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officials say that the leaders will discuss the proposal of the nato secretary general and jens stoltenberg, which allowed the country not to go through the formal application process in an attempt to join nato. this official process on the way to nato is called a road map or action plan, and this is what finland and sweden did not need there are several members of the alliance, especially eastern european ones, to do who believe that ukraine has earned the right to an easier entry and a simplified process of joining nato, the problem here in the matter of time is that there are two large camps in one camp of countries who feel that due to ukraine's persistent struggle for its

sovereignty and not only for its sovereignty but also for the sake of democracy in general it is necessary to provide a guarantee for joining nato and to facilitate the formal process itself, in the other camp are nato members who believe that any promises made to ukraine can further push the russian bear and lead to strengthening tensions between nato russia, some nato members want it to be settled before the summit in vilnius, which will take place in july, but it is currently unclear when nato members will agree on how to move forward with regard to ukraine's potential accession to the alliance , the ukrainian military has intensified operations along the front line and is making steady progress that's how yanstonberg commented on the ukrainian counteroffensive, at the same time the secretary general of nato noted that they are dealing with difficult terrain entrenched by russian troops and tough battles are ahead, what tactics can be

the most effective for the armed forces, will it be possible to disrupt the land corridor between russia and crimea, which runs through the occupied territories, what is the advantage of the ukrainian army over the russian one? and what price will ukraine have to pay? my colleague maria olinovska asked american military experts about all this. er are happening in ukraine at what stage i will not talk in detail although the ukrainian side calls for silence and does not divulge much information kyiv continues deliver pinpoint strikes in the southern and eastern directions along 1,200 km and behind the russian troops. this is the gradual advance in various areas of the front. this is the most profitable tactic for the armed forces

, considering expertise. of experience and this is what i should do, it is not worth attacking the strong defensive points of the russians . it costs lives and equipment. you need to find weak points and use them to your own advantage. everything is very useful confusion max, the ukrainian military confuses the russians and they do not know where and what will happen, in essence, these are formation operations to force the russians to move their forces, withdraw troops from donbas , strengthen the border near belgorod, everyone expected that the ukrainians would advance to melitopol and mariupol, but they attack north and east of of these cities so if we assume that this is exactly how they are going to continue the offensive then at least at this very early stage we see that they are concentrating on the enemy forces to destroy as many as possible

of russian troops at the same time it can also be a diversionary maneuver to force the russians to move their forces to the north and east to protect against these strikes, military analysts assume that ukraine will attack the southeast in an attempt to separate russian troops in the east from russian troops on the crimean peninsula and thus cut off the land corridor that leads from russia to crimea, putin's success is partially ensured by this land corridor, so if the ukrainians can break it, they will break putin's plans, so the next thing will be liberation the rest of the territory and the final expulsion of the russians from ukraine. i think that the way the ukrainians are doing it is fascinating village after village , this will lead to success, but experts warn. it is one thing to liberate the territories, but quite another to hold them, the previous experience of counteroffensive operations in kherson and kharkiv showed that the ukrainians understand this and

are able to hold the liberated cities, in addition , experts warn that the armed forces must be careful about what the russians can do , for example, blowing up the dam in nova kakhovka will not only cause humanitarian and environmental disaster and made it difficult for ukraine to advance in the southern direction if the russians start to lose these territories , tactical nuclear weapons may come into play, another risk that i see is chemical or biological weapons, we know that the russians used them in syria and we cannot discount it, they can use this one in ukraine also has strategic nuclear munitions that they can use maybe this is their last card also probably replenishing the russian army which almost guarantees that they get reinforcements to defend

that land corridor, and the fact that they can attack the kharkiv region again or will attack from crimea cannot be ignored. and although the russian army numerically exceeds the ukrainian armed forces, they have an intellectual advantage on the battlefield, experts believe, because the ukrainians work in small mobile tactical groups led by young proactive leaders who learned to fight according to modern western models. and although at this stage of the war, the ukrainians have the necessary equipment and qualified military personnel to change the successful the counteroffensive experts warn that the struggle will not be easy and may cost many losses . we should not be too optimistic about the success we expect from ukraine this year . to use the opportunities provided by western partners, to be resourceful and creative and to confuse the russians, it is not only

about bradley tanks, it must be a combined offensive, all favorable factors must be used use indirect fire artillery build defenses have engineers who can clear obstacles and build scout crossings logistics etc but even if the russians are defeated on the battlefield russia will continue to fight this war in other ways until it decides it can get better terms through negotiations than military actions, we should all be impressed by the work of the ukrainians and what they have done so far this war will not end this summer, i do not think that it ended even by the end of this year, a lot still needs to be done, just think about 1,200 km of the russian defense belt, not including crimea maria lugenovska oleksiy osika voice of america the united states announced

