[000:00:00;00] in the pochaiv lavra, everything follows the pattern, the russian language is everywhere, from the communication of priests to the books in the store, i watch almost everything in russian, something from the ukrainian language. you can be seen at the sbu, and the aunts report to the priest. in the storms, even terrorists were discovered in an interview with the atr tv channel, major general of the armed forces of ukraine

ihor hordiychuk suspected local monks of collaborating with the enemy even at the beginning of the war in 2014, in the first days of the war. i asked for permission to take the group radio interception we made several radio interceptions in kramatorsk slavyansk, where in one of our most valuable shrines, the sviatohirsk lavra, there was a chechen detachment of the kadyrov special forces, cooperation with the priests was also confirmed by the leader of the terrorists, igor girkin , all my personal protection consisted of the spiritual sons of monks the monks of the svyatogorsk lavra, completely down to the last person, we have, er, one of the subordinate teams of the svyatogorsk novice in the slavic brigade. to return about 100 defenders. as it turned out later, almost the main

demand of the russians during the exchange was to give the abbot of the kazan parish saint nicholas a star. we all need them. that it is generally a wonderful exchange fund. the moscow patriarchate is an effective mechanism of russian propaganda . religion is explained by skill . the greatest virtue is to obey one's priest, to obey one's superior, there is very little initiative there, on the other hand, the lack of association among local authorities led to the fact that hundreds of illegally built moscow churches and chapels appeared throughout the country, they were not dismantled for years because

no one complained and only a full-scale war opened the eyes of the authorities, it turned out that the land plots were seized arbitrarily and there were no permission documents from the beginning of time , the state never conducted an audit, that is, no i checked how well the documents in kyiv are properly prepared. there is such information somewhere. i read somewhere that out of all the built churches of the orthodox church in the moscow patriarchate, only one-third are prepared in accordance with the requirements, and the rest are , let’s say, self-seizures and self-construction, and there are not enough excavators to clean ukrainian churches from the russian agents. political will is needed and it is lacking even today , for example draft law 82.21 on the banning of the russian orthodox church

has not been put to a vote for four months of the session hall of the parliament as a result, despite the 10th year of the war, eight and a half thousand churches of the moscow patriarchate are functioning in ukraine, eight and a half thousand cells of oriyas agents waiting for revenge artem lagutenko oleksiy kutsuk of the espresso tv channel on the air from washington the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america time there i yulia yarmolenko congratulations, the world community reacted sharply to another russian attack on ukrainian cities with missiles and drones , as a result of which 25 people have already died

, the biggest joke in uman is where the russian missile hit an apartment building, 23 people died, four of them children, the terrible footage from uman once again proves that russia is a terrorist country, these are the words that commented on the tragedy of the prime minister of estonia, kaya kalas, in a message on twitter, she added that the aggressor will never stop if he is not stopped we had better arm ukraine and do it quickly us ambassador to ukraine bridget bring commenting on the attack on russia still has not understood that its brutality only strengthens ukraine's resolve and deepens our commitment to support ukraine in its struggle philosophers, writer bernard andriy levin drew attention to the fact that uman is not only a wonderful ukrainian city, but also a holy place for jews , because the slave nahman is buried there, that the russians committed a crime against putin, a desecration and a slap in the face for all jews around the world, he wrote a thread of western politicians and diplomats called the attack particularly cynical because at this time russia

chairs the un security council , the mep verkhovstad wrote on twitter russia simultaneously heads the un security council and the genocide in ukraine on friday other members of the un security council albania france and the usa, as well as the permanent representation of ukraine, jointly organized an informal security council meeting dedicated to the issue of the abduction and forced deportation of ukrainian children during the russian war . the purpose of the meeting in the aria format is not only to draw attention to the problem, but also to find ways to return the children as they may be , ask my colleague iryna solomko, who followed the security council meeting and joins the broadcast from the un headquarters in new york , iryna vitayu, today's meeting was special in that it spoke not only diplomats, officials authorized for the rights of the child, but also families who were directly affected by russia's actions, not only forced deportation, but also abuse, what stories

did they share, whether or not russia blocked the broadcast of this event on official un resources, it received a lot of attention during almost 3 hours, representatives of dozens of countries spoke, including russia, and they tried to name what was going on with such rescues and evacuations, and also explained what these 359 children were about. currently, the ukrainian authorities are also talking about the worlds that have already been handed over to families, this is not adoption, this is a temporary special form that was introduced by the temporary guardianship of leta. she is absolutely right in that, of course , the most emotional and poignant moment of this event was nina's performance vlasova is a ukrainian whose 14-year-old daughter veronika has been in russia for more than a year . last year, she and her grandmother from the kharkiv region, when

