you are watching the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, i am nataliya leonova , i congratulate the president, the first lady of the united states of america expressed personal condolences to the families of the victims of the helicopter crash in brovary, near kyiv, in which 14 people died, our hearts go out to dozens of civilians who died or were injured, including precious children and their families, we are grieving together with everyone who mourns this terrible tragedy, it is on the website of the administration of the president of the united states, the white house also emphasized the role of the deceased head of the ministry of internal affairs ukraine's denis monastyrskyi and his team in the development of democracy in ukraine, mr.

monastyrskyi and his team were deeply involved in preserving democracy in ukraine , the text of the statement of the president and his wife says . suffered during the war, his words were heard from davos, where the world economic forum is held, the president of the forum announced 15 seconds of silence during today's meeting, the participants of the forum, the leaders of the western countries were called upon to immediately increase aid to ukraine, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyy, spoke at the meeting via video link. and the ukrainian delegation, which includes his wife, asked for additional aid, in particular, weapons in the dance. live greetings bohdane, the question so who exactly declares that the current aid to ukraine is insufficient and

what are they urging natalya to do so, listening to today's speeches from davos actually i get the impression that everyone who in some way touched on the issue of ukraine, and this was said by many leaders of the participants in today 's debates, today's discussions and speeches in davos. well, maybe i would separately draw attention to the president of poland andrzej duda, who is very emotional about this, you should i will remind you that ukraine is actually now fighting for its survival, that ukraine needs to be helped and that the war is now in a very, very difficult phase . the secretary general also spoke about this in his speech at the debate in davos and in his comments to the press. nato and jans stoltenberg, here is an excerpt from his explanations, somewhere we are the lens. therefore, this may be

a turning point in the war, and we need to understand that this war will end most unbelievably at the negotiating table. will depend entirely on strength on the battlefield. so if we want the victory of ukraine as an independent sovereign country and we want a peaceful solution , then more support for ukraine is the way to peace achieved through negotiations. so war is difficult the stage may be decisive and uh, but how difficult the situation looks for ukrainians, in particular those who are in davos with the ukrainian delegation. i asked mayor mykolaiv during today's debate actually succeeded. this is what he said to the voice of america viewers. we are very concerned about this, especially places cities that are on

the front line and today is actually a turning point in the war and ukrainians need the help of western countries, and countries can help us with shells, weapons and equipment, but no one will fight for ukraine instead of ukrainians, even today our people are the greatest value in this war , we need to save our military and our civilians, for this we need help, he talks about helping ukraine, but not about the direct participation of nato in the defense of ukraine , together with this from other leaders we hear clear statements about the role of nato and about ukraine's place in the organization, right? well, for example, the prime minister of kapiland stated this very clearly the day before on marrin a-a whose country is finland actually now in

the process of joining nato, as well as sweden and marin herself said that in her opinion, if ukraine had joined the north atlantic alliance earlier, i am sure she said that there would not have been a war, russia would not have crossed the nato border, and separately i would have paid attention to what henry kissinger, the former secretary of state, who previously before the war, he said that he was against ukraine joining nato so that, as he said then, not to provoke russia, which seemed to be wary of the alliance, but now he said that the situation has changed. and here is an excerpt from his speech. i want to express my admiration the president of ukraine and the heroism of the ukrainian people and i ask them to participate in the joint

efforts that europe and ukraine should undertake together before the war, i was against ukraine's membership in nato because i was afraid that it would start exactly the process that we are seeing now, but now that this process the idea of ​​a neutral ukraine has reached such a level that the idea of ​​a neutral ukraine under these conditions no longer makes sense at the end of this process. it needs guarantees in nato in any form that the alliance can provide. but i believe that ukrainian membership in nato would be appropriate president zelenskyi also addressed the result of the form, which he tried to convey to the international community. president zelenskyi began his address with the fact that today a tragedy occurred near kyiv , people were killed in a papal helicopter, and he emphasized that these were also victims of the war, and the ukrainian president called on the participants of the meeting to observe a minute of silence. he

stood up, the participants of the forum stood up in the hall to honor all those who died as a result of the russian war in ukraine, and then the ukrainian president emphasized that the world should act on anticipating the actions of russia, which is not going to end the war, which is perhaps even preparing for new major offensive operations, here are his words, the supply of western tanks should take place sooner than the next invasion of russian tanks, the restoration of security and peace in ukraine must precede russia's attacks on security and peace in other countries russia exports terror , russia spreads the principles of war, and ukraine offers a world formality to the world. 10 steps the world should take faster than what russia is doing.

