[000:00:00;00] schovachiv f16 as soon as the ukrainian pilots will finish their training, the national security adviser of the american president, jake sullivan, announced this, washington sent relevant letters to the netherlands, which heads the pilot training coalition, and the minister of foreign affairs of the netherlands, in a tight fist, has already called this decision a significant stage, let's talk about it in more detail with my my colleague yuliya yarmolenko, who joins our broadcast from the white house yuliya hello, congratulations this is indeed a turning point too maria i would say a turning point the moment, after all, was in may at the g7 summit, when us president joe biden nevertheless announced a decision to join this aircraft coalition or at least support training programs for ukrainian pilots , because it is worth remembering that in january, when i asked the president a question about whether to provide the united states to ukraine with f16 fighter jets, he clearly said no later we heard a lot of different explanations why this cannot happen why the fighter jets are not at the moment and

it was in hiroshima that we first saw this turning point when president biden said that the united states is supporting training to eventually send these fighter jets to ukraine, what happened this week ? the united states secretary of state blinked at the letter with the assurance to these colleagues that the united states will approve the sending of f16 by third countries to ukraine as soon as the training is completed, of course, in consultation with congress two, let's actually listen to how jake sullivan explained all these details today, more precisely seven in hiroshima, president biden noted both to his colleagues and to the world that the united states supports the training of ukrainian pilots on

the f-16 this week through the letter of secretary of state blinkin to his colleagues in europe, we formally indicated that after the end of the exercises, the usa, in consultation with congress, will be ready to approve the transfer of f-16s to ukraine by third parties, this is a natural continuation of what president hiroshima announced for reasons that i the questions were not clear, are we really going to do it, so to put all these questions aside, after the training is over, there will be a handover and we are working with congress and with our allies to implement it. so this week, we emphasized emphasized and put an exclamation point on this issue that is definitely of concern to all of our listeners when to expect fighter jets and what about the training of pilots, do you know where they will be because i know that the press secretary of the pentagon peterder stated that they may be in the united states where will these trainings be and when do you know maria a very important issue

that is definitely the most important right now. and what we know at the moment, first of all, we know that the training will take place in europe, at least at the first stage, we are talking about countries such as romania, but for sure we do not know the details yet, we also really heard from the pentagon that they do not rule out that the training may take place in the united states at some stage, but they say that first the training will take place in europe, then, if necessary, it can also take place in the united states, when we heard earlier from the prime minister of the netherlands that the training can begin by the end of the summer until the end of the summer is not that long i hope we will soon hear an update about this and how long they will last today when myroslava gangadze spoke with the spokesman of the air force of the armed forces of ukraine yuriy ignat and he outlined a little more broadly what the time frame might be. come on, let's listen, everything will depend on how quickly our

pilots will perceive the training program, we were talking about four months and earlier it could have been six months, the air force said, well, in the united states, two pilots were tested and there, er, the partners came to the conclusion that those who already had knowledge of the relevant language with training, that is, experienced pilots , er, said that about four months was concluded that it would be enough for pilot training, but i want to experience that so far. to influence that they haven't left, and the countdown time hasn't started yet, so i'd like to do it as soon as possible. six months might be enough for our pilots , but time will tell, i don't want to rush ahead yuli thank you for this explanation, i want to talk with you about one important topic, which is actually the main one in the united states today, it's a tripartite usa japan and south korea american the mass media are already writing about it as a historic event in

international diplomacy, what is known about this meeting, do you know maria, it really is historic because it is the first time that the leaders of these three countries are gathering for a separate summit not in the fields some other summit, why is it important, we know that in the white house they talked about the fact that after russia attacked ukraine, other countries, in particular in the pacific region , began to think seriously about their own security, and today, according to the results of this summit, what did president biden say this means new page new section in the relations of these three countries, according to the results of this site , the signing of such and such agreements is expected, which will be aimed at countering threats that could potentially come from north korea or from china, this there will be a strategy that will also consist in a better exchange of intelligence, and annual consultations in the form of such summits should be initiated, as well as permanent consultations of national security advisors and annual

training in the region and as we know , the relations themselves, even between japan and south korea, are quite difficult taking into account the painful history of these two countries in particular. this history is connected with the rule with the actual japanese occupation of the korean peninsula by the colonial rule, which actually has many questions in south korea and for in the last year, the relations of these two countries have improved a lot, in particular due to the influence of the president of the united states, joe biden , because both japan and south korea are extremely important partners of the united states, and president biden sees the establishment of relations between these countries as very important in order to implement the strategy of peace and of the open pacific region and the very place where maria kem-9 is held is the residence of the country residents, it is actually a very important

