[000:00:00;00] no political season, exclusive interviews, reports from the hottest spots of the shells, frankly and impartially, draw conclusions yourself, welcome to the broadcast of the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, time, i am its host, ostap yarysh, the jury in new york brought criminal charges against donald trump for the first time in the history of the former president of the united states accused of a criminal offense , the specific details of the accusation have not yet been disclosed, however, according to the media, it

may relate to payments to the porn star from the daniels, as if in exchange for her silence before the 2016 elections, we are asking more about the case and the meaning and reaction of donald trump. we will ask oleksiy kovalenko, who is joining our broadcast. his indictment has not yet been published, so it is not clear what violations are being accused in the media, they report that the former us president was indicted on as many as 30 counts and most observers lawyers agree that it is probably related to secret payments to a porn star during donald trump's presidential campaign in 2016, and the charge was the result of such a federal investigation into the payments ordered by then-donald trump's lawyer michael cohen to porn star daniels in the final days of the 16 presidential campaign th year, and although such a payment in itself

is not illegal, federal prosecutors believe that presenting the payment as a legal payment violates us federal laws on campaign financing and lawyers say that the charges against trump will probably focus on falsification, in fact, falsification of business records , which is usually a felony, but if it is done with the intent to commit or conceal another crime, then it reaches the level of a felony, and we can now hear the lawyers' comments on this this is the first time in american history that a former president has been charged with a crime, so this is unprecedented.

such as special prosecutor jack smith or atlanta district attorney fanny willis who are going to follow the example of charging donald trump with more serious crimes , this is how donald trump himself and his team react to this, what they say, uh, denies any wrongdoing in this case, he called the accusations a witch hunt under the leadership of the democrats and he says that it is the democrats' task to destroy his movement , let's restore the greatness of america, he called this case ordinary political persecution and interference in elections at the highest level and the former president of the united states insists that the representatives of the democratic party brought charges against a completely innocent person. last week, many analysts emphasize that this could be a dangerous moment , because trump on the true social social network platform warned of possible death and

destruction if he will bring charges, as it happened, some critics considered this statement to be an incitement to possible violence. many republicans were also very critical . we have seen such statements the republicans who called it a politically motivated persecution and the reaction of the democrats was predictable and inclined oleksia, the question that many are now interested in is whether trump can now run for president , how can this criminal charge in principle affect his election campaign , in fact ostape, this is a very interesting question, to which it is impossible to find any final answer, because according to the laws of the united states, to the constitution of the united states, there is a restriction on the age of a presidential candidate

, and certain other requirements for the period of residence presidential candidate on the territory of the united states, but whether there can be a verdict in the history of a candidate for the presidency of the united states, there is no mention of it and trump of course wants to return to the white house after the defeat in the last presidential election in 2020, and this makes him the only president of the current former e and the only presidential candidate who has been indicted is, and so far the experts say that trump will most likely run for office, but how this fact , the fact of this investigation , and the facts of the accusations, will affect his company for sure so far it is unknown and there are two main opinions. one opinion is that moderate republicans will probably look for another candidate from the republican party, and the other opinion is that this

, on the contrary, may activate donald trump's base, and that it will actually only become more active and participate more actively in some protests and primaries on this occasion, we can listen to the opinion of the angry expert and they will be angry, they will not accept the accusation and it is still early, but if this anger continues during the primaries, then it will the election with a high degree of control will be monitored to see what development this case will continue to recruit oleksia and what do we expect from a legal point of view, how will the court process continue to develop, what will we monitor next, we have already heard you on statements from the manhattan district attorney's office that they contacted trump's lawyer to coordinate his appearance at the manhattan prosecutor's office to be arraigned in the supreme court

and trump's lawyer said that the former president is likely to appear before the court at the beginning next week a-a previously i saw that it is about monday but this date may eventually change and in that case donald trump, who currently lives in florida, will have to go to new york together with secret service employees and in custody he would then he took fingerprints and took a photo, took a photo and after the court decision, and most likely he was released on personal recognizance , this development is definitely interesting, the structure should be closely monitored by me next week and probably after that

