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artillery, according to us secretary of state anthony blinkin, these capabilities are carefully selected to help the ukrainians exert maximum influence on the battlefield and strengthen ukraine's position at the negotiating table. when it comes to the new aid package, the president us jobiden directly informed the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi in a telephone conversation earlier this day, according to white house spokeswoman karin jeanpierre, the president biden once again emphasized that the united states will never recognize russia's attempts to annex ukrainian territories and will continue to provide ukraine with as much support as needed together with allies and partners. to return their territories that were illegally captured by russia, this

package of security assistance for ukraine is already the 22nd under the program of presidential powers since the beginning the work of the biden administration this year, the united states rallied the world to support the people of ukraine, who are defending their freedom and democracy from russian aggression, as we demonstrate again today, the united states will continue to provide ukraine with critical capabilities to meet its needs on the battlefield, which are changing about the details of the new package of military aid from the united states and the pentagon's assessment of the success of ukrainians on the battlefield, let's talk with ostap yarosh, who joins ostap's broadcast congratulations. first of all, please tell me what exactly is included in this new package of military aid for ukraine and when to expect the delivery of this weaponry. yuriy, 625 million dollars have now been allocated by the united states in the most recent aid package among weapons, which , as you already mentioned, includes four

himax missile launchers, as well as missiles to them are 16 howitzers - 155 mm 16 howitzers - 105 mm and also shells for them , including high-precision shells, in addition. now the united states has pledged this aid package 200 armored cars of american armored cars brother also ammunition for mortars for small arms and many other things, let me remind you that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion and the united states has already provided ukraine with military aid for almost 17 billion dollars . that this is a program of presidential powers that allows the us to allocate weapons for ukraine from its own arsenals from its own stocks, therefore, in essence, it must be shipped and sent to ukraine, therefore, we can expect that all these weapons will end up on on the battlefield, yulia will soon be on the battlefield. on sunday, us defense minister lloyd ostapa called the return of the estuary under

the control of ukraine an absolutely important development in the course of the war. how do the pentagon evaluate the latest achievements of the ukrainian military in general and do they talk about a turning point in the course of the war? the fact that russia is now losing on the battlefield, and despite the fact that russia has announced mobilization, the united states has not yet seen any significant reinforcements of russian troops either in the east or in the south ukraine is talking about this, er, the pentagon officials are saying, in addition to this, yulia is pointing out three main directions that ukraine should pay attention to and on which ukraine is currently demoing successes on the battlefield - this is donetsk, luhansk region - this is kharkiv and kherson region, it is worth following and about that how do the united states and the pentagon assess the latest achievements of the ukrainian armed forces of the ukrainian army? it was stvlander, who is an assistant to

the united states defense minister, that she took part in the interview. a panel from one of the washington think tanks let's listen to how the pantheon is now evaluating the latest advances of the ukrainian armed forces, the success of the ukrainian forces in kharkiv region and kherson region, and we also see certain key strategic successes in donetsk region and luhansk region, in particular, the recent return of the city and the lyman railway station, which will significantly affect on russia's ability to deliver supplies and move forces throughout the conflict, ukraine's goal is to dislodge the russian bridgehead on the west bank of the dnieper in for kherson, this will be a significant defeat for the russians, because it will further push back russia's ambitions to capture odesa, which was one of their stated goals earlier this year, and it will also give ukraine much better defensive positions, which will probably help reduce the degree

of heated battles in winter. i will remind you once. so , she singled out three main directions: donetsk region, luhansk region, kharkiv region, and kherson region. she says that now ukraine is on the way to achieving all these three goals. according to her, the united states will also in the future to continue military aid to the armed forces of ukraine in order to ensure this progress on the battlefield, she noted in this context that the congress recently allocated additional funding in the amount of 12 billion dollars, a significant part of which is also intended for direct military aid to ukraine, so the united states will to support this progress of the ukrainian armed forces in the future. coordination of efforts is that military aid is provided by almost fifty countries around the world if we are talking about this joining efforts with the help of ukraine when will the next

meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine take place and what can we expect from the meeting i believe we expect that the next meeting of such a contact group in in ukraine, it is known as the rammstein format, it should take place soon, on october 12, we expect it to take place in brussels, it should happen on the eve of the meeting of defense ministers of nato countries which is already scheduled for october 13, what can you expect, in fact, every time after such meetings , the country's allies try, more than 50 countries participate in such meetings, they check the clocks and determine what the future support for ukraine will be, uninterrupted support for ukraine, someone helps with new packages of weapons, someone helps with the training of the ukrainian military, someone builds up its own capacity or produce more ammunition today see the day before we started from the united states announcing a new package aid, we may hear new packages from other countries, and some announce publicly, some prefer not to advertise. but usually, after such meetings, there is

