[000:00:00;00] and these are impossible to get out of, but there are communication problems, help find the missing children, can everyone take a minute of your time and go to the website of the magnolia children's search service, here you can view all the photos of the missing, who knows, maybe you will recognize someone and eventually help find them , look at the photo this is fifteen-year-old ilya polishchuk from mariupol, imagine the fate of this boy, nothing is known since the beginning of the full-scale war, contact with the boy was cut off on february 24, and where he may be now, no one knows, so i am turning to to everyone who sees me now, and especially to the residents of mariupol, who may be watching this program on social networks, look carefully at the photo of the boy, he looks 14-15 years old , he has light blond hair and dark eyes, if anyone has seen the child or knows where he may

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welcome to the broadcast of the program of the ukrainian service the voice of america, time and i, its host ostap yarysh, the united states is closely cooperating with the ukrainian government to find out the circumstances of the destruction of the kakhovka hydroelectric power station, this was stated by the representative of the us national security council, john kirby , earlier today, ukraine reported that the russians blew up the dam in nova kakhovka, which led to the flooding of a large area in the kherson region and the evacuation of thousands of people, the white house is currently carefully studying what happened, but they remind us that the garlic dam was in the hands of russia, we are still trying to establish that it happened, but the russians illegally seized this dam, this reservoir many months ago, this territory was occupied by them at the time of the explosion. and it is clear that the deliberate destruction of civil infrastructure is prohibited by the laws of war and in the additional protocol to the geneva conventions , which the russians themselves signed, the destruction

of civil infrastructure as an otdump and term dams there is clearly stated is a violation of this code but again, we still have not made a decision, we are still talking to the ukrainians about it in turn, the representative the usa in the osce michael karman revealed that the destruction of the dam in nova kakhovka is an outrageous act of destruction of the environment that endangers the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of ukrainians, as well as nature, and at the beginning of this war, russia did not show respect for civilian life or infrastructure, ukraine must win - said karpenko meanwhile , the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, dmytro kuleba, said that ukraine will work with the eu civil protection mechanism and other international mechanisms to mitigate

the consequences of the destruction of the kakhova hpp and hold russia accountable for developments on the battlefield; a deliberate and long-planned terrorist act by russia turned a man-made flood into a weapon; environmental damage is of particular concern due to flooding; entire ecosystems suffer long-term and irreversible damage; animals in the novaya kakhovka zoo have already died from rising water and this is only the beginning of the damage for the fauna in the south of ukraine along the dnieper and in the black sea we are witnessing regional ecocide and not only the ukrainian headquarters, the disaster in kakhovka is another proof that russia is a terrorist state, each country's parliament and international organizations must immediately recognize russia as such. we also call on the eu and the g7 member states to introduce new unspeakable sanctions against russia, including in relation to its missile industry and the nuclear energy sector. russia will be responsible for the destruction of the kakhov dam and other crimes in european countries on the destruction of the kakhov

hpp, let's talk with our correspondent in london, bohdan tsyupin, who will now join the broadcast . european leaders, what are you paying attention to, let's start right away with a quote. i think it is perhaps the most revealing in the words of the spokesperson of the european commission, nova kakhovka. i can already say that the destruction of the kakhovka dams raises attacks on civil infrastructure to an unprecedented new level and habits. the union strongly condemns these terrible barbaric acts an attack on an important infrastructure object with terrible humanitarian and environmental consequences is obviously taking place against the background of illegal russian aggression, which putin does not hold back in

the use of hunger as a weapon, energy as a weapon, he turned winter into a weapon, he is playing the nuclear game with nuclear power plants in ukraine, so this is again a new escalation, a new sign of escalation. but in fact, the bosses of mr. petro stan, for example, the president of the european commission , ursula von deralian, as well as the president of the european council, also stated that we are talking about war crimes, and the chancellor of germany , olafsholtz, although he did not use this specific term, but the accusations came out of his mouth also quite firmly, it is similar to many crimes committed by russian soldiers that we seen in ukraine and is part of a war in which civilian objects, cities, villages, hospitals, schools, infrastructure, which are not military

targets, are attacked. therefore, this is something that has a new dimension, but also fits into how putin is conducting this war , and you know the other question. i read the european media and one gets the impression that they do not give an unequivocal assessment of what happened. and this eventually also caused indignation. the conclusions of who did what, namely who specifically arranged this explosion and blew up the dam, leading western european media are trying to avoid even more problematic situations that, for example , outraged the ukrainian minister of foreign affairs, mr. kuleba, for example, i saw such a headline this morning, ukraine and russia mutual accusations are exchanged regarding

