bend under the bombs and do not flow from their own , even though they are already leaving the czech republic in the church from russia and and of course this happens, my russian colleagues say that now they will just keep silent about what is happening to them, the main thing is the patience of the ukrainians that they and these people admit that they are responsible for this, they have not done enough in their country

to present themselves in such a regime that is there now and they say that they do not even count on any reconciliation with the ukrainians, the only thing they want to do is what about the russian regime as soon as possible lost this war, that is, this is the main goal and for ukraine to win. and, of course, such people are a large minority , there are many of them, but there are also such vines in the czech republic. there is an interesting experience at the level of individual citizens. i remember at the beginning of the war in the 14th year, one of he forbade czech hotel owners in ostrava to let russian citizens live in their hotels, then he was sued for discrimination, he won this court, but at some stage he asked the russians to sign a statement that they do not support the seizure of ukrainian crimea. could it be such a path that would

open up good russians to come to europe so that they sign a statement when receiving a visa that they do not support russian aggression against ukraine, of course such a possibility is being discussed there, and here this time, what was the case that it was not such a collective ban for all russians, but only for those who did not condemn oleksiy crimea as an illegal , these russians, as they said, do not agree with this, so this owner for the possibility of being there is simply a matter of national security , and i emphasize once again that no one is saying that people who are persecuted by their own regime will not be able to travel, we are talking here about tourist visas, about the fact that people spend money on the western coast of france

in italy or spain and often these are not ordinary russians because 70% of russians have never left the borders of their own region, it is again this class of russian society that actively supports this aggression, that even has er earns from it, because i would also have a question where these come from people have money from where they earned it from the state budget in various corruption schemes due to the fact that they are close to certain structures, i.e. such young people, it is their duty to prohibit the use of these privileges, as the estonian prime minister said, and not and this is not a human right. we must be clear here in order to have a morally clean conscience and in the same way show ukrainians why, because it is mine. we know that there are currently discussions in the european union and that it is necessary to

ban the issuance of visas for russians are against the european union. because some countries have already done it, just like the czech republic, and the baltic countries have done it. now they are actively talking about it in poland . which says that this is the war of the kremlin and not the war of the russians. at the same time, we see public opinion polls in russia that say that the absolute majority of russian citizens support this war, so whose side will the debate in the european union lean towards? i think it will lean very much to the bulls of those who will propose such a ban, because here, for example, panchol - it is as if he forgets the history of his own country in the 30s , was hitler the only one who if he started all these wars? also, he did not have the support of the german society, and here this analogy to russia is very

clear and one cannot say that this is putin's war, i think that few people in europe will say that, no , this is putin's russia's war, as it was once the war of fascist hitler's germany, which had the support of its own citizens of society and the argument that we are talking about collective guilt here is false. it seems to me that it is better to talk about what i asked earlier, which is the co-responsibility of these people, these citizens, what kind of government do they have, who is their president, so i think it will be even more and it is more clear to european politicians, and if we go to the point that we really need to transfer this sense of responsibility for this war to the level of citizens, i am here, what is this, here is recognition from the russians who are here, and i am skeptical that they will understand it that because of putin they have such a thing,

because he russian propaganda will immediately explain that it is this bad measure nato is attacking them, attacking them, not wanting to go home, and it will most likely be used in favor of the putin regime, that is, it may even be the number of paradoxes the number of these supporters of putin's regime and the war in ukraine on the part of russia's citizens may increase, they may feel even more threatened by danger, but on our part, on the part of ukraine, it is a moral obligation for those people to realize that they are responsible for this situation. that's how it was an interview with the former spokesman of the delegation of the european union in kyiv and now a senior analyst of the european values ​​research center david stulik this is the end of our release, also join our daily briefings at 18:00 on youtube and you can ask your questions on facebook and live. thank you for being with us. we are rudy. have a good night and a restful weekend. good evening

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