[000:00:00;00] we are talking about artificial intelligence and the threats it poses already next week with our esteemed experts, but we can already see how new technologies really affect even the value of securities on this today i am andrii yanitskyi, the host of the economic program on the espresso tv channel see you tomorrow at 8 o'clock in the morning, we will win live together , you are watching the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, while there, i am nataliya leonova . congratulations, the us armed forces plan to start training ukrainians on tanks, abrams

told the voice about next week american press secretary of the pentagon, petrahedron, our correspondent in the pentagon, karla bab, spoke on condition of anonymity with a high-ranking military official who told about some details of the training of ukrainian defenders this week, approximately 250 ukrainians will arrive in germany to begin training on m1a1 abrams tanks, the course is designed for about 10 weeks, he can will be a little shorter or longer depending on how quickly the ukrainians will learn it, they will be taught how to maneuver and work with abrams , which they will serve as children of the group in the battle of this the ukrainians have been waiting for a long time and have been asking for this opportunity for a long time after the completion of this course, we will see 31 m1a-1 abrams tanks that are now arriving in the united states on the battlefield in ukraine, american officials informed me that this should happen by the fall, we learned

yesterday from brigadier general petro that will not study for the f-16 in the united states, the plan is still being formed, but it is expected that ukrainians will be trained for the f-16 in europe, but not in the united states. issues of defense of ukraine, it will be conducted by the minister of defense, lloyd austin, right here in the pentagon, welcome to the m1a1abrans and the f-16 - this is something more long-term, brigadier general petrader said that the e16 will not be used in the current offensive, we have known for some time that the abrams will not have time to deliver before the current events the main operating force of this offensive will be the equipment that has already been received by the ukrainians provided by the british ministry of defense challenger tanks and two leopard tanks will be important in ground battles, however, air defense will

the main priority, we are talking about patriot batteries, which are used by the ukrainians, these things will be important in the counteroffensive, which can start any day, the support of the united states is a salvation for ukraine and other states vulnerable to russian aggression and other authoritarian countries such as china, said the representative of the state department derek hogan, during the hearings of the committee on international relations of the house of representatives , answering questions from congressmen , the official also emphasized that the goal of the us administration is to restore of ukrainian territories within the borders of 1991, at the hearings we considered part of the project in the us state budget, which should be allocated to the needs of europe . my colleague kateryna lisunova was also present in the committee. there were reports that the money allocated by the congress to help ukraine may run out already in the summer. what have we heard from representatives of the administration of the legislators? will

the money allocated to ukraine be enough until the end of the fiscal year that ends in september. and what kind of money is in question? kateryna rightly noted in the committee of the house of representatives that they should be allocated for aid in europe in the draft budget for the united states of america for 2024. at the same time, as speakers, such congressmen noted that in the future europe is now being decided in ukraine and the main aid should be directed specifically to kyiv regarding how much money is left from the already allocated defense aid to ukraine, here the informants did not give a clear answer despite the fact that the congressmen asked them about it, at the same time the representatives of the administration noted that the current funds should be enough until the end of this financial lesson, at the same time, if additional funds are needed, they will turn to the congress to allocate additional

appropriations, i am concerned about the decrease in the number of weapons that are transferred to ukraine every month from warehouses of the united states and is at the disposal of the presidential powers , especially now that we are waiting for the counteroffensive, even more disturbing is the recent announcement that due to an accounting error arms being transferred to ukraine was reassessed and found that an additional $3 billion was still unused can you promise us here today that the state department will do everything possible to make up for precious time and correct this mistake by preparing major aid packages for ukraine we will continue to work with the department of defense in they are now making calculations on this issue and the latest messages did not prevent us from giving the ukrainians what we consider necessary. so we will maintain the pace and continue to interact with the ministry

of defense within the framework of interagency structures to make sure that we provide ukraine with what it needs do you expect that the current funds will be enough until the end of the fiscal year this is our assessment now and we continue to make calculations every day so at the moment we really believe that we have enough resources until the end of the fiscal year but we will contact you immediately to the congress in case the situation coincides katya 3 billion dollars mentioned by the legislators and the representative of the administration that remained as a result of the revaluation of the equipment or are planning exactly these money to be sent to ukraine as we just heard in the comments that legislators are insisting that the administration use these funds in the current fiscal year to help ukraine, at the same time the pentagon reported that they found 3 billion e dollars last friday, they explained it as bureaucratic by mistake, also last

friday, they noted that this would open up new opportunities for providing aid to ukraine and , in addition, emphasized that this amount may even increase because the relevant calculations are still ongoing. katya, you talked to me personally with several legislators. is congress ready to allocate additional money if the administration makes such a request, or is it possible that legislators are ready to initiate the allocation of additional funds in ukraine themselves? to be done at the bipartisan level, others believe that aid to ukraine should be accelerated in general. well, the third believe that they want to hear the answer from the administration first biden, what is the final goal of the biden administration, washington, what exactly will they call a victory before demanding additional

