the collaborators don't even hope. i'm olena kononenko. if you want to report kremlin sellers on facebook or by e-mail, let's send all the traitors together in pursuit of the russian ship . see you on espresso in exactly one week , broadcast from washington, a program of the ukrainian voice of america service. i am yuliya yarmolenko. congratulations, the united states and germany announced the transfer of tanks to ukraine in a special speech on wednesday. us president joe biden announced that washington will transfer from

kyiv's 31 abrams tanks are the equivalent of one tank battalion and the equipment necessary for their support, according to the president, the head of the pentagon lloyd austin recommended this step because it will strengthen the ability of ukrainians to defend their territory and achieve strategic goals, because he says abrams tanks are the most combat-ready in the world, as the official from the white stated before home tanks from the allies play an important role in the ukrainians' ability to return their territories more about the meaning of this decision and the reaction to it in washington let's talk with ostap jarosh, who are joining ostap's broadcast. hello, tell me about the details of today's announcement and why president biden did decide to hand over the abra tanks after weeks of statements from various representatives of the administration . a new package of weapons worth 400 million dollars, the transfer of the 31st abrams m1 tank to ukraine, as well as ammunition and shells for them, 31 tanks

are one battalion by ukrainian standards, as the american president said, abrams tanks - these are the most modern tanks in the world. but at the same time, this means that it is difficult to maintain and difficult to repair, therefore, in this package, yuriy also included special spare parts for equipment to support the operation and repair of these tanks, and also provided funding for the ukrainian military to start training on these tanks, as i said, joe biden already as soon as possible today. the american president also held a telephone conversation with the leaders of great britain and france, italy and germany, where they discussed further support for ukraine, as the american president said, and if putin hoped that the west would speed up at the same time that support for ukraine would decrease, then this did not happen, and the joint provision of tanks with germany and great britain, which it announced earlier , confirmed that the support of the west will last as long as it takes. let's listen to jubayten's comment as i told president

zelenskiy when he was here in december , by the way, today is his birthday, mr. president, we will be with you as long as necessary. ukrainians are waging a long-standing struggle for aggression and dominance, this is a battle that the americans have fought with pride again and again, this is a battle for which we will make sure that the ukrainians are also well equipped, this is about freedom freedom for ukraine, freedom everywhere is about what kind of world we want to live in, what kind of world we want to leave to our children, so let god protect the brave ukrainian defenders and let the flame of freedom burn as brightly as possible. these are the words of president yulia biden regarding his question, what has changed, why did the administration decide to provide tanks now answered this question john kir from a representative of the national security council of the united states and said that indeed

abrams tanks are very difficult to maintain - this has not changed and that is why the united states allocates additional money for the training of the ukrainian armed forces and also allocates additional spare parts to make sure that the armed forces can er operate and properly use these tanks, what has changed, according to john kirba yuriy, this situation on the battlefield and the needs that, according to the united states, the ukrainian armed forces have now and will have in the near future let's listen to what john kebi volodymyr said a lot for the work of these tanks on the battlefield , nevertheless we have never ruled out the supply of tanks since the beginning of this war 11 months ago, we are developing the capabilities that we provide to ukraine, taking into account the conditions on the battlefield moving on to your specific questions, what has changed, what has changed. these are the conditions on the battlefield and the types of combat operations that the russians are currently conducting and, more importantly, the types of combat

operations that we believe the ukrainians should be capable of in the coming weeks and months of 2023 of the year speaks of a threat and should we expect that abrams tanks will be delivered to ukraine before the spring, when russia can actually go on a new offensive, a new site also ukraine tells yulia that it is also preparing its own counteroffensive regarding the issue of time stamps, then abrams tanks are allocated to ukraine under the program to promote the security of ukraine that is, they are ordered from the manufacturer and not from their own stocks. they are not allocated from the united states ' own stocks. explained john kirby, by that time the ukrainian armed forces will probably have leopard tanks and other armored vehicles that are allocated by the allies, the announcement of which we heard today and also heard earlier by that time, the ukrainian military will undergo training on abram tanks so that by the time the

manufacturer will already have ready, these tanks could immediately be used by the armed forces of ukraine yuriy, but this is again, and months until then we are waiting for leopard tanks, we are waiting for challenger tanks from britain, and we also remember another armored vehicles about the bradley bmp that the united states identified in past packages about the striker bts, which will also come from the united states, and we remember the marauders that germany identified about the light tanks that france announced, that is, these things will be faster, and then we are waiting for the challenger and from britain then tanky the leopard after that obviously we will also see abrams on the battlefield in ukraine osta pa opera today's decision yuriy today lawmakers from the democratic and republican parties welcomed such a decision john shagin said and says that she congratulates the joint decision of the usa, germany , britain to provide tanks to ukraine, congratulated lindsey