some news, usually good news for ukraine in terms of the silent support of the us and its allies to yuri, and ukraine's desire to become a member of nato, how does it react to such applications here in washington for american landings that now the main focus is on the military support of the armed forces of ukraine and on the supply of weapons necessary for the advancement of the armed forces of ukraine, whether in the south or in the east, we we know that today the secretary general of nato officially accepted ukraine's application to join the alliance. in the united states, they comment that they definitely support the open door policy, they support the aspirations of ukraine and any country to determine its future, to determine in which military alliances it should or should not participate. they say that it was true. jacksol, she is an advisor on national security, that now the focus is on weapons, it is possible that

full membership in nato will come a little later, but they definitely support the aspirations to temporarily return all territories to ukraine will help both the military on the battlefield militarily and diplomatically. my colleague ostap yarysh sometimes sees ukraine in the future as a strong member of nato. this was stated by the president of latvia , egils levits, during the security forum in warsaw. where they discussed important signs as a defense union , according to a leftist, it would be an advantage for nato to have such a member as ukraine or the ukrainian army and society stand in defense of democracy at the forum , european leaders also talked about increasing defense budgets of their countries due to the threat of russia, which is waging war in europe and neglects human rights and

international laws, nato is a defense organization and it is the basis of the collective security system, of course, in relation to ukraine. ukraine also wants to be a member of this defense union because ukraine knows that this union is the guarantor of peace. the time will come, we are not just ready. we want to see ukraine in our union . ukraine is the only society now in europe and the only army that has experience in the defense of its country. the ukrainian army is highly motivated. ukrainian society is very motivated to protect democracy and for nato to have such a strong member was an advantage we have to think about how to help integrate the right time, of course, when all the members are ready for it, but we see ukraine in the future as a strong member of nato, we contributed an additional 24 billion pounds to the defense

budget directly before russia invaded ukraine, but you know, i think we should all ask ourselves the question how can we afford not to increase spending on the defense budget i i believe that we must be on this trajectory, because in europe, russia is a much more dangerous opponent than i think we all could have imagined . it is not only waging war in europe and neglecting human rights and international laws. we have also seen threats, so far mysterious gas pipeline explosions and other events that meanwhile , the russian ministry of defense announced on tuesday that they had already mobilized 200,000 people since putin announced the so-called partial mobilization. meanwhile, human rights organizations and the general staff of the armed forces reported that the russian authorities in occupied crimea is mobilizing crimean tatars, according to president zelenskyi, the majority of summonses are received by representatives of the indigenous people of the peninsula, are there any figures on how many people have already received summonses and why the participation of crimean tatars in the war

against ukraine is beneficial to the kremlin, lesya bakalet gathered the opinions of experts, formally, the so-called partial mobilization in occupied crimea has ended what was reported by the head of the russian-controlled republic, serhiy aksyonov, in reality, as the crimean tatar human rights defender, who now he is on the peninsula, summonses continue to be handed out, we do not mention his name for security reasons, what they inform me, summonses are delivered to homes, people understand that not everyone who knocks on the door is a friend, so not everyone opens it, but they start to play a scene, say, help something very please, a compassionate man goes to the door and is handed a summons, summonses are mostly handed to the crimean tatars , as the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi previously stated, the catastrophic situation in the occupied crimea fully confirms the information about the crimean tatar people, the majority of

mobilized and mobilization summonses are written there, it is in the crimea that this information is confirmed and the general staff of the armed forces of the ukrainian armed forces military commissars for the temporarily occupied territories of the autonomous republic of crimea received an order regarding the priority of conscripting the crimean tatars into the ranks of the russian occupation forces and sending them to combat units performing tasks in the areas of the most intensive introduction of hostilities during september 26 of this year only in the sakva district 21 persons of the said nationality in general in the first days of mobilization crimean tatars received about 1,500 stories say from the representative of the president of ukraine in the autonomous republic of crimea, this bolsho space schedule okno from what

