[000:00:00;00] was awarded the golden cross by the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine valery zaluzhny khrystyna parubiy espesso tv channel on the air from washington voice of america ukrainian service program time time i am yulia yarmolenko i congratulate the united states expects that the topic of the russian war against ukraine and its consequences for the world will be in the focus of exactly that group the 20 that will take place already this week in india, as us national security adviser jake sullivan said on tuesday at a meeting on sunday , president joe biden continues to emphasize the importance of establishing peace in ukraine

only on fair terms, and although it is difficult to expect unanimity in the final meeting, due to the participation of russia in the white house meeting, we are convinced that the majority of countries will continue to stand firmly on the side of ukraine , the reality of russia's next illegal war has devastating social and economic consequences , the poorest countries on the planet bear the main burden as and earlier, president biden will call for a just and durable peace based on respect for international law, in the principle of the un charter, in the principle of territorial integrity and sovereignty, he will continue to emphasize that the united states will support ukraine as long as it is necessary for these principles to be put into practice, to reach an absolute consensus on a joint statement regarding ukraine, and it is difficult because russia is sitting at the negotiating table, it will not be at the level of the leaders of the group of 20. because putin will not take part of this is the fact that the majority of the members of the un general assembly continue to adhere to

the position that russia's war is illegal and violates the un charter and that this war must end on the terms that comply with the charter this is the result of months of tough diplomacy in the united states and our partners, which reflects the international mood on this issue. he expressed confidence that congress will approve the white house's request for additional funding for ukraine. he believes that kyiv still has bipartisan support on capitol hill, despite the statements of individual lawmakers supporting ukraine the national interests of the united states were emphasized by the american congress, which is just returning to work after a month-long summer break , today the session was resumed in the senate and through in a week, the members of the house of representatives will return to capitol hill and the tasks before the legislators are a number and time is short, the first approval of government funding for the next fiscal year and the consideration of president joe biden's request for additional funding for

ukraine, whether the legislators will manage to avoid the so-called shutdown or partial shutdown of the government and can aid to ukraine suffer in the process of negotiations , let's talk about all this with our congress correspondent kateryna lisunova, who joins the broadcast hello, katya says, what are the main tasks of legislators for the next few weeks, what are the chances that they will agree on a budget or at least a budget resolution to avoid, in general , the main task of american legislators nowadays is to agree on a large amount of funds, she has until october 1 to do it, because that is when the new one begins fiscal year in general, congress has to conduct 12 bills on the expenditure of funds, among them , in particular, the defense budget of the united states of america, which include 300 million dollars in additional aid for ukraine and, as you already mentioned additional funding requested by president biden, which includes $24 billion in additional aid for ukraine, but to

do this, american lawmakers only have a little time , because if the senate begins its work today, the house of representatives will return to sessions in september, and in fact, in congress, there will only be 11 days to agree on these 12 spending bills, if they fail to do so, the next step will be a shutdown and all government funds will be frozen. katya, as of this moment, how likely is it that the congress will will approve the request for additional funding for ukraine, if this does not happen by the end of the fiscal year, what will happen then. in general , the coderes now has two most important challenges - it is the lack of time, as well as the conditions and bargaining of the far -right republicans, because in general, those representatives of the republics now have a very minimal majority and so that agreeing on any issues requires the votes of everyone. and you , on average, far-right republicans have already stated that one of the requirements for

approving the budget is the suspension of aid for of ukraine at least this was stated by congresswoman margery taylor green, so now this is one of the demands of the far-right republicans, which directly affects aid to ukraine, but how a potential shutdown can affect aid to ukraine and, in fact, what is the option even after the shutdown and to continue this aid, listen to the problem in the comments democratic congressman mike crigley, under normal circumstances, we will at least agree to an interim resolution to fund the government until we reach a broader compromise like we did with the increase of the debt limit if this process breaks down and the speaker does not advance the temporary resolution, there is a possibility that the additional funding requested by biden, which includes not only money for ukraine but also for the liquidation of the consequences of natural disasters in the united states, then this funding will simply

