[000:00:00;00] the united states, for its part, welcomed the conversation, but emphasized that it is the ukrainian people who should determine the terms of peace and that they should do it from a position of strength. i can listen to the comment of the representative of the us national security council, john kirpy. he does not think that we know whether this will lead to any significant peace movement. plan or proposal we have been talking for a long time that we want this war to end it can end immediately if putin withdraws his troops but it looks like that will not happen in the near future so as we said nothing about ukraine without ukraine, but if peace is achieved through negotiations, it should be when president zelensky is ready for it and when he can do it from a position of strength, and in the foreground should be his point of view and the vision of the ukrainian people regarding the conditions and circumstances under which they are ready to negotiate , but in washington today they are receiving

the state visit of the president of south korea , yun seog-yul, on the eve of this trip, he signaled a possible revision of the position regarding the supply of military aid to ukraine currently, south korea provides economic and humanitarian support to kyiv, but receives from the supply of weapons or ammunition more about the importance of this visit for ukraine , let's talk with yulia yarmolenko, who will monitor the event from the white house the president of the usa and south korea today is the time to talk about the mutual support of ukraine . of such an alliance between the united states and south korea, and today both presidents, before the start of their meetings, president biden emphasized that for 70 years, these two countries have stood in defense of the value of democracy and continue

to do so, in particular by helping ukraine, but the united states and nato want to i wish south korea would do a little more because south korea has the largest reserves of artillery and ammunition for artillery because it has such an unpredictable neighbor as north korea and therefore, nato and nato countries and the united states would like south korea to share these munitions with ukraine as possible , especially at a time when they are extremely needed in ukraine from the point of view of the white house. to help ukraine 230 million dollars allocate this goes to humanitarian aid as well as to help electrical energy networks that suffered from russian shelling, but it could help even more in the white house they said that they would not put pressure on south korea, each country decides exactly how it wants to help, and south korea is currently facing

a rather difficult situation because russia has already threatened to help north korea if south korea helps ukraine based on the results of this meeting today, both presidents said that they definitely said about ukraine and they swore that they would help ukraine in the future however, they did not say specifically whether south korea will take this next step despite the threats coming from russia, we emphasized that the use of force to kill innocent people, as exemplified by the russian invasion of ukraine, cannot be justified under any circumstances, and we have agreed to continue our cooperation with the international community in support of

ukraine . integrity and democracy , strong support of ukraine from the republic of korea is important because russia has flagrantly violated international law and this is important for countries of the whole world and not only europe, others, what else are in the presidents' agenda and ostap actually has a whole series of issues of bilateral cooperation and today, in fact , these two countries signed a security pact on extended deterrence, in essence, biden once again reiterated his commitment to help protect the southern korea from the nuclear threat of north korea, and in particular it is said that if north korea launched a nuclear strike against south korea, the united states could use its own nuclear

arsenal in order to respond to carry out an attack in response is also one of the specific steps that today is prescribed in this package that the united states, its nuclear submarines will enter the docks near the south pole in order to once again show by force to show that the united states is really committed support of their important ally south korea, in addition, the two presidents agreed to once again increase cooperation in terms of economic and another remark about the potential assistance of south korea of ammunition actually last month south korea has already agreed to help the united states actually restore their stockpiles send 500 send send ammunition to replenish the united states' stockpiles that they give to help ukraine so again and cooperation in this context also continues yuriy at the end tell me a little about that what is happening behind the scenes of this visit from the biden administration. this is already the second

state visit of a foreign leader, first it was emmanuel macron, how do they receive the president south korea is actually welcomed very solemnly with great fanfare here in the past few days we have displayed a lot of korean flags today in addition to the fact that the presidents met for an official meeting today also there will be a formal dinner this is usually we know that when such a state visit happens this is the highest visit that can to take place and such state visits they create them for the largest allies and partners that the united states sees south korea in addition , the president of south korea will also address the joint session of the american congress well, the first - the ladies of the two countries of the united states and south korea also have a large cultural program , in particular, they opened a certain exhibition in the american art gallery today, very interesting and thank you for your inclusion yuliya yarmolenko joined us from the white house

