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the russian ship. see you next time on wednesdays, espresso will watch the program of the ukrainian voice of america service on time. i am nataliya leonova. congratulations, the american abrams tanks have already arrived at the military base in germany for the training of ukrainian defenders. it is expected that training on them will begin. in the next few weeks, this was reported by pentagon spokesman petra ryder. he added that these tanks are training because those platforms that will eventually go to ukraine are currently being modernized and updated. in general , 31 abrams m1 tanks will be transferred to the balance of the armed forces. what is expected? they will be able to arrive on the battlefield in the fall, the issue of additional military aid, membership in nato and the terms of peace with the leaders of great britain, germany, france, italy , and the vatican during the weekend , president volodymyr zelensky discussed the coming day and zelensky, we will ask bohdan tsyupin, he is joining our platoon studio on vitaya bohdane, the meeting between volodymyr zelenskyi and other dogs lasted

more than an hour, according to the results , many statements were made regarding new aid from great britain, which of them would you stop at first of all, bohdan, actually, i would say that the most impressive was the news that great britain is preparing to transfer to ukraine hundreds of air defense missiles, as was said, as well as attack drones capable of hitting targets at a distance of more than 200 km, and i would say that together with recently cruise missiles transferred to ukraine, this actually increases the offensive potential of ukraine, the ability to hit targets in the depths of the territory occupied by the russians in ukraine, and i think that this is what the ukrainians

have long demanded from their western partners, then which it made 600 on f16 planes, which should start already in the summer, does this mean that great britain is taking the lead in the aircraft coalition that president zelenskyi and bohdane are talking about , please also tell us what kind of pilot training program it is , actually, i think that it is necessary here emphasize that the british military proxy forces do not use f-16 aircraft and this was emphasized today in london and the actual training of ukrainian pilots will take place not necessarily on the f-16 fighter, but rather on training aircraft and today was

it was announced that it is about the basic phase of training that will begin as it was said this summer, this program was announced even earlier and there were even assumptions that probably look wrong now that the training of ukrainian pilots was already taking place here in great britain, but today the british pre prime minister rishi isunok spoke again about the fact that the issue of supplying western fighter jets to ukraine is not an easy matter, please listen to his explanation , so we will be an important part of the coalition states that provide support to volodymyr and ukraine, but it is not just a thing, as volodymyr and i said, to create these capacities with fighter planes, it is not just the supply of planes, it is also the training of pilots and the entire supply system that is needed for this . great britain can play a big role in this, one thing which we will do and will start

relatively soon is the training of ukrainian pilots and this is what we talked about today we are ready to implement those plans in a relatively short period of time and this will mean that we are preparing citizens of ukraine to become fully combat capable aircraft pilots especially if it also applies to nato tactics because this is an important part of the long term relationship between our countries so we had very good productive discussions today about this other countries are involved i am talking to these leaders i will do more this week during international meetings, and we are very eager to build that coalition of countries to provide volodymyr and his people with the aviation support they need, and to this it is probably worth adding that now nato secretary general jens stoltenberg emphasized that providing ukraine with western weapons and training the ukrainian military is

also part of ukraine's path to nato membership. this is how he explained it. how to help ukraine move from soviet standards of equipment doctrine to nato standards as well as become fully compatible signs and of course this also helps them move towards nato membership and also firmly i am convinced that all allies will say that of course the most urgent task now is to ensure victory for ukraine. that president putin did not win this war because only if ukraine wins. as a sovereign independent state in europe, then it makes sense to discuss when and how ukraine can become a member of the alliance bohdane before during his visit to london, president zelenskyi was in paris , berlin, rome, and the vatican. this lightning tour is taking place against the background of preparations for

a counteroffensive. what are you in all european capitals, president zelenskyi, and is it possible to talk about full staffing for the start of counteroffensive actions of the ukrainian army, it is probably interesting to mention here the announcement of the french president appointing macron, who said that france undertakes to fully staff and train several units of armored units for ukraine, equipping them with ukrainian e-e i apologize for french light tanks in italy, prime minister george melanina announced that italy will continue to supply weapons to ukraine, and in particular , the ukrainian president, i quote, said the following we are returning home with new defense packages, more new, more powerful weapons for the front, more for the protection of our people, regarding the offensive, in particular today in london

