[000:00:00;00] whether it is the russians themselves, write us your options and at the same time help expose the collaborators, if you know the kremlin sellers, let us know at this email address or simply on facebook, we will together send all the traitors in pursuit of the russian ship. see you in a week on the air espresso , welcome to the program ukrainian voice of america time and i and host ostap yarysh soon the united states will start training ukrainian military on american abrams tanks they will take place in germany the us minister of defense spoke about this, and according to the results of the regular meeting of the ukrainian defense group in the rammstein format

, in general, in recent months, allies and partners have transferred more than 230 tanks and more than 1,500 armored vehicles to the balan armed forces, but when and how will the abrams tanks be able to strengthen the ukrainian army will tell voice of america journalist karla b, who these days is covering the events at the rammstein air base in germany, officials of the us department of defense say that m1a1 abrams tanks will arrive here in germany in may and shortly after that, the ukrainian forces will begin training on them, officials say that about 200 ukrainians will take part in the training on 31 tanks. they will learn to operate the tanks during a course that will last about 10 weeks. significant capabilities on the battlefield they have very high power and also strong armor abrams much much stronger than the tanks

of the soviet period that the ukrainians had they are supplemented by challenger-2 tanks from great britain, two leopard tanks from germany and others tell us that the 31 abrams tanks that shapio promised ukraine will arrive on the ukrainian battlefield in the fall. in a few months, the amount of equipment that will be provided by the contact group of the interdiction of ukraine in general will reach more than 200 tanks and more than 1,500 units of defense equipment, this is enough to provide ukraine with nine new armored brigades and as soon as abrams also joins the battle, the ukrainians will have many opportunities to try to break through the russian defense line with the stein airbase in germany . in addition to the news about the american

abrams tanks what other important decisions and statements were made today at this already 11th such meeting ostap i would say that perhaps an interesting aspect of today's statements can be to consider that the secretary general of nato said before a several-hour meeting in germany that very often at such meetings it is necessary to decide, as he said, boring questions, boring but important well, for example, let's take the tanks that were mentioned and the tank remains a big and terrible pile of iron if it is not supplied with ammunition won't go anywhere if a tank truck isn't sent to him , well, sleeping machines need to be serviced, tanks need to be repaired, and in particular that's why, for example

, it's important that today there was an announcement germany and poland that they will jointly create and finance a center to repair e-e tanks, leopard tanks of german production, which will be used by ukraine. but if necessary, these tanks will be transported on the territory of poland, where they will be repaired in specially equipped centers. important issues, in particular, were agreed today in ramstan bohdan, another solution that many expect in ukraine, but which we have not yet seen is the provision of modern fighter jets to ukraine, in particular the american f-16 or others, how do partners explain it, yes

, ostap, f16 fighter jets , american fourth-generation aircraft - these are not boring questions. american president joe biden recently, incidentally, in response to a question from our colleague, said that the united states is not going to supply ukraine with f-16 aircraft yet, so the minister of defense and the generals for example, general milli, the representative of the army of the united states, needs to solve the issue with what they have now, with the resources they have today, about the main task, namely the protection of the ukrainian sky , general milli said that from a military point of view, the task is airspace control and how do you control airspace in many different ways

the way that requires the most effort and is effective is what ukraine is doing now with air defense they are doing it has been more than a year that they have not allowed the russians to use the airspace effectively, so the russians have carried out some sorties , but this is a limited number over the territory of ukraine occupied by russia. in germany, so that the representatives of the nato member countries say about it, yes ostape, we touched on this topic yesterday and in particular mentioned that the issue of ukraine's accession to nato, the issue of security guarantees for ukraine is already high on the agenda for many years, and in particular, now it will

sound perhaps louder than usual and more often than usual due to the fact that in mid-july in vilnius, the capital of lithuania the heads of states and governments will gather at the nato countries themselves, there will be 31 countries, possibly 32 if the issue of sweden's accession is resolved after the recent accession of finland and ukraine clearly declares through the mouth of ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyi that from of this summit in vilnius this summer, ukraine is finally waiting for clear explanations of how nato is going to actually fulfill its promise that ukraine will be a member of the alliance , because it has wanted it for so long and so obviously strongly and passionately in

