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we will watch the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, time is with you nataliya leonova greetings more than a million people gathered in the center of london to pay their last respects to queen elizabeth ii, who died on september 8 at the age of 96. the farewell ceremony was attended by representatives of more than 100 states, including us president joe biden, who became the 14th american president during 70 years on the throne of queen elizabeth, to say goodbye to the monarch at the all-minster cathedral, he called her a person of honor devoted to the service of the people from ukraine, to pay their last respects to the queen, and the prime minister of ukraine, denys , arrived shmyhal and first lady olena zelenska, who attracted a lot of attention of the british media, russia, belarus, syria and venezuela, the british government did not invite the queen to the funeral near buckingham palace at the moment our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin is here. he is joining your studio. congratulations

bohdan. so for the nation. this is a historic moment. you can see everything in london with your own eyes. tell me what happened today in the british capital and how the farewell ceremony with the queen is going. well, i am now in central london and how are you? you see it 's already dark here, the day is ending and the main events related to the funeral of queen elizabeth ii have ended, that is, now. as we know , a private ceremony is taking place in the windsor of the castle. this is further from e than from london, which is attended only by members of the royal family. and what we saw today in london some ani. a new era of bohdana is beginning. ukraine was represented at the queen's state funeral by the first lady olena zelenska

. after all, since the beginning of full-scale russian aggression against ukraine, the president zelenskyi is not leaving the country, the first lady attracted the attention of the british media. what was heard in london from elena zelenskyi and how was she received in regards to who was received? i think that it is as respectful as delegations of more than a hundred countries, i.e. olena zelenska was part of the ukrainian delegation, which also included prime minister denys shmyhal and the ambassador of ukraine prystaiko was in this group, which in particular was here in the vestry hall yesterday on behalf of the ukrainian people, zelenska said that she had the honor to say goodbye to queen elizabeth ii, who, according

to her, shared the values ​​that ukrainians are currently fighting for, namely, freedom , the right to have one's own culture, one's own language and she said about her state in an interview with a british television or corporation, but since ukraine is actually fighting for its survival against russian aggression, the attention to mrs. zelenska, i would say, is special, maybe a little more than to many other countries, and in particular her meeting with the princess of wales, catherine appeared on the pages of many british newspapers bohdana, we know denys shmyhal, the prime minister of ukraine had a separate meeting with the new minister of foreign affairs of great britain , james cleverley, what do you know about this meeting well

as for the meetings, it is obvious that there is an occasion for such a meeting, even such a sad occasion, after all, it is an opportunity for statesmen to at least get to know each other, but at least to see each other, we don't know what exactly the ukrainian prime minister talked about. with the new minister of foreign affairs of great britain, but probably for future contacts, it is important, we know , for example, that mr. shmyhal met with the prime minister of canada, mr. trudeau, and he said a little more about this, saying that they discussed, for example, the issue of military and other aid to ukraine, as well as the need to hold russia to international responsibility for war crimes committed by such soldiers on

ukrainian territory, now there is a lot of talk about the need to create an international tribunal specifically in order to establish justice and for russia to suffer punishment, but as for some broader negotiations, it is obvious that this is not quite the place, not quite the occasion for official meetings at which some decisions would be approved as we already mentioned earlier that russia was not invited to the queen's funeral, how symbolic or not is this decision, what does it actually signal well, i think that the signals here are obvious, that is, literally a handful of ukraine were not invited to this funeral, that is, it is about russia, it is about belarus, myanmar, syria, etc. venezuela, and we see that russia was put on the same

level as, for example, belarus, where president lukashenka is considered illegitimate, in fact, he is not recognized as such that russia was put on the same level as syria, with which with the government of bashar al-assad no, great britain does not support diplomatic relations at all, and in fact does not recognize it as a legitimate authority. great britain also does not recognize the military junta that seized power there and holds it by force, that is, the signal is obvious. russia is an aggressor towards ukraine, but not only the ukrainian issue obviously put russia in such a situation. we know about the attacks for which

