[000:00:00;00] will continue to support ukraine in its fight against russian aggression, the head of the foreign policy department stated this during a meeting with the minister of foreign affairs of the czech republic jan lipavsky . to ukraine, the czech republic is a very valuable nato member for the united states and a pillar of democracy, and we deeply appreciate the extraordinary cooperation that we we have been dealing with a wide range of issues for the past few years, of course an incredible powerful response to russia's aggression against ukraine is in the first place and we work hand in hand to continue to support ukraine to continue to put pressure on russia this is its aggression against ukraine of course to work on

supporting refugees, providing humanitarian aid, economic reconstruction i voted for aid to ukraine and i support aid to ukraine. speaker of the house of representatives kevin mccarthy said yesterday during a press conference in jerusalem. thus the leader of the republicans in the house of representatives answered the question of a russian journalist about the possible review of american aid to ukraine, although he arrived in israel at the weekend with a bipartisan delegation, it is known that you do not support the current unlimited and uncontrolled supplies of weapons and other aid to ukraine, can you comment on whether it is possible that in the near future the us policy on the provision of arms to ukraine will change will change i 'm not sure i can't hear well he said i don't support aid to ukraine no i voted for aid to ukraine i support aid to ukraine i do not support what your

country has done to ukraine i also do not support your killing of children i think that sooner or later you should withdraw your troops i think what you are doing is wrong and we will continue our aid because the whole world perfectly understands what is happening in the united states. let's talk with my colleague kateryna lisunova. she is now on the call from the capitol hill. greetings katya . earlier we are to the new convening of the congress. how do the administration respond to kevin's new statement? mccarthy's statement regarding the continuation of aid to ukraine and how it is commented by american duck analysts in general mccarthy's statement received a tangible reaction from the united states of america and so literally less than an hour ago , white house spokeswoman karincha anker welcomed kevin mccarthy's statement, stated that his statement was

a powerful stepmother to russian propaganda, and also noted that for more than a year, the white house has been calling on the whole world to continue supporting ukraine and emphasized that bipartisan support and assistance to ukraine in congress is an important and critically important component of this help with analysts, a particularly important post called this statement by kevin mccarthy the most powerful statement regarding the continuation of support for ukraine as of now , it was correctly noted that kevin mccarthy's last loud statement regarding ukraine was about the so-called unlimited check, he directly stated that ukraine will not receive a so-called unlimited check in the new congress at the same time, later when talking with american legislators, they noted that this statement by kevin mccarty was necessary for him to attract the support of the so-called extreme right-wing republicans who oppose aid to ukraine, but on whom the appointment of mccarthy as speaker partly depended, at the same time, american analysts claim that this statement, yesterday's statement by kevin mccarthy, is

a shift from extreme right-wing republicans to moderate republicans , the so-called hawks, who support ukraine, besides, washington poses in particular as interesting which connects mccarthy's statement with the recent dismissal of the fox news anchor and rakaelson, who often voiced the narrative narratives of extreme right-wing republicans and has a sufficiently significant influence on the republican rectorship of katya during russia's war against ukraine, we repeatedly heard the statements of legislators about pre-party support for ukraine kyiv was visited by a number of bipartisan congressional delegations, so what is the situation in the current convening of the congress, and also how did members of mccarthy's party react to his latest statement in general as democrats and republicans continue to emphasize that aid to ukraine continues to be bipartisan , at the same time

new legislative initiatives continue to appear in the new congress, which call to either review aid to ukraine or to stop it altogether, a good example of that is the joint letter of 19 republicans from both the house of representatives and the senate , addressed to the president of the united states of america, in which they claim that the continuation of aid to ukraine is allegedly not in the interests of the united states of america and even harms the united states of america on the contrary. the leader of the republicans in sonata night macon today also commented on the statement of kevin mccarthy and he directly noted and emphasized that continued support for ukraine is in the primary interests of the united states of america speech put a russian journalist in his place and silenced him he reminded everyone of his steady support for aid to ukraine and the republicans' commitment to helping our friends win republicans are the party that represents american power at home and

