[000:00:00;00] horse counteroffensive of the entire war this is a truly ukrainian city of more than eight and a half thousand square kilometers recaptured, well, 2,000 kilometers less than planned, about 400 settlements liberated, almost 150,000 local civilians saved . the kharkiv offensive operation as a military masterpiece of a strategic level, we pass it on to the headquarters for consideration by the commanding staffs it is an honor to thank all of you for the fact that you are liberating our state from the enemy, the film the third land kharkiv counteroffensive watch

this week in the judicial control program sky-high fortunes and travels with his ex-wife, for the merits of which pavlo gorbasenko was re-elected as the head of the state court of the kyiv region drew attention to a possible fictitious divorce , does gorbasenko keep in touch with his relatives in the occupied crimea thank you for your questions continue so watch on thursday, march 30 at 4:00 p.m.: 40 program of judicial control with tetyana shustrova on the espresso tv channel i welcome to the air the program of the ukrainian voice of america time-time and i am its host ostap yarysh the strategy of national defense of the usa defines aggressive putin's russia as an acute threat, the us secretary of defense stated this in late autumn at hearings in the us congress and assured further support

for ukraine. meanwhile, president joe biden said that he was concerned about the russians deploying tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring belarus . he said this in response to journalists' questions what will you do in response to putin's announcement that he is sending nuclear weapons to belarus this is what i have been talking about for the last year this is a dangerous type talks and it's bad at the same time in the white house, despite putin's threatening words, it does not see a sign that russia is preparing for the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons in ukraine. this was told by the strategic communications coordinator of the us national security council, john kerby, we are watching it, we have not seen any movement on the part of mr. putin to do what he promised to do and we have not seen any signs that mr. putin is leaning or taking steps that indicate any preparations to use tactical

nuclear weapons in ukraine we talked about how serious the consequences of this will be, but i am not going to hypothesize about the potential future. however, the inspectors from the american government did not find any serious violations related to the use of us aid to ukraine, they testified about this today in the congress of the united states, this is a hearing for the committee on international relations in the chamber the representatives were closely followed by our correspondent kateryna lisunova, who is now joining the broadcast from the capitol hill. we will ask her more executioners. the hearings were handed over to everyone by katya. i will tell you what exactly they were about today, and from the international ones, the relationship between the leading agency of the united states for international development - this is where the department of the ministry of defense noted that about the draft of the senators and senators. in a more

closed mode for various committees, but not publicly. about how the aid that comes to ukraine is checked during the meeting of the committees is one of the first and one of such services of the police and not only the kompressmen now and legislators are american, but american citizens can listen to the live broadcast of exactly how this aid is provided. and here we are. audits that have been carried out so far, we have not found any cases of fraud or abuse in relation to direct budget support

. organizations report to us and carry out their own checks, starting with the government of ukraine and mr. safinans, in addition, direct budget support of the us government is provided through the world bank through three different trust funds , and how exactly does the us check that the aid they provide to ukraine is used for its intended purpose effective mechanisms from the inspectors that they do not see any violations regarding the aid that comes to ukraine is already important because in fact these inspectors are entrusted to conduct these for the first time, the inspectors publicly said that they do not see any violations or abuses regarding the aid that comes to ukraine, if we talk about different levers and different levels of this aid , then we heard in the testimony of the representative of the us agency for international development that she specifically spoke about the financial aid that comes to ukraine and such aid is checked at different levels in the banking system, and in particular due to

the fact that the aid comes through the world bank, but in the case of defense aid , the inspector directly to the ministry of defense robert sport of the ministry of defense stated that a special system of barcodes was introduced on the equipment transferred to ukraine, and with the help of these barcodes , they track the movement of this equipment and this weapon only later, when it reaches ukraine, it still remains childish some concerns are possible, so that before this in the american legislators, those legislators , congressmen of both republics and democrats , and with whom i communicated, differed in their positions, some claim that the report which already exists, and the supervision that already exists is sufficient, and the public report that we heard today and heard in another committee not so long ago, literally a month

ago, again, in a public form is sufficient . that it should be noted that ukraine has a long history of corruption scandals, if the aid that comes to ukraine should be checked more strongly than any other aid, it is also noted that in the united states of america, in particular, there are many own problems, and the aid that comes to ukraine includes, in particular, the payment of pensions, as claimed by american legislators, and other social needs for ukraine, and that the united states of america says that it is necessary to concentrate on its own problems, offers to listen to the opinions of congressmen, just now, no, i am not satisfied with the level of verification of the aid provided for many reasons, firstly we must have full one hundred percent transparency and accountability of the audit, many americans do not even know that