russia is blamed for the use of nerve agent in salisbury. in great britain, russia is blamed responsibility for the murder of oleksandr lytvynenko with a terrible poison some time ago , that is, russia found itself in very bad company. thank you bohdan for this information. i will remind you that our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin was in direct contact with us from london. four international vessels as part of the implementation of the grain initiative on monday , september 19 since the grain agreement became operational on august 1, 169 vessels have left ukrainian ports which exported almost 4 million tons of ukrainian agricultural products

to the countries of asia, europe and africa. now on a direct connection from odesa, we are joined by my colleague myroslava gongadze, who came to the city to see how the grain shipment is going. congratulations myroslava congratulations natalya i want myroslava tell me what you saw in odesa port and in general, how is the implementation of the grain initiative going, only tomorrow it will actually arrive, we will shoot these ships that went to the ports more today and they will have already entered and will load the next portion of grain and i want to say that there is new information about the fact that in fact more than four million tons have already been loaded, and as the minister of infrastructure of ukraine told me yesterday, after all, for the month of august, practically all the plans for the shipment of grain were fulfilled, and he declares that the fact that the

grain agreement is actually working and ukraine was able to almost completely fulfill its tasks regarding the shipment of grain and plans to complete them already there in the nearest period of time means that you will unload all the grain that you planned so, uh, this grain is received by african countries, for sure, the majority of uh, well, of course, i asked him a question about the theft of uh, russian ukrainian grain by russia, and he states that they are trying to get this information from international partners and are actually trying to uh, stop all these all e-e post help once again on tools or supportive adults e-e metals myroslav

at the same time, we have a message that there is a lot of russian military equipment in the black sea region, in particular operational command the south said on monday that the russian federation keeps eight cruise missiles ready in the black sea. what caliber is your security situation at the moment? well, in fact, the security situation is quite difficult, although in fact the naval forces of ukraine were able to achieve this, so to speak, to not give the russians an opportunity. to be deployed from the sea, but as the commander-in-chief of the naval forces told me again in an interview, it is a shame that the ukrainian army does not speak ukrainian, and unfortunately there is no ukrainian here long-range in order to destroy these firing points from which the russians are shelling ukraine. and

this is a huge problem. if ukraine had these and these weapons, there would be a completely different security situation in the black sea. and that is exactly what they are asking the world community for today . the states, in particular, said this to both the commander-in-chief and the minister of infrastructure of ukraine, anatoliy myroslava, obviously the key component of grain exports in particular and the recovery of the economy in general is the state of the infrastructure, as you already mentioned, you had an opportunity to personally talk with the minister of infrastructure oleksandr kurbakov, what are the current losses from the war in the infrastructure and what will be the priorities for its reconstruction natalya, i understand that we have very little time, let's listen to what the minister said, he would define priorities and one of them is the reconstruction of the style of the railway, but let's let's listen to what he said. in fact, before

signing the grain initiative, we had already started doing a lot of things in terms of exports, first of all, to develop the danube cluster. those volumes that were not there even in soviet times, all these three ports that were almost dying there, especially renny, are now showing extraordinary results there for comparison. there we had exports of agricultural products, for example, in march, approximately 300 thousand tons, but now in donetsk, they exported 1.6 million tons in august in other words, we see that well, we are developing, we are growing. if we talk about the grain initiative, of course, we also see positive dynamics, to date, almost 4 million tons have been exported in total, at the beginning of the initiative's actions in september already almost 2 million exclusively with three three desks of greater odesa, this is illichivsk - this is odesa, this is pivdenny. thank you

myroslava for this information. st. andrew's cathedral of the ukrainian orthodox church in maryland. one of the largest ukrainian festivals in the usa takes place here. visitors discover ukrainian culture and participate in traditional activities this year in ukrainian stars oksana bilozir and ruslana m took part in the festival. how the annual festival has changed in the wake of the russian war. see more in the story of kateryna lisova. the annual festival of great washington has been organized for 20 years, but this year, after the full-scale invasion of the russian federation into ukraine, it received a new purpose and a new meaning, according to the organizers and the participants of the festival and the number of people are many times more than i see before. and it is impressive. i have already

