[000:00:00;00] the state secretary of journalists' affairs commented on the current events, the blowing up of the crimean bridge, and expressed himself in such a way that despite the fact that there are no specifics, he emphasized that ukraine itself decides how and what operations to conduct. situation and i really don't have anything more to add to this question, but as a general thesis i can say of course that ukraine must independently decide how it conducts this war and how it defends its territory, its people, its freedom, this is the comment of our state, the secretary of the united states and natalya, you have already mentioned and also commented on the events in crimea , the spokeswoman, the deputy spokesperson of the pantheon savrinasing, she emphasized that crimea is ukraine, and for all

other details, she advised to contact the ukrainian command and in the end we spoke with the representative of the defense forces of the south, spokeswoman natali manyuk myroslava gongadze, today i was able to record her comment about what happened in crimea on the kerch bridge, give your comment let's listen to the destruction of the enemy's logistical routes, this is the destruction of his potential, this is the impossibility of his pulling up resources in order to counteract it, any logistical artery , along which the enemy pulls up his forces, this is a legitimate goal, and destruction, whether natural or unnatural, is work to the counteroffensive advanced, destroying the enemy's potential in any way, blocked the movement of the logistical artery, which they call

the crimean bridge, they direct the population to the so-called new regions in the bypass, and in fact to the temporarily protected territory of ukraine and this is again a manifestation of terrorism by the enemy because they are trying to saturate the region where they expect the advance of the defense forces by the civilian population. what kind of comments would you receive? in fact , the current support for the crimean bridge has caused a lot of discussion among observers, among analysts, and also among western media, and in particular , in the institute for the study of war, they emphasize their analyst georgeba will write that if this detonation is successful, if anyone in ukraine managed to destroy this bridge and damage it in a serious way, then this will significantly limit the logistical capabilities of russia, because then

there will be only one land line of supplies and reinforcement of troops, and the line along the sea of ​​azov in edward lucas, their columnist at the sipa analytical center, draws attention to the fact that with the attack on the crimean bridge, the crimean peninsula turns for the kremlin from a trophy for easter, because the russians who live there feel anxious and feel in danger, as well as many commentators and analysts were ionized about this, in particular, radik sikorskyi, the former minister of foreign affairs of poland, now a member of the european parliament , wrote to himself on twitter with such an ironic tone, addressed the ministry of foreign affairs in russia, saying how is the success of the three-day of a special operation announced by the kremlin in relation to the foreign media , indeed , a lot of attention was also attracted by these events and the blowing up of the ukrainian bridge.

fenechel times writes about the fact that this second ukrainian attack on the bridge and this bridge, which the president of russia putin opened with eight pairs , and this was a matter of personal pride for him, and this attack deals another humiliating blow to the prestige of the kremlin. - the york times writes that, in addition to its logistical and strategic importance , the kerch bridge in crimea has a deep symbolic value for putin and for russia, that this undermining became an embarrassment for the russian military leadership, which was destabilized by the previous attempt of some kind of military rebellion on the part of the wagnerians, skyus, the british tv channel, their energy . bridge was important for russia, uh, it's also an important comment, you know. today

, dmytro kuleba , the ukrainian minister of foreign affairs , spoke on the american tv channel cbs and had an interview with american journalists, and he said the following thing that one a destroyed russian bridge means fewer destroyed ukrainian lives, because through this bridge, russia strengthened its forces in the temporarily occupied crimea, strengthened its forces in the temporarily occupied southern regions of ukraine, so this and this event also have an important strategic significance for the development of events on the battlefield in principle here are the comments and the content and here are the comments of the experts, we will monitor the notary to see how they will comment on it and what possible opinions will be offered by the order and the american press, we will definitely monitor, thank you, leave for your as always detailed analysis with us on a direct link from capitol hill, there was a hawk monitoring the american response to the attack on the kerch bridge and we

are moving forward russia's decision to suspend participation in the black sea grain agreement will deepen food insecurity and harm millions of vulnerable people around the world, said the spokesman for the us national security council, adam holsch, and called on russia to immediately reverse its decision . un secretary general antonio buteri regrets the decision of the russian federation to suspend the implementation of the black sea grain initiative, including the cancellation of russian guarantees of navigation safety in the northwestern part of the black sea. he informed about this during a press conference at the un headquarters in new york. my colleague iryna solomko followed the un statements. she joins our studio from the headquarters in the apartment of the vitau iryna organization, the day before, both the un and the united states , together with their allies, repeatedly called on russia not to use food as a weapon, nevertheless, the kremlin decided

