[000:00:00;00] and the ukrainian voice of america time and presenter ostap yarysh us secretary of state anthony blinken said that russia will lose its war of aggression and expressed support for ukraine in the face of the expected confrontation. about the high price for those who dare to help russia in its war against ukraine, for its part, the group of seven pledged to support ukraine as long as it will it is necessary and also to ensure its stability in terms of security, economic and institutional support , just then blinkin commented on the results of the meeting with his colleagues, because milichanzhik khvoshch with angry birthing is the most urgent challenge , the ongoing aggressive war of russia against ukraine . yesterday, we confirmed the commitment to security and economic support which ukraine needs today to protect its

sovereignty and people, as well as in the long term to ensure that ukraine will not just survive but prosper and russia refraining from further aggression and this includes continued tightening of sanctions and export restrictions pressuring russia to limit its ability to wage war identifying santa evaders where they are hiding rejecting moscow's nuclear blackmail and ensuring accountability for war crimes and when the unchanging voices of russia's leadership losing its war of aggression , they talk about avoiding escalation or call on ukraine to stop returning its own territory, we will remind the world who is the aggressor and who is the victim, who has 20% of the territory occupied by enemy troops whose children disappear and civilians are killed and left in mass graves the german government officially confirmed the transfer of petri air defense systems to ukraine in the updated list of german military aid

it is indicated that the petri air defense system together with missiles have already been delivered to ukraine another system for the ukrainian balance forces are transferred to the united states, the pentagon previously explained that it should go to ukraine after the ukrainian military has completed the final stage of training in europe, meanwhile, in history with the leak of the secret the pentagon's information continues to develop . the fbi believes that the suspect in the flight of jack teicher's documents could have kept more secret files outside his home in other houses in his city. it from the usa is reviewing the process of conducting security checks and spreading dark information. the representative of the us national security council, john capi, told a few things about it. we can expect to look at is the process of security checks and

whether it's appropriate how people are granted access another thing we can hypothetically look at is the distribution of certain types of classified material is it too broad or should it be narrowed down when going through a security check that the fact that you have received access to secret information does not mean that you can see everything that is completely secret, this is about permissions and the need to know , the prime minister of ukraine announced the development of ten key reforms within the framework of the new economic model of ukraine, he said this after his visit to washington and the annual meetings of the world bank and the imf reform - this is one of the main issues of the new program of the international monetary fund for ukraine, and oksana batrutenko, our journalist, who is now joining our broadcast, will help us figure it out

oksano, i congratulate you. thank you for joining the imf . oksana, what do they expect from ukraine now when we talk about implementing new reforms, and the ukrainian government has entered into active negotiations with international donors and consultations here in washington and the international monetary fund have agreed on a large-scale program for ukraine, which is 115 billion dollars for four years, of which 15.6 billion will come directly from the imf. the fund hopes that this program will not only set the pace for the transfer of donor funds in ukraine to support for the economy, but it will also become a road map for ukrainian reforms. i spoke with a senior official of the foundation, alfred kemmer, and he noted the priority programs that are enshrined in the memorandum, among them, for example,

the reform of corporate governance by state-owned enterprises, this means that, for example, such large companies as naftogaz, because ukrzaliznytsia should no longer be a burden on the budget or anti-corruption reforms , let's listen to what he said specifically . yes, we can listen now. first of all, i want to say that this is ukraine's program. ukraine wants to achieve macro-stability among the aspects on which we focus in the first part of the program of continuing the progress of standard corporate governance and overcoming corruption, ukraine wants this, the second part of the program of deepening structural and institutional reforms to create growth in the medium-term perspective and help ukraine join the eu, ukraine wants this and we support it, that in relation to other donors as partners of ukraine, they will provide funding, they will also support the components of the ukrainian government's programs to help them in macro-stability, stimulation of growth in the medium-term perspective , the reconstruction of the country and in the end, on the way to the eu

, i am interested in oksana's comment. and you know , there is another question, whether ukraine is ready to implement these programs about these conditions of the programs that we are talking about i heard that if i am headed, the first review of this right should be already in june. that's right, ostape ukraine has already received 27 billion dollars under this program, but i hope to receive another 1.8 billion dollars by the end of the year, and there is a rather busy schedule in the program , 19 different conditions have been fixed. -e also reviews of which he said already in june . saw the commitment from the national bank to make the program work to achieve their goals and get funding from donors i saw a deep commitment i also

