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closer i congratulate our victory on the air, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, i am its host, ostap yarysh. north korea secretly supplies russia with artillery shells for its war in ukraine . american officials shared such assessments they consider secret shipments from north korea together with drones that russia has acquired to be another proof that ammunition in moscow has significantly decreased about this and other things, let's talk with yulia yarmolenko, who is joining our broadcast, yuli, welcome to you, welcome to ostap and so, what exactly is this secret scheme ? of arms supplies from north korea and what volumes we currently know, what we are talking about, yes, today he spoke about this at a briefing in the

white house, actually, the representative of the us security council, john kirby, he said that really washington has information that north korea is supplying these large shipments of artillery shells to russia, and he says that north korea is doing it in such a way as to make it appear as if they are supplying ammunition and artillery shells to the middle east or north african countries, he is john kirby says that in fact it is not about dozens of projectiles, she does not name much more exact numbers, but in fact says that all these deliveries, which in fact are still unknown, whether they reached the customer in russia they are used, but all these supplies say john kirby will not have a significant impact on the course of the war according to washington and how many of them are large enough but not so

large as to really help russia bypass all these all this lack of supplies that is now felt in the russian troops let's listen to the comment john kirabi today we will continue to monitor whether these cargoes will be received due to the shortage of supplies and the effectiveness of international sanctions, russia is forced to turn to such players as the dprk and iran to maintain their aggressive war in ukraine and continue to bring death and destruction to commit violence against the ukrainian people, however, this will not change the course of the war and we will continue to provide ukraine with life in important security systems that are needed to protect the american content today also appeared information about what seems to be a russian general but recently there were talks about the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons in ukraine, how

does washington comment on this and do they have any confirmation of this was also asked from john kirley during this briefing today, to which he said that he would not comment on the reports that appeared in the press, but he said that according to information in washington , washington still does not see any signs that russia is preparing to use a nuclear weapon weapons against ukraine he also said that the united states still does not see any signs that putin has actually decided to use any kind of nuclear weapons why is it important why is it even being talked about as john kirby said he is talking about that in reality, when such a big player as russia, which has nuclear weapons, utters such completely irresponsible nuclear threats, it is certainly taken seriously, but again, i emphasize that at this moment i do not see any signs that

russia is really preparing to do this neil also has a question about military aid, we often talk about supplies from the united states, but today there were also statements from australia and they announced there that ukraine is receiving an additional 30 armored vehicles from them, they shared the details of what we know about the weapons of the austrian army and in fact the minister of defense of this country. he said that australia has already paraded 60 such vehicles and now there are 30 more and now the ukrainians have 90 such vehicles in service with the ukrainian military. also the minister of defense of australia richard marles said that in fact australia has already provided ukraine with military aid in the amount of 420 million dollars and this is one of the largest such donations

from a country that is not a member of nato, and it is also important in the context of ostap that in fact, as we understand, australia is very far from ukraine however, the minister of defense of this country insists that in fact ukrainians are fighting not only for their country, their independence, but for global principles, the principles of the rule of law, and that is why he says that it is very important even for australia that the ukrainians win, that the ukrainians preserve their independence, ether and territorial integrity and therefore, he emphasized that in a normal civilized world it cannot actually happen that a large country attacks a smaller country and forces it to do some things that are not really within the limits of international law and that is why he insists that australia has supported ukraine and will continue to support it. let's listen to his comment today. ukraine is far

from australia, but the principles that concern our national interests are at stake. the support of a global order based on rules is extremely important in eastern europe, but it is very important and he to the pacific region and all over the world, and that is why our support to ukraine is really important. thank you for your information. let me remind you that yulia was in touch with us. yarmolenko meanwhile, great britain introduced sanctions against four russian oligarchs with the help of putin's mobilization of russian industry to support the war in ukraine. in this way, britain is increasing economic pressure on the kremlin and will do this until ukraine wins , the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine reported. joining us now from london bohdana i welcome you so

