[000:00:00;00] on march 26 at 19:00, ukraine will make its debut in the euro 2024 qualifiers against england, connect megogo and support the main team of the country. fm galicia has prepared its answer. and we heard that our armed forces promised a spring counteroffensive to the occupier, so fm galicia will be in the formation of an informational spring counterattack, you will hear and you will even see life goes on, the war is going on galicia is not

enough for the russians for the ukrainians on the air from washington the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america time time i am yuliya yarmolenko i congratulate you canada will be to continue to stand side by side with ukraine as long as necessary , us president joe biden and canadian prime minister justin triduk stated this during a speech in the canadian parliament. ukraine is among the key issues discussed by the leaders of the two countries during the negotiations. president biden is in speaking in parliament on a two-day visit to canada, trudeau and biden thanked each other for their partnership in supporting ukraine , honored the courage and indomitability of the ukrainian people and assured that their support will never waver. as you well know

mr. president, canada will continue to stand firmly side by side with ukraine , no matter what it takes toyed golds, both of our countries are partners on whom ukraine and the world can count, let's once again confirm that we will do everything to keep the torch of freedom burning brightly and we will support the people of ukraine we won't budge she oh putin thought he would succeed in disbanding nato but his lust for land grabs and power has so far failed the ukrainian people with love for their country

will win the next 12 months to help kyiv to resist the russian invasion, the eu supports ukraine in its unceasing quest for freedom, the statement of the president of the european council charm-michel, we will stand with ukraine as long as necessary, he emphasized more about the results of the eu leaders and not only that, we will talk with bohdan tsyupin, who is currently on the in connection with the studio bohdane vita has the leaders via video link at this summit called on them to speed up aid to ukraine and to provide, among other things, missiles with a longer range and fighter jets, can we expect that europe not only munitions, which are definitely important now, but actually the list of requests , so to speak, from president zelenskyi for help to european partners, was quite large, in addition to weapons , the ukrainian president spoke about what is necessary, for example, to speed up and start

negotiations already this year about ukraine's accession to the european union, he also very clearly emphasized the need for further sanctions and economic pressure on russia, as for weapons, let's not forget that supply assistance to ukraine takes place both within the framework of eu programs and outside them, and such european countries that are not members of the eu as norway and britain help in their own way, they help separately and the actual support of the european union to ukraine is also of great importance in the economic plan and about that for example, the president of the european commission, ursula fonderlein, spoke in brussels, of course

we will continue to provide ukraine with all possible support, just this week we allocated a new part of microfinance assistance for one and a half billion euros, with this help ukraine will continue to function while defending ourselves and in this context we will again increase our assistance with military equipment. i also welcome the decision by the foreign affairs council to supply ukraine with a million rounds of ammunition over 12 months . who try to prevent the rapprochement of china with russia and how they comment on the so-called peace proposals of the country, well, actually, it is not so much the rapprochement of china with russia that worries me, but the fact that china does not

condemns moscow for aggression against ukraine and china does not actually reject the possibility of supplying weapons of aggression to russia that almost all the countries of the world practically ask china not to do what they are trying to do in connection with this well , first of all, it became known, for example, these days that spanish prime minister pedro sanchez is going to be in beijing on the 30th of march, and he said that the issue of ukraine , the issue of deterring russia and putting pressure on russia to stop its aggression in ukraine will be at the forefront of his conversations also today it became known that the next visit of a key european leader, the fate of macron, will probably take place with the participation of the president of the european commission , ursula fondelaien, and president macron said that in this way there will be an opportunity to present a common

european position, since, as he stated , he is currently not authorized to represent the entire european union, but only specifically france that is, the europeans are acting very actively . and their own hope is that china will still try to restrain russia from the worst possible confrontations. and there is also macron about i said this a little earlier, here is an excerpt from this explanation. i think that anything in the direction of peace is good, but peace is only possible if russia's aggression stops first . that china undertakes to join efforts to achieve peace that is good i will go to china myself in april now it is obvious that china should help us put pressure on russia to

never use chemical or nuclear weapons weapons and china has already done so, but also for russia to stop aggression before the negotiations. bohdan has literally 30 seconds left, is there a consensus in europe that any peace negotiations should begin only after russia withdraws its troops and a consensus that negotiations will eventually be necessary and this is what president zelenskyi said in particular when he proposed convening a special peace summit . perhaps in one of the countries of europe, in principle , everyone is for peace, the only question is that as the european representatives insist at first russia must stop aggression bohdan. thank you very much, people of bohdan. the united states introduced additional sanctions against the lukashenko regime, in particular for the suppression of

