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moment in this tragic war, the armed forces ukraine has taken over the initiative to regain control over sovereign territories , the us defense minister said, opening the 14th meeting of the contact group supporting ukraine in the rammstein format. he added that ukraine's struggle for freedom is a marathon, not a sprint to meet ukraine's urgent need for air defense and ammunition, as well as a long-term one. support for ukraine, these were the main topics of the meeting , which took place in virtual mode in washington, according to his progress, it is already ostap yarysh , we have the opportunity to talk with him right now ostapa i congratulate you natalya what did the participants of this 14th meeting of the contact group agree on ? that's right, natalya, we know that such meetings in the rammstein format are an opportunity for the defense ministers of different countries to check their clocks and support ukraine for the future, as you already correctly mentioned the three main focuses of this meeting on the 14th in a virtual format are

air defense, ammunition and also long-term support, but still it is the secretary of defense of the united states who singled out and drew attention to what the allies agreed to build up and strengthen the production of their own defense complexes in order to be able to keep up with the pace of the ukrainian army in the consumption of ammunition, he also noted that denmark is the netherlands, they are making progress in agreeing on a plan for further training of ukrainian pilots on the f-16, we hope it will begin in the near future, lloydost also noted that sweden in particular and france concluded bilateral agreements with ukraine on defense purchases in order to be able to supply ukrainian troops with more modern equipment . we also saw reports in the press today the american changes write with reference to own sources that the united states in the coming days is preparing to announce another package of military aid

for ukraine for more than 1 billion dollars, so we will monitor and expect these news in the future, too. the bbc said that due to the saturation of mine and defensive objects , it is almost impossible to get quick results of the counteroffensive, as the participants of today's rammstein meeting, she also asked this question today at the final press conference. natalya, in particular, asked general mark amili how he assesses the progress of the ukrainian troops. he really confirmed that you know the real conditions of the war - this is not a war on paper, and it is really the russians, despite the fact that they had previously suffered heavy losses despite low morale, despite problems with logistics and command , but they managed to destroy a large territory of ukraine, and that is why ukrainian troops are advancing cautiously, but persistently and purposefully in order to achieve

of his goals, he assured that advancing through the mini-fields is not an easy task and it is always difficult, and that's why, in principle, no one had any, you know, inflated expectations or unrealistic expectations , the ukrainian army is advancing with confidence, says mark miley and a- and it achieves its goals , we can now listen to this comment that the ukrainians have a significant amount of combat power that has not yet been used. fighting ability and slowly purposeful and steadily making their way through all these mini fields and it's a hard fight it's a very hard fight there's a difference between a war on paper and a real war it's real people in real machines clearing real mini fields who really die so when this happens units usually slow down and it is right to survive and pass through these mini fields, so

the ukrainians are paving their way, this is the comment of general markamilia , the us secretary of defense lloyd austin also agreed with this assessment. he added that the allies do not expect so as long as ukraine advances and they do nothing at that time, in fact, training of three brigades of ukrainian troops is also taking place in germany, said the minister of defense of the united states, and also allies, the united states or european partners, and will continue to provide ukraine with the necessary artillery shells and other ammunition for the effectiveness of this armored vehicle countermeasures can we listen to this comment now . we are going to continue to build up our combat power. strikers, as well as artillery, our work continues and we will do everything

possible. in order for the ukrainians to succeed in achieving morning defense, the ukrainian leadership and military experts say that it is difficult to launch a counterattack without air superiority. i am commenting on all the statements of the american military leadership of ostap, you know what i mean paid attention to this weekend there were several publications from american military experts and they pay attention to say that if the counteroffensive was the american army, it would absolutely count on its aviation now, due to the lack of modern fighter jets, the ukrainian army may not have such a rapid advance, that is, they do not reproach the western partners for not providing ukraine with aviation in time , after all, general zaluzhny spoke about this, and he criticized perhaps the partners that, ah, ukraine has to conduct an offensive with those forces that she has about it, they asked the milli general of the united states about it. he answered that now in fact the biggest in his opinion, uh, obstacles for the ukrainian troops are minefields, and that is

why the priority and her focus are allies are focused on providing ukraine with the means for demining or for passing through these minefields, in terms of aviation , he answered that it would be unrealistic to put an f16 right now because, let's say, there are 10 of these f16s will cost billions of dollars much more than what they provided allies at this moment and it would be difficult to achieve parity with the russian aviation and explain to me that it took years and also training preparation e that now this training will begin but unfortunately these planes cannot be used during a counteroffensive said general mark milley for various reasons. therefore, he is now focusing on the support of ground forces on the support of air defense so that ukraine can protect its sky from the ground and help the ukrainian troops to clear mines and advance thanks to the armored personnel carriers. these are the comments we heard

