targeted missile attacks and we understand that the enemy is the enemy, if only the presence of president duda did not stop it. so, a common security vision and a common security strategy. well, it is actually being implemented . the post office provided huge military aid to ukraine - that's what the transfers of several hundred tanks are worth. at first, it was 230, perhaps , then again more than 200 tanks, howitzers, these crabs, and drones, piarun, so that, well, there is a lot here, and logistical support. poland has actually become a security hub with such methyl the ukrainian resistance, what against russian aggression, are there any additional security formats needed? well, poland is a member of nato and a member of the european union, and i thought that there are probably opportunities for greater integration of the military

potentials of ukraine and poland. union with stronger obligations, it all needs to be coordinated with nato. there are certainly some prospects here . but i think that ukraine is not thinking, well, ukraine is not giving up on the goal of joining the european union and nato, and you have to think for yourself and think about joint defense, joint defense of the period by russia and other challenges, precisely in the format of the european union and nato, as when it comes to the security dimension, just 102 years ago, there was an attempt to create a powerful and effective defense union . yes, and it was successful up to a certain point, which unfortunately, it ended with the fact that a part of the polish elites betrayed the interests of the ukrainian state, i.e. why can we talk about the reasons for this for a

long time? this is how the so-called riga treaty is discussed. and the main question is whether they will get tired internal polish political elites and those political elites who can come to replace them in poland, so we understand that the war with russia - it is long and it is serious, well, it is controversial, there is a consensus of the main main political forces regarding aid to ukraine. there are no differences here, well, the first fact is the second and - well, anton, it’s good that you mentioned the events from before 102 and 102 years ago and your dream, which is called the pilsudskyi petliura union. and that the military union of the polish state and the ukrainian people’s republic would last for a long time, the main difference is that now ukraine has received huge support and help from the western state of this er, in 1920 it was not at all from the word at all, instead today we all

understand that without the help of the united states of america, great britain and france and germany, the help is very valid, but it still goes, it would be it's much harder for ukraine and poland as well. it's understandable, because well, yes, i'm sorry, i'll finish. i thought you finished the thought, i just wanted to ask . to what extent in poland now do i understand the possible real aggression of russia towards poland, because when you read the comments that the russians write, well, they already go far in their heads beyond the borders of ukraine. in poland, there is an understanding that what is happening now in ukraine and in poland is definitely possible, that is, there is a feeling . the daughter of the leningrad region that an attack against poland can come from here, everyone understands this very well, they

are afraid, for example, of a nuclear nuclear attack from russia, that is, the sense of danger is physical, yes, not so much theoretical, but also physical, that is the majority of poles, and the vast majority of prophets, perfectly understand what ukrainians are feeling right now, they want extremely rockets do not fall on their heads, shelling will find them, but physically, uh, physically, i feel a very similar state to that and for such help, for which we thank you. how will the day pass today in poland independence of ukraine, some events are possible, well, a lot is being prepared and there were concerts the day before, rallies will take place. settled, they will organize a rally in support of the independence of ukraine on the occasion of the independence day of ukraine, we will all be there with flags, we will

speak together, celebrate, celebrate, this is a great day, we are together with all ukrainians in ukraine and abroad myroslav speaking about polish-ukrainian relations yes we tirelessly thank you poland, but it should be understood that in poland, rather , different environments are waiting in different ways for some positive signals from ukraine from our authorities, despite the fact that everyone understands that there is a war, a war cruel but perhaps it would be necessary to somehow more actively give certain signals from the side of our government and from the side of our society to publicists who build their own theories, and therefore i think that more in the majority of polish society feeling and full understanding of the state in which ukraine is now among us and the needs that ukraine has

, that is, the fact that the law on the special status of poles was adopted, let's call it that, was adopted in ukraine with full understanding and gratitude that ukraine took such a step at the same time business well, let's be honest, and of course it is waiting for its participation in the reconstruction of ukraine. that is, everyone is busy with their own affairs, so to speak, building strategies for the post-war period, but there is also a full understanding of the moment in which ukraine is now, that is, of inflated expectations no one can speculate on this. who can write something? but together with uh-uh, there are voices that say in-ukraine is ungrateful to him, that is, they are alone , it does not affect the general atmosphere. they say once again we congratulate you personally and poland on

