but my country is really bright and colorful in the autumn, with a tank, write to my country that i covered myself with a soft blanket. wherever you are, you will always return home to your country. recognize any fictitious referendums that

the occupying russian authorities will hold in ukraine , pentagon spokesman petrahedron stated this during a briefing today, according to him, any fictitious referendums will not affect support for ukraine, and the united states will continue to work with ukraine and not to give it the necessary assistance, the allocation of an additional almost 12 billion dollars in aid to ukraine is discussed at special briefings behind closed doors in the us senate and house of representatives, military economic and humanitarian aid is discussed, lawmakers had the opportunity to listen to representatives of the administration, including deputy secretary of state victoria nulan and deputy of the minister of defense kolenia kal, who told them about the course of the war in ukraine and american aid, we will talk about all this with ostap i, who joins the studio from capitol hill congratulations ostape natalya i congratulate you so what are the reactions from official washington to the statements of the russian federation about the holding of referendums in ukraine by the russian occupation

authorities, today we also heard reactions from the white house, in particular, the us national security adviser jay sullivan stated that plans to hold referendums are a step of weakness and signs that russia has failed on the diplomatic and military front. he said that this is an encroachment on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine also based on the principles laid down in the charter of the united nations and said that russia, in the event of holding such referendums, could use it as a fictitious pretext for further annexation of these territories, however, he emphasized that the united states would never recognize such attempts to annex ukrainian regions, he said that these territories will be considered only ukrainian by the states and also the war. this is what the usa , together with its allies and partners, will impose in the event of holding such referendums or taking any other steps by russia expenses for the russian federation and will

continue, in particular, and unconditional support for ukraine , including how the pentagon reacted, we can really listen to the comment of the spokesman of the ministry of defense e. peter, which he also explained in this regard when it comes to holding effective referendums natalya, of course we already for some time they talked about the probability of holding these fictitious referendums and also about russia's efforts to create the ground for the annexation of ukrainian territory. we saw how they did it in the 14th year and they are doing approximately the same thing . first, their representatives, as we see now in the media, claim that they are going to hold a referendum, and then they will use it as a basis to try to claim the legitimacy of the point of view of the annexation of the sovereign ukrainian territory. in my opinion, this simply an information operation designed to divert attention from the difficult situation in which the russian army is now, but no one will

trust such fictitious referendums, and they definitely do not recognize the results of any fictitious referendums referendums, it will not affect us and the international support of ukraine, we will continue to work with ukraine and our international partners to provide them with the support they need to protect their territory. ostap jaksolin, whom you just quoted, also stated that putin may announce the mobilization of russia, which the us has information about indeed, we also heard about this today at a briefing in the white house - jake sullivan said that there really is such information, although he did not go into the details of american intelligence, he says that the united the states are also paying attention to public reports that mobilization may be announced in russia, and the united states takes such reports quite seriously and is closely monitoring the development of events, although jake server also said that such plans, as in the case of the plans to hold a referendum, indicate the fact that russia is experiencing

serious difficulties on the battlefield and now they are critically lacking, in particular, in personnel and military personnel, in particular against the background of ukraine's recent successes in the counteroffensive in the south and east of ukraine precisely therefore, the white house believes that putin needs to replenish his reserves, including replenishing the number of military personnel and sending an even greater number of military personnel to the war in ukraine, and in the opinion of the white house, it is not about general mobilization at the moment, it can be about partial mobilization if and this will be announced, but it will be carefully monitored. again, the white house condemned such plans and said that they would work together with their allies to provide an appropriate response to such announcements if they happen, and said that the united states, including will continue to provide ukraine with the necessary weapons systems that are needed to carry out a counteroffensive, which according to jack sally, it

was quite effective, these counteroffensive actions and the united states will not stop this assistance in any way, on the contrary, they will continue it . these are the reactions we heard about this matter in the white house today, batare ostapa says that about the additional assistance of the briefings to the senate regarding the provision of an additional almost 12 billion dollars to ukraine, they pass behind closed doors, but some information has already went to the american mass media, and tell us what you found out really further. last night , such a briefing was held behind closed doors for american senators. this morning, it was held for american congressmen. a congressman from the house of representatives. and kolen-kal, the deputy secretary of defense of the united states, something about the current course of the war in ukraine and what is the current and future support ms. support of the united states for ukraine this

was very important in the context of the request from the administration of the united states, however, to allocate an additional almost 12 billion to 11.7 billion for ukraine, and earlier in the media and from analysts there were concerns that perhaps not all republicans would be ready to support additional funding for of ukraine, what have we heard now? yes, we heard in the e-mails of individual legislators, in particular in the cnn commentary, that in principle the republicans are ready to support this additional funding, but questions may arise regarding i will remind you how the administration will vote for it, and the white house is asking you to vote for it for these additional expenses together with other and with other funding, in particular for health care in the united states. republicans, some senators say that in principle they are not against additional additional support for ukraine, but some of them is ready to vote separately from the general package, what can be included there, too, we do not yet know in this