who are these new sanctions in britain against and what do they relate to the issue so for now it's about of four people uh, this announcement about the introduction of new sanctions against russia did not become uh, leading news in the mass media in great britain, perhaps because we have not heard much about these four people in particular, we only know that they uh were once partners of the richest russian and very famous in great britain, roman abramovich, known primarily to the general public because he took over the chelsea football club. here in london, as for these four, i have written their names. so this is oleksandr abramov oleksandr frolov and ira shaimiev and albert shiga-budinov, the most important thing that can be said about this is that these four names of

four oligarchs are added to the general list of great britain, which has 1,200 people under sanctions and among them 120 oligarchs are believed to be here in london, and more than 100 legal entities are also under sanctions, and what can be concluded from this message is that the british government is trying to show that support for ukraine continues, that pressure on russia also continues, and that it will to intensify until, as they claim here in london, ukraine will not win this war to defend against russia, bohdane, among others, this and other interesting statements that we also heard, the former prime minister of great britain, boris johnson, spoke to the sky news channel

, and this actually became his the first big interview after the resignation from the post of the head of the british government, if i am not mistaken, the majority of this conversation was devoted to ukraine, and what important points did you pay attention to here, first of all, i drew attention to the fact that the entire interview was devoted to it is very interesting for ukraine. such an interesting feature of the former british prime minister boris johnson is that he prefers to talk about ukraine. he does not like and does not want to talk about internal and political problems, he does not want to talk about why he was forced to resign, and in particular supporting ukraine, mobilizing the world community to help ukraine is considered one of his achievements among his merits, and that's probably why he tries to talk about it a lot at every opportunity, and this is the first

in fact, his big television interview after his resignation. last summer, he devoted entirely to the issues of ukraine, he actually stopped a journalist from the sky news channel. and in particular, he repeated what we have heard from him before, namely boris johnson's confidence that ukraine will win, that it is very important for the world that ukraine wins, it is very important that it wins world opinion, which, as borjonson said in this interview, has really shown that the international community, and in particular europe, supports freedom, supports democracy and is really doing something

for this. and that is why he said that it is very important, and separately i would comment on that and what great weight and what great importance johnson gives to the role of the united states in supporting ukraine, we obviously know that the amounts and weapons allocated by the united states are enormous, especially given the fact that the united states is one of the most powerful and of the richest countries in the world, but breeze johnson said that, in particular, he was even pleasantly surprised by the collapse of the united states, how actively he began to support ukraine from the very beginning of the invasion, and he expressed the hope that this support would be and then he said that he personally knows many republican leaders in particular. he says that despite the undisputed claims coming from washington , he recently said that in private conversations , republicans are leading republican lawmakers insist that ukraine must be supported

and that they will do for this, it is necessary that they can really make such statements. we also hear washington bohdan here about boris johnson. it is interesting that he also considered the possibility of competing again for the prime minister's chair, as we remember, but in the end , it was abandoned, is it known what his future plans might be, well actually boris johnson remains a member of the british parliament from his district, which is near london to the west of the british capital, that is, he is an active politician in the fraction of the government conservative party he is obviously trying to find some kind of further role in what he calls the mobilization of international support for ukraine. financial aid for ukraine, in what

form it will be uh right now we don't know yet maybe he himself doesn't know yet we will follow bohdan really for this thank you for the essay for your analysis for your information i will remind you that bohdan was in touch with us tsyupan, a full-scale attack by russia caught many ukrainians abroad, some of them put aside their peaceful lives and came to ukraine to defend it with weapons in their hands, among them sonya and yevhen, who returned from europe on february 25, the day after the invasion, anna kostyuchenko will tell more about their stories and pavel sukhodolskyi and from the morning of the 24th, i immediately started planning exactly how i got to ukraine. i, 38-year-old sonya, returned from france to the motherland on february 25, 2022, the air connections were already canceled at that time

the same road home was not close and i went first to germany, then flew to krakow. there i accidentally met strangers from ukraine who were supposed to come for them, their acquaintance from lviv was supposed to come. to kyiv, a kyivan, sonya, a graduate of the kyiv-mohyla academy, where she acquired the profession of a human rights specialist on the eve of russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine. sonya has already been working in france for the eighth month, but she would return to defend the country at that time at the time, the woman already had some experience in handling weapons as early as 2015. she received appropriate training. when the hands of a healthy person were returned at the beginning of the 15th year, it is obvious that one day she will have to

