[000:00:00;00] economic programs on the espresso tv channel in the morning with you at 8:00 tomorrow we will meet together we will win on the air the program of the ukrainian voice of america time and i and the presenter ostap yarysh against air defense and the increase in weapons production were the main highlights of another meeting in the rammstein format, which this time virtual defense minister of the united states took place and still said that the partners have once again confirmed their commitment to support ukraine in the short and long term. he

added that the amount of defense assistance to kyiv in the rammstein group as a whole has already made 65 billion dollars on the main results of this meeting, the head of the pentagon commented that for the first time we heard directly from the minister of defense of ukraine reznikov and his team about the current dynamics of hostilities and about new requests regarding what the defenders of ukraine will need in the next weeks and months second we have discussed some critical gaps in capabilities that ukraine faces and many countries have made new commitments to address them now one of ukraine's most pressing needs is land air defense system and this contact group will continue to actively work to help ukraine protect the skies you say third group discussed the long-term maintenance of our support this includes industrial initiatives and coordination of our

work to expand the production of critical equipment another important outcome of this meeting was the decision on who and how ukrainian pilots will be trained on modern fighter jets. the leadership in this program has undertaken to take over european countries. we will ask more about this and other things in our correspondent in london, bohdan tsyupan, who is now joining our broadcast, she congratulates you. so, who exactly will play a leading role in the training programs of ukrainian pilots, and how important are the efforts of europe in principle compared to the support given to ukraine by the united states ? speaking , i.e. speaking with london, i should mention that great britain was actually the first western country to announce that it would train ukrainian pilots for the possible

use of western aircraft generation a, but later on, in the reports, in the conversations about the negotiation of the agreement, which we reported more than once and in the just time program, it was clear that before in this program , when it comes to the training of ukrainian pilots , it is on f-16 aircraft that other countries will play and we saw that the key role was played by the representatives of the netherlands and the data - these are the countries that have these f16 aircraft - these are the countries that are actually updating the composition of the air force and will get rid of them during this year and next year its several dozens of such planes, that is, it is quite possible that they will not only be able to train ukrainian pilots , but it is possible even to provide their planes to ukraine

. so, the netherlands and denmark were named as the leading countries in this program, but belgium, poland, norway and others were also mentioned, let's not forget that separately france announced that it will help train ukrainian pilots, but france does not have an f-16, but it has its own planes, and today there was an interesting message from sweden that the ministry of defense there will offer ukrainian pilots to test gripen aircraft are fighter jets that are called very effective and may even be suitable for ukraine . they are very good because they are adapted to, for example , shorter runways, etc., but currently sweden insists that it is only about these or that are trials . training or testing

, not about supplies, bohdan, you know, it’s also interesting russia’s answers to this. because before, i ’ve repeatedly heard from the kremlin about some red lines about what they say the provision of fighter jets will lead to some escalation is how the kremlin is reacting to the news that the ukrainians will soon start training on these planes. in the end, the news is no different from the reaction to the supply of leopard tanks or himars missile systems or other missiles from britain , for example. the kremlin is obviously unhappy. can we assume that the latest news about the deployment of nuclear weapons in belarus that we heard today could be part of the kremlin's response to the news and the west is unlikely to be a response to this specific

latest news because russia has long bryantsev's nuclear weapons, so to speak, were statements about the threat of the use of nuclear weapons, and as for today 's announcement in belarus , it was announced back in the spring that belarusian pilots were learning to use aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons, and about the supply of missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads to belarus. to a certain extent e expectations and not a completely new situation bohdan thank you very interesting , we will definitely follow the development bohdan super joined us from london helped to understand the latest news in the meantime the pentagon is still unable to confirm the information about the possible use of american equipment by russian volunteers during their raid in the belgorod region, this was stated by the chairman of the dinner committee of the us chiefs of staff, general mark miley, today he said this at a contact meeting with the defense of ukraine in the rammstein format, our

employees are now being studied and confirmed we can't deny it, said mark milley , the minister of defense for his part, and still added that the usa is not waging war with russia and that this is a struggle ukrainians, and the goal of the united states is to do everything to ensure that the ukrainians are successful in this struggle. previously, the representative of the us national security adviser john kirby stated that the white house does not support the use of american weapons for attacks inside russia, and the pentagon added that the us government did not agree to the transfer of equipment to paramilitary groups outside the armed forces and the ukrainian government also did not address this earlier. the russian government published images of alleged american armored vehicles in which, according to them, there were destroyed near belgorod, however, some observers miss the fact that these photos may be staged, and voice of america correspondent iryna solomko spoke with one of