connection with the russian attack, how is this question now? how do nato partners in particular view it? the way the german minister of law and defense boryspil responded to it can testify to this. today in rammstein i suggest you listen to it, not everyone sees ukraine as a nato partner in the future, but i would say that it is quite far, and now i think it is important that ukraine maintains its advantage in this war, and then there will be further steps, in the end it is the nato partners who decide who will be a member. in sweden, but i noticed a wide approval, but this topic is not for today's discussions, every discussion should be conducted when the issues are resolved, as they say, first, we need to do

the first priority, so the first priority is the questions for nato allies and not only nato, it is obvious that when it comes to the 54 countries whose representatives held the rammstein meeting today, it is not only nato allies, it is other states, but the issue of nato expansion will still be on the agenda, in particular because we still need more to resolve the issue of sweden , have you seen the very peculiar reaction of hungarian prime minister viktor orbán to the statements of the nato secretary general and janson stoutenberg in kyiv about what nato allies see ukraine as part of their alliance that is, it is obvious that it will be necessary to resolve the issue not only of priority or

second priority. and in general, the understanding of the prospects of ukraine, the prospects of nato with such leaders as viktor orban, there is the issue of turkey, which, together with hungary, is still effectively blocking the entry of sweden in this matter . therefore, this topic will also have to be resolved it will probably be interesting for our future discussions. it was really interesting . thank you for two detailed analyzes. bohdan tsyupin was in touch with lampan. we continue to issue other topics despite the wait. of western politicians and experts over the past year, moscow has managed to avoid the collapse of its economy, russian aggression continues, and russian oligarchs have not mounted against putin, does this mean that sanctions do not work ? my colleague natalka churikova found out about this at the beginning of the large-scale aggression against ukraine. europe gave up on russian energy sources. russia was unlocked. from the swift international payment system and

russian government assets were frozen president biden warned president putin in february last year that he had never i saw such sanctions that he was going to impose. despite this, russia has enough resources for aggression. what went wrong was questioned during the march hearings at the synak committee on international relations. in 2023, russia's economy will shrink by 11 50%. the international institute of finance went even further by predicting that the russian economy would fall by as much as 15%, instead the russian economy was weakened, but it is definitely eternal, having decreased. maybe by 2-4%. last year, much less than 10-15%, which people predicted. my

question is, what did we miss? believing that, on this occasion, first of all, russia really took extraordinary measures, for example, to support ruble spending from the state fund and support the economy, of course, this had a certain impact on macroeconomic indicators. but as i see it, export restriction sanctions have and will have an increasingly strong impact on russia's ability to fight with modern methods , develop the economy, make progress technologies to acquire and use energy production technologies are needed and the sanctions work, but not immediately, says one of the architects of the sanctions regime , the former coordinator of the sanctions policy of the us state department, daniel frith. he admits that at the beginning the expectations from the sanctions were a little exaggerated, the sanctions were not intended

to restrain putin in the government, they hoped that the sanctions would restrain putin, but in fact they did not really believe in it; the purpose of the sanctions was to deal a strong blow to the russian economy at the very beginning, right after february 24. there was the hope that very powerful sanctions will deal such a blow to the russian economy that it will collapse. us president joe biden then said that the sanctions turned the ruble into ruins . this was one of the rare mistakes. it was cheaper than silence . the idea that was born in the us treasury department was to impose on the russians the widest possible economic measures they included not only financial sanctions, but also a ban on the export of high technologies and restrictions on the price of oil, all of which together should have led not so much to a sudden collapse of the russian economy as

before its gradual but inevitable decline, what happened to the soviet economy in the 80s was about to happen to the russian economy, the price cap was never intended to stop the russians from selling oil, in fact we wanted them to keep selling oil because we didn't want a shortage of market and price jump what would benefit putin , so the idea was to allow them to sell but reduce the price so that they could not make money from it, the decrease in income in russia is already showing signs of this even the president putin recently said that the prospects for the russian economy are far from rosy, we all understand the sanctions, of course , the city would like to see external factors drastically for our economy, they are not going anywhere, fried says that in order for the western restrictions to work under the sanctions, it is necessary to take care , expand, strengthen and monitor in order

