[000:00:00;00] ukraine as much as it takes, he wrote more about what statements are being made. on this day, and as the europeans mark it, we will talk with bohdan tsyupan, who is in touch with london, because further. congratulations, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky today drew historical parallels and compared putin with russia and with by nazi germany and speaking about the role of the ukrainian military in the victory over the nazis, he then said that the ukrainians would also defeat the russian aggressors today. do other european leaders talk about historical parallels today and how is this day generally celebrated? if we talk about the celebration of this day, then it is very, very difficult to generalize in general, because, for example , in france, today is a day off, er , victory day. and for example, in neighboring belgium - not here in great britain, where i am talking to you today

a day off, but not in connection with the victory in europe day, but because the coronation of king charles iii took place and today the british had a public holiday on this occasion. are very, very, very proud of their country's role in the anti-hitler coalition and tens of thousands of britons died in the second world war, that is, we are talking about serious sacrifices , we are talking about the traces of destruction and bombing that have been preserved here in great britain, and in particular , the british remember very well how in london in subways were hiding from german bombing just as ukrainians are hiding in subway stations in kyiv, kharkiv and other cities of ukraine. so

, there are parallels, but in general, may 8 is not necessarily a day off. as a rule, if any celebrations are held on the occasion of victory day, it can be more often, e.e., on some round anniversaries , for example, an official public victory day off with events. victory day in europe in great britain was in 2020, when it was the 75th anniversary of a at the level of the european union, perhaps the most interesting or most talked about date is may 9, europe day, and in particular today in brussels it was announced that the president of the kyiv commission will visit ukraine tomorrow on europe day and they said that they are satisfied

with the decision of ukrainians to celebrate it tomorrow the presidential will be in kyiv, ukraine, where she will meet with president volodymyr zelenskyi and confirm the unwavering support of the country from the eu. will be celebrated as europe day . the day before, there were rallies of representatives of the russian diaspora with songs, red flags and soviet slogans. how do they perceive it in europe? i think that the majority of europeans they don't know about it. apart from the alleged ukrainians or those who are interested, he is subscribed to certain channels in social media and so on . it is probably in the news in germany or that is where these demonstrations took place. although they are not so numerous, but in the conditions of the russian war

, of course, they attracted attention and, in particular, embarrassed the ukrainian ambassador in berlin, who had something to say about this. unfortunately , today we have to draw parallels between the second world war and russia's barbaric war of aggression against ukraine , ukrainians made an important contribution to the liberation europe from the nazi rule. my grandfather's name is our oleksii makeev, and in some places, like recently in cologne or frankfurt, people with soviet flags with portraits of stalin with calls to go to berlin and repeat what the soviet army once did. i consider this completely unacceptable for ukrainians - it is proud the people are fighters and we made a very important contribution to the liberation of europe from the nazis now we are freeing europe from another war now from the russian

aggressive response to this is the headline that i heard this morning in the english-language change he broke and sounded. yes, russia intensified the bombing of ukraine in preparation for the victory day celebrations in moscow. so, it is obvious that there is a certain concern from the point of view of what is happening in ukraine , you will follow the development of events. this weekend there was a protest action against the russian war in ukraine and the transformation of may 9 into a day of kremlin propaganda , activists gathered to demand that russia release ukrainian prisoners of war , call for increased aid and remind to the international community that the war continues on the eve of may 9, they also expressed indignation at this undisguised propaganda, which the russian authorities

turned into a celebration, and that the kremlin is trying to privatize the victory in the second world war . americans also spoke at the protest, saying that although they do not have ukrainian roots, they feel ukrainians so deeply and sincerely empathize with the ukrainian people and hope for victory in the war of ukraine we ukrainians accept and promote the slogan more never but russia accepts promotes the slogan we can repeat and this is the main difference between our mentalities world war ii was terrible this is as before an important day for all of us because ukraine was then part of the soviet union and our great-grandfathers fought in that war , but in russia this day is no longer commemorating those who died in this war in russia use this day to show what they can do strike again well you know what i mean terrible that

they turned this tragic day into just show off and this is propaganda, they lie that only russia won the war and no one else only russia suffered from the second world war, which is absolutely not true , the main idea of ​​our action has never been seen again in the state department today , another air attack by russians on ukrainian cities was called unacceptable during a briefing in the state department, deputy spokesman bohdan patel also noted that the fact that russia is now forced to rely on a group of agnerov vnagakh with which the former prisoner is fighting is additional evidence that the situation at the front in ukraine is not developing according to the scenario predicted by the russian president this conflict did not go according to putin's plan now the russian federation has to find additional

