[000:00:00;00] we are making all the traitors follow the russian ship, we will see in a week on the air espresso on the air with washington program of the ukrainian service voice of america time i am yuliya yarmolenko congratulations russia does not show any signs of readiness to end its war in ukraine, us secretary of state anthony blinking said this at a meeting of ministers from the foreign affairs of two dozen countries in indonesia , the chief diplomats of china and russia took part in the regional forum of the association of southeast asian nations, according to joseph

burel, the eu high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, during these meetings, sergey lavrov very aggressively responded to his calls to end the war and withdraw troops from ukraine. at the final press conference, us secretary of state blinken stated that at the nato summit in vilnius , dozens of countries took very specific steps steps to continue helping ukraine to defend and regain its territory, and the declaration of the group of seven on long-term security support for ukraine, according to blinkin, may be the best way to dispel putin's opinion that he can somehow hold out in this war longer than ukraine has already lost from the point of view of what he tried to do in ukraine, remember for putin it was about erasing ukraine from the map, putting the country of independence and including it in russia, it

failed and cannot succeed, the question now is where and how it will end , these decisions should be made by ukraine in principle, because it is about its future , it is about its people, it is about its territory , it is about its freedom, nobody wants faster the end of the war as ukrainian people every day they are subjected to terrible violence we strongly support any country that can find a way to a just and lasting solution that will comply with the un charter territorial integrity independence and sovereignty but so far as i said before we have not seen any signs of to russia that it really considers participating in meaningful diplomacy and putting the volyn state in a war that it started and was going to give provisions in support of ukraine, the day before

congressmen considered 200 until almost midnight of amendments, the republicans managed to achieve the approval of a number of proposals with which the democrats categorically disagree , in particular, on racial and gender issues , at the same time, five amendments that demanded to reduce or completely stop aid to ukraine were rejected by who how and why did they want to limit support to ukraine? who is joining the broadcast from the congress katya hello congratulations yulia why is the defense budget important for ukraine in general and what kind of support for kyiv does it contain the defense budget of the united states of the united states of america has both symbolic and symbolic importance for ukraine and actual importance for ukraine in terms of symbolic - this is the fact that aid to ukraine is prescribed in the defense budget of the united states of america, which directly points to the national security interests of the united states to continue aid to ukraine in relation to actual aid, in particular in the draft law on the defense budget , which was voted in the house of representatives , 300 million additional aid to ukraine is prescribed, i note that a similar amount is also

prescribed in the draft defense budget of the senate which will be voted on next week. this amount of 300 million dollars is the equivalent of the amount requested by the biden administration. dollars for assistance to ukraine, in addition to actual financial assistance, the defense budget of the 24th year also prescribes other items to assist ukraine , in particular, the extension of the lend-lease law for at least one more year until the end of 2024 as well e development of the possibility of creating a special center of experience of ukraine for the treatment of craniocerebral and other injuries received as a result of russian aggression, among the more controversial amendments that passed into the draft law that was agreed in the house of representatives, there is the management of the republicans of the metaagent, which requires the creation of an additional

position of a special inspector who will check the assistance and over- which arrives in ukraine, i will note that the white house has already reacted to this amendment and stated that they do not agree with this amendment because already on at the levels of various government organizations , the service of life in america , directly in the ministry of defense and the state department and in others, there are already special prosecutors who check aid to ukraine and who, in fact, even before congress asked. the white house must report to the united states of america. citizens communicate in america about the aid provided to ukraine. katya, you have already submitted amendments, and yesterday some congressmen proposed a number of amendments aimed at they did not pass the restriction or termination of aid to ukraine, but who proposed them and what did they refer to, in fact, there were five such amendments that demanded, as you correctly said , to limit or stop aid to ukraine altogether, for example, the amendments

of republican taylor green demanded the removal of these 300 million dollars which are written in the defense budget for the next year, which in themselves is already a smaller amount than what was agreed last year. however , manchurian taylor greene from the defense this item should be removed from the budget in general, also from the publicist meg gates , whom i already mentioned, demanded to stop any aid to ukraine absolutely, there was also an amendment about rights that demanded to stop the law that was agreed on lend-lease for ukraine, there was also an amendment that demanded to block the provision of cluster munitions to ukraine, but all of these five amendments did not pass and were blocked by the overwhelming majority of the sixth congress, however, what were the arguments of those who demanded the amendments and those who

