[000:00:00;00] documentary trilogy, military intelligence of ukraine at sea, in the sky and on land, volunteers are needed to fly to mariupol, a unique combat air operation of military intelligence in ukraine, 86 days of siege of the garrison surrounded by more powerful forces of the aggressor, it was possible to maintain this garrison, people received hopes for all combat sorties in 16 helicopters of army aviation, we understood that sooner or later one of us would not return . 64 wounded were evacuated, 72 soldiers were landed, and cargo

was delivered. the sky azovstal airstrip on the air from washington the program of the ukrainian service voice of america time i am yuliya yarmolenko congratulations the international criminal court on friday issued arrest warrants for the president of russia vladimir putin and the commissioner for children's rights maria lvivova belova on charges of deportation of children from ukraine to russia that is a war crime, the decision is welcomed by human rights defenders, lawyers and analysts, calling it the tip of the iceberg, a warning shot, and only the beginning of bringing putin and russia to justice for crimes and atrocities in ukraine, more about the weight of the meaning of this decision, let's talk with my colleague oleksiy kovalenko, who is researching

this topic . congratulations to oleksii on how important this decision is. bringing russian president vladimir putin to justice for the crime of deportation of ukrainian children and it is very important that it is about personal criminal responsibility and how you in fact, many experts have already noted that this is only the tip of the iceberg, these are only the first investigations carried out by international organizations, and in particular by the international criminal court, and it is important that it is about the crime of deportation of children, because it is at the same time a war crime, it can be considered as an element of a genocidal attack , a genocidal war, and ultimately as part of crimes against humanity, we do not punish people. we remember that the usa recently admitted that russia commits crimes against humanity in ukraine and these

warrants for the arrest of putin's tricks and my of love biology were issued on the basis of evidence collected by the international criminal court team for many months, and in fact , when these warrants are finally issued, a lot depends on international cooperation, this is what the representatives of the international criminal court actually emphasized today, and it is very important that now all member states of the international criminal court they are obliged to cooperate with the court, which means that if putin goes to the territory of a participating state, they must arrest putin and we can listen to the details about this the process from the president of the international criminal court, with whom the voice of america spoke today, is legally obliged to fully cooperate with the court, which also includes the execution of arrest warrants from a practical point of view, if the suspect enters

the territory of a participating state, this participating state has a legal obligation obligation to arrest and report on this particular fortress, but it is clear that no one can force states to simply fulfill their legal obligation under the president alication treaty in this particular case the prosecutor presented charges regarding crimes or war crimes committed by the suspects and this was reviewed by independent judges who decided that there are sufficient grounds to believe that these crimes were committed by these persons and the result of this review is the arrest warrant issued today by the court oleksiy i reacted to today's news in ukraine and the international community , in fact, this was such an important news that we immediately saw the immediate reaction of both the ukrainian authorities and the international community

, for example, the office of the prosecutor general of ukraine andriy kostin, who recently reported on the fact that they recorded 71,000 declarations of war committed by russian forces on the territory of ukraine during the last movement, the prosecutor general's office stated that putin personally is now officially suspected of committing an international crime and the illegal industrial movement of children. we saw the reaction and from representatives of international human rights organizations, in particular, today human race watch welcomed the decision of the international criminal court and called it such a wake-up call for other potential criminals and it is very important that these warrants send a clear message that orders to commit such serious crimes against civilians or in general toleration of some serious crimes against the civilian population will never go unpunished and as we have already mentioned today it is important that this is only the tip of the iceberg

this is just the beginning, this is one of many decisions, one of many processes that will be considered later , and we also heard today the reaction from the us state department from john kirby , the coordinator of the us national security council with of strategic communications we can listen to him now writing the latest news we will need to look at this in more detail before we can make any official comment beyond that president biden has clearly stated that we want to make sure that russia will be held accountable for war crimes crimes against humanity what they are doing in ukraine against ukrainians. we continue to help international organizations in their collection of evidence and when they begin to analyze this evidence and comment from the white house oleksiy remains less than a minute will it affect the possibility of creating a tribunal to investigate the crime of aggression on what what is ukraine trying to advance yes in fact, this is a very important step