funds for ukraine, unfortunately, i do not know what the current situation is with regard to the balance of the necessary appropriations. we are currently in the process of negotiations regarding appropriations and the us budget in general, so we need to see what it is all about. will end but as i have already said, we are committed to the idea of ​​providing funds for ukraine and for its defense, and we must do it much more quickly as soon as these started in ukraine war crimes. you saw that we acted as a united front regarding the provision of resources in ukraine. today we are discussing the draft budget of ukraine in the field of usaid for 2024. if additional allocations of funds are necessary , we and i am convinced of this because i really believe in this congress. so we will definitely allocate these funds at the bipartisan level i am very concerned about the availability of financial support for ukraine until the end of this fiscal year, i specifically asked today during the hearings whether

or not additional appropriations will be needed by representatives of the administration biden answered that you do not believe that there are currently enough funds until the end of the fiscal year, i want you not to be convinced that she will actually be able to provide funds for ukraine until the end of the fiscal year. indeed, if additional support is needed, we in the congress must respond to this position regarding additional appropriations for ukraine so i want to hear from the state department from the biden administration what their definition of victory what will be the finish line when do we plan to stop when we declare victory this war must be short ukraine must be phenomenally successful in its contour offensive, when it starts, we must end this war. because ukraine cannot , katya, obviously the question of the us providing aid to other countries depends on whether the issue of the us national debt will finally be resolved . the deadline is coming already on june 1, is there progress in this direction, how close

did the legislators come to solving this issue, as we just heard in the comments of the legislators with whom i spoke, it is difficult for them to talk about the allocation of additional allocations for ukraine while the united states of america is in the process of active negotiations to increase the debt limit and in fact is approaching a possible default if this debt limit is not increased and both parties such as republicans and democrats will not agree on the conditions under which this debt limit will be increased and this idea as you correctly noted that it is already june 1, and if the united states of america does not resolve this issue by this point by june 1, the situation may be much more serious, as many legislators emphasize that it is necessary to resolve this is a question about how the negotiations themselves are being conducted, then kevin mccarthy, the leader of the republicans in the house of representatives from the vagina of the house of representatives and, so to speak, the main opposition of the biden administration noted that

these negotiations are now progressing and now they are planning to meet almost not every day and such one of these meetings is planned directly for today, so this week and the beginning of next week should be hot in washington, we will definitely keep an eye on it, you will tell us about it. this situation with us in direct contact with the capitol was kateryna lisunova, if the congress does not make a decision to raise the us debt limit, there will be a threat of default, and this will have catastrophic consequences for the us economy and the world, the biden navy warns , they hope that american politicians, despite the intense discussions, will be able to agree on the last a minute about it today in london , the director of the fund manager , kristalina georeva, said that the us is threatened by a default , see our video, the explanation between

us politicians is gaining momentum, if not to make money for current payments from the usa may end as early as june, warned the cities and finance of ukraine, janet ellen, a us default would be a gift to china, russia and other competitors are told in the white house that default is not an option, says us president joe biden, who met with congressional leaders on may 9, but yes and could not convince them to kill the debt limit, the threat of a debt crisis loomed over america because of its own demand, the debt limit was led by the american congress more than 100 years ago, since then almost 80 times the limit changed, including three times under the previous president of the united states, donald trump, 31 million dollars , but from the united states, it is the largest economy in the world, and the ratio of debt to the volume of the economy measures the ability of the country to pay debts and

120%. it is higher than in france , germany, but less than, say, in japan and italy, the demand for us government bonds, which are considered risk-free assets, is indicative of the lack of funds as a political will to avoid the crisis, even china, which, according to the white house, would be happy if the us defaulted. among the three largest investors to american bonds. congratulations, what will happen if the politicians do not agree with the usa, they will still face a default. it is unknown, because earlier in history this has never been so close to a dangerous limit. the usa came close to the dangerous limit in 2011 during the presidency of barack obama, when congress agreed to increase the limit a few days before the final term then it hit the confidence in the usa and for the first time the rating of even the bonds is going down again, what is the way out this time and they rely on reduced budget expenditures and

biden wants to first raise the limit and then to talk about the budget the us secretary of the treasury hinted to avoid default the 12th amendment to the constitution which does not allow questioning america's debt obligations, but they say an official crisis with while negotiations continue and although both sides do not want to allow a default, standing still can cause instability i don't want to stand alone on stage with the russians even if i will be awarded the highest award in the universe, this is how the ukrainian writer and military officer artem cheh explained his position as the voice of america. with his colleague artem chapai and film director iryna cilyk took part in the festival of the american

