all unknowingly they are playing into the hands of the enemy in pursuit of sensationalism they are providing unreliable information they are passing through russian fakes they are publishing photos of the content of the flights i will remind the criminal code you will not prove that you did not have malicious intent the main thing is that you will not return a person's life if as a result of your stupidity and short-sightedness rockets are launched think a little about the consequences of your writings. and you, the audience, trust official and reliable sources already. as a good tradition, i remind you that if you have collaborators in your region, write to me at this email address or just on facebook let's make all the traitors known together let's see each other in a week on the air espresso death to enemies

we'll watch the program of the ukrainian voice of america service while there i'm nataliya leoneva congratulations the head of the joint committee of the chiefs of staffs shag general mark miley visited the ukrainian military at the training ground graffenber in germany where the united states started a program of training for joint maneuvers and joint military operations for ukrainian battalions, among other things, at the military base general miley observed the training of ukrainians from the bradley fighting vehicle on the provision of force to ukraine at the beginning of this month , he said. with the american leadership, with the aim, in particular, of coordinating global efforts to help ukraine, the meetings are monitored by yuliya yarmolenko, who is currently joining the studio from the white house. of the visit to washington, the ryute brand talk to

president zelensky, after which people said that the coordination of international military support for ukraine remains important in the coming months today he met with president biden, what decisions were made and what do you know, yuli, about the details of this visit natalya, if we are talking about any decisions they probably closed it and stayed behind closed doors, but we have the summary of this conversation, and in particular, the statement of the white house says that the parties discussed the continuation of the security of humanitarian and economic aid for ukraine and separately focused on the topic of bringing to justice those guilty of war crimes committed in ukraine by russian troops, and mark krut, the prime minister of the netherlands, before the start of the meeting with president biden, stressed that the world community is absolutely not can allow putin and russia to get away with the atrocities committed in ukraine, of course this week, when

the next meeting will be held , a lot of attention is paid to the group on the defense of ukraine directly to security aid for ukraine, aid for the armed forces of ukraine, and we know that the netherlands is actually one of the largest donors of aid in general and also of military aid in particular, it is among the top ten donors both in terms of the amount provided by the netherlands and in accordance with its gdp and today mark kryuta said that in fact his country wants to invest even more. previously, it was announced that more than 2 billion dollars would be invested by the netherlands in 2023 in security assistance for ukraine, and in this context, it is very important coordination of efforts directly directly with washington, both leaders thanked each other for actually helping ukraine to resist russian aggression from the very beginning and emphasized that this cooperation should continue, in particular, mark lute made one statement. he

said that his country wants to join the patriot project, it is he said during his speech before the start of the meeting. and he also announced that such tragedies as happened in the dnipro this weekend only strengthen the commitment of countries to help ukraine let's listen, we all saw the terrible footage from the dnipro this weekend, innocent children, women and men again found themselves under rocket fire, an apartment building was hit and many people died, and it seems to me that this only strengthens our resolve and will continue to support ukraine, i want to thank you personally and jointly states for your leadership in this from our side we have decided to allocate another two and a half billion to support ukraine in this war if you compare it to the size of america it was more than 50

billion dollars we also intend to join your project with germany on the patriot air defense system i think it is important for us to join this and discussed it with the german chancellor olaf scholz heard the words of markarut about the intention to join the project of the usa and germany on the patriot system but what does this mean in practice and have you commented we asked natalya at the pentagon about this statement at the pentagon, that this is equal to the discretion of the dutch government, as well as karinjalpir, the spokeswoman of the white house also said again that the command will comment on it the netherlands is therefore waiting for more clarification if it is possible for ukraine to have a meeting in washington today between british foreign minister james cleverley and secretary of state anthony blinkin, the day before british defense minister ben volosa announced an unprecedented package of military aid to ukraine, which will include, in particular, 14

challenge 2 heavy tanks, it was expected that under during his visit to the usa and canada, cloverly aims to persuade the allies to follow the example of his country to provide ukraine with tanks and armored vehicles. what the leaders agreed on of foreign affairs in washington today today this meeting is only half an hour after our broadcast ends but what james cleverley is in washington he has already spoken at the center of strategic and international studies and actually explained why great britain at this stage went for such a comprehensive and important package of military aid james cleverly emphasized that now is a very important moment in the war, he says that now is the time to increase aid in order to hasten the end of this war and he said that the end of this the war is a victory for ukraine , and the allies can help it in this. let's listen to his comment at today's conference in the center of strategic and international studies

