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russia and promised that in the event of escalation, the response will be decisive . of ukraine but also in combination with the nuclear rhetoric of president putin and other russian leaders, this is an escalation of the conflict, this will lead to more deaths to more suffering, of course, effective referendums, nuclear threats in combination with the mobilization of the russian armed forces , of course this is a serious escalation of the conflict, our message is that any use of nuclear weapons is absolutely unacceptable, it will completely change the nature of the conflict, russia must know that a nuclear war cannot be won, it can never be won when we we see this kind of nuclear rhetoric again and again from russia from president putin, this is something that we need to take seriously and that is why we are sending a

clear message that for russia there will be serious these are the consequences of jens stoltonberg's attention on the rope , but the pantogonists say that they do not see any signs that russia is ready to end the war in the near future, that is why they will continue to support ukraine in its struggle, soon the congress will vote for additional funding for ukraine in the amount of more than 12 billion dollars which is requested by the us administration, but what can be included in it, let's talk with yulia yarmolenko, who is joining us from the white house, yuriy, i congratulate you. so, yuriy, today it became known what exactly they are asking for allocate additional funding for ukraine, please share with us the theories and do we know when we can expect a vote on this matter ostap for additional funding for ukraine will not be voted on separately, but will be voted as part of the budget resolution and this vote in the senate is already planned literally in a few hours what in addition to what is included in this funding, for which the senate is already going to vote, there is 3 billion

planned for the initiative of security assistance , that is, arming equipment, everything with that also related is one and a half billion dollars for the own replenishment of the united states' reserves, from where certain weapons were provided for ukraine, and half a billion for additional production of weapons for the united states, approximately 3 billion for the mission of the european command, another four and a half billion of direct budgetary assistance to the ukrainian government, and also in this financing is separately laid down for the authorization of the program of presidential powers of approximately 4 billion dollars, this is a program under which president biden can provide weapons for ukrainians from the united states' own reserves, holding these pseudo-referendums is an attempt to

change the narrative and divert attention from the fact that they are unable to achieve their goals. although this does not indicate that they are ready to stop hostilities in the near future, as we have already said, russia can end this conflict at least tomorrow, but until then we will continue to support ukraine in their struggle to protect their country and their sovereign territory . pentagon, i have the following question: the money you just talked about is funding for the next fiscal year, and how much money for ukraine was approved by congress even earlier, or has it already been used in full ? in particular, he said that not all the funding that was previously approved will be exhausted by the end of the fiscal year, in particular, the funding that was provided for under the security assistance initiative program was calculated for two years ago again, there is no deadline here, as for

the program of presidential powers, it really must be exhausted by the end of the fiscal year, that is, by september 30, and now, as the pet trader said, there are a little more than 2 billion dollars left . the time potentially in which president biden can use the resources that are available at this time and actually the comment that we heard about pat ryder he says that in fact despite the fact that russia is not achieving its strategic goals, in fact, cannot seize ukraine as the kremlin envisioned or planned anyway, you should not relax because russia, as petrahedron says, is not going to curtail its actions, and accordingly, the united states must do everything to ensure that ukraine is able to defend its territories, julia is not talking about this the curtailment of actions shows, among other things,

the so-called referendums that russia held in the temporarily occupied territories of ukraine, whether the united states is taking any steps in response to this. so, you know what the united states is actually saying unequivocally about the fact that absolutely any referendum will not be recognized or will we try to annex some additional territories of ukraine by russia and today anthony blinken, the secretary of state of the united states said that the united states will introduce additional sanctions and he was also asked whether ukrainians can use the provided and in the combined armed states to return its territories that russia wants to annex. he said that ukraine has the absolute right to return its territories. we very clearly stated that we are ready and we will impose additional hard and fast costs to russia for annexation we many other countries have already stated very clearly we

