[000:00:00;00] told you about similar stories, so that in april 22nd of the year, the russian military kidnapped and held captive for 90 days the sixteen-year-old vlad the beet . there was blood. we also talked about the story of 17-year-old andrii kachanovsky, this guy was kidnapped by the russians in the mykolaiv region and he stayed in captivity for over a month. when they arrived, the soldiers came and said where your sons are not sleeping, look here they put handcuffs on them, they got out on the run, who gave them things, they succeeded quickly, the handcuffs now twisted their handcuffs, they threw the car like a sack of potatoes, fortunately, vlad buryak and andriy kachanovsky managed to be released from captivity, and to a large extent thanks to publicity and public resonance, such stories are really very important not to

be silenced and draw attention to them in every possible way , i also want to note that if you know about any crime against a child, in particular about abduction or deportation, do not remain indifferent and immediately report it to the police or report to our site stopcrime ua, you can do it even anonymously. also, i ask you to go to the website of the child search service and look at the faces of the boys and girls who are wanted, if you recognize someone, please contact us on the hotline by short number 116,000 of all mobile operators in ukraine are free, we have created a resource thanks to which you can report any crime against a child in any place at any

time, just go to the site and report and we let's launch all possible mechanisms to punish the criminal stopkray.ua. i welcome the ukrainian voice of america program on the air. i am its host ostap yarysh. the placement of explosives at a gas station and the presence of russian military personnel there directly threaten a nuclear incident at the largest nuclear power plant in europe. this was announced by the ukrainian foreign ministry there called on the international community to take immediate measures on their part, experts from an international agency and the ministry of energy have asked for additional access to check whether there are mines at the zaporozhye station, in particular on the roof

the third and fourth blocks, however, according to the head of the municipality, rafael grossi, in the last days and weeks, the inspectors of the agency did not notice any traces of explosives at the gas station, during our last inspections we did not notice any mining activity, but we remain extremely vigilant , as is known. a few weeks ago and there are battles very close to the station, so we cannot relax and will constantly inform and give updated data, but poland and italy urge nato partners to provide ukraine with real security guarantees without waiting for kyiv's possible accession to the alliance, the prime minister of the country, as well as morovetskyi and giorgia meluni, stated this during the visit of the italian prime minister to warsaw, the statement was made on the eve of the summit in vilnius, at which kyiv hopes to receive a strong signal about joining the alliance in the future championship in vilnius will be held by nato and poland and italy have a similar, if

not identical, position on providing ukraine with the strongest security guarantees, we know very well that passivity with regard to ukraine would be something extremely dangerous, this is a bit of a no-brainer, it means that we will be by ukraine's side as long as it is needed and we will support it comprehensively, and this also applies to the nato meeting in vilnius, and we fully agree with poland on the need for real security guarantees for of ukraine, in particular, and because the provision of real security guarantees for ukraine is the key language for achieving a just and lasting peace in the future . to the alliance, some western experts offer their version of the agreement, where in the event of kyiv joining nato, the principle of collective defense would apply only to the territories

under the control of kyiv, dmytro kolchynskyi will continue. invaded the east of the country, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, called on nato to speed up consideration of ukraine's application at the summit to be held next week. we need at the vilnius summit a very clear a clear signal that ukraine can become and has the right to become an equal member of nato after the war. ukraine's demand is supported by several nato members, in particular great britain, poland and the baltic countries, i.e. world. we all understand that now that ukraine is in the midst of war, it cannot immediately join nato. they understand it, but it is necessary to create a corridor of procedures, an algorithm

for how to act if the war ends or when conditions allow. yes, we have some countries that are cautious about tougher formulations regarding the prospects of ukraine, but even if we are talking about this country, i see a certain shift in the minds of the leaders of these countries, and i hope that we will still have about a week to make the text of the conclusions as strong as possible . in the field, and this is a very important factor, but some allies of the panat, in particular the united states and germany, have not yet approved the accelerated membership of ukraine, there is a question, for example, how the fifth article of nato on collective self-defense will be to apply to a country that is at war with russia, the island, one can imagine an agreement where article 5 will apply only to undisputed or free ukrainian territories, those under the control of kyiv, while

those that are disputed either by military means or politically and diplomatically will remain outside the scope of article 5 that's why i think it's a more realistic scenario, but that's why i think the argument is to say let's start this process in vilnius dmytro kolchynsky voice of america these are the opinions of experts and officials, but the ukrainian volunteer and director of the fund will return alive. why does taras think that the best security guarantee for ukraine is its armed forces before the nato summit, among other things? he also expects accelerated decisions on providing ukraine with modern western aviation. why did taras say this? on the air of our voice of america briefing program, it seems to me quite qualitatively as the president that we need such an understanding of the guarantee and how this

