[000:00:00;00] welcome to the broadcast of the program of the ukrainian voice of america time, i am its host, ostap yarysh, allies of ukraine all over the world understand what is at stake and will continue to make efforts, or the ukrainians have succeeded, so the us secretary of defense and austin commented on the results of the 10th meeting of the contact group in the format rammstein, which took place virtually, the priority was to provide for the needs of ukraine in the near future , including the provision of ammunition and strengthening of anti-aircraft defense systems , we will ask more about the results of the meeting and other things in yulia yarmolenko, who is now joining us from the state department yury i congratulate you, i congratulate ostap and so, what are the main directions that ukraine's allies and partners have determined for themselves in the coming weeks and months, how exactly are they going to address yulia the urgent needs of ukraine ostap, the main priority is speed and the sequence as described by

the minister of defense lloyd austin and he actually said that it is very important now that these 50 countries that help ukraine understand that it is very important to provide those capabilities that were already partners promised, he particularly drew attention to the tank coalition, which now already includes 9 countries, the latest to join was sweden, promising 10 leopards. he said that a total of 150 such tanks had already been promised, and now it is very important to deliver them , ammunition and ammunition are also very important, in particular he thanked such countries as the netherlands and slovenia who are doing everything. it is possible that these capabilities, which ukrainians need first of all, are coming to the front now, and we also know that slovakia announced today that it would double production of munitions in order to help ukraine, and dostin said that it is really very important to show that the united states and partners are ready to support ukraine in the long term, but now the next weeks and months will be very important and decisive

, so he said that in addition to speed, in addition to consistency, they will also do everything for in order to help maintain tanks and armored vehicles, as well as to immediately train the ukrainian military, as partners are already doing, but to strengthen this training well, and also to do everything from our reserves and also conclude additional contracts so that ukraine does not have a shortage of ammunition next year, let's actually listen to what he said today, ukraine cannot waste time, as i clearly heard today, our colleagues, members of the contact group, also understand that we must fulfill our obligations quickly and fully and this includes providing our additional capabilities on the battlefield and ensuring that ukrainian soldiers who are trained as soon as possible receive the spare

parts and maintenance they need to use these new systems as soon as possible, yulia molodogostyana ukraine can't waste time, he says, and certainly now on the field , i'm afraid, attention is focused on the situation in bakhmut. what does the american military command say about this, will they help strengthen ukrainian positions without ostap, in particular, mark miley is also working on this today he said that it really is an american top general. he said that the situation on the battlefield is actually static, but everywhere in the country and everywhere on the battlefield is on the front line, but bakhmut is where there are fierce battles, he said that russia is running out of ammunition, the russians are fighting with untrained soldiers , poorly trained, poorly motivated ukrainians , he said, in fact, they are fighting with well-trained soldiers and also have the capabilities they need, in particular he drew attention to the fact that the united states should do everything that russia, in fact, he said , wants to make it so that he plays at exhaustion , so that ukraine is exhausted first, because

the united states, for its part, should prevent this from happening. it is possible to do more listen to what mark actually said, mili, now the shovel well, continuous the battle for bakhmut continues, but ukraine is fighting bravely, having a strong defense, ukraine receives russian forces in this city and inflicts very heavy losses in the wagner group and the russian regular military, ukraine remains strong, they are capable of fighting and well-prepared ukrainians soldiers are strong in their combat units their infantry supported by tanks and borne equipment will only strengthen the front line ukrainian precision munitions continue to target the russian logistics system and the connection of ira, returning to the topic of the usa , there have been many discussions in recent days about russia 's defeat of an american drone over the black sea.

relations between the usa and russia, ostap, yes, in fact , we know that the day before, two russian su planes came close to an american drone, intercepted it and dumped fuel on this drone, after which one of of planes came close and caught the propeller, because of which the american operator had to land this plane was forced to land. the united states calls this behavior absolutely unacceptable , irresponsible, unprofessional, essentially amateurish today . the united states will continue to fly where where it is allowed by international law because we know that this aircraft, this drone was in international actually, the experts who are currently reacting to this situation say that the united states and russia will not go to a direct confrontation