will never recognize the annexation of ukrainian territory by russia and i also clearly said that ukraine has an absolute right to defend itself on its entire territory and this includes the return of territory that was illegally seized by russia in one way or another, the ukrainians very effectively use the weapons equipment that many other countries provide or achieve exactly this. and we saw it in the northeast of ukraine and we see it now in the south ukrainians will continue to do what they need to return the lands taken from them, we will continue to have you support them in these efforts, or whom i will remind you, yuliya yarmolenko from the white house was in touch with us, we will monitor the development of events further, a sign of weakness and defeat yes, modern security adviser jax saliva wrote illegal so-called referendums on the temporarily occupied territories of ukraine, high-ranking officials of western countries have repeatedly stated that these so-called referendums are not legitimate and will not be recognized by the world community in the official statement of the white house it is said

that the usa will never recognize the ukrainian territory as anything other than a part of ukraine and the pseudo -referendums are a false pretext for the attempt to annex ukrainian lands, a violation of international law as well as the un charter, oleksiy kovalenko will continue, a sign of weakness and defeat, so the us adviser on national affairs security jake sullivan called the so-called referendums on the temporarily occupied territories, meanwhile, the united states began preparing new sanctions against russia because of these referendums high-ranking officials of the united states and western countries have repeatedly stated whether the so-called referendums are legitimate and will not be recognized by the world community, the official statements of the house of biology state that the united states will never recognize ukrainian territory as anything other than a part of ukraine and that the referendum is a false pretext for attempting to annex parts of ukraine in violation international law and the un charter, what you see today inside russia, this call-up of troops, fictitious referendums that

they are trying to hold in the occupied territories this is definitely not a sign of strength or confidence, on the contrary, it is a sign that putin and russia are suffering a lot. us secretary of state anthony blinken said that the so-called referendums are a fiction and ukrainians have every right to return temporarily occupied territories, the co-chairman of the us helsinki commission, senator democrat ben cardin said voice of america interview that the so-called referendums do not change anything, neither for ukraine nor for the international community, with you, the principle we stand for is that you cannot change borders by force, and this is what russia is trying to do to temporarily occupy the territories due to the invasion of russia. the majority of the population left . holding referendums in regions where there is no stability, where the population has not returned, is meaningless. it is only intended to legitimize the illegality of russia's actions, and this is unacceptable. opinions are also divided. nato republican mark rubio - this referendum is only a political tactic

aimed at that in order to create false confidence in the unjust seizure of territory by putin , he declares a similar attitude to pseudo-referendums, representatives also express of the european union, this is not a referendum, this is not the political will of the people who live there, this is rather a forced decision that was already taken in moscow a month ago, they want to mobilize more fighters, including from these regions, this causes great concern, so many men tried to escape even before the beginning of this so-called referendum experts emphasize that the holding of so-called referendums is primarily an illegal attempt to legitimize russia's right to use weapons to protect the temporarily occupied territories, the announcement of these referendums will allow putin to say that part of eastern ukraine is now part of russian territory, he reserves the right to use nuclear weapons to protect them, responding to the western attack, we see that he has already announced a partial mobilization, so that this does not mean

that in fact it may not be so partial, a similar opinion is held by the director of global policy at the george w. bush presidential center and former us assistant secretary of state david cramer , according to him, referendums are proof that russian children are beginning to feel the defeat of putin . i think that even in putin's circle there is a growing understanding that everything is going very badly, that all this is actually a disaster for putin. and where is the russian army in general, i also think that the decision to hold referendums was influenced by the success of ukrainian offensive actions. will be afraid to carry out military strikes against them, then ukraine has already struck crimea, which was illegally annexed by russia in the 14th year, the ukrainians will continue their company so that this does not happen, no one should to recognize the results of these ridiculous fake referendums, which are held under enormous pressure from armed soldiers forcing citizens

to participate, and therefore i think that everything smells like a stepfather from putin's side and it does not look good at all, according to kremer, western countries should not pay attention to these pseudo- referendums, according to the director of the institute of modern world problems , ukraine and the west should act as if there were no so-called referendums, i think that ukraine and its western allies should adhere to the opinion that no there were no referendums in quotation marks the kremlin can do as it pleases and say as it pleases but that does not mean that it still exists. it seems to me that it is the desire not to provoke putin unnecessarily, the ideas of which french president macron adheres to, she limited the actions of measures to support ukraine, according to the former us ambassador in ukraine, and now the vice president of the us peace institute is near mateyler, russia will not be able to intimidate the west with the help of effective referendums and force it to reduce support for ukraine, on the contrary, pasuteyler says through

