[000:00:00;00] let's liberate ukraine, the special operations center, and the sbu, engrave your name on the pages of victory, you are watching the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, time-time my name is maria ulyanovska, congratulations, the week began with important visits , nato secretary general jens stoltenberg came to washington , he was supposed to meet with the president of the united states today but the meeting was postponed to tuesday . it is expected that the leaders will discuss the upcoming july alliance summit in vilnius. well , stoltenberg is also finishing his term as

nato secretary general, and one of the key questions is who will be his successor, in addition, the minister of foreign affairs of italy, antonio tayani, arrived in washington and at a joint press conference with us secretary of state anthony blinken, they discussed, in particular , the counteroffensive and security guarantees for ukraine . we will ask yulia yarmolenko, who joins our broadcast from of the white house yulia hello, congratulations marie please tell me for what purpose you came to the united states and how they commented on the counteroffensive in the state department , definitely maria, vitaliy of the united states has many topics about which they prefer and have talk constantly on diplomatic channels and today at the final press conference, both foreign ministers and the minister of foreign affairs and the secretary of state mentioned that one of the key issues they discussed during their meeting here in washington was the issue of support for ukraine and anthony blinky actually thanked italy, who since the start of the full-scale invasion had shown their leadership , in particular he also thanked georgie melanie for

the fact that italy very strongly continued to send military aid accepts 170,000 ukrainian refugees since the beginning of the full-scale invasion and the italian prime minister from his italian foreign minister for his part actually said that the goal of italy and the goal of the allies is to support ukraine and in particular to support the ukrainian counteroffensive because in this way they seek peace in ukraine but this peace must be long-lasting and must be fair, both leaders emphasized this, and when anthony blinkin was asked about how the united states is evaluated somehow from this italy, ukrainian counter-offensive, how can it end, both leaders said that they would prefer it to end in peace, but only under unfair conditions. when ukraine returns more and more of its territories , let's actually listen to how anthony blinken commented on this particular issue, of course it's too early to say exactly where it's going, but i

think it is important to note that due to the fact that more than 50 countries have united to support ukraine and in particular the courage and resilience of the ukrainian military and its people, we are sure that they will continue to achieve success in what they are trying to achieve, which is to return the lands taken from them by russia, ukraine's success in the counteroffensive will do two things : it will strengthen its position at any negotiating table that is formed, and it may also have the effect of actually forcing putin to finally focus on negotiations about the end the war he started, and in this sense he can really bring peace closer and not push it away. yulia also knows that nato is very important for ukraine in july, and so far there are no official comments on the likely security guarantees for ukraine from the alliance, we did not hear or talk about it today, we talked about it today, you know maria, and this is actually evident from

the answers to the questions that were asked at this press conference, he immediately noted that today we also heard after justin trudoum arrived in kyiv, and the minister the prime minister of canada and we started bill administration from the office of the ukrainian president about the fact that canada and justin trudeau, in particular, for the first time publicly spoke in favor of the so-called creation of the ukrainian council ukraine nato and also as ihor zhovkva, a representative of the office, said the president that this is a very positive step and that canada very publicly expresses its support for ukraine's membership in nato, and today at the press conference when asked about what to expect from the point of view of security guarantees at the nato summit for ukraine , in fact the italian minister of foreign affairs said that he also supports the creation of this special ukraine nato council so that eventually it could lead to ukraine's membership in nato anthony blinken was less let's be clear in

his statements, but he said that he would very strong support as a result of this, let's actually listen to what they said. i believe that we should continue the process that began several years ago to help ukraine become a member of nato. i believe that the first important step that can lead to this would be the creation of a kind of ukraine nato council which would also involve ukraine in the exchange of political information at the nato level and this could be the first step towards ukraine joining the alliance. i don't want to rush ahead, but you can expect the nato summit a powerful package of both political and practical assistance to ukraine for the future, and this also sent a very strong signal to president putin that he cannot simply try to hold out longer than we, we all stand our ground we are steadfast ukrainians, we all want peace but again, it must be

fair strong peace and if russia is ready to interact on this basis, we will be ready for it, but what we have seen so far shows that they are not ready. why were you waiting for jens from the toltenberg white house today, do you know why his meeting with the president of the usa, you know maria, you know and we know that this meeting should really take place right now, this meeting is very important , the day before today itself, after the message from president biden’s doctor that the president underwent a certain dental procedure that actually concerns the root of the tooth after that everyone in the later events for today after lunch canceled and postponed the meeting for tomorrow well , they said that the president had a toothache during this weekend, there are presidents, too , their teeth also hurt, but we are waiting tomorrow's meeting here at the white house because there are very important issues . on the agenda is actually a preview to the nato summit, but

