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voice of america service , time, and the host . the president of the usa, joe biden, from kherson to kharkiv, ukrainian fighters recaptured their land and more than half of the territory that russia received last year , the ukrainian flag is again proudly flying - added the american president, in turn, us secretary of state anthony blingen said that the ukrainian struggle became an inspiration for the whole world at every step ukraine showed that it would not allow itself to be conquered the united states proudly supports ukraine in its defense and will continue to do so as long as necessary, anthony added damn, on this day, the usa limited itself to more than just statements and announced a comprehensive package of new military aid worth 2 billion dollars. it also announced the introduction of additional

sanctions against russia. more about this also about support from other partners, we will ask yuriy yarmolenko, who is now joining our broadcast from the white house yulia i congratulate you i congratulate you and so what was included in this new package of weapons from the united states ostap's video you know what the minister of defense of the united states said to lloyd today that today in these tragic anniversary, people who believe in freedom , rules, and the principles of sovereignty have the opportunity to once again confirm their commitment to supporting ukraine in the long term, and this package from the united states today. makes a package worth 2 billion dollars, which includes, in particular, critical equipment, critical equipment and ammunition for artillery , it is also about artillery. it is allocated under the initiative of promoting the security of ukraine

, which means that this equipment is ordered and purchased from manufacturers, and we are talking about support for a longer period of time. do not forget that this week, when the president biden was in ukraine, he announced another package of military aid worth 460 million dollars, this is exactly the aid that is allocated directly from the reserves of the united states and reaches ukraine, as she told me in the pentagon, in a matter of days, and in that package they also put very important weapons - ammunition both for howitzers and hymeris, but they also laid additional bradley bmp systems there. therefore, this is help that, as they said today in the white house, will help ukrainians for the near future, in the coming weeks and months, a meeting of the leaders of the countries took place sms groups and what important decisions we heard and saw according to the results. this was a virtual meeting of ostap and the purpose of this meeting, as the leaders of the group of seven themselves said, was

to confirm the unceasing and tireless support from the allies for so long and so much will be needed for ukraine. the president of ukraine volodymyr took part in this meeting. zelensky and , based on the results of this virtual meeting , the groups issued a statement with several very important points . so that ukraine can be effective already on the battlefield, in particular, they said that they will do everything in order to provide ukraine with exactly the types of weapons that are needed immediately with a focus, as the leaders of the group of seven said, on air defense systems, on ammunition and also on tanks, also the leader of the group of seven they called on russia, which actually started this war, to end it, they said that russia must immediately withdraw all its troops from the entire territory of ukraine within

the internationally recognized borders, and also the leaders of the group of seven congratulated the efforts of their ministers of finance who agreed and agreed to provide financial aid to ukraine in the amount of 39 billion dollars in 2023 and also an important point of this meeting was the coordination of sanctions yulia also in the united states. if we are talking about sanctions, then today they introduced new restrictions against the kremlin and its henchmen , how do they differ from of those sanctions that were introduced by yuriy even earlier, they actually were from the coordinated actions of the group of seven leaders and the countries of the group of seven, and if we are talking about the sanctions of the united states, then it is not only about sanctions against the kremlin, against kremlin supporters, but we know that sanctions were introduced against 200 people and 200 companies that contributed in some way to the russian war against ukraine, but this was not the only point of today's sanctions, important sanctions and experts call them possibly the most significant sanctions of all time were the sanctions of the ministry of finance of the united states, which

today introduced restrictions against the metallurgical and mining industries of russia and actually against the companies that supplied resources for the defense industry of russia and also introduced very important measures today to close the loopholes used by the kremlin and its henchmen in order to circumvent previous sanctions, as victoria nulen, the representative of the state department , said the day before that over the past year, russia has extremely increased the purchase of ipads, laptops, and machines from third countries in order to actually to take very important semiconductors, access to which was closed to russia in order to use in its military equipment, and therefore to close lazirky was a very important point on which the united states and the countries of the group of seven left now, and today the representative of the us national security council, john kirby, actually explained in an audio briefing why it was important to introduce

these sanctions and how these sanctions will actually affect russia's ability to wage war . let's listen, we believe that the sanctions will absolutely help limit putin's ability arming his armed forces for example , we know that he has problems with the production of cruise missiles because he cannot get the microelectronics that he needs to work guidance systems so we believe it will have an effect but the second point is that males can take a while sometimes you don't see an immediate effect you know they need a while to have an effect so we'll just keep sleeping thank you we'll also keep an eye on today's results let me remind you that julia yarmolenko was in touch with us, and from the white house, the united states is beginning to transfer to ukraine almost ten billion dollars of additional budget

