[000:00:00;00] on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america is time, i am yuliya yarmolenko. congratulations, the united states is preparing to announce a new package of military aid to ukraine with a focus on air defense . voice of america correspondents carly babb informed sources in the pentagon that a new tranche worth 300 million dollars can be announced already on wednesday, and it should include additional ammunition for the petered and himers systems, aviation missile systems and the avenger air defense system, and today russia has already carried out the 17th in a month

mass attack on kyiv, debris from drones caused fire and destruction in several districts of the capital, one person died, meanwhile, in russia, they report an attack by drones on wealthy districts of moscow, according to the mayor of the russian capital , two people were injured as a result of the incidents, putin said that tuesday's attack was an attempt to scare and provoke russia and that the air defense around the capital will be strengthened responsibility for the attacks moscow puts on kyiv in the office of the ukrainian president, their involvement is denied in the us state department and the white house is told that they are gathering information about what really happened. more generally, they say that washington does not support attacks inside russia and is focused on helping ukraine regain its territory. meanwhile , the british foreign minister, james cleverley, said today that military targets on the territory of ukraine are part of self-defense. ukraine has the right to use force outside its borders in order to weaken russia's ability to use force against ukraine itself

, he said whoever was behind the drone attacks the russian capital is responsible for this. putin, who unjustifiably started a war against a neighboring state , believes the executive director of the george bush institute, who opened the door , says that more attention should have been paid to the relentless attacks by russians on civilian objects in ukraine, which are only intensifying. here, it is necessary to be clear that putin is responsible. to begin with the unprovoked and unjustified invasion of ukraine, we see how russian troops are deliberately striking houses , hospitals, schools and other civilian objects in ukraine we don't know who is responsible for these drone attacks in moscow, but as the mayor of kyiv, vitaliy klitschko, said, why do kyivites stay awake at night worrying about the bombing while muscovites can sleep peacefully this is what happens when one day your totalitarian leader wakes up and decides to launch

an invasion against his neighbor in this way he makes a lot of enemies and makes russian citizens vulnerable to such attacks , whether they happened for the purpose of protection or not, we do not know, we have already seen about the ukrainian the association of russians who entered the border areas of russia i don't know why they can be responsible or it was a false flag operation who knows everything people in moscow people in st. petersburg should be nervous because their leader unleashed an ugly and unjustified war against a neighbor and therefore, it is putin who is responsible for all this because of what he did, including this strike and the drones today, even if others may be directly responsible in ukraine, director of the eurasian center of the atlantic council, john gerbst, says to determine who is behind the attack drones in moscow are currently impossible. as for the broader discussion about the legitimacy

of strikes on russian territory, he believes that ukraine has the right to retaliate. the restriction applies only to western weapons. the language was not to use western equipment for attacks on russian territory. you know what hell the russians have unleashed on ukrainians. civilians with russian territory, so it will be difficult for any person in the west to say no ukraine cannot strike back, the position of the united states is that the ukrainians do not they used american weapons for strikes on the territory of russia, but no one said do not dare to strike on the territory of russia in general. this is a big difference . meanwhile, the scale of the un apartment has begun . of security in the armed forces , unlike the previous ones convened by russia, this meeting was organized by ecuador and france

. the headquarters of the un is monitored by my colleague iryna solomko, who joins the broadcast iryna i congratulate you, what are the new data on the situation around the zes plans to announce the money in its speech i know that you are aware of this information yes congratulations yuli just now the meeting is about to start and raphael's speech is expected he is expected to talk about how these military actions in principle affect the 7 pillars of the so-called seven feet or in principle guaranteeing the safety of nuclear facilities, this is a document that was developed and approved by the store and the implementation of which essentially guarantees this safe operation of nuclear facilities, it is already obvious and known that this situation around the gas station affects at least two of these pillars or principles - in particular, the physical integrity of the nuclear power plant, as well as the provision of external and reliable power supply

of the power plant, in addition, it is expected that there will be money to talk about the personnel situation at the gas station, because it also affects the safe operation of this facility. and at the end of april, magadaya spoke about the fact that the number of personnel has decreased, that is, at least a third she left the station and the city, but in general , now the e-e station is serviced only for the fourth time by the staff who were there before the start of the full-scale invasion, and of course this has an effect and, in fact, it led to a reduction in volumes and service . it can be expected that at the meeting specific proposals will be made to resolve this situation, so everyone hopes for this that they will hear from the storm his er-e you can say a plan and because there cannot be a plan here, but