the active hostilities began, they left for several russia and according to the mother only because it was more or less such a safe direction and since then the mother has been trying to return the child russia does not give the child to the grandmother even though she has all the notarized documents and the mother says that during this time they are fighting for that to return the child about this, about that, at the moment you are not getting anything, moreover, during this time , the child became a victim of sexual harassment , now she is undergoing a case regarding this and she was generally placed in a special room, she is not allowed to leave the territory of russia because of that what is she going through in this case? and according to her mother, she does not know when the child can return even under these criteria. yes, to ukraine, because the courts in russia last forever, and just as she finished her emotional speech , she said that if not the un, then who? can return me help me return my child home yulia absolutely together is not a question iryna the purpose of this meeting is not only to hear these stories but also to find a way to return

the children abducted by russia, what solutions are offered by the diplomats so you know among the speakers there were not only diplomats but experts, representatives of human rights organizations that take care of the topic of children in armed conflicts, according to them, there are three key steps that should be taken now by the international community as well , and this should be appropriate pressure on russia, first of course it must be stopped, any forced transfer , deportation, abduction of ukrainian children, because unfortunately they continue and this and this must happen because children are protected according to international norms of international law, there are several relevant conventions and documents that guarantee their rights, and currently they are absolutely not, that is, not ensured, and this must stop, and the second step is to establish such a monitoring mechanism for them, because today, once again, the ukrainian country is trying to get some information, but

there is none systematic system of such work and there is also no access to these children and for human rights defenders access should be not only to children but also to families, i.e. it is necessary to control whether they are in contact with one i.e. on today all this is absent and of course the third step - these are the children who, in principle , have already returned to ukraine. well, they call them victims, that is, they should receive appropriate help from ukraine, this is primarily psychological help, because this is a huge trauma. managed to research this topic in general , the return of ukrainian children home, and in ukraine, several charitable foundations and organizations are engaged in this. and now in the material you can see how difficult this path of returning ukrainian children to ukraine is children deported from ukraine are brainwashed in russia and put under constant psychological pressure, says mykola kuleba, the founder of the save ukraine fund , which is engaged in the return of children, no one will

sing there, for 5 hours, you continuously listen to the russian national anthem and they were forced to sing it there, and if in schools, then they have special years every week, then they have to write letters of thanks to the russian military who are killing ukrainians and who are fighting from ukraine, koliba tells the typical story of a ukrainian boy who, together with his mother, found himself in a the child was given to a foster family where the father served in the russian army and fought against ukraine, the boy said that everyone hated him both in the family and at school , his grandmother found him and came to take the child, but the local authorities refused to give the grandson to the woman , they put forward a condition for her to accept russian citizenship in order to be allowed to live next to a boy, and for a few months, she tried

to find a way out, and there was no way out simply because she became a hostage, not only that, but they forced her to sign documents about her departure, she could not even leave the territory of russia federations and hmm, for long such tolls, we just took the grandmother, took the boy and they moved to and thus ended up in ukraine , the boy as soon as he was on the territory of ukraine. he asked the team to buy him a flag. how did the child end up in russia, or was solomiya taken from a boarding school, hospital or sanatorium, or did the parents in the occupied territories themselves agree that she went to a camp for a few weeks, all this is considered deportation, the parents are already trying to find her, they say that we will not return her. if you want, you can come yourself later. all the children say that they

were not even looking for their parents. no one ever approached the child. they did not ask. and how can you contact your parents? stay in russia and you stay here, the children complain that there is bad food, bad living conditions , rats there, cockroaches, that is, different children had different situations, but practically almost all children moved somewhere, again, we are talking about which you know simply according to the words of the vice prime minister of ukraine iryna vereshchuk, who headed the coordination staff for the protection of children's rights in martial law, her goal is to return as many children as possible as soon as possible , and now the ukrainian authorities are working on obtaining lists of deported children from russia if an adult civilian or an adult military officer can inform about himself about his whereabouts, or relatives can inform about a child who has lost his

parents, no one will inform and unfortunately, we have a lot of such cases in the team we will save ukraine, led by mykola kuleva, managed to conduct five rescue missions and return 98 deported children to ukraine daria kasyanova, director of program development of the children's protection organization sauce children's town ukraine, together with her colleagues, brought home 80 children, the first 12 in june of last year, who at the beginning of the war, they were in the mariupol sanatorium, every time the children return, says kasiyanova, the benefactors learn about new deportees, of whom there is no official report, two weeks ago she gave a list of 23 of the child from this list, the national information bureau had only six children, so i think that the numbers that we communicate have been replaced, and they are simply lying to us about it now, the return of the child begins after the parents or relatives apply either directly, as in the case of kasiyanova, or to the hotline of the organization

