[000:00:00;00] in kherson, there were dozens of those who betrayed or sold themselves, in fact, during the occupation, the whole city breathed ukrainian air , the locals fought from underground, secretly sent the armed forces to the positions of the russians, organized rallies and lived with the slogan kherson is ukraine, while a powerful movement of volunteers, patriotic cats, provided kherson residents with medicine and food, too there was no need to take the humanitarian aid of the occupiers , there was no need to resist the kherson region, it goes down in history, you know that in kherson, in the kherson region , more than 150 rallies were held for the fact that kherson and the kherson region are ukraine. you know for sure that there were a lot of henchmen in kherson. you will liquidate a lot of henchmen. this work would not have been possible without the support of the population . she also had to know there was a

movement. in kherson, to the regret of the people, the ukrainian flag will fly there soon and we will all remember the forgotten taste of the best watermelon in the world and will enjoy our ripe, tastiest tomatoes, because kherson is ukraine and ukraine above all, it was a program of a collaborator. i am olena kononenko. if you want to talk about supporters of the kremlin in your cities or villages , write to us at this e-mail address or simply

on facebook. washington, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, time, i am yuliya yarmolenko. i welcome cowardly attacks on critical infrastructure, residential buildings and the ukrainian people will not break either his spirit or our support for ukraine with such words, american diplomats from the us embassy in kyiv commented on the next mass shelling by russia of ukrainian cities, the department expressed condolences to the families of those killed as a result of the attack, the british ambassador to ukraine melinda simmons, who said that ukraine had no other choice but to push the russians out of its territory, also condemned the shelling, the leaders expressed support for the ukrainians of a number of countries of the world , the president of the european commission, ursula fonderlein, who spoke by phone with the president of ukraine

, volodymyr zelenskyi, stated on purpose impression by russia of civilian and energy infrastructure - this is a war crime and it only strengthens the joint determination to continue progress in terms of reforms in ukraine on its way to the eu, she wrote tomorrow ursula von der leyen will discuss support for ukraine with us president joe biden at the white house and on thursday the president presents his proposal for the budget of the united states for the next fiscal year, which, among other things , provides additional funding to support ukraine in the proposal for the general an amount of almost 7 trillion dollars. biden presents a way to reduce the deficit and calls for increased taxes for the rich and corporations, however, republican lawmakers have already found a number of loopholes in this budget proposal, and therefore the process of its approval in congress. as it is expected to be difficult , let's talk more about the presidential budget with maria ulyanovska, who investigates topic maria congratulations congratulations this year president biden is asking

to increase the budget of the pentagon, how significant is this increase and how does the president justify his position well, as expected, this defense budget for 2024 will be one of the largest in the history of the united states in peacetime, and in particular, 842 billion dollars are currently invested there , for comparison, in 2023, this budget was 816 billion, this increase is significant, but if you take into account that experts are laying p seven percent inflation for next year , it is not that big and it reflects the interests of the pentagon in preventing critical threats to the security of the united states , in particular, this budget talks about threats from russia, challenges in the competition with the technological advantage of china and also about the need to modernize the arsenal of us weapons. maria, how much aid in general is president biden asking congress to allocate to ukraine in the next rocky year and for what needs , well, for ukraine

, six billion dollars have already been directly allocated in the budget, but in addition, there are also very interesting figures which i have researched and now i offer you to listen to them 23.6 billion have been allocated by the ministry of energy as part of the weapons modernization program, this may also apply to ukraine, and it is also mentioned about the support program for the support of refugees from united of ukraine for ukraine also allocated additional funds for this program. well, what was interesting for me personally is that this budget allocates 753 million to combat russian disinformation propaganda and russian cyberattacks in ukraine. it also seemed very significant to me. and besides , experts hope that more help financial aid to ukraine will be allocated through special proposals to congress , as it was last year when president biden addressed congress for some specific monetary needs for ukraine, maria

the republicans are already criticizing the budget of the democrat president, what do they have the most complaints about and how long can the approval of the budget last? well , it is really a difficult story in american politics now , when the president and the senate belong to the democratic party, the house of representatives is represented by republicans, and it will be very difficult to agree on something. because it reflects the ideological contradictions between the two parties, and in particular the main problem in the growing debt of the united states. because there are very different approaches here, the republicans are categorically against and the continuation of this debt and they believe that it is necessary to cut the budget, and the democrats propose to increase the limit of this debt and replenish the budget reserves in another way, in particular , kevin mccarthy in one of the fox news interviews recently stated that with the intention of the republicans to cut the budget, in particular in part, so to speak of the left-wing agenda that may be there and he talked about cutting the budget regarding diversity in the middle of the department of defense on the issue of climate change and research on alternative