at least that he will state the principles that could influence the situation and stabilize this situation, because uh, for now, i will remind you, and in principle , he uses these mastops, which i have already said about which stores were developed, but they were developed without taking into account the fact that, in principle , military actions can take place around the nuclear power plant in the principle that this station can be captured by the military and essentially be the object of nuclear blackmail by a certain country , and therefore, in particular, money was also allocated to radio security that was dedicated to this topic he spoke about the fact that he advocates the creation of a so-called demilitarized zone around the a-a station, however, the ukrainian side never supported this idea, because according to ukrainian diplomats , this is the situation in essence. stations, and therefore, over time, money abandoned this idea, and

therefore it will be very important today to hear his position in this context. that the station must be completely demilitarized and must be completely occupied, so we will follow his speech. but of course, everyone is very much looking forward to this plan yulia, that is, not only demilitarization, but also occupation, this is actually an important thing, iryna, or the related meeting of today's according to the information that the ukrainian military intelligence disseminated last week regarding possible provocations at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, as a whole ukraine assesses the situation at the plant now, yulia, this is not entirely related because the situation at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been deteriorating for a long time, and many have talked about the fact that we remember all these cases when the power went out . and it did for several hours. that ecuador and france convened

this meeting, but of course the statement of the ukrainian intelligence at the end of this week it intensified and even more a meeting with the representative of the main directorate of intelligence and the ministry of defense, andriy chernyak, yes. he is just talking about the fact that despite the fact that the statements were made at the end of the week, because they do not believe that the situation in zee is threatening and that for their information, the occupiers are preparing for a provocation there and in particular we are talking about the fact that the russian military is planning to organize a nuclear contamination of its personnel in order to later blame ukraine for this. and now you can hear what exactly ukrainian intelligence has information about the threat of such provocations. the main intelligence directorate of military development of ukraine warned that at the end of last

week, we saw that the occupiers were bringing trucks there, that they were driving there . we saw them unloading certain property. i.e. we even had radio intercepts where people spoke directly about er unmanned aerial vehicles that could carry or er chemical weapons or some nuclear materials that could cause the personnel of the aggressor country to be infected, and we think that this threat has not completely disappeared, we see this danger to this day, and also if we go back to the meeting itself, it is also expected that of course ukraine's partners will talk about calling on russia to be supported to adhere to the a-a initiative of ukraine and in this context

call on the russian troops to leave the territory of the zaporizhia nuclear power plant because only this can essentially guarantee its safety a-a is also expected what, for example, is there a western diplomat, they support exactly that plan or those principles that raphael grozy will announce during the meeting, and also, as far as i know, as explained by ukrainian diplomats, and ukraine will also take part in the meeting , and exactly ukraine's position will be as it was and to the fact that the station must be completely demilitarized and deoccupied, and of course the answer of the russian ambassador on this topic will be interesting, it is expected that he will participate in the meeting and, of course , the rhetoric of the russian ambassador will be traditional about the fact that it is the ukrainian military that is doing these provocations and it is precisely the responsibility for the situation that lies on the ukrainian side for

this, of course. the war is already causing catastrophic damage to the ukrainian ecosystem , for example, in the black sea , 50,000 dolphins could have died because of the war, and hundreds more were injured, say scientists of the only national park not occupied by russians on the black sea coast , the tuzlivsky lymani national park, they warn the dolphins that survived due to the stress of the war for years will not be able to give birth to babies, and the world wildlife fund says that due to the shells of the torpedoes, the water in the sea can gradually become poisonous . how do the black sea dolphins suffer from the war? dead dolphins were reported in turkey, bulgaria, romania , and ukraine itself during the great war, ukrainian scientists and our colleagues from other countries

have already documented about a thousand cases deaths of dolphins on the territory of ukraine have been recorded and found somewhere up to 150 dead dolphins, at the same time according to unofficial data, according to experts, the number of dead dolphins may reach several thousand since the beginning of the war , scientists are watching the only dolphins not occupied by the russians on the ukrainian coast of the tuzliv estuary national park there only in one area of ​​six square kilometers , 37 dead animals were found in six months, in total, together with colleagues from other countries, they counted 3,000 dead the scale of mortality in the entire sea is estimated while in theory they took as a basis the information provided by specialists of american scientists of other countries who observed cetaceans when there were military training in some parts