pan club of the universe, at the invitation stage it was said that ukrainians could not participate in the festival if russians were also invited, but when they flew to new york they found out that the festival was still planning the event with the russians, the ukrainians informed the organizers of their agreement with this. in the end, the other event was canceled and the czechs were touched, but all the russians took part in the festival. so why do they continue to be awarded and invited to the festival, as well as told me that at the moment he is practically unable to write fiction. you have passed through hot spots during this time and for a very long time. i think that everyone was under the impression of this post of ours on facebook when you said that you are already dead i am already dead how is it for you they would have experienced all of this, and living in such a state, how difficult is it, but it is easy, the most difficult thing was to accept it. well, this acceptance came on the first night, from

february 24 to 25, then all three of us. i have a wife and my son felt me ​​at home, i sat in the bedroom and thought that yes, tomorrow i have to go already in my part, i have to take up a weapon, this is a big war, this is not, this is not an anti-terrorist operation, there was a time when your chances of survival were huge and, in principle, you understood that you had to take a second weapon, you had to fight but most likely you will return home and here it was a slightly different situation, you understood that the percentage of your return is not so high, especially now, but then, in that first phase, a very hot phase, and this acceptance came and you realized that it's okay, that's it, you, i'm done, now you live on, and at the same time every day when you live and every time you just talk to yourself about what, my friend, you are a soldier, you should be ready to give gifts at any moment, that's all and it's very

easy to exist in reality, is it fair to say that for sure, in the last year , artem chech, the soldier, defeated artem chech, the writer they fight is really more important than a soldier and that is, i accepted this role this is an important role i am a soldier and right now i am in this role uh but it is important not to forget who you are in civilian life and when you have to return if we say anyway we are talking about artem the czech writer let's see in your books. no, i won't be interested in writing about this war. i think there are a lot of guys who have excellent writing talent who will be able to describe what happened there, that is, i can write about the war without going into the territory of the hostilities themselves. the war of the front and the army in principle, uh, my main task now is to write the novel that i started writing before

the full-scale invasion uh, and that is , now i am completely focused on this novel, it is also about the war, but not about ours, but after all, as the outsider and mecheha and the writer changed, it became very difficult to write fiction. again, i finish the novel . i have literally a few days left to finish the work. i just sit down and now i’ve been stretching it for a month and a half, i can’t finish it, that is, it’s very difficult to finish literary texts but how can such a thing be explained in your opinion, well , russians continue to be given awards for which we are very prestigious. ukrainian and russian writers are given awards to such a given site. these russians are given by those people whose cities the russians will add. and that's all

, that is, they don't have any of these concepts that we have about their own security, physical security, and when sometimes they speak russians in general. some people's hands start to shake because they are afraid of this russia and what their cities are like. it's scary, but there are just good russians here and why not support them. they are also victims of the regime like ukrainians, but the difference is that ukrainians they are suffering physically and en masse, but good russians are simply hmmm, they are squeezing out a little bit of a bad one, which in your opinion should be on, after all, here is the strategy of the ukrainians in this context, if we talk about the logic of things in general, then there is no logic in this, that is, there are fewer ukrainians on on international platforms, there are fewer ukrainians on international platforms but if we talk about honor and dignity, sometimes it is worth giving in to logic and going by principles i don't want to stand on the same stage with russians even if we

award them the highest awards the universe it's just that i don't want to go anywhere, it's an effective way to prove that divide us, that we shouldn't stand at the bottom of the stage, that it's the aggressor and ukraine is the victim, it's effective. in the program of some festivals of domain actions, what is it that we need to be divided we cannot be in the same space er on the same territory do you have any more visionary plans specifically in the context of plans as a writer not yet er i don't know if i won't to do as uh until the time when i came to serve in kyiv and i did not think at all about whether i would in principle write again someday we return to the beginning of the conversation yes you accept your death you do not exist and if

you do not exist you can you write next which can be bad, she was not at all now they will probably appear i hope we drink a little resurrect well to some extent now talks a lot about counteroffensive promised it at the beginning of spring then at the beginning of may was like a military man how do you see it from the middle, that is, in it is absolutely very scary for us, you can shout a lot on facebook or somewhere on other platforms about the fact that it is a counteroffensive - it is very scary because a counteroffensive is a big sacrifice, it must be understood and for each small unit it is a big loss, and each loss is whose family these are someone's mountains. and if it's massive, if it's all over the front or in some large areas, you are very important , let's say to go there to the sea of ​​azov , for example, to find yourself in a huge area, it's huge losses, maybe it's important

