[000:00:00;00] sellers, let us know at this e-mail address or simply on facebook, we will together send all the traitors after the russian ship . see you in a week on the air. espresso r on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, time, i am yuliya yarmolenko. congratulations, the united states announced new aid to ukraine in the amount of more than billion dollars, this round of support includes another package of military aid under the presidential authorization program in the amount of $175 million, it includes equipment to support

air defense systems, additional ammunition for artillery, in particular himers systems, shells with depleted uranium for abrams tanks, as well as more than 3 million cartridges for small arms, this aid should reach ukraine in the near future, as white house spokeswoman karinjanpierre noted on the day when russia again attacked civilians in ukraine , killing 16 people and injuring dozens, it only emphasizes the importance of continued aid to ukrainians who are defending their territory from unprovoked russian aggression, and the next aid package should be sent just like this a message to assure ukrainians of the unbroken support of the united states to kyiv on wednesday us secretary of state anthony blinken arrived with an unannounced visit, he already met with the president of ukraine volodymyr zelensky with whom, among other things, they discussed the situation on the front lines, as blinken noted before the meeting, the united states is making maximum efforts or to help and immediately while ukraine conducts counteroffensive actions and to strengthen the defense of ukraine for the long

term, the us secretary of state also met with prime minister denys shmygal and minister of foreign affairs dmytro kulebuyu, with whom, by the way, anthony blinking managed not only to discuss an important issue of bilateral relations, but also to have a bite to eat in one of the kyiv mcdonald's , we will ask more about the first practical and symbolic results of anthony blinkin's visit to the ukrainian capital my colleague anna kostyachenko, who is in touch from kyiv, anya hello , the press conference of anthony blinkin and dmytro kuleba has just literally ended. what statements did we hear and what were the first you can talk about the results yulia hello, this press conference really just ended, the most important thing is that anthony blinking announced 1 billion e-e dollars of aid, which includes various directions, this is not only 175 million announced by pedagon of military aid, in particular, fylkin noted that the problem of demining is very critical for ukraine and part of the funds will

be directed to demining, he also noted and repeatedly emphasized that it is the long-term support of ukraine in the military defense sphere that is very important and he noted that it is important not only to support ukraine now in its counter-offensive actions, but also to support in the future so that ukraine always has such a certain defensive force in relation to the counter-offensive , he repeatedly noted the good progress of the ukrainian counter-offensive. and in fact , he began his conference by recalling his visit to the berkovets cemetery this morning e in kyiv, where ukrainian soldiers rest, and during a visit to the cemetery where he honored the memory and now during a press conference, he emphasized the good progress of the ukrainian counteroffensive and regarding the aid, he also noted that it will be in various directions , including the improvement of the restoration

of ukrainian infrastructure and the fight against corruption and other various directions that will ensure the sustainable development of ukraine and, most importantly, its military security to ukraine after the russian aggression in february on the 22nd year, as always, here i am amazed by the extraordinary bravery and resilience of the ukrainian soldiers, the ukrainian people , the ukrainian leaders. the united states is determined to continue walking side by side with you and president biden asked me to come to reaffirm our support to make sure that we will do our best together with other countries to meet the challenges of the counterinsurgency and also long-term efforts to help ukraine build a future force that can deter and defend against any future aggression concrete massage anti-blings at a meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky anya anthony

blinken however, he is not leaving kyiv yet, he is staying for the night and will continue his visit tomorrow or analysts see the symbolic meaning of this, so actually today was a busy day for mr. blinkin, he, in particular , managed to attend the summit of the first ladies and gentlemen, which was inaugurated by the first lady of ukraine, olena zelenska, and there he mentioned another direction of assistance from the united states - this is help to restore the mental health of ukrainians who suffered from russian aggression, and this message also emphasizes the long-term e-e support of the united states of america, and so mr. blinking is not leaving kyiv yet, despite the fact that at night today, russia made another attempt with both ballistic and cruise missiles at kyiv and the kyiv region in kyiv, all the missiles were shot down, but in the kyiv region there was a hit at a commercial object, that is, the danger is very real. despite this, mr. blinking

had lunch today at the kyiv mcdonald's and felt free in kyiv and so he really is still staying and you are leaving for the night staying for the second day tomorrow for tomorrow he has scheduled meetings with representatives of the cultural sphere in particular and this sign this symbol that he is in no hurry to leave kyiv that this visit is not for two, two or three hours, the fact that it is a two-day visit is really, ukrainian experts consider it a symbol of support , consider it not a random decision , consider it a special sign of support from mr. the importance given by the united states is even greater and the trust actually in ukraine and er and that is

