three times less to continue to advance. the corners of enemy-controlled territory, being in the minority, such a tactical scenario shocked yaroslav vasylyuk, under whose command the artillery team and the russian security service. we received the plans. we were shocked . i had such mixed feelings. in principle, the plan was realistically implemented, but he was so brave , the number of brave, well, it was such a plan, and i came to my people and so jokingly, rather half-jokingly, i say, guys, we will take it from him words now they can't wait for the next

stage of the offensive of their hope i hope that we will continue here eh i'm not sure that i'm not sure that it will be so rapid and that it will happen now spirit about our immoral spirit as a result of a successful counteroffensive those who could not to take part in it are now even more motivated to work even more actively and take part in the next offensive operations, they are told that we still have a lot of territory ahead of us that needs to be liberated that everyone will have the opportunity to take part in the liberation, but they are already competing among themselves to join this very process, and i think that this is caused by the success of this particular counteroffensive, meanwhile, the ukrainian army does everything necessary to secure control over the recently liberated territories, we do not know what

awaits us in those in the forests, there is more hiding here besides us. our unfinished business is to organize roadblocks, mobile groups to clear the forests and villages, because these scum are still hiding in them, we carry out thorough checks of documents if we come across local, we immediately call the special services in front of ukraine, now it is a very difficult task in the kharkiv region alone, we will have to defend more than eight and a half thousand square kilometers of conquered territories, join the community with a ukrainian view of the world, become a sponsor of the espresso youtube channel, and this is access to exclusive content - personal thanks pinned comments special icons there, the possibility of personal

communication with the espresso team, click to sponsor and become part of the community with a ukrainian perspective weekly saturday political club helps to understand the processes taking place in ukraine and the world vitaliy portnikov host of espresso and invitation experts based on facts give their assessment and forecast of the development of events want to understand how our today will affect our tomorrow watch the saturday political club that saturdays are not espresso on the air from washington the program of the ukrainian voice service time of america, i'm yuliya yarmolenko. greetings . european countries increase diplomatic pressure on moscow in response to russia's illegal attempts to

annex more ukrainian territories. lithuania declared the acting russian ambassador in this country persona non grata. vilnius explained this step by the fact that temporary attorney serhiy ryabokon made statements that were incompatible with his diplomatic status. to annex four ukrainian regions ministry of foreign affairs of other european countries, in particular finland, poland, germany, austria, denmark, belgium and italy summoned the russian ambassadors in these countries to express their strong condemnation of the referendums and the subsequent announcement of the illegal

annexation of the occupied ukrainian regions to russia. cancel the illegal actions and withdraw the russian troops from the territory of ukraine immediately and completely and without any preconditions one i said a one-time service that by its actions russia poses a serious threat to global security, an attack and invasion of a sovereign state, the threat of using nuclear weapons, a large -scale military mobilization, an attempt to falsely present the territories of ukraine as part of russia, they are undermining the international order based on rules, i confirmed a one-time service that italy is in full coordination with the countries -partners will assess further restrictive measures against russia and for its illegal actions as a peaceful means of pressure with the aim of ending this war of aggression as regards of the conflict with the pro-russian federation to legitimize illegal behavior, i reminded him that there is a side that attacks and a side that is attacked in accordance with the un charter and international law, ukraine exercises its legal right to defend itself against aggression and fully restore

control over its territory, and therefore it has the right to liberate the occupied territories within our internationally recognized borders, i added that we will continue to provide strong support to ukraine as long as it is needed 32 avenger , the deputy minister of foreign affairs stated this yevhen porobinis of ukraine, these are the results of a fund-raising company called gift for putin , which was attended by more than 11,000 people, tanks are louder than words, with such a call to provide ukraine with heavier weapons, the minister of foreign affairs of lithuania, gabrielus lansbergis, spoke in september, but countries that could help ukraine with tanks of a modern model, they are in no hurry to do this. how important is this particular weapon for the success of the ukrainian troops at this stage of the war and whether the united states can help move the process, let's talk about it with bohdan tsyupan, who are joining the broadcast and from

london, i congratulate bohdan. earlier in september, latvian defense minister artis public said that if germany had sent ukraine proportionally as much as latvia, this war would have been over. is there progress and does ukraine need tanks in particular? if tanks, then are they german ones? first of all, it is worth reminding that germany is one of the largest donors of armed aid to ukraine, in particular armored vehicles, for example, self-propelled cheetah armored vehicles, which are actually a light tank, but with regard to tanks, after the ukrainians actually defeated a tank attack on kyiv in the spring and repelled the ukrainians, the ukrainian military also repelled the russian army from chernihiv and other cities where the