the independence day of ukraine. this is because it is becoming a common holiday for all of europe and possibly the united states. poland for supporting ukraine both in the person of the president and in the person of every citizen of poland let's go further lithuania with us anna daushkevych journalist lithuanian ms. anna congratulations congratulations congratulations we congratulate lithuania on the independence day of ukraine and thank you and thank the lithuanian people for the helping hand that you extended to us in a difficult moment, we in ukraine greatly appreciate lithuanian help, give compliments what a beautiful outfit ms. anna is, thank you, thank you very much, and first of all, e-

i congratulate you on the independence day of ukraine. that is, you correctly said that one thing becomes a holiday not only of ukraine, but also of poland and lithuania, and today in lithuania we will actually celebrate it, it is a very good holiday. understand how you now you can outline how lithuania sees the event in ukraine. we just talked about poland. how lithuania perceives what is happening in our country . understands what is happening in lithuania, of course we follow all the events, first of all, we are waiting for a counter-offensive, we are waiting for the repulse of the enemy, we are very closely watching the crimean bridge, that is, we are waiting for the

holidays here, and of course, we see that we understand that this will not end tomorrow or in a week, but we we are absolutely sure that ukraine will win and that the flag of ukraine will be the same as it is over kherson or other cities as well. of course, there are more than 50,000 ukrainians in crimea. statistics tell us that they are currently in lithuania. please, how do ukrainians find employment, what professions are they, and how does lithuania solve the issue of housing and sheltering ukrainians in general?

offer some help or advice and i actually see that ukrainians are looking for a job, sometimes they are looking for life as a job because they say that uh well, thank you for the shelter, but i can't sit and do nothing our institutions and our business from the very beginning moreover, there was a very huge offer, a lot of offers for ukrainians from a separate business who said that come to us we will give work that i must know e lithuanian lithuanian language, that is, because in lithuania its language is very different from ukrainian, and of course ukrainians do not know the language of such a small country, but i don’t see. what i don’t see affects the people who refuse to work

. that’s why i also see that there are kindergartens. kindergartens are opening, you are opening er schools, that means e-class for ukrainian- speaking children from polokhturyn, because we understand that er, when the war will end, but children should study here. now, and er, this time is not lost, but to teach them in russian, that is actually we have a lot of russian-speaking schools, but teaching them in russian was somehow not very good, and teaching in kotov language schools was a bit difficult here, that's why there is also integration of ukrainians in lithuania in this plan. and what can ukrainians now count on they come to lithuania, which helps. yes, of course, there is free

transport. it will remain until now, and this also applies to city transport, so they started in ukraine . art always gets into what uh for ukrainians uh entrance would be free uh there are also various organizations that still help uh also with housing for example or maybe someone is just coming to lithuania, er, there are no benefits so far, but there are no changes in this, what was accepted from the very beginning remains, and there are no talks that this will not happen, well, at the moment, there is definitely

not . extremely important the question to the polish politician in the public figure myroslav chichov in lithuania, we will transfer this question from the polish rails to the lithuanian rails, lithuanians in lithuania feel and understand that they can be the next and accordingly what is the current feeling that russia may resort to this or that provocation directed against the republic of lithuania and in lithuania , there is an understanding from the very beginning, even before february 24, er, even sheba until the doish that the seizure of crimea er, eight years ago, er, in lithuania, there was always a feeling that er, in russia, there is such revanchism regarding er the baltic countries, in particular lithuania, because we left the

soviet union, we became free. we began to live well, and hmm. well, unfortunately, we don't like skin for people who live with better people, so the understanding is very great, and this understanding as a doctor in of course, this understanding is also at the political political level, because now our minister of internal affairs has said that they will settle the border with russia, as well as the land border, and also at sea. therefore that we have a very big threat, this is kaliningrad, which i essentially am military base. and what do you know, except that russia recently said that it is deploying a few more

fighter jets with kinozhal missiles, and there are also very different other missiles, so we understand very well, and our minister of foreign affairs yesterday announced that eh hmm since for many years we were a transit country with mainland russia tokarninggrad eh this is because we have the same eh the same railway connection that for example in poland is different and for this we became the country of transit ukraine yesterday the minister said that this must be changed. of course, this is a question of billions of euros and a project for one year, but also what kind of er. once we built liquefied gas terminals, which was also a very expensive project, but this decision must

