[000:00:00;00] from the civilian population during the war, fortunately six months ago, thanks to public resonance and publicity, the tigran was released and it would seem that he was left alone, but unfortunately, the russians did fabricate the charges and now the child faces up to 20 years in prison media initiative for human rights ukrainian human rights defenders and service search for magnolia children we call on the international community to do everything possible to free tigra na afghani and nikita khanganov from persecution by the russian authorities as soon as possible and ensure they have an unhindered exit to the territory under the control of ukraine or to third countries. we believe that the maximum publicity of this situation and the attention of the international community can help save the seventeen-year-old tigran and mykyta, and unfortunately, the tigran was far from the only child against whom the russians commit crimes in the occupied territories only in our

programs we have told you more than once about similar stories , and even in april 2022, the russian military kidnapped and held 16-year-old vlad the beet captive for 90 days. they threw people, they beat people, where there were blood stains everywhere, and where there were bandages, there were bandages, well , there were cotton balls with blood. they say where your sons are not sleeping, look here, they put handcuffs on them, they went out on the move, what were they given there , things were done quickly, the handcuffs were now twisted , the handcuffs were thrown into the car like a sack of potatoes, luckily, vlad beyrak and andrii kachanovsky managed to be released from captivity and in

to a large extent thanks to publicity and social resonance, it is really very important not to silence such stories and to draw attention to them in every possible way . i also want to note that if you know about any crime against a child, in particular about abduction or deportation, do not remain indifferent and immediately report it to the police or report to our site stopkrayem.ua , you can do it even anonymously, and at the very end, as always, i ask you to go to the website of the children's search service, many more boys and girls are wanted and we we hope that with your help we will be able to find them, so if you recognize any of them, please notify us on our hotline at 116 000 000 calls from all mobile operators are free, we have created a resource thanks to which you can report any crime against a child in any city, at

any time, just go to the site and report and we will launch all possible mechanisms for punishing the criminal of the ua countries , welcome to the broadcast of the program of the ukrainian voice of america time, and i am its host, ostap yarish in the white house believe that the ukrainian offensive company will be successful and that ukraine will be able to return a significant territory occupied by the russians, this was said in an interview by the us national security adviser jack sullivan. the desire of the united states to contribute to the fact that the forces were as successful as possible on the battlefield in their turn in the state department added that they would not comment on the plan of the ukrainian command, but

they are convinced that russia is now in defense position, so it is hoped that the kremlin will reassess its military presence in ukraine and withdraw its troops immediately, but the secretary of defense of the united states and dosin commented on the capabilities of the ukrainian troops, so you raised a question about the defense that the ukrainians may face. it was widely reported that russia had built defense structures along the border of the occupied territory and this defense is in many cases defense in depth so we see several lines of fortifications moats dragon's teeth prepared positions etc. so in some cases this is quite a significant preparation but you know, i would say what you have to defend in fairly large territories. so, you know, they certainly cannot be strong in every city. therefore, the ukrainians must find those

points of advantage that you cannot use . maneuvers on the battlefield are also actively discussed by western experts , the former commander of the us forces in europe , general markerping, says that the ukrainian counteroffensive can combine both the task of gaining territory and the task of the destruction of enemy forces, some draw attention to the fact that the confidence of the armed forces contrasts with the signs of chaos in russia, in particular , the american institute for the study of war says that russian sources gave us a good understanding of their psychological and moral state because of the ukrainian attacks, they are quite disorganized and panicking it is interesting to read the russian telegram channels during the last 48 hours because they are very different in their messages, some sources report that the ukrainians have launched a major offensive operation, other sources

reports that these were only small intelligence and force operations in my opinion, because they report attacks all over the territory and not in one specific area, it makes the russians panic about where they should prioritize their defense and this week, the leaders of denmark and britain are visiting washington among other things, in order to coordinate its efforts with the us to support the ukrainian army, danish prime minister matti frederiksen is meeting with joe biden today. and here is the british prime minister rishi's dream book woke up the white house on thursday , june 8. let's talk about why these business cards are important for ukraine with yulia yarmolenko, who is now joining us from the white house . we expect that in their conversations with joe biden, the leaders of these countries will agree on some possible details regarding the training and