russians suffered huge losses in the western there were even headlines in the press about the fact that the war showed that the era of tanks has passed and some experts claimed that there is a need for other weapons in ukraine, javelins work very well, but there are experts who say that it is impossible to do without tanks, and ukrainian representatives, for example, the president of ukraine volodymyr vok repeatedly said in an interview with the german press that tanks are needed in ukraine so that ukraine can carry out counteroffensive operations to knock out russian troops from ukrainian territory thus protecting and saving ukrainian lives, that is, tanks are needed in ukraine in spite of everything, and the eye turns to germany first of all, because it is the largest industrial power and producer of

tank weapons, in particular, in europe, german leopard tanks are more than 12 countries in europe have quite large stocks of leopard 1 leopard-2 tanks in service in europe and have long been talking about the fact that germany should share these tanks with ukraine or allow other countries that have german tanks in service to do this, but the germans are reluctant to do so, in particular, the chancellor of germany offshol said that berlin does not want to be the first, i do not want to take the first step before the allies do it, if now germany will be the first, then who else talked to a number of specialists and maybe half-joking, but quite seriously. they said that until now the

largest supplier of tanks for ukraine was russia, that is, in addition to the fact that ukraine uses old e-e, to a large extent, soviet-made tanks are being updated in ukraine, as well as trophy tanks, in particular, captured. some say that hundreds of tanks were captured during, for example, the last offensive in the kharkiv region but ukraine is gradually switching to western weapons, this means that the ammunition in ukraine is western, and therefore the equipment should also eventually be in ukraine. we have already mentioned the german tanks in france, they say that it is possible that france would provide its tanks for combat , the main battle tank is a

heavy tank. he is a supporter of american tanks and here is an excerpt from his explanation. we need the abrams, our main geopolitical ally, the united states of america, key areas of weapons technology that we cannot have on our own, i.e. to create by ourselves or joint cooperation with someone. now we have to choose from the political vector here the usa as from the plane. i am not a supporter of leopards and i believe that the usa helps us quite a lot. one way or another, the tank of that manufacturer that you get , you become dependent on it for spare parts, maintenance, maintenance and repair, and you will still buy something in the future and for the development of long-term relations. well, after all, i

would choose the usa bohdan and what kind of aid is being emphasized now in the european union? in europe , they are now talking about the next stage of aid, which should consist in the training of the ukrainian military. this is an initiative of the european union. in the eu, they say that it is time to make a joint program that would teach, for example, in the figures of perhaps 15 ukrainian military personnel were leaked to the european press and the details are now being agreed upon, but in addition, individual european states are conducting their own training programs, that is, the french say that they want to train ukrainians separately, in particular, for the use of french weapons in germany, and of course we do not forget the very large program, the international program for training ukrainian soldiers in great britain, the interflex

a program, in which thousands of ukrainian soldiers are trained, so this is one of the important european contributions in this situation. colleague bohdan tsyupin was also in communication from london, the commanders of the mariupol garrison who were recently returned from russian captivity were able to meet their families for the first time after their release, now the fighters are in turkey, where they will remain until the end of the war. such were the terms of exchange about the details of negotiations and efforts to return all prisoners. my colleague ostapyarish also spoke with the newly appointed head of the state property fund, rustam umyrov, who was actively involved in the negotiation process. we are growing. thank you for finding the time to talk to interview, we do not defend and defend, do everything possible so that they return to their families in ukraine and that we continue our struggle, that is, in this regard, we look at each a person like our boys and girls whom we

freed from captivity, thanks to which the commanders were able to be returned, it was some kind of additional negotiations that ukraine insisted on their inclusion in the lists , it was also difficult, it was a long enough operation, but i don't want to go into the nuances now they are safe, their families will come to them soon because they should be in turkey before the end of the war volodymyr zelenskyi said that there was little exchange, russia insisted on this, well, these are the terms of the exchange, eh, you can say that they are almost there lost almost and recently, we have been working on freeing them, there are still hundreds of defenders of azovstalia in the president's office, they say that negotiations are ongoing, work is underway to release everyone. what else needs to be