abroad, this also applies to the fight against those who want to be tyrants who invade sovereign countries, kill innocent people and endanger basic national the interests of the united states, a large part of the security assistance allocated to ukraine actually finances the production of new advanced capabilities for the us military and supports well-paid work for skilled american workers. it is interesting in our house that between nicholas also emphasized that delaying the provision of aid to ukraine harms the connecting holiday of america and called on the white house to provide all the help, all the weapons that kyiv is asking for separately, and michmakhunov called cluster munitions , long-range missiles and fighter jets of the fourth generation, he announced that the white house should not delay the discussion of this aid, just like the opponents of this idea in the congress, and provide everything necessary

to ukraine as soon as possible. says the latest polls , this is an interesting question directly in the latest e-e articles about polls about the position of american citizens, in particular , the brookings institute article says the following the headline is the following phrase americans show signs of impatience regarding the war in ukraine, in this article it is noted that according to public opinion polls and observations that were conducted , americans are worried about not seeing progress on the ukrainian front from the side of ukraine and are thinking about how long aid to ukraine can last and the relevant questions were asked in the corresponding poll , in particular, 46% of americans said that the united states should support ukraine

and another 38 americans instead said that i'm sorry, 38% of americans said that the united states should support ukraine as long as necessary, according to a study published by the brookings institution, they also divide the aid between democrats and republicans, and it is emphasized that the democrats, in the majority, are in favor of continuing to support ukraine as long as possible, while the republicans, on the other hand, most often express the opinion that ukraine needs to continue aid for at least 1-2 years, thank you for your meaningful analysis, we are in direct contact with the capitol was kateryna lisunova. a veteran of the american army defended ukraine on the battlefield, survived russian capture. and now he is doing everything to ensure that the us authorities do not stop supporting kyiv. oleksandr dryuky went to the war in ukraine as a volunteer at the beginning of the full-scale invasion in june, he was captured by the russians

, tortured and threatened with death. as a punishment , oleksandr told of such brutality as he had not seen in the russian army during 12 years of war experience in cancer, the story of an american volunteer who defended and continues to defend the interests of ukraine in the plot of iryna shynkarenko, the brutality that we saw from the russians cannot be compared to the bad things that the iraqi insurgents did in russian captivity. the american veteran oleksandr dryuke stayed for three months and he returned home to valabam in september and is still undergoing military rehabilitation with 12 years of experience in the army and years of war experience. in iraq, the russians were able to shock with brutality, i still have nerve damage in my hands because of the tape , the outside of my hands are numb, although now it is better than months ago, i know that in

in america, many people say that this is all propaganda that russia does not actually commit war crimes and my answer to them is come talk to me i am a living proof of some terrible things they do to people i can tell you that this is really for war in ukraine american oleksandr dryuke went as a volunteer after the start of the full-scale war. he considered it his duty. there he met a fellow countryman of another volunteer with the alabas, andy gunn. they performed a combat mission together in the kharkiv region, and at the beginning of june, both got into the russian prisoner, i can say with one hundred percent certainty that we were captured by the russian military, they were in russian uniforms , they spoke russian, in the end they took us to russia, we were taken to russia for a week, we don't know exactly where, but we know that we were in russia. we crossed the border that week. strong interrogations and torture, things that i thought only happened in the movies , they swore that we were with the cia because i was a chemist in the army. they thought that

i was traveling to ukraine and teaching people to make biological weapons, and regardless of what we told them, they wanted to believe in this lie yes they really hoped to just knock her out of us after the torture in russia, the american was sent to the so-called dnr where the abuse continued in an isolated cell, they connected me to a car battery four times because they thought i was lying about something i survived on a diet with dirty water in it something else floated and there was also moldy bread for a month, we know that we were somewhere in the dpr because they took us through their judicial system, which is like a parody, to give us the death penalty. even my court-appointed lawyer said we we are going to impose the death penalty we are planning to kill you so we were almost sure we were going to die but eventually they stopped

