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the head of the white house plans to confirm the strong support of ukraine from the united states earlier in washington it was made clear that those who agree to the re-export of the f-16 to ukraine are preparing a new package of military aid worth 375 million dollars and in the united states there are ongoing disputes about raising the national debt limit, moreover, a group of congressmen from the republican party , they left the negotiations with the white house on the debt limit, they are ready to vote exclusively for their own party project, the decision is reported by the inshaltans, so it is currently unknown will the legislators have time to agree to prevent the default, it must be done by june 1, any agreement on the debt ceiling must be approved by the house of representatives, which is controlled by republicans, and the senate, which, i remind you, is won by the democrats before it is actually signed by president joe biden, with

restrictions against 90 companies should be in the way that helped russia to avoid sanctions, there is clear evidence that these companies violated the ban. russia will be sent to punish those who help the aggressor country. it is these 90 companies that supply sanctioned goods directly to russia or bypass them through third countries, and the eu has evidence of this , contact us mykola hrytskovyan, he is the director of the center of us relations ukraine in the city of washington mykola we congratulate you good night glory to the heroes mr. mykola where do we start probably with the default so with the question how much er we know that already today er mr. biden will meet with volodymyr

zelensky in the fields er the g7 summit please tell me to what extent the topic of raising this ceiling now prevails in the mind of joe biden, who is dumbfounded, and in the end, in the end, they find a compromise, and it will be the same this time, and i, i, i am some kind of psychic. but it will be a compromise and uh, the republicans in the house of representatives and the state of credit, what did they do? please tell me why there are so many discussions about default and the limit is being talked about so much in the states. they could have avoided this issue in advance and not waited for the approach of

june 1, when the necessary you know the term, i can ask this question in ukraine before the war, everything was discussed about the budget in the last minutes in the last few weeks before a decision has to be made , we have the right to it i thought that the americans are completely different from what you say that the ukrainian tradition of democracy and we see that uh, such uh, uh, disputes and uh, uh, agreements are coming in, well, for a long time, and it’s like looking at the history of all this, and the american budget, uh, well, it’s taking a minute, and so on, because i have certain things to do. and what are both parties are very very difficult

for them and they are trying to push it through, this is my actual question . the government did not raise the price , did not raise the needs, and the democrats say that it will actually be real, and the budget will decrease by 22%. and you know, the republicans are also saying , well, we can hack those uh 22%, how to

reduce certain social programs uh which democrats support these funds, which are 30 billion dollars of funds that were set aside for the pandemic, and the democrats do not want to move this, and there is also one thing that is very sensitive, and here in america they provide benefits for of the poor, it's so that they can buy food, it's called food steps in english, and in america, it's called the republic . well, well, if someone is poor, they need help, to buy food. e they should also work no and this is

fair from the point of view of the republic especially conservatives, and liberals, this is what they say oh, no, no, we can't demand that they work, we ask, we have to give them money, yes, and this is this one, it's enough , it's those, and it's in political affairs in america, it's called red meat. you know what, the base is the democratic base through the public base, this is what mobilizes them, and now there will be, well, in fact , the presidential elections have already begun, and the like, so there will be more and more such rhetoric, but in in the end, they will find a compromise a-a and but no, the emergency leaders of libya will be satisfied, mr. mykola, that is, summing up everything you said now, everyone who is watching the situation in the states can

breathe a sigh of relief, we understand that the american dollar is such a significant element on the international economic map and everyone is watching that is happening in the senate because they understand that many economies depend on the green american dollar, that is, here we are now calmly observing no panic, according to your words , a compromise will be found and the economy the united states of america will be just as reliable and will be a model for other countries. well, as it was and will be. and i hope everything will be the same for ukraine. this does not mean anything bad. no , it does not mean anything bad. is a certain wing of the republican party that is quite against the aid to ukraine, but we see that

the speaker on the map is the same as he answers this russian journalist that he will support ukraine and support the provision of military aid to ukraine and he is against what russia is doing, and this is the position of the republican party, and in those program points , this film is about them, in relation to this debt limit . mykola, well, in the context of the approach of the presidential elections, won't the republicans avoid such a temptation, they can actually drown

the biden administration with these decisions? i mean, not supporting the raising of the ceiling will cause problems. the situation and how the republicans should have had control by the palace and there was a similar situation with regard to the budget, which they did not compromise and the government of the house of representatives decided to close certain services and actually blame the population of their republicans non-fulfillment of their responsibilities in relation to american statehood and this can boomerang and have a very negative impact on democracy and the republic because, after all , biden has one one one one one one one

one of the tools he can use 14 an amendment to the constitution to a-a simply by a presidential a-a decree and raise er-e it is limited god and i er-er and some democrats er-e encourage him to do exactly that so a-a the debt the debt will be raised or er the congress and the senate together with the president or the president will do it arbitrarily and he will have this ah-ah paprika for the constitution behind him are