11.7 billion, but according to sanatoriums, humanitarian, military and economic can be laid there support for ukraine democrats it looks like they are going to support regardless of whether this package will be considered separately in a pile with other funding and the question is how their colleagues from the republican party will vote as a whole it looks like there are currently no problems with the principled support of ukraine there may be questions regarding the voting procedure, how to vote and things like that, so we will be watching. do not approve, at least the children until some decision by the end of september, until september 30, then the deadline expires, so we will see how this situation will develop also on the capital hill . we will leave it at that, we will monitor the development of events . thank you for the detailed information, i will remind you

in direct contact with us from kapitori was ostap yarysh to recognize russia as a sponsor of terrorism and to increase aid to ukraine with these and other appeals to congress, activists from more than 30 public organizations from across america, a three-day event called ukrainian actions itself ukraine action was organized by one of the largest non-governmental organizations of the ukrainian diaspora, together activists meet with american legislators in the senate and the house of representatives and tell which ukrainian issues most concern their constituents today, iryna matviychuk and oleksii osyka saw how congresses advocate support for ukraine, congressman from new jersey tom malinovsky speaks before the community of activists who gathered at on the steps of the congress building in washington in a few

minutes. they will go to the offices of legislators to defend the issue of support for ukraine, and while the congressman assures them that the american people are together with ukraine, i want to support them because today in washington they will defend bills that provide for even greater support for ukraine , to introduce sanctions against russia close the american financial system to russian corrupt money help us seize russian assets in a way that helps for the restoration of ukraine, congressman malinovsky assures that he is ready to vote for recognition of russia as a sponsor of terrorism, this is one of the main issues. on the agenda of activists, one of our main priorities is for congress to recognize russia as a country sponsor. ugh, there are two reasons why this is important. this affects american politics in the long term. and this explains to the rest of the world that we do not tolerate what the russians are doing in ukraine.

we were disappointed when the presidential administration declared that it was not ready to recognize russia as a country sponsor of terrorism, but we believe there is still a chance that the white house will change its mind. the day before, two authoritative senators initiated a bill that requires the administration to declare russia a sponsor of terrorism, and the situation has changed dramatically after that. now in washington, everyone is saying that this can happen. organize together . mykola morskyi tells what is at the meeting. with the senators will explain that the recognition of russia as a sponsor of terrorism is not only a matter of justice, says that it is financially beneficial, this decision will allow russia to be removed from the law on sovereign immunity of foreign countries is a liberator of a very large amount of funds that will be available to help ukraine, for example, the white house the day before sent a request to congress to allocate 11.7 billion dollars with the help of ukraine, one of the potential

sources of this funding could be russian sovereign assets that are located here her untouchables until an exception to the law on sovereign immunity of foreign states is adopted 300 activists from more than 30 organizations registered, according to me, my state is california, where it is very active. although in the evening, i met a person who has an organization in hawaii to fly from hawaii to us , lawyers, doctors, activists, students, and retirees, people from all different positions, who play all different roles in society but united by one goal and these are things ukraine has won and there should be people who are ready to do good after a short speech by the congressman and

a joint photo, the activists are divided into groups at each of them, a schedule has already been drawn up and meetings with legislators have been arranged, we are joining a group from new york that is going to the office of the congressman from his state, hakeem jeffries, what will you talk about ? we will talk about stets sponsors, e-e designation, and about genocide , those are not easy questions, not easy topics, but we will talk to find how we can cooperate to help ukraine together, how many of you are in the new york group of people, 17 people is a big group i hope that we will all get into the room. but this is the power. we show that you want 20

offices in total. i think that a whole male will cover about 140 offices, and maybe 150. forgetting activists and legislators are one of the ways that an average person can influence american politics, they say. real decisions are made behind closed doors iryna matviychuk oleksii osika voice of america lithuania was one of the first countries to recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism american congressmen, my colleague oksana bedratenko asked lithuanian parliamentarians from the opposition and leading parties about their meetings with american legislators, armed aid to ukraine, and whether they are ready to recognize russia as a terrorist state, which you heard from