done now so that everyone returns home as soon as possible to the office has a plan. and we are carrying it out. we are not stopping the negotiations. that is, we are working 24/7 . and i hope that eventually there will be results. the united states can somehow contribute from its side, or the congress, or the administration, so that everything happens as possible. rather, a very huge contribution to this is the ukrainian choice, and we sometimes consult with the usa and other partners, sometimes we will enter into some negotiations . but as i said, everything is managed and coordinated in kyiv, in addition to ukrainian citizens , 10 foreigners were also released, including two citizens of the united states of america, how were the negotiations for their release through the mediation of saudi arabia, we talked, we started these talks sometime in uh, april and uh, there were

telephone conversations, there were discrete negotiations and in the end together with all our 215 people uh when this was happening, 10 people passed through saudi arabia, ah, hmm, i went there together with a gourmet, we met them, then they did a medical examination , verified and carried out identification, talked to the boys, asked them what are the feelings of the foreigners now are in russian captivity, the russian military or the russian side in general never says how many people it has, who they are by origin, by nationality, and so on. currently, as far as we know , there is no such thing in our information, but i could be wrong because they always hide this

information after the announcement of the illegal annexation of new ukrainian territories, putin said that he wants negotiations with ukraine. volodymyr zelenskyi responded by saying that it is impossible to hold negotiations with this president. that ukraine can resume them with another power in russia . with russia with this with the russian government well , what russia did today sends a signal to humanity that russia will not stop at russia continues to escalate russia a-a stops all its negotiations er because in this way it shows that there are no obstacles to continue this er war in this way it er can stop all the humanitarian tracks that we currently have and here you are not russia in this

regard i would but some logical answers would i searched because a the war continues and we will defend our right the war continues and we saw that mobilization has been announced in russia, including in ukrainian-occupied crimea, the majority of those mobilized are crimean tatars, you are crimean tatars, hundreds of crimean tatars are fighting now in the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine, what can the illegally mobilized crimean tatars for crimea do now in order not to take part in the russian war against ukraine? unfortunately, at that time, the international partners advised ukraine not to

start hostilities in the crimea, so the crimean tatars remained under occupation, and we continued non-violent resistance for 8 years, we have 122 political prisoners, and hundreds. thousands of searches have been stopped media, crimean tatar schools, language, ah, but we continue to resist. in this regard, i think russia thinks that it is dangerous for them to keep the crimean tatars, that's why they invented this story, not only as a mobilization, because they need this mobilization . because they are going to lose the war, but they focused on getting the crimean tatars to leave, they tried to do it for 8 years, they didn't succeed, we held our positions, but now the

president appealed to them, then he supported this initiative, that is, the appeal to the lviv tatar people turned to the citizens and suggested that the first was that they did not go, the second was that they went to the maidans for protests, peaceful protests, the third was to avoid this mobilization by any means, but if it was caught, to give the coordinates of the russian troops for the armed forces of ukraine, unfortunately , now all the tools have been used, part of the people are leaving for kazakhstan, georgia, uzbekistan , turkey.

in order to continue his struggle for himself at the very end of the message, when he was speaking in washington , you and i talked about the grain agreements, about what was the language of ukraine, now time has passed since they were signed, the first ships with grain left ukraine how are all grain agreements being carried out now at what stage does the grain agreement work on the part of russia, as well as on the part of other participants of the grain agreement, it is a victory for ukraine because we get money to the farmer , they get money, they pay taxes on these taxes, we take weapons, we knock out all the occupied of the temporarily occupied territories, thank you, this was an interview with rostem umyrov, the newly appointed head of the state property fund and a member of the negotiating team for the release of ukrainian prisoners of war , this and other interviews can be viewed on the voice of america in ukrainian page on youtube, and the next

hero of our next story is forced migrants from crimea zemfira and alidina together with three children moved to the usa under the program for ukrainian refugees, and united for ukraine has been advocating for them crimean tatars or their ancestors for decades their right to return to the land from where they were forcibly expressed in the late 1940s, this decision was not easy, but they could not stay in crimea either, says victoria babinska, refugees from crimea zemfira and alidina, together with their three children , left their home at the beginning of august, zemfira admits that they we thought for 8 years, we thought about moving in the 14th year. we began to think that in the 14th year we would move without a doubt. the attitude towards the crimean tatars prejudice is such a prejudiced attitude that we have muslims who are hidden and who commit mass there constantly,

