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we will liberate ukraine. your name on the pages of victory will watch the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america from time to time i am natalya leonova congratulations republican senator graham and democrat senator richard humenthal call to recognize the nuclear threat against ukraine is a threat to all nato countries , accordingly, the legislators' resolution was presented today in the congress, in addition, the senators call on the biden administration to provide ukraine with all the necessary weapons, including high -range missiles, according to the legislators, the atakams counseled on provoking putin exhausted itself back in 2014, every new day when putin is continuing this war - this is escalation , the senators said in response to the question of our journalist kateryna lisunova, we are not trying to invade russia we

we are trying to force russia to leave ukraine without using the american military, so if you don't want to use forces on the ground, and i don't want that, then give them the resources to hit the pigs as hard as possible within the territory of ukraine, ethics will work better than himers, himers were effective, tanks were effective, that's why we need f16 to have better air defense for ukrainian forces on the ground every time we prepare to send a significant reinforcement they say these things focus on the result the result is to drive the russians out of ukraine to stabilize the world, and there is no question of repeating it to russia. and now it is about the fact that if they use nuclear weapons in an attempt to change the course of the war, they will not change the course of the war in ukraine, but will enter the war against nato . let's go back to 2014, when i was on the arms committee then we called for lethal weapons to be given to kyiv, the response from

the administration and then it was president obama no, because we do not want to provoke russia , the invasion happened anyway and it was a response to the invasion in 2014 now it is about the invasion of 2022 every step of the way there is fear and it is irrational as it turns out it is unfounded that vladimir putin will somehow escalate the situation and every day that this war continues is a day that he escalates the war he attacks infrastructure destroying dams causing disease crop loss this is escalation 60 billion euros were promised to kyiv by the participants of the conference on the restoration of ukraine in london , the minister of foreign affairs of great britain, james cleverly, stated this during the final plenary meeting of the ukrainian delegation, prime minister denys shmyhal announced the formation of an international

coalition for investments in ukraine by ukraine, which, according to him, has already been joined by 400 international companies . right now i congratulate you bohdan , you carefully followed the main statements of the participants, what are the main results of this conference, what new opportunities did it open for ukraine, i will allow myself to repeat that probably one of the main results of such conferences as this in london, there is still a manifestation of solidarity with ukraine , solidarity for the long term, because not everything can be measured in money, not all promises are fulfilled, and the numbers are called different because they refer to individual projects and different time periods and sometimes they are repeated, which

eventually accumulates and turns into a big mixture, but the numbers allow , let's say, to form an idea of ​​what happened . meeting in london, we did not anticipate that this would be a conference on collecting contributions, nevertheless, today at this conference we can announce a total amount of 60 billion euros to support ukraine, so i especially welcome the eu's announcement of 50 billion euros of budget support for ukraine over the next three years, backed by a guarantee of the holy bank in the amount of 3 billion us dollars for the same period , this provides medium-term predictable support that unlocks the macroeconomic stability that ukraine now needs and

of course it was about unlocking of the huge potential of the private sector, bohdan we heard all the optimistic statements of minister klevan, nevertheless, the war is still going on, and obviously the question arises, what warnings were expressed by the participants in the discussion, or in their opinion , the reconstruction is already now, natalya, everyone i talked to and almost everyone i heard here in london they said that this is how reconstruction should take place, because it is obvious that if a house destroyed by a rocket or a russian bomb is left unrepaired, then people will have nowhere to live, if the power plants are not repaired, then winter is coming and they will again there are problems with electric current, but there are also long-term tasks and needs and obligations, in particular, from the side of ukraine, about which the voice of america interlocutor spoke today

, the deputy minister of economy of ukraine , we feel that business wants to invest more than investments come in. yes, and we need this, this gap, yes to somehow close the fact that the business really says it needs a stable regulatory environment, i.e. for the rules to change, although at the same time the business wants reforms, wants changes, wants simplification, and wants clear ones rules and these two wishes are a little in conflict, but it is our task in ukraine to solve them so that business can invest in bohdane .

