[000:00:00;00] support should be kept in mind that with strict prohibitions you can simply frighten the child and he can go away from the opposite and will be especially evil to you or, let's say, against everything, all these feelings are strengthened and he can simply run away and stop communicating with his own parents. whatever it is the reason why the teenager ran away on the street, the child is in danger, it is necessary to return him home as soon as possible, for this , immediately contact the police and the child tracing service, the number of our hotline is 11600, calls from all mobile operators in ukraine free of charge, we are very happy for dasha mykytina and kirill kalita, who were found and returned to safety. meanwhile , many boys and girls are still wanted . you can see their photos on the website of the children's search service. please take just

a few minutes of your time to look in the face of these children, if you know even the slightest bit of information about them, immediately contact us on the hotline at 11600, which is free from all mobile operators, let's not be indifferent , let's try to find the missing people together i welcome the children on the air, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, i am its host, ostap yarysh. the us state department summoned

the russian ambassador after a russian fighter jet hit an american drone over the black sea. the united states called the incident a brazen violation of international law, and the actions of the russian pilots dangerous and unprofessional before it became known that a russian su-27 fighter collided with an american reconnaissance drone over international waters in the black sea and damaged its propeller, which led to the loss an aircraft was added to the pentagon, a russian plane was also damaged, and the incident itself almost caused it to crash . we will continue to assess what exactly happened, but based on the actions of the russian pilots, it is already clear that it was dangerous and unprofessional, and i think the actions speak for themselves. we saw the fighter who dumped fuel in front of this drone and then got so close to it that it damaged the mq9 propeller we estimate it also

probably caused some damage to the russian plane as far as we know the russian plane landed i won't go into the details of where he did it but again this just goes to show the various unprofessional and dangerous actions of pilots intercepting planes in themselves is not uncommon the vast majority of these intercepts we consider safe and professional when you just want to check what is flying with you close but in this particular case again you didn't collide with the aircraft damaging the propeller and essentially putting it in a situation where it was unairworthy and uncontrollable so we forced it down the deadliest pilot of american aviation is the name of a retired us lieutenant colonel and liu is waiting for 16 dan hampton he fought in the persian gulf in kosovo and in iraq trained foreign pilots to operate on the f16 and managed

a private military company during his 20-year career hampton made 151 combat sorties and has almost the largest number of military awards among fighter pilots since the vietnam war, in an interview with maria prus, anthony talked about the military base in arizona where ukrainian pilots arrived for evaluation skills about the advantages of the 16 and why kyiv should consider hiring private military pilots to protect ukrainian skies . u.s. congress you have over 20 years of service in the u.s. air force and over 150 combat missions can you say that the f-16 could make a big difference in russia's war in ukraine i would say that the f-16 could

make a huge difference in the war but it also it depends on the pilots and i am not against the ukrainian pilots, they are excellent pilots but this is a completely different type of modern fighter than what they are used to and they would be the first who would admit i think it takes a little time to get used to training and mastering a new type of aircraft, especially one like this as advanced as the f-16, colonel, what is so special about the v16 or why is this aircraft considered so universal and what are the main capabilities of this type of aircraft in conditions where close air combat, according to ukrainian pilots, is not so common a few things about the f-16 firstly it was never intended to become what it has become but it is a very good plane and it is very adaptable and the f-16 is such a versatile machine inside

everything is modular so you don't have to take the plane apart when there is new technology you just pull out the old box and put in the new one add to that this plane is very easy to fly once you get the hang of it it is a very easy plane to use as well as all the weapons because everything inside the plane is centered around the pilot unlike russian-made planes the pilot is like the central computer of an american fighter jet it's called sensor fusion fusion of sensors so you get all this information from space from other planes from the ground and it all gets into the cockpit designed for pilots and configured for them of course engineers helped develop them f-16 is very hard to see because it's smaller than most planes especially when it's aimed right at you so it has many advantages also there are

other countries in europe that have f-16 so in this way, the air force of ukraine can receive other forms of logistics, supply, training advice, instead of training in the united states , so you can also use european allies. experts call different terms and also now ukraine is at war, how can this affect training compared to the usual training process in other countries or other pilots. i have never worked or flown with ukrainian pilots, so i can only assume they are the best your air force has for an american pilot who just graduated from flight school and is starting to master the f-16 he needs to spend up to 10 months at

