[000:00:00;00] in the verdict program serhii rudenko from monday to thursday at 13:00, repeat at 18:00 on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, time, i am yuliya yarmolenko, i congratulate the european union and canada are strengthening their support for ukraine and will continue to help ukraine until victory , announced this during her visit to canada, the president of the european commission, ursula fondelaien, at a joint press conference with prime minister justin trudov , thanked canada for being one of the first countries to train ukrainian of the military as early as 2015, which, according to fondelaien, helped ukrainians to effectively deal with the russians and from the first days of the great war , the president of the european commission also announced the goal

of the european training program for the ukrainian military . ukraine, in particular, and the military, because ukrainians have all the necessary courage and spirit , but they need weapons . as of now, the european union has already provided 12 billion euros worth of military equipment, in parallel, we we will continue to train the ukrainian military as you have been doing above since 2015 and the coordination between the canadian and european military aid mission for ukraine is excellent from the european side our goal is to train 30,000 ukrainian military personnel by the end of the year the russian war against ukraine has forced nato member states to strengthen the defense of the eastern flank of the alliance and to check the readiness of the troops in case of further aggression, one of the things

that the allies are currently working on is interoperability on the battlefield, because every army has own technical systems and some work together better than others voice of america correspondent karla bab visited the easternmost european headquarters of american forces in poznań, poland, where soldiers are working on the integration of nato systems. by the integration of military systems of nato's eastern front i.e. so the picture could be the following potential-american radar system sees an incoming strike and reports it to the polish guidance center, and then this polish guidance center sends a message to the romanian fire platform that performs the task, this new laboratory of interaction of the us army, or ileb, is a place where nato allies in practice study american military technologies to

adapt and improve their own communication systems, it can be installed in a vehicle as a command and control system that you can see allied forces can imagine it as your google maps and you can send as in the program waze the events that happen on the way to the actual command and control system we were not able to see the switched on system in operation for security reasons but we learned that ileb is working only a few months but already providing a large number of requests to visit we had representatives from lithuania we also had representatives from estonia i know that we will receive colleagues from poland and germany in the future in the process of training . that is why they say that ilep is important. many western nato allies have cooperated for decades. however, not in eastern europe. where

most of the nato countries joined the alliance only after 2004 or later. us lieutenant general john kolaszewski, who was successfully introduced into ailep, commands about 20,000 american soldiers on the eastern flank of nato. i think they see , you know, the brutality of what happened in ukraine and i feel sense of urgency and a sense of purpose and all 30 nations united nato united to deter russian aggression improving its ability to fight together through a unified technology system in february another unexpected threat passed from balloons that were recorded first in american and then others in ukrainian airspace, in the case of the united states, the balloons were chinese, and in the situation of ukraine , russian, and precisely these balloons had a clear military purpose, moscow attached special reflectors to the balloons, which were supposed to conduct reconnaissance of the ukrainian air force and complicate its work what is evidenced by the fact that russia

resorts to such archaic technologies , andriy hetman learned that an american fighter jet shot down an unidentified flying object on february 4, so the pentagon named four balloons that ended up on the territory of the united states. the ministry of defense indicates that they were chinese balloons that could pose a threat to civilian aviation and national security, since the aircraft flew over strategic military facilities of the united states. china claims that these are civilian balloons that accidentally entered the united states. the first balloons gave to fly over the entire territory of the usa from west to east and shot it down already over the atlantic ocean in the same period in the sky over ukraine appeared russian balloons of the ppu of ukraine those objects were recorded on february 15 near kyiv and the dnipro, and on february 28 near kyiv, the purpose of the russian army, the spokesperson of the ukrainian air force explains, is to increase the number of fake targets and load the ukrainian air defense system

