[000:00:00;00] specialists who have experience working with air defense systems. that is, they will not be taught the basic element, but they will study this particular system from the point of view of managing this system from the point of view of maintaining this particular system, therefore the program is somewhat shortened, first of all, this system will significantly strengthen the capabilities of our our breeds of air defense especially in the fight against ballistic missiles. therefore, this is a significant improvement in the capability of our system, our air defense system, of course, one system that we are getting is not enough, we are working on it to receive we are still ready we have specialists who we are ready to send more for training , that is, the question of receiving additional systems, when the ukrainian military can be ready to operate the patriot system

, what are your predictions? i think it is about weeks. i want to tell you that something has almost already passed since they stayed, so at the same time, receiving the american abrams tanks may take more time to add on defense issues, but the german leopards and the british challengers may end up on the battlefield already in the spring after the ukrainian crews have undergone the necessary tank training, modern tanks are quite complex mechanisms that need to be studied in detail, therefore the terms of arrival of the tanks will also depend on the terms of training of the crews, that is, it will be before summer, i don't think we will have to wait until the summer we don't have time to wait for abrams - it's also

a very complex technique. abramse is provided to us under the usa program, it's the ukraine security section that allocates funds for ordering and manufacturing of these tanks that is, it will take some time, i think it will be longer than receiving leopards and challenges, but until the summer i am not ready to talk about specific terms in the congress, there will always be a discussion about what kind of weapons should be provided to kyiv, republican senator kevin greider believes, and according to him the most important thing is the unity of both parties in the fact that the military support of the united states must continue, but the democratic senator dick durbin is convinced that the debate on providing ukraine with fighter jets is only beginning after the ramifications within nato are the next step

could become a training course for ukrainian pilots, he says, and kateryna lisunova and natalka pisnia talked to the senator, usually first the united states expresses reluctance, then nato and allies discuss how far we can go in this particular issue, after that a strategic and tactical decision is made regarding the military needs that are really necessary at the moment and when nato decides to move forward with help , the process of training ukrainians to operate these weapons begins, which is a long process which i am sure upsets the ukrainians. they want everything. and today it is clear because their lives are at stake and such a position should be expected, so i would not rule out the provision of f-16 fighters to ukraine, but here it is worth considering the standard discussion process on how to do it, i support the training ukrainian pilots, but the united states should start this process in cooperation with nato allies and determine what the next step will be. we want our alliance to continue to be united and

strong, training in itself is a challenge many ukrainian pilots are trained on soviet model planes and they have to master the new f16 fighters and these planes are a very deadly fighting machine people spend months training before they can fly these planes so we want to make sure that the ukrainians can definitely fly and use them effectively inspector i think that some people believe that with the onset of war fatigue it will be harder for american taxpayers to get more money, but the obvious truth is that there is nothing more more inspiring than the ukrainian people. i mean, these people have the spirit of freedom, fighting for their own freedom. and this is very exciting for americans . we should do more to talk about why it is important, that it is in our interests, that a successful ukraine is not only in the interests of ukraine, but also in the interests

of america . a possible attack on russia may take place in luhansk region in the next six months , such forecasts were voiced at the american institute for the study of war, the institute's expert george baros told according to analysts, russia does not have enough combat capabilities for a large offensive simultaneously in several directions, so it is forced to determine priority areas, according to our assessment , the russians are preparing the conditions for an offensive in donbas , more unbelievably in the luhansk region, we know this because the russians are now deploying groups that previously trained in belarus, for example of the second motorized rifle guards division is being returned back to russia and back to ukraine in the luhansk region. we also know that the russians are placing only of their best units the 144th motorized rifle division is operating there and also some

airborne forces we also think it would make sense for the russians to try to attack in that area we predict that will most likely happen over the next six months this is our current prediction i know several people have reported that it could happen in the next two or three months the only problem with this estimate is that if it is true then you know the spring rainy season is in april if the russians start an offensive in the next two or three months this means that the rains will probably stop the offensive prematurely, because the russians will be forced to take an operational pause during the rainy season. the european union announced its intention to provide ukraine with more than two billion euros this year. and by february 24, to adopt the 10th package of sanctions against russia, statements about catches on the eve of the summit in kyiv, which gathered european officials in the ukrainian capital, meanwhile

