[000:00:00;00] always dreamed of a career in moscow in 2004 elizaveta moved to russia, but at first glance she kept warm feelings for ukraine, here in an interview with the russian channel moscow 24 she corrects the host who puts the accent wrongly, ukrainians can be an artist because of this and the ukrainian excuse me, for god's sake, the ukrainian artist continued to tour two countries and from 2010 to 2012 was a judge of the vocal show x-factor. singer, yes, but since the 14th year , when russia annexed crimea and captured part of donbas , yolka stopped talking about ukraine in interviews, the singer did not mention her ukrainian roots and asked interviewers not to ask her

questions about the war on the eve of february 24 , the singer had time to give a concert in kyiv and when the massive offensive by the russian army began, she suddenly lost her ability to speak. not a single word about the war, the death of thousands of ukrainians, the tragedy in buch irpen, and in azovstal, her tongue was loosed only for russian wooden dolls. in the spring of 2022, this traitor spoke in sochi, not there was embarrassed to perform the song provence, which mentions the boryspil airport, which the russians began to attack in the first hours of the war, so today, despite the war in her native country, the singer continues to live and perform in russia. yolka has a large three-story house of 500 m² near moscow, an observation deck , a swimming pool, a gym and a music studio elka has never spoken about the war in

ukraine and never condemned the aggressor country russia , and silence is a sign of agreement that soon our armed forces will liberate ukraine from the aggressors and i will say to putin's peddlers this is what you all should remember about the concerts of the occupiers, the occupiers should be answered. i want you kremlin rubles. they fell in love with you and for the betrayal of ukraine, you have been forever ashamed. join the creation of the collaborators program. send information about the kremlin's pro-protyans to us on facebook or by e-mail. let's send them together in pursuit of the russian ship , we'll see it in a week on the air espresso

, i congratulate the program of the ukrainian voice of america service on the air time and me and the host ostap yarish today the former president of the usa donald trump appears in front of the federal court in washington, where he will be charged with trying to cancel his defeat in the 2020 elections . trump's supporters came to washington to protest and to prevent provocations around the courthouse , security measures were tightened, our journalist is working at the scene oleksiy kovalenko , we will ask him more, oleksiy. congratulations, what is happening in front of the court and what kind of development do we expect today? please tell me more from the place of events. in fact, a lot of people gathered here at the court, since yesterday, people started gathering here , including supporters and opponents of trump and those who say that he should be released and not convicted, that all these criminal cases against trump are useless accusations and all this is not true

and those who believe that trump needs to be arrested and he needs to be sentenced, as well , media representatives started gathering here since the video yesterday, and regional, national, and international media also started gathering here yesterday. today there are even more people and of course there are a lot of police here from minute to minute we expect former us president donald trump to arrive here where a will be in court in about an hour and his own indictment will be read to him the judge will tell him more about the case itself more about the indictments which he will be fingerprinted and trump will have the opportunity to either plead guilty or not guilty to the relevant articles of indictment according to how trump has reacted to previous cases according to how his team responded, and accordingly to the previous criminal charge brought against trump, it is expected that most likely the former us president will plead

not guilty to all four articles of the criminal charges brought against him this week oleksia, how serious is this case in general compared to others, we know. so what is this this is the third criminal indictment against the former president and how long can the trial of this case take now or should we expect its resolution before the elections in november 2024 criminal cases this case is very serious these are very serious criminal charges and one of the articles in which the articles of the articles of accusations that we heard about this week it talks about an attempt to speak about the public right of people to have their votes counted and the prosecution under this article provides for up to 20 years of imprisonment and we don't know how many more in total it is, but today donald trump himself announced the figure of 561 years, according to him, he faces all