the allocation of additional humanitarian aid to ukraine in the amount of 205 million dollars, this money will be directed to the provision of critical needs this includes, among other things, food, safe drinking water, education, legal support, asylum , medicine, the total amount of humanitarian aid from the usa this year has already reached more than 600 million dollars in the first days after the destruction of the kakhov hpp, the united states agency for international development handed over 150,000 bottles of water to people from the affected regions, provided rescuers with buses and fuel for evacuation, in addition, the united states provided the kherson waterworks with a mobile purification system that will be able to provide drinking water to 25,000 people a day the director of the usa mission in ukraine, james hob, told my colleague iryna shynkarenko that due to the destruction of the kakhova hpp, almost 800,000 people are at risk of losing access to drinking water with the outflow of large

water needs in flooded areas are not decreasing, he says, but the region faces new challenges, we provide equipment such as pumps so that they can pump water out of buildings, rescue equipment, that is, boats and other things that can help with water rescue, where it is necessary, we provide equipment and then they rescue and pumping operations are underway a lot of assessment work is now underway as the water begins to recede we are getting a better idea of ​​the extent of the destruction and the needs some issues are the number one priority access to of clean drinking water as the water level in the reservoir has dropped to 800,000 people are at risk of losing access to clean drinking water there are also problems related to soil and water pollution as there have been reports of industrial chemicals, petroleum products and other substances contaminating the water supply then the coast is

about impact on the environment, but other areas are also important impact on agricultural land lands that are important for growing crops have now become unusable anti-personnel landmines are a concern. and unexploded ammunition that could have brought the necessary water, so some demining work will be necessary, housing and shelter for displaced people, how to repair many houses in buildings that were damaged by flood waters, and then another area will be infectious diseases every time there is a flood, always there is a risk of infectious diseases when the water recedes when damage is visible the risk of infectious diseases increases ukrainian volunteers who help people in the kherson region after the explosion of the kakhov hpp claim that the russians targeted humanitarian convoys, and former residents of the occupied left bank of the kherson region say that

the russians deliberately prevented the evacuation of people and even forbade escape from the water on tall buildings in the cities after the flooding is no longer interrupted by the ecological disaster about the consequences of the destruction of the hpp spoke with volunteers iryna shinkarenko, a family with five children, a dog, a cat, and ducklings lived for several days in a tent at a bus stop next to their flooded house in they did not want to leave the village of mykhailivka in the mykolaiv region because of the animals that were left at home at the bus stop, they settled down without taking almost anything from their belongings. he keeps them near his land. i really don’t have any information about whether it will be possible to restore their house, because it is still completely under water, and accordingly, its condition is unknown and it is not clear how it will be.

it is necessary for such a life, all the cows were squeezed, and the family was sheltered by the neighbors after the destruction of the kakhova hydroelectric power plant. the volunteers of the vostoksos foundation were able to evacuate and evacuate about 30 people , mostly lonely and those who find it difficult to move around the area. constant shelling from the russian side the fund is convinced that on june 13 , the russians opened fire on their mission, yesterday our humanitarian mission came under fire and we have all reasons to think that the shelling was targeted, we have marked cars that this is humanitarian aid, and according to our husband, not our team, which was in this crew, eh. well, that is , they are sure that there was no one else there and it was an open area, there were only these three cars all marked. the foundation

says that the russians have already begun to allow individual volunteers to the occupied left bank. a former resident of oleshka, whose house was not flooded and the russians moved in, said that in the first days , the occupation authorities detained several volunteers who tried to help the people motor boats that the people had they stole when they were retreating during the great in november , that is, there were few boats left and people in them that were not just with oars, they tried to do something, but what was missing was whether i was too strong, they they couldn't get to those places that were flooded very quickly, they didn't let people into the higher buildings of the school, the administration building, and so on until lunch on the second day , and so on. constantly at these higher buildings and they had to fire at the ukrainian boats that tried to come from the other side to help