saw that coordination between different institutions will improve significantly with the new official program we saw this in the framework of the four-month program which was before that and it is ongoing , the revisions will also allow to adjust the program if necessary, not only with regard to the implementation of reforms, it is also useful in conditions of extreme uncertainty for ukrainian government officials oksana and what about russia, i know this too the topic was also touched on, what are the forecasts for the russian economy, which is the direction the imf is now voicing. so, it is interesting that the fund’s evaluations of the russian economy caused the greatest debate during the meetings of the imf world bank, and because the imf even worsened the assessment of the russian economy, it announced that the russian economy will grow by 0.7% this year, which is better than the figures for

a large number of european countries or great britain. frisonanfeld, who blames the fund for the fact that the imf repeats russian propaganda when it trusts the figures provided by russia, of course, according to the fact that russia is a member of the imf. it must provide e-e figures and it undertook to provide e- e complete and clear statistics. but after russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine , the number of these statistics and transparency have significantly decreased. this is recognized by the fund. the economy was supported by the growth of prices for raw materials, and exports held up, so there was a surplus of the current

account of the balance of payments, it is 230 billion dollars . this year, this will no longer be the case due to lower prices for the reduction of volumes , the surplus of the current account will decrease to 75 billion dollars, as well as budget revenues from the sale of oil and gas there will be pressure on the budget in order to maintain revenues that are growing when it comes to the russian economy, it is largely cut off from many other countries and this will have long-term consequences, we expect that the russian gdp will grow by 7% points less by 2027 compared to what could have been. yes, ostape, that is, the fund itself admits that the transparency of russian statistics has deteriorated and that, in principle , sanctions are in effect and the fund says that uh the deterioration of the russian economy, the impact of sanctions, the flow of isolation of russia will be felt later, however, of course, the lack of numbers , the lack of data has prompted economists to look for other

alternative ways so that you can understand what exactly is happening in the russian economy, as i already said, son efeld researches third-party data sides of russia's trading partners, there was also a study of evangelical journalists, journalists condemned the post, well, he was detained and accused, so absolutely, he is now detained in russia, but he used data, alternative data, informal inflation in order to cast doubt on the kremlin statistics. i also spoke with the head of economics of the european bank for reconstruction and development . purchased from europe and tried to reorientate to get the same european goods through intermediaries in central asia and the caucasus. this is what she told me about the results of her research

. let's look at this comment . it was realistic to expect that sanctions would immediately create a financial or currency crisis in russia . russia since 2014 built protection against sanctions prioritized economic stability at the expense of growth sanctions are working but slowly russia is deprived of the knowledge that comes with the import of capital with the work of international companies, we investigated the change in trade routes, europe's direct trade with russia fell by 60%, but trade through intermediaries in the caucasus and central asia increased, but through intermediaries only 5% of the volumes that were before oksana, if we sum up how effective short-term sanctions are in principle, her contract long-term prospects for russia, and yes , i am completely of the economy, but the majority indicates that the sanctions are still working and are laying

destructive trends, as i think. to the national bank that russia will be forced to print money that is toxic and can start an inflationary spiral in russia, and this is already in the next six months, i think we will definitely return to this topic , thank you very much for helping to sort out everything on the shelf oksana petrotenko was on our air and joined to the program, thank you, and our next story is about women who , after the full-scale invasion of russia , decided to join the armed forces and defend the country here on february 24, they lived an ordinary life, a manicurist in beauty salon, nurse of a private clinic, mother of a three-year-old child, now with weapons in their hands, alongside men, they help liberate countries from occupiers, how do women feel in the army and is there gender equality in the war, a serviceman in the bakhmut region asked anna

kostyachenko and pavel sukhodovskyi it was difficult because you you don't understand it the first time you find yourself in it somehow and it's scary and it's not clear and then for a moment you turn off all your emotions and just try to leave to stop the bleeding instead of maria 22 kyiv valentina left the beauty salon where she worked as a manicurist and went to the armed forces of ukraine as a medic. now her main task is to stabilize a wounded soldier and send him to the hospital of the law of the drift service

. valentina was on all the hottest areas of the defense of ukraine. i am already mentally very tired of this direction because my best friend died last month and another friend is also in captivity , and she learns almost every day that someone from acquaintances or friends. i will simply die. the girl who was with us at the stabilization point two days ago also got hit by a hailstorm . i just want to mentally rest from all this, but when we win, then already. however , the war gave valentina new friends in october 2022 while working in the bakhmut direction valentina met yulia, a 29-year-old nurse from the sumy region. since then, the girls