talked to many people here as americans and ukrainians in general. people from all over the world come to support ukraine . 10,000 people here in three days are very, very exciting, and now i understand that there are at least three times as many here, and because for every ukrainian i think now plus two three two three people from ukraine we it was announced that we asked people to come and see ukrainian culture, get to know it and see how unique it is and understand why ukrainians are fighting . events are attended not only by people leaving ukraine, but also by ordinary americans who want to learn more. about ukrainian culture and also to support ukraine is like star wars i came of course to support it is really sad and terrible what is happening in ukraine they deserve

freedom it is first of all i came to show my support through the war because it is a terrible thing that what is happening besides that i want to know the culture we understand what is happening now so the least we can do is come and support we learned what it is called a wreath these wreaths were not cheap but i said okay, in the end, this is for charity. glory to ukraine , i support what she said with the urban culture and dance ensembles from new york and the stars of ukrainian music. because our war does not last 10 years. only our war is 100

years . and we are the fifth generation of ukrainians who have such a mission to finally end this century-old war with a victory for you now, in fact, since the maidan, i have not changed the format that we have adopted for ourselves, we decided and agreed, we volunteers here i must apologize to all of us probably didn't talk about it loud enough for 8 years. but today i'm trying to make my voice strong enough so loud that it's impossible not to hear me for our word o-o-o year the parish of the ukrainian orthodox church of st.

andrew in the washington area was founded in 1949 , today its parishioners and many other communities rallied around opposing russian aggression , according to the organizers, part of the earned funds will go to help ukraine, in particular, the money will be allocated from the purchased tickets from the sold dumplings volunteers glued 20,000 golubts, which made 4,000 uah and other sales that continued during the festival kateryna lisunova bohdan osyka and kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america washington among ukrainian organizations in the united states that help ukraine resist russian aggression, a special place is occupied by the ukrainian congressional committee of america, it is one of the oldest of us associations whose purpose is to represent and protect the interests of the ukrainian community in the united states at both the federal and local levels

the organization has no party affiliation, this allows its members to defend the interests of the community and effectively cooperate with representatives of both parties, iryna solomko tells us, although the members of the ukrainian contrast committee of america are actively working in the american congress, the name of the organization has nothing to do with the us parliament, it comes from the first congress or convention of american ukrainians, during which the ucc was founded, then the event brought together more than 800 delegates from almost 190 places in the united states central an organization of the united states that represents the interests of almost 2 million communities living here in the united states, our structure includes more than 32 or thirty-three public organizations, as well as departments for the whole of america, and more than 45 years, we also have an

office in washington, the ukrainian national information service, where we actually organize all our e-e actions, all our cooperation with the american e-e government, and all the effort of our organization was to unite our own community, the main task is - it is for the community to speak with one voice as much as possible, so that our e-e sanatorium congressmen actually up to two party members understand that we are volumes bukaka membership has two organizational levels and the individual size of membership fees is quite symbolic 50 $ per year for a person and from 100 to 250 $ for the organization, it is important for the committee to attract volunteers, namely members, because a powerful number of low-level organizations and local branches gives the opportunity to cocoa and to be heard at the highest levels. so when we turn to politicians, to the mayor or we can say to the candidates, listen, we

immigrate such people and they even pay money and a day every year as members. the more we can show that we are collecting such a complete list, then the more influence we can have on behalf of our community andriy dobryansky one of of the leaders in cocoa new york and the spokesperson of the organization, he agreed with a well-known family of musicians, the evidential part of his life . they said to andrii, you can probably speak before the kemer or before the politicians. maybe it helped me, but i took it simply because i wanted to work more for our heritage. language and terminology, we must

respectfully retreat in the name of the men's community and we will not change certain words or language. or our statements from one year to the next, but we are aware of what and our stories, we know when we say that this is which law or such an event from the president or from a senator or someone. we were not satisfied with us. we can show the entire history of how our organized community spoke on such a topic to spread a common ukrainian position not only on the territory of the united states, but in the world of the upc together with a number of other organizations founded the world congress of ukrainians, in addition to the committee initiated the creation in washington of monuments to taras shevchenko and honoring the victims of the holodomor, and also created the committee to recognize the holodomor as genocide implements he and the educational projects of the 53rd year created