criminal articles of the indictment and the previous two criminal cases and this the case today is actually on this case of criminal indictment against trump this is just the beginning it's only the first day again he will be uh read ah read the indictment the details of the case he pleads guilty or newsworthy but this process may last months this process may even last hands despite the preliminary expectations of the prosecution that the verdict will be handed down next year in may and we will be able to learn more about the details of the process itself, about the details of how the process will develop and how long it will take from the former federal prosecutor if we have her quote we can hear her right now he will be informed of the charges against him he is going to plead not guilty the judge can set a very

preliminary schedule but the seventh judge is not a district court judge his job at this point is to start the case and advise the defendant in relation to the charges , you know, most federal cases are resolved in court, the vast majority, this is a very small percentage that ends up in court, but considering what is at stake here map who is the defendant here, these cases will undoubtedly go to court, i mean, but it is simply difficult to imagine the decision to which the former president agreed. i think that the announcement of the deadline for the consideration of the case is very ambitious. that date will be met given everything that can happen from here and frankly the former president has the right to participate in his own defense prepare to work with his lawyers so it's not something when the federal case really takes you know

for several years, what has the former president's defense been saying, how can these criminal charges against trump affect his campaign actually, donald trump himself, his defense rejects all the charges he says it's delusional and that it's a witch hunt, in fact he compared the criminal charge against him to the charge of the times nazi germany in the 31st year or the times of the soviet union and the protection of trump, in particular his lawyer rudy giuliani, who is most likely to be reported by journalists this accusation, but his name is not announced, he emphasized that it will be very difficult, it will be very difficult to determine whether donald trump actually knew that his statements about the 2020 elections were false or true, and how this will affect , most likely, we are now seeing the consolidation of the republic we see that 53% of republicans are ready to vote, but how will this affect the general election

in general ? washington, where do we expect an indictment for donald trump, oleksiy? thank you, that house hopes that moscow will really carefully monitor the consultations regarding the ukrainian peace formula in saudi arabia, and then saw that more and more countries understand that what russia did was illegal, unprovoked, and violates the un charter about it in in an exclusive interview, my colleagues yulia yarmolenko stated that john kirby, representative of the us national security council , one of the goals of the meeting in saudi arabia was to gain greater support for the peace plan zelenskyi, in particular among the countries of the global south. i think that what you will see as a result of the meeting in juda is a continuation of the process that has been going on for many months to

convey the peace formula proposed by president zelenskyi and to find ways to implement it, to move it forward, to help garner support, this is not peace negotiations, this is non-negotiable with regard to ending the war, these are completely different conditions and circumstances, and people should not look at the meeting in jilia as a forum through which clear and tangible results will be achieved, in fact it is about continuation of the conversation about what this peace formula might look like. therefore, no , this is not a negotiation. i would like to say two more things to your question. first , it is obvious that each nation must decide for itself how much it will be involved in the peace formula of mr. zelensky and can definitely decide when and if they will peace negotiations what role does she say she wants to play that we have already said nothing about ukraine without ukraine and therefore when mr. zelensky will be ready to sit down at the negotiating table with mr. putin and

it looks like it will not happen soon we have said and will continue to say that the vision of mr. zelenskyi’s vision of ukraine they should be a fundamental element they must be fully respected during the negotiations but again, we are not at this stage yet, mr. putin has not shown any signs that he is ready for negotiations , on the contrary, only in the last 24:48 hours we see more attacks on grain cargoes on the danube river, he is doing everything possible to not only try to hold the territory in the east of ukraine that does not belong to him, but also to limit ukraine's ability to export grain and food to many countries of the world, in particular in the global south, i certainly hope that they in moscow are watching this, i hope that they will realize that more and more countries around the world understand that what mr. putin is doing is illegal and unprovoked and completely

violates the un charter, the same un charter that many these countries signed and continue to be loyal to the principles of territorial integrity and sovereignty. i also hope that when the russians watch these meetings, they will understand that more and more countries are starting to see that mr. putin's reckless decision to withdraw from this grain agreement is making them hungrier, it is exacerbating the current conditions of hunger in many countries and deepening food insecurity throughout the global south. level dedicated to global food security, they were opened by us secretary of state anthony blinken , our correspondent iryna solomko followed the debate from the un headquarters in new york