planned to take place in the coming days, in particular, today in japan to talk to biden and zelensky at least several international publications report on how important this meeting is for us , we understand it but as for the protocol part, ukraine is not a member, not a participant , but a group of the big seven but nevertheless, these talks will take place, i really hope so what does this show that the free world? i say that the democracies , that is, the free world. these are the states that, er, are democratic states, understand that today in ukraine they understand the threat from russia and they understand the threat from kytseu, and that's it. it begins to create a policy unanimously, we see what happened tankova coalition now

i am the f16 coalition and we see that the europeans who very much overthrew ukraine and supported ukraine , they almost especially germany almost 180° changed politics and against ukraine, where at first they approached it skeptically a year ago, and now we see that they are ready to provide all kinds of weapons , they provided their tanks, and rai metal and together with ukroboronprom will build factories, they will build tanks in ukraine, these were big the complaints of the republicans that what exactly is europe, what exactly is the war in europe and why does europe no longer react to it? and we see that europe is starting to react to it, and this is a very

good and very good sign. and we also see that the countries of asia support ukraine. japan is sending very strong signals that they support ukraine and south korea and this division because they are the same. and ukraine borders a totalitarian monster called russia and japan and south korea and other democratic states in therefore the region is bordered by e with the totalitarian monster called china, and we can see the specific side of china and similar things, mykola, and here is the quantitative increase in the countries that have agreed to help us. how do you think it

will affect the actual support of the united states of ukraine will it remain at the same level or , given the increase in the number of countries, will it decrease a little or, on the contrary , will it continue to grow, it will grow proportionally , and just now i was reading a report, there is a conservative organization called heritich or the heritage foundation. and this is the most powerful the conservative think tank in washington and they issued and from there exactly a and about foreign policy and military policy and there they very much discuss the affairs of taiwan and ukraine and they say that support is for ivan and ukraine this is in the national interests of the united states and what should be done it is necessary to increase the support from europe in

relation to ukraine and also provide certain e-e advantages so that e-e weapons are delivered to ukraine and to taiwan much more and that ketogaznus works more closely with military manufacturers in order to it is necessary to do those weapons with those weapons, those weapons systems and ammunition and what and what is needed so that these countries, that is, taiwan and ukraine, can defend themselves against russia and china, and this is very, very influential on the republican party and i have a lot of influence on those , that is, this film was not very focused on this foundation. mykola, what do you think? when do you remember

, biden was asked if the usa would give ukraine airplanes? he briefly answered no. and what do you think he is? then i already understood that after ni tam we should go now, no, but it could be that the position of the us president has really changed so much, and we see that since biden, the biden administration works with every single weapon system, it was like that, that is, when ukraine asked for gaimars, it was no, then they can , then maybe we will think so and then we gave it, let's go and it's the same with those javelins , let's remember that i refused to give ukraine a javelin at all, and then the virtual one

was handed over to president trump, and the first batch of javelins began, and then the training began the military with the americans, the ukrainian troops with the american military settled and the like, ah, i know there is such a saying that uh, democratic states take a very long time to come to the right decision , but when they come to this right decision, then they do this the agreement is being implemented and we can see that it took a very long time for ukraine to understand about these f16s, well, i was in ukraine in 2021, we had a meeting with the ministry , the minister of defense, and then with the chief of the general staff, and they both spoke frankly

we need f16 and this and this is still a little less than a year before the war. i know that there were talks before this, but we see that this decision has been made and it looks like it won't be long before the pilots will train and so it was the same with the taluks abrams, yes, this week, or rather next week, the defense ministers should meet , yes, within the framework of the rammstein format. and they continue this discussion about airplanes. mykola, and i would like to talk not only about the relationship between the united states and ukraine, but in general about the diplomatic uh, solitaire, what happened in this is the last year on the international diplomatic map, we understand that back in january and february of 22nd year, maybe some support was

unrealistic and fantastic for us, and after the full-scale invasion of russia, the picture changed according to your observations, the main transformations on the diplomatic map that took place and what we should expect in the near future perspective, taking into account the fact that china is not very satisfied with the way the negotiations are going now within the framework of the g7 itself, well , that's it, i can talk about it for an hour, but we have 5 minutes and i still have a question, mr. around and we see, you know, they say that politics is also an art, and it is possible here that ukrainian diplomats played a very important role , they behave very skillfully, and this is from the 14th

year, this is the previous administration and the current administration, and it is the same the second thing is that the ukrainians have shown that they are ready to defend their country and they are ready to resist and win. this is very important and this is that ukraine is now this counteroffensive and what is happening on the flanks of bakhmut and this has a very positive effect on ah, hmm, american policy regarding ukraine and on the european policy regarding ukraine and i, uh, all the credit goes to the ukrainian people, because i was at the meeting where the american side said , you know, uh, ukraine, you stand, uh,

for three days, and there will be one level of support, as ukraine , you stand in a week, there will be another level of politics, they seriously discussed the government-in-exile , and they seriously discussed that they would help president zelenskyi to go to europe somewhere and create a government-in-exile , and that's how it was, there were serious discussions serious stains on this, but we see that president zelenskyi and his team and the most important thing is that the ukrainian nation has shown that they are mature, that this is a mature national state and they are ready to fight for their independence and win for their independence.

