winter is expected to be tough and so we need to continue to supply weapons and ammunition and winter clothing tents generators and special winter equipment partly because the size of the ukrainian army has increased so much that they need more winter equipment and nato is particularly focused on how we can provide the ukrainian army with tens of thousands of sets of winter uniforms, the successes of the ukrainian forces on the battlefield were also noted by the head of the pentagon, lloyd austin, who, after the meeting of the contact group in the rammstein format, arrived at in prague, he met with the minister of defense of the czech republic and once again emphasized that the united states will support ukraine in its fight against russia as long as it is necessary, and we will talk more about the visit of the head of the pantheon to the czech republic with radio liberty correspondent sashko shevchenko, who is joining us from prague. sashko welcomes please tell me more about how the us defense minister

assessed the ukrainian counteroffensive in the south and east of the country. actually , not only louis dostin arrived in prague from the american rammstein air base, but also the minister of defense of the czech republic, jana chernokhova herself, and actually today, both ministers seem to have continued yesterday's discussion on how to coordinate further military assistance to ukraine. well, as rammstein noted, he already noted the notable successes of the ukrainian armed forces on the battlefield, which became possible thanks to military support from ukraine's partners and today, answering the questions of journalists in prague, he actually confirmed that the armed forces of ukraine taki are advancing in the kherson region and are partially advancing in the kharkiv region it should be noted that this statement was made this morning even before the appearance of new photos on which the ukrainian army allegedly advanced even deeper in kharkiv oblast

. things like anti-harm radar missiles to start shaping the combat space so that they change the dynamics on the battlefield so we see success in kherson region we see some success in kharkiv region and this is very inspiring. today in prague, both heads of defense departments assured that they will continue to provide ukraine with the necessary weapons so that kyiv can continue to defend its sovereign territories, however, just like yesterday at the rammstein-style meeting, and today in prague, journalists were left with the question why the west does not is in a hurry to provide ukraine with long-range attack missiles that can hit enemy targets at a distance of more than 300 km, and which kyiv has repeatedly asked the west to provide, today at the

press conference lloyd dostin explained what is wrong it is important what kind of weapons the usa provides to ukraine, and first of all, what is important is the effect that can be achieved on the battlefield thanks to this weaponry. this is how he commented on the journalist's question about providing atakams. well, he also said that he is in constant contact with the minister of defense oleksiy reznikov. listens to all the requests of the ukrainian side, let's position ourselves according to this development of events. and i have one more question for you. shift, how widespread are such sentiments in czech society now and are there risks that such demonstrations can somehow affect the support of the czech republic for ukraine after for the balls and meeting with a colleague from the states in your country is taking place against the background of certain political turbulence at home, part of the population is worried because of high gas prices and due to inflation last saturday, as you mentioned

, more than 70,000 checks came out on wenceslas square in prague, this is according to the calculations of the local police, according to the protesters, problems have arisen in the economy precisely because of the actions of the czech government in support of ukraine, and among the demands of the protesters was to stop the supply of weapons to ukraine and lift sanctions from russia, however, i assured chernokhov today, answering the questions of journalists, that the course of the czech government in support of ukraine will not change despite the dissatisfaction with the czechs, let's listen to them our government has also taken it, we must communicate better, we must communicate better with the czech people regarding the energy crisis, explain to people what happened, putin attacked ukraine and he manipulates countries who are concerned about the continuity of gas supplies and the rise in energy prices, this is a homework task for the czech government to improve this communication, we will by no means change our foreign policy, you

mentioned that the president of the czech republic mezezel, who used to be noted for his pro-russian statements, and for how long such a mood can affect the support of ukraine itself. which will come already on september 23-24, and already at the beginning of next year there were presidential elections, so we will observe the public opinion of the czech republic , we will really examine this as well, and thank you for the inclusion . britain bids farewell to queen elizabeth ii , who ruled the throne for 70 years. today, the new king charles iii addressed the nation, vowing to continue the queen's legacy and serve