process will take place, this scenario that you voiced, so what what is happening to those cities that are bombarded by the russians, nato will cover them with its troops, whatever will happen, and we are talking about the fact that while ukraine is at war, this is a formal chanson, we do not need something conditional , we need real guarantees for today , the main guarantee is the armed forces, i would say that we are already compatible, secondly, if we are talking about the so-called nato standards , let's look at which countries are nato members, which i am now, how far they meet these standards, it seems that even before the full-scale invasion, we were at the same level of the average nato member country on the practical level of tactical compatibility . let's face it, a lot has changed over the years, and of course, a large mobilization, a big war, it imposes its negative uh, well, a negative goal on this

process, because a little bit of declines, but at the same time well, nobody has that experience that we have, we are the only nato countries that in recent decades have had a war with a stronger opponent and we are conducting it successfully. they said that before the nato summit they want to demonstrate the results on the battlefield, instead of reviewing that some western media wrote that the counteroffensive seems to be going slowly and that they expected more results from it , taras shmut is convinced that such statements are at least incompetent. i can advise the audience to come to ukraine and show how to attack, for example or stop giving an assessment of what they understand absolutely nothing about, or finally understand that the war that ukraine is waging in the world has not been

for many decades and the enemy with which is fighting in ukraine, he is absolutely not weak, and to expect some kind of show here or as it is shown in the movie is absolutely ridiculous, because every method of this land and this country seems to cause huge losses and huge bloodshed, it interferes with ukraine because people who do not understand what a real war is from ukraine even give an assessment of how we need to fight, but completely not understanding that this creates unnecessary questions - this is the story of some unfulfilled expectation that cannot be realized because in our city that density of naming no army is standing, and the question here is not that we are advancing slowly. we don't want to attack this offensive with our military , that's why we're doing it slowly, that's why we're doing it carefully, that's why we're trying to minimize

losses, but we're advancing every day. meanwhile, ukraine for the first time, it was included in the un report on children in armed conflicts as a country that poses a danger to children, the most serious violations were also recorded in the congo, syria , afghanistan, and other countries . let's talk more about this topic with our un correspondent iryna solomko iryna i congratulate you thank you for joining if we are talking now about ukraine in the context of this report then what facts have been provided now greetings ostap and yes this is the annual report of the un secretary general which is dedicated specifically to children with weapons in kits but it was published back in at the end of june, but today the security council gathered for an open debate specifically dedicated to this topic, and of course, despite the fact that in general this report covers 26 conflicts or 26 countries, in essence, ukraine, of course, and despite the fact that it was only included in this report

for the first time last year, a lot of attention was paid, and in particular, if we talk about data, according to the un data , we are talking about the fact that 136 children were killed, 518 were maimed, and russian troops , accordingly, carried out 480 attacks on schools and hospitals, as well as 91 times ukrainian children were used simply as human shields , but the ukrainian armed forces also got it , this report says that they were 80 children, 175 were maimed and also carried out 112 attacks on schools and hospitals, but not quite it is clear. and that is, it is the region that we are talking about and what are the circumstances according to these facts, and most of the speakers mentioned in their reports not just in their personal reports, not just this report. and exactly ukraine, because it is not currently, this is the largest conflict. now you can hear part of the speech of the deputy to the permanent representative of the usa at the un, someone has a day off, guys, and of course we cannot

talk about the impact of conflicts on children without discussing russia's war against ukraine, the war that russia chose, military personnel, members of the armed forces of russia and its officials committed crimes against humanity , including against children, representatives of the russian forces executed ukrainian men, women and children, and together with other russian officials deported to russia hundreds of thousands of peaceful ukrainian citizens, including children who were forcibly separated from their families these actions are not random or spontaneous they are part of a large-scale and systematic attack on the civilian population of ukraine russian troops continue to attack areas where children are clearly present in particular, schools, hospitals and residential buildings, this harsh reality serves as a sharp reminder of the urgency and need to strengthen the international community regarding

the protection of children and of the extremely important need for all states to respect international law and the principles enshrined in iryna's status if ukraine is now included in the list of countries where for children there is a danger that russia and its mercenaries were included in the global list of aggressors due to the murders and injuries of ukrainian children, the so-called list of shame , how did russian representatives react to this yes, ostapa, in fact. this is an extremely important step for the secretary general, and because the entry into this list means that now the security council can even enter the stations in relation to these parties, and in order to be exclusively from this list, one must sign a certain action plan in order to to stop the violation and only after it is fulfilled accordingly, the party can be excluded, and from this list, of course , the russian ambassador vasyl na bandi. he was very