place for diplomatic negotiations, that's why it shows how important these meetings are. thank you, yulia, for these interesting details. i will remind you that yuliya yarmolenko told about the transfer of f16 fighters to ukraine and kem-9 themselves. until they are able to break the land corridor connecting russia with the crimean peninsula and also free the temporarily occupied molitopol, such a disappointing forecast has already made a lot of publicity and allegedly raises the question of further support for ukraine in the event if it fails to achieve the key goal of this stage of the counteroffensive, such intelligence conclusions have already been reacted to in the white house. the us president's national security adviser jax sullivan reminded that this war is unpredictable and the united states will continue to support ukraine. i will not talk about intelligence reports, i will only say that over the past two years, there has been a lot of analysis from various sources about how this war will play out, and we've seen a number of changes in those

analytical estimates over that time as the dynamics and conditions on the front line, as we have already said from various podiums at various briefings, and this remains unchanged, we are doing everything possible to support ukraine in this counteroffensive, american intelligence does not agree with the institute for the study of war, my colleague iryna shinkarenko spoke with analyst kateryna stepanenko, however, is ukraine progressing sufficiently in the counteroffensive and how to meet the expectations of the partners later in the interview kateryna , in your opinion, can we really talk about the fact that the ukrainian counteroffensive has slowed to a crawl and we can't say that currently, the ukrainians continue to advance in several directions, including bakhmut, the east of the zaporizhzhia region, the west of the donetsk region, as well as in the west of the zaporizhzhia region, and in fact they have made some important successes recently. the recent advance of the ukrainians in the northern part of the robot and in the northeast

of the robot may indicate that the ukrainians have bypassed some mini fields. which may lead to further progress in the direction of melitopol , in addition to the recent victory of the ukrainians in the harvest and nearby large veselivka also indicate that the ukrainians continue moving forward and achieving some success, the recent victory of the harvest caused a strong panic, in particular, among some russian commanders , recently the commander of the vostok battalion oleksandr khodakovsky stated that he wants to freeze the war in the current positions and his concerns indicate that russia has not provided enough re to strengthen its position around the harvest and the position of his battalions around the harvest , all these factors indicate that the ukrainians continue slow and steady counter-offensive work aimed at displacing

russian forces from their well-prepared defensive positions and also continue their blockade campaign, which cuts off russian logistics lines in the south and east of ukraine , the other day, american publications wrote that according to us intelligence, the ukrainians will not be able to fulfill their main task this year , breaking through the russian land corridor to crimea, in particular, reach the key southern city of melitopol. what can you say about this? placed significant hopes on the ukrainians and this forced the ukrainians to respond to all the demands and expectations they faced. i think that the ukrainians follow the tactics in which they are confident, and earlier we saw how the ukrainians acted in similar cases in the kherson and kharkiv regions, where they conducted small raids until were able to break through

the russian defenses in this area and launch a larger offensive, therefore, say that the ukrainians doomed this operation too prematurely, they demonstrate success on the battlefield and say that the ukrainians will finally suffer a collapse in its aspirations are too early, especially considering all the failures of russia on the battlefield, failer feels, our next story is about the ukrainian soldier ilya mykhalchuk, while in the captivity of the wagnerites, he survived the amputation of both hands after the operation, the defender was not even stitched, and for a month and a half of life in the basement, the militants did not give him any medications to quell phantom pains, ilya is convinced that with proper help, one of his arms could be saved thanks to the volunteers of the united help ukraine fund. ilya came for prosthetics at in the united states, here he is learning to operate prostheses and to smile again. iryna shinkarenko and kostyantyn golovchik will tell you more about it. it is difficult to talk about such things there when i was in

a cell. it was difficult. well, the attitude was, how should i say , loyal? sometimes there was no water, there was a lot of it, well, to eat , this is a fatalon with a wish that you are already one and a half months of captivity. in wagnerivka , ukrainian soldier ilya mykhalchuk cannot remember without pain. at the end of february 2023 year, he fought as part of the 67th brigade near bakhmut, he says that to the last of our comrades, we repulsed wagner's group, but after being seriously wounded, he was captured by bullet and shrapnel wounds, a lot of this hand was practically torn

off. the bleeding was well reported here with a tourniquet, this hand wiggled here with his teeth, but ilya's blood is convinced his left arm could have been saved if, as a prisoner, he had been given medical aid , he applied himself well, the tourniquet is fine, i used my fingers or moved if there was bleeding well i don't think this is a reason for amputation, if the limb was prepared for a very long time, both hands are weak, i don't know how many kilometers it was a very long walk, then the car, i lost