be in the war as well. i started working in the public organization ukrainian legion cabo, founded in the 14th year by military colonel stetsenko e in order to prepare civilians for army services and further when the territorial defense began yes to form more or less in ukraine, that's what the district military commissars did, that is, they arranged some shooting days. returning to kyiv, sonia enrolled in the territorial defense unit, now her battalion is working in kharkiv oblast . what is it , well, if we go to some other gender studies and go to theory to terminology, then uh, it’s

mostly that what is in theory what is called benevolent sexism and that is just where people mean better and it turns out in them uh as usual and of course to some extent due to such increased weight and you rest uh a bit like in a zoo i remember that when we had uh the first shootings, training shootings it's not just that you lie down and shoot, but such ones are more like nato ones with nato standards, these are all kinds of exercises with turns and so on. well, that is, exactly. so what, what, what i learned, here and there, they determined who had the best equipment. well, to my surprise, the instructors both said that they and i had it a little cognitive dissonance evgeny is from pavlograd in the dnipropetrovsk region, he, like sonia, returned to ukraine purposefully to protect the motherland , our country, not to be conquered by anyone, because our people are

very difficult to rise, but if a threat comes to our house, then everyone rises and contributes some eh fate all the victory and i am proud of my nation and my country until february 24 yevhen worked in hungary at a factory to earn money to start his own business, but a full-scale attack by russia forced him to postpone his dreams and this is not the first time, because in 2016 he postponed his studies at the university and signed a contract to fight against the separatists in the donbass . at that time yevgeny was only 18 years old, and he already had time to see the terrible face of war, and there was a case when we were standing at an observation post and my friend was blown up at the stretch. he has been here since then,

yevhen improved his own military skills, in particular , he says he went through training in sapper business and building storming tactics, he is used to combat conditions, says the boy, the only thing missing at the front is family, the most difficult thing for me has always been the fact that a lot of time here it is not close to my relatives, that is, if you take the experience of the contract, then in three years i was at home somewhere, maybe a year, i was somewhere for two years, these are combat training conditions and so on, at the beginning of the full-scale offensive of russia, yevhen has not yet seen his parents, he misses his family, and sonya says her partner is also fighting and there is no way to see him even on rotation anna kostichenko pavel sukhodolskyi for the voice of america from kyiv here is a story from kyiv

in october inside the basement of the largest concert hall in washington, the kennedy center, a charity event was held an event in support of ukraine, the nova era orchestra and the famous violinist joshua bells collected funds for the united-tonyford platform, a classical music concert tried to convey the indomitable spirit of ukrainians , orchestra conductor tetyana kalinichenko says about the debut of ukrainian musicians in the united states and cultural diplomacy, ms. tetyana ilonaitovych asked her on october 18, the nova orchestra era debuted on the stage of the kennedy center in washington, it was also the anniversary date of the orchestra's 15th anniversary, but the concert was organized to raise funds for the platform united 24 in support of ukraine, is this how you imagined the anniversary of the orchestra, okay, the answer is not how i imagined our anniversary, but here it is paradoxical that it took place at one of the legendary, well , prominent sen, that's why i

couldn't even imagine that we would play the first concert this year, together on the stage of the kennedy center in washington, there were altogether 2,500 spectators, who were fed, well, really seven, almost 7.5 months of work, what kind of work is possible, it is not visible now, but it is the result of the efforts of many people, especially the organizers of chubivska the family foundation is thanks to which this concert took place in the first place, and i think that we will continue to work in this direction and organize charity fundraisers and concerts. the only thing is that when such a large line-up of 45 musicians is not possible very quickly. what was wanted is happening. i wish it were faster because we are in this market, well, musically, i mean internationally, not much anyone

