[000:00:00;00] the big broadcast of vasyl zima, a project for smart and caring people in the evening, nayspresso on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, time time. i'm maria prus. congratulations, $250 million is the amount of the next just-announced us aid package for ukraine, white house spokeswoman karin jeanpierre explained what it includes equipment for demining air-to-air missiles and air defense systems, ammunition for artillery and himers systems, and more than 3 million rounds of ammunition for small arms will help

the ukrainian military on the battlefield and will strengthen air defenses at a time when russia continues to launch brutal attacks against the people of ukraine, including last week's attacks that took the lives of innocent ukrainian civilians. the kremlin could end this war at any time today by withdrawing its troops from ukraine and ceasing its brutal attacks. the united states will not, our allies and partners will support ukraine as long as necessary, the pentagon is confident that it will have sufficient approved funds to continue to meet the defense needs of ukraine until the end of the fiscal year that ends in the us in september, this was stated by the deputy press secretary of the us ministry of defense, sabrina singh, she added that she hopes that congress will agree to the white house's request for an additional $24 billion in funding to continue helping ukraine despite western sanctions , russia continues to actively to use foreign components in the production of weapons

and drones with which they attack ukrainian cities , a suspect in the illegal export of electronic components has been arrested in germany for the russian orlan-10 drones, the main supplier of critical components for russian drones is china , this is stated in the report of the international working group led by the head of the office of the president of ukraine andriy yarmak and the former us ambassador to russia michael mcfaul, but parts from turkey were also found in the drones ob' united arab emirates and, to a lesser extent, japanese, korean, and swiss processors, microcircuits and transistors, experts find in russian weapons even microcircuits from the united states . my colleague andribores investigated this topic. joins our broadcast andrei, hello please tell me exactly how russia manages to circumvent western sanctions in the production of weapons in the war against ukraine. greetings, mary, probably one of the most common methods used by russia

to obtain western technologies , western chips, uh, it's a creation networks of smugglers of so-called gasket companies around the world, the case you mentioned happened in germany, there are quite a lot of rumors, it is about a man who has dual citizenship of russia and germany, and he for three years, from january 20th to march 23rd, he was engaged in the supply of western e-e microchips and technologies to russia. this is not the first case that has happened in the west, in particular in the united states of america. a citizen of greece who a-a supplied er-e american parts to russia

also under sanctions and er-e similar cases happen quite often and according to data in particular the international group yarmak mcfaul, which is engaged in lobbying a-e in the partner countries of ukraine, sanctions regarding to russia, they offer a--they offered recommendations to reduce the supply of these components to russia , in particular they proposed to create joint sanctions lists, as well as to strengthen cooperation between governments and manufacturing companies, and it is also very important that the governments of these e countries conducted inspections of chip manufacturers andriy i know that you yourself directly spoke with a number of american chip manufacturers recently, tell me how they explain the fact that

their products contain these components russian weapons, i really had the opportunity to talk with several representatives of high-ranking officials in american companies, and they were, in particular, featured in a series of journalistic and expert studies. were in russian in russian drones and a drones and various weapons and for the most part they all react the same way they say that a-a they follow the laws of the united states avoid cooperation with russia however they admit that they do not fully control a-a all intermediaries, that is, they do not see the final client who buys their products, this is how

the representative of amd reacted to our question, please listen, we sell our technologies only through authorized channels but of course there are bad players who are ready to undermine the way of supplying technology we have certainly seen documented the facts and we cooperate with the authorities when there are relevant reports, but when this happens we are ready to cooperate with the authorities if this happens and what do experts say about how to counteract this if in short, experts say that it will not be possible to completely control and completely stop the supply of western chips to russia, you can only narrow it down, in particular, one of the experts said that it is possible to put trackers on the chips in order to track where they are going , and er, and practically here it is

please listen to what one of the experts said . we recently recorded an interview for the russians and chinese. on the list, it sometimes takes months and years, as soon as you block one company, the next one is created right away, maria, it is important to add that the russians very often use the fact that america and western countries do not fully control, they do not monitor the supply of outdated chips they buy chips that were produced in 2015 and put them in their weapons