critical and so categorical in evaluating these he was very critical of the secretary general's actions, who in fact included the russian armed forces and their mercenaries in this list, but vasyl was surprised why the ukrainian armed forces were not included in this list, and he just said that for this it was necessary to have the courage, they say, there is no such courage, that is why there is such injustice towards the russian armed forces, but besides that, he spoke. peaceful children of peaceful donbass about the fact that for a very long time the international community did not pay attention to this and, accordingly, he also asked the case of vysochan, where , according to him, the ukrainian military raped children, respectively, in school basements . at the end, he spoke about the fact that

the collective event that supplies weapons and which, accordingly, is ukrainian children, is responsible for the murder of these children, but the answer of the representatives of this collective event was very direct and without appeal now you can is to hear that the first permanent member of this council, the russian federation, is said to be responsible for more than 1,200 gross violations against children. this list, which is based on reliable un data, is the tip of the iceberg. i am only one way. the way that can end the suffering of ukrainian children is to stop the illegal invasion of russia. we will continue to support the efforts of the government of ukraine to protect their children and return them home after forced deportation to russia. and what do the representatives of ukraine say in this context about the protection of children? yes, they are actually given to the un.

are not complete, and according to ukrainian data, they are in fact almost twice as much as what was announced in the report , and the protest serhiy kislytsia, speaking, said that in fact he called on the international community to continue the pressure on russia to stop its aggression, to withdraw the troops, because in fact this is the only such an effective means to protect ukrainian children from being killed and so beautified by the ostaps iryna i thank you for your inclusion iryna solomko joined us with the un headquarters evacuation from under shelling, the distribution of humanitarian aid and the rescue of people from villages that were flooded due to the explosion of the kakhova hydroelectric power plant, all this fell on the shoulders of kherson volunteer denys fedek, volunteering became his daily duty after february 24, 2022, on this day, the russians shot his entire family, since then the man devoted his time to rescue other people from the russians , he told ani kostyuchenko and pavel

suhodolskyi about his personal tragedy and the current war. almost the entire family of the volunteer denys fedko was shot by the russians during attempts to evacuate on february 24 last year 17-13 i just got a phone call from my mother and i heard everything that happened, how the cars were driving, father, mother, brother, wife and brother, two children, sofiyka, six and a half years old, and vanya, 1.5 months old, started shooting at sonia was hit by the car, i understood it. i screamed at mom and ira, my god, the child, and then there were machine guns in the queue, they were just getting them, the little one was tearing up, screaming until that moment, until there was such a dull shot, in general, at the car with the fedko family, russian soldiers

fired more than 40 bullets, says the man denis i hoped in vain that you would live, at least the children. i could not believe that it was possible to kill a 1.5-month-old child. denis cannot visit the graves of his relatives, they were buried in occupied novaya kakhovka. after this personal tragedy, denis left a small private business and devoted himself to volunteering. who is alive there? well, this day we are working, working hard, doing it after the explosion of the kakhova hydroelectric power station. denis was one of the first to start rescuing the population from the flooded villages. you are asking so that it will not

be cut off. yes, there will be enough food for them later . the man, together with other volunteers, delivered water to the local forces, because there the water stopped. unsuitable for use, everyone is working together, volunteers are still distributing humanitarian aid in the villages of the kherson region, one of these villages , ingulets, accepts temporarily displaced persons from the left bank of the dnieper, says a local the head, 52-year-old ihor laky, so so good, for the distribution of humanitarian aid from volunteers, the villagers are gathered in small groups because they are afraid of shelling by the russians, the man explains, and we take them under the trees so that the drones fly so that there are no nuances of arrival and there are no nuances in one place we try not to gather a lot of people because that bellies are arriving with consequences every day . ingulets himself was under russian occupation until

november. last year , less than half of the two thousand people in the village remained, says the head , because the husband was taken to the basement after how they were tortured and psychologically and physically after that, the greater honor left and the children, a lot of children left well, at the moment, they are slowly returning , definitely denis is also helping to evacuate people from the kherson villages, which are located on the edge of the right bank of the dnieper and are a constant target for shelling by the russian army, which continues to occupy the left bank of the river, they shoot at a sniper, shoot from machine guns , birds fly in, drop a grenade, people kneel and beg, pray, just ask, don't shoot sometimes they kill people, they drop them, sometimes they fly to the side, they throw them on some car, there are few local people who tell such stories. well, there in the field of haystacks with my sister, they are flying

low, low, and like that, he is holding a machine gun and waving his legs. and where to run, where to run ? their resident, 60-year-old nadiya lobanova, denis fedkovykuva, together with his two grown-up sons, is constantly being shelled in a cossack village. due to russian shelling, the family was left homeless for two days. they bombed, then i rested a little and again i got into the house four times, once in the second one, too, and another hit the garden . before each evacuation, we always make sure that people have a place to live afterwards, i emphasize that we will help individually and in settlements and

