[000:00:00;00] to increase the retirement age from 57 to 59 years, the parisian cleaners do not agree with this and tried to convince the authorities to change their intention with huge piles of smelly garbage on the streets of the most beautiful capital of the world. well , cotton and a fire in russia another fire in russia burned in russian rostov on the bottom , in particular, a building of the border department of the fsb , eyewitnesses claim that before that they heard explosions above the building, a tall plume of thick black smoke was visible, according to preliminary data, the cause of the fire was an explosion in the warehouse of the border the fire department involved dozens of firefighters and a lot of fire equipment, the most interesting thing is that the fsb later explained that the ignition happened due to a simple short-circuit , this time they didn't even say that someone

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enough for the russians for the ukrainians to squeeze out the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america time -time and i, nataliya leonova . congratulations, nothing about ukraine. without ukraine, the start of negotiations between ukraine and russia should be the complete withdrawal of russian troops from ukraine, the coordinator of of strategic communications of the us national security council, john kirby, commenting on the visit, all calls to moscow and the previously proposed peace plan by china regarding the russian war against ukraine , the leaders of china and russia held an informal meeting in the kremlin on monday, everyone arrived in moscow for the first three-day visit in four years official negotiations will take place on tuesday in narrow and extended formations regarding military aid to russia

. decision said john kerby we still don't think china has rejected that possibility but we also don't see any indication that they are moving in that direction or have decided to provide weapons or are going to do that we still don't think it's in china's best interest to go ahead and help it is hard for putin to kill innocent ukrainians. it is hard to believe that they can, that it is in their interests, it would also contradict the fact that, according to the president, this is his ultimate goal. and today he published a column about it, where he talked about sovereignty, territorial integrity. search a peaceful way to end this war and the provision of weapons seems incompatible with these goals china is preparing a diplomatic cover for russia's atrocities in ukraine yes the visit these calls to moscow was commented by the us secretary of state anthony blinken he expressed distrust of the so-called peace plan from the deceased after meeting with vladimir putin

all even the decision of the hague court on the warrant for the arrest of the president of russia did not stop dvinkin how everyone met zimpin in moscow and the reaction of the usa to his visit iryna shinkarenko with the orchestra at the airport will tell the leader of china was greeted with a grandson and congratulatory posters on the way to moscow in russia. this is the first visit of winping to russia in the last four years and the first visit of a world leader to vladimir putin since the international criminal court issued a warrant for his arrest at that time in at least 123 countries of the world president russia may be arrested, the head of china calls putin a dear friend and declares that he believes in his support in the next presidential elections . i know that the next presidential election will be held in your country next year and thanks to your strong leadership, russia has made significant progress in prosperity and well-being. i am sure that the people of russia support you in your best efforts

. ukraine's foreign minister said they expect beijing to use its influence on moscow to force putin to end the war against ukraine, meanwhile in washington before the visit were more than skeptical with an eloquent gesture, secretary of state anthony blinken believes that the very fact that the warrant for putin's arrest did not stop the chinese leader from visiting russia means that the president always goes to russia, a few days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for president putin, suggests that china does not feel responsible for holding the kremlin accountable for the atrocities committed in ukraine, and even instead of condemning them, it rather provides diplomatic cover for russia to continue . commit the same crimes, one of the issues during xi jinping's three-day visit to moscow is china's so-called peace plan for ukraine, vladimir putin in the kremlin told the head

china, which has studied it carefully and is supposedly open to the negotiation process, emphasized that they welcome any initiatives that will help stop the fire, but in china's plan they did not see the main demand to withdraw russian troops from ukraine. the world should not be misled by any tactical step of russia, which supports china or any other country to freeze the war on its own terms, one side of this conflict, ukraine has already put forward the formula of a just peace, if china intends to support the end of the war based on the principles of the un charter, it can communicate daily with president zelenskyi and ukraine and use your influence to force moscow to withdraw its forces. look at the first line of the chinese proposal , it says that they want to respect sovereignty, we agree with that, son , everyone must agree. about the ceasefire right now, which confirms