was waiting for us and now we are trying to find our place so that there will be more concerts, the concert was also attended by the famous skarbel award winner joshua bell tell us about his role in the orchestra and in particular about his performances in washington. he is not a member of the orchestra because joshua belsa is an outstanding, well, superstar, an outstanding american violinist, but he is, in fact, our long-time partner and friend, we have been working together since 2015, we have long been solving this issue regarding the repertoire what exactly are we going to play and this option is exactly his concert, well, the violin concerto with the orchestra, he changed several times, but we are together after many months of victory, he decided to stop at the max bruch concert, this is a concert for

violins from the orchestra was his own wish, the national anthem of ukraine on his part is a huge tribute to ukraine and the orchestra and this concert, first of all, your orchestra is also called innovative in the genre of classical music , you have international musicians of ukrainian origin in your composition, what was your vision in founding it and has it changed today in the context of cultural diplomacy, musicians of international level, but they are all from ukraine, and are

some of them now temporarily abroad? i also, since the foundation of the orchestra in 2007, we chose to focus on international cooperation - this is one of the foundations - one of our main directions. and it is difficult for me to say that we have changed it. no, unfortunately, we cannot now, unfortunately, actively implement projects in ukraine temporarily , but he took an international course right from the first day, because for me it was a huge priority, international recognition and international cooperation . said that we are not the only ones an innovative orchestra, we can say that we are an orchestra

of a new generation, especially since we are not a dependent orchestra , and our place in the world is to actively represent ukrainian culture . ukraine was heard as much as possible as the most in the world. can you instill the spirit of action in ukrainians today, perhaps through music, perhaps through art , first of all, we said a lot with the stage, we had a symphony, the seventh symphony in the program beethoven's is one of the most optimistic symphonies and the spirit of victory is very strongly felt there, at the same time there is a very tragic second part in this symphony. it is often called the requiem, but the general spirit of this symphony is the lust for life and the spirit

of victory, and i would like to say to ukrainians, uh, and i myself too, a ukrainian woman, that our country is the best in the world, we are the best in the world in many things, it happened just now. it is clear when many are behind us that we have a lot that we can teach other countries and it became clear that e-e country m-m of the future in the literal sense of this meaning. that is , we are a few steps ahead of the whole world in some respects, and now it is ukraine that is demonstrating er-er hmm no no no re-realistic spirit which is which is not something that cannot be broken on the contrary we also pass it on to other participants well uh, when we played, we really felt it, there are a lot of reviews where they noted that the orchestra has a very special spirit and the atmosphere

that the orchestra brings to the concert hall, and the same applies to all ukrainians, i hope that we can overcome this convey and show as much as possible these audiences all over the world, and of course i am already very much looking forward to when we can play a concert in kyiv at home, because well, this one, well, it cannot be compared with anything, and our latest story for today is about a former expert in disguising cia agents who already for almost 30 years, he has been making prostheses for people who have suffered from injuries or diseases. yuriy malan will tell about his unique work. over the past 30 years, robert baron has been creating silicone prostheses for people who have lost limbs or parts of their faces due to illness or trauma among his patients were

cancer survivors her suicides and even a little girl whose ear was bitten off by a raccoon you know look at this how to make pores here with a toothpick this is what drives me crazy robert baron has been recreating people's faces all his life his career began in back in the 60s when he worked as an illustrator for a military magazine then he served in the cia where he used his artistic skills to create copies of documents there he became an expert in disguise working with wigs masks and specialized prosthetics when robert resigned from the cia in 1993, he knew exactly how to use the skills accumulated throughout his life to change someone's personality, it turns out that you can return this personality to distorted people for almost 30 years that he has been doing this baron has helped thousands of patients, one of them is wayne gergaard from west virginia, a man survived cancer and lost

my nose to this disease i had a tumor in my sinus cavity and if i didn't remove it it would spread upwards so the doctors had to remove my entire nose to make sure they removed this tumor but i think we'll fix it this weekend when i leave here i'll be smiling robert's main task is to create a personalized and realistic protest so the fittings are an important part of his work the color of the prosthesis has to match the patient's skin tone perfectly barn says he learned his craft from hollywood make-up artist john chambers who in 1968 worked on the movie planet of the apes and occasionally worked for the cia with realism the perfect technique to make something look the way it should look ear eye nose middle face whole face