not to evade them, strict warnings are also being issued to turkey's allies , the united arab emirates and israel, whom washington suspects of helping russian oligarchs to evade sanctions, forbes magazine calculated that at least 11 russian billionaires have israeli citizenship. israel says that it treats them as its ordinary jewish citizens, and some have exercised their right to return . no sanctions can deprive a person of the right to travel to israel. there are no charges. an obstacle for a person to obtain israeli citizenship if a person has the right to obtain israeli citizenship under the law of return, i.e. if a person has there are jewish roots, the second issue is the issue of sanctions on business and assets, and here israel takes a very transparent position, we have no laws on sanctions, never in history

has israel imposed unilateral sanctions on this or that state or specific businessmen , but from the very beginning we said no we will act to circumvent the sanctions and we essentially comply with the restrictions that the usa and european countries have introduced in relation to countries or companies or individuals. israel has not acted to circumvent the sanctions is to strengthen the sanctions regime due to the sanctions and the freezing of russian of assets in the west, the european union plans to start confiscations, it is about 100 billion in private assets of politicians, oligarchs, propagandists and about 300 billion in state assets of the russian federation in congress , people, both democrats and republicans, who think the same way, why are we asking american taxpayers to pay for help, pay for damage what russia has done to ukraine if we could use

russian money for this purpose nataliya churykova dmytro savchuk voice of america meanwhile, despite the long hostilities and constant shelling ukrainian cities are already talking about the future reconstruction of the communities of irpen and mariupol are preparing large-scale plans for the reconstruction of more sustainable and modern cities together with an american architect the mayors of the cities told about these plans in washington at the forum of local diplomacy, what are the priorities of reconstruction, how much will it cost, and in the case of mariupol, what to do with a city that is already massively inhabited by russians in the story of maria ulyanovska irpin, a once peaceful suburb of kyiv became a symbol of war destruction during the hostilities in the kyiv region in march 2022 in 2018, the russians shelled the city for almost a month, destroying 70% of the residential sector and civil infrastructure. according to the estimates of the irpin

city council , 1,602 houses were destroyed. returned home , in addition, since 2014, the city has been providing shelter to internally displaced persons fleeing the territories occupied by russia in 2022 , irpin has become a home for another 30,000 displaced persons, a very important task to rebuild as quickly as possible, because people need to live in us, we have already opened three such temporary cities, yes, for living, towns are fashionable, and now we will open another big one, because there is a need for people to live, people are returning and they want to live in their own homes, irpin is one of the first liberated ukrainian cities and today it is becoming a pilot project, the answers to this are taken seriously here. and with entrepreneurial zeal, after the end of hostilities, the city conducted an expert analysis

of the destruction, created an investment passport and is working on a large-scale recovery plan, the most important thing is not just to make some quarter of the city, e.e., a new project, and you have some kind of master plan , it is not important to calculate for 20 years ahead how many people the city can still accept , calculate new e.e. housing, calculate the infrastructure, transport infrastructure, e.e., water supply, drainage electricity supply all all eyes calculate their possibilities as a city can support itself to help the city rebuild the united states agency for international development usa involved the international architectural bureau gensler american specialists interviewed local residents and found out that the main priority is the invented security system and the restoration of the economic capacity of irpen , in addition to rebuilding landmarks and

the guardianship and memory of what happened . understanding how people feel, what are their aspirations, vision of the future, the leaders of these places understand that the victory is not complete until the reconstruction is completed, because then people will be able to again to live our lives and we know that together we can create the future homeland that will revive the joy and prosperity that the people of ukraine deserve. the world bank and the european bank for reconstruction and development are helping to calculate the losses, because 90% of the city has been destroyed, today we have a certain understanding of what no longer exists