oleksiy thank you very much for your thorough analysis. i will be in touch again. i will remind you that it was oleksiy kovalenko. in the meantime, today the un security council held a meeting on the placement of russian nuclear weapons in belarus, and on april 1, russia will take over the presidency of the subjects around this. there were many debates and discussions that i followed our correspondent in new york, iryna solomko, we will talk about it in more detail, iryna. i congratulate you. thank you for joining the broadcast. first of all, i will ask about the current meeting, which related to russian nuclear weapons in belarus. the statements you drew today's attention to vitay stepa are so wild, such verbal ones continued to occur to a greater extent between the representatives of the united states and russia and they exchanged a number of accusations, but the rhetoric of the russian ambassador vasyl nebedzian was very reminiscent of the classic rhetoric of the cold war and in general , the phrase cold war and what the situation is even worse than during the cold war was heard several times during the meeting, at

the same time vasyl nebenzya eh spoke about the evil bad west and from which now russia and belarus because during this speech and in general during this meeting, this phrase was repeated very often here union state , that is, russia belarus tried to present itself already as one state, so this one state now has to defend itself from such a bad event, ah, although new facts about why did this need arise right now , not a single ambassador or another did not provide . moreover, it is exactly the ambassadors from other countries, including the united states, that we would like to hear your position to understand why right now this the need arises, however, vasyl benzi only said that the united states has long since placed its nuclear weapons on the territory of low-lying countries in europe, in particular , he even talked about turkey and the netherlands and germany.

the facts, as i have already said, are not new and therefore somehow new information, why is it that russia is resorting to such years, he did not provide iryn from tomorrow , russia will start chairing the un security council and it will last for a month, why did this happen in principle possible, given the full-scale russian invasion, how ukraine addresses this issue, yes, ostape heads of russia, this is the procedure of the security council, because a-a works in the security council , a rotational approach to changing the head. yes, this is a monthly story. after russia, switzerland has golovatiy, and i remind you that also in february of last year, when russia openly attacked ukraine, she also chaired the security council , so this is quite an interesting story. but

despite the logical rejection of this fact despite all the actions and some even there were protests in general criticism of the un and the security council and in this context the members of the security council did not succeed in opposing this head-scratching , so tomorrow is a day of laughter and unfortunately it's not funny. yes, russia will chair the security council and i managed to communicate with a number of experts, as well as with serhiy koslytsy about this, and you can now hear their opinions, the chairmanship of the un security council is carried out by each of the members in turn for one month, according to the names of the member states according to the english alphabet, russia will be for the first time lead slaves after starting a full-scale war in ukraine, committed tens of thousands of war crimes, and the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for russian president vladimir putin , however, these actions of russia did not cause either the suspension of its membership in the soviet security council, or the presidency, in our opinion, this is the presidency

will be another clear evidence of the deep crisis in which the security council is in. the political assessment of this data is an anomaly according to the representative of ukraine at the un, serhiy koslytsy , the day before the head of russia, he held negotiations with the members of the security council to find the right solution to this problem, but first of all the permanent members are not ready to take radical steps to save the security council from, according to him, unprecedented in the entire history of the disgrace and the presidency of the aggressor country, we will not deviate from the political assessment of this situation, i believe that the primary responsibility, not only image-wise, but also legal, lies with the member states of the security council, including and above all with the permanent members, because the un charter was

written in such a way in the 45th year that it is impossible to change permanent members without freedom voice of america tried to communicate with a number of representatives of members of the security council, but all six permanent representatives who received requests refused to put this question on camera to the permanent representative of the united states, prion only said that he hoped that russia would behave professionally, that the run could continue its work on ensuring peace in a country in the world that grossly violates the un charter does not invade its neighbor does not have a seat in the un security council, but unfortunately, russia is a permanent member of the security council and does not exist of the international legal way to change this reality, chairing the security council does not add credibility to the conspiracy theory put forward by russia , nor does it change the fact that more than 140 member states have condemned its aggression against ukraine . for the presidency to pass to the following countries of switzerland, i can recall

only one case when the presidency passed through one country . then the presidency was transferred to the next country. thomas grand, doctor of legal sciences and professor at the university of cambridge, is convinced that the issue of the presidency of russia is fundamental for the world community, because this country persistently violates the statute since 2014 , russia tried by force of arms to change the borders and actually destroy the country that it previously recognized as sovereign and independent, this contradicts the un charter, this document essentially put an end to wars, which borders and significant peace were observed and respected, this rule is precisely why the presence of russia in the security council it is really difficult to tolerate and justify, according to grant, at the moment the procedure that can exclude russia from