supply of modern fighter jets, or do you believe that ostapa is talking about this? the prime minister of denmark, meter meter freddiction in the white house, and as john kerbe said, the representative of the white house, he expects that the f-16 topic will definitely be one of the issues that the two leaders will discuss, as you correctly noted, denmark is one of the leaders of this aircraft of the coalition, we know that definitely denmark itself has purchased 77 f-16 aircraft since 1970, and of course there is an absolutely logical question whether denmark can become the country that will directly provide ukraine with these f16 fighters, we now know that training should begin soon pilots on fourth-generation fighter jets. but if great britain, for example, will help conduct this training and great britain does not have its own f-16 planes , then the question arises as to who can provide them and

when we heard the position of the united states that they join this coalition from the point in view of the training, of course, there was also a conversation about the fact that while this training continues, these coalition members will discuss who can provide aircraft in what quantity and when now denmark is not only helping ukraine by participating aircraft coalition, denmark is actually one of the ten countries that provide the most military aid to ukraine, taking into account their gdp, and this year denmark itself literally announced on may 29 that this year and the next it will increase spending on security assistance in ukraine to more than two and a half billion dollars thus, their total aid to ukraine actually constitutes their defense budget and today, before the meeting, med freddickson said that she wants this support for ukraine and the aid given to her

country also to the united states to be their working together to support ukraine only got stronger and both leaders actually thanked each other before the start of the meeting but how strongly and consistently they support ukraine let's listen to what the president and prime minister said denmark is one of our biggest allies one of the most reliable friends we have common values our shared commitment to true values ​​gives us strength, i believe in this, together we work to protect our values ​​by supporting the people of ukraine against the brutal aggression of russia, the usa loyalty to the transatlantic alliance has always been very important, but today, when the war has returned to our european continent, it is very important that we, together with our allies and friends, are united even after 15 months of war

in ukraine. from the danish point of view, we will provide strong support to ukraine and we will to cooperate more closely with you on issues of defense and security, of course. it is important that yulia biden and matifedriksen mentioned ukraine at the first meeting . look at the media , the danish prime minister is actually now called one of the candidates for the post of nato secretary general, from its side, britain looks like it has its candidate for the minister of defense, ben volos, are there any signs of yuli what will the leaders of britain and denmark also talk about, and with joe biden , ostapa very interesting question and john kirby was asked this several times today at the briefing here in the white house and he said that the discussion of the next leader of nato was not the purpose of matt fredricksen's trip to washington and the meeting with joe biden john kirby said that they have a lot of very questions that they have to discuss, but

there is a lot of discussion now that these things are really related, there were certain speculations about that, even some experts said that this is actually such an interview for the position of an interview for the position of nato secretary general for the purpose of frederikson, because as they say and diplomats with whom a number of publications communicate, as well as experts say that she can be a very good candidate for this position, we know who stoltenberg is, he ends his presidency already in october and the new hontsak can be announced already at the nato meeting that will take place in vilnius literally in a month medten fredekson and what are the advantages of it, diplomats and experts say that, first of all, her position and the position of her country from the very beginning of the russian full-scale invasion is very consistent. very strict in condemning russian aggression and very consistent in supporting ukraine, secondly, now is the time , as many observers say, to choose a woman for

the post of nato secretary general, and she can be a good candidate. in denmark itself, her they are often called the iron lady of gdańsk, and another thing that is also important is that she is the current prime minister, and now the alliance, as they say, needs the current leader of the country , because they have all the contacts necessary to call who needs which president in any what time are the cons that are mentioned, firstly, denmark is a country that does not invest enough in its defense, less than 2% , which is required by the commitments of the alliance, but metafredikson herself said that she wants her country to increase these expenses by 2030. secondly, the question arises whether they can choose the leader of nato is someone who does not represent a nordic country, because we know that jen stoldenburg was the prime minister of norway , we know that anderson grasmussen, who was before that the secretary general of nato, was the prime minister of denmark , that is why there are questions about b na volosa

