[000:00:00;00] they fired, well, we clearly know where these mines were flying from. we saw that this was a mobile mortar unit with azov troops and shot where it would go around the city. the militants entered the hospital, but quickly left. this escape was shameful . they just pulled out the mattresses from the hospital and took them away with us. due to the fact that he wanted to stay working in mariupol at any cost on new high-quality equipment, previously the most popular operation here, heart stenting, was performed free of charge as part of the medical program guarantees now they say that sergei orlansky birch is 250,000 russian rubles, but hardly any patients he has a lot of operations there without light, water and heat so in his free time in orlansky now many

collaborators go to moscow there in the swamps he mastered a new level of betrayal last year in the summer, in the building of the russian government, he was awarded for his services to the public by memory for prodanets was photographed with tatyana goykov, the deputy head of the government of the russian federation, no matter what, and all these actions of the orlandian are a crime responsibility for collaborationism and state prison from 8 to 15 years or even life imprisonment, and all mariupol traitors who agreed to work for the kremlin surrendered the positions of our military and engaged in discrediting the armed forces sooner or later will be repaid, no matter how painful it may be, because their shameful activity nothing to do with medical duty. at the same time, a low bow to those medical workers who saved the residents of mariupol and our military and did not

agree to work for ani's enemy for money not even on a banner, their published diaries and memories of the early churches again and again, so glory to those heroes, doctors who laid down their lives to save others, working under enemy bullets , these were collaborators. and i, olena kononenko, in our next programs, we will talk about collaborator doctors from other regions . believe me, there were such a lot, not only mariupol . if you want to talk about the kremlin sellers, write to us at this email address or just on facebook, let's track them all together on the trail of the russian ship

. see you in a week on espresso welcome to the broadcast of the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas-time and i am its host ostap yarysh the united states announced a new package of military aid for ukraine worth more than two billion dollars, it included additional ammunition for high-mars and artillery , as well as armored vehicles and mine protection, javelin machine guns for countermeasures by drones of the air defense system and much more, in addition, the united states for the first time provides ukraine with high-precision missiles with a range of up to 150 km, which will strengthen the capabilities of the ukrainian armed forces, however the production of such weapons may take some time according to routers on the battlefield, such missiles may end up in the spring, we will provide ukraine with glsdb missiles, this will give the ukrainians the ability to fire at the greatest distance, which will allow them to conduct operations in defense of their own country and to return their sovereign territory, which is occupied by russia in relation to

ukrainian plans for operations. obviously, this is their decision, they manage it, so i will not talk about potential future operations or think about them. but again, we are constantly working with the ukrainians to provide capabilities that allow them to be effective on the battlefield, the united states did not object if other countries decide to provide fighter jets to ukraine , the coordinator of strategic communications of the us national security council, john kirby, said about this in an interview with the voice of america. forces of ukraine were able to achieve success on the battlefield now and in future battles. we never tried to force another country to provide something or not to provide something, these are sovereign decisions that nations make independently. it is important to remember that 143 countries in the un voted to condemn the russian annexation and that more than 50 countries regularly hold meetings with the minister of defense austin within the framework

of the contact group created by him to provide ukraine with security assistance and sometimes financial assistance , this is an international effort not only by allies and partners in europe, and every of the nation makes such contributions as it thinks it can afford because they also have their own national security interests that they must take care of. so if a country decides that it wants to provide fighter jets, it is definitely its decision and we will respect it we want ukraine to get as much support as possible in the meantime we the united states will continue to keep in touch with the ukrainians by talking to them almost daily about what capabilities they need and we will do everything we can to make sure they can achieve success on the battlefield not only today but also in the battles that will be fought. in the coming months, f16 and other fighter jets can play a decisive

role on the battlefield in ukraine, and nato has a lot of experience in training pilots to operate them this was said in an interview with my colleagues by tatiana, a senior researcher at the center for the analysis of european policy, gordon davis , before giving him time, he was the deputy assistant to the nato secretary general for defense investments, and he also told which countries could potentially provide ukraine with f-16s and an additional number of soviet fighters mig, they can change the situation on the battlefield in ukraine, f16 fighters are a group of various types of western aircraft, as well as russian-made mig-29 and mig-21 aircraft, which the allies have and can affect assistance to the small air force of ukraine, which continues to exceed expectations, in particular to help them defend themselves and strike russian targets, we are talking about command and control nodes, logistical supply, ammunition depots, as well as mechanized armored motorized

units that are currently fighting and trying to continue to gain advantage , in particular in donetsk and luhansk regions , as well as indirect fire units that caused so much damage to the forward part of the near front we are not necessarily talking only about long-range missile strikes, the second question is whether the ukrainians can integrate them, can they fly them, maintain and use them properly, the f16 has an incredible set of sensors and weapons systems , they are complex and very different from the mig-29, which ukrainian pilots currently fly, but we as an alliance with the usa as a country has demonstrated that it is able to train pilots from all over the alliance from poland to slovakia and others romania now has a huge program to transfer its pilots to the f16 trained pilots can quite quickly

