[000:00:00;00] president zelenskyi arrived in vilnius, it is expected that tomorrow he will take part in the meeting of the ukraine nato council , our european correspondent bohdan tsyupen is watching the progress in the lithuanian capital. in the alliance, what do you know about this agreement , not only do we know, i am holding in my hands a rather thick communiqué document on 20 pages, approximately 90 points and somewhere from the 10th point refers directly to ukraine and the position of the alliance in relation to the most important issue that probably worries ukrainians the most about membership and we already know that the ukrainian side, in particular

the ukrainian president, those formulations that are in the comma of yunique, he also commented on the draft earlier today in continuation before the document was approved did not satisfy him , but this can be viewed as optimists who say that for the first time when it comes to ukraine and nato , the word invitation is used in an official document, but in fact it is today, ukraine has not yet been invited to nato, er, they have not been invited, instead, here is a fairly general line, and which i will try to translate from english on the fly, it says that we will be able to invite ukraine to join the alliance when the allies agree that the conditions have been met and therefore, it is also about a recalculation of various conditions, but

today nato secretary general jens stoltonberg emphasized that, in general , nato's decision regarding ukraine is very positive today , packages of three elements for rapprochement ukraine to nato first is a new multi-year aid program for ukraine to ensure the transition from soviet-era standards to nato training and doctrine standards to help restore the security and defense sector of ukraine and meet such important needs as fuel for demining and medical support second is the new nato ukraine council is a forum for crisis consultations and decision-making where we will meet as equals and i look forward to tomorrow's inaugural meeting of the council with the president thirdly, we confirmed to zelenskiy that ukraine will become a member of nato and agreed to cancel the requirement for a membership action plan. this will change ukraine's membership path from a two-stage

process to a one-stage one . this is a powerful package for ukraine and a clear path to its membership in nato . you are talking about something else, and with regard to the terms, what is called some kind of time frame, well, regarding the conditions . we have heard a lot about the problem of war and from of us president joe biden and from mr. stoltenberg and even from ukrainian representatives who the day before and today said that they understand that ukraine cannot become a member of nato now because, in particular, as the us president's national security adviser jake salvan said today in the morning, this would actually mean

the necessity of a nato war with russia, and nato always emphasizes that it does not want the expansion of the war, but actually its termination , instead, as for the points laid out in the communique, they are also quite general, but specifically about the fact that the prerequisite is the end of the war or the end of the war, and here it is mentioned here, it is about the fulfillment or compliance of the conditions, it is not said what they are , but a little higher in the document it is said that ukraine should advance in matters of military compatibility, obviously, and it is also mentioned here about the need for democratic reforms as well as reforms in the security sector of ukraine. so it is about this and ep

staltenberg additionally spoke about this today here in vilnius three full-scale wars, so i think that all allies agree that when the war is going on, it is not time to make ukraine a full member of the alliance, it is about two different things, the issue of corruption management and compatibility, which are issues regardless of whether it is or not, and the other problem is the ongoing war in ukraine, and we must solve both of these problems in the end, it is the allies who have to assess whether the conditions are met, as we always do during expansion, and then make a decision about the invitation. president zelenskyi, before arriving in vilnius, criticized the participants for the discussion without ukraine in the wording of the conditions of the invitation to the option, can the personal presence of president zelensky in vilnius affect the decision-making regarding ukraine bohdan hotel, i dare say that there is nothing surprising in the fact that

the member states of the alliance discussed among themselves the relations of the alliance, the development of the relations of the alliance with ukraine as a very close partner country important, but still a partner, not a member, and it is obvious that these are issues that should be resolved among themselves 31 soon 32 countries of the alliance. so this is the situation, i am thinking about discussing the issue ukraine's relationship with nato without ukraine. i think that it is quite possible to explain this when it comes to other aspects. well, now you see on your screens how fervently the ukrainian president was greeted in vilnius, and i already had to remark more than once today on because he is the host of the meeting here in the capital of lithuania, the president of gitana snasid a sounded the strongest possible and perhaps the most ukrainian

if you can say that about the aspirations of ukraine about the fact that ukrainians ukrainians must respond more clearly to their aspirations to before membership in nato, and zelensky himself, when he spoke in vilnius today, also emphasized the role of ukraine, that is, he emphasized that ukrainians fighting for their freedom also protect, in particular, the countries of eastern europe, which more than once during the centuries of history were victims of russian aggression in various forms whether it is in the form of the communist aggression of moscow or the russian empire of ancient times and about this he clearly stated to the standing ovation and applause today in vilnius today the ukrainian battle flag made of

bakhmut bakhmut is one of the most defining battles for freedom in europe and its this is how our children and grandchildren will remember this battle flag of ours made of bahmut means that lithuanians will never again have to fight against russian soldiers either under the vilnius tv tower or in any other place of your capital of your country thank you bohdan for your story will be followed by our european correspondent bohdan tsivvina following the progress of the ato summit in vilnius