. he clearly demonstrates that he wants to drag out this conflict, make it a slow conflict of exhaustion, he wants to continue throwing his young men and women the jackass his lack of respect for human life is shocking but that's exactly what he plans to do and he's talking about it and if that's what he wants we should do the opposite we can see from his actions until recently he was carrying out attacks on civilian infrastructure with cruise missiles now he has switched to ballistic missiles much much more expensive and he is doing this clearly because he is running out of other munitions so the time has come if we want to bring this to a successful conclusion and we want to do it must be done quickly, and this conclusion must be the victory of ukraine, and therefore it dictates to us that we must strengthen our support at this moment when russia is grazing

the rear in order to give the ukrainians the tools to complete the work, and this was the driving force by the strength of our sins and the conversations we will have to coordinate our efforts with friends and allies, both here in north america and in other nato countries. thank you yulia for this information. yulia and yarmolenko were in direct contact with us from the white house. ukraine has support the majority of american legislators from both parties, as well as the full support of the american people in this matter, in an interview with natalka song, the democratic congresswoman marsikaptor, who is the leader of the ukraine support group in kosiv, assured her about military financial and humanitarian aid to ukraine, as well as the cooperation of the united states and its allies to support ukraine in its opposition to the russian federation in the house of representatives of congress , now the republican majority there still

exists a bipartisan understanding of the need to support ukraine, but how exactly can this be achieved given the fact that support is no longer such a unanimous joly usually rules the majority and we are very successful as a nation in supporting ukraine's aspiration to be a free state in which people can fully reveal their potential. i consider the results testify that no country has provided as much financial as well as moral and humanitarian aid as the united states of america. european countries such as poland and neighboring states have accepted millions of refugees from ukraine without hindrance . it is not easy for europe. a very serious defining moment in world history, that is why the united states and our nato partners in europe are trying to support, first of all, ukraine, as well as some other countries that needed additional weapons of help with

ukrainian refugees and others, so i hope ukrainians understand that they have a strong support in europe in the united states and in canada that is trying to support them, there is a group of people in my region who are working very hard to provide help and proper equipment to the ukrainian railway to help the brave leaders who were able to ensure the vital activities of the country, that is why the american people are united in their support for ukraine, of course there are several people in the congress who really do not understand, but that is how it happens in life in general, however, with the overwhelming majority in both our parties, we support ukraine , the ukrainian authorities have very clearly shown how grateful they are for the new aid package for ukraine in the amount of 45 billion dollars, but war is an expensive business . new financial assistance, primarily in the package, we adopted in december 2022, we pledged

additional funds for ukraine to make a smooth transition to 2023. i am also on the defense committee, so when we did it, we took into account that the new congress will probably need some time to form and as we can see they had certain difficulties so these funds are intended for the biden administration to distribute them in cooperation with the ukrainian authorities so i am not worried about the near future because in the following months we have to make sure of cooperation with our european partners that these funds are distributed as needed for everything that is needed in ukraine, these discussions take place on the part of the executive, not the legislative, but they inform us if there are also problems, the verkhovna rada informs us very well, however, where in their opinion certain systems are needed, and we pass this information on to our executors, the training of the ukrainian military on the patriot vokahomi systems was recently announced, there is some resistance, in particular, from the republican senator on tanadam, who submitted a

resolution that the ukrainian military does not should undergo training in oklahoma, mentioning the incident with the fall of rocket fragments on the territory of poland, he said that these trainings should not take place, otherwise the residents of oklahoma will live in danger. how do you perceive such people? i am not familiar with this person and this issue should be decided by the biden administration and the ministry of defense. i am convinced that they will find a way to prepare ukrainian military personnel who will be involved in working with these types of systems, whether it will be at these bases or in others in our country or anywhere in the world how do you assess the possibility of providing ukraine with more patriot systems in the future i believe that one of the most important aspects of such a complex system as this is proper training people are led by horses and that is why it must happen gradually, you cannot hope for a miracle overnight, but i think that the military in ukraine and

the military in the united states understand what is needed for this , i am extremely impressed by the ukrainian army, not knowing that anyone in the world expected that after 11 months, the armed forces ukraine will not only resist, but will win to return their lands and fight for the territory that was considered under the control of russia after the seizure since 2014 , so there is great trust in the ukrainian military and the ukrainian people, and i know that the world will find a way to help ukraine defeat soft, however, in the usa, not only the voices of support are heard, but also the voices of isolationists, in particular, that america should take care of its own people and its own interests, the former acting director of the cia has climorel said that if the west stops supporting ukraine, russia will have a chance to win this war and turn nina into a vassal state, so what can stop russia, i don't care if you