his people with love and respect. let's talk more about this with bohdan tsyupin, who is joining us now from london. bohdan, i congratulate you. the death of the queen was a shock for many people. tell us what kind of atmosphere is planned in london today and what will be the ceremony of farewell to elizabeth ii. i think a lot of british people, in particular, in personal conversations uh, say that even surprisingly for themselves, uh, many woke up today with a feeling of a much deeper loss than perhaps it was perceived the day before when there was an official announcement about that died is a woman who lived as long as possible many others would wish 96 years he lived a great and also a successful life, which was

announced today by her son and the current king of great britain, charles the third, who also promised that he will repeat it - what his mother was doing, he offered life service or life service and as for the farewell itself, i would say farewell how has this not started yet because people are coming and in particular you see the crowds around buckingham palace in london to reveal their sorrow so that it is possible to be together with like-minded people on this day, when probably many of them are surrounded by sorrowful thoughts, but the actual ceremonies have not even been announced yet, we do not yet know exactly when the queen's body will be here in london, but we know that it will be and the citizens will be able to leave there to pay their

respects to the entire ministerial palace , the date of the state funeral has not even been announced yet, and now they are missing the fact that there are probably ongoing negotiations between the states so that as many world leaders as possible can come here to you can visit london, by the way, the man of the white house that joe biden also plans to attend the funeral of queen bohdane, you already mentioned one more question, so now the throne is already headed by king charles iii or charles iii in ukraine, there is currently a discussion about what to call him, explain how it is still correct because we will talk a lot about him in the near future, and i will say that now there have been supporters of the ancient tradition according to which the names of kings were translated, adapted to what can be said more or less german manner, in particular, this the tradition of the history of geography was very well established in

moscow and, for example, now russian sources call the king of england the new king charles iii because according to that tradition, his predecessors, for example, were also charles the first and charles the second, but the fact is that many many linguists and observers believe that history is changing. for us, charles is not a person who appeared out of nowhere. we knew him for decades as prince charles. the world is becoming more crowded. more people in the world now speak english, which has become the world language. language, and therefore the name charles is very well-known, familiar and understandable to many people, and most ukrainian sources of ukrainian-language sources now use the name charles, not karl bohdana, but what do they

expect from the new monarch in britain now? i think they expect a continuation of what i did what could queen elizabeth ii do? and that's a lot and a lot. she managed to strengthen the monarchy , this very ancient institution in a modern state, and despite the fact that her powers are only very, very symbolic, the fact that she exercised them impeccably raised the bar to which the new monarch, the new king of england, charles iii, must now measure up, this bar is very, very high, the demands on him will be very high, and how he will behave, how he will show himself, probably depends on this as well the fate of the monarchy itself

in great britain, we will follow bohdan. i think we will return to this topic several times with you on the air, thank you and for your explanation, i will remind you that bohdan tsyupin was with us on a direct call from london , russia's war against ukraine caused direct damage and destruction for 97 billion dollars. and the total needs for restoration reach almost 350 billion. in addition to the structure, this includes demining, restoration of living conditions, transportation, etc., such an assessment of the joint report that the government of ukraine, the european commission and the world bank presented in brussels, where the money will come from and whether russia will pay reparations and also who will control the huge costs oksana bedratenko spoke with bruce stous and from the german marshall fund for this week they issued recommendations for the promotion of reconstruction ukraine, in the new report of the german marshall fund, you

present a vision of the reconstruction of ukraine, how to transform ukraine from a country suffering from war into a democratic european state. by preparing the report, we spoke with the world bank, the international monetary fund, the officials of the european union, germany and the united states, and we believe that the reconstruction should begin while the war is still going on. and when we talk to ordinary people and even politicians, they say how is this possible . it is not yet known, the ukrainian government is talking about 750 billion. some ukrainian scientists say that 100 billion is needed immediately. to be honest, such figures scare off donors because they are very large. at the beginning, a large part of the funds will come from the usa, but we

say that there will be a lot of funds. the eu will consider joining the european union. officials the eu is understood in theory. but i am not sure whether they understand what sums are involved in their world. you say a lot that the european union should play a leading role in the economic recovery of ukraine and even already now give guarantees for ukraine to the imf, similar to those received by greece at one time, is europe ready for this? to be honest, they do not know whether there is unity even in the us government in this regard. i hope our recommendations will become the basis of the process, but the european union will be forced to increase its obligations, as far as i am concerned it is known that there is a certain opposition in the eu as to how to do it, whether the european union will increase its common debt to borrow these funds, they did this before to overcome the pandemic, the fight against climate change, the increase of the military