the so-called referendums, the west will increase the supply of weapons, i think that the threats of russia, which we hear again and again, are an incentive and justification for doubling the support of ukraine by the united states and nato allies, in particular, in denmark, to ukraine , additional weapons and ammunition, artillery, larger radios, missiles, heimers, which turned out to be very these referendums and other threats are effective. a good reason for the event is to increase support for ukraine and not decrease it. in addition to increasing ukraine's support, western countries will encourage ukrainians to continue the struggle for its territory, for no one outside the kremlin, these referendums do not matter so that russia does not declare donetsk, luhansk , kherson, zaporizhzhia region and crimea are ukrainian lands, and ukraine must fully defend its rights and expel russians from its territory, and these referendums are only an incentive for this, western experts agree in the opinion that the so -called referendums and partial mobilization are a manifestation

of putin's weakness, and neither the fake vote nor the threats that accompany it will change the support for the west of ukraine and the struggle for liberation of ukrainian territories oleksiy kovalenko oleksii sika voice of america washington, usa conducts measures in the field of cyber security that help the ukrainian government to strengthen stability and defense about this in an exclusive interview with the voice of america anne newberger, deputy national security advisor of the united states, said more about how the cyber security of the united states cooperates with the ukrainian government , see further in the interview petit from the midwife intensified military operations, announced the mobilization of the referendum, threatens nuclear strikes or we expect growth and cyber tact throughout the

conflict from when russia first launched a further invasion of ukraine we saw russia use disruptive cyber attacks and intelligence gathering to advance its military mission we saw initial devastating attacks on satellite systems and then on ukrainian government systems and additional critical infrastructure systems so we can expect russia to redouble its efforts which will also include cyber attacks have you seen any signs the beginning of new cyber taxistent - this is a permanent part of russia's military efforts in ukraine, so we expect this, do we have any concrete signs of an increase in this at the moment, we do not have them how do you help ukrainians to defend themselves ... great question so, starting from the moment when russia invaded ukraine and in 2015-2016 carried out destructive cyber and non-energy

infrastructure of ukraine. we began to cooperate with ukraine to settle the stability of its critical infrastructure, we sent specialists from the us cyber ​​command to work on cyber security teams from the ministry of energy to work on strengthening resilience and also carry out a constant exchange of information on the tactics and methods of sinister cyber attacks. so we constantly cooperate to strengthen resilience and exchange information to help the defense system. we live a lot about volunteer hackers who call themselves the ukrainian it army or achieve they are successful in containing the disruption or even stopping the russian attacks, the administration provides them with support."

ends when russia began its further invasion of ukraine they carried out a subversive attack on ukrainian communication systems satellite communication systems land ports as well as ukrainian government websites and government systems after this first attack the ukrainians were able to quickly restore these systems in ukraine - this is the first

conflict where we see some coordination between cyberattacks so kinetically a military attack so what are we learning about this hybrid warfare and what are we learning about russian capabilities in this area i think we're basically learning but as soon as countries will think about their national defense not in case of crisis or conflict about their digital systems in which they operate whether they are individuals companies or governments they will need protection as well as preparation work to understand what are the most important components of their energy and water systems oil and gas pipelines they have to make sure that they are not level enough to be able to defend against a powerful opponent, but this does not happen instantly because these elements of critical infrastructure were digitized in many countries without necessarily taking

security into account, and this is one of the reasons why we are working with partners from around the world to quickly improve the security of critical infrastructure . participation and show business stars among the guests was the singer tina karol, who, since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, has been actively engaged in cultural diplomacy about creativity during the war, the way to victory and the struggle for on the cultural front, tina karol told my colleague iryna solomko. i congratulate you. you are now in new york. you have come here to support the first lady. why is it important to you? everything that happens with the word ukraine is important to me. everything that is under our flag today is important, and i am ready for every initiative. to support and be the initiator of dear ah, you know such uh, uh, um, cultural diplomacy issues