, the european parliament adopted a resolution calling on the european union to work on the start of negotiations on ukraine's accession to the eu . we will talk more about this with our european by the correspondent bohdan tsyupin, who joins the broadcast from london bohdan i congratulate you, can ukraine, according to expectations , join the european union even before the end of the full-scale war unleashed by russia ostapa, i dare say that these two things certainly cannot be connected with each other because ukrainians want the end of the war today, right now, and in particular, representatives of the european union and western partners and allies of ukraine say that it can end immediately, because it is enough for putin

to give an order to stop the fire and take away russian troops from sovereign ukrainian territory to honor internationally recognized ukrainian borders. if we are talking about the process of ukraine joining the european union, then here , for example, if we take croatia, the last country to become a member of this organization, it acquired membership in 2013, from the time the application was submitted to that moment, 10 years have passed that is , the duration of ten years, the ukrainian government , in particular, denys myhalyu - the ukrainian prime minister recently spoke about two years as a preparatory period for such a period for of ukraine, but it is obvious that when it comes to the end of the war, a lot of people want it to end much faster , absolutely bohdane. and the question about ourselves is what will happen in kyiv tomorrow, it will start. why did the european union dare to hold such an event in kyiv at the height of the war , when the ukrainian cities are subjected

to rocket attacks every day, even representatives of the european union, in particular the president of the european commission , ursula fondelain, frankly says that it is about symbolism, that is, of course it was possible to do in calm and quiet brussels as usual, where there would be no problems, but the whole path of ukraine to the european union is permeated with symbolism, ukraine's efforts to break free from the clutches of the moscow empire, to gain freedom and prosperity at the european level, just as it was symbolic that the ukrainian miners signed this application for eu membership on the fourth day of russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine on february 28. last year , bohdan's life, to what extent is european integration possible for a full-fledged country when part

of its territory is in temporary but occupation is a problem but again, we can draw some conclusions from precedents and presidents here, cyprus can be a member of the european union also on may 1, 2004. like poland, a neighbor of ukraine, it became a member of the european union, about 30% of the territory of the island of cyprus is occupied by them occupied by turkey, a country that is not a member of the european union, the eu and cyprus and its allies found a way out of this situation, and the entire territory of the island of cyprus is considered the territory of the eu, but in the territories not under the control of the cypriot government

, european laws and eu laws do not apply. so find a way out of many situations. but once again, i will allow myself to say that all ukrainians and europeans also want the whole of ukraine to be free and a member of the european union . indeed, balan, this topic is interesting to me . you can read more about it in your materials on our website and we will certainly follow the summit of the european union that will take place in kyiv and the important decisions and statements that will be made there, so we will definitely continue this topic tomorrow in our program bohdana, thank you for your information for your i will remind you that we were contacted by bohdan tsyupin and from london, a well-known religious figure from mariupol

, pastor gennadiya mohnenko, works as a chaplain on the front line, he is the father of 38 children of his own and adopted, as well as the founder of one of the largest children's rehabilitation centers in eastern europe, which in carnalin was called a terrorist in a conversation with voice of america gennady mohnenko talked about the evacuation from mariupol and work on the front line and also about how despite the pain of loss he believes in victory over the donkey with the chaplain oleksiy kovalenko spoke completely you were recently in bakhmut, the situation there remains difficult, can you tell us about your work and the work of the mariupol chaplain battalion on the front line, our chaplain battalion is working, the chaplain battalion is working throughout the front line, every morning our teams load cars and send them to different areas of the front to our soldier friends in advance, let them be holy

to the soldiers, and secondly, we are always glad to have the opportunity to help civilians who, unfortunately, are often on the line at the front on the line of military action, that is why we come and help. can we help our military and people, starting with spiritual support? in total, you have 38 children and some of them are serving at the front under bakhmut and kherson . two of them are chaplains. can you tell me about your children? the privilege of being a father to 35 adopted children and three biological ones. i have 11 sons at the front , and finally i was wounded

