what is left on the west bank of the dnieper and in kherson. i believe that they are definitely capable of doing this, and most importantly, ukrainians believe that they are capable of this. we have seen how they use very methodical and effective efforts to return their sovereign territory, i think you will see how they will continue to press until they return the territory on the western bank of the river, therefore, answering your questions yes, i believe that they are capable of this ukraine demonstrates unprecedented reporting on the use of us military aid, especially for wartime this was stated by the american senator rock portman, who is currently visiting kyiv. according to him, the american military with whom he spoke did not record a single case of the collection of weapons falling into third hands. the united states government said that the senator also closely monitors the use of financial assistance, we have an audit office here. a company that monitors the

use of money that we provide to the ukrainian government so that the country can exist, also the world bank conducts its analyzes and regularly reports to the use of funds traces them to the very source of receipt, in my opinion, there are good mechanisms, but there is always room for improvement in terms of reporting , the offices of inspectors general in the state department and the ministry of defense are working more on this, and this is correct, because we are talking about significant taxpayer funds, but the point is very simple, on the one hand on the one hand, an authoritarian regime on the other, a democratic ally, senseless, completely unprovoked, an attack and not responding, not alone, but with allies, 50 countries of the world provided military help is in our national interests , it would be a mistake not to react, which would lead to problems of destabilization not only in the euro, but also in the world . republican senator robertman arrived in kyiv on an unannounced visit together with his

democrat colleague christopher kunson. as part of the visit , american lawmakers met with the president of ukraine and a two-day meeting of foreign ministers of the group of seven is underway in germany, to which us secretary of state anthony blinken went, representatives of the countries are discussing how best to coordinate further support for kyiv especially after russia's recent attacks on the energy infrastructure of ukraine. we will talk about this and more with our european correspondent bohdan tsyubov, who is now joining the broadcast from london. bohdan, i congratulate you. to what extent does the question of aid to ukraine dominate these meetings of the group of seven ministers, and perhaps we have already heard about some specific steps to further support ukraine, yes, the issue of ukraine is the leading issue, but maybe not the only one, obviously not the only one, in particular from germany, which currently chairs the group of seven, and that is

why similar meetings are held in germany declared that, for example, relations with china will be very important, this topic is leading, in particular, because in connection with the russian war in ukraine, china manifested a position that showed that beijing actually sided with moscow and actually created together with iran and even north korea a kind of alliance of authoritarian regimes against western democracy but of course a lot of attention is being paid to russia's efforts to actually fight against the civilian population in ukraine, to destroy the ukrainian energy structure, the infrastructure of energy enterprises power lines and so on and that is why the representative of germany, the minister of foreign affairs, but on the other hand, focused her attention precisely on

preparing for the winter axis of the word, we will coordinate our aid for the winter, others also supply generators and winter aid, and under our joint sanctions, our joint aid package for winter, from the partners of the group of seven, many , many other countries have already announced that they are joining this initiative, bohdan's words, i want to talk to you about one more event, the british ambassador to moscow is leaving, or the pronart has been summoned to the russian of the ministry of foreign affairs due to accusations of alleged involvement in the attacks on russian ships in sevastopol, tell us a little more about what exactly russia is now accusing britain of, well, the representatives of great britain in moscow today staged not only a demonstrative demonstration call to the ministry of

foreign affairs, but also a demonstration, so to speak, of protest, i.e. from the videos we have, we can see that when the representative of great britain arrived by car, now you see on the screen to the building of the ministry of foreign affairs in moscow, she was met by an organized group people who shouted that britain is a terrorist country, from the video footage it can be seen that this is a group of people of approximately the same age, so it is approximately possible that they were students, they were very well organized. there were not many of them, but they were very noisy and they repeated what has been heard from moscow lately . great britain is accused of direct involvement in serious events, for example, not only what happened in the crimea with russian ships, where, according to

moscow's assertions, london, by the way, rejects british naval experts together with ukrainians planned an attack using drones on a russian warship in crimea. and even more amazing and currently unproven is the theory that moscow is voicing it so that great britain is almost using instructions from the united states somehow used their navy again to blow up the nord stream 1 and nord stream 2 gas pipelines in september, and we know that now they are trying to find out what exactly caused the explosions that probably damaged the gas pipelines, but at the moment we only have these unproven accusations