thank you, bohdan, we were in direct contact with you. our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin , at the end of this week, the defense minister of about 50 countries will gather for another meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine at the german base rammstein. congress and cooperation with washington in bringing russia to justice for crimes against ukraine, we will talk with the ambassador of ukraine to the usa, ms. oksana markarova. congratulations, ms. oksano. thank you found time and opportunity for us, before moving on to our main conversation, i would like to mention about the disaster in brovary, you wrote on your facebook page this morning that two of the 14 dead were

your personal friends, this is the donetsk monastery from yevgeny yenin what would you like to say to our viewers thank you congratulations because the tongue really does not come back to say good morning 329 days and every day unfortunately, in addition to heroic resistance and struggle we face huge losses every day today it is more personal, but what can be said for today, of course, the investigation is ongoing and we will hear the answers when the investigation is completed, this is a huge tragedy, as president zelenskyi absolutely rightly said today, everything that is happening now is tragic in ukraine . yazala after the first time she started it 8 years ago. we are now doing everything. ukraine is doing everything to help the wounded survivors. we hope that there will be no more losses from this tragedy in

brovarakh well, i think that including denys and yevhen and yuriy, everyone whom we lost today would very much like us to continue to fight and win with redoubled efforts, and we must do it for them as well. we are talking to you right now on the eve of the eighth regular meeting at the german rammstein base, representatives of 50 countries will come there, and it has already been called a tank base, because several allies of ukraine have expressed their readiness to provide tanks and armored vehicles to ukraine, and i know that you conduct constant consultations with ukrainian colleagues, the american leadership with the ukrainian leadership, and regarding the military needs of ukraine, what is ukraine asking for now and what are they ready to give this is daily work, you said absolutely correctly, and everyone is involved in this work, there is an embassy here, a small team that

is working on this directly already in washington well, first of all, the united states is very important to us, and we thank and continue to thank the congress and president biden for the help that has already been provided and for the fact that the congress has allocated a sufficiently large amount of 45 billion for including for military defense aid in the 23rd year, this concerns allocations for all three programs, and we see already this year , last year, this year, the announcement of aid packages, they are quite large and significant, because now we are talking about large pieces of equipment and such capabilities that we need, starting from uh, uh, anti-aircraft defense, ending with we need more artillery, we need more weapon range, well, in principle , we need everything . cooperation with our american partners, but we certainly do not have enough weapons on

the battlefield, so all contacts at the level from presidents to our ministers of defense to commanders-in-chief to the head of the office with his counterpart, that is, there is constant communication at every level so that our partners know that we need and what is very important is that the united states not only helps us themselves of course they are number one and in fact these meetings in the so-called ramstein gave the ukrainian contact group they were initiated by the united states and here it no longer started with a much smaller number of our friends and allies, now there are more than 50 countries so that we could absolutely quickly get those capabilities we need them, of course we expect results from this meeting and we expect new announcements about allocation, but even the very fact of the negotiations and the fact that the ministers of defense from several countries in a closed format are absolutely frank with our entire leadership because the minister is there from us and

representatives of the general staff and representatives of the guru can discuss and coordinate, we can explain why exactly we need the capabilities that we need, this is also a very important piece of work, therefore, more weapons, a just peace will come sooner, you mentioned air defense, they just announced the provision of the patriot system, and we know that the ford hill military base in oklahoma about 100 military ukrainians arrived. how is the embassy involved in this initiative and how long will this training last? see everything that is happening on the territory of the united states states and embassies in our hong kong consulate are actively involved, of course, the military accompanies this process, so we met and actively take care of our defenders. tetris is also a very good example when the united states decided to allocate these capabilities to us already two countries, germany and the netherlands, here are the latest announcements they also said that they would allocate