the explosion at the kakhovsky dam on the one hand - this is technically correct because indeed the accusations were made by russia, the accusations are made by ukraine, but according to this technical the supposed truth actually hides a very serious reality that misleads the viewer because in fact there is no mention here of the fact that russia attacked ukraine, that russia has been controlling that part of the territory for over a year , and in particular the dam, which was blown up, etc. headlines or necessary wording, obviously many people, and in particular in ukraine, consider them unfair and even

misleading, of course it is worth remembering that the only reason why there is a problem at all is the unprovoked full-scale invasion of russia invasion of ukraine, we will continue to assess the changing situation. but of course we repeat what we said during this conflict, that the best thing russia can do now is to withdraw its troops immediately. what they heard was the comment of the minister of foreign affairs in britain, james kleva, in this context of this statement. what kind of car did the officials of european countries really place direct responsibility for the destruction of dam a on russia, especially against the background of ambiguous reports in the media? well, you actually just heard from the british minister of foreign affairs, in which i actually had to answer this question while in ukraine

this morning, what do they say in general about the responsibility of russia , specifically, about what happened ? does not always give answers to questions and forces politicians and officials who are forced to answer for their words to be restrained in specific statements about what exactly happened where, for example, there are no western journalists from where the information comes from sources clearly interested in submitting and from a certain angle, we do not forget, for example, that many months have passed since the gas explosion, then the nord stream in the baltic sea, the investigation is ongoing, we still do not know what actually happened there. that is, we know what happened, the explosions but still in fact not a single leading european official

will take responsibility and say specifically who made the explosions that blew up the nord stream gas pipeline. i think that even in this situation there are specific accusations will not be heard, but accusations about russia's responsibility about russia's responsibility for the consequences of what happened as a result of the russian attack of an aggressive war and the events on the territory controlled by the russian army, obviously such accusations are heard very loudly today, these accents are absolutely important to place bohdan thank you for your review bohdan tsiup on we were contacted from london. and she had warned earlier that the sudden loss of water in the kakhov reservoir could also threaten the cooling of the air and, therefore, increase the risk of an accident world scientists, in particular, this is what is said in the study of the impact of the russian war on water resources published in march, now the co-author of the study, a member of the us

academy of sciences, peter gleick, says the destruction of the kakhov dam is one of the largest in the history of world wars and is a real catastrophe. the gigantic volume of water that has been released communities down the river will be flooded they are already flooding ecological consequences extreme destruction of ecosystems water contamination there are already reports that extraordinary volumes of lubricants and other chemicals are washed into the river above the dam, there were swamps, natural swamps and animals there will suffer from a lack of water if the reservoir is lowered, another problem of crimea. the crimean canal will also decrease by approximately 80% of its water resources, in addition to receiving from the north crimean canal from the reservoir behind the kakhovskaya dam

, it does not look like water supplies will continue normally until the current outbreak the war after the occupation of crimea by the russians, the ukrainians blocked this channel, and it is so important, the first days of the war, the russians opened the channel to restore water supplies to the crimea, now this water flow has been stopped again, this is a huge dam, one of the largest in europe, this is one of the largest dams in the world. it held 18 cm³ water is almost four times the size of the largest reservoir in california and our reservoirs in california are very large earlier in history there was the destruction of a large dam by the soviet union in 1941 during world war ii to stop the nazis are curious that that dam was higher than the dnieper river. the destruction of that dam killed tens of thousands of people. this kakhovskaya dam is similar in size. i hope that the number of lives lost will be smaller thanks to the ability to quickly inform people who live

along the river, but this is one of the largest dumps that have ever been destroyed under wartime , at the same time, according to the estimates of the international agency for atomic energy, there is currently no direct risk for the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, however , the organization continues to closely monitor the development of events similar to the assessment of yuliya yarmolenko the professor of the institute of radioactivity of the environment of fukushima university also voiced the liquidator of the accident at chernobyl marja wozniak, we can listen to the drop in the level of the conductor until we have a station of 61 units. tax, will the opportunity to take directly today into the water for this