from moscow, which great britain completely rejects bohdan, which may be the reason why russia has now singled out the british among all the others, even if we put aside side of these fantastic accusations, which in london are called completely false, about involvement there in the accident on the northern stream or about involvement in actions against the russian navy in there are obvious things about the black sea. great britain is the most of all european countries, if you take one individual country, it helps ukraine the most, in particular, the military. it is in great britain that thousands of ukrainian soldiers have been training since the summer, who then go to the front to defend ukraine. great britain has always been a very loud voice in the

international community, mobilizing the world, in particular the western countries, of course, to help ukraine, and great britain, being separate from the european union already after the bracket, asserts its separate sanctions are obviously very painful for russia, for russian oligarchs, etc. and in general, the position of great britain is very firm, regardless of the changes in the government, despite the frequent changes of prime ministers that we saw in london recently , james cleverley was recently approved as the minister of foreign affairs in great britain in the british parliament these days he confirmed the position of this country, which obviously causes dissatisfaction in moscow, he said that nothing will change our

belief that ukrainians have the right to live on their the land is free and peaceful. if putin succeeds, it would give courage to all tyrants to resort to the worst and no country would feel safe. that is why we stand and will continue to stand by our ukrainian friends until the day comes and it will come when they win. thank you for your information, i will remind you that bohdan tsyupin from london was in touch with us, and in the next segment of our current program we will talk about higher education in ukraine and the challenges it faces in the conditions of the russian war on our air now the president of the kyiv-mohyla academy, serhiy kvitts, mr. serhiy, greets you. thank you for taking the time to come to the studio. good day. the last few years have been difficult for ukrainian higher education. frankly, they have not been easy. we are now seeing a full-scale

russian invasion. what are the main challenges facing ukrainian higher education? well, i would share them into two parts, and the main challenges are actually connected, in my opinion, not to the war, that 's why, but to the fact that we started and did not finish the reform of higher education in accordance with the law which was adopted after the revolution of dignity in 2014. that is, it is important for us to remember that after victory we do not turn back, we move forward. this is terribly important. that is, this is the next step in the reform of our education, and actually what step is this, the introduction of full financial autonomy a if we talk about the challenges associated with the war with covid, of course this remoteness is forced, that is, there was simply no choice neither during covid nor during the current phase of the war. and i would say that these are very serious challenges.

the quality of education, of course, but at the same time, there is no direct dependence, that is, if the conditions are worse, it is not necessary. and those people who are studying now will become worse specialists. i have such an interesting example from my school. we had a chemistry teacher who told that after the war, she she really wanted to study, she really wanted to do chemistry, she didn't have a notebook, so she found an old binder of newspapers and cut out the margins, then glued them together and made some papers for herself in order to study, you understand, that is, bad conditions don't mean they don't necessarily have to mean that we will have worse specialists or worse leaders, that is, the current challenges - this is what we have to overcome and i think we can do it pan-serial, many ukrainian teachers and students now went to the front and are fighting , including those from mogilianka, e this is probably now the most important front of all. yes, but there is also a front and an

information front, diplomatic cultures and so on, as the university community is now included because it is possible that they can be included in the struggle on these fronts as well. of course, what do we it is necessary to win. those people who are fighting at the front and among them are many mogilians. unfortunately, we know that five people died. these are simply the best people, and they are close to that. well, the information front, we understand that it is also a front, but if you take our university, then a let's say it's possible here somewhere. we have our glorious year ahead of us, this is such a global ferry organization that works in 12 languages. and last week, we opened such a special presentation office, well, at our representative office in spain, that is, eh not only but also, we have an it faculty that has its own front and they are very involved in various processes

