[000:00:00;00] challengers two from great britain leopards from germany and portugal minister of defense of ukraine oleksiy reznikov published a video from the middle of a british tank the day before he said it was an honor every time to run a new replenishment in armored units germany's divan sler olafsholz confirmed that ukraine has already received 18 leopard 2 tanks of the modern a6 modification during for the past two months , the bundesfar under an accelerated program taught ukrainian soldiers how to use equipment, and three more leopards have already been trained sent to ukraine, portugal, timchal lloyd austin, during the hearings in the senate armed forces committee on tuesday, said that ukraine may eventually get it, it will not happen because the priority is not fighters and the air defense system, he assured the us and partners are doing it so that ukraine gets everything

it needs on the battlefield, what is needed ukrainians now more than ever air defense is a critical need on the battlefield they also need long-range weapons and harrowing equipment and we provide them with an excellent package of such capabilities we also we train them and guarantee the provision of the provided weapons that f-16 if such a decision is made , it will take approximately 18 months to provide these capabilities , but this will not help the ukrainians at this stage of the war, can ukrainians get fighter jets in the future, we all believe that it could potentially be or f-16 or fourth -generation aircraft, but we continue to work with our partners to make sure that ukraine has exactly what it needs, the us department

supported the creation of a special tribunal for the investigation of the crime of aggression by russia against ukraine, this was stated by the ambassador for global criminal justice of the us state department betvanskak, a representative of the state department noted that it is about the creation of an internationalized court within the judicial system of ukraine, which would have significant international support, so far the ukrainian authorities and human rights organizations have expressed support mainly more international versions of the tribunal that would be able to overcome the immunity of the leadership of russia, now we have a critical moment in history, i can announce that we we support the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression against ukraine, there were many different models that were considered by the united states, they considered in detail all the pros and cons of each of them and came to the conclusion that the most effective way to ensure responsibility for crimes of aggression

involves the creation of a nationalized court within the framework of the ukrainian judicial system, but which will have many international elements, this may include substantive jurisdiction over international crimes involving international personnel, possibly through integration professionals, judges, prosecutors, investigators, lawyers, or through the provision of expert assistance at the request of ukraine, answering this question i would like to explain what international crimes exist and all of them are currently being committed by russia in ukraine, we are talking about four types of international crimes, the crime of aggression, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide when we talk about crimes of aggression, the problem is that there is no international body that has the jurisdiction to bring

putin and his entourage to justice for this type of crime therefore, i and other ukrainian human rights organizations support the creation of a special tribunal for aggression so that this type of crime does not go unpunished, and it is important to create it in such a way that no one doubts that this court is international in nature and can overcome the plane all the immunities of the highest officials of the state, which they have in accordance with international law, and here is a hybrid mechanism. in my opinion, it is better to create for the investigation of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide because the national system has faced an unprecedented number of these crimes and in order to strengthen its capacity to work in accordance with the standards of justice, it is necessary

to create such a model within the national system where national investigators work with international investigators national judges work with international judges united states the netherlands, south korea , zambia, costa rica are jointly holding the second summit for democracy this week. in the next few days, the leaders will gather for virtual meetings. representatives of civil society and the private sector of 123 countries of the world today at a discussion by the us state department on a just peace in ukraine anthony blinken stressed that calls for a ceasefire in ukraine could potentially lead to a freeze in the conflict what would allow russia to use time to attack again what other important statements were made at the summit, we will ask tetyana the fortune teller, who monitors all events , precisely for democracy, and joins tanya from the white house, congratulations, congratulations, lyula, what is it all about

themselves for democracy and what is discussed and decided at these meetings and yes , indeed, the biden administration is holding this summit for the second time and as you said, 120 participating countries were invited to this summit, of course those countries that actually meet the criteria of a democrat-democracy are much less and like everywhere else they emphasize in the white house in the state department that this is precisely for democracy . it is not democracies themselves, also during the time after the summit . now they are performing and actually responding to the criticism that the same one was too focused on the united states, as you just said in the united states, this time they have co-chairs of partners held this summit if we speak for the purpose of this is precisely that it is actually to unite democratic countries because those countries that are trying to become democracies and show that it is possible to show the advantages of a democratic form of government opposed to