number, if from those three and a half thousand who, as they claimed, in the occupation administration of crimea , serhiy aksonov, in particular, was mobilized in crimea, then yes 55-60%. and if the number is smaller or larger, then we can not calculate the percentage, human rights defenders advise to ignore the summons and not to appear before the military committee if possible, also to change the place of residence, not only less to be in public places to say the victim of all russian military committees and of course there are always hotlines e- e sbu well in particular e-e thanks to which in the last resort, if a person got to the front , you can contact and discuss how you can surrender to the polova, also the crimeans continue you islands, so far this possibility is a part of people from 18 to 50 years, everyone urgently tried to go somewhere, who has money, who has contacts abroad, tried to go

abroad, the two main directions are georgia and kazakhstan, because in this way the state of russia solves two problems. and in the crimean tatar resource center there they say that such a mobilization is an attempt to destroy the attempts of the crimean tatars on the peninsula, there is a clear logic to all actions they want to destroy the kremenchug-tatar people with their hands in ukraine, this is the most convenient way. they will immediately abandon the battle, there will be no more dangerous areas in the back, there will be fences, squads of the newest russian cavalrymen, fsb-shniks, kadyrivets, in the grushniks, if they do not die. during the shelling from the ukrainian side, they can always finish off how many people in the back. received subpoenas in occupied crimea is unknown, but the fact of mobilization is already illegal because russia did not say that crimea is part of it, this is not so, russia is a state that

occupied another territory, in this case it obliged to adhere to the geneva conventions, which, among other things, have a rule that the occupying power is not allowed to call people for military service in the areas it occupies, the bastard insists that every such crime of russia should be documented, even if it is now impossible to influence the situation, because sooner or later the russian federation will be responsible for its actions before the court of lesya bakalets anatoliykashenko pavla terekhov the voice of america according to the minister of infrastructure of ukraine oleksandr kudrakov two months after the signing of the black sea grain agreement initiative ukrainian grain export approached the pre-war level vital for a number of countries - export stopped after the full-scale invasion of ukraine by russia, the initiative allows ukrainian grain to safely enter the world from the ports again, my colleague myroslava gonka recently visited odesa port where she had a

unique opportunity on her own eyes to see the process of transporting ukrainian grain during the war, this ship is loading grain intended for afghanistan , such ships enter the port of odessa every week from on august 1, as part of the black sea grain initiative to restore exports from ukraine to the world, russia's war against ukraine disrupted the delivery chains of vital export goods such as grain, food and fertilizers, which led to a sharp rise in prices around the world . the minister of infrastructure of ukraine told voice of america that food shipments from this port they go to somalia, ethiopia, kenya and other countries, the most important thing for us is simply to increase the volume of our exports, the results of august were quite optimistically, we reached almost 5 million, these are very similar volumes that we had before the war, so i hope that if we continue in the same volumes, i think that we will save all our agricultural products and nothing will be

spoiled, so we will reach the volumes that were before the war they claim that ukraine, one of the largest exporters of grain in the world, usually sends about 45 million tons of grain to the world market every year. exports resumed after the signing of the grain corridor initiative, brokered by the un and turkey, on july 22. allows ukrainian exports to pass safely through the black sea from points in ukraine ukrainian officials say that the grain corridor initiative has helped ukraine support the development of agriculture and provide developing countries with such necessary food products in the world many people in the world suffer from food shortages if europeans feel on the rise prices, people in poor countries have nothing to eat, the return of ukraine to the agricultural market is a signal that we are here, we can export millions of tons, experts say

that the ukrainian grain export helps to stabilize food prices around the world the captain of this ship says that the war greatly affected the maritime business and as a silian he knows how it affected people this war affects everyone no one likes to see this war we want peace for everyone kernel, one of the largest ukrainian agricultural producers, expressed the hope that the grain corridor will continue to operate, the world really needs these products in all countries , there is a demand for them, and we must maintain this balance of food security in the world according to forecasts un, because of the russian war in ukraine, up to 181 million people in 40 countries of the world may face a food crisis or even starvation, the ukrainian authorities appeal to the international community

to help stop the war so that ukraine can restore normal life and help fight hunger in developing countries voice of myroslava gongadze america odessa ukraine at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia, the ukrainian diaspora around the world stepped up its efforts to raise funds and help ukraine unite communities around the world for the protection of ukrainian interests, sees its leading role in the world congress of ukrainians as an international coordination structure over ukrainian public organizations in the diaspora, which exists in 133 countries of the world, about the work of the organization during the war . you , mr. pavly, the world contrast of ukrainians well, probably the only organization that is recognized