personnel for this conflict they are relying on the wagner group and its gang of ex-prisoners to do most of the work instead of withdrawing from of ukraine and there is no need to stop the loss of people . the russian federation chooses escalation again and again. unfortunately, we see how this is spreading throughout ukraine. it is included from kyiv, so the united states will continue to take measures to support our ukrainian partners, as i said at the end of last week, we announced an additional aid package within the framework of the presidential powers and will continue to take measures to bring the russian federation to justice. called the road of life near the city, cooper considered it an honor to fight in ukraine and wrote to his friends from the front that although he was not ukrainian according to his passport, he wanted to intertwine his fate with the fate of ukrainian

at the moment, the volunteers were unable to evacuate the body of the people from the battlefield, however , the family and friends are doing everything to honor the memory of the soldier in a dignified way. iryna shynkarenko spoke with a childhood friend of the fallen defender , let's take a photo for history, i'm taking a video, not a photo, he sent me a video, where is he is shooting in the trench and said that immediately after filming this video, a russian tank appeared, it was in january, they fired at the tank from an automatic grenade launcher, but another unit apparently rearranged everything and it fired only they fired a few shots as individuals, but the tank was not damaged, they only gave themselves away, and the tank turned around and fired at them , they would have had problems if a ukrainian tank had not been driving behind and scared off the russian

one. so he was on the front line. he was in this mode for several months. a 26-year-old former marine from ohio, cooper andrews, nicknamed harris, came to the war in ukraine in november . at first, he was in the foreign legion. when the contract ended, he decided to stay and joined a group of volunteers called the resistance committee even when he was a child when we were about 13 years old he told me about putin's illegal elections in russia and he talked about how unfair what putin was doing in russia he really had antarian views and so i think he wanted to be around people who had the same political ideas . since childhood, cooper was a caring person at school, he belonged to the eagle scouts, the highest level of the scouting movement in the usa, in his native cleveland, he supported an organization to fight

hunger after serving as a marine, he worked for a year a firefighter saved messages from the front in ukraine in which cooper explained his decision to go to war in the phones of friends, internationalists are at the forefront of this conflict together with our compatriots for blood and efforts, if not for a passport, and we decided to swim our fate with the fate of the people of this land victory in this war is vital for the freedom not only of the ukrainian people but also of the entire region and beyond , the world we can achieve is in our hands and the struggle requires great sacrifices but there is no alternative for all of us who stand in the shadow of putin's aggression, there is only victory or death, love and struggle. i am honored to be part of the great struggle. i hope that our efforts will give rise to a free ukraine . another person asked cooper why he came to ukraine and instead of

four -five paragraphs of ideology. he answered love, i think in the third grade with other volunteers. cooper joined the defense of bakhmut. friends and family didn't know until the last where exactly he was fighting. i think you have to be really dedicated to voluntarily go there to to protect the road of life along which civilians flee and equipment is supplied to the family, they informed that he was killed in battle - they said that a mortar hit him and no matter how good soldiers he was, it all ends there, he died together with two other foreign anti-fascist fighters , evacuate everything, however, his relatives they don't insist and honor his memory by continuing the things they started, the mother of cooper villa - said that she doesn't want some other mother to lose her son trying to get

his body back, so it's better not to expose anyone to danger so they organized a fundraiser in his memory not to pay for the funeral but to support the things that cooper did in his life they support foreign fighters in ukraine hungry children in cleveland like cooper did his mom said we just continue the things that cooper can no longer do in one of the correspondence with friends cooper sent them a photo of himself from ukraine and asked them to remember him like this with a heavy hammer in his hand iryna shynkarenko kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america

next our story about a tenth grader and with from the american state of new jersey, zoryana shama, who founded a school club to raise funds to help ukrainian doctors, how to raise a thousand dollars with postcards, badges and cakes, she told voice of america iryna matviychuk will tell her story zoryana somia came from ukraine to the usa 5 years ago , part of her family tells still lives in ukraine, it was difficult for the girl to recover from the news about the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine. all this scared us very much at the moment , we did not know what to do, because if we wanted to help immediately, you run somewhere, well, parents, i saw that the volunteers went, and i understood that i also wanted to do something. zoryana tried to raise funds among her peers, however , she says that american teenagers did not particularly show his interest. at first, we thought that we could just do something, tell a little about

ukraine and to collect money, if only for ukraine. if it were nothing , teaching what kind of products in our school, uh, ours is going to tell about the history, just collecting money will not work very well, because the children, after all, uh, still do not like activism and giving simply money, as adults, they still don't fully understand what it's all about. after long deliberations and discussions with friends, zoryan and his girlfriend decided to sell souvenirs and cakes to raise funds. we spent long nights making bracelets from beads. yama really like to draw, we just drew some beautiful postcards , well, just anything so that we could sell uh, so that if people were interested and came to our table and saw all these different things and they sold their souvenirs