, maybe it's worth doing, but it's scary free operations for ukrainian children were carried out by american doctors in poland , the organizer of the mission is a doctor from the harvard medical school, gennady futzalov, who has been helping ukrainian children with burns for almost 20 years . ukrainian doctors arrived and operated on a total of 19 patients, all of them survived burns of large areas of the body and constantly require surgical intervention . lesya bokov was treated with their children parents and an international team of doctors and will tell more home and i'm already in honor i'll tell you and so that later, mmm, we went to walk fully let's start by holding hands with great-grandmother valya, the greatest desire

of six-year-old zhenya, she was just brought after a complex dressing that was done under anesthesia the day before, there was another operation on burnt legs , the first thing to solve is that the legs are coming apart. the first thing that needs to be solved is that the legs are coming apart for a month, it will still be like this, and then when the stitches heal, we will start all over again, developing scars, massaging scars but zhenya is not going to wait that long and right in the hospital corridor she is taking the first steps after the operation, yes, let me help quietly, quietly. i am now small. three years ago, she received 60% third-fourth -degree burns during a house fire, doctors gave 1% that the girl would survive but zhenya didn't just stand

it , she is now posing for the camera with a smile and convinces that she is all right. 16-year-old yegor will have a scar removed from his neck, which prevents him from moving his head. tatyana's mother is not worried . one day, only you all have a chance. yegor has a part of his body tattooed here and a bear with scandinavian symbols. they partially cover the scars left by the boy after the tragedy. 4 years ago, i had 12 years ago, in 2019, i received 20,000 electric shocks in 55% of my life. i wanted a burn. how many operations did he go through? but at the beginning of the war, the guy didn’t have any. now, well, we don’t have planned operations in ukraine.

that the war has started and all almost all hospitals are full of military personnel that's why there are no planned operations there are only emergency ones that's why when tatyana saw on social networks that the american doctor fuzailov is again organizing a mission of doctors to operate on ukrainian children, she immediately sent an application for yegor, this is already the second meeting with an american doctor he helped us a lot at first there. he had such a rough scar that prevents him from even turning his head. they completely hacked him . they stole him last time. they met in 2021. gennadiy fuzailov i came with a mission of american doctors to dnipro because of the war. the 2022 mission had to be canceled this year. doctor fuzailo found an opportunity to conduct it in the polish city of lenchna, which is not far from lublin. it is unethical because there are patients there who need an immediate operation that will save their lives gennadiy fuzailov , the founder of the association of doctors to

help children, since 2010 he has been traveling to ukraine to operate on children with with burn injuries, this time his team is 11 american specialists of his team, because these are not pensioners who made themselves his team, because these are not pensioners who have nothing to do, they are people who are very ambitious , productive, good surgeons who have their practice from the harvard school of the university of michigan, two leading schools in america and they all took vacations to come here with gennady for almost 10 years, says the peculiarity of burn injuries in children. they constantly need new operations, so he also sees many patients not for the first time as children grow, the skin also grows, but the scars do not grow, so they limit the possibilities, for example, to move the hand or open the mouth, it is not only how

the scars look, but they are really terrible , it is more important how the child can move his arms and legs , how to move around, doctors operated on 19 children from different regions of ukraine we performed 5-6 operations on each patient , transportation, housing, food, everything was paid for by the organization of doctor fuzailov , the polish hospital in lenchny was responsible for medical care, access we, accepting the hospital, we provide colleagues have access to our operating theaters to our wards, we provide medical staff to care for patients in the pre-operative and post-operative periods, we have assumed a significant part of the costs - this is paid for by the hospital and the polish government , the rehabilitation of small patients after the operation is taken care of by ukrainian doctors , the majority will be restored by burn plastic surgeon artem four more

ukrainian doctors came to poland together with him from the dnipro; all patients from the central and eastern parts of ukraine come to our hospital, our medical center doctor pysanko has been working with gennady fudzailov and his colleagues since 2015. he says that such an exchange of experience is priceless. we read the same articles, but something they do is a little different from what we do. exactly what was planned, this is all very important and , first of all, for our young patients, all three teams of doctors, american, polish , and ukrainian, say that the most difficult part of this mission was the logi, but now the schemes are already

worked out, so all the participants hope to carry out the operation next year. and ran so that yehor could practice martial arts without obstacles and not be ashamed of his scars, so that volodymyr, whose hand was saved after the fire, still began to draw 3d graphics artem from kharkiv completely recovered after being shelled by russian cluster shells and played his favorite billiards with two hands . where you can ask your questions to our presenters live. thank you for trusting the ukrainian voice of america service. i am nataliya lounova. good night and

good morning . congratulations, we have very encouraging news about one of the boys who is wanted is about three-year-old sytnyk yaroslav, and i will immediately point out that unusual, i would even say without exaggeration , innovative search methods were used in this situation, which fortunately gave