. told about this in an interview with mykhailo komedovskyi, ukraine is now in a position where the alliance does not feel that a joint venture is actually necessary, because we are now very closely cooperating with ukraine, especially during the last 16 months, we have a stronger understanding of their military capabilities, so a joint venture may not be the best process but what the alliance will talk about with ukraine in vilnius is how the process of its path should look in the future in ukraine, it is necessary to carry out reforms, political reforms, reforms of the rule of law of democratic institutions these reforms are still needed to become a member of nato and one more thing to remember ukraine is in the middle of a hot war right now so the president strongly believes that we must continue to focus on their needs on the battlefield without a doubt ukrainians are approaching interoperability with nato because in during the war they got rid of many of their soviet systems a hundred soviet and

russian systems and their old ways of using these capabilities how they operate on the battlefield in the last 16 months is definitely much closer to western standards they have a lot of western equipment they were trained by the western military including the united states even before the war before a full scale invasion so obviously the ukrainians are now closer to compatibility standards or are they already fully there again i think we will see and now we are focused on helping them succeed on the battlefield . possibilities, the senator expressed this opinion during today's speech in congress, the republican also supported president biden's decision to provide ukraine with cluster munitions, instead, the leader of the democrats , shag schumer, believes that the inclusion of sweden in nato

will also strengthen the alliance and expand the united front against putin's aggression in ukraine, the western allies should use this themselves week to provide even more critical capabilities that should shift the balance of power in favor of ukraine, this is a crucial time for allies to increase production of critical munitions and send to the front lines systems with a longer range, more modern and more lethal, so i welcome the decision of president biden to provide ukraine with cluster munitions , despite the delay, these munitions will improve ukraine's ability to strike at russian troops and compensate for the shortcomings of standard artillery shells, and here it is important to emphasize that russia for months uses cluster munitions in ukraine and the inclusion in sweden of the nato border will strengthen the alliance

and expand our united front against illegal and putin's immoral aggression in ukraine. putin thought that he could divide us, he believed that he could force us to disunite, but his hopes did not come true, and today the alliance remains united and stronger than ever before . the security of the united states has five main challenges: china, russia, the north korea, iran and extremism this statement was made by us air force general chause brown during today's hearing of the senate armed services committee, the committee is considering the appointment of brown as the new chairman of the us joint chiefs of staff general mark milley, who holds this position, is currently retiring . this fall, during the hearings, general brown highlighted five conclusions from the russian war in ukraine: the importance of information, logistics, the time required for military operations, the willingness of the military to fight, and the ability of air defense

, the russians have already learned their lesson without paying attention to logistics, it is difficult not only to win but also to move forward. we have also seen that the timing of military operations on the battlefield sometimes takes longer than expected and that too challenge is another important point that i want to emphasize. this desire to fight is the determination and will of the ukrainian people and its leadership - this is something that is difficult to measure before the war, but in practice it gives a huge advantage and the last thing that i want to pay attention to as a pilot is the value of dominance in the sky by observing what was able or not able to do in the air of each side, the obvious value of air defense, innovative air defense , we can see what benefit it brought to the ukrainians in

the defense of their state, and literally speaking to honor the victims of the genocide exactly 28 years ago during the ethnic cleansing, the local serbs murdered 8,000 bosnian men and boys, the victims of this mass massacre are still being identified by dna today, july 11 , 30 more bodies were buried in the cemetery in srebrenica , the massacre in srebrenica was the finale of a three-year war between the local serbs from one on the side of tabu, the snijes and croats from another army of serbs bypassed the un peacekeepers who were guarding the silver industry where the muslims of bysniv lived, practically without resistance, and took them to the forest. the male population of the town and were executed by a special tribunal in gazi found guilty of the crime of the leader of the bosnian serbs, radovan karadzic, and suddenly vladichim , who commanded the army, both are serving life imprisonment, half a hundred more then-seba

admirers and commanders were convicted in the balkan countries, the number of war crimes in russia against ukraine reaches almost a hundred thousand and growing every day, meanwhile, among ukraine's partners there is a discussion about creating a mechanism to punish russia's main crime, the crime of aggression, as ukraine and the international community is assessing the possibility of creating a fully international tribunal on the basis of the un to investigate the crime of russian aggression, oleksiy kovalenko learned. the international center for criminal prosecution for crimes of aggression against ukraine was opened this week. the gas is called a harbinger of the tribunal against russia. the new center will contribute to the collection of systematization and the preparation of data for a potential international the trial on charges of aggression against ukraine by russia