moving to flights to effectively use all these sensors and weapon systems takes a little more time to train the technicians with probably the most time consuming since technical knowledge takes time for these complex systems they may need 6 to 12 months to really become an expert but at least we can start training now involving programs in which allies and partners are already participating i did not take a full inventory let me give you the first answer last year the us congress already authorized the vp the united states will decommission 28 f16s. how many of them are in service is unknown. there are also f-35s on the procurement lists for the current and future budgets of the us air force . on the aspect of other countries, you already

know that the poles have been talking for a long time about providing 28 f16s. will increase the power of the air force of ukraine more than twice, in addition, there are many countries with migs, poles and slovaks - these are the two nations that offered to provide ukraine with their migs in slovakia, an unspecified number , poland spoke about the readiness to provide 28 mig-29 are planes that the ukrainians already fly, they haven't promised or offered them yet, but they can be part of this package , given their extremely strong support for ukraine and the close location and impact on security in the black sea e-e in terms of political consequences will have of great importance if ukraine can successfully protect and repel russian forces from its territory and restore a certain type of lasting peace. we have learned from history that appeasement

does not work. if russia is allowed to keep the amount of territory or give it the opportunity to gain more it will create conditions in europe for a potential future conflict with russia and this can be avoided if we stand firm now given ukraine's readiness to fight their skill in combat their national resilience and zeal why don't we do everything we can to to help , in the meantime, it was held in kyiv. from the european union-ukraine, despite air alarms and the threat of shelling, high-ranking officials decided to come to the ukrainian capital or to assure their unwavering support during the summit

european commission president jerusalem von der leynow announced the preparation of a new 10th round of sanctions against russia, eu representatives also promised ukraine military financial and political aid until the first anniversary of the russian invasion on february 24. two air alarms sounded in kyiv today, everything went smoothly without any such special breakthrough decisions, but not without positive messages, for two days the european commission was in kyiv, this president ursula fondelaina also received 15 euros from commissioners, and here it is important to note that this is the first such large representation of the european commission in ukraine, and at least one of the reasons for this is that ukraine has been a candidate for accession to the european union for the seventh month, and by the way our journalists from radio svoboda saw the recommendations before

the trip of the european commissioners to kyiv, they were advised not to take large suitcases with them, but to take only light backpacks and not to wear khaki , which is interesting, they said it was a prerogative of the ukrainian side yesterday was the day of the meeting of the european commission with the government, today the president of the european council of the layers michel came, they already had a joint meeting well , and then they came out with statements at the press conference in order of priority , this summit should be held precisely in brussels, because the previous one was held on the 23rd in october 2021, before the start of a full-scale invasion, but literally before the year of this full-scale invasion, they decided to come to the ukrainian capital in kyiv, as charles michel and ursula von der liang said with this step, they want to show their support for ukraine, they say they will help in all directions, and as charles michel pointed out, they want to show that russia

is not afraid of the kremlin. in fact, there were many statements about economic cooperation and military aid for the training of ukrainian servicemen, but uh, i drew attention to the words of the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, in particular, about the path to the european union, he stated that ukraine has already fulfilled 72% of the association agreement with the european union today, and that it is important, as volodymyr noted zelenskyi in the joint bilateral document that was signed today stated that the intention to start negotiations on accession can already take place this year, this is exactly what ukraine wants to start negotiations on accession and according to the ambitious plans of zelenskyi and his team - this should happen already this year and as we can see, the european union also supports this in the process until february 24. the european union plans to adopt another

package of sanctions against the russian federation. this will already be the 10th package with a volume of 10 billion euros, and they want to focus on e technologies, for example, we are talking about the details, as ursula funderlyan said, the details, for example, of the drones that were shot down in ukraine, does russia have access to these technologies, in particular , it is also about the drones that iran supplies to the russian army, and zelenskyi said that russia has already begun to get used to sanctions and is taking such steps to circumvent these sanctions, that is why the european commission, the european council, their leaders have declared that they will have such safeguards in this new package so that russia

does not succeed in circumventing their sanctions in this way, but here in washington, military children, artists, as well as american and ukrainian politicians prayed together for the victory of ukraine in the war. the ukrainian youth breakfast, which took place after the national prayer breakfast of the united states, was opened by the chaplain of the united states congress, and the american legislators who visited assured him of further support for ukraine. iryna shynkarenko attended the event. there is oleksiy usyka at a prayer breakfast in washington, wounded military children of fallen defenders, artists and politicians , a chaplain reads a prayer for ukraine for them the congress cannot defeat free prayer, the hero of ukraine, dmytro finashin, and two other soldiers who lost their limbs in the war and are now amazed by the support of the americans within ukraine. we are trying to involve the maximum

