on the new parameters, because the old parameters will soon stop broadcasting espresso ukrainian view thank you for watching , i welcome the program of the ukrainian voice of america to the air time and i and the presenter ostap yarysh president biden held a telephone conversation with volodymyr zelenskyi on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of ukrainian independence i i know that this anniversary has a bitter aftertaste, but i made it clear that the usa will continue to support ukraine and its people in the struggle to protect their sovereignty - the american president said after the conversation as wrote volodymyr zelenskyi on twitter during the call, the leaders also discussed the ways to victory and the importance of holding russia accountable in the white house, the presidents also touched on other urgent topics, president biden

confirmed the us's support for ukraine as it defends itself from russian aggression, including yesterday's announcement of almost 3 billion us dollars for weapons and equipment, he congratulated ukraine on the special and important independence day this week and shared his admiration for the ukrainian people and his armed forces who continue to inspire the world with their commitment to freedom as for zaporizhzhia npp as i said yesterday it should never be a zone of active hostilities russia should agree to a demilitarized zone around the plant and allow the megate to visit it as soon as possible to check the safety of the systems this was also raised during conversations between the presidents meanwhile, the russian company gazprom announced that at the end of this month it will once again stop the supply of gas through the nord stream 1, the largest gas pipeline that currently supplies natural gas to germany, this decision became one of the contributions of other factors

that keep gas prices in europe at a record high level, let's talk about what this means and other topics in more detail with this guy who is now joining us from london, bohdan vitayu you so, could this several-day interruption in the work of the nord stream alone cause serious problems for europe? now this is the case about the announced unscheduled repair, which, according to gazprom, should last from august 31 to september 2, and in principle, this several-day shutdown would not be a problem in a normal situation, but the fact is that in general, it is a pipeline that is the largest that supplies e-e gas to the largest consumer in europe, to germany. nord stream two actually in recent months has been operating at approximately 20% of capacity, if we take into account that even earlier

russia stopped supplying gas to such countries as finland, denmark, bulgaria, poland, and recently latvia, it is not surprising that in general, against this background, against the background of a general decrease in supply volumes the prices of russian gas to europe have risen to a record level and this is a serious problem that has become for example, here in great britain, a very serious topic of election debates, we will literally know at the beginning of next month who will be the next prime minister in britain, and the two candidates had to explain for a long time how they are going to help, for example, the british in this country to pay extremely high bills for electricity and gas and which are expected to be even higher this winter, everything is

interesting, bohdan's topic, an interesting question, how the european government and plan to solve this the rise in energy prices and in this context, is europe even approaching independence from russian gas ? the european union cannot solve this problem quickly, and this was recognized in particular by the fact that, for example, it introduced sanctions , in fact, an embargo on the purchase of russian coal , as well as the announcement of sanctions and restrictions on the purchase of oil and petroleum products from russia, but the european union did not actually occupy the gas, but despite this , russia still obviously uses its own a lever for pressure, claiming that they say sanctions lead to problems that lead to an increase in gas prices from europeans say that there are no gas sanctions, but the situation is such that the european

union is first of all trying to find alternatives , for example, liquefied gas comes from other countries, germany is reducing its dependence was previously 55%, and the import of russian gas in germany is now 35%, but prices are still rising against this background, the eu calls to reduce the use of gas in europe by at least 15%, and the requirement to fill gas storages by the winter period, it was actually completed by november 1, it should be 80%, the gas storages are filled, it is almost done, but there is a problem, and they are trying to explain to the europeans that this is a consequence of the russian war, which is actually very difficult to avoid , and this is the price that the europeans have to pay, the process, in particular, spoke today french president emmanuel macron, our freedom, the system of freedom we

used to live by, has a price, and sometimes when it needs to be defended, sacrifices are needed to win certain battles. the situation in which we live has our price freedom and our future require effort in these battles in which we are forced to fight for our culture , civilization, as well as in the field of economy and technology . victory can only be achieved by making efforts . bohdan, today we are talking about energy with you . another important topic is absolutely the situation at the zaporizhia npp, what statements the message we have from europe on this matter for the first time this morning. it was a message from the british ministry of defense, which actually accused russia of lying because it submitted photos of russian military equipment within the nuclear power plant, which russia denies, meanwhile, we know that megate still hopes to send observers to the plant, and this was stated in particular by the director general of the