by the un non-governmental organization and the european parliament is this tells about the level of influence a, that is, your organization has in these institutions and in the whole world at the expense of ukrainians who are scattered all over the world, we calculated approximately 20 million ukrainians , er, who chew more than 65 ukrainians, then where there are our component organizations in more than 65 countries of the world, it grows almost every month, more countries, more organizations, how do we know that after the war, uh, 7 million left ukraine, uh, where some say that five have already returned, but these numbers are difficult to understand. our role as the holy congress of ukrainians and that first of all to unite and represent the interests of those communities today our key priorities and the defense of ukraine against russian aggression and e-e we focus our efforts on primary military aid to ukraine and e

we work with the governments where ukrainians live to convince your governments to support ukraine with economic and military sanctions, and these are the three main priorities today in this wartime . don't close it. how do you use these tools? how does cooperation with the european parliament and european countries work with our communities because there are voters there, they vote? they work for their community with their politicians, and it is important that it starts from the roots so that our communities are politically active. er, and we work with them so that they know how to work with politicians in their countries as best as possible. and we also closely cooperate with the ukrainian authorities and we coordinate our key messages er

ukrainians in those countries speak in their own language and those countries worked very actively for ukraine in those hot periods where our leaders, we gathered them from abroad, our strategy and they began to work with their governments to promote the issue first, when did they start god, everyone and the europeans are talking about this. you were not involved in such advocacy in relation to ukraine, and this process of forming conscious and influential communities is not happening because of which it is very necessary for this community to have the ability

to enter the corridors of their parliament and meet with their ministers and deputies to convince them of the organization before the war, it was less than a million dollars, that is, we collected about 800-900 thousand a year from our communities, and it is very important that we, conscious ukrainians, keep to ourselves, because, for example, what a pity , this time, russian aggression will not leave quickly even when the war is over and we win , still russia will constantly try to destroy the ukrainians, we have already seen this happening for 300 years, you spend all your efforts on advocacy so that the government of the united states or the government of canada will allocate money for i don't know weapons there yes or there some kind of financial direct aid to ukraine. that is , this is your strategy, you are here so physically, somehow you do not provide help there, that is, one thing we do is advocacy, but the second is also humanitarian aid

, and since the beginning of the war, we have created the youth project ukraine, where we have so far collected almost 30 million dollars, and the first stage of our project was the support of the defender, and we procured and delivered immediately to the front lines, equipped with protective equipment , so we immediately provided this assistance, and we just completed it before independence day . the project to support the drone army, where we work directly with the ministry of defense of ukraine, and with united folliford , we calculated that so far, over 450 million dollars have been collected by our communities since the beginning of the war and transferred to ukraine, you collected 800,000, yes 8 8 thousand, these were our operating funds, that is, ah, but

regarding special projects, eh, these were additional funds, and we collected good ones that go directly to ukraine and latin america, there was already a wave of ukrainian emigration there, and that is, there were cells there and they are there there is still, but despite this, the influence of russia there is extraordinary. that is, why is this happening? are you still trying to resist this influence? the first thing was to focus on our allies so that they would support them as much as possible. that is, if it was the first priority of a now we know that there is a strong coalition and they can supply me even more . we are with the ministry of foreign affairs in this and even, for example, when the foreign minister actually

goes to africa for the first time, we work together with the foreign affairs ministry so that our communities join in to strengthen the borders, the truth is on our side, and the most important thing is that we helped them with this key messages and that there should be constant communication between ukraine and the ministry of security affairs and our communities around the world so that these messages are constantly and quickly transferred pasha's cooperation zoryan for sure you better be somehow a little bit like that you know one step distance to have after all the government is the government yes that is he can be good now tomorrow something can change and in which we manage to keep this distance our independence and er is very important to us and that's why we don't accept any funding from the government er we don't report to any government government and that is why this independence is very important where we can give advice and how to criticize very often we do not criticize externally, we will sit down and

talk and present specific proposals, but i can also say the same about the governments where we live, did you choose the congress of ukrainians we will sue the canadian government because we did not accept the decision that the canadian government made regarding the turbines and transferred the turbines to germany and transferred them to russia and we, er, started a legal process to change this decision. this decision is fundamental for us that this is a relaxation of the sanctions and we will uh this is how any government in the world is treated we can cooperate with them but still they must know what they are we must reckon with them thank you very much now mom it's very nice to download the voice of america mobile application the application allows you to bypass blocking automatically thanks to the built-in vpn service read news, watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to

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