you are watching the program of the ukrainian voice of america service time in the studio of nataliya leonova congratulations , the leaders of the group of seven who had a virtual meeting with president zelensky on tuesday strongly condemned the mass shelling by the russians of the ukrainian civilian population and infrastructure facilities in their statement they emphasized that in particular, indiscriminate attacks on civilian population is a war crime, and they promised to bring putin and other culprits to justice. the day before , president biden also spoke with president zelensky, who in his turn, he condemned the state of attack by russia and promised to continue to provide ukraine with support about the response of the west, including the united states, to the latest wave of russian aggression. we will talk with yulia yarmolenko , who joins our studio from the white house

. sector and the energy stability of the country, what did he hear in response and what was specifically agreed upon by the participants of the meeting on tuesday natalya dostomania knows the details of this meeting probably only its participants, the leaders of the sum group and directly by the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, we can judge by public statements , in addition to what you have already said, the leaders of the winter group in their joint statement really condemned in a decisive way the russian attacks on civilians and infrastructure promised to really punish putin and bring him to justice for war crimes , but in addition, they said that they will continue to provide ukraine with all humanitarian financial and military support and as much as is needed and also emphasized that they will also continue sanctions against russia said that in the case of russia's use of any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, harsh consequences will be expected. as for potential peace talks after the end of the

war, they said that the leaders of the group of seven are absolutely in solidarity with ukraine and are supported by president zelensky, who speaks of supporting peace on under fair conditions, these conditions must be respect for the sovereignty of the territorial integrity of ukraine, as well as the reconstruction and reconstruction and restoration of ukraine, in particular, with russian funds to yulia, what kind of help does ukraine need, does the leadership of ukraine emphasize air defense and anti-missile defense systems, do you know what kind of weapons ukraine can get from the united states, and actually when it can be expected? president biden said that the united states will continue to provide ukraine with air defense systems or

air defense equipment, and today john kerby is the coordinator of strategic communication of the us national security council said that president biden did not just say that the united states is really committed to this and will continue to do everything possible, he also said that there is nothing new to announce today, but he emphasized that two of the eight sisters are the ones who promised earlier the united states, together with norway, told ukraine that these systems should be deployed to ukraine in the near future. there is no exact date, but he said that the united states is interested in these systems arrived as soon as possible, as for what specific systems ukraine needs in order to counter the absolutely terrible russian attacks that very often come from the air, these are cruise missile attacks, then john kerby said that there is no single system that would help prevent this, but the united states will to help ukraine to improve its multi-layered

air defense system, there is no single system that would be a simple universal solution in countering cruise missiles much depends on how quickly after the launch can you detect it from the parameters and telemetry and the flight of the cruise missile there is no single system that would solve all these problems, this is a multi-layered defense, we approach it in this way, to be honest, we look at missile defense comprehensively and i think this is exactly what the ukrainians are trying to improve tomorrow there will be another meeting of the contact group with the defense of ukraine in brussels to discuss further steps to support ukraine according to the us envoy to nato julian smith usa and allies are in constant contact with the ukrainian leadership in order to determine what exactly the ukrainian army needs on the ground and in the air, whether the us partners are also ready to provide ukraine with the weapons that the ukrainian leadership is asking for, so definitely

natalya, the leaders of the cm group talked about it today, but there is also nato stoltenberg sec, he said about the fact that ukrainians definitely need the latest systems to protect their territories, in particular, air defense, but also, for example, elementary means, clothes and other things necessary for to conduct military operations during the winter, and he emphasized that nato countries are united in that this support will continue as long as necessary . and its partners to provide more military aid to ukraine and to recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, such calls have been heard in the us congress for the past few days, following the reaction of american lawmakers and

russian attacks on ukrainian infrastructure. my colleague kateryna lisonova, she is now with us on the phone from the capital hill. congratulations katya congratulations natalya, today the official kyiv announced the continuation of russian shelling of civilian infrastructure in ukraine, have you followed the reaction in the congress during the last days, what are the american legislators saying that's right natalya, despite the fact that the congress is now on a break that will last for several weeks weeks during the last days american lawmakers came out with a statement that condemned the last russian attacks against ukraine, in particular, the ukrainian congressional committee, which was created for the first time, the ukrainian congressional focus, which was created as a pa- in the house of representatives to support ukraine, will publish a joint statement, which was joined by both republicans and democrats, in which they stated that the latest shelling is a step forward for vladimir putin, because his military continues to lose on the battlefield, they also

noted that ukrainian partners continue to support kyiv, and all those who committed war crimes on the territory of ukraine will bear their own responsibility for this in general is the statement of both republicans and democrats were also published on social networks, in particular on the social network twitter, where they called for sanctions and sanctions against russia to provide ukraine with more weapons and also to recognize russia as a state that sponsors terrorism. to stop these attacks on civilians is to provide ukraine with the weapons it needs to defeat russian forces on the battlefield russia must suffer dire consequences for its barbaric war in ukraine the united states and our allies in nato has imposed sanctions against russia, but we still do not see their full impact and i asked the representatives of the us treasury department what else we can do to hinder putin's military machine. the selective airstrikes demonstrate the vicissitudes

