does he have any information, at least a little information that was provided, maybe they were seen somewhere. this will be at least a drop in the ocean so that there is some hope that they are really at least still alive so that we know that they are really alive and have returned home because everyone is waiting for them, so if if you happen to know any information about andrii kachanovskyi, contact us on the hotline at 116,000,000. calls from all mobile operators are free, or write to the chatbot of the child tracing service in telegram. i am also appealing to the russians who are involved in the disappearance of andrii kachanovsky, a minor, this boy is still a child. your actions in relation to him are not permissible and are a violation of international law, in particular the geneva convention on the protection of civilians in time of war, as well as the un convention on the rights of the child, according to which the rights of children must be respected during armed conflicts. release kachanovsky, return

the child parents and at the very end, i ask you to go to the website of the child tracing service, many of these boys and girls were lost precisely because of the war and in the places where hostilities took place, please look into the faces of these children, your attentiveness and concern can help and actually help us in the search if you recognize someone, contact us on the hotline at the number 116 000 , you can call from all mobile operators for free, maybe you will recognize someone and help find them

watch the ukrainian program voice of america time in the studio nataliya alaunova welcomes additional steps to help ukraine counter russian aggression discussed at three-day meetings in prague of the minister of defense and foreign affairs of the 27 countries of the european union, in addition to issues of military and financial support, the delegates are also discussing the issue of banning the issuance of tourist visas for russians to ukraine, a mission of the ministry of foreign affairs inspectors has left for ukraine, whose inspectors are due to arrive this week at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has been under the control of the russian military since march, in order to assess the security situation project, we will talk about these and other issues with our colleagues bohdan tsyupin, who joins the studio from london, and ostap yarosh, who follows the american reaction to the latest events here in washington. greetings , colleagues. so, bohdan, first of all, in recent weeks, we have been hearing more and more statements that europe

and its allies will help ukraine in its resistance to russian aggression as long as the need for this continues, in particular, on the eve of the prague meetings, the minister of foreign affairs stated this of german affairs olena berbok, what new steps did the ministers agree on on monday and what details do you have based on the results of the first day of meetings in prague, well actually the result of today in prague is only that the ministers have gathered. and these are first of all the ministers of defense who are starting their meetings tonight, tomorrow is their main day and tomorrow the ministers of foreign affairs of the european union are also starting their meetings. the

russian war in ukraine was determined there in advance and how in europe to respond to this situation, to the war, as well as to the threat to the european countries, today also in prague the leader of the largest country spoke of the european union, the largest economy, chancellor olafsholtz expressed his vision of europe and, in particular , of security in europe. in the future and possible for our territory, for the ukrainian-speaking audience, the most interesting thing is that he stated that he sees europe as a bigger european union, he sees ukraine, in particular, in this european union, which will have 30 possible 36 states, as he said, for this, it is necessary to change the european union, he said, and in particular to strengthen security at this stage as the

main thing, he called assistance to ukraine, here is his words are even more important that we unitedly defend our idea of ​​europe. that is why we support ukraine, which has been attacked economically, financially, politically, humanitarianly, as well as militarily. germany is the mastermind in this matter . months, we will provide ukraine with the latest weapons, anti-aircraft systems, radars, drones, only our recent aid package reached 600 million euros. we want ukraine to have a modern army and always could defend herself, the meetings in prague are taking place against the background of the announcement by the ukrainian military leadership about the counteroffensive of the ukrainian military in the southern direction, how is this development being evaluated and commented on in washington, ostape has shown that they really say that they have seen the statements of the ukrainian side about

