[000:00:00;00] not there mykhailo, be dear viewers how apple diversifies your sources of income and make your life well in this way , everything is more stable and predictable today andriy yanitskyi with economic news on the espresso tv channel together we will win i congratulate the program of the ukrainian voice of america time and i her host ostap yarysh the united states has announced a new weapons package for ukraine, which previously focused on ammunition. the announcement took place on the eve of another meeting

of allies and partners in the rammstein format more about the help from the usa and other partners of ukraine, we will ask yuliya yarmolenko, who is joining us from the white house , yury, i congratulate you, i congratulate ostap, yuri, to begin with, what was included in this new package of weapons from the usa. and when this equipment can end up in ukraine, yes, ostap is already 36- and the package of aid from the united states under the program of presidential powers, and it is aimed at meeting the most urgent needs of the ukrainian military, because we know that this weaponry is taken from the reserves of the united states, so it goes to ukraine on the battlefield in a matter of days, the pentagon is very proud of this, if we talk about what went into this aid package, then the emphasis is really on ammunition, in particular , additional ammunition is planned here, additional missiles for himers systems, as well as additional ammunition for artillery, in addition to anti-tank

and heavy anti- tank systems llc missile, there are also anti-tank systems and anti-tank mines , in addition to that, 9 million small arms ammunition and many other important things, this is a package worth 325 million dollars. and in total, from the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 14 months, the united states has already provided military aid in the amount of more than 36 billion dollars, and indeed this is happening on the eve of the anniversary meeting of the contact group with the defense of ukraine, which will be held on friday at the rammstein base , we know that the first meeting took place a year ago , 27 summer and ostapa today white house spokeswoman karim zhilpiry said that the aid provided by the united states will only continue because the united states perfectly understands that everything must be done to help

ukraine, and she said that especially this the aid will continue against the background of the announcement that putin, the russian president, is visiting the territories occupied by russia, she said that this is by no means a sign of strength , on the contrary. let's listen to her comment. and we will continue to repeat it, that is why we will continue to support ukraine, the ukrainian government , mr. putin's visit looks like a sign that things are not going well. good for russia, they know it and mr. putin also seems to understand this well. he is probably trying to enlist the support of his people because he knows that his army is not showing the results he needs and cannot achieve its goals through the entire invasion . he said that the first petri system has already arrived in

ukraine. it is they who will settle the ukrainian air defense, the stages are indeed two systems, two patriot batteries have arrived in ukraine, this was confirmed by the ukrainian minister of defense oleksiy reznikova, as well as germany itself, we know that one installation handed over by the united states and others in a partnership between germany and the netherlands, and oleksiy reznikov, when he commented today on the arrival of this system, he said that this is a dream come true, in fact, we know that the ukrainian military trained here at ford village in oklahoma , they started it in january and already at the end in march, they were completing this phase of training . later, they completed this training in europe together with partners from germany and the netherlands. it turns out that they really completed the training. we know that such

training usually takes up to a year. we know that by the patriot system they are one of the most advanced air defense systems, but they usually protect some point , some city, that is, they will come to protect some very important strategic object , for example, and that's why we also heard from elin selinkevich, this is the former minister of foreign affairs of lithuania. he says that it will not only strengthen ukraine's anti-aircraft missile defense , but it is also a sign of trust and a sign of political support, as well as ukraine's approach to nato. the same news that south korea can also give weapons to ukraine . what is known about this? do you know that yun-seok yool is the president of south korea before his visit to the united states, which will take place the very next week, he said broiler with the fact that korea too can consider the issue of providing lethal aid military aid at the moment it does not only provide humanitarian aid but also economically and he said that this could happen

in the case of mass attacks on the civilian population, massacres or serious violations and in laws of war we will see how it will develop and it will definitely be a topic of negotiations here in washington thank you for your analyzes yulia yarmolenko was in touch with us from the white house meanwhile hearings were held in the american congress about pro-russian war crimes and other atrocities of the russian army in ukraine , the committee on foreign affairs of the house of representatives heard the testimony of ukrainians who survived russian crimes and deportation , the prosecutor general of ukraine andriy kos also spoke at the event kateryna lisonova, who is now joining our broadcast, katya, i congratulate you. so, the first question is really about the testimonies that we heard from people who survived the russian atrocities. they were quite emotional , ah, emotional, what kind of testimony, katya, what did they tell the congressman. that's how the person after