to suspend participation in the black sea grain initiative, how did the un react to it? what did you hear at renault's press conference today? congratulations, nataliya, from the very beginning , from the very morning, statements are being made, and antoni goteres, as you have already reported, personally appeared before journalists to explain his position because he invested a lot to ensure that this agreement worked and, accordingly, that it was extended, and he specifically said that thanks to this year, 32 million metric tons of ukrainian grain , including wheat and, accordingly, corn and olive oil , that is, also ukrainian oil, so they got to the poorest countries in the world, and accordingly he also said that as soon as russia announced that it was withdrawing from this grain initiative, the news immediately spread in the markets that grain prices would drop, and he just noted

that due to this agreement, 23 23% compared to last march, and the prices for fresh air are burning. that is, it was one of the positive consequences of this hotel agreement. he also said that he wrote a personal letter of another letter to putin in which he explained what made by the united nations in order for this agreement to continue to exist because there were five conditions from russia, among which, for example, was the renewal of the connection of the russian bank from russian banks engaged in agricultural activities to the swift network, as well as the establishment of the resumption of work and - and the ammonia pipeline and the talent of odesa so that, accordingly, there was an export of russian ammonia , however, he explained all this and said that he was actually very disappointed by the fact that , accordingly, it did not happen.

the representative of the usa at the un, thomas greenfield, she just called these actions of russia another act of brutality, and that in this way, accordingly, russia struck another blow at the most angry such sections of the world's population, and now you can hear her speech, this agreement brought stability on world food markets and lowered food prices for everyone but today russia has thrown all that progress and all that hope to the wind and while russia plays political games real people will suffer a child from the horn of africa suffering from malnutrition a mother who will stop producing breast milk for her child because she herself does not have enough food this is the consequences of russia's actions this is what it looks like when one country one country decides to take humanity hostage the bottom line is that the world needs the black sea grain initiative and all member states should not unite and call on russia to rescind its decision to resume negotiations

, continue to expand and fully implement this initiative. so, we heard an appeal from the united states and the united nations to russia to rescind this decision, at the same time president zelenskyi said that ukraine is ready continue the grain agreement without russia and send appropriate signals to the mediators of the un agreement and turkey. foreign minister dmytro kuleba is at the un today. what proposals did irina's partner hear from him? so on. on behalf of the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, in order, as you mentioned , to continue the operation of this agreement, because it is extremely important, that is, it is called more of a grain corridor, but at the same time, he said that according to the ukrainian authorities, turkey and the un, respectively, have sufficient capacity to ensure the implementation of this agreement and, accordingly, the export of ukrainian customs

on their own . that is, political will is needed, but the ukrainian authorities have already written the corresponding official letters to the president of turkey erdoğan and according to the secretary general of the un antony gudeiresh regarding this proposal and now the presidents , respectively, the minister of foreign affairs is waiting for these answers and just literally half an hour ago when i would have met with the hotel and had to hear personally his reaction to these proposals. and now you can hear those ideas and what e p koliba has in relation to how this situation should be resolved. the president of ukraine officially addressed the president of turkey and the secretary general the un with a proposal to continue the operation of the black sea grain initiative without the participation of the russian federation. to deprive it of the opportunity to blackmail us and the whole world with this

issue. as you may remember, there was already such an experience and russia withdrew from the initiative, but he turkey and ukraine have enough resources to ensure the functioning of this force, provided there is political will, and here we clearly articulate what we articulate that we have political will, plan a is the continuation of the operation of the black sea initiative, we understand what needs to be done to achieve this plan b - this is the supply of ukrainian grain to the black sea world markets. but there is an alternative route with alternative models of such a seal and such a proposal. we have heard from the ukrainian authorities. thank you, iryna, for your

iryna solomko will talk to us directly from the un headquarters. a year and a half after russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, almost 40% of ukraine's territory is contaminated with unexploded mines and ammunition. ukraine's allies japan, cambodia, poland and the usa help in demining. myroslava gongadze visited the polish a training center where cambodian specialists taught ukrainian emergency workers how to use japanese demining equipment last week at a training center in poland, specialists from cambodia demonstrated to arsenia dyachenko and his colleagues from the state emergency service of ukraine how to use demining equipment dyachenko demonstrates how the japanese advance lenman imagine system or alessence works the mine is covered by two centimeters of earth, if you

look at the screen, you can determine whether it is a mine or just a piece of metal. the demining technique will play a decisive role in clearance of ukrainian lands, according to the ukrainian government, unexploded mines and ammunition resulting from russia's war against ukraine can be found on 40% of the territory of ukraine, including personal protective equipment, demining machines and metal detectors, such as elixis , the cambodian mine action center trains ukrainian sappers after training in cambodia, the group went to poland to complete her studies, the deputy director of the cambodian mine action center um-khumro tells what cambodia still has dealing with anti-personnel mines and munitions that have not exploded almost 50 years after the end of the civil war in the country, in recent decades, experienced cambodian sappers have worked in many