the start of a counteroffensive, however, they do not want to comment on the specific further course of combat operations this was stated by john kirby, coordinator for strategic communications of the us national security council, in a comment to american journalists, but he said that regardless of the scope or scale of ukrainian military operations, the ukrainian armed forces have already been able to influence the military potential of russia. he says that even against the background of reports that ukraine was preparing a counteroffensive, when these reports were even earlier, it forced the russians to transfer part of their armed forces, part of the units from the eastern in the direction of the south in order to potentially deter such operations, says john kirpi, as for the pentagon, natalya, be careful , they comment there and do not take it upon themselves to assert that it has started full counteroffensive, they say that there are certain offensive actions, but they will have a clearer picture there, they say in about a day or two, then maybe they will comment better, although they confirm that during the weekend they observed the activity of

ukrainian artillery precisely in the kherson direction earlier nataliya also spoke with sinevo with reference to own sources on high-ranking officials of the united states that it may be about the so -called formations of the operation, the journalists explain that it is about operations when strikes are carried out or munitions warehouses warehouses with ammunition or prop- in command posts or along logistics chains , not such operations, journalists usually explain, are carried out before preparing for a counteroffensive , so we will watch, maybe we will hear more estimates from the pentagon or american intelligence in the near future ostapa, is the usa ready to support ukraine militarily, are you ready to the efforts of the contour offensive in natal absolutely the united states confirms its support for ukraine and claims that it wants to see a sovereign ukraine territorial integral ukraine and we know that military support according to the pantheon according to the white house of joe biden personally will continue as long as it takes we saw the last

aid packages that were allocated last week but we know that this is not the end the united states says that it is committed to this supporters will continue to provide this assistance earlier, we know that by the way, this weekend, the deputy secretary of defense of the united states visited, in particular, the plant at finn martin merchandise - this is a company that produces in including javelina and gamers, and he said that the united states wants to support both in the short term and in the long term, that is why they will accelerate the production of a-a military capacities, including also that they will help ukraine and natalya for a longer time, so the united states is will support ukraine in its efforts and in order to protect its territory bohdany in prague, the minister will also try to agree on the issue of stopping the issuance or limiting tourist visas to russians, we know that there is still no consensus among europeans did you hear today that there is no general or

complete ban on visas for russians to europe, but in recent days we have known about a possible compromise , in particular, which consists in the fact that the european union will terminate the agreement with russia on the so-called facilitated visa regime, that is, to obtain a visa for russians to go to european countries will be more difficult and more expensive , other documents will be needed and if this proposal is approved, even regardless of what is agreed on at the general european level by all 27 countries already now, the countries of the north east europe, in particular the baltic states, also in finland, says the possibility that they, as bordering countries that have borders with russia, will have their own rules, which are already stricter . estonia has already completely canceled russian tourist visas to finland, which was limited to

latvia, and lithuania also says about restrictions that is, we have such a two-way two-way street of europe in solving this issue regarding tourist visas for russians, other important developments on monday, a mission of megate inspectors went to ukraine, which should conduct an assessment of the situation on zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant bohdana, what exactly are the tasks of the mission who is going and what can be expected from this visit, we understand that rafael rossi is going, he is the head of megate, in the photo where he announces his trip to a total of 14 people and his message, in particular, on his twitter, he proclaims that they are going to protect the largest nuclear power plant in europe, it is very difficult to imagine what this group of actually civilians can do, who are completely dependent on russia letting them into this power plant, which has been occupied since march

will not let it go, but at least this is the first time in almost six months that there will be outside independent eyes that will be able to tell the world more precisely what the situation is really like there, what are the threats to security, and probably based on this, the international community will continue to demand certain actions from russia, for now the most telling about the demilitarization of this npp, of course, from washington, more about the disagreements among european leaders regarding visa restrictions for russians and in which direction european diplomacy is leaning on this issue in the story oleksiy kovalenko, the airspace of the european

