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on the air from washington voice of america ukrainian service program time there i'm yuliya yarmolenko congratulations the first bradley infantry fighting vehicles from the usa should arrive in ukraine in the coming weeks this was reported by a senior pentagon official in a conversation with journalists according to his words in the most recent package us aid focused on transferring capabilities that the ukrainians can use immediately to change the balance of forces on the battlefield in the previous two military aid packages, the united states announced about the transfer to ukraine of nine bradley fighting vehicles, which are called tank killers, after that training was organized for the ukrainian military on these systems in germany, speaking about the current situation on the battlefield in ukraine, a senior pentagon official added that after serious losses in bakhmut, russia

is trying to strengthen its position on the whole tens of thousands of mobilized front lines, however, according to him, these soldiers are poorly equipped, poorly trained and hastily thrown onto the field to fight in the cantonment confirmed that the pro-russian offensive efforts of ukrainian the military continues to successfully defend bakhmut, meanwhile, berlin promises to make a decision on the transfer of leopard-2 tanks to kyiv in the near future, whatever the decision may be, the minister of defense of the country boryspil storius said in an interview with the press that the minister of foreign affairs of germany a na olena barbok she told french journalists that berlin would not object if poland decided to hand over two leopards from polish stocks to ukrainians. tsyupan, who is currently in direct communication from london, i congratulate bohdan. so, if we are talking about these statements, how did they react to them in europe

, and can these words be considered a kind of green light for the transfer of leopard-2 tanks to other countries, or at least a movement in the right direction in the direction of yulia, we have been talking about the transfer of western tanks and, in particular, the transfer of leopard tanks to ukraine quite actively for several months since last fall, and today the former and until recently the ambassador of ukraine in berlin andriy emelnik even made it public on twitter a document request from the ukrainian government was sent to take us back in march last year with a request to provide ukraine with heavy armored vehicles, i.e. the question of tanks eh it has not gone anywhere for several months,

at least it is as important as it is key because it would be a stage in the highest stage in the international support of ukraine, when analina verbok was in paris , answering the questions of journalists, that germany would not interfere if poland decided to share its tanks with she told journalists in france that germany will not object, and it immediately became the main news in many european mass media, and we will remind you that last weekend a high-profile summit was held in paris, chancellor olafsholtz met with the president of france, emmanuel macron , joint meetings of the governments of the two countries took place

, german deputies came to paris, but only the sound of the analyna babble was heard, and such a statement was heard that attracted the attention of many and many raised hopes that this question remained, but in fact from no one else, that the polish prime minister of metal shmorowietskyi says that one way or another tanks will be transferred to ukraine, but they want to enlist the support of a small coalition, who can be in this coalition, and why is it important e- such a possible coalition would probably include several countries, and they are called in particular, well , first of all, of course, poland, so that is, the polish government has very clearly stated, in fact, it has put on paper its intentions to transfer leopard tanks to ukraine about such a possibility the firm possibility, under certain conditions, to also

hand over part of its leopard tanks to ukraine, the representatives of finland spoke quite loudly , and there are already not quite so clear signals that are considered positive, which came from denmark, portugal, spain, and even from the netherlands, canada is mentioned as a country that is not in europe, but a country that also has a certain number of german leopard tanks in service and probably could look favorably on helping ukraine, knowing canada, but poland emphasizes the importance precisely because it was a collective decision and collective actions, and this was specifically stated by the prime minister of poland and deosh-marowecki, let's listen to his justification, we will submit

a request for such consent, but this is a secondary topic. the germans, together with others, we will still transfer our tanks to ukraine, the conditions for us are to build at least such a small coalition of ukraine, and in this regard, president duda and deputy prime minister blaszczak are in contact with our partners in western europe. and that is why we we are constantly talking. recently, i spoke with the chancellor, the deputy prime minister spoke with the german minister of defense, it turns out that the pressure makes sense, because this is already the weekend, the minister of foreign affairs of germany announced something else, which gives a spark of hope that germany will not only not block, but will eventually provide heavy modern equipment in support of ukraine, moneylenders are completely honest, the plot is asparagus for ukraine, and this, as you said, happened back in march, we heard various statements from the

german government, not everyone was as careful about a potential transfer as olafsholtz. can this topic reveal the problems within the german private coalition and how it can turn out, well, yulia, we can already say that this issue has revealed different views or different rhetoric. well, for example, if mrs. anna lena burke said that berlin would not object to the transfer of polish tanks to ukraine, but it can be said that the head of the chancellor, the head of the german government did not say the word tanks and ukraine in the same sentence, neither in paris nor this weekend, nor in davos. last week, they also expected this from him. that is, the german chancellor tries not to talk about it, they say that he

