[000:00:00;00] dragon capital was on the espresso broadcast, they talked about the consequences of the turkish elections, about the tax on google and us lifens , including the searches of the businessman vasyl khmelnytskyi, is it good or bad? on the air, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america chas time is hosted by ostap yarysh. the united states congratulates the successful work of the ukrainian air defense forces and

promises to work on their reinforcement of this was stated by the head of the us mission to the osce, michael carpenter, after another series of russian attacks by missiles and drones on ukrainian cities , western media compares these attacks with the actions of nazi germany, which at one time used missiles against london with similar intensity. western equipment manages to shoot down more and more complex targets, in particular over kyiv. in turn, the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine , dmytro kuleba, urged the west not to perceive russia's attacks on ukrainian cities are commonplace, no matter what part of them. meanwhile, joe biden and the republican leader in the house of representatives, kevin mccarthy, reached an agreement to increase the us debt limit in order to avoid default, now its final origin will depend on a vote in the crosshairs , the agreement involves certain concessions from both parties , at the same time, some legislators believe that it can negatively affect future aid to ukraine, we will ask kateryna lisova for details

, who is joining us from the capitol congratulation on the hill ostap katya congratulating you so what is this compromise between joe bide and kevin map what they previously agreed upon when they reached yesterday does not significantly increase the debt limit but suspends the processes in january 2025 this will help americans continue to pay off their debts and at the same time prevent the possibility that the next war over the increase in the debt limit will affect the election races in 2024 , i.e. in fact, this postpones the general rather than the detailed consideration of the increase in the legal limit to 2025 in turn the republicans received a reduction in spending in the social sphere as well as in the federal

budget, in return, the democrats retained the taxation of wealthy americans, as well as the facilitation of permits for green energy . of finance of the united states of america emphasizes that in order to avoid a default, the issue must be agreed upon by june 5, the issue that probably interests the most people in ukraine, can this in any way affect future aid from the united states, what are the legislators of the republic talking about, such democrats have talked with some of them, they emphasize that the discussion of aid to ukraine is out of the question in this process , moreover, the republicans insist on increasing the defense budget of the united states of america and that's exactly where aid to ukraine comes in. i suggest listening to what she told me. just now , those of us who are republicans want to reduce the state's debt limit spending, but we also believe that one of the main functions of the government is to provide services that we cannot perform on our own, in particular

, this applies to national defense, and therefore when we propose a reduction in spending, it does not include national defense. it also does not include our defense efforts for the people of ukraine, and again the ukrainian people have proven that they are worthy of support to oppose the actions of the war criminal putin, i do not think that they are currently considering reducing spending on ukraine , it is obvious that the democrats and republicans regularly argue about such things, but our idiosyncratic support for ukraine remains unwavering, in turn, according to republican senator lindsey graham, aid to ukraine may suffer precisely because the agreement agreed by mccarthy and biden does not include a large increase in the defense budget, and this can negatively affect aid i suggest to the country to look at his tweet , which he published yesterday, it is hard to imagine that republican riga will not consider

the defense budget of biden as a full-fledged defense the financing of defense spending, which is prescribed in biden's budget, is lower than the level of inflation, and at that time, the world is on fire. this is a historically low amount for defense, which is planned to be allocated from our gdp. we will have a smaller fleet and not enough weapons to support ukraine from the point of view of defense we have put our national security at risk for minor changes in the non-defense sector . the ministry of foreign affairs of russia issued a warrant for his arrest apparently because of his conversation with volodymyr zelensky last week in kyiv . what exactly outraged the kremlin and is there already any reaction from

the moonshiner? which the russian federation stated in particular he said the following i will wear this arrest warrant issued by putin's corrupt and immoral government as a badge of honor - said wingram and also added i will submit to the jurisdiction of the international criminal court if you do the same, let's meet in gas, said lindgren's statement. by itself, these are a few excerpts from his reaction to this arrest warrant regarding what exactly angered a separate person. on friday, lyceum gram was on a visit to kyiv and talked with volodymyr zelenskyi, and in particular in to the mind of zelenskyi, he noted that russians are dying now and that aid to ukraine is one of the best financial investments of the united states of america, although the kremlin somewhat paraphrased olimka graham’s statement and took it out of context, so he offers to listen to how it actually sounded just now it's the best investment

of money we've ever made after all now 457 days of war which was supposed to end on the third day you amaze me your country amazes me it's all about our people and also about people in europe we help europe and europe helps us and we are very grateful for this remind me of the best people in america there was a time in america when we were the same we fought to the last or we will be free or we will die will or death now you are free and we will be too katya thank you for your information, the pilots will be able to learn to use the f-16 at full power in 4-6 months, the aviators on the ground will quickly adapt to the maintenance of these aircraft, at least this