look at the un vote, russia is now an exiled state, ukraine is not supported only the united states but also a huge number of countries in the world will always have unkind people towards you and they are in our country some people really don't understand they live a very limited life they don't even know what they need nato for they don't understand our only union the history of the united states america, which is a very young country, so in our country there are indeed people who do not understand, but there are much more people who do. for example, one of the large organizations in our country, rotary, collects humanitarian goods from people who are not ukrainian. americans or europeans, they successfully work to support ukraine, we have thousands and thousands of people who do this, doctors who help take care of the wounded and displaced americans, they are like the state power, the power of private performances, the power that the people themselves have, to do something important in order to to help ukraine and they are finding ways to do it. i am also sure that the freedom alliance

will stick to the canadians, our closest neighbors . in the part of america where i live in canada , the second largest ukrainian community in they are fully committed to ukraine and one of the biggest victories this year in my part of the country was the work with the americans who collected humanitarian aid for ukrainian hospitals and we were able to very quickly deliver these goods to medical institutions and i am very proud of the americans who collect medical supplies tourniquets and other who help the military, a lot of things are happening that are not reported, people show support on the streets in the communities of our country and around the world, that's why i think that good will is winning evil and that we will win, but for this we need our perseverance and we appreciate the arrival and speech of the president of ukraine zelenskyi before the congress, his message to the congress, such difficult times in ukrainian history, it was a message of strength and perseverance, and it had a huge impact on the americans, is there a chance that

the congress can to find a middle ground on the issue of supporting ukraine and stopping russia , we have already found it if you look at the votes for ukraine, they prevail i work on the defense committee where the republicans and the democrats support the financing of ukraine , and that is why when we passed a bill in december to finance our own country, it included significant funds for ukraine in several accounts not only of the ministry of defense but also of other departments that are trying to help ukraine thanks to the generosity of the american people, there are a few dissenting voices, but we we work according to the rule of the majority and the majority in both parties support ukraine. sometimes in life there are people who do not agree with everything. but i think that ukraine should remain confident in to the full support of the american people, this was an interview with the democrat marsicaptor, who is a member of the chinese support group for ukraine in the house of representatives of the us congress,

while ukraine is fighting full-scale russian aggression, tens of thousands of lithuanians continue to oppose the kremlin on another front, an informational social movement whose members mysteriously call themselves elves fight against kremlin disinformation and propaganda on the internet, how elves fight and why countering russian fakes became their personal war, my colleague oleksiy kovalenko found out that the war of elves and arrows is not the plot of a christmas movie, but an information struggle waged by tens of thousands of lithuanians and residents of other baltic countries against kremlin disinformation and propaganda. the fighters of the information front do not have a clear organization or structure , most of them do not disclose his identity in their ranks, teachers, doctors , students, and even members of the lithuanian

parliament, the founder of this unique public movement, richard savukines, for him the kremlin's fight against disinformation began 10 years ago with the exposure of groups that spread russian propaganda about soviet times, then i thought i was crazy or had schizophrenia or something like that, so i showed these groups to specialists from psychologists to journalists, everyone i talked to noted that these groups are kremlin spies or kremlin propaganda part of a network of spies it was obvious what the response should be so we started looking for and blocking such groups with complaints against them on social media people started calling kremlin trolls with russian propaganda and who fights with russian propaganda, of course, elves. this is how we began to use this name, and the most active activity of the movement began after the events of the ukrainian maidan, says savukines,

the founder of the elves emphasizes that blocking kremlin disinformation is not just a struggle for him. clear structure and most of its members do not know each other from the occupation during the second world war, we fought for a long time against the russian army, the russians captured lithuanian partisans and tortured them in order to gather information about other groups, so most partisan groups were destroyed simply at the moment when representatives of one partisan group were captured, if there is any centralization in the movement, there are always risks of capturing people and torture to extract information and find others representatives of the movement, if russia seizes lithuania and starts capturing and torturing people, and they will capture and torture me, i simply will not know anything, i will not have information according to words a teacher at the lithuanian university of vilnius

and the author of a book about kremlin propaganda viktor denisenko, the kremlin has been trying to influence the information space of the baltic countries for a long time, the movement of elves, the manifestation of the civil position of people, the chrome white smoke group, a rather small group of 10-20 people, it turned into a movement that is now covers not only lithuania, but also latvia, estonia , finland and other countries, this is a very interesting example of a social movement on the internet, it can have real power when ordinary citizens with certain knowledge join the elf movement may include it specialists, psychologists, for example, they help fight against fake propaganda narratives , they analyze and monitor certain groups or so-called mass media that spread such narratives, most of the members of the movement hide their identity, however, among those who joined the elf information war there are well-known politicians among she is a member of the seimas of lithuania and jurgia . she cooperated with the elf movement at the