, but they are talking about the fact that the united states had an absolute right to fly in this international space . that the kremlin would like the us military presence to disappear from the black sea after the start of the war, us warships were not in the black sea because turkey closed the bosphorus strait , drones fly from romania, a nato ally , but they fly over international waters the black sea, however, russia seems to be trying to prevent the usa from being able to do this. at the moment, we are not sure whether this is only the first of the incidents and whether this will be the beginning of a similar scheme. it seems that the russian pilot tried to deliberately destroy the mk-9 drone in the black sea therefore, this is a provocation, probably a kind of test. the russians, unfortunately, consider

the black sea their internal lake , legally speaking, it is international waters. airspace, we will monitor the development of yulia, what do you have, based on your information, meanwhile, us senators of both parties called on joe biden to pay attention to the provision of fighter jets to ukraine at a critical moment in the war. legislators sent a letter to the president with such an appeal by one of the selators, who also advocates the provision of fighter jets to ukraine is a republican jam cut the russians provided fighter jets to vietnam and north korea it is time for america to repay the debt said the senator what cut i am the co-chairman of the essemen committee on international relations he believes that the pace of providing military aid to ukraine should be much faster. about a year of full-scale war and expectations , the senator said in an exclusive interview with kateryna lisova, let's start with those that everyone is talking about now, this is the provision of modern fighter jets to ukrainians. do you support this initiative? i supported the provision of fighter jets. from

the beginning my position is this the russians when we fought in vietnam and north korea supplied our enemies with fighter jets and trained enemy pilots now it's our time to pay back the debt so i'm always determined advocated the provision of fighter jets i don't accept excuses like oh and we can't do that because it will somehow annoy putin or something similar, on the contrary i want him to wake up in the morning annoyed i want him to think what will happen to him if he raises the stakes and settles aggression i i want him to worry about it. instead of us continuing to wring our hands, let's go back to february 24, 2022 , a few weeks before the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine. you knew about the invasion at that time

. what were your predictions? chairman of the committee on international relations, so he had a little better idea of ​​​​the situation than some people. we were convinced that the invasion would happen, of course there was a discussion about whether it would happen or not, because putin had already brought troops to the border, nevertheless i expected an invasion regarding the forecasts after the invasion of in the fog of war, no one knows what will happen, so the question arose as to which grandfather of the ukrainian people it was. it depended on which way the scales of events would tip, and ukrainian women definitely showed their strong spirit. as a result, the so-called superpower is fighting with apparently a weaker country, and this country, which is supposedly not a superpower, beats the russians properly, all this is thanks to the spirit of the ukrainian people, such things cannot be measured, so in reality there were no clear expectations, when the bullets start flying, they show what they are

really made of, and the ukrainian people definitely showed it snorted dan one board yuriy, you decided to visit ukraine after the full-scale invasion why did you make such a decision and what do you remember most from that journey of christ ay first i knew president zelensky only through zoom and on the phone, you can read the situation much better when you can sit down. this is how you talk face to face, that's why i wanted to come and also to congratulate him on the achievements of ukrainians . it was an unforgettable experience. we visited the suburbs of kyiv and saw where they stopped the russians and the destruction caused by the russians, this is probably what i remembered the most, but also of course the firmness and determination of the ukrainian people, i tell everyone that putin has lost this war, of course he can continue

to fight, he can continue to destroy ukraine, but his goal was the occupation of this country. he will never occupy ukraine. after talking with ukrainians, starting with president zelensky and ending with all the people he met, i can say that they are determined. putin will never occupy ukraine, and that is why he has already lost this war, as he i don't know how it's going to work out, it's obvious he made bad decisions from the beginning i don't know why we think he'll make better decisions now he needs to find a way out he needs to pack up and go home before there's more damage during the year, support for ukraine has evolved from chevelins to air defense systems, and now tanks. many ukrainians wonder why western partners, and in particular the united states, will not immediately provide everything necessary to avoid unnecessary casualties. i cannot