hatch airbase to learn to fly the f-16 american pilots who have transferred from other aircraft such as the f-15 not f-16 they need less than 4 to 6 months for ukrainian pilots i would assume and i assume that language is a problem i assume that they will choose pilots who already speak english then i would say that these people can be trained to fly f-16 for that the most time period is from 4 to 6 months, but the problem is with ukraine . as you said, the country is now in a state of war. and i think that ukraine will win. in fact, i am sure of this, but still 4-6 months is a long time. no one has ever won a war from the air. i seen it tried before our countries tried you can't win a war from the air but you can lose a war if you don't control the airspace so providing missiles and guns is one thing but another possible short-term solution for the ukrainian

government is to hire private contractors who are already f-16 pilots and it's a matter of politics it's something that governments have to organize but it's very possible and it'll buy you time again it'll help you win the war when the war is over then you can focus on sending your pilots overseas and now as you rightly said they needed in ukraine right now and for every pilot you send to arizona is one less pilot that can change the course of the fight in ukraine so i think the solution is anti-aircraft missile systems but also at least consider hiring private military contractors to fly over ukraine not anywhere else but in the sky over ukraine i would say that there are enough american pilots ready to do it if the government resolves its issues ukraine is fighting against russia i mean

it's a black and white conflict it's good versus evil there's no question who's right and who's wrong so i think in that spirit governments that can provide these services should do it i hope they do i'll even go myself i'll be number one you can count on me it was an interview maria's wife from by american military pilot and retired lieutenant colonel dan hepton, read the full version of the conversation on the website of the voice of america in ukrainian and watch it on our youtube channel, the number of war crimes by russians in ukraine reaches almost 70 thousand, one of the cases that recently shook the ukrainian and international community was the video shooting of an unarmed ukrainian prisoner after

the words glory to ukraine later the sbu finally confirmed the man's identity, he turned out to be 42-year-old sniper oleksandr matievsky who will be punished for his execution like this one the crime will affect international and ukrainian investigations , as well as the prospects for the establishment of tribunals, my colleague oleksiy kovalenko learned. on march 6, a video was released showing russian military personnel shooting an unarmed man in ukrainian military uniform after he said glory to ukraine . ukrainian society immediately reacted to this crime and the authorities called on the international criminal court to react to the terrible video of an unarmed ukrainian prisoner of war executed by russian troops just because he said glory to ukraine this is another proof that this war is genocide, it is necessary for karim khan to immediately start an investigation of this terrible war crime in the international criminal court, later the prosecutor general andriy kostin announced

the start of an investigation into the facts of the shooting of an unarmed person, later the sbu established the identity of the person killed by him, it turned out to be sniper oleksandr maciev president of ukraine volodymyr zelensky awarded matiev the title of hero of ukraine experts with whom voice of america spoke have no doubt video proof of a war crime committed by russian forces in ukraine, there is clear evidence of the commission of a war crime, and obviously this video will be used in the investigation not only by the international criminal court, but also by ukrainian courts that will deal with this crime to determine which military units were in this territory at the time and who commanded them and then it will be determined who is responsible for the commission of this war crime, the british lawyer wayne jordash, who heads the mobile groups of justice

in ukraine, calls it murder a prisoner of war is one of the numerous and systematic war crimes committed in ukraine, there is almost no doubt that this is a crime against humanity, the only question that remains is whether this crime was an act of genocide, its analysis will take some time genocide in this war, the real problem is obviously aimed at the destruction of ukrainian identity that and cultural hedonicide and the question is whether this campaign in certain places turns into physical genocide according to the exposklad of the zhdep on issues of war crimes of schaefer even though murder a prisoner of war and may be part of a genocidal attack by russia, the case should be considered in the context of the violation of the geneva convention, minister kuleba probably wanted to say that in the general context of events in ukraine, this is another element of genocide against ukraine, he gave an assessment of the articles of the geneva convention signed by both ukraine and russia, since it is

about a military i believe that it is better to conduct a judicial investigation into a direct violation of the third geneva convention. i gave an assessment of the articles of the geneva convention, which signed and ukraine and russia at the time of the geneva conventions on the protection of prisoners of war, including prisoners of war, very clearly state that anyone who laid down their arms must receive humane treatment, ill-treatment is illegal , violence is illegal, and it is obvious that the killing of a prisoner of war or someone who has laid down their arms, the killing or torture of this person is a war a crime according to schaefer and jordash , the case of the murder of a prisoner of war will most likely be considered by the ukrainian courts, which are already considering tens of thousands of war crimes committed by russia on the territory ukraine and ukrainian national courts may be no less effective in investigating and prosecuting these crimes than international tribunals would be, so i urge those who