let's talk about it in more detail iryna i congratulate you, why is the current meeting important and what should we actually monitor, what was the essence of it greetings ostap, yes, the meeting was important , first of all, because of its topic, because for the first time in three years, the security council gathered to discuss the topic of hunger it is through the prism of conflicts, that is, hunger caused by conflicts in general, that is, the topic of fighting hunger and in this and food security is one of the priorities of the united states and the brothers in the un, they declared about this several years ago and from those almost every presidency they hold a series of powerful events devoted to this topic, and in principle even initiate certain practical steps and that is why , that is, this time they started their presidency with this event, it is a high-level debate , that is, in addition to mr. blinkin , a number of foreign ministers were also present other countries, in addition, the united states also initiated a communiqué, which, in principle , the signatories undertake to stop using hunger and food as

such weapons during conflicts, and already these they signed the communiqué, just one country. but if we talk about the data and why it is still important to pay attention to this topic, and about the scale of this problem, today it was heard that in the last year the number of people suffering from hunger due to lack of food due to conflicts has grown a lot and according to the un, 366,000 people live in youth, in fact, in seven countries where this conflict is currently raging, and another 35 million . they live on the brink of starvation. speech this morning , what did he focus on? it's a pity that conflicts are caused and the voice of hunger is not

even less to the extent of climate change than it was there a few years ago. and that's why , for example, he also reminded. that people say that they simply boil the leaves and this is called cold food, and in addition, he mentioned, for example, the resolution that was adopted by the security council 5 years ago and it is, that is, it condemns the creation of such artificial hunger during conflicts. this should be a war crime, but unfortunately it is you who should stop the parties to the conflicts from applying such measures, but this does not stop it, and it certainly did not happen without the question of ukraine, he said that ah, that is, that the black sea training the initiative worked, but unfortunately, russia knows that on july 17, when russia withdrew from the grain agreement

, grain prices around the world rose by more than 8%, ignoring the calls of the world. the ministry of foreign affairs of kenya called russia's move acetyu a stab in the back. the kremlin claims that it terminated the agreement due to international sanctions that limit the export of its agricultural products. in fact , the sanctions directly exclude food and fertilizers. in fact, at the time of its refusal to participate in the initiative, russia exported more grain and prices were higher than ever before what was russia's response to the suffering and outrage of the world shelling of ukrainian granaries mining port entrances threats to attack any vessel in the black sea regardless of its flag or cargo numbers and what did anthony blinkin say something about alternative methods of grain export from ukraine, so ostapa would like to say before that that, after all, during the meeting , the russian representative of russia tried to take the leadership in this matter from

the united states after discussing it really russia and the former soviet union really took care of this issue. and for the western countries, this is accordingly such a conjunctural issue . after that, he also said that russia is not really going to return to the agreement until its conditions regarding exports, russian good ones , are fulfilled, since they are quite contradictory, then hope for it is not impossible, but mr. blinking said that he currently has no opportunity to use the sea . but while russia is shelling it and now you can hear his quote and even if, for example , there was an effective and safe way the movement of food from the sea from the south the fact that russia is shelling the ports and the production facilities of the grain warehouses the grain itself as long as this continues it will be incredibly difficult so i think that this is what we should really look at this is what russia is definitely doing iryna thank you for your work iryna solomko joined to us from the un headquarters in

new york, meanwhile, in poland, they are wary of new provocations from russia and belarus and are preparing for the fact that their number will increase, polish prime minister meteo zhmuritsky announced today. met with the president of lithuania at the siege to discuss the troubled situation in the region, the meeting took place near the suval corridor of the region, which connects the territory of the baltic countries with poland and also borders the kaliningrad region of russia and belarus , see on our borders on the borders of lithuania just on our borders on the border all types of hybrid attacks are taking place with lithuania , which we have seen in the last two years . russia and belarus are increasing the pressure on our borders, increasing the number of provocations, and we must be aware that the number of these provocations will increase, we talked about this earlier with the president at