graham, a republican senator, and therefore everything is a dream, the co-chairman of the committee on foreign relations of the senate said that this is a good step, but in his opinion it should have been done faster and he called on the united states to do more or ukraine in the future was able to receive the necessary weapons on time. thank you very much ostapa , we will monitor the development of events on the communication from the capitol hill, my colleague ostapyash was the provision of modern western tanks will strengthen the rest of ukraine's capabilities, ukrainian ambassador to the usa oksana markarova said in a comment to natalia leonova. she shows the commitment of partners to support ukraine, but the work must continue so that the ukrainian military has everything necessary for victory. all of our allies, especially the united states, not only with statements, but also with actions, as we see er confirm their main thesis that they will be with us as long as necessary and that

ukraine, as president biden said, will receive everything it needs for this struggle and to protect itself because er to expect to expect the next active negotiations to expect new capabilities to expect more of those capabilities that we are already talking about as capabilities that are given to us because we must win these allocations that we see in the 23rd year, they show a new quality and, most importantly, a new quantity, also of the weapons that we receive and also, well, look, each rammstein joins this coalition of caring people who are ready to speak up and help us fight for principles, joins more and more new countries, that's why every decision on the allocation of tanks armored artillery equipment is all we need, it immediately attracts a wide circle of potential friends who are also ready to

join modern tanks - this is one of the main capabilities that we really lacked in order to very actively strengthen all other capabilities and in order to advance faster, they are more maneuverable. they protect our defenders better, they shoot better, that is, no matter which side you look at, if you even look, there are also leopards and abrams. existing today by the decision on the transfer of tanks, the united states demonstrated its leadership and correct understanding of this war, in an interview with voice of america russian service correspondent mykhailo komedovskyi, adviser to the head of the office of the president of ukraine mykhailo podoliak, he also noted that the subject of the next negotiations will be the supply of high -altitude missiles range, we have a mathematically calculated number of tanks that we

need. the formation of specific tank brigades is very important because this counteroffensive is a scenario eh calculations but in the meantime i think that 31 tanks - this is very great this is very important from the point of view of what the united states has demonstrated , there is no need to introduce unnecessary conversations if necessary hand over hand over they took the first fundamental step and which has already opened a window of opportunity to further conduct negotiations equip collect volumes of tanks and so on the second component the united states clearly fixed its position the position of the global thus, the united states has once again emphasized to us that they clearly understand the course of this war , the success of this war, the logic of this war, the historical importance of the correct finalization of this war , and the third component of the conjugation of the state demonstrates that there is no point in paying attention to any propaganda words of the russian federation. i

think that the following the negotiation track is to turn it around in relation to long- range missiles. because here we also have a clear understanding that long-range missiles will allow to significantly reduce the artillery the ability of the russian federation, that is, to reduce their capabilities as artillery and to destroy a certain number of warehouses located at a distance of 100-150 km from the front line. and this is the protection of our armed forces . decisions will be very correct. earlier on wednesday, germany announced that it will supply ukraine with its leopard 2 heavy battle tanks and will also give permission to other countries to transfer these tanks from their stocks. it is expected that the first batch of 14

leopard tanks from germany will arrive in ukraine in 3-4 months . a number of other countries are also planning to send their german-made combat vehicles, including poland, finland and portugal . if we did hear the announcement from berlin about the transfer of the leopards, it happened on the same day as the announcement of the abrams from washington, why now and could this transfer happen without the powerful decision of the white house, and people looking at this situation from europe can say that we are also witnessing not only the powerful decision of the white house, as you say, but also the powerful delay and pressure exerted by olafsholtz, because for weeks we

talked about how the german representatives semi-openly a some referred to anonymous sources that the germans actually put pressure on the united states with closed doors, let's not forget that the first western tanks for ukraine were announced by great britain to send their tanks even earlier. therefore, perhaps it is not worth it to also underestimate the political skill of olaf scholz, who actually built a western tank coalition to help ukraine, this is certainly one of the ways to look at this situation, even despite the general recognition that mr. scholz, the german government was delaying this issue . this question gives the way olafsholtz

