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announced the introduction of martial law in the territory of the temporarily occupied kherson in the zaporizhia donetsk and luhansk regions, such bloodshed took place against the background of the successes of the ukrainian counteroffensive and the statement of the russian military command that there are not easy solutions possible at the front, the ukrainian leadership said that putin's declaration of martial law does not change anything, the armed forces continue the deoccupation of the territory, but about the reaction of the usa let's talk with yulia yarmolenko, who joins our broadcast from the white house yulia i congratulate you, do you know that the us administration reacted to the kremlin's declaration of martial law one step at a time jobbyteen also commented on what we heard, so here it is, first of all, it is worth noting that the united states does not recognize, has never recognized and does not recognize russia's attempts to illegally annex ukrainian territories. and what does this mean, what does this indicate ? he said that this

move by the kremlin and putin shows that putin has found himself in a difficult and extremely difficult situation , and the only thing left for him is to terrorize and intimidate the ukrainian people, with the aim of that the ukrainians want to force them to follow such ideas of the kremlin, so that you force the ukrainians to surrender , but president biden said that this will not happen, and today they also commented on this in the state department, again emphasizing that and that these are desperate steps and that this will not change the position of the united states that all these territories remain the territory of ukraine. come on, let's listen to the nerd, that potala - this is the deputy spokesman of the state department. no one should be surprised that russia is resorting to desperate tactics, trying to control these areas the truth is that russia is not welcome in these regions and people in ukraine

reject russia's illegal invasion and forceful seizure of ukrainian territory so that the kremlin does not say or do so that they do not try to impose their decrees on paper or in any other way crimea donetsk luhansk kherson zaporozhye is the sovereign territory of ukraine and any claims of russia on this territory are illegitimate, they do not have any legal basis, they do not have jurisdiction over these territories, it is ukrainian land and with its illegal actions, russia has grossly violated ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as violated the un charter, the state department's answer to yuliu is really quite clear. now to another but no less important issue , russia's latest attacks were focused not only on civilian buildings, but also on the critical infrastructure of ukraine, as the united states is going to to help ukraine with its recovery, especially before winter

months and today the department of commerce, the department of transportation of the united states and the ministry of infrastructure of ukraine signed a statement on the creation of such a task force on infrastructure issues, the main purpose of which will be to work to help ukraine strengthen the infrastructure of ukraine now and also help with the reconstruction and after the end of the war, as he said, will the minister of transportation of the united states of the task force. and this once again shows the commitment of the united states to help ukraine, and the minister of trade said that the issue of restoration rebuilding the infrastructure will be critical for the prosperity of ukraine after the end of the war , that is, once again, they created this group of operatives that will deal with these issues, precisely the issues

of infrastructure, and for the duration of the war. it will be necessary, as they are now commenting on the possibility of further funding in the context of the upcoming congressional elections in november, such republicans today, once again, the representative of the national security council of the united states john kirby said that in fact all these statements about the fact that the united states provides unlimited aid are not. so he said that in fact the united states is doing everything possible to help ukraine defend itself, but also stands in defense of democracy around the world, and he said that the united states the white house will work with congress to ensure that this bipartisan support continues. today, the spokesperson was asked about this, and the deputy spokesperson of the state department was asked and asked, and he said that as

the presidents and the secretary of state have said before the united states that the support of the united states is not just unbreakable, it is iron-clad, so again these messages are coming from the white house. there are a few weeks left before the elections, and only after the results of these elections will we be able to talk about what support will be, what significance the elections will have, and whether the white house will have to work harder with the congress so that this support for ukraine remains valid. i think we will talk a lot more about this topic in the coming weeks. thank you for your information. let me remind you that yuliya yarmolenko was with us in connection with the white house, before the start of the full-scale invasion of russia in ukraine, 500,000 combatants were registered, now the number of fighters, as well as their families and the families of the fallen defenders, may reach five million, such canteens of the

ukrainian veterans' fund under the ministry of veterans' affairs this week, the fund's delegation is in washington what are the pressing needs of ukrainian veterans and how can the american experience help in this, kateryna lisonova, knight of the order of bohdan khmelnytskyi the third , learned colonel volodymyr laguta, a career military man, rose from platoon commander in 1999 to deputy commander of the 95th airborne assault brigade in 2014. he participated in the battles for slovyansk, lysychansk savur-mohylu, then he was seriously wounded and transferred in 11 operations in 2017, he was released as a reserve, but since february 24 of this year, volodymyr is back on the battlefield, he says that the most difficult thing now is not the tactics or weapons of the enemy, but his large number, very much, russia threw a-ah-ah-ah into battle a very large number of soldiers ah weapons moreover, the weapons are not exactly new, they take them out of the