when with a request to find the child, when the child is found, the preparation of documents begins. they must be translated and notarized; after that, the parents or legal guardians go to pick up the child. to pick up only if you go through poland, the baltic states, belarus, because through the baltic states to russia, it is a journey of thousands of kilometers, expensive, and in principle dangerous, because it is repeated interrogations by the fsb and bullying and provocations, the budget for such a trip, i have all the documents according to the estimates of my colleagues, the dollars arrived , so organizations help families financially the russian side is obliged to return the child to the parents or legal guardians, however, there are cases when we are refused, there were cases during our commissions , and such cases were when all material things were present

documents, when they were translated into russian, everything was complete, but the russians said no, yakasyanova and kolyba communicated with the investigators of the international criminal court and gave evidence after that, both organizations help with the rehabilitation of children from the children's town of ukraine, for each child , they give uah 32,000, according to iryna vereshchuk, the state returns so-called status children who were in boarding schools and whom the russians give up for adoption, according to her data , we are currently talking about at least 350 children. we say that each child has its own status, you have no right establishing guardianship is a violation of international humanitarian law and the geneva conventions, and we demand the return of our children. therefore, this demand is legal. yes, it is obvious. now the question is to launch a mechanism of pressure on russia by all methods. iryna borischuk spoke about the fact that ukraine is working on

the creation of this formal or informal coalition works together with the united states with canada and with the countries of the european union and mutations of the coalition will be created of this negotiating platform and a special mechanism will obviously be about the involvement of a third neutral party in this process, who will conduct negotiations with russia, guarantee that these agreements will be, well , fulfilled accordingly, look for children and successfully return ukrainian children home, yurino . thank you, you are dealing with a very, very important topic in connection with the arrangement of the apartment the un was my colleague iryna solomenko. we continue to produce, in addition to the anti-air defense system, powerful armored artillery, ammunition

, drones have become an important component of the package of weapons from the united states for ukraine the most famous of them, the kamikaze switch blade drones are produced by the american company aerobayroment. my colleagues khrystyna shevchenko and dmytro savchuk visited this company in california to find out what is the secret of the combat capability of smart drones, what systems will soon enter ukraine and how these technologies can help bring the ukrainian victory closer switch blade on modern kamikaze drones, which america sends to ukraine as part of military aid, are produced here in california near los angeles at the airement plant why exactly are these drones are so important for the armed forces on the battlefield, we were told at the company itself, accurate, fast, mobile, safe ammunition allows you to hit targets beyond the direct line of sight of the operator behind the front line

, while the soldier himself is safe. the drone was built in 2013 at iron verne , chief engineer john aldana, program manager of switch bike 300, shows us this model of the drone, which fits a small tube that itself weighs about 2.5 kg. so, everything together weighs about five kilograms. one soldier can carry three such tubes in a backpack , and the wings fold like this. this is a gas generator. the gas generator explodes. it does not emit smoke. tubes wing opens propeller starts to rotate everything is powered by electricity and it takes off into the air transfer from the flight position to the combat position takes two minutes after the drone is launched it moves at a speed of up to

150 km/h after reaching the destination the candle blade hangs in the air to find a target thanks to a camera with a high resolution. the drone transmits an image of the area to the operator, so it is possible to conduct reconnaissance of the area remotely. further, the camera on the drone identifies the target on its own and transmits the data to the operator, who already gives the command to strike. and this is an improved model of the switch blade 600. is bigger in size and has bigger wings and propeller this drone can fly on board distance up to 90 km and also has longer flight time due to more power switch blade 600 can hit the tank with the biggest advantage the blade 300 and 600 drones have the ability to hover in the air and search for the best angle

of attack, because it barrages around the target , you can immediately see what the advantage is. 'there will be a vulnerable moment, the target can be destroyed after hitting the target, drones destroy themselves from the english switch blade means a folding knife, the first drone the company produced for the american army in afghanistan in 2011, it was significantly a cheaper and more mobile alternative to the javelin heavy anti-tank complex to ukraine by order of the us government, the company has already sent more than a thousand switch blades and other puma-type drones . to the great armies of ukraine forever , the war in ukraine is the most incredible