also the issue of those security guarantees for ukraine. thank you yulia as always and with the most interesting details from the white house for you worked yulia yarmolenko meanwhile in paris with president emmanuel macron german chancellor olafsholt and polish president andrzej duda are expected what exactly will be the topic of ukraine at this meeting and we will talk in more detail with our by a correspondent in london by bohdan tsyupanim bohdan hello greetings one year ago ukraine became a candidate for the european union kyiv i know brussels is now calling to start the process of accession negotiations which may last quite a long time the leaders of these countries, well, actually. today , i think that it is necessary to note that the topics of conversation uh, on which

the leaders of poland, germany and france are focused in paris, and they literally just uh, probably sat down at the negotiating table after press conferences in the french capital can probably be divided into immediate ones that need to be resolved as soon as possible and promising urgent ones, let's say today french president emmanuel macron said that france, in view of the active military operations during the ukrainian counteroffensive, has decided to increase the supply of military aid to ukraine, also about aid to ukraine in particular as a result of the fact that the kakhov dam was destroyed and huge areas were flooded, people in the south of ukraine are suffering, and about aid, about the need to increase humanitarian aid for example, polish president andrzej duda spoke to ukraine, and the german chancellor also supported his colleagues in the fact that ukraine

should be helped in this war so that , as the leaders said, a ukrainian victory would come , and the polish president interestingly remarked that russia could never again use its imperial ambitions towards the neighbors. so, when it comes to long-term issues that are obviously being discussed by the leaders of these three countries, it is about establishing a strong peace that also involves rapprochement the integration of ukraine with europe and, therefore, the likely membership of the european union , which is still a promising issue, and also the accession of ukraine to nato, which is very closely related to the security guarantees that ukraine expects first of all, bohdane - this is a very interesting question and another important topic which may be discussed by the leaders is the upcoming nato summit, in particular, earlier president zelenskyi

said that he expects to receive a clear invitation of ukraine to the alliance in vilnius as they perceive the possible accession of ukraine to nato in paris, from what we heard today. and during the press conference that took place before the leaders of the three countries probably sat down at the dinner table and probably discussed it in an informal setting at first. i think that we can still talk about caution in the leaders' statements, we know that among these three countries or three leaders, until now poland has probably declared most clearly and loudly that ukraine should become a member of the alliance as soon as possible. and we know that germany

is probably one of the most cautious. and for example, german leaders, including chancellor scholz, on the one hand, of course, do not deny the right of ukraine to join nato, but on the other hand, they emphasize, for example, from scholz and his minister of foreign affairs, england , we have heard that the issue of ukraine's accession to nato is not yet at the moment, a very interesting position, i would say , has developed when it comes to france, because french president emmanuel macron has actually made it clear that the position of france has changed very dramatically. he is meeting today, perhaps now he speaks most clearly about the fact that ukraine should be given, as was said by the french president recently in bratislava during a conference in slovakia, a clear path to ukraine's accession to nato, this is exactly what they want in

kyiv, this is exactly what the ukrainian leaders constantly state and president zelenskyi himself. i can say that we will probably not hear any concrete decisions in this direction in paris either late tonight or tomorrow morning. but we can probably assume that exactly at such meetings the leaders agree on their positions, probably by the time when nato itself will be in vilnius in 4 weeks, the countries should already understand what they stand for and what exactly they will talk about in vilnius. at the beginning of the full-scale invasion

of the russian army into ukraine, representatives of turko-speaking peoples, together with believers of three faiths, american christians, jews and muslims, together openly condemned the war , the action took place near the russian embassy in washington, the participants reminded that the victims of the russian-provoked war are often children themselves, the organizers of the anti-war protest say that the occupiers purposefully kidnap ukrainian children under the invented pretext of evacuation, the activists condemn the policy of the kremlin and try to spread information about these russian crimes in the united states today in order to support ukrainian children and show that russia is doing wrong things 20 thousand children were kidnapped by the russians my name is catherine i am a jew with ukrainian roots and i am here

i support ukraine and ukrainian children against russian crimes, namely murders, tortures, kidnappings, that i am not openly said that i am part of their efforts to erase ukraine as a nation and as a people . we saw in the 20th century that genocide is unacceptable, this should be our red line to save children. we want these children to return home, they belong to ukraine, they belong to their parents, every child, like all the children they have already killed this breaks the heart this is our sadness this