beginning of the covid pandemic. she is a doctor by profession, so she helped combat fakes. it was in this area, in particular, that we fought misinformation about vaccination. i did it in my free time after the work of the elves. it became more difficult with the start of the war in ukraine on february 24. the topic of russia is dangerous. propaganda in lithuania uses narratives about ukraine, nazism in ukraine, messages about ukraine by russia, as well as topics related to human rights, such as same-sex marriage, this is the biggest wave according to the observations of savkines summer and the second half of 2021, he connects this with russia's informational preparation for a full-scale war against ukraine. savuki emphasizes us because of the obvious inconsistency of

russian fakes with reality in the disinformation of the kremlin . among groups of brainwashed quilters began to speak out against the kremlin, against putin, against russia, because even if you are brainwashed, but when you see all these mass murders, torture of children, rape, you understand that russian propaganda is a lie , that is, they have lost part of their audience, although the problem of the influence of russian disinformation in the baltic countries is very important, it is not as acute as, for example, in the countries of western europe, they became much larger with the beginning of the war and of course this problem in compared to other baltic countries, poland is smaller compared to the countries of western europe. it was very convenient to buy gas and oil from russia. they may not feel and understand aggression is as clear as

the baltic countries understand it, poland, but i am proud that politicians in my country have been repeating one thing since 1990: russia is the aggressor, and we must always be on the alert that russia can invade and attack any country, which the lithuanian deputy sinina jokingly calls the king of elves emphasizes that the war against russia, including the information war, cannot be lost. you are a soft time. fighting russian propaganda takes a lot of time, but if we lose this war against russia, at first it will only be an information war, if russia will successful in ukraine, they are attacking the baltic states, we all know this, if we are not successful in this war, we will lose everything, the number of elves is not known for sure, but according to some estimates, the group has at least 22 thousand activists under the mystical name of elves, a layer

of civil society is hiding, united by a single goal do not allow russia to win the war on the information front oleksiy kovalenko oleksiy aspen voice of america washington satellite communication stalin ilona mask from the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia in ukraine has become the key to ukraine's resistance in the absence of ground infrastructure. starving provides high-speed internet connection to tens of thousands of both military and ordinary citizens of ukraine. in this apartment in the suburbs of kyiv, oleg kudkov began testing the starling internet communication technology

long before the war. kubkov came to the capital from native crimea after the annexation of the peninsula by russia in 2014, an engineer by profession, a man who is passionate about space technologies, from the beginning i started following this project from the very beginning when they first launched it and decided that it would be good to receive a signal from starlink just to analyze what it is e-e device in the ebay online store in 2021, when this technology was not yet available in ukraine and stalin began to experiment. it does not need ground infrastructure, only a small satellite antenna and a receiving device provide access to of high-speed internet two days after russia's large-scale invasion of ukraine, the minister of digital transformation of ukraine, mykhailo fedoriv, ​​addressed the founder of the company space, the manufacturer of the old mask, ilona

mask , on twitter. we ask the population to provide ukraine with starling stations. elon musk answered him in a few hours, the starlin service now activated in ukraine in a few days, dark gray boxes with a small flat plate began to arrive in ukraine already by may, about 150,000 ukrainians used the starin system. i did not realize this in february and march. but after 1-2 weeks, my mailbox exploded, people started asking me how to connect, what should they do, etc., please salonzi satellite communication technology has become a weapon of the ukrainian military starling has become a window to the world for soldiers on the front line and a key component

in military operations kobkovo believes that even spacex couldn't have predicted how useful the old one would be to the military effort uh i know they use scarlink to exchange military data to synchronize strike coordinates etc here on the northern border of ukraine and elsewhere stalin provides the most stable communications for combat operations says the military oleksiy shevchuk from the alternative for the page is not yet available. i was there at the moment, so he is like eyes, ears, and eyes for us, we are very sold on him, although the russian troops understand the possibilities well starling to block it with a signal is almost impossible with are animals in modern war when the enemy has the technology to block the communication of ordinary communication such as radio phones, etc. starling becomes something that they cannot interrupt

in addition it is very difficult to detect the starling terminal for almost a year as ba apartments kutkov turned into a stalinist repair shop for help, even from the front line, sometimes kutkov will fix old receivers and plates with bullet holes time i use have i do it for free in free time because i have a job, the main work i do during the day and at night i repair stalinkas with my own efforts whose mask is used by oleg almost every day he jumps into his tesla to go to the post office to send a soldier repaired equipment, he sees it as his way of serving and hopes to return one day

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