the air defense system that was created by ukraine with the direct help of the united states and western allies because even today there was an attempt to strike kyiv with a ballistic missile. i think this is the best advertisement and the best support, which is also a stay of more than one day. anya, how do ordinary ukrainians react to the visit of an american high-ranking official, what kind of help do they want to see in the future ? they themselves will tell what they think about the visit of mr. blinkin and what they think about the support of the united states of ukraine , it is enough if it were enough, there would be some results

already i think it is enough well, how and how, how and weapons, as well as moral support, as well as humanitarian aid, as well as all this . i believe that i should help ukraine , and they are not helping ukraine enough. the path of a democratic world that is conscious and adequate and um, as the united states of america acts as the first movement of support, we will definitely achieve victory, but with the help of shams, we can reduce our losses and shorten the time for this, this will help us and accordingly, it will reflect in a good image the usa, terror must be stopped immediately. thank you for helping us. i believe that there must be help from everyone in order to crush the thugs and so that

they can never think about it at all . well, that's why there are such thoughts of ukrainians anya, thank you very much for the communication my colleague anna kosyuchenko was connected from kyiv. meanwhile, in the american senate , who returned to work the day before , they call for continued support for ukraine. funding for ukraine should be one of the priorities of lawmakers' work in the coming weeks, now that ukraine is boldly defending its sovereignty and undermining russia's ability to threaten nato, now is not the time to relax, now that russia and china have agreed to a pact of friendship without restrictions and putin is getting even closer to iran and north korea. this is not the time for america to retreat, i could say more about the war in ukraine, how the us president was not decisive enough, how our aid

is being used successfully, how additional appropriations are critical to our defense industrial base and competition with china but for now let's just make a few things clear helping ukraine regain its territory means weakening one of america's biggest strategic adversaries without firing a single shot from us and at the same time deterring another adversary it means direct investment in american power both militarily and economically and our lawmakers will have the opportunity to do all of this during the supplemental appropriations holo we must build on our work together on the defense budget to win the race against the chinese government to keep the american people safe protect american businesses and ensure that it is american innovation and technology that leads the way in this century and in these efforts we must also continue

to support our friends in ukraine now more than ever as the counteroffensive against troops putin is in the midst of what will happen . in the next four months, in the political space of the united states and in congress itself , the ability of washington to continue helping kyiv will depend on these predictions in an interview with my colleague andrii borysov was voiced by correspondent democrat adam smith, the sad state of affairs is that we have the support of the vast majority to agree to fund the government, avoid a blackout and continue supporting ukraine, but we also have a small but dedicated group of right-wing extremists in the house of representatives who are against supporting ukraine, and even more so against the funding of the us government and the question is whether speaker mccarthy will be able to oppose them, if mccarthy now brought additional funding

for biden to a vote, he would be approved a supermajority of 300 votes would be easy probably even 350 but this small group of right wing republicans don't want him to bring it up for a vote and they are threatening to strip him of his position as speaker if he goes against them will mccarthy have the guts to do his job and bring this bill to the floor the vote i don't know is about avoiding shadowdown it may sound complicated but just a government funding document would pass the vote by an overwhelming majority but this small group doesn't want that to happen so the next four in the next few months, our ability to continue supporting aid to ukraine will depend on us policy and events in

congress. this was stated the day before by the president of litvygy and nasnausada in an interview with the lithuanian press. of the register of declarations . in this way, information about the wealth of officials will be non-public for another year if the president signs the law, such a decision by the deputies caused a flurry of criticism of the civil society about the danger of the draft law in this form, we asked the executive director of transparency international ukraine, andrii borovyk, this situation highlighted several problems, of course the key thing is that the register remains closed, politicians say that this is only for a year, it will be opened later, but in addition to the declaration itself, there is another problem here the fact that there are too many rights that are voted through are voted in the rada and you have to find out from the telegram channels of the deputies themselves because the coverage of the work of the verkhovna rada is now

is also not very publicly available in this situation, the worst thing is that in reality less than half of the e-e ruling party, if it also becomes a mono majority of e-e deputies , voted to open the register of declarations so that it was open for access and thus the decision was not reached there are also quite significant 27 codes , which should be open because public supervision and then not more often called in english. it has a colossal role in any country, and in ukraine in particular. open access to assets gives the opportunity to public journalists activist experts analysts and analyze now you live our officials i think that this quite strongly applies first of all precisely to politics because now they are telling us all eh it is not your business eh citizens in fact what wealth we have we will not show you anything covering up the security situation, but the security situation in