this is also an interesting question and precisely why are these two meetings with the danish prime minister and the british prime minister taking place in the same week and they are talking about exactly the same thing today? actually ben volys, however, one big minus that they say about mr. street is that he is not the current leader of the country and therefore, accordingly , the bets on him are lower. in my opinion, taking into account the role of nato today, the importance of nato today , the allies will look for someone who is the current prime minister because the prime minister the prime minister really has contacts, an address book, the ability to call presidents or prime ministers both in nato countries and outside their borders at any moment, they are adapted to

the high-level diplomacy currently conducted by nato ira these thoughts are very interesting. thank you for your review. i will remind you . in particular, the armed forces of ukraine also use mi-8 transport helicopters for their attacks . one of such combat sorties in the east of ukraine was observed by a na kostyuchenko and pavel sukhodolsky. on enemy targets, mi-8 helicopters are multi-purpose, that is, they can be used both for transporting cargo and for fire damage to the enemy's manpower and strong points, explains the crew commander , 32-year-old yevgeny, he is a graduate of the kharkiv

air force university, the most important thing is to complete the assigned task and return alive unharmed and transfer the car to the base yevgeny explains how the combat helicopter crew works, the most important interaction in the crew is the mutual understanding of the commander, pilot, navigator on-board equipment team work on-board and theirs look at the operation parameters of the entire helicopter for women says where to fly, the route indicates leads to the target the mosquito of the crew controls everyone makes decisions the pilots work according to the coordinates transmitted by the advanced aviation gunner explains another graduate of the kharkiv air force university and now the crew commander 28 -year-old maksym , the army aviation directly cooperates with the infantry units, that's why we are called the army aviation, but it is the infantry, but before

the departure, we will receive the coordinates of the targets we carefully prepare for some kind of work and then we already work in conditions of strong radio-electronic suppression , which imposes some nuances on the work. the crew also learns about the result of the combat sortie from the air gunner, but after returning to the base, if the target is not hit , the helicopter is reloaded and prepared for a new sortie on in general, one crew member can take off four times a day for more than a year of war, combat sorties have become commonplace - says yevhen , but the man remembers the first air attack on the russian occupiers like it was yesterday near kyiv, the muscovites were advancing and we were carrying out a battle gate, it was not clear, everyone was a little scared, but everyone was doing their job, they understood that if we did not do anything, nothing would happen, so

we worked as best we could and fulfilled our mission, our task, and maxim's first combat sortie after the start of the full-scale invasion of russia, there was an attack on the chornobayivka airfield, where the enemy was based, says the man, according to the ukrainian general staff, over the past year, the armed forces of ukraine destroyed russian equipment there 26 times. well, no i will say that it has some success, but i directly took part in that direction . there is nothing complicated about it. you just have to keep fear at bay, as they say. therefore , if there is fear, nothing normal will happen, and the most important thing is to win. so that the world finally understands that... e imperial russia is not a friend but an enemy, the latest army aviation tells maxim not only to destroy the enemy but also to cover

his own infantry 50 percent - this is moral support, because what if they see that, well, a helicopter - it is clear that it is their own. the other side is of course. well, if we directly help and suppress the enemy with our actions, when the shooting was ending, the helicopter pilots received a message from the advanced air gunner, their flight was successful and hit all the targets, even though it is flying again, i want to know the results and i want to know the results again anna kostyuchenko pavel sukhodolsky for the voice america from the donetsk region, our next story is about an american veteran who fought in ukraine and lost a comrade there, and now founded an organization to help ukrainian defenders karl larson still keeps clothes with the blood of his comrades from the foreign legion, says that he could be saved if the ukrainian army had everything necessary, so now the american military

