happened to an online broadcast for training, the last time she got in touch was on april 25, and it was on this day that she told very disturbing news, she said that enemy shells started flying over their house, she was very scared, and the very next day, the connection with the girl was cut off and until today there is no news from her. lyman was occupied for several months and they were actively jamming communications there. i really hoped that this was why elizaveta could not call or write to anyone. but when the city was liberated, there was no news from the missing girl, so i was very i ask everyone who sees me now to look carefully at the photo of elizaveta alyoshina. she wears glasses, she has dark eyes and short dark hair, the girl is thin, her height is about 160 cm. if anyone has seen her after april 25, or does anyone know where she might be now, don't delay , dial from any - which mobile operator is the short number of the magnolia child tracing service

116,000,000 calls to the hotline are free or write to the chat bots of the child tracing service in telegram any information is important i will tell you only several stories of missing children in general since the beginning of the war. we have received more than 2,000 requests for help in the search, fortunately, most of the children have already been found, but the fate of many remains unknown and everyone can help find them, take a minute of your time, go to the website of the magnolia children's search service, here you can view all photos of the missing, maybe you will recognize someone and eventually help find

them. watch the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, i am nataliya leonova. congratulations, pentagon is preparing to provide ukraine with the patriot anti-missile defense system to protect against russian missiles , this information was confirmed by an official of the us ministry of defense, the official announcement of the provision of the patriot system may come as early as this week, the pentagon said that ukraine received the first part of the aid package with energy equipment, reports the routers agency and citing government sources, the first tranche is energy equipment worth about $13 million this week, according to a united states official two more planes with equipment will take off at the same time canada announced the allocation of 115 million dollars to ukraine for the repair of power grids, the country's deputy prime minister

khrystia freeland during a conference in paris, the money will come from tariff revenues collected for imports from russia and belarus on the eve of the group of seven leading of the world economy announced that it would create an interagency platform to coordinate aid to kyiv and support its recovery and reconstruction, more than a billion euros for ukraine were collected at an international conference of solidarity with ukraine in paris, representatives of almost 50 countries and dozens of international organizations gathered to agree on ways to help ukraine in the face of russian aggression and, in particular, in view of the russian bombing of the ukrainian energy system, which led to large-scale disarmament. other urgent issues for ukraine, we will talk to him right now, he is joining our broadcast from london.

greetings, bohdane, has more than a billion euros been allocated or the time frame when this money will arrive is already known. so ukraine needs help now and how it will be distributed bohdany well, i think the best way to talk about it is not allocated, but collected promises or commitments, and these promises in total amount to a billion over over a billion euros over a billion us dollars is a very serious amount, and i think that it is no less important and no less symbolic and demonstrative for ukraine and, in particular, also for russia, the fact that helping ukraine, er, allocating this humanitarian aid, in fact, to save of ukrainians in a situation where the lives of millions of people in ukraine were in danger as a result of attacks on the life support systems of

more than 70 countries of the world, and dozens of international organizations for sure. about 125 million dollars have already been mobilized, further amounts will correspond to, let's say, the project or the specific task that the participants talked about, but first i would like us to hear an excerpt from the speech of the french president emmanuel macron, who emphasized that this aid should be very, very specific, here are his words: we help the people who are resisting in winter conditions, there are very specific obligations to provide generators to support the infrastructure, led lighting, you will see that it will be very practical it is important that this was the request of president zelenskyi, because

after the russian military defeats in the past weeks, their main blow is aimed at driving ukrainians into despair, and that is why they are doing something unacceptable attack civilian infrastructure to move water supply electricity to keep people in the dark and cold and we help to mobilize aid to defend against this so over a billion euros is a very serious amount and as i said from several dozen countries, that is, it is obvious that it is not about a collected suitcase of money, it is about the fact that each individual country has its own projects, its own directions , but even now there are approximate main sums, so to speak, and the main directions in which these sums are oriented today, the head of the french ministry of foreign affairs, catherine colon, the family is a few

bucks away from this billion, the main figures are as follows: 415 million for energy, 25 million for water, 38 million for food, 17 million for medicine, 22 million for transport, and another 493 million slightly unspecified in total more than 1 billion, in addition to everything promised, more than a billion euros. what other important decisions were made at this conference? well, as i said, important symbolism and important international solidarity of such purely technical, possibly interesting or important moments that the so-called paris mechanism was developed in the capital of france, which will allow this aid to be coordinated with ukraine, i see a message that it will be used