authoritarianism and you know that this leads to prosperity and economic prosperity, which in fact, according to surveys, is not obviously to a significant number of inhabitants of the planet, and also to share and exchange experience regarding the strengthening and improvement of the rule of law and other democratic freedoms, the question is one of the important discussions today, and it was presented to him by the us secretary of state anthony blinky. it did not relate to the path to a just peace in ukraine. once again presented the peace plan of president zelensky, do all the participants themselves here for democracy support the ukrainian vision of a just peace? and when dmytro kuleba presented the formula for peace, he emphasized that we at any cost are an illusion that if ukraine makes concessions, it can only encourage the aggression of the aggressor to greater attacks on democracy, will give the enemy the opportunity to recover and start aggression with new strength, you said that of course the ukrainian well, he is grateful because

they will accept any proposals, but he will agree only to those conditions for the restoration of peace in ukraine that will be able to fully restore the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine. this was such a rather important statement during of this discussion and state secretary anthony blinking, who when he actually started this panel, he noted that when vladimir putin launched a full-scale attack on ukraine , his goal was to erase the national identity of ukraine as a sovereign people , to absorb russia, and after dmytro kuleba's speech, he emphasized his own the main idea of ​​this speech is that peace at any price can fall into a cynical trap. i think that we all have to understand and beware of what may seem like good intentions, for example

call for a ceasefire to potentially freeze the conflict allowing russia to consolidate and simply use the time to rest and then attack again so what at first glance looks attractive to those who want the guns to remain silent may be a very cynical trap that we must be very very cautious, and of course i think it can be argued, dmytro, that no one wants peace more than the ukrainian people, because it directly suffers from its lack of aggression, but peace must be fair and must to be a long-term main vision was expressed by the representatives of france, italy and israel, and in particular the minister of foreign affairs of the czech republic said that and maybe someone is now saying that russia is strong, ukraine is weak, that the country must make concessions and cede certain territories, but this is the same as what was said and said about my country about czechoslovakia in 1938, when slovakia was pushed to make concessions to the aggressor, then it was called the peace of our time and what he said that

putin was trying to achieve exactly what then achieved by hitler, and in fact to have the opportunity thanks to such a peace, which did not last long, to recover and start another war, but this opinion was not supported by all the panelists, in particular the minister of foreign affairs of malawi , this is an african country. every un resolution is a call to russia to withdraw its troops from ukraine, but it does not listen to these calls. nothing is happening , but continues, of course, on the territory of ukraine, and therefore russia must come to ukraine the next step, namely, it is necessary to sit the parties at the threshold table, and with a similar opinion, the minister of foreign affairs of argentina also expressed himself, he quoted the pope of rila and said that peace is impossible without a cease-fire, he said, please stop the fire, negotiate, because peace is needed not only by the ukrainian people, but

also this world has completely different opinions of course tanya we have 30 seconds left ukraine is definitely not the only topic exactly what other important discussions are taking place today the participation of 20 high-ranking officials of the administration joseph biden, but the main thing is that it formally starts tomorrow right here behind my back in the white house . thank you, my colleague tetyana voloshko was secretly in touch with the curler. look what we are doing. we continue the issue. ukrainian readiness to fight for our own state and democracy sends an important signal. only russia, but to china and other autocrats , democratic senator jeanne shagin expressed this opinion in an exclusive interview for the voice of america about the training of the ukrainian military from 2014 to

the present day, as well as about providing ukraine fighter jets and the recognition of russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, the senator told my colleague ekaterina lisinova that you personally support the provision of fighter jets to ukraine. yes, i have supported this initiative since the proposal from poland to provide these aircraft to ukraine arose. air support is very important , so i think that patriot anti-aircraft missile systems which we have already promised to ukraine will be very important in the defense strategy against russian missiles, let's go back a year to february 24, what were your expectations what did you know about the full-scale russian invasion at that time, nato allies and the west in general expected that ukraine would resist the russian invasion but would be captured very quickly, so the courage of the ukrainians , their heroism in the fight against the russians impressed

everyone and this became a very important signal for countries around the world ukraine 's willingness to fight for its own state, to fight for democracy and freedom sends a very important signal, especially at a time when we see autocrats like putin and xi jinping in china, as well as the leaders of north korea and iran, who are ready to sacrifice people's lives to stay in power, so under the current conditions, this is a very strong signal from ukraine . you were personally surprised by ukrainian defense. i share the opinion, as it seems to me, the majority and americans are inspired by what ukrainians were able to do, how they defend their country in the summer of 2021 i was in ukraine together with the delegation of the senate, during this visit we laid wreaths at the wall of memory of 14 thousand ukrainians who died in donbas at that time, then we told each other that this shows true resilience