, the chancellor of germany, explained his decision today to the legislators and citizens of germany in the bundestag today in berlin, because in our country there are many citizens who concerned about this decision and what such a weapon will mean and so i would like to say to these citizens now trust me trust the federal government we will continue because we are acting in international coordination to make sure that such assistance is possible without increasing the risks to our country from some unexpected side here why are we doing this and will continue to do so bohdana in washington says that leopards are ideal tanks for ukraine at this stage of the war and in particular they play a key role in a potential counteroffensive by the ukrainians and chi will there be enough of them and will they arrive on the battlefield on time in terms of the number of a-a germans eh, the

chancellor of germany and his minister of defense announced that now in the first batch from germany in ukraine, 14 leopard 2 tanks are to be put on, and here, by the way, eh i would like to note , speaking from london, that earlier london announced that britain is providing its british challengers in the amount of 14 units, and maybe this is a coincidence, but i think that these are interesting details, and in addition to the leopards, obviously, germany has already promised more than a dozen such tanks poland is positive sounds from this reasons came from countries such as spain , the netherlands, and even portugal or finland,

although different countries have different numbers of tanks, and while, for example, the poles talk about more than a dozen or ten, portugal has very few of these tanks, and from there they say that the portuguese press writes what is possible four tanks will arrive, that is, in total, in the first, if you can say so, waves of leopards for ukraine expect more than 80, maybe about 100 tanks, but these are purely theoretical theoretical hypothetical calculations based on the first announcements regarding the time, they used to say that it takes a year to prepare tanks, some said that it takes six months to train, today from the german minister of defense boris pistorius, we heard that three

months is quite fast, will it be on time ? -e i think that eh now they will pay attention to what the russian military is planning, what russian putin is planning and whether these actions will push him to implement his plans even faster spring offensive spring counteroffensive they are talking about this very actively what we heard earlier from ukrainian representatives about the possibility of intensification of hostilities. maybe even in february, that is, what does bohdan's timely open question say about moscow, how are they reacting in europe, in particular in germany, to threats from moscow in response to today's decision? in germany , olafsholtz, you just heard in the passage, he continues to convince the society, where according to

polls, we know that uh, not uh, the majority of the uh population of germany still supported the decision to transfer tanks, because this is a very serious step and this step is serious with for practical reasons, obviously, but also for ideological and historical reasons, i.e., the so-called historical god of germany is now talking about germany in front of europe, and in moscow they are very actively pedaling the so-called historical debt or historical obligations to russia and, in particular, in berlin, the ambassador of russia issued a statement today apparently criticizing the germans for the decision to send tanks and in that statement it was claimed that the germans had almost betrayed their duties or their

debt as it is claimed to russia for actions under the time of the second world war is obvious here. it is worth paying attention to the debt germany obviously has for its role during the second world war, but it is not necessary to obviously confuse the soviet union and russia with russia because german troops during the second world war completely occupied the ukrainian territory and ukrainian cities were destroyed and many ukrainians suffered, while only a small part of the territory of modern russia actually experienced hostilities and ah and the presence of russian troops, thank you

belated but very important, the decision of germany and the usa to transfer tanks is called by american analysts in a combination of german leopards, british challengers and american abrams should make russia seriously worried, because these tanks were specially created to destroy the soviets , comments by david kramer and luke coffey, which they gave to our georgian colleagues further this is the right decision. it's a shame that it took so long because the ukrainians needed these tanks last year, not yesterday or tomorrow. this issue led to certain differences in the alliance, but in general, this is the right decision. the united states helped by clearly signaling that they will move forward and provide m1 tanks for one abrams. the ukrainians need these tanks, they need them more than tanks. i think the main lesson we have to learn is that we must listen to what the ukrainians need and anticipate these needs so that there are no delays in the provision of weapons, we

must help them win and not just defend against a russian invasion, the fact that the germans have moved from a deadlock on this issue undermines any attempts by russia to sow discord in the alliance. i think that moscow hoped that the officials in berlin would delay the delivery of these tanks and cause even more friction within the alliance. this shows that the west will continue to provide the help that ukraine needs. maybe not as the ukrainians hope. maybe on the system they are asking for, but there is no doubt that the states and our allies have increased our military aid understands the need to reach a consensus under normal circumstances this is normal but ukraine is now fighting a war for survival as a nation and this the war has been going on for almost a year, the very fact that in the 11th month of the war we are still debating whether to send tanks or not is bad, this whole tank epic for moscow gives two signals , firstly, the alliance may not be as united