. tragedies are becoming more and more visible, residents continue to find bodies of the dead on the entire right bank, currently about 10 victims are known, but on the left bank, only in oleshka, only those who 69 have now been identified, and that is why the scale of the disaster on the left bank is bigger because volunteers were not allowed there, there were recorded cases of shootings directly at the evacuation boats, a woman who was pregnant at the time was killed and tried to evacuate naked from the pier the office of the prosecutor general of ukraine has launched an investigation into the fact of violation of the laws and customs of war combined with intentional killing

after the shelling of an evacuation boat from the left bank of the kherson region on june 11. more than 20 people were killed and more than 20 people were injured, meanwhile , with the water level dropping, residents of both banks have new problems in the city, the smell is simply terrible, because all this water, when it was flowing, it is not clean river water, there are sewage treatment plants, everything that was with it it brought it all it all settled on the houses on the trees the trees are black according to the water level what was it and it is all hot it stinks most of the people must be in such a state of shock because they saw the bodies of dogs and pets that died now we are even trying to figure it out on our own, what to do with the bodies and animals that have died. yes, that is also for us. this is a question

. drinking water , disinfectants, thousands of families after flooding have no electricity and gas, the greatest need for special equipment is various conditions, suction generators , and pumps that work with dirty water, and so on. volunteers say that while they are trying to help people after the destruction of the hydroelectric power plant, the shelling from the russians does not abate. if they used to fire according to an approximate schedule, now the attacks are chaotic, so living and helping after the flooding has become even more difficult. has to meet with high-ranking chinese officials. andriy sees it as an attempt to improve relations between the two countries

. although they doubt that it will have any results, because washington and beijing continue pursue a policy aimed at counteracting each other's influence, meanwhile, china has lost a significant amount of its wheat crop after several weeks of torrential rains, experts have already spoken about china's needs to increase grain imports, which may be reflected in the world grain market china is one of the largest importers of ukrainian grain as a crop failure in china may affect iryna matviychuk learned about global and ukrainian grain exports. a chinese farmer inspects his rain-flooded wheat fields to see if there is any wheat left. although the weather is not good for harvesting a good harvest this year, farmers are working very hard, all wheat grains have sprouted, people are very worried about hanan province, which is located in the east of the central part of china, is experiencing unusual for this region

, prolonged heavy rains, about a third of all the wheat consumed by china is produced here. however , high humidity caused the early germination of grain from which only low -quality flour unfit for humans can be produced this year we have exceptionally late and heavy rains in most of the northern winter belt wheat, if the rains come too late or too close to the harvest period, it is harmful, it affects it, it leads to germination and the formation of mycotoxins, i.e., mold, such wheat cannot be used for human consumption. khinany is the largest province that produces grain, this region suffers the most, but other provinces also have problems except moreover, the marshy soil requires special agricultural machinery, which farmers lack not at all . we have tracked harvesters, but there are many of them.

it is impossible to gather the main cause of this bad weather, besides, after harvesting, the wheat will not dry quickly, it will inevitably start to rot, we could not harvest this crop at all , in order to avoid the crisis, the chinese government called for emergency measures in agriculture, in particular, obliged state contractors to buy wheat from farmers of lower quality at higher market prices , wheat imports in china are already increasing. last year, it was one of the largest in the world, and import volumes are increasing. if there is a bad harvest and we are still investigating losses, it is likely that china will have to increase its imports next year this will obviously have an impact on world prices and world markets china imports about 20 million tons of corn around ten million tons of barley and up to 12 million tons of wheat for agricultural countries this is a very attractive market says in an interview with the voice american president of the ukrainian grain association mykola gorbachev china is among the countries

that import the most grains from ukraine, therefore , according to gorbachev, beijing is very interested in the continuation of the black sea grain agreements which ensure the export of grain to china, very large ships are coming, we will send there ships of 50-70,000 tons in order to be at least somehow competitive on that market, therefore china is the number one country that will be interested in extending the sea corridor because the most grain as well as before the war and during the war, she went to china . today, ukraine and china have signed protocols for the export of corn and barley and grain meal to china . ukraine cannot yet export wheat to china . if there is a greater demand for grain in china, then it is clear that it is closer and logistically cheaper to use asian countries such as australia, therefore australia

is the number one competitor in the chinese market for us , but how does the asian grain market look like this year will also experience bad weather and prolonged rains, according to scientists , the el niño peak weather phenomenon which falls this and next year will bring warm currents to the surface of the eastern part of the pacific ocean, which usually leads to an increase in precipitation in this part of the world, in particular, it will affect the countries of the world grain exporters such as australia and indonesia iryna matviychuk kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america and finally, let's try art new york metropolitan opera not only organizes concerts and campaigns in support of ukraine, but also for the first time in its history invited four ukrainians for internships since march, cultural managers with ukraine

