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, state secretary shantony blinken said on at a press conference in kazakhstan, bricken said that the united states publicly expressed concern to the leader of china, all dengpins, about possible intentions to send weapons to russia to support it in the war against ukraine or in an effort to help russia avoid sanctions. blinkin is visiting the capitals of kazakhstan and uzbekistan, as well as meeting with representatives of tajikistan, kyrgyzstan and turkmenistan we have very clearly warned china about the consequences of providing such support, we do not hesitate to target, for example , chinese companies or individuals who violate our sanctions or otherwise participate in supporting the russian military effort , moreover, i have heard very clearly from the countries of the world with whom i have spoken in the last ten days since these concerns were raised that this would not only be a serious problem for china's relations with us but also a serious problem for its relations with the countries of the world and, let me add, china cannot sit

on two chairs when it comes to russian aggression in ukraine. to fan the fire that was lit by russia, so i hope that china will take what we said very seriously, and not only what we said, but also what many other countries of the world are saying, and refrain from any further material support of russia in its military efforts, checking aid ukraine became the topic of hearings at once in several committees of the us senate and house of representatives, some american lawmakers repeatedly called on the biden administration to ensure proper verification of weapons and of financial aid provided to kyiv, one of the committees that discussed this issue or the us armed forces committee in the house of representatives reported at these hearings the us deputy secretary of defense , the inspector general of the ministry of defense and the director of operations of the joint staff kateryna lisunova, she

joins our studio from the capitol by the hill i congratulate you on calcium and then the hearing and what information were provided by the representatives of the us ministry of defense regarding the inspections of the aid that comes to ukraine and in their opinion, are there any risks in these posts, first of all natalie it is necessary to explain what kind of risks we are talking about, because american lawmakers have repeatedly raised questions about the possible risks of huge amounts of aid coming to ukraine, in particular. third countries , in addition, the probability of a corruption component and other corruption risks, which the legislators, in turn, spoke about

today, and these are the people who represent the ministry of defense, as well as the middle administration of biden, stated that at the moment there are no such risks and such violations that could call into question the continuation of aid to ukraine , in turn, during the open servants of the open introductory sentences, and the committee on the armed forces of the united states of america's hopes for the leader, my dad emphasized that this is the first hearing of this kind about the aid that comes to ukraine. the public hearing before the public hearing discusses how the process of checking this aid takes place , despite the fact that we are the ministry of defense and also the biden administration reports to legislators and various committees at least weekly, it was emphasized directly in this committee, but it is worth noting that today there are ongoing hearings on the verification of aid that comes to ukraine in various committees both at the level of the house of representatives and at the level of the senate, and if this is a hearing in the committee the consumption of america's armed forces in the house of representatives has already ended. and

i will note that they emphasized that only the open part in the evening has ended. it will also not be held in the same committee, but in closed session levels and also in the senate and in the house of representatives, some committees are still sitting and there is still a hearing regarding the verification of the aid that comes to ukraine regarding the position of the legislators, whether they were satisfied with today's report in the end. it is on their vote in the congress that the allocation of additional aid to ukraine after the meeting depends i managed to communicate with the legislators who were present during the hearings of this committee, and i will note that after the legislators were divided, individual legislators claim any help ukraine that they don't see enough information about the fact that the supervision and verification of this aid is done in the right way and that there is complete transparency, which they need , while others emphasize that the united states and the united states

should start putting pressure on partners in the european union and call on the european union to provide the same large amount of aid, the same amount of financial aid and defense aid provided by the united states of america, and they complain that they are not helping ukraine enough, despite the fact that the war is taking place closest to them territory well, and also certain other legislators with whom we spoke were satisfied with this report and said that in fact the aid to ukraine is taking place in historical proportions for the united states of america and the level of verification is the most transparent in the history of the united states of america and directly in the history of the ministry of defense and in the history of the army of the affected states offers to listen to their comments just now i am very concerned about the insufficient verification of resources and materials that we send to ukraine i have a question about monitoring the final

use of the equipment sent we have certain legal requirements regarding this equipment and i don't think we are complying with them i think we should scale back our support for ukraine i am not satisfied with the response of the biden administration about how they plan to force the europeans to share our financial burden of security assistance to ukraine usa already provided more than 30 billion , although the united states and the european union have the same size of the economy, the eu provided less than half of this money, germany provided in fact a tenth of this. the europeans should also step up, the american people will demand this, this could be a protracted war , so the biden administration should do more plus today, today's hearings were a check that the equipment and money are being used properly, the speakers explained in detail what the system of checks and balances looks like in this case, and also explained what they are conducting thorough audit so far everything looks technical