get stuck answering the broader question if the bill about additional funds for ukraine was put to a vote. i believe that it would be supported by an overwhelming majority. both democrats and republicans are saddened by the fact that a small group of the extreme right has such an extraordinary influence on these processes. believe that cooler heads will prevail in this situation, there are two possible scenarios, either we agree to a temporary police or a shutdown that will happen but it will be for a short period of time and the compromise we will then come to will include additional funding for natural disasters and to help ukraine in the war at least for one more year, but for his support for security for ukraine during the likely showdown katya part of the republicans also wants to start

an investigation into the impeachment of president biden, can the republicans to start this procedure and how it is related to the approval of the budget and financing for ukraine, the demand to stop aid to ukraine from the far-right republicans is in the last place , the impeachment against biden is in the first place, as far as it is possible and what are the chances of such an impeachment, how it can actually affect on ukraine , congressman michael also told me about the comments, and i suggest listening to his comments about dishes now a few months ago, i would not say that an impeachment investigation is possible, but unfortunately in conversations with some of my republican colleagues i'm starting to understand that this is where we're going they don't have to worry about starting an investigation i think they can start what they call an impeachment inquiry but they have to

find out what crime the president has committed so far that was not announced after january 6 , it was obvious why they started the impeachment against trump i was there i was in the room where it happened president trump incited a violent coup d'état uprising and he almost succeeded president biden they will have to imagine or create something from which to start an investigation so i think they can actually move forward with such an investigation or they can go to a full impeachment process in the judiciary committee i'm sad about that but again a few months ago i would not have predicted this the development of events, this can be due to various reasons . the republican primaries are approaching and they want to appease the far-right base or something similar to the comments of kompressman if a few months

ago, the probability of a share of the procedure against president biden was low, today this issue is really serious and should become one of the key issues of the negotiations regarding the agreement on budget issues, which include own aid to ukraine. it looks to katya that the next month will be very busy on capitol hill , definitely a topic of support ukraine will be number one, but also other topics about which you spoke , in particular, the approval of the budget of the budget resolution, the potential avoidance long ago and the potential start of an investigation into the impeachment of the american president - these are all important topics, and we will monitor the development of these events. thank you very much , katya. my colleague kateryna lisonova was on the call from the congress . the students of the united states strive to return russia to the implementation of the black sea grain agreement . deputy potap imagined this at a briefing on tuesday the spokesperson of the us state department, he also added that the united states appreciates

the efforts of partners, in particular turkey, who are trying to convince russia that russia's decision to end its participation in the black sea grain initiative harms communities vulnerable to food security around the world and we welcome the efforts of our turkish partners including president erdogan to try to convince russia to return to the agreement and we will continue to work with the un and turkey who both worked very hard to make the black sea grain initiative possible earlier we also thank our nato ally turkey for its important role in the attempt to return russia to the black sea grain agreement meeting of turkish president recep tayyip erdogan with russian president vladimir putin 4 september did not bring positive results in the matter of restoring the black sea grain agreement , which would allow ukraine to export its grain

to the sea. it was rodogan after the meeting with putin who said that he hopes for a quick restoration of the agreement, but how ukraine reacts to russia's elections regarding the restoration of the grain agreement and to the proposals of the turkish president erdoğan's approach to kyiv to soften the approach in the negotiations my colleague ostapyarush talked about this with the ambassador of ukraine to turkey vasyl bodnar, he also asked what is the future of military cooperation between ankara and kyiv in the context of recent events? we heard a statement from president erdogan that ukraine should soften its position on the grain agreement so that it would be possible to take, as he says, some joint steps with russia. of course , you have heard the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine dmytro kulegu say that our position is quite clear that

the grain corridor can function, but without us making concessions to blackmail and abuse of international law on the part of ukraine, the aggressor, it is extremely important for us that the global market for food products is legal for ukrainian products, that there is free communication that we could safely export our products, not only grain, but also many other things that we produce through the sea gates of ukraine, in fact, russia specifically creates such conditions that not only but also other products , in particular, metals and what we can export did not enter international markets. what is the idea of ​​withdrawing from the grain initiative? there is a justification for this. why are they bombing our infrastructure and, of course, now in dialogue with the turkish side, which is one of the main mediators for the restoration of the grain initiative, they are just trying to push their topic about the fact that the restoration of the initiative is possible only with the satisfaction of their needs. let

