[000:00:00;00] lithuanian friends from the blyuelov foundation saw the espresso national team and decided to donate five more copters. each person will go to europe when you understand that there is our war . thank you to our friends for their contribution to the victory. contribution to our common cause the cause of our victory congratulations my name is maria olyanovska and this is a program of the ukrainian voice of america service chas-time the united states is concerned that russia and north korea are actively negotiating about the supply of weapons. this was stated by the representative of the us national security council, john kirby, at a briefing on august 30. kirby reported that negotiations on weapons between the two countries

are actively progressing, while white house spokeswoman karin jean-pierre added that russia was forced to turn to such criminal regimes for weapons and equipment how north korea partially due to the effect of american sanctions , but how russia and north korea can expand bilateral cooperation and what they say about it in the democratic world, we will talk about it with yulia yarmolenko, who is included to us from the white house yulia hello, hello maria please tell us what is currently known about these negotiations, what stage are they at, what exactly is russia asking from the dprk, do you know maria , it is not the first time that the white house has disclosed information , slightly declassified intelligence data about how russia is trying to get military support from such countries as well as wounds north korea why today what is the news actually today today today how did you report john kirby representative of the us national security council the united states received information that

indeed, these negotiations between russia and north korea are at an active stage, they are actively advancing, and when russian defense minister sergei shoigu came to pyongyang, it was not just to take a photo, and with whom did he come there in order to convince pyongyang to sell various weapons to russia types of weapons later became known to the united states, er, the russian leaders , vladimir putin, and somehow they exchanged several letters in which they talked about strengthening cooperation, after that, another russian delegation arrived in the dprk so that again confirm so said john kirby in the coming months there may be negotiations at the highest level what this could mean

arms production and, as john kirby said, precisely the export restrictions that were introduced by the united states and other countries, they were aimed precisely at the fact that russia was not opportunities to receive these raw materials yulia and what does such an appeal of russia for help to north korea indicate in general , was there anything said about it today at the briefing , maria spoke. in short, about weakness and despair , as john kirby, the representative of the us national security council, said, then this indicates that that russian plans, russian military plans or plans to launch a war, they fail and putin has no friends, putin lacks resources , and if it’s more angry, we can actually listen to john corbyn’s commentary on the briefing today it is a weakness. why else would mr. putin turn to criminal regimes? why would he turn to iran or north korea to get artillery and raw materials to support his industrial base

? you can’t look at it differently. questions if this is weakness and forever does this mean that russia is running out of resources to continue waging war and does this mean that the war may end soon john kerry would say that if he had the answers to these question, he would have a different profession, but at this stage it seems that putin is not going to lay down his arms, he continues to wage war and the task of the united states in this context is to ensure that the ukrainians have all the capabilities to be effective on the battlefield. let's listen to his long-winded comment we do not know about this, the war continues , the ukrainians continue to make gradual progress . during their counteroffensive, there is a lot of bloody fighting, it does not look like putin

is ready to lay down his arms, stop the war and to sincerely sit down at the negotiating table with president zelenskyi, and that is why ukrainians are doing what they must, continue to defend their country and try to return the territories in the east and south . so that when it comes to negotiations , president zelenskyi will be successful at the negotiating table. thank you yulia, very interesting comments from john kirby. is it currently known how other countries are trying to prevent such agreements, in particular, are they talking about it in the united states, are they talking about it in the united states, how is maria doing in the jungle today, the united states continues to actively monitor how this situation develops , they also call on pyongyang to adhere to its public commitments that it will not sell weapons and russia, but also the united states is not sitting idly by. i told john kirby, the united states continues to impose sanctions, in particular, on august 16

, sanctions were introduced to, in particular, close loopholes used by individuals and companies that support these attempts of russia to conclude an agreement with north korea. today many comments came from the united nations, in particular linda thomas greenfield , the united states ambassador to the united nations. in fact, she first condemned the fact that russia is again violating the resolutions that were approved by the un security council , in which she is actually one of the plans for the organization of the un security council, she also said that she is disappointed that the un does not consider and investigate how russia actually violates again of the resolutions of the united nations, linda thomas greenfield herself said that the united states will continue to learn such information, expose russia's attempts to continue waging its war and enlist the support of other countries, and will also expose those countries, those regimes that continue to help russia wage its war. let

