[000:00:00;00] on our website there is a photo of all the missing boys and girls, many of them disappeared due to the war in the frontline areas in the occupation or during the evacuation, but there are many such children who went missing even before the full-scale war or, let's say, in relatively peaceful territories where there were no hostilities the reasons for the disappearance are different but all these children can be in danger and you and i must help them, so look at their photo, if possible, share information about the search on your facebook and instagram pages. if you know any information about any of the missing persons, immediately contact us on the hotline of the child tracing service at the short number 116,000,000. calls from all mobile operators in ukraine are free. we have created a resource thanks to which you can report any crime against a child in any in any place at any time just go to the site

and report and we will launch all possible mechanisms for punishing the criminal login kray.ua you are watching the program of the ukrainian voice of america service time there i am nataliya lounova congratulations shanna ukraine will be given a new military package, a package of military aid, which will include, among other things, ammunition for gamers howitzer systems and artillery, the us state department announced this. earlier on tuesday , commenting on russia's accusations that ukraine attacked the kremlin with drones , us secretary of state anthony blinken said that he was skeptical of russia's statements. noted that the usa does not

have facts about this incident, however , believes that ukraine has the right to independently decide how to defend itself moscow accused ukraine of attempted attacks by drones on the night of may 3, the kremlin residence of vladimir putin in the office of president zelensky, kyiv's involvement in this incident is denied, more about the reaction in the united states to the accusations of russia and new aid for ukraine, we will talk with ostap yarysh, who is joining our studio live now. what details of the new 37th package of aid to ukraine do you have at the moment? and what is known about the time frame of its receipt, so he really published the list of the new package of weapons for ukraine, it included, as you already said, or i will ask for hymers, as well as hydra 70 anti-aircraft missiles , 155 mm howitzers , artillery and tank ammunition, as well as small anti-tank weapons, and trucks

for moving heavy equipment, and much more. what's new? saw it first of all, these hydra-70 aviation unguided missiles, they can be launched both from airplanes and from helicopters, and in principle, experts say that this can provide fire support to armed forces forces of ukraine from the air, especially during the announced counteroffensive and also to cause losses to the russian troops on the ground, they were also the first to see this swedish-made anti-tank weapon carl gustav . in principle, it can be compared with american javelins. well, it’s been a long time since we saw howitzers and the united states in the aid package now they are in this package regarding the time frame natalya so this package is allocated from their own arsenals from the reserves of the united states therefore, in principle, it can be expected that it will be on the battlefield in the near future ostapa russia accuses ukraine of drone attacks on the kremlin, how does washington officially react to these accusations, so white aquarius commented, spokeswoman craigenpierre said that at the moment they cannot confirm

the authenticity of these messages, they can confirm whether this was some kind of planned attack , but added that the united states does not encourage ukraine but strike outside its territory, as for the other comments , the secretary of state with shentony blinking also commented on this, saying that, in principle, to anything that comes out of the kremlin to any he is doubtful about his statement, we can also listen to this comment now, first of all, i see these reports and i cannot confirm them in any way, we simply do not know, secondly, i would perceive everything coming from the kremlin with great skepticism, so let's see what the facts will be it is actually difficult to comment on this if you assume without knowing the facts in general as i have already said as we have stated when it comes to ukraine which is under daily attacks not only its incredibly brave military but its

citizens men and women and children are daily attacks by this russian aggression, their houses, apartments and streets are bombed, their children are killed, families are separated , why do we leave it up to ukraine to decide how it will defend itself, how it will try to return the territory that russia illegally seized from it in the last 14 months and to return to the borders of 2014, this is antony blinkin's comment to nataliya, also added by himself and the spokesman of the state department, bohdan petel, commenting on the situation. he says that in this story, it is important to remember three things, first, russia started war and attacked ukraine unprovoked, secondly, russia attacks ukrainian civilians every day, dead residents and attacks children, attacks ordinary civilians , attacks hospitals, schools, kindergartens, this should also be remembered, and thirdly , the spokesperson of the state department also said that the united states will continue to provide ukraine with the necessary assistance, including military assistance, as long as it will be needed. thus, the office of the president

of ukraine stated that russia is clearly preparing a large-scale terrorist act, the adviser to the head of the office, mykhailo podolyak, wrote about this. how is this situation american experts are commenting on ostap natalya, a lot of people are actually commenting on the heated discussion in social networks from commentators, analytics from former officials , in particular, michael mcfalls - this is the former ambassador of the united states of america to russia, comments that these statements are what, that this was some kind of attack on putin or an attempt on his life that they do not have any basis under them that this is russian propaganda there is no need to spread it because putin he does not live in the kremlin and does not stop for the night especially doubts are also expressed by karl bil, the former minister of foreign affairs of sweden. he says that this attack causes him doubts because he does not know how a drone could, in principle , fly such a long distance if it was launched from ukraine

