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of weapons is on artillery ammunition systems that were previously transferred by the partners of howitzers and gamers in a message to the pentagon, this aid package is intended to meet the critical needs of the ukrainian military to discuss further support for ukraine german chancellor olefsholz came to washington on friday, at this moment us president joe biden is receiving his german counterpart in the white house , we will talk more about the main topics in washington with ostap yarysh, who joins the broadcast from the us state department, ostap, hello greetings, first of all we are talking about help, what is the special feature of the new package? what caught your attention the most, really, how did you already correctly remember the main one? how is it? in this package, there is ammunition, but hymeris for artillery, as well as ammunition, yes, for delirium, and this is bmp. we also saw finances for support for repairs for the training of the ukrainian military, however, there is one more thing that we have not seen before in previous packages, to which i would pay

special attention, these are armored bridge builders a-a, through which you can use for crossing armored and cream vehicles let's say through rivers or through other obstacles, i looked at what military experts write about this and they agree that such assault bridges, as they are also called, are mostly intended for offensive operations, which may be evidence that the united states is preparing ukraine for a future counteroffensive in the spring we know that this package to yuri, his, these weapons, he allocates them, they are allocated from the reserves of the united states. therefore , we can expect that ammunition and other equipment will arrive in ukraine in the near future. which is allocated for these ostap aid packages, negotiations are currently ongoing between president biden and chancellor schulz, what are the expectations of this meeting from the point of view of supporting ukraine, chancellor scholls arrived in washington for a two-day visit. actually, i would say a rather unusual visit, because there will be no joint press approach of the presidents based on

the results of this meeting, this conversation, we know that the president will focus on work issues and will have enough time to discuss important things behind closed doors we expect according to the reports of the white house and also the german side that the main emphasis will be precisely on the support of ukraine, how to preserve this unity. in the coming months and how to further develop the support of both the united states and germany, and eventually other allies and partners, this will be the main focus of the conversation joe biden and olaf scholz, we know that a lot of decisions are made in coordination, we remember the decision about tanks, and the usa and germany, er, this decision was adopted jointly, and therefore other important er things are also adopted er, they are adopted jointly deed, and this is what joe biden talked about today before his meeting in the oval office. i think that the general tone of this visit was well described by john kirby , a representative of the us national security council

. he explained what exactly the leaders of the countries will talk about when it concerns ukraine, please listen i believe that both leaders share the desire of ukrainians for a peace of peace, which is a fair, honest and stable peace that supports the sovereignty of ukraine and preserves its independence, and it is also important for both agree that this should be a peace agreement under which president zelensky can sign, and this should be done by talking in detail and fully coordinating these actions with the ukrainians , otherwise this process will never start and the results will not be sustainable minister serhiy lavrov, the diplomats , among other things, touched on the topic of ukraine, as commentators comment on the very fact that this meeting took place, what does this indicate, and whether

it is worth continuing in their opinion dialogue with the kremlin, i believe dertek says that this meeting was nothing special, that the usa used it to convey its position to russia and will not apologize for the fact that they convey those things that are important to the united states. however, not all of his observers agree with this approach, for example. some people think that the meetings, the conversations, in particular, with sergey lavrov, are meaningless now, in particular , we have about this in the comments, david keymer said, this is the executive director of the george bush institute, i do not think that the conversation between lavrov and the secretary blinkin is particularly helpful. i hope this doesn't send any ill-conceived signals that the us is looking for talks with russia, especially after secretary blinken said the other day that there is no evidence that putin is serious about talks. in my opinion, we need to continue to isolate russia. sanctions regimes and

increase our aid so that ukraine wins this war and not only defends itself, and lavrov, in my opinion, has very little influence on the decision-making process in moscow, so i i think that it is largely pointless to talk to him , the sau, that's the opinion of yuriy kreymar's testimony. between such a short conversation between anthony blinkin and sergey lavrov, let's listen to what mr. klinkin said. i don't see any betrayal in the meeting between blinkin and lavrov. i see it as an additional opportunity to simply transfer some signals eh between eh between the united states and russia no more than that it

can be through other channels but it can also be through lavrov no more and no less i.e. i would not do this neither problems nor any kind of shift interesting opinions of diplomats and experts we will keep an eye on how today's negotiations with oleg biden will end. this will be on our website. thank you very much ostape . mykolaiv ostapyarish was in contact with the state department in washington. they tried to show the russian war in ukraine up close. fund in memory of the victims of communism, he organized an exhibition where, with the help of virtual reality technology and three-dimensional images, viewers could literally visit the place where war crimes were committed by the russian military in ukraine after washington moved the exhibition to be shown in other cities

