[000:00:00;00] castle when volodymyr zelenskyi took the podium, the president of ukraine addressed the community in ukrainian and polish. glory to ukraine. i salute warsaw. give polish. ages give birth to polish greats. they give birth to ukrainians. that in order to stop russian aggression , it is extremely important to act now, you just need to not stop in solidarity when the battle requires

artillery, it should be provided when victory needs tanks, their rumble should attract to the front line when independence needs air, there is no need to pay attention to how they will react in russia to our planes, it is not necessary to guess which number will look safer next to the letter f - 16 or some other , the president of poland should act, because the jew supported the call of the president zelensky to the world, noting that poland is an example of solidarity and partnership ukraine ukraine needs support and needs the supply of modern military equipment poland is and will be one of the leaders of such support we know well who who defends his home, who defends his homeland, support is needed there and there is no time to wait. analysts of the university of kehl of the world economy of the german analytical center say that poland is the fourth country in the world in terms of the level of support for ukraine in terms of its gdp after the baltic countries, and this is happening in a strong

partnership with the united states, there were no common of american-polish-ukrainian relations before this war, now this triangle is actually the triangle of providing weapons to ukraine, the triangle of political support for ukraine would not be mr. zelenskyi's trip to washington without polish support and there would have been no arms transportation without polish support poland handed over 270 tanks to ukraine during the visit poland promised an additional four fighter jets which could pave the way for western countries to provide ukraine with combat aircraft zelenskyi's visit on april 5 took place at a time when ukraine is preparing for a major counter-offensive , the only way to stop the war - says przemysl grajewski, adviser to the ministry of foreign affairs of poland, is the victory

of ukraine, there is a generally accepted belief that the only way to end the war is to defeat russia. not because it is easy, but because if russia is not defeated , the war will end. forces on ukraine's border with russia after ukraine regains its territory myroslava gongadze voice of america warsaw is the focus of the latest package of military aid from the united states to ukraine on ammunition for artillery, in particular the howitzer, western howitzers help the armed forces of ukraine fight against russian aggressors since july 2022 and now play a key role in the bakhmut direction, the m-77 howitzer is actively used by artillerymen, and the m119 light

guns help the ukrainian paratroopers. anna kostyachenko and pavel sukhodolsky two guys target misha sight 323 announces the coordinates of the target grenade island from the american high-precision howitzer m-77 such an artillery battle can be conducted several times hours in a row, says the gun commander, 49-year-old ex-cursor volodymyr from ternopil, yesterday it was calm today, so today we didn't hear any shooting in the morning , and yesterday was a more or less sunny day. it is not far from the front, it seems that it is literally here with a sparrow when the customs queues are constantly explosions explosions explosions this is the gun we disguise and hide because drones are flying at

any moment the shelling can start today it allows us to feel more free the weather explains the senior officer of the battery. the sun is just trash today , the weather is now foggy , that is, it is more or less safe to do an interview. the goal is to release 40-50 projectiles . this is for them, that is, we had such a case with us. operation of the united forces against the separatists in donbas, after two years in the ato, he returned to civilian life and, before the full-scale invasion , worked as a sales agent in ternopil , in the music band

, branches and waves . later found himself again in the donetsk direction , the musician gained his first artillery experience in march of last year on the soviet howitzers of the city, and in mid-july 2022 he mastered the american high-precision m-77 howitzer. if there is any correction a minute of time it is already possible to conduct a shot with a correction, the calculation is 8 people. but maybe the guys could even do it in five. the ukrainian gunners mastered the new american howitzer in a few weeks, explains the spokesman of the eastern group of troops, serhiy cherevaty . and the appearance of these on the battlefield significantly strengthened the position of the ukrainian defenders the further

the further you can get the enemy and the more accurately and more powerfully the more chances you have that you will be the winner, the help is also unique here and the fact that it came on time and the fact that our servicemen are simply incredible in a short time, they managed to learn these systems from the east and essentially put them into battle, the gunner of the 33-year-old railwayman mykhailo went to the front from the first days of the great war as an infantryman and unexpectedly found himself in the artillery business. i was very far from the artillery, but as they say, when the war came i myself like, as they say, mechanisms, i like machinery , it's an interesting device, well, working on it is a joy, i'll honestly say the main thing is that mykhailo says that his work saves the lives of his brothers on