is the opinion expressed by my colleague maria prus , former american and british pilots , as well as a pilot of the ukrainian air force with the call sign jus, however, the success of western fighters in the defense of ukrainian skies and in offensive actions will depend on their number and characteristics. f16 fighters are multi-purpose and can significantly help the armed forces of ukraine in in offensive operations and in the defense of the ukrainian sky, the deadliest f-16 pilot, retired us air force lieutenant colonel dna anton , who during his twenty-year career flew 151 combat sorties in the f16, tells what he is called, in addition to being an air fighter, he is also very, very good at supporting with the air and helps the troops on the battlefield when they advance and attack and let's face it when you 're attacked from the air you're not really that worried about people hitting you from the ground

so while they're worried about being attacked from above, your guys are attacking the ground. the pilot of the air force of ukraine with a lawsuit zhuz says that now the new russian su-35 fighters significantly exceed the soviet mig-29 and su-27 with which they are forced to cover the ukrainian pilots, so the fourth generation f16 fighters will become a critically important reinforcement of the capabilities of the armed forces , the most important thing is our problem at the moment, this is a deficiency, a deficiency of exactly the capabilities of a-a in terms of air, that is , countermeasures, first of all, countermeasures against russian fighters, and the next step is effective effective participation in anti-aircraft the defense in the 16th will fit very well into this combination together with the patriots together with the irises themselves and so on and so on

and up to the stingers and well as the next ways it is already possible and the use even so since e in the 16th can be used and well, as an anti-ship platform, i.e., now the black sea fleet will be significantly strained and , of course, the situation will also become more complicated , says retired air force colonel jeffrey fisher, who, after completing his military career, held high positions in the pentagon nato believes that the first f16 will arrive in ukraine in october, he agrees that these planes can help the armed forces to change the situation at the front. and this is a wonderful plane. they were made in the 70s and 80s. some 4,500 production lines were made. everything is open, so it

should give some idea of ​​how valuable and appropriate i am this fighter genton says that f16 can work in quite difficult conditions and do not need too complex infrastructurex uh many critics said how difficult it is to maintain f-16 and this is not true i took off on f-16 from seats on in the middle east, where the car would not pass, this is a very strong aircraft, it can be serviced with the help of a much smaller infrastructure than people say, according to fischer , about 300 ground personnel are needed to support the f16 squadron, but kyiv does not necessarily have to wait until its own specialists are trained - he says - that's me many people know how to do maintenance around the world so there is some opportunity for privatized foreign support and ground maintenance and ukraine or other organizations could finance immediately involved people who will not necessarily

conduct combat operations, but will simply perform maintenance, repair, refueling and rearming of the f-16. fisher suggests that in washington the decision to provide western aircraft to ukraine was chosen for a long time, and pressure from great britain and the netherlands helped to unblock the issue the netherlands can become the main donor of these fighters for ukraine , says the former commander of the british royal air force greek backwell sexy it is good that f-16 will be offered from such countries as the netherlands belgium to poland portugal they all have f16 and all those countries already have a plan to replace them or have already started changing to such fighters as the f-35 genton explains where the planes will come from depends a lot on their capabilities on the field i'm afraid there are many different types of f16 so i

i really hope that these will be modern f-16s and not 25-30 year old f-16s from some country that just wants to get rid of them , if you are going to send these planes to fight the russians then they should be the best f16s available with the latest radars, the latest weapons, etc. agrees that only by knowing the number of planes and in what configuration they will be possible to judge their effectiveness for ukraine, it is not so that one will fly on the 16th and immediately win the entire war, but these are very, very important components , just in time for a joint victory for a joint counteroffensive and for reduction reduction of the number of deaths of our civilians and our soldiers on the front lines we have selected candidates now all of them, let's say lists and so on, provided by partners, that is, they already know how many people we have who are trained