, we continue with other topics for now over 170,000 m² of the territory of kilometers of the territory of ukraine has been mined, this territory can be compared with the area of ​​​​several autobahns, in order to completely demine it, 40 billion dollars and 70 years are needed in an interview with my colleague iryna solomko said iryna vereshchuk, the vice prime minister of ukraine and the minister of reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories, she also told what the main challenges the authorities in the liberated territories have to overcome and whether peace talks between ukraine and russia are possible, the concept of the legislation of the transitional period for the occupied territories, what exactly it is about first - this is to restore state power in those territories that were under e-e occupation for many years, yes to russia, then to restore justice, this issue is very important , collaborators, everything else related to them, we we understand that it cannot be all on the same page, because

this draft law should give answers to the questions in such a way that the illustrations and with regard to the amnesty and the property of the collaborators, we understand that there is state communal property that is still under occupation and we need to give an answer , it is obvious what will happen state communal property is nationalized and does not remain private , for example, in crimea alone, there are a million and 200,000 court decisions that relate to private relations regarding property, and here, of course , the issue must also be resolved. well, the return of these territories, i.e. reintegration into the information space of ukraine and the humanitarian church of ukraine, these are the main messages or ideas that are included in this draft law, one of the challenges is an unconditional exchange, and the area of ​​mined territories in ukraine is currently approximately 140,000 square kilometers , how many have already been demined and what is the vision for solving this problem government how

generally the involvement of international organizations and other governments is being considered because there was information that, after all, japan is going to help in this matter and to what extent there are already some visions of what this cooperation can be, it is cooperation. and indeed, we have an understanding of the problem and the scale and volume and depth . we are the most mined country in the world. there is already an understanding that we will not be able to cope without international support, we really need 40 billion dollars, it is currently estimated at the current level of dollars in order to carry out demining.

accordingly, we are creating a center against military security. there is already a corresponding decision, a separate body will be made that will deal with this issue . i managed to clear 3% of the territory. with the total number that currently needs such accommodation, it is not enough, but we are doing what we can, and you also recently presented the strategy of the state policy regarding the internal of displaced persons by 2025 and among such strategic and important goals, it was a safe evacuation, we also have a developed poppy on a weekly basis ; this is also an option that has been worked out there, it is about children, so every day we monitor the process of the train, the train, which has

evacuation cars, where do people get on, we know where they are going, who meets them, what money they get, what they will live for and so on we are controlling this process of evacuation from the occupied territories because there are still children of ukrainian military personnel still remaining there, and you are also an extremely difficult problem. to do what i know at the moment that more volunteers are engaged in this and not held after the fake referendums held at the end of september, you know the occupier has forbidden the opening of humanitarian corridors since october there are no humanitarian corridors at all, that is, this vasylivka blog post through which they traveled from kherson region and zaporizhzhia from donetsk region, it does not function at all and people really have to go through the temporarily occupied ukrainian crimea or through russia through third countries, covering thousands of kilometers to

escape from the occupiers, no red cross no there is the un, i mean the international overtaking, if only this process should be included , they cannot help ukraine as a power to withdraw its children and its people from the occupied territories, so they are powerless i appealed to them, we wrote letters both officially and unofficially in different ways. no, they can't do anything. recently there was information that vladimir putin visited the occupied territories for the second time after his first visit to crimea and, accordingly, to mariupol. you compared him to hitler. do you evaluate what education ukraine is currently doing in order to bring russia and its political leaders to justice, is this enough, are you sure that russia challenged the civilized world, challenged the world order? yes, this is absolutely evil, which even

without being afraid and not even trying their crimes flaunt them, that is, the nazis at least tried to commit some crimes, yes, instead, modern nazis, yes, in the russian federation, they demonstrate this , showing it to the whole world live, how they commit their atrocities, who cares about prisoners of war, cutting off their heads they show themselves and try to give as a good example the deportation of our children. yes , when they change their identity . demonstrates to the whole world the illegal adoption of a boy from mariupol and we, as a party, demanded his return in writing, this is a challenge, a challenge to world order and civilization, and that's exactly what the answer will be, because with them it's clear, they are nazis and they will be responsible for everything

the question has now become a question for the civilized world, these reactions of the world, unfortunately, recently again, well, that is, it is the president of france, macron, and again began to talk about the need to sit down for a round of negotiations and start this beautiful peace process and that's why it's interesting, but your vision of this situation has never changed . putin and his mosquitoes have to leave the ukrainian land at the border of 1991 and only then can we talk about some security guarantees or some negotiations and so on, nothing has changed because we have 10 functions of volodymyr zelenskyi, 10 points of the peace plan, they are simple, concise and ready to be implemented, and there are no negotiating tables until then from the occupier on our land. this was an interview with iryna varashchuk