blocked them, i suggest you listen right now financing and inciting a war in ukraine has no place in our draft law on the defense budget because it is about our state and not about ukraine ukraine is not the 51st american state financing a war in a foreign country does not deter war it continues to provoke and encourage it financing a war in to a foreign country against a nuclear power does not protect our national security it endangers it it endangers every american and the entire world we do not want world war iii united states aid in in the field of security was absolutely necessary for the heroic resistance of the ukrainian army to the occupiers on their homeland we cannot and must not retreat now the price of this war for the ukrainian people was enormous but their bravery was even more monumental i call on all members to oppose this amendment i am sure that this amendment will fail with a powerful two-party

vote on ukraine, it is not only us , but also 53 other countries of the world support efforts to protect sovereign democracy from dictatorship, this is the basic interests of the us, ukrainians fighting alone all they ask for is our support if we can contain this aggression it will help us interests it will protect american servicemen from having to fight we don't want to fight at home or anywhere in the world but we have to stand up to dictators who are ready to change the situation if we want it let's allow these ideas. we are very effective in defending them in ukraine . let's not leave ukraine now . they deserve our support. to the current bill that was approved by the house of representatives, this is a great question because the approved defense budget bill 224th year that was voted today in the house of representatives may still change

because the senate will vote on its version of this bill next week, i will note that it is not very different in the context of aid ukraine but nevertheless, during the consideration of everything , other amendments and other demands will also be raised, and after the versions of the senate and the house of representatives are agreed upon, there will be a conference of both chambers where they will decide on the agreed text of this bill and there will be another re-voting. thank you, katya. we will monitor this vote. my colleague kateryna lisova was in contact with the congress. she worked as a physical education teacher at school until 2017. her son was killed in the war two years before that. lyudmila lost another

son, also a military man, who died of cancer six months before of the full-scale second russia lyudmila gultsyu left school and joined the border service of ukraine in order to thus honor the memory of her military sons in the sumy oblast, olena adamenko and mykhailo zayka met her when my son died. i really wanted to go serve and fight to take revenge on them for what they they killed my son, they are killing my other children. well, since i still had small grandchildren, when he died, he was eight months and three years old , so he stayed a little longer in the armed forces of ukraine. ludmila is serving as a player in august 2021

before that, they worked as a physical education teacher for 30 years. at school, she raised two sons , both of them were military men, ivan the elder, artem the younger, ivan dreamed all his life of being a paratrooper. ivan joined the military in 2010 under a contract with the 25th separate airborne brigade , and in three years his younger brother artem joined him. they were not only brothers of a, but also friends and the younger son did everything as you do, he was the older one a role model for him, too decided to go to serve in the paratroopers as a paratrooper, about the same time lyudmila's family had trouble during the service, their eldest son was diagnosed with cancer, meanwhile, his younger brother artem took part in an anti-terrorist

operation, it was so that we treated the eldest son for three years and it turned out that each brain was transplanted, and this one is fighting. i didn't know who to pray for first, and here i was near death, and i didn't sleep that night. despite all the efforts of doctors and family, in the 15th year, ivan died two years later, in 2017 , grief happened to artem, it was on december 19 i congratulated him just in time for st. nicholas, but he didn't answer me. i felt that something was wrong. i was at school teaching a lesson . his mother-in-law called me and asked me to

go to my colleagues. i immediately understood that something had happened. she told me that something happened to artemov. what happened, no one knows if he was wounded or made it worse, then they already reported that he died, as they later told lyudmila, artem, being seriously wounded, was able to save his brothers. on december 19 , they went out on a reconnaissance in the morning and got into a stretch. artem was the first and if he had taken the hit on himself, his legs were torn off. well, he called for help on the walkie-talkie, and when the help arrived, he was already bleeding to death. two of his brothers survived and now they also continue to defend their homeland. artem left behind two sons, one was three years old

and the other 8 months later, both of lyudmila's sons passed away. when they were 24 years old in 2021 , lyudmila herself went to defend ukraine , having changed the sports uniform of a physical education teacher to a one-piece, well, she wanted to continue the work of her sons in just six months to vinnytsia. well, i came to the detachment she told her story, she passed all the tests, everything was fine, and now i am serving ludmila . she serves in one of the border units of the sumy oblast .