american politicians and analysts in washington. opportunities now for putin and zelenskyi to agree

on the only way to win defeat russia and reduce their military capabilities to the weakest state and this means that we will allow ukraine to fight back against the territory of russia is not only to be defended, but to fight back , this means more heavy weapons, the heimers showed themselves well. when ukraine returned the territories extremely powerfully in the previous weeks, this must continue, speec, we know that ukraine is also fighting for us, so we will give even more equipment and weapons, i don't i will talk about it in detail for security reasons. but we and our partners are also talking about increasing the production of weapons so that all the countries that are at ramstein commit to increasing the supply of heavy weapons of various types could do it faster and easier because, as you know , the military industry has been shrinking for 16-20 years, the army in europe has been shrinking, we have to rebuild it quickly and the priority of this expansion is to provide ukraine with more than 50 countries coordinating

arms supplies to ukraine within the framework of the ramstein contact group under the leadership of the us auditor nation how are you do you evaluate the coordination of supplies within the rammstein package? i think there was a tectonic shift in europe in the first half of this year, but we need to coordinate better, we need to act faster and see the big picture because war is not only soldiers and guns, but also financial stability, rebuilding the infrastructure of destroyed cities. it seems to me that not everyone understands this. the full moon is actively discussing the recognition of russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. lithuania was the first country to recognize russia as a terrorist state. do you think the united states should do the same ? there is already an agreement at the level of the congress committee and negotiations are ongoing, however, how to do this in the congress, we talked with various people and no one has

any doubts, the russian state terrorist defest was the first, i myself voted for it without a doubt, this is a terrorist state and it did not happen this year, we all remember the civilian plane mh17, this is a fact, the plane with civilian passengers was shot down by russian soldiers, this is a violation of international law - this is an insane war crime and an act of terrorism all countries that respect themselves and are not afraid, that have courage and common sense, this is a tree is a tree, and a terrorist is a terrorist, they must do everything in order to get resources for the war. putin hopes for help from china. you are personally under sanctions. china, what do you think of china's proposal in the war against ukraine china always speaks strangely to logical people because he always lies pansita putin

meets promise a fairer order maybe they mean genocide even more concentration camps more soldiers if we prove that we can win this war unite , if we prove that we will not bow down to russia, this means that china can reconsider its plans to invade taiwan, we show the usa that we must help ukraine not just because it is right out of common sense and conscience, but this is a pragmatic choice to avoid a war in 7 years. will china help russia militarily after the meeting with putin? it would not surprise me, because there are already flights for economic and financial support. if so, this would be a signal to the west that it is necessary to prepare . to the worst. if sisinping is watching what is happening, he can plan some scenarios, it is possible to take siberian lands, de facto there are chinese and even water, where do chinese laws apply if he plans to stick a knife into putin's

back, this is a success story. i wish him this . ukrainian student ihor klymenko won the global student price competition. the award was presented to him in new york. global student price ukrainian student ihor klymenko already knows how to spend the prize, it is a personal reward, and i believe that i will spend most of the funds on the development of a minesweeper quadcopter for that to provide it to our military in ukraine and later to provide it to all our military in the world . in this way, i will be able to save a lot in life and this is what i consider my mission in life, that is why i am

ready and will finance this project in order to invest it as soon as possible in life, too . i want to give part of the money to our military, that is, to donate it to the army of ukraine in order to come to victory as soon as possible, a quadrocopter, a seeker, a project that igor has been working on for almost half of his life, about the problem of mining the guy thought back in 2014, after the annexation of crimea by russia, a quadrocopter minesweeper, a special device for finding explosive objects , a remote so this device he sells as a sapper the coordinates of explosive objects objects using wi-fi bluetooth or another type of signal transmission so this device can to help many people, this device makes the demining process much faster and safer in this way it is possible to save even more importantly that we have the lives of our people three years ago at the kyiv polytechnic at the university, igor buchav studied drones, his

teacher says that the guy is very persistent and did not give up the project even during the war, when he had to hide from air alarms in the basement, we had a project with him that he did not give up . she is carrying out a project that is needed not by him but by the people, and with his time it is spent, well , it is very, very expensive. igor's drones were highly appreciated by the check-da.org organization, which in partnership with the divarka foundation launched the global award studen price, seven thousand students from 150 countries of the world applied for the award, of them the 50 best were chosen, then 10 winners were chosen from five, the judges were chosen, the process was monitored by the audit company price glasshouse cooper, which also monitors

the process of selecting oscar contenders, when you and igor talk, you you will understand why his judges chose the victory of igor, the voice of strength, the jumpers of the annual forum of the clinton global initiative, which is taking place now in new york, we are all now, each in our own way, not seeds for ourselves, a terrible burden war in ukraine today here we are building many partnerships for the sake of helping ukraine ihor has already developed two working prototypes of his device and received patents in ukraine and i believe that the goals in life are to complete the creation of this project in order to save the lives of people in ukraine what to save the lives of people for the border, like in all those countries that suffer from landmine problems, so that people can return to their homes, that they can breathe calmly while in the forest, while in the field, according to the un, only in august in ukraine there were mines