from the american command yes, it is very important thank you ostap for your analysis ostap followed the progress of the 14th meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine, we are moving forward , no genocide under the guise of peace, we will fight and we will win because we want to live with these words. minister of foreign affairs of ukraine dmytro kuleba addressed the un general assembly, which gathered for an open debate to discuss the situation over the temporarily occupied territories of ukraine . did you hear from the debate participants and in particular what message did dmytro kuleb bring to this site? greetings natalya so during the meetings during their open

debates, for example, dmytro kollov dmytro kuleba for the first time at this level i spoke about the problem of, for example, civilian hostages, the so-called forced detention of ukrainians precisely in the temporarily occupied territories, and this has been happening since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, and we are talking about, according to various estimates, up to several tens of thousands of ukrainians, unfortunately, even none accurate data. how many such people have been detained as well and there is no access to them, that's why today we dmytro kuleba finally spoke about it from such a high platform and he just called on the member states. he explained what else the problem is that there is currently no mechanism for targeting these people, so he called on the member states to start work on this mechanism, which will firstly punish those people who illegally detain ukrainians and, of course , secondly, help to return these ukrainians home, because at the moment there is no there is practically no information about there is no access to them, and also, as you already mentioned at the beginning, of course, the topic of this world, the father of coercion , ukraine, domyri, was also heard today during

the speech of a colleague, and he specifically said, for example that those who cynically say that, for example, ukraine is prolonging the war, they actually mean that ukraine should surrender and allow russia to finish its genocide as soon as possible. natalya believed minister koliba, who read excerpts from the diaries of three children who ended up in the occupation, we know of thousands of such stories , the ukrainian government also reports on more than 19,000 verified cases of deportation of children, it was possible to return less than four hundred of them, and russia itself recognizes the deportation of hundreds of thousands, it is obviously difficult for the ukrainian authorities to return the children because she is not negotiating with the aggressor, so what mechanisms are used to find and return children and how in ukraine do partners help with this? yes, natalya, the topic of children was raised yesterday and during the meeting of the security council, and in particular, it was raised by the minister of foreign affairs of great britain cloverly is

practically the whole speech because it is dedicated to this topic today, as you mentioned, dmytro kuleba spoke very emotionally reading these excerpts from the excerpts of the children and essentially the war diaries of the ukrainian children, however returning to the issue of deported children, unfortunately, at the moment, it is precisely this topic that is dealt with by public organizations or charitable foundations or individual activists, therefore , unfortunately, which ones simply help parents and ukrainian parents to return these children , therefore, unfortunately, how did you specify the number? such high returns so far, only 372 children have been returned in these one and a half years and from the beginning to the large-scale invasion, which is precisely why dmytro koleba today from the podium said that there should finally be such pressure and the first such the institution was up to the international community to support this pressure so that we would put pressure on russia to provide, first of all , lists of children who are now essentially on

the territory of russia, because this is how russia talks about hundreds of thousands of detainees, ukraine talks about tens of thousands of deportees, i apologize to the children that is why there should be some lists , at the expense of which, accordingly, ukraine can control the movement of these children and where they are, and of course the second step that must be taken is that the minister spoke about this today it is about the fact that there should be access to these children, that is, international organizations, human rights organizations or monitoring missions should finally get access to these children and the last hands - this is of course the return , these are the most difficult steps, therefore, in principle, the minister said that it is possible, this can be achieved only if you demand from of russia with one voice and now you can hear part of the minister's speech these lines cannot be read without tears alina gave me this diary and they allowed me to read these private records to you

now you know and feel that ukrainians have been experiencing for almost a year and a half a full-scale repetition of russia in ukraine, why have these millions of other ukrainian children had their childhoods stolen because putin has an imperial tumor in his head, because russia does not care about the suffering of children in order to achieve its sick political goals, neither genocide under the guise of peace nor false pacifism, which justifies the aggressor for his crimes, no territorial concessions for the sake of illusions of peace no, we will fight and we will win because we want to live because our children, what your children deserve to have completely families and lives he from fear and suffering, we will ensure that the aggressor is brought to justice, because only in this way can we restore a just and durable peace for ukraine and respect for the un charter . another issue that is currently being discussed in the un is the grain agreement in which russia has suspended its participation it was reported that dmytro kuleba on