union, as well as the united states and other countries, has been closed to flights from russia for almost six months as part of international sanctions in response to the russian invasion of ukraine, however, russian citizens still have the opportunity to travel west through third countries and cross the borders of neighboring states and to travel further in the eu without hindrance, some european countries decided to limit or completely ban the issuance of tourist visas to citizens of russia, such ideas were supported in estonia finland, the czech republic, lithuania, latvia, poland and denmark, the former minister of foreign affairs of lithuania, lina slinkevichu, said that if the european union supported the ban on tourist wars for russians, it would be a historic decision, well done. it would be a historic event, if the european union collectively adopted this decision, it would be effective. what we offer from the very beginning, we have not issued visas since march, visas

were issued to russians exclusively for humanitarian purposes. for example, if someone is seeking asylum, but since then we have not issued visas at all. we support of our colleagues, hoping that there will be a solution at the level of the european union, frankly, i have doubts that this will be achieved. there are too many objections and skepticism from some countries, one of the countries that are skeptical of the ban is germany . putin, not the russians , it was important for us to introduce sanctions against those who are responsible for the war of many oligarchs and those who receive financial and economic benefits from the putin regime, and we will continue to do it but i believe that this is not the war of the russian people - it is putin's war and here we have to be very clear, it is important for us to understand that many people are fleeing from russia because they do not agree with the russian regime, they left for

many european countries and countries around russia, so the decisions we make should not complicate their path to freedom and leaving the country to escape from the authorities and dictatorship in russia, in finland, which has already reduced the number of tourist visas for russians by 90%, they hold a different opinion ordinary russians did not start the war, but at the same time, we must realize that they support the war, in my opinion, it is wrong that russian citizens can travel, enter europe, enter the schengen zone, be tourists, look at monuments, while russia is killing people in ukraine, this is wrong and we must discuss this is in the european council. we should discuss this in the schengen area. what should we do with this issue? the ex-minister of foreign affairs of lithuania agrees with the position of the prime minister of finland and calls for restrictions on tourist trips. i am forming sanctions that could work sanctions are not

working as well as we would like it will be eventually something should start working and this something could be travel let them travel around red square while the war is going on and this would be a kind of signal that something is wrong after bucha and kremenchuk, there was no reaction, the confusion began when they realized that they could lose schengen visas , they saw that something was wrong. i agree with the prime minister of finland, our estonian friends, visas are not human rights, they are privileges as the war continues no matter what they should stop traveling during the summer holidays and think more about what their country is doing in the world today and they are part of it not all of them are directly involved but they are part of this crime it is a collective responsibility to say the least the minister of foreign affairs of estonia confirmed

the country's decision to ban the issuance of visas to russians , pointing to their moral responsibility as citizens of the aggressor country, and the former president of estonia drew historical parallels between the russian tourists and with the nazis during world war ii we believe that if you invaded a country you should not have the privilege of traveling in europe an analogy would be if the nazis went to miami in 1940 before the united states entered world war ii it was b is quite funny and it is quite funny that russian tourists can come here and have a good time besides in many countries including estonia they persecute ukrainian refugees i think this is disgusting and unscrupulous rude behavior you have a visa for you to visit europe and you go and persecute ukrainians who were forced to flee

their country, this is disgusting, the opinion of the former president of estonia is shared by david tulik, an analyst of the european values ​​research center, according to him, visa restrictions for russians are a form of co-responsibility that citizens of russia must bear in the 1930s years, was hitler the only one who started all these wars? also, he did not have the support of german society, and here this analogy to russia is very clear and one cannot say that it is a war this is putin, i think few people in europe will say that anymore. no, this is the war of putin's russia, as it was once the war of fascist hitler's germany, which had the support of its own citizens of the societies, and the argument that it is about collective guilt is false, it seems to me that it is better to talk about it here what i asked earlier is the co-responsibility of these people, these citizens, shoved what is their government, who is their president, the