the fighters of the russian freedom legion with the callsign caesar. the use of the probable use of american equipment and explained whether the fighters coordinated their actions with the ukrainian leadership, let's listen , we conducted a successful operation, first we conducted a successful operation to demilitarize the belgorod region, our main task is to achieve peace in ukraine as soon as possible and the subsequent liberation of russia, obviously, the more equipment and personnel we destroy, the less the problem will be in the ukrainian army and the ukrainian people, this is the first goal of the operation, the second goal is to show russian society that war - this is a double-edged sword and whoever sows the wind will reap the storm, you cannot destroy the ukrainian people for more than a year with impunity and think that everything will get away with it, evil must be punished, the third goal of the operation is to show russian society that it is quite realistic to fight the putin regime by armed means, we conducted and planned

the operation independently relying on our own resources and information that we received independently, we have a unit that is completely autonomous and multi-faceted , which includes various types of troops, we are excellent units in the legion and anti-tank and assault and reconnaissance, therefore, simply the community of russia, which were purchased on aliexpress and bey and other international military merchants there are enough people who want to help there, they just wanted to return home, not at all, after taking a short walk, but this is our right, you understand, and ukraine is not involved in this, that is why we overspent, we profited from the equipment that was captured by us, in particular in the bakhmut district, the equipment that was captured by the russian army was taken back and repaired and moreover, we have excellent use of not only wheeled vehicles of this origin, but also artillery systems, the representatives of the russian

authorities called the raid of russian volunteers bila near belgorod by the invasion of saboteurs, ukraine denies its involvement in the raid, but the governor of the state of florida rondesantis officially announced his participation in the presidential elections to be held in the usa. the politician formed his attitude to support of ukraine explanations iryna shynkarenko made everything official on wednesday evening announced that she is running for the presidency of the usa in an audio chat twitter, during which there were many technical failures, but the premiere of his first campaign video went more smoothly. i'm rondesantis and i'm running for president to lead our great american comeback . however, political analysts say that it is too early to draw conclusions, polls are useful

, they can determine where we are at the moment in time in the race, but this matter is wide open a few months ago, the ratings of the landing party were higher, however, his popularity in particular, the position regarding ukraine was shaken. in march, he called the war between ukraine and russia a territorial dispute of involvement in which is not in the national interests of the united states. he also opposed the provision of f16 fighter jets and long-range missiles to ukraine, however, after the criticism of some party members in their statements, he is more cautious in a fresh comment on wednesday on foxyuk tv channel - he said that he wants to settle a on a broader war and the involvement of american troops in the war in russia or ukraine. political scientist serhiy kudelya believes that he has a clear position on the policy of the paratroopers has not yet been formed, the foreign policy team has not yet been formed, the team of advisers , and he does not have a clear platform, a clear system of views on foreign policy issues, and yesterday

during his communication with the un, during his presentation of his program, there was not a single question and not a single word was said about foreign policy it was very telling eleu flyer trump's support remains strong among the traditional base of conservatives, especially people without higher education and lower income levels, but the governor of florida is successful with another element of the republican core why he was considered the favorite among white evangelical christians but the polls show at least at this stage that they seem to like desantnis just as much desantnis' political career was helped in part by his opponent of the day donald trump i am truly honored to stand here with the support of the president of the united states now under on twitter wednesday night, desantis launched one of several indirect attacks on trump, but to defeat trump, desantis needs to

speak more forcefully about the leader republicans say william halstun from the brookings institution. he needs to show as much strength in dealing with trump as trump shows about him. the paratrooper team also hopes that republican voters will be influenced by his ultraconservative experience in florida. and launched a fight against the disney corporation , the state's second-largest private employer, now the governor is shifting the focus from mickey mouse to donald trump iryna shynkarenko steven herman voice of america governments of at least three countries in the world are interested in using the ukrainian mobile application, this was reported by the head of the american agency usa samantha power at the presentation in addition to washington usa helped ukraine develop this application to strengthen government accountability and is now helping ukraine to promote this development abroad

iryna matviychuk will tell about the prospects of action to enter the international market kosovo, colombia and zambia are negotiating with the american agency usa about the possibility of using the ukrainian application operated in their countries, said the administrator of the agency, samantha power, during the presentation of the mobile application in washington, working is very pleased that used will work with colombia, kosovo, and zambia, this is at the beginning to explore the possibility of cooperation in everything from improving their current systems to developing new ones digital services for citizens , the creation of innovative and easy -to-use platforms with functions like the ones you will see today. we continue our close cooperation with ukraine by supporting the development of the action and contribute to their partnership with other countries so that ukrainian leadership can inspire more

digital transformations around the world, as explained by the assistant of samantha power, erin mckee, it is about using certain functions of the application in different countries depending on their needs, and the beauty of evolution is the evolution of this tool so that it or some parts of it may be useful for certain purposes, for example, maybe instead of i will want to use only electronic passports to facilitate the ability of its citizens to travel or maybe kosovo is only interested in the public procurement system so that their citizens know where the taxpayers' money is going, everything will depend on the country and their situation , in addition, estonia, which is creating its own digital governance tool , will use the code developed in ukraine under the action application in general, as reported to the voice of america in the ministry of digital transformation ukraine is currently negotiating with the governments of 15 countries about the possibility of entering international markets, such as