answer this question because on the side of the people who they say that we must provide everything necessary and we must do it now, this matter is bad with delays. it is very difficult to speed up such a complex process and provide everything at once, but i am not satisfied with the current speed of assistance, i have many times discussed this with the biden administration when i was in ukraine and visited the border through which the aid was being transferred, it was impressive not only because of the transfer process from the usa to poland , but even more because of the impressive transfer process from poland further to the front line. i am a supporter of providing everything possible faster and we are actually moving in this direction not as fast as we would like and even more so not as fast as the president in zelenskyi and the ukrainians would like but nevertheless

the processes are going on and one more question that was raised during the year, the recognition of russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, this issue was raised in the format of a resolution and in the format of a draft law, but so far it seems that neither the congress nor the white house are willing to make such a recognition . why do you think they give many technical reasons why this should not be done? i do not support such positions i want to call russia by its real name street the war will end it will still not be the end this war is changing the face of europe this face did not change so before the times of the second world war exactly after the second world war saw the rise of the iron curtain when president reagan came to power he spent eight years trying to break up the soviet union so he could do it he was really responsible for all the countries that got their freedom that way and we have to carry on his legacy like i said when the war is over it's still there will be no end there will be generations before he will start to trust

russia again after the fall of the iron curtain we thought that it would become more or less normal and for a while no one expected whether they would start a medieval war in the xxi century, but this is what they did now, on the contrary, it is hard to believe that they will not do it again in 20-30 years, you are also a co-author of another important initiative for ukrainians , this is the resolution recognizing the actions of russia as genocide against the ukrainian people. do you think why , again, people explain that it is not done by technical reasons? i do not believe in such arguments. i want to activate everything possible against russia. russia must be stopped. the world must

know and understand what russia is, what they are. represent and the world must decide whose side they are in the un 193 krynych members but the russians only have the support of a handful of countries is it the chinese north koreans iranians syrians cubans or does anyone really want to belong to such a club this is a bad company they need to continue their isolation as much as possible it was the interview of kateryna lisunova and senator jimamrysh, the full version of their conversation, be sure to watch on the youtube channel of the voice of america in ukrainian, constant shelling by russian missiles and artillery and

mortars , that's how i am today for the residents of the bakhmut district. many of them are rebelling, but there are also those who still live. under enemy fire, anna kostyachenko and pavel sukhodolsky talked about difficult decisions during the war with the residents of kramatorsk bakhmut and other cities of donetsk region. for hours in a row, this is how the town of yar in the bakhmut oblast , bakhmut, for which fierce fighting continues, only a little more than 10 km away, before the full-scale offensive, about 14,000 people lived here now there are a few thousand left, and the rest have left, some have died in the town of yar - this is the last of the carnal organization in the direction of bakhmut, a few kilometers from here, there is already a contact line here. there is no light or communication for many months and most of the remaining residents are pensioners who simply have nowhere leave local resident natalya is waiting for her pension, which , according to her, is regularly brought, from time to time she receives a humanitarian aid from volunteers and

lives there. the woman says how did you survive this winter it's not bad, we're drowning , and now i don't know how we're going to go on. you are not leaving where for what give me money where for what give me money so that i leave i receive a disability pension 2700 for housing i will need to pay 10 000 + communal communal communal in the city of kramatorsk where did