be made. uh, because if we don't do it now, we're starting to do this plan now, then russia will bully it further, as we've already seen with the transit and stalingrad, uh, she used it now, and unfortunately, lithuania had to agree with the decision of the european union that we can not stop the transit through litur thank you thank you ms. daukhevich thank you in lithuania for well and in general i would just like to emphasize how different the approaches are, for example, of the same lithuania or the same poland and the same hungary, this is how it is said about russian aggression once again thank you and thank you to lithuania for all-out support and help to ukraine . glory to ukraine, nadaukševych was in touch with us. she was a

lithuanian journalist in ukraine, she was also at the front doing reports. we are going further in ukrainian, this is an indicator for many people she knows the ukrainian language, those people who hold some positions and represent the state power sometimes do not speak russian. even now, when terrorism has been for half a year, a new level of vocabulary smell. oh , and citizens of other countries, for example, small lithuania , and people speak ukrainian perfectly, in general, we all take an example and by the way, she came to us at the front and writes about ukraine, observes it, and it’s very cool, you understand the same when you see when ukrainian politicians or some other figures actually neglect what is ukrainian when they don’t know they spit on ukrainian as such well, that means, well, i really liked how she from daukshevel

said that and russians do not like it when someone lives who is good or better than them, well, it is real. that is why these people who do not perceive and cannot be happy for others this both at the personal level and at the level of the country, we know that ukraine once formed the grand duchy of lithuania together with lithuania. so, the ukrainian language, which was then called russian, was the state language and lithuanian statutes were written in ukrainian, the so-called russian language, this is also an important moment for us in europe ms. myroslava , good health, happy holiday to the audience and all of you, we are glad to see you, please tell us how the united states of america now sees our holiday, our 31st anniversary of independence, in such new

extremes well, you know, i have to point out that i'm not in the united states right now, i'm in warsaw, closer to ukraine, but of course, i know what's happening in the united states, and i have to admit that in the last six months view of ukraine vision of ukraine a lot has changed in the united states and, in principle, in the world as a whole, but you know, if even before the war the understanding of what ukraine is and what it can do, what it is capable of, it was not defined, then today the world clearly sees ukraine as a strong state the world sees ukrainians as people who are ready to fight for their freedom for their country, and this actually causes a lot of respect, both in the international elite and in ordinary americans, ordinary europeans, you know, everywhere, wherever you are, you have not noticed here, for example

there will be ukrainian flags in warsaw, but i travel a lot in europe and in the united states, so many ukrainian symbols everywhere in the world could not be seen even once in these 31 years, and this is actually a great achievement and a great honor to the ukrainians for demonstrating their strength in the world war ii. unfortunately, in this terrible confrontation with russia, ukraine emerged as a strong state. yes, we would also like to thank the united states and you personally for what you do for our common motherland. yes, we understand that the situation is not easy . well, the question of military aid raises more and more questions. well, when these questions are asked from ukraine, it is one story, but now a number of leading american patriotic politicians, retired generals,

wrote 100 official letters to washington with a demand or please speed up as much as possible. what do you think is happening with that difficult question of course. yes, you know, as in any country and in the united states, there are different positions, different opinions and as you know, on the capitalist hill legislation, both republicans and democrats advocate for more active assistance to ukraine, they advocate for russia to be recognized as a sponsor of terrorism, and all this is happening. well, as you have already mentioned, recently a large number of such very serious specialists in ukraine who have been dealing with ukraine for quite a long time, these are not people who have only just begun to understand ukraine. they made a demand with a statement to the white house to support ukraine more actively of course

the white house is doing everything possible, but you have to take into account such a thing in kyiv, you know who makes the decisions and those who influence the adoption of those decisions. therefore, those who praise the decision today, they are cautious, although they actively support ukraine, they actively provide assistance, you know that literally yesterday it was not announced that there will be an additional three billion dollars for military aid to ukraine, that is, all this happens almost every day, it is also announced that the strengthening of sanctions will be additional , but uh, experts say that more is needed more and more in order for ukraine not only to be able to defend itself, but also to be able to win back its territories, today the tactics of the white house are still aimed at the impossibility, so to speak, of how it is with the limitation of russia's ability to finance its army and its war against

ukraine so, a few weeks ago, i had the honor of talking with one of the signatories of this statement, the former ambassador of the united states in kyiv, john gerbs. right now, he is also one of the directors of atlantic bank, but he said that in some offices the white house still maintains an irrational fear of russia, which he meant, that is, that they could commit a man-made nuclear disaster . well, but we understand that, for example, the same senator kissinger said that the response will be extremely harsh, and in the euro-atlantic community, it can be interpreted as so to speak, as an excuse to use the fifth article of the euro-atlantic charter . i know who he specifically even has in mind the