the democratic movement in belarus and support for the russian war in ukraine. and the us treasury department added nine people to the sanctions list, three institutions would also block lukashenka's plane, these actions emphasize readiness the united states to bring to justice the regime in minsk due to its complicity in the unjustified war waged by the russian federation against ukraine, said in a statement by the ministry of finance, the leader of the opposition in belarus svitlana tikhanovskaya, who is currently in washington emphasizing that the belarusian people should not be identified with the lukashenko government in an interview with my colleagues natalka of the song , she declared that belarus is on the side of belarusians on the side of the ukrainian people and expressed the hope that washington will develop a strategy of support for a democratic belarus.

it seems to me that they are not paying attention to belarus and some politicians do not understand how the fate of belarus is connected with the fate of ukraine. i want to explain here that the war cannot end. until belarus is free , we cannot leave belarus for later, even for one day. mobilized within the framework of the regional crisis and this crisis needs to be solved comprehensively, we propose to be consistent in a bilateral approach to belarus in order to punish the regime and support the people because we understand that only belarusians will liberate belarus in 2014 belarus accepted the minsk negotiations and wanted to be a peacemaker in russia's war against ukraine in 2022. the country became an active supporter of this war on the side of russia. in an interview with maria ulyanovska, the former belarusian diplomat pavlo slyonkin talked about why we should not expect an invasion of the belarusian army and whether there is a future in the relations of belarus with the west and whether it is worth counting on the belarusian opposition

their interview further lukashenko has to maneuver between the interests of putin and his own interests or do you believe that will belarus invade ukraine or will belarus join the active hostilities of russia? it depends on putin. this is not the decision that will be made in minsk. there is a lot of news and analysis even in the russian-controlled media that say that russia is pressured by lukashenka. this is simply not true. russia is not only pressured by lukashenka, she will support him. in all the ways he wants, from helping to bypass sanctions and lowering gas and oil prices to allowing the use of russian infrastructure to sell belarusian goods to foreign countries countries, putin allows lukashenko not to pay his debts to russia and gives him more and more new loans, and if russia used to need something from belarus, it applied

economic pressure, now lukashenko gets everything he wants from moscow and at the same time moscow will get vsetv from lukashenka he allows the use of belarusian infrastructure airfields places russian troops on military bases, he trains russian soldiers , protects russians with his air defense systems, russian soldiers who committed war crimes in buch were treated in belarusian hospitals where comparison in the world ukraine is my to whom for putin cooperation with lukashenka in the war in ukraine is much more valuable than the army of belarus , which, by the way, is not an experienced army, it has never participated in any military conflict since 1991, when belarus became an independent state, also the size of the belarusian army is only 10-15 thousand soldiers, this is clearly not enough to change the course of the war, does belarus have a chance

to return to the pro-european course, or is there only association with russia and assimilation of the two countries? it largely depends on how a war will develop in ukraine if ukraine liberates its territories and russia destabilizes, or perhaps some changes will take place in the kremlin - this will of course open a window of opportunity for the belarusian people, but if we are talking about the lukashenko regime, i do not see an opportunity for him to establish relations with the west without carrying out some democratic reforms internally country, so lukashenko obviously would like to thaw relations with the west, but he will not make any concessions , there will be no real changes inside the country , because he already knows how dangerous it is

for his regime, but he is trying to outplay the west and manipulate the narrative russia is pressuring me, this is what finnish diplomats talked about after meeting with the former head of the ministry of foreign affairs of belarus, vladimir makei, he told his colleagues about the kremlin's pressure and russia's intention to occupy belarus, and also insisted that sanctions should be lifted from his country they are trying to deceive international partners and also the ukrainian government i know that there is a communication channel between the belarusian regime and the ukrainian government where they exchange information lukashenko is blackmailing ukraine by saying that if the ukrainians do this or that, belarus will have to get even closer to this or that russia is occupying belarus and to prevent this from happening, the ukrainian authorities ignore the democratic political movement of belarusian society, the activities of the belarusian partisans do not cooperate with the tikhanovites, so radio liberty reported with reference to sources in brussels that ukraine asks not to add

