[000:00:00;00] prepared her answer and we heard that our armed forces promised a spring counteroffensive to the occupier, so radio fm galicia will be in the formation of an informational spring counterattack , you will hear and even see life goes on, the war is going on galicia is hard for the russians for the ukrainians documentary trilogy military intelligence of ukraine at sea in the sky on the ground the most successful ukrainian counteroffensive of the entire war. this is a truly ukrainian city, more than eight and a half thousand square kilometers have been recaptured, well, it was planned to be 2,000 kilometers

less, about 400 settlements have been liberated almost 150,000 local civilians were saved kharkiv offensive operation as a military masterpiece of a strategic level, we pass the review to the headquarters, the headquarters that manage it all, it is an honor to thank you all , it is that you free our state from the enemy , the film tretii zemlya kharkiv counteroffensive , welcome to the broadcast of the program of the ukrainian voice service america's time time and i, its host ostap yarysh, 65 ukrainian soldiers this week have already finished training at the petriv system in the usa and have now arrived in europe, announced this

pentagon spokesman petre in europe, the military continues to coordinate with other defense forces against the air defense of ukraine on the same air defense systems that will eventually go to protect the ukrainian sky. the united states , germany, and the netherlands jointly provide ukraine with two patriot batteries. meanwhile, the american journalist ivan herkovich was arrested in russia on charges of espionage. this is the first time this has happened since the cold war. the fsb claims that the hershkovs who were detained in yekaterinburg allegedly tried to obtain secret information.

the publication was street jordan, for which the journalist works, denies all accusations in the white house and the state department reacted to the detention of the journalist by calling him unaccepted us citizens in russia are advised to leave the country immediately , the targeting of american citizens by the russian government is unacceptable, we strongly condemn the detention of mr. gorshkovych we also condemn the russian government's continued attacks of repression against journalists and freedom of the press. i want to emphasize once again that the americans should listen to the government's warning not to travel to russia, us citizens traveling and still living in russia should leave immediately, as the department continues to advise, the presence of russia in the un security council is the result of the biggest diplomatic fraud up to the 20th century , the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, dmytro kuleba, said today, speaking at the virtual discussion of the chatham house think tank in london, as early as april, russia is to take over the presidency of

the un security council, so a significant part of the event was focused on the role of international organizations in the end of the war in ukraine in the discussion was followed by our european correspondent bohdan tsilupin, who is now joining the broadcast from london, we will ask you more about him bohdan , i congratulate you, i watched the announcement of this event . it was said that international organizations could not give an adequate response to the russian full-scale invasion focus primarily on the un as ukraine and other countries prepare for april, when russia is to begin presiding over the council of security. well, we can start with the fact that april 1 and the events at the un are called bad as a joke, ukraine is also very actively raising the issue, as already mentioned, of russia's right to inherit the seat of a permanent member of the un security council, and it is about presiding

for 30 days in a body consisting of 15 countries. these are five permanent representatives and 10 non-permanent members of the un security council, what will happen today, the ukrainian minister of foreign affairs suggested that it may not be possible to implement calls for a boycott because, in general , many would like representatives of all countries to leave the hall of the un security council and that the russian representative presided in an empty room, but even the ukrainian representative said from today that this will probably not happen, and instead he proposed the following action, we have an excerpt from his speech with russia, we must behave according to the principle of salami and the first piece of salami, this

exposure is very as a simple fact, the presence of russia in the un security council is the result of the biggest diplomatic fraud of the 20th century, we need to delegitimize russia's presence in the united nations security council by first revealing the truth for everyone and then the moment will come when the next pieces will be cut, but this is our goal - it is very rational, it is very feasible and the strongest part of this is that we are telling the truth that was hidden when it was not noticed for decades..." not only ukraine but many other countries in

the world is watching the actual rapprochement of russia and china, and in particular this was noticeable symbolically at least during the recent three-day state visit of the chinese head of state to moscow, and it is obvious that this is being followed in ukraine as well, at the same time recognizing that china actually, when it comes to general principles, declares that it adheres to the principle of sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries in ukraine, they actually expect and still hope that china will declare to russia the need to respect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of ukraine itself, which has not yet been heard from prominent chinese representatives, as well as the ukrainian minister of foreign affairs of affairs reported that beijing is currently considering requests for