and he was shot down only when he was above the kremlin, he has such a question, other experts say that if it was really an attack from the side of ukrainian forces, then this is a humiliation for putin, especially on the eve of may 9, others say that also about the fact that if it really was the same ukrainians, it was not an attack or a smell on putin, but the soviets. could there have been some kind of demonstrative and demonstrative step to show that even moscow is not safe, although there are really many questions and experts about who started it . was it inside russia or ukraine could have been involved, or is this an operation by the kremlin in order to justify some possibility of its provocations, so in fact, they do not take it upon themselves to say exactly, but many comment clearly, natalya. thank you, ostapa, for your detailed analysis with us in direct contact with the capitol was ostap yarysh american sanctions against russia affect its ability on the battlefield jim o'brien, head of the us state department's sanctions coordination office, is convinced of this. he claims

that even trade does not save moscow from its difficult financial situation with china, how long will russia's resources be enough to wage war and will the sanctions be strengthened in the future ? on a very general question what is the purpose of the us sanctions against russia with russia we are trying to do three things with our sanctions program we are depriving russia of resources to wage war we are reducing the dependence of our partners on russia and a great example of this is the eu's decision not to import russian oil which reduces the influence of russia we also try to maintain the availability of russian goods, especially in the global south, but russian food products, fertilizers and oil are sold no

more than the price limit, all this we want so to continue this balance. i believe that the stool on three legs is the most stable type of furniture and this is what we are building. this is what we are trying to do with the help of sanctions against russia. we are seeing particular changes i think we have to recognize that every situation is unique and this situation is about ending the war of this unjustified invasion in this context i measure our success by two things first do we we see the impact on the battlefield and secondly do we reduce the funds that russia receives to restore its ability

to fight in addition, we believe that sanctions are an important way to turn attention to the criminality that is inherent in this invasion, so we are introducing our sanctions against those responsible for the abduction of children from of ukrainian families for their participation in the annexation of the territory and for torture and for abuse and for other things, we see the consequences on the battlefield. yes, russia is unable to wage a modern war, and this is largely because it lacks a modern communication equipment, necessary electronic equipment, positioning equipment, everything necessary for waging a mobile, fast, mobile, precise war, which ukraine, for example, is starting to wage , did russia have less money, absolutely, their gdp fell less than many expected, but this is because the state pays for defense production and pays people to served in the army all this adds to the gdp in the long run - it is not very productive but they do it with the help

of their reserves at the same time they try to spend money to support the civilian economy with such costs, their main resources fell in the end by the end of the year by more than 60 billion dollars last year, this left them with maybe 70 billion for spending, 300 billion of them are from real estate outside of russia, so it turns out to be about 200, about a third are young people , so they can trade with china is important but it won't help them globally a third is in gold you know they ca n't spend gold so they have about a third left - that's 100 billion that means time is not on russia's side now i want to be realistic about this russia is still able send the military to the battlefield all they do is make a certain number of missiles a month they still use them to

attack civilian targets in ukraine it's a terrible war but russia is much less militarily capable than it would be in the absence of the economic steps taken by the coalition that's great what do you say about the results of the impact are all against russia on the battlefield but what next is the us government going to stop there do you plan to expand the list of some of these goods uh yes it will continue and i think the situation for it will only get more difficult for russia. i am not going to predict specific actions, but all the partners of the big seven will join. so, the world's largest economies and another three dozen countries , the largest economic bloc in the world , have united to say that russia must leave ukraine and we will continue to tighten the screws on the economic side until

then. it won't happen, i know you're not an economist and you won't make predictions about the russian economy, but you just said that time is not on russia's side, so what is your prediction of where the russian economy will be in two to five years? i'm not forecasting, i'm an economist or not, i think we can do it. this is to make it very difficult for russia to do everything it wants . president putin wants to tell his people that life at home will remain the same and we will win this war. they are failing miserably to win this war and it will be increasingly difficult. invest money in these things the second part is about the world of the future i am an optimist i believe that we are entering a period when we will have a number of new technologies that will change

the world economy artificial intelligence quantum computing green revolution digital revolution along with this, progress in bioengineering. i think that this will become the basis for the next great wave of economic growth, as it was 250 years ago. russia does not play a role in these processes , many of its most talented people leave for georgia or other places, and therefore if you look at 5-10 years ahead i believe that the future of russia looks very bleak it today marks the world press freedom day journalism - this is not a crime it is fundamental for a free society said biden in a statement on the occasion of the day of

