[000:00:00;00] among the occupiers, it is nataliya kanyan, we investigated that the woman has had russian citizenship since 2015, the question remains open why did the security service of the ukrainian mariupol tv not find out this fact at that time on march 22 , natalya went to tsekanyan to moscow and later returned to mariupol to create a local propaganda tv channel. recently , a delegation from chechnya came to the dpr, led by the prime minister of the region . soon our military will liberate mariupol and all the traitors will be held responsible . of course, if they don't bite their heels, there is information that the russians are already withholding their salaries for 2-3 months to the collaborators working in the occupation institutions, so the sellers have few options either to disappear or to go to ukrainian prison years yes for 15 from

the confiscation it was a program of a collaborator and i am olena kononenko if you have information about the kremlin sellers, write to us at this email address or simply on facebook together we will track down all the traitors by a russian ship, we will see in a week on the air espresso on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america , time, i, maria prus, welcome to the european union, it is preparing to agree on new military aid to ukraine, these days , the ministers of defense and foreign affairs are talking about this at an informal meeting in a spanish place. one of the main topics of the meeting will be the increase of further

military support to ukraine, the next eighth tranche of 500 million euros can be agreed upon if hungary withdraws its veto budapest demands from ukraine to exclude the hungarian bank otp from the list of international sponsors of the war kyiv-nitzbank to the list because it continues to work in russia european ministers will also agree on the issue of long-term financing of security assistance in ukraine security assurance as well as the european integration of ukraine the european union must be ready to accept new countries will be included by 2030 this was announced by the president of the council of the eu, charles-michel , now seven more countries have the official status of a candidate for eu accession in addition to ukraine, michel reminded that the conditions for joining the european union remain a low number of reforms, in particular, an independent judiciary

, the fight against organized crime and corruption , the coordination of foreign policy in line with the course of brussels. it should happen in this way , it may come as a surprise to some that the expansion of the european union requires not only the preparation of potential new members but actually the organization itself, but here it is worth remembering that the eu to a certain extent actually became a victim of its own success, it is a very large organization, it is much more than just a club of similar western european countries and with the increase in the number of member countries which 27, for example, the number of deputies in the european parliament is increasing, and the number of representatives is increasing in the european

commission. in fact, every country has the right to representation in the governing bodies of the european union. we also do not forget that the eu has huge financial programs. for example, one of the largest items of expenditure is subsidies for agriculture. if new, particularly agricultural countries come to the european union, then this money must be distributed differently . just like other financial ones, it is possible , as well as taxes in the european union. therefore, changes are needed, but the idea europe, the idea of ​​the european union is that the european continent is a common home for all european peoples who want to live in peace and prosperity. the eu has shown

that it can provide this during its history and today, as you said, the leading representative of the european union reminded that the eu needs to expand, expansion is no longer a dream. it is time to move forward, there is still a lot of work, it will be difficult, it will be difficult, sometimes painful for the future member states and for the european union, but let's say clearly, if we want to be trusted , i think we need to talk about deadlines. we need to talk about our homework and make proposals, preparing a new eu strategic agenda . should be ready for expansion on both sides by 2030 bohdane, which potential new members can we talk about, or is it ukraine? so actually, you have already mentioned at least seven countries that have

the official status of candidates for membership in the european union, among them, of course , ukraine is a large group the states of the so-called western balkans, that is, representatives of the former yugoslavia, at the top of the list, the oldest candidate for eu membership is turkey, but negotiations with this country are frozen, and precisely because of the lack of desire in that country to conduct the policy of rapprochement with the eu itself. there is little hope that any processes will take place now, but perhaps the greatest hopes are for the balkan countries, and we also do not forget that together with ukraine , neighboring moldova has been declared a candidate for membership in the european union, and the potential right to candidacy was also

recently announced for georgia and kosovo bohdana tell me what obstacles there may be on the way to the accession of countries that are already official candidates to their accession to the eu . reforms that the candidate countries need to carry out in order to prepare to meet the requirements of the organization. and also what needs to be changed in the eu itself. and this means reforming the new eu treaties, which they are probably not ready for, perhaps not in all eu countries, we know that there were difficulties, for example, with ratification in some countries of previous major treaties with eu reforms. so it will not be easy, but let's take ukraine, ukraine is a very large state , a very large agricultural state, and

this aspect, for example, will be serious is a question for faith in the european union, and let's not forget that september 15 is approaching, when the european union will have to resolve the issue with ukrainian grain, because now five countries bordering the european union with ukraine have actually received the right to ban the import of ukrainian grain because they claim that ukraine is too large an agricultural state to have too much grain is cheaper than them and that their farmers are suffering. so this is one of those examples of the problems that europe in the european union and the new members will have to face to decide to please everyone somehow or at least act as a compromise. thank you, bohdan, this was our european correspondent