us these capabilities, that is why everyone else , starting with artillery, tanks, and armored vehicles, that is, every decision that the united states makes, it also allocates and opens opportunities not only gives us those capabilities but opens up opportunities to get it from other allies the war has been going on for almost a year and the defense of the us aid to ukraine has changed during what time has it remained a topic of discussion at the moment and let's say such things as planes or tanks abrams let me say so from the very beginning the beginning of preparations, because i will remind you that in the xxi year, during the visit of president zelensky, a defense framework agreement on a strategic defense partnership was signed, and starting from this, we started working on all defense capabilities, of course, the evolution of our needs and the readiness of the united states to provide us with more capabilities. since february

, we have seen serious progress and we are talking about all capabilities, that is, there are no capabilities that we do not discuss, that we do not ask for, that we do not discuss options for the modalities of starting training or more therefore, it is important for us. we must not only win in this war and win, we understand that russia as an aggressive element, unfortunately, will not move anywhere from our border, so we are already now we are not only talking about victory and the current state, but also about such a development of our capabilities so that we can protect ourselves and protect europe in the future. as a future member of the european union, i hope also of the nato defense alliance. madam, from the beginning of january, a new congress began to work, where control over the house of representatives passed from the democrats to the republicans. have

you already had the opportunity to meet with the new leadership, and is there still a two-party system the support of ukraine, which legislators talk about so often, definitely remains for us bipartisan support and bipartisan support for work with congress - this has always been such a cornerstone of how we build our relations with legislators. well , in fact, with the american people, we are very we are actively working with the old and new congress, speaker mccarthy is not an unknown person to us. who are participating in the ukrainian competition e-e continue to actively work with us, but of course our efforts are aimed, among other things, at getting to know new members as soon as possible, those who are chosen for the first time to convey

information about ukraine, to tell that we are not only grateful for the previous help, but where we are going spent this aid, we very actively and transparently tell and report to him and also justify why aid to ukraine is not only our need, but in fact it is in the interest of the national security of the united states and the entire civilized world and about it by the way, american legislators often talk a lot, just as they say that it is necessary to hold russia accountable for the crimes it commits against ukraine, and now work in this direction is taking place on many vectors, we know that ukraine has its own implementation and is also underway work within the jurisdiction of the international court of justice in gas. but at the same time, the ministry of foreign affairs calls for the creation of a

special tribunal on the crime of aggression. the usa sees it as more effective, look first at justice - it's, well, if you can say that we have a lot of number one priorities, yes, weapons are the number one priority, sanctions are the number one priority, aid to ukraine, but justice and punishment of russia for what it has done. this is an absolutely integral part of our joint victory and this is a necessary condition for a just peace, that is why the 10-step peace formula of president zelensky is very important, the emphasis is on bringing to responsibility and on justice, on achieving this justice, we indeed, as you said, there are criminal proceedings in ukraine, there are criminal proceedings in many countries, to whom ukraine provides full testimony and evidence and there are practically all international courts from the un court to the international criminal

court, there are our lawsuits and there are proceedings however , why is the tribunal important? and indeed now it is the number one priority for us, the creation of a special tribunal to bring russia to justice , first of all, because it is important to bring russia to justice precisely for the crime of aggression , that is, what yes. that is, this is the primary crime that should be punished because all other crimes, starting from the horrors they commit on the territory of ukraine, from these war crimes, from everything that happens, they all stem from the fact that russia attacked us, this is the first and second. what exactly can we attract to responsibility , the leadership of those who made the decision to attack ukraine, that's why for us, this is very important . we are actively working with the united states. of the special representative on the issue of the tribunal, ambassador korenevich, this is an important element. and we

are ready to discuss how. but i think that here all countries, including the united states, understand that this is a very important element , because how will it be done, what will be the wording of this question before discussion, however, the tribunal, a special prosecution tribunal, this is our goal, the president of the european commission, ursola fondellayan, also stated that such a tribunal should be established under with the support of the un. as we know , the russian federation is a permanent member of the security council and has the right of veto. and i know that the ministry of foreign affairs is actively working on that. to deprive it of such membership, do you feel the support of the united states in this direction? see this is an unfortunate violation of the un charter and in general common sense of staying absolutely non-peaceful countries in the un in general and in the un security council, all the more so, so we, ukraine, have already officially initiated the process of depriving this