covid pandemic has become one of the biggest travel restrictions in the world, the ex-minister of foreign affairs of lithuania's affairs, the restriction is compared to the new pandemic in which russia is to blame during the pandemic despite the schengen zone despite all the rules, countries implemented their decisions at the national level by closing their borders, now i am another pandemic in which putin is to blame vaccination may not have been invented yet therefore, certain measures must be taken in the opinion of the link, it seems that the european union is unlikely to make a single decision to ban or limit tourist visas for russians, but many european countries are making this decision individually pointing out the moral responsibility of russians for russia's war oleksiy kovalenko kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america master classes production of plays and tea parties with goodies this is the program of the children's and family leisure club family circle in dnipro since

the beginning of the full-scale war in ukraine, the club's volunteers have visited the centers of displaced persons in the city and then invited them to their home for classes, how do they work in a family circle with immigrant children? oleksandr pashkaruk fills out a form to visit the family and children's leisure club, the woman registers herself and her nine-year-old daughter, sofia , for classes in the family circle, and the girl and her mother will attend three times a week. i am curious. it was the immigrants who were announced there. oleksandr zvandak worked as a policewoman in kramatorsk. now she patrols the streets of dnipro. where did she flee from the war ? it was hard to leave her home there.

the child was very worried when there were arrivals and it was audible, we live in our house and it is audible and in general she cried and that is why we decided that it is not possible for the psyche to sit there the first time for beginners in the club takes place in the playroom with a psychologist among the children and daughter oleksandry sofiyka pashkaruk volunteer psychologist oksana togobytska finds out children's preferences and abilities music it 's some kind of musical sound yes a frog is called that the first one we got to know each other in a playful way eh because the children are all new here so eh the second exercise in we were there to understand how different we all are and at the same time we are all the same there are the same things the same there are different things yes and it is very nice and

if we are all the same like clones because it will not be interesting to live sofiyka is active and communicative in her native class in the city, the girl studied at a choreographic school at a rehearsal, she was driven by one of the grandmothers who lived with her daughter and granddaughter, both of sofiyka's grandmothers stayed in kramatorsk, and her favorite cat was there. without my dear home, my animals. they were left behind at my grandmother's house. i really want my grandmother. my two dear grandmothers came to us because they can't leave the house because

they will miss it more than in the other room. the children who constantly visit the club are currently working. with paper and scissors, they have an origami master class, uh, i wanted to make my hair green, but here in the portraits, what color can you give it ? i teach needlework, volunteer nataliya panchenko, i teach origami or plastic paper, and here i hear children, what it is to do with your own hands is very, very nice gifts and simply when we do something we talk we even learn to communicate with each other family club circle works in the dnipro for three years here they paint they put on performances they do ceramics and handicrafts they are most proud of they work with a unique technique of decorating the pattern on the fabric with a punch. this is such a stamp,

paint is applied to it, then it is transferred to the fabric, it is struck with a hammer through this punch. why is it punched? in order for the paint to pass through the weaving of fabric, the family circle is cared for by the charitable foundation school of health and joy. and you, the refugees and immigrants, started here on the first day of the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine on february 24. we started working in the dnipro on february 24 . children held master classes with them. we baked buns, larks cakes, did everything we could . the people were from volnovakha, mariupol. in one of the german cities they collected almost 4,000 euros for their ukrainian peers and gave them to organize leisure activities and treats for small visitors of the family circle of yaroslav movchang and

dudko for the voice of america dnipro ukraine very first time our next story is about a person who tries to comfort millions of ukrainian children who because of the war found themselves in in bomb shelters , and ukrainian storytellers sashko lirnyk and oleksandr vlasyuk do it far from their native home, being hundreds of kilometers away from them, recently his film cossack christmas or hell's banner showed as part of the ukrainian film festival in new york, my colleague natalya churikova spoke with oleksandr vlasyuk, it is a great luck that we managed to shoot such a film, which has not been seen in ukraine for a long time, and i am convinced that, first of all, we are not only in new york it was shown unsuccessfully it is shown at the festival of asian cinema this is the only film that was asked to be shown twice because everyone liked it we won at the international festival of children's films a topic that is close to me why well because i

grew up on it the topic of cossacks in the family our father told me that we found my roots, i have the order great-great-great-great-grandfather ivan the owner last name ivasyuk patronymic ivan the owner was er in the cossack register in 1534 recorded this is the first hundredth regiment of lieutenant jan reshkevych therefore yes the pedigree is such is the father historian in in our family , the cossacks themselves are highly valued and respected - this is not the whole of ukraine, of course, but without the cossacks of ukraine, it would not be that breath of will, breath of such fearlessness, that's what is happening now. it is these cossack genes, as the first wrote, i am a people in my i lived cossack blood for three and roared during the war