the so-called online system is agreed by the g7 countries where, as far as can be understood, ukraine will submit e- to declare that it needs the most at the moment, let's say generators or transformers or some other equipment or food or some operational things and then the donor countries will have the opportunity let's say choose from that list what they can provide or what they can provide and that's how it will work. bohdana, president macron acted as the leader and initiator of this solidarity conference with ukraine in paris. at the same time, he repeatedly spoke about the need to negotiate with putin, in particular on december 3 in an interview with channel t f3 , he called for the provision of security guarantees to russia, the reuters agency, referring

to its own sources, reported today that five eu countries have already objected in writing against president macron's proposal regarding russia's security guarantee, what is the position of these countries, what security guarantees is macron talking about and can he convince other european countries natalya, i think that this is a discussion that we have been following for a long time and also that the countries of eastern europe in particular, the baltic countries and poland and others that have a history or even a difficult history of invasions by russia, brutal treatment of the population, occupations, evictions, deportations, etc. and so on and, first of all, of course. the baltic countries, e.e. poland is a very loud voice in this, these are the countries that say that having such historical experience, they especially feel the injustice and the cruelty with which russia acts

in ukraine, and there are countries such as france or i would say germany, which also emphasize that what should be said about the perspective, we should talk about the use of their possible levers, including diplomatic ones, and french president emmanuel macron sees his country and sees himself as such a big important international at least a european player who uses all the important keys with diplomatic ones. i think that at the same time we should not forget that the rhetoric or the tone of the french president's statements have changed over time. emphasized that it cannot remain unanswered

, it cannot remain unpunished, but at the same time, from macron's mustache from the mustache as well as the head of germany and chancellor olaf schulz as well there are suggestions that if russia is ready to withdraw its troops, if russia is ready to retreat , then negotiations are possible. thank you bohdan, let me remind you, this was our european correspondent bohdan tsyupan. the netherlands is ready to host a tribunal to consider cases related to russia's full-scale war against ukraine. stated the minister of foreign affairs of the country in the obke hukstra, given that the international criminal court of gases can not do this, there is a consensus that a special tribunal is needed to consider an act of

aggression, the minister said, however, to create a tribunal, a decision of the un security council will be required, in which russia, as a permanent member, has the right of veto earlier. of the criminal court, karim khan condemned this proposal , a ukrainian delegation, maria, came to washington to gain support for the establishment of the tribunal ulyanovsk spoke with its leader anton korenevich, ambassador with a special mandate from ukraine. about why ukraine is promoting a tribunal in opposition to the international criminal court, whether alexander lukashenko will be held accountable for complicity in the war, and whether putin and his entourage can avoid punishment, see our next interview, greetings pediments and let's immediately clarify one point, how ukraine is going to hold russia accountable for

crimes committed, responsibility can and should be on two levels, russia's responsibility as a state for international law and the responsibility of individuals who are citizens of the russian federation for crimes committed on the territory of ukraine. in principle, we have an architecture that allows us to work with the aim of holding russia as a state and russian citizens accountable, but this architecture lacks very important elements and, in our opinion, this is the key element the absence of a mechanism capable of holding the higher political and military leadership of the russian federation accountable for committing the crime of aggression against ukraine because e it is absolutely obvious that the main crime of the leadership of the russian federation is an aggressive war, i.e. ukraine for violating the statute of the basic principles of international law and committing the corresponding crime of aggression. well, also in this

system of the architecture of international responsibility, there is no mechanism for compensating damages for the damage caused by russia. we need to create a mechanism for a special tribunal who will be able to have lawyers regarding the crime of aggression against ukraine and create a compensation mechanism that will provide a basis for compensation for the damages caused by the russian federation in ukraine with its armed aggression. if we talk about the creation of this international tribunal, you have already received the support of specific countries. these are the baltic countries - this is the netherlands , and you also received the support of the european commission . khan, he spoke against it and advises to leave it to the jurisdiction of the international criminal court. responsibility of russian high-ranking officials and that

everyone else interprets the law incorrectly and you, in particular, promote the international tribunal, we are definitely very inspired by the support from the european union, this is the statement you mentioned by the president of the european commission, ursula, the rylyan fund, and the position of mr. jourdena is open , that is, we are talking about that we expect that the european union will really play a key role in this process, and we hope that at the next meeting of the european council, which will take place on december 15-16, we will already have certain concrete let's say concrete thoughts of the european and the council as a key player in the european union, how should we move further along this track from the very beginning of work on this project, since the end of february, we have been saying and saying that this