status, again, it is a very difficult decision and we understand that it will require serious consensus discussions, but well, both legally and morally from the point of view of any approaches in general, it is obvious to us and to many of our partners that russia has usurped the place that once belonged to the soviet union. so, will it be simple? no, it will not be simple. our ambassador kislytsia is doing a fantastic job in new york in this direction, and again, this is an issue that the entire large diplomatic team, led by the president, the minister, the president's office, is all involved in the work, but we were told a lot of things at the beginning of february that there or on at the beginning of march, they said that it was impossible, but now we, ukraine, are in a situation where we must win for us. this issue is existential, and we must hold russia

accountable and isolate it as much as possible , so we often ignore those issues that seem impossible or are considered impossible, and we will actively pursue this to deal with because once again if we at the un site or at other international sites do not return the international law of the rule of law and the issue of justice after what russia has done then unfortunately, we will all be forced to state that the system of the rule of law and international law, which was built after the second world war, is unfortunately unable to protect anyone, so i think it is in the interests of all countries that believe in the un charter to prove that we are capable of stopping such of the aggressor ms. oksana innakinets, i would like to ask you something about a-a participation in the reconstruction of ukraine, and how do you see

this participation er-e. country a-a is a candidate for the european union, it is clear that the european union must work with us on the future structure of a very large part of e-e issues. but of course , the united states as our strategic partner, i can say the number one american business that we would very much like to see more actively involved in the reconstruction process, ukraine not only needs reconstruction or will need reconstruction after we win, but ukraine can also be the solution to many global problems, from security to of energy to others, and so today you will see even in the aid budget of ukraine for 2023, the administration was submitted by the congress, it was approved, including funds not just

for budget direct support, but also for the beginning of the processes of the restoration of reconstruction, and so on. we are actively discussing this issue with the involvement of virtually all departments in the united states except the white house, from e-e finance to trade to energy to all others this company is oxano and thank you for your work and good luck to you in fundraising for this year, about 90 children in the state of washington, on the northwest coast of the usa, joined in helping ukraine. in the city of redmond, the vertep winter festival was held, which became one of the largest events for the ukrainian community of the states in washington . children of forced migrants participated in the nativity scene. its suburbs gathered to celebrate the

christmas and new year holidays according to ukrainian traditions and the sea is the best and the festival vertep travels through ukraine presented the holiday traditions of different regions that the idea of ​​the organizers symbolizes the diversity of culture and the territorial integrity of ukraine. 8 local amateur teams helped to create the event, among them students of the ukrainian saturday school sitla viryi , which is already attended by children of forced

migrants. thought that we would go to america and at first we just lived in poland i don't know for two or three months and then our mother said that we were flying to america when it started war, we were in bukovel, and that is, we only rode for one day. and then we could no longer walk 20 km, because there was a 20 km queue of cars and they were moving 10 cars an hour. thank you, her son joined the festival and the poles, namely the choir vivat musica that ukraine has a lot in common, and even despite the events that europe is currently experiencing, poland really supports ukraine, more than half a thousand people came to the event, the organizers set

the goal of supporting ukraine and ukrainian immigrants to it, the most important was our goal in therefore, to help ukraine and support those families who moved here recently, because we see how hard it is for teenagers to move, and we live in the community , this project is for the community. it was created by the community and developed by the community. the sale of children's goods will be transferred to the needs of the military and civilians who suffered from russian aggression . the whole idea is to unite different collectives in one performance. let's make it so that

10 communities go to the holiday with their families and children. khrystyna shevchenko dmytro savchuk for the voice of america redmond , washington state you watched the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america time. also join our daily briefings at 18:00 kyiv time on youtube and facebook, where you can ask our presenters your questions live. thank you for trusting the ukrainian to the voice of america service, i'm nataliya lounova, have a peaceful night and a good morning,

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