towards the idea of ​​cooperation between different countries to create an international tribunal to investigate malicious aggression because the crime of aggression is the most important and most important war crime which can be committed by one state against another, and you established this in the nuremberg trial after the second world war, and if there was no crime of aggression, in the end , there would be no other war crimes and the illegal deportation of children and everything else. and literally today, we spoke with new york university professor jennifer refel on this topic, we can listen to her now, the international criminal court is bringing charges of war crimes, and the decision to start a war is a crime of aggression, and the international criminal court has no of justice in this regard, there is a gap in its statute, so we are trying to fill this gap with the help of a special tribunal on the crime

of aggression, now the number of states that this support thank you oleksia for your expertise, i will remind you that my colleague oleksiy kovalenko was in contact with the studio. the united states is preparing to send another package of military aid to ukraine, which will include weapons and ammunition that will play a critical role on the battlefield. in the coming weeks and months, yes john kirby coordinator of strategic communication , the us national security council in an interview with the voice of america, accordingly , the question of whether western partners are speeding up their aid to ukraine now, in order to avoid a lack of ammunition, we pass security equipment into the hands of ukrainian soldiers with unprecedented speed and with a sense of urgency

that we all share and will continue to do so in the future . of the united states i think you will see in this package the following materials weapons and ammunition that we believe will be vital to the success of ukraine in the coming weeks and months meanwhile slovakia has already the second country that decided to transfer mig-29 fighter jets to ukraine, as prime minister eduard geger said, to protect life in the white house, the news was welcomed, but john kirby noted that the decision of the united states to transfer the f-16 will not affect it , but he emphasized that the ukrainians are excellent they know how to manage and maintain mig-29 fighters , so they will be a good addition to the aircraft fleet of the ukrainian air force. more about the significance of this news about how ukrainians are mastering

western-style equipment , let's talk with our correspondent in london right now by bohdan tsyupan, the decision of poland and slovakia to transfer can newer western-style aircraft be able to? because when discussing the actual development of events in this direction , many commentators. appeared in ukraine within a day after poland did it, that is, it is obvious that it is a non-accidental and coordinated step, also if we look at what was heard a little earlier, in particular, from

the british minister of defense ben wallis literally on the anniversary of the russian invasion of ukraine in february, we can recall that it was then that the british minister of defense said that he would like or that great britain would like to push the idea of ​​transferring these soviet aircraft to ukraine as soon as possible so as not to wait for the training of ukrainian pilots on western planes, and a particularly important moment, if we recall, was that britain stated that they cannot provide western planes to ukraine now for some reasons , in particular, due to the duration of the training, etc., etc. etc., but britain said that now the western allies, and in particular the british, are ready to provide air defense to their allies , especially those who agree to transfer their

aircraft, in particular , old soviet-made aircraft to ukraine, and now we have such a step, that is, i think that a certain chain is being built that indicates that that behind the scenes, behind the scenes, very difficult work was taking place in serious negotiations, and don't forget that apart from nato, apart from military allies working on defense issues there is also the european union, which provides those countries that transfer these weapons to ukraine, very expensive weapons, these and other weapons, that they are compensated from special funds of the european union, and we are talking about hundreds of millions of euros, obviously, and bohdan dollars. of the fourth generation, is

there anything known about the fate of this program at the moment we know very little about it, we know that it is obviously already happening, but for example we do not know in what is it, do ukrainian pilots actually learn to fly on some specific western airplanes of certain models, or is it about, for example, training ukrainian aviators to use certain western methods of waging war by air, we do not know about it , even today, when i had the opportunity to speak with the ukrainian ambassador here in london we have a stopover, so i asked him in particular about this training program and he also refused to speak and tell the details. he emphasized that it was about

the announcements that will be made about this later, which, as he said, will certainly be a surprise for the countries of the world and, in particular , for russia. we will wait for this surprise. more than ten countries are talking about a serious number of people and about what is happening that the ambassador himself saw when he attended training programs in britain in particular. he agreed to tell. today in a conversation with the voice of america, i see first just civilians like you and me who arrived in sweaters and jeans and after 5 weeks when they were lying down, it was military people, motivated, they knew how to act , the equipment was given to them by the british, they