torturing us and moved us to what we believe was a former ukrainian prison i think it was prison isolation oleksandr lost 14 kg in three months and then waited for the release, which the russians also carried out with torture, they put bags on our heads , tightly wrapped our hands with tape, took this tape and then tightly blindfolded us, and then we were put in the back of a military car in uncomfortable positions and we remained there for a day in these terrible painful positions, not knowing where we were going. we assumed that it would probably be just a mass execution, but in the end we noticed that we were brought to russia to a small international airport where a large plane of saudi airlines was waiting, they took very good care of us. they immediately took us to the hospital, i had a bad the reaction

to being tied up with tape like that when it was removed my face was so swollen that fluid accumulated my eyes were completely closed and then further in the city of eriad i was practically blind i didn't know what is happening around and i was almost sure that the russians were leading me to kill alexander, his friend andy and 8 other foreigners were released as part of the great exchange on september 21. this is a matter of honor for ukraine, a matter of our gratitude for helping our state. we managed to free 10 foreign citizens who were in russian captivity even after the news , i checked that i could not believe it, i kept asking him free free i could not understand the meaning of this word oleksandr dreams

of bringing his relatives to ukraine and does everything for the end of the war although he is still recovering from ptsd working with the americans and the us authorities to convince them to help ukraine ardent fighters they are impressive they are skilled they are very fast learners and they are absolutely determined to win this war and they will if we continue to give them the tools they need iryna shynkarenko maria asks oleksiosik dmytro savchuk voice of america ukrainian sowing in the midst of the farmers are working despite mined fields for the stability of the grain corridor and the ban on exports to

the european union of four types of ukrainian agricultural products, experts predict that this year's harvest may be a third less than last year's details in the story of lesya bakalets in the breakdown of this combine harvester, thanks to which he was saved alive, this combine of farmer mykhailo arkhapchev ran into a mine last summer during harvest, the workers were saved, and the equipment cost 150,000 dollars cannot be repaired in the field, it was completely burned. we cannot take it away. mykhailo arkhapche is a farmer from the zaporizhzhia region. his fields are located 8 km from the front line in the village of transfiguration is already the farmer’s second crop next to the military operations, almost every day many cassettes fall from rsv from hailstorms from hurricanes, mines fall, even the ministry of emergency situations removed from my field an unexploded warhead

from tornadoes and fields contaminated with projectiles and mined like mykhailo’s in ukraine about two million hectares, they say in the all-ukrainian agrarian council, another 5 million are currently occupied by the russians, in general, this is called a figure of about 7 million lands that are occupied and that are temporarily in this condition pollution or demining, demining of the territory, they can be investigated, cleared faster and work on them started, but there it is interwoven with demining, and they have fields that are exclusively mined, and there to develop 1 ha of land, you need to spend more than one week of demining work, demining is needed in nine regions, the largest work is in mykolaiv oblast denys marchuk tells kherson region and kharkiv region that the process of clearing mines and projectiles is long and expensive. therefore, while the area of ​​demined areas is small, they do not even show any general e-e trend, they do not form what they

to some kind of release of large areas that could be presented there because, well , it is calculated there so far in thousands of hectares of land, we have a defined priority demining plan for 400-70,000 hectares of land in nine regions ago, and farmers are now giving themselves to demining that is, they themselves go to examine the fields, unfortunately, we have bad cases, negative cases with injuries in some places, fatal cases , occupied and mined territories - this is a fourth part of the total sown area of ​​ukraine, so the harvest this year will be less than previous years, in the 121st year, our harvest was uh, 108 million tons - this is grain and oil crops, in the 22nd year, 70 million tons, and this year it is expected to be 50-55 million tons, that is , a drop of two times, it is also

more difficult for ukrainian farmers to work now than the year of the war, then after peaceful 2021, they had a profit that they could invest in the next crop, there was a certain financial cushion, since the war began in february, i personally kept the products in storage, they were in the elevator and the elevator got er this the zone fell under occupation, products disappeared there for a large amount. this is a closed circle. farmers have no money for sowing. they plant less, sell less, and they have no money again, and this will all lead to a drop in our exports. the question of how and where to export is also not easy for ukrainian farmers. the grain agreement works unstable according to the ministry of agriculture in march, it was extended for 120 days. but russia periodically threatens to freeze the grain corridor, the grain agreement