tribunal, this idea, this concept, this project, they are in no way aimed at in order to harm the international criminal court, bemket is a key body of international criminal justice, but there is a moment when he cannot prosecute for committing the crime of aggression against ukraine because to to have jurisdiction over the crime of aggression in our specific situation, one of two prerequisites must be met: first, that the russian federation ratifies the rome statute of the icc and the campanian amendments to it regarding the crime of aggression, or the second option, that the situation in ukraine be referred to the international criminal court of the security council at the un, we understand that it is very likely that neither the first nor the second scenario will work in this situation, therefore the iss definitely does not have jurisdiction over the crime of aggression in our situation and cannot have it.

this is an axiom. that is, we do not even talk about it with our international partners. everyone understands everything and voted for this, and therefore, understanding this, we believe that a special tribunal can be an important complementary mechanism to the international criminal court, that is, the international criminal court deals with three categories of international crimes. they said that he, and in addition to it, a special tribunal investigates and persecutes natural persons who have committed the crime of aggression against ukraine, we are convinced that it is crimes of aggression that are the crime which will immediately lead us to the representatives of the highest military and political leadership of russia, therefore we believe that the jurisdiction of the icc for three crimes is not enough if we want to talk about the responsibility of the top leaders of the russian federation, the crime of aggression is relatively easy to prove compared to other crimes, while at the same time bringing the guilty parties to justice is a completely different matter

question and how does ukraine plan to do this, how to bring these people to justice, international criminal courts and tribunals in general they do not work even half a cent, that is, in general they do not work without the presence of the suspected accused in the courtroom, the only exception is the special polivan tribunal, and all the rest of the international criminal courts, the tribunals work only when the accused is brought to court, and we are discussing this issue with our partners, and i am sure that when we move on to already closer before the actual creation of this tribunal, we handle this issue without problems, it is already a very important value, there will be a guilty verdict, there will be a warrant, which will finally be issued, as you say, by some institution an abstract and a special tribunal, that is, special tribunals are created precisely in order to bring to justice and that we carry out

all the procedural steps on the way to bringing to justice, usually an international one can be created at the initiative of the un security council, at the moment we understand that this situation is impossible because russia is permanent member and can make any decisions, and please tell me to what extent there is already widespread support for ukraine in the un on this issue of creating a tribunal and how much it is for it is really important to you, you know, the iconic version is the classic version of the creation of a special tribunal - this is really the adoption of a resolution of the un security council based on the chapters of the un charter, that is, that it is a threat to peace and security, this is the most classic version that gives the tribunal the greatest jurisdiction , legitimacy, capacity and everything else, we understand that in our situation it will be very difficult to achieve that is why we have other options for creating a

tribunal, and in fact all options are on the table, this is the creation of a tribunal based on ukraine's agreement with of the united nations, which organization of the faithful nations and the secretariat of the working bodies are authorized by the relevant resolution of the general assembly, the second option, the second option is the creation of a tribunal on the basis of ukraine's agreement with the european union and the council of europe, that is, at the level of europe , so european history is so-so and with support from the un, let's say a resolution to support this process, the third option is the creation of a tribunal based on a multilateral international treaty between states, and again then it will also be important his support from key international organizations, all of them are working with crimes of aggression until now tried only at the international military tribunals in nurberg and tokyo. it

seems to me that this is also a very good historical perspective that the place of the people who now lead the russian federation on the same bench where the nazi criminals of the second world war were imprisoned, this is their place in history, and not the pseudo- history that they are engaged in. i think that our job is simply to make everything possible within the framework of of your initiative, mr. oleksandr lukashenka, because belarus allowed its territory to be used to commit the crime of aggression against ukraine, the definition of the act of aggression is in the resolution of the un general assembly 33:14 of the year 74 and the crime of aggression is defined in accordance with article 8 of our military of the statute, the provision of territory to a third state to carry out

an act of aggression against the sovereign and the state is recognized as an act of aggression, a crime of aggression. everything else is again not for the government lawyer of ukraine, but for judges who will impartially consider this question, who should be prosecuted, announced extraordinary military exercises throughout the country, the state secretary of the security council of belarus announced a sudden check of combat readiness , belarus also changed the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine and the military leadership, meanwhile, the ukrainian military and authorities in the border regions with belarus declare their readiness to defend ukraine myroslava gongadze visited zero kilometer on the border with belarus, where she observed the exercises of the ukrainian military and spoke with the governor of the rivne region, vitaly koval, vitaliy. we are now leaving the belarusian border. how do you feel today about your readiness, the readiness of the army, the readiness