in london, i think they obviously heard how it will be implemented, obviously time will tell the named priorities, again, there was a lot of talk about energy, as i already said, and again , the ukrainian representative, the deputy minister of the economy in a conversation with the voice of america today , uh, he put certain accents , i suggest listening to him again . this is, of course, the energy sector and the green transition here plays the main role. ukraine will be a supplier of green energy for europe and for itself, and will also be a great leader of the green industry and produce carbonized goods, such as

green steel, and i can replace russia with the european market does not need steel, which emits carbon, but green with the help of energy, infrastructure is also very necessary as a strategic sector, because of course we are integrating with the eu and we need to rebuild our infrastructure and we will have a powerful military military complex in order to actually protect ourselves and europe under russia , bohdane, while the allies are discussing the restoration of ukraine, russia continues to destroy ukrainian cities and its civilian objects , currently president zelensky warned that russia is considering the scenario of the terrorist act at the occupied zaporizhia npp, you know, i spoke with a representative of the united nations organization, which is accused of insufficient reaction to the terrorist actions of russia. what did you hear from him? speaking of my conversation with the representative of the un, i

was primarily interested in two questions . to say personally, how does this e-e work in the un , in fact, in the organization where russia is represented in leading positions in the un, in the un security council with the right of veto, and it is also represented in all agencies, in particular auxiliary ones are also working on the territory of ukraine, and this un official, so to speak, claimed to me that when it comes to specific issues, for example , the un development program that he heads , russia has only one vote out of almost two hundred and cannot, say to decide whether to block aid or to direct it somewhere where the russians have their ideas and have a desire, he also spoke about

the fact that the problem of un access to the territory controlled by russia and occupied by russia, in particular in the south of ukraine , regarding the criticism of, as he said recently the ukrainian president about the lack of large international organizations. did this representative of the un have a certain explanation for the situation? please, let's talk about the scale of destruction and problems that no single agency can cope with on its own . the second thing is that we should never reject criticism if we are not able to live up to our own expectations or those of our partners. but in the case of the kakhovka dam, i think there was also a small misunderstanding because, in fact , several of our un agencies started working within a few hours

there on the ground they supplied water they even tried to participate in the rescue operation very frankly in the war there are moments when organizations fail , be it state institutions or international partners, but i do not want to leave any ukrainian in doubt about our dedication and determination even if they cannot match by the determination of the ukrainians themselves last week i met many people in ukraine, i understand what an existential moment for ukraine, but i also say that we are actually making a great contribution and the un development program has been part of ukraine's development path for 20 years now we are moving to a completely different set of measures to ensure the fastest possible recovery and reconstruction here are the encouraging words we heard from the representative of him thank you bohdan for your detailed story thank you for keeping us up to date with the latest news from europe with us our european correspondent bohdan tsyupan was in direct contact

, monitoring the progress of the international conference on the restoration of ukraine in london, and we are moving on, the men went to the front in their place women became displaced persons in 2017. as part of the rehabilitation program for ato soldiers, two veterans founded a social enterprise for the production of honey desserts in shepetivka, khmelnytskyi region, when the large-scale invasion began, the founders and employees went to defend the motherland again , now the products are produced by displaced persons, how they manage to sell their goods in the story and what they help tetyana kukurika and serhiy rybchynskyi will tell the armed forces that the girls will be making honey with hazelnuts and cranberries, not on lebedev

moved to shepetivka from mykolaiv in march. last year in april, olena babenko arrived in the city from lysychansk, luhansk oblast. first my family left, then we took my parents, my brother and his family, in general, this family in this place, well, the roads were closed, and when they opened, they blocked the road then people started to leave, they had to leave very often to mykolaiv . in principle, i was never afraid of changing professions and directions. i am interested in the honey social cooperative enterprise, they have a front in shepetivka

