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, ukrainian reality is on me, watch on wednesday on april 5 at 4:45 p.m., the program of collaborators with olena kononenko on the espresso tv channel on the air with washington, the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, time there, i am yuliya yarmolenko, congratulations, the united states announced two packages of military aid to ukraine in the amount of more than two and a half billion dollars, a package for 500 million dollars under the presidential authorization program, this assistance includes additional ammunition for the patriot and himers systems, artillery and mortar rounds, tank ammunition, which should arrive on the battlefield in the near future, and according to the pentagon, to strengthen the position of the ukrainian military, another aid package worth more than two billion dollars under the program to promote the security of ukraine. this aid is aimed at improving the defense capabilities of ukraine for the long-term perspective. the usa ordered from the manufacturer include radars

, reactive systems with laser guidance of missiles , installations and high-precision aviation ammunition, as reported by the spokeswoman of the white house karinzhen pierre, the new aid once again demonstrates the commitment of the us president to support ukraine, we will talk more about the main news of the day a little later, and now about another important topic. civilians of the kremlin hoped that no one would find out what crimes the russian soldiers had committed, for this they shot surveillance video cameras, took away mobile phones and destroyed mobile communication towers a there was something to hide. detention and execution of civilians, the deportation of civilians to belarus and russia

for the whole last year. ukrainian law enforcement officers collected information and recorded the crimes of the events in buch irpin . the people of borodyan near chernigov then a year ago opened the world's eyes to what the russian war brought to ukraine, says andriy hetman on february 24, russian troops invade the territory of belarus through the exclusion zone of the chornobyl nuclear power plant moving towards kyiv, a russian drilling machine is seen near the smokestack by valery khalishkov from here to of the belarusian border 84 km from there and entered on february 24 last year to clear it, but our armed forces repulsed the border itself , thereby gaining some time to reach dimer. i still have the power of them. the universe pushed part

of the column, which was divided and went there in the direction of kyiv , the guest house of bucha irpinya, as russian troops entered bucha, dmytro gapchenko from the city council saw on cameras the first tanks on the streets of the city and immediately the first shot dead civilian residents of buchi, on the 27th of the seventh, when the first convoys entered, we saw them in the face, you want hmm, by the way, we saw killed people on the streets, sorry, ah , video surveillance cameras were still working, and we saw how with our own eyes they shot two guys who were just crossing the road of the camera worked against russia, the next step was to destroy mobile phone towers so that the occupying ukrainians could not transmit videos of the crimes of russian soldiers in order to deprive the residents of the occupied territories of information about what is happening nearby

around kyiv, they went right away, the first thing they did was shoot up mobile phone towers, somewhere, a gun like this came to them, and with this gun they shot the communication, there is no television , there is no understanding of what is happening, what happened during the month in the cities and villages around kyiv became known only after the release of these the territory of the killed people. they were just everywhere, they were, er, piled up in the yard, for example, burning, they were on the streets, they were in their yards , people were just shot, what are we saying about kyiv oblast, as of today, the number is already 1,347 bodies of dead ukrainians. and i emphasize that the policeman is exclusively engaged in killing civilians by citizens. dmytro gapchenko, who came to buchi during the occupation of sydney, says that the russian soldiers even forbade burying the killed civilians in most cases . the occupiers simply did not let them take them away, they could not leave , they could not collect the bodies that were all this time there were many

testimonies lying on the streets that the neighbors asked to bury them but did not even allow them to approach the bodies, according to dmytro gapchenko, russian soldiers grabbed civilians on the streets and men were dragged to interrogations, luckily he was also captured, and the officers who were supposed to command the interrogation did not come, and buchanets and his colleagues survived on march 15, that while they were near the city council, the occupiers came and uh, they took us prisoner, that is, they took the documents , took them the phones tied our hands and eyes and they came up to us. they didn't know that we were employees of the city council, because they work in the industry here. i said, of course, no, we are volunteers, we just distribute products. they didn't like it, and they just started asking where is the weapon and the reason to shoot down time i will remember time will shoot you a new detention of opolon was a deadly lottery of many

civilians who were captured and shot , says the chief police officer of the kyiv region andriy nebatov if the brothers are on torture then in fact in all places where the headquarters of the army of the russian federation were located where they were the officers were people who were tortured uh, they wrapped their faces with tape, they put a car cable around their necks and strangled them uh, they even broke their joints, then they were usually shot in the patinitsa, the witnesses give us testimony that in order to obtain some information, it's just nonsense about a chemical laboratory, about nationalist squads, about uh, other forces , no special reasons were needed for detention, and in the village of dimer, they took away uh, they took away the boys , they took away the phones of everyone who had a phone , they were considered criminals what did them, they were received in a room there was nothing to breathe, their hands and feet were tied, they were beaten, they were forced to admit that they were ready to cooperate with the russian authorities, and they also