support approved by the congress at the end this was announced last year by the administrator of the us international aid agency, samantha power, who on friday, together with the ambassador of ukraine, oksana markarova, commemorated the anniversary of the great russian invasion. 9 billion dollars of emergency aid is the result of the law on additional aid to ukraine, which was adopted at the end of last year. this money is intended for direct support of the ukrainian budget until the end fiscal year, that is, for the first nine months of 2023, this corresponds to the one and a half billion dollars that we provided every month to help ukraine cope with the budget deficit of 5 billion every month, which is approximately equal to this gap between the revenues that ukraine can receive and the expenses that they face by the government, in particular, to pay salaries , support the work of the government, and so on, samantha

power emphasized that american economic support helped rally other international donors, in particular, the countries of the group of seven increased their commitments to budget support of ukraine up to 39 billion us dollars by the end of this year, we are also creating an incredible coalition that has united to support the defense of ukraine , people mainly focus on helping with the latest news and security issues, but it is absolutely important that, for example, the european union at the end of last year also allocated 18 billion euros direct budget support to ukraine norway recently announced a package of billions of dollars, which also includes direct budget support japan provides support as well as loans united arab the emirates have just announced that they are providing mobile power plants to help in the energy sector, although we are here to talk about the support of the american people . i think it is very important to know how strong

the coalition is, how broad and sustainable it is. debates at the ministerial level , despite russia's protest and dissatisfaction , the event was attended by the ministers of foreign affairs of a number of european countries, including the chief diplomat of the european union would have already talked more about the results of the un security council meetings, let's talk with iryna solomka, who is now joining us from the organization 's headquarters. greetings ostap. of course, the topic of peace was the leading theme during this meeting because, as you mentioned , an important resolution was voted yesterday, which essentially sets the framework for what should be the next negotiations regarding peace, that is, that they should be based solely on the status of the un, and almost every speaker mentioned this in his speech, and also you

already mentioned that there were a lot of foreign ministers, 12 foreign ministers of the european union were personally present at these debates and accordingly delivered a speech and demonstrated their support for ukraine, and in this conflict with russia, he would take part in the debate, and secretary general antonio guterres, in particular, noted that despite what the weapons are saying now, he is convinced that only the diplomatic way can guarantee a stable and fair peace, therefore, in his opinion, everything must be done in order to stop the escalation and start negotiations accordingly , and the united states secretary of state anthony blinken also spoke at the meeting, he had a very powerful and long emotional speech, he spoke a lot of course, about peace. but before that, for example , he mentioned that almost exactly a year ago , he was in this very hall, talking about russia's plans, about the fact that it was preparing for

a full-scale invasion, and about how constantly the representative of russia then accused a -a and said that these accusations are groundless and within a week russia attacked ukraine. also, mr. blinking spoke quite enthusiastically about the spirit of ukrainians in particular. he said that after a-a russia was unable to destroy the ukrainian army so it began to destroy people, and in particular, tens of thousands were killed, 13 million ukrainians were forced to leave their homes, almost half of the energy infrastructure was destroyed , but despite this, the spirit of ukrainians remains unconquered, and as for peace, he is convinced that the language can only be fair and just. the members of this council bear the fundamental responsibility for ensuring that any peace is just. the members of the council should not be misled by calls for a temporary or unconditional cease

- fire. in order to consolidate control over the territory it illegally seized and replenish its forces for further attacks, this is what happened when russia's first offensive against ukraine was frozen in 2015, look what we received no member of this council should call for peace supporting russia's war against ukraine and the un charter in this war there is an aggressor and there is a victim russia is fighting for new territories ukraine is fighting for its freedom if russia stops fighting and leaves ukraine the war will end if ukraine stops fighting in the country, the end and the words of the secretary of state of the united states, iryna, how did russia generally react to this meeting and to the statements that were made at it, so ostap , russia did not react well to this meeting from the very beginning

the representative of russia about the united nations began, and he took the floor when he heard that according to the protocol, dmytro kuleba, the ukrainian minister of foreign affairs, will speak after antony goteresh, that is, he said that this is a very strong violation of norms and procedures meeting of the security council, and therefore he expressed his protest; moreover, he even accused the representative of malta, who currently chairs the security council, that he does not think about european interests, because in fact he allowed to speak at these debates 12, as i already said , the 27th minister of foreign affairs of the european union, and as for such a mood in general, it was interesting that such an incident happened after dmytro kuleb's speech , when he said at the end that let's now honor a moment of silence for the victims of russian aggression, and when everyone stood up, the russian ambassador did not stand up. at first, he began to demand the floor, at that moment