of the world, iryna shinkarenko tells about the crimes of russians in bucha, irpen, kharkiv and many others other ukrainian cities were shown in washington with the help of virtual reality. as part of the project of the memorial fund for the victims of communism, the war from up close to the bridge most of the leaders who come to ukraine from the beginning go to buch or irpin to see how it is there, we cannot take everyone there, but we can record all this and transfer it to other countries, for example, to the united states or europe , to demonstrate to the world the evil leaders and the project in close proximity to zkachenko one of the curators of the exhibition that the russians not only bomb military bases, as they say , but kill civilians, they destroy schools, hospitals, museums, just apartments and

budaniv virtual reality technology allows visitors to be practically at the scene of the events, terrible, terrible, we see fragments of this on tv, but here we can see the full picture, it is a bigger and more continuous destruction after washington, the exhibition will be shown in paris, berlin, warsaw and other cities of the world iryna shynkarenko karina bafrejan voice of america washington a year ago on the third of march russian soldiers occupied a large city near kyiv with boots for a month. it became the epicenter of russian war crimes . in total , 1,137 people died in the buchansk community at the hands of the invaders, my colleague. maria olyanovska, who worked in bucha after the liberation of the city, recently talked with the mayor anatoly fedoruk about his work in the occupation, about bringing to justice those guilty of crimes against bucha residents, about the reconstruction of the city and preparation for a possible repetition by belarus, their

interview further comprehend and understand the whole the quantitative scale of civilians killed by the russians during the incomplete month of occupation, well, it was quite and quite difficult only on the second and third of april, when we received all the comprehensive information for all microions of the city e from yablonskyi 144 from vokzalnaya e-e 122 where the camp is located where their headquarters and torture chambers were actually located there e we understood the scale and number of killed civilians when citizens began to enter and return to their apartments in apartment buildings, neighbors to enter neighboring houses to be interested and where did mykola or marina stepanovicha happen, and it is indicated that the russians killed and they, er , temporarily rested in these houses, of course

, this is a difficult period of these two months, in fact , the month of occupation and the month er, already after liberation this is a complete mourning . this is a complete funeral. one more embrace the other all the feelings must be experienced they cannot be conveyed they cannot be communicated so that the other somewhere will understand to say what uh we i personally believed in such a full-scale invasion hmm i will say no we were sure convinced that our armed forces respectively

the military-political leadership will do everything possible to prevent such an invasion. i am not a military person. but as a citizen who has lived through this period of time, i can say for sure that it was the only correct decision to stop the enemy on the approaches to kyiv, as it actually happened to warn people that there will be a war. no, i am not saying that they are anticipating how it is possible to predict . imagine the situation. the mayor comes out and says, listen to the citizens. there will be a war tomorrow. what are the citizens and the relevant people doing? services er dead panic what are you spreading here or other information when you thought that war might come to your house or did my acquaintances find it like that when they asked questions and if there is a full-scale invasion while in kyiv where is safer

in kyiv or in buchi, i convinced them of that and said that of course, buchi is a small town near kiev , it will definitely be safer here. the russians will act in a bloody and animalistic way towards civilians. i think no one could have imagined this. are you , er, and the city council somehow working on the return of bucha residents from russian captivity, well, from the first day of bucha's liberation, the bucha community is part of the buchan community in 14 populated areas to the north of buchachi, which were actually completely occupied from the 24-25th, and the russians really brought in the same school buses there when the information that

the evacuation was taking place from buchi and below in the form of e-e people were sent to belarus. we immediately passed this information on appeals from citizens, neighbors, acquaintances, which came in , to the level of hryshchuk and the human rights commissioner, and so that the surname , patronymic and the event itself were recorded, and they made a lot of relevant requests citizens managed to return it already through belarus , through poland, returned to their comrades , it is a great pity that those who are in captivity today are constantly coming to you delegations. is there anything given to the city ? i am very sorry to say it as it is, no such visit to an official of this level does not lead to certain financial gains in one or another territorial community