number of people in the prosthetics of our boys . they are just ordinary people who pass by there and clap on the shoulder. thank you for your service there. i'm trying to give you some money for coffee, even i, in general, it's a kind of shock for me . well, i'm not used to seeing this and i wasn't even ready for this in fact, but it motivates, it supports, to give me moral support and to distract from the sad events, 11 children whose parents died defending ukraine were also brought to washington. and another child who is waiting for a missing visa-free quote because when i hear you there were 7 motorbikes from motorcyclists for some reason reminds of anxiety to make injured ukrainians smile and thank america for its support for this reason, ukrainian singers oleksandr ponomaryov and dzidzio flew to washington for a prayer breakfast. to the heroes, glory

to christ for ukraine, to thank the united states of america to all americans for their help and sing the ukrainian song only by uniting all adequate reasonable democratic forces can we stop this real evil together to victory glory to ukraine glory to the armed forces of ukraine prayer breakfast was held as part of the ukrainian week in the usa, so a delegation of ukrainian deputies also arrived here ukrainian prayer today has a very specific dimension this is atakams f16 jewel in stingers abrams patriots the representative of the republican majority in the house of representatives of the congress at the prayer breakfast assures of support for ukraine my tie my suit i am dressed in the colors of ukraine i believe in my mission here

i have been to ukraine several times my aspiration is not only to provide ukraine with dollars but to quickly deliver ammunition missiles system tanks planes and put pressure on european countries to defend our own nations supporting ukraine and doing it stronger and faster because we saw that ukraine is capable of being rejected by russia, having military weapons, boars - i am asking petrenko oleksiy aspen dmytro melnyk voice of america

this was the story of the prayer breakfast here in washington. and now we can talk to our guest about religious challenges during the full-scale heating of russia, this is also against the orthodox church of ukraine, father andriy durchenko. breakfast in washington and yours , what is your impression of this event? yes , it was my first participation as a representative of the orthodox church of ukraine in these events. ukrainians, i was very interested to see and see for myself how deeply biblical consciousness is rooted in the politics of america, in biblical principles, approaches to life, how much of this politics, who were present at these events, how immersed they are in the knowledge of the holy scriptures, and when they present certain theses, they can operate freely er, the bible with this knowledge and it can be seen that

this largely determines their worldview, and i would very much like that in ukraine, our society, our politicians would also come to the point of basing their activities largely on the word of god . it could be some kind of oppression of religious freedom, violation of freedom of religion, ah, did you address this question? yes, here in the united states. what words did the international forum on religious freedom, which was held on tuesday on wednesday this week was devoted to global problems in general, the ukrainian issue is only one of the issues that was not central. by the way, on this forum, but it was also present and sounded, but

in fact the world is much more global and oppression in religious freedom in the world it is really enough to talk about them as real oppressions of religious freedom and not fake ones that are uh, in some propaganda concerning ukraine they talked about the fact that in ukraine there really is oppression of religious freedom, but it is not in the occupied territories because where the so-called russian world is coming, that is, the russian troops are beginning to abuse and oppress and generally destroy in fact such denominations as the orthodox church of ukraine, the greek-catholics and the protestant communities, they talked about this on the uniform, in particular, as well spoke both during the prayer breakfast and last night during the dinner reception at the club of the republican party, capital hill is the former us ambassador to ukraine, john hepst

. this is not really persecution, it is not persecution for faith, it is an investigation of certain issues related to collaboration or enemy propaganda or something like that . that is, it is not persecution specifically for religion, for belief in god in ukraine no one persecutes and in ukraine there is one of the most liberal of the european countries' legislation regarding religion, so that in ukraine there has never been any oppression, even the white brotherhood was not banned until i want to return a little later to the situation with religious freedoms on the occupied territories that you asked about, the topic of the moscow patriarchate, we are currently discussing the desire and effort to transfer the parishioners from the moscow patriarchate to the orthodox church of ukraine , how widespread is this phenomenon now ? churches, and the priest is against it, since

these processes are regulated, and maybe you can tell us something about it . these processes are going on. of the church of ukraine, in total, about 1,700 parishes from the uoc of the moscow patriarchate joined the orthodox church of ukraine during the full-scale invasion, starting from february last year and until today, about a thousand communities have transferred from the uoc of the moscow patriarchate to the orthodox church of ukraine , the process was the fastest -th spring at the end of spring at the beginning at the beginning of summer then after the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate held a theophany cathedral on may 27, at which it declared its alleged break with the separation from the moscow patriarchate, after that the process slowed down significantly, but it continues. even after a few months have passed, those priests of the community who were at first stopped, and then now