cultural managers studied the work of one of the best and most famous theater institutions in the world, their history, experience and plans on how they will implement the acquired knowledge in ukraine shared with iryna solomko and pavlo terekhov oksana yezhovskaya is 22 years old, she is the youngest of the four interns who completed the metropolit practice at the izhevsk opera before the honey , worked for the youth symphony orchestra of ukraine, the other two interns andrii sitarski and alina plakhtienko at the lviv opera mariana taska at the dovzhenko center in me this metal that i am organizing an orchestral tour. i am still new to this kind of experience. i am now interacting with all the processes that take place in them in dirt-casing and operas and i am also studying everything as they do. that is, everyone interview, how do they organize it, working in the artistic department gave me the opportunity that i simply did not have time for at the lviv opera, that

is, to see how the opera theater works in general, in the smallest details, from the castings , here i was at the auditions of ballet dancers yesterday before they work with artists and for some larger-scale things, and for me , the marketing department is headed by geely braila, who is my supervisor, here peter has a large office, there are several different level of assistants, which is the threshold of the external examination, and there is also top management nearby who is sitting to get to me, then these four had to compete with several hundred candidates, one of the stages of the competition is all about my own motivation. i was just trying to tell my story, how i came to the world of opera i told her that it was my dream since

i was 15 years old, that since i first entered the opera house. i want to be involved in it, i want to work, i want to dedicate my life to it. peter help, general director of the metropolitan opera and one of the initiators of this for young cultural managers from ukraine, says that the purpose of the internship is precisely to strengthen ukrainian cultural institutions, this is work in various departments of communication and marketing in my office to understand this whole system and network and i hope they get useful experience with which they will return to their theaters of ukraine cultural management courses prevail and not separately specialty, the first discovery that i made for myself here is unexpectedly simple, that here, just like in my native lviv opera , it is all done by people with the only small

difference that here is much more. maryana tanska, who works as a program manager at the dovzhenko center, says that it was important for her to learn how to better work with the audience, how they relate to the fact that the audience is the main thing and we have to make sure that he i came here again, 4,000 seats. six performances in a week. hmmm, there is a day off from monday, conditionally when there is no performance, but it is still a weekend because there are rehearsals, and it is necessary that every day, and on saturdays - that's twice a day. 3,000 people came here people's sitar lviv national opera is responsible for marketing is impressed by the integrated approach of the cultural product method ecosystem and opera houses in the united states are completely different and

accordingly the challenges what they face and how meticulously they approach communication with the audience is so meticulous. they approach the satisfactory experience of the audience visits by the audience of the performances. how well is the visual communication, that is , the promotion, the daily promotion of everything that we , the operator of the subway, do ? during her survival, oksana gizhovska helped the orchestra of the subway opera to prepare for the european tour . this will be the first kestre tournament since 2011. there are certain rules for crossing the border for orchestras, in particular, which each orchestra must take into account when situations when he goes somewhere, the situation of crossing the border for musicians from america to europe is not easy, and they even needed certain parts of their instruments or their badges, strings for musicians, and

you just had to go to the master at home and pick up certain materials because, for example, i instruments that cannot be transported across the border , for example, there are kangaroo skins, if you have a very expensive bow and you really have such a thing in your bow, then you just have to go and take it from your bow, so 300 musicians practiced in the last three months, in addition to knowledge and experience, thai adds, it was important to see with my own eyes the support of americans and their respect for ukrainian defenders , on the initiative of peter gelb , ukrainian veterans who are undergoing rehabilitation and prosthetics in new york were invited to opera events. they can imagine this feeling when you see and when our defenders sit in the most expensive seats in the general manager's box, when the general manager comes out , i announce them from the stage, and when our flags are hanging in the hall, when the whole hall stands up for a minute

stands applauding our defenders, it is worth being here for this alone, in addition to experience, the interns return with contacts of the world's leading cultural managers, they hope that in the future this will help them create joint successful projects to increase the presence of ukrainian culture in the usa and american culture in ukraine from new york iryna solomko pavlo terekhov voice of america and that's the end of it thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian see you next week good luck take care papa we are looking for 15-year-old nastya liponova and her 17-year-old sister oleksandra. the girls disappeared

in mariupol on the first day of the full-scale war on february 24. last year, they are still missing, so i am asking everyone who sees me to look carefully at the photo of the girls , remember these face, if anyone has suddenly seen the liponov sisters or knows where they may be, do not delay and call us on the hotline of the magnolia children's search service at the short number 116,000, calls from any ukrainian mobile operator are free of charge, or write i also want to remind you that the search for 16-year-old serhiy samoilov from mariupol in the chatbot of the child search service in telegram is also ongoing. his mother said that on the very first day of the full-scale war, they were very restless. every hour, the situation only worsened rapidly due to the bombing . the family was hiding in the basement, but shelling was far from the only problem of internet residents of mariupol