energy sources president joe biden proposes raise taxes for the rich and corporations and thus fill the budget and today we have already seen fresh reactions from congressmen to this budget, in particular from the side of richard blumenthal - this is it. i'm sorry, senator democrat. he spoke about the fact that the budget gives a broad plan of what can be done, especially considering the war the situation in ukraine, it reflects the interests of the president and is very useful. and he was answered by the republican senator jamrish, who said that the budget really said a lot about the opposition of china and russia, but too much attention is paid to the issues of climate change and green energy, which is not the military interest of the united states. well, i want to say that this is only the first stage. this proposal of president biden, in the future, the congress will agree to cut this budget. it will really be really interesting to watch how it will happen, but the politicians have until october 1 to agree. this is such a deadline when they have to adopt this federal budget

. maria literally has 30 seconds left . is ukraine's support now something to worry about? is it bipartisan after all? support at this moment in the congress remains bipartisan support in the congress undoubtedly remains and we can see this from various statements of congressmen and in particular this is also reflected in the budget before the president presented the budget there were various insinuations about whether the defense budget will be cut , in particular support for ukraine but there was a lot of talk about it, in particular, the republican party, but recently , literally last week, it was clearly said that the republican party is in favor of keeping the defense budget such as there is and there is only a small part of congressmen who speak out against supporting ukraine as it was before, but it will not affect anything, thank you very much maria it was maria olyanovska in connection with the capitol hill, thousands of people again went to protests in georgia despite the ruling party's promise to withdraw the controversial

bill on foreign agents , thousands of rallies on tuesday and sarah tried to disperse the police, law enforcement officers used force against peaceful demonstrators and detained dozens of people, activists say first of all, they now demand the release of all detainees. and besides, they want to wait for the final cancellation of the draft law, which they call russian, in order to do this, the parliament must hold a special vote , after all, the leader of the position claims that they are ready to continue the protests, because they are not only a reaction to the controversial initiatives of the government , but a struggle for european the future of georgia cameras tip today is definitely the first victory of this process but the struggle is not over because we do not trust the promises of the ruling party, which it often gives only in order to quell the protest, but also the main demand is to release all those arrested, because yesterday the authorities used force and dispersed

a peaceful protest, we are ready to continue the protests because we are not talking about specific organizations, but about the european and euro-atlantic aspirations of georgia, and we we are not going to question this issue , this is an irreversible path for georgia. this is the choice of the people of georgia . today, the president of estonia, alla karis, the targets were purely civilian residential areas and infrastructure, what to do with a country that uses cruise missiles against the civilian population, he asked since the beginning of the great war. of the military budget and encourages other major powers to speed up and strengthen support for ukraine in estonia myroslava gongadze met with

the country's president aller karris and asked him about support for ukraine and about the threat posed by russian aggression to the baltic state itself estonia from today friend line country estonia today is a frontline country, the issue of national security is the main thing that worries people and during the elections, how does the russian invasion of ukraine affect the population of your country in not only estonia, but also the entire democratic world is on the front lines of the issue of protecting democracy, because it is not just a war against ukraine, it is also a war against our democratic values, of course people here think about war and discuss it of course help the ukrainian people and ukraine, can estonia from estonia is the country that provides the most military support to ukraine according to the size of the gdp . do you think that western countries are doing enough to stop russia and help ukraine resist the russian invasion

? of course, this question worries estonia because when the war will end and russia will leave the territory of ukraine, we will be able to start rebuilding ukraine again and this process will continue for decades even if the war ends , let's say tomorrow, that's why such help is needed and we must do everything and on time. estonia is of course a small country and we can be an example for others, of course we always encourage the majority of the country to help ukraine humanitarian, political and military, you and your government call on the countries of western europe in particular to give the green light to the construction of some enterprises for production munitions, in particular, ammunition shortages have recently been an urgent issue , the problem of ammunition shortages has been an urgent issue recently. how do you make this decision, or

do you see that the western partners and nato are ready to do more, i think we are moving in the right direction, we have already talked about the construction of a military factory for the production of tanks in ukraine because, as you probably know , there was a factory but it was destroyed, of course , speed is always a concern but now the situation is like this, of course, ukraine needs more ammunition, more weapons, what we can provide this training here in estonia because all these latest complex weapons missiles and everything else need special training estonia online estonia also has a border with russia so there is danger and threat here too real now nato is increasing its combat capacity and defense capability along the eastern line, what kind of help do you expect from nato and allies, in particular for your country, we

