[000:00:00;00] the viewer is the espresso tv channel with you tomorrow morning also at eight o'clock in the morning we will meet let's talk about the economy together we will win on the air with washington the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america time there i'm yulia yarmolenko congratulations the united states announced a new package of military aid to ukraine in the amount of 300 million dollars the focus of this round of security support for ammunition and air defense, this is already the 39th aid package under the program of presidential powers. and this means that

the weapons included in it will fall into the hands of ukrainians in the nearest days more about additional armaments and other main news of the day , let's talk with maria ulyanovska, who joins the broadcast live from the capitol hill . maria congratulates. the 39th military aid package was just announced at a briefing at the white house, it was announced by the strategic communications coordinator of the us national security council, john kirby, he also announced that this 39th aid package will be within the limits of the president's powers. and this means that the system and weapons will be taken from the warehouses of the united states department of defense and can be quickly sent to ukraine. he also repeatedly emphasized that russia has now increased its attacks on civilians on the infrastructure in ukraine, he announced that there were at least 17 air attacks in kyiv during this month of may, and he also said that this package of additional military

aid is the response of the united states to such aggressive actions on the part of russia. talk about what is included in this package of military aid, first of all it is about strengthening the air defense assistant, in particular, it is about additional ammunition for these systems, it is about artillery, anti-tank weapons , also in particular he said that the united states will provide ukraine with additional ammunition for the system anti-aircraft missile defense will also be additional anti-aircraft defense systems avenger anti-aircraft missile systems stranger anti-aircraft missiles zuni e will also be a lot artillery munitions, there will also be demining systems and special equipment, there will be explosive munitions for overcoming obstacles, a northern vision device, and also , as is traditional in all packages of such assistance , generator spare parts are already laid down, other field equipment for the ukrainian army, maria after yesterday's

drone attack on moscow, the involvement of which kyiv rejects in the west, however , a discussion has flared up, but whether it is worth supporting retaliatory strikes by ukrainians on the territory of russia on military facilities, if this is the case, for example will need a counteroffensive, has the white house clarified its position? well, journalists in particular asked kirby such a question. ukrainians because the united states has no confirmation that these attacks on the brain were carried out by the ukrainian side , he also did not emphasize that the united states is not going to investigate this case that it is not it is appropriate and not within the authority of the united states and said again to address this issue to the ukrainian side, while at the same time earlier he stated that the ukrainian official side is confident in the united states that they will not use precisely american weapons

and american equipment for such attacks in the middle of russia. well, and he also said about how the united states feels about this, i suggest you listen to his words , we don't tell the ukrainians where and which targets to hit and which ones not to hit, we don't tell them how conduct their military operations we provide them with equipment we train them we can give advice we even conduct staff tactical exercises with them to help them plan further actions but in the end it is president zelenskyi and his military commanders who decide what they are going to do from a military point of view they decide what to do with the equipment that we gave them and that they now possess at the same time we have agreed very clearly with the ukrainians privately and stated this publicly that we do not support and do not

encourage attacks inside russia and of course we we don't want to see attacks inside russia carried out using equipment provided by the united states. in order to help ukraine win this war that was not provoked, and secondly, he said that the united states should fulfill its obligations to nato allies on the eastern front, and the third task , which he has repeatedly emphasized but again about this, he repeated that the united states is trying with all its might to avoid escalation and, as he said, to avoid the third world war, because russia is trying massively to involve, as he said, the west in this war, which will not bring any benefit to either side. we also he once again emphasized that

the war can be stopped any day and no one except putin wants the continuation of this war, but again these intensified attacks on ukrainian cities that took place in may show that putin is not at all ready to talk about the withdrawal of troops and the end of this war definitely maria, thank you very much, my colleague maria ulyanovska was on the call from the capitol hill to prevent a frozen conflict and a short-lived truce in ukraine , which can only lead to new soldiers in europe, emmanuel macron called on his partners to take such an important the statement made by the president of france at the security forum in bratislava, we will listen . now we must help ukraine by all necessary means to carry out an effective counteroffensive - this is very important, we must settle what we are doing now because in

the following months are at stake, the possibility of an elected and therefore lasting peace is the second thing. we must be very clear about what we call peace, peace in ukraine and on our continent cannot be a ceasefire regime that consolidates the state of affairs and creates a new frozen conflict and in a certain sense normalizes the seizure of territory by russia contrary to the principle of international law because it is a dead end that will lead to a new war tomorrow or the day after tomorrow and will weaken all possible partners of ukraine in europe on the eve of the expected ukrainian on the other hand, let's talk with our european correspondent bohdan tsyupan bohdana hello, greetings. even a year ago, it was hard to imagine this kind of wording about the danger of a frozen conflict and peace under any conditions. from the french president , why is it even important and what other keys to the statement did you hear at the security conference? at the forum in bratislava, it is possible for the french

