[000:00:00;00] on april 17 at 4:40 p.m., the judicial control program with tetyana shustrova on the espresso tv channel, de-occupation, how can you live without documents , is it possible, unsurpassed, the history of the liberated cities of ukraine , let's see how our brothers helped us. one by one, two houses and natsiks of ukrainian people are here yes, we are all nationalists, people who resisted, residents came here, stopped and sent back and became heroes, the novel was

unbreakable cities of ukraine from the project ukraineer documentary cycle de-occupation that on saturdays at 11:10 not espresso will watch the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america while there i am nataliya leoneva i congratulate the prime minister of ukraine denys shmyhal arrived on a working visit to washington , first of all he met with the minister of defense united states, lloyd austin, the head of the defense department at a meeting with the prime minister , certain that the united states will increase the production of military equipment and provide for ukraine's needs, at the same time, prime minister denys shmyhal thanked the us for its support and called for ukraine to receive more

weapons, including f-16 fighter jets and long -range missiles. we also maintain a commitment to support and provide your forces with the right amount of spare parts and training for technical service at the same time we will continue to invest in our own defense and industrial base to further increase production, so i am sure that we will meet ukraine's defense needs during the spring and beyond, and as the president has repeatedly stated. we will support ukraine as long as it takes, we will win this war, but to achieve this faster and with less losses ukraine needs intensive military assistance more resistant air defense to minimize the effect of russian air gifts more heavy artillery and ammunition we also ask to once again consider the possibility of providing ukraine with a long-range missile

in order to defend europe, we need heavy weapons and aircraft prime minister denys shumagaryadov's visit to washington takes place against the background of the alleged leak of pentagon documents about its situation, we will talk with yulia yarmolenko, she is joining our broadcast right now from the running house. congratulations to yuria . congratulations to natalya. the administration also says that they are currently discussing with their allies and partners on the issue of the possible leak of documents, minister austin and prime minister shmygal had the opportunity to talk about it personally yulia, did they take advantage of this opportunity natalya you know this is a hot topic, so we can assume that minister austin and prime minister shmygal discussed this topic, although officially, we do not know this for sure in the official report of the talks from the pentagon, this topic is not mentioned. but more generally, in a wider context, it is emphasized that the united states will once again

convince ukraine that they will stand with it as much as it will be necessary and this is one of the concerns that i had on the ukrainian side, whether this potentially probable leak could in some way affect the support of ukraine, and in the pentagon in the white house they say that no . of the conference. he said that he was informed about it on april 6. now there is a very intensive investigation between departments supervised by the ministry of justice. he said that they will do everything in order to check every crack. to confess that in reality happened, and the task set before the pentagon by the ministry of justice is, first of all, to find out whether there are authentic documents among those documents that have entered the public domain, as lloyd austin said , they are now focusing on documents dated february 28 and march 1, and also make sure that happened and who

could potentially be behind this, but again, he said that the investigation is currently ongoing, if we are talking about how the representatives of the biden administration talk to their partners, then anthony blinked the day before, too said that over the past few days they have spoken with a number of partners and allies to convince them in particular that the united states is very serious about the protection of intelligence regarding cooperation with ukraine and the potential impact on ukraine due to this alleged leak, lloyd austin himself commented on this situation in ukraine minister oleksiy reznikov and we discussed a number of issues, as we usually do, but he and the ukrainian leadership remain focused on the task at hand, and i am absolutely sure that they will do what

make good leaders great leaders they will fight the enemy and will not be guided by any one specific plan ukrainians have many capabilities necessary to achieve success we have trained a huge number of their troops we have provided a significant amount of equipment i think in ukraine they believe that they are in a good position and we will focus on continue to provide security support and capability so that they can continue to succeed when they decide to launch offensive operations and what about the possible possible consequences of this case your experts in washington, natalya, you know it can really affect the trust in the united states as an ally and partner with which other countries share intelligence, if it turns out that the documents that got into the public eye are authentic, as for the direct impact on ukraine, then here are the opinions of experts differ. some say that this can have very negative consequences for

ukraine for ukrainian plans for a counteroffensive, and our colleagues from the georgian service talked with another military expert, this is general hodges, who once commanded the american army in europe and he believes that yes , in relation to the deputies of the united states, it can have a serious effect, but in relation to the ukrainian counteroffensive, he believes that the effect can be minimal, let us listen to his opinion, it hurts when such things happen, because our relations with other countries spread intelligence of course is based on trust if other countries think we can't protect classified information they won't want to share it with them that's one of the aspects and of course no one wants your enemies learned about what you know about them because from this they can determine how we found out, on the other hand, i don't think that any specific ukrainian military