the battlefield, says peter, the artilleryman saves the blood of the infantry ukrainian attack aircraft also work with american weapons, this is an m119 light howitzer, the success of a shot depends on three factors: the accuracy of the weapon, the skill of the gunner and the work of the command post, the goal is to record the reception plus in one of the numerous command posts in the bakhmut direction, with the help of aerial reconnaissance, the platoon commander receives the coordinates, calculates the target on the tablet and the data of the calculation of the cannon by the artillery battery of the airborne assault brigade of the command is transmitted. a 30-year-old paratrooper with the call sign perlyna aviadami. he is a professional an artilleryman from the kharkiv region studied at the national academy of ground forces at the faculty of missile forces and artillery. perlyna has been fighting for 9 years

in a row, first of russia's attempts to buy donbass in 2014. he went to fight under a contract after february 24 , 2022. he liberated kyiv and then kharkiv regions. now he defends the bakhmut direction 4.6 - in the 14th year, we learned a lot from us , at this moment, we are in the first place, a country that can show the accounts of the russian federation , show its character, it does not deviate from of his lands and the operative will soon go home far behind the ship perlyna says his fighters are in constant combat readiness to cover the infantry and precisely work on the enemy and quickly the stability of the m19 and m-77

is suitable for these tasks anna kosyuchenko pavel sukhodolskyi for the voice of america from the donetsk region shot emmanuel macron called on russia to refrain from nuclear rhetoric and actions, in no case should nuclear weapons be deployed outside the country's borders, especially in europe , the french president said during his visit to beijing, an analyst at the institute for the study of war in washington is convinced that the kremlin wants to use nuclear threats to deter western military aid before the announced counteroffensive of ukraine as a measure to respond to russia's dangerous rhetoric further in the story of ostap yarosh, russia's decision to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in belarus provoked harsh words of condemnation from the west of the leaders of the general assembly and minister stoltenberg said that the alliance closely monitors the actions of the kremlin, on the other hand , the minister of foreign affairs of estonia, urvas

rinsalu, believes that it is necessary to resort to concrete actions on the part of putin, this is another story with his nuclear threats to western capitals and we must respond in the near future literally i would like to see it literally today just by throwing out the trash can the founding act of russia's nato we have not considered it yet and i think it is nonsense we said that does acne work but it is not enough emmanuel macron also spoke about russia's nuclear threats during his visit to china and the meeting and the leaders of the countries warned the kremlin against dangerous rhetoric then we call on all parties to comply a promise that nuclear weapons will not be used, a nuclear war will not be waged, as well as to oppose the use of biological and chemical weapons under any circumstances , to oppose an armed attack on civilian nuclear facilities such as nuclear power , it is necessary to resume peace talks as soon as possible and is a phenotypic of the desire to exclude nuclear

issue in the conflict , international treaties should be respected, in no case should nuclear weapons be deployed outside the borders of states that do not possess them, especially in europe , everyone should be reminded of their responsibilities, especially russia, which a few days ago announced its desire to deploy nuclear weapons in belarus - this contradicts our obligations and in international law, researchers of the institute for the study of war in washington believe that the kremlin is using nuclear threats to deter western military aid on the eve of ukraine's counteroffensive, a researcher at the democratic initiatives foundation and the london maria zolkina of the school of economics adds that putin's main goal is to prepare the ground for the placement of tactical nuclear weapons in the temporarily occupied crimea, and that there are motives behind this warn to stop at any cost ukraine's attempt to de-occupy the entire territory because we understand that both officially and practically ukraine is preparing for this , the diplomatic situation is gradually changing in favor of ukraine and

putin's task at any cost is to stop belarus - this is just a test site, let's see how to the west maria zoloti will react to this . russia's next steps to increase military aid in ukraine and provide kiev with long-range missiles separately help ukraine destroy russia's military infrastructure in crimea with the help of long-range weapons . weapons in order to prevent the spread of this nuclear uh-uh octopus through the territories currently controlled by russia from belarus to the occupied

territory of ukraine, meanwhile, the security the baltic countries are also concerned, in the ministry of foreign affairs, you are convinced that their country needs to immediately strengthen its air defense, the usa , great britain and other parties have made a lot of efforts regarding the level of sanctions, but it is also about strengthening the defense of the eastern flank and air defense, this is what is necessary and we saw the deployment of anti-missile defense in poland and the baltic countries, which are in some way unprotected, and how many lithuania now find themselves between kaliningrad with missiles and nuclear warheads and the potential placement of nuclear weapons in belarus - this is necessary, therefore, on both sides , we will advocate that the air defense of lithuania urgently needs to be strengthened, meanwhile, the russian ministry of defense declares that the belarusian missile forces have apparently begun training in russia to work with complexes and scandar, including and the use of nuclear weapons ostapyarish andrii hetman kostyantyn holobchyk voice of america the ukrainian city of kharkiv was