international atomic energy agency. it is bad. thank you very much. we will monitor the development of the situation. of london and the potential leakage of radiation at the zaporizhzhia npp can pose a threat not only to people and the environment in ukraine, but also affect neighboring states and the entire international community, the deputy said of the us secretary of state or nijens, in addition, she supported the direction of the megaten mission to the zaporizhzhia station, when this mission will be assembled, what route will it take to reach the axes and which of the specialists will agree to go to the occupied territory, the questions are still open, but everyone agrees that such a mission is needed not only in ukraine but in this world, because the situation at the nuclear power plant occupied by the russian army is becoming more and more tense, the topic continues lesya bakalets zaporizhzhia npp is the only active occupied plant in the history of atomic energy, russian troops are at it territory for almost six months according to the

energoatom company, in august the russian army fired at the plant at least five times zaporizhzhya npp operates with the risk of violating radiation and fire safety standards periodic shelling from the npp by the russian military from the rsv caused a serious risk to the safe operation of the plant the situation around the plant is dangerous about this is what international and ukrainian experts say. well, this is more focus for activity on the scale of the accident, it will be more focus, but less for chernobyl, radiation consequences, it will not be a nuclear explosion, a nuclear disaster, the fuel, if it melts in the reactor, will remain in the reactor, but these gases, which are radioactive, they will be carried into the air and there will be radiation consequences, say that well, somewhere in ukraine, you have a nuclear power plant exploded. and here we are well, it’s normal in berlin. no, it won’t be, because radionuclides are transferred

across the border, radiation knows no bounds, like everything in the environment, and the concentration of radionuclides will increase. in the northern hemisphere, the safety of the station is also being taken care of by the director of the megater, rafael grossi. recently, the situation at nuclear facilities, and in particular at the zaporizhzhia npp in ukraine, is rapidly deteriorating and becoming very alarming. an active negotiation process is currently underway for an invitation from ukraine, if the mission is worked out together by the un and the megatet, we welcome, we will welcome the inclusion of un staff also this mission, especially those who have a military background or a military-political background, this is important because the ministry of defense has no experience of working at nuclear power plants in wartime conditions, and some objects

at the plant are mined. are located in the engine room of the station, the cnnt channel claims that they were able to confirm the authentic filming, the experts should stay there for several days to collect the correct information, collect the real information, see look into every corner in the car hall 1,2 as we know the russians have driven their equipment there and all these things see in produce fix make reports make recommendations such a mission is needed not only by ukraine but at least by all of europe sure expertise the mission can solve practical tasks for example make sure that there is a guaranteed supply of diesel fuel for emergency backup generators and other emergency equipment using diesel fuel.

development or training of a response plan, it is also necessary to make sure in what condition the ukrainian team at the station is working under constant stress . at the nuclear facility, the dangerous condition of the ukrainian operators at the plant is a very important problem, we sympathize with them very much . protection for the whole world, and the fact that the mission can then return gives a certain semblance of protection, the data potentially collected by the legation is needed both for assessing russia’s actions against ukraine directly now and in order to review approaches to the safety of nuclear facilities in the future, this will allow us to collect objective information precisely when certain catastrophic or potentially catastrophic events occur there, we as a professional community will have to write , in principle, some basic concepts in megathe and basic concepts in radiation security, therefore, the fact

that they will come there is important not only for ukraine, not only for zaporizhzhia, but also for the whole world, the only question is who will dare to go to the occupied station, according to the minister of foreign affairs of ukrainian affairs, dmytro kuleba, is ready to lead the delegation. the director of megate agriculture in the organization has not yet commented on this information. territories, yes , we have concerns about what is mined here, and here you should not talk to the occupiers. that is, it is already a question of non-nuclear energy, it is a question mainly about the safety of personnel, ukraine says it is ready to accept the mission as quickly as possible and insists on entering the territory of the soviet union from the territory controlled by ukraine to assist the delegation to the cow and russia when the mission will take place

and who will guarantee its safety, the questions are still open lesya bakalets anatoliy kashenko oleksiy osyka voice of america and we continue the issue of on other topics, cluster munitions used by the russian army in ukraine killed at least 689 civilians, the international organization for the protection of human rights human rainwatch reports in its new report. researchers report on the torture and disappearance of people in the temporarily occupied territories of southern ukraine, as well as on the attacks on kharkiv oleksiy kovalenko spoke with the deputy director of reiswatch in europe and central asia, rachel denberg, about how the organization collects evidence of the crimes of the russian army in ukraine, see further in the interview speaking of the recent humane plays watch reports on the torture and disappearance of people in the occupied territories of southern ukraine and the attack on