of the world ocean and there is a conclusion that on average 5% of dolphins or whales are thrown into the sea or the ocean when is dead, so we counted that number and we calculated that at least 50,000 cetaceans died during the active phase of the war, the main reason for the death of dolphins is what ukrainians call sonars which the russians use on their warships, the russians themselves also recognize the increased mortality of marine mammals, but explain it as a virus . well, it turns out that if he is completely blind, he does not feel space, he cannot orient himself, and most of all, he cannot find food for himself. it is not

yet possible to examine the entire coast and the sea itself professor of geology from the university of florida helps ukrainians with equipment for research and says that it is difficult to prove the causes of mortality at the moment, but he emphasizes that it is necessary to do it, which tells the whole world about the tragedy of the black sea, the loss of dolphins, if it continues for a long period, is a potentially big disaster for the ecosystem in the black sea region, it is necessary that people really understood the situation and since it is difficult to travel there the best we can do is talk to the people here when an animal dies and is found after it has thrown itself on shore she is not quite late in the decomposition stage it is very hard to say why she died and that is why they are tracking a lot of cases just by the numbers they have an idea of ​​what the background death rate should be and the fact that we have seen such a huge increase since the offensive began suggests about serious problems caused by the war itself ukrainian scientists

say dolphins also died from bombings and continue to suffer cancellation according to their data, the russians dropped about six hundred mines around the island serpentine, never in the life of the black sea scientist observed such a large number of contused dolphins that ended up on the shores of the black sea. hundreds and hundreds of them. they live for a few days, then die. and those who survive, well, what can they do? dolphins, who are very intelligent animals, also die later, apart from physical injuries, suffer emotionally from the war. dolphins, well, like people , they are very sentimental on the one hand.

perform their functions because the psychological trauma is very great and it will affect the reproductive potential of the dolphin population for a long, long time . heavy metals and various toxic substances contained in projectiles can directly enter the living organisms of the black sea , including later and back to humans in the coming years in the countries of the black sea will suffer from poisonous sea water, it is almost impossible to save dolphins during

the war . so it will last for a long time. reg countries are planning to create a special recreation center for black sea dolphins already after the victory and hope that their number will be restored over the years. participants of the ambassadors of global democracy program tell ukrainian americans by their own example, the scholarship was founded by the philanthropist and chef hossandras russian to oppositionists garik sparovy and former military employee of the national security council, oleksandr vinman, allows ukrainian students to study in the usa and at the same time talk about ukraine. the world organizers of the program are confident that the knowledge obtained by ukrainians in the united states will be used for the development of modern ukraine. does not have a formal diplomatic title, but performs similar work, he is a participant in the global democracy ambassadors scholarship program as real the ambassador meets with people and tells about his values ​​of spreading the idea of ​​democracy and telling how it is related to

ukraine. i would say that one-on-one meetings - it happens more spontaneously, i can talk to someone there, we can have lunch together or dinner and the conversation may come to a political issue or the issue of democracy or the issue of ukraine, and i try to emphasize this, such larger meetings are somehow planned. this is how a meeting with harvard students looks like in the office. thank you came to our meeting about democracy. i want to ask you to say one thing that is associated with democracy, power is the first thing that

comes to mind - it is power , the question of democracy. did not drag the decision upon myself, my word is freedom. freedom for me is associated with democracy . people in ukraine are fighting not only for democracy but also for freedom, because they see it as a dividing line with russia, where people do not have the freedom to decide the scholarship program of the ambassadors of global democracy was founded by the world-famous chef gorod kitchin jose andres social entrepreneur daniel lubensky russian oppositionist garika sparov american expert former military and ex-director from europe of the national security council oleksandr vindman first of all i really liked the management team that embodied this idea of ​​this program into reality uh, this uh, management team includes such

interesting people as oleksandr vinnyk and garika , these are the people from whom i have always felt it is interesting to hear what they have, but what are their opinions, what do they say, and what is the price of ukraine in the world social? for me, it is not just the victory of ukraine in the war that is important, but the victory in peace . it is about prospects that the country must have knowledge, this is also technical knowledge and thinking . the western style that many ukrainians aspire to is the rule of law ukrainians will return and rebuild ukraine also the american public american students could learn a lot from ukrainians with their indomitable spirit so this is with a two-way movement between what hold ukrainian students and what benefit they bring to the communities in the usa when explaining the situation in ukraine ostap draws analogies with american history to connect the ukrainian

struggle for democracy now with the american struggle for democracy more than 200 years ago and to tell his american friends what is now in ukraine also has this, well, this is very similar to the fact that your people also experienced and came many, many years ago about the price of freedom , a student of american history can tell by his own example andriy umanskyi university, when he went to washington to study, his hometown skadovsk was a peaceful resort , now occupied by russia, now he studies international relations and as an ambassador of global democracy explains to the americans what is happening in ukraine , a very interesting moment about ukraine and democracy, i am trying to convey to american colleagues that the ukrainian government is doing everything possible to cope with the management of the country in such a difficult time