the siege, this is what the provocation is. this is what the intrigues on the part of putin lukashenko are in order to destabilize in order to create unrest, chaos, uncertainty and at the same time show the weakness of the eastern on the flank of nato to all our nato partners , myroslava gongadze also visited the polish-belarusian border about the concerns of local residents and how poland is strengthening its security, she told on the air of the voice of america briefing can we watch a fragment of our conversation, what is the current situation in the border areas of belarus and poland, we heard one thing that was wrong , the statement of mateusz muravetsky that there is some kind of security threat, are you there, how does it feel, what is happening , please share with us, yes, i actually came to the polish belarusian the border precisely in order to translate what is happening here and to feel it from the citizens here and from the volunteers who work in this forest in this

białowieża forest because a lot of people pass through these borders migrants, illegal migrants across the polish-polish-belarusian border and what do the local volunteers tell me that in fact this is this wall that the polish authorities put up is 186 km long. the wall between belarus and poland is five meters high. we removed this wall and we will show it to you. yes, this wall turns out to be possible, it is even possible to cut it, there are mechanisms to do it, and no, it is not. they pass through the wall , they manage to pass, and illegal migrants are a huge problem for this region, because the volunteers say that they were here literally yesterday uh, they met 13 13 illegal migrants, and also in the last uh, two years since

this tension between poland and belarus has been going on, uh, here they have already found 300 uh, dead bodies in this forest of these migrants, how does it really feel here in the city, uh the city is living its life quite calmly , i can't say that there is tension behind me, this parking lot was completely filled with polish military two days ago because the polish authorities sent reinforcements of the polish -belarusian border here and now we saw it directly near the wall, there are a lot of security guards, a lot of polish soldiers who monitor the situation at the border, we talked to some of them informally, they did not comment on the camera, but they spoke to us quite friendly. we also met tourists here right next to the tourists

of the border near this muru, er, those who worked work in the european parliament and came to see how protected this eastern border is, so what has become of the situation for such a border, also meps are coming , vladyslav, you already mentioned that er a few days ago there were troops literally at the place where you are standing poland was shifting its armed forces in order to ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok crossed the polish border from the side of belarus at a low altitude . how do they react to this in poland? how seriously do they treat such reckless risks? and how will they address this incident and this provocation?

again. it was these volunteers with whom i spoke. they actually recorded these helicopters that crossed the polish-belarusian border. these were belarusian helicopters. information and the polish authorities were quite careful, in fact, from the very beginning they reacted to this, they did not want to confirm that the incident had happened, but in the end the ministry of defense of poland confirmed it that two helicopters crossed the border at a fairly low altitude. of course, the belarusian authorities deny it, the russian authorities deny it, but this is such and such a test, and in fact, the local residents here are a little damaged because they say, on the one hand, the polish authorities tell us that we are in security, and on the other hand, the helicopter crossed the border and nothing happened, that is

, they are to some extent official, the reaction that you saw , the reaction, the reaction, the reaction, the statement, the reaction, the statement, the ministry of defense, the reaction is from, this is the sending of additional troops, the troops here to borders well, of course, this is the consultation with the countries of the alliance, the nato countries and the eu countries, this fact of the meeting with the president of novosibirsk is also a part of these consultations, and it was he who , by the way, said that according to their estimates , up to four thousand wagnerian military personnel are on territories of belarus near their borders and that is why they are wary of any provocations since the tragedy in the volyn colony, a year passed on the night of july 29 , 2022, ukrainian