again once a day . morning searches of the fsb, literature, laptops , computers, people were taken, they were taken away, all the same, scary young people, everyone was scared what can they come to us alone, my friend left everything and went for the crimean tatars, the refugees say, leave theses why did they fight for so long, pain, first of all, pain, first of all, my mother said, my late grandmother was in national russia, she herself had a movement, that ukrainian tatars from uzbekistan and tajikistan were returning to the crimea, and when we said that we wanted to leave, they said, well, how is it possible, we were returning to our homeland grandparents lived in crimea , our grandparents lived in crimea after the second world war, stalin deported them to central asia, like ours lived in uzbekistan, our parents were also born there . my grandparents tried sometime in the 80s

they were not allowed to go to the crimea, many were not allowed , and in 1989 our family moved to the crimea just like that . traveling to us in the crimea in simferopol. in our crimea in simferopol, whoever had money collected everything first and left. the russian population was very frightened, but in ukraine no one frightened them. they stood up for their homes, for their families, for their lands , for their houses. family, everyone would stand like this in the usa they, as citizens of ukraine, moved under the yunai-info ukraine program, we left everything behind, we did a good job, we left everything well , the house of our parents, our relatives, we left everything behind, and we just left with five suitcases and three children, just sleeping with suitcases and three children, volunteers helped for a large family

to stay in a hotel after paying for a few days of accommodation. of the future of their sons in 2014 under ukraine people were more free in 2014 about ukraine people were free they could say anything and no one would do anything to you for that they could discuss power money anything anything after 2014 it became scary you couldn't say anything to especially recently, for any no war, they could fine and jail for 15 days, they jail me for 15 acres, they don't know whether they will return to the motherland, now the head of the family is busy with processing documents and looking for housing and work victoria babinska angelina baghdasaryan from los angeles voice of america we continue to tell the story

of public associations in the diaspora that help ukraine with ukraine in america, one of the oldest organizations founded by the ukrainian community in emigration this year it is celebrating the 97th anniversary of its creation during the decade the union of ukraine and america tried preserve the ukrainian identity and help ukraine, the history and significance of the organization for the community was studied by iryna solomenko , nataliya pavlenko, head of the ukraine union chamber of commerce for more than a year. she heads this organization. she explains that the institution appeared after exactly 100 years ago the union of ukrainian women of ukraine was created in lviv. a few years later, five women's organizations united in response to this in new york at the same time, there was a large current of the women's movement in america, and after the first world war there were various social problems, humanitarian needs, and these women's organizations

decided that it was better to cooperate together than separately; the goal of the organization was to preserve the ukrainian of culture, the first powerful project of the women of syuzyan was participation in the world exhibition in the city of chicago in 1933. then the community took on the responsibility of creating a separate ukrainian pavilion for it. the union of ukrainian women of america collected a collection of folk art products. they were sent to america and in this way they began their work and the people who came to america, especially women, they believed that their goal was to preserve culture. god forbid something would happen and ukraine would come under some great threat that everything these unique things that were presented at an exhibition in chicago will be destroyed. they later became the basis of the collection of the ukrainian museum opened in new york in 1976.

the museum is located in the heart of the so-called ukrainian village in manhattan. approximately 15,000 exhibits of various clothes and thousands of objects are stored in its warehouses. of artistic and applied arts and the community and the union of ukraine came up with this great manifestation to buy a new house and make it really chic, later an educational center was added to the cult in the 1940s, suzinkas began to create schools, which were then called svetlichkas. this was a great work of the union of ukraine, because it kept the children in the community, taught them the ukrainian language, raised them in the ukrainian spirit , and the organization drew attention to human rights violations in the soviet union after 1991. a lot of effort is being made for the development of education and spirituality already in independent ukraine, the organization currently has more than 1,700 members. for almost a hundred years

of existence, suzyanka managed to significantly develop the network . there are currently 65 departments, the representative office is in almost every state, each department has its own character and the fund, which we call the fund, was maryana kret, she has been living in the united states for five years, almost a year ago she became a member of the kin union of ukraine chambers i'm interested in seeing my goal , that is, we know that all our e-e events or all our proceeds, even those funds, we have always done this and do it with the aim of supporting a kind of ukraine , according to pavlenko, after february 24, the ukrainian american union focused its activities on collecting funds for people in ukraine who are suffering from the war and as well as humanitarian and medical projects; in addition , influence activities were also actively engaged here