have become close friends. yulia, a professional nurse, worked in a private clinic in kyiv before the war since september last year. the girl went to serve in the armed forces of ukraine as a writing assistant, well, assisting an anesthesiologist in relation to assisting an anesthesiologist was nothing new, working with a surgeon was new , but all the nuances were explained to me and everything , some nuances were explained and all medicine is not the only direction to successfully serve ukrainian women, the donetsk direction and how native because i have been in the donetsk region since i was 15 years old and started my service. 25-year-old anna has been serving in the communications forces since i was 18. in principle, there was nothing holding me back there were no children or family. and i think it was the right decision, and she served from 2015 to 2018. then she got married and gave birth to a child. however, when russia carried out a full-scale invasion, the woman left

her three-year-old son with her mother. then she went to defend the country again on february 24, interesting a day ago at 5:00 a.m. i jumped up on the bed when i heard that bombers and fighters were flying , in principle, it was immediately clear that they were not ours, and i was just sleeping. and i don't even know how to explain to people who have never been and did not feel what we experienced in kyiv and in the region. now anna serves as a sergeant and takes care of military support issues . she says that the armed forces of ukraine protects women and does not send them to the front line. however, she says that she does not feel gender oppression in us.

they really protect a little more from other soldiers and that’s understandable, that’s clear, but there are some special privileges, i wouldn’t say that they are, that is, our girls are such that if they really came to the army , they really came to the war, they understood where they went they go, they are ready to live with the boys and live in the trenches and sleep on the floor, eat from the same bowl, that’s all normal about equal perception , well, this is also what the doctor yegoliya says about men in the army, that is, he is beautiful, no, i don’t mind any discomfort, i absolutely wanted to be beautiful brothers. by the way, when i i was a little afraid when i went here, but i feel support from them and there is no pressure from men, no, no, there is no one there, there is a president there , there is a moral one. well, yes, it’s just from the side of the waxes. in general, there is nothing at all, nothing to worry about. all the women say that the main motivation for service in the armed forces, a safe future for new generations, because this is my

future , this is the future of my children and the future of my family. a coffee shop, a bookstore, yulia wants to open her own tattoo parlor, and anna's main dream is to return to her family and her little son anna kostyuchenko pavel sukhodolskyi for the voice of america from the donetsk region and then we talk about former american soldiers who they bring to ukraine means of protecting vehicles and also conduct trainings for ukrainian defenders, representatives of the charity organization sing america, many representatives of which are veterans, have been helping the ukrainian army since 2014, in addition to the most necessary, now it has taken up providing defenders on the front lines with laundries and showers on

wheels, iryna shynkarenko will continue, this is a russian bullet in his helmet, and this helmet saved his life, a helmet that was hit but could not penetrate by a russian bullet in the spirit of america organization in washington this ballistic helmet was transferred from the battlefield in ukraine, which spirit in america transferred in march 2022. in may, it saved the life of a ukrainian defender who fought near mariupol. he was very grateful and he gave the helmet to us so that we could bring it to the states and have a real example for our donors and americans as their help saves lives it saved this soldier's life and he is still fighting let's head east helmets body armor and many other necessary things for

ukrainian defenders representatives of spirit and famirik from the beginning of the war is regularly brought personally, you have to be fast, everything is just the right format of an armored car, many once served in the american armed forces, so they easily find a common language with the ukrainian military. i am sure that this is the highest level that can only be found and there are fasteners for yes i know for optics and stuff she's cool i work with spirit of america i live in kansas city i'm a retired army officer since last year helping people on the front lines do their this is what we care about we can to ensure that the gaps are quickly filled and to transfer equipment to the right hands to the right people in the right place at the right time, but to help ukraine , the charity organization spirit in america has already allocated more than 30 million dollars, of which they bought 200 tons of protective medical equipment, as well as transport, at first

they helped the defenders of kyiv region not only equipment, and they taught the basic skills of civilians who then came to the teroboron , this helmet is a bit too small for us, but if i take this one and that's it, i'll adjust it calmly will be placed on my head. you see, even if it was not delayed, later together with the leadership of the territorial defense forces, spirito famirica helped to introduce courses for company commanders, which now regularly conduct 2 km. it is clear that some company commanders are taught battle tactics, endurance , planning and maneuvers, which is what a leader will need on the field it was originally an experiment to see if this eight-week course would really help improve

the skills of company commanders and save lives , and we are very happy to see what it turned out to be. successful and today, the course continues to train new commanders, representatives of the organization say that while the american government provides ukraine with heavy weapons, they fill the gaps directly on the ground , for example, they help repair military cars, and one of the new projects of the organization is shower cabins on wheels and mobile washing stations for the military, which for weeks and months were in mud and dirt in very harsh conditions, the opportunity to get a clean uniform - this is a huge increase in morale and fighting capacity in the troops of the territorial defense came up with the idea to make these wagons with a shower properly a drying machine, they came up with how to do it. we helped to finance this wonderful idea and have already purchased 12 of these with ukrainian defenders . the organization has established a close relationship since 2014, and they are able to deliver help