which school was destroyed in mariupol, which hospital, which building, but the bank has certain mechanisms, that is, certain tools, how to calculate according to preliminary calculations , 14.5 billion euros are needed for the reconstruction of mariupol, but the main task facing mayor vadym boychenko is how to bring life back to the city where at least 20,000 people today, we want our mariupolians, our youth , to look at the people of mariupol born to their children through their eyes, what we should create , what would be comfortable for them here, why they create families, why they choose this city ​​if we talk about myself personally, i see a whole new city that preserves the history that we have, that is, we have to record what happened, so that we never in our lives forget it, god forbid, so that, god forbid , history does not repeat itself again, and this is a new singapore, which we have to build in the ukrainian form directly in our state of ukraine, while mariupol has been ordered

to be inhabited. petro andrushchenko of mariupol poses the same questions to ukraine as the 8-year occupation of crimea, how to return the city from a global perspective but what will happen to the city of mariupol and how to live with those people who started to cooperate today have already started to live a different life and this is a very big responsibility before the state of ukraine before the mayor before the community to find this understanding understanding how to continue to live today now we are already looking for these answers together with the people of mariupol, but it is important to understand that ukraine has already changed, mariupol has already changed, the people of mariupol have already changed and it will no longer be the way it was before the 14th year, that is, everything is already clear

who is a neighbor that is an aggressor state mariupol was and will be a ukrainian city and those people who joined today they are knocking as soon as we rise we will approach our borders vadym boychenko has an ambitious plan and is going to return to ukrainian mariupol by the end of this year maria ulyanovska oleksiy aspen dmytro savchuk voice of america we continue with the story with washington from the front line in donetsk region for a concert in the american capital ukrainian military and violinist moisei bondarenko performed in washington and played compositions that he has been performing in the war in ukraine for more than a year, iryna shynkarenko and oleksiy osyka spoke with

the military musician, ukrainian military violinist moisei bondarenko is preparing for a concert in washington , he arrived here from the front line in the donetsk region, where they are fighting and has been playing for more than a year , this badge oh, he is just such an old man but there is still one that broke , it comes out fine. that it played louder because in the forest, especially in the forest, the sound is very scattered and very bad, very difficult to hear by the people who are behind and on

the kherson square immediately after the liberation of the city on a military man posts his videos online and has thousands of followers, but the main listeners are fellow servicemen. my most favorite performances and playing about such performances on the violin are of course for my brothers . by the way, i don’t have such videos, but as a rule, these are the performances when the guys are going into battle. the most amazing evenings that can be spent with people who are about to, uh, on the border, or risk their lives. moses, a full-scale war got in the way of a concert. so he immediately appeared at the military commissariat with a violin, so i got up and

they are like that. well, we laughed and we quickly changed clothes. and i put this violin aside and put it in the bedside table and decided that i probably won't pick it up any time soon, but the next day, on the second day, on the third day, when no one could sleep in the evening, i played the violin and my martial violin in washington, moses fulfilled his childhood dream by playing near the white house in the us capital moses came with representatives of the ministry of veterans affairs of ukraine during a meeting in washington, they discussed america's aid to ukrainian defenders and held a charity concert started a series of charitable events in order to raise funds for the support of the children of our defenders and defenders and the dead, and why moses? well, because actually to show how extraordinary our defenders are, i am

civilians who did not plan to become soldiers, took up arms to protect the country and the democrats all over the world , american veterans came to listen to the ukrainian military violinist, one of them, jeremy williams, recalled how music saved him during his service in iraq, when we played play music in iraq because music gave us motivation, it gave us hope, it gave us confidence, i don't think music in ukraine inspires the ukrainian army to defeat russia or the rains. american military veterans and musicians who played at ceremonies in the white house and the pentagon also joined the concert of moses, we see the talent of the world level that shares its gift and skills from ukraine to the usa and here today in the ukrainian house in washington you can see how music is

a universal language music has been at the forefront at all times and even during the development of technology live music continues to rule the soul moisei says he was inspired by the warm words and support of the americans , and after the concert he will return to where he feels most needed on the frontline iryna shynkarenko oleksiy usyka pavlo terekhov voice of america this is the story of a military violinist and the ukrainian voice of america service was among the winners of the journalistic award the david burke award has been awarded annually since 2001 by the us global medicines agency. the award recognizes

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