the school council with its own architect. e-e worked to cooperate with our american government, but also so that our communities would develop in their localities after ukraine gained independence, it was exactly who initiated the creation of the so -called ukrainian descriptions of groups to the party support of ukraine in the us congress and senate and the group senators - this is a group of cockers in which they take part, well, they took it upon themselves to consider all important relations and relations with ukraine, all the help among other tasks of the ucf. also, it notes cooperation with the ukrainian authorities, the committee does not always support the position of the authorities against the organization, advocates an active dialogue we are constantly in touch with her, she is

constantly coordinating everything. of a full-scale russian invasion directly lobbying the interests of ukraine, members of the ucc began by collecting funds for the provision of humanitarian aid in six months, the committee collected more than 10 million dollars, and this will also include e . we include a lot of socks in this amount, but we also have more than 20 separate departments that collected over 500,000, as well as cocoa, which has been in existence for 82 years, and plays an important role in the life of the community, i am convinced futei currently sees one of his main tasks as president to involve as much as possible representatives of the last wave of immigration iryna solomko voice

of america many ukrainian children this year, while their peers elsewhere in the world rested on summer vacation joined the defense of ukraine set up symbolic roadblocks sold harvest from the garden, they drank bracelets and baked goodies to collect money to help military adults, volunteers say that this is probably a ukrainian phenomenon, the activation of children to help homeland during the war, as in khmelnytskyi, children collected and continue to collect money for the needs of the armed forces , in particular, the thermal imager will tell tatyana kukurika , we are volunteers, this is eva, this is matvii, who is veronika, then alina, these children are seven years old. they are classmates , friends, and since february 24, they became volunteers, now there is a war and even now our country is helping us, this country is being weighed by the military and we are handing over to them all kinds of

doctors and so on that they did not die and the enemy did not come any further. you could also see it on the billboards of the city, later the children started selling their own toys, now they bake cookies, the peresagas came here so we take it , gingerbread, be careful, it’s not volunteers we want to sell cookies so much as to buy a thermal imager , they sell cookies and toys in the most crowded city good a day and how much is it, that’s how much it is here how much will you give my dad has been fighting since the first day and i want to help him in some way and my friends and i are selling toys to buy a thermal imager for the armed forces of ukraine be toys pass toys to help

of the military on february 24, arina's father went to the front after more than six months of war, she saw him several times, the girl, who was always daddy's daughter, misses and does everything so that her father will return sooner, the girl is supported in everything by her mother, every day she invents something, what she could, would she still be useful how quickly she could zoom in as she asks constantly and when dad comes back when dad comes back i say when the war ends and when the war ends when we will do everything to make it end in a few hours of trading the children collected more than 11 thousand hryvnias, these funds are part of the amount needed for the purchase of a thermal imager, in order to collect the entire amount, the children will organize another fair, keep it to you so that you can collect a lot many boys today, it is better good good during the summer, many ukrainian children collected

money to help the military 13-year-old before the full-scale invasion, nazar plaited bracelets and gave them to family and friends. at first, the products were simple and unremarkable. now the young man has a special tool and the bracelets turn out much better. when it rains, i decide to weave bracelets and to help the army, when i buy bracelets, they very often want to support and buy blue and yellow chopped funds. nazar spends on what is necessary for wounded soldiers for treatment or rehabilitation. the boy visits military hospitals with his mother. the boys have reviews, there are photos, there are postcards, there are such positive compliments that we thank you for the gas station. volunteers who have been working since 2014 do not remember that the children became so active then. i think that this is a phenomenon. not only there for ukraine or on a european

scale, but probably on a global scale, because we know how much, unfortunately, war happens in the world, but where can we analyze and see that children are included, go to events, do some useful things with their talents, do some useful things with their skills, no tetyana kukurika serhiy rybchynskyi for the voice of america from khmelnytskyi you watched the program of the ukrainian voice of america service time join our special parties on social networks on youtube and facebook at 18:00 kyiv time where you will be able to ask questions to our presenters and journalists live, the judge was nataliya leonova. thank you for your trust. take care, have a peaceful night. premium sponsor of the national football team of

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