estonia, the most digital state in europe in from which ukraine has learned a lot e-e actually adapts our experience and creates its own application m year based on the experience of the mobile relationship is active today we have negotiations with about 15 countries of the world part of them e-e helps us to contact with part of them usa for which we are sincerely grateful to them and all other countries we have not yet announced because we do not have signed memoranda yet, but we expect that they will appear very soon, we hope that it will literally be a matter of one or two months and then we are very clear let's name the countries promoting the application, action in usaid assures that similar tools promote mutual understanding in relations between the government and citizens of the country, when asked how safe the application is, the american agency assured that they trust the action, clips, information about citizens, it already exists in digital format everywhere globally, including the usa, which is

critically important - this is to divide it into parts and protect each of them, then even if you are hacked, attackers can only get a small piece or parts of some element but i cannot cause significant damage to especially critical infrastructure or personal information, we have absolute confidence , we are constantly improving the security of this tool and its use around the world in partnership, she also told how, with the help of the action application and other tools, the usa agency is helping ukraine to recover after the large-scale destruction of the war as a program of accountability and transparency, as well as helping to speed up accession to the eu, particularly in the field of anti-corruption and reforms we have also invested significant funds in energy infrastructure both to protect ukraine and to survive the winter, we also intend to lay the foundation for a sustainable and informative future, so we are not

rebuilding what was before, we are taking advantage of the courage of sacrifice and, frankly, destruction to jump over and lead ukraine into the future so that it becomes a nation for which they are fighting so hard, the usa agency, together with the government of ukraine , launched the tapas program, which is aimed at launching e-government tools in ukraine, as of today, the application is active 19 million people are registered, and thanks to this application, american partners can see for themselves how transparent the decisions and actions of the ukrainian government are. december 25 instead of january 7, as it was before , but how important this step is for

orthodox ukrainians, as well as orthodox people around the world, will be told by natalka churikova, who spoke with theologian paul havryuk egypt you have a very broad vision of the different opinions represented in the orthodox communities of different countries, what does it mean for the orthodox world when one of the largest orthodox churches in the world switches to a new calendar because nothing like it has happened in the last hundred years, the main meaning of this change is that now the orthodox church of ukraine will join the worldwide orthodox community, which most churches already use a new calendar, the so-called gregorian calendar, for example the greek church lives according to the new calendar, the ecumenical patriarchate, most churches in the united states, most other countries are on the new calendar, if i am not mistaken, serbia, georgia and the moscow patriarchate are the three churches that remained on

the julian calendar, the change has absolutely no theological significance, because it is connected only with the accuracy of measuring time but i think there is an important element in celebrating christmas with the new year because for most christians are you orthodox are you catholic or protestant this means that the emphasis falls precisely on christmas day, because then christmas is not some kind of celebration of the new year, and this is especially important for christians who came out of the so-called soviet situation, because for a long time the policy of the communist party and the creators of the soviet union was that these secular holidays should overshadow religious ones . gregorian, which is used in the catholic world, so as far as this is a political step, this step definitely has political consequences, and i think that even before the war

we would say that this church simply joins the rest of the christian world in celebrating christmas or other holidays. and today, of course, we also need to think on the issue of being different from the church of the aggressor state, a very unfortunate factor in history will remain the fact that a significant number of clergymen of the moscow patriarchate in ukraine were and remain collaborators with us every day we receive information about these unfortunate cases and it is obvious that this is no longer a question of freedom of speech - it is really a fundamental question of state security, so this step is a rapprochement with europe and , frankly speaking, a rapprochement with the rest of the christian world on the other hand - it is a step that will have an effect isolation of the russian state and , of course, the russian church, which is essentially an organ of the russian state because it is in no way independent from the russian state, this further isolates it from the rest of the world, and it is not ukraine that is talking about self-isolation and creates

russia itself chooses isolation, that's all i won't say. how will this decision in kyiv affect the orthodox communities in the united states? we know that the majority of ukrainian orthodox communities belong to the constantinople or economic patriarchate. are they going to switch to the new calendar together with the ukrainian church, because the experience was made for them. an exception, because the patriarchate of constantinople uses the new calendar, i think that the ties between the diaspora community in north america, the states, canada, and ukraine will actually strengthen because of one calendar, to synchronize your clocks in this way is an important step, and emotionally and spiritually, it will also help to avoid confusion when some celebrate christmas and others already have epiphany at this time, so everyone will celebrate christmas and baptism and