, first of all, it worked in different, different intensities, you can't compare what was in the fall, when everything was ok, it was the bosphorus inspection, and what is happening now, when instead of ten vessels, two vessels pass through us per day , also in mid-april, 5 neighboring countries, poland , bulgaria, slovakia, hungary and romania limited the import of agricultural products from ukraine. on april 28, the european commission settled this issue countries refuse unilateral restrictions on the import of ukrainian agricultural products, but the eu introduces protective measures for the four most sensitive agricultural products, transit through all five countries is allowed, the ban affected the seeds sunflower, rapeseed, corn and wheat, these are products that appear on the polish market, that is, polish farmers are engaged

in the cultivation of these crops, this situation is a ban. days expert import from ukraine does not take place , but the market did not react to it , that is, there are no violent jumps. a smaller harvest for ukraine means less income to the budget , because the agricultural sector is a leading expert industry for some countries of the world, there is not enough of it ukrainian grain can be threatened with a food crisis, this is the lack of receipt of large batches of food from ukraine by group of grain crops, including wheat , and which countries need it the most are the ukrainian grain groups, there are africa, asia, the middle east, then of course they will be limited in the amount of grain they can purchase, mykhailo arkhabchev says he will cultivate his fields despite the difficult circumstances on the agricultural market and dangerous working conditions, because the worst thing is to let weeds grow on this land at

your own peril and risk. we are not sure that we will finish the work by the end of the day and return home. voice of america weekend, one of the most famous concert venues in the world, the madison square garden theater in new york turned blue and yellow, more than 6,000 spectators, most of whom were holding the ukrainian flag, came to the concert of the ukrainian band okean elsa the tour is called aid to ukraine , part of the profit goes to the armed forces and other needs of the country, my colleague iryna solomko talked with the leader of the band svyatoslav vakarchuk after the concert, he announced his exit of the new song, he talked about how much money he had already collected to help ukraine, and when he plans to have a victory concert on the yalta embankment, svyatoslav will again be at one of the most famous sen in the world, how did it all go, how did you feel that 6,000 people are coming

and you know, they sing in unison with you and now they are repainting the madison hall in er blue-yellow color, it is definitely inspiring to sort out 150,000 yes, to collect 70,000 at the auction , yes, this is such a small, modest goal, i think that you will quickly fulfill it just in northern in america, we tried to start collecting money separately at auctions and donating money that we will do in parallel, the only difference is that the tour in hel ukraine is a huge machine from which you cannot give all the money exclusively to charity because that's all, that is, there is a certain part that goes, but here it is not directly, but every penny is given 100% right away . is

it difficult to collect funds now? what this is all very conditional. i collected 160,150 million hryvnias at one charity concert in london, which was closed for the city. that ’s 3.5 million pounds. how much did you collect? we have such, if you take into account all the money that i collected and what we collected. donated charity, it's already about 200 million uah, that's why it's a large amount , but once again, i'm not saying the question in sumy, how the war changed svyatoslav vakarchuk, it changed me radically , i eventually became who i am, what war does to people, i think their strong and weaknesses she always, well, it's like an x-ray on them, everything is clearly visible, everything becomes black and white, and she made me cleaner and made us the most honest in front of myself. i think that so many people, the majority of ukrainians well , first of all, you make a simple choice and the most important thing

and where are you for what are you and who are you with and why is the second choice what are you making what is more important to you the future of your country your children your family fourth there is personal career third what are you doing this is how you learn to live in a situation fight stress and then you don't need to throw it away if we talk about er tailor-musician, because you said that you wrote one song, you wrote it to order, just songs after the war, but one to order, such songs live here to write, so they are all written, well, through to experience with tears with some a-a when i write such songs to me they often say that people listen to them, then they cry, i myself cry when i write, everything is written during the war - songs are difficult, yes, because , as you said, yes, everything is a little different, yes , the world is black and white there, and there is probably not enough time for these emotions you still manage