russia's gains, joe expressed concern that zing ping did not speak with volodymyr zelenskyi before the visit to moscow, according to the publication phenen show times he plans to call the president of ukraine after the trip iryna shynkarenko oleksiy usyka voices of america announced a new aid package to ukraine in the amount of $350 million us state secretary anthony blinken reported that the package includes more ammunition for american howitzers and howitzers, as well as ammunition for combat vehicles infantry bradley missiles harm anti-tank weapons river boats and other equipment the european union reached an agreement to send ukraine one million 155 mm shells during the year the european defense agency has clarified what the joint purchase of ammunition to help ukraine and replenish its own reserves has been agreed by 17 countries of the european union and norway, we will talk more about this agreement with our european correspondent bohdan tsyupyn, who

joins our broadcast from london . greetings bohdane. in this agreement and when ukraine will already start receiving these ammunitions, as it was said in the news, it is about a european plan calculated for a year and this means that probably the first shipments of these ammunitions will begin to arrive soon, because we are talking about at least two of the most important directions. therefore, the european union agreed that 1 billion euros will be allocated to compensate those countries that will provide ammunition to ukraine with ammunition from their already existing arsenals, that is, it will probably be able to happen very quickly, and by the way

, as the european representative for foreign policy and defense, josé borel, said, it is about compensation at the level approximately half of the cost. therefore, the cost of these ammunitions in general, its volumes will obviously be serious, also the second part of this agreement provides that a billion euros will be allocated to order, that is, these projectiles and ammunition will actually only be produced or they are already at the stage of ordering and production, the most important thing about today in eu representatives stated in brussels that this is about reaching a political pre -political agreement because there were many questions. for example, whether only european countries

should participate in this or others have currently agreed that up to 20 countries of the european union are participating in this program and in addition to this, norway is outside the eu and , for example, is a representative of a country that was actually one of the first to offer such a joint european program was very i am satisfied with these words, everything is okay, people. today seems to be a good day for us, because we reached a political agreement on providing ukraine with one million 155 mm caliber ammunition. the most important thing is that we completed the negotiations and this shows one thing. if there is a desire, there will be a way to realize it. bohdan international khersongazy issued an arrest warrant for putin and

the so-called children's shoemaker of the russian federation, maria lviv and belova, who are accused of war crimes , in particular against ukrainian children, i comment on european leaders of this decision and what it means on a practical level, it is commented by representatives of the eu, and in particular, many commented on it today in london because it was a good opportunity, representatives of 30 countries gathered the conference here in london was organized by great britain and the netherlands, and here representatives of 30 countries, more than 30 countries , discussed ways to support the international criminal court, the court that issued the warrant for the arrest of the russian president, because this institution does not have, for example, its own police or or other law enforcement agencies, in many respects , the activity of this criminal international

criminal court depends on the support of participating countries and it was here in london that additional funds for the funding of investigations into the work of the court and, in particular, work related to ukraine was announced today here, and the warrant for the arrest of the russian president was called , of course, extraordinary and extraordinary, but on the other hand, evidence that everyone should be equal before the law does not necessarily have to be ordinary soldiers, or in this case , the president and the british minister of justice stated the importance of the wider importance of this decision of the international criminal court

. so, i think that we can assume and say that this is a historic moment when it comes to the war in ukraine and it underlines the vital role of the international criminal court and the independence of the prosecutor responsible for prosecuting war criminals and it also sends a much more powerful and far-reaching signal to despots and dictators everywhere that they will be brought to justice that they are in london representatives of the country who were going to the conference said that today they collected an additional four million dollars to finance the work, in particular the work of the international criminal court in the investigation of war crimes against ukraine, and many are also expecting new, presumably

, the announcement of new cases and possibly even new arrest warrants from the hague. of any scenario of the development of the war , former national security adviser shandon bolton believes. in his opinion, beijing seeks regional and with time and global harmony, alyosha and allies have leverage to stop he said about this in an interview, my colleagues are tatyana vorozhko, also in the opinion of a talker who is considering the possibility of participating in the presidential election campaign of 2024 , the nato outfit should develop a clear strategy for the victory of ukraine and provide all the necessary resources for this. opinion to what extent is china already involved on the side of russia and can it

start or dramatically increase military support? i think china is very actively supporting russia, of course we know that they have significantly increased the purchase of oil and gas from russia probably more than is publicly reported they would be happy to eventually do this on a permanent basis i have no doubt that sanctioned russian financial institutions are laundering money through the opaque chinese financial system in global markets and i think china can help russia in several indirect ways regardless whether he supplies weapons to russia directly or not, for example, he can sell weapons in belarus and then what happens to them, he can sell weapons to north

