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program, people who have information and shape public opinion, people who defend ukraine and create the future right now, the main and interesting thing in the verdict program by serhiy rudenko from monday to friday at 8:00 p.m. repeat at 12:10 p.m. of the ukrainian voice of america service time and i its host ostap yarysh the united states has noticed significant progress in the armed forces of ukraine in the zaporizhzhia direction , over the past 72 hours, a representative of the us national security council, john kirpy, told journalists about this. at the same time, former american generals believe that skeptics in the west should restrain their criticism.

let's talk with yulia yarmolenko, who is now joining us from the white house . the us administration, what can you tell us, you always know the stages. the biden administration in the white house tries not to comment on the state, there are many ukrainian contours, offensive actions, and today john kirby, also the representative of the us national security council, said that he does not want to disclose operational details to anya, or to sound like a sofa expert, but if a few days when he was asked about the ukrainian counter-offensive actions, he spoke only about the fact that the ukrainians continue to make small and gradual progress, today he said that indeed, the united states sees that over the past three days, the ukrainians have made significant progress, and significant progress, in particular in the southern direction, john kelby said that the ukrainians understand like no one else that heavy battles are ahead, that the russians can also regroup , but the task of the united states, as

john kirby says, is to do so that the ukrainian armed forces have all the necessary capabilities in order to continue to implement and strengthen this progress let's listen to his comments today during the last for about 72 hours we have seen some significant progress by the ukrainian armed forces on the southern front line in the zaporizhzhia area and they have achieved some success against the second line of russian defense but where they will go next and how they will use this success i will leave it for them to discuss we will focus on making sure that they are ready to advance that they have the necessary tools training methods and opportunities for this progress as quickly as they deem necessary there is a possibility that the russians will react to this progress so we must also monitor this and ensure that ukraine has everything

it needs to not only advance, but also have the means to effectively respond to any counteroffensive actions of the russians against it. in ukraine, the tank and abrams or about the training of pilots for the f16 in the united states of games, i would have news , in particular, our colleagues and the task of politics managed to get exclusive information , an exclusive update from the command of the us army in europe, and in particular, the spokesman of this the command announced that the training of 200 ukrainian soldiers who were trained on abrams tanks in germany has now been completed, and as the source of the ministry of defense reported, it is worth expecting that the first 10 abrams tanks from the promised 31 should arrive in ukraine by the middle of september. the ministry of defense of the united states announced that they are working

to provide all tanks 31 abrams tanks in the fall and we know in particular that the ukrainians really expected these tanks, they believe that they are making significant progress or will help make significant progress earlier, the top general mark mili spoke about the fact that tanks are modern tanks that are the reinforcements that are needed in order to become the key to ukrainian success, so this is encouraging news. we also know that the f16 is the that a certain training for ukrainian pilots and mechanics is already underway in europe, but as they said earlier in the pentagon, the united states will also begin its part of the training and it is expected that this should take place already in october , another topic that we will follow already next week it is volodymyr zelenskyi from the group of 20 in india, we know that he was not invited, as they comment on it in the white house, you know, ostap, this is a noticeable difference

, because last year, when the group of twenty summit was held in indonesia , president zelensky was invited to speak at the ball, he did not come in person, but he had a very powerful video message in which he presented 10 points of his peace plan or peace proposals, which are currently the basis of many conversations about what a just peace should be like in ukraine this the country was never invited, and today my colleague patti had the opportunity to speak with john kirby in an exclusive interview. he specifically commented and answered her question whether president biden was disappointed that the ukrainian president was not invited by india. this is for the country that heads the g20 to decide. biden has a very strong relationship with president zelenskyi president zelenskyi had the opportunity to address the nato countries not so long ago in vilnius, he certainly had many opportunities to communicate with

foreign leaders face-to-face, we think it is important that people remain focused on supporting ukraine as much as they can, but as for the invitation, you should contact the representatives of india about this. that a lot of leaders are gathering, in particular, the topic of ukraine will definitely be discussed yulia thank you for your information yulia yarmolenko contacted us from the white house and about the course of the ukrainian offensive, ukraine needs weapons training for 16 and attacks of ukrainian naval drones oleksiy kovalenko spoke from the office of the retired admiral of the united states marco mangomari who served in the naval villages of the usa for 32 years in his opinion, time is on the side of ukraine if the defense will provide ukraine with weapons in time in the necessary