, it is necessary to understand that of course, that it will not happen tomorrow but these terms are 4-6 months, this range is realistic. therefore, we are moving away from it. at least one f-16 combat unit is critically needed, but to fully cover the needs, 3-4 squadrons are needed, each of which consists of 12 to 20 aircraft. he adds there is still a lot of work ahead and ukrainian pilots feel what huge expectations are placed on them in ukraine and beyond , this is a huge responsibility because so much effort has been invested in this process to make this decision and also how much more effort will have to be put into it to be implemented, aviation is always public, it is always, i will show it to everyone , it's cool, and that's why you should always understand that your every action will either lead to a very

bright victory or to some very sad one fall and in terms of achievements, i hope that, thanks to the 16th, we will open the next level quite quickly. that is , these numbers will spin much faster in the daily reports thanks to this platform maria prus konstantin golubchik voice in turkey, president rajep and hypertogan were re-elected for another five-year term in the second round of the elections, he won a little more than 52% of the votes. his opponent , kemal kılış doroğlu, who was called a more pro-western candidate, won almost 48%. radugan has been in power since 2003, first as prime minister, then as president , our european correspondent bohdan tsyupen, who will now

join the bohdan broadcast, will tell about the consequences of these elections for ukraine and europe . so, about the elections in turkey. erdogan, after the full-scale invasion of russia, took a rather ambiguous position regarding ukraine, on the one hand, turkey seems to support kyiv and ukrainian territorial integrity, on the other hand, turkey is strengthening cooperation with moscow, which re-elects erdogan bohdan means primarily for ukraine well, in an attempt to think about the future, let's refer to european commentators among which, for example, i came across the idea today that the actual results of the elections in turkey , i.e. the preservation of the regime and its paradogon on on the one hand, the position of the president is certainly convenient for ukraine, and in particular for ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky, who knows who he is dealing with and has experience in negotiations and cooperation, for example, in reaching an agreement on

the export of ukrainian grain through the black sea. on the other hand, it is obvious that the kremlin is also satisfied with what they know from who will deal with turkey next, which , unlike all the arrests of nato allies, and let me remind you , turkey has been a member of the alliance since 1952. so, this is actually the only nato country that has not introduced and with regard to russia, and instead actually develops cooperation, and that is probably why, in a welcome message from the kremlin today, rajepa and her redrgan were praised for, as it was said, an independent foreign international policy. therefore, it can be assumed that there are reasons to omit that when it comes to such balancing turkey between ukraine and russia, europe and even the usa will certainly continue

and it really looks like we will continue to see such a double approach from turkey bohdan and how did the results of these elections react in europe, as in at the official level, and in principle from the side of ordinary people, we know that in many european countries there is a fairly large turkish diaspora. well, first about the diaspora, because it is really very interesting, in particular , for example, in germany there are about 1.5 million germans of turkish origin, they say. - in northern countries such as the netherlands there are large communities and, by the way, people who had the right to vote in the turkish presidential elections, and we know that according to the data received from germany, for example, the majority of german turks or

turkish germans voted for reggae and its paradogon and then there were big celebrations in which we now see on the screens in germany not everyone approves of this and in particular on twitter the german minister of agriculture, who himself comes from a family with turkish roots, expressed his displeasure and in particular he warned about this turkey voted i wonder what is happening in germany where erdogan's supporters are rejoicing who do not feel the consequences of their vote, instead it will be with people in of course, they are outraged by turkey because of the poor and the lack of freedom. we need to discuss this. joyful motorcades are not just innocent celebrations of the supporters of a somewhat authoritarian politician. this is a loud rejection of pluralistic

democracy and a symbol of our failure. on the one hand, in fact, all european leaders congratulated rajap and i̇pa erdoğan on their re-election, certainly recognizing the importance of turkey and its influence in the region on the threshold of europe, but on the other hand, we have some concern about the direction turkey is developing and, in particular, the political situation in that country is concerned, there were even representatives of the election observers from the organization for security and cooperation in europe who pointed out that in short , our assessment of the second round of the presidential elections, similar to the one we shared with you two weeks ago, stated the problems we expressed during the first round about the lack of equal conditions and the unfairness of the election campaign were not corrected, the current

president continued to use unfair advantage unfortunately the use of discriminatory incitement rhetoric by both sides further divided turkish society i want to note the spirit of democracy shown by the people during these few weeks the voters were very active including yesterday and it is very important that the winner surrenders to real steps for unity in turkey really interesting observations bohdan thank you thank you for your analysis bohdan tsyupin was in touch with us from london the current war has changed the role of ukraine in the world it can help ukrainians to get out of the historical the cycle of violence is on their territory, according to harvard university professor serhii plohii, in an interview with the voice of america, he talked about the nuclear danger and expressed his thoughts how to prepare for communication with the future