the russian atrocities crimes, in particular, among the witnesses was a woman from kherson who was detained by the russians and subjected to torture on account of abuse , according to this woman, on the pretext of her illegal detention, that is, the fact that during her search in ukrainian flag and ukrainian symbols were found in her apartment, in particular at the level of souvenirs and even fridge magnets. for security reasons, her face was not shown during the testimony, but they offered to listen to a fragment of her story right now . then i was taken to their torture chamber, where i was kept for 5 days. it was a terrible nightmare. they beat me. forced forced to undress cut with a knife threatened to rape beat taken out to the field there beat again put on his knees presented

a gun to his head and finally forced to bathe his own grave i saw how they were subjected to torture other people were taken out with black bags on their heads. i am very worried about them and would really like to find them. but i am not sure that they are alive now. after all the torture, they let me go , but they said that they would come again, and kateryna bobrovska, the lawyer of the minor boy named roman, who managed to be returned from russia after illegal deportation, according to kara's lawyer, roman was illegally taken to russia, illegally forced into a russian family, despite the fact that he had brothers and sisters in ukraine, they were also forced to watch russian propaganda and exerted psychological pressure, according to the lawyer, despite the fact that roman managed to be returned to the motherland and saved from russian deportation , there are still thousands of illegally deported ukrainian children in russia, and it was possible

to establish contact with some of them, and they will directly correspond and in the history of one of such boys which he is currently playing in russia, she directly read during her hearings about what he is currently feeling while being illegally deported to russia and i suggest you listen to it just now, i have a hard time sleeping i have seen so many deaths. i am sorry for two deaths of my best friend and a little girl. my friend covered me with his body . who was with me? life was in my territory. when we were driving for water in my car, i heard screams. i stopped

and ran. there lay the body of a woman and a girl . her chest was healthy . i took him in my arms and calmed down this moment when i try to smile and everything will be fine right and my soul is really possible to be separated from the testimony of the katyusha, the second part of the congressional hearing also concerned the speech

of the ukrainian prosecutor general, what position did he take voiced and what kind of support he expects from the congress now that's how ostapy andriy kostin counted specific points that can help ukraine in punishing russian war crimes, in particular he said that it is about the support of the united states for the creation of a special tribunal to punish russia for crimes of aggression against ukraine, he also called for the approval of various legislative initiatives such as the condemnation of illegal deportation and abduction of children to russia, this means that such a resolution has already been created at the level of flying representatives of literally 30 minutes ago, because the american legislators, together with the ukrainian attorney general, did not give a press conference on the territory of the congress regarding, in particular, this initiative against this resolution, which calls for the condemnation of the illegal deportation of ukrainian children, also among things that can help condemn russian war crimes. kosti recognized the russian group of wagner mercenaries and by a foreign terrorist organization, in addition to

establishing a system for the transfer of confiscated russian assets to ukraine, as well as expanding the legislation on prosecution of war criminals on the territory of the united states of america, as for the very crimes that kosting listed during his speech, he in particular from such a figure that as of now, at least 80,000 war crimes have been recorded and relevant investigations are being conducted, and according to him, the number of e-e messages is constantly increasing also, among the crimes that were calculated by the hosting , mass gang rapes, direct gang rapes, rapes of children in front of their parents were named. torture and torture of this story. he told the stories of the witnesses who survived after all these tortures

and abuses. he read the conversations of the legislators, how they reacted to hearing the reaction of the legislators was quite emotional, in particular, the co-chairman of the committee, the democrats and the republican, said that these crimes have been going on long enough to turn a blind eye to them. and, in particular, the head of the committee urged to provide ukraine with everything necessary, in particular , attack systems, i should note that i also managed to communicate with the legislators after to the committee itself and they answer in particular that to my question they said that they believe that these crimes are part of the genocide against the ukrainian people, first of all, thank you , we will monitor the development of this topic , kateryna lisonova was contacted from the capitol hill as one of those who commit atrocities in ukraine there are russian mercenaries, including those from the wagner pvc. however, before the russia-ukraine war, the west did not take them seriously, the experts are convinced that private military groups are investigating, as they

told my colleagues maria pros- paramilitary groups are now a serious threat and particularly dangerous are recruited prisoners in the conditions of active hostilities, experts advise ukraine and the west to use new, more cunning tactics to fight them, which exactly see next shot russia's war in ukraine is a harbinger of future armed conflicts where victory can be achieved not the strong, but the cunning parties , foreign policy experts of the university of national defense and former private military contractor sean mcfade are convinced of this he explains that the kremlin is waging a so-called insidious war of a new type using disinformation and mercenaries from the usa and europe. wagner's group was not ready for this, because before this war, no one in the west took these mercenaries seriously , so it gave mercenaries a cloak of invisibility until it's not too late there is a saying that generals always fight by the example of the previous war