with radio technical troops who are on 24/7 combat duty. he also wants us to spend on these air balloons a whole lot of money that costs, well, nothing at all. so , our forces and means, in particular, the anti-aircraft missile forces, can launch the balls simultaneously with drones and missiles in the sky above in ukraine, the russians launched bullets with special angular reflectors. such a reflector is designed to simulate an aerial target on the radar screen. it is not small, and here is the device that has a size of up to half a meter, but somehow there is an aircraft with a large reflective surface. the armed forces of ukraine they did not show what exactly the downed bullets looked like. and what a corner reflector is , minister of defense oleksiy reznikov demonstrated, according to him. these metal objects

were used by the russians during the occupation of kherson to to protect the antonov bridge from himars strikes then it turned out to be ineffective, different when he called this method, and on the chronism, experts say that in modern combat aviation, such simple designs have not been used for a long time, they are used for balloons, extraordinary ropes are attached to it, the design is roughly reminiscent of a bookshelf, but with a back wall so that the bolt was meant to be three surfaces perpendicular to each other, it is worth there , maybe five, maybe six dollars , experienced radar operators against air defenses can distinguish a real target from a fake one, clearly, the mine has different characteristics, because, firstly, it usually flies at a lower altitude, secondly , it changes the direction of movement, so that it is usually used, that is, it does not fly with the wind , so e-

and his speed is still 130 km/h there, after all, the wind speed is ordinary there 70 80 km/h and the shahid change the height and here it is practically this is how he falls into a stream in the air and moves at the same height while launching such bullets russian the army can have a second purpose of conducting reconnaissance, if after that you launch several such balls well, there are 5-6 balls and raise an electronic reconnaissance plane into the air, then you can detect the work of ukrainian radar stations and their location - this is the main purpose for which such probes are launched , it was possible to launch drones in the same way, but this is a cheaper method, the russian army used to launch drones in order to, in addition to strikes on infrastructure , scout the positions of ukrainian air defense and the very next day

strike with missiles at the american institute for the study of war believe that russia is running out of drones supplied by iran, these bullets , which are quite ancient, are a symptom of the problem of the russians and with the arsenal of drones, all these factors indicate that russia does not know how to effectively use its resources for movement on the battlefield artur artemenko says that the ukrainian army had bullets, but gave them up ten years ago, somewhere around the turn of the 10th 12th years of 10-12th, in fact, these layers no longer existed and the information that can be removed from it well, it is minimally useful, because well, today there are other means that allow you to capture information with much greater quality at greater distances and with lower costs. russia launched its bullets at the same time as the appearance of chinese objects in the sky over the united states , in particular, and for propaganda purposes, they believe in the institute for the study of war may

have tried to feed the information narrative on the same day when something like this happens between china and the united states, aviation experts indicate these bullets in different weight categories chinese 30 m in diameter russian maximum two andrii hetman dmytro savchuk voice of america 20,000 new companies and billions of dollars in contributions to the state budget these are the results of the first year of life of ukrainian refugees in poland local experts talk about the positive impact on the economy poles are surprised by the ingenuity and work capacity of ukrainians and the immigrants themselves say that after the pandemic and the war they ready for any challenges, what businesses are being started by ukrainians in poland lesya bakalets will tell from warsaw

about 1 million ukrainian refugees are now living in poland in of the beginning of a full-scale invasion. they not only managed to break the stereotype of immigrants as a burden for the local economy, but also proved the exact opposite. the polish budget benefits from the presence of ukrainians . he fish soup. semi customers pour directly. it's nice. people don't come by themselves. takes as much as they want. people eat. and it's cool . the restaurant was opened in december last year. 80% poles of customers, poles says that before the launch they thoroughly studied the local market here, the concept is already different for the concept is different. it is more european , people go to the window themselves, choose fish , more self-service, this approach is closer to the poles, just in 2022