is doing everything possible to provide the ukrainian defenders with the most necessary, continued iryna shynkarenko in her home in seattle , american veterans carl larson still keeps a military uniform from the war in ukraine, on the pants brought from the front, the blood of his fallen comrade with the call sign tank, with whom karl served in the foreign legion a year ago, these pants from may 31, from the day when the tank died, i don't wash them because they have his blood on them, all you can see is his blood on the cuff, i will never wash them because it would be disrespectful to my fallen brother with the legion, also karl has been keeping a fragment of a russian shell that killed him for a year his comrade and miraculously did not hit him himself. and this is the piece of shell that killed him, which i took from the wall on the left after everything happened, the artillery shell hit him and not

me because i was around the corner, i was literally less than 3 meters from his brother larson german volunteer burn clavis died in the last days of may last year the men of the foreign legion were on a mission near kharkiv unfortunately because we didn't have a generator our radios were not charged and so we couldn't call for medical help and we didn't have an emergency vehicle to deliver it to the field hospital. we sent a strong man, he finally arrived by transport from the neighboring unit, but by that time 40 minutes had already passed and the friend was bleeding. karl served in a foreign legion in ukraine for almost six months, after which he returned home, but he says the struggle has not stopped, he helps the ukrainian army with equipment because he saw for himself the difficult circumstances under which ukrainian soldiers had to go to the front, we had three old

used night vision devices that we had to last they did not three of them were attached to our helmets, and the detachment had about 6 observation points ago. three of them did not even have night vision and it was bad old night vision. you look at night and you hear the bushes rustling and you think they are russian troops is the dog together with comrades karl lars founded the organization ukraine defenseport, which collects funds and buys necessary things for ukrainian defenders, they regularly meet with their donors , report and talk about the main needs of ukrainians, organize fundraisers and conduct work in social networks, we focus on social media and try attract the attention of people, especially the american youth, in a way that is close to them, encourage us to help us, for example, to raise money for a generator for one of the units that

we support a team of volunteers in less than a year of work collected more than 100 thousand dollars for the needs of the ukrainian army, this is only a part of what we provided, we delivered winter clothes , camouflage nets, more than 17 cars delivered generators, these are special generators for starlinks, they are called inverter and cost a little more than the purchase cost equipment karl works with the american authorities to support ukraine in the spring participated in the ukrainian action summit in the us congress in washington in conversations with politicians and ordinary americans emphasizes ukrainians they fight not only for themselves to ukraine and my life online i went to ukraine and risked my life i gave up a comfortable happy existence here in seattle i exchanged it for the horrors of the front not for the sake of ukraine i love my friends and the wonderful people i met in ukraine it is a wonderful country of course i wish them all the best, but the real reason why i

left for america is to defend american freedom. in my opinion, ukrainians are fighting for our freedom. the survival of ukraine is the security of america. karl larson also testified in to the european parliament regarding the need to recognize the wagnerites as a terrorist organization. and now he is writing a book about the experience of the war in ukraine. there will be many difficult stories there at the beginning of his service in march. last year he helped form the foreign legion. i volunteered at the recruitment center and worked there for three weeks i'm still in touch with them i'm still friends with them they're great guys and they had a very, very hard job and during those three weeks we introduced processes and procedures to improve the screening of candidates, for example, during screening, we didn't just trust someone to say yes , i served in the military, we checked whether

they actually served, under what circumstances, left the military service and checked their criminal background , and in three weeks after that, the quality of recruits improved dramatically by frontline karl lars was impressed by the motivation of ukrainian defenders, which he says cannot be compared with the war in iraq where he served. and the veteran also emphasizes that, unlike many others, the war in ukraine is for him black and white, that is, there is no doubt which side is evil and which side is good, so despite all the difficulties, he does not regret his experience in ukraine and is proud of it. the american state of illinois is forced to change its planting plans due to the increase in fertilizer prices, and although the extension of the grain agreement has calmed things down a bit, the situation is still unstable, says yurii mamon after