, the ukrainian fairy tale is engaged in. oh, a very broad question. and it takes a long time to tell. the first days of the week, i was very stunned, well, everyone was like that, you know, and the depression was severe. i don't know what to do in the army. well, what can i do? i had funds that i collected for the publication of my book on a new level of poker. by the way, the book should have been published . a good person who advised me and invited me and i have been working with evacuated children almost since the beginning of the war, those whose parents were killed or orphans, those who were refugees turned to me , one mother turned to me. they were sitting in bomb shelters, they were scared, the children were crying, and i called them on the phone i told fairy tales, they calmed down a little, and then there will be many such children. i created my own

phone, i did not share the video channel. they helped me equip the studio, first in a barn, then in someone's basement . every day, every day, i recorded fairy tales. broadcast live and the children watched all over the place. the first two or three months were the most difficult. it was my job and a lot of support. thank you very much . what is this to me about my stories? they somehow managed to keep a rivet in their heads . they were not so afraid. that is , this is my work. it is freely available on youtube, and of course i am writing. i am already writing some stories. the script has already been checked. now they are submitting their script to the netflix competition, which the new government in ukraine did not miss. patriotic they don't like the scripts and i looked at netflix there will also be a new fairy tale about the cossacks patriotic called turn over many children went abroad and i know- i announce that i am ready

to send them these fairy tales so that i can send them i made such a block of 4 or 5 hours of fairy tales with music with songs like this well, it's like a cartoon but listen to all my cds i collected one album and i'm sending it i sent somewhere more than five thousand i just don't count and people receive and thank you very much what you know before the war it was not appreciated it seemed that she is always here, you know how when there is bread, i don’t want it. and when there is no bread, i want it, and they immediately rush here. and where can i get it? and there are no books in germany, or there in poland, or where they are sitting, or in spain? well, where a i sent and saw the books, i finished all the ones that have been passed, there are no longer all editions, and there are no new editions, for what money can they be printed, and i can make audio, there is internet, that's why i am sending this album, and now, by the way, i am writing a new story for those children, because according to the repositories with which did you

say uh, did you remember any of them? the story of some child, they are so hard, these stories. the main thing is that children perceive it as a part of their life. well, it was like that, but for me it is a horror. he listens that they didn’t cook it because he still feeds. well, i love borscht and i don’t have a truck driver. my grandmother used to cook borscht and they took me to the streets and killed me, and since then there have been no such things, they tell me such things, my soul is entering me now, i am crying a lot, they tell me many such things, we hold master classes, they learn to sculpt from clay, something else, such a thing , fairy tales in pages, a player, well, children need give childhood, you understand, even during the war, they are with us. they somehow, well, move away from this, from these horrors. i won’t say where it is, because another rocket will fly from the muscovites, let it be a secret. and the girl and her mother are there. oh, what a beautiful clay cup, mother, let’s buy it. well mom, as always, as with any channel. oh, we have so much at home. mom, what have you forgotten? she

is gone. i think they were bombed. well, this is part of our ukrainian life. we have to survive, survive, and finally escape from those from the moscow occupation, and maybe our children live like this. the question is the future, there are many children from the east, there are many children from the east, and there are many russian speakers, but they are with us. and i support them with all my might and said the ukrainian word, everyone applauded, he is already looking forward to the future, the future must be ukrainian, well, nation of warriors, nation of cossacks, we are ukrainians