monday at a meeting of the security council voiced a ukrainian proposal to continue the supply of ukrainian grain to the world without the participation of russia . kuleba told journalists that he really discussed these proposals with un secretary general antonio goteish yesterday, and they talked about all possible options. that is, this is not the only option that is currently being considered . he himself told journalists yesterday, and not only in his address, and he just said that they had agreed to work with the hotel and together with the responsible countries, respectively, obviously it is not russia, to restore food security and supply from of food and provisions and the black sea. at the same time, dmytro koliba said that almost 48 hours have passed since then, and since russia announced that it was suspending its participation in the agreement,

the danish participants in the agreement are working on all possible scenarios. that is there are a lot of them, and that is, every scenario , as he said in the village, but at the same time, according to a colleague, there is a certain explanation of why russia is doing this , that is, that russia has several of its own scenarios for the development of further events, now you can listen thank you to iryna with us, iryna solomenko was in direct contact with the un headquarters immediately after the termination of participation in the black sea grain agreement, which endangered the most vulnerable countries in the world, russia launched missiles and unmanned drones at odesa , the spokesman said this during a briefing on july 18 u.s. state dept. meter miller noted that russia's actions over the last day have already led to an increase in prices on the global

food market since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the poznań zoo in cooperation with the ukrainian center rescue of wild animals evacuated more than 200 predators, they are most often found in the de-occupied territories or in the war zone, these are either illegal kennels or private enclosures that were left with the animals by the owners of a pro-group of volunteers who have been rescuing animals risking their lives for the second year , will be told by lesya bakalets from poznan, the lioness asya and her three cubs have been living in the poznań zoo for several weeks now, their physical condition is improving, but psychologically they are still unstable, they are all a bit strained to perceive the presence of people now especially after such a traumatic experience, they survived attacks with rockets and drones, we give them standard veterinary care

, but it will take a long time for people to start liking them again ... saved wild animals that were kept by private owners in inappropriate conditions, the war forced her to redouble her efforts when on the front line or on the loose territory, they find an abandoned wild animal, they call natalya with us. the car is filled with anesthesia and everything is packed. she learned how to transport herself, because not always a veterinarian agrees to go with her to the front line, loading especially

heavy animals into the car is helped by the military. with an animal, and the drivers are already behind the wheel and quickly run away. i see, you understand , when, for example, there was a trail running down there or a cage on it, there was soup on it. marina is under anesthesia and quickly you will bring her out in a relaxed state . i still flowed for some time while i was under anesthesia . where in my life could i drive slowly and carefully they give me a signal i take the animal out of the seats as soon as it starts

to move the first signs i already close the cage i just sit and observe well, when the animal has already stood up completely, then i already transfer to cabins and we drive normally. all the evacuated animals first go to nataliya popova's wild animal rescue center in the kyiv region. after medical care and quarantine, the large animals are sent across the polish border to the zoo in poznań. when the war started, the zoo director eva from gapchinsk offered natalya her help together. they saved already hundreds of animals in total about 200 large and medium-sized predators more than 50 lions as well as tigers foxes bears and wolves here in poznań the animals receive the necessary treatment, documents and temporary shelter while ms. eva is looking for a permanent home for them two bears from the east of ukraine chip tadeil are ready for a new journey nextpad of i hope this will be their

permanent home for the rest of their lives they will go to brasov in romania unfortunately we cannot leave the bears in our zoo in we already have five of our own and there is not enough space for this blind wolf. they are already waiting for this blind wolf in greece. asi and the lion cubs have also found a home. good place for the earth, we have a good place for them - it is the yorkshire wildlife park in the great in britain, they will all go there as a group , as a family, as pride , some animals do not manage to find a permanent home quickly. such large animals are very dear . nataliya popova and the poznań zoo receive support from the international fund for the protection of animals and private donors. we

supported and provided funding so that this team could go to the rescue actually inside ukraine, then to receive these animals in ukraine and levis - these are really very valuable animals that eat meat and this is really such a large item of expenses, and then for the team to be able to come to poland and move often, it is natalya who takes the animals to the border and there they meets eva personally, the women say they don't know how they would cope without the support of each other, but for animals their work is an opportunity to use a cramped cage in some private estate for civilized living conditions , this is a paradox, because war is hell for everyone, but for these animals saved by nataliya popova became a chance for a new good