household and this leads to risks for the station , but the situation today is not so critical, but i am in a distant economic mood because, first of all, now all six units are not working , the units are completely exclusively cold, and only one hot mastymovy. and this complex, which includes these cooling towers and er , is still hungry, they counted on the work of all six units in this unit, because actually in that at the same time, there is a station that does not work with five reactors, so the cooling towers should be enough to cool the unit that is in a hot state, because it gives hot water there, steam for a place in another, that is economic wholes are used, so of course it is impossible from the point of view of aviation security and such, but from the point of view of the risks that they almost exploded tomorrow, i am far

from destroying the kakhova hydroelectric power station, it also redistributes forces on the battlefield and can affect the counteroffensive of ukraine, according to american experts, in particular, the president of the fund jamestown glenover notes that this is a new stage in russia's war against ukraine nova kakhovka the ussr detonation of the dam in nova kakhovka demonstrated that putin still has options and can regain the initiative putin made a choice by blowing up the kakhov hpp and causing a flood. he created a humanitarian disaster in order to slow down or restrain the ukrainian counteroffensive plans in the southern direction in melitopol, berdyansk . it is not yet clear how this will affect the plans of the ukrainians and whether it will temporarily delay the counteroffensive, but i see information that ukraine accumulated many boats to cross the dnieper and now a serious question arises whether they have enough boats to carry out such operations, one cannot

underestimate the enemy, putin took this step but i believe that this is a reaction of panic to what is happening in belgorod. but chebekino is a game of chess and putin made a move with his horse and blew up the dam, we do not know what else he can do . it is difficult to predict what will happen next, but how did the un react to the events in nova kakhovka and whether russia was condemned there ? i congratulate you. so, this morning, in fact, ukrainians were outraged by a video post. well, on twitter, there was a question about the celebration of the russian language day, did iryna hear my comments about the destruction of the kakhova hydroelectric power plant from the representatives of the un. i congratulate ostap, uh, yes, it is the first structure of the first institution in

the structure of the un that reacted to this the situation was mega, but the focus of his attention was focused exclusively on how threatening this situation is for the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant already around six o'clock in the evening outside kyiv and in front of journalists un secretary general antonio otelish spoke with his assessment of the situation, he spoke a lot about the humanitarian component of this problem, he spoke about the fact that 16,000 ukrainians have lost their homes, about the fact that the situation in the territories and suffered is not simple because there is not enough drinking water, he also called to stop the shelling of civilians and civilian infrastructure and also again called for peace about the political assessment of who is really responsible for what happened, journalists and

the world will never hear antonio guterres and now you can hear a part of his speech , what a tragic picture of the colossal humanitarian, economic and ecological disaster in the kherson region of ukraine. he should take some measures so that such things do not happen again at other important objects of ukraine, as they plan to eventually help with the humanitarian situation in the kherson region. about what said antonin goteresh, i know that ukraine has already initiated an urgent meeting of the un security council today. yes, ostap, if we speak, there are several dimensions of how he can react to this, and the first dimension is political. happened and they really speak their political assessments and here is ukraine almost at night here in new york, the permanent

representation of ukraine at the un sent all the documents in order to convene this meeting, that is, ukraine initiated it in response to russia she also initiated her meeting and just a few hours ago it became known that the meeting will still take place today at four o'clock in new york, it's 11 a.m. in kyiv, and it's also interesting how the chairman, and i 'll remind you that this month it's the arab union the emirates, which in principle are quite loyal to russia. they never categorically oppose it even in the security council, so in the name of this meeting, in fact , the chairman combined the two names of russia , ukraine accordingly tried to convene a meeting under the name of peace support and of security in ukraine, and russia, respectively, a threat to international peace and security, and just in the announcement. these two names were combined. this is very indicative of the fact that ukraine succeeded because there was a call from the minister of foreign affairs, dmytro, my colleague, and the president to hold this meeting today.

it is very revealing because usually the meeting of the security council is not organized so quickly, surely it was organized so quickly, the same quick reaction of the security council was only when there was a full-scale invasion on february 24th, and this actually indicates that and this is because, as explained by the permanent representative of ukraine about the un, serhii kostitsya, whom she talked to before our broadcast, that in fact it is very important for the un to collect information from the fields and to have it because they must have their own speaker who must present the information like this at the moment it is already known that this person who will represent this situation will be an igfit match , he is the head of the deputy secretary general of humanitarian aid, that is, he essentially responds to all these humanitarian challenges , and it is not only antonio guterres will be present at this meeting. and about that. if we talk about the humanitarian dimension of the problem, the hotelier, for example, in his speech already said that the un is coordinating with the ukrainian authorities and, in particular, the first steps are, for example, providing drinking water and