. the very manufacturers of my urochips in the united states and to other topics iveco ramaswamy, one of the nominees of the republican party for the position of president of the united states, said that he would accept russia's control over the occupied territories of ukraine and would also not allow ukraine to join nato in exchange for the termination of the military alliance in russian with china, ram with you reviews of international problems and relations have already criticized one of his party members in particular. let's talk more about this with ostap yarysh, who monitors the election races and recently returned from the republican debates ostapa hello please tell me who viva-kromaswami is and what he says about us relations with russia, this is the new face of the republican party, a young candidate, 38 years old, an entrepreneur, the son of emigrants from india, he really shined brightly like many of the observers here wrote at the debate that took place last week in the milvokivel

krama swami, he is running on conservative positions and says that he is actually such a candidate without political experience and this is his advantage among the voters, according to vivaik himself, he recently published his foreign political platform and asked. also there, about ukraine in particular, he says that he will recognize the ukrainian territories occupied by russia, and he will block ukraine's membership in nato and remove sanctions from russia and return it to the international market. this is in exchange, as ramaswamy himself says, for russia to end its military cooperation with china. this is his platform of the opposition. in principle , he voiced similar opinions. heard from the stage also in the comments that we made to them. i had the opportunity to talk with him, and then he told me in a comment that he does not think that it is in the interests of the united states to support ukraine in the future , that he would stop all support and generally accept ukraine with afghanistan

this is his opinion, this is his external political platform, maria laska, to what extent he is currently supported by voters, and can it be said that he says what they want to hear, or does he express their views? now we ourselves, maria according to various polls, he takes either the third or second place among the republican candidates, his chances are assessed differently. but really , it looks like he is voicing those messages that resonate with the more conservative audience of the republican party. i remember in milwaukee they drove him around the city all day with conservative slogans and he is trying to really speak to those voters who are probably the most convinced of their vision, perhaps it is also walking with a vision or the preferences of the voters former president donald trump and ramos himself, and also with yustya, said at the debate that

he considers donald trump to be the best president of the united states in the entire history of the united states, therefore, in principle, maybe he sat down in the audience , ramosomi's audience, trump's audience somewhere intersects with this , we also see conservative commentators , concert bloggers some of them are actually those who express support for the former american president trump should now also be very active on the side of ram with you and praise her positions which they agree, in particular, on ukraine, on other foreign policy issues and ramosami himself also said that richard nixon is his ideal of foreign policy. maria of the states is very interesting in fact . but it is interesting that traditionally it was the republicans who were considered the fiercest opponents of the first

soviet government and then of russia, isn't it? indeed, maria, but you know the republican party of reagan's time, ah, in the end, they are like the democratic party now, and the political trends in the united states have changed, and, nevertheless, it is not necessary to say that ramyslami's position reflects the position of the entire republican party; rather , his words were met on the contrary a serious critic among his competitors among his fellow party members even on the debate stage we remember nick gayle criticized his former president i'm sorry former vice president of the united states makefence when his governor of the state of new jersey, like chris christie, they said that vivakramoswami has no foreign policy experience and he is now trying to sell ukraine to putin , and this is definitely not in the interests of the united states . nikki gelli said that viva-krame does not have experience. and this message is also agreed by other commentators , in particular even on the fox tv channel, which is conservative and traditionally

pro-republican, even criticizing yuveker masvami in some programs for his, as they say, inexperienced statements, is it possible who do not have a foundation or insufficient understanding of how these things work, therefore, although part of the republicans, part of the voters, maybe those who sympathize with trump agree to support the positions of remeslami , another part of the republican party, those who advocate support for ukraine, believe that remeslami may not understand what he is talking about and these statements criticize it, we hear it constantly also from the pages of the press, we also hear it from the candidates themselves, however, this kind of division seems interesting to me, demonstrates the dynamics within the party and will be very interesting follow the debate and this company too , maria . thank you ostap for collecting such assessments and opinions. it was ostap yarosh. russian president putin is probably preparing to visit china in october . a possible rapprochement

between beijing and moscow, but the media note that putin will go abroad for the first time since the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for his arrest in march , when chinese leader xi jinping came to russia and then left moscow confirmed friendship, and the chinese leader ignored calls from the west to condemn the russian war in ukraine, although officially china maintains neutrality. experts believe that this country can play a significant role in the russian war, as iryna matviychuk will tell exactly. china is trying to balance between russia and the west. experts believe that on the one hand beijing wants so that on the international arena he is perceived as a constructive participant in diplomacy, who plays an important role in stimulating peace negotiations in ukraine from the other side of a full-scale invasion to ukraine beijing has constantly shown a desire to strengthen relations with russia they are trying to play a very delicate game on the one hand