one of the first targets of the russian full-scale invasion of the kremlin of a special drew attention to the fact that a large part of the city's residents are russian-speaking, but putin's plans both in terms of military and worldview were defeated, but how the war caused a wave of ukrainization in the city, my colleague iryna matviychuk talked with the mayor of kharkiv igor terekhov how do you feel about the situation in the city today when it started its the city of kharkiv from the beginning of the war was brutally shelled, shelled, and the duke was shelled with rockets and ballistic missiles, what are the main needs of the people of kharkiv today, as far as you can, satisfy what

people need, first of all, work. because when people do, when they work, they earn money , and this is very important. business development or industry development is just like that on poor technologies. the people of kharkiv had work, they had work, and the people of kharkiv had to have the means to live in order to live a normal life, so heat supply, energy supply, water supply , e-e work, electric transport, communal e-e in city services are adapted there. you for trash and such another thing i want to say is that it is all organized. by the way, we are currently holding the so-called green spring, where we are cleaning up the city, cleaning up the destruction , planting saplings

, planting trees, planting flowers, cleaning up the city. what was said on the air in russian and today it is your initiative to speak in ukrainian and you know in ukraine there is a lot of talk about it now and in ukraine many people are deciding what to do i was russian-speaking so what to do next i am a little bit under such pressure and in in society, you, the mayor, have a certain authority and people also look up to you . what is your position on the language issue? this is a language issue.

in ukrainian language eh what about eh hmm how do you eh speak well, i want to say that more and more often, more often, er, we speak in ukrainian and er, conversations in ukrainian language, you know, in kharkiv, such a brand is already being created, and it is very cool. i would say that it is also good that people are starting to speak ukrainian, if it is more and more common on the streets of kharkiv, the ukrainian

language is heard and greetings u-e sound ukrainian when you walk down the street say hello e-e and e-e they say greetings good day good evening good morning and more and more often and we will come when we talk e-e i am sure only in ukrainian e this so far the transition period. that is, what do you think kharkiv will one day become a ukrainian-speaking place. listen , i believe that ukraine will be the whole of ukraine. it will take some time, because it is already.

i want to say that after these horrors, what is russia doing? we can't, we can't, uh, talk. well, we, and we, before, i want to say in surzhyki , we used to talk to such and such because uh, so they said that russian-speaking uh, russian-speaking kharkiv and stories on cities but in fact it is not so it was a fluke but nevertheless we must speak the ukrainian language, we will all speak and no one will pressure us , you know the mentality that we are going through now. and what is the fact that russia, with this war, with these horrors, pushed us to speak ukrainian, it is a fact that the russian war brought deaths , the destruction of onysk-ukrainian cities over the past year due to shelling and bombing

, more than 3,000 educational institutions were damaged, more than 200 schools were destroyed, completely tragic statistics. this room was furnished with stints from the history of the institution, where we had photos of our graduates here, only traces of the fragments of an enemy projectile that hit our educational institution and destroyed it were left, first of all, the classrooms of computer science, physics, chemistry, the office of the defense of ukraine, that is, from with all the equipment , nothing remained there, only ruins. mykola shpak once studied at this lyceum, then became its director until the end, he did not believe that the russians would destroy his native educational institution when the village of mykhailo kotsyubynskyi in chernihiv region was under occupation in the lyceum, people were hiding dust, glass, slate, debris, such a state

of shock, sadness, anger, disappointment, well, it is not at all clear what all this is for and what is the purpose of it all, it was very painful, once we studied, the war came and it was hit by a shell from the beginning of the full-scale war in the chernihiv region, 70 schools were damaged throughout the country in one year , more than 220 schools were completely destroyed, many of them were destroyed by the russians with a target, the russian military immediately occupied our school on march 29, when they were retreating, they set it on fire school until february 24, we had 401 students studying at the institution, these are students of the first 11th grades , a study on the loss of ukrainian education in washington was presented together with charitable organizations by the former minister

of education of ukraine, anna novosad, she called on international institutions to help, says financial assessments of the needs of students and the number of teachers is increasing all the time, the war is going on and in fact every day schools continue to be destroyed. and as for the statistics of general schools and general secondary schools, we now have more than 1,440 schools that are very significantly or completely destroyed destroyed, and this is 10% of the number of schools we had before the full-scale invasion, regions such as kharkiv region, donetsk region, luhansk region suffered the most, what the russians did not destroy, looted the schools that survived , were left without school buses and computers, the newly appointed minister of education , oksan lisovyi, said that in ukraine they create an electronic database of the needs of students and teachers , the main thing in the list is the arrangement of 11,000