and brutality of putin in the face of an increasingly successful ukrainian counteroffensive. i strongly condemn the indiscriminate shelling. ukrainian cities by russian troops, i am with the people of ukraine, who continue to fight for their freedom and security, to suspend all russian tourist visas. want to kill civilians then you can't spend your vacations with the enemy pressure on russia must be increased hitler's blitzkrieg against innocent britons strengthened their resolve putin's massive attack on innocent ukrainians will do the same "hottest circle in hell has putin's name on the entrance " oil

decided to reduce oil production starting from november 1, according to experts, this will cause the sin of oil prices and will be another shock for the world economy, which is already suffering from russian aggression, in particular, the price will increase russian oil, which will help russia finance its war against ukraine and will also prevent the european union from limiting the prices of russian oil, therefore , yesterday, senator democrat exchange issued a statement in which he called on the united states to stop any cooperation with saudi arabia because of its support for such a solution to russian aggression against ukraine, i propose now to quote fragments of his statement, in particular, we stated somewhere that the united states should immediately freeze all aspects of our cooperation with

saudi arabia, including the sale of arms and e cooperation in the field of security, except what is necessary to protect the interests of the united states of america. as the chairman of the senate foreign affairs committee, i will not give the green light to any cooperation with riyadh until the kingdom reevaluates its position on the war in ukraine. does mendez, but in general, a number of representatives of the pro-government democratic party made similar statements in which they called on the white house to stop its cooperation with saudi arabia, and even in the house of representatives has already presented a bill that calls for the withdrawal of american troops and those of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to the middle-the white house said that it would cooperate in the future in congress regarding its relations with saudi arabia. thank you for this

information, i will remind you in direct communication with the capitol was kateryna lisunova, in response to the latest wave of massive shelling by the russians of the ukrainian civilian population and infrastructure facilities, numerous protests, including those in american cities , in particular in new york, participants of a protest in front of the russian consulate, attended by not only ukrainians , but also representatives of other countries, called russia's actions barbaric and demanded that russia be recognized as a terrorist state. the action was organized by the ukrainian congressional committee of america, which the day before published a statement where demands that the united states and nato partners urgently provide ukraine with anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense systems, which , i quote, are urgently needed to close the sky over our

correspondent pavlo terekhov talked to innocent men and women and children with the participants of the action in new york. america, as all over the world, ukrainians have organized themselves. christenings have begun in cities and in america, and we have organized this morning. we must stand in front of our enemy to show not only ukraine, but from we are friends here in new york, not only ukrainians become here, but there are simply americans and against russia 2018 protest of ukrainians taking place near the russian consulate in new york, obviously the city fully supports ukraine and the atrocities it commits the russian army, the russian army is the work of complete barbarians, so absolutely people liza dima , any illegality crimean tatars are my native

people of ukraine and we came to say how hard it is now for the crimean tatars in crimea, because since 2014, russia only imprisons crimean tatars they go missing and we can't do anything about it we are trying to fight i'm here because i can't take it anymore because russia attacked ukraine that's why a huge number of ukrainian people are suffering because a huge number of russian people are suffering because putin is waging a war not only with the ukrainian people but also with the russian people to express a protest against the background of the latest waves of russian aggression came out in the cities of european countries in germany, france , romania, the czech republic, our correspondent khrystyna

shevchenko had the opportunity to attend such actions in warsaw there, the activists demanded not only to recognize russia as a terrorist state, but also to expel all russian diplomats from poland." e-e to turn to the whole world to european countries to the united states of america in general to everyone so that they finally recognize russia as a terrorist state, glory to ukraine, the protesters are asking to recognize russia as a terrorist state and also to recall the russian embassy from poland, we

gathered near the russian embassy in poland, as it turned out this spring, relative to this time, they are still in this building and constantly go to work, but we do not understand who they represent. they represent a terrorist state now, they have no place here, this is the civilized world, and there is no place for them in the democratic world of ukraine! because they are completely abnormal in the 21st century. well, me i understand that when they still shoot at the infrastructure there, if it is a war, and they are like that, if the blows are understandable, but when they deliberately shoot at civilians, it’s just, well, i don’t know, it’s some kind of really terrorist act, the participants of the action also lit

candles in honor of the fallen soldiers of the armed forces , the organizers promise next week to come out with another protest action to hold a so-called popular referendum under the walls of the embassy on the expediency of the existence of an institution from warsaw khrystyna shevchenko for the voice of america in the village of knyazivka on in the north of the kherson region, the russian invaders entered on march 13. in two weeks, the armed forces of the russian federation drove the russians out of the settlement, but for some time it remained the so-called gray zone. there was practically no surviving house left in the village. the residents of knyazivka told the documentarian serhii lysenko, who visited the village on september 15, to survive, to expel