press freedom he mentioned two american journalists ivan hershkovich and austin tys illegally detained by russia despite the war ukraine improved its place in the freedom of the press rating of reporters without borders in 2023 and moved from 106th to 79th place the war turned all ukrainian journalists into war correspondents , note the compilers of the rating in the information war ukraine is on the front line resistance to the expansion of the kremlin's propaganda system is indicated in the organization and they emphasize the growing threat to the physical safety of journalists freedom of speech what makes us different from russians say so ukrainian journalists about their work war imposes restrictions and the mass media in ukraine over the last year, together with the authorities, defined unwritten rules for covering the event and red lines that will not be crossed under any circumstances until world press freedom day voice of america spoke with ukrainian journalists about the main challenges in their work ukrainian journalists, after

the beginning of the large-scale invasion of russia , had to learn to cover the war , together with the authorities, they created unwritten rules about what can be reported? and what can’t be reported? i think that from february 24 we all became military commissars at some point and we had to master this specific knowledge, not as deeply as our colleagues who work on the front lines, but we had to learn and report immediately about the places of arrival, not report about the consequences of the destruction, because it helps the russians to be more precise then, well, i had to keep some kind of silence mode and learn from it, security is higher than the standards of journalism, that the main standard of an aesthete journalist is now also because of the material what are you doing, no one was killed, so that the military did not die, so that civilians did not die, then we can already approach, well, this is what a normal plot looks like in the normal world, not in ukraine, you arrive at the place, you say

, where did you come? when did you arrive, to whom did you come? now, if all this information is announced in ukraine, what are we doing , we will actually get out of position. we can show the number of fighters. a moral dilemma regarding whether or not to publish the list of all the russian military and it was handed over to us at the moment when they were located literally a few kilometers from our relatives, if we talk about the list of the military, then we published it , a lot of people paid attention to it abroad, they saw it it was the first days of the war and you actually did everything you could to quickly end this war , whether or not to publish the last name and report information about your friend who is

now in captivity and being tortured, but his parents against the fact that it may not harm, and at the same time, some people believe that publicity can help him, i can give an example, a video recently appeared from the center of bahmut, which was obviously shot by the russian occupiers. i was in bahmut. well, i i don't know how many times we decided to go into detail. and what did we do apart from the fact that we used panoramas and could compare which places these are? and i contacted , for example, local residents who showed that it was, for example, the city council. so i understand for myself that it is the city council, but in fact when something

it's completely messed up, it's very difficult sometimes to understand that this is exactly the place we are, i contacted several local residents whom i know as residents of bakhmut and we checked this video with them, if we talk about the first weeks of the war, we received a lot of information from people from the regions, we verified it by the date, relatively speaking, when the video was shot in which city, that is, we have these evaluation tools there, relatively speaking, a large amount of material not in the first days of the war was actually a fake photo of course it happened quite often, that is, in the first days, someone started it. maybe even from russia it was done, and we discovered these photos of people , so public journalism is also very important, that is, public journalism was and still is important in the occupied territories, because well, for example, from crimea, we were sent to us

usually these are people we know and whom we trust with rubin for reasons that we do not publish their personal data data on the topic of food in the army and inflated prices for food in the army yes it is important and it is up for discussion this is public information from which depends on the financing of our army, accordingly, survival when we are already talking about the moment, why did it happen in the south and the breakthrough from crimea happened as it did, then it is faster than it is not a question of survival, fortunately, and with this, these questions should be formulated by the security service of ukraine, counterintelligence and make to carry out this stormy discussion why did the authorities allow this now to deepen conflicts within the country after our victory the end

of martial law we will have such a riot of freedom of speech so much will be made public and it was discussed that it almost failed, in my opinion, it is important to do this because indeed some kind of abuse and abuse is possible during the war, we understand it, they can undermine the effectiveness of the army, that is, some units can be underpowered, this war, er, it also arose due to the possibility of ukraine becoming another european country without all these corrupt practices, i.e. it seems to me that corrupt practices are what still connects us with russia and this is, you know , its legacy, which it has remained. i would not demand the final figure, it will not add anything now to

of our victory, but it can reduce our resistance and resistance in a moral sense. that is, it can be such a demoralizing factor, this is such a question , it is very painful for society, because ah, at the moment when ukraine wins, of course, these data must be made public because generations of ukrainians should know what a heavy price this victory was won. ukrainian journalists are sure that the truth is the best answer to the kremlin's aggression, but the price of fair coverage is high. victims among reporters of the new york-based committee for the protection of journalists reports on the death of sixteen journalists in ukraine national union of journalists of ukraine about 56 media persons andrii hetman oleksiy osyka voice of america is one of the most popular weekly programs about the war in ukraine in europe british tip belle grand ukraine poli battle ukraine over the past 9

