[000:00:00;00] and informed and reminded one more time in society and that there is indeed a war in our country and there are certain restrictions for your own safety. nataliya gumenyuk, the head of the joint coordination press center of the forces of defense and protection of the south, was in touch with us prime minister of ukraine denys myhal went on an official visit to the united states, in particular, he met with the secretary of defense of the united states and the head of the ministry of finance, what kind of help he asked for, my colleague voice of america correspondent iryna shynkarenko lida will tell you in the pentagon. this is his second meeting in the pentagon with by the us minister of defense, lloyd austin, was held for the first time a year ago at the beginning of a full-scale war in ukraine, so lloyd

austin recalled the successes of the ukrainian army during that time, in particular. providing the usa with hi-mars aris systems and other types of weapons and emphasized that the pentagon is satisfied with how these weapons fall into the hands of ukrainian defenders, that is, they are satisfied with the transparency the use of american aid lloyd austin assured that he will continue to convene a group in the rammstein format and will continue to provide security assistance to ukraine through the purchase of weapons, as well as from his own stocks, i will continue to convene a contact group on the defense of ukraine to coordinate support for ukraine's urgent and long-term needs, and will also continue to quickly to provide security assistance through procurement and from our own stockpiles we also retain a commitment to support and supply your forces with the required numbers

spare parts and maintenance training, at the same time we will continue to invest in our own defense-industrial base for further production expansion, so i am sure that we will meet ukraine's defense needs during the spring and beyond, as the president has repeatedly stated. we will support ukraine as long as it takes, we will win this war was long-awaited by fast, but in order to achieve this quickly and with less losses , ukraine needs intensive military assistance, more air defense to minimize the effect of russian air donations more heavy artillery artillery ammunition we also ask to once again consider the possibility of providing ukraine with veliky radio judge missiles to defend itself and europe we need heavy weapons and aircraft after a visit to the pentagon the prime minister of ukraine met with representatives of the main financial institutions of the international monetary fund and the world bank at these meetings, he emphasized the need to rebuild ukraine already this year

and assured that there are funds for reconstruction. them from the confiscated frozen russian assets, now, as a result of the meetings, denys myhal confirmed that international partners will provide ukraine with 115 billion dollars of long-term support, and it also became known about new agreements, in particular, ukraine will receive 200 million dollars from the world bank to restore energy , the prime minister met with the minister of finance the united states will continue to use our tools to support ukraine in all possible ways, except by providing economic support we are leading a coalition of more than 30 countries to implement the fastest, most unified and most ambitious sanctions regime in modern history to limit

russia 's ability to wage its immoral war already this year, we have identified five priority directions for rapid recovery of ukraine, we need 14 billion dollars of primary financing, we are sure that the usa will be the leaders in this process as well leaders of the meeting already until september of this year and well, actually, we will discuss this topic in more detail, we are attaching andrii dobryanskyi , this is the director of communication at the ukrainian congressional committee of america mr. andrii, my congratulations to you a-a can we actually talk about your opinion about some results? of this visit and can we count on new agreements with a strategic partner because we have now seen and

heard in the material and about money and about the rest, have you heard and seen any specifics in this already visit, and i think my two summaries here are one thing: the prime minister asked about certain matters , he closed the planes, did he mention reconstruction, and continued this conversation not only with the leaders , but also with the international media here in america, it is also very important to have a person like the prime minister is now in america, when the american president himself went to ireland

, apparently the international press will not talk here, the american press will not talk about international affairs. immediately to the american press also, when he was arrested just now, i will forgive him tomorrow, but they arrested this american traitor who leaked information about ukraine that america knows, and he could also comment on how america and ukraine are still cooperating, and now those moments of the week are very important i wish he was here, and what do you think? and the fact that the guys who allegedly made public these documents with secret american materials have been detained now, did this moment affect this detention and this whole political story with the publication of these documents for the visit itself for some agreements and whether they interrupted it informationally, what do you think, i think that the americans were grateful , that is, the minister of defense or various other

ministers, and here is the united states. what if they could immediately show how ukraine physically stands together with america, and this opportunity was famous for ukraine to support these e ministers , they would be very grateful if they showed up so quickly and immediately returned the case, not to see if the international press or others looked at the case, or if e weakened our e-e our agreements are on the off chance that ukraine will be offended, but immediately return the matter as they did to various interviews. why should russia bother with this? what did those secret documents show, how much does america know about russia immediately, so that they

began to fight with each other andria and i would also like you to mention the planes and the fact that mr. smagal asked to transfer them so it really was during the visit it was during the meeting with the head of the pentagon lloyd austin a and i would like that you appreciated the reaction of the host to the request transfer aircraft and weapons with a greater range of action, because he did not comment on specific requests here, but promised to expand the production of military equipment in the usa for ukraine, and i quote, we will continue to invest in our own defense industrial base to further increase production. even that america and ukraine are such close friends now , the usa has helped so much, and to this day, but he is in prison in this case, as activists here, we