the large-scale invasion of russia into ukraine he realized that this is not a local conflict, but a real war, which touched even him on another continent, it destroyed the whole system , the prices increased a lot, the most for farmers , the prices for fertilizers increased in real i believe the problem is that russia and its ally belarus are the main suppliers of the three substances that we use nitrogen phosphorus and potassium, the war interrupted the supply chain of these goods, since the war in ukraine has been going on for the second year already evening out a little bit prices are falling grain prices are down so people aren't buying fertilizers as aggressively at least not yet lately we're also seeing a drop in prices kemp

agricultural risk management company representative says grain prices like corn soybeans and wheat have stabilized in after russia and ukraine signed a grain agreement mediated by the un and turkey in 2022 setterflies we have not seen a significant increase in demand but we know this may change in the future especially if the grain agreement , which was extended on may 17 for two months, will collapse and the escalation of the war will continue, says jokepp etpensarshoi lover, the agreement led to a decrease in prices. since we are competing with cheap wheat, also with corn, this generally keeps prices lower than they would be if the demand was not satisfied by grain from russia and ukraine black sea grain initiative also affects fertilizer prices for farmers grain export agreement allows russia to continue supplying fertilizer so contrary to our

fears we have good stocks and we will win from the price reduction, at least in the new season, however, david has no reason to be happy, even taking into account the reduction of the walls, his next year's sowing will still cost a penny , because he has money for the purchase of these goods on credit, and the interest rate in the usa has also jumped sharply. it is still difficult for david to find labor because of the tight labor market in the usa it is not easy to hire someone we are trying to find someone who will transport grain for us it is very difficult there is a problem it seems that the truck driver has disappeared somewhere so this year david considering the crisis, he plans to rely on himself and his family to harvest yuriy mamon voice of america and at the end talks about how foreigners have been learning the ukrainian language since february last year, the teaching was started more than a million people around the world such data of the application for learning the language to oliynyk three countries where interest the highest is the usa

, great britain and poland lesya bakalets found ukrainian language courses for poles in warsaw and learned from the students what motivates them every evening twice a week polish investment specialist marlena ahilger attends ukrainian language classes, she already knows english and chinese and now she wants to learn the language of a neighboring country in order to communicate with ukrainians, i would just like to learn some basics, learn the alphabet, be able to say hello, read e-mails, basic communication , the ukrainian language course marlena attends, this is an initiative of the business consulting center there is a business for ukrainians in warsaw, they have already launched several polish courses for ukrainians, and now they see an interest in the ukrainian language from poles as ukrainians the polish language is needed, and the poles need the ukrainian language , this is so that they can create a business, understand each other

. we did not even expect that our course would be so popular in business action plans to open online courses of the ukrainian language and they already have 400 applications, the same offline group started working two months ago, usually up to 10 people attend the courses, they can already say a few simple sentences in ukrainian, do you want coffee , account with lemon? yes, there is already a professional translator from sinsk into russian, but now he doesn't want to use it in communication with ukrainians, i just want to learn ukrainian and communicate with our guests in their language, for starters, probably speak as much as you understand, according to zhesynskyi, even for a professional translator, it's not just his classmate yuri serhiyevich zhodin who also knows russian, but now understands it's very different languages ​​easy for me i hoped it would be easier except for the alphabet which is partially

similar to identical but similar you know it's just another language if you want to learn ukrainian you will have to put in a lot of effort, we actually as elementary school students and we ask our teachers to say the words slowly, we try to repeat them and we are happy when we succeed and the ukrainian language teacher oksana pe adds that the similarity of ukrainian to polish does not always facilitate learning polish ukrainian language has approx . 70% of the common vocabulary, but in fact, sometimes it interferes, because there are many similar words, for example, which mean something different in ukrainian than in polish. oksana teaches two groups on online courses at organizations, the ukrainian house in warsaw, she assures interest in the ukrainian language, a cut after the start of a full-scale invasion , for example, we have volunteers who also ask about ukrainian language courses and there is also a desire to learn the ukrainian language . oriented in