, you can even say that they concern ukraine, because this is my heart’s call, because this is my mission, because i have such a passport, you yesterday aguilera was a client. well, the top top american ones, and the politics of mykola, a few weeks ago, they gave a metro concert, so what kind of audience do you think there, where there were medical volunteers, now you touched me because for me, the metro concert is a-ah bitterness, well, that is, when i came out i wanted to go on stage, i was terribly angry. and if you compare the audiences, well, first of all, we support the first lady of our dear volodymyrivna, and it is an important step to make such a foundation, and hmm, it is an honor, but when you sing for our people in the subway is a mission

they shut us down, someone is keeping us on the ground because it is the first time in america since the war started, but your cultural diplomacy and your activities were concentrated in japan because you went there several times since that time and europe was very much in poland, i understand that the beginning was in poland because you were there. and before the war began, i was in a monastery in greece, and then, after interrupting my prayer time there, i went to poland and realized that i had to do something... it's the kind of news that foreigners see there

well, europeans and it's not enough because a-ah us we all have to unite ukrainians and they have to unite with us they must see that we are in opposition that this is the opposition of people that this is not a political line and we went like this well, these marches started gathering and when i turned back i saw that we have thousands of people actually marching there and this was in warsaw and it was touching and at the same time you know we can do it if we talk about cultural diplomacy, that is, at first he and she changed like this that is, you the emphasis has changed from the ground and this diplomacy has become different. and it will remain. what do you think after the war? i think that in general, culture, society, hmm, values ​​have changed, and culture affects values, and

values ​​affect culture, that is, today these are two inseparable the concept of uh, what changed the walls, some fortifications, some became more uh, clearer, decorated, and without gray, and some values, well, um, emphasized with red. that's how they influenced today's culture, and culture also affects these values, and this must be well understood that we do not have the right to relax at any moment today, this degree that is now in the culture is patriotic and it is not even necessary to say that someone is tired of it, it is not true, the cultural stratum a-a it can be used today into something separate for us personally without influence a-a stamps of the soviet union, it is really important today to give

the youth an opportunity, or i don’t know whether with grants or where you know the opportunity, so that some such creative collaboration projects will be realized at the world level, which will really give the strengthening of this of the cultural plast as the war changed your life as a whole and here is your creativity because it seems to me that the station is a time you will be one new song it recently literally appeared for the first time music was not written and so much had to be recorded another uh well i.e., no muse ran there at all, she didn’t sit down, even if she wanted to, she wrote about pain, she didn’t want to give her pain to people, and it hurt so much, she wanted a motivational one and wanted to make people

give people er, what kind of energy, er, stimulus opposite stimulus to be stimulus to fight to get up in the morning and recharge with this something there music with these tracks and so on and so on and so on and so on. we wrote it. unconquered. we wrote it. unconquered . postponed, well, that is, these are a dozen hits that are just lying on the shelf and maybe for a long time, you will start your tour in the united states in a few days, so what are the expectations from

this, because, after all, i understand since the main audience will not be the ukrainian community, but rather the american community, and this is also part of your cultural diplomacy. is this an effort in some way? well, to get financial support, because you talked about it, it is a difficult time and concerts cannot be held in ukraine, for sure such tours are the only opportunity for ukrainian artists to unite all those who identify themselves with ukraine, all those who are related to us, ah, on the festival of ukrainian music, and this is a meeting of people who share the same interests heartbeat a-a who are united by the coat of arms flag anthem ukrainian song word culture our values ​​are about this this concert about unity is worth a part will

go to support the armed forces of ukraine they are going like this they are going now what to dream about karol such a dream is real very special it is not to lose strength in the struggle , don't lose your strength to fight, don't lose so that discouragement doesn't come, so that despair doesn't come, so that there's enough money, so that there's enough right thoughts, so that there's enough spirit to be able to fight, and then visualize the victory for yourself. i think it's a big it is a long thorny road, this victory does not happen from one word, from one stage, so as not

to live by these expectations, victory must happen every day, and this has completely changed my philosophy in principle. that is, we are ready for battle not at some level, but at in principle, because after the victory, another complex and important page of our history will begin to rebuild, and we will also stand side by side and go to this to this victory. that is, this is already hmm such a paradigm in every day, thank you very much for the conversation i am very happy to download the mobile application of the voice of america, the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read news, watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, and on

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