[000:00:00;00] join the community with a ukrainian view of the world, become a sponsor of the espresso youtube channel, and this is access to exclusive content, personal thanks, fixed comments , special icons and the possibility of personal communication with the espresso team, click sponsor and become part of the community with a ukrainian view on the air, the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, time and i'm her presenter ostap yarysh the pentagon released a video of a russian fighter jet destroying an american drone

over the black sea on tuesday, according to the command of the us forces in europe, russian planes first dropped fuel in front of the reconnaissance drone, and then flew too close and hit its propeller, as a result, the us lost the drone, according to american officials, the us already took appropriate measures remotely and made sure that there were no important reconnaissance items left on the drone, and that the drone itself is no longer valuable , but the us response was called too restrained by the former national security adviser in the administration of donald trump, the hope of russian fighters john bolton released a video that he clearly demonstrated that russian planes shot down an american drone from the air. bolton said this in an interview with my colleague tatyana vorozko. i'll let you go. the answer was very restrained. i think that now that the photos have been released, which clearly show russian jets the planes are dumping fuel on the drone trying to damage it's panels from the air in the end they

were very successful in this very dangerous maneuver you know if it was an american machine with pilots in it it was clearly a pact of war previously we took measures in response to the actions of other countries that shot down our drones. i'm not saying that this is necessarily appropriate here , given the war in ukraine, but there should be a very tough american response to russia , see a longer interview with john bolton in our program tomorrow. at the time, the president of poland, angeli duda, said that his country would transfer mig-29 fighter jets to ukraine, four of them will arrive in ukraine in the next few days, duda said, commenting on this decision. the possibility of providing fighter jets to ukraine at the moment poland became the first western ukraine that , after the start of the full-scale full-scale invasion of russia, openly announced

the transfer of the largest combat aircraft to ukraine. to be transmitted consistently, and on wednesday there was a message that israel approved defense export licenses for ukraine, according to the media, israel allowed two of its to defense companies to sell anti-drone systems to ukraine earlier the country's prime minister benjamin ne tanyaku stated that he provides humanitarian aid to ukraine but cannot transfer weapons about the possible deliveries of drone systems natalia churikova asked the israeli ambassador to ukraine mikhail brodskyi information really i know you that there was a discussion er comment on this information i know that there was indeed a discussion led by the prime minister of our defense contacts with

ukraine, and these contacts are best kept secret, i don't think it's right to discuss this in the press and public space, the only thing i can say is that we are very concerned about the cooperation between russia and iran, and we are concerned about the use of iranian weapons, primarily weapons against civilian targets in ukraine, because we are very well we understand that today these drones are used against ukraine, tomorrow they cannot be used against israel, that is why we are studying the experience of ukraine in countering this drone, we are working together with representatives of ukraine at all possible levels. good contacts and we will continue this work together direction on all levels очень хороший контакты we will live a year ago on march 16, the russians carried out an airstrike on the building of the mariupol drama theater from the shelling, hundreds of people were hiding there, the mariupol city council announced about 300 dead, but the exact number the victims of the bombing are still unknown, the russians

have been trying to cover up the traces of the crime for a year and now the drama theater building has been almost completely demolished iryna shinkarenko spoke with the president of mariupol television, mykola yogosychenko, left the city with his family the day before the airstrike . and now he keeps in touch with those mariupol residents who escaped after the bombing. around the beginning of march, i saw people with suitcases and bags walking in the direction of the drama theater. that the whole of mariupol from nafta believed that the mudram theater is such a place of power that there is such a place where a bomb will not fly, a shell or something else plus er, pragmatically, people understood that the drama theater is a building with very thick

walls i found a family in zaporizhzhia who survived in the drama theater and the family is grandparents and their granddaughter the first bomb hit the roof er concrete slabs collapsed these concrete slabs crushed father mother and younger sister with this girl and she was standing next to them i.e. slab she fell a few centimeters away from her, she saved her life, but there was that little sister standing next to her, and in front of this child's eyes, the sister was always suffocating, because her ribcage was crushed by a concrete slab, she saw it all. she was so she calmly told me about it. i sat down on my knees next to her and hugged her because i felt very sorry for her, so i hugged her, you know that there was such a lump of pain around her, it was straight, well

, it was so sticky black, yes, and here i was, i hugged her all this pain has gripped me and i will tell you, i cannot come to my senses there, well, for a few days, that is, ukraine is raising the issue of ukrainian children kidnapped by russia to the surface as much as possible, the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, dmytro kuleba , said in new york, according to the portal children of war from the beginning of a full-scale invasion russia has deported more than 16,000 and 200 children, human rights defenders say that in fact this number is much higher , so far only 308 children have been returned home, what should be done to return them all, iryna solomko found out , according to the chief ukrainian diplomat dmytro kuleba, the issue of returning children kidnapped by russia is one of the key for ukraine, he also noted that currently the key international organizations that care about this issue do not pay enough attention to it