russian government after putin , iryna matviychuk spoke with professor plohii, your latest book atoms and ashes and global the history of nuclear disasters very timely appeared on the store shelves, you this is when the full-scale invasion began a-a russia is back again now to nuclear rhetoric in ukraine various politicians military experts a they persistently repeat that there will be no nuclear attack by russia, that putin will not dare to do it, and while it is nuclear weapons in russia that are holding back the west to, for example , help ukraine more strongly, and you did a huge study on chernobyl and other nuclear disasters. what is your analysis of the situation, will putin decide, for example if the ukrainians enter crimea and we analyze that the main nuclear threat does not come from the use of nuclear weapons, the main and most real threat

comes from the capture of nuclear facilities such as the zaporizhzhia station, what happened in in chernobyl, the power supply to the station was also interrupted for several days, and the station without supply is actually the way to focus - to focus is what happened there . that is, all these nuclear nuclear in english meltdown, that is, in fact, the destruction of the reactors did not occur due to the tsunami. the tsunami actually damaged the power lines, but electricity is needed in order to pump water and cool these reactors with water, so the most real threat comes from this, you don't even need to to fight on the territory of the distance, it is not necessary to bombard it, it is enough for the battles to take place around this station for a longer period of time

, and in fact, it is almost guaranteed that these power lines will be under threat, that is , what is happening now in zaporizhzhia regarding the use of nuclear weapons by putin means that everything is possible, of course but i personally believe that this option is unlikely, highly probable due to the fact that after the 45th year in the world there was actually such an unwritten taboo on the use of nuclear weapons and to break this taboo for is it actually losing putin's support as well, or is it a threat to lose the support of its main allies? china in particular is much more likely, i think the possibility of some kind of nuclear disaster, a nuclear accident related to what we are writing, the whole world is now talking about the counteroffensive and the latest news that western countries have agreed to train ukrainian pilots on the american and at 16 and in the mass media

there is a constant phrase that in ukraine they western countries will help as much as necessary , what will be the outcome of the war for ukraine by victory at the global level, at the basic level, ukraine actually won in the first few and a few weeks of this war, that is, i talked about it publicly. despite this , i am writing the publication. i meant that the goal of this war with on the part of russia, we know this very well with the offensive on kyiv and so on . in fact, there was the liquidation of ukrainian independence.

is determined within the framework of the borders, in fact, the ukrainians will have to review this issue again and again not only because , let's say, some things can be determined on the battlefield where , for example, the borders of 1991 may turn out to be inaccessible for a while, on the other hand, ukraine can to reach the borders of the 91st year, but the war can continue again , that is, to limit the definition of victory to the borders is a mistake to look from one point of view or from another point of view, and not the most important thing in the framework of understanding victory for me is preservation of the ukrainian state's control over most of the territory and integration integration into western structures, both economic and security. that is, you allow that ukraine can cede some territories, i do not allow that ukraine can cede any territories, i allow that the war may

depend on as military actions can be frozen, not all territories can be reconquered at once, and to this day there is no peace agreement between russia and japan due to a disagreement regarding the islands of the russian the people in the last year and a half, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, have shown a very high level of passivity, is there even an opposition in russia and are there good russians ? today we see the largest political emigration from russia since the revolution of the 17th year. crisis and it is clear that these are different, they are separated, but they are not dispersed because they do not support this policy in one way or another, they do not support this regime, and

for ukraine and for ukrainians, this is a chance to build relations with those who will come to russia after putin, that is, these people, these people, if a serious transformation takes place, they will not appear from nowhere, they will most likely appear with this relatively fresh russian emigration, because any political activity, anti-putin , is impossible today in that is, it is possible for russia only abroad, or are they united, or do they mean good russians , half-good, not good at all, and so on . will build a relationship

with them. so this is a moment that absolutely cannot be taken lightly. this is a moment that ukrainians should strategically use strategically to keep in mind to build up these vidos . download the voice of america mobile app . the app allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service . read news, watch informational programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts in ukrainian by the voice of america service, and this is where we will say goodbye, see also our daily briefings at 6 p.m. kyiv time on youtube and facebook where you can ask us your questions live. thank you for staying with us and trusting the voice of america in ukrainian. have a peaceful night and a good

morning. see you soon . we continue the search for three missing children at once. from the vlasov family, we are talking about two brothers, dmytro and artem, and their sister, sofia, about the disappearance of the children. their aunt told me about the disappearance of the children. brother and nephew, the woman said that her relatives lived in the city of mariupol in a nine-story building at 61 kurchatova street and that they last contacted the day before the start of a full-scale war and that i don't know what happened to them i'm looking for viber and telegram no i know, i don't know where i can find them, imagine for more than a year, mrs. olena , i don't know anything about the fate of my family, that's why i'm asking for help to find my relatives. this is me, her brother serhiy vlasov, together with his sons artem