's start with the fact that it was russia that violated international law. it was russia that created this threatening situation by starting a war against of ukraine and it is she who should bear the primary responsibility, she has heard from russia itself that well, this is what it looks like. if now she is not ready to advance her demands, among them the lifting of certain sanctions, does turkey still have any leverage that she could still use to influence russia or after all, it was a mess to give a grain agreement and force russia to return to it and allow ukrainian ships to raise grain . in fact, turkey primarily defends its interests because it is also interested and in general, and in greater stability in the black sea region and in the realization of one's economic interests. therefore, it is not only the realization of the interests of ukraine or the defense of the interests of ukraine as we see them, but it is one's own interest , and in which is also sewn political e-e, if dividends or

the political weight that turkey possesses. it is precisely because of its mediation in the grain initiative in general in the ukrainian-russian war, and first of all, we do not communicate with russia. to warn them not to look for a weaker side in this quadrangle, i.e. not to blame us, eh, you did more because you can, in fact, we all have, including the wider international community, to put pressure on russia so that it stops making excessive demands and ends the war, instead of continuing the war by er, manipulation of public opinion and creation of a threat to global food security, that is why its task is the hangar , it is also an important military partner of kyiv , especially in the last two years, as now cooperation in this field is specifically developing we will transfer the direction to the urban direction, i will not tell you much, because it is very sensitive for the turkish side, but what we see in public access is from armored vehicles to

byraktars, there is a developed cooperation in high-tech areas, it is such as aviation , unmanned aviation, it is the naval forces and these spheres are also complementary today, and the turkish side is satisfied with the cooperation with ukrainian enterprises. we also see great prospects in developing joint interaction and it is already known verracta factory , other cooperation is possible , we are now preparing for such formulas of the defense industry in ukraine, e-e. a partner in the high technical sphere, turkey is probably not the only one that already uses the assets of ukraine and already cooperates, giving the opportunity to work in ukraine and creating joint products that, well, you see, are already flying

in the air or are supplied to third parties and also in ukraine, it was an interview with the ambassador of ukraine in turkey, see the full version on the pages of voice of america in ukrainian on youtube, facebook and others . of families, the same families tried to adopt children before. however, due to the war , the adoption process for foreigners actually froze. i am commenting on the situation . are there alternative ways to help these families and children? boris, the americans, steve, iliana, olney, in the summer of xxi, settled two brothers and a sister from ukraine , daniel, sofia and william, two years ago, they were

danylo, maria and yura, and they lived in an orphanage in odesa. i remember how my mother left us in ukraine, i remember how they took me by the legs and they were having a party today, the ounich family is waiting for the fourth sister elizaveta, they could not adopt her with her relatives earlier because she has another father, her father was in prison, he had not yet had his parental rights taken away at that time , it was possible to adopt liza only last year but because of the war it was frozen, we wrote a petition to ukraine in october, but we were told that it is difficult to do now because she is now with other orphans in poland. and you in the usa do not know how to organize this process . the elenia family is not the only one stuck in the process of adopting ukrainian children because of the war, a total of 200 families have united in a joint

organization and are asking the ukrainian and american governments to help solve the problem. i understand that during the war children are very vulnerable, they can become victims of sex trafficking if the ukrainian authorities is afraid that the children will fall into the hands of pedophiles, then i can reassure all these people have already passed the inspection of all authorities in the united states , the first six months after the start of the full-scale war in ukraine, the adoption process was suspended, many orphans were taken abroad , local courts and authorities involved in the process did not work adaptations only since august 22 resumed adoption for citizens of ukraine , today we have 22,000 e-mails from ukrainian citizens who contacted e-mail through the chatbot the child is not alone and expressed a desire to adopt a child into the family and in ukraine there is a priority of ukrainian adoption , because it is obvious that ukrainian children will grow up best in families that