ukraine will continue for a very long time. even if we win the war tomorrow, our enemy will not go anywhere and will always be with us. therefore, it looks more and more like a simple cover-up what they have already acquired in the last one and a half years and does not want to show it, let's say to you and others there, the use of drones for military purposes is not a new thing, but the war in ukraine caused a revolutionary breakthrough in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles as weapons, according to the estimates of the royal institute of the combined services of the armed forces lose about 10,000 drones a month, and ukrainian volunteers claim that the front needs 20 more, but

my colleague maria will tell how drones have changed the idea of ​​modern warfare olyanovsk is the work of modern drones 10 years ago they were just toys today drones are changing the concept of warfare they are fast and light and the ukrainian military daily invents new ways of using them for intelligence evacuation and destruction of the enemy drones are our eyes if we say i am currently working in group of shock drones, then for you to understand that shock drones give much higher statistics than, for example, well, conservative types of weapons such as mortars, relatively speaking, that is, the course of the war changes so dynamically that well, what drones are becoming more and more important and their use to provide means with pilots in ukraine created the project army of drones, a semi-volunteer initiative

turned into a full-fledged state program that purchased 5,000 drones for a year worth about 4.5 billion uah, these were completely different drones of the first priority, those that are lacking small ordinary drones for bodyguards, it had some solid matrices , as well as large professional drones, these are briefs, even bairaktars, it was all purchased during the last year until the end of the year, however volunteers say that much more is needed. if we talk about kamikazes, we need about 200,000 of them per month, which is a huge amount at the moment. we provide maybe 10-15% of this need, and where there is a lack of drones, unfortunately, we fight with 80% of people. the drones purchased by the organization of ukrainian production are tested

on the battlefield and adapted to military needs thanks to the simplification of bureaucratic obstacles. this industry in ukraine is developing rapidly. if there were only 30 domestic manufacturers before the full-scale invasion, now there are more of them. two hundred we buy absolutely all solutions available on e-e in ukraine because every nation that is produced in ukraine has its own application, the manufacturers understand why they are doing it, they are doing it to liberate ukraine and to do something, this stain will not work because it is their responsibility after our victory, it will be the most technological ukrainian industry in the world, which will be able to be very competitive in terms of exports. and this is another unique development of ukraine, surface drones , a sea baby, such a radio-controlled ship equipped with a combat unit 850 kg sea drones, they were, they existed, but no one used

them precisely as a weapon technology, but when our neighbors , inadequate, began to do what they think was necessary at sea, we found a worthy answer with these kids. the security service of ukraine attacked the crimean bridge, an amphibious ship olegrsky gornyak and the tanker of all , expanding the radius of strikes from the crimean coast to critically important ports already in russia, can strike literally at the most important object of russia and the most important port on its own terms, this also demonstrates that ukraine is ahead of russia when it comes to the use and development of advanced military autonomy, such as the unmanned surface vehicles that they are using now, and although most of the drones on the ukrainian front line are using foreign technologies, this is because thomson is the ceo of red catholdings , a company that supplies drones for

the us department of defense from in 2016, his company cooperated with ukrainian fans of sports racing on drones, they flew in chernobyl and even on a dream plane in 2022. thomson returned to hand over drones already for the war, the company even produced a special 18-centimeter drone to the order of the ukrainian military, which can carry up to a kilogram of ammunition, with these small drones you can do a lot of things that no one has done before in the war , you can put ammunition and motion sensors in them to see if someone is approaching first aid kits this is a new way to deliver things to the front line or to find a target or an enemy and what used to be just a toy can now destroy many millions of russian tank this year nato member countries bought hundreds of fpv drones and drones with

powerful night vision cameras from red ketholding for ukraine and the demand for drones will only grow the perception of war will never be the same as before the war in ukraine showed what incredible things pilots can do with drones and how cleverly they can be used, however, the rapid success of the ukrainian military with drones may end just as quickly. since september 1, china has imposed export restrictions on ready-made bopls and their components, this will affect the most popular fashions and the dj company, which is the address of the mother, are the most popular in our country and are on the front line, regardless of ukrainian production, we are talking about ukrainian production, but at the same time, it is not quite such a classic production, it is more of an assembly when we deliver, assembling we import to other countries and it is mainly china, at the same time since the full-scale invasion, china has transferred more than 12 million dollars worth of drones to russia. if this

trend continues, the quantitative advantage in drones may be on the side the land border of the aggressor countries in russia, they are driving at full speed and this is immediately noticeable on the demarcation line at the front and we are trying to anonymize all our drones so that they are not visible on the enemy's excavations and to disguise the take-off points of the operators at a time when the russians do not bother with this they do not anonymize drones, they are like this and a loss because they go to take the place of the lost one and start a new one. and this is especially hmm , a large number of ticks in the bakhmut area is noticeable , and when and there according to various testimonies and for one of our drones up to 10 enemy drones maria oleksiy osyka from ulyanovsk - voice of america last week, the european commission announced its readiness to present