ukrainians continued in poland 20,000 companies say in the polish institute of economics , moreover, the contribution of ukrainians to the state budget compensated poland's expenses for providing refugees last year, ukrainians paid 10 billion polish zlotys to the polish budget zlotys this is about 2.4 billion dollars in the form of taxes and social benefits if we take only the expenses from the polish budget for social benefits for ukrainians from sums from taxes and social contributions from ukrainians. i think the numbers will be the same. the most popular areas where ukrainians develop in poland are the construction of services and it vitaly shkil, the founder of an online mathematics school in test mode on the polish market they have been working since april of last year, about a hundred students, about 15 teachers, and is polish always yes yes parents they come to us with some kind of request, we understand how to classify this request and we already have teachers who can solve this request also in business ukrainians who are still

waiting for the opportunity to work in a bright niche specialty possible licenses, they can start entrepreneurial activities , work in the industry, but only with those doctors and with those colleagues who have permission for this, and poland supports the aspirations of ukrainians to work for the first time in the history of the world when we protected refugees from the war by establishing a special law, a temporary directive from the european union on protection, this directive allows ukrainians to be active in the labor market from the first day of their stay in the country, this is a completely new situation, at the same time, poland reduced its support for refugees to a minimum, so being unemployed here is not an option for ukrainians, a single payment which ukrainian refugees constantly receive is 500 zlotys per month per child if they have children. if, for example, they are

adult ukrainians, they do not receive anything in poland, an important factor is also a high culture of entrepreneurial activity in ukraine, the poles are used to their stable economy, the life of ukrainians has taught them to constantly look for new ways of earning , ukrainians have experienced many crises, they, well, that is , crises that were also in economic policy and the crises of the last eight years due to russian aggression and the absence of covid some kind of normal social support system in ukraine. you understand that if you lose your support job, you won't even have good times when there is no war, when there are no crises and, accordingly, there is no option for ukrainians don't come up with something and don't work poles got a serious boost for their economy thanks to ukrainians, experts say, and in this sense, 2023 will be no worse than the previous one, only olya is going to open

25 restaurants of her chain in poland, well, they're afraid of nothing, they're afraid of nothing, we've survived the coronavirus, we're going through a war we know how to work in times of war, what could be scarier i don't even know scary i don't even know lesya makalets - voice of america from warsaw at the beginning of the full-scale war between russia and ukraine, the americans began to actively help and collect humanitarian aid, but delivering it to ukraine is not an easy task due to the high cost of logistics services. in september, ukrainian and american volunteers founded an organization whose goal is the free delivery of humanitarian goods to ukraine. during six months of work, the volunteers of the ukraine aid center in the united states transported more than 100 tons of aid collected from various corners of the united states talked with the volunteers of the organization iryna solomko oleksiy prokopenko

head of the center for aid to ukraine in the usa among the community in new york, the person is known you started volunteering as soon as you arrived in the united states, in your professional life you were connected with transport and logistics at the port of new york, you headed the pricing department, so when the founder of the center for aid to ukraine in poland, businessman andriy stavnitzen, decided that it was necessary to open a similar center in the usa, they quickly settled on to the candidacy of prokopenko as its leader, when we started this project , we were told, guys, this is already history , don't take it, you won't get anything, don't get into it, it's history that has already happened, no one it won't help anyone, but take on some more interesting projects, but this is not about any more interesting projects, it's about the fact that there is a difficult line of work that is unpopular, which should be taken to someone to stand up and do tasks . ukraine, we have consistency with

ukraine, the needs are published on our website , where we have, in principle, singled out what is most in need today, ukraine needs and actually, we are looking for large industrial parties here in the united states, we we work with almost all states, that is, geography is the whole of america. yesterday we talked about the alized arizona. thanks to established contacts with large international carriers, arizona is beginning to accumulate some help. in part, the cargo is pledged free of charge. under special arrangements, it is delivered to the borrowing center of poland, and from there it is already delivered to ukraine, prokopenko says. sometimes the delivery of cargo across the usa to their warehouse can cost the same as transporting it by sea to europe, so the center is looking for partners in the usa, most often they help ukrainians are the owners of transport companies, there is a part of the services for which you have to pay. and in fact, on this part of the service, we fundraise for them ourselves. we are looking for money because there is nothing , that is, you can, as much as possible, knock out