cannot get tired and not ask every time it did not offend lloyd osen, he knows how important it is for ukraine to have those planes, but it is important that our political leaders do not get tired and do not complain that it is necessary to offend their friends forever, every week, probably every day , they will ask where those planes are germany and and and and and countries in europe, so what? this will not happen by itself, we have to be asked every day and we see that this is an opportunity for the future andrii. to us those processes after the visit of denis shmyglyad to the united states, thank you very much andriy dobryanskyi, the director of communications at the ukrainian congressional committee of america, was in touch with us a-a, let's return to the state of affairs in ukraine, in particular, on the front line

, we will talk about the daughter of our correspondent oleksandr zabrodin is going to give us such a tour, you know, and you can say a tour of the front line in donetsk region, oleksandr . i greet you. good morning. circulated a report on the situation at the front, the situation in donetsk remains the hottest, in fact, along the entire line of combat clashes, combat clashes are taking place, anti-assaults are shelling almost all the named points, in particular, the hottest situation is, of course , directly in okhmut, but yesterday the occupiers shelled the city of slovyansk, in particular , the head of the region pavlo kirylenko and the mayor of the city, vadimlyak, in particular , the occupiers attacked slavyansky , damaged the residential sector, damaged a school

, four high-rise buildings and private houses fortunately, no information has been received regarding the dead or injured people, the situation is still very hot. yesterday i tried to call the deputy head of the city, oleksandr marchenko. unfortunately , no. this did not work. but nevertheless, when we last spoke with him a week ago, our situation in the city was very complex, but from these videos, you can see that practically nothing is left of the city, it is a complete ruin, in terms of the number of people there, there are approximately 2,800, 2,900 people by children, approximately 30, because what to record in the conditions of those of the active hostilities that are taking place there, it is very difficult for the latest information published by the american institute for the study of war, in particular, they wrote that , unfortunately, the occupiers already control about 75% of the city, and it was difficult to say how many of those people who remained there are in the territory under the control of ukraine. armed evils of ukraine, which are not but nevertheless , he told me then that in those places where his humanitarian aid distributes food and water, it is mostly

the indomitable brunets, there are reserves. and he said then that they would be enough for two or three weeks we hope that there will be an opportunity to fill them in some kind of buda but, nevertheless, now the bahmuti is the hottest to the west in the west, it is already the time of the city, namely where the railway district is, the occupiers are now trying to continue their assault to capture the city, in particular, today , the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine wrote that they continue to shell and try to surround bakhmut in general. that is, which settlements are directly near it, these are the settlements of chrome , bohdanivka, hryhorivka, and so on, that is , the occupiers are also putting pressure on both bakhmut itself and around, not around the villages that are located directly to it in order to surround it but nevertheless, the armed forces of ukraine keep the defense courageous, worse, we hope that it will continue to be a difficult situation, and in avdiivka, the general staff wrote that the occupiers continue to shell the main city and the former villages of shtora i spoke with mr.

barabash, we clarified the information about the number of children, unfortunately, they found one more child, i.e. if there were two children before, now there are three of them , it resembles the situation that the children are hiding the presence of children and thereby complicate their accounting, respectively, complicate the evacuation process. now the enemy remains. all is quiet . three boys, 12-15 and 17 years old. well, now the representatives of the local authorities, in particular mr. barabash, are constantly persuading them to evacuate to safer regions of ukraine in the city. many yesterday, mr. barabash said that they are hitting the city again to the people who form it, he told the avdiiv coke-chemical plant well , they are constantly being shelled and i saw photos from the city, in fact, nothing. 90% of the buildings are left there, they have one or another degree of damage, the occupiers and the anti-turkish forces are shooting, in general, i also wanted to visit some settlements that are also constantly

shelling, in particular , this and the turkish kurakhov kurakhivka and so on. in fact, it’s just that the occupiers didn’t try to advance there, but nevertheless, there is very little gold there, there are still a lot of people, but there are none communicate , however , there are people there, about half of the people still remain in the community, the same situation or in kurakhovo. so yesterday i spoke with roman poddun, the head of the kurakhiv district . among them, in particular, 180 children in kostyantynivka, the situation is even more complicated . for example