president to speak in bratislava the day before. by the way , the european and political community in chisinau is tomorrow and also a few weeks before nato summit in vilnius perhaps it sounded the most interesting and it can certainly be compared with the announcement of the zainwende, that is, the reversal of germany's foreign and defense policy , which was announced by chancellor scholz in berlin the day after russia's february invasion of ukraine, that is, these statements sound very, very seriously from the lips let's not forget the french president that just 1.5 weeks before moscow's invasion of ukraine by russian troops, french president emmanuel macron was sitting at the opposite end of a long table in the kremlin, he looked into the eyes of russian president vladimir putin

, and after arriving in paris, he said that he was promised that peace was actually possible, that russian aggression might be avoided, it is obvious that this was a blow to the way the french president understood the situation and how he understood the real putin's intentions, and let's not forget that in 2019 the french president said that nato had a dead brain. today he said that nato actually received an electric shock from what russia did by invading ukraine and that in fact, it got too much second second second breath the question is what exactly does the french president have under the security guarantee system that he announced today as necessary

for ukraine, he said that the leaders of european countries are talking about this in the week of about five weeks that are left to the nato summit in vilnius in july, but he did not clarify whether it is about any security guarantees and a security system for which ukraine should be outside nato, or whether it is about ukraine's membership in nato, perhaps it is very different of the most important issues for the ukrainian side, where they very clearly emphasize that it is precisely in nato that ukraine now sees the best and most reliable security guarantees, the price of which is suitable if we want to be worthy of his trust , a reliable and lasting peace, if we want to have weight in our relations with russia and if we we want to be trustworthy in the eyes of ukrainians. we must give ukraine the means to resist a new attack, and we must

include ukraine in a reliable security architecture, and this is also for us. that's why. and this will be discussed for several weeks before of the vilnius summit, i am in favor of providing substantial and powerful security guarantees for ukraine for two reasons: ukraine today protects europe, it provides security guarantees to europe , the second reason is that there is so much military equipment in ukraine now that it is in our interests to expand security guarantees , bohdan's statements are possible, another topic on against the background of what happened in russia in the past weeks and not only about yesterday's situation in moscow but also the belgorod oil refineries, discussions have now begun again about how western partners should treat potential strikes in ukraine on the territory of russia if it will weaken the military positions of the enemy if it is required counteroffensive experts with whom we communicate say that military goals outside ukraine are legitimate

john kirvy we heard the representative of the white house says that shan does not specify in the country what to do and what not to do but in general they do not support strikes on the territory of russia, but the british government looks different. let 's listen to yesterday's statement by the minister of foreign affairs, james cleverly. this is happy rox. it is important to remember that ukraine has a legal right to defend itself. it has the right to do so within its borders, but it also has the right to direct force outside its borders to undermine russia's ability to direct force against ukraine itself. therefore, legitimate military targets outside its borders are part of ukraine's self- defense. ukraine's partners are likely to accept the need from kyiv to hit military targets outside of ukraine, well , such a difference in positions is possible, rather in

statements, it is obvious, first of all, that sovereign governments and independent politicians in different states may have certain differences in views, on the other hand, let's not forget that, in this quote that you just heard from the british foreign minister , the damage to military targets on the territory of russia is emphasized, there are a number of problems related to these with this russia now in fact does not recognize borders in the east of europe, and there may be problems in the matter of where the territory of russia is and where the territory is not of russia, and besides, it is obvious that if we are talking about military facilities, then the views of politicians and government officials are completely different

in comparison with, say, cadres when drones or whether bombs will fall on civilian objects, in particular what has been happening in ukraine for over a year now. so, i think that the discussion will move here, it is already very diverse , even the british constantly note that, for example, the cruise missiles recently provided to ukraine, the british storm shadow also, at the insistence of the british , they should not be applied outside of ukraine , that is , i think that the situation here will probably develop depending on the course of the war. a russian official and an associate of the russian president, the deputy chairman of the russian security council, mr. medvedev, who stated that britain is the eternal enemy of russia