b of this western military analyst, but the salt, as they say, was that the west was in no hurry to help the ukrainian army with weapons, including for the reason that the west looks at the ukrainian army through the prism of the russian army. there is still no separation that these are different armies qualitatively, including uh, according to your experience, according to your information, this is so , this is so. oak is very pro-ukrainian and it exactly reflects a and it was very noticeable on the eve of the war uh-uh exactly what is wrong with western politics western military analysts they really did not distinguish between ukrainians and russians

a and this is an old tradition there was this uh-uh american politician dales and who produced it was politics and restraint during the cold war and he issued a thesis. he said that i have that there is almost no difference between ukrainians and russians, they are almost imperceptible and this is this is . well, we as ukrainians know that this is really not true, but it was it was the thesis that dominated dominated until february 24th, i can say, when ukraine showed that it is really different from russia and that's exactly what this opinion is, but this opinion is very

fast breaks down and we see that every month every 2 months they provide some new a-a um, uh, a weapon system, uh, a high-tech weapon system, which a year or two ago , ordinary ukrainians could not even dream of. it's night for us, it's still evening for you. thank you for giving us time and we hope that we will definitely see you again . continues the campaign to attract as much support as possible from international partners and this was announced by volodymyr zelenskyi in his traditional

video message following the results of the 451st day of the large-scale russian invasion of ukraine and let's hear the direct language. i wish you good health , dear ukrainians, today is the first day of meetings and negotiations in japan on the eve of the summit, we are coordinating positions with partners , preparing new joint steps defense weapons air defense fighters with eyes as many countries and leaders as possible for the sake of ukraine peace formula long-term support programs for ukraine, finance and economy met with george meloni, the head of the italian government, we saw how our agreements from the negotiations in rome are being implemented, george told us about the agreements at the summit of the league of arab states, we saw how we can now strengthen our capabilities with italy to protect the lives of sub-russian air terror, negotiations on the decisions of mr.

the prime minister of great britain discussed our bilateral relations, our defense , thanked for leadership in the development of our capabilities, britain very actively took up modern fighter jets for ukraine and these are historic things , i spoke with the prime minister of india modi, a serious conversation arab states and we will do everything to involve the world in our peace initiative as much as possible, and i believe that india will take part in the restoration of the international

order based on the rules that are obvious needed by all free nations, they discussed support in demining, strengthening our medicine, spoke with the president of the european council, charles michel, security, defense, the economy, our common policy, the unification of the potentials of ukraine and the entire european union. i thank you, charlie, for your sincere, constant and effective support. on the security situation, we are considering certain options for our joint defense and political actions, and this time a meaningful conversation adds confidence in our movement to of the victory of ukraine, there was a meeting with mr. chancellor of germany scholz, he thanked germany for the extremely important support of our defense, this ppu, the capabilities of our army on the ground, our economies, our politics , discussed zolof, how we can speed up an honest peace for ukraine, how we can strengthen

our joint work within the framework of the seven, one more how and always thank our soldiers to each and every one who protects the ukrainian land, the ukrainian sea and the ukrainian sky . to everyone who is in battle for our country, who is on combat posts and in combat tasks, who trains our soldiers, who restores our soldiers after injuries and who helps us protect life and independence, there is no such day that ukraine does not become stronger. glory to ukraine and another religious community was baptized from the moscow patriarchate , it is noted that the holy intercession church of the village of mokrets in the khmelnytskyi region, based on the results of the general meeting, was transferred to the orthodox church of ukraine, the decision was adopted

unanimously, 84 people present spoke the abbot welcomed this decision, and immediately on may 19, a prayer in ukrainian was heard in the church for the first time. a prayer for ukraine and defenders fighting against the russian invaders. we are adding oksana garkusha, a senior researcher at the department of religious studies of the institute of philosophy of the national academy of sciences of ukraine, to the broadcast. ms. oksano congratulations and thank you for joining at such a late or early time, congratulations good night, we can see you perfectly, but we can't hear you yet, ms. oksana, let's test the connection once more, let's congratulate you again can you hear us ms. oxano secunda or