. it was founded in 2017 by two ato veterans as a project to promote the return to peaceful life of combatants. they also decided to start a honey business . but yes since already at that time there were producers of honey desserts on the market, they decided to direct them to the gift segment, that is, they didn't just pour honey over nuts there. and to make it good, it's worth tasting, at first nine families worked at the enterprise of veterans of the ato in 2022, the founders and other veteran workers went to the front, and friends took up business and involved immigrants. and such red checks made 90% of our workers are immigrants. why? well, because these are the people who found themselves in difficult, let's say , more difficult life situations and we give priority to them in december. last year, the business won a government grant in the amount

of 250,000 hryvnias. with these funds, they purchased a dryer and purchased such a dryer. it does the same thing in 5.5 hours, that is, this 18 it is 5.5 you can honey business is seasonal workers say in winter the demand is greater in the summer insignificant a lot of problems appeared with the beginning of the russian invasion the issue of supply of raw materials logistics and the main issue is the sale of products because we work uh very often, well, as much as possible with gift to such a segment and now if only gifts were less timely or than usual because , well, people's priorities have changed with the war , jars are placed here, a candle can be sent to the military to the front i really

want to go home how dear you are to a person very much i want to go home i miss a lot, well, first of all, i really want victory this is my dream, our victory and home finds her first job there ksenia turkova met ukrainians who moved to washington quite recently and are now learning english nataliya an expert in training volunteer teachers at the washington center in english still can't believe her luck english teacher owner of one of the best language schools in ukraine due to the war she lost everything to the outskirts of her native chernihiv russian troops approached natalya with small children ended up in france and then

under the united program for ukraine came to the united states. when i came here, i was already there. i understood that, well, i'll be there. i don't know what i 'll do. i'll be there washing dishes. i'm ready for that's all, but i will never be a teacher there again. natalya sent dozens of resumes to language schools in washington and quite quickly received not just an answer, but also a job offer . founded 30 years ago as a non-profit organization, a few local residents decided to help refugees from central america , now immigrants from more than a hundred

countries study here, and more than eight hundred volunteer teachers with their community they connect with people from all over the world and they also feel that they are giving washington dc a very welcoming face especially considering where so many of our students come from they don't necessarily choose to be here but they left because of conflicts or economic problems, and that is why the volunteers really want them to feel that they are welcomed and supported here. whatever they want to do , the invalid oleksandra ukrainka has been working as an accountant here for six months in her homeland . in order to get a job, she needs good english i studied english i studied english at school, of course at the university it was a long time ago 20 years ago, so i can read and write but the problem with this is speaking but lubomyr from kolomyia never taught english at all, but this does not bother him at all in the center of english language, he already started the second semester of study, i started learning the alphabet literally four months ago, english, how

are we doing now on the street, we communicate, we will speak freely in everyday life, we communicate, he thinks that he is pronouncing something wrong, but me they understand and i understand, this is a big plus for me. that is, i will not become a writer with shakespeare, but in order to communicate with people. i think it is good. crimean olga admits that the english that was once taught in her homeland is not at all similar to the one spoken here in the united states . of course, when you are not here in your own country, you think that you speak english very well, but when you actually arrive and start talking to people who don't speak like your teachers, but like real people

, you realize that you are still at the very beginning the most difficult part of my study was hearing people speak english, i.e. even now, i still can't hear everything because many americans, first of all, have their own accent, and secondly, they speak very quickly due to stress and heavy workload. i go to work and towards the end of the day i get tired, apparently, and a woman turned to me and said : i think she is speaking in spanish, or i do not understand at all what language i asked her to repeat again, please, she repeats and i i say do you speak english at all and she says i speak english i say excuse me please i am very sorry i am very sorry to give students the opportunity to get used to different accents teachers change all the time volunteers work online offline for two hours a week so during the week

the student listens to eight different teachers some of them speak loudly like me and some of them are very quiet some of them are older or younger maybe they are from the south or you know from massachusetts and therefore the students hear a wide variety of accents and pronunciation means courses in the center are paid, but many students received a scholarship that covers their studies, the management says that they always go to meet those who now cannot afford even a small contribution, and i want to say to all ukrainians that well, no matter what, life goes on, maybe in some case, more it's just beginning for someone. that's why you need to believe in yourself, in your own strength , don't define yourself, but the main thing is to understand that everything is possible. that is, it's still not the end. ksenia turkova bohdan osyka washington ukrainian musicians and composers lead their struggle against russian