for a dollar or two, the same product started separated very quickly, over time i had to involve acquaintances from other cities to create products with the theme of friends, their mothers came, all from different places there and we all sat together we just sat for four o'clock is it really five o'clock at the bottom of this bead they made these badges just so that we would have a lot of goods to be able to sell in the first month of selling postcards and cookies, the girls collected a thousand dollars, gave the funds to volunteers, my mother told me because she knows more about ukraine and all these organizations than i do, and we they gave to volunteers in volyn which, then, for medical supplies for the hospital, zoryana came to the united states already after 2014, when the war began, she admits that despite her young age and

thousands of kilometers from her homeland, she tries to be a part of the volunteer movement - she says that every little help is important for victory, iryna matviychuk pavlo terekhov voice of america volunteer organization iz los angeles cat safe launched an unusual project to draw attention to ukrainian children who suffered due to the russian war famous people and influencers in different parts of the world publish photos with a paper boy sasha, he represents a ukrainian orphan who was forced to leave his hometown because of the war, how does the project work , does the idea attract a lot of attention, and how do volunteers help ukrainian children ? print color and run on your page sasha visited the super bowl near the hollywood sign in the hands of the ukrainian ambassador oksana

markarova and the former vice president in colombia, the project was founded by an international charity organization of cats, the headquarters of which is located in los angeles. the co-founder of the non-profit project told about the idea of ​​a flat sasha borrowed from an american fairy tale, he was a character from the 90s, popular in american schools, he realized that he can slide around different places and have adventures yes american stanley was made into a ukrainian boy sash. this is sasha depection - this is a ukrainian orphan. he is 12 years old. this is what sasha looks like. a 12-year-old girl is also a ukrainian orphan oleksandra. a safe saved both of their cats from mykolaiv orphanages and now they travel around the world telling people that ukrainian orphans and ukrainian children need our help

. also stick on cars, the organization popularizes the idea through influencers, one of them is adventure girl travel blogger stephanie michaels souvenir how apple when you hear it and how can you sit back and not help i have a million followers on twitter and several hundred thousand on instagram so as soon as i found out about the project i downloaded paper soot and started coloring them then i shared it with my followers saying these children in ukraine really need your help help them spread the message project flat sasha only one of the projects of the kittsev organization in ukraine , volunteers have been working with ukrainian orphans since 2014 in mykolaiv and kherson, when the war started, the organization expanded, from

dozens of volunteers it grew to 300, they started to actively engage in evacuation, so they took out more than 35,000 men and women from mykolaiv, kherson, kharkiv, a cat safe provided volunteers with everything necessary for evacuation, this is also finance for obtaining minibuses for evacuation, this is payment of fuel - this is financial support for people who became volunteers, but they i needed something. well, for something to live and eat, so also the final supported this, e .

support, i know that it is very difficult for them, i know that uh, people who help in the nats have become uh, you are not going to introduce them so that their volunteers have the opportunity to work in ukraine and receive funding, it is necessary to constantly conduct information campaigns for americans, says randy, we have i think that the americans are confused when they hear that ukrainian refugees are returning home because it makes them think that the war is over but it is not the end just the ukrainian spirit is so strong that they are coming back ready to rebuild and this does not mean that the war is over it does not mean that ukrainian children do not suffer, the organization is currently building a center for orphans in western ukraine, there it hopes to live up to 250 words during the war, they promise a paper boy sasha will definitely look there from los angeles khrystyna ta bohdan shevchenko from the voice of america in khmelnytskyi recently appeared the first in

the region, an inclusive coffee shop where people with mental disorders will work, sani koffi , was created by the mother of a young man with down syndrome, the son of lyudmila naumets, vadim, became the first person with the syndrome to receive an official job about studying at school, the difficulties of employment and how the idea of ​​creating this coffee shop came about. the naumets family told tetyana kukuritsa and serhiy rybchynsky about the last preparation and vadim naumets has been going to work for more than a month . the young man has been learning how to make coffee. vadim is a very wonderful person. as a colleague, he is no different to me. from other colleagues i try to work with him in the same way as with an ordinary boy and put him on the same level as myself. at first, vadim was taught by a colleague yuriya, now

the young man prepares coffee on his own. here is such a good one, there is still an inducavary started by vadym's mother ludmila naumets, she will receive a government grant in the amount of uah 250,000 for her own business, the idea arose a long time ago when my son began to grow up and i realized that until the age of 18 our children are busy because inclusion is developed in in ukraine, they are in kindergartens in schools, and after the age of 18, such children find themselves in complete isolation, and when i began to think about what my child will do in high school, what is his future destiny, the idea of ​​​​creating my own business arose. where can i provide work a place for her son, first of all, sani coffee became the first inclusive coffee shop in the region , where a person with disabilities works