"the connection was interrupted since the 14th year because my son went to fight and they were for their russia , for putin and against us. i don't want to think about them , i want to convey that ukraine will win and everything will be fine with us when lyudmila has a vacation she is on her way to zhytomyr to visit her grandchildren olena adamenko mykhailo zayka for the voice of america sumyshchyna according to the boat survey of public opinion in the usa rejects the ibses trust 65% of americans are in favor of continuing military aid to ukraine although in may this figure was 20% less pastor angela fraser in 11 who strongly support ukraine and tirelessly tell other americans why the us cannot leave ukraine in trouble pasteur fraser lives and works in

bakersfield, california, the hometown of the speaker of the house of representatives, kevin mccarthy khrystyna shevchenko recently visited there and met the pastor. her story continues. angela fraser, the pastor of the communal christian church in the city of bakersfield, 700 people come to his sermon . you are our sun. he is well known in bakerske. this is not a typical city for the predominantly liberal state of california, where nowadays mostly democrats bakersfield is a conservative town with a majority of republicans, a large farming center, and oil production. pastor frazier has been an active member of the local community since last february. year it can be seen not only in the church but also on the streets of the city with the ukrainian flag when we go to any places where people gather and i talk about it and the most interesting

thing is that now when i take this flag with me everywhere it becomes the reason for starting a conversation people come up and ask what is this oh wait is this a name they start asking questions a typical fast food restaurant here the residents taste traditional american cuisine the pastor cannot help but take advantage of this opportunity and already on the way to the restaurant he starts a dialogue they they want to control by force this is an illegal war they are taking over their country illegally and we americans should rise up against this and talk about it the flag of ukraine the fifth is beautiful i took it with me to washington dc you know what is happening with the ukrainian war in the diner the pastor gives the people the latest news from ukraine, for example, talks about

the wagner group and also tries to show the scale of the steel lily. we have seen such examples before . stalin, mussolini, hitler - this is not something else , it is terrible, he talks about the war to different people categories of people, even a respectable fabiana restaurant in the city, ukrainians are probably the bravest people on earth today they are fighting probably the worst evil that exists in this world and i'm just a little ashamed how slowly we help you, you do a good job with what you get to tell about ukraine the pastor started right after the full scale invasion in february 2022 decided to act immediately and organized a protest in the main town square i went to a local flag store here in bakersfield to buy a ukrainian flag, but there they had all other countries but not the ukrainian

flag, and he told me that it would take me 2-3 weeks before they could get it or they wouldn't get it at all. therefore, we went to the central materials store and made the actual ukrainian flag and it was the first ukrainian flag that was hoisted in bay state , california by a representative in the congress of the district that includes the city of becquerel, such as kevin mccartney. he is also the speaker of the house of representatives. that the republicans will not write ukraine empty bills, then they say that the usa fully complied with ukraine's requests and transferred too many weapons to it. shortly after the speech, angela freesia, who knows mccartney personally , went to washington with ukrainian activists in california during the ukrainian days in congress and advocated for ukraine in his office and also gave a speech to ukrainian activists and public

figures ukraine ukraine on the question of whether the pastor is not criticized by the african-american community, which is fighting for his rights because he is focusing on a foreign country the pastor answers this no matter whether you are black or white or any other we all have problems but this war affects the whole world and therefore it is not that we neglect to advocate the problem of african americans, the problem of the homeless, or any other problem , we can do it at the same time, but right now , we must collectively say that this war is very unjust and this war must be ended , the pastor also claims, using the example of the republican becker dovin is watching how disinformation is spreading in mediantus, i was approached by people who did not want to come to the rallies because of the information

that was published in the media that zelensky allegedly devalued christians and closed christian churches in ukraine, they will send text messages and call my home and say we cannot support this person because this person is corrupt and even with the last one when the dam was blown up they said oh zelensky blew up the dam and everything of that kind all this is disinformation so the pastor considers it his task to inform people and help them understand the importance of what is happening in ukraine and promises to continue his work both at demonstrations and in politicians' offices and simply talking to people in the cafe khrystyna ta bohdan shevchenko voice of america books by ukrainian writers on the shelves of the american library of serhiy zhadana yevgeny of belarus, andriy kurkova and other authors in english translation can be read by visitors to the library in the town of folstroj, near

washington, a collection of books about ukraine and also, the authorship of ukrainians began to appear there even before the start of the full-scale war, what is being read about ukraine in the usa and which ukrainian poet is admired by the american military in the story of iryna shynkarenko and oleksiy osyka, this man is a professor of ukrainian history at harvard university, and it is supplemented by the fact that i will probably have to purchase an additional edition of this book in the american library in the town of falls across the street from washington , they are showing the book of the historian serhii plohia the bad gate of europe. in addition to it, there are more than 30 books about ukraine and the authorship of ukrainians it is not easy for americans to remember the surnames of some of them, what is the sky? and here is a ukrainian writer about chernobyl, people now like to read about chernobyl, it