support afterwards so that people can receive medical care, examinations, medical support psychological if needed. we also provide volunteer psychologists who don't care. daily volunteering by denys and his like-minded people is a constant risk. the volunteers have become targets for russian shelling more than once, says fedko every day. we risk simply not coming back. we came under fire. if you have to die, you will die, but the question is how you will live , how you will spend your time at this time, what will you do, hang out somewhere, go for a walk, and then how will you look into the eyes of those

boys who will return, how will you live afterwards with the awareness that well, what did you score, score on the people, score on the country, denis and like-minded volunteers, thanks to the support of caring people, constantly purchase things necessary for the villages of kherson, from food to personal hygiene. about an american judge from the state of arizona , his grandfather fought in the ukrainian sich rifles legion, and his parents fled from the repressions of the soviet authorities during the second world war, now with the beginning of a full-scale russia's war, orest is also lobbying for the interests of ukraine in the american congress. recently, he joined the ukrainian days in washington, where he convinced congressmen of the need for ukraine to join nato. at the moment , his husband says his main task is to talk about support for ukraine with ordinary americans and a judge who protects the rights

of ukrainians. iryna shynkarenko, i immediately thought, well, how can i help? i 'm too old for a husband. i can't go to war, but i can orally, with my talent, i'm a lawyer , i'm a judge, i can help in that direction to ukraine to the us congress in washington with a change in the composition of various delegations. he asks the representatives of the congress to help defeat russia. orest's parents are ukrainians who fled from soviet repression during the second world war, because orest's grandfather roman in 1917 fought in the ukrainian snipers legion, another grandfather was in to the city government of rogat national university in the modern ivano-frankivsk region, my parents are from ukraine, from western ukraine, and my mother is from yavorov, my father is near the city

of rohatyn, while different fronts were changing . well, my parents ran away several times, but that's all returned, but already that last time, when they fled. that's when, er, i would say , the russian army, er, pushed the front closer to western ukraine, and at that time they decided that they had to stay because they wouldn't be there if they had stayed. they would have been destroyed. orest's parents first left for austria, and in 1949 they moved to the usa. orest was born and grew up in america, but he adopted the ukrainian language from his parents. language a then i already developed a little, i was even a little older, then the english language was transferred. sometimes i lack words, but i can mostly

discuss with someone more or less intelligent , through the eyes of orest, he has worked as a lawyer for more than 20 years , and as a judge after the full-scale war in ukraine, he gained new experience how to communicate with congressmen and to convey to them the needs of ukrainian volunteers and the military , the most difficult thing was the conversations with representatives of the far-right republicans from arizona, says the man, despite the agreement, advisers of one of according to orest, they did not allow the ukrainian delegation to enter their office, they received us unofficially, they pushed us into the code, and since we very quietly talked about the various laws that we want them to support, it was a very emergency situation, and it was very unprofitable. - but we also passed, we submitted our information. we did not submit our er opportunities, as we think. with all that, it can change, but the judge says . usually, he feels the support of representatives

of both parties of the congress. orest participated twice in ukrainian those actions on capitol hill and in june he joined the ukrainian days in washington during which delegations also asked legislators to support the country's accession to nato we are fighting here ukraine became a member of nato that is now what are we talking about to them we are pressuring our government officials to do it already took into account and i think that there is such feedback that is not negative and they let us know that they are now considering this issue. i think that it is more realistic. this is how it looks to me. i want to leave such an impression on our relatives on to ukraine, america is with you, that the world is with you, and we will somehow go to victory. the legislators are also asked to recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and to provide ukraine with fighter jets. and in 16 representatives of the delegation believe such conversations, although not immediately, but

they give results in this, i am convinced of this to the retired lieutenant colonel kestutis eidokonis , who joined this process for the first time and attended meetings together with orestes, i was really amazed at how much the bastards i joined, they operate with facts, they know the laws, they know what bills they want to approve they sometimes know more than the congress assistants with whom we talk. i think that we are changing the situation. we are convincing people. i think that most people have already been convinced, but sometimes they need to be pushed a little . he says it is important to do this before the presidential elections, the first decision will be the elections, and the second thing is that these people

do the same thing, like me, and how they advocate about ukraine, they also pick up the phone or call various congressmen and tell them that you are giving out more money. why are you giving out more weapons? well, why not, not for us, they are doing the same thing as we do. but i think that we can them to convince in our state, for example, i would say i am more for ukraine, but there are some elements of our community that do not understand and how we will do it, we can go to various meetings, we can come to them and give a little talk for 20 minutes. and what about ukraine ukraine what is needed and how we we can help ntsami orest convinces not only with words he often shows people photos and videos from ukraine before it was the consequences in