, and this is a fact. and there is no need to even complain about it , because the task of the president or prime minister the era of this or that country, not to bring a generator, not to bring water , this is our task as a local government, we have to do everything possible so that the city of bucha does not turn into a big grave , so that the city of bucha, remembering the atrocities and preserving the memory of our dearest people, but at the same time and did not forgive those who did it, did everything possible to rebuild, did not develop a program at home better and began to actually act step by step so that every citizen, regardless of where he was, and we were in communication with all these communities buchanski warsaw buchanski berlin -e did everything possible to return to the city, and as

of today, more than 80% of citizens have returned to their homes. taking small amounts of money, choosing certain projects, whether it is a private house or a social one, investing funds, restoring them, doing everything possible so that people return . do you not have déjà vu now, do you believe in a possible second attack from belarus, and is the city ready to talk about the possible or the impossible? everything is possible, because we know, we have information that the million-strong army of mobs is actually again put by putin, er , to replace those whom our armed forces of ukraine have already destroyed, or

will there be a military offensive? the military-political leadership is more visible, well, at least from what i see, i feel that even if it happens, there is someone to meet and how was the interview with mayor buchi, you can see the full version on the pages of the voice of america, ukrainian social networks, according to un data, to the countries of europe for the past year, more than 8 million ukrainian refugees arrived. natalia rovinska was one of them before the war. she was the director of one of the best schools in mariupol. the russian army partially destroyed the school and natalia's apartment. a chemistry teacher at a ukrainian school in warsaw. the voice of america spoke with natalya last year, when she had just arrived in poland, and lesya bakalets met with her again in february to ask about her life in warsaw and how she managed to keep studying at the mariupol school dreams school dreams

my apartment is dreaming of friends and the sea is dreaming of our sea of ​​azov. this week i had news from mariupol, there was a photo from mariupol of the house where we lived completely together when all our lives passed there and then when you realize that your life is almost 40 years old and not 30 years old, but you have been for many years, and when you realize that you have to return to ukraine and you don't know where to return, for almost a year natalya rovitska has been living in warsaw, they fled from occupied mariupol to of three she is a husband and a dog tos we ran home and left the key to someone else someone was staying from our apartment and we took with us half a

bag of potatoes an eggplant with water a saucepan there was one well, a little bit of clothes there is no photo of the parents or the children when they were small in mariupol, natalya says, she had a happy life, an apartment in the city center, many friends, but the most important thing is her favorite job as a school principal. at five in the morning , a neighbor of hers has a daughter in kyiv. she came to wake us up and said that the war is starting, we are leaving . at 7-8 in the morning, my husband and i went to school, my deputies came, collected all the equipment, put everything away, hid it, i hid the work books and all the employees, it was the last time

natalya saw her whole school. no, she no, her colleagues then did not believe that the war was starting, there were explosions, but we heard them far from mariupol, but not in the city of the 14th year, we were used to it, no one understood that these planes would fly, and they would throw onions at us. we stood on the balcony and we were watching from the fourth floor on the balcony, we were all cooking outside and from the neighboring house the residents were cooking outside and we are watching like this i say look something they all ran and they all ran together they all ran to the shelter and here this plane drops a bomb on the e- is the executive committee of the city council we saw it right away, and this explosive wave just took us from

the balcony to the corridor through our bedroom. natalia doesn't remember exactly when she dared to run away from the city, but later she will find out on the same day that the bomb hit their house . kitchen natalia must have been here. had to start life over in another country and in another school please sit down what alcohol do we remember the formula phenol and what else do we remember we don't remember we always know what alcohol is ethyl alcohol for almost a year she works

as a chemistry teacher at a ukrainian school in warsaw refugee children study here, there are a lot of children who have emotional stress, these are not the kind of children who were before the war, these are early children, especially young ones, when we opened this school , this school opened, uh, we came here to study, and once during the break, it was very quiet and all of us the teachers said that you know in the ukrainian school during the breaks, yes, it's very cool, they all run, especially the kids, but here it 's somehow quiet, quiet in the school. at this school after the school day in warsaw, natalya starts work at her school in mariupol. how are you feeling? what news do you have from the fall? the educational institution, which was one of the best in the city, has been working