example of how a much smaller country or military force can fight a super-power first and foremost - this is the spirit of the people of course, but the second is the weapons and resources that they have to carry out the mission, namely a smaller system that is so effective in terms of cost and flexibility and adapted for a major conflict with one of the three superpowers of the world. ukraine has proven to the whole world that it can win . the ukrainian-russian war can turn into a war of drones, therefore technology will play a decisive role in the results , the ceo of the company that produces drones says that he does not know of more modern technologies in the world than switch blade, iranian chess and russian lancets are a more primitive generation of drones, so the company mostly competes with itself, so it is preparing to send an order to ukraine for even more powerful drones , which have currently become the most advanced

technology of the company , jump 20 drones. they are not just carrying out the orders of the american government, aid to ukraine is a special mission in the overthrow of authoritarianism, and here they will do everything possible to contribute to the victory, ukraine is asking for an increase the number of drones in the aid package to the maximum khrystyna shevchenko dmytro savchuk bohdan shevchenko voice of america next our story about the city of bakhmut russian troops have been trying for several months to take this big city at any cost, but the armed forces of ukraine are fighting back effectively, most of the residents have left bakhmut at the very beginning of intense shelling and heavy fighting , and many civilians still remain in the city, how is the evacuation going? voice of america correspondents saw it with their own eyes, says yuriy mammon the battle for bakhmut is the longest and one of the bloodiest since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine, most of the city's population has long since left it, however

, there are people who remain in bakhmut and no one knows for sure how many are still free, and we still flew there in this former kindergarten in kostyantynivka, which is 30 km from bakhmut, a temporary shelter for refugees has been set up, here you can rest, get help and consider further steps to evacuate inland, although kostyantynivka is also shelled every day, but not so intensively like bakhmut. bakhmut itself was once home to more than 70,000 people

. salt was mined and sparkling wines were produced here . it was a very green city, residents say. roses, we had a lot of trees, we had all the streets, all the streets were bahmut, they were green from the trees , you know, it was like a big house, a big house for a very big friendly family, russian artillery is destroying the city, meter by meter here there are only ruins left, some refugees say that they were not even able to bury their relatives and friends who died under the rubble due to the russians' strikes . they pulled out, well, in the end, they saved the dog and thought that they could get there to the basement, but there they are. according to the latest data , most of the bahmut is controlled by the troops of the aggressor country, however, one neighborhood in

the west of the city is still held by the armed forces ukraine's yuri mammon geyser muzzle the voice of america since russia started a full-scale war, the chaplains of the american congress at least once a week begin the legislative session with a prayer for ukraine, and the chaplain of the senate - barry black with other believers, in addition to prayer, also introduced a special fast, however, as the chaplain of the united states senate spiritually supports ukrainians , as well as what the work of a chaplain in the us congress consists of, see the interview of my colleague kateryna lisunova how do you choose what

to pray for before the start of a session in the senate i believe that prayer is a conversation with god. we talk through prayer not only when we need something , but also because we have a relationship with him, and already when difficulties arise and we need supernatural help, we turn to the lord for this and therefore when i i saw russian tanks heading for ukraine. it was certainly a reason to pray , because as a clergyman i was taught to care for the helpless, for the suffering , to worry about those in danger, for the poor, this was definitely a reason to pray not only for me, but also for the senators, uh, someone has already thanked you for the fact that you mention ukraine

in your prayers less. i am in correspondence with members of the ukrainian parliament, and they are very grateful for our prayers for ukraine. you give up food it strengthens your prayer i know hundreds of people on capitol hill who started fasting after the russian invasion a year ago we do what is called a fast we are cheerful we don't eat anything until three o'clock in the afternoon then we have one meal and so on we don't eat again until three o'clock the next day we have been fasting like this for months now i even lost a little weight this fast was held by senators and hundreds of people and i believe that god answered ours because many people predicted that this invasion would be successful and end in a few weeks most

and had no idea that ukraine as we know it is standing a year after the invasion. i believe that it is thanks to the fasting and prayer of people on capitol hill and in many churches where i preach throughout the country. i urge people to start fasting and pray for ukraine and god answers our prayers these people can also make charitable contributions and they are very happy that they can help one believer even told me that finally there is something we can do because they felt paralyzed now i can fast and pray and i know that prayer really matters. i get such feedback. do you remember the day when you first decided to include ukraine in your

prayer book? i think it was when the column of tanks began to slowly approach the borders of ukraine. even before the first shots were fired, we we began to pray before the start of major military operations master tap then we strengthened our prayers and began to fast and we saw how the hand of god moved because there are people who predicted that nato would fall apart and that there would be no support and we prayed that the almighty god would show his will and he i did, i am absolutely convinced that ukraine will win this war lev ukraine somewhere county you have been a chaplain of the senate for a long time, how do you think your prayers have changed from the beginning of the service to today in our prayers we ask for specific