says something behind closed doors. but again, this is speculation, and here we should remember that the german government is a coalition of several parties, and while olafsholz is a representative of social - of the democratic party of germany with certain traditions and, by the way, with certain worldview traditions and with certain views on russia, analina berbuk is a representative of the green party of germany, which turned out to be much tougher when it comes to the proposal for russia on determination aid to ukraine, are those differences in rhetoric in words regarding aid to ukraine a sign of a-a sign of possible problems for the government coalition, it is possible, it is quite possible

that even the party that is actually now in opposition, the former government of germany, the christian democrats, may be ready to form another government alternative , offering some other methods, in particular, reactions to calls for help in ukraine, but the fact that there is a difference in the rhetoric of representatives of different parties . this is an obvious situation for ukraine. let me remind you that my colleague bohdan was on the phone from london tsyupin earlier in an interview with the voice of america, the representative of the national security council, sshanka, emphasized that currently germany's decision to transfer tanks does not affect the strength of the alliance's determination to help ukraine, and each

state must independently decide which weapons to transfer, depending on its national interests, is one of the critical needs of the armed forces ukraine this winter and probably in the spring there will be armored vehicles due to the types of combat they are conducting in the donbas, help with armored vehicles may include tanks, but not necessarily, although the ukrainians have a real need for additional tanks, we certainly welcome the contributions of other countries, in particular great britain, which only last week agreed to send its challenger tanks, and we know that germany is working on its own process for leopards, these are excellent tanks, very powerful and will not require excessive training from the ukrainians if germany will want to move in this direction, but this is germany's decision, we do not wring our hands, we do not push or persuade, we want countries to give what they can when they they can and where they can and in the size and scale that suits them and it is up to

germany to decide what effect it will have john kiber also explained in an interview with pepsi from the akusphere that adding the wagner group to the list of international criminal organizations will give us more flexibility, of course we have already introduced serious sanctions against russia as a whole and some of those sanctions and export control restrictions also had a tangential effect on private military companies pulp wagner group however this move is aimed purely at the wagner group and i will leave more detailed comments treasury department but listing this group as an international criminal organization blocks and prevents the transfer of its money from any organization in the us after our move this may lead to additional measures from other countries so we will see what this leads to the effect of our actions will be immediate and

again we call on other countries to also help us in the fight against wagner's ability to commit atrocities around the world, it's not just about depriving them of the ability to commit atrocities in ukraine, it's about their the ability to commit atrocities around the world, we know that mr. prigozhin tried to recruit for the war in ukraine. in places like syria, i cannot tell you the exact number of people who managed to recruit and whether they are still fighting, but this is definitely one of his methods of keeping militants outside russia and other countries and we know that he is recruiting en masse in prisons. we do not have exact numbers, but today we know that he threw about 50,000 people into ukraine. army to create a large armed force as it was in soviet times, american military experts investigating this topic doubt

the kremlin's ability to do it at least quickly, and whether such statements from moscow could be a signal that they are preparing for a protracted war and full-scale mobilization , yurii mamon learned opinion the reform will take three years, according to the statements of the minister of defense of the russian federation, according to the plan, the kremlin plans to increase the number of the army to one and a half million people, however, according to american experts, it is not about to reform, what kind of reform are you talking about? i see mobilization. i don't see any reform in my opinion. this is tin twice. they don't have enough human resources. they plan not from 18 to 27 years old as now, but from 21 to 30 to 30 years old, and they can start taking up to of the army already this spring, however, the minimum conscription age in the coming year 3 will remain at the level of 18 in the russian army, there is a shortage of personnel, and since the previous reform in 2009, american

military analysts say, the structure resembles a pyramid of generals quite a bit there are more colonels and so on, the pyramid expands at the bottom, and the russians have become more like an oval, the base of the pyramids has been removed, there are too many middle-ranking officers, they have no one to command, the structure of today's russian army is divided into mobile brigades with their own logistics, which are capable of rapid deployment, arose after the war with georgia in 2008 year, so that the army was not numerous, but at the same time effective mobile , they realized that it does not work, it works when there is a sudden need to send troops somewhere to the caucasus to suppress the uprising or to quickly provide reinforcements against georgia, but this is ineffective when they have been fighting with ukraine for a year and it is not known how long it will last, on the contrary, they need large