prevented them from carrying out a so-called special operation. this is what the room at the factory looked like where they were kept the captured domorians were videoed immediately after the liberation of kyiv region, and they were released from there. only a few remaining civilians were taken to belarus and russia. svitlana bogoevska leads a group of local residents who are still looking for their relatives. on her list of 43 people , only four were freed for a month. in general, our people, most of them men, relatives, all of them were looking for only two months later, they accidentally let our volunteers go, and they told us that the russians put our boys on their transport and were taken to be filtered in belarus and then to russia and to the pre-trial detention center during all this time we received small lists i am alive i am healthy no more calls there was nothing else the police of kyiv region has statistics on missing people in the region and knows that some people were taken to russia

298 remains, yes, people were taken there and further on, you already know how propaganda works. at the end of march , russian troops began to leave kyiv region and did so in a hurry. ran away that this ice rink is for blunders well, what is it? because they shoot, they don't shoot, then as they walk, i go out, and he reached there , the turn is so steep, and that ice rink fell on this bridge, the russians blew it up when they fled , when they retreated, they were so afraid so that the weight on their shoulders did not catch up with them, that's why they blew up the bridge when they were retreating from the kyiv region, the russian troops did not stop purposefully shooting at civilians and in the village of savenka they shot the granddaughter of olga

pavlova, then the children were walking home in the evening 20 m that girl did not reach home, they shot them at point-blank range and immediately hit her in the heart. they are drunk. ours is no more. don't cry and don't scream, because they were here until morning . we were looking for them. points about the 30th , they were already shot on the 31st , we didn't have one night in the village, didn't sleep one night, didn't wait for pobeda, what was shot here, that is, it didn't reach the house that much russia could no longer lie about the war in ukraine, but i think that when everyone saw the atrocities in buch in irpin, especially when the following ones were revealed, it opened

the eyes of a lot of people to what we are really dealing with here, what it is. well, absolutely evil and the second is closed the opportunity for many people to find an excuse for this and still try to find some understanding so that the russians should have some reason to attack us . a year later valery says that all the victims were not in vain and that the expelled occupiers succeeded only because all ukrainians united and showed themselves from the best side, people who mastered the military profession of gunners, let’s say, and these are people like that, well, enough of peaceful professions , well, there are no victories in particular, but they endured while we stand andriy hetman dreams of ulyanovsk tetyana voorzko voice of america and we return to the main news of today’s needs of ukraine on the battlefield was discussed in brussels by state

secretary anthony blinken and minister of foreign affairs of ukraine dmytro kulev during a bilateral meeting within the framework of the summit of gas station leaders of nato countries in the course of right here a historic event took place. the official ceremony of finland joining the north atlantic alliance. president shajobaiden welcomed this event and noted that when putin started his brutal war of aggression against the people of ukraine, he thought he could divide europe and then he was wrong. today we are more united than ever. we have an opportunity to talk more about this. with radio svoboda correspondent zoryana stepanenko, who is currently in direct communication from brussels zoryana welcome, we will return to historical events later but first, to the ukrainian topic, washington announced today additional aid for ukraine, and in brussels another meeting of the ukraine nato commission was held, what messages or decisions about further support for ukraine we heard from its results eh good evening yulia

, you are right, this day in brussels will definitely go down in history well, now we will talk about everything in detail one by one indeed, from the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, ukraine can be said to a certain extent to be leading the way . actually bring it closer to the return to control of its own ukrainian territories on behalf of ukraine spoke with partners, colleagues dmytro kuleba and for the first time, i will say in six years. now the blockade of budapest has essentially been ignored in a certain way , which, as the head of the hungarian foreign ministry said , violates the principle of nato unity, well, he promised everyone at the meeting itself to be constructive. so

the ministers supported the creation of a multifaceted support program for ukraine that will help it get closer to the alliance and move from soviet to modern military and defense standards. there were also specific decisions regarding support, in particular the netherlands, for example , transferring several tens of millions of euros to the nato special fund, which finances projects for ukraine, in particular the transfer and packages uh , non-lethal, non-lethal packages well, eh, about the news from washington about additional help , a colleague has already been told that the secretary of state of the united states was among those colleagues with whom the ukrainian top diplomat met separately, you and i are in constant contact with you. we talk a lot with you and it is a special pleasure to have a conversation with you now in person. it is very symbolic that we are meeting for the first time precisely at the nato headquarters on nato's birthday and this a great opportunity to discuss how to make our meetings in nato more frequent we will discuss the supply of ammunition and weapons and we very much appreciate everything that the united