korea and what will happen to them then, the world is complicated and it's easy to say we don't supply weapons directly to russia but achieve the same result . what is china's ultimate goal here? what is its interest in supporting russia ? i think china has made it very clear that they want regional hegemony along their indo-pacific periphery and ultimately they want global hegemony in they no longer hide this in their public statements, and it is very beneficial for china to turn russia into its satellite with agricultural products , minerals, a huge territory, direct access to europe is a very convenient neighbor for them, do the usa and its western allies have strong enough leverage on china , economic leverage, and is beijing sensitive to economic pressure? i think the west in general really has a huge economic influence on china, but they are afraid to use it

. america was afraid i i think now they are a little less afraid when we see that china has used many of its commercial relations as a weapon . a little more work but you know that in buyer seller relationship neither side dominates it is two equal sides so if we use our economic power against china it can have a big effect but at the same time china is positioning itself as a peacemaker they just agreed to restore diplomatic of relations between saudi arabia and iran, they presented peace between russia and ukraine , it became known about jinpin’s visit to moscow , a virtual conversation with zelenskyi is possible. isn’t it similar to the fact that they they want to move in a different direction. no, this is a propaganda campaign. i think we should

look at china, our enemy , realistically. the chinese are very effective in the information war, but in the place of president zelensky, i would be very careful about this chinese peace plan, not perceive it as something disinterested and objective. how do you generally assess the military aid that ukraine will receive from the us and its partners? i think that military aid, including intelligence, was obviously very important for ukraine in defense against a russian invasion. but i think that it was not enough. i don't think that nato has a clear strategy. i don't think that nato countries, in particular the usa, have clearly stated their goals. until you define your goals, you don't know what resources you need to achieve them and how to do it. i think that we were deterred by russia we obviously failed to deter russia before the invasion but

they are deterring us we are restrained in how much aid we give to ukraine i think it plays into the hands of american isolationists if we can't say what our goals are they say that we are in another endless war. we are giving ukraine an unlimited check. i do not consider these arguments to be true, but if the usa can clearly formulate that their goal is the complete restoration of the sovereign territory of ukraine, then they will be able to clearly formulate how to achieve this goal. no less, you mentioned that russia uses deterrence against the united states now i see two types of deterrence the first is the threat of escalation what do you think about refraining from giving more aid to ukraine because of a possible composition from russia well, i don't see what russia is going to escalate to. in the traditional sense, we significantly overestimated russian capabilities at

the beginning of the war, the combat equipment that russia put forward was ineffective, they did not get better, they suffered huge losses, where is the hidden army that the russians are going to use to carry out conventional aggression against any which other part of nato and the second and the nuclear threat should other countries be afraid of a nuclear threat from russia i believe today more than a year after the invasion when putin has hinted or directly talked about nuclear potential, it has been proven that this was a bluff in every case representatives of our intelligence testified in congress in an open hearing that they have not yet seen any changes in the deployment of non-russian nuclear forces i could imagine the circumstances when russia's use of tactical nuclear weapons would be most likely under the condition of a catastrophic defeat on the battlefield or a danger to the putin regime itself

we are not yet close to either of these circumstances but instead of experiencing what threat putin poses to us what about our threat to putin so that he knows that if he even thinks about it, vladimir putin himself will suffer . i think behind the scenes, he received a rather harsh warning, so i really do not think that this is likely to happen. one of the established restrictions on the supply of weapons to ukraine is that that ojsc strikes on military targets on the territory of russia, how can ukraine win the war without striking the enemy's military targets on its territory, including factories where weapons are produced - they factoris i don't think it is possible to win the war only on the defensive, imagine the circumstances when the ukrainians advance the front line to the internationally recognized borders and

the presence of russian forces is reduced to a much smaller area how will you finally push them out if you cannot attack inside russia and look at the asymmetry of the rules of hostilities russia has committed an act of unprovoked aggression against of ukraine and it can hit targets in any part of the country without consequences and they only aim at civilian objects, but ukraine cannot strike military targets in russia or crimea, this is a recipe failures for ukraine, is this really what we want? i don’t think so, pretender. and getting involved in it is not in the interests of the united states. how dangerous is this position and where does it come from? it is clear that this is not a territorial dispute . in this case, i made a clear