they are trying to stay close to their autocratic partner and ally russia by adhering to the so-called pact of friends without restrictions which they signed with russia and before putin invaded ukraine, on the other hand, do not push the west away and do not go too far to avoid incurring sanctions. the visit of chinese defense minister li shangfu to belarus and russia last week is evidence that china continues to strengthen relations with russia, experts say, despite the fact that chinese relations are not symmetrical, because russia needs china more than china does to russia, that relations between china and russia are developing on a multifaceted basis, that china and russia are strengthening military cooperation , energy ties, mutual diplomatic support, and the intensity of their of the common dissatisfaction of the west. i do not see any evidence that china is going to leave russia at the military, economic or

diplomatic level, according to the war china believes that it needs russia to compensate for what it feels due to confrontation with western countries and at the same time due to its own economic challenges . beijing is interested in stable cooperation with europe and the usa, and war is always instability , the expert continues. china would like the war to stop now, for russia to agree to stop its course of aggression, for ukraine to agree to a certain the amount of territorial losses and that, in principle , there would be some truce. i think that china would like a frozen conflict . in this way, china could say that the conflict is over and we can wash our hands of this problems and move on to other issues johnstown university professor dennis craig welder calls china's policy toward ukraine false neutrality surname they publicly declared neutrality in this war

but in fact the chinese never condemned the russians for invading ukraine chinese television supports the russians china allowed to send non-lethal aid to the russians but spare parts and other equipment are needed by the russian army, currently the chinese are trying to be mediators in achieving peace, but their main concern is not peace a settlement in favor of ukraine, but rather a peaceful settlement that will not allow putin to lose face or power, they are very loyal to putin, the chinese president considers himself putin's soulmate, although the chinese are involved in the peace process, they are involved in order to support the russians, professor walder worked for most of his career in to the american government, he was in particular responsible for asian issues in the us national security council under president bush, he points out that one of the advantages that china received due to the war in russia

in ukraine is the reduction of military supplies taiwan due to the fulfillment of orders for ukraine by us industrial enterprises, this deters the us from sending defense equipment and ivanov. we will not defend billions of dollars in the issue of sending and ivanov weapons that are very similar to what ukraine needs against javelin anti-tank missiles, anti -aircraft defense systems, so from the chinese point of view, this war not so bad, it ties the hands of the united states, forces them to use their resources and funds for ukraine, and not for the strengthening of taiwan, with which, as you know, beijing wants to reunite, they even declared that they do not will refuse to use force, while experts believe that there are several reasons that could force china to change its position regarding the war in ukraine, in particular, influence beijing, the success of the ukrainian counteroffensive may be successful if the offensive works and the ukrainians successfully infiltrate the occupied territories or even beyond their borders into the territory of russia then

china will have a dilemma, one side in beijing said that we need to support putin more, that we need to cross the border and provide putin with lethal weapons, the other side in beijing would say that it is better to find a way to quickly agree so that putin is not destroyed, but to make a decision. in order to strengthen putin's support , beijing can even earlier, for example, when they see the successes of the ukrainian army, which will endanger russian control over crimea, and then we could see the situation in which china is thinking, maybe it really is necessary to intervene in a more decisive way . maybe need to provide russia with lethal aid in significant quantities at the same time for china there is absolutely no use of nuclear weapons by russia experts are convinced i think it

would be a break with moscow it would make a big difference relations between beijing and moscow, since the chinese do not want to participate in a nuclear war with the west and would regard it as an incredibly dangerous escalation of the situation, evaluating ukraine's policy towards china, experts agree that it is worth being careful with the veil zelenskyi, the work of president zelenskyi and his partners in the west , including the usa, in order to keep china away, it is useless to hope that china will play a more proactive role, but maintaining a certain neutrality of china, as it happened until now, i consider it great achievements of ukrainian diplomacy, and already after the war, despite its position today, china may be interested in taking part in the reconstruction of ukraine, believes that ukraine does not want to push china away because china can potentially, even for reasons of china's own interests, play a role in financing

the post-war reconstruction of ukraine, kyiv also understands that they cannot publicly criticize china, these channels of communication must be maintained, so i think that president zelensky and his main advisers are doing everything possible to cope with this juggling act in fact, this is all they can do now, this is the maximum what kyiv can count on today from beijing , experts say and advise the office of the president of ukraine not to count too much on china's active participation in the implementation of president zelenskyi 's peace plan requirements for the european integration of ukraine according to the assessment of the european commission kyiv now fully meets the expectations regarding progress in the judicial reform