press for the tribunal to focus on what it will add to the investigation . the evidence of the murder of a ukrainian prisoner of war soldier is another reminder why an international tribunal is needed to investigate the crime of aggression by russia against ukraine crime of aggression a crime committed by the leadership of the country by the political and military leaders who decided to start an illegal war if we did not have aggression we would not have crimes against humanity war crimes there would not be crimes recorded in this terrible video there would be no killings and harm so this is a reminder why do we need is this tribunal whether the killing of an unarmed ukrainian military prisoner is one of the evidences of genocide or russia's crimes against humanity to establish an investigation experts note

on video one of the thousands of terrible mass and systematic crimes of russia which will be another reminder to the world community about russia's aggressive war oleksiy kovalenko dmytro savchuk voice of america washington story oleksiy kovalenko about the investigation of russian war crimes and at the end of february, according to official data of ukraine , russia illegally took more than 960 civilians as hostages, human rights defenders say that the real number is much higher among the detainees, and many women ex-prisoners say that the conditions of their reception did not differ from the way they were received as received men, they also talk about numerous cases of violence lyudmila huseinova is one of those who managed to return from captivity, she spent a month in the infamous isolation prison and then more than three years behind bars in the donetsk pretrial detention center about her detention , torture, and life as a prisoner, the former hostage

told in an interview iryna solomko i congratulate you, mrs. lyudmylo, your pro-ukrainian position was one of the reasons why you were detained in the 19th year, after you had been helping children for many years, this is the moment of your detention understood that it would come because you were a pro-ukrainian activist, you know i was warned several times by people who moved to work for that administration, but i believed that i did not hide my position, i did not change anything in my life, i did not call for the appeal of this government, the only thing i did was i very i wanted that in the hearts of those children who were in the occupied territory, there was love and respect for their native country when this car stopped near me. i thought they had stopped. she can

ask something, people can, and then they they jumped out, they snatched that bag, pushed me into that car, but at that time i wasn't scared either, it even seemed funny to me that in some cheap spy show, but when they took me to donetsk, they put handcuffs on me, put a mouse on my head, and when they brought me there and when they undressed and when they started touching me with their hands and when they pushed me into that cell and the girl who was in the cell said that it was isolation, and then i became very, very scared at that time, so everyone already knew what isolation is, what it actually is kitovna for pro-ukrainian people for the military as well, that is, when you found out about this that you are in isolation, what were your thoughts, i don't know what told me where i got that

strength, but i understood. if i cry now, if i show weakness here, they will destroy me and these first few days, the first four days it was a horror and i didn't have to sleep, well, these are the most nightmarish days in my life , there is no respect for human rights , i don't know elementary hygiene, and you, especially as a woman , you were deprived of all this there, i think that this is torture, because you forced me to eat the porridge that was mixed with earth and washed mouse food, they did not allow me to sit down or lie down, when sometimes they took us out in the morning for 10 minutes to the walking yard only in sacks , i had to wear that sack on my head

even in the cell if there was a knock at the door or the manger was opened, i was lucky because my relatives found a lawyer, that lawyer was able to negotiate with representatives of the so-called mgb so that after 50 days in isolation we would not be transferred to the donetsk pre-trial detention center to hold my father hostage prisoners of war talk about sexual violence. have you seen it? what is your experience in this context ? one day the resistance came to me to take fingerprints. they said something because of what i have about ukrainian views, and i asked him, so you judge me for what i have, for my thoughts, for what i think, he

answers me that it's a war and you think something like that well, shut your mouth you were busy too i didn't tell you what and how you think that militants will come and you will satisfy them with your mouth, and i understood that this could be true and i understood that at any moment these drunken militants can come and do anything with me, i heard several times how at night the neighboring cells are opened and the girls are taken out of the cells. i think that when the time comes, these girls will also testify about what was done to them at the time of their release. so i understand what your relatives fought for it was fought by people who knew you