analogy with taiwan and the threat from china , the strategic and conceptual question is the same for both, whether ukraine and taiwan will be free and independent states or not, i think it is in the interests of america to make sure that they remain free and independent states, therefore i believe that this is a vital national interest of the usa. i believe that the way biden tried to justify aid to ukraine by presenting it as part of the wilsonian struggle between autocracies and democracies , talking about an international order based on rules is a big mistake, you cannot inspire americans to protect the rules-based international order, but you can do it if you call for help to a country that is struggling to defend itself against a larger aggressor and where our interests are directly affected, this is the language that biden should use and this is what rondesantis and other republicans

should also say, the full version in the interview with john bolton, see on our youtube page and read on the website of the ukrainian service of the voice of america in peaceful life teachers, farmers, aitishniks, and now soldiers , stormtroopers, due to the full-scale offensive of russia , they were forced to leave their families and their favorite professions and take up weapons, their lives . now it is shelling of trenches and deadly danger, and the main motivation is to protect loved ones and one's own right to a peaceful life. anna kostya shevchenko and pavel sukhodosky talked about military life with stormtroopers in donbas, the task is to disembark from bmp as soon as possible and take up combat positions. for soldiers and pass irregularly, since the intensity of fighting

in the donetsk region is as high as possible, after combat missions, the attack aircraft return to the place of temporary deployment, so let's see fighters say that during the long months of war, someone else's abandoned house has already become a second home. 40-year-old vasyl has been fighting since the end of august 2022 until the large-scale invasion of russia. he worked as a school music teacher in the lviv region. he says that the children from his school are waiting for his return and constantly support him with drawings and letters. they are interested in when

i will come. well, they want me to come back . well, it's not up to me. i'll be back when the war ends. one of vasyl's brothers, 39-year-old artem, had his own before the war. business in the it sphere in chernihiv and was going to buy an apartment, the full-scale invasion of russia changed his plans in may 2022, the man went to the front as a volunteer, first we were transferred to the kherson region, we took part in operations supporting e-e sweepers and so on, after that we were transferred here and we were in a semi-forest, in different conditions, and in rough and flat, and in different conditions, we are preparing for combat, our men are the best, the best healthy tasks of paratroopers are different, and they have to clear the territory from the enemy during a counterattack, and still hold

defensive combat positions, says artem, in general, what i have encountered, these trenches are better. it is good if there is a dugout, if it was made in time, did someone make it, or did we make it, and accordingly, we hold this position, conduct observation, and in the event of an enemy attack on the position, we shoot him down the glory of heroes is already used to shelling, says artem, he cannot get used to losing his brothers at any moment, a person is here, but he is gone, and accordingly , this is how, in principle, recently we also lost very good guys, regardless of the tasks and what needs to be done, a 29-year-old farmer with oleg vin of the lviv region remembers until the end he did not believe in the reality of a full-scale offensive , a pacifist in his life

. the man did not believe. he has served in the airborne assault troops since february 26 , 2022. he recently lost close friends . when guys die, they are decent guys. mostly all young people, all under 30 years old and single, there are such older people, but it is very difficult to save money by name, especially when two of my boyfriends died, and i was planning to go on vacation with one of them, the two of us had already planned to go together, so to speak, i will have a hard time living here for the first time, oleg got combat experience in the kherson direction, he says that in donbas, the combat operations are even more active, to effectively carry out military operations of his unit , the coherence that everyone knows what he is responsible for helps today with us, just as there is a military officer from my department, he returned to us they will have already worked so hard with injuries that everyone knows

what they have to do even without words when the customs officer andriy, who returned to the front after being wounded, says that in war a special bond is formed between people, the man worked for many years abroad at a technical school at factories and a year before the invasion of russia, he returned home on february 26, 2022, he went to the front at the end of january 2023, the man was wounded by shrapnel. during enemy shelling , it took a month for him to recover legally. on february 28, andriy returned to the formation of his main the motivation now is to win the right to a peaceful life for new generations of ukrainians, well, to protect our state from the enemy, to repel it , so that, well, our children are there, there are grandchildren. i think