kharkiv, you can tell about the main conclusions of these reports and the methodology you used, we interviewed 70 people from the occupied regions of zaporozhye and kherson regions , most of them from kherson, of course we had to conduct these interviews not in person, we conducted interviews in dnipro in kyiv and by phone, these people told to us about 42 cases in which they themselves or people they knew were arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared or were subjected to various forms of violence by the russian military; in some cases, we recorded murders; we documented cases that have already received wide the resonance of the murders of two men from the territorial defense who were killed in their own place, there were three men who were captured, they were brutally abused, the body of one of them was later found in the bay, and the

second was tortured so that he died in prison, he died in the hospitals in the crimea where he was transferred while in captivity and the third man who told us about both these cases was himself tortured very much, he was released from captivity and he happened to tell us this story so we recorded these two cases when people were killed or they died because of the injuries we received, we documented numerous cases when the russian troops tortured people in custody trying to get information about all kinds of things ; broken bones, teeth, burns, cuts, traces of terrible abuse, in many cases relatives of the people we interviewed were missing, russian forces went after people

during the searches, some people were grabbed in public places, one man was grabbed in stoyanka, another was just on the street, two more were simply taken to a store in an unknown direction. of the disappeared, this is the purpose of such harsh treatment to get information about weapons or people participating in the resistance, another goal is to force people to come to terms with the occupation, they want to instill fear in people so that people did not resist, researchers and representatives of human racewatch interviewed dozens of people from kherson, melitopol, berdyansk and many other cities in the occupied territories. how do you find these people and check their stories with people? this is the

first destination where people from the occupied territories managed to get to after after they passed dozens of roadblocks, this was the first place they could get to, which was under the control of ukrainian forces, from there they went to other cities of ukraine, and therefore we were able to ask dozens people there about what they experienced under the russian occupation for some interviews, we just randomly chose people, they told us about the conditions of the russian occupation, we also talked with people who participated in protests and became targets, found people through journalists and activists like we corroborated the story our interviews were quite detailed of course our priority was not to traumatize people so we were very careful in how we questioned people but we

asked a lot of questions and asked about details so that try to check everything except in some cases we had several interviews about the same case we compared the interviews of different people for some cases we had supporting documentation we saw the death certificate we looked at the conclusions of the court of medical examiners the conclusions of doctors confirming the occurrence of injuries we saw photos of the injury are communicating watch is about the serious crimes of the russian forces against the population and you noted that the russian forces aim to sow fear and force to accept the occupation or he even comes to the conclusion that the russian forces are deliberately targeting civilians. the crimes i spoke about are obviously deliberate. when someone is tortured, beaten, tortured with electric current, it is done deliberately. there is no doubt about it.

an important aspect of our work is to document the indiscriminate and disproportionate bombing of populated areas in in ukraine, we have a large list of evidence that we have collected . this city has been subjected to rocket and artillery fire since the first week of the war in the latest report we describe eight such attacks which are in violation of the laws of war these can probably be called war crimes because the shelling was indiscriminate there was no obvious military objective more investigation is needed to determine if this a war crime and whether these attacks were deliberately directed against the civilian population, we did not find anything there that could even remotely be qualified as a military objective as an independent international organization human race watch speaks to the population and

victims of the occupation and crimes of russian forces, having a lot of evidence of crimes , cooperates with international organizations that are engaged in investigations of crimes of russian forces in ukraine. criminal court or courts outside of ukraine that operate under your universal jurisdiction or ukrainian courts, we make all the information we have on specific cases freely available. we invite international criminal court to consider these specific cases, we call for some cases to be considered as a priority, this is one of the reasons why we make all information publicly available at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of ukraine, many international businesses were forced to temporarily

stop work due to the danger and threat to people's lives , but our next story about two american companies that continue to do business in ukraine even from the hot phase of hostilities. do they keep the workplaces of their employees are being mobilized for the army and whether labor productivity is decreasing because of the war, my colleague iryna matviychuk talked about this and others with company managers, the daily work of an american businessman, two alta gibbs, who lives in the state of virginia, changed dramatically when the russians launched a full-scale invasion of ukraine in february. he is the general director of a contractor company most of their it staff work remotely in ukraine, in kyiv, lviv, and ivano-frankivsk, let's talk about several dozen years in the business - this is the first time that his the team is in a war zone it's crazy to wake up every morning and worry if someone from your team is not hurt sometimes during the meeting someone

