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reports from the hottest points of the svoboda front frankly and impartially, you make your own conclusions on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian service voice of america, time, i am yuliya yarmolenko. congratulations, the president of the united states, joe biden , receives the president of the european commission , ursula fonderlajen , in the white house . and the european union to support ukraine, which defends its sovereignty and democracy, and work on the introduction

of tough sanctions against russia for its aggression . biden and fonderlein are expected to confirm my commitment to the security and financial support of ukraine, among other topics, economic cooperation, energy security and the threat of china, i announced that i would provide ukraine with two more anti-aircraft missile systems of our own norwegian-american production so that ukraine could strengthen its anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense more about how western partners react to intensification of russian shelling and whether china can help russia with weapons and other topics of the day , let's talk with my colleague and friend who joins the broadcast from the state to the department of the usa, ostape, i congratulate you, i congratulate yurya, as john kirpi said today, the representative of the white house - one of the topics discussed by joe biden and ursula fonderlein will be yesterday's massive attacks by the russians on the ukrainian energy infrastructure, as the state department comments on the fact that the attacks have begun to intensify again and whether this encourages the west countries to increase their assistance to

ukraine in anti-missile defense, of course yulia was also drawn to this in the state department, speaking here from the podium, the department's spokesman nad price said that all the latest russia's attacks are attacks on energy structures, on energy infrastructure, on agricultural warehouses, this is another attempt by putin to subjugate the ukrainian people and make them a hostage, the whole of putin, but they say in the state department, yuliu, that these attempts will not succeed, and the same if russia wants to do so, the west may be tired from these attacks, did he start to perceive them as everyday life and pay attention to them , yulia, then these attempts also do not know any success, and they say that the state department and the united states, together with its allies, will continue we can support ukraine now and listen to exactly what netprice commented russia

is trying to make such attacks the new norm only a few weeks have passed since we saw attacks of this scale across the country that due to the actions and decisions of president putin they would like us to consider this as the new norm shows about the level of insolence and cruelty that they are ready to commit against the ukrainian people. therefore, our duty is to work with allies and partners around the world, and you cannot clarify this as a rule, we cannot lose sensitivity to this, the people of ukraine, on the other hand, have very clearly demonstrated that they will not be subjugated, they will not be held hostage, and they will continue to defend themselves with the support of the united states of america, as well as our partners and allies around the world. the united states and its allies, norway announced that, together with the united states , it will transfer to ukraine two more anti-

aircraft missile systems. those two that the usa announced and handed over to ukraine already last fall, well, we also remember that the training of the ukrainian military on patriot systems is coming to an end here in calahoma in the united states, and at least according to the reports we hear from official us officials, these patriot complexes will also be able to get to yuriy of ukraine already in the near future ostape earlier experts pointed out that russia's high-precision weapons began to run out, how worried are the usa that china can potentially help russia with ammunition, here we are too concerns have been heard for more than a week, they have been heard from officials of the american administration , they say that they have reason to believe that china is at least considering such an option, at the moment they do not undertake to definitively state whether china has accepted or made such a decision, but at least he is looking at this as the final decision, which he said whether or not our colleague andriy hetman will approve it, he talked to experts, one of them was

serhii radchenko, a professor at johns hopkins university here in the united states, who specializes in relations with russia of china and serhii radchenko, as well as other experts, also draw attention to the fact that in the end china will be guided by its personal interest and benefit and see where it can get more, possibly some advantages for itself, including when we talk about economic benefits, we remember that the united states threatened china with sanctions and other measures in the event of any military cooperation with russia, and according to experts, china will bring up what will be beneficial primarily to it economically. although it will also consider on the political political component of this issue. let's listen to serhii radchenko's comment. the issue of the supply of weapons to russia has been discussed for a long time. back in the spring, adviser sullivan said that this was unacceptable and would cause

a sharp reaction from the united states. our assumptions come from the fact that the chinese put the economy above all else , but the same assumption was that to the fact that putin values ​​the economy and will you not take this step that will harm the russian economy , but he did so if we look at china , many analysts say that the chinese are interested in ensuring economic growth and will not do anything to undermine the economy, because it will undermine the legitimacy of the communist party, which ensures the quality of life, but one should not underestimate the political element, in particular , the sit-down puts politics ahead of the economy, he is the creator of the political situation of confrontation with the usa, and this game is more important to him than economic decline, but you can't say about him that he is an economic suicide ostap turns out literally 30

seconds another news attracted today a lot of strengthening of chinese influence and for the middle east, experts say that this is good news in terms of the fact that everything will reduce tension in the region, since it was precisely such animosity between saudi arabia and iran that brought destabilization to the influence of china, they really pay attention to what it can be and a threat to the positions of the united states of political positions in the middle east , since china is rather such an unusual role , it did not support either iran or saudi arabia, but now acted as a mediator, they say that in this way the pekingese are trying to strengthen their influences also in this region yuli was contacted by my colleague ostap yarysh from the state department. shadow allies froze assets of russian oligarchs worth 58 billion dollars for the past year, luxurious houses , yachts and private planes were arrested. these data were announced by the aripio working group, which includes the united states also includes the european commission , germany, france, italy, japan, canada , australia, and great britain. the shops