, he hinted that ukraine needs a little more time for additional preparations. this weekend, our european correspondent bohdan tsyupen followed for six months during the july nato summit in vilnius, the allies send a strong signal of support to ukraine and assure that the most common the task now is to ensure that ukraine won and president putin did not win this war, nato secretary general jens stoltenberg shared these expectations. in his speech at the copenhagen democracy summit on monday, he confirmed that nato's doors remain open and said that during the vilnius summit, ukraine will agree on a multi-year program for ukraine to help ukraine transition from soviet standards of equipment doctrines and become fully compatible know about the prospects

of membership security guarantees and military help, deputy secretary general mircea joane told in an interview with carly bab ukrainian president zelensky asked for more time before the long-awaited offensive how much this counteroffensive depends on nato and what do you think is the reason for the delay during we believe in the professionalism and skill of both the ukrainian military and their top political leadership we trust their assessment and how they approach this issue of course there is a lot of communication around this we also see a dynamic situation on the front line is signs of some territorial progress from the ukrainian side in the western part of the bahmut we know that ukraine has the ability to launch a counteroffensive but we also know that russia has the ability to put up a significant resistance so let 's trust and support the ukrainian leadership i know they will do the right thing with this leadership ukrainian minister of defense oleksiy reznikov recently voiced his expectations for nato regarding

the freedom of the colosseum and mentioned a clear action plan for the membership of ukraine and andrii security to the acquisition of membership, how realistic are ukraine's expectations of open doors in nato - this is reality, this is evidenced by finland , sweden, many other countries that previously joined the alliance, commitments to ukraine and georgia, the declarations at the summit in bucharest in 2008 remain in force, but we know and think that the ukrainian leadership it also understands that now the main thing is to help ukraine win this war, of course the time will come when we will also discuss the future of this relationship. now we are focused on continuing practical support for ukraine, we have a comprehensive nato aid package that is the basis for even greater interoperability and transformation and reform of the ukrainian defense system to help them move forward. so in vilnius, we must focus on continuing to express our support for ukraine militarily, economically, and

practically, and the time will come when the allies will return to the issues that ukraine raises with absolute justification, they will need security guarantees, this is a fact, when and how will we reach this moment, decide the ally, do you think the wagner group is a terrorist organization, there are discussions all over the world about it now, win for business, we are not engaged in the classification of international organizations , we know that this is a very destructive, destabilizing and aggressive group of paramilitary groups that are mostly in the hands of the russian state. we must fight back and we have done everything to help the countries especially in africa who are becoming so vulnerable that in a certain way they turn to wagner's group as a kind of desperate solution or because some leaders want to have their own personal the protection that wagner guarantees him, we in nato discuss this when it comes to what we call the global cock, we discuss it when it comes to africa, it is not a question of how to characterize these organizations, the american

government has this classification, which implies consequences, we, in turn, look at the strategic what we must win the war in ukraine together with ukraine because this is the path where the entire international order will be formed, where it is not only about ukraine, not even only about europe, it is about the lessons that will be learned from this other countries that we helped, what level of success was achieved by the country in europe that applied for help, and what will be the consequences of this conclusion, we know one thing, we will continue to support every country that wants to use our support to create strong national security institutions without boasting about our organization, but we are the best in the world, when it comes to the gold standard of national security, it is nato, that is why so many nato partners value our partnership and we are ready to cooperate with these countries without being able to leave

in a difficult situation, when wagner is your country, it is bad for any country in turkey , on may 28, the second round of presidential elections will be held, in which the president and perdogan and his opponent kemal kelichdargu will compete. victory in the first round with a small margin , the current president erdoğan came first. the turnout in the elections was a record almost 89%. both erdoğan and kolish drago claim that these elections are the most important in the history of erdoğan's country created a powerful executive power that allows him to rule with the help of decrees, paves the way, promises to return turkey to parliamentary democracy, regardless of who wins the elections in turkey, the usa has strong relations with this country, this is what congress fomin, a republican, victoria sparz, said in a commentary on voice of america. she was at the elections in turkey as an observer in the osce parliamentary assembly, answering the question of how the results of the elections will affect relations

with washington, she emphasized the contours of her the closest cooperation with ankera, which in her opinion will remain so. i think it is important that people have the opportunity to express their opinion and hold elections and have democratic processes , so i think this is a very big step. and i am glad to see that there is a very high level of activity in turkey. i am very impressed because this is a right that people should use if they want to have a strong republic. i hope that we have strong relations with turkey, regardless of who leads it. a state for european and middle eastern stability. i hope that we have good relations with turkey, regardless of who leads it. i think that we are also an important ally for turkey, and you know that i think there will always be some disagreements and different