especially if they won it for the united states and for nato - it's 1945 and that's why they don't see mercenaries because they look at wagner's group as the militia, playing the kremlin, which they are not, of course, for a decade, the mercenaries quietly developed, but now it is turning into one of the greatest dangers of our century, says mcflade , and they agree with him tony shina, an expert in intelligence and the fight against terrorism , who has his own private military company which , after the full-scale invasion of russia , carried out operations in ukraine, he says that private military companies have long been becoming so powerful that they can surpass the armies of the countries that order the anti-aircraft missiles are becoming stronger for countries we have seen how powerful the wagner group is compared to the russian army, how prigozhin can speak out against his

customer putin, the obvious danger is the recruitment of convicts, which almost certainly leads to the escalation of war crimes, people become prisoners for a reason, because they are of the same type as can wage wars. i believe that their offense is not white -collar crime. i think that the consequences will continue to be felt. when one day this conflict is resolved, or even before the crimes of the wagnerites are assessed, there will be provided evidence i think that the countries will have to look at this and say that this cannot be allowed, the threat from the wagner pvc also consists in the fact that they do not have a legal status and formally and to whom they are not answerable, and therefore in fact they are not defendants , says a researcher of private military groups and a documentarian robert and young pelton who covered more than 40 of the fiercest armed conflicts in the last several decades wagner is a stain on the reputation of russia russia

has professional soldiers they have some of the best spetsnaz operatives i think it's a shame for russia, secondly, this huge circle of people does not exist, it is a myth that russia can take and attract thousands of trained troops or mercenaries, because initially the reason for hiring wagner soldiers was that they were veterans of chechnya, they were trained fighting people , those people went and killed them all then i'm just saying that wagner now another danger machine of us paramilitary groups does not encourage the development of paramilitary formations inside the country , pelton says, he is also skeptical about attracting foreigners to protect ukraine from of russian aggression, let's say we send the height of chronological military equipment. anyway, i will return and it would be very appropriate to hire a machine tool specialist himself who would advise

and train the ukrainians. i will use this tank to repair it or something else. or will we hire someone with a rifle to shoot at the russians? no, no. it makes sense, and there are many ukrainian soldiers who can do it. but in this very narrow circle of foreigners who fight in ukraine, they are more of a problem than a help because they cause an international public they introduce confusion and they raise a kind of moral question. why are these foreigners fighting here in ukraine? i am neither for nor against these people who want to become volunteers. i am simply saying that contractors always muddy the waters. foreign volunteers defend ukraine, now most of them serve in three battalions of the international legion , in response to a request from the voice of america, they reported that soldiers abroad undergo

several stages of selection by recruiters by law enforcement agencies and training before going to the battlefield, some foreigners, in particular, azovstal defenders, received state awards for courage, but also in the media there were reports of significant abuses and violations both by the commanders of the international legion detachment and the volunteers themselves during the war, you get what we call ashes and garbage you get people who don't know what else to do with their lives they just wander around often have mental disorders they are not the best soldiers there is very little training, almost no training, the best usually go because they don't want to be killed along with the bad ones, as we saw in kuristan or iraq, where there were all these volunteers from all over the world, but then they themselves became a problem, there is always a question of what will happen when

the war will end, it is necessary to open not only a military strategy , but also a market one. therefore, he advises kyiv to deepen the split between the wagnerites and the kremlin leadership, for example, i spoke with representatives of the wagner group none of them want to be in ukraine they all want to be somewhere elsewhere let's use this is there a way the ukrainians can convince the wagner group to voluntarily leave the battlefield and desert like say if you want to surrender use a red armband or a blue armband around your left shoulder and we won't shoot you if you cross the front line

, let's say in bakhmut and we will take you to a camp for prisoners of war and ends against pelton convinces in the end ukraine will come out stronger perviz and fireworld of i can't think of a better reason for war than if someone comes into your house and tries to kill you or destroy something you will have to fight back many countries are filled with war and america is also filled with war we had a war during which we developed an identity through violence and it is unpleasant to talk about it, but ukraine is developing as its identity and nationalism through protection from a much larger aggressor. i believe that this it's a healthy thing, that's why i don't call enough. i've been on many levels, but i believe that ukraine is why people fight to protect their

homes and their values. maria prus, konstantin holovchuk , voice of america. and even finance rehabilitation in ukraine, their efforts are not directed at the state project of a network of clinics, the first of which suprekhimos or extraordinary people opened near lviv, according to un estimates, every fourth ukrainian will need psychological support after the war, and thousands are waiting for expensive hand or leg prostheses. even today, children are told that shdlyak and yuriy dankevich and ukrainian military personnel lost their limbs during hostilities but willingly pose with new prostheses. pavlov, 40, and denys, 24, their rehabilitation is also communication and meetings, for example with richard branson british billionaire visionary in 2021 he made history as the first space tourist