, we are doing everything possible so that they involved as much as possible in the return of our children and prevention of new deportations. daria gerasimchuk, the president's representative for children's affairs and child rehabilitation, notes that the greatest cynicism is that russia deporting ukrainian children presents it as a noble act , saying that it is about evacuation and rescue. this is the largest number that sounds like 733 thousand ah, well, supposedly evacuated children, but everyone perfectly understands that these are deportees and there are currently no forced relocations lists of children that we would like the russian authorities to share with the eu or international organizations. ukraine is currently talking about more than 16,000 children abducted by russia. this is exactly the number of statements received from a-a relatives , sometimes parents of witnesses or local authorities regarding the fact that became known to daniel

raymond an american human rights investigator specializing in the investigation of war crimes and participated in the work on the world of yale university regarding the removed children , according to research, russia removed at least 6,000 children from ukraine to the network institutions for re-education and adoption on the territory of crimea and russia pleasantly emphasizes that such actions are classified as a component of genocide from the point of view of history. it is important to remember that one of the first trials in nuremberg against the nazis after the second world war was connected with the resettlement of jewish children with one group in another convention on genocide and the rome statute of 1998 , the act is considered as a component of the larger crime of genocide and crimes against humanity. i have never seen programs of forced relocation of children and re-education of such scale, according to raymond, the russian excuses for the so-called evacuation are also a violation of the norms of international law, because

in case of danger, children must be transferred to third countries. now they are essentially hostages of russia, also a specific convention states that in such conditions, children who are left without parents or separated with them should go to a neutral third country why and this is most important because they have a special status of protection in accordance with the geneva convention, which exists so that they are not pawns in a very dangerous and a very real game regarding the exchange of prisoners and negotiations on the end of the war, gerasimchuk says that russia uses several ways to separate children from their parents, this often happens during the so-called filtering measures before the release of the de-occupation of the territory of kherson, the russians carried out a panicked evacuation and evacuated themselves, taking away everyone they could and including children , as well as a study by yale university . russia also took children from boarding schools and

special hospitals in the kharkiv region almost immediately after the occupation and transferred parents of many children who lived in the occupied territories voluntarily sent children to summer camps in russia for their adoption. by conducting research, the repair team worked a lot with satellite images to establish specific places where they were resettled. but where are ukrainian children being held now ? the geography is very wide . we had the idea that all of them would be localized around the border, but it turned out to be true . in some cases, the team managed to identify the places where the so-called re-education of children mainly from the donetsk and luhansk regions, many of these institutions have been in use since 2014, but last summer raymond and his team recorded the most activity, and he is nothing in one of the cities of the republic. children are taught to own firearms and operate military

equipment . there is another military training complex in crimea. we do not have information on how many children have been returned home since the summer, but we see delays and suspensions of return dates in at least two camps. we have seen children who were given up for adoption there in adopted family, according to raymond, ukrainian children are not only hostages of russia, but also objects of domestic propaganda, since the war and for the russian domestic political audience began to talk about this so-called humanitarian project as a justification for the invasion for humanitarian purposes . putin partially devoted his new year's speech to evaluating the efforts of those and asked people to do more, therefore it is important to understand that the kremlin takes an active part in this process more than it seems without the involvement and pressure of the international community and

specialized organizations ukraine is unlikely will be able to return their children home ukraine should cooperate on this issue with the un red cross and other countries in order to encourage russia to enter data on the deported children, in addition to this, says the father of the ambassador for criminal justice of the state department these children should also be given the opportunity to communicate with their relatives in ukraine international committee the red cross must also have access to any areas where they are received to be able to ensure that they are treated properly and that they have contact with members of the gerasimchuk family says that it is very difficult to return children home because, unlike prisoners of war, there is no single algorithm of actions, and russia positions it as an evacuation, therefore it calls on other countries to join the fight for their return and to develop an appropriate mechanism from new york iryna solomko oleksiy kovalenko pavlo terekhov voice of america when in in

may, the russians destroyed the museum of hryhori skovoroda in kharkiv oblast, the international community was once again convinced of the invaders' intentions to destroy ukrainian culture, although the museum building did not survive, the most valuable exhibits still succeeded skovoroda's sculpture miraculously survived. recently, a similar sculpture of the ukrainian philosopher appeared in washington about the history of the creation of the american mandra skovoroda and the strength of the spirit of ukrainians. the ukrainian community of ichmond, led by grigoriy primak , with a request to immortalize the philosopher for the ukrainian orthodox church, they had no money, no formal organization, nothing

apart from a dream, they were real patriots grigory adored the frying pan for him, which seems to many ukrainians skovoroda was ukraine, the spirit of ukraine and a symbol and personification, and he dreamed of erecting a monument to him at that time about grigory, the frying pan mark and knew nothing knew the philosopher already in the process of work as i studied the pan, as they told me about it , my interest in this phenomenon and the phenomenon of its people gradually grew . people who had such a national hero, thinker, poet, philosopher, musician, i was almost on the track, but all this is almost intuitively remembered by mark with a minimal amount of information in the days before the internet to find authentic images of skovoroda and in america it was almost impossible