is our grief on international children's day, they decided to remind about the ukrainian children kidnapped by the russians, and our correspondent watched the actions in los angeles and seattle. glory ! glory! glory and children. about two hundred people went to a protest in seattle. activists in the city center shouted russia, a terrorist state , russia kidnapped our children, the participants of the action also brought posters with the stories of ukrainian children who were deported to russia by the city, who here in the usa support ukraine, now in the house of representatives and the senate there is a resolution about genocide, and there is also a resolution of the house and the senate about the forced transfer of ukrainian children to russia, our children are kidnapped, we cry for our children and our children. they are no worse than other children who

grow up on this street, many children of russia just took out even more children, they now have mental injuries, they can't sleep peacefully, activists also put soft toys on the steps of the los angeles county city hall in the city of bareilly giles, near a well-known sign, came out to protest, about a hundred activists brought their children to the action, for example, a refugee iryna demchyshyn came from the kyiv region with her daughter. as a mother, for me, this rally is extremely important, because in principle , your reason for leaving ukraine when the full-scale war began is mine. child, the action was attended by americans who tried to tell passers-by about kidnapped ukrainian children, as well as representatives of other nations, such as the baltic countries, this is the anthem, it is a humanitarian issue and

a violation of all international treaties and the geneva convention. we want to return ukrainian children from russia. participants of the campaign received leaflets with information on how to influence congressmen, according to ukrainian data, almost 20,000 children abducted by russia have been officially verified, but representatives of the ukrainian authorities say that this figure is much higher. the russian federation declares more than 700,000 deported children . khrystyna shevchenko, natalya mozgova, seattle, los angeles for voa. and finally, an incredible story about ukrainian defenders, on the eve of june 11 , another 95 ukrainian prisoners were released from russian captivity among them are the defenders of the snake island captured in the polonne chernobyl nuclear power plant defenders of the donetsk, kharkiv

, zaporizhzhya, kherson, luhansk, luhansk and sumy directions are also among them the defenders mariupol currently, a small delegation of the association of families of azov stali defenders is in the united states, which was joined this time by arseniy fedosyuk , who was released on the last day of exchange. for no more than a year, yuliya fedosyuk, wife of azov battalion soldier arseniya fedosyuk , met in 2017, he is a historian, i am a philosopher, an expert in religion by education, and met there on various favorite authors of these common talked a lot about nietzsche, arseniy, an active participant in the revolution of dignity, became a professional soldier in the ato since 2014. on february 22, he became one of the defenders of mariupol. julia says that the last month

, when her husband was defending the city, not at the azovstal plant, was the hardest in her life, it was actually just annihilation there airstrikes mean the impossibility of fighting back, the impossibility of fighting back, and such utter hopelessness that we cannot save them, we cannot do anything, the world is deaf to what is happening in mariupol, that is, in fact, on the at the moment, in addition to human resources, we had small arms, er, we had a certain number of grenade launchers, but a year’s hose already about the presence of mortars there, of course , there were no mines about the lottery, artillery in general, there was no ukrainian aviation in mariupol at all. unfortunately, in we still had a lot of hope for

evacuation to abstraction in the third ukraine . with the wife of commander denys prokopenko, kateryna, met with papo rymskyi. he came up especially for us, he was very informational savvy, that is, he knew everything , said that he was willing to help come, everything else here is a question in russia here is a question in russia who just did not agree as let go of this visit, his coverage says yulia helped the active campaign to save the defenders of mariupol, and on may 16, the evacuation of the military from the azovstal plant, where at that time there were more than 600 wounded and civilians, began. it was the joy of about the fact that they can just go out to look there, i don't know, at the sun, just at the open space, go out on the other side, if not for us to know that the capture is for azov - this is a disaster

. this is definitely torture - this is definitely a very difficult test. if the honor of a russian officer would at least somehow show itself here , those who were not seriously wounded were taken to a former correctional facility in the village of olenivka, donetsk region, interrogations and torture began, one of the most frequent questions what i heard during the interrogations there, my brothers. it was a question of who blew up the mariupol drama theater, and on the night of july 25, a fire broke out in the premises of the colony. it was a very difficult day for all of us, because there was no communication . all we had was this video with goals. with burnt ends, i know girls who found out about their loved ones on these terrible videos, how it all happened at the end of july, they announced to us

a list that included 151 people. this list was quite random. that is, there were soldiers and sergeants, officers and commanders and ordinary people, the only thing they had in common was that they were all from the azov regiment, and according to this list, they gathered people and relocated them to the territory of the industrial zone of this prison, and later for three days at night, when people were sleeping peacefully, they set off an explosion and as a result about 60 people died in this explosion, all those who did not die. everyone there was injured, that is, there was not a person there who was not injured. subsequently, after the explosion , for three hours, they did not allow medical personnel to approach the people and part of the people simply a loss died from blood loss those who survived and other prisoners of war were taken to prisons on the territory of the dnr and russia arseniy ended up in a strict