bomb shelters, as well as the provision of gadgets for the tank coalition, we need a tablet internet in the coalition, there is a huge need for this according to educators, unicef is currently allocating the most funds to ukrainian schools. the global partnership for education of the united states also joined in the aid. regarding how ukraine joined the partnership in november of last year , 40 million dollars had already been allocated for ukraine, so there is no competition here. the question is to attract more resources and spend these resources in accordance with the needs of funding, both educational institutions and individual students, because according to research most often ukrainian schoolchildren use phones for distance learning because they do not have personal laptops or have to share them with other family members iryna shynkarenko

pavlo terekhov voice of america and finally the story about an eleven-year-old volunteer from sumy oleksandr reznichenko who found an interesting way to help the armed forces of ukraine a fan of the story about harry olena adamenko and mykhailo zaika alohomore tell 11-year-old oleksandra's room is like a mini-museum. the universe of harry potter bedding clothes i have a lot of it i in principle walk most often many columns of different marauders map almost all collections of 3d puzzles collected make something with your own hands another passion of the girl so sasha started making magic wands of joan rowling characters from what exactly secret does not reveal. so she showed us only the final stage of painting

a month ago sasha turned her hobby into a volunteer business, many children help , can the zsu sing, dance, anything i also wanted to help can i and sasha started selling sticks through social networks, but it costs uah 100, the girl transfers 80% of the sale to the zsu very often, people thank me for my work, they give a little more , not even a little sometimes, but still, in principle, i transfer 80% on zayos, although they say that the rest, take my wands already in kyiv, lviv, odesa-konstantinivka, and also in oxford , they ordered two of them. i am very happy that as many as three wands end up in england, because this is the homeland of harry potter, if you can say that as a client maryna popatenko, the deputy minister of youth and sports of ukraine, who came to sumy to visit her parents, is sure that this

volunteer work will be well appreciated by our soldiers. now in ukraine, in fact , about 43 percent of young people volunteer, it is between the ages of 14 and 35. we did it. such polls are better. sasha made such a conscious choice that she turned her hobby into an otaku and a wonderful volunteer work. this indicates that she is already a responsible enough young person at this age . oleksandra's mother also emphasizes responsibility. how did the whole story begin, i’m only saying this if you respond to it, you treat the execution order, the report, the financial reporting is mandatory, so she started the tables herself . she writes there that for a month of volunteering, sasha transferred almost uah 4,000 to the zsu about her plans and dreams for the future, she says i want her not to become victory is the most important thing and i will continue to sell sticks if people are interested in it, all the more i really

like bringing the zsu wheel and giving joy to people, what did i say when i ordered a stick i just believe in miracles olena adamenko mykhailo stutters for the voice of america of sumy region and that's the end of it. thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian. see you tomorrow. good luck, dad. we continue the search for three missing children from the vlasov family . we talked about two brothers, dmytro and artem, and their sister, sofia, who told me about the disappearance of the children. their own aunt is the one in the photo with the children, mrs. olena has been living in spain for 10 years, but regularly kept in touch with her brother and nephews, the woman said

that her relatives lived in the city of mariupol in nine-story building at 61 kurchatova street and the last time they got in touch was the day before the start of a full-scale war, we talked last time two watch февраля and i don't know everything what happened to them i'm looking i'm looking for viber and telegram i don't know i don't know where i can find them find imagine for more than a year, mrs. olena, i don't know anything about the fate of my family, that's why she's asking for help to find her relatives . this is her brother serhii vlasov with his sons artem and dmytro. more diseases in 2014, little sofia was only two years old at the time, she suffered the loss of her mother very hard because of this, and she still has certain psychological disorders and problems with development, the girl speaks very poorly, she thinks of me as a mother, i think she can’t cry

, sofia looks 10 years old now and her brothers artem and dmytro, 12 and 14 years old, on the left in the photo, artem in a green t-shirt, and dmytro in the middle in a gray blouse. let me remind you that the vlasov family lived in mariupol at 61 kurchatova street. so it is not excluded that during the bombings the father was hiding with the children in the basement, or somewhere in a bomb shelter, and then maybe he moved somewhere . while in spain, mrs. olena somehow miraculously found out about it and even managed to get in touch with her acquaintance in mariupol. this woman she said that she saw the children whole and unharmed at the beginning of may, a friend of hers, and it was their teacher who worked with them when i talked to her and found yona, she says we have no connection, not sveta, they don’t say anything, well, you found me, she wrote on facebook