security council meetings is a procedural provision that allows denying the presence of an employee of one or another country, the powers have not been used in the past to actually exclude a representative from participation, but the procedure is available and it works simply any council member objects to the presence of this or that country representative at the meeting, the council must consider this issue for a positive decision, nine of votes, the council votes for procedural decisions and the right of veto does not apply to it, this mechanism has never been introduced, the grant is explained by the reluctance of countries to take such a decisive step against one of the permanent members of the security council , representatives of academic circles also joined the discussions on russia's membership of the security council and its chairmanship jeffrey sonnenfeld of yale university has already written two articles on this topic in time magazine, we conducted a lot of research on

russian companies and also on the collapse of the russian economy, we were the first for almost a year that is why they declared that russia lost on the economic front and is no longer an economic over the state, so it is very effective, we now took up the diplomatic front when we realized that russia will chair the security council for the second time on the first of april, this day is a day of humor in many countries of the world and it seems sad and it is a tragic joke that ukraine, the aggressor, which should have recused itself, will chair the security council, and the world community does not even know that russia has received a member of the sbu and the place of a permanent member of the security council as an heir of the soviet union and procedurally, this decision was not separately adopted by the general assembly, there was not a single minute of discussion about it, it was a violation of the united nations charter and the lack of knowledge allows russia to ridicule the un, the main mission of this organization

is to print pamphlets to give children to read in school and maintain peace but it cannot do this during the past year , despite the fact that 145 un members voted to condemn russia's actions, to move this issue from its place in the us , political support from both democrats and republicans in order to increase pressure on the american government. the deputy minister of foreign affairs of lithuania and manta from adomenas, in turn, adds that last year showed the fundamental weaknesses of the un. russia, as the heir of the soviet union, now uses this position to use its immunity. it constantly went to the security council to violate the un charter, but we are in a legal impasse, since russia will impose all of the restrictions on any changes, but according to a, everything is up to me if the member states want to maintain trust in

the un, they should initiate reform of the council of security, including through the expansion of the soviet security service and thus limiting russia's ability to manipulate and exploit this body from new york iryna solomko pavlo terekhov andrii hetman voice of america ostapa and returning to, in principle, before the meeting, and this question was also echoed today and in particular constantly representative estonia at the un rein there, he made a powerful statement , in particular he reminded that russia will lead the security council on the anniversary of the mass buchi - this is what he called nervous. and he also shrill said that a country that is waging a war of aggression against its neighbor or brutality and whether the president is a war criminal for whom an international criminal court warrant has already been issued should not chair the security council, and other members of this body should oppose russia's attempts to transform the security council, and i will remind you of this the main body of international diplomacy for mockery and that

platform for disinformation ostape iryna thank you very much for your work for your analysis with us in connection with this topic was iryna solomko these days in ukraine celebrate the anniversary of the liberation from the russian occupation of the kyiv region on march 28. last year, irpin was liberated by the zasuls on march 31, bucha and gostomel on april 1. the horrors left behind by the russians shocked the whole world. of the dead workers arrived to the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi together with the leaders of slovakia, croatia, slovenia and moldova us secretary of state anthony blini in his turn joined the virtual of the bucha summit, which is taking place in ukraine today, according to him, the whole world

became witnesses of russian crimes as soon as the ukrainian army liberated bucha . anthony bliken pointed out that the killing of civilians is part of the russian campaign of systematic violence against the civilian population. the russian military and officials committed and continue to commit the military crimes and crimes against humanity in ukraine were emphasized by the us secretary of state, these are his words, those who committed these atrocities must be held accountable, the united states supports ukrainian and international efforts to document and investigate these atrocities and to provide ukraine with all the necessary weapons and help it win, urged the minister of foreign affairs of latvia edgaras rinkevich in an exclusive interview with the voice of america , according to him, ukraine's success is in the interests of europe , the united states and the world more about support for kyiv and opposition to moscow, the minister was asked by my

colleague from the georgian voice of america service. are you discussing with a strategic partner your audio skit, the main topics we are discussing with all the people i meet here are russia's aggression against ukraine and how best to help ukraine. i think we are in a very decisive year, and of course our position is that we must provide ukraine with all the weapons and ammunition they ask for 100prasha stop russia help ukraine liberate its territory help ukraine defeat it in the interests of europe the united states and the world agree many other countries are watching this if we will fail if ukraine fails it will be an incentive for others to do the same around the world with the head zelenskyi website president zelenskyi last week said that ukraine does not have enough weapons to