a telephone conversation between ukrainian and chinese leaders or even a visit an invitation was also sent to beijing, mr. kuleba said that the calm answer is that they are carefully considering these proposals of kyiv, we will also monitor the outcome of these disturbances bohdany, two other international organizations that play an important role in supporting ukraine are nato and the european union, was it enough their help and looking back on more than a year of the great russian invasion, what do ukrainian representatives say about it today during this great discussion about diplomacy , london, kyiv and new york were in touch the ukrainian representative of the eu at the un, mr. kislytsia, spoke a lot about the role of international organizations, and it is interesting that from the mouth of the ukrainian representative there was such an assessment that when

it comes to the european union, from the ukrainian point of view, the reaction of this organization, in fact, of a peaceful civil organization, the reaction to the war exceeded expectations ukrainians as far as nato is concerned, that's not exactly how he explained the situation in general, the eu is doing much better than we expected. regarding nato, there was a lot of disappointment in how nato reacted at the very beginning of the war and this disappointment was completely natural and well-founded. nato began to change slowly. general secretary jens toltenberg should be given credit for the fact that this happened, but in the matter of ukraine's integration into nato, the alliance is still far behind the european union. this would be a fair

assessment of the situation where the issue of integration is. -e ukraine to the eu and nato ukrainian minister of foreign affairs called it extremely important not only for some economic or even issues of historical justice he called ukraine's full membership in nato and the european union the main guarantees of non-repetition of the russian war in ukraine, he says that this is the most important thing that can guarantee security, and when it comes to ukraine's accession to the european union in particular , he said today that in his opinion this will happen sooner than some of bohdan's observers think. thank you very much for your analysis. i will remind you

that bohdan tyupen was in contact with us from london from the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia, and the ukrainian prosecutor general's office recorded more than 72,000 war crimes committed by the russians, one of the organizations that monitors and documents these crimes, the center for civil liberties , which was awarded the nobel peace prize , oleksiy kovalenko spoke with the head of the center, oleksandra matviychuk, about the investigation into the crime of russian aggression, the illegal deportation of ukrainian children , and russian support for the war, according to the ukrainian prosecutor general's office and international viewers, russia has already committed more than 70,000 war crimes in ukraine as per your opinion looks like justice for ukrainians, it should not be postponed until the end of this war, we should stop

looking at the world through the lens of the nuremberg tribunal, which convicted nazi criminals when the nazi regime fell, we live in a new century, we cannot make justice dependent on the strength of authoritarian regimes therefore, we must now hold putin , the political leadership and the military command of the russian state accountable, as well as every russian who committed these crimes with his we heard the position of the state department, which supported the creation of a tribunal to investigate the crime of russian aggression against ukraine . the option supported by the usa is the creation of an internationalized court within the framework of the ukrainian judicial system. to the responsibility of putin lukashenko and other russian war criminals i and other ukrainian legal organizations support the creation of a special

tribunal on aggression in order for this type of the crime did not go unpunished either, and here it is important to create it in such a way that no one doubts that this court is of an international nature and can overcome the plane all the immunities of the highest officials of the state that they have according to 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. and there were many reports, including from there, dozhdepa, according to which russia was preparing for filtering operations even before the attack on february 24, your organization is engaged in monitoring of war crimes, does similar evidence indicate in your opinion that russia uses the war crimes of civilians as

a method of waging war. this is indeed a method of how russia conducts wars, it uses war crimes to break the resistance and occupy the country. as for preparation, it also points to such a the genocidal nature of this war is because it shows how the russian state planned to destroy the ukrainian identity and these mass illegal deportations, which were also planned in advance and are being carried out in the occupied territories as well as other actions to eradicate the ukrainian identity that have now in place it is pointed out that these are components of a broader picture of collective guilt

russia's war against ukraine is often called putin's war, however, decisions about war crimes are made by russian soldiers themselves among the population there is also significant support for this war according to the study head to center this support inequality is 77%. then this is war and aggression by putin or russia . unfortunately, the majority of the russian people support russia's aggressive war against ukraine and tolerates atrocities committed by the russian troops of the leather day russia has an imperial character and society has not and still has not overcome imperial complexes and therefore the majority of russians welcome the very idea of ​​broadcasting as if it were a straw of the russian empire