. it must be that this means that accordingly the equipment gets to the right people at the right time this is the largest system of checks that the united states has ever carried out during any military operation in any part of the world in the entire history of the united states . little, if any, military equipment enters ukraine on the front line and is obviously very, very effectively and efficiently used by the ukrainians. officials to provide fighter jets to ukraine that is how natalya was raised the question of additional aid to ukraine and directly about more

modernized aid, which includes the issue of providing fighter jets, and individual legislators were asked if not if the question of providing ukraine they uh, well, for now er, the administration of baidan does not want to activate and does not want to provide the terms of when exactly we can expect this, er, answering this question, the representative of the ministry of defense, er, polinkal stated that, so far, they do not see of the urgent need for that, nevertheless, other partners have already stated that they are ready to provide ukraine with the opportunity to train, in particular , this is stated in the statement of great britain , according to okuli nakala, the netherlands, denmark and norway also announced that they are ready to provide e-e in the future they plan to provide ukraine with e-f16 and in the meantime when they will switch to more modern fighter jets, however, the white house does not yet see such an opportunity, and i will note that the legislators, despite this, emphasize that the training of ukrainian pilots must

begin now and call on the white house and start, if not providing ukraine with a fighter jet, then training. thank you, kateryna, for your work with us . kateryna misunova was in direct contact with the chapter . mykolaiv was a front-line city for the first 9 months of the war. and received the title city of heroes on the anniversary of the full-scale invasion voice of america spoke with the mayor of mykolaiv oleksandr sienkovych about the damage from the war, the lack of fresh water in the city of almost half a million people and he told lesya bakalets about the reconstruction plans. mykolayiv practically from the beginning of the war and became a front-line city, mayor oleksandr sinkevich recalls then, on february 24, he did not want to believe that

the worst had happened without 15 5 i think i woke up from my first explosion and thought that something had happened at one of the mykolaiv factories that is, they didn't want to believe me, gathered all the city councilors and said that we should leave this building because it could be one of the targets for the attack . the mayor says that it was the first days of the war. it was necessary to quickly establish communication between the city services and the military and to prepare the city for defense at the beginning, probably around six o'clock on the 27th and 28th, these were the days when the russian troops were supposed to enter the city, that is, they were on the approaches and our troops were not. i will tell you how, because it may be a secret, but they would

have managed to push the russians away, break their plans to attack the city with a rapid offensive from the first day. and so on and so on, as it was done in the 14th year in the city of mykolaiv, precisely with systems of relational channels, they flooded these channels with water so that the equipment there could not drive into them, and the military blew up bridges there in order to slow down the offensive actions of the enemy after that how the attack on the city failed, the russian army began regularly shelling mykolaiv leisure kherson 11-1,100 the city of mykolaiv was not shelled during the entire war, only 46 days that is, we counted there one day, two days , the third day without explosions, that's a record 38 rockets that flew into the city of mykolaiv, during the war, 186 civilians were killed in the city, hundreds were injured, the buildings of the main

universities of mykolaiv were destroyed, the building of the regional state administration was hit by rockets several times in the city zoo of mykolaiv, and because everything was organized like that, and we withstood it, this attack was awarded er, not the title city of the hero, but we in mykolaiv say that we are the city of the hero and the city of heroes. i remember that evening when we already saw that a column was moving from kherson towards us and received information as the townspeople were pulling the wheels there, they were forming different lines of defense inside the city, i.e. understanding that the content would now go in and there would be city battles . well, everyone knew what they were fighting for. from

april 12 last year, we used to take water from the dnipro river, which is 73 km from the city of mykolaiv. these are two such large pipes with a diameter of 1.4 m and such that a person can walk on as i was told, the russians thought that the ukrainian troops would move to the territory of the occupied kherson region using these pipes. they blew up the pipes, we repaired the pipes, but they moved to the other bank of the dnieper and began shelling the station of one of the fences . therefore, we still have problems with water, relatively speaking purified seawater flows from your tap. that is, it is salty. when you pour it into your mouth, you feel the salt. this water cannot be eaten or drunk . you can do everything else with it, so we create separate points water intake for running about 1050 and we use them for drinking water, there are some deadlines. so when mykolayiv can live with normal