plans were revealed, and frankly, a lot of this information was already available two or three months ago, so i i don't think it will hurt the future offensive of ukraine if they don't start it and i don't think frankly that the russians are smart enough to be able to do something about it even if it got access to something that they could use natalya but ben hoji drew attention to one of the documents, again we don't know if these documents are anything reliable, but he drew attention to the documents in which it is said that there are certain gaps in the ukrainian air defense system, in particular with ammunition, and in his opinion, he drew attention on this before and in our interviews he talked about the fact that since the ukrainians have to protect their sky from russian attacks, it is actually very important to provide a sufficient amount of ammunition and now ben hodges

believes that this should actually be an impetus for the administration to provide not only more ammunition for anti-aircraft missile defense systems, but to provide more powerful weapons, in particular, he drew attention to the fact that it is necessary to consider the issue of providing long-range weapons, as well as f16 fighters and others. he said that it is very important for the ukrainians were able to eliminate the russian bases in crimea, from where attacks are carried out, in particular against the civilian population, so he believes that there is something positive. perhaps even in this, it can encourage the administration of the united states and others western partners to provide more necessary aid for ukraine . thank you yulia for this information. yulia yarmolenko was in direct contact with us from the white house at the moment. and the world bank of the country are discussing how to help the ukrainian economy survive

the war and how to lay the foundation for reconstruction on financial ramstein addressed the meeting via video link oksana bedratenko is following the events, she is joining our studio right now congratulations to oksana congratulations to natalia so what were the main statements made at the meeting of ministers yes natalia volodymyr zelenskyi the president of ukraine addressed the world financiers via video link and began his speeches in the international monetary fund and the world bank, and during the minutes of silence, he called on the meeting participants to honor the memory of the ukrainians who died in the russian war, he said that now ukraine is going through a storm emotions, especially against the background of videos of murders that are on social networks at the same time he said that the reconstruction of ukraine is the best resistance to terrorism, thanked the imf for its support for

a large-scale package of 15.6 billion dollars and also announced very specific tasks for the ukrainian delegation, which is currently in washington and is participating in the meetings of the imf and the world bank, he said that he hopes that the ukrainian delegation will convince the international partners to provide ukraine with another 14 billion dollars for priority projects by the end of this year, as well as he called on the international community to confiscate the frozen russian assets, not only the assets of the central bank, which are estimated to reach 300 billion dollars from the frozen for russia, but also the assets of the kremlin oligarchs, people close to the kremlin and the russian elite in ukraine were destroyed, thanks to the partners , the expenses for maintaining normal life in most of them for this year, but the main

needs for reconstruction remain open: housing, energy, transport , social, humanitarian, service the population, education, there is such a huge opportunity to change, to collect it from the aggressor, to compensate for the losses of those who are guilty of an unprovoked and illegal war, for example, the world bank provided a new assessment of the losses and needs of ukraine 411 billion dollars every day, russia increases these funds in the world, there are russian assets of various types that cover such a level it is realistic to confiscate losses monthly ukraine needs 5 billion dollars to support its economy oksana will the funds promised by donors be enough for ukraine to support economic stability in times of war yes natalya, just now in response to zelenskyi, the president of the world bank, where he said that, according to the world bank, ukraine will need to raise another 11 billion dollars by the end of this year for

the economy and for the urgent needs of reconstruction , he also mentioned such data that through the mechanism of the world bank, ukraine has already received 20 billion dollars. and this includes bilateral funds , mainly from the united states and other partners, and the funds of international organizations, and malpass once again assured that the mechanism of the world bank provides the opportunity for good supervision tracking the spending of these funds. that is, he assured that it is a transparent mechanism, at the same time he called extraordinary costs of ukraine in the reconstruction of 1,411 billion dollars , this is twice the size of the ukrainian economy, and as malpaza stated the day before , this is more than twice the balance sheets of international financial institutions such as like the world bank and the imf, also on the eve of the us treasury minister janet ellen said that the funds collected by donors will be enough

for ukraine to get through the country by the end of the year and perform government functions and to ensure economic stability and she also emphasized once again that the us will support ukraine as much as possible and as much as necessary and will conduct additional negotiations with international partners if the war lasts longer than the end of the year, we stated that we intend to support ukraine as much as it takes, we welcome the approval of the imf package, this is an important signal of broad international support for ukraine, funding is important , in fact, our commitments are enough until next september, support of the european the union and others are actually enough for ukraine until the end of the year, but if the war lasts longer we will have to cooperate with our partners to provide ukraine with what it needs and we are committed to this