bohdan tsyupin with blue and yellow flags , ukrainian songs and a mock-up of attack missiles in washington, activists staged a march to ukraine's independence day, participants marched from the white house to the monument my colleagues iryna shynkarenko and vyacheslav filyushkin will tell taras shevchenko what they urged the american authorities to do. ukrainian woman maryna, who has been living in the usa for several years, brought to the white house atakams mock-up rockets to remind us what ukrainians need in the fight for independence, this is the third one, she is very popular, we went to the russian embassy with her, and once here i want them to finally hear us and provide us with long-range weapons . activists gathered near the white house with ukrainian flags and in the national clothes some of them come to the residence of the president of the united states every day since the beginning of the full-scale war when we come to

the white house we have a program of appeals and we also ask americans and guests of the country contact the white house in order to contact its representatives and ask them to continue the necessary military support to ukraine. those americans who pass by the white house approach us. and many of them. thank you for being there and for the fact that we inform about ukraine. it is very important to declare the needs of ukraine now, emphasizes the ambassador of ukraine to the usa , oksana markarova, because kyiv is expecting new important decisions from the american authorities ; in fact, several weeks separate us from the start of the congress again, and our number one task the first is for the congress to do everything in order for the congress to support the additional budget for ukraine for the last quarter of the calendar year this year. the community also sees and understands this task as the number one task . themselves, in particular, representatives

of charitable organizations and united help ukraine and together for ukraine, which provide the necessary military and civilian victims of the war, as well as representatives of ukrainian churches in the usa that are actively involved in volunteering that only i did not receive and did not buy nickets here, there really is no medical equipment, ambulances and so on, we buy food in ukraine from aha directly from factories and send it to the front lines of the fence authorities since the beginning of the full-scale war in ukraine actively veterans of the american army of ukrainian origin join in. veteran of the us air force, yaromyr oryshkevich, is especially concerned with the training of ukrainian pilots on f16 fighters at

every opportunity. we try to come to the office we ask some senator or representative to give the anthem the most intensive training so that they can finish their crap faster than 8 months and so that they can go to the battlefield and defeat our enemy ukrainians and americans joined the actions representatives of other nationalities who consider russia the enemy of everything of the world i am japanese by nationality if you believe in freedom, independence and democracy in things we should believe in you should be completely on the side of ukraine for belarusians it is very important to support independence and freedom of ukraine due to the fact that we have a common enemy - this is russia, to remind the world of the important struggle of ukrainians from

the white house, the procession passed through washington square to the monument to taras shevchenko , iryna shynkarenko, vyacheslav filyushkin, oleksiy aspen, the voice of america, the use of civilian drones by forces azsu for military purposes made it possible to turn the tide of the russian invasion, in particular, during the kharkiv campaign last year, for the first time to use a civilian drone for reconnaissance in that direction , yuriy fedorenko proposed at that time the commander of the anti-terrorist infantry company later yuriy led the company of attack uavs, which was named achilles after the call sign fedorenko, now his company protects the donetsk region, anna kostyuchenko and pavel sukhodolskyi spoke with the defender of ukraine about the peculiarities of the operation of drones at the frontline. 32-year-old yuriy fedorenko received the callsign achilles in march of last year under at the time of the liberation of kyiv region and zhytomyr region from the russian invasion, the nature of my actions caused other colleagues

to associate with this character , we cut powerfully, we carry out orders, but fulfill our own vision in 2014, yuriy first took up arms to carry out combat missions in the east of ukraine during an anti-terrorist operation against separatists who were financed by the kremlin . opportunities and when something incomprehensible began to happen in one part of our territories that could lead to the overthrow of state sovereignty and the loss of territorial value , it had to be corrected accordingly, it was not not even a second of doubt that it is necessary to go to the east and do everything possible in order to extinguish the conflict that arose with the commanders who did not run anyway. yuriy again

stood up for the defense of the country during the full-scale invasion of the russians. on february 24 , 2022, during the kyiv campaign, the man headed the streletska company, and with this company in may of last year, he set out to liberate the kharkiv area, they were driven away during the de-occupation of kharkiv, achilles suggested the command use a civilian drone for military intelligence, do you understand operatives stands 600 m in front of us, the very use of drones made it possible to aim and adjust the artillery fire to give the command to dig in, dug in in the individual cops very quickly raised the copters and we artillery worked along this line from 7:30 in the morning until the 14th, until the time when our forces went on the offensive the actions of e-e succeeded in breaking the enemy's reserves, defeating his armored vehicles and not giving him the opportunity to raise reserves, the use of drones significantly accelerated the september counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine

and the liberation of kharkiv region, says yuriy it is very good that they at that time period they thought slowly because as long as they understood, they tried to understand what was happening, they managed to destroy a significant amount of both manpower and equipment within well, probably two and a half to three months . almost 30 km, starting from the pechenegs and ending all the way to the e-e beams, currently the company of achilles is working on the liberation of the donbass, bah mutske, see, the copter just flew over from the mission and dropped it directly on the head of a scoundrel the occupiers will not be fine, on average, only one of the hydrogen achilles in one direction eliminates at least 80 occupiers every month, says yuriy the bakhmut company when was our first stop in okhotsk, there on the road of time