consciousness , i already woke up. i was unconscious, they amputated me, i had an amputation , they were not sewn up, they were just bandaged, and all of ilya and dozens of other seriously wounded were kept in the basement by the wagnerians when i was wounded. i was not captured by myself. a fellow with a mouth, two of us were taken prisoner, where they and i sat in the same cell, there were a different number of people there, 32 on the second day someone more well, he can already walk by the second after the amputation, he was almost given painkillers, sometimes ointment for wounds to survive

phantom the pain and torment of captivity and the ice helped the support of other captured ukrainian soldiers when we spent some time on sunday, maybe even longer. hm, i was captured for them. he was very experienced . also, the doctor who bandaged us there, well, he was a ukrainian combat doctor, that's what he did. and bandaged, he could give an injection. well, in this sense, we were lucky. ilya was released as part of the exchange of prisoners in april, then he underwent operations in ukraine, now in the american prosthetics center ilya smiles. he hopes to become independent again. he was made bionic prostheses for both hands and already on in the second session with physiotherapists, he learned to spread his fingers and hold a cigarette

, there are many things he can do, he can do everything, for example, from cooking to cleaning the house, our goal here is at least my goal as an agrotherapist is to make sure that he can return to the things he wants to do, now i think everything will eventually reach 500 at once in the war, before the injury last summer, not far from bahmut, there was either a copter or, rather, some of their optics. well, she called and she already inflicted a fire damage. well, there was no infantry there, but tanks started working on us and mortars started working, that is, i was the first to receive i was wounded from the ward, i and two of my comrades were wounded

, but i was wounded , i lost consciousness immediately. and from here to here metal fixing devices, well, they look like ilizarov's devices, i can't even move my left leg, the right one barely moves, i turn around and see that i don't have an arm and i just start my sister gave me painkillers because she thought that i woke up from the fact that i was in pain, and i was just like, i was immediately shocked. at first , denis mastered a wheelchair, then he did not learn to be happy for simple things, and i am sure that there will be a lot of work for him in ukraine , even if it is not in the front line, i will be able to return my part, like to my boys, then i will return to the service, if i can't, i'll just go to some second opportunity from the paperwork, which is also a normal part, that is, half of all these papers, and someone also needs to do it, like

too, not my dad, he doesn’t want to sit, uh, drive a car, i can do the same, in principle, i can, like, and there is something more, for example, adjustments and all that. well, i have a problem. what about mobility , the flight, accommodation and all non-medical expenses of the ukrainian military in the usa were provided by volunteers of a charity organization united help ukraine, which has been helping ukrainian fighters with prosthetics since 2014 , we provide housing, food, and here in america, and we also volunteer. lonely excursions, trips to the ocean, that is, just sometimes going out somewhere in the city, someone is always here as a translator, that is, united help ukraine - it all provides prostheses for the ukrainian military free of charge, made by the orthopedics and prosthetics medical center near

washington, which has experience working with american veterans of the war on cancer and afghanistan here prostheses have already been given to ukrainian defenders, this is for the hand, this is actually one of the test models for ilya , here you can see the general shape of it. where was his hand, where are the electrodes, where is the valve, and also here are the wings should help hang it this is how we get the first general fitting of these hands ilya in eugene and his colleagues volunteer to help the ukrainian military we are only paid for the materials so that we can at least cover the costs but in general this volunteering is mostly us donating our time and effort i think that it is very rewarding because you see where they were before they were extremely active doing everything they

liked then you can see how they lost the pace and then you can help him in the recovery process i think that the opportunity to help for them, on this path, recovery is an extraordinary reward before a full-scale war. ilya worked as a construction worker. his main task now is to get used to prostheses as soon as possible. he does not reveal details, but says that he already has many plans. what to do next iryna shenkarenko kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america, in turn , i want to wish ilya and denis as soon as possible recovery and return to active life , our next story is about retired martinovs, they are one of those who were lucky to get out of mariupol last year now they settled in los angeles and told khrystyna shevchenko about what they had to experience in a blocked place, a story about

horror and about the power of the human spirit, then trolleybuses , what causes anxiety, you know endless pain, why is it impossible, sounds impossible to perceive , this is an impossibility, sounds impossible to perceive at all by human ear mortars and mines flew past us in a hailstorm every evening at 5:50 you could check the clock 5-50 in the evening it was only getting dark flying flying