some, that is, some discounts , or find some free services, but not everything is free. and in fact, in the process , we always have a certain amount of expenses. but this amount of expenses is reduced to 80%, if it were worth it at the market value, for example, simply standard sending of applications from donors, the center collects as soon as a request is received, volunteers take it to work oleksiy smirnov, vice president of the center he owns a company that develops applications in the center, he is primarily responsible for technical support, the construction of such a volunteer organization is compared to the creation and development of a startup, huge the role is played by the adaptation of technology in order to store documents in order to exchange information so that we also try to somehow monitor analytics and see how

it's better for us to present information online and that's why i would say that we are definitely moving faster than the average statistical startup in which people work for paychecks for a fortune in the company because i think that the goal is more important than making money, the majority of donor aid comes from the company but sometimes ordinary americans also contact the hotline, a grandmother from forida called and she said that she can't help us with money, but she, uh, bought threads, knit for us, knitted us 25 scarves because she wanted to help somehow ukrainians to warm them, the americans called us from the top, these are young guys who won poker and they really wanted to help too. and they bought half a pallet of canned goods and sent them to our warehouse. in addition to sending humanitarian goods, the center also works in the cultural and

information spheres and is responsible for this galina bagan's direction is one of the first - it will be a pop of ukrainian cinema in new york, not only in new york or from the west coast of america, and we will raise funds for the director of this film and want to show more for the american audience, paintings were collected and brought here from ukraine, from europe and from this world, with which these who moved here to america and in the future we have an art project in development. prokopenko jokes that this is the first project of his life in which he would like i would rather not have a need, but the volunteer understands that this will not happen soon, because after the victory he will have to help and send materials already for reconstruction. for now, his dream is to collect and send to ukraine an entire aid ship of at least 5,000 containers

from new york iryna solomko pavlo terekhov voice of america authentic ukrainian embroidery and art of artists who went to the front or became immigrants showed americans in los angeles the purpose of the exhibition is to demonstrate the talent of ukrainian artists and raise funds for a children's cardiac center says khrystyna shevchenko chapka transcarpathia chernihiv oblast kyiv oblast this authentic ukrainian clothing is shown to americans in los angeles, all of it from the private collection of iryna, a puddle artist from kharkiv iryna was forced to leave her hometown and go to the netherlands when the war started. i was still in kharkiv for one more week and then i decided that i had to leave because nothing was possible. well, i could not work in kharkiv. iryna had a collection of 200 ancient buildings and was able to transfer only

a small part of them abroad. handmade from the very beginning of the fabric and embroidery, all this handmade performance takes place within the framework of the exhibition of ukrainian art organized by the art platform art turboy , the organization was created by ukrainian art experts in los angeles after the purpose of this event is to show the versatility of ukrainian artists, for example, more than 30 works of ukrainian artists and sculptors are presented , most of them have become refugees and live abroad, and some have joined the ranks of the army , for example , constantine's destruction. this artist now defends our country, he signed up for the tereborn from the first days and protects our country until now, the americans were also presented

with posters created by ukrainian artists in the first days of war postroiksnbay is an exhibition of posters by 50 ukrainian artists and graphic designers and it is really powerful and we want to show only ukrainian artists at this exhibition it is really painful, really emotionally strong and you can feel it in a certain way and these works are drawings of kharkiv children who share through art with their view of the war, they painted them in the kharkiv metro well and show, it is very touching. who but children can show all the ugliness of war , this art cannot fail to impress , the visitors agree, including both americans and representatives of the ukrainian community in ukraine continue to look for opportunities for creativity, even though many of them were forced to become internally displaced persons in lviv, where artists , performers and other artists from regions affected