months their programs have been downloaded by more than two and a half millions of people twice a week , they discuss the daily events of the war in ukraine, something like missile attacks, chito’s specifics of heavy western tanks, they depict a scenario a counteroffensive or a potential tribunal against russian criminals iryna matviychuk and oleksiy osyka talked with the hosts of this podcast about whether there is fatigue in the west from this war, what topics are most interesting for a foreign audience, and why in their opinion the counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine will be successful although it will not liberate all the occupied territory thank you who agreed to the interview. tell us how the idea for your podcast came about and why it is about ukraine in order to apply a historical approach to understanding the situation in ukraine. we were very

impressed by the events there, but over time it turned into a discussion of the weekly events that take place there, we analyze, discuss the events of the week, compare them with what happened before and try to analyze a little more deeply. we also invite guest experts who know the region or the military aspect of the topic we cover, these are historians , journalists, people who have certain special knowledge, cyber experts quite a wide spectrum we try to avoid in details you create content about the war in russia sprinkles a foreign audience who are these people who listen to your podcast how many and where are they live. we create two episodes a week. our audience is the english-speaking world. it is very geographically dispersed. quite a lot of people listen to us in great britain and the usa , scandinavian countries, new zealand. there are people in ukraine, even in russia. if you look at who comments or asks questions on the air, it is mostly men who are interested in military

issues, there are also a few women, many of them , it seems to us, are either in military service or work in the security sector, or who are actually interested in military issues we often get stories from them that they write for us and some of them send really good insider information on whether you try to keep a balance or tell the russian point of view and whether you invite russians to the studio. we don't pretend that we are keeping a balance, i don't think we can be balanced when you are dealing with such a situation and we are not responsible for it. we are on the side of ukraine . we are trying to understand what is happening from the russian point of view. here it is possible to put it is the same for both sides, here is a question of good and evil. and the people themselves say that

there are good russians and bad russians. do you believe in this and why ? there is a lot of evidence. there is a word that, in my opinion, will be very appropriate for russia. this deceived society must have a certain degree of sympathy for russian history. these are stories of terrible governments that oppress the people themselves, whether they are communists or cryptocrats who currently rule the country, so what compassion should be at the center of this, but you have to ask yourself why the russian people allowed themselves to be ruled in this way, but you can't condemn all people, obviously. there are many ordinary people who are victims of what is happening, not to the same extent as ukrainians , but they must be considered as part of the history of oppression, but some of these victims go to ukraine and then rape ukrainian women . i do not justify what the russian military does when i hear that they lost a lot of people i think well this will speed up the end of this war they are in a foreign country they lack the standards of military discipline and morality with

groups like wagner whose state is not only tolerates but actually uses and offers them a place in society , this is a group of psychopaths led by one of the most famous psychopaths in modern history, they are not just tolerated, they are actually celebrated and encouraged. a certain trend can be observed regarding the topics that foreign audiences are most interested in about ukraine, there is always a great interest in this , as well as the issue of counteroffensive today on everyone's mind, there are huge expectations that fueled the last few months, how will this happen, i think one of the reasons for this is that although support for the west does not depend entirely on the success of ukraine, ukraine must demonstrate some signs of progress on the battlefield in order to maintain not only political , military and economic support, but also

public support in the west, which forces its politicians to realize that they must support positions that will develop for ukraine in some positive way, i think the ukrainian military and political leadership understands this better than anyone, we had people who said why america bears the biggest burden in terms of military aid to ukraine, why europe does not do more and this point of view has the right to exist, i think europe should do more, does the west feel tired of ukraine, i think so this is inevitable in any conflict, it always happens, people have their own lives, their own worries, you can't expect them to constantly think about the events in ukraine , but in fact, i'm pleasantly surprised by

how long interest lasts and concern , of course, in our personal experience , we do not feel any fatigue from ukraine. as a person who speaks the truth , they compare him to putin, they think it is better to let someone like zelensky govern than someone like putin, you talked to many people and experts about the situation in ukraine, you were on wars as a journalist. what are your personal characteristics? so, when this war can end and how, no one knows, i sincerely hope that the counteroffensive will be devastating for the russians, which will lead to the collapse of russia. i do not think that the balance of power is such that ukraine could push the russians out of of your country with the help of force is the most you can hope for and

there is a great possibility that it will happen that there will be a devastating defeat in the battle that will lead to a moral decline among the russians and then we can see some political movements in moscow when the military or the security elite can turn away from putin, not because they are against the war or sympathize with ukraine, not just putin , the putinists do not show results, so some kind of coup may be the result of a defeat on the battlefield. this, in my opinion, is the most likely scenario if ukraine wins in a counterattack like did you watch the program time of the ukrainian voice of america service thank you for trusting