, the representatives of china and brazil remained seated. and after he was given the floor, he said that it was like how wrong such a moment of silence was, we should honor the memory of all those who became victims of what happened in ukraine starting in 2014. then he stood , no one supported him, and he looked at secretary general antonio goteiš for a very long time and in fact they simply forced him to stand up, and after that he stood up at two o'clock and joined the e. you can say that it was a russian moment of silence for the victims of what was happening in ukraine. as for the general speech of the russian ambassador, he was theses did not differ much from what we constantly hear at the meeting about the degree of security , and he in particular blames the fact that the so-called collective action is taking place, he also said that the goal is actually peace for the collective action - that is, in essence

, the destruction of russia and its capitulation and inflicting its strategic defeat and in order for it to disintegrate, in addition, he said that it turns out that russia did not say that the purpose of this military operation is the destruction of ukraine and its de-ukrainization, but simply that russia wants a friendly neighbor like this once upon a time ostapa iryna thank you for your inclusion, i will remind you that iryna solomko from the un headquarters was in touch with us about putin's address before the offensive on february 24 last year bean ukraine in the usa oksana markarova found out from an sms while speaking at one of the events in washington embassy developed various plans in the event of a full-scale war, including working in an almost autonomous mode, in an interview yani vorozko markarova shared new previously

unknown details of what was happening in washington and told how it developed relations between ukraine and the usa during the last year fragments of this conversation see further on the 24th what were your strongest memories on this day and on this day late in the evening i spoke at a women's club it was a long time ago this is the oldest women's club in washington i spoke i mean i told somewhere at approximately 9:30 or 10:00, this speech was completely over. and i didn't stay there for tea and such an informal conversation precisely because i had already received an e-mail message. at that time, putin's speech had already been announced. car we went home in the car, started listening to it at home, listened to it, understood that the war had started and i went to the embassy, ​​at that moment

i had already summoned almost all the diplomats to the embassy, ​​and that's how our war history began , what regimes do you have? the first weeks of the month, as usual, we had a lot of things ready for this case, too. we, er, and kyiv, and we were ready for various options for communications, we were also ready for various options for communications if, for example, there would be no communication with kyiv, that is, not everything can be told publicly here, but the preparation was quite extensive, the responsibility of all ambassadors will be even greater, because it depends on whether we will be able to call or not, whether all our communication lines will work or not, uh, we must still ensure weapons, sanctions, and everything we need to ensure that. but fortunately , if there was no such moment. when our communication was interrupted, it was after the liberation of kyiv region and

the atrocity of the russians in buch irpen became known in other cities how was it perceived here, and in your conversations with your partners, did the understanding and attitude towards the war change, it had a huge impact on american citizens, that is, once again, the people who work with us constantly and in the white house and the state department, that is, our permanent party counts , they well they had no doubts about who the russians were. although i think that even some of them were, uh, shocked, yes. that is, when we talk about it, well, i know for sure that when i talked about the atrocities before the footage and video from buchi , i talked about the cut baturyn told about the fact that they have emoticons

in general. yes , what is the holodomor? the aggressor, the occupier, the colonizer, to our nation, to our country, and of course it was perceived to be of such a certain degree. well, of course , that is, you are just fighting with them because of that. but i think that when did you all see the atrocities in buch in irpin , especially when the following opened it opened a lot of people's eyes to what we are actually dealing with here , what it is. well, absolutely evil. and secondly, it closed the opportunity for a lot of people to look for an excuse for this and still try to find some understanding and that the russians must have some reason

we will be attacked by president zelenskyi's visit to washington. how far in advance did you know about it? when the preparations began, we worked on it for a short time. it was clear right away that we will only have two elements of this visit. will it be a very quick visit because the president uh personally, well, first of all, his visit to bakhmut had already been planned and it was very difficult, also from the point of view of a very important visit for everyone, but difficult from the point of view of logistics, and also the president wanted to return as soon as possible, so we understood that we had a day and on this day, we had a meeting with the president, a speech at the congress, that is, these were the parameters. and george soros, during a speech at the strength of the security conference, summarized how he sees this visit, what was agreed between president zelensky and president biden that the only way to end this war is the victory of ukraine, my friends, not everything

yes, we can reveal from these meetings but i think the most important thing is that it was a very detailed and very substantive meeting of two leaders who share the attitude completely and to principles and such very important values ​​for which we are fighting, and it seems to me that this meeting was decisive in order for both countries to understand that we must win together, and the whole meeting was a discussion of important individual elements, how we should achieve what we have