they understand that in fact, the uoc only declared a certain let's say the declaration of the desire for sovereignty, but the real separation from the moscow patriarchate did not happen. probably it is nominally so, but the ukrainian orthodox church remains part of the moscow patriarchate according to international let's say church norms vision, i.e. no one, not a single orthodox church in the world, another orthodox church perceives it as a certain organization separate from the moscow patriarchate, all other orthodox churches that exist in the world, as we say to the local church, perceive the ukrainian orthodox church, headed by metropolitan onufriy, as a part of the moscow patriarchate as a part of the russian orthodox church in ukraine and therefore the process was slowed down then, after

several months have passed, they start again that is, some parishes again, this is a constant process, it is not so strong-massive, that is, for a year, a thousand parishes, nevertheless, it is a noticeable number. thus, according to the statistics that were recently announced by the leadership of the orthodox church of ukraine, we have approximately the same number of parishes of the uoc of the moscow patriarchate and the orthodox church of ukraine is approximately 7-8 thousand parishes, it is difficult to count precisely because some parishes exist only if they are legally registered , not always the parish really lives its life why when a parish departs from the moscow patriarchate, then the moscow patriarchate still continues to count it as its own, then , uh, managerial, uh, some uh, moments of situations happen, you know, when a community without a priest really moves or a part of the community wants to stay, really acute questions arise. unfortunately, the ukrainian orthodox church does not agree

, it is not a regular service that would be possible somewhere in those settlements where there is no other temple where it would be possible to offer it, you know, i was present at at a meeting of one of these in gostomeli near kyiv, where a community meeting was held in the summer. no representative of a supporter of the moscow patriarchate appeared, and so on. they try to dispute it in such a way that they say that the territorial community and not the religious community took part in the meeting , although in fact those people who came to these meetings, they said that they are parishioners of this church, not all of them attend the service every sunday, but when a person goes to the church, well, for certain needs, for example , to baptize a child or for such holidays as easter or christmas or e-e for epiphany and sacrifices certain funds for the maintenance of this community then whether it can be excommunicated send e-e to vote and determine the jurisdictional affiliation of this community tell me and among the reasons that are cited in parishes as arguments

for the desire to move to 500 is as a rule, the position that the moscow patriarchate is currently taking in relation to the russian large-scale invasion or other arguments, factors influence here, uh, i can't speak for everyone, of course, you know, i personally don't understand how you can be, uh, now stay to the moscow patriarchate, when there are two canonical orthodox churches in ukraine, one of them is ukrainian, one of them is ukrainian , but to the moscow patriarchate. so how can you stay there, it’s somehow , well, it’s just absolutely illogical , i also want to talk to you about the influence of this roscomir. and recently there were statistics. i saw that the actual russian aggression in ukraine was completely destroyed and damaged

or looted by the russian military. almost 500 religious buildings, including churches, educational institutions, spiritual and other sanctuaries. are these targeted attacks of persecution, or are they damaged as a result of active hostilities? is it mainly as a result of active hostilities? most of these buildings have been destroyed. buildings belonging to the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate, that is , the so-called russian ruler came to ukraine and destroyed them. if we talk about churches, then religious buildings these are mainly the churches of the moscow patriarchate, since they are simply in the east and south of ukraine. most of these churches, these are the temples of the moscow patriarchate, were also purposefully destroyed , especially the protestant protestant er-e those prayer houses, which is what the brothers who were present here, in particular, at the forum with religious freedom at the summit they also talked about it in the south of ukraine , it happened in particular in the zaporizhzhia region, if i am not mistaken, and in the east

of ukraine, about the destruction of 40 or so physical buildings also about the persecution of religious figures about the persecution of course about the persecution of pastors about the persecution of priests e-e my fellow ministers from the ukrainian orthodox church of ukraine in the occupied territories too. in the kyiv region, there are only a few victims who were killed because they were priests of the orthodox church of ukraine, so unfortunately there is such a thing, or what efforts are currently being made to restore taxis to religious communities. well, let's say there is a village, and there was one the church in the village was destroyed by a shell, there is a religious community that used to go to that church, and now it simply has no place to pray . was the priest killed or tortured, and how is the church trying to save these parishes? rebuilding churches or, well, even in the end, to preserve not so much the physical building, but the integrity of the community itself. today

, above all, we are faced with the need to restore and rebuild ukraine, and above all, it is about where people live, about the destroyed housing, that first and foremost, the church in particular, including the orthodox church of ukraine, participated in this and is participating , is communicating with foundations, and here in the kyiv region, in particular, i live in the territory that was occupied near kyiv near gostomel , and i know that the orthodox church of ukraine in particular, in the village where my house is. they didn't help to install modular houses for people who were deprived due to the destruction . that's why it's a priority. when people will have a place to live, then we can worry about a place where you can pray to god everywhere and rebuild an already beautiful building of course this is desirable, but this is a question that the communities will definitely decide but after the liberation of ukraine, after you, how will