water again, if you answer me when the war is over, i will tell you about the deadlines, well , no one can say that in the city, all the pipes in the water supply system must be changed because salt water, the number of accidents increased by 2, only in civil infrastructure, the russian army brought millions of euros from the ford - the city authorities say that the city will be rebuilt without taking into account the destroyed private houses to help denmark, we divided the data into two directions, one is urgent and one is strategic, they helped us starting with the purchase of plywood to block the windows, then we have a problem with water and the data did not help with system cleaning, problems with heat, diesel generators and e boiler houses e-e what modular boiler houses that are mobile in case of an explosion or hitting the boiler house can be moved and used on alternative fuel boilers in the strategic plan, mykolaiv

hopes to attract denmark and others foreign partners to invest in the city business. i told them that we want to be like a relative who constantly calls there and please lend me another 200 uah. new productions they will make money because business is about money about uh, about making money. and we need to create jobs, that is, so that our people earn money and can spend it on apartments, cars, food for everything , because of the war, half of the inhabitants of mykolaiv left 23,000, the mayor will say now, more than 100,000 have returned a year after the start of the war. there are traffic jams on city streets again. lesya vakalets voice of america

, thanks to volunteers , a group of children of fallen and seriously wounded ukrainian defenders spent two weeks on vacation in colorado . ukrainian organizations in denver gathered more money than expected to bring a group of children across the ocean joined and parishioners of the local church learned how the ditlakhas spent this time svitlana pristynska and volodymyr petruniv khrystyna mordik is from mariupol. her father served in the national guard and died. last year, he was on the sidelines defending the motherland. the girls' mother was held captive by the russians for 7 months. khrystyna and 13 more children whose parents were killed or seriously injured flew to colorado for vacation . i really liked tubing. - it was us riding on a hill of such buns, it was very incredible, there are very beautiful landscapes. i am very

grateful for such help to us, for such emotions that they gave us here, this trip was organized by ukrainian public initiatives, local the church that just cares the idea of ​​this project came from one of our volunteers , who was also in the national guard, and he asked to consider the possibility of bringing children who lost their parents to one girl . in general, the mother was a prisoner of the father, she lost it , the children of the dead or wounded or those who were in the captivity of their parents, the goal of the project was to give children who have experienced a lot of grief a winter vacation in colorado, among others, the children were received by the parishioners of the local protestant church. it is so nice to see how many of these

caring people who are ready, if not materially, then morally or with their support by volunteering we collected $25,000, upon approval and the amount of 20 and we are very, very happy about that, there are many sponsors , many caring people, this day we cooperated with the charity organization kofo-ua we we are very grateful to them for their support and funding. on this day, seeing the children's smiles , this project was made for a reason. and datsko , originally from lviv, her father died in the luhansk region in april last year . i really liked the people here they met us, they met us with bread and salt in the literal sense, here we visited a lot of cities, but what i liked more was the virtual reality museum, we were met by people from the foundation. i am very grateful to them. the volunteers tried to ensure that during the two weeks of vacation, ukrainian children received as many positive

emotions as possible for children every day kofu-ua volunteers arranged excursions and small trips , for example, they organized a trip to the highest point of the colorado mountains and showed the children the kardina vzygats national park. on the train, it is a mountain with a height of 4000 m, besides this, we will go today to the garden of digas, we can look at the scenery there, and make a small one. let the purpose of this trip is that the children had a great day, good impressions. during this trip, the children also met with the ukrainian community of the town of colorado springs students from a local school brought ukrainian children souvenirs. we received gifts for children from the fill rowen company. they will give all the children hats and we will also

raffle off a backpack for them. in addition, we have such angels made by ukrainka, the children also visited the colorado congress, visited a ski resort and a basketball match vlad grigoriy is from odesa his father was seriously wounded in battle after a long rehabilitation, he returned to the service, now he is in the city of bakhmut i am a strong fan of basketball himself he plays basketball and for me, it was very bright. the families who accepted the children established a relationship with their mothers and plan to help the children in the future. svitlana prysynska volodymyr petruniv denver - colorado slava in ukraine, music and war almost always go together, war gives birth to music, and music helps to win the war, although for every artist, war has its own face and gives birth to its meanings, and three musicians who became soldiers and who not only continue to practice art despite the war, but also make

it an obstacle to victory talked to dmytro kolchynsky even when there was dew on the grass, even when the horses were drinking water, the descendants of the old characters were making light ukrainian musician who before the beginning of the war was known in rather limited circles in the army known under from the 14th, the rhyme master became the call sign of the newly formed special operations forces, sports experience and combat skills helped , moreover, he says that for all special operations, efficiency was important, and not loyalty to traditions, whose preservation of subordination is exactly this philosophy, and his song quietly came, quietly left philosophy seems to be embedded with a spontaneous emotional experience, the director is exclusively an emotion, we