quickly. needed by the military, one of the things that the ukrainian military does very well is to study the weaknesses of russia and adapt to take advantage of these weaknesses, so we are seeing a change in requests for help from ukrainian of the military in accordance with russian weaknesses, for example, certain electronic equipment, as well as equipment that helps to better camouflage on the battlefield, funds to support the ukrainian army , the spirit of america receives from caring americans for whom the best thanks are the successes of the ukrainian military on the battlefield. for your bulletproof vests , helmets, transport, medical equipment, it helps us go to victory iryna shynkarenko, oleksiy osyka, voice of america and

our last story for today about how with the help of ukrainian jazz, los angeles residents are raising money for the armed forces of ukraine, the volunteer cultural project of sandrov ukraine organized a themed party at which they played rare records of ukrainian jazz in the 70s, khrystyna shevchenko listened to it. hello glory to ukraine glory to ukraine glory to the heroes ukrainian slogan sounds in the hipster district of los angeles ecopark here, in one of the local institutions , a party of ukrainian jazz of the 70s of the 76th year is held, on the cover of which the face of a ukrainian jazzman from the dnipro, a saxophonist, the manager of the vodogray group, oleksandra shapovala became the main motive of the party, deputy organizer of the sound of ukraine cultural project

, andriy mosin, the shapovala collective is an example of the multifaceted nature of ukrainian culture, it was recorded in 1976 at the donetsk jazz festival and was number one . it was lost for 45 years, and the guys are looking for records. this recording was made in the studio and released only in 2020 number two it does not sound at all like something from donetsk in 1976 number three is shapoval who is also the leader of the band vodogray from dnipro the rare album so impressed music lovers in 2020 that it was sold out literally in an hour. andriy was one of the lucky ones who was able to get the record and in 2023 he decided to present a rare record in los angeles among

partygoers, among them many emigrants from ukraine and musician rapper vova from lviv due to the fact that ukrainian culture during almost its entire history or the entire history of ukraine in one form or another was under the cultural occupation of our northeastern neighbor and it will be unknown even to representatives of culture and art, is there an opportunity for us to attend themed parties with fan-raises for the benefit of the armed forces of ukraine and for the benefit of ukraine and thus make a small contribution, the thematic party is at the same time a collection of donations, here they have arranged an auction and sell records, t-shirts and books will go to the needs of ukraine. all the people to whom we collect aid are people whom we know personally, we are with them on vkontakte personally. we

send them what they need and urgently right now for survival as well the visitors are shown documentaries about different regions of ukraine, the americans say they had no idea what ukraine looked like before, because in the news we are used to seeing only footage of destroyed cities, we are all the rest of us auto-drops mouse i see some footage of the carpathians i was in ukraine, i was in kyiv and lviv, but these footage on the screen are incredible and they showed areas that i have never seen beautiful buildings objects that i have not seen during the trip beautiful landscape and architecture party time - this is not the first cultural event sound of ukraine previously introduced los angeles with ukrainian funk of the 60s, volunteers promise to continue surprising the music capital of the world with ukrainian niche music from los angeles khrystyna ta bohdan shevchenko voice of america download the voice of america mobile application, the application allows

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we meet we are looking for 12-year-old dmytro gorovy about the fate of this boy for over a year nothing unknown unfortunately, there are also few details about his disappearance, i only know that when the war started, the child was in mariupol, and on the same day the boy disappeared without a trace, so i ask you to look carefully at the photo of dmytro horovoy , he looks 12 years old, he has light blond hair and dark eyes, if anyone has suddenly seen dmytro, does he know where he might be now, don't delay and call us on the magnolia children's hotline at the short number 116,000, calls from any

mobile operator are free or write in the chat bot service of the search for children in telegram, this is only one story of a missing child in total for more than a year of war. we received more than 2,000 requests for a search engine, fortunately , most of the children have already been found, but the fate of many remains unknown, especially this applies to temporarily occupied territories where the work of the police is practically paralyzed where it is impossible to leave but there are problems with communication in some places people who cannot find their own children do not even know what to do where to turn if you suddenly find yourself in a similar situation situation and you have no idea how to act . call the short number 116 000 or write to the child search chatbot service in telegram , they will provide you with all the necessary advice. i want to tell you the amazing story of six-year-old sofiyka holinska, a girl