, i am of the bakhmut family, there was a very difficult shade there for almost 3 months we were in this vitenko daily work moves daily. the guys coped with the tasks . more than two hundred of our crews were eliminated during this period of time. i choose the word so that more documents are not bought. liquidated, plus, additionally, the statistics are correct, you can add courage to almost every explosive novelty yuri tries out on his own, because a confident commander must be able to do everything that he requires from his subordinates , it is very convenient, we really figured out the detonator , now i will not screw it in, we just disassembled it, we screw in the simulator, look once then we screw it in just right the elbow pad is enough and then we won't go to the end, that's all the story is trying well, i would make a thread here or a little thread

, that's fine including the platoon. he must fully understand the specifics of both technical means and ammunition, respectively, when performing combat tasks when you are in a position and there everything flies, explodes, breaks down and is carried out for the most part by machines. discharge this or that ammunition and you can do it together with the soldiers on august 15 under the donbass america's vote from the donetsk region every month, the armed forces of ukraine spend thousands of drones, according to the british royal institute of joint services, this helps save the lives of ukrainian military personnel to supply drones to the front in ukraine, the project of the army of drones has been operating for a year on the production of drones in ukraine, their export potential, as well as training of drone operators, my colleague maria

ulyanovska spoke with the head of the state special forces, yuriy shchygola. i congratulate yuriy, thank you very much for volunteering to talk with us please tell us about the drone army. what kind of project is this? last year, our military realized that the use of unmanned aerial vehicles gives a great advantage in terms of the distance of the development of e-e intelligence and the possibility of preserving for life the united 24 platform and the general staff of the ministry of digital transformation of state intelligence. the drone army project, the task of which was to provide the armed forces and , in general, the security and defense forces with the necessary number of unmanned aerial vehicles, all this began with the support, as i have already said united 24 for the past year she, we, uh, about 5,000 unmanned aerial vehicles uh, were purchased at the expense of the united 24 fund for a total amount of about four and a half

billion hryvnias, these were completely different drones, first of all, those that lack small ordinary drones for bodyguards - it had some hotels, matrices, as well as large professional drones, this is the effort of even the bayraktars, and everything was purchased during the last year, when it gave results, everyone saw that the project is really important and helps to save the lives of our of the military, it received state support, and today it is already a state program, the army of drones, which received funding this year of 40 billion hryvnias, more than half of which is already under contract, which means that the main part of unmanned aerial vehicles is delivered on chrome. foreign drones were bought from us for only 20% of purchases the main task is the development of the ukrainian field of unmanned aviation, and today we already have about 80 contracts with

ukrainian manufacturers, at the beginning of the full-scale retrenchment, we had everything 30 manufacturers who professionally engaged in the production of drones, today there are about 200 such manufacturers, is it correct? i understand that ukrainian drones are cheaper and they are more suitable for the needs of the armed forces of ukraine, because they already have a sharper price . i would not say that they are much cheaper and some even there are more expensive ukrainian scouts that cost no less than their foreign counterparts and are definitely not inferior to them in terms of quality, but this is how the majority would spend it in terms of being imprisoned during the war drones that are produced in the world, they have not passed such a test of the field in battle that i currently have in ukraine, in no country in the world , even where there were hostilities, there was not such a large number of radio-electronic

warfare. test and primarily under the influence of rap, therefore, today, after our victory, it will be the most technological industry in the world, ukrainian, which will be able to be very competitive export let's talk about naval drones, how revolutionary is this technology, these drones are sea babies, which the security service of ukraine is using so effectively at sea now that they were also born in ukraine before that, naval drones existed, they were in circulation, but no one used them exactly as weapons technology but when our inadequate neighbors started at sea to do what they think is necessary , we found a worthy answer. this is really new , for today, there are ukrainian drones. believe me, from all corners of the world they are trying to learn how

to create it so that it is effective and secondly, few people understand how it is possible at such distances that they hit so accurately . therefore, this is ukrainian know-how and the export version of which will be after our victory . please tell us about the training of drone pilots, where does it take place. does it take place in ukraine or does it take place abroad do you involve foreign trainers in this and how then these people who already know how to control the thrones will be dispersed throughout the armed forces of ukraine, because getting a road is one task and not losing it in the first battle eh it's a little bit more difficult, so our next step was the training of pilots, and starting from the end of last summer , it was probably also started separately, this is precisely the training of the military for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in six months, and before that, in six months of the 23rd year. we managed to train 10,000 pilots, we cooperate with