expenses, however, every time germany and some scandinavian countries oppose it because no one likes joint debt, so it is not yet clear where to get such funds. now, obviously, there are russian funds of $300 billion frozen in the accounts of the russian central bank abroad. can these funds be directed to the reconstruction of ukraine? i know that politicians on both sides of the ocean would like to use these funds, then there is no need to take money from taxpayers, you can simply take away russian assets, but all the experts we spoke with say that this is hardly possible and the case has been stuck in the courts for years, we proposed that in the peace agreement there should be an opportunity to direct part of these funds to the reconstruction of ukraine, it is obvious that the russians must agree to this, i frankly

did not talk to the russians about this, but i guess that at the moment they will not agree the west strongly supports ukraine. but what about china, what about other players who want to join the future of ukraine, and it is quite possible that one day the chinese will appear in kyiv and say we will write you a check. and you only you have to use chinese technology and chinese workers and we will rebuild ukraine for you now it seems a little unrealistic because of the proximity of moscow and beijing but we recommend to think about china's participation if they want first china has deep pockets and also it is better that they are inside the tent and not from the outside, there are also the countries of the middle east and the persian gulf, rich in ukrainian oil, may want to play a role in the reconstruction of ukraine, we know that turkey would very much like its large construction the company took part, it is up to the group of seven to understand

that someone will fill this void and those who provide resources will have an impact... ukraine has chronic problems, it is corruption, lack of rule of law, how to solve these problems and achieve successful european integration . the corruption that existed in ukraine before the war is staggering, we propose that supervision be carried out by a special ombudsman. we also point out that ukraine has already strengthened the fight against corruption, but on the way to it would be useful for the european union and the ukrainian government to immediately join the eu prosecutor's office, which would allow for close cooperation and receive european assistance in monitoring the fight against corruption and prosecuting violators. such an ombudsman would regularly report to the public . civil society should also play a very important role. this is in many cases

more effective because representatives of civil society sees corruption where law enforcement officers may not notice it, this was an interview with bruce stous and from the german marshall fund where this of the week issued recommendations on helping to rebuild ukraine, and almost three million ukrainians received help in a different way thanks to the support of a charitable foundation from california, new ukraine was founded in 2014 by a group of local ukrainians, and initially a full-scale invasion background collected 40 million dollars in donations from a small volunteer organization of new of ukraine has turned into a large institution that helps ukraine on a large scale, khrystyna shevchenko will tell the region around san francisco is called silicon in the valley here are the offices of the world leaders of the it industry, google, facebook, apple and numerous technological startups, and it was in the silicon valley that the

public organization nova ukraine was born. my name is ostap kurkuma, i am the co-founder, i am the co-chairman of the organization nova ukraine, a co-founder and member of the board of directors of nova ukraine , a google employee, nik belogorsky but the company people ay ostap kurkuna combines not only the ukrainian origin and the career of the industrial industry of nik from kharkiv and ostap from lviv united the desire to help the motherland is precisely why they founded a new country in these more than four months, the organization has grown very strongly in terms of fundraising, probably 100 times in terms of the number of people who help us , probably at 8:30 p.m. if you count people in ukraine as partner volunteers, we have

more than 3,000 of them if you count only america because we have people in canada and in mexico there are about three hundred of them ukraine europe ostap and nick founded the organization in 2014 during the euromaidan on that for a while they worked together on facebook and were active participants of the san francisco maidan movement for the purpose of a new project to support civil society and democratic reforms in ukraine. for 8 years, the organization was engaged in educational and humanitarian projects . up to 30 volunteers, most of them employees and industries, such as an employee of meta, better known by its old name facebook igor markov, had a fairly strong organization and network before the war, and we started in 2013

year, and because we understood that ukraine would need help, we understood that not everyone believed. i was personally convinced that the war would begin . to some extent, i wanted to make sure that this would not happen. the russian invasion of ukraine forced me to act very quickly. well, i remember it well. it was the 23rd. it was another day here in the united states. if i'm not mistaken, it was evening, or even night. well, they celebrated these events first. what did we do we right away, a rally was held in the center of san francisco, and literally a rally that was