as we move to washington, the prime minister of ukraine denys shmyhal and the chairman of the national bank andriy pyshny informed that they are going to discuss the regime of western sanctions against russia , oksana, have the parties agreed on any new steps in this direction today? american sanctions, international sanctions against russia are working. she said that due to these new restrictions introduced by international e-e donors , the international community russia loses up to 40% of its energy revenues. that is, it is positive, but sanctions are the leitmotif of the meetings of the e-e ukrainian delegation, and this is also stated in the national oksana bedratenko was in direct contact with us in the government of ukraine, thanks for your analysis. she monitors the progress

of the spring meetings of the world bank. staff of the dismissed bucha and boredyanka mass burials. destroyed plane in izyum dream in poland ukrainian virtual exhibition through the war with the help of virtual reality demonstrates how war destroys life in ukraine organizers of the exhibition once again remind the world that the war in ukraine continues more in the story lesi bakovets mutilated houses destroyed bridges killed ukrainians footage of buchi warthogs, warthogs, mass burial in izyum flew around the world through virtual reality, they seem even scarier when you put on glasses, you uh, it's like you're flying like a bird and you see all that horror you look around at all 360 and you feel as if you are on that vokzalna street in buch. all the materials at the exhibition were digitized

by video drones during the war. they were shot by the creative group of wyrm. these are the guys who very confidently and boldly went to the locations in the de-occupied territory, sometimes in two days after de-occupation together with the military virtual reality creates the effect of presence, therefore videos affect viewers more than footage from the news ukrainians often cry foreigners are horrified by what they see believe if you have watched this video on youtube this is just a video but here you are. in these places , the sounds of the surroundings are the images and you are just there, so feel it for real. the people who live there can feel all these emotions every day

, the organizers say that the video impressed even the polish customs officers, we had to unload all our inventory and show everything we were carrying, and the polish customs officers were watching and they were shocked being at the border with ukraine, they were shocked by this, except for reminding the world that there is a war going on in ukraine, the organizers of the exhibition also want to draw attention to the problem of mental health of military and civilian ukrainians during a full-scale invasion, entrance to the exhibition is free, but visitors can donate funds to create mutual support groups for fighters of the armed forces of ukraine, and it should be safe and you should trust those who are close to you. so far, what is wrong, we say nothing, that they did not come up with it, they will at least see the process, that it is normal if you have a problem with blood, it's okay to go to a specialist for a therapeutic group, take care of your mental health in order to make

it more comfortable for you. military psychologist andriy kozynchuk came to accompany the exhibition directly from bakhmut, he says he sees himself returning to peaceful life after the war is very difficult, we are not ready to return, but if we take off the rose-colored glasses, we win, we destroy them for now, so that the guys who returned have some medical devices, hospitals , prosthetics hospitals, but so that there are programs that there will be no money for return, we understand that we need to accumulate funds now, collect specialists, study for that if tomorrow there is a victory, because the day after tomorrow we could already do it, also the organizers of the exhibition are collecting funds for the production of combat drones called khrushch, they were developed by the military together with civilian engineers, gifts are used for the destruction of a light force of lightly armored vehicles

, one drone costs $2,000. that is, the value of a human life can now be realistically measured do not send a person to a dangerous zone, just send one drone there, dozens of such khrushkas are currently being tested on the front line, according to oleksiy oleksyuk, several ukrainian military units have already shown interest in the drone, the recording is done by hand, what can we obey because, accordingly, we use little time to launch the system and get out of position it flies at a distance of 10 to 20 km, carries 1.5 to 3 kg , the military plans to build such drones for the exhibition that is shown in poland. they want to take it further around the world to belgium, denmark, norway, canada and usa lesya performer voice of america from warsaw more than 120,000 dollars managed to be collected by the team of andriy khlyvnyuk, the leader of the band boombox and a volunteer as

part of a charity tour of north america, they are begging to support the work of his unit . andrii khlyvniuk, during his stay in new york, told andriy in an interview with irina solomko, when, in his opinion, there will be a victory. i think it's probably now. it's been a year since you sang klina near sofia, you gave second breath, you remember these songs, why would you do this, what strength did you have to do it in this very place, with a machine gun in uniform and you sing this song, this experiment, we just drove past the square, there was a point of permanent deployment not far from us , and our unit is called sofia because of that, yes , it is a volunteer unit of reinforcement of fire support of the patrol police of kyiv at that time