for them are close ethnically close geographically . and the children agreed to the adaptation. at the end of 2022 , the final court procedures for ukrainian families were resumed, but this was in the case where there had already been contact with the child, where the court procedures were started, where the case was transferred to the court as soon as here they resumed their work and restored the court registry they continued to decide their procedure were adopted by citizens of the united states 44 children this is not a single american family is at the stage of getting to know the child that is, there are no such families regarding the start of a full-scale invasion met the child and were not able to complete the adoption under

ukrainian law, familiarization - this is the official stage of meeting orphans with potential parents through the mediation of guardianship authorities, but american families claim that most of 200 families have already gone through the process of getting to know the children personally. ukraine has a humanitarian program that has been in place for many years , according to which american families take in orphans or sometimes children from low-income families for four to 12 weeks in summer and winter. they get to know each other well and often these families decide to adopt them, according to the former advisor to the minister of social policy of ukraine , leonid lebedev, the solution could be to allow such children to receive care in american families temporarily during the war , it will be better for the children, and this is their interests that they do not live somewhere in shelters in incomprehensible conditions, namely in those families whose children chose them and these families chose

these children, but now in ukraine there is no legislative mechanism for temporary adoption in ukraine there is no institution of temporary shelter for a child can be transferred temporarily until her status is resolved, only this is what we are determined by the legislation, acquaintances are not at all such that they would be transferred to strangers despite the war, then there are restrictions on adoption, the aries family continues to maintain contact with liza for the last time they we saw a girl for christmas in poland, they constantly talk to her on the phone, she constantly asks us why we adopted danyla , but she does not ask me where my bedroom will be, and yet they give liza gifts and send personal hygiene items for a group of orphans with whom she lives in poland, an educator through which the americans communicate with lisa, she often asks

them to help with basic necessities that children lack andrii boris vyacheslav filyushkin voice of america charity foundation freedom of ukraine is one of the few ukrainian of organizations in the usa, which openly collects funds to help the armed forces of ukraine, the key focus is drones. volunteers have already delivered almost 1,200 drones to the front lines, including more expensive models used by scouts or artillerymen to adjust strikes by a comrade . iryna solomko and pavlo spoke with volunteers and founders of the organization and rakhov, one of the founders of the freedom of ukraine charitable foundation, dmytro topchyi, volunteered back in 2014. his first project was providing food of the ukrainian military who in february 2014 were besieged at the headquarters of the naval forces in sevastopol, i was able to find a lot of ukrainians, ukrainians, ukrainians in sevastopol

who joined this project and brought these products. somewhere under the fences, they made some excavations and brought these products to the headquarters in sevastopol, this was the first project from the very beginning, dmitry's volunteer efforts were focused specifically on the military. topchii was born in the family of an artilleryman. after 1991, this profession was abolished, i knew the relationship with the ukrainian army until 2014. similarly, the relationship with my father would be very bad, so i was very surprised by the fact that when the ukrainian military defended the flag of ukraine when it was on them the assault of the russian special forces and they stood up and defended the flag, but without weapons in their hands, for me it was such a turning point when i realized that there really is military honor and an oath and understanding of what the motherland is, since

then dmytro began to help ukrainians defenders began with static medicine, first-aid kits, medical backpacks, hemostatic agents, and quickly added body armor, tales of clothing and other tactical means of understanding what the army lacked. it was always how i lived in it. i saw there what my father wore , what he walked in and passed, i did not know at all at that time, no one knew that it was possible to use some kind of shoes for tourist shoes in the army , as it is done in principle all over the world , later the subway began to work with the main intelligence department, then it was just formed special operations forces and volunteers began to provide them with the necessary means, at the same time he heard that the guys needed drones at that time drones, but it was more wings, that is , drones were not used as much as now . that is, they were wings. such uavs are quite expensive . that is, we already received them back then and bought them. since then, volunteers have put almost 1,200 drones of various types on the front lines with a total cost of almost 3.2 million dollars, from standard to expensive thermal imaging cameras or drones