is somehow scary to think about a nuclear power plant , er, it is odessa, but it is an old book, it is an american who wrote most of the books about odessa now on in the hands of readers, mostly american visitors are interested in books about the history of ukraine told in the library , as well as testimonies about the modern war, just let's take a look, this is relatively new on the shelves , an english-language diary about the war of schoolgirls from kharkova, eva skaletska, war diary of yevgeny belorussian, as well as a translation from the diary of serhiy zhadana about the first six months of the full-scale invasion called the sky over kharkov, it is also zhadana , an american woman’s book about the history of the holodomor is one of the most popular on the ukrainian shelf among readers. i have several here when the war began by this author

in particular, i was in demand to learn more about ukraine, and then i know that this author is very popular. he is ukrainian . we also have a children's book, which, as i know for sure, is extremely popular. this is rukavychka. a ukrainian folk tale, not so long ago there were no books about ukraine on the shelves of this library near washington, remembers olga kosenko, a ukrainian woman moved to the usa 9 years ago, and when she came to work at the local library, she was immediately moved by the lack of ukrainian publications there. 6 years ago, when she came to work at library, when i started telling people that there is a war in ukraine , some were surprised. i started to explain that we should have more ukrainian books about ukraine, that we should help oksana zabuzhka compiled a list of the best books in ukrainian. i simply printed out this list. i brought this list to my colleagues and explained that

we should have all of this in the library. colleagues listened to olga's requests and even before the full-scale war , books about ukraine and ukrainian authors in translation began to appear in the library. in english they said that there are not enough books, a person with whom we are on good terms said, our colleague from ukraine said that there are not enough books published here in the usa by ukrainian authors we are definitely trying to be aware of what is happening in ukraine and we make sure that we have books available for our readers so that they can learn more with the beginning of a full-scale war and readers came to the library and actively asked for books on ukrainian topics, now there is a great demand, especially for fiction publications, they say in the library and all these books are purchased from american publishing houses, so the ukrainian collection of the library has been replenished even more, they were published and they are published, you will not believe it, but they are published, you just

need to have the desire to find them in us the books serhiy zhadana appeared, and poetry, people know who taras shevchenko is, it's very nice, olga tells in translation in poetry serhiy zhadana, there is a special group of supporters in the usa, you know, none of them read it in translation . mainly the american military, and they liked them as well plan in zaluzhnoye, i read the translation of his poems, it’s very like that, you know how to explain it, a very clear rhythm and they are like that, they really take orders from them to the library, catherine wilson

says when choosing ukrainian literature and books about ukraine, which with other publications relies on published reviews, we receive monthly magazines that contain reviews of newly published books, and i order books for a certain part of the collection, which includes history, geography and travel, so any new book about the situation in ukraine or the history of ukraine passes through these reviews and i looked at the reviews and decided which of them to buy and since we have a community that lives near washington and is very concerned about the situation in ukraine, i usually buy most of them directly, the readers themselves are also able to influence so what books will the library order for its fund, so says the director, such ukrainian shelves can appear in many american libraries if the visitors are persistent. i think there are several options. first of all, most libraries have a proposal method for requesting books. this is either an online form or a form they fill out at the library to request books to be added to the collection, they can also talk to

the director or librarians about potentially creating a shelf or adding new authors to the collection of what we do, people give recommendations and then we add material to make bookshelves now, in addition to war diaries, historical books of several editions about chornobyl and sergei zhadana, this library also has a translated novel gray bees by andriy kurkova, a biography of volodymyr zelenskyi and a book with his speeches complement the collection of ukrainian recipes in english is not planned to be stopped at this purchase, the library already has a list of books that they want to purchase next oksana zabuzhko yuri andruhovych les podervyanskyi iryna get kalina kostenko avzhezh lina kostenko vsevolod nestaiko ostap vyshnya and i really hope that victoria melina is a ukrainian author who died after the bombing of kramatorsk that we

will also have her books in addition to replenishing the fund with literature about ukraine in the library near the american capital, they are also organizing lectures and screenings of films about russia's war against ukraine, held an online concert by ukrainian musicians, and the director of the library read works in english for ukrainian children via video link in bomb shelters iryna shynkarenko oleksiy osyka voice of america is ending with this thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian see you next week, all the best take care

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