therefore, the president's goal was to be achieved in this visit. to thank and lay down to discuss everything that is needed for the next period , how much is needed in order for us to win and, uh, we also very actively discussed the peace formula in the presidency of zelenskyi, the initiatives that the president is proposing . a friendly discussion between two teams that often seemed to be one team . just on monday, february 20, the americans woke up and learned that the president of joseph base not only came to ukraine but also left, but in the embassy as far as you knew in advance about the preparation of this visit. well, you know. let's not reveal any secrets, just as the visit of our president to the united states was prepared in great secrecy. probably , this visit was prepared in unprecedented conditions. but the most important thing is that it happened on the day when ukraine

mentions the heavenly hundred mentioned on the day when presidents' day is celebrated in america, well, this is a very clear message to ukrainians, first of all, to putin, and secondly to russians, and in principle to the whole world, that our victory is no longer just our desire and our plan and our hard work is a joint joint task and joint work of all democratic countries. this was an interview with the ukrainian ambassador to the usa, oksana markarova , and you can watch the full version of this interview on the youtube channel of the voice of america in ukrainian over half a million daily hot meals over thousands of cities in ukraine , the organization world centrol kitchen provides so much for ukrainians who suffered the most from russian aggression on the eve of the anniversary of the russian full-scale offensive, the founder of vorsa center lokeychyn, a well-known chef

host-andres personally came to the city of irpin, which was affected by the russians, anna kosyuchenko and pavel sukhodolskyi met him there, hot soup, a choice of salads and a sweet dessert for dessert, this time a menu was prepared by a volunteer-governmental organization in lutsenko , repyn, kyiv region, for ukrainians who lost their homes due to russian aggression for distribution, the founder of the organization himself, a chef, a philanthropist, from time to time andriy comes to check the work of volunteers, this time he came on the eve of the anniversary the full-scale invasion of russia is not accidental at all, hop, it is the anniversary of nadiya together with the visit of president biden and the leaders of other countries, they are coming to support president zelenskyi and the ukrainian people, this is the message of nadiya, eh, and this is already feeding the ukrainians who suffered from russian aggression husen gryz and his small army volunteers started

already at the beginning of the war, in the first weeks of the russian offensive, wall center titin volunteers fed ukrainian women and children at the border who were leaving the country, and from inside march geese decided to open hot food delivery points in ukraine. since then, the volunteers of the organization have been working 7 days a week in different cities of the country or before we arrived in the country. we established cooperation with local restaurants that helped us feed people. we received calls from everywhere and in this way we are represented in thousands of cities every week, we organize 8,000 lunch distributions, we provide 550,000 hot meals a day and distribute a million 200,000 packages of lunches every day in places where there is no infrastructure and shops near kyiv, in the spring more than 10 were destroyed thousands of houses ago, many residents of irpin were forced to move to modular towns, one of them is located on the territory of the former

sanatorium, where the kitchen corner center kitchen works, the apartment burned down six months in wagons in the iron town, and then we moved here at the end of november, of course, volunteers feed more than 300 residents of this modular town, as well as many children and low-income residents, are in kirpyniat and neighboring buchi. i have been eating in a modular house since the summer. i live here because we have for many of them, this is the only opportunity to get a hot dinner. we lived for 10 years . there was a military hospital there. they destroyed our house and it turns out that there is no place to live, so we live here. years old local resident victor who works as a gardener in the local parks eats here

almost every day i will even say this in english thank you very verity music producer serhiy kryvtsov volunteers and here june says the music business is completely inactive in ukraine now so he decided to devote all my time is useful for business. i saw from the posts of friends on instagram that they are doing such a good job , it turned out that i was offered to go out for a few days to help, but i only stayed for a few days and then quickly joined the team because the team is very good, we have a sense of unity in the the willingness of ukrainians to help each other impressed all the addresses when he came to ukraine, everyone rallied around one idea around president zelensky, even those who did not vote for him say yes, now he is my

president. i wish ukraine was already part of europe and nato, if that were the case, this would certainly not have happened. nato is a protective mechanism . and i would like the leaders to allow this to happen faster, because ukrainians are ready for their future, especially the youth in general. at the beginning of the war, husendres spent more than 100 days in ukraine, visited the liberated chernihiv, kharkiv , kherson and many the unity that i saw in other cities, the desire to put aside different views and become one whole, this makes ukrainians special and this is one of the reasons why i return. i leave here charged even in difficult times when there is no light, the water is cold winter death and destruction everywhere people have hope and recover as they say we will continue we can anna kostyuchenko pavel suhodolsky for the voice of america from irpen kyiv region and on this we say goodbye good