's listen to the comment we we cannot and will not remain silent as we receive more information that russia continues to turn to criminal regimes in an attempt to obtain weapons and equipment to support its brutal aggressive war, we will continue to work with allies and partners to identify, expose and oppose russia's attempts to purchase military equipment from the dprk or any other state that is ready to support russia's war against ukraine . by north korea but how are they reacting to this in the united states , yulia yarmolenko told us, ukraine continues to carry out strikes on the territory of russia , in particular drone strikes on moscow , the black sea fleet and other objects on the territory of russia, this is an integral element of the ukrainian counterattack, and the west should act even more decisively and give ukraine all the necessary weapons for effective advancement and

return of the territory, this opinion was expressed by the former commander of the us ground forces in europe, ben hodges, in an interview with the georgian service of the voice of america counteroffensive - this is more than just a ground attack, which we see, people are focused on this as if counteroffensive is only tanks and infantry trying to pass through mini fields. this is only one of its elements, at the same time ukrainians they carry out what we would call multi-component operations, they carry out long-range drone strikes on moscow, long-range strikes on targets in crimea, strikes on fuel storage facilities throughout russia , they use naval drones to keep the russian black sea fleet away from the ukrainian coast, so i think that the criticism is not justified ukrainians the approach is adjusted and two months is not much time, i am simply

more optimistic and patient, but unfortunately ukrainians will continue to suffer great losses because we, the west, did not provide them with the necessary the full version of this interview can be seen on our programs and social networks already on thursday, august 24, canada introduced additional sanctions against subsidiaries of rosatom, the main russian state nuclear company, its set of sanctions against a number of individuals associated with rosatom, the united states was back in april at the same time companies the west continues to cooperate with the russian nuclear company, which dominates the supply chain of nuclear fuel. why is dependence on russian fuel so strong and how can the west overcome it? my colleague found out oleksiy kovalenko while western countries refuse to supply russian natural fuel, getting rid of nuclear dependence has turned out to be much more difficult. the russian

nuclear industry still controls 45% of the world's production of enriched uranium . at the same time, the ukrainian authorities have repeatedly called on the west to introduce sanctions against the russian nuclear industry, in particular, the russian nuclear industry involved in the occupation of nuclear power plants according to the ukrainian side, rosatom, through companies that are part of its structure, purchases technologies to circumvent sanctions, which then are used by the russian nuclear power plants at meetings with european leaders, the president of ukraine called on the eu to take a firmer position , ukraine does not really understand why sanctions have not yet been introduced against the rosatom company , representatives of this company continue to occupy the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and put our general security at risk, the answer to this question is in the figures of product imports rosa tom by the countries of the european union 20% of uranium enters the eu from russia and another 23% from kazakhstan, where

the main player in the atomic energy market rosatom in ukraine, of the 15 power units located at four ukrainian nuclear power plants , two units of the old soviet model, for which the monopoly russia produces fuel in the usa. a piece of this nuclear world market as well as uranium ore is somewhere around 30%. as well as services for the enrichment of this early morning and the production of low-enriched early morning, all this is somewhere around 40-45% of the world market, so it has already happened. after the collapse of the soviet union, for many reasons, in particular, because it was all much cheaper, the cost of this a-a in russia than in other e-e developed countries , experts note that before the start of production

, a long process that takes years is one of the authors of the policy of sanctions for aggression against ukraine and former state department sanctions policy coordinator daniel fried emphasizes the west cannot waste time on this when i was working on sanctions for the us government in '14, i called on every company that had to deal with russia to find a way to diversify sources so that the russians would not have leverage because, as i said, they will use them, i think we are late with the diversification of nuclear fuel sources. people who work in this field told me that this dependence can be avoided, but it will take time and not it is possible to talk at this time, so it is necessary to start already the same thoughts about the duration of the process of restarting the production of enriched uranium and nuclear fuel are held by a professor from the university of virginia textunia schmidt western

countries can relatively easily change the supplier of uranium. it is much more difficult to find alternative facilities for its uranium enrichment. what can you start doing overnight ? this process takes time, requires investment, it is expensive, and under the conditions of the capitalist market, they are always looking for someone who already has a production organization and can give it control to a liberal over the seized nuclear power plant as well as russia's constant nuclear blackmail are changing the attitude of the international community to the supply of nuclear fuel from russia. minister of energy of ukraine herman galushchenko has repeatedly called for stronger sanctions against the scattered, it is absolutely obvious already today that no amount of conversations with the russians give any effect from the point of view of what they have to leave in the zaporizhzhia station and we see that all the possible options have been used they are not giving results even today for sure