took it with them this year, great britain at least planned to prepare 20 000 soldiers is again in line with the plans we have for pilots and tankers and all the others who are already preparing separately for this massive program. i know that there is a need and i am ready on the part of the british side to increase this number as much as ukraine needs for the timely preparation of armed, these armed romanians who will participate in the liberation of our land with us, in addition to great britain , the european training is also held on the date of what so and so and when about er when the ukrainian ambassador spoke about time about that before what time are they preparing the ukrainian military , who is currently talking about a lot of european things , and the ukrainian diplomat talked about the expected spring offensive of ukrainian troops to

liberate ukrainian lands, definitely bohdan, thank you very much. my colleague bohdan tsyupin was in touch from london. what do you think? let's continue the issue. in search of their son , the bieletsk family has been trying to find their 23-year-old roman , who was a defender of azov for months. the red cross reports that the young man is in captivity, but not clarifies the location, instead, the ministry of defense informed the family several times about the death of roman, whom to believe, the parents are trying to find an answer christian shevchenko and dmytro savchuk met with the biletsk family, who temporarily live in to the american state of washington, their story continues. i watched terabytes of videos. my eyes hurt. there is a video. well, it is very episodic , literally from the outside, it is very difficult to recognize, but there is hope

that maybe it is him, maybe there is a similar guy. well, i am not sure, because he must have changed and lost weight, if in pale he seems to have a broken nose. well, i think so. i saw several videos where i gestured with a couple of hands . i could understand that it was a month . in march, valery roman and their six children fled from the russian occupation to the state of washington their relatives live, although they are safe, the parents do not feel relief , they do not know what happened to their eldest son, a 22 -year-old novel, a defender of azovstali. this is my son. a novel

of transition. i take the children out and he stays i never gave up hope that he was alive before the large-scale russian invasion 23-year-old roman was on annual leave after serving three years as a contractor in the 131st separate intelligence battalion on february 24, in chornobayivka, which is located 40 km from the village of lymanets, where the bilets programers lived, the first explosions took place. roman made a decision, he said, i will not stay here , i will not be able to sit through it when my friends with whom i served for three years die. they even knew where to turn because the kherson beryslav military commissariat, to which we were attached, was captured in the first days of the war, not even days, but the first hours of the war, and

after that we went with him to the snyuriv bashan military commissariat, this is mykolaiv oblast i wanted to go with him, but i couldn't leave my wife and family as teenagers, the family was forced to leave kherson oblast because roman's father himself fought against the anti-terrorist operation in 2014-15, so he could become the object of russian revenge, the decision had to be made quickly, it was successful in two nights me through the steppes so as not to run into russian roadblocks and other things to take the children to the kirovohrad region. in the meantime, roman got into the 36th brigade of marines . he initially served in mykolaiv. but already at the beginning of march, the brigade was transferred to mariupol. i i began to fear that he had been killed. we were in rivne for some time and i went to buy a small backpack in order to join my husband in poland. we were already on our way and met

a woman who had left mariupol in small shops, and that is why she began to cry. they say that when they were leaving the convoy and it was so organized, there were many checkpoints, there were very, very many russian checkpoints, and there were battles at the first checkpoints, and there were bodies of soldiers lying right on the road when people came out to remove them, the russians did not allow him, they did not go straight along them in april, the family went to the united states, and the 36th brigade, in which roma served, joined the forces of the azov regiment on the territory of azovstal. he said that i am alive. i told him, "are you where i think