says oh the alarm has started there you have to run to the basement one of my workers woke up in the morning to the fact that a rocket fell next to his house usually in his everyday at work, managers are concerned about completely different issues. and in my case, now this is what i constantly thought about. let's face it, constant stress affects the concentration of employees and therefore their efficiency labor, but emphasizes that the time has come to support people who have devoted their time and energy to his company for years. i noticed a slight decline in productivity and quality of work, but i note that people work in war conditions, they care about the fate of their families, friends, for their mental health, this extremely difficult, but they are dedicated to their work, have a sharp mind and complete the assigned tasks. i do not consider a reduction in wages, on the contrary .

in order to complete the work on time, most of his employees are it staff, some of them have been working for the company for more than 10 years . they can no longer leave the country but many of them have families and leaving the country was not acceptable for them i worry for these people some of them have small children will he be able to recover if something happens to his workers if we lose i want one team boat, it will break me not only professionally, but also personally, because these people are not just employees , we are all friends, i constantly think about it. months

four of his workers in ukraine have already died at the hands of the russian invaders, two of them were drafted into the army and fought, one girl just went to get bread from her house in the city, a bomb fell and she died, this happened in kharkiv at the beginning of the invasion, we did not hear nothing from her for two or three days, only then did we find out . when it all started, our company informed us that we had prepared a plan in case the situation worsened, we allocated funds and told people to leave the eastern regions to the west of the country or to poland, but they did not go, they did not believed that this would happen, so when it happened, many people were in shock, the first two or three days were very difficult for everyone, there was a kind of chaos . most of whom live in kharkiv, kyiv and odesa. alex, the founder of the company, was born in kharkiv himself, immigrated to the usa in the 90s, founded his own startup,

taking employees to safe places at the beginning of the invasion cost the company more than a million dollars, he tells us a-a we sent more than a million dollars for resettlement only in the first two days, we had to organize some buses, it was difficult emotionally, how to tell people that you are leaving your whole life behind, but ahead of you is the danger of road bombs and you still have to go because there is still evacuation is not always more dangerous. one of our boys evacuated his family. and he was injured at the bus stop. he was in the hospital for about a month. of course, we paid for it all . the most valuable thing they can do today is to save jobs for ukrainians so that they can

pay taxes to the budget and feed their families , we are not going to lay off anyone because of the war money will run out sooner than we tell someone to leave the company. i hope that my boys will not be drafted into the army because they earn money and pay a lot of taxes. the best thing they can do for ukraine now is to continue working, but of course everything is possible and oleksiyd has firm confidence that ukraine in this will win the war, so they are not even considering options to leave the ukrainian market, one of the companies is even opening new vacancies in ukraine, we are actually currently looking for people to work in ukraine, we can’t wait to to return to ukraine, we have 450 people there. they are now scattered in different cities, we are absolutely ready, all that remains is to throw the occupiers out of the country, ukraine will be liberated and people will return home, i believe it, the clients of both companies are mostly

americans, the business owners assure that most clients are understanding towards of the risks that war carries with it, they say that the priority is to save people's lives; lost money can be earned again, but you can't get human life back yaryna matviychuk dmytro savchuk voice of america a to on the independence day of ukraine, hundreds of residents of new york unfurled a ukrainian flag measuring 60x40 m in the central park. this flag was unfurled for the first time in 2012 in kyiv, then this event was entered into the book of records of ukraine, officially recording that this state flag is the largest in the world, apart from ukrainian cities. the flag has already visited poland, and now in the usa, the organizers of the event in new york say that it will travel further so that ukrainians and in other american states will also be able to feel a piece of their homeland. and on the same day, ukrainian pianist fima chupakhin gave an open concert in one university park where, among other things

, he performed a jazz arrangement of the ukrainian national anthem . -a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a

wild creatures are not able to choose anything else and we in ukraine like to choose everything even if it is insurance on hotline finance hotline finance insurance of course online unconquered cities of ukraine

lviv the city where more than 2,000 historical architectural and cultural monuments, its center belongs to the unesco world cultural heritage here at the monastery of st. onufry ivan fedorov founded the first printing house and printed the first ukrainian book the apostle after the november order and the creation of the west ukrainian people's republic lviv became the capital and the heart of the ukrainian liberation movement in june 1941 on the ukrainian market square the national assembly proclaimed the act of restoration of the ukrainian state after which nazis