stocks of some storage bases and even old weapons that they have not written off there yet, that is, and we are even joking, they are not strong, they are long , he served in the armed forces since 2011 and passed through the hotspots of donbas as part of the 95th airborne assault brigade, after being released into the reserve, he created the production of special napkins for cleaning weapons, later founded the gostina gastronomic project, and already this year he returned to the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine, then there was no such density there was no artillery, no aviation involved, there were no such massive rocket attacks and strikes, and it is much, well, much more difficult, but we can’t cope with anything, this is war, well, that is, war is always difficult, difficult for everyone, but we will defeat them, the military arrived in

washington for a week to take over the american the experience of complex rehabilitation of soldiers according to the ukrainian veteran fund of the ministry of veterans affairs, which organized this trip, before the start of the full-scale invasion of ukraine , 500,000 combat participants were registered with 2014. currently, the number of fighters, as well as their families and the families of the dead, may exceed 5 million people. the specifics of the combat operations are mainly artillery shelling and a lot of guys are injured. the injury is ptsr, which is well known to everyone. head injury and it will be the consequences are very big, both psychological and, unfortunately, psychiatric, and we need to be ready for this. the ukrainian veterans fund was created at the beginning of 2022 to help veterans and their families not only to rehabilitate, but also to open own business and start a new civilian life, there should

be a culture towards veterans, well, that is, these are quite specific people, these people who have repeatedly been on the verge of her life and death and they need to be integrated , well, these are people who returned from the war much stronger, but they need some support for so that they adapt to the society in which they were before, help is needed now, says iryna yurchenko, both the relatives of the dead and those who return with injuries or released from captivity , as well as her son, a fighter of the azov battalion dmytro kozatsky with the call sign orest stefania mom mom stefania is you a six-year-old boy was surrounded by russian troops for almost two months at the azovstal plant in mariupol then there were 4 months of russian captivity and finally returning home five i heard here how much they respect military veterans, especially

those who were in captivity yes my son was released on september 21, but there are still many people in captivity. i want to convey this joy to every mother and every family who are waiting for their children to be released from captivity. the ukrainian military says they do not know what the war will be like in a week. will return, the current intensity of the fighting forces us to constantly change our tactics. russia has begun to use drones on a massive scale, and as far as we know , iran is transferring ballistic missiles. now the tactics will change, that is, we are always like water that enters a stone, and here we are constantly changing, we are constantly thinking what should we change because the dynamics are very intense, very intense now and i don't even know what will happen tomorrow , i can no longer say about the time when i will return to america washington here is a story from

kateryny lisonova, and more about how they are already helping ukrainian veterans, let's talk with the executive director of the ukrainian veterans fund nataliya kalnikova ms. natalya congratulations. thank you for taking the time to join our broadcast. let's start with the main problems that are currently arising in order to support veterans in ukraine. were veterans after 2014, and those who are already new veterans after a full-scale secondary, well actually, congratulations and thank you for dividing these two groups, because those who were veterans before the 14th year and now serves in the army, as well as those who have recently arrived and are now in the army, it is a matter for us to build a system at the time of their return from the army, and there are also those veterans who, for one reason or another, are not currently in the war, they are at home and also have families veterans and they definitely

need to be taken care of. what is being done now and what are the problems? it is definitely a question of the fact that all military personnel worry about their relatives. one of the main questions when we conducted a survey is what do you need? i need to be calm for for their relatives, therefore their own, some programs in our fund are aimed specifically at families, psychological support, medical treatment of a veteran , even if he is currently part of the ministry of defense and is on duty when injured. he must receive treatment, and then this is definitely what we are building the system as then mentally return a person to the maximum possible healthy state, how to make him so healthy that he can independently serve himself, work and earn, set out for a valuable life, work and to feel complete, to feel that he can take care of himself, he or she, and then it's about retraining, it's about finding a job, it's just about