countries in africa and the middle east. this problem we see that they will have many problems after the end of the war this is a big problem a country that usually takes the position of russia and china cambodia together with almost 100 member countries the un became a co-author of the resolution condemning russia's invasion of ukraine. cambodian experts were involved in the demining project with the support of the japanese government and developers. engineer alize matioki sato says that ukraine will probably need a significant number of such devices in the coming years, even after the end of the war, demining may continue for more than 10 years i hope that alice can contribute to speed up this process several countries in particular the usa germany

canada great britain and france have provided aid to ukraine in demining this year japan allocated 45 million dollars to support understanding initiatives according to the latest estimates of the un and the ministry of economy, clearing ukraine of existing dangerous explosive materials could cost more than 30 billion dollars and potentially last for decades myroslava gongadze voice of america legion poland our next story about the american military officer grady courpassier, who died helping ukraine to face russian aggression, he went to ukraine in ukraine in the first days of russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine his story will be told by ilona voytovych kyiv oleksandrivka stanislav new york an american veteran was killed by russian soldiers in the kherson region in the spring last year the repatriation ceremony

of 50-year-old gredi korpaci took place only in may 2023 at kennedy airport gredi's family waited for his return home for more than a year in a photo with his sister he is also met by megan pug, head of the american weatherman foundation, who searched for and brought his body home. we met her a few days later in washington, when he was killed in in april, we honestly assumed that his body would be returned to the united states, as is usually the case, but when august came , the end of the summer, we realized that this was not going to happen, partly because at that time the area was still occupied by the russians , but also because the us state department it seemed that he was not so actively involved that they would help, he had to be tripled, so then i turned to my director of operations, they said that we should find him

, grady arrived in ukraine in february in the first days during the great war, he trained the ukrainian military and helped with the evacuation in buch and irpen. he witnessed the russian terror when the ukrainian authorities formed the foreign legion. he joined the unit and took up arms. only five months before he arrived in ukraine, grady finished his service in the armed forces . in the usa, he served three times in iraq as an assault comorian infantryman and later became a reconnaissance sniper. he retired as a marine captain in september 2021. in september 2021, he assumed the position of commander and in legion tells his british counterpart endergil who was the last one to see gray alive later he helped megan and her team in the search for the american your gray and i got to know each other for about a month we went on several missions together in irpin and buchy before we were sent to mykolaivsk and

kherson region, we met in kyiv , he was looking for a new team and approached us, he seemed worthy to us, it was obvious that he had much more experience than the rest of the guys in our team. we were just looking for a new one andrew's leadership after the de-occupation of kyiv oblast, their next and last mission was on april 25 on the border of kherson oblast and mykolaiv oblast, the territory later occupied by the russians. we heard, as it seemed to us, enemy mortar shots shelling ukrainian observation posts - grady came up to me and asked if we wanted to go out in a two-person patrol to see if will we be able to see the enemy positions on the way back we came into contact with the enemy and were ambushed after that we lost contact and tried to contact

our post just then grady was shot by other legionnaires did not wait for reinforcements wounded in the firefight andrew was captured wounded grady remained on the battlefield , experts identified his remains almost a year later. it is assumed that he died later as a result of russian artillery fire , according to the director of the operation from the foundation weatherman jonorberg, who was in charge of the search. i believe that he was killed from the hail installation and the coroner's report showed that the cause of death was shrapnel. and i believe that he was never a prisoner of war, he was not buried with several others, they simply left the area where the mortars and the remains were left on the field the body

of an american was found with the help of dogs and drones in the already liberated village of stanislav in the kherson region, around december the search stopped. when the earth melted the snow from them, the remains of the body were with his military equipment, and with us was a ukrainian scientist from the mykolaiv administration who was able to identify the remains by comparing them with a dna sample and from his daughter with the help of interpol, this was confirmation that we found him for relatives and friends of greece. was long and with a mountain of hearts, but they are grateful that they will be able to bury him on his native land as a hero, it was very difficult, but that is why people also do their work with the towers , that is why these foundations exist, donduner took on a mission to return grady from ukraine, alive or dead, to his daughter and wife

. the men had a strong friendship because they served together in iraq. don was a sergeant and grady was a platoon leader. i think you can write a book about grady. whose life he would not otherwise have at the age of 29, he already had a career, but the september 11 terrorist attack happened, and he literally immediately enlisted in the marines, just as he did from ukraine, while in ukraine, they stayed in touch, gredi promised that in six months will be drinking beer on the beach in vietnam yes it was his plan to go work for 6 months do everything well and come home you know it all started with the fact that we helped him collect money for a walkie-talkie because they had no means of communication but he didn't go there for the sake of a fight, he was chasing one for the sake of it. oh, with all

you can, let's go through him. after the ceremony in new york, in the city of dekorpation, he and his wife survived the terrorist attack on september 11. the coffin of the american hero was sent home to north carolina on reunited with his family , he will later be buried at arrington cemetery as an honored veteran of america. anton tushkin, a well-known grass blogger in ukraine, came on a mission