belarus to the list of sanctions, and when the eu introduced anti-war sanctions against russia in the last three rounds , belarus was not included, and many belarusians were forced to flee the country to escape persecution you have a female president in exile tikhanovite history knows very few examples of successful governments in exile do you think or can we expect that the belarusian opposition will really influence something the movement for democracy in belarus is gradually declining in 2020 was the most popular politician belarusians in the country associated their hopes for change with her, when she had to leave, her influence on what is happening in belarus began to

decrease little by little, now she is more symbolic the leader of the democratic movement, which is recognized only by westerners and belarusians who themselves live in exile, the people who remained in belarus live as if in a concentration camp, they are just trying to survive, and therefore the relevance of stefanovsky for them is not very high, change inside belarus will appear only if ukraine wins the war and russia will be weakened , then the role of tykhanov will grow enormously, and people inside the country will feel the same hope as in 2020. the main thing for tekhanov to survive until then, while maintaining political relevance, was an interview with the former by the belarusian diplomat pavlo slyunkin, see the full version on the youtube page of the voice of america in ukraine, a child's fascination with weapons became a real profession for a ukrainian border sniper with the call sign "wolf" who

is currently fighting in donbas, do we as russians respond to sniper shots, what and who does the wolf rely on, what kind of rifle does it shoot ? shakespeare's poem describes the atmosphere in the armed forces sniper told ani kostichenko and pavel suhodolskyi he quotes shakespeare in the original language happy lucky handful and brothers weapons of the one who will now shed blood with me for my mother's brother these words from henry v's monologue, according to the 29-year-old ukrainian sniper with the call sign wolf, best describe the atmosphere of the armed forces of ukraine. i decided that my youthful passion for shooting would help protect the country in the best possible way from childhood, because i was engaged in shooting from a young age . it helped me a lot. it helped me

understand how it all happens the very act of shooting, but sniper is very far from a sport because there is a difference when you shoot at cardboard or at iron. everything is fine . you can lie down and sit and cardboard is usually not shot, especially with tanks . the sniper's combat path began with the defense of kyiv and then there were kharkiv, zaporizhzhia, and now donbas does not cover its face, says the enemy is especially hunting ukrainian snipers in response to one of your shots, but everything is flying at you from a rifle , and it is clearly not of a rifle caliber. and there are artillery tanks, some anti-tank missiles, well they answer very cheerfully, that is, to a denis like sniper, well, it’s not that there is any experience, it’s general experience, the enemy does not spare , well, the man says that in his work he relies on his mind and his favorite high-precision swiss-

made rifle that impresses at a distance of more than 1 km for me, i say this rifle, well, for me personally, and for most snipers, i’m sure it’s the same picture, it’s the same with a woman, you know, you take care of her, you take care of her, she reciprocates, that is, everything works in time well, this how is this relationship, maybe i don't run very fast but well, i count on 3 3 8 and a smooth descent , that's why you must constantly have a very cool head about everything and be more cunning.

a very aggressive person, but that's the job , i didn't invade like that, well, how do i have friends who are our citizens in general? weapons and also on my brothers, says my husband, people who frankly saved my life, so how do you call them your brother with a sniper , a little brother, bear with us, the man is from kyiv, the invasion also worked as a border guard a few years before the invasion of the russians, sam took courses several times he was theoretically trained in tactical medicine, but in reality he gained practical experience already during hostilities, the experience of such full-scale military operations, which did not exist, but in principle, he quickly acquired in modern realities in january 2023, while rescuing my brothers, sam-sam was seriously wounded, the mortar shelling began, so it turned out that our car was attacked, there were three

men there, one of them died, unfortunately, i tried to pull out a colleague who remained in the car , when i pulled him out, i realized that there were already injuries that were incompatible life unfortunately, i had several shrapnel wounds er the burns were the result of pulling er torn membrane contusion despite severe injuries sam wanted to return to the army as soon as possible says his main goal is to save life others at the border, all this, everything else, we violate sniper wolf assures that he values ​​human life above all else and protects his people, and they are surprised at how the russian command sends its mobilized men to certain death in the era of humanism, where there is nothing more important than human life a person as a resource to send people who have probably seen a machine gun in a picture, or even