54 civilians were blown up, seven of them died over time igor plans to create a drone that will not only determine the location of mines, but also defuse them viktoria babinska kostyantyn holobchyk viktoria kupchynetska volodymyr badiykov voice of america in new york on tuesday, the general debate of the highest level of the 77th general assembly opened this year, for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the un event is being held with the personal participation of world leaders, with the exception of ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyi the un general assembly, despite russia's opposition, adopted a resolution that allowed him to take part in the debate in a remote format, the president will speak tomorrow around midnight kyiv time, my colleague iryna solomko is currently at the un headquarters. congratulations iryna, waiting for the request , are this year's unique debates such a major

intrigue these debates usually took place. and when the president of the united states uses it, he will participate in it, because usually the debate is opened by the united states as such a country. the hostess, that is, the place where the general assembly is located, ion and uh, that is, they set the agenda, this is the tone in these high week otbytes, so this time. unfortunately, due to the death of queen julia, i went to say goodbye to her personally together with my wife, and therefore for quite a long time it was not known when exactly he would perform, and the intrigue means we know now we know that he will perform tomorrow morning somewhere at 5 o'clock kyiv time of course everyone is very much looking forward to this performance the second intrigue of this week it was a russian delegation, because the russians could not get visas from america for a long time, and they received much less than they expected, and

in fact, they will not be the president, they will be represented by the minister of foreign affairs, lavrov, too it is interesting that there were such debates. and when will russia still speak, and as we learned, russia will speak regionally only on saturday, that is, in fact, it is such a day for outsiders. if that is what you can call, well , that is, diplomatically, russia. such a political map of the world, natalya, since the beginning of russia's large-scale invasion of ukraine, the ukrainian issue has become the main topic of almost all international platforms. what place will it occupy at this year's debates of the general assembly? during his speech, the president of turkey erdoğan said that he noted that the conflict is deepening and that is, there is an escalation of the conflict in

ukraine, he offered the countries to support for example, the peace initiative of turkey. if we talk about the fields of the general assembly, then almost every day there will be events related to the topic. and well, that is, also with the war and the consequences of what this war has on the world, in particular, for example, there is security , this event will be held today to pass initiated it in it was replaced by the united states tomorrow a very important event will take place in the context of nuclear security, i.e. nuclear security of peaceful objects during conflicts, it was it was initiated by france and the general director of mega money will also participate, and on thursday there will be a discussion on how to hold russia accountable for those crimes, war crimes committed by it, that is, its army in ukraine, and that is why the topic of ukraine is being heard now, you can listen as minister of foreign affairs dmytro kuleba believes that it is necessary to support this topic in the future and these problems that i have just voiced. we have the means

to solve these problems if we come together and one of the topics of our meeting here in new york these days we we are actually consolidating a global coalition, including the so-called southern countries of the world, in order to protect the world from those countries that want to destroy it. yorku and what kind of meetings are planned for us for a little less than a minute, in fact, in new york there are practically these electronic delegations, this is the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, the prime minister of ukraine denys mihalyov, they were both at the assembly today at the opening of these debates, and also the first lady of ukraine olena zelenska each of them has their own rather powerful program, i would like to note that, for example, now here is the first lady, she is conducting such, again, an informal formation

summit of the first ladies and gentlemen, it also provides for meetings with the community in the ukrainian museum, as well as the opening of an exhibition dedicated to russia's war crimes in ukraine, as well as the launch of its fund a, at the expense of which american businessmen and famous people can to help ukraine as far as the minister of foreign affairs is concerned, it is also interesting to see that in his i.e. he meets to a greater extent with the countries representatives of african and asian countries because this is such an informal strategy of ukraine at the un i.e. to strengthen cooperation with these countries because during voting theirs are very important to us voices thank you iryna for the latest information, we will continue to monitor the progress of the debate during the week and you watched the program of the ukrainian service voice of america time natalia lounova was with you stay

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