? " here the name is steel, he was in a good mood, because probably after some battles, it's just adrenaline. i think so, he had enough, such a cheerful voice. he said that he loves us. i also told him how we can help you, he says only by prayer than later defenders azovstali surrendered to russian captivity, it was just, well, it was very painful for us, how they addressed them, how they treated us, we understood that

they were getting into the hands of the inhumans. well, the parents tried, but could not find their son on the video . in june, they decided through a lawyer to contact the military unit in where roman served, they were informed that their son had died on may 17 during the battle, the parents had already begun to accept the grief, and a month later their relative, roman's uncle, called from the ukrainian coordination headquarters for prisoners, in which they claimed that they had received information from the red cross regarding the fact that roman serhiyevich is in captivity, official confirmation allows our country to work, i started contacting any organizations based on old connections in the army, wrote , called, read, what is the current situation in the country, i understand that few people can give me

though some information and the ministry of defense claimed by phone that the novel had died, the parents say, and in july biletskyi received a letter from the united security service center of ukraine in which, with reference to information from the international committee of the red of the cross, it is claimed that the novel is in russian captivity , the parents now say in the censuses that they do not pick up the phone. the hope that he is alive and everything will be fine. and sometimes i just feel this grief that my son might

be killed. well, the most terrible thing is probably for the parents it is not certainty. it is difficult to eat. even the greatest fear is what the aggressor country will not lead to an exchange and we will no longer be able to find out anything about the future fate on facebook, we love you . come back alive, hoping that one day you will receive an answer from the state of washington. life and death consecration at a nun's aid on the maidan and now psychological support for military personnel and the families

of the dead is the path of the heroine of our next story, sister anesia , met with her in lviv omelyano okhlanik and yuriy dankevich five years in the army 18 years in the monastery according to the passport oksana according to the monastic name sister anesia according to the first letter e of the christian name and my christian name anna and accordingly the monastic name was chosen anisia and in translation it means useful useful in the armed forces ukraine this woman was an instructor on her account of 526 parachute jumps, two of them during international training almost became fatal , the first one my parachute did not open and in the second one i continued on the water after landing i was paralyzed by the cold water and i

went to the bottom lake 8 meters deep on polygon and already almost near the bottom, it was quite calm and comfortable. i still sort of recorded that this is actually drowning, this is more or less such a peaceful death, but when i already calmed down and accepted that this is how it happens, i remembered that i was wearing a life jacket and in order for it to work, you have to press a button in a certain place and the hands were spasmodic, but somehow, somehow, somehow, somehow, i pressed it and i was immediately thrown out like a ball. oksana was discharged from the army in 2005, in 2013-2014 already as a nun anesia, she provided spiritual care to the participants during the revolution of dignity on the independence square in kyiv, i was ill for a long time and i was not the only one with bronchitis, and already two years after the maidan, from the military who worked on that

topic, i would have known that some kind of dangerous chemical weapon was used there, and when those tires burned, some kind of chemical weapon was used. gas and as a result of breathing that gas, a large number of people were injured and some even died of bronchitis, a monk who was uh continuously in that plaque of the chapel on the maidan, then he died, he died of bronchitis in 2014, sister anesia i started working with the military as a volunteer psychologist and got an education as a gestalt therapist. the army provides education and it lasts a lifetime, and this is the common language in which i can speak with people who are also related to the military. blueberry day in the monastery starts at 5:30 from the morning prayer on february 24, 2022, when the war began, she was on a retreat, according to the terms of the retreat, there is complete silence with the phone turned off, and accordingly, nothing bothered

us, we were not aware of these uh events and on february 24 , we found ourselves right inside this retreat oh, i in the morning i went out on the balcony where i lived and two rockets flew over my head, the center for providing assistance to combatants in lviv, where anesia's sister worked at the beginning of the war. she works with the military and their families. when someone in the family is at war , it is the most expensive thing possible. to give and, accordingly, it is necessary to understand the price of this lost life, this is the price of our life , and i am very grateful to every mother and every wife who lost someone for the fact that they raised this person so well for the fact that they understood

i was allowed to be there to give my life. i am personally very grateful. and i feel responsible for my life that it has this price paid by someone else. well , every day and yuriy dankevich for the vote of america from lviv download the mobile application of the voice of america, the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to to the built-in vpn service, read the news , watch informative programs and videos, and also listen to podcasts in ukrainian , we have voice of america services thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian join also on our broadcasts of briefings from monday-friday at 18:00 kyiv time, we talk about the most important statements and decisions that directly affect ukraine. join these broadcasts, ask questions, we

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