organized in a few hours, gathered there, i don't remember, but thousands of people, because everyone, just like us, celebrated according to the events and did not sleep, and the shock of the war in the first for a few days and then a week, as it was so big, i wanted to somehow help our actions, our protests on the streets of san francisco and fron jose on the campus of stamper university, they were quite sensitive and a lot of people came and did not help ukraine before, used social networks for collection donations, namely facebook, because they know the platform from the inside, we use being here in silicon valley, we use many technical solutions for raising funds for marketing for advertising from the very beginning, two of our founders, myself and ostap

, worked on facebook and we know well how facebook works, use facebook we a -and we used facebook as a platform and on this platform we ran ads. people would still see it and our fundraisers and in the first days we collected a million dollars every day for more er donations of ordinary people who simply responded and wanted from all over the world, the usa not only helped to somehow get involved not only about the rallies of the new ukraine and the collection of donations, numerous american media reported the amount of donations rapidly ruslan and challenged to use these funds effectively, people were also needed, many new people for assistance and organization of processes were not established, processes were not established, logistics were not established, people who wanted to donate something or even organizations that wanted to donate something, we did not know how to send it the logistics company passed. yes, but we understood that

we had to solve this problem, we had no choice and we started to solve it. we started looking for ways to send us goods from europe to warehouses in europe in ukraine where we can send people and already in the first week after the war the first week after the war, there were 100 or 200 of us, and we had to somehow strengthen the organization of people, we had to divide them into teams for projects, and then we began to outline what we would do, the organization began to develop according to the principle of a startup, appeared individual projects, directions for the supply of medical materials, assistance with evacuation, reconstruction of destroyed cities and infrastructure, rescue of animals, micro-grants for small businesses, each direction is managed by a separate person, the name of the organization became recognizable among large corporations in silicon valley. one of our volunteers visited microsoft and made a very captivating speech

after which microsoft raised the rate, that is, for every $100 that their employees donated to the new ukraine, microsoft donated several times more, and to jack it is still the former author. wrote a check for a million dollars, according to igor , many famous people who asked that their names remain anonymous joined the collection of donations in the new kraim, the game itself on facebook launched a project to combat russian disinformation, the first maternity hospital in the city of mykolaiv received a portable ultrasound machine from the nova ukraina company in 5 months war, the organization helped more than two million ukrainians, the largest project, new ukraine, medical assistance, in which volunteers deliver tactical medicine to ukraine equipment for hospitals, ambulances,

we help many hospitals in ukraine, that means more than 140, probably more than 150 , now another big project is help with evacuation, new ukraine buys transport and fuel for volunteers who take refugees from hot spots, the organization also helps a lot with the reconstruction of destroyed or damaged homes of ukrainians, the number of volunteers and projects increased so much that the organization opened an office in kyiv, 20 employees in the kyiv office, a single staff of the new ukraine who receives a salary, all the others work for free ostap nik and ihor occupy high positions in their companies, like other directors or volunteers of the new ukraine, they combine their main working hours with work in the organization that they call their family, lately they say that there are signs of fatigue and

those people who joined the first e-e first have to work even more. they still continue to work despite the fact that everyone is on the verge of burnout, and is it possible that someone has already burned out several times during this time glory to ukraine heroes glory to ukraine what i see is that donations are falling every month in the plan of the americans, the topic is getting out of hand and we have to work harder to draw attention , then you draw attention to this and sometimes at joint events and more often they work online , they publish financial reports every week and every two weeks, the whole team calls to present a report on their work .

corruption and humanitarian aid, these three directions are our mission, but now our mission has become even shorter to help ukrainians and regardless of whether they are in ukraine or anywhere in the world, we see thanks from people who we give them food we give them e -e medicines we somehow help them to continue life, but in fact, probably the most important thing is to give them hope that they are not alone and they remember and they are needed and life goes on and that we leave some faith in victory after that we understand that this everything is not just like that, in five and a half months, nova ukraine collected more than 40 million us dollars and 10 million dollars in non-monetary donations of medicines and equipment san franciscopallo alto california

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