. the university system should work with that, what are the requirements of the mohyla academy, for example, i believe that many other universities work effectively enough in the current conditions , but with those blackouts and poor communication and so on, but i think that this tension is also shows the desire of people to work and the desire of people to study after the full-scale invasion of russia, you know, for many it turned out that ukraine was actually underrepresented in western academic circles, so if there were any eastern european studies, they eventually came down to the study of russia or ukraine in the context of russia in one way or another in your opinion, why did this happen? is it not the finalization of ukraine, ukrainian scientists, or is it possible that there is a lack of interest in the west , that is, there are many reasons, of course, but ukraine actually did not have such opportunities and did not

one has to be frank about this in order to get into the field of view of the most influential analytical centers that worked in the west, but the reason is no more because all these centers are former centers for the study of the soviet union and mostly they were retrained for russia and it was also possible to work with them from russia very profitable because well, there was a profile here, that is, there was some benefit, but here you can’t hide it. of course, this is russia, eastern europe , and somewhere there, ukraine is very dotted, of course, now it will all be over and people will admit it themselves because i now he has the opportunity, in particular, to visit universities and energy centers during business trips, they admit that the presented understanding of ukraine, the post-soviet space and russia was simply irrelevant, and in the entire western system, that is, this is an absolutely unique case and now a lot is being done in order to rebuild one's work and to really understand these processes, that is,

what is happening in the east of europe, what is happening in ukraine and what is russia, how is it possible to rebuild ukraine in america, i would say it is possible with in some ways, it is even more difficult than in western europe , because in western europe, the state is very often present in the work of such centers, and this is considered normal. because there is a public interest here, so public money is normal. in america , it is mostly considered that there should be private money and a it is more difficult with private money here because it was always easier with money at the russian studio, but i think that the americans are very rational people and they will find a way out of this if we are talking about reconstruction, many people say that we need to think about it already now and in the end we see efforts in certain areas in this too, education is happening in this context, the role of higher education in ukraine in the post-war reconstruction, what should it be? well, i would say, i have already mentioned what should be, we should

continue our reforms the main thing is that we have to create high-quality institutions of higher education that were competitive at the international level, but in the context of victory. and i would say that in principle, not only higher education should play a key role in the reconstruction of ukraine because nations are now getting rich at the expense of intelligence . that is, we need to understand this, that is, without education, we will not move anywhere, and there is not enough money . scientific research and innovation, that is, i think that we have very large public discussions ahead of us. now we work, in particular, the kyiv-mohyla academy in the mode of analytical centers or one of our large analytical centers, which we consider also of our university, but later. it will come already after the victory, it will pass into the sphere of such public discussions, that is, education is the number one

task after the war, because reconstruction is not the reconstruction of not only walls, but also houses, but the kind of society we want to see, we need to talk about it to think about the continuation of reforms and about changes, that is, if we as soon as we as soon as we achieve victory we should not return to the status we should only move forward there are approximately our minutes of time for conversation you know i heard such an opinion that after the end of the war, ukrainians will need to think about how to build the image of ukraine, ukrainians abroad will need to start fighting on this front, what messages do you think ukraine needs for the western audience, including about ukraine, about who ukrainians are, what their identity is, well, you know i think that if it is to represent ukrainians, our people will represent themselves very well, because we know that ukrainians , for example, are very law-abiding, that is, they are loyal to those countries that support them, that was

you can see that even after the second world war, we never heard of any ukrainian mafia, although people who held weapons for maybe 10 years got into the west, but during the war, ukrainians will say good things about themselves, but of course state policy, especially the propaganda of culture, the propaganda of achievements , hmm yesterday, for example, i had the opportunity to be at the presentation of a photo album at our embassy, ​​it was just a grand event, this is dmytro kozatsky's professional work. well, this person is absolutely incredible, especially up close. i.e. and we already know how to work very well and i think that after the victory, after the victory, we will choose the right vector for ourselves mr. serhiy thank you very much for the conversation, it was so with you serhii kvitka, president of the kyiv-mohyla academy if we are talking about cultural diplomacy

in the meantime, the ukrainian band kalush orchestra, which won this year's eurovision song contest with the song stefania, is touring the united states and the band leader oleg psyuk told an exclusive interview with my colleague irina solomko in new york, but already i congratulate you, thank you very much for finding the time to chat, and you have already gone like this for the first week and have already traveled around many states, in fact, but for sure such a big sensation caused your meeting by schwarzenegger, tell me he wanted to meet with you, did you want to, and in general, what were they talking about? good afternoon, thank you, yes, yes, she was good at us, and the news is that he himself called us to his house, do you know us somehow? on ours manager and contacted us, and respect to him for that, because we are, how can i say it, very enthusiastic about such