on his own rocket plane i just had a chance to talk to two guys wounded on the front line they both suffered terrible injuries but their smiles are wider than the smiles of anyone i have ever met . the biography of denys kryvenko, a young electrician from kropyvnytskyi, is no less impressive . they gave the command to leave because they were taking us into a ring, i only managed to run across the road and a shell fell half a meter from me. i immediately lost my arm and my right leg, and my left one was twisted to the left side . the guys quickly provided first aid and pulled out. the evacuation was fun and heavy at the same time, i was conscious, i remember all this perfectly, i laughed and joked and cried, the guys were in shock, they say, i was in shock until

the first, i ask, i was conscious, i was in consciousness until the very first hospital, she brought this to consciousness . denis just returned from germany, where he was diagnosed with with his left hand in a rehabilitation center near lviv, he is recuperating and learning to walk again. i say he has grown a little taller. i have already grown a little taller. after the first training prostheses , the thought is gradually in his head that i will catch up a little bit more and i was so happy when i from the metro 30 jumped 1.50 m 30s jumped 1.5 m denys kryvenko one of the first patients of super humans is a network of private rehabilitation clinics founded by ukrainian entrepreneur andrii stavnitser prosthetics and rehabilitation here are free for everyone who suffered from war one of the technologies provided by brother joalgibbart he founded a company that developed an ultralight prosthesis years ago called army surgeon easier there it is a myoelectric hand with several controllable

holding modes two sensors control movement finger covering of the prosthesis is variable so you can choose the style and design the hand itself is made with the help of 3d printing, this means that the prosthesis is very light, it can be adjusted to each individual patient individually, we are able to scale to meet the growing demand in ukraine, we also agreed with the disney company on the use of designs marvel heroes for our heroarmy, so now the prosthesis covers can be made in the style of iron man or, for example, droids from star wars, prostheses are installed despite the fact that the construction of the first the super humans clinic near lviv started only 5 months ago and it is still going on. according to estimates, more than 10,000 ukrainians now need prosthetics. and the state does not have much money. ukraine receives budget support from the eu and the usa, and this relieves

the state budget. but there are restrictions on the funds of the ukrainian state is able to allocate for prosthetics, and therefore the private sector makes its contribution. hering from washington is dynamo , an american in the clinic team for the past eight years. she is an analyst who dealt with ukrainian topics at the research center atlantic consul last year after the start of a full-scale war , i wanted to do more than just talk and write articles. i started organizing fundraisers, but it seemed to me that even this was not enough. when i heard about this project, it was clear that i had to join. it is almost a crazy idea that in the midst of a war, a group of people connected with state structures decided to build a clinic looking for doctors and financial donors who would like to join all over the world, one of them is horod grembafet, a philanthropist and srednia

, the son of one of the five richest people on the planet investor oren buffett people i saw people who lost arms and legs and they got prostheses that made them stronger sometimes you don't know what you are capable of until you reach this limit and i believe that everyone who leaves this clinic will become a stronger person and even more dedicated to the cause of helping ukraine and this will only add strength to your country with a contribution of 16 million dollars to it, buffett became the largest donor of superhumans. and at the ceremonial opening of the clinic near lviv, the first lady of ukraine just spoke during the speech, a check for another million where will it be charged it is not charity, it is an investment in people for the future, it is important to do it now to show that you are not waiting for the war to end, you should invest right now , despite the fact that these private rehabilitation clinics are being built and equipped without the involvement of public funds, the first persons of the state encourage them to help the development of major players in the international of business philanthropists and star

ambassadors like the musician sting or the traveler berggrills what a country over people everywhere you look super humans is already the second large cell with access to the best world technologies opened in the region directly during the war, another center of an brockin is based on the base of the lviv city emergency hospital , more than 11,000 patients injured as a result of civil actions have already passed through it daily yuriy dankevich for the voice of america from lviv 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 to podcasts of the voice of america service in ukrainian, and that's it, we'll say goodbye see also our daily briefings from monday to friday at 18:00

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soon, in the next programs of voice of america in ukrainian, see you soon, we are looking for 4 children from a large family of dmytroniks from mariupol: 14-year-old diana , 12-year-old timofey, eight-year-old etori and five-year-old demir. they all disappeared together with their father. and it has been more than a year about their fate nothing is known, the dmytrenko family had seven children. they all lived in a high-rise building at 51 troitska street on the night of march 12 last year . a projectile hit this house . the mother of the missing persons told me the simply stunning story of the dmytrenko family. children who experienced real hell, the projectile because it had a very, well, smell. it had such a, well, quickly everything started to burn not long before these events, on the day when the war began, mrs. tatyana was taken to the maternity hospital and she was the one