and strength on the part of the ukrainians that they are ready to continue fighting against the russians and now after the full -scale invasion of ukraine, we see how this resilience has only strengthened . you were in ukraine shortly before the full-scale invasion. you return from ukraine and learn that the invasion has begun . that you were then feeling alone when russia invaded ukraine i just flew out of poland those of us in congress who support ukraine felt real fear that they would not be able to defend themselves against a russian attack which is why what happened next was so dramatic so impressive and really speaks of the courage of the people of ukraine, military aid to ukraine has evolved from animals to air defense systems and now tanks , many ukrainians are wondering why the western partners and in particular the usa will not provide everything at once to prevent such a number of deaths that we

see today if you could answer these questions partner countries are trying to support stable cooperation with ukraine, in particular with the military leadership, to find out what ukrainians need and what they have, what are their soldiers equipped with and why they are trained it was also important that initially most of the aid came from the countries of the former soviet bloc, such countries had weapons that many ukrainian soldiers already know how to use, but one of the most impressive military efforts concerned training, which actually began after putin's invasion of crimea in 2014, already then the united states and a number of allies began to cooperate with the ukrainian military to train them, so this will be a very important part of our work , we need to do everything possible to modern the weapons that ukraine needs to fight against the russians were available and got to the ukrainians, but in fact it is more important

to bring people to justice for war crimes committed in ukraine, the knowledge of russia by the state, the sponsor of culturalism, was raised in the congress as a resolution and as a bill, but so far, no congress no white the house seems unwilling to make such an admission do you think why the bear i don't know we need to talk to the white house i think there is concern that this will block any possibility of negotiations with russia in in the long term, but in fact it is more important to bring people to justice for war crimes committed in ukraine, it is also the height of ukraine. when i was in a ukrainian church in the city of manchester, in the state of yorkshire, this was one of the questions i was asked by the people present there, what would prevent putin from doing it again what would prevent people to repeat crimes, to bring them to justice for what they have done, this is one of such preventive

methods, i had the opportunity to meet with the prosecutor general of ukraine, together with other senators, we talked about how we can be diligent in gathering the necessary documentation and necessary evidence to move this case forward because, based on all the reports i have seen, it is obvious that war crimes and atrocities were committed against the ukrainian people . we cannot allow the guilty to go unpunished . russia do you think that the western partners did everything right or is there anything that you think should have been done differently? it is so easy to draw conclusions in retrospect. we can always go back and say oh, if only we had done that another thing i can say is that after

the invasion of crimea in 2014, i already supported the provision of lethal weapons to ukraine, as did many of us in congress, but unfortunately , the obama administration and the opposition of some of our european allies prevented this for a very long time, but i think that now after convincing that we can produce the necessary weapons, provide ukraine with ammunition and everything. what is needed, we must provide everything possible to support this military effort. what are your expectations from this year in the context of the war ukraine i i hope that the ukrainians will be able to stop russia from taking over the eastern part of the country and that they will be able not only to repulse the new offensive, but also to plan their own attack. i hope that they get the tanks they need and the supply of important weapons for the country will continue. last fall, i had the opportunity to meet several women in the ukrainian army it was very touching to communicate with them because most of them had children

, men and most of them are also fighting. and the children are taken care of by relatives, nevertheless, alone a woman told me something that i later repeated many times in my home state of new hampshire, she said we need weapons for war with the russians today so you don't have to fight tomorrow and when i repeat to my constituents he has henry her words they understand it they understand what is at stake the map in this war is not only about ukraine , it is about democracy all over the world , it is about the international world order, which says one country cannot simply invade the territory of another because they wanted to, there must be consequences for such actions here what is at stake here, we must do everything possible to support the ukrainian people, we wanted to say to the ukrainians today, i thank the people of ukraine for your courage, for your

resilience, for your willingness to accept the fight with the russians for everyone for all democracies in other countries we want to continue to support you it was an interview with senator jin-shagin, see the full version on the page of voice of america in ukrainian on youtube, a well-known popularizer of ukrainian cuisine, mrs. stefa , has been recreating ancient galician recipes for more than 10 years, videos with her gastronomic researches and culinary curiosities extremely popular in appearance mrs. step is hiding a graduate student of the department of social anthropology of the institute of ethnology marianna dusha is a researcher convinced galician cuisine is a special component of the european heritage that is why she came to the united states to study the cuisine of the ukrainian diaspora the researcher