last names of these people . to your tony, they still leave the opportunity , so to speak, to leave room for possible negotiations with russia, they still do not want to put russia in a complete corner and are still trying to find more soft ways. well, of course, what is happening behind the cost of ukrainian lives, but really john gerb is right in this, in this context, uh, russia, of course, russia is demanding - just blackmailing, blackmailing the world, blackmailing the united states , it is possible to use nuclear weapons and not take into account, uh, this aspect just like that the european american leaders themselves have no right ms. myroslava the united states, for the first time since february 24, called on its citizens to leave ukraine, because of

the reaction of the banking crisis, mykhailo podolyak called, called in the response, the event to show greater willpower and react more radically to russia's aggressive actions on the territory of ukraine how to understand this is how this dialogue is well, you know today you saw that the diplomatic mission of the united states diplomats stayed in ukraine they did not go to the united states here it should be understood like this the most peaceful aspects, and with such statements, the united states government absolves itself of responsibility for the lives of those people, those americans who are in ukraine , that is, it places this responsibility on those americans who decide to stay in ukraine, i would not interpret this statement any more broadly than it actually is, and american diplomats remain in ukraine, and regarding ukrainians who are now in

america, have many of our citizens found refuge ? what about work? how do they solve all the problems of the visa-free regime with ukraine ? for ukrainians to travel like this not only to the european union, of course we have certain restrictions. perhaps they will be strengthened from october 1. it is about the registration of women. this is the case in the military commissions. well, in any case, the united states would dare to take this step. well, you know. unfortunately, this is a question i haven't decided yet, i haven't heard any discussion on this matter, it's about the visa-free regime, we know that ukrainians are asked for ten-year visas, you know that once upon a time, poland got uh, the poles got such a right, now ukrainians got this right although i again, it's not very difficult to predict anything right now. perhaps such a solution is also possible, but at this stage i can't say that. and what should

we strengthen in our so-called intra-american discussion? so we understand that the diaspora is doing its part mass media does its thing, diplomacy does its thing, but i would like something bigger and brighter, i don't know. well, because the russians really committed and are committing mass crimes against the civilian population, they shell civilian objects, people die, i just don't know whether to the end, some average resident of ida wants arizona, so what is happening in ukraine, and what is it, it has entered such a household level that in the center of europe, the russians are shelling cities with missiles, so i must say that it has entered the understanding of the americans, it must be recognized you know, they support aid to ukraine

more actively and in principle, the war, uh, this war, at least in terms of information, has come to uh, every home, both you in europe and uh, in the united states, but of course, such a deep understanding will always be only in elites, because if it is not tangential and does not touch you every day, it is clear that 15 you can hear on television, but when it does not hit you, it is difficult to feel it, to understand, have you seen now what was the result of the statements that the russians will limited visas to europe, they immediately understood that there really is a war going on and began to speak out against it, that is, it, well, this war should just touch everyone, they should each feel it on their own skin e what is it e hmm hide from bombs and about the brightness you you know how about me now it's just ukraine sounds very, very

many of us. today i posted the front page of the voice of america, uh, the main page, and i have to tell you that all 10 materials on the main page are all about ukraine in english, if i can read it all over the world, it's also very important and this type of unprecedented history, and in order to understand ukraine more actively, it still seems to me that ukrainian diplomacy should work more, is it public diplomacy or official diplomacy, and the fact that diplomatic departments are now being cut to the whole world, and this is actually a very, very painful, dangerous, dangerous issue, because in my opinion, in this situation, diplomatic missions should be strengthened. thank you very much, myroslav, for what you are doing for ukraine and for participating in our festive information and analytical marathon myrosla mangadze, the head of the voice of america office in eastern europe, was with us finishing this hour

. thank you myroslava. thank you to the united states of america for the support. we hope that with each missile there will be less and less, in the end, today is the day we will wait for independence so in september we are promised the first fruits from the lend-lease and today we are talking about our country and how our partners support us. let's find out what the operational situation is. anna eva melnyk with news is ready to present all the assets of the information service. and on eve, we congratulate you on the holiday . greetings to each other, anna. i congratulate you. i congratulate all ukrainians and about the most important events of this hour i will tell together with the news editor