putin rules the country not only with the help of repression, censorship, militarization, the use of history as a tool of propaganda er and falsification of history so that it fulfills the role of state ideology, but he rules the country through a special social contract which concluded between the kremlin elites and the russian people, and this contract is based on russian greatness , and unfortunately, the russian people, who did not reflect on their past , did not learn the necessary historical lessons, still see their greatness in the restoration of the russian empire, if we return to the issue of the deportation of ukrainian children to russia , there is currently no mechanism some kind of control and

access to the forcibly deported children in russia and the international criminal court will not be able to help with this a-a what could be a similar mechanism and do you see er enough effort in this direction, now there are no legal mechanisms of the ukrainian state, how to force russia to return illegally displaced ukrainian children, how to stop these processes of raising ukrainian children as russians and turning them into russians, that is, the destruction of children's ukrainian identity, and it seems to me that there is something missing in this very complex puzzle about the active role of such institutions as the international committee of the red cross, as well as the office of the un high commissioner for

human rights, which still have representations on the territory of the russian federation and should, in my opinion, be more actively involved in solving this problem, practically, you mentioned today that your organization has counted more than 30,000 episodes of war crimes against civilians, each episode is the name of the victim and also the name of the person who committed it what will their responsibility look like, people who committed international crimes with their own hands , as well as people who gave orders or made decisions that are possible, but there are acts must be brought to justice because this culture of impunity has led to that the russians have believed that they can do whatever you don't want , and this is not just a question of justice for ukrainians

who have suffered from e-e crimes. i did not experience an aggressive attack in the horror that we are going through now because the war continues and russia continues to commit crimes and the genocidal nature of this war is obvious to me again and i am afraid that we may reach such a point turning point, when it will be obvious even to hardened skeptics that russia is committing genocide, and i would like to warn about it. this was a conversation between oleksiy kovalenko and the head of the center for civil liberties, oleksandra matviychuk . you can also read the text version of this conversation on our website. of russian crimes named after rafal lemkin, ukrainians are asked to fill out a detailed questionnaire if they witnessed the deliberate destruction of infrastructure

, violence, deportation, everyone is guaranteed anonymity, such testimony is important for the historical archive, but it can also be used as official testimony in court, lesya bakalejka from warsaw will tell in more detail destruction of civil infrastructure , robbery, violence, murder and kidnapping, this is a list of crimes in russia that the lemkin center in warsaw deals with, we collect eyewitness accounts from of civilians about crimes, war crimes and not only what the russian federation has committed in ukraine , the center was created immediately after the start of the full-scale invasion and named after a lawyer of jewish origin, rafal lemkin, who received a higher education at the university of lviv, he introduced the term genocide as a legal concept, here in this room, a dozen specialists of the center read and process the testimonies of ukrainians from morning to evening, we work

along the questionnaire that was created specifically for this project jointly by scientists , historians, lawyers, relying on the principles of international law, as well as psychologists , are looking for potential refugees in refugee centers, and among acquaintances there is a separate group that records the testimony of eyewitnesses in ukraine in the car was three children, father and mother, and on the spot, one had a bullet in the head , the second child had kolya. then we already saw in the back in the center. of the city of mariupol, kateryna explains to people why it is important to testify by her own example, she herself was a refugee in occupied mariupol, spent 21 days when she was evacuated to poland, agreed to testify

at the lemkin center, now she works here , i am often called to the people of mariupol because in fact, i know a little bit of everything, a little bit of what a person feels, and i definitely know how to convince to answer 40 questions of the questionnaire, sometimes it takes several hours, some of the witnesses are comfortable writing, someone prefers to speak on camera or a voice recorder, each person is guaranteed anonymity, but even under this condition, the testimony can be used in future trials cases, it is possible to analyze the post-war trials against nazi germany and in many cases used testimony given without an oath, if there were no others, we have an agreement with the polish prosecutor's office and the polish prosecutor's office has an agreement with the international criminal court in the hague, so we cooperate stably and exchange all information about russian crimes, the historians of the center say that for them the testimonies of ukrainians are also critically important, because research and scientific works about russian aggression must be researched, the center is already

preparing a digital archive to which they will have access researchers, paradoxically, this is the perfect moment to tell and explain the true nature of russia as the soviet union, the methods currently used by russia are the same were in the soviet union, deportation, filtration camps, forced denationalization, the data collected by the center can also be used to search for the missing, it may happen that in a few years some family of the deceased will look for what happened to their relatives, they will find information about this in our archive, the center's specialists have already collected 800 questionnaires from different regions of ukraine , the biggest people talk about the destruction of civil infrastructure, it is most difficult to get testimonies about rape victims , they refuse to talk, they say in the center lemtina plays against them the further away from the tragic events, the more the memory blocks the memories