remotely. i remain the director of my specialized 66 school. our school has 1,100 students. of children, children in mariupol have opened seven schools, this is distance learning for those children who have gone to the territory of ukraine and to the territory of europe, while schools are working in our country, children are studying in our city, the building of the educational institution lives in our city the destroyed bomb hit the main block natalya says it hurts to look at the photo of the school but at least the occupiers have not resumed education there, she believes that as soon as mariupol will be liberated the school will work again i dream that we will return , this is the only dream i live by you know i have dreamed of working in a school since childhood and for the last three years, we had the kind of school that i dreamed of and i want my pedagogical work to be like this, my

experience in general, my pedagogical activity. i graduated from the school we had, to rebuild it, to open it continued to work, well, it is ours. you understand, it is ours and it must return and it will return to us and we will all be happy there . lesia mykolayets voice of america from warsaw, more than 100,000 ukrainians have already arrived in the united states under the united for ukraine program, many of them have already found or in search of work , a kyivan, tetyana stratilat, in ukraine, professionally taught others how to eat deliciously and healthily . now in denver, she teaches americans to cook ukrainian dishes. places for her master classes are usually sold out in advance, and some

a woman donates her earnings to the needs of ukraine, svitlana prostinska and volodymyr petruniv attended the master class today we will cook kinkiv or as we say cutlets in the kyiv style we will also prepare a salad of boiled dumplings we will have kievanka for dessert tetyana stratilat conducts a ukrainian master class kitchens in the town of fort collins in colorado shares with americans her secrets of cooking borscht, salads and side dishes, kyiv-style cutlets, dumplings with cherries and poppy seeds, and jelly, an american of ukrainian origin, lisa stewart came learn to cook together with my daughters grew up with ukrainian traditions and cuisine both of my grandmothers cooked dumplings with different fillings i came with my two daughters we were looking forward to this master class in colorado tatyana stratilat arrived in

early june with her son from germany where she was escaping from the war in ukraine is more important, you can take what you need in life , you can take two hands, then when we ran , we gathered in 20 minutes, then in one hand i took my son in the other hand, i took a panicked ride at the border in this queue and we didn't have enough fuel and you don't understand that you will be cold, so i heated the car so from time to time you heat it up, but you quickly turn it off because you save fuel, then we shoved that cat under our bosom and warmed up, that's the same seven after settling in her house, tetiana found a non-profit organization of ukrainians in colorado and signed up to volunteer . the woman conducts cooking master classes for americans and donates the proceeds to aid ukraine in kyiv. tetiana had a culinary school for teenagers school teen shaffs also gave master classes for adults on cooking useful and healthy food from private lessons, and then they made

their author's method how to teach teenagers and adults exactly so that they can cook healthy food quickly and i get a lot of pleasure from it when i make someone's life is tastier and you don't see the eyes of these children when they get something out of them. i'm very sorry that my school , my initiation, stayed there in ukraine, it's in colorado, and on the first day when they arrived , they immediately wrote a letter to them saying that i'm so so so what can help and we already started our project in denver at the end of august on independence day and started cooking together with children together with adults and we continue to do it tetiana and her son now live in the city of fort collins where tetiana applied for a job at a local culinary studio the owner of three shunil after seeing tetyana's culinary talent invited a ukrainian woman to work. the next day , tetyana conducts master classes of ukrainian cuisine as part of the studio. 40% of the profit is donated to the needs

of ukraine. kyiv she came and said that she had her own studio in kyiv. they would like to see how we work, we talked and realized that we have similar life stories , we looked at each other and we say how is it possible, how many kilometers were between us and such similar destinies, at the last master class we had 16 places and 32 more people we set expectations for our ukrainian they really respect and love the kitchen here, they come and not only help , but they are really interested in our ukrainian history and when they leave there , they feel as if they have already been to ukraine, but we are waiting for victory and they they will definitely come to us and see what our charming ukraine is like. the class lasted almost 3 hours and then all the participants together with tatyana and trish have dinner and exchange cultural experience. tatyana has a dream to open her cooking courses in the usa to help americans even more

with ukrainian culture, i received an offer from ukrainiansoft colorada to introduce a blog about ukrainian food, all aunties will be published regularly and they will have such an educational function, i want to start a school for teenagers here, these are the same children for me as my ukrainian children. i see how the children eat here. i really want them to be really healthy and eat healthy food in the first place . this is help for ukraine. everyone has their own front . i have a culinary front. they need us and they need us during this master class. almost $2,000 was collected, which was donated to tetyana tatrysh to help the armed forces of ukraine svitlana pristina volodymyr petrunov in fort collins, colorado we are rocking thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian see you next week

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