life life lesya mykolayets voice of america from poznań among american readers there is a demand for books by ukrainian authors and about ukraine readers are interested not only in historical but also in fiction publications as told in a bookstore in downtown washington the popularity of books on the ukrainian theme increased rapidly at the beginning of the full-scale war and still does not decrease. are enough books by ukrainian authors published in the usa and what do americans read about ukraine in in the story of iryna shynkarenko, this man is a professor of ukrainian history at harvard university and is supplemented by a lady who will probably have to purchase an additional edition of this book in the american library in the town of falls, because not far from washington , they are showing the book of the historian serhiy the bad gate of europe. in addition to it, there are more than 30 books about ukraine and also by ukrainian writers, the names of some of them

are not easy for americans to remember that the sky but about chornobyl ukrainian writer people now like to read about chornobyl this it's kind of scary to think about a nuclear power plant, it's odesa, but it's an old book, it's an american who wrote about odesa, most of the books are now in the hands of readers, mostly american visitors are interested in books about the history of ukraine, which are told in the library , as well as testimonies about the modern war, let's take a look, it's relatively new on the shelves is an english-language diary about the war of a schoolgirl from kharkiv, eva skalecka, a diary of the war by evgeniy belorussian, as well as a translation from the diary of serhiy zhadana about the first six months

of the full-scale invasion called nebo above kharkiv, the book by the american woman apple balum about the history of the holodomor is one of the most popular books on the ukrainian shelf among readers. i have several here. when the war started, this author was in particular demand to learn more about ukraine, and then i know that this author is very popular. he ukrainian, we also have a children 's book that, as i know for sure, is extremely popular. it's rukavychka. it's a ukrainian folk tale. not so long ago , there were no books about ukraine on the shelves of this library near washington. generally 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 surprised by the lack of ukrainian publications there 6 years ago, when she came to work at the library, when i started telling people that there was a war in ukraine, some were surprised when i started to explain that

we should have more ukrainian books about ukraine, that we should help oksana zabuzhko compiled a list of the best books in ukrainian, i simply printed out this list and brought it to my employees and explained that we colleagues should have in the library olga's requests were listened to and even before the full-scale war began to appear in the library, these books about ukraine and ukrainian authors translated into english told me that there are not enough books - said a person with whom we are on good terms, our colleague from ukraine said that there are not enough books published here in the usa by ukrainian authors. we definitely try to keep abreast of what is happening in ukraine and make sure that we have books available for our readers so that they can find out

more at the beginning of the full-scale war and readers came to the library and actively asked for books on ukrainian subjects, now there is a great demand, in particular, for artistic publications , they say in the library and all these books are purchased from american publishers, so the ukrainian collection of the library was replenished even more, they were published and they are published, you will not believe it but they appear, you just need to have the desire to find them, we have published books serhiy is desired and poetry, people know who taras shevchenko is, it's very nice olga tells in translation in poetry serhiy zhadana has a special group of fans in the usa, you know, none of them have read it in translation. mainly the american military , and hmm, they liked them, as well as the plan of zaluzhn, i read the translation of his poems, it’s very like that, you know how to explain it, the rhythm is very clear and they are like that, they

really take your soul ordering non-fiction books for the library is handled by catherine wilson says that when choosing ukrainian literature and books about ukraine, which, along with other types , 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 goes through these licenses. and i look at reviews and decide which ones to buy and since we have a community who 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 which books the library will order for its fund, so the director says such ukrainian shelves, if persistent, can appear in many american

libraries. i think there are several ways . first, most libraries have a proposal method for requesting books. this is either an online form or a form that they fill out in 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 what we do is people make recommendations and then we add material to make the bookshelves now apart war diaries, historical books of several editions about chornobyl and serhiy zhadana, this library also has a translated novel gray bees by andriy kurkova , a biography of volodymyr zelenskyi and a book with his speeches. next oksana zabuzhko yuriy andruhovich les pod ervyanskyi iryna rozdobud kalina kostenko of course slina

kostenko vsevolod nestaiko ostap vyshnya and i really hope that victoria melyana is uh the 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 , the library near the american capital also organizes lectures and screenings of films about russia's war against ukraine, held an online concert of ukrainian musicians, and the director of the library read works via video link in english for ukrainian children in bomb shelters iryna shynkarenko oleksiy osyka voice of america this is where we say goodbye did you

watch the program of the ukrainian voice service america time thank you for trusting us. i am natalya leonova. good night and good morning. we are looking for 11-year-old hleb cherepanov . the boy has been missing for more than a year . and now we have received information from a witness . a woman reported that she saw our program about the search for hleb and allegedly recognized him. that i