aggression, some as the conductor of the kherson music and drama theater yuriy karpenko, who refused to cooperate with the occupiers , gave his life in this struggle, some write music or actively tour iryna solomko and pavlo terekhov in new york talked with the family of ukrainian musicians oleksandr and alla rodinovy and their daughter, they told how the war divided their family and in general affected the world of academic music, this cosmic melody for the young ukrainian violinist raisa was written by her famous father ukrainian composer oleksandr family family ukrainian musical family oleksandr's wife alla is a famous opera and chamber singer she was a soloist of the national support of ukraine for 13 years oleksandr was actively writing music and in february 2022 he was preparing for the premiere of his

opera kateryna at the odesa opera, so in february we had rehearsals and it was on february 24 that there was supposed to be a big press conference and everything, and in the morning we already started these explosions, but the director called and said that the war had started and that we were going to kyiv despite the war the premiere at the odesa opera took place in september of last year. for a few months, it turned out that all this work is simply pointless , no one needs it, and it doesn't solve anything. all these ideals of humanism and so on, nothing works. that's why it was difficult, well. then you know the ukrainian people. he i gathered myself together very much, and you know, it happened that, on the contrary, you have to work as much as you can, if there is darkness, then you have to work. there is light and defeat this topic. at the same time, in the fall, the family made a difficult decision. and now

daughter flees from the war to the united states , where her mother has been living for a long time. new york in the morning was programmed to be very close to the explosions, you know when my child is somewhere far from me and it all seems like i then decided to leave after all, so the family ended up on different sides of the atlantic. oleksandr continues to create, he says from the very beginning, everything was not easy including due to the lack of light and heat, however, ukrainian composers have already written a number of works about the war of families, he says that this music is special, it is about the feeling of freedom, he dedicated one of his works to tango freedom, the conductor of the kherson

music and drama theater, yury karpatenko , the occupiers killed him because he refused there is a recording to cooperate with them. where is this conductor? well, who was he? he plays the bayana by himself . he plays the piazza libertange with his orchestra in kherson, and this idea came up, that is, to make a live orchestra, that is, my work and inside

insert this video from the beginning of the full-scale war, according to the composer, there is an increased attention to ukrainian culture in general and music in particular to families, for example, he received an order for the production of his two ballets in the baltic theaters in the first days of the war, my phone was simply red because they called me asking for a score , i asked for sheet music wanted to perform from different countries and from america and from europe and from japan , there were many concerts and many performances all over the world, this is such a certain impetus, well , i will say for composers because now really they work a lot, i would really like to know that when this war ends, so that this interest in ukrainian music does not disappear while oleksandr creates in ukraine, gets arrested in the usa, a talented violinist is accepted to one of the most prestigious music schools in the usa for gifted children, about the kaufman music center, on the way to school every day and home but spends up to six hours with my daughter. i

really like it here already at the new school because i have a good violin teacher now. i am very glad that i joined him at first it was it's hard, well, not pretty, but now it's better and friends have somehow started to appear, but he continues to work with his ukrainian students from the united states, but in addition to teaching, he is trying to conquer the new york chamber scene, when oleksandr had the opportunity to come to his family in the united states for a few days , activists from the ukrainian community helped the family arrange a concert for me , a concert is always such and such a performance, it is not just a set of some works for me, it is such a lived

life, and when i saw this hall and i offered offered offered here a concert i immediately had the idea of ​​a program mainly french impressionist composers because this place is a club of artists soul soul power of water family hopes that the first concert is just the beginning of a new american stage and career as a singer she says she already has ideas for a new concert with a ukrainian program, but her main dream is for the war to end as soon as possible and for the family to be together again with new york iryna solomko pavlo terekhov voice of america watch the program of the ukrainian voice service america time also joins our daily briefings from monday to friday

at 18:00 kyiv time on youtube and facebook live. you can ask your questions to our presenters yulia yarmolenko and ostap yarysh. thank you for trusting the ukrainian service of the voice of america. i am natalia lonova , have a peaceful night and a peaceful morning . we are looking for a 15-year-old ilupolischuk from mariupol, imagine the fate of this boy, for