news, so yes, what else did he meet us with his donkey lulu, and he is such a very nice man, he is very hmm... he gave such a nice speech, he spoke sincerely, i especially felt about ukraine and his support, we would also show him our respect for this. so we exchanged pleasantries and went to new york now. are you planning to go to washington? who did you meet here? you have such an exercise that they don't you meet with politicians, yes, that's true, but you're still meeting with someone because it's another part of cultural diplomacy, that is, this is what is meant, of course, different people who are helping ukraine very much at this time, we definitely meet with them we express our respect , thanks, and we support them as much as possible, but

here, i don't really want to talk on camera, there were probably quite a few cases when we decided that it's better not to be associated with politicians, he said thank you, it's okay to say thank you, too, yes, but to influence decision-making on well, there is increased attention, for example, to the topic of ukraine, you feel like this is our essence that we, er, drive with music and show our culture, and tell about it, that's cool and that's right, but er, our first the mission is to make sure that the information about the war in ukraine does not leave the headlines in europe and america because of the fact that, unfortunately, this happens, and we always inform people, talk about it, talk about it, collect funds, and we already collected 54 million hryvnias and we hope that this is only the beginning, it is four

millions we collected at the expense of concerts yes or no this is all our activity in general what to talk about the war of personal but here is your creativity because well, for sure stefania yes the clip is very powerful yes that is, it was also part of that cultural diplomacy, there are some elements of the subject there the war in your songs of the group, so how much has it become so significant for you at the moment, it's like for all ukrainians, the revolution of the whole life, how to describe everything, rockets fly at my house even when i'm not in ukraine i have everything all my closest friends, relatives, parents, girl, girl, parents, live in ukraine, and if i was worried about each of them, i was the one who was still pulling for ukrainian rap long before 2014, then

a lot of people have already started to change there because of many different that's right, and the only thing that, after february 24, was somehow difficult. how can i say it? well, at this time, in principle, i had to create songs. because, well, it just got off the track. it's okay, but then i just, well, if i understood that this is the best thing that i do and i need to show all this to him and we we started to somehow try to help with our creativity. that is, stefania's bread, where we showed bucha irpin to the whole world, and in many of our songs

there are still many new ones that did not work out . if we talk about eurovision here, to what extent it became so significant for your group, or in principle did you always feel that you have your own mission, ukrainian rap, in principle, rap-said the performers, they don’t really go to eurovision, yes, of course, because they tore europe apart, you won, but to what extent was it really like that for you? well, i don’t know, moments of recognition. yes, for example, or there . what do you want? i mean, if we didn't win, it wouldn't be the best. i think for ukraine, well, someone 's responsibility fell very high, we did everything possible and we didn't consider the option of not giving ukraine a victory because we understood how much it is victory is important to every ukrainian, what

should be the summits? yes, you were created for that and mushrooms. i would also like to do what is currently being done in america. it is probably partly like this. well, i don’t know the foundation for getting it. well, not exactly. believe in the fact that in general what we do that leads us to it that is, we simply make music that we like and uh as much as possible and try to make it qualitatively that is why i believe in what if how to say if you do everything correctly for a long time inspired and hardworking that's all of course, it's a tragedy and it's scary . but could there be some

positive impetus for ukrainian culture in this context? it will be easier for it to enter the world's venues . it has increased and it will be easier for you, in principle, to convey your songs. yes, and ukrainian music to the world in general, let's start with the fact that, unfortunately, if you look at spotify or popol musica today, 7 out of 10 in 7 out of 10 are russian-language songs, it's hard to describe my disappointment. that's why it's certainly not the best thing i saw this morning. if we talk about the world, it's possible that some festivals call ukrainian artists more, but probably not as much . how are you? described well, it seems to me that it does not mean much, i think that it is very important to show our music as it is, in no way

calls for repeating the kalushorchestra, just what we started to do we started to do our real ukrainian folklore in our band there are real folklorists who learned from them and sing folklore all their lives and what's cool is that it's just mixed with new modern hip-hop in this way it's really interesting it's new and why not show it this was an interview with the leader of the kalush orchestra band

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