at christmas. in response you hear merry christmas and automatic queues and explosions go running he answers he answers my call during the battle he was wounded but thank god it was a very light wound he is an absolute hero what a lot of people who protect my land sometimes it is very difficult this year i i cried a lot, what are all the people of my country, and of course, we never, of course , we never thought that russian tanks could come to our city, stage a genocide there , kill a huge number of people, i am really sure that the number of dead in my city about 100 thousand is a genocide, a terrible genocide that russia staged in the 21st century in my native, beloved city , it is necessary to answer for this and it is necessary to stop such dates as february 24 will be etched in memory forever , this date is especially painful for you, in particular, and

because of everything that happened after that do you remember this day because we are eight years old, we have been at the front for 8 years from the windows of my house for 8 years , a direct view of the front line, literally from their beds , my children could see shirokino and every mine that hit shirokino, and they were definitely there several million for eight years before february 24, it resonated in the windows of the children's rooms. the most terrifying dream i saw after the 24th was a dream about the fact that i did not have time to take the children out, that they were in a blocked place. well , when we took the children out, my chaplains and i tried to return back, we recorded a farewell video for our families and relatives , you understand that there will be few chances to return alive, reports will be few, few we asked we tried to break through to mariupol, but we were already

resting on the front line, russian posts were everywhere and we could not return, but there inside the blocked mariupol were my friends, including my sons, they served people in the basements, one of my sons was an absolute hero, when he realized that the city was about to be destroyed, he took responsibility and created the first column that led out of the already blocked mariupol. it was the first column that broke out of the blocked city , the boy drove a car through a minefield , fell in love on a bus filled with women and children, he managed to lead the second column . later, he returned again and led the next column of 7 thousand more than eight thousand people

during this time, the team took out of the city the house where your children lived. the representatives of russia called the un a children's terrorist base . how did you feel when you heard this from a country that once applauded your performance? they made a film about you and your children . at first it was just very funny. this is even worse than combat insects is the story that the official representative of russia in the security council published in the security council that they found he published that they found a children's terrorist camp where children from seven to 18 years old were raised as terrorists and the name pilgrim camp this is my children's center the largest children's center in the territory of the former soviet union for homeless children the center through which more than 400 thousand homeless children passed, including the most difficult categories the center about which

films were shot by russia and now they are declaring you a terrorist i was funny and even ashamed of them together your sons and i were on the hit lists and an attempt was made on your life in 2014 this year 2014 was difficult like all the years after that all the years of the war yes did you expect what happened after february 22nd in the case of russia, because in the case of russia, ukraine could not do it alone , or did you have such a problem as a demonic empire that went out of its mind, sasha, or the sum of the empire , unfortunately, i understood and spoke that there will be a continuation after 2014, but of course such a degree of demonism, but not humanity, no one could imagine without masculinity, no one could imagine this is for sure we were preparing for the great

war, we understood that there could be great trouble but to imagine your city covered with corpses and wiped off the face of the earth by russian aircraft and naval artillery. of course i couldn't, i couldn't, of course, this is a terrible crime against humanity . journalist denys kazanskyi recently, just this week, called mariupol the city where 600 such tragedies, which we saw in the dnipro, took place . 620 multi-apartment buildings were completely destroyed in mariupol. but it was worse there because there was no one to help and no one sorted out the rubble . your daughter was also among the dead in mariupol. how did we cope with this loss and how do you teach other people to cope with similar losses? i think

that such wounds when they stop hurting i don't think that such blows will ever stop hurting i feel guilty because i could not take my daughter out we were able to take out the younger children of the pilgrim republic but many of the adult children did not leave the city i tried to get to them to return, tried to break through mariupol , we couldn't do it, feeling guilty that you couldn't protect your daughter, your daughter, she grew up in my family from the age of 10 with my biological and adopted aunts i already had my son and biological adopted children. i found out that my daughter was collected piece by piece. the pieces of my daughter were killed by the russians. she was in russia with me on a bicycle tour, rode a bicycle across russia, spoke at press conferences, concerts, and then