, which is the scariest thing for me. so i walk through the streets of my city and there are just many dead bodies lying on both sides of the street, no one walks them , dogs eat them, and so on. nobody wants to mention it and the further we go , it will be more difficult for people to come in. kateryna says she is ready to talk about the crimes of the russians in mariupol until the guilty are punished . the experts of the lemkin center also plan to collect as much evidence as possible here, each new one is confident the questionnaire and one more step towards justice lesya mykolayat the voice of america from warsaw and our next story about plastic surgeons from the usa who spent a whole week in lviv treating ukrainian patients, military civilians and also children , talked with doctors at maryana shodlyak and yuriy donkevich, they are with a goat

have not seen each other for 24 years, since roman bukachevskyi first visited his parents' homeland, then in 1999 he and his father took a photo at this very place near the shevchenko monument in the center of lviv. they were here 25 years ago and now you are gone roman the bukachiv son of ukrainian emigrants during the second world war, his parents met in the usa in the 50s of the last century, a plastic surgeon from california, he left his private clinic in the town of san luis obispo for a week to visit ukraine for the second time in his life, already during the war, this time it is not sentimental tourism in family places and hard work works. i have my own practice . they asked me if i had already seen such and such topics. no, not venus or because there is no war. we will understand for ourselves and i

am not afraid of doctors. to come a little we were afraid, they said something would happen or rockets would be thrown i believe that kholonevych hit me in the groin somehow and i don’t think that anything will fall as i try to do his work dr. bukachivskyi came as part of a mission of eight plastic surgeons from the united states, three of whom are of ukrainian origin the mastermind of the group, steven orden, is coming to ukraine already on the fourth day of the war this year . again, someone is hitler doing evil to the ukrainian people, the injuries we see here are a unique experience in our practice, we come across cases of a smaller scale , such as a shot in the face, but here we are talking about

the consequences of explosions with large damage that cause significant damage, this time steven was persuaded to participate in the mission of his former teacher, a professor at the university of arkansas for medicine, one of the best plastic surgeons in the united states and the personal physician of bill clinton during his presidency, james sananat, before the trip to me i was worried about rocket attacks on cities. i know that they happen even in lviv, but i also knew that lviv is one of the safest cities, and this was an opportunity to come and help without exposing myself to too much danger. needed here, but i answered in ukraine, i am needed more in the children's hospital, we were really overloaded with patients and managed to examine only half of the people. they work from 9:00

in the morning to eight in the evening, sometimes to take the most difficult cases with the highest quality, mainly two or three surgical interventions, but these are difficult operations that last for several hours when we are talking about people like jameson, the personal doctor of white clinton and a pioneer of some classic manipulations, these are world-class doctors, not just there, he is a great doctor in in america, these are doctors who moved whole clusters of medicine and encouraged it to develop, so this is a unique opportunity for ukraine to get this knowledge, and most importantly , contacts and connections, because after the trip , our ukrainian doctors can simply whatsapp reset the case and say listen and what do you think about it during an intensive week in ukraine, american surgeons conducted dozens of consultations and operations, 15 of them for children with severe post-burn defects as well as congenital and acquired facial defects , one of the patients was three-year-old rostislav from khmelnytskyi, who needed an urgent plastic surgery of the finger after a burn and improper

treatment due to the war, the child was left without a father, we told him at work that his father was at war, and then when he was brought here, it was difficult alone one of the fathers of plastic surgery said that the science of destruction far outstrips the science of healing, we try to do our best, but our treatment efforts are not equal to the scale of the destruction that is happening here, so we must stop the destruction shchudlyak yuriy dankevich for the voice of america from lviv download the mobile application of the voice of america the application allows automatic bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read the news, watch informative programs and

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