opinions continue to be heard in the cities and towns of ukraine air sirens , civilians continue to seek protection in shelters , some for several days in a row, and while ukraine is emerging from a difficult terrain , civilian casualties are rising to the highest level in recent months. of the security council meeting dedicated to the humanitarian situation in ukraine, the un deputy secretary general for humanitarian affairs, martin griffitz, said the briefing was called by france and ecuador . my iryna solomko followed the meeting. congratulations, iryna, this is the first. what about the humanitarian situation in ukraine in the last two months? how much has the situation changed, according to griffitz? greetings natalya. yes , the last meeting of the security council regarding this issue was in march. and today , martin griffitz announced that the office of

the un high commissioner for human rights verified that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 20,000,600 civilian casualties have been verified, at the same time he said that the figures are probably much higher , because these are data, they are preliminary and the real figures are higher, at the same time, currently 18 million ukrainians need humanitarian aid, and these figures have increased just in the last few weeks, due to the intensification of russian shelling, primarily of civilian infrastructure, in his speech , he also mentioned certain regions of ukraine and which suffer the most, in particular, the northeast. he said that people there live without water, in fact, without food, without medical care and medicine, and are essentially cut off from normal life. from the school and the hospital at the same time from the beginning, that is

, during the first quarter of the beginning of the new year, 3-6 million ukrainians received humanitarian aid , we are talking about cash and medicine, respectively, and food and other vital things, and among these almost 300,000 people are people who live directly in the zone of such hostilities. it is also interesting that he noted that the un is trying to negotiate with russia in order to deliver humanitarian aid not only to the territory controlled by the ukrainian authorities, but also to the temporarily occupied territory in particular this is the kherson region of zaporizhzhia and donetsk and luhansk regions, but russia refuses to grant access to humanitarian organizations in order to help people there natal last week a russian missile strike destroyed a warehouse with humanitarian aid from the red cross in odessa. what was said about it during the meeting of iryna, and natalya was condemned for this shelling in almost every speech, because for everyone it was such a rather shocking fact and

they talked and talked about this vulture he specifically said that not only about odesa , he also spoke about the shelling of the red cross mobile hospital in mykolaiv. he said that , unfortunately, all humanitarian aid, as well as important medical equipment, was destroyed, and because of that, it will take a very long time, in fact, again to accumulate all aid in order to renew aid to ukrainians natal iryna another important question for ukraine on may 18 should the black sea grain initiative expire, was this topic discussed during the meeting ? shelling was heard in almost every speech. it is interesting that , for example, the countries of africa and africa, many of which are still present among the members of the security council, they talked about the fact that they called for the renewal of the agreement without naming russia, but just

european countries, and in particular the united states, they were more so frank and they directly called on russia not to block the operation of the agreement at the moment and, accordingly, not to renew its effect after the corresponding may 18. and on the eve of the meeting, lin and thomas greenfield , the american ambassador of the united states said that if you look at the numbers, you can conclude that the export of russian grain is good, because if you compare theirs and that is, from the current level to the level before the invasion, it is practically not the height has changed even a little. that means that russia feels absolutely calm economically at the same time. tomas greenfield. she said that by sabotaging the express , it is the ukrainian coast that russia is essentially trying to raise grain prices, and now you can continue this topic at the meeting as well, her deputy ambassador will now you can hear his speech russia has deliberately slowed down the pace of inspection of ships and significantly reduced the amount of grain that, leaving

ukrainian ports, should help meet the needs of the most vulnerable segments of the population of the world in recent weeks, the delegation of the russian federation in the joint coordination center in istanbul has repeatedly refused to allow any inspection of ships, now russia is threatening to stop cooperation on may 18, and while russia is holding back supplies of ukrainian grain in order not to feed the hungry , it is successfully exporting its huge harvest of grain russian the government regularly refers to the need to fulfill the requirements for the export of russian food products and fertilizers , however, in the same document, russia undertook to facilitate the unhindered export of food, sunflower oil and fertilizers of the black sea ports of ukraine, russia must fulfill its obligations, russia must stop holding global food security hostage to its cynical

power games and profit from pure commerce , that there is nothing in common with truly humanitarian aid and that europe is making money from it, and it is not there, and not african countries , finally receive this grain, which is very important at the same time, if you look at the un data, you can draw very simple conclusions that these statements are untrue natalya thanks to iryna for this information on the meeting of the un security council in new york was monitored by iryna solomko during the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine. the general prosecutor's office of ukraine registered more than 80,000 war crimes committed by the russian military in ukraine . the advisory group on war crimes was launched. last year , it gathered in warsaw for a week to to agree further actions on justice for ukraine as a first step, the partners agreed to create a new international center for prosecution