at the same time in mid-may during the reception the former head of the supreme court of ukraine , vsevolod knyaz, was arrested for bribery. how did this case affect the international authority of the ukrainian judicial system? how are reforms taking place and why are there not enough qualified personnel in the courts ? received an assessment of efforts from the european commission, one of the parameters. what were the judicial reforms? to what extent do you think ukraine has completed its homework in this direction? i think that ukraine has successfully completed this is a task because in january 2023, the authorized composition of the supreme council of justice was formed. well, in my opinion, we managed to form the composition of the higher qualification commission of judges of ukraine

, in particular, on june 1, er, we are such a composition of the higher qualification commission formed and the higher qualifications commission has already actively started to fulfill its powers . this is a powerful quote by the former chairman of the supreme court vsevolod knyazev in an interview with the voice of america in february of this year . a blow to the judicial system and to the state of ukraine, i would even say more, it is a very painful blow . it seems to me that there is no such world

practice for the head of the supreme court to be involved in such corrupt acts, and this is of course a painful blow because precisely on the princely and judicial community and the government, as a young reformer, placed very high hopes and hopes on nadia, i do not think that it can be any, in any case, there must be disappointment in the fact that uh, judicial reform is not happening in ukraine and uh, that's exactly what despite the person and the position of the princes, he held the position of the head of the highest body of the supreme court system, it was the anti-corruption bodies and directly the supreme council of justice

that gave consent to keep him from custody. therefore, this is precisely the evidence that a-a the reform is taking place, it is impossible to associate knyazev exclusively with the entire common judicial community , there is confidence that we will successfully overcome it otherwise otherwise, we simply have no other option but to reverse this corruption and really be in the cohort of democratic legal states of the european union and in general everyone in the world, at the end of june, the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi introduced a decision of the national security and defense council to strengthen the responsibility of ukrainian courts

. in your opinion, this increased responsibility can be a safeguard against new corruption scandals in the courts, an important element of strengthening the responsibility of the fight should be, first of all, the inevitability of punishment from 2021, from the end of november , the authority to exercise the disciplinary function was effectively deprived. and this is very important. bring to justice through the disciplinary procedure, at the present time we have seized more than 11,000 disciplinary treasures. that is, this is one of the levers

that the body of judicial governance could independently carry out measures for self-purification in the judicial system , and this factor, for me, is of greater determining importance, not because of the returnability of punishment , that is , the issue of the election of a new supreme court. the person of the old guard is good from the point of view of european integration, which involves reforms and renewal of the courts , considering his professional path in his managerial capacity, and he was before that and as the chairman, not the deputy chairman, of the high specialized court and the head of the criminal court as part of the supreme court, then, accordingly, apparently, the judges of the supreme court, in view of this, evaluated first of all his professional business and managerial qualities

, let's hope that uh, i'm sure that he justifies such a selection in ukraine, in a year and a half, a huge number of new criminal cases opened due to russian war crimes have accumulated, and the prosecutor general's office has already counted almost a hundred thousand war crimes committed by russian soldiers in in ukraine, that is, taking into account these needs, taking into account these needs of the work of judges, the number of judges is decreasing. is there a possibility of such a personnel shortage? well, personnel hunger is already being felt, i would even say that it is approaching the critical limit, where already in some judges, the delivery of justice is stopped, and the supreme council of justice, in such a firestorm, can solve this issue only by temporarily transferring judges from one court to another

, where the shortage of judges was especially felt , it was really not possible in any other way ensure the work of the judges on this we are concluding join also our daily briefings from monday to friday at 18:00 kyiv time on youtube and facebook where you can ask your questions live in the studio

maria prus worked for you thank you for your trust. see you on the air. congratulations. we ask for your help in the search for three brothers from the kherson region. this is 12-year-old valentin, 16-year-old sasha and nine-year-old yaroslav mustyadce. the boys lived in the small village of krynky in the kherson region. this village was found under occupation almost since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. and the brothers have been officially wanted since february 2023. what happened to them? where did they disappear and where are they now? unfortunately, it is not excluded that the boys could be among the thousands of ukrainian children who were deported to russia . in total