expect that we will continue cooperation with our allies and that there will be more nato troops here, the possibility that russia will start a war against nato is very small it is not a question of estonia or latvia or the eastern flank it is about an attack on nato but i do not think that russia will dare to do such things as long as we have military potential as long as we have allies here in estonia and other countries, finland and sweden have applied to join nato and are expected to soon become members of the alliance . we know when it will happen, first of all, the war must end in ukraine, at the same time, anything can happen suddenly with finland and sweden. i was there in november 2021, and

there were no talks about nato membership then, but literally for a few months after the full-scale invasion of ukraine, the neutral countries sweden and finland decided to join the alliance. of course, this is a different situation, they are more ready to become nato members than ukraine or georgia, but we should at least have a road map of what steps need to be taken to become a member of nato and also the european union and do you see the readiness to accept ukraine precisely in western europe because eastern europe is already a leader in supporting ukraine and is actually pushing the alliance to do so, they are ready, it is difficult to say because if you look back at the beginning of 2000, when we applied to join nato, the situation was approximately the same, some countries hesitated , this means that you will have to work a lot after the war to become a member of nato

, it will be necessary to explain and show that this country should belong to nato because we we don't want gray areas here in europe i.e. frozen conflicts that's why it's important but again i mean it takes quite a long time to become a member but you need a road map to achieve that goal your country became a member of nato and the eu at the same time and you were able to build institutions and become part of this community of democracies . what would you advise ukraine that wants to become part of this community? to become a member of nato - this obviously requires some preparation ukraine is moving quite fast to be honest and it was also praised by european officials that ukraine achieves

good results even during the war you you deal with corruption, but it takes a while, i want to ask you about your country before russian aggression, problems and possible connections russia can use against your country , to be honest, i don't see many such things, we are a member of nato and belong to the european union , if there is an aggression against for estonia, it will also be an aggression against various countries , the netherlands, belgium, france, because we are members of nato, and i don't think that russia will want to check the operation of the fifth article. and you cope with it, it's not a problem, but rather a question

how to integrate this community is not only about russians, but also about the russian-speaking community here , they are mostly concentrated in the north-eastern part of estonia near the russian border and also in italy. years we are trying to integrate these people into our community and of course the main problem is the elderly who watched russian television and so on so it takes time but i don't think that this is a real threat to the country because they decided to live here in estonia and this is the most important thing. you were in ukraine right before the start of the full-scale invasion on february 22 last year and you went there again after ukraine liberated the kyiv region. how did you feel there and why did you decide to go there? it was quite a

dangerous time even in april, it is important to show support for such friends as estonia, that is why we went together with the president of ukraine to the baltic states and poland in order to show political support, first of all, and secondly , it was important for us to see with our own eyes what it happened there in the suburbs of kyiv to be a witness. it is important to bring the aggressor to justice. russia is clearly committing war crimes in ukraine even after the victory. there must be some kind of justice for what was done to the ukrainian people. how do you see this justice? now we are discussing what kind of court we really need when the war in ukraine will end, but of course we have to collect all these data and all these war crimes committed by the russians in ukraine so that such things are ready when the court is ready so ​​this

discussion continues, which court is the possible aggressor must bear responsibility for those war crimes that you see as a trial now it is very difficult to imagine what kind of trial it is and how it will take place but we must be ready to bring russia to justice as you see the end of this war and what is the most important thing that we must do now to end this we have continue to provide ukraine with political, military and humanitarian aid, the war will end when ukraine says that the war is over and we have won, then we will have to rebuild ukraine, which may take decades, all these the mines with which the ukrainian land is untouched, we have to get rid of them because even here in estonia so many years have passed since the second world war and we still find mines in various

places therefore it is a huge job and estonia has already started building a new school in one of the regions of ukraine, so in the end we will have to start rebuilding ukraine already now without waiting for the end of the war but how and when this war will end is extremely difficult to say this was an interview of myroslav gongadze with the president of estonia allar karis joint prayer for ukraine took place this week in the main catholic church of the american capital, the national basilica of the immaculate conception, it was conducted by the archbishop of washington, cardinal wilton gregory, and the metropolitan of philadelphia, boris gudyak, who recently returned from ukraine , representatives of various religions came to the service, prayers were said in english and ukrainian