, but it is clear that there are many challenges and nuances in relation to democratic processes americans understand the value of freedom in this way, it is passed on from childhood, so in this aspect it is very good that americans have this point of sympathy, the point from which they understand ukrainians, they understand the desire of ukrainians for freedom and the struggle they lead for freedom through personal experience about the war in ukraine ostap announced a fundraiser for his friend who is currently serving in the armed forces and talked about his friendship on instagram. on my life in the past, i told about our friendship and so on and so many people decided to help with the collection of money people who really have nothing are not related to ukraine in any way but they just

want to be as part of this idea of ​​this struggle, more fundraising was organized and ukrainian symbols were sold, and people liked it very much. they wanted to have such ukrainian symbols. and they also gave very generously to this square, and this week, on this friday, we will also have a charity concert what to remind people here at the university that the war has been going on for one year and we are collecting for a charity organization together as a continuation ostap taught the harvard choirs ukrainian songs, most of them did not know the ukrainian language and

ostap gave the singers the pronunciation as i dew dew on the sun the sun brothers by jesus andrii hetman dmytro savchuk, voice of america , after almost a year of service in the territorial defense of ukraine , the american returned to the united states on vacation, and this former marine could not stay away after russia's invasion of ukraine in the past in in february of last year, eddie is openly gay and in an interview with khrystyna shevchenko, he told whether

he experienced homophobia in ukraine and what surprised him the most there. a year ago, the 37-year-old eti eti worked at sandiego, delivering ready-made food. before that, he served for four years in the marine corps and 24 in february 2022, i decided that i should go to ukraine. there were several things, but the main thing for me was what president zelensky said. if you want , come here and help. at the same time, i remembered the events of 2014, when i first started following the events in ukraine. i remember how i watched news for about two days, i thought about it terribly, i asked to go to another country and try to steal this land, and then suddenly everyone stopped talking about it, it was very wrong and i always regretted that i did not fly to ukraine, then there

was an opportunity to compensate, you know, of course, i was healthy part of fear they said that russia has the second largest army in the world i don't know how true this is, but you know four years in the marine corps i knew that i was capable of performing at least part of the tasks when i arrived in ukraine there was no one there znavstvo ukraine is an organization that at that time mainly operated in lviv and they have safe houses where you could stay . they have one in poland. and another one in lviv. when i was in the yankee task force, i got to know the guys with whom i started my service. in my territorial defense brigade and then went to odesa and at the beginning of june last year began serving in the odesa 126 territorial defense brigade, performed various

tasks and mostly operated drones. the only homophobia i felt was from foreigners and not from ukrainians, most ukrainians are ambivalent, they just don't care, it's great , that's how it should be eddie says that when he went to ukraine, he didn't know what to expect and was pleasantly surprised, the people, the food, one thing which i immediately noticed is that even with cruise missiles and war, you know, people are busy with business and continue to live in general . my advice is not to joke badly with ukrainians if russia has to kill every ukrainian

every ukrainian in his heart will fight to the end, i firmly believe in this and i am there for this, i plan to stay there after the war but for now, the war continues and in a few weeks eddie will return to the front san diego california khrystyna ta bohdan shevchenko voice of america and that's it we are closing thank you for watching with the voice of america in ukrainian. see you tomorrow, good luck, papa. we continue the search for 5-year-old anastasia tolstokorova. her search has been going on for more than a year. all this time, nothing is known about the fate of the girl . i know that nastya lived with

parents in mariupol on zelinsky street, when the war started, the family was in no hurry to leave their hometown, aunt nastya told me about this, she is also the godmother, who also lived in mariupol not far from her niece somewhere from march 2, that 's exactly why we went home i visited them on march 8. i saw them for the last time, and my father went to see them on march 10. on march 11, they went to their parents. well, to her parents , well, to her husband. they also lived nearby, and on the night of march 12, the district where the family lived thick-skinned people began to be shelled en masse, and at about 4 a.m. one of the shells hit the high-rise building where nastya lived, and we, our neighbors, saw it all. and on