used for reconnaissance and adjustment of artillery, topchii says that the team began to prepare for a full-scale war that in january 2022, there were already negotiations for and with the units of the main directorate of intelligence with units of the sso and certain units of the ground forces , which we have already talked about that we need to start preparing more actively for this that it will be february 25, 2022, understanding the needs and scope of future assistance, dmytro and like-minded people with whom he worked together since 2014 decided to establish the charity fund freedom of ukraine , people began to actively call all our former donors and large donors, large corporations, what are we ready to say? we have money, we allocate funds, but we need an organization . freedom of ukraine is one of the few ukrainian organizations in the usa that openly collects funds to help the

armed forces of ukraine. it is surprising that these methods exist. there are many organizations in america that help israel and the israeli army . they do not hide information at all. freedom of ukraine has two branches , one in the city of autumn, texas, they are concentrated there humanitarian projects are approximately 20% of the organization's activity , the second is new york and the surrounding area, where dmytro is working on the military direction. from bulletproof vests and helmets , and then like all the turnstiles, uniforms and well, everything that is needed

. what are the requests? cost and we buy at the official prices from some official dealers in order to reduce the funds, we send a little more time, probably a large-scale invasion , the background collected more than six million dollars. with tours to the usa during concerts, they bring auctions, for example , during svyatoslav vakarchuk's north american tour, topchii managed to collect $250,000. funds collected during the tour of beloved ukrainian bands that generally tour anywhere in the world, no one collected more than this amount. ukraine bought 100 drones with these funds. dmytro regrets that after the intensification of relations between russia and china, in particular , during the visit of sidinpin to moscow, the volunteers heard that

there is a lack of drones on the market, and there are no distributors the amount that was before and they , in fact, the distributors are already afraid to sell in such quantities as they say, we will have questions from the supplier in china, such as where is it all going? well, that's what we're looking for we are looking for it has become more difficult to do so 100%. dmytro adds a donation from benefactors. unfortunately, they come irregularly, they usually donate more after a tragedy or heavy shelling, that's all i always try to tell people that during the war, it can't be that we help today, tomorrow we don't help if you can do it, yes, that is, people are on their own somehow make up this story in your head that well, today they didn't kill 100 people there, ukrainian soldiers, well, in principle, you can skip today and not that people were killed today, that was some work was done yesterday after the end of the war dmytro sadodumtsami plans to continue volunteering, but already for the reconstruction and not only the infrastructure, but also

for building strong institutions and a new mentality of the nation from new york iryna solomko pavlo terekhov voice of america i conclude with this thank you for watching america in ukrainian. also join our broadcasts of briefings at 18:00 kyiv time, we talk about the most important statements of decisions that directly affect ukraine. you can also ask your question to our hosts. good luck. take care, dad. we are looking for 17 -year-old hope shishkina. the girl disappeared on the first day of the full-scale war , and for more than a year and a half there was no news about her. i know that when it all started

, the child was in the kherson region in in the city of nova kakhovka, which still remains occupied, it is possible that this is the reason why the girl does not get in touch, that is why i am asking everyone who sees me to look carefully at the photo of nadia , remember this face if anyone suddenly sees the girl or knows where she might be now do not delay and call us on the magnolia child tracing service hotline at the short number 116,000 calls from any ukrainian mobile operator are free or write to the child tracing chatbot service in telegram and i will ask for a few minutes of your attention, i want to remind you that we continue the search for sixteen-year-old arina yatsyuk, whose fate has been unknown for a year and a half, the photo of the missing girl was given to us by her great-aunt , who actually lost contact with her niece and told me a simply terrible story of her disappearance of arina herself from kyiv, and when the war began, she