, here is, uh, some number of volunteers just got lost in the unit and got a weapon and were returning from work. the crew came out. it was so impromptu that it became one of the symbols of the opera in the race for ukrainian statehood. a lot of different events - let's say that the person who sings that song in the square and there is the person who is being interviewed now and a little different people already this year and how he changed you, he completely almost completely knocked me out of the music world this year i didn't record an album, they shot a music video, nothing like that happened, that is, music turned into another means of struggle, it ceased to be show business, and my main work

has been going on for a year now, as i have been exclusively engaged in the work of a patrol policeman, what is not on the line , because we do not patrol, we issue fines , but directly in in the beginning, they were engaged in humanitarian missions. now we will also act as the crew of the panisha strike drone. this is the same way my foundation during this great invasion is organized and is engaged in raising funds for such unmanned aircraft for the training of crews on the training ground and in combat exits, now this is my main job. and when i have time and my manager, management , god bless you. guys, hello. and in 1-2

three months, he will prepare a tour. if we have any surplus somewhere, like the eyes of god, they become a little help to provide for some other boys and girls who are literally somewhere here, there are funds for this time of 3 million dollars. and the fund managed to collect another half a million dollars after viburnum brought royalty's not author's from her er for the most part 99% thanks to david bilmaruspink floyd and his version of this song and how is it in general, it's simple there are people who are famous and not very musicians for whom boundaries do not exist in the good heart of this word you communicate with your brothers yes who are going to the front line or closer to it , what do they tell you in contact with security, i.e., their mood? what

do you hear from them, the fighting spirit is very strong , very, very strong elation, and well, it is in our blood, ukrainian soldiers and ukrainian women too, as they have shown the practice of war is the same, unfortunately, for the same life of people who are behind well, only with greater danger, well, these are the same people , only in green and mostly i meet souls and very strong-spirited and very motivated people who did not hide and many people from abroad could live easily. many people from abroad have a business there and had it, but they took it up in arms and do the hard work of everything talking about your songs, again, when returning, dad , english language among them was enough , that is, now you are them don't sing it

your principled position. as far as i understand, no, i'm just disgusted. it's not at all a principled position. our enemy uses language as a weapon. today , the regions that were most affected by this war were regions that were not ready for the enemy to use language as a weapon. the point is that well, it was autumn in science a long, long time ago , a paradox called protest nationalism to us. we just have to survive. we have to be ourselves. when they go the arms race hmm a battle to the death for the existence of the ukrainian nation ukrainian state that's why well, it seems to me that it's organic, just anyway, there were many

supporters of russia. as far as i know , the russians now come to your concerts in the united states, but they addressed your russian-speaking audience over the russian-speaking in general, she explained to the russians what was happening . what do you think, at least someone heard you? yes, this is your explanation about the fact that you came to our land, you are killing ukrainians. i don't care. the things you do, yes, it's true to us, i was heard by those who could not hear me. they did not hear. this is the choice of the people, and i cannot influence change a person and it is not in the power of another person. a person can change on his own, and maybe not, who wants to believe russian propaganda, let those who don't want to believe it understand everything for a long time that the guys who are now on the front lines and not only who are there and continue to defend ukraine have a lot of debts that need to be paid to win, but there are statements by the authorities

that victory will be this year, how do you feel ukraine will be able to achieve this goal this year it is not the statements of the authorities, it is the faith of the people who do everything that depends on them to make it happen, it is the motivation and faith of the people , it is not the statements of the authorities, as if of course you want this victory to take place tomorrow, it is a little annoying when this victory is shown on tv as if it has already taken place, they do not go difficult because they are not for life or death and they last and the end and the end are not yet visible, here is the talk about victory, it will come now or in 100 years, it is understandable because here it is a struggle between good and evil it always ends with the victory of good but when it will happen. i don't know, i'm not grandma vanga, i can't say yes, we're all already, that's what you 'll do first when there's a victory, yes, i 'll take my children and go with them to where

i promised to go before the war, we wanted to be savages with tents go somewhere to a river or to the sea, that's what i'll do, and then maybe they'll cover up in crimea, it will probably be mined a little bit, everything is probably not in crimea , see an extended interview with andrii khlyvniak on the website and social networks of the ukrainian service voice of america download the mobile application of the voice of america, the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read the news , watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen

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