launch a counteroffensive for months you have called on other countries to increase support what do you think the measure already yes, in ukraine, are there weapons necessary for victory, or do we need to do more? in your opinion, there is still not enough western support for kyiv for the victory of ukraine . branches of notebooks. yes, i think that we give a lot but it is not enough and we should have provided ukraine with more weapons and ammunition earlier, but having said that, i believe that we are doing everything possible to increase the supply of ammunition , for example, the council of foreign ministers of the european union at its march meeting decided to allocate 1 billion for the purchase of the necessary ammunition and another billion for of the defense industry to produce enough. unfortunately, we are falling behind on some of our promises, so the objective reasons for it

are what we will continue to talk about during our meetings. the ukrainian government is primarily asking for long-range radio missiles and fighter jets, there are many doubts about the transfer of these weapons, most often we hear arguments that they can be used for strikes in the middle of russian sovereign territory, others believe that it is legitimate and fair to give ukraine long-range radio missiles and combat planes but don't limit ukraine's ability to respond to aggression as it deems necessary, what do you think about it rushing, let 's not forget that russia threatens the territory of ukraine with missile attacks on ukrainian cities and villages and all kinds of ammunition - this is what they have been doing since 2014 , but the last year has been particularly brutal, this is a rispalant, so i have no reason to say that he does not have the right to respond properly to stop aggression if you see a missile being used from the territory

russia or bombers take off from russia i believe that this is a legitimate target for the ukrainian military and we do not need to fear that ukraine is using weapons in defense or will lead to as you previously asked the question further escalation no, i don't believe that. i believe that if russia , mr. putin somehow realizes that there is no victory for them, it will most likely lead to de-escalation. ukraine to use these weapons and ammunition for legal defense . and this means using them not only on the territory of ukraine, but also to strike russian military bases, which is completely legal, this is the same thing that

russia is doing in ukraine now, these happy krashanka passable my next question will be about possible pressure from western leaders many experts fear that western leaders may put pressure on the zelenskyi government regarding negotiations, do you see this risk and what do you think ukraine needs for a strong negotiating position when or if ukraine wants to negotiate on behalf of ya i think that ukraine itself decides when to hold negotiations . i think that if we as a democracy believe in democracy and its government are accountable to the ukrainian people and this is important. so you simply cannot to sit down at the table and agree on something and then tell your people, you know that you are the western leaders who asked to do this or they threatened to stop their aid, i think that in this case we are in a very deep crisis, democrats, so from that point

of view, i still think that providing ukraine with weapons is the most important task of many areas of ukraine before negotiations, before the territory of ukraine is liberated or before there is a clear understanding that russia is not going to use even a couple of days or weeks negotiations only to regroup and resume the attack i think that would be very short-sighted but even in democratic societies there is a lot of debate about the best way forward i have not seen a real strong push for ukraine to give up the fight and start negotiations with a country with russia that is actually she herself does not want to negotiate, therefore you cannot push the negotiations to one side when you see that the other party is not going to sit down at the table, which interrupts the negotiations, is only

capable of shouting insults and possibly exhibiting a couple of unrealistic ultimatums in latvia has a significant russian-speaking minority and this led after the beginning of a large-scale invasion, what steps did you take, what challenges did you face, look at public opinion polls, they still show that the majority of russians living in latvia are confused or do not want to reveal their true feelings about i see it as a long term job we are not going to change our relationship in a few weeks or months but i think one very clear sign when you forbid propaganda channels, when more alternative information channels appear, people stop believing that russia is wrong and ukraine is right, but at least they have more questions that they ask themselves , and from that point of view i saw that there are russians who really support ukraine by helping ukrainian refugees in latvia, you know , they killed zhosvskyi, and there are still russians who believe that mr. putin is right, so from this

point of view, yes. this is not an easy situation, but it requires a lot of work. download the voice of america mobile application. automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read the news, watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts of the voice of america ukrainian service, and we will say goodbye on this , see also our daily briefings at 6 p.m. kyiv time on youtube and facebook, where you can ask your questions, we will try to read them live and answer them thank you for staying with us thank you for trusting us see also follow our social networks read our website and 68active and web teams are actively working to keep you informed of all the most important and, most importantly, verified news . i wish you a peaceful night and a peaceful weekend, and

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