, kostyantyn is located 30 km from bakhmut, and there is a lot of constant shooting. colleagues from konstantinov have remained since 7, they only lived there before the full-scale invasion, there are 45. that is, in fact, half. and here i am, again , of course, half, even so , please leave because the dangerous situation in donetsk region will continue. there are still forces for assault actions to capture donetsk region, they have this plan, he is nowhere near completing it, that's because yesterday the president put his signature, thereby approving the candidacy and proposing the cabinet of ministers for the position of head luhansk regional administration appointed artem aleur yesterday. and the day before yesterday, when the information started circulating in the mass media, we tried to contact him. i managed to simply exchange greetings with him . he did not give a full comment, perhaps because he had not yet been officially approved, but today a little more information on artem lysgur , unlike his opponent, he is not local, that is , he is not from luhansk region, he did not work in the

zhytomyr region police, he has the rank of police colonel and full-scale inspiration, in general, i was lucky to meet this city in the luhansk region, this is in the luhansk region, you see, that is, it doesn’t matter with the situation, well, if the naf- on the front he is familiar , by the way, we were also looking for ways out, in fact , we invited the new head of the luhansk region to the ether today well, but so far you see no it didn't work out very well, at least we invite you as soon as there is a chance, oleksandr. i thank you very much for joining our forum and making such a general collection of information on the situation in donetsk region, oleksandr zabrodin, our correspondent was in touch with us. well, by the way, we will continue to talk about the operational situation at the front. there is the latest information from the general staff regarding the situation. let's hear it. during the past day, the enemy carried out 19 air strikes , carried out 39 attacks from rocket salvo systems, and there are casualties among

the civilian population, the enemy does not give up his plans to occupy our territory, despite significant losses , continue to concentrate the main efforts of the given offensive actions on the lyman in the bakhmut avdiiv and maryan directions, the fiercest battles continue in bakhmut and maryinka. during the past day, thanks to the coordination of the actions of the units of the defense forces and the heroism of our soldiers , 49 enemy attacks were repelled. we just heard the summary of the general staff , based on your opinion, in which direction of the front will the hostilities develop, will we see any serious

changes on the front in the coming days, well, my words, what will to say that we will not see serious changes on the front means the highest degree of tension of hostilities, and in particular in the avdiivka mariana and bakhmut direction, this means that we will continue to restrain the enemy who will try to break through in the direction of these settlements , trying to sharpen our troops in avdiivka in bakhmut and breaking through our defenses on the western outskirts of maryanka. in addition, we cannot ignore the so-called swavid direction, where the enemy has concentrated enough serious resources and maybe he will try to break through the defense of our rivers to go to the estuary area, the fighting there is still going on in the forests under the crime and the enemy is trying to dislodge our units from this direction. thus , to sum up, i can repeat myself once again in batches. we will not see, but this is due solely to heroism here is the stability of our soldiers

who are gaining positions in all locations, what kind of situation do you see now in the bakhmut direction, yes, because we saw that our correspondent was now on and with reference to official sources, he spoke about the fact that about 75% of the city is already under the control of the invaders, and there is an attempt to surround the city. hm, how do you see the development of events here? well, to date , we do not see any serious changes in the situation . the enemy will continue frontal pressure because he gives him certain preferences and allows us to advance into the city and how you see, we have already confirmed that the greater part of the city is already making kupants that i will try to surround the city . well, they would make sense if the enemy tried to break through both from the south and from the north, but such uncoordinated attacks, although they indicate

attempts to break through our defenses to surround the city, but they are unlikely to lead to any serious changes, the more we will firmly get that corridor, not allowing the operative to bleed the city, in this way you will continue it, now they are continuing, well, in fact, if it is so rude to say along the railway, eh, the enemy is trying to break through and go to the railway, the fighting continues and there is enough tension for both sides, well, the only thing that can be said is that in addition to the wagners , the airborne units of the russian already regular of the army well, that indicates a clear task set by the military leadership of the kremlin and the military-political leadership of the kremlin regarding the capture of this city . you understand that may 9 is approaching and they will make every effort to show at least some kind of victory. the day before , let me remind you that the leader of the wagnerite terrorists prigozhyn himself confirmed that he handed over

part of the flanks to the official army. will this have any effect? ​​well, you know, you have to understand the regular army is , after all , er, more stable units. they have a certain level of experience in conducting hostilities, and in no way can you not underestimate the enemy. resources, namely units of the airborne troops, this speaks of rather strict orders coming from above and everything indicates that the battles in the coming days will be extremely desperate and serious, it must also be understood that we are in no way following the paradigm followed by the russians regarding a certain date, the city must be captured there or a defensive position must be obtained by a certain date will continue exactly as long as such a decision is made by our general staff, based

on the expediency of conducting hostilities, in fact bakhmut has fulfilled his task er and continues to fulfill his task on the destruction of the occupiers , because no more resources are thrown there, well, other directions are open, and we see that there is practically no serious money in the southern direction, except for re artillery fire, even more the enemy, realizing that he does not have enough strength to advance in this direction, simply digs into the ground and digs in, and we can already see the megastructures that they have built there, the norwegian 70 km and so on along the 120 km section in zaporizhzhia. in short, will it help them? well, in short , there were also three lines of defense in kherson, and this is not a strong help to the enemy, because a line of defense makes sense if it is defended by really motivated, trained troops who are ready