a large part of more than 22 billion dollars goes purely for ukrainian pensions, this is not defense aid, this is not humanitarian aid, there are americans in our country who cannot feed their own children, cannot fill their cars with gasoline , moreover, we cannot ensure the protection of our own borders, i am satisfied with the level of checks that already exists, what is really important is this that we continue to do these audits to make sure that funding is being used wisely and that tax dollars are actually going where they're supposed to go, i think that when three very effective inspectors general in particular, from the state department and the ministry of defense, they cooperate with each other, involve serious us personnel , such in europe to ensure that every dollar is spent as efficiently as possible, is not diverted and is not stolen, especially with regard to weapons, this assures the american public and the world that we comply with our obligation to the people of ukraine to ensure so that the terrible invasion of vladimir

putin is reversed and our money is spent on the important goal of ukraine i want to recognize the work of three generals inspectors of the state department of the ministry of defense and the united states agency for international development, they showed that checking the aid provided to ukraine is their main task and in this process they did not find significant waste and fraud or abuse or any sabotage during the hearings, they testified that they conduct operational reports and everything is happening ok so again i want to commend these inspectors general for doing a great job that congress has entrusted to them very interesting really counter comments and say thank you for your work , i will remind you that kateryna lisonova was in direct contact with us. meanwhile, the two -day democracy summit, which was held by the biden administration in partnership with several countries from different continents, costa rica, the gambia

, the netherlands, and south korea, has already officially begun in washington. the main event of the day was virtual meeting where the president of ukraine volodymyr zelensky also took part in this and other events this is where tetyana watched the fortune teller who is now joining the broadcast from the white house tanya i congratulate you she made the main statements today, it was titania that was important to say by its participants, president joe biden, during this virtual meeting together with the leaders of other countries, i note that the world is currently at a point of bifurcation regarding democracy, but democracy is getting stronger and autocratic countries are not getting weaker, these are two theses that are repeated both joseph and the representatives of his administration during this time, the certain leitmotif of this summit, also casually announced that his administration, together with the congress, would allocate 690 million dollars to promote the initiative to support democracy around the world, this money will go to support independent mass media, free elections, and the fight against corruption, which is also

talked about quite a lot, and to help technology develop in such a way that it benefits the development of democracy and does not pose a threat to it this is in addition to the 400 million dollars that were allocated based on the results of the past itself, and also president baidu said that over the next three years, the administration if the congress of this supports will allocate 9.5 billion dollars on the goal says what about new initiatives joe biden noted said about how countries democratic country united to help ukraine resist russian aggression demonstrated the power of democracy let 's listen we are watching the unprecedented unity of democracy that condemns a cruel aggressive war of russia against ukraine and in solidarity with the brave ukrainian people defending their democracy so today , the united states rests on its unwavering

commitment to strengthen democracy everywhere in the world, one of the key directions of our work to promote democracy will be to ensure the possibility of continuing the development of technologies that are used to promote democratic governance and not to undermine it. president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi, who by the way spoke in english , said that while people living in stalinist democracies may read about the struggle for freedom for independence in a textbook for ukrainians this is daily life also he called for stronger sanctions against russia and increased aid he compared it with a fire, he said that when there is a fire, the firemen come and they have to put out the fire, they cannot wait until espionage and corruption are trying to provoke even food security for weapons, why is this a war to him , other leaders of the country who participated in this meeting called russia's aggression about corruption, transnational crime and attacks on ostap journalists, the question of which other

important initiatives are possible at this event, so that those two moments on the eve of the united states and representatives of more than 20 countries, a participant in this at the summit, they said that they had agreed on a more complete system for corruption in order to make money, and the finance administrator stated that it could be because russia is now waging war against ukraine, and at first putin and the russian oligarchs, thanks to corruption and an opaque property system, were able to rob the russian people and then they had the finances to start a war against the main states in the states from next year they will be obliged to report their a-a from the ultimate owners and this applies not only to large companies and the prosecutors of lisemonoko talked a lot about how to bring russian war criminals to justice, what help other countries can provide, and she also said that the usa will increase control over the implementation of the law on the registration of foreign

agents and the law on the registration of ground agents, and this is connected with the fact that that the kremlin uses disinformation and propaganda and tries to influence public opinion in the united states. the question is in short . read but no, thank you for your inclusion tanya , the fortune teller was with us in direct communication from the white house, and our next story is about the captain of the armed forces of ukraine yevhen ovchynnikov, who, according to the doctors , returned from the other world despite the loss of his left leg and a serious injury to his right, the man did not gives up hope of continuing to serve in the armed forces of ukraine, the story of the rescue of a soldier in the story of olena adamenko and mykhailo zayka i