the same prisoners, who are far from military, i don't know, it's just a resource if our command is there, there is such a concept in our army that a man is a man, and no means will be superfluous to save life, then there well, what i saw, i’m saying, it’s just, you know, the expert was after the war sniper wolf dreams of visiting trout islands and he himself is waiting to meet his wife, who also serves in the armed forces of ukraine. anna kostyuchenko. pavel sukhodolskyi for the voice of america from the donetsk region. the ukrainian school in washington has been operating for 60 years, but this year it is fixed here

a record number of students founded the taras shevchenko school of education by emigrants after the second world war. now it has become a real support for the children of immigrants from ukraine. on saturdays at the ukrainian school in washington, the doors are opened for children, it is faster for me, don’t be afraid, for the week spent in american schools and kindergartens, the children missed ukrainian-speaking teachers and friends. my name is meteo, i am one, two, three, four years old, and why do you come here on saturdays? i fish all day long, we teach here the loudest in the assembly hall, here the children and teachers study traditional and modern ukrainian dances and songs, the girl is the grandmother of ms. olga on weekdays works at the international

monetary fund and teaches singing here every saturday . the main incentive, like many other teachers, is the desire to pass on ukrainian traditions to children . emigrants from ukraine founded a school in washington 60 years ago, people who moved fleeing from the war, who from what, who from the soviets, who fled from the germans, moved here. they wanted to keep keep their culture keep their connection with ukraine and these our school is the same as all other ukrainian organization was started here precisely during that wave of emigration, the first director of the school was petro oryshkevich, a geography teacher from the lviv region, whose family was persecuted by

the stalinist regime. oryshkevich came to the usa in 1949 and worked for the american service military maps and taught geography among children of migrants, different premises were used for lessons, the school has actually existed since the 50s, but at that time, in the 50s, the school existed in catholic orthodox churches and in people's homes, at that time they gathered in small huts and already in 1963, they organized a general large school, in the end, thanks to the funds of their parents, they began to rent school premises. mariyka, the headmistress, when we were looking for premises, this school had blue and yellow colors, and the colors were painted, and it says, well, this is a sign

. that this should be our premises, ms. mariyka taught at this school for more than 30 years, five of them she was the principal, there were no problems to work from monday to friday, and then on saturday, the ukrainian school where we are not always the hardest day, because friday was sometimes called in the evenings that one or the other teacher would not be able to come on saturday. this was my only warning to the students, the principal recalls at the beginning of the year schoolchildren had to encourage them to study on saturday, but then they thanked me for it and now they themselves send their children to school, one of these students, natali yadyka, this, this, the same school, that, the same house, you are my children now and here to school, and

i also have very good memories of how i was here, my company was here, it was important for us to learn the ukrainian language and how to read and about culture, because there was no other way to learn it, and natalia and the children were born in america, but they do not forget their ukrainian roots. in the fourth grade, i made easter eggs and now i know how you make easter eggs from the official foundation. and to this day, the school teaches 5 main subjects of ukrainian history, geography, literature, language and culture . they teach from preschool to the 10th grade . at the end of each school year , it is mandatory to take exams . for you, glory and holy will, textbooks for school were once sought all over the world to washington they were sent even from canada and australia, they are special intended for children for whom ukrainian is a second

language at school, it is here mobile because parents bring ukrainian books to class every saturday and then take them from school our parents bring them every week every week we have to do that but children can always come and choose books for themselves and children and adults every year we have a-a such a competition is called the reading marathon when children read books and receive prizes for the most books read, since the school was founded, about a hundred children have studied every year, this year there are twice as many. no one will cross out my people, the ukrainians are there, they are multiplying, they are becoming more and the ukrainian community, as it was not russian , it is present and even the second and third generations send their children to the ukrainian school because

they want those children to have something ukrainian. washington, founded after the second world war, has now become a favorite place for emigrants who left for the united states after the war in ukraine, and it is really such a connection and a bridge to our land. every saturday, every morning, children wait to go to schools are like that. well, this is a very unusual event. i like this school because it is ukrainian because we learn about ukraine. i like to learn about ukraine and i like them because there are many people from ukraine here. those who want to learn about ukraine even more join the classes of old youth organizations after classes. plastu and the union of ukrainian youth, how do we greet? because

of the growing interest in ukraine , the school plans to open classes for adults to study the ukrainian language and songs. that's the end of it. thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian. have a peaceful weekend. see you next week