actively participating in social activities, it's about entrepreneurship, behind the scenes, about psychological support, many say that it is no less important than uh than physical recovery, we know that many veterans return with post-traumatic stress after participating in hostilities, how is the state currently taking care of this issue, the psychological recovery of veterans, as of today, a register is being formed providers of psychological assistance, it is formed by the ministry of veterans affairs, that is, by going to the resources of the ministry, you can find and get this service, which is paid by the state to those who have entered into a contract with the ministry, it is for long-term therapy, you can come and you should come often, we just do not understand that it is time ideally, every person after hostilities should talk about such a period of psychological recovery and bringing himself to a state of peaceful life, because it is

such a switch from war, not peaceful life, we have on its part, a crisis support hotline was launched in july of this year. this is a hotline when you can call. it is not long-term therapy, but when it is bad, when you hide, when you don’t know what to do, when it is eternal, if it is a veteran family, a mother who worries about her child. or a veteran who has lost a comrade, you can call the hotline of the ukrainian veterans fund and qualified specialists will provide assistance for family members, for those well, when we talk about veterans and we always talk about a complex, it is not only a person by himself is always those with whom he interacts. or it is those on whom he influences and those who influence him after the return of veterans and change to peaceful life. it is important to talk about reintegrators as well. i know that the foundation has programs that help

veterans start or develop own business startup, you can also tell about them what kind of programs they are, how they can even invest, maybe people are watching us now who will find it useful in fact, uh, really, uh, reintegration, reintegration is active, it is important both for a veteran and also invented by the acquirer is both the state and the local community, yes, that is, a person works, a person pays taxes, and a person is socially active. we have already launched two programs. the first program is long-term without a competition . martial law to do this, you must be registered or confirm family ties, have a father, a wife , a husband or children, have a registered e-e entrepreneurial activity, that is, be a natural person-entrepreneur and have expenses after february 24 this year, and the expenses incurred by you as

an entrepreneur in order to restore , rebuild, relax your activity, the amount of up to uah 20,000, you can register and submit an application on the website of the ukrainian veterans fund, we have a direct button there, you go to it and upload your documents, the program is big and i i want to thank the government ministry and the president, who went to the meeting and understand the importance of veterans creating support for veteran businesses, because this is also part of the economy. war is always about the economy, if we have a vibrant economy, we will have something to do with it, including providing for the military, so in august, we announced that in september we started accepting applications, and now the expert evaluation of the projects submitted to macro-financing is not irreversible, financial assistance is almost the same

as grants, we simply do not have such a legal wording in our legislation, a-a could be submitted a-a enterprises where the founder is a veteran or a family member of the deceased, it could be different forms of ownership and fops and bulldozers and others . we have received the documents of the applicants, conducted a technical selection, that is, correctness of the submitted documents . ideas and i hope that by the end of this year we will hear good stories about how veterans, with the help of the state through the ukrainian veterans fund, have grown their business and started to merge it, because their growth is our growth, they are our future let's really hope that there will be more such stories ms. natalya in the usa on the question of the recovery of veterans, psychological support, reintegration, help to return to a peaceful life, checks

a lot of attention and also supports businesses of various veterans. do you want to adopt what is important to apply in ukraine as well as what is being done here in the usa now really we came here to get to know each other and see how work with veterans works in the united states in america, there are 19 million veterans and their families. this is more than 5% of our population. the percentage of veterans and their families will make up 10% of that in populated countries. therefore, this is a huge number of people, a huge number of people to whom we will simply be morally obliged for the fact that our independence has taken place and we are told about the programs that are being carried out about state programs and also about public initiatives that work in the interests of veterans, we meet with the veterans themselves and see how they are they organize, for example, e-e sports e-e

yes for rehabilitation from such interesting examples, what i remember right now and i think how we should apply it in ukraine is when veterans undergo training and become psychologists themselves for such as them and in fact, this is a very good story because usually a person who has gone through combat operations is not ready to communicate with people who have not gone through combat operations on and a completely different such report is contact with a person who is really mrs. natalya thank you very much for all time that was told about your work on how to help ukrainian mothers a-a thank you once again for your expertise, i think nataliya kalmakova was with us, she is the director of the ukrainian veterans fund, and we talked about how to help veterans in ukraine and what experience they can apply american experience and how

it can be applied also in ukraine, the russian full-scale invasion of ukraine became the event that most worsened the situation with freedom on the internet in the world, say researchers of the human rights organization freedom house, in their report it is said that russia suppresses internet freedom not only in its own country but also in the temporarily occupied ukrainian territories. my colleague natalka churikova spoke more about this for the analyst freedom house grant baker see more according to your report, internet freedom is deteriorating for the 12th year in a row, why do you think the decline of freedom the internet has been so delayed in the 2022 report we focused on the fragmentation of the internet or the idea that governments around the world are building walls around the