on the big land, as they say in kyiv, all your huge people who support you, did you feel that this moment would be close, so the lawyer told me from the first day when i met him not from the first day but from the first moment when i met him it was almost two months after my detention and he said that my relatives applied for you to be exchanged and i was very happy that the first new year, the 20th, that there will be an exchange and i will be there, but i was not called anywhere, of course, my family friends fought for me i am very grateful for them but i for i now have such a mission that i must now fight for those women who have been kept in such impossible conditions for three, four, five years. the foundation is such that i returned to prison and i was afraid and screamed and understood that i

would not be able to survive anymore. but i i think i have had this idea for a long time, tell me now you will go to prison and those 20 women will be free i will go to that prison pavlo you are now in new york, you will speak in washington well, not at the highest level about this problem , is enough being done now in order to they were released when we were released. i thought all this was already a movement , they started releasing civilians, they started releasing women , but a month passed, a second passed, and again there is no movement, four months have come, i know that ukraine is fighting for these people, for civilians, but i guess i want it it was more difficult to survive captivity, it is difficult to return to a peaceful life and it is even more difficult, for sure i still

do not fully feel that freedom, but i see the support given to me by other women who were released in the 19th year before that released, what support do public organizations that take care of problems give, and this makes me stronger, but i see how much society and the state do not understand what we need, thank you very much for the conversation, this was an interview of iryna solomko with volunteer lyudmila huseinova, who has been in polonia on the territory of ukraine occupied by the russians, read the full version of the conversation on the voice of america website in ukrainian and watch it on our youtube channel, and we also go to other stories, the last story for today

about volunteers from canada who help ukrainians foundation is a non-profit organization from iz vancouver and since the first day of the war has been helping to send medical equipment, military equipment and humanitarian aid, the organization has attracted more than 1100 dollars from three continents with volunteers in canada khrystyna shevchenko and dmytro savchuk met until february 2022 these people were not used to gathering in airport warehouses and counting the number of syringes and defibrillators, and one night the first reaction changed everything - it's like inside you everything froze. and my daughter called me from the ground and told my mom that everything had already started and then she started calling our team members and we immediately started planning and that same night we created a platform for donations and practically no one slept all night. they are volunteers of the maple hope foundation organization, which in english means

maple leaf of hope non-profit appeared in 2014 after the revolution of dignity and actively supported the victims of the maidan and veterans of the ato, and with the russian invasion , the activity of the volunteer movement reached a new level. it came out on the street and many, many people knew that we exist and began to help us. the first meeting was of our volunteer battalion . this is how the volunteer battalion was created. some 60 people were gathered online. in the medical direction, they took care of providing medical drugs to hospitals and medical centers, for example, they help the hospitals of kyiv, odesa, lutsk, kharkiv, dnipro, and other cities, we have donors, this is the vancouver hospital

vancouver general hospital children's hospital phraser health saty they give us provide this medical care we sort it all pack and send it to ukraine and medical care starting from bandages and cotton wool ending with stents for heart operations everything related to orthopedics for amputation saw drills exactly what is needed now volunteers sort and pack aid at the warehouse every saturday for a year , the organization also helps the military in previous projects we had connections with veterans of the ato and they contacted us and what they pro- they asked from the very beginning they were in fact walkie-talkies night sights well, of course, thermal imaging cameras were a topic from the very beginning well, then they started working on body armor, search here how it can be done drones, sights and here we are , compared to russia, very small, but how are we

desperately fighting in september in 2022 , maplehop launched a new initiative , the liza project, aimed at providing direct financial assistance to the most affected families with children in ukraine, the funds will be used for food, evacuation, transport, heating, clothing school supplies and other needs, the name of this project is dedicated to liza dmitrieva, a four-year-old girl with down syndrome who died as a result of the russian missile attack on vinnytsia on july 15, 2022, we are selecting canadian families who are ready to make monthly donations and support these families we currently have 17 children who have registered and we can send them money every month to canada after the russian invasion about 150,000 ukrainians left maplehope volunteers helped ukrainian refugees from the first days we

helped them arrange their lives so that they could adjust their lives here, we introduce them to canadian families who are ready to accept them or sometimes we find housing for them ourselves. so many canadian families responded that they were registered more than necessary. people were extremely generous; moreover, there were many willing ones . donate furniture and donate almost everything to help these people get back on their feet support comes in waves and unfortunately every time a wave occurs when something bad happens in ukraine voice of america download the voice of america mobile application

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