is one of the first steps on the way to bringing russia to justice. today we have gathered here at a truly historic moment, which i believe is decisive for history, when the civilized world not only speaks, but also demonstrates with concrete actions that responsibility is of the greatest importance in ukraine, they are being investigated in ukrainian and international courts, the center provides an opportunity to prepare for the case in the future to collect evidence that can later be used in the tribunal, this emphasizes the fact that there is still no legal mechanism within the framework of which russia can be brought to responsibility for the crime of aggression against ukraine, there is no agreement on what exactly this tribunal will look like. we think that the best option for many reasons is an internationalized tribunal. however , there are constant discussions around this with ukraine and other countries that support ukraine . let's see how they will end. i think it will be

it is fair to say that the united states has made significant progress in this regard over the past few months . the united states has supported an internationalized ukrainian court. support and assistance, the ukrainian government is not uniform, such a tribunal should be fully international, any hybrid version of the tribunal, including and it is proposed , the united states will not be able to achieve the goal of bringing the leadership of russia to justice for crimes of aggression due to the immunity of the country's leaders we will work without any hybrid formats, we will work on a specific tribunal to avoid responsibility for their crimes, murder , torture, how do we understand who gave the orders so that these people are not untouchable. for us, this it is very important in the ukrainian prosecutor general's office to emphasize that the most effective model of the tribunal can be created on the basis of the un general assembly, it would have international authority and support

, the ukrainian ambassador to the us explains the ukrainian position, ukraine's opposition is that the international tribunal is the tribunal that will be consecrated in one way or another by the organization of the united nations, from our point of view, this is the best option that will allow us to start this persecution and eventually achieve justice, shares the same opinion the expert environment among the supporters of the creation of an international tribunal on the basis of the un, ex-ambassador of the state department for war crimes, david schaefer, it was he who previously worked on the creation of tribunals for the former yugoslavia , a special court for all religions and a tribunal for cambodia, we proposed and proposed many of my colleagues in academic circles to varvara, some of governments support so that the un general assembly can adopt a resolution that would allow the secretary general of the united nations

to develop an agreement between the government of ukraine and the un to to create a court with jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute the crime of aggression, the advantages of this creation of the international court of justice and depriving putin and other high-ranking officials of the russian government and the army of personal immunity emphasize that the support of yevgeny's resolution of the un assembly remains an open question , the first priority is that we remain political questions , how to achieve support for this about gen. of the un assembly if we still take this path , the question is whether they have the legal power and authority to do this, and the second question is what will be the support of the international the general assembly traditionally for decades did not support any international prosecution of the crime of aggression, but according to the adviser on responsibility for war crimes of the us department of justice and lai rosenbaum , this may eventually change due to the undoubted horror in this country of

the attitude of russia in ukraine americans are changing about this, attitudes are changing among american leaders, so we'll see how it ends. i think no one knows yet what kind of tribunal will be launched, but the tribunal will definitely be created so far there is no consensus in the world regarding the format of the future tribunal to punish russia for crimes of aggression, however, ukraine has unequivocal support for the fact that russia's aggression will be punished oleksiy kovalenko dmytro savchuk voice of america washington more than 550 monuments and objects of ukrainian cultural heritage destroyed or damaged as a result of russia's war in ukraine, according to the ministry of culture , many ukrainian and international experts call the actions of the russians cultural genocide against ukraine , in order to protect and preserve the cultural heritage in the armed forces of ukraine, a special unit is being created based on the analogue

of the american and nato details from iryna solomko, here we stand, this is the art museum that was robbed khersonsky , there were no military objects, military objects of no significance, this is not it was not much , but this object was hit and the local history museum was also attacked, it also intervened - it suffered much more than this, we documented it with our colleagues vitaly tytachi to the peaceful life of a lawyer the defender of the interests of the relatives of the heavenly hundred at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, he joined the ranks of the territorial defense after seeing with his own eyes how the russians destroy ukrainian cultural heritage, initiated the creation of a special group for compliance with the norms of international humanitarian law, the group documents war crimes, including against objects of cultural heritage , vitaly recently returned from an expedition, a member which documented the consequences of the undermining of the kakhova hpp for cultural heritage sites, monuments

of national significance are very important archeology is the settlement of the ancient greeks, the greeks of the black sea, a roman settlement of national importance, which is on the list of unesco control , including seeing and recording the consequences of both the flooding and, in particular, the war of military actions, these monuments and others monuments and it is recorded how they were affected. now we enter it into the database, we work where it is not possible to work, e.e., e.e. civil, e.e. state authorities , relevant investigators and or prosecutors there have access to this information. law enforcement agencies and relevant ministries that cooperate with international institutions for the restoration and further preservation of these monuments, the military works together with experts, archaeologists, engineers, zoologists from the ukrainian group of the blue shield, the blue shield is a network of organizations around the world that, together with unesco, have the competence to protect