fighter planes these planes are flying over the ground over we had great joy with the roofs, well, one of the mornings we woke up and it snowed and we were drinking. we had great joy. one morning we woke up and it was snowing and we can see the snow everywhere on our roof, it is so clean it squeaks and in the afternoon the sun warmed up a little and the water started flow out of the drain, we collected this water, not here now, although it will be possible to drink this water if it settles, you can drink it because because we drank dirt, absolute dirt, and in the morning this water froze because it was -10, there is no electricity , no gas, no heat, no mobile phone

communication, it was the most terrible thing that we didn't have any information at all, our guys left, left our villages, and then these russian troops in new uniforms went immediately, our collaborators said that the new government had conveyed that in the evening they would all walk down the street so that all the doors and gates were open, if someone doesn't have a gate or door open, we will shoot, i say we have to go, i will run away and he says svitlana , do you understand us, they will kill me, we will get out of here , on our street, a girl, a mother of two small children, was killed, she died they they left with the whole family in a jeep, you shot them, that's why we will be forced to leave because if we stayed yes, because if we stayed, they would be the first to give us a finger

, she said, "that's where the patriots live . we know approximately where to go, but we know approximately where to go. but we went at our own peril and risk." let's go and look there, the houses are on fire, there are trolleybuses, there are ragged people at the bonfire, in general, the idea is like the apocalypse такой как apocalypse , and we enter one street. we enter one street, and i want. go in. and his bus is completely packed with children, older people and relatives, and he sat us down and, believe me, when we arrived in zaporizhia and saw, believe me, when we arrived in zaporizhia and saw our

volunteer center, the first desire was to hug everyone who speaks ukrainian. well, because it is obvious that these are people who see our grief and want to help us immediately with food, warm clothes, medicine, and to pour

a forgotten cup of coffee. remained alive yes, all the furniture remained there, photos that can no longer be returned and memories of young life, the child grew up there we grew up in a good garden, there was a garden, and here are those memories every morning, if it were not nice in los angeles , the climate here is warm, but our warm sea is for me our house is constantly dreaming, because the ukrainian land is worth remembering . amen, due to russian aggression, a million ukrainians had to seek refuge in other countries, in particular, the united states accepted more than 270,000 ukrainian refugees and until good news today, the us department of national security has extended temporary protection status to ukrainian citizens until 2025. this status will allow ukrainians

to stay in the united states for up to 18 months with the possibility of obtaining a work permit. america has also expanded the opportunity to join the program for ukrainians who are already here as of on august 16 , immigration lawyer iryna mazur told my colleague kateryna lisonova who will be affected by these changes. in fact, this is extremely generous program and almost all citizens of ukraine who are physically in the united states as of august 16. almost all of them will be able to qualify, that is , citizens of ukraine who have not been in the united states and will come after august 16 will not be able to qualify. i recommend such categories of citizens to use the you for you program which is still working , that is, the most important point - this is the physical stay of the second category of people, if people were here on kps, they left accordingly, their departure was stopped

by their tps. they returned, for example, to guest visa, they will surely be able to apply again for the new re-registration period , this is very good news and also very interesting news. april 25 of last year and, accordingly, the maximum deadline for people who arrived, the first people who arrived under this program will be the end of april 24th. are currently in yuhuyu they will also be able to apply for the status of skypies and thus be able to stay in the united states until april 19, 25 with the possibility of obtaining the right to work in this category , we will say goodbye for this thank you very much for watching us

have a good weekend in take care until we meet, we are looking for this girl, her name is khrystyna boyko, she is 15 years old, and i immediately want to ask you to share this video on your social networks, because the more people learn about the search for the girl, the more there will be more chances to find her, so please do not remain indifferent. so khrystyna boyko disappeared in the urban-type village of antonina in the khmelnytskyi region at noon on august 5. the girl left home and still has not returned . it is unknown where she is. she doesn't speak, so let me know about herself, tell me what happened to her , what her name is and where she lives, the girl unfortunately won't be able to, so i'm asking everyone, especially the residents of the khmelnytskyi region, in particular the antonina

community where khrystyna disappeared, to look carefully into this is a photo of a girl, she is 150-160 cm tall, her hair is black, short, she has a lack of coordination, one disappearance, she was wearing a yellow t-shirt, blue pants and pink rubber flip-flops, so if you know something about khrystyna boiko or if you happen to see her somewhere, don't hesitate and immediately notify us on the hotline of the child tracing service, our number is 116,000 calls from all mobile operators in ukraine are free, you can also write to the chatbot of the child tracing service in telegram, let's not be indifferent and let's try to find them together khrystyna boyko we are also looking for a three-year-old boy from turin who went missing in mariupol, this happened on march 2, 2022, when hostilities were going on in the city, what happened to the child, who she was with then and where she may