russian tanks came and tore her apart pieces how to deal with this is probably easier for me than atheists i believe that life does not end with me a part i believe that there is a creator in this world and life changes the format so i therefore i hope that i will be able to hug my daughter on on the other side of life how do you imagine the return to mariupol and the work on its restoration with people who are ready and people who are ready to go to mariupol with the chaplain battalion first on our tanks, we are ready to enter in armor maybe it is called armor as mariupol is gone now mariupol is destroyed this city in where i grew up, just imagine everyone who is listening to us, your hometown, where you spent your childhood, the drama theater that turned into

a mass grave for hundreds of women and children, this is the theater that i went to on new year's eve as a child performances, then i already took my children and pupils there for christmas events, of course all this is very difficult because our native city is destroyed well, but we are full of optimism, we will return and rebuild the city, it will be a beautiful mariupol , this was an interview with oleksiy kovalenko and with pastor gennady mohnenko from mariupol you can view the versions for a fee on our website and in social networks. and we move on to other stories, destroyed high-rise buildings , lack of gas, regular shelling, residents live in such conditions of the de-occupied estuary that in donetsk region, the majority of people now live alone in their own apartments and live in shelters. where did they move from the beginning during the russian occupation, which lasted from

may to october? in what conditions do the people of laman now live? in every high-rise building there are cracked windows, which elsewhere are covered with a film, tightened with polyethylene, and holes in the roofs indicate the presence of people; mending laundry drying outside or the smoke coming from the pipe in the window from the home-made stove in the city, do not notice the movement of passenger cars, if the president is also an emergency car, people do not go far from home, they usually huddle near their houses, waiting for food packages from volunteers and macaroni and macaroni, then a big war the majority of limanians, such as ms. tetyana, worked at the local railway

junction, our city of railwaymen , our city of railwaymen, it was called the northern gate of donbas, the central junction house , organizations were building iron buildings, organizations of railway workers, track engineering station, distance of the tracks. basically, everything worked, and basically everyone worked there, and i also worked in the railway hospital. you can also say that the railway was developed , people were getting apartments, everything was fine , people were getting apartments, everything was fine in the 8 years since the seizure of the part the lyman people of donbas got used to living in the front-line zone, but their life ended on april 25 of last year, recalls tatiana. it was then that the first russian shells fell in the city and the first victims appeared. the rocket flew for

home, a rocket fell behind the house at half past nine in the morning, and at half past four, this is the pit where the child died. no, the profiteer was killed, and everything, and then it became almost every day, every other day, almost every other day , they bombed for 17 hours in a row. they bombed in a row, you will probably never forget kuleman, russian troops entered in may, and at the beginning of october , the blue-yellow flag was raised over the city again, despite the deoccupation, people are forced to hide in basements until now , they are keeping food, grain for the next rafters, here here we have cereals and everything that is given with humanitarian aid, canned food, various pastas, flour, seasonings from home, on top, seasonings from home , sheltered, they have arranged places for themselves to rest

, so much so that they allow us to bring us empty apartments, bed linen, everything that took a plate, a cup, a spoon, a saucepan, what can you bring here to us the roof broke over our porch. and this is all the water in our porch under the flow of the meters. we connected it to the hatch and it closed. now there is a full light in the apartment. they prepare for pi the little houses made by local artisans, they heat them with firewood and briquettes provided by the local authorities in the autumn. we know, winter, we don't know, immediately after the liberation, the local people began to return to the city, but after seeing the destroyed housing, people took the little huts in this place and returned to the temporary

shelter 20,000 new population , several thousand people still live in liman yaroslava movchan artursha galin from donetsk region for the voice of america 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 informative programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts of the ukrainian service of the voice of america and on this we will say goodbye, also join our daily briefings at at 6 p.m. kyiv time on youtube and facebook, where you can ask us your questions live , and we will try to answer them, join also to our pages on social networks, mine on instagram , twitter, facebook, youtube, and also telegram, thank you for staying with us. have a good night and a good morning

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