create at this time in a few weeks, elsa's new song okean elza will be released in a duet with another beautiful artist. for now, it's a surprise, but you will hear a completely different song, and it's a song about love, more precisely, about separation, maybe it's also him, he responds with because of what we have now. in general, the musical community of ukraine responded with dignity. i mean the creative ones, yes to the war. i think that everyone should be responsible for themselves and see how someone is doing, well, it's not my rules. i never did this during the war. as in war everyone they have to pick up their weapons, everyone has their own, no one can sit back , different trenches, different tanks and different machine guns or assault rifles , probably not in the first six months of the war. stations, yes, all the hot spots came out, you sang there

, you just tried to support people, that is, you could be seen on the street, because we took the guitar and sang for the first month, it was just impulsive, we went to kharkiv because yesterday a rocket hit a house there administration, we arrived on the square and recorded the video in parallel while we were recording the video, there was a shootout in the hospital, the army broke into the hospital from the other side, after half an hour they broke into the house of the police since april. we started planning and started planning first of all trips to the front the hot spots for the soldiers were met by brigades, literally every section of the front was visited step by step, because i like these performances for boys and girls at the front, i won't even lie to you, they even resonate with me now, the legs are big, big multi-thousand concerts, sometimes 20 people are sitting in bunkers or in the forest, you don't play a song on the guitar. everything will be fine. you understand that something important is happening. but what we will

say is different. some people are tired, some people are tired, but the majority. they do there, that is, i have met people who say that we are tired, but i have not met people who say that they understand that we are doing nothing here all the time for hundreds of thousands of people, if it is about victory, but there is a lot of arguing about should we expect that it will be quick, or should we still be realistic, because now the president has already started to say that, after all, there is a certain talk about victory this year and that it will be there for years, all this struggle will continue, this is your vision of this i just go, he is philosophical. each of the ukrainians will have his own victory. this is how it is personified in all of us in a certain dream. i don’t know about the victory concerts on the yalta embankment, but in addition to the dream, there will be many practical markers of victory for everyone, for

someone, when it will be possible to fly to kyiv by plane for someone it is when it will be possible to do a stadium concert in kharkiv, odesa or in kyiv, for someone it is when it will be possible to return to some favorite activity , that is, there are many personal victories in addition to a great military or geopolitical victory , which is definitely a return for each of us of all my lands and for svyatoslav vakarchuk. for me it will be a victory when i am finally not for several days because of trips and every day from morning to evening we will see my children, but for me it will be a victory when all my friends and close relatives, of whom there are many, including my family, now at the front, they will return home and live unscathed. so when i can hug them all. well, in principle , i will not refuse the concert of the winner on the yalta embankment. have a peaceful night and

a good morning, we we are looking for 16-year-old serhiy samoilov. the search for him has been going on for over a year, but there is still no news . serhiy lived in mariupol and it was there that he met the war. it is not known that he stayed in the city for the first two weeks, and at the beginning of march he tried to escape to a more peaceful place x these my special networks are open to him by a computer, maybe it was stolen there, or he was lying on the computer, maybe there was a computer somewhere, someone turned it on, no, the computer

does not turn on anything. mother serhiia said that on the first day of the full-scale war in mariupol , there was already quite restless and with every hour the situation only worsened rapidly due to the bombing, the family hid in the basement, but shelling was far from the only problem of the residents of mariupol, well, everyone was poisoned, the family did not drink, they could not eat, they tell us honestly all the stores were looted, no pick-up, nothing. well, you just sat clean and wanted, despite all the horrors. at the time , 15-year-old serhii samoilov was most worried about the lack of internet. that's why the boy wanted to leave mariupol. at night, he was fascinated by computers and studied programs there, trying to develop them. they