, the problem was very acute both before the war and has remained, now no one wants any entrepreneurs do not want to hire people with mental disorders, even in big cities you can find something in general in ukraine, single cases of employment, according to statistics, out of 19,000 people with down syndrome who live in ukraine, less than half a hundred are employed, in one word, in shepetivka, khmelnytskyi there are more than 30 people similar to vadim the scientist, he became the first among them who got an official job. i will be honest, it was very difficult, much more difficult than i thought, the implementation of this project, but i was always supported by the thought that if not me, no one but me will do for their child thank you for a nice day to all visitors. vadym naumets wishes you a nice

day . offers coffee, pastries or something from fast food. i like very good service. fine coffee is very tasty. all the people are friendly. the coffee shop is small, so lyudmila naumets plans to receive another grant for the arrangement of a summer terrace and a playground once a week in the sleigh. kofi will provide social adaptation services for people with mental disabilities . last year it was the end of school and the war and then i looked at the horse with a mouse and then they said it was only inside. and that’s all the bus and children all

day. he graduated from school in 2022 in the class. the only one who had a genetic disease, we did not start an inclusive form of education from this school in the first grade, when the law on inclusive education was just passed. i was the first in our region to manage to open an inclusive class for my child, we spent six months in the first grade in inclusive education, at that time we were not accepted first of all did not accept the teacher it was a different school and we were forced to transfer to the individual form of education class you vadim spent the entire elementary school in the individual form of education before school i returned in the sixth grade from home to the educational institution, which is several hundred meters to work. vadim goes to school and now he gets to the coffee shop on his own without my mother 's help. my child gives me all the strength because i want to be a child. i have the same as everyone else for my child . just of the future. i want my child to have a future. and this gives me strength even at a time when i feel that it is completely gone, they are still somewhere at the very bottom, well, they are and rise to the top, and

in fact, he knew what it is, what it is more a more cherished dream of lyudmila, a day care center for people with mental disorders, such centers work in european countries abroad , a much higher level of socialization, a higher level of state support for such children, it is felt and now we hear it from parents who left and are now abroad , we will win, peace will come and i hope then we will be able to talk about something else tetyana kukuriika serhiy rybchynskyi for the voice of america from shepetivka in khmelnytskyi download the voice of america mobile application the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read the news, watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts of the voice of america service in ukrainian, and this

is the end of it. thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian. see you tomorrow, good luck , papa. from donetsk region. i know that the girl lived with her mother in the city of bakhmut, and despite the tense situation, the family did not evacuate and continued to stay in the fortress city . victoria's mother called her relatives regularly and told how they were doing, but at the end of january of this year, the connection with the family was cut off, and for more than three months

nothing is known about the fate of the girl and her mother, see the city of bakhmut, it is clear that over time there are battles and shelling from the redoubt has stopped. even since that year, there somewhere in some cities, somewhere there are non-gold points, there is a connection and what was it there once a week. my aunt used to go to this court of fraud or somewhere where they give out bread or something. and she didn't call us, she says everything is fine mrs. oksana now lives on vinnytsia's cousin has disappeared. in victoria's confusion, who is trying to find her own relatives, the woman said that her aunt contacted her several times a month and said that despite all the horrors, they have more or less adapted to life in the war zone and do not go anywhere at all. they are planning, it turns out, because the child, well, she didn’t let her out of the house because her parents were leaving, and it turned out that she didn’t plan to go anywhere, and she left the service with them, which was normal. from the end of january, they stopped

communicating at all. where is the 15-year-old now? viktoriya ionina and her mother are not known at all, i hope that it is impossible to call them only because of communication problems, meanwhile it is known that their house in bakhmut is intact and acquaintances even visited there, but anya viktoria and her mother were not at home, it seems like she tells that they went there to see them where i am, well, i know where they live, and the quarterback went there, it was at the beginning of march, and she said what she said, they went down there, and no one would open it, so i don’t even know where they are hiding, in which basement they are carefully look closely at the photo of victoria ionina, remember this face, the girl is thin, about 160 cm tall, she has long light blond hair and blue eyes. i want to note that this photo is from about two years ago, and now victoria looks a little older than in this picture. unfortunately,