the donetsk administration move after 2014 the situation in the region is relatively better at the time of the shooting, there is light communication, shops are working, out of 150,000 residents, almost 80,000 remain here . however, the increase in the frequency of shelling by the russians encourages more and more people to evacuate , and tonight and tonight it happened six times at 3:00 a.m. and at 4 o'clock it whistled twice, it must have been rockets, a chair was flying, the bus from kramatorsk to the west was organized by local volunteers from the angels of salvation charity fund, there are 8 other charitable organizations working in the city that help evacuate people those who wish are taken from the most dangerous areas to kramatorsk. and they provide temporary shelter in a house near the local pentecostal church. 44-year-old svitlana was evacuated with her mother, who is not very mobile, from under the bahmut yesterday, well, pieces of this metal are already

near us, so what about the children there, it really is hell. guys, our good guys say they will give us equipment and we will defeat the 70-year-old pensioner mykola, the volunteers also brought us with bakmutayemsa . i don’t want to just how we got out. be with us all the days of our lives, they say that they provide assistance to displaced people only thanks to the donations of caring people, the funds are simply fantastic, they come from everyone , well, actually, i have funds from my relatives from the united states, they are not very large funds, but we can help people we can buy, for example, mobile phones, we can buy sneakers, we feed them. yevhena's cousin, thirty-year-old alina, moved to the united states at the age of eight with her parents, when a full-scale war began

, the woman asked her cousin to leave and later she started collecting donations for the residents of kramatorsk, we thought it was serious, they don't leave, they stay to help people, so they need our help in our family viber group, and we there are about 30 people there, i asked everyone to donate 100 dollars , it turned out to be quite a large amount, some did not send more when we sent this money yevgenu he was pleasantly surprised, because he did not expect it, and we are sending money like this, and the evacuation has been going on for a year. 36-year-old anna reached kramatorsk from druzhkivka. she says that the main thing for her is to get out of the danger of children, because he is already flying to her city, which is more than 30 km from bakhmut in the city, it is no longer safe, it is already dangerous every day , it is more dangerous to fly near the house of the three-year-old vozle at home for the sake of the child. iryna left the town of siversk, which is located between kramatorsk and lysichansk, only 10 km

from the contact line because it used to be quieter before it was quieter and now there is no choice at all, the child is more sorry than herself, a volunteer bus took people from kramatorsk and surrounding towns to the dnipro and kyiv, where the displaced people will seek refuge anna kostyuchenko pavel sukhodolskyi for the voice of america from the donetsk region meanwhile , the premiere of the jazz musical radio 477 took place in new york, the musical was created by the american director of ukrainian origin, virlia nadkesh, together with the yara art group, and the text of the production was written by serhiy zhadan, who flew to new york for the performance and based on les kurbas's production of the berezil theater, which was presented in kharkiv almost 100 years ago, our

journalists iryna solomko and pavlo terekhov attended the nanior premiere listen to you radio 477 is not the first project of the american director of ukrainian origin virlyana tkach is connected with ukrainian artists and writers of the executed revival while working with the archives in kharkiv virlyana accidentally came across an unknown score, her intuition told her that the unique find is the sheet music for the jazz musical hello on the wave 477 in the 1920s , broadcasts of kharkiv radio broadcast on 477 meters , which formed the basis of the performance. music in the style of jazz was written for it by yuliy meitus, one of the few artists of the berezil theater, who escaped being shot and even the composer thought he was the third because he said that he burned his compositions, but it was not his copy. it was the conductor's copy, so, but it was expected that it was not signed, and it was a large score, or when will you leave me with he already wrote in the revue, only nothing else was written. and we also do not have a text, then they are i

, so what could be compared, they will plant everything else, you can go around and ask people if it is that time musical, all the doubts about whether the real find is the score the lost musical was dispelled by the legendary new york musician anthony coleman, he immediately understood that the found notes were jazz from the 1920s, she said that she showed it to a jazz musician in ukraine and they said that it was not jazz, but they did not understand that it was jazz in the 20s a combination of african-american shows that toured the world some of the music was reminiscent of jazz today and some was more like show music like broadway music so the collaboration began colme, inspired by the find, began writing music for a new