holding this line in kherson didn't help. well, thank you, mr. serhiy. thank you for joining in and helping us analyze the situation along the entire front line. serhii gravskyi, colonel of the reserve of the armed forces of ukraine, was in touch with us. but in crimea , the beaches are being closed. this is reported informational project informational resistance let's listen beaches in the territory of sel-sturmove and popivka in the west of the saka district of crimea on the coast of the black sea and lake donuzlav as well as local lakes are closed for swimming in 2023 in accordance with the resolution passed the so-called administration of the sturmiya village council earlier on these beaches the occupiers dug tens of kilometers of trenches and placed artillery in crimea before the expected offensive of the armed forces of ukraine and we will discuss the situation in crimea tetyana podvornyak, the communications manager of the crimean tatar resource center , joins us and we greet you ms. tetyana

so what it is actually known about these closures of the beaches in connection with what caused such a commotion . good day, we really see that the russians have turned this year's beaches in the crimea into some kind of war and even yesterday he told us everything that apart from carefully preparing for us and a very strong force and also for kolya everything and the frantic defense of the orfenoponov peninsula by the army, although talking about trenches on the shore on the sand on the beaches this sounds really strange because in fact any storm means these trenches in one day, probably the meaning of their bathing is on the shores of crimea, it is for someone local, for bathing, maybe in order to write off some funds , it connects, in addition to this, because there are two other pieces of information that, for example, at the beginning of march , social networks started announcing where

they are recruiting people to create a working appearance, what i mean is that people were called to be taken to vitay, a considerable resonance in ukraine was caused by a video with an unknown man from chechnya and a ukrainian boy whose face we cannot show on the air now , where do you see the boy understands ukrainian , so the blogger from ukraine accidentally came across a man from chechnya on the internet in an online video chat, who was in the video with a boy , the child managed to say that she was from ukraine, and the man claimed that he is a chechen even now

the child is with him, the students and where do you say where are you from, which city are you from, can you say which city in ukraine are you from ? of russia and is he now in danger, but the video connection was suddenly cut off and the child did not have time to say anything, you stood up, not a boy from ukraine, when the blogger published this video , it caused a real resonance, in particular , hundreds of calls began to arrive to the child tracing service messages and calls to the 116,000 line from those who care, many people recognized the boy from the video as eight-year-old vanya malinovsky, who disappeared in kherson. he has really been

wanted by us since november of last year and is now very important information, which please, if possible, share the boy on your social networks from the video 100% not vanya malinovsky we checked it thoroughly and most importantly contacted vanni's mother, who is looking for him, the woman confirmed that the video with her husband and from chechnya is definitely not her son, not vanya marinovsky as for the boy from the video, we we cannot show his face because there is no confirmation that the child is deported or officially wanted , at the same time the data of both the boy and his parents have already been established. now we are checking the information and will definitely inform you on the pages of the child tracing services on social networks. and of course i want to thank you to all those concerned who did not remain aloof from this story and reported to us information about children allegedly similar to the boy from the video before the word if you

know of any crime against a child for example, about a specific case of violence, beatings, sexual violence, if a child is begging, or about a war crime against a child, in particular, kidnapping or deportation , do not remain indifferent and immediately report it to the police, or report it to our website stopkrayem.ua without leaving your home, you can do this even anonymously and we will do everything possible to stop this crime as for vanya malinovsky whom many confused with the boy on the video, the search for vanya has been going on for more than six months, again i emphasize that the mother vanya confirmed that her son is not the boy in the video with the chechen, but at the same time, the woman asks everyone who cares to help her find her eight-year-old vanya .

i am asking everyone who has at least one kindergartner, who has seen or heard anything, please contact and provide information to the police or the child tracing service about the disappearance of a boy in the city of kherson in november, together with his father with whom he lived during the last year, the boy's mother said that during the occupation, vanya stayed with his father in kherson , the woman herself was in the territory controlled by ukraine and could not get to her son , and after the deoccupation mrs. iryna, of course , immediately came to kherson with nadiya to see vanya as soon as possible, but unfortunately he was not at home, the boy and his father disappeared, their phones were turned off and so far nothing is known about their fate, so if you know something about vanya malinovsky, do not delay and immediately report to the hotline at 116,000 free of charge from all mobile operators, we have created a resource

thanks to which you can report any crime against a child anywhere at any time just go to the site and report and we will launch all possible mechanisms for punishing the criminal of the ua countries in ukraine, it is seven o'clock in the morning, my greetings to everyone from espresso, and i begin with operational information from the general staff , almost fifty enemy attacks have been repulsed by our defenders of the past era, currently the fiercest battles are taking place for maryinka and bakhmut in the direction of the latter near bohdanivka and the previous one, the attackers tried to advance but were unsuccessful, ukrainian