regime colony in taganrose, torture and abuse continued to medics for an incomprehensible reason to me, but they most of all did not like scouts snipers e- and medics during the day you can neither sit nor lie down on the bed, you have the right or sit on a bench without a back, at the same time you can't neither support your head nor lean on the table nor lean on the wall so you just have to sit straight like that the whole day or standing, they were given just enough food so that they did not die of hunger, we counted approximately by calories and if 600 calories were gained in a day, well, this is a good day for such a person and his brothers when we draw attention to the very when we talk about them when we go to countries that will learn about our problem will learn prose will learn why

it is that the azov people are in captivity so badly in my opinion it helps to carry out at least some exchanges it helps not to forget about them it helps maybe even save their lives in this captivity on september 22 last year, it became known about the return from captivity of 215 defenders, among them the azov team. on this very day, yulia and kateryna were in washington and talked to the voice of america. i was really, really happy for many girls for kateryna, because for me her situation then looked even worse than ours. well, of course, i was on the schedule because arseniy was not changed, it was difficult for me to be here already it seemed to me that all

this made no sense, that it would never be changed , but it happened on the last day of last year. yuliya arseniy saw each other again for three nights. because it may be transferred to another cell , the acting commander azov bohdana krutaevich called me and said that i was going to go on an exchange, our bus approached the border of the eu from the side of ukraine , a bus with russian prisoners of war approached they were the first to move to the russian territory, we looked at them, we looked at them, their faces were fattened with a blush , and then we all left the tagano horn of the whole shkaturigali on the right leg, because our right leg was specially beaten off by several weeks, everyone has joint injuries, the connection of all events, as with auschwitz, it happened before that a person was on the lists and did not get on the exchange . that's why until i saw him, i didn't really believe it until the end, and that's all, it was such

an atmosphere, a fantastic movie, that's how it is arrived to the hospital in sumy, she met me, she didn't recognize me at all. at first, because everyone was so similar, it was just a skeleton to cover the skin, she didn't recognize me , then, of course, she burst into tears. i didn’t recognize everything, i was already free, well, i guess it was like that for three seconds , they didn’t recognize him because i had never seen him without a beard and he was very thin , for several days he couldn’t sleep at all, then he calmed down and got back to normal, then he started working out treatment, just like everyone else, everyone has everything, uh, well, the diagnosis is just written on page a4, everyone has a lot of health problems . arseniy, now here he was, he gave you an interview , he looks healthy with his husband, and he won't run 200 m

he has problems with his stomach he has problems with his back he has problems with his leg after his release arseniy, who had no contact with his family in captivity, learned about yulia's struggle for his release well, actually , i was very impressed by how motivated yulia is to do this work with ukrainian advocacy prisoners of war around the world, arseniy is currently being treated and plans to return to the front, a prisoner of war for me and all our other people, he only added additional motivation to continue to fight at the front, and today yulia and arseniy are in the usa at the congress and during other meetings, arseniy tells from his own experience about russian capture and terrorist attack. there are not many people here who are aware of all the events that happened in the same deer park. people are aware of the situation regarding the detention of ukrainian prisoners of war in

russia, and people are very surprised when we we show them footage of what our people look like after capture and we show them footage of what russian military prisoners of war look like after ukrainian capture . it is very strange to me because these are actually the places where i was alone, where i thought about him, where he is like him, and here it is very, very nice that a friend was able to come with him, but on the other hand, i always think of the girls who are still waiting and i also have to help them, if i had certain skills and had certain experience to get everyone out of russian captivity, there are still about 700 defenders of mariupol from the azov battalion tetyana vorozhko dmytro melnyk kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america download the voice of america mobile application, the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read news , watch informational programs and videos , as well as listen to podcasts

of the voice of america service in ukrainian , arseniy fedosyuk of azov told us about his experience in captivity , he also is a graduate of the kyiv-mohyla academy, and his dismissal was a great joy for the mohyla community, for that we will say goodbye, see also our daily briefings at 6 p.m. and on youtube and facebook where you can ask your questions live to my colleagues ostap jaroshi, yarishu and yuliya yarmolenko. thank you for staying with us

. peaceful night, good morning. see you soon . we continue the search for the missing boy, and therefore i am asking for your help. i hope that thanks to your care, it will be possible to find this teenager, his name is aurelio gonza here in this photo he is with his mother, here they are happy and smiling, the family lived in the city of voznesensk, mykolaiv region when this photo was taken, the boy was still studying at school, talking and hanging out with friends, literally living the usual carefree life of a teenager, but in the summer of 2019, everything changed, the life of this family was divided into dota after august 17 in relio, he went missing