of the region for confrontation? not in tens also applies to equipment and the saturation of the military and the fully formed taro brigade, i am calm now, and we have just seen a certain amount of equipment, which was provided by the allies of ukraine, how effective do you see its use, i see that the guys learn very quickly, er, the instructors are present, the instructors are foreign, our majority of the guys who serve in the tereo, for example, they are people with military experience, combat experience, and er, all the instructors who come note such an extraordinary adaptability, it’s not that we quickly learn new types of weapons, but we we are also modernizing them, you saw today how the simple creativity of the guys gives results, and

today we have tank machine guns on cars and some ground-based artillery on cars , that is, these are working samples of military vehicles military with experience military without experience and how does cooperation take place in general. how do you manage to set up this quality work? i saw that you even specially provide some household items for the military that are important. well, i guess the first thing is why ukraine differs from russia in general. our soldier about a serviceman, for example, did you see today, miss, laundries, such mobile complexes, this is what should be in every military organization, and this is the comfort of each stay, which distinguishes the army from the other two things are the motivation and combat experience of our army. there is a lot of motivation and combat experience. i would also add the support of the population. the fact that the

guys who serve today in our region say that there is such support from the population, starting from the simple attitude of the people, they don’t even ask that they need to bring some kind of help there, firewood for some kind of heating things and hand it over, this is very motivating for the boys from the region in particular, this is a risk from belarus, there is definitely a risk, you don’t need to relax, but when you have to every day because of information resources say an attack from belarus, an attack from belarus. you simply don't react to these threats anymore, you are just preparing. our task is to make the defense capability of the region of ukraine many times stronger. defense is not only let's call it the infantry, it's

other units that are very important interactions and the guys go through coordination, this coordination is a term that not everyone understands, but it's probably the number one when everyone knows what to do, worked-out scenarios, lack of communication, what commands, passwords to programs, that is, all this is present. and in our region, interaction has been built, we clearly understand the priorities of the military administration. it is responsible for such military-civilian cooperation, the defense priority is military personnel and i, for example, understand that it is wrong for me to wear the suit of a commander, my task is to help professional military personnel so that they have a command, that everything is provided for them and that they feel that this is a reaction to their requests and needs immediately, well, that's what we have today, how important is western aid today, financial and military, that is, to what extent are you

here today and do you feel ah-ah, i want to remember the phrase that battles are won by commanders and wars by the economy, we understand that without it would be economically very difficult to support the west today, because a blow to the energy structure, a blow to the life of ukrainians in general, has a negative effect, and when you have such support and understanding of the world, defense is carried out much more optimistically therefore, it is very important and very important, i would call it. it's all right on the road, it's safe to drive off the road, it's dangerous to drive off the road, that's why it's very important to remember that you and i were there at the

crossing point, you talked about the fact that nature itself is helping ukraine today in protecting its territories in the north of the region - this is in the majority impassable territory we have only four highways on which you can drive 92 km from belarus to the marshes and this marsh is year-round, in fact, 40% of the territory of the region is forested. imagine that, for example, a convoy is moving on a narrow road between two forests. well, what are the chances of getting through it further minimal - this is a guarantee from the armed forces therefore, it is necessary to understand the natural landscape, it is very important , it is not the kherson feet, for example, it is other territory and there are swamps, forests, well, they really help, and rivers, in general, except for rivers on which there are bridges, are very there are many irrigation canals only in the north, there are

556 km of irrigation canals. that is, this is the former soviet system of irrigation, when the swamps were drained. today, it works for protection, also because it is not so easy to pass through them. this was an interview of myroslav lungas with the governor of the rivne region, vitaly koval, in washington. the memory of radio producer svoboda viri hyrych, who died as a result of russian rocket fire in kyiv in april, was honored at the ceremony of installing a memorial plaque on the memorial wall of the fallen journalists took place in the premises of the voice of america office, the head of the us agency for global media, which includes, in particular, radio svoboda, radio white europe and voice of america, amanda bennett, expressed her condolences to the family of faith and the staff of radio freedom in our country, they were modest about their work at radio svoboda , radio free europe although there was work very important in spreading the truth, the pro-russian war

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