other holidays together. almost 500 million hryvnias were lost by the ukrainian farmer yury vovchenko, due to the russian invaders in the kharkiv region last spring, his village of havrylivka was under occupation, so the farmer was unable to sow his fields this year , he can also only plant half of it because part of the land is still mined, however, this is not the only loss from the russians of more than two and a half thousand animals. the farmer has about two hundred left . how is his farm now recovering from the occupation? yuriy hopes to sow at least half of the 6,000 hectares in kharkiv oblast this year, because after the russian occupation there are still explosive

devices in the land, which you see with the hurricane being brought here we have about 1,000 of them already. almost a thousand of them were aluminum. you can see that the hood was sticking out. the ground on which they were working was demined. first of all, they fixed the soil. and when there were shells, they were carefully removed here in all the fields . it was very dangerous to go and prepare the soil for sowing. when we have done it and we do it with nadiya, then we will have hope for survival, simple nadiya and if we just fold our hands and say that it is very dangerous, we are afraid, we will not be , then 10 years will pass, we will clear the mines and then we by seven means everything to us, just tell us we simply will not survive and we will have no hope this year of grain for sowing. a farmer borrowed a significant part of his grain and hay reserves from colleagues in vinnytsia, says yurii

russian soldiers burned down during the occupation of the village, which lasted from march 3 until the beginning of september. last year they called us all bandera people and nazis. if you defend your land, you are a nazi. well, the fact is that there is something to prove or talk to them about when there are armed people in front of you. in fact, two days after the occupation, the russians began to take over yuri's farm, they needed food first of all . well, they started shooting sheep out of 60 sheep, we had eight sheep left, they started taking over here , so they came to the point that when they were defeated on the farm with

the seventh on march 8, it's just in time for the women's holiday, er, then they staged terror here and did not let anyone on the farm. all the cattle that er, were on the farm were all hungry without water and without food, after two weeks of starvation, the cattle began to bite off one b one of the tails, the consequences of this forced cannibalism can still be seen in embodied animals, according to yuri, the occupiers mined the cowshed with mines that explode with a weight of about 500 kg , the searchers were moving, they stepped on the mines, the cow was torn apart, and shrapnel flew if one cow was irradiated, one hundred 2-3 of those standing next to each other were also drained bleeding and thus dying due to hunger and explosions from 2,700 heads of cattle. yuriy has only about 200 cows left . yuriy estimates the total amount of farm losses due to the actions of the russian occupiers at

the amount of almost uah 500 million is the cost of damaged buildings, equipment and killed livestock, as well as lost profits because the russians were touching. yuriy sold milk. famous foreign companies for the production of yogurt until february 24 produced up to 15 tons of milk per day . they bought from us. they were a french company. with yogurts, we received extra-class milk. well, it was this milk, and let's say, of high quality, that i gave them, let's say, helped to enter the markets of europe and asia, now in this lila, the cows give a bad one, says the farmer of these volumes will not be enough to cooperate with a large company, so yuriy sells milk on the local market from this and pays wages to employees. however , the farmer is not worried about material costs, because he says there are losses that russian soldiers cannot return. during the occupation , yuriy vovchenko says, six of his

employees were fired because they decided that they help the armed forces, before that they locked me up in a cellar under pearls by llamas and slowly took them one by one for interrogation. then, after the occupation, we found some people by dna analysis that these were our people who were captured alive burned in pogreby before the war, almost 250 people worked on yuriy's farm, he remains one of the few employers in the balakliya community, this one is already older , there are hollow leaders, the farmer raises chickens, which allows him to feed his workers, i talked for a long time about how we can quickly recover and restore and restore our jobs well , let's say our agricultural direction so that we can open food for people and in their garden, those who come from

other neighboring villages work with us from recruitment and the neighboring towns and the city of balakleia, 17-20 people eat every day at lunch and dinner in the field and not in demining and on the crops, on the profits from the sown grain. his products by the production of cheeses and butter , recipes, so he hopes to slightly improve the financial condition of the business destroyed by the war. we say goodbye to you. have a good night and a peaceful morning. we are looking for four children from a large family of dmitrenko from mariupol: 14-year-old diana

, 12-year-old timofey, eight-year-old etori and five-year-old demir. they all disappeared together with their father. and for more than a year, nothing is known about their fate. there were seven children in the dmytrenko family. they all lived in a high-rise building at 51 troitska street on the night of march 12 last year . a projectile hit this house . the mother of the missing persons told me the simply stunning story of the dmytrenko family. of children who experienced a real hell on march 12, in the immediate vicinity of the burning. i don't know what kind of airplanes they are, i can't even explain what kind of projectile it was, because it had a very, well, smell. the war began, but tatyana was taken to the maternity hospital. and she gave birth to her seventh child in a few days . she was discharged and sent home . the large family, for obvious reasons, decided to postpone the evacuation for a while and stayed