returned from the squad rotation we stood on the bed and it was a moment of commemoration of the fallen and simply stood in formation and on one side a trumpet played on the right from the right side and then an echo, a second trumpet was unexpected on the left and i had such a shield , i already had a breath and there it was. for the first time, he managed to overcome the style and manner of the military song in ukraine, which has been going on since soviet times in our country, in the territory of history , you know how this type of prison chanson is such

a military song. she acquired such and such strange in color i know one that, well, it is quite specific well, as they say, it is not the coat, the enemy has been destroyed, i was an order, the sun sets, night falls, home comes spring , the invaders have come to us in ukraine, the uniform is brand new , military vehicles, and their inventory is a little flooded the following composition broke into song in the spring of 2022 and was sung by almost every ukrainian who is proud of the successes of his army . the song of taras burovka, bayraktar, was

born out of war. this song became a hit. embodied not only in mart and the dacha, but also faith in the capabilities of the ukrainian army, it appeared precisely when the ukrainians defended kyiv and it became obvious that russia's blitzkrieg was a fiasco, the author taras buranok at that time returned to the ranks of the armed forces after a long break , called himself let's go, i will live in my own confession, it is simply to receive tasks for the production of content, to receive materials of some kind specifically, at that time the facebook page of the command of the ground forces of ukraine was popular, and on the 28th, it was the fourth day of the war, when a column of people who had already as they were approaching kyiv, they actually stopped. well, not only. but including the byraktars, my commander , my boss , my friend serhiy chere- phoned me and said, listen, the berekhtar really helped us a lot now. if there is a desire, i can dedicate something to them.

-th phone, i don't know why they have to. bayraktar had to, and they started twisting his head around him. he already plastered the text around it, well, really, for 15 minutes, the bayraktar , despite the fact that the song appeared as a result of a friendly order. the number of subscribers to the pages of the ground forces in social networks from many thousands to almost a million in just a month, and the song itself currently has about three million translations , according to taras burovka, the understanding of inspiration as spontaneous and independent of the will, we are a phenomenon, not exactly an artist, a professional, how does the muse work here, pegasus there i don't know, on the layers of money, on the command of the commander , that pegasus flies in and knocks on the crown of the head with his hoof, and the muse is sitting nearby and all this works,

unlike the driftmaster and brock, the well-known drama bass dj anatoly tapolskyi did not make music on a military theme, on the contrary, and at first in 2014, he tried to move away from the heavy direction in this electronic music to a lighter, cheerful and optimistic version for the cycling complexity of his work. streams first of all they are made in order to donate money for our unit because we need different things it's kind of strange for me to play music during the war but on the other hand i see after that feedback people write that it's the same as before and they forgot a little and i thought that it's possible and normal to do this, we've never had such a war, we faced this for the first time, so i don't know how it's right, it was never

the first time in this situation, i don't know how topolsk prepares properly, he became a member of the army and served as a mortarman in 2016 to 2017, and now he is qualified as a drone operator. during short vacations, he sometimes manages to play performances or so-called sets even before the war. he tried to hold them as often as possible. in more unusual places, for example, in the kyiv observatory or in the institute of aerospace technologies, during the seton of the roof of the state industrial building in kharkiv, an air alarm began, and directly into a series of alarms, and all this happened. it's very strange when you play drum and bass stream air alarm in the city center they are just insanely loud and the same in the subway when we did the set - it's all very strange even that realistically people are walking in the subway they are dancing

war and at the same time i won't say soulful but the atmosphere is so beautiful, in fact, there is no feeling that it is artificial these are the realities this is how we dance, such realities are present that's how we dance music born of war is different and it is created in the same way, but there is what unites all musical genres and artists with different creative approaches who defend their country and this is a common belief in life and that the war will end someday, so we will say goodbye, have you watched the program of the ukrainian voice of america service from time to time join also to our daily briefings at 6 p.m. kyiv time on youtube and facebook, where you can ask our presenters your question live. thank you for trusting the ukrainian voice of america service. i am nataliya

leonova. good night and good morning . congratulations. news. here is this boy, 16-year-old kirill kalita , who was wanted. they managed to find him, but kirill disappeared on february 18 in the city of pidhorodne in the dnipropetrovsk region. they found the boy quite quickly and brought him back to safety , now he is fine, he is alive and well and has already reunited with his family. it was possible to find him almost immediately . what caused the disappearance this time is not yet known for sure, but as a rule, in adolescence, boys and girls occasionally resort to running away from home. in fact, for very different