are putin's money, says the financier, who became a well-known critic of the kremlin. bill browder is convinced that putin is no conditions and he himself is in favor of immunity. he told about this in an interview with my colleague oksana bedratenko . joined the un resolution and called on russia to withdraw its forces from ukraine and stop hostilities. and what about putin. is he ready now for any negotiations, he is absolutely sure, without a doubt, he is not ready in any case, he will not negotiate to withdraw his forces and stop doing what does i believe that putin is doing this to stay in power russia is a country where they love strength where they love rudeness and any sign

of weakness from their heavyweight and putin will lose power his position to prison and he will die so there is no chance of any kind compromise negotiations or the withdrawal of forces under any conditions other than the total defeat of russia, tens of millions of assets of russian oligarchs are frozen and many of them within the framework of the law of the magnetic law named after a lawyer of your company why should putin care if the funds of his oligarchs are frozen somewhere a week after the start of the war, western governments imposed sanctions against putin, lavrov, and other representatives of the regime, and it was a great pleasure to see them on the sanctions list. i could not believe it, because we had been talking about it for years, but it achieved little. because putin does not keep funds in accounts with his own name where putin keeps his funds, his funds are recorded in the name of trusted oligarchs, every time when it comes to a person connected with the regime, for every such person there are 100

others who did something similar and do not want to to be in that person's place is a vivid demonstration for others and i hope it creates a real atmosphere of fear among the russian oligarchs and putin's cronies , the sanctions are resolutely imposed, but in the end the russian economy has not yet collapsed. than any sanctions program in history but there is one huge loophole while we sanction russia oligarchs we allow russia to sell oil and gas to west and east it brings russia export earnings of hundreds of millions if not a billion dollars every day this money goes to the kremlin which finances the war in ukraine as long as they continue to sell oil and gas and get that amount of money putin can wage war endlessly the goal should be for

the future to cut this money flow, because if you cut off access to funds, russia will not be able to finance the war, but how to cut off access to funds but not drive trade into the shadows , there are two things here. first, you need to move from limiting the price of oil to an oil embargo for russia and it will be difficult for some to digest the second - this year should be the year of persecution for circumventing sanctions and i spoke with officials of the united states of britain and other government officials 2023 will be the year when the west will begin to punish those who evade sanctions but this is a very difficult game, the russians are good at deceiving they evade, engage in fraud, it will be like a cat and a mouse, we will introduce rules and they will try to deceive them we do not need to do everything accurately, we need to reduce

the amount of money that goes to russia so that it has there were no more funds for the war. you are also advocating the confiscation of 300 billion dollars. these are the funds of the russian central bank, which were frozen in the west. in general, the sanctions regime was designed to freeze the funds, but then give them to the country when the situation there changes. why should this not apply to russia? we have a situation when russia violated international law and committed, you can use the legal term, an act of aggression against ukraine, and in the process of this act of aggression, this war, this murderous war, caused damage to at least one a couple of trillion dollars according to estimates. it is absolutely logical that if we receive these funds, certain sums from these 350 billion dollars should first of all go to the reconstruction and defense of ukraine, there is a moral sense, a financial sense , as well as a political sense, this is the right answer to the terrible crime committed by

volodymyr putin, what will this transfer of funds look like in practice? currently, russia is protected by the legal concept of sovereign immunity, this means that the russian government is under protection, for example, i cannot enter the russian embassy in london because it is theirs takes to the territory the same thing with the reserves of the central bank, therefore i propose that the main countries of the world that have frozen russian funds in unison review their laws on sovereign immunity and note that such immunity works in most cases except when a country like russia is guilty of a crime of aggression and this has been proven internationally by a tribunal or the un and then protection is withdrawn if such a law is passed by a number of these major economies countries such as the united states eu great britain canada

then funds will be available for defense and reconstruction of ukraine this was an interview of oksana bedratenko with a white browser strengthen and strengthen and speed up military aid to ukraine introduce tougher sanctions against russia and bring to justice those guilty of war crimes to such actions this week urged american lawmakers their ukrainian-born constituents at another ukrainian day more than 150 representatives of the community from different states of america arrived in washington , ilona voytovych walked with them through the offices and corridors of the us congress in the congress of the delegation from the state new jersey met with its democratic senator robert menendez, he says such meetings are important even though a year after russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine , support on capitol hill remains bipartisan, some of his colleagues are beginning to question its continuation i'm glad to see new jersey voters from

the ukrainian community here who are lobbying for the just cause of constant support for ukraine, and i shared with them that i, as a person, am dedicated as the chairman of the senate committee on international relations. i appreciate their visit, but they need to talk to members who hesitate. first of all, because they do not want to continue providing the resources necessary to help ukraine repel russia, so that the arguments of the people's lobbyists sound convincing during conversations with congressmen, senators and their aides. studies, in particular, in the handouts , it is said that most of the funds from the defense aid allocated to ukraine remain in the usa and have a positive effect on the development of the american economy by creating additional jobs in the military sector and that the aid is not enough