, iryna zhinkarenko and dmytro melnyk attended the event in the main catholic church washington joint prayer for peace in ukraine, priests ask for protection for ukrainian soldiers , medics, volunteers, and also remember the dead in the war with russia, the words of prayer are read alternately in ukrainian and in english by the beach team in ukraine, archbishop of washington wilton gregory, the first african-american to become a cardinal of the vatican during messi talks about the strength of ukrainian resistance and courage, he says that ukrainians are a model for the world, how

to not lose faith when we watch footage from this country where property is destroyed and people die. we also see people of great determination who strive to restore the dignity that belongs to them as children of god. continue to endure and do not lose hope, this is the time and moment so that the ukrainian people do not lose hope and if there is something we can do for them, it is to assure them that we are with them in prayer and support, financial aid, and also to express our great respect to them metropolitan of the philadelphia archdiocese ukrainian greek -catholic church borys gudziak shared with the animals his impressions of his recent sixth trip to ukraine in a year , he served at the funerals of the fallen defenders , met with the priest

of the church in irpen that was shelled by the russians, but nowhere i saw doubts about the victory, which feelings may be natural, but there are 16 years of something. what is in the water can be explained in simple human terms . i felt what it is. i think that it will be for the natural grace that will be given to the local people . representatives of different denominations came to the catholic church for joint prayer under the leadership of two priests. and religion, american ellen, a jew , helps ukraine with voluntary donations, and at religious services, she mentally wishes for putin’s defeat , i am jewish, i am not catholic, and i am not orthodox, but we should all pray for ukrainians, this is very courageous people. if putin takes over ukraine, then he can go to poland, for example, we don't know what his intentions are, so he needs to be defeated. i believe that among the ukrainians who came to the service, orthodox and catholics say that such a joint

multinational and interfaith prayer not only supports but also conveys more information about ukraine than for us ukrainians it is very important to be together to the general public to the american audience, this is also very important because i was once a young student in chicago and when we came here they said that there is something that ukraine exists, this ukraine does not exist, what language do you speak on the streets in chicago, where are the russians? it is obvious america once did not know about us , you see that even today they prayed in two languages, in english and in ukrainian , at the end of the service the priest voiced the main wish to meet for joint

prayer again, but no longer asking but thanking god for a peaceful sky over ukraine iryna shynkarenko dmytro melnyk the voice of america and california recently ukrainian funk of the 70s sounded in los angeles, the sando project appeared in ukraine, ukrainian youth who moved to the states began organizing themed fundraising parties where djs spin ukrainian avant-garde music, the organizer of the project managed to collect rare records on one from dinner visited crosses on shevchenko andrii mosin holds a box with his most valuable collection in his hands a boy from zaporozhye after the russian invasion set himself the goal of finding rare

ukrainian records of the soviet period and show them to the world . what do we know other than the devil? i don't even know chervonaya ruta there, it's from this era. and we don't know anything. we don't know how ukrainians are mass. we don't know people like nazariy yaremchuk. we don't know the ensemble. smerichka we don't know fire, arnica, patterns of paths, but they are worth knowing sadness deeply, gene, i congratulate, i tremble, soo-roo-roo, flower, music, vinyl, it is also a part of the soul, which also has a visual part, that is, well, look at this cover , it is a very, very strong thing

i just uh and i don’t know if someone would release an album with such a cover now. well, i would. i would be delighted . i just collected rare records with a friend during the year. ukrainian funk artists of the soviet period were not as popular as pop singers alla pugacheva or sofiya rotaru andriy says that out of 20,000 albums released in the soviet union, only 20 were of ukrainian independent music, and they represented the ukrainian culture of that period of finds of ukrainian avant-garde music. andriy decided to show them in california

together with like-minded people, founded the sound of ukraine project, held five cultural evenings in san francisco and los angeles . of the aid of the armed forces among those present were representatives of the ukrainian diaspora and ordinary americans . i support ukraine because i understand that this is a huge issue not only for ukraine, for all of europe, for america, for democracy, for the whole world. cultural evenings have also become a gathering place for young refugees who came to california after the full-scale the russian invasion, when you are an emigrant, it is very difficult to get used to a new culture, and when you did not want to leave your country, we communicate and unite, this is our musical front

cultural front and we show that ukraine is a hero glory and glory for strength andriy says their events are not classic parties but cultural evenings and fundraising because it's about culture so someone can laugh, someone can drink, someone can dance, but it never outgrows itself in vain because not at the moment and we try very hard to carefully observe these limits to do it all in accordance with the situation what we do is actually my ukraine this is the ukraine of my wife this is the ukraine of my friends she is modern she is cool she is talented and she not a pantyhose because in ukraine no one wears pantyhose on the street in ukraine no one dances hopak on khreshchatyk right country for us it is something that somewhere sounds even better than europe and america andriy promises the next evening himself of ukraine will organize in los angeles music club and it will be an evening of ukrainian jazz