states has done especially in the last month to prepare our military for a counteroffensive the biden administration has fulfilled its obligations in providing what we need and this sets an example for other allies as always everything we do is aimed at the victory of democracy over autocracy the victory of ukraine over russia and the victory of security over aggression summing up this day for ukraine in brussels dmytro kuleba said that , in principle, it was possible to speed up the delivery of several types of previously promised weapons necessary for the counteroffensive, and he also raised the issue of western fighter jets, but there are no fishy solutions in this regard, but some allies said they will discuss the given arguments at home, respectively, in the capitals with the political leadership of the respective nato member countries yulia now finland became the 31st member of nato today , what is the importance of this event for the country itself and for the security of the alliance and should we expect

a quick accession of sweden as well, which applied at the same time as a neighboring country. and you know that i will start with sweden, that the terms are unknown because it depends on the hungarian and turkish parliaments to a certain extent , mainly on turkey, since it has there are still questions for sweden, but the alliance hopes that it will be resolved before the vilnius summit scheduled for july 2023, while sweden's membership is actually on hold. well, as for finland, this ceremony is truly historic and quite impressive , if you can say so. we saw it for ourselves . eyes, the finnish flag near the headquarters of the alliance found its place in the middle between the flags of estonia and france between their representatives, and the head of finnish diplomacy sat at his first meeting as a representative of an allied country partner countries want a strategic one for 30 years, in fact well, but the war has returned to europe and nato. contrary to the desire

of vladimir putin and his conditions, the alliance to move to the borders of 1997, on the contrary , has officially expanded today at the expense of finland, because having a common border with russia with a length of almost 1,300 km and so for decades we kept neutrality , finland no longer felt safe when russia attacked ukraine, now the famous fifth article of the washington under the agreement, it is meant that the allies will stand for all and all for one in the event that if someone is attacked, finland is now safer and the alliance has become stronger thanks to this union. so he union , i mean mutually beneficial, stressed the secretary general of nato , and in helsinki, where are the flags of the alliance? things were raised above their state geostations at the same time the finnish flag was raised over the headquarters in brussels, they believe that together with membership in nato , a new era begins for their country and more walking is

a great day for finland. i would like to see that this is also an important day for nato, security and stability - these are the elements that are very important to us and if people want to live in safe and stable conditions - this is the main element of a happy life i think you know the prices are very happy historical day dmytro kuleba of course did not miss an opportunity to remind you that ukraine also wants to become a member of nato. nato and ukraine need each other. today he stated how i am commenting on such a perspective, allies , gentlemen, you know yulia publicly in nato takes the position that this issue is not timely as for the first, we should deal with more urgent stories like this, well, in particular, we should help ukraine push back the russian aggressor. well , the allies are committed to supporting ukraine on this path as long as it takes. well, as for the euro-atlantic path , minister kuleba said that the conversation

was quite frank today on this topic what now its results should be discussed among themselves by their circle of allies and come to a result ukraine expects that concrete agreements will be formalized at the summit we have already said that nato is planned for the summer in vilnius and the alliance expects that volodymyr zelenskyi will personally join the allies there. vilnius 2023, kuleba said, should be an opportunity to correct the mistakes of bucharest in 2008, referring to the same one where ukraine was promised an open door. when they planned to provide her with a plan actions regarding membership in nato , but in the end they postponed it, but now i have to say it is not in time, because ukraine has officially sent an application to the alliance, and now it is a completely different level mutually. thank you very much . this was zoryana stepanenko, correspondent radio svoboda the minister of foreign affairs of estonia in the romance of the knight with whom the voice of america spoke said that he would soon like to see the ukrainian flag among the flags

of nato member countries, he emphasized that despite great progress the alliance, in his opinion, is still not doing enough to support ukraine. i think that in the general context we have not done enough to support ukraine because this war is still going on and we have to change the paradigms of military support for ukraine so that ukraine can have a full-scale advantage in conventional weapons and ammunition on the ground and secondly, what is very important is that all nato members behave rhetorically with me. they should support ukraine, but we need these practical results in large numbers. i hope that in the future the day will come when the ukrainian flag will fly here as the flag of a full member of nato . this is the question i am going to raise today after 6 years of holding a meeting

of the ukraine nato commission, another historical event is unfolding in new york, former us president donald trump arrived at the court in new york where they have an official criminal charge against him, he is now under formal arrest trump is the first ex-president in us history to face criminal charges donald trump himself calls the case a witch hunt and pleads not guilty to charges related to the payment of $130,000 to each actress on the eve of the 2016 elections for her silence about the alleged meeting with him 10 years ago, now in the very epicenter of the event my colleague iryna solomko works, who is she and we will ask all the details iryna , congratulations, something is happening in the court and before the court what does this formal arrest mean? what is donald trump accused of? greetings, yulia. at the moment, everyone expects that donald trump will remain in the courthouse because