units, the supply of which is the responsibility of the center when the front has stabilized, it is more effective to take numbers, not mobility. as part of the reform , self-sufficient units are created in the occupied territories of ukraine military groups are being formed in the moscow and leningrad military districts, the army corps in karelia , according to the plan of the russian military command , should appear as part of the ground forces three motorized rifle divisions and two airborne assault divisions in the airborne forces, seven motorized rifle brigades will be transformed into divisions. this contributes to the increase in the size of the russian army, but not to the level of the cold war, of course . nato, but the war in ukraine dispelled all these fears, in fact experts say the russian ministry of defense is returning to the old soviet structure of the army and divisions instead of brigades, this structure requires more people, it is agricultural but better adapted

to a protracted full-scale war, and it is possible that not only ukraine is considered against the institute of war studies, however , there is no need to worry about the invasion of russia into other countries, they do not have military capabilities, at least so far they say osha dku. i think we should not worry that in the next three years, russia will be able to use its non-nuclear forces for a successful invasion, for example from the baltic states or other nato states, it is the non-nuclear forces that brigadier general emphasizes retired kevin ryan, because in his opinion, the possibility of russia's use of tactical nuclear weapons should always be taken into account. analysts doubted that this would have a serious impact on the russian economy, but now signs have begun to appear that

such restrictions have an impact, how serious and how will it affect opportunities to wage war on russia, let's talk about it with my colleague economic columnist oksana batratenko oksana, thank you for joining the broadcast today. congratulations, so let's start with the main thing. does this wonderful ceiling work? russia has lost its superpower and can no longer blackmail europe with energy resources. such assessments are increasingly heard from analysts on in the west, and indeed the last in the last regime, we saw that this weekend the us treasury secretary helen was in africa and she said that these new restrictions are really working and russia is already worries about whether she will have enough budget revenues at the same time . she said that african countries can benefit from this price cap and they said that

they can save almost 6 billion dollars. stage of implementation the ministry of finance estimates that the 17 largest countries that buy oil from africa can save about 6 billion dollars every year oksana, what does this mean in practice for moscow , can these restrictions and these losses actually affect russia's ability to continue waging war, and according to the estimates of the athens center for energy resources and clean air, russia loses 170 million dollars every day. this is because of the restrictions on oil prices, and we can say that analysts estimate that russia should now sell its oil with a discount, this

discount reaches 48% for yurells oil, russian oil compared to oil, a brand with such ratings was shared with me by the british economist timyasha, he also says that indeed these restrictions put pressure on income of the russian budget and will eventually affect the ruble exchange rate, interesting facts in general, if you recall at the beginning of the war, many people said that putin was a genius, and due to the increase in world prices for energy resources, russia really received much higher oil revenues due to the initial shock to the markets, now due to the combination of several things - firstly, the decrease in world demand, the decrease in oil demand has an effect on the price in relation to the volume - this is especially important for gas, while russia maintains the volume of oil exports, even at a lower price, but they have fallen significantly gas supplies to europe, which amounted to about 160 billion cubic meters, this business is likely to die because

europe will not return to significant imports of russian gas, this business is worth from 50 to 60 billion euros per year if the price of oil is at the current level and the price gap between oil durals remains and brand so russia will lose about 100-150 billion dollars in revenue about 6-7% of gdp oksana in this situation can china and india replace the european market for russia and indeed skeptics point out that despite the fact that imports and exports of energy resources from russia to europe fell sharply, at the same time to india and china, russia significantly increased its energy exports, but is this market capable of replacing the european market ? big for russia as oil and

gas that now india india china is unlikely to be able to replace it it will be very difficult and he believes that russia has lost this energy war and that the same india china can win from the current restrictions experts ben cahill from the international center for strategic studies spoke at a conference in washington, the central idea and price restrictions for the embargo was that if countries like china and india do not join officially, they will still have a great influence because russia has no choice but to sell all the oil that it no longer has can sell in europe it has to sell in asia to india china a little to turkey and some to the middle east and elsewhere these buyers got a lot of influence and they want better conditions that's why the discount on russian oil has increased significantly and i expect that this will oksana continue, did the experts share