tablets that purify water, and now you can hear that serhiy kyslyts i think in the context of how he can help in the context of the humanitarian situation, a great tragedy and the question of rebuilding the dam will be faced immediately immediately after the pre-occupation . perhaps even while it is temporarily is occupied, it is already necessary to take measures to restore engineering facilities, but in addition there is the issue of humanitarian aid, people are suffering, households are completely destroyed, civilians are also suffering, these animals and domestic animals from zoos are suffering . this is a huge tragedy . elects new non-permanent members and the fight for a place continues between slovenia and

belarus, what is the situation here now , yes, ostapa, in fact , the voting has already taken place, it was expected that it would fail belarus and slovenia to solve this conflict let's say yes yes during this day, however, elections were held slovenia won and today voted for the corresponding algeria , sierra leone, south korea, guyana and slovenia from e-e 2024 it will be five non-permanent members of the security council about how you he correctly noted that there was an intrigue around slovenia , because usually groups of countries are regional groups, they nominate their own country, so there was only one country in all the groups. that is, there were elections without elections, but the eastern european group back in 2007 in fact, she put forward her candidacy for belarus when this country was more or less democratic. if

that is the case, it is clear that slovenia . thank you for this news. iryna solomko was in touch with us at the headquarters and finally the story about two ukrainian soldiers who were brought by volunteers for prosthetics to the state of colorado , where they took part in a charity run so far in the disabled troops, but the american specialists promise that eventually the veterans will be able to run on their new prosthetic legs organized for them by a group of americans who united for the sake of helping ukraine. svitlana prostinska and volodymyr petronov 9 visited the charity event and planned to just stand for the tip and the finish and their to meet, but somehow it happened so quickly, i say let’s go. i will also take part, where her husband, kelly, was driving me. i

helped him a little all the way, turned a little myself, and well, it ’s very cool, a soldier of the 65th brigade of the armed forces of ukraine roman denysyuk was seriously wounded in zaporizhzhia in april this year, he arrived in colorado for lower limb prosthetics in a month and took part in his first 5 km race. i pushed his cart and he turned the wheels with his hands. it was wonderful, we had a connection while we covered the distance together . it was wonderful that he took part in the race and did not stand aside as a foil for you. it was the volunteers of the limsfoliberty foundation who organized the trip.

roman went to colorado for prosthetics, local specialists fitted him with prostheses for free in american hospitals. we met different doctors, and they were all interesting and very interested in helping ukrainians. everything they did, they tried to do everything they could for free . if they were never left without supervision, we always have volunteers for all activities or we always go to the doctors, well , with volunteers, our ukrainian translators, along with roman , ihor, a man of war, arrived in colorado and stepped into the ranks of the zsu from the first day of the full-scale russian invasion, three feet in battle in the dnipropetrovsk region. igor also covered 5 km in a wheelchair with the help of volunteers . we were very impressed by the number of people who support us and cheer for ukraine. we are very

impressed and grateful to the americans for such support and attention to our it was still too early for us to run in the country, so we were supported by the guys from america, they brought us the entire distance on strollers for our 5 kilometers , andriy matyashchuk ran with igor, who flew from kyiv for this event, and we ran 5 kilometers together with our veterans drew attention to the ukrainian issue before the war in ukraine, and thanks to this interaction of all communities , e.e. ukrainians in colorado, volunteers who came from ukraine. we were greeted very warmly with a standing ovation at the finish line and this is the support that every military person deserves, every veteran, we should be grateful to them for the opportunity to live in

ukraine now and we believe in our victory the annual denver marathon colfax within the framework which organizes races at various distances, gathered more than 30 thousand runners from all over america, in the team we will stand out from liberty , olga kuprider, who moved to denver 22 years ago from the city of kremenchug, came here to support our boys, was not impressed . what about when we ran with ukrainian flags and with symbols on t -shirts and hats, did the boys have ukrainian flags and a lot of people, and did they approach or run up to us and say, we support ukraine thanks to this event, give us your liberty

many new volunteers and like-minded people have joined . in the near future, the foundation plans to bring another group of soldiers for prosthetics, says kelly roerich, co-founder of the organization . i see my role in working with americans. in my opinion , it is very important for americans to understand what is happening in ukraine in colorado. we are a very small organization, there are only three of us, but we are strongly supported, so we will help as long as we have such an opportunity, today a small group of volunteers of the united volhynia from foliberty organized a trip to colorado and free prosthetics for three wounded