lost a lot of blood to ask, knives , open fractures, a severe contusion with a ruptured eardrum, the doctors said that the probability that he will reach the hospital is practically zero. at that time, they had already handed over uah 200 to the motorized infantry company . yevhen ovchynikov recalls the events of march last year near the village of kurinets near chernihiv. this village is located along the route of the 95 road to kyiv . at that time, it was already controlled by russian troops. anton settlement could not enter a large number of military personnel, all routes were fired at, we entered in groups , we had about 15 military personnel and its connection with the lack of a full complement i had to make decisions and perform the functions of a normal soldier. on march 14, 22nd, russian artillery opened fire on the village from the roots. then four

tanks and an armored personnel carrier appeared. i made a decision to repel the attack and with the help of an anti-tank guided missile, i knocked out the first tank. later, the battle began with my two fighters. were wounded and i made a decision regarding their evacuation, i did not stop this and our fighters began to retreat from the highway in the village of yevgeny, soldiers were walking, and he himself was transporting weapons and ammunition of the t-72 machine gun in a car a shot hit the car, my soldiers rushed to the car that was on fire. this is what yevhen's car looked like after the battle, then the evacuation transport could not reach the place of yevhen's injury due to anti-aircraft shelling from the marshes, eight servicemen were carried for about 1.5-2 hours on flexible ropes under fire they boarders found a military car that was abandoned by a military woman due to the fact that it was damaged, but one of the soldiers

was able to hide it and break the ignition lock and was able to start it, and on this car i was already delivered to the first evacuation and thanks to them you can say i stand with you and communicate the distance from the place of injury to the place of evacuation was 30 km yevgeny had his left leg torn off and his right foot was broken, in addition he had burns and open fractures, the soldier lost a lot of blood because during the evacuation from the so-called red and yellow zones, they do not perform transfusions . however, at the time that i was there, 200 guys from my unit were already sold. when they found out, they were very dead, and yevhen was first operated on in kozelka then they sent him to kyiv because tourniquets and tourniquets were placed on him. for about three hours, the doctors had to amputate his leg above the knee. i must say that in ukraine we have very good doctors, because they practically pulled me out of that world, then volunteers helped yevgeny to go for treatment to austria's tangengo

this year, he underwent several more operations and was put on a temporary prosthesis. he was unable to get a permanent one due to the fact that funding for military personnel in austria was not allocated, so they were only able to me to put a leading prosthesis, such a prosthesis that would allow me to return to the service and lead an active life, costs approximately 3 million uah. 3 million ukraine does not allocate the main program - it is 660,000 uah, and due to the fact that my other leg is damaged, there may be some additional the fee there is another 100 or 200,000, now friends are in the genes of funds to collect another 2 million uah, which he lacks for a high-quality prosthesis after recovery and rehabilitation , i would really like to return to the ranks of the armed

forces of ukraine, because i have already devoted myself to this a lot of time and was very excited for military service before the war yevgeny managed to work for one year in the specialty he received at the university as a design engineer of a machine at a construction plant, from there at the age of 14 he was mobilized. now yevgeny is 32 years old, of which he served in the armed forces for more than eight years, he says that and now can be useful in the army, it is clear that it may not be exactly a combat position, but there is the planning of combat operations and the training of military personnel, so i will be able to do this olena adamenko mykhailo zayka for the voice of america sumy region cultural diplomacy has become an important part of the ukrainian struggle against russian influence abroad, one of those working in this direction is serhii zhadan, a writer, volunteer and frontman of the band zhadani dogs. in march, zhadan went on a tour in

the united states, where he collected money for the armed forces of ukraine. he is convinced that the ukrainian ministry of culture should not ban artists from traveling abroad, because it allows collecting donations for the ukrainian military and as part of the informational struggle against russian propaganda , iryna solomko spoke with serhii zhadan about this and more serhiy, you have such a clear identification as a kharkiv resident, and so on. i am very interested to hear your opinion on how the war changed your city . well, how did it change ? it is clear that compared to other cities, cities, for example , to central western ukraine, there are visual changes, they are not very fun, these are destroyed houses, broken whole neighborhoods. but i

think that, of course, this is a tragedy this is a problem and these are the things that should be restored. but it seems to me that things are much more important , so things are what happens to us inside. that is, these are the changes that you may not notice at first glance, but when i talk to people , when you listen to people, you feel, you understand. that we are now radically changing, and this applies to easterners and westerners , and everyone has the opinion that kharkiv has become more ukrainian-speaking, this taxi visit is true. is this the most significant change and not the most noticeable, but in the spring when i came from kharkiv the number of residents to go, and among those who remained, ukrainian became more popular, many people consciously and principledly and demonstratively switched to ukrainian, and then, i remember in the spring , ukrainian became much more on the streets of kharkiv, but there were significantly fewer people on the streets of kharkiv, and now there are many who returned. those who were not there during the bombing in kharkiv returned. well, they returned with their russian and today