, the vice prime minister of ukraine and the minister which of issues of reintegration of temporarily occupied territories, see the full version of this conversation on the youtube channel of the voice of america in ukrainian and on this day 37 years ago, an accident occurred at the chornobyl npp last spring, the nuclear plant was on the verge of a new disaster when it was occupied by the russians, after liberation , volunteers returned there together with the staff from the usa , our next story is about activists who have been helping people and animals in the exclusion zone for many years americans feed and sterilize chernobyl dogs and this year thanks to animals from the exclusion zone, important research is being conducted that should help in the treatment of cancer and space exploration , details in the plot of iryna shynkarenko, the puppy's first bath, such a pile before sterilization and examination, a full-scale war did not stop the process, a group of volunteers to care for

chernobyl dogs was gathered by an american firefighter, eric kambaryan, who for the first time i came to the chernobyl npp 10 years ago to conduct training for station employees. when i first arrived at chernobyl in 2013, i was traveling by train and we had to walk about a kilometer to the nuclear plant, the dogs joined us during the walk and everyone who visited those places had a warm memory of the chernobyl dogs , there were more and more of them. so in 2017, we brought an international group of veterinarians and technologists there and sterilized and vaccinated many, many dogs one dog eric took home to the usa, now the chernobyl dog lives in his house in the state of illinois, he was named right after the fireman who worked at

the chernobyl nuclear power plant during the accident, volunteers from the usa with organization clint future fant in general vaccinated and sterilized more than 750 animals thanks to this, the number of homeless dogs in the chornobyl zone has decreased , according to the foundation, there are now about 250 of them after the occupation of the emergency by the russians, volunteers got more work, they helped save people and animals after the occupation of people almost in the zone all the canteens that used to work and used to eat are gone they stopped feeding the dogs, the animals were in a very, very bad condition, and a dog feeding program began. now we spend about 800 kg of dog food per week, our logistics coordinator travels from kyiv to chernobyl once a week and brings a truckload

of food, the food is distributed to the power plant workers who take care of and feed a pack of dogs and also transport them to different areas to different enterprises in the chernobyl exclusion zone . where they also play with dogs. research as you can see, this poor girl has more than 1200 impulses per minute. this is probably pollution that cannot be washed away. it is inside the bones. his laboratory will be able to check how much radiation this dog has received since 2017. timati muso, a doctor of biological sciences from the usa, who came to chernobyl with volunteers, claims that many dogs are direct descendants of animals abandoned by their owners in an accident in 1986. this was a big discovery for us, it means we can

look closely at their dna and try to determine how this dna has changed over the past 37 years during a visit after the release from the russians, a team of american volunteers and scientists took samples for dna research from chernobyl dogs timothy musor says that he studies them together with colleagues from the university of south carolina everything we learn about the effects of radiation on of these animals, and in particular about chernobyl, can be used for space research in space, a lot of radiation, as well as for another, more urgent issue , the treatment of cancer and other diseases, because modern medicine uses many types of radioactive procedures scientists who study the chernobyl zone say it will be interesting for research and also dangerous for centuries local animals continue to spread radiation that

does not disappear in contaminated areas iryna shynkarenko kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america the united states appreciates ukraine's significant attention to nuclear safety under the conditions of the russian invasion , on the anniversary of the tragedy , us deputy secretary of state for energy geoffrey pai stated that from four operating nuclear plants in ukraine one is under russian occupation, however, what is the current situation at the zaporizhzhia npp and how high is the risk of a potential disaster? lesya bakalets learned that zaporizhzhia npp has been occupied for more than a year. which are required for the npp, there is also a problem with the usual regulatory control because under normal circumstances the ukrainian regulatory

commission must visit the plant to to check whether everything complies with the norms according to the energoatom data, the infrastructure of the station was destroyed by russian projectiles, the preliminary cost of damages is uah 32 billion, the systems are degraded, you understand that, safety will be graded, safety is degraded, regular work is not carried out on time, at any moment, everything can fail , the equipment can fail, especially if it is not carried out on time prevention, plus the number of soldiers, the general mood to harm, they are already in the bank, they are going to the bank in the territory of the station, russian military equipment, eyewitnesses of the occupation saw the enemy, which installed weapons er dictation over er station captured the premises captured the perimeter deployed his equipment military equipment weapons oleg dudar former head of the operational division of the nuclear power plant he worked under occupation for six months until he decided to leave

the energy supplier captured by the russians nobody er not there now nobody i can’t even 10% understand how bad it is there, even i, who was there, who saw everything, who experienced all the first days there, the first months, but what is happening now cannot be compared in any way, there is direct pressure on people. they just take gadgets on the street, check gadgets , no one knows ukrainian . this is already an annoyance for them, and it is an excuse for torture and for torture . lists of people who work at the station, if you are on these lists, they deploy, they say you