, as was said, and also stated that in fact britain is leading, as he said, he did not declare war against russia, and therefore british officials are, as he said, a legitimate target for russia, this is a water situation. thank you very much, bohdana, in communication from london or mykola, bohdan tsyupan , ukrainian writer artem chapai volunteered for the war in the spring of 2022, says he felt that it is much better not to be passive a victim of aggression and an active participant in the resistance against it. in may, he and his colleague artem chekh took part in the festival of the american mr. club voices of the world in new york. in a conversation with the voice of america, chapel admitted that he cannot write fiction now and is more focused on a documentary role helps the writer to survive the new military and

military reality, however, how he was forced to turn to a psychotherapist about translating his book in the usa, as well as the phenomenon of world support for ukraine, artem chapai told interview with iryna solomko, artem, what is more important to you now? does artem touch the writer or artem touches the soldier? well, if we talk about the internal state, then this other role of the writer probably supports me a lot, because well, i have been coming out for more than a year, separated from my family , i have seen them literally several times when they came, it is some kind of role of a writer, maybe it helps in the sense that, well, when it gets difficult, you at least start saying to yourself well, i 'm watching there, i'm some maybe someday i'll write something about it, although so far i don't know in which in general, it is possible, but there is a feeling that there are not enough words for this, firstly, and secondly, until everything is over, it is very difficult

in the sense that you feel that if you were to write about it now, it is a little like parasitism on the suffering of other people but you could not have gone to serve, because a writer is first of all legal , as far as i know, writers do not have any armor, that is, writers are not employees of the railway, for example, that's why when people say that they have some more important function, they are a little skeptical about it this is more likely to be seen as an excuse, that is, i am more concerned with the price when people directly say that they are afraid, or if we speak psychologically, then i am too, well , i thought about it several times. could i not go and i did not see for myself of another option because uh well, i myself ran away from my own home and i really didn't like this feeling of a victim , this is the first thing. and i felt that it was much better not to be a passive victim of aggression, but an active

actor of resistance against it, and in addition , again, i either psychologically or according to views, very not i liked and still don't like the fact that the war is almost entirely transferred to the shoulders of the unprivileged poor people, the majority of my company are builders, peasants , supermarket guards, that is, people of the same type, and i think this is not quite right . during the first world war, the writers also went to some joined the front line, created special units there and wrote about it, as far as i understand from what i hear from writers or musicians with whom i communicate, it is very difficult to write now practically no one writes. if you mentioned examples of the first world war, then for example on the western front without changes or farewell to arms, they were written 10 years after the war , in my opinion, these are books of the 27th year, that is, 9 years

after the end of the first world war, if we remember the second world war there kurta, they are guta, the book about the war was written 15 years after the war, the very famous book trap 22 was also written 16 years after the war, so in principle, i think this situation is very similar , it is possible to write now, except that i sometimes write, but i write, well, when i am asked to order materials for the western media, and i understand that these are materials, so to speak, for an ominous day, but now you are nowhere to be found. and one part of your mission is the agreement, yes, the finalization of the agreement regarding the translation and printing of your book in the united states, and as far as i understand, this happened to some extent as well thanks to bini, it seems to me that we are all well aware that, unfortunately, this increased interest in ukrainian culture in general and in literature in particular was caused by the war and

was given at a very high price. therefore, it is some such things that cause ambiguous feelings, at least i would like that after the end of the war, ukrainian culture would not be forgotten again, maybe some readers in the west will pay attention to the fact that there is quite a lot and a variety of ukrainian literature, in particular , maybe they will start to be interested in other books that are not related with the war because i would not like ukraine to be once associated with chernobyl , we are now with the war, but it was the initiative of the american publishing house, it was not my initiative, because at the time when it i've been going on for a while. well, when these negotiations started. i had already served in the army for a few months and i found out about it. it 's quite paradoxical, such things when on the one hand you're sitting there on the phone transmitting

air alarms and on the other hand, uh, you at that moment they say that you have been published by the new yorker or that you are going there dressed up with a machine gun, then they write to you on this signal that you will be impersonated in america and it happens very often. it this is the state of some kind of frozen in the first months or six months. there was a feeling that the whole life was on pause. now there is a feeling that this is it . now our new life because i have somehow come to terms with the fact that i don't know when it will end, i won't hide it i was forced to go to psychotherapy sometime in november because i felt that i was not excreting , that is, i had some historical thoughts and after several months of psychotherapy, not the opposite , now it is starting to scare me how well i have adapted and whether i lived in the states or not, eh , this mentality is probably a little understandable