25 cents per person an american pays goods the direction of ukrainian military military support only 12 cents go to humanitarian support per ukrainian for one american in fact per day this is a very small amount of money it is less than 100 $ per year for this money we are trying to do what is almost impossible our main focus today is to say that we receive aid from america and this aid helps now ukraine must stand up, but we must win according to the estimates of the organizers of the event, only 5% of congress members do not support aid to ukraine from the usa, partly because there are few voters of ukrainian origin living in their states, the president of the ukrainian congressional committee of america suggests, well , you know, i think that these are people who have their own

vision that for them america is first and second. i think it is important to understand as we see it, there are no ukrainian voters in those precincts, the delegation from texas is the first to participate in a similar event until recently they arranged a meeting with the senators of this conservative state ted cruz and john cornyn we represent all of texas here from the west to the south and we have a very strong big community especially now and we want to present ourselves to him so that he can count on us as on the voters and took into account the interests of ukraine, voinov says , they never saw the senators, but they managed to meet with the employees of their offices, who, she says, listened with interest

to the arguments in favor of supporting ukraine the participants of the ukrainian days hope that the legislators heard them and will continue to support ukraine . in an exclusive interview with my colleague kateryna lisunova, tyra admitted that she did not feel the extreme joy of receiving the award because of the great losses on the battlefield in ukraine at the same time, the lauradka emphasizes that this award is important for recognizing the contribution of every ukrainian woman to the struggle for independence. i was actually surprised, you know , life changes so much. a year ago, you were in the basements somewhere under torture and suddenly you find yourself in the white house . it can't be, but still

emotions that don't really pierce me because of the fact that there have been a lot of losses of my close friends recently, da vinci yara died, other guys , i can't talk about everyone. it's very difficult for me to talk and it hurts a lot because of this, you know, i even feel some joy to be honest. but i am very proud that i can accept this award for the women of all ukraine. tyra also compared her current visit with last year's when she testified before the helsinki commission of the us congress on the capture and war crimes of russians . according to her, now american officials show more understanding of the russian

war against ukraine than a year ago. i noticed a change and it comforted me immensely. they understand our situation better . and sometimes it seemed to me that they even understand some issues a little better than me. this is not a one-time, impulsive, kind of help , this is a planned, well-thought-out action that continues in space and time and is very powerful. i am sure that we will win and it will be our joint

victory for the victims of the russian invasion of ukraine is becoming not only people, but also animals. many four-legged animals suffer during the shelling of homes and shelters . german and ukrainian volunteers risk their lives to save animals in the most dangerous areas and deliver them abroad where they can be given shelter . khrystyna shevchenko will tell. hello, i am a shaggy gray dog, as you probably already guessed. i am sitting in one of these cages. no, this is not me. and i forgot

to say that i am blind. well, already in summer, german the volunteers don't know my name, that's why they came up with a new bari. well, i'm not against it. they all speak german, except for one of the voice of america journalists. a good dog bari . he's 14 years old. he's blind. the dog is from mykolaiv. we think his owners left him when they had to flee. from mykolaiv from those times, only one single photo was left

, taken by volunteers , we were 1 km from the russian border , we heard shelling in the background, we passed small villages where houses were destroyed everywhere, there were animals everywhere when we left on the street animals came from everywhere they heard us they were such hungry cats that crossed the street and they were so

happy to see people i found one dog that lived in the garden the house was destroyed by a rocket an old grandmother lived inside she died and the dog was alive but chained of course we freed him the most shocking thing was to see that everything was destroyed and many animals suffered in such bad conditions they were so thin and if we don't help them they will die one dog ran up to me jumped into my arms

it was as if she was saying don't leave me alone i want to go with you some animals were just hiding one dog we found in a room in a completely destroyed house he was badly injured he was sitting there scared we must be strong for animals because they can't help themselves we must help them we must be strong when we rescue dogs in ukraine we send them to a shelter in the ukrainian part where we have veterinary support and we treat first

of all emergency cases of the mykolaiv shelter then this shelter was bombed but i was rescued and transported to hungary from the hungarian side. we also work with several shelters and where there is a very developed veterinary service, so we are sure that before we bring the animals to germany, all wounds will be treated. the shelters in germany are also almost full and we are constantly looking for who really

can take care of dogs the road was long and it seems to me that they are taking me somewhere again we are not far from cologne and now we are taking him to the final destination to the family that will adopt him leaves leaves this is what he smells like

a new home, this is our first ukrainian dog , we are very happy that we can contribute. do you follow the news and when we came to germany and we lost everything. and this is his bed and so on. at first we want to keep him separate from our other dog and then with him there will be another bed, this is a room for dogs, he can stay here, this is an amazing

place, it's like a dog's paradise, this is a happy ending, although i can't see it, but i feel it, there is light here, and that's the end of it. thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian, see you soon next week, good luck, bye bye events, the most important events that are happening right now and affect our lives, of course , the news feed reports about them, but it is not enough