cultural values ​​during armed conflicts, american laura balman of the protection of cultural heritage during the war. she is a former employee of the cia. she worked in war zones where cultural genocide was recorded. also , how many years did she deal with crime in the field of art fbi what is happening now in ukraine it clearly identifies as a cultural genocide convention of 1954 forbids attacking cultural objects church property paintings what during the war so this is illegal this is part of moscow's military plan because these are not random hits or looting of soldiers that happen in every conflict, everything else was led by the head of the world-famous armitage that no one can stop the attack on ukraine. he clearly says that culture is part of the offensive strategy of capturing ukraine

the head of russian intelligence also heads the russian historical society, in addition, satellite images and eyewitness accounts show that there were targeted bombings , in addition, there are photos and eyewitness reports of peru svr and fsb were in the east, directing looting, they still take seriously the preservation of cultural heritage during wars , laura says that it became as a result of the looting of the world-famous national cancer museum in baghdad in 2003, ils sodgers, the american military was on the ground in baghdad, guarding the ministry of oil, which was located across the street, they were ordered to remain in place to protect the ministry, meanwhile, a terrible looting was taking place nearby, which the americans did not intervene, some of the most famous antiquities, which are important not only for iraq, but also for world heritage, were lost , and in response, washington mobilized the state department of the fbi the ministry of defense , the smithsonian institute and other organizations to work together so that this does not happen again, and that is why there are now very

organized efforts when, for example, the ministry of defense teaches all its troops how to protect culture during war. vitaly titych and his colleagues cooperate with western partners. they have already been invited to the united states to undergo special training based on the american experience of protecting cultural heritage during wars. similar units exist in nato countries and in the armies of many developed countries. of states created this electronic map and now we are not trying to teach the armed forces of ukraine how to use it, in particular by determining on combat e-e to combat documents the presence e-e objects of cultural heritage of cultural value and the possibility of making appropriate decisions when planning the operation is already the decision of general valery zaluzhnyi on the creation of a special full-time unit for the protection of cultural heritage, this will be a pilot project for the entire armed forces based on the theory , vitaly titych explains, he will have the authority to act in the area of ​​operation of all troops in accordance with

, let's say, the defined tasks if we are talking about the issue of the protection of a specific protection e-e which has, among other things, a physical starting with the evacuation of some physical measures regarding there preservation in place yes er. so this er. must be carried out by orders so that such operations are provided with forces and means so that they can be carried out . according to tydych, modern technologies do not leave the russians a chance not to be punished for the destruction of ukrainian cultural heritage, i can simply conduct an investigative experiment on my computer in this program, because in one part i can see where and from where this rocket was launched , for example, yes, uh, in which unit is it identified and when a certain program tracks its flight path and you can see the results of this flight already in place by the intelligence forces, for example, negative

for cultural heritage, all this is documented and will be presented in court and this makes it much easier to prove that it is now the 21st century and the orcs have really bad prospects with concealment they won't get any evidence, cultural russian is not only the destruction of cultural objects, but also the theft of unique artifacts from ukrainian museums, says the american expert laura bauman to counter looting for the purpose of selling on the black market is possible by recording information about stolen valuables in the relevant international databases, according to lorish, another effective way is sanctions, the un introduced sanctions to combat the illegal trade in antiquities of the beast and syria, it actually made it difficult to import cultural items, it is worth looking at whether it would be possible introduce some sanctions to help protect ukrainian objects because the us market is the largest in the world vitaliy titych hopes to return the lost values

​​and receive compensation for the destroyed cultural heritage will help the international criminal court, that is why it is important, he says, to feed the evidence and force the investigation of these proceedings with the right qualifications , it is necessary to seek and get out of the faction , that is, the court decision that establishes the wrongful cause , vitaliy believes that this will help to clearly identify for the international community what is happening in ukraine with it -yorka iryna solomko voice of america this is how we say goodbye, have you watched the program of the ukrainian voice of america service from time to time also join our daily briefings from monday until friday at 18:00 kyiv time thank you for trusting the ukrainian voice of america service

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great news. we managed to find two brothers, 9-year-old artem and 11-year-old bohdan, who were wanted since march 2022. we managed to find out that artemchyk and bohdanchyk are now in the temporarily occupied mariupol they live with their grandfather. unfortunately, their grandmother died. but the most important thing is that they are still with their relatives, that we know that everything is fine with them. the story of artemchyk and bogdanchyk is very difficult. the details were told by a man who lived in the same house in mariupol before the war. where artem and bohdan, on march 8, 22nd, the house where the boys lived was hit by a shell and, unfortunately, the parents of artem and bohdan were killed. they definitely died during the hostilities from the seventh to march 8, on the evening of the 7th, they, well, her husband, her there were some cries for help, but people