, there was no internet yet, plus language and cultural barriers from the original images, we only had one which it looked like a lithograph or a pencil drawing, the rest was given to me by the customers, a wood carving that looked very modern, and on the other hand, like icons and my first bead of skovorody. that's how it looked like an icon, i don't even know how i got there i don't know what the people who now come to the ukrainian home think. some say that i caught a frying pan. it took several years for the final version of the work to be preceded by two. so i had to look for compromises, i finally finished the work, placed it in the church in severspring, maryland, and that was the last time i saw the sculpture until one day

, about a year ago, i got a call from ruslan falkov and said that the ukrainian embassy has my statue of hryhoriy skovoroda. i never sign my works, it turns them into a commodity for my life. i never signed anything and skovoroda was not signed. how did he find me? i have no idea. she was in mirland state for a long time and then we do not know whether it was virginia that ended up in the state of virginia. we received a call from the embassy asking who exactly this sculpture belongs to, since it was at that time in the institute of the city of richmond, we were asked to find out its to identify exactly whose bed is this because they had no understanding is it ukrainian or maybe some slovak language or so on and they simply could not identify who this sculpture belongs to and we were just wildly impressed when we saw that it was simply unreal cool to become hryhoriy savych one of the best that i have ever seen, after that, such works of searching for the history

of where it happened, where this sculpture is from, who is the author, and it was simply amazing because i managed to find several newspapers of the year 92 that were one mention of the author with the first and last name is wrong, the sculpture was presented to the ukrainian embassy, ​​it was placed in the ukrainian house, which is currently the center of cultural diplomacy of ukraine, the usa for oksana markarova, a parcel of ukraine in the usa, a graduate of the kyiv-mohyla academy named after hryhoriy skovoroda, the figure of a philosopher has a personal meaning hryhoriy savych who wandered during his earthly life, his e incredible sculpture in general wandered and found an embassy already now 300 years after his birth and when we thought where exactly the best place will be where many more people will see him, where he will meet people and tell our story that it began 31 years ago, that it began not even 300

years ago, when hryhoriy savych was born, well , what better place than the ukrainian home where ukrainian life is raging in washington, we did not find the ukrainian house opened only a couple of months before the full-scale invasion of russia in february, they took a break and discussed whether it was ethical to continue cultural events when there was a full-scale war in ukraine and then still they still decided to resume their activities, because cultural diplomacy , says oksana markarova, is an integral part of the work to speed up the victory. this is what the russians would like for us to shut up, for us not to laugh, for us to die in despair, to give up, and so on. and in fact, our culture is a lot of why is the source of our inspiration and our struggle because , again, our culture reflects the century of our struggle for independence from the same enemy who is attacking back now to the headquarters

by an active promoter of ukraine scotcher today i see this nation of these people, this culture and their strength, they shocked the whole world with their heroism and bravery, the whole democratic world supports ukrainians. they are heroes, and it is because of this independence and strength that i saw in the pan that he is the perfect embodiment of the ukrainian spirit. skovoroda is a unique thinker. he is strong and persistent. simple philosophy and poetry that he combines powerful simple modest and apt and this is the beauty i understand his restlessness and his impatience impatience sounds like a bad

trait but not impatience and impatience pans in relation to many things allowed him to do a lot, he was not satisfied with banal things, he was annoyed by everyday life, he had no place for it, he tried to teach people to know themselves, if you know yourself, you know what you want to be satisfied with your work and your life, it helps to live in a complex world and poodles work on several projects at once, money is brought in by a line of professional steel craft knives for unique tables made of valuable wood on bronze, which allows you to work on other projects, so this last kamiana statue by doctors to the heroes of the pandemic cens optima i have created thousands of works during my life i have been working for more than 45 years most of them disappeared in the homes of the rich and i never saw them

again i do not even know where 99% of my works are and when they disappear in the homes of these rich people i i don't know who sees them, they just disappear. that's how i make a living. a person's dream is to create something that has an impact. it does something. skovoroda is such a job. i 'm 61 years old. to work on a series of ukrainian-themed sculptures that will be auctioned, the proceeds from the sale will go to the production of prostheses for ukrainian children who suffered as a result of the russian war for their presentation in a ukrainian home mark, who himself plays several musical instruments, writes