play and williana worked on the production anthony tavirlyana came to kharkiv to write the text of a new musical for this in the fall of 2021. sergiya zhadana was offered with whom virlyana already had a number of joint projects . she is trying to combine already some things that are not very compatible at first glance, it is interesting for the new music when there will be honest actors, according to the words , she wanted him personally to work on the project , it was interesting, among others, because it is connected with kharkov and also with the names of the artists actors and writers of the 1920s and 30s, i wanted the whole play to be realized in kharkiv, we started working on it in kharkiv

and it's good that it's going here, it's good that ukrainians and americans are also coming to listen to the story about kharkiv in the xx-30s compare again after all, to draw this historical parallel between the great repressions of the 1930s and the attempts of today's russian affairs to destroy ukrainian culture is late to the line of the play , as it was almost a hundred years ago and radio and news about the life of kharkiv. greetings, you are listening to radio 477 latest news today, the mayor of our wonderful city announced that he will participate in the re-elections, a serious statement as for the deceased, the work on the text of the play ended already during the full-scale war, therefore the last act of the musical is entirely dedicated to kharkov during the war. in total, seven actors participate in the play, three of them are ukrainians petro ninovsky is one of them, now he is studying at

the juilliard school of arts, one of the best in the usa, not only about how people dance, have fun , laugh, but about how to continue to live, how to continue to create something, to look for something, and we are lucky that there is some kind of machine that is trying to deprive people of their right to choose , the right to their own, to their native lesya verba is another actress, she is an artist and a singer from odesa, that this play will be a huge success because it is now it is necessary to talk about some things that hurt and to sing and tell the history of ukraine and the ukrainian avant-garde, which was actually very powerful

. the famous american historian timati snyder , who is friends with serhii zhadan, also visited the premiere of this musical about hopes at a time when certain forces are trying to take away people's future, when i watched it, i thought about what unites 2020 and the 1920s, the similarity is that every time ukrainians allowed themselves to think about the future this future was taken away from them, but it shouldn't be like that. the hope that is in the play is connected with the ability to remember and also with the ability to think that this time we will overcome it yevhen hudz , vocalists, the founder of the popular shapan group paul bordello also came to the performance now as he never says it is important to talk about the history of ukraine and the uniqueness of its culture vector ukrainian he is a western mentality and

i have felt this since childhood uh , he did not say that to me wow jazz in ukraine yes , of course there is an avant-garde separately, and i am of course i nyu show the performance will be to go exclusively to new york to tour europe and yuliya nad tkach, at least not yet, but dreams of staging this musical in kharkiv after the victory kharkiv metalist from new york iryna solomko pavlo terekhov voice of america tall story from new york with you goodbye, also watch our daily briefings at 18:00 kyiv time on youtube and facebook, where you can ask us your questions live. thank you for staying with us. thank you for your trust. i wish you a peaceful night and a good morning . see you soon in the next programs

voice of america in ukrainian until the meeting, greetings, we have another successful story of finding a missing child, 14-year-old daryna mykytina, who disappeared in the kherson region, was found on march 3, the girl left her home in the village of chornobayivka and did not return, what happened to daryna was unknown. but it is good that the native girls did not delay and immediately reported the disappearance of dasha. i would like to note that the first hours after the disappearance are the most effective in the search. in such a situation , every minute can be decisive. it is a myth

that you have to wait three days to have the right to report the disappearance. of a child, you need to contact the police immediately, and in the case of dasha mykytina, fortunately, this happened . in many ways, thanks to the timely and immediate appeal of her relatives, the girl was found quite quickly. by the way, this is not the first time when dasha was wanted as early as january 23. dasha's grandmother also reported the disappearance of her granddaughter . then dasha was also fortunately able to find her almost immediately. a very similar story happened in the dnipropetrovsk region just two weeks ago. whose missing person was quickly found and returned home, and then we learned that kyrylo disappeared again and is being sought, fortunately, and this time the boy was found almost immediately, in general, this is already the third. i really want to believe that the last