quantity for victory, i.e. exports comment ukrainian the counteroffensive and agree that it is moving forward but is accompanied by significant losses. what is your assessment of course ? it would be great if the counteroffensive would happen faster both from the ukrainian point of view and from from the point of view of the western allies, but it slightly dampens expectations, it was not fully understood how well the russians managed to take a defensive position, as well as the influence of the decision-making process, which deprived ukraine of some critical elements necessary for this counteroffensive, be it cluster munitions , enough artillery, enough long-range artillery, air force everything was missing, or the delivery was significantly delayed, so we should not be surprised why, from what you listed, in

your opinion, there is not enough counterparty means that allow you to pass mini-fields to break through the defensive positions of the russians, secondly, they need cluster munitions and they would not need cluster munitions if we had a sufficient number of artillery 155 mm shells and it would be very useful to have atakamsk to be able to strike at a distance the new york times recently published an article in which high-ranking american officials note that ukraine is making a mistake by not focusing on one direction of counterattack. is there any basis for this assessment? back to you first we all know that victory has a thousand parents and defeat is an orphan i mean when things are not going so well anonymous sources in the pentagon slip out somewhere but what they say doesn't matter

gx security adviser sullivan sat there on the podium and said that the ukrainians were advised something else , they were advised to listen to the advice and now the ukrainian army is suffering, i would listen to such a thing, but he says something completely different ukraine second are sold ukrainian 82nd brigade, which is considered one of the most equipped and manned joined the counteroffensive, what could this mean for each of the units that unites with newly equipped fighters who have undergone certain training in germany , other markets, western europe in the united states, it certainly has value, such an experienced ukrainian brigade has additional value. this may be a sign that the ukrainian ministry of defense or the general staff found a vulnerable point for penetration but it could also mean that

they continue to test the defense line i wouldn't draw too many conclusions yet announced that the us will train ukrainian f-16 pilots, norway, denmark and the netherlands provide ukraine with a total of about 60 f-16 fighters, is this enough to change the situation on the battlefield, here are these the launchers, this is a long-term question, not in the short term, i suspect that this year you will not see f-16 over the ukrainian sky, it will take a lot training, and the chain , it will take some time, the mechanics must also be trained , the fighters must undergo maintenance after each combat mission, they will be serviced by ukrainian mechanics, if everything goes well in time, you can probably wait

f16 next spring, does it fly? we often hear that the war in ukraine is a marathon, not a sprint. whose side is time on, not on yevhen prigozhin's side? i believe that the west continues to support ukraine. ukrainians have demonstrated their commitment to fighting for their own territory for their right to choose a democratic lifestyle. on the side of ukraine, but time will not be on ukraine's side if we do not give them the necessary weapons, if we continue to provide them with the necessary weapons and start doing it in a timely manner , time will be on ukraine's side black sea ukraine have successfully used naval drones many times, what effect can these naval drones have on the course of war? it is worth saying that the operators of these drones do a very good job with their

home-made drones, as well as western- type harpoon systems that forced the russian fleet to be more than 100 km or probably even 300 km from the ukrainian shores, what does this do ? this brings the battle closer to russian ports. there is a significant increase in attacks on the kerch bridge - this demonstrates the future risks for the russians of their economic and ability. i think that this great, recently the ukrainians carried out a special operation in crimea to demonstrate the weakness of russian internal defense and damage some russian logistics nodes, these attacks on bridges, ports and ships are very important, you mentioned the special operation in crimea on the independence day of ukraine, how can you assess the difficulty and importance of this operation as for the consequences, it is more for the people of ukraine to decide, but it is important for president zelensky

to remind people that one of his red lines is the return of crimea and the restoration of territorial of the borders of ukraine, which were transferred in 2014, how much. in my opinion, it was difficult. well, i am not informed about the ways of entry and exit , but i miss that it was difficult. at some point , you have to slip through the russian defense and bypass it, but i think that over the last 18 months, ukrainian operators have shown themselves most vividly . promised to take place, but this does not limit ukrainian special operations and the execution of the mission, we worked in the naval forces for more than 30 years , with your experience, you can comment