his own music, the couple says today for them there is nothing more important than helping ukraine nataliya lonneva kostyantyn golobchyk voice of america this is the story of the artist who created a sculpture of grigory skovoroda 9 years old that's why russia held an illegal referendum in crimea. trying to justify its occupation of the peninsula, since then ukrainians in crimea have suffered from human rights violations, but a few thousand left the peninsula. our next story is about crimean tatars who opened a restaurant opposite the russian embassy in warsaw, called the establishment crimea , hung crimean tatar and ukrainian flags at the entrance they are fed dishes of national cuisine about the story of the spouses ernest and elmira, their difficult path and dreams of returning

home again tell lesya bakalets from poland everyone the morning at ernest suleimanov's family begins with a kind of ritual, they take out three crimean tatar, ukrainian, and polish flags and hang them at the entrance to their restaurant right across from the russian embassy, ​​too. it makes me very happy, i can hang the flags in front of the russians so they can look at them. the crimean warsaw restaurant is open from january to this journalist, political figure ernest suleimanov searched for a long time for an open institution until he learned about an ideal place next to an imperfect neighbor. an acquaintance told me that there is a free place opposite the russian embassy. and i was already thinking about what to do next in life . it is possible to open a restaurant so that the whole family has work. language i thought

it would be great to troll them in this way in crimea , crimean tatar music plays and the delicious smell of homemade food guests are treated here only with national dishes, the most important chebureks , chebureks for crimean tatars, that is chebureks are everything for the crimean tatars, they are the basis of our gastronomic culture, we can eat them for breakfast, lunch, dinner , we treat guests, we eat them when we gather as a family , and we need to add a little water, we also prepare soup with small dumplings, it is such a mash-mash , it should be somewhere like this 14-16 servings these spoons and it used to be believed that if a girl can love small dumplings like this, then she

can already get married. such a good hostess , elmira became such a hostess thanks to her mother , she told me even in deportation in tashkent for children, only crimea is their real home, the best place that can be. the motherland is a test - he was also born and grew up in tashkent . his parents were deported from crimea when they were still very young. both families were able to return home only after the independence of ukraine, so in 2014, when crimea was seized by russia, the parents ernest and elmira refused to leave the peninsula for a long time . their journey to their homeland was too long in the family of ernest , who was already an activist of the revolution of dignity . it became dangerous to stay in crimea. of the so-called referendum, elmira's son ernest left the peninsula. he held rallies for the ukrainian crimea until announcements from his photo appeared on the poles saying that the last maidanite was wanted - this is what i remember that i remember how i stood on

kuibyshev square near the palace of pioneers and gave an interview on al-jazeera, i saw the cossacks following me. i asked the journalists to escort me to the car and as soon as we started moving, we started moving on our side and they . i would run away from them. my friends bought a ticket. to the train and they said that i had to go, then my photos were plastered all over simferopol and you had a widget as a way out. i hesitated. i have parents in the crimea. i thought that i would still be there, but my friends convinced me that it was already dangerous for me. when i ran to the train, because the i was already leaving, i saw people in camouflage going to the central entrance. but i managed to jump into the last car, it was already the last train that went from crimea to ukraine, about the last , according to the age that they were there, it was the last time that ernest saw crimea, he saw his relatives,

first seven i moved to kyiv, then to warsaw, when their son entered the local school , poland became ernest elmir's native place for the family a long time ago . written by my father, ceramics by her brother, all the dishes from their house during this time, elmira was allowed to go to the crimea by car several times, this was before the ukrainian license plates were changed there in russian, on a car, crimean license plate from ukraine, we have a crimean license plate, another ukrainian one, we specially left it, and we will return to crimea in the same car and with the same ukrainian license plates , while crimea loudly announces itself on long and usually empty belvederska street, where there is a russian the embassy in warsaw warned ernest that the place is not a tourist place, and from the very opening of the restaurant, full seating , the family keeps one table for themselves and the staff here. they gather during the day

to drink tea, no more than crimean mountains and the smell of crimean herbs, and that's why we prepare crimean tea with crimean herbs, as we say, but these are herbs. we buy them from greece, but there are also herbs like in crimea, and when we drink this tea, we feel as if we are in our homeland lesya bakalets the voice of america from warsaw and that's when we'll say goodbye. also watch our short briefings at 6 p.m. kyiv time on youtube and facebook, wherever you can ask us your questions live. thank you for trusting us and stay with us

. have a peaceful night and a good morning. before meeting see you soon, we are looking for 16-year-old serhiy samoilov. the search for him has been going on for over a year, but there is still no news. serhiy lived in mariupol and it was there that he met the war. it is known that he stayed in the city for the first two weeks. in early march, he tried to escape to a more peaceful place until still not alone, believe me, i am waiting with a computer , it was already stolen there, or it was lost, or the real computer could be connected to the computer somewhere, someone turned it on, no, the computer does not turn on, nothing. mother serhiia said that on the first day of the full-scale war in