need to work according to the data of the energy atom, of the 11,000 employees at the station , four and a half of them have signed contracts with the russian atom who has been operating the station illegally since september, all six reactors have been shut down - this means that the station does not produce electricity and also that the scale of a potential disaster has decreased, marzhileznyak says. together with ukrainian, german and japanese experts, he is calculating the risks of environmental pollution in the event of an accident at there cannot be a very big explosion because the reactors are already not working, the nearest risk is for two cities that are very close to nearby stations, first of all this city energodar is the place where the people who work at the main station and also at another guest station of the kakhovsky reservoir in the city of nikopol live. it is somewhere 10-15 km from the city center from the station by car, according to the national agency for atomic energy of poland , although the scale of a possible accident is now not so critical, the nuclear danger

remains even in stopped reactors , the fuel needs cooling, for this electricity is needed, which is supplied from ukraine , but the station has already experienced six blackouts , the last time due to shelling by russian troops the nuclear power plant was left without external power supply on march 9, then for more than 10 hours the diesel generators that powered the reactor zones and other facilities of the nuclear power plant project, electricity is needed for the pumps that pump water inside the reactor, move it and take it outside without water that cools the nuclear fuel, its temperature can grow up to the moment when it starts to float when the fuel melts there is a release of radio from the burns that are inside and they can pass through the system into the

environment according to the last director from there agency rachel grossi previously tried to establish a safe security zone around the station, but without success. lesya bakalets announced america and we are finishing the release of stories about ukrainian music in los angeles. at the university of southern california, they played ukrainian classics to raise funds for the treatment of children in ukraine. the concert was organized by a graduate of the university, a ukrainian composer. origin to introduce americans to the country's music, his grandparents attended the concert khrystyna shevchenko

and dmytro savchuk in the hall are eagerly waiting the first notes sound like this prayer for ukraine by the 85-year-old ukrainian composer valentyn silvestrov. the famous maestro wrote it in 2014 during the euromaidan as a kind of response to russia's occupation of crimea. ivan karabytsa, a famous ukrainian composer originally from donetsk region, also performed here , a composer who works in los angeles and his great-grandmother and great-grandfather lived in ukraine, namely adam, who i am a graduate of of the university became the curator of the event ukraine ukrainian art and culture is something that should be celebrated constantly and not only because there is a war, but the fact that there is a war gave us the opportunity to combine the celebration of art and culture with the fundraising of the conductor

of the ensemble sorton age, who performed the compositions , says to play music of ukrainian musical authors, most of the composers are very good on new year's eve, very famous. and this particular composition, prayer for ukraine, from 2014 , is very impressive, very emotional, and the concert is also there was also a fan-raising event, volunteers of the organization told the audience about what is currently happening in ukraine and who will be helped. with the money collected in the united states, we are raising funds for the children of war and victims, and we are also sending our help to rebuild the children's cardiology hospital in the city of lviv, we will re-equip it, and this everything takes place under the initiative of artbuz open

heart, art with an open heart, in addition to classical music, the visitor was shown the audi visual installation motherland, which contains fragments of the ukrainian anthem, sirens and singing birds from los angeles khrystyna shevchenko dmytro savchuk voice of america and that's how we'll say goodbye, see also our wonderful briefings at 6 p.m. kyiv time on youtube and facebook where you can ask us your questions live, but it's also up to us on social media networks and read our site new from america in ukrainian thank you for staying with us, i wish you a peaceful night and a calm morning. see you soon. let

's get back . more than 19 thousand ukrainian children were deported to russia, and this is not the final figure. because the russian federation refuses to provide complete lists of children taken out of ukraine, in particular, ukrainian boys and girls were deported to russia who, even before the beginning of the full-scale invasion, were in the temporarily occupied territories in residential institutions, and today we will talk about one of such difficult stories, this is fifteen-year-old sashko ivanov, who now he is considered missing, the boy was in one of

the boarding schools in donetsk, and on february 20, 2022 , four days before the start of the full-scale invasion of all the inmates of this boarding school the occupation authorities allegedly took him to russia , grandmother sashka, who is currently in the territory controlled by ukraine and is looking for her grandson, told us about it. the answer was too heated. it is clear that there are many children. he did not study at 13 in donetsk. svitlana oleksandrivna above all wants to find her grandson and if he really deported to russia, then return sashko to ukraine and take him under his care, also the boy's grandmother said that she has information that sashko is currently in one of the boarding schools in taganrog or rostov on don, in the summer they were taken to yevpatoria , there is no more information about sashko’s grandmother, but there is a very great hope of returning the grandson home, and although it is likely that sashko is actually in