as it seems to everyone, especially in berlin there is there are many disputes that create problems for the rest of nato countries regarding the provision of certain weapons in ukraine and this is a weakness or at least an area that russia can try to use to its advantage , for example with the help of disinformation, the second signal to moscow is the tactical influence of these tanks on the battlefield german leopards and british challengers and american abrams were designed to destroy russian and soviet-made tanks that was the sole purpose decades ago and now they will be tested in practice in ukraine and if i were russia given their combat history within a year i would very concerned that almost 5 million people in ukraine became internally displaced persons during the 11 months of the russian war khmelnytskyi region sheltered almost 120 thousand of them now practically every 10th in

oblast, a migrant and in the village of rudkivtsi near kaminets-podilskyi, every fourth person, however, how forced migrants are received in khmelnytskyi tetyana kukuryka and serhiy rybchynskyi will tell. the railway station in khmelnytskyi has been receiving migrants for more than 11 months during the full-scale war . khmelnytskyi region sheltered about 120,000 displaced persons every 10 in the region, many of them settled in the kamianets community of the novouschysk region, starting from the kyiv region, the kherson region, the mykolaiv region, the kharkiv region and donetsk region, there are representatives of these regions. and there are quite a lot of them, because these are the people who were forced to leave by russian aggression.

the population of the village of rudkivtsi, which is part of the community, has increased by 25 percent since the time of the full-scale war, a small village located 150 kilometers from the regional center sheltered up to a hundred internally of displaced persons good day good day good day the zhukov family arrived in rudkivtsi at the end of march from mariupol, we did not have the opportunity immediately we did not have the opportunity to leave immediately as soon as the opportunity arose appeared, we came through acquaintances of third parties, but we came and are grateful to everyone for that, we did not regret for a moment that we left home here quickly, we took the most necessary things with us, we took only ourselves, you and i took only the necessary documents, we gathered in advance as soon as it started we they collected a backpack for each child, each child had his own backpack, and the zukovs were pleasantly surprised

by the hospitality of the locals, people just came there and brought us some food, people just came and brought us food, just like that, for nothing, just like that, they came for us. very touching, i see this very rarely, the department only very rarely in rudkivtsi two of the three zhukov children went to the local school and the parents took up farming for the winter, they have their own family about returning to mariupol , the family is not thinking yet, maybe once they went through the youth front and the second time through the relay of the front , we already drove through the front line once, we do not want to do it a second time, plus the infrastructure, if we return, we need the children to go to school, a kindergarten, we have a small child, a small child is growing up, the pukalov family in rudkivka, she arrived from the occupied novodniprovka that in the zaporizhzhia region, the rural radar was all ringing and they were leaving on their own without the

red cross, they were leaving on their own. well, i show everyone. it's a little different here, but here everything is fine, everyone helped immediately, they arrived, then the products, then everything that was necessary, first of all, everything was given in the village, and the settlers from the kherson region, the rud family, found a shelter, and it was very it's scary, you know, to drive on such a road on such a road, where on the sides we only slept on the technicians on the sides of the mine that there is no right to go to release from neither to the right nor to the left and pray to god only god that the car does not stop, the dogs were damaged, the chassis was broken we

they changed the wheels, they changed the discs because everything was simply bent and it was impossible to go to rudkivka, located on the dniester. the roof is destroyed, the windows are also not intact, we also made it with plywood, we hesitated for a long time, the village welcomed the warmth, as the settlers themselves say, with hugs, and the people here welcomed us very well, you know, like a family around us. well, what do you need? what did you bring? do you know what kind of people we have two silks, where are you? how many are the immigrants farming a little at a time, please

? come out, take a walk, the rules, walk, graze , the forest is here, the space is the glade, the economy is picturesque, because the shrutkiv residents are in the arms of the dniester whip and ushytsia rivers, friendly people , all this heals mental wounds, the displaced people say , however, many want to return home, we really want to go home, we understand how bad it was for me, not a single moment, we didn't see the idea that we are left here, but we are drawn home, we hope for our army, our armed forces, i so want to go home, i so want to go home, these words are cherished on my ears

million now in the novy ushytsk territorial community, which includes rudkivtsi and more than fifty other small villages, approximately one and a half thousand migrants were temporarily staying at least 5,000. they say it is impossible to count how many transited here. with the voice of america in ukrainian. see you tomorrow. good luck. take care, dad.

congratulations. now we will talk about the very difficult story of this boy from mariupol who at the beginning of the war, he found himself in the very epicenter of hostilities, experienced sheer horror, and unfortunately, among them, the boy's name is gleb-cherepanov, he is 11 years old and has been looking for gleb for almost a year. his mother is looking for gleb in russia, ukraine, and the police, too, despite the fact that since the disappearance of the past a lot of time, and unfortunately there is no news yet, the woman does not lose hope, she really hopes for your concern and begs you to help her find her son, well, partially