this evil spirit from ukraine, our house was occupied by the buryats, tell me how it was, oh, how difficult it was. center husband came to work already from work already settled in and we didn't know where we came back to visokopillya and lived we bought everything for you take

it all off you probably flew here to fight here they were standing as they were and they were sitting in the fifth and ours were here our colleagues and it turned out to mean as they shot at the beetroots, it was more intact, but how will the poplars be tall, from here to here they shot as ours have already entered this village, this is already the beetroots here in order on the street, not ours, but your car

cut down on that street, they must have been standing somewhere for a while there they were showing off just as the projectile came, it tore into the car, glad to go back, there are such bolons, lovers, yes, there is some kind of car good day good day, my dears, tell us something good, they are afraid, we are already

used to it well, what about flights from there, read here 2 km, this is the fifth highlands, they are there all of them, all their equipment, they were there, and they beat us all here. yes, here we get up so early in the morning to collect water. here is the well over there at my place. you see the half-gardener, volodya, here we were collecting water. exploded well, thank god, we survived the fact that our guys are still buzzing in our heads. once they came from this side here and they ran here and there and there, where the farthest house burned down, they left their

weapons. our guys told us that they are enough for two . to beat on sundays but yes, they did not take weapons, they took things that they had collected after robbing people, you understand everything will be fine , we will rebuild, it will be fine, ukraine will live until february 24 in the usa there were many charitable organizations founded during the events of 2014 and earlier to help ukraine full-scale the invasion prompted the emergence of many new volunteer funds and institutions that surround another way to join the support of ukraine only in the

small state of colorado, at least three emerged. how were they created? side ukraine in 2014, we helped the ukrainian army about the occupation of donbas and the annexation of crimea. and when 2022 came, the year began full-scale war, we created the organization sunfers ukraine. this organization has a mission to help small groups of ukrainian soldiers with medical equipment and protective equipment. it is named after a lady from henichesk , who on the second day of the war said russian soldiers, put the seeds in your pocket. my name is yuriy bruzha. i am coming from kolomyia, we became actively involved precisely after the full-scale invasion after the 24th and began to, er, look for ways to help, it all started quite banally.

i myself work in the field of it, most of my friends also work in the field of it, so i created a chat where i wrote messages where i said, look, i need this kind of help. there were guys from kyiv who are friends of one of our directors, olena butenko. the guys had nothing at all , and they were immediately thrown into the front lines. -th the brigades found out that they do not have basic equipment such as body armor, they were able to get a very large number of very high-quality and light body armor for them, we helped them assemble a-a various useful optics a that they use in

their work. now we help them assemble a drone we are quite well versed in technology, quadcopters, thermal night vision, thermal imaging cameras, various solar panels, smart watches, the like, that is, everything that helps to fight smartly, intelligently helps to save the life of organizations first about $120,000 was collected for the fund, and the funds are distributed according to requests. we receive an official request from one or another organization in ukraine. every person who wants to get acquainted with the directions of e-e, where the aid is sent, can go and see absolutely all the reports to collect funds for such things as, for example er d round gamer is an anti-drone rifle first they distributed 800 medical first aid kits that er helped save the lives of exactly a few soldiers we

received a video message from a soldier who said that his comrades aimed at the hip on the front line that he used the tourniquets and bandages that were also in the same medical smart watch yes a smart watch it's just a watch that also has gps but at the front in combat and it can save lives, thermal cameras are also something that is very necessary for people at roadblocks to see things at night that cannot be seen, technology currently saves lives, they organized probably five or six such events, in particular my town for ukraine it was an event for approximately 60 different restaurants in boulder as well as neighboring cities here er in one evening gave part of their profits to charity er in support of the mission of our organization foundation young foundation was created immediately after the war began and we have already

organized three large-scale charity events er the first event - it was, er, the fair of the only ukrainian. all the food was sold out. if i'm not mistaken, about 3-4 hours before the end of this charity event, after that we had a concert by zlata ognevich, who was then just staying with charity tour in america, our third event. it was an artistic event in one of the hotels in denver. we presented a painting by artists. it was our most successful charity event, because during this event, the most funds were collected, we made several of events right here in colorado from the banal dreambar help ukraine where we organized in the bar and held conversations, i.e. all day long we talked with visitors to the bar,

told them what was happening in ukraine, held various promotions, raffles, tried to motivate them also, we are all fans of active sports , that's why our other events are more oriented towards active entertainment. first of all, we are fighting for aid in the amount of about two hundred thousand dollars in the form of medical aid, tactical equipment and arsenal protection. we received these contributions from approximately 700 different dollars. we want the organization to help ukrainians even after the end of the war, help refugees in america, if you feel bad watching the news and reading about those atrocities what the russian army is doing in ukraine and you don't have the opportunity to go there to the front and defend our motherland and instead of a machine gun put your hands

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