25 schools that train military pilots on a daily basis, 98% of the people studying there are military personnel who serve in the armed forces of the national guard, the border service security services of ukraine and our goal this year is to purchase 200,000 hryvnias of unmanned aerial vehicles and we need at least 50,000 military personnel who know how to operate them. in february, the general staff decided to create separate companies of unmanned strike groups of unmanned aerial vehicles. the plan so far is 60 such companies . to date, 17 have already been formed and are fully staffed. they carry out combat operations. tasks on the front line and this is the right way when there is a separate structural unit that performs reconnaissance tasks for

the approach keys of landing units and performs the task of destroying the enemy also with unmanned aerial vehicles, it is attached to the in every brigade absolutely in every brigade there will be such a unit that is entrusted with the tasks of developing and destroying the enemy with unmanned aircraft , tell your opinion why drones turned out to be such an effective weapon and why it is so difficult for the russians to counter ukrainian drones, i would like to say that they are because they are stupid, but unfortunately this is not the case because, er, we were able to train pilots. that is, it was not just that drones were issued to units and you are there. this is how i want to get out. it was a comprehensive program as for non-purchase, we simplified absolutely everything that is possible er normatively because in our country, for example, the supply of weapons took place for several years before a full-scale invasion, and all with this the beautiful multiplied to today

this process er the ministry of defense takes a few weeks if you are contracting within the drone army, this process takes 1 2 3 days, we have developed special conditions for uh , public testing, that is, any such units order firewood from us. well, he can call the manufacturer, uh, conduct a test with him , write a joint test, how this drone is equipping it and we will buy it right away, the manufacturers understand why they are doing it, they are doing it for the liberation of ukraine and to do something, this stain will not work because it is their responsibility, secondly, it is preparation and we started our training with the fact that we are training pilots who use drones effectively, and now the election campaign of 2024 is entering an active phase, next november the americans will elect a president and

, even more incredible, they will be the oldest candidates in the history of the country how old are the oldest world leaders of today and also what about it think the citizens of these countries will tell karolin present kateryna lisunova 90-year -old cameroonian paul biya, the oldest head of state in the world at the summit of the leaders of the usa and africa last year his assistant explained that the audience is waiting for the speech, but the 90-year-old president reacted confusedly, let's add more. you mean that i have to speak now, where can you speak while sitting behind anton komarona , who has held this position since 1982? at first , he was the president for 40 years, then he obtained an extension of his term from the parliament powers and then canceled all restrictions of this term in the voice of america asked the opinion of the cameroonians about such

a long-term president for security reasons their faces and names are hidden i think that when such an elderly person is in charge of the state, she does not know problems from which young people suffer. regardless of whether it is a hobby of 30 or 50 years, anyone has the right to serve his term and leave office, but when you come and take power as if you are a royal person, it is not good , meanwhile, in his 86th year, pope francis does not rule the country is ruled by the catholics of the world. does his age matter? this is what the residents of latin america, where the catholic church dominates, say. i think that age matters, although here i make an exception because he is a religious leader , but with politicians of this age, i think i it would be uncomfortable, i believe that years bring experience, it is necessary to serve others, it is necessary to limit not only the age of the head of state , but also the age of the people who advise him, the supreme leader of iran aetolokhamenei is 84 years old, he

has held this position since 1989, the longest among all modern leaders of the countries of the middle east , islamic the republic is under a regime and the problem is not the age of the leader, but the system itself , so i am of the 21st century - this is the world of young people, and given the knowledge that exists today , they should do important things in the next americans can elect their oldest president in the history of ukraine by the time of the election, the current president, biden, will be 81 years old, antonald trump , the current favorite of the republican party , is 78, both are already showing signs of aging , the current leader uses shorter stairs for the presidential plane, he also often uses notes to avoid mistakes voice of america asked the opinion of the youngest voters in the country, students of the university of north carolina, when you get older, there are

many health risks i would not like for a world leader to suddenly pass away, for example, from a heart attack, it all depends on how open this person is to new things. according to a study by the university of oxford, older leaders can reinforce negative stereotypes of aging, but they can also surprise by showing that they are mentally and physically ready to work iryna risunova karolin is present voice of america washington is here we are finishing in the studio maria