their opinions or forecasts with you about how the situation will develop further, will russia's situation worsen, will russia be able to find a way out of this situation? will adapt to these restrictions or not, that is, there are reports that russia is making some kind of shadow fleet, and there are reports that it is trying to bypass sanctions, but in the end, the loss of the european market is extremely large and the pressure is expected to be it is only getting stronger because the group of seven is soon to introduce new restrictions on february 5, this is a restriction on oil products, and we know that these price restrictions are being actively discussed. that have already agreed on how these sanctions will be introduced, it will be

two different types of restrictions for cheaper oil products and more expensive oil products , that is, in general, the pressure on russia will increase, and as matias told me again, he expects that the pressure will be the same that of russia will have to choose between social spending and military spending, the positive thing is that the measures to limit the prices of russian oil did not destabilize the world markets, this is positive, it is encouraging, and for russia it is very, very bad, the current account surplus is decreasing, there may even be a deficit, the deficit is growing of the budget, russia must choose what to spend money on, it will be necessary to take money from social spending and the economy for military needs, this raises the question of social and political stability in russia i think, looking ahead, if the war in ukraine does not stop and russia does not withdraw its troops

and there is no broad peace agreement and sanctions remain, then the future of russia is quite negative, a drop in growth, stagnation and recession, i think putin is for a strong russia, a strong army. and the decline of the economy means a weaker, poorer economy, less ability to spend on weapons, because russia will have to take money from consumer spending, it will be really interesting to see how the situation will develop, i thank you very much oksana from the conversation, thank you and we continue issue of last friday, the us secretary of state anthony blinken met with the ukrainian community of chicago in this place and its surroundings, the second largest community of ukrainians in the us lives, the secretary of state blinking , together with senator okh durbid, discussed with the leaders of the community their efforts to support ukraine, as well as to receive forced

migrants from ukraine in the usa, according to the information of the us embassy in ukraine, the secretary of state also visited the exhibition of the ukrainian institute of contemporary art, children of war, which later presented the works of ukrainian children during a discussion at a local university, anthony blinken emphasized that the united states is working not only to provide military and humanitarian financial support to ukraine, but also to bring to justice the russians who commit atrocities in ukraine. putin is trying to make us lose our sensitivity with his daily attacks in order to normalize it so that people said ok it happens and we just accept it if it's normal and acceptable that's what we really have to avoid we have to make sure that collectively we will continue to clearly explain no this is not normal this is unacceptable if we allow this to continue with impunity in ukraine we will open pandora's box and then the aggressors all

over the world will say hmm i can get away with it i can go take over the territory of another country by force erase and borders kill its people destroy the infrastructure and nothing will happen, that's why it's important. it's not only about ukraine. ukrainians in new york and the surrounding area celebrated the day of the cathedral on sunday. the event traditionally took place on the main square of the city, time square, the event itself was called united for the sake of freedom, according to the organizers, about 300 participants took part in it, most of them held blue and yellow flags, as well as posters that called to stop the putin regime, the war and the genocide of ukrainians, to provide ukraine with weapons, and also celebrated the heroes of bakhmut and soledar, as the organizer of the event told artur zgurov, the purpose of the action was to demonstrate that ukrainians are united not only in their country but also throughout the world and that the world is with ukraine, which is now fighting for common victory and

freedom, everyone knows that probably now ukrainians the freest nation in the world because we are fighting for it, we are fighting for our freedom and we have always been united by the very goal of being free in the 20th century in the 19th and 18th no matter where you look, we have always fought for our freedom and this is us and now and now it also united us, that's why we are united by freedom united by freedom inside and outside i am here today today is the day of the cathedral of ukraine this is a very important holiday 104 years ago our ukraine united into one state and unfortunately today we are again we are fighting to be one unified state even we ukrainians are scattered all over the world, but we are so united today that the enemy has united us so much today with this full-scale war that every ukrainian is helping as much as he

can and how not to bring this victory closer. i think it is very important today to show that we are together not only within ukraine and not only ukraine is soborna soborna is united and also other countries together with ukraine and we all stand together and we will help until the end and i think that now everyone is a little tired already for almost a year but we are not we can get tired and we just have to be together download the voice of america mobile application the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service read news watch informational programs and videos and also listen to podcasts of the ukrainian voice of america service and this is the

end of it thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian see you tomorrow on everything is fine papa we are looking for 12-year-old vladyslav ovcharenko about the fate of this boy for almost a month nothing is known, i only know that vladyslav lived in poltava oblast in the city of horishni plavni and on december 24 last year he and his mother left the city in an unknown direction, since then there has been no news from the woman and her son, now there is an assumption that the child may be in ternopil oblast in the city