ukrainian is not as much as it was last spring. i think this process will not be so linear will not be so simple, but you believe that, in principle, war can change this history, you are definitely convinced that in 5-10 years kharkiv will be a ukrainian-speaking place, and this was not only about kharkiv. and all russian-speaking cities, listen, in this case, you understand it like this a certain metaphor because this is the largest city of the left bank of ukraine and to a large extent behind the shit in kharkiv, and we all tried and will try to calculate the moods and views of the citizens of ukraine, but you recently made such an interesting statement and in essence well criticized the ministry of culture, which said that we will allow less ukrainian artists to go abroad, because it seems to me that it would be terribly unreasonable and unconstructive today to prohibit cultural figures from doing their work , again, this is about a change, a change in meanings

, a change in weight in our country, part of our compatriots are used to to culture to the sphere of culture to something well, not necessarily but cultural life cultural sphere today i am an extremely important component of the information front actually i think you see here that to a large extent, the residents of the united states, this is exactly the same for canadians and europeans, they talk about ukraine in the context of some cultural events, this is the official news, but people will not talk all year long only about the war in a country they have never been to, respectively, every concert every evening, every presentation, every photo exhibition is once again an opportunity for us ukrainians to remind ourselves of ourselves, an opportunity to say our position and an opportunity to make sure that we are not forgotten so that you get lost in this information space. and secondly, this is also an important thing, this financial component, because most of the targets who travel and speak today, they do it on a volunteer basis, as volunteers, as philanthropists , they collect funds that are spent on what is necessary

for ukraine, that is why this position that yes, let's not be anyone release because because no one has the right if i don't have the right to go well she is a little a little peasant war always affects literature and they appear so what to look at after the second world war yes not only look at his glory yes we already see this movement in ukrainian literature, there are a lot of reflections, but it is primarily some kind of reflection of direct action , that is, some diary or some entries in social networks or some poems that will appear spontaneously and quickly and simply record some kind of immediate reaction of the present. i think some, well, more serious reflections, deeper reflections, we still have a paper or plan to write, that is, you already, a book. let's just start talking about our early

ukrainian writers and cultural figures and they really play a powerful role. yes, in this confrontation with russian propaganda, and not only here now, being abroad, but even in ukraine, the culture itself has always been happy , socially and politically engaged . it seems that this is a completely logical natural reaction of culture to what is happening in society, culture is the force of its maximum such subjectivity, even heightened subjectivity well, in the future , this sphere remains a sphere where man maybe she will be more open where she might be more ready to accept someone else's point of view, an outsider's point of view and show her empathy, and that's why i think the russians also understand it perfectly, that's why she clings to her culture, that's why they 're actually trying to defend their cultural positions, which are now very strongly in connection with this aggression, because well, it's not that they understand russian culture for a long time, it's a big and important extremely important component

of the concept of the russian world, and they can't to be defeated there, that's why they are fighting for their culture, and accordingly, we ukrainians have to defend the interests of our culture and , uh, somehow i don't understand today, this seems to me to be just a smart officer, but you see that russia is losing on this cultural front precisely in the defense of russian culture. we have at the moment, but it is not such a very easy struggle because, again , the cultural sphere is not based on many of these points related to your upbringing, your education, and some private things, if not historians say that russia essentially awaits the fate of germany and, well, that is, nazi germany after the victory, when people stopped speaking german, when they distanced themselves as much as possible from this country, what will happen, it seems to me that now it is much more important to focus on the opera, you should endure and format all wars and what will happen next with russia, well, their problems are looming large on ours, the main thing is to preserve ourselves , preserve our identity, preserve our

borders, and above all, preserve our citizens ukrainian authorities have repeatedly said that the war will end this year. what are your visions of when the victory will be? hmm, i am not ready for this at all. yes, in general, i find these expectations that , let’s say, the war will end before digging potatoes or before it harvest will begin. it seems to me that this is a kind of self-satisfaction , which is emotionally very difficult to overcome. it seems to me that the ukrainian army is resisting quite decently and fighting back, and i think that, well, i don’t think so. i believe that the victory will be ours from what i see from that what i feel, just when it will be, how it will be, the main thing, at what price it will be, this is a question that i would just leave out of our conversation because i don't want to rush into empty phrases, it was

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