american. do you think the americans understand the ukrainians? how much support is there? i'm actually very surprised how much the world does not care about this situation. well, it's important to understand that no one can fully empathize with other people's experiences, but if you compare it to the war, well, i don't know. etnami or with the famine in yemen or with the situation of women in afghanistan, that is, compared to this and others, we should still be, if ungrateful, at least surprised at how much they support us. i understand that this is also being said from one's own interests, including but also out of compassion, and i am very surprised at how great the solidarity is. my wife was forced to become a single mother and a refugee . well, we feel how differently ukrainian refugees are treated than, for example , syrian refugees. that is to say, this the situation is so ambiguous, but at least from our point of view, we should appreciate it at least, god, be at the festivals, and there are also there despite

the war. well, russian writers appear there, why do you think everyone? this is still happening. i see it so that people again have their own interests, that is, let them not be aware of or not spoken about, but when there in germany they give some kind of prize to a russian opposition writer, it is primarily in those interests to shake russia even more, and i see it that way, that's why i treat it emotionally take it easy, but i personally do not want to have anything to do with him, at least until the signing of some kind of peace treaty between ukraine and russia, ideally such that it could not happen again never again animated film mavka based on lesya's forest song

ukrainians came out in shan , the work on the river, the ukrainian team managed to finish despite the full-scale war now. this is the highest-grossing ukrainian film, the plot of which took on new meanings at the premiere of mavka in washington. they said that in the literary version she does not come back with oh my spoilers animation of love two heroes fall in love at the premiere of mavka in washington in embroidered dresses many viewers in traditional clothes appear and the heroes of the film are mavka herself and her lover lukash, an animated film based on lesya ukrainka's forest song was released in the united states in two languages, ukrainian and english, but eva english versions include ukrainian songs

, among them vesnyanka from the band dakhabrakha , adventures, most of the viewers are ukrainians, but the story of modern mavka is understandable and to the americans, mavka is like a spirit of the forest, and people are evil. mavka is very cute. i would be a fierce monster. if someone tried to burn my forest , it shows a lot of ukrainian culture and i was interested to see the dresses and all their clothes were very ukrainian, it shows a lot of ukrainian culture , as she said before, i really liked the type, just the look of everything , just very beautiful.

ukrainian we liked it because of the high competition in the movie market, ukrainian producers did not expect to rent it in america at all, however , they bought the movie about the mavka for showing in the usa, and tickets for the premiere in some cities is dismantled a few hours after the start of sales . everyone who has seen the quality of this film does not matter that it is from ukraine . it was shown in germany, france, even in latin america , in mexico, if you look at it with several languages , mavka is now speaking, it is impressive. in the usa, mavka has already been shown in new york, chicago, san diego, and washington, and a number of other cities are next in line, as well canada in the embassy of ukraine in the usa says that thanks to the animation, americans will learn more about the work of lesya ukrainka. lesya ukrainka is less translated, less well-known, but she

is a real european in the best sense of the word , a person who spoke 8 native languages, who perfectly knew the entire european culture, and that is why even when we with this beautiful cartoon here today we remind americans that we are a part of european culture when we introduce them to our best writers with their work, well, once again we emphasize that ukraine she is alive and will live forever, she must have in her heart that which does not die, pride is not like parking, my main ball is human is love. mavka had a difficult way to the big screens . the ukrainian team had to complete the production of the film during a full-scale war, some people were caught in the occupation, our director was in the occupation near kiev and many of our animators went to the armed forces er here our animators worked in principle from bomb shelters from

bathrooms with computers remotely е in order for us to complete and surprisingly we completed production planned planned explosion date such a bomb shelter the making of the film took a total of eight took on a new meaning bed where mavka, being such a tender lover, nevertheless, when a threat to her world appears, she stands up for the protection of that world at any cost and sacrificing her own life, it is so new in the new meaning, what is the protection of one's territory when someone when strangers enter your territory, no matter how gentle and harmonious a soul you are, you

still take it with righteous fury and protect your territory at any cost it happened, we are deciding that the screenings of the film around the world are still ongoing, but the biggest surprise for the mavka team was how many countries show it in the ukrainian language in order to support immigrants from ukraine who

, watching mavka, often do not hold back their tears. america, dad , we really ask for your help in the search and we hope for your concern. this boy's name is vlad khrystosenko, and unfortunately he went missing in the luhansk region and i i really hope that with your help we will be able to find him or find out at least some information about him, and this photo was taken a year ago on his birthday, here vlad is still with his family, he is happy and smiling, the boy is seven years old, he was born on october 6, 2015 vlad is very cheerful and a sociable boy , but at the same time prudent and independent. and