on the fact that the ukrainian naval forces are so equipped to give the axis that russia is in the black sea , the ukrainian naval forces are very limited, but with what they have, including with naval forces ground support forces i think they are doing a great job they are innovatively using anti-ship missiles and drones and in some raids it just changes everything there is no risk of amphibious landings on the ukrainian the coast precisely because of how ukrainian anti -ship missiles work, this is the assessment of rear admiral montgomery, and you can read the text version of this interview on the website of the voice of america in ukrainian, meanwhile, in the zaporizhzhia region, where fierce battles are currently ongoing, local farmers have finished harvesting, sowing , growing and harvesting was taking place in difficult

conditions, every day people risk running into a mine or becoming a victim of a russian missile strike , how do farmers near the frontline work , eva myronova and oleksandr oliinyk learned ivan kondrak cultivates 800 hectares of land in new yavolivites of the komyshavy community, the village is 30 kilometers from the front line, and some of the farmer's fields are not far from vasylivka, which is occupied by russian troops . it is impossible to get used to shelling. it's very scary. the efforts of both mine and my workers, about a dozen of his workers , take risks every time they go out into the field. well

, here they are. we have a pit not far from here. there are cassettes. we find fortunes. we find rockets. well. there is a lot of shrapnel, i am already silent, they are full here on every field, well, a museum can be opened according to official statistics, 80% of the cultivated fields of the zaporizhzhia region are currently occupied by the russians, and this is one and a half million hectares of territory not under the control of ukraine, 380 thousand hectares of land are left , part of it is dangerous for work, how do you drive when they start in the tractor, it seems to be not very close, but sometimes it comes close, so it happens that the funnels are not the ones that are thrown, or that you simply do not know when it may

come to the same place on a new one, this is a funnel from a cassette of ammunition in the sonyakhs and another one nearby. initially, in a full-scale invasion , ukrainian sappers seized and destroyed about three and a half thousand units of explosive objects in zaporizhzhia, the most dangerous aerial bombs. 500 which are equipped with a modular unit that enables these own air bombs to fly for dozens of kilometers during a year and a half of full-scale war, farmer ivan kondrak

i lost dozens of tons of crops and valuable equipment, the warehouse and hangar were destroyed by russian rockets, more than fifty cattle were burned alive, but the farm continues to work, the total losses are counted in tens of millions of hryvnias, well, somewhere, somewhere close to 20 million, these are direct and indirect losses, these are my losses. count everything, well, you see behind me a burnt-out warehouse that needs to be repaired, that's how it is today, it's millions of five hryvnias, farmers say that they are causing crop fires this year says ivan kondrak, the fire was extinguished quickly, but in the past the situation was much more difficult. last year , i burned more than 100 hectares of wheat and more than 150 hectares of rapeseed

. to take risks with people, well, it’s very dangerous, and yes, the harvest is lost . let’s say another problem for farmers is the low price of grain, difficulties with implementation, because the odesa port will not work due to the constant shelling of the russians , so agro-industrial farms cannot pay in a hurry with live money, they pay with raw materials, grain, oil, flour, sugar, now they cannot pay because there is no stable price for grain, no one wants to lose the whole year, they grew, they grew crops, and lose funds to sell , sell at minimum prices, prices for lessons , lubricants, prices for pesticides, on seed material is high it would simply not occupy itself, the production is calculated in the military administration, they say that of the three

thousand agro-industrial enterprises that worked in the zaporizhzhia region before the war on 60,000 hectares of land in the controlled territory of the zaporizhia region are not cultivated due to the danger of enemy shelling. these are the fields located 10 km from the front and closer. eva myronova oleksandr oliynyk for the voice of america from the zaporizhia region this is the story of ukrainian farmers and then we are talking about volunteers who want to join the territorial defense forces of poland, 16 days of training from morning to night and a 12-hour exam at the end, this is their basic training, who and

why he decides to become a soldier and how the war in ukraine influenced the motivation of poles to serve will be told by lesia bakalets professors drivers media workers consultants businessmen and high school students people of various professions join the polish territorial defense army basic requirements for a potential recruit polish citizenship and coming of age in poland it begins from the age of 18, sebastian is already 19 and his summer free from studies. he decided to spend his military training studying me one more year and then when he graduates they plan to become a professional military man will study cyber security sebastian and 80 other recruits of the fifth mazovian brigade of the territorial defense of poland are taking the final exam today after 16 days of basic training, this is the topography exam , one of nine that the recruits of the territorial defense of the polish army have to pass today in one day those who cope with all