what to do well, it seems to me that the most obvious answer is - it is necessary to introduce sanctions against the russian nuclear power industry as soon as possible in order to encourage them to start negotiations about their withdrawal from the zaporizhia nuclear power plant of the ukrainian energy atom believes that in three years, ukraine can start producing its own nuclear fuel , according to galushchenko - this is possible thanks to the project that ukraine is implementing from the american company westing house. there is definitely still a monopoly of a certain category of fuel, in particular when we talk about fuel for reactors of the vvr 440 type, but we also work together with vesting chaos, i am sure the closest

in ukraine's perspective, we, together with the american side, will produce fuel for this category of blocks, and accordingly, this will give the opportunity to get rid of the monopoly of the russians, which , unfortunately, they still have today, experts note that the most difficult thing in this process will be the enrichment of natural uranium in some way find other sources of natural gas besides russia, you can engage in the production of nuclear fuel, you can produce it yourself or buy it elsewhere, but enriched uranium is equal to what is needed for a commercial nuclear power plant the controlled process is a very sensitive process because it can technically be increased to the scale of weapons production. some european countries have already begun to take steps towards overcoming dependence on the russian nuclear industry. power plants at the beginning of a full-scale war with russia on february 24

, 2022 neighboring sweden completely refused to buy russian nuclear fuel we are deeply concerned about the seriousness of the security situation in europe and russia's invasion of ukraine, therefore we have decided that no planned supplies from russia to our nuclear power plants will be carried out until further notice . dependence inhibits sanctions and strengthens the opposition of the russian nuclear monopolist, the decision to find alternative sources for the russian nuclear power , ukraine may become one of them in the future oleksiy kovalenko kostyantyn golubchik from america washington 6 ukrainian officers came to the usa to learn how to protect cultural heritage during military operations such a program for the military is conducted by the us department of defense in cooperation with the smithsonian institute and other partners, how not to lose monuments of architecture, history and art in the war

learned tatyana vorozhko and oleksia aspen flash fact military personnel from the usa, great britain, france, poland and for the first time from ukraine take part in the graduation ceremony after completing the security training program of cultural monuments during armed conflicts, the damage done to the cultural values ​​of each nation is damage to the cultural heritage of all mankind, because every nation makes its contribution to world culture, following this preamble convention of 1954, more than 80 countries of the world that signed this convention , including russia, committed not to resort to the use of value during military operations if this can lead to their destruction or damage, how to do it most effectively is

taught in this program. the so-called list of objects prohibited for strikes these are territories that have cultural value and we as the military do not want to destroy them it would be the last thing we would do and they should learn to create look at the list determine the historical value of locations cultural value for the country is only one aspect they can also help and inform the military if they work in a certain area and come across cultural values ​​such as their request how to return them to their rightful owners second direction protection of cultural monuments that are destroyed return of looted valuables, if something is destroyed or something like looting happened, they are taught how to take care of it, how to help track down the valuables and return them. the officers participating in this program have a legal education, experience in the protection of cultural monuments and speak english. issue tells that

not only ukraine benefited from the participation of ukrainians in the program, but other participants, we can look online at websites on geospatial platforms and not actually know the specific context a they understand the environment better than we do they can apply their experience to practical actions instead of abstract academic talk we must be experts we must be ready to respond to challenges for our nation when they arise wherever it may be and having such partners as ukrainians increases our level but for ukraine this program has a special no because of the essence of this war since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, according to the ministry of culture, russian troops destroyed or damaged one and a half thousand objects of cultural infrastructure and 600 monuments of cultural history, among them the grigory skovoroda museum in kharkiv oblast, the transfiguration cathedral in odesa, the drama theater

in mariupol, where about 600 people died under the ruins, many of them children, we understand that today russia not only kills, but also tries to kill ukrainians only actually destroys our homes in the city, but specifically attacks our cultural, cultural, cultural property , our museums, our theaters, and she does it not just by accident, she does it precisely because this the war is a war against our ukrainian, if you can say so, against our national identity, this officer training program at the pentagon was named by the men of monuments , if you destroy a whole generation of culture, it is as if these people never existed and this is exactly what hitler wants, this name is not accidental after all, it was not created by dikhnulan

museum directors, curators, art historians and others who desperately saved objects of cultural heritage from being destroyed and looted by the nazis during the second world war. today, i the author says that he prays every day for ukraine, which is fighting for the preservation of its culture in the 21st century, we feel extremely grateful to the ukrainians for taking part in this struggle, that american soldiers are not fighting there, and we support the country in other ways, and one of the ways is help in implementation of the idea of ​​preserving their cultural treasures is scary to see churches hit by rockets, you see destroyed and stolen sculptures and paintings, these things are of course important, but they are not as important as the loss of innocent lives tetyana vorozko oleksiy osyka voice of america ukrainian doctors surprise the medical world with their dedicated work during the war in washington, a delegation of cardiologists and