internet in their countries this contradicts the previous imagination of the internet because since its inception it has been built on decentralized channels that allowed people around the world to communicate easily. now we are seeing more and more efforts aimed at limiting this flow of information and data and establishing greater control over the internet infrastructure in certain countries it separates people from each other and makes the internet less free km a-a last free washing russian invasion of ukraine became one of the biggest events that contributed to the decline of internet freedom in world or would you say that this was the biggest single event that caused a decrease in internet freedom in the world over the past year during this reporting period i think it's safe to say that

the drop in internet freedom in russia was the biggest drop this year recorded in the report it was related with russia's decision to block the social media platform immediately after the brutal invasion, as well as new laws under which people can be imprisoned for up to 15 years if they spread false information, it was also about simply a real suppression of independent media and any media that question the actions of the government , ukraine's rating also decreased by three points, but this was due to the actions of the russian regime and the russian military. also in ukraine, we are talking about the damage caused to the internet infrastructure, which was first invaded by various sources - various i think that from 15 to 30% of the total infrastructure was damaged i want to emphasize here that the efforts of the ukrainian government and telecommunications companies have been really impressive in this regard since the provision of wi-fi for bomb shelters and the cooperation of telecommunication operators that allowed people to

use the services of any available provider if the telecommunication operator was disconnected due to an attack on the infrastructure, it should also be noted the cooperation of the ukrainian government with starling, the american government and other participants to place starling in ukraine and provide access to the internet we also discovered that the russian military is trying to establish control over the internet infrastructure in the places where they are occupied over the past few months, especially in kherson, starting from the end of april, when they redirected ukrainian networks through russian networks, which left people in kherson without the possibility of accessing zablo sites in russia, and the last reason that freedom and the internet in ukraine declined again as a result of russia's military actions was in increasing levels of violence against journalists and internet users, the russian military has killed a number of journalists, including online journalists , in its brutal attacks over 12 years, or you

to look optimistically into the future in view of the trend and recent events internet freedom will decline even more before the situation improves i think we are trying to remain optimistic when we prepared the first report there was the idea that the internet would give a boost to freedom all over the world but very quickly we saw that this is not true and authoritarian governments have the means and continue to restrict access to the internet or manipulate content or punish people for their actions on the internet and this harms people's freedom but the positive point is that this year's report documented many cases of resilience in terms of support for internet freedom, the reaction we observed was very sharp, the sharpest in

years , it was led by civil society. a charity concert was held in york in support of ukraine, despite the fact that a full-scale war has been going on for 8 months, the americans continue to remind that the people of ukraine need support and do not stop yuriy mamon will continue to wait for creative ways to raise funds. nine is a music venue on 9th avenue in manhattan . fierce duels of pianists take place every few weeks, but this evening there is no confrontation. the audience and musicians are united in their support for ukraine. today we have a charity concert at aid to ukrainian funds, this concert is based on the new york style, the multinational performer anna and dmytro shelesta, alex is an adventurous ukrainian, hokin estrella is from a

latin american family, and philip kwokka has polish roots, the program is also an international piece ukrainian composers valentin sylvestrov and serhii bortkevich american george gershwin polish frederic chopin original compositions by the pianists themselves we decided that at the moment it is worth paying attention to america's solidarity with ukraine and in music we expressed it in the program of american and ukrainian composers what will we play with such lively effects we will play a few such vivid, spectacular miniatures from hershin rhapsody in the style of blues and some ukrainian works by burdkevych folk american composer george gershwind also has ukrainian roots. his grandparents immigrated to america from odesa, and philip's ancestors came from poland. i have friends in poland who help ukrainian migrants. this war affects people

's lives every day. will collect a huge amount to support the armed forces, this is a chamber concert in a small bar in manhattan, donations are not hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of dollars, what is important, say the participants, that even in the eighth month of the war, the americans came and continue to support ukraine, for me it is an opportunity to take advantage of the privileges i have living in a country where i can not be afraid to express my opinion using my art of the piano i want to help at least in some way fokin is a student of a special school for gifted children he is 14 years old all the funds he collected here he received to help the ukrainian children's fund, i wanted to remind people that the war continues. i also wanted to remind that we are all people, that we should talk about it, and that we are all against this war, this concert

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