the tasks will take the oath tomorrow at the other end of the forest, the task is more active and stressful for recruits 30 minutes to dig a single trench at a time they have don't forget to dodge enemy bullets, schoolgirl anna manages to dig and give interviews, we shove a lot of physical work here, you have to be in shape , you have to carry all the equipment with you , you have to be always ready for any situation, and i'm also small in height i have to be especially hardy. i learned about territorial defense from my cousin, he also joined - he said this service goes well with studying at school to live a civilian and military life at the same time special services in territorial defense poland is here a soldier has a choice either to become a soldier on a permanent basis

or to have part-time employment", but the rest of the time they can mainly live their civilian life , but they must be prepared that they can be called suddenly in case of need. on television, she joined the territorial defense in 2019, although she dreamed of a military uniform since childhood, i am raising my son myself and at first i left him to go through training . it was impossible, but when he grew up enough so that i could leave him in peace with my parents. i went to basic training for territorial defense and fulfilled my dream , chail for tree. meanwhile , the exam for new recruits is ongoing in this area. the future soldiers are managed by non-commissioned officer anzhi berkovsky. in civilian life, he is a professor at the institute of

linguistics and literary studies. break contact the point is to prevent the enemy from ambushing you in total the exam lasts 12 hours whoever succeeds goes to the next level this is a full three-year training course the principle is the same as for the service part-time soldiers go to training one weekend a month and only after the course they are considered fully combat-ready duties in the military terrodefense are different from searching for a missing child or helping the population during a natural disaster to guarding borders to dhuhladka and kusachok to military service the war has definitely become bigger in ukraine shows what can threaten our country, so polish citizens should train for their own safety and for their families. we have a lot of applications to join the territorial defense brigade, they say

the war in ukraine has shown that ground defense is of great importance for the defense of the state, therefore, after the start of a full-scale invasion, there have been more people willing to join the army here since that year, for two years in a row, several hundred of our soldiers guard the polish border in belarus, we perform these tasks with operational troops, as well as by border guards and the police, it also patrols on foot and on vehicles day and night, territorial defense, the fifth and youngest type of the armed forces of poland, it was founded in 2017, and now 37 are serving here thousands of soldiers, 90% of them are part-time military personnel , the goal is to increase the number to 50,000, says the teroborona leadership. 000 people from all over the world this year

ukrainians presented at the festival an artistic performance of a burning phoenix, from the ashes of which a sculpture of a huge ukrainian trident appears. the phoenix symbolizes ukraine, which is reborn and appears again ukrainian artists oleksiis and dana kosman , as well as the creator of the project, alla lopadkina, worked on the stronger and quieter war project about the festival and the idea of ​​the campaign. and at first we are all protected by some kind of protective shell. is this a box that protects architectural monuments and monuments in ukraine, and when it burned, it was for the people who were present at the burning, at first it was not for them.

that it is burning and there is nothing there, when he somewhere it began to be clear that it is in this fire that the wings of something strong are being strengthened what is the inner core of every person yes , every ukrainian and ukraine as a country is a very unique idea actually mrs. allo how did they react to this this installation from the actual participants of the festival, what kind of feedback did you get , everyone had different emotions, it was from sincere admiration for the burning process itself and the fact that there was something inside and it survived, this is an incredible bouquet of emotional words when they came up and said that this is what they are saying, it is the understanding that after the destruction something remained inside , they were able to get an emotional release of their own how it was collected, how it was brought to nevada, was it done on the spot, or were some fragments collected

before it happened behind the scenes, and the metal part of the structure was created in chicago, and ukrainian weighers were created by the ukrainian team, and engineering design documentation was created by the ukrainian team in kyiv, and the wooden part of the structure was already being formed here on the spot this is the story and the burning menuedi festival. next, the authors of the project plan to demonstrate this sculpture in different parts of the united states and later find it a permanent permanent home in one of the american cities where ukrainians live. i remind you that from monday to friday at 18:00 kyiv time on youtube and facebook, where

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