cardiac surgeons shared this experience with their american colleagues at the world congress of pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery about the urgent needs of the ukrainian health care system, we have the opportunity to talk with ilya yents former head of the ministry of health and director of the center for pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery, which was the first in ukraine and eastern europe to operate children with complex heart defects, mr. ilya, i congratulate you. thank you very much for coming to our studio again . we talked with you seven years ago. you were in washington on a visit. operating on small children, that was the first time you talked about it to an american audience , and now it’s been 7 years, tell me about the progress in the use of this method and how widely it is used now in the world, thank you for

the invitation, and for me, it’s really not simply it's nice. you know, it's been 7 years. for the first time, we proposed some innovation in cardiology, congenital heart surgery , and now we 've come. specialties of congenital heart defects, you know. we have a war and my institution, which is not just there, continues to work in terrible conditions, sometimes in conditions where there are bombings, and i will say that at this congress

there are many of my ah such glorious friends who, well even with such delight from the fact that we are continuing our work, that we are not abandoning ukraine, that we are innovating and, in fact, this method , which we have now proposed in cardiac surgery of newborns, already constitutes clinical material for more than 250 cases with a lower risk than in the most leading centers of the world, this is the first -secondly, for the first time in my entire activity for more than 40 years , i have been elected to the so-called faculty of the world congress, and it is a privilege for those people who can present not only surgery, but medicine in general at their national

congresses, i am very pleased to talk about what the war has shown now, even many of those who unfortunately, they are abroad, they felt that our ukrainian medicine, first of all, is not so bad, and in many cases it is better than the famous, let's say so, western medical institutions well, actually i want to ask you about what challenges the war brought to the health care system in ukraine. hospitals are under constant rocket fire. i know that one of the blocks of your center was also located near the place where the rocket hit, and when a full-scale invasion of many patients, especially children, has just begun, you have evacuated them for treatment abroad, what is the situation as of now, what are the challenges , what is needed, what is working, what is not working, well, this is a rather difficult question. i would like to answer , you know, what could it be

on the other hand, we are also doctors. we are very grateful to all ukrainians who protect our freedom, our hospital, our work. indeed, our institution was evacuated for the first two months to lviv, and then when it became safe, and not only for doctors and first of all it is safe for the patients and so we returned from work in the basements, we returned to the mode that now allows me as a surgeon , of course. and we must go to children who die from congenital heart disease and must provide help in america in washington , now we have two sessions that are long under such , you know, and not just interest, but even

experience. well, my deputy cardiologist , an internationalist, actually has a speech today how to care for children with congenital heart defects in wartime and and and his report is now selected for the main session of this world congress a-a shared this experience with american colleagues or did you tell them a-a what are the peculiarities of providing this care to patients during war could they understand it or did they ask you some questions or maybe they said some encouraging words well look it's not only american yes uh this congress now has 5,000 more than 5,500 participants yes from all over the world there is great interest for so that, for example, without some equipment, which we cannot transfer, for example, to

field conditions. yes, this is one problem, and i would believe that the main problem is people, and if again it is very difficult when the leading specialist cannot work under certain circumstances i am very proud to say that in our institution, and our ukrainian doctors, they do not just continue. and in some cases , they stayed in kyiv and again. during the war and now we are presenting our ukrainian achievements at this congress very briefly. if possible, i know that your colleagues also work in the front-line territories and perform operations there , tell us about it

. this is in the west and in the south of ukraine . people stayed there. our program is now not only for children, but we have raised a very serious plast for elderly people who have not left anywhere, even from kyiv, even with heart attacks. and in those urgent cases. this is how we provided assistance. our brigades constantly go to the front line and provide assistance to the civilian population of ukraine . thank you very much for coming to the studio and thank you very much for your work. i will remind you that we had a guest ilya yemets, he is a heart surgeon who performs operations on small children. we will say goodbye on this. watch our daily briefings twice and thank you very much for your trust

. take care. congratulations, we have great news , another child who was wanted by us managed to find this is 14-year-old nastya from the city of pavlograd in the dnipropetrovsk region with the girl, fortunately, everything is fine, she is alive and well, and the most important thing is that the child did not become a victim of a crime and is already with her family . the woman did not delay her mother's timely appeal and immediately reported her daughter's disappearance. now we cannot tell all the details of this story, but once again i emphasize that if god forbid it happens that your child disappears, do not waste even a second and report it immediately to the police and magnolia children's search service, in such situations, without exaggeration, every minute is important, so please remember and it's better to write down