. details in the material of andrii boris: tanks , planes, shells and missiles. according to volunteers, the military lacks basic things at the front, such as access to hygiene this is how this unity loops this is how this mobile bathhouse looks like, two 500-liter water tanks, a small washing machine and two drying machines, and here is a shower room, or rather three shower rooms, this is anton ptushkin, ukrainian blogger since last year, documentarian and volunteer, the other day he came to the states to collect money for 10 mobile baths for the ukrainian military at the front, we are not alone in this complex, it costs uah 730,730,000, and we collected in two hours i understood that well, for the people of the donor humanitarian it is cool and i thought, while i, why not do it with the american audience, because for them it is a very close topic, the king of the lopatin islands , here are two interesting islands, more

complicated, this is my first order in the world he is already some unreal before a full-scale invasion of russia anton introduced a video blog with six million subscribers about traveling to exotic places, most of the subscribers were from russia who come naturally people say like go on the language is not to blame, speak in russian and it’s still different, but it’s understandable - it’s clear i won’t make content in russian anymore life and life and million ukrainians in the for in after now anton tells an international audience in english about the war in his homeland together with a charitable foundation together he organized two fundraising meetings in new york and tried to convey what it is like to live in a war-torn country , to convey ukrainian realities to people who were not in the war, the matter is important, but not easy - he says

, just like he, a ukrainian to get used to the a peaceful life, well, it’s very strange. even now, i’m a new yorker, i took my camera. i don’t take pictures because, well, it’s one way or another . there won’t be any alarms here, there won’t be a curfew, but you understand this one. managed to collect $70,000 for mobile baths. they are planning another 130 for donations until the end of july, you can go to the website of the fundraising organization together, there are a lot of them, which sell exclusive lots, we have such a baseball bat, and this is an interesting story, because for us, together, for ukraine, this bat was made the company that produced them last year, and all new yorkers, mobile baths are just one of the many gatherings of a charitable organization jointly created by ukrainians in america, volunteers actively help the armed forces

, in particular, with medical supplies, they collect first-aid kits and tactical shoulder bags. we now have andriy boris voice of america on this we will say goodbye, have you watched the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america time time also join our daily briefings from monday to friday at 18:00 kyiv time on youtube and facebook there you can live ask your questions to our stage host yarysh and yulia yarmolenko. thank you for trusting the ukrainian service of the voice of america. i am nataliya leonova, have a peaceful night and a peaceful morning . we continue the search for six-year-old liza

angarova. the girl lived in the capital and disappeared on the first day of the full-scale war . almost a year and a half has passed since then. year and during this time , unfortunately, there was no news about the fate of the child. i know that little liza is an orphan and was temporarily placed in a foster family , the girl actually disappeared together with her temporary adoptive parents, where they all are now is still unknown, but i know exactly the address where lisa lived before her disappearance , it is kyiv, desnyanskyi district, liskivska street 6a , however, now ani lisa is at this address , and there are no adoptive parents, but we know the name of lisa's temporary nice mother in guryanova, nina honchievna, born in 1980, so if you know anything about lisa or her adoptive mother, please contact us immediately on the hotline of the child tracing service by dialing the short number 116,000 calls from any

mobile operator are free once again i want note that lisa disappeared with her adoptive parents on february 24, 2022, the first day of the full-scale invasion, we all remember what the situation was like in those days in the capital of kyiv , people fled the city to the west of ukraine or even abroad, so it is possible that the temporary adoptive parents went together with the girl at that time, fleeing from the war, also left kyiv , however, according to the law, if a temporary foster family changes its place of residence, she must notify social services, in particular the children's service, about it. almost a year and a half has already passed, however, on the contact of liza's temporary adoptive parents never came out, where are they and six-year-old liza is unknown, it is quite likely that the girl with her temporary adoptive parents is now somewhere abroad, where they fled from the war in ukraine, so if you actually live in one of the european countries, for example in poland

, where there are now many ukrainian refugees and it is possible to see liza angarova there, or if you have any information about her or her adoptive parents, immediately call 116 000, please remember write down this number because 116,000 is the only european hotline for missing children that works in 28 european countries, so if you are in europe and want to report information about a child who is wanted or, god forbid, you have a missing child, do not hesitate to call from your mobile phone to the single european hotline for missing children 116,000, you will always receive professional help , support and step-by-step instructions on how to act in such a situation at this number, of course the fact that lisa angarova is abroad now is only a version, and that is why i am asking everyone who sees this video, please remember lisa's face, she is 6 years old, she