of gas crimes, which will begin work in june myroslava gongadze will tell more russia's attacks against the civilian population in ukraine, including systematic torture and killings in the occupied territories, are war crimes and may be recognized as crimes against humanity, us secretary of state anthony blinking said in his speech during the meeting of the advisory group on violent crimes in warsaw the secretary of state said that the crimes committed by russian troops are intended to steal the very future of ukraine, these actions are part of a large-scale and systematic attack the kremlin on the civilian population of ukraine they are crimes against humanity and they continue today in the united states intends to prosecute russian atrocities including war crimes last year the united states, the european union and the united kingdom created this group to support efforts to document the preservation and analysis of war evidence crimes and other cruel acts committed by the country for their further

criminal prosecution, it is clear that the scale of prosecution they demand a coordinated international approach on several fronts, in addition to resources and expert assistance for the ukrainian prosecutor's office, the partners agreed on the creation of an international center for the prosecution of criminals in the hague betvandshak, the state department ambassador for global criminal justice , told voice of america that this is the first step towards international prosecution for russia's aggressive war of deinstitutionalization mobimand to the united states delegate a senior prosecutor institution will be launched at the end this month it will bring together experts who will work side by side with ukrainian colleagues to lay the groundwork for the application of individual criminal responsibility for crimes of aggression whether or not in ukraine , the partners are working together to help ukraine properly gather evidence to

ensure international justice in the future the uk does not help with the work of mobile units to collect and document evidence this does not end de best we must demonstrate that the right to judge the highest possible standards of justice should be completed and visible, meanwhile, the idea of ​​creating a special tribunal for russian war crimes is gaining more and more support, the endocuror of ukraine told voice of america that currently 37 countries share this approach , everyone understands design gap, everyone understands that in the international system, the international criminal court has jurisdiction, but not in our case, the un security council will never refer this case to the icc because russia is a member of the security council, so our idea was

to create a new mechanism based on the practice of different criminal cases, starting with new rubar, he noted that there is no country in the world that would not be affected by russia's war against ukraine, that this is a global war, and the creation of a special tribunal is not only a punishment for the crime of aggression against ukraine, but also the creation of a mechanism for deterring such future aggression the scale of crimes the world has not seen since the second world war and the united states supports the creation of a special tribunal are completely united in the need to create a certain special tribunal for the prosecution of persons responsible for planning or conducting an aggressive war against ukraine myroslava gongadze voice of america warsaw poland ukraine has talent over 200 participants gathered in the suburbs

of washington last weekend to show their talents at the festival of ukrainian creativity , in addition to popularizing ukrainian culture , the organizers set the goal of giving , among other things, an opportunity to forced migrants to show their talents find friends and support zoroslav baidyuk attended the event kateryna buzhynska people's artist of ukraine in the united states collects money for support ukrainians came to washington to take part in the festival. ukraine has talent. and we are the spirit of the front, we are the cultural front , we bring the ukrainian language to the world, we popularize ukrainian culture , ukrainian songs, ukrainian clothes, ukrainian beauty, of course

, the ukrainian language, and this is how we unite our ukrainians when you like to organize a festival. conceived by kharkiv sisters maltseve natalya has been living in the usa for 10 years evgenia is a forced resettlement, the sisters wanted to give an opportunity first of all to people who were forced to leave ukraine by the war to show their talents and to feel at home we had the idea that many children who suffered from the war came, who were in a bad mood, they lost friends from home, that's why we decided to make such a festival. we have 209 participants today . philadelphia, virginia, virginia, beach de la vero, new york, everyone came here. they

they were preparing for them, now the spirit has risen, the mood has risen, let's go let's go adrenaline, well, it's fun , well, not if you can't say that it's sad or something else fun, it's just a little hard on the soul, but i 'm speaking in order to help ukraine for holding the festival, the orthodox cathedral of st. andrew in the suburbs of washington opened its doors and courtyard. many of them came from ukraine and god gave them talent. i don't want them to take over this channel. we have this opportunity, rain or shine. local benefactors from the united help ukraine foundation and ukrainian-american businesses helped to successfully hold the festival, because they say that support is needed not only by ukraine, but also by immigrants who were forced

to escape from the war abroad here there were a lot of children, women, mothers who needed male help, so i urge you to unite around such charitable projects in order to help children feel protected, feel important, needed, whatever the organizers want to turn the festival into a platform for uniting ukrainians who have found themselves in the usa because of the war in ukraine zoreslav baidyuk andrii hetman voice of america washington this is how we say goodbye did you watch the program of the ukrainian voice of america service time time also join our daily briefings at 6 p.m. kyiv time on youtube and facebook, where you can ask your question live to our thank

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