met pavlo tehov now a completely literary pseudonym of mrs. stefan anthropologist and the writer maryana dusha took when she started writing blogs about ukrainian cuisine the so-called of both grandmothers, the researcher says ukrainian cuisine is unique, it is inextricably linked with history and culture, it has a special place in it. the cuisine of the ukrainian diaspora in the usa, like maryan's, has been researching for more than a year now. cuisine is one of those factors that helps to keep ukrainian very often in families no longer spoken er, in the ukrainian language, the third or fourth generation is already er, remote, it doesn't necessarily have to have to, it had to be already in ukraine, it didn't come to er , ukraine with tourist requests, but still they are at home in the kitchen, they

practice ukrainian cuisine marianna a resident of lviv, she flew to the usa to conduct field research on the culinary experience of the representatives of the third post-war wave of ukrainian emigration and their children. indeed , it is very recognizable on kitchen, that is, if we come here to new york or minneapolis or chicago or detroit in the home of a diaspora, especially from the west, from the west of ukraine, it will be very recognizable. the cuisine will be galician, it will be dumplings, as they are made in lviv, there will be sweets, cookies, cakes, cakes, everything in

ukraine will be like its own cuisine, etc. - but here it has this american one, this one, it adapted to new products, or let’s say this bread that the rainbows bake here, it ’s kalachi, but kalachi, in our understanding, should be woven here, they make it in a restaurant format in the form of kiev loaves, adds to the layers of preserving and passing on the secrets of ukrainian cuisine diasporans are helped by the book traditional ukrainian cuisine by savely stechyshyn, a doctor of the ukrainian women's movement in canada. it was published in canada almost 70 years ago and was reprinted 18 times. left-handed chef of the legendary new york restaurant veselka and a participant in marianna lesya's research i always wanted to ask you why did you decide to become a ukrainian chef, not

just a chef but a ukrainian one ? for a year, many people have not done kyiv. between us , i did not do it, but not professionally. people didn't know about us, he, and we were all subjects, we were all from russia , and i didn't go viral, neither did we, and i actually think that what olesya does every day, she shows that we are not russia, we are ukraine, with our own cuisine olesya

maryana also showed the kitchen of the rainbow, where thousands of dumplings are molded every day and hundreds of liters of borscht are cooked with milk or water. will you hire me ? i am this klichka. you make it with milk. no , i make flour, water, salt. attention to the fact that ukrainian cuisine is not only the preservation of heritage and identification itself, but also financial support of the community, there is a saying that all the churches of the diaspora are built on borscht and dumplings, that in every urban town, in every parish, one or two taras are saved a month, women who sculpt dumplings, a carefully arranged process

, everyone knows their place in this during the process, they make dumplings for sale, uh, i just came back from the minus, they sell about five thousand dumplings in a week, and they sell them not only to ukrainians, these funds all go to uh, maintenance of the work of parishes , larisa zenyk, american ukrainian origin and another respondent, a soul in new york, she was born in ukraine after the second world war, left for europe as a little girl with her parents, went through camps for displaced persons after several years of wandering, the family settled in the suburbs of new york in a community about the culinary talents of zenyk, there are legends for thousands of years a ukrainian wedding in new york could not do without her bread, and for several decades, the craftswoman conducted courses in baking bread at the ukrainian museum in

new york, and then courses in museums or in in different centers and learn how to bake kolaches. how to bake a loaf of bread. what is a loaf of bread? why do we see that it took a very long time and they baked ? unfortunately, but to our great surprise, half of those interested were americans. they were surprised by the currents. they were surprised that such a thing exists. what is possible to simply make miracles out of the dough and make it taste good and they came especially as they were to get married. currently maryana is working on a scientific work based on her research , but later hopes to publish a book for

the general public. i tell ukraine and the world about the place of ukrainian cuisine in taste the map of the united states from new york, iryna solomko, pavlo terekhov, voice of america, it may be a cow, download the voice of america mobile application, the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service , read news, watch informational programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts in ukrainian voice of america services are ending thank you for watching we will see the voice of america in ukrainian tomorrow for good. take care

, dad . we are continuing the search for 16-year-old serhiy samoilov, who disappeared at the beginning of the war in in the city of mariupol, the boy wanted to run away from the hostilities to a more peaceful territory, he left home and lost all contact with the child for almost a year, and there was no news about serhii. and so, at the beginning of march, we received

two reports at once from witnesses from the west of ukraine who said that they saw a boy who looked like serhiy and quite recently they showed that he is 16 years old , but he is a cleaner somewhere children says that it was there that he saw the boy three months ago during the new year holidays and even talked to him. the boy seemed to go with the carolers and was clearly different from the local children, so the man paid attention to him. history we are exactly free who came across him look at this program now i watched it and he and i think how to inform unfortunately there are not enough details but still