prisoners were being received in the detention center, an explosion rang out, more than 50 military personnel died and dozens were injured, it is still impossible to establish with certainty what happened that night, because russia does not allow ukraine or international organizations to the scene of the crime, however, independent investigators have found out new circumstances of what happened more in the story of maria ulyanovska, the announcement of the exit of the ukrainian military after growing up in captivity in may 2022, they gave hope to the ukrainians, despite all the life of the defenders, they managed to preserve it, but within two months, faith in the rescue was overshadowed by a tragedy in one of the premises of the oleniv colony in donetsk region, where they held the azov people, blew them up, then 53 ukrainian prisoners of war died, out of 193 of them, they held the bodies of 33 of the dead, who were returned to the territory under the control of ukraine, identified the bodies. another 24 have not been identified until now , there were also soldiers, sergeants, officers and commanders, and ordinary people, the only thing that was

common was that that all of them were from the azov regiment, and according to this list, they gathered people and forced them to the territory of the industrial zone of this prison, and later in three days , at night, when the people were sleeping peacefully, they they initiated the explosion, russia blamed ukraine for the tragedy, they say so, the armed forces of ukraine tested the newest weapon provided by the united states, a long-range volley fire system , highs, this version was almost immediately refuted by the institute for the study of war, the damage was not at all the same as from the hammers strike, almost a year after the terrorist attack, it also rejected russia's statements that the prisoners of war were killed by a missile ukraine insists russia staged an explosion in volyn to cover up the mistreatment of ukrainian prisoners and the security service published a video of the alleged interception

telephone conversations of the occupiers, in which they confirm that the russian troops fired at the place of detention of the azov residents from hail and there was no reception. the ukrainian media initiative for human rights conducted its own investigation of the tragedy. day to dismantle the rubble and remove the bodies of the dead, now they prove that russia was preparing a terrorist attack against the volyn residents in advance firstly, all servicemen who belonged to the azov regiment were prepared in this fight, and secondly, they were gathered according to specially prepared lists in which there were people from different units of the regiment, that is, from different companies, and some of them were even well-acquainted between himself, the third time, on the day before that, on the day when i was translating the azov people in this bar, and this

barak was completely unprepared to receive people, and it is also important why exactly he was decided to use the fourth that on the transfer day translated to azov citizens, that is, the so-called head of the colony came and told them clearly that we are transferring you to this barrack, it will not be for long, then we will transfer you somewhere else, that is, the leadership knew exactly where they were being transferred and why they were being transferred, and that during the day, before the night, the explosion of all the military personnel they were actually driven according to the lists into this parade, no one was allowed to go outside. although this was a barrack -type colony, before that, servicemen in other barracks and these azov soldiers could go outside at night and because of the heat, they could spend the night they were all gathered at the prisons on the street and told that even the toilet could not be used , because if possible, only

one at a time. eyewitnesses claim that there were three explosions, one outside and two more inside the barak itself, they caused the death and serious injuries of everyone who was there. everyone there was injured, i.e. there was no person there who was not injured later and after the explosion for three hours they did not allow medical personnel to reach people and some of the people simply lost blood loss according to eyewitness accounts collected by human rights defenders of the car ambulances were at the gates of the colony half an hour after the explosions, but the wounded were not taken between two and three in the morning , they let other captured medics into the alley along the outer wall of the colony, witnesses said that the wounded began to be evacuated to donetsk hospitals only around five in the morning , this is a scary picture when the doctor from the ilyich plant tells us that the azovians were crawling or crawling again, they did not

have traumatic amputations of limbs, they mean they were shouting and the administration in this for a moment she was standing and drinking coffee next to them and you were also mocking her saying certain phrases . on july 28, 2023 , the sbu reported the suspicion to the former head of the olenivka colony, serhiy yevsyukov, but the investigation of the terrorist attack is progressing slowly because there is no access to the scene of the crime in ukraine. likewise, others un international organizations disbanded the fact-finding mission of the olenivka shelling because russia refused to provide the necessary security guarantees and access to the crime scene, the families of the prisoners complain and due to the inactivity of the international committee of the red cross, under whose security guarantees the azov people were captured, it did not fulfill its function from the moment our boys were released from captivity, it was declared that they should at least allocate some representatives of their organization to the places where our boys were received