a proposal for the use of russian assets frozen in europe in the near future, what are the obstacles and how this money can be used for the reconstruction of ukraine? what the war of russia did in the first year of the full headquarters invasion, such an estimate was given by the world bank at the beginning of this year, this amount is increasing every day, pumpkin experts who are engaged in assessing the damage caused by putin believes that since 2014, this word can reach two trillion, more than two trillion dollars will be needed to compensate ukrainians for this damage caused by their lives to material goods and the environment, the longer this destruction continues, the higher this bill will be , the ukrainian authorities emphasize the main source of funds to recover ukraine from the consequences of russian aggression , russian assets should be seized, and although the final number

is unknown, today in the world about 350 billion dollars of russian asset reserves are frozen central bank, when the terrorist state and all russian persons lose their money, or i, collaboration with the kremlin created the conditions for russian aggression or which is a public cover for russian corrupt people, then a very important goal will be achieved, they will feel what it is like to discuss the losses in the eu about the possibility of using them for reconstruction ukraine 's frozen assets of russia and substation russian oligarchs have been going on for a year and a half and so far without results, one of the authors of the sanctions policy for aggression against ukraine and the former coordinator of the sanctions policy of the state department, daniel prid believes that it is political arguments that can push western countries to such a decision will push

us all to such a political decision, this and russian war crimes, the attack on civilians , the fact that the government may find it difficult to ask their taxpayers to continue paying for the reconstruction of the war that started by russia at a time when we are sitting on more than 300 billion dollars of russian money, this is a political argument with which many people will agree , the largest volume of frozen russian assets of about 120 billion dollars are located on the territory of the european union. brussels has been considering various proposals to transfer frozen russian assets to ukraine for a long time, however , the eu has still not succeeded in reaching a political consensus. received from frozen russian assets to ukraine, this is not enough, it will amount to 3 billion dollars per

year, even based on a modest estimate of the damage it will take 124 years to help rebuild ukraine, the real number is probably twice or even three times larger . in june 2023, the eu working group that analyzed the possibility of disposing of russian assets in europe noted that there is no reliable legal mechanism that allows the confiscation of frozen or mobilized assets only on the grounds that they are subject to european union sanctions , according to philip zelikov, a lawyer and professor of history at the university of virginia, but frozen russian money can use state countermeasures that have suspended countries' obligations to respect russian assets, the use of countermeasures violates customary obligations to be caused by the bad behavior of other countries, there is an obligation to respect russian property, so taking it under the sanctions regime would be a violation of international law you should

say yes in this case but we have to violate international law in relation to russia because russia was the first to violate international law in silaml declared that if the eu and other countries decide to use frozen russian assets to support ukraine, then moscow will regard this step as direct theft. putin called the eu's proposals a violation of the rules and norms of international trade, despite the statement of the russian authorities and the readiness to sue for violations of the obligations of western countries regarding russian assets. experts emphasize that russia's chances of winning in any these cases are minimal frankly so they can sue anyone and they can do it immediately but the bigger question is whether this lawsuit will be successful and whether russia can win if will submit an answer to the court here is an incredibly simple forever night compared to european countries, the united states houses a less significant part of frozen or

immobilized assets of russia, at the same time , a draft law on restoring economic prosperity and opportunities for ukrainians has been registered in the united states. it provides for additional assistance to ukraine using confiscated sovereign assets of the russian federation it is expected that the fate of the bill will be decided in the fall, experts believe that the us can push other western countries if will make a decision in favor of the transfer of frozen russian assets to ukraine, pressure on the administration, what to do next . if anyone has the presidential powers, which, in my opinion, are quite clear , what do lawyers agree with? we give even more powers, the co-author of the bill , republican senator jim ryzh, believes that ryzh poet is a way to rebuild ukraine

using russian assets, thereby reducing the burden on us taxpayers the design, the symbol, the purpose of this bill is simple enough, it was created so that we could gain control over all russian assets, over such you can only gain control, liquidate them and make sure that this money goes to ukraine in order to thus help ukrainians in their needs, other countries have already launched this in particular, i discussed this process with my colleagues from canada, and they have already overtaken us. in this process, we must transfer these funds as soon as possible , according to experts, my colleague oleksiy this is the end of kovalenko. good luck, dad. congratulations. we ask for your help in finding

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