, in principle, he has already been read the charges. do you hear the sound of holocopters? there are probably six of them flying here all the time while trump was in court and the judges are here, and they are here, and this is a sign for us that he is still here, but according to information , he should leave the territory , according to the house, and return to his place in trumptaur and then how he announced before that to fly to florida. and if we talk about what happened in the courthouse in general , then as soon as donald trump, that is, he entered the territory , he essentially ended up under formal arrest and that is, under the police desk, that is, you have to be very careful here because it's not, it's not an arrest, it's the rest. it's just that he's on the territory of the court , he's under police custody, his fingerprints were taken, photos were also taken, and a month of these procedural moments, the pain, accordingly, is already in

the courtroom and there where it was read to him the indictment that was approved before, well, that is, the hives, well, that is, the grand jury of new york, and in principle, at the moment, there is no official information that exactly what accusations were made against them, there is information from sources, in particular, zcilyan refers to his sources, we are talking about 34 indictments, that is, 33-34 in as a result, i spoke and there is also information that donald trump and his lawyer spoke about it the day before, he pleaded not guilty, that is , he said that he will defend himself and he does not admit to any of the accusations, and it was also literally planned that this would take place in the third is 30 for new york and this is according to 10:30 for kyiv, and the prosecutor will also hold a press conference, at which we are already expecting journalists to expect that there will be an explanation, there will be official information.

his team of lawyers , accordingly, will be all the time, well, that is, the next few months, probably dealing with yulia iryna, who has gathered today in front of the court in new york, how do they react to what is happening? chained both to the garden and to donald trump as he arrived in the same way to the park in front of the courthouse where supporters and opponents of donald trump had gathered. logan and trump's company, a lot of them had, respectively, american flags , that is, they showed that they had such an appeal with donald trump, and for another story , on the side of the barricade, because it really was such a buffer zone even between them, that is, at first she wasn’t there, but then, when small clashes began, there were several such moments, that is, the police even increased this buffer zone

and accordingly, well, that is, they are developing them in this way , that is, on the other side of the barricade, where to find donald trump, they also brought , for example, a large poster that said that donald trump lies every day , for example, and other posters, that is, there were such even offensive challenges to donald trump. that is, we can say that in fact quite radical and supportive and supporters and opponents, and they were all set on a very radical, so there were many warnings from the new york city police that it might not end very well, but for now, everything seems to be ok, that is, the police are controlling the situation, and now you can hear what they are thinking regarding these accusations both his supporters and his opponents are there or what am i here to express my support for our president trump just to let him know that we know

the truth and they are just unfairly attacking him as always i mean i am not i know what will happen in the courtroom but we all know that the judicial system is impartial and this is just an attack because the transport is trying to protect the citizens of the united states of america i am here today just to check what is going on watch the play now is a historic time so you should just show up events and see what is happening. i think it is important to hold people accountable, but i still think that at the same time , many other quite serious violations, in particular, tried to change the results election which in my opinion is much more serious than just a technical violation of campaign finance i'm here to make sure that the justice system today is not used as a weapon against president trump i think what attorney general alvin breck is doing is a crime i think you know we have to make sure that we have a fair

justice system i'm here to celebrate donald trump's arrest i hope to support the idea that he should be fully prosecuted that he was not above the law and that he should sit in prison i'm here because i wanted to speak on behalf of the thousands of people who died during and after hurricane maria due to the gross negligence of former president trump due to his racism and incompetence he allowed thousands upon thousands of artericans to die everyone saw the video of him throwing toilet paper at the people of puerto rico when they literally die his stay in new york is a provocation marjorie and taylor green's stay in new york is a provocation they represent hate we are a chorus to a city that is really threatening dynamo with love, we will force him to style, we are responsible for this and much more. and we are going to blame his death on a thousand arthurians who died after the hurricane maria

iryna kyiv. this case can have an impact on the presidential race and how do experts comment on the words of trump's supporters who say that this is supposed to be political persecution , so trump can continue this political race even if he were to be arrested, he still could, that is, he is not, he will not be disqualified from transitions, but you now you can hear the opinions of experts on this very important point in our constitution the law is king the idea is that the president must be subject to the law and in this case we have a criminal prosecution indictment which was handed down by the grand jury on the other hand there is always concern that the new presidential administration which gets power will persecute the previous administration and why there will be no end and end and this can destabilize the country but in the current case

it is not the administration that is filing a case against of the previous administration, this state of new york is a completely different entity that conducts the case and the grand jury is ordinary citizens and not the prosecutor who decides to take the case to court, i think that this increases his chances for premiership however, i believe that this will harm him in the general election because that trump's problem is that he has a very passionate base, but it is not big enough to get a high place with a minority of votes to win the election, if we saw it in 2020, interesting thoughts . thank you, irina, we will definitely keep an eye on it how the events in new york are developing, i will remind our viewers that iryna solomko was on the call from new york, and that's the end of it. thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian

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