by hostilities came in different periods of the war , the largest in the west of the country opened its doors for them of the center of modern art, despite the fact that its construction is still ongoing and the planned opening for the summer was postponed, the art center became a refuge for culture in the era of war, omelyana tells shchedlyak and yurii dankevich vladyslav yudin completes his sculpture in the forge blacksmiths usually work here, but vlad and his partner added a bit of futurism to this place, their work is similar to the scenery in the style of science fiction from stanislav lema's books, it's like a swing for rocking a rocket, the head moves , it doesn't fly, it's just already fixed in a person this is already this is the kind of person who after a full-scale invasion she is already plowed up she is already vulnerable vlad the artist of kharkiv who had to leave the city in the first week of the war for a year he has been living and

he works in lviv, we have planned exactly where it was, we were thinking maybe in poltava or maybe in the dnipro or somewhere else . continue to be creative during the war, together with 16 colleagues from different parts of the country, he participates in a project called navigation about ourselves, about what our society lives through, personal stories of artists who were forced to move from their cities and came here to lviv, some left their home for the second time, these are important stories, what art is able to record, the project takes place in the old industrial district of lviv, in the building of a former factory where alcoholic beverages were produced a century ago.

with its eye-catching history, its neo-gothic tower was bought by the swiss austrian historian and philanthropist haraldbinder. in 2004 , harald founded an independent scientific institution in lviv for the study of city history and i decided to turn the former factory into a large art center, which i named the factory, it did not go with it. corrugated style factory from surprising the old factory is amazing. it has a certain charm. i am afraid that such special places will disappear at some point simply because no one really invests in them. the idea was that this building is ideal for a cultural center because it has such a unique appearance, the building can inspire people, the center of contemporary art should combine exhibition, research and educational activities in in the premises of the converted factory, its new owners enthusiastically talk about amazing finds during construction, such as this bag with metal lids with markings for barrels with alcohol from the times of the austro-hungarian empire

, which someone hid in a wooden beam in the attic , someone understood that such things would be destroyed and probably hid it somewhere among the rubble. it was like a message in a bottle, as you find it many years later, after 8 years of work on the project, it was being prepared for opening in august , but the war changed everything during the missile shelling, the factory dungeons became a shelter for the residents of the surrounding buildings, where mostly there are no basements, in a few months the team resumed the construction of the art center and continues to hold art events even in the warehouses, and the reality that we live in, that we face, we cannot apply to it the tools with which we worked, this is such a level of absurdity, this is such a level of a mix of everything bad, good, terrible, high feelings of fear, anger, how is everything, how

to work with all this in art, for this you have to find a language, we know that history is written by the victors we cannot afford to wait we have to write it while we are already in the midst of these events, this is our big challenge the factory will be the first art center built in lviv since independence and the first large center of contemporary art to be opened in the post-war thank you to ukraine for america's vote from lviv, download the voice of america mobile application, the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read news , watch informational programs and videos and also listen to the podcasts of the ukrainian service of the voice of america and that's it. thank you for watching the voice of america in ukrainian. also join our broadcasts of briefings at 18:00 kyiv time from monday to friday

we talk about the most important statements and decisions that directly affect ukraine. thank you for your attention. see you soon as soon as tomorrow, everything will be fine , pa-pa , in october, on the occupied right bank of the kherson region, collaborators kidnapped an eight-year-old girl and took her to the territory of crimea, the search for the child lasted for months during this time we received several important calls and

messages at once. finally, at the beginning of this year, we found out that the girl is in uncontrolled ukraine. feodosia , the difficult process of returning the child home lasted for almost two months, and now i have wonderful news . margarita mityunina is already with her family and now with the girl everything is fine and where did she take you, she will go and then mother came and took you, yes, the story of eight-year-old margarita is very difficult, so it turned out that the girl's parents are divorced and live separately, the mother is in vinnytsia and the father in the kherson region and before the war , margarita lived with her father because she went to