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thursday this was announced by the adviser to the president jake sullivan of the united states of national security is expected to arrive in washington after the un general assembly in new york, jacksol ivan added that soon the united states will also announce a new military aid package for ukraine , we are constantly preparing a new military package for ukraine, as you know, we make these presidential packages virtually every couple of weeks i think you can predict that there will be further announcements of additional resources and additional weapons capabilities that will be coming to ukraine as they continue this counteroffensive and defend against of russian attacks at some point next week, meanwhile, today the minister of foreign affairs of germany is in washington. and on lena berpuk, during a joint briefing with secretary of state blinkin , journalists asked them whether germany and the usa are ready to provide ukraine with long-range missiles and what reservations there are in this regard, i suggest

listening to the answer the systems themselves are critically important, but this is not enough, if you look at it through a different lens, ukrainians must be able to use them effectively, and with new complex weapons, this requires training as well we understand that they have to serve them. and this does not happen automatically, so the new systems must fit it into a comprehensive military program that should help ukraine achieve its goal. we take all this into account and actively discuss all the weapons systems mentioned in the press. the argument in this case is what is needed. explain several sensitive issues if we talk about our taurus system, it is not as simple as it seems at first glance , therefore our government, the minister of defense and the chancellor have discussed this issue a lot in the last for weeks we have been intensively discussing what we can do about the issue of the possible

use of these weapons on the territory of russia . in turn, the leaders of republicans and democrats in the senate came out in support of additional funding for ukraine, senators called on their colleagues to put aside disputes and agree to additional expenses at the request of the white house, because , according to them, this is in the interests of the united states the united states, the example of america and the threat from russia , as well as its partners in europe and asia, to strengthen their obligations regarding collective security and dramatically increase investment in their own defense, it is worth emphasizing once again that the united states does not take on the burden of the europeans who do nothing in reality when it comes to

security aid to ukraine relative to its gdp 14 of our european allies actually provide more than we do europe has more than doubled american economic and humanitarian aid not to mention huge costs for the accommodation of millions of ukrainian refugees, but just like the usa, our allies do not engage in philanthropy , even in tokyo and seoul, leaders soberly calculate their interests. our friends make new historic investments in the expansion of arsenals and the modernization of their ukrainian troops in the house of representatives, the republicans cannot even agree regarding the opening of the debate on the vanya bill of the us department of defense and our intelligence , they are also against the provision of emergency aid

to our democratic partner who is fighting off the russian invasion for the sake of justice, our republican colleagues in the senate are much more supportive of our ukrainian friends, but the radicals among them are blocking the appointment of hundreds of military chiefs , this is the argument of party leaders in the united states senate, and at the same time, the head of the house committee on international relations , republican michael mccall, is optimistic about voting he says that despite the disagreement, the majority of legislators supports the continuation of aid in ukraine pro this is what he exclusively told our correspondent in the congress, ekaterina lisonova, now the congress is on the brink, only down is possible . what do you think, is the additional funding for ukraine, which the biden administration asked about, supported in the congress? with the speaker of the house of representatives, i think that the majority in congress supports our efforts in ukraine and it is important that we continue this support. this is the biggest invasion of europe and

the biggest threat to the pacific region since the second world war, i have recently visited the shores of asia and there they understand that what is happening in ukraine affects taiwan and it is all connected, and it is in the interests of our own national security to continue to support ukraine. i believe that we should have given them weapons sooner, these delays have delayed counterattack ukrainians don't have all the necessary equipment they don't have air cover they have to do it manually sometimes in the middle of the night so i thought we need to do more to get the necessary weapons when we do it we we will see that the ukrainians can actually defeat the russians, he is very optimistic that we will vote for the new president of the united states, joe biden, gunter announced criminal charges for the illegal purchase and possession of firearms , prosecutors accuse gunter of lying about the use of drugs at the time he

bought a gun in 2018, the indictment announced after the prosecutors and the defense could not reach an agreement for the agent biden to plead guilty, the maximum sentence that threatens the president's son is 25 years for the game and a fine of $750,000. reviewing, they note that this case may also affect the election campaign of jobiden, because the opponents of the current president will try to use it to their advantage, meanwhile, the office of the international criminal court has started work in kyiv, its opening was announced by the prosecutor general of ukraine andriy kostin and the prosecutor of the international criminal court, except for gan this is the most the representation of the iss outside the hague about the meaning of this step in the voice of america briefing. we spoke with an expert

of the regional center for human rights by kateryna rashevska. yes, this is an important step and actually a long-awaited one. i would like to remind you that the investigation of the situation, or rather the study of the situation in ukraine, did not begin in 2022 , much earlier, when the verkhovna rada actually recognized the jurisdiction of the international criminal court regarding the events that took place in ukraine within of the armed conflict in connection with the aggression of the russian federation. that is, it was earlier and we even had annual reports from the office of the prosecutor of the international criminal court from there, and we really expected an intensification of efforts. what happened after a full-scale invasion on march 23 of this year from ukraine and the international criminal court concluded an agreement according to which such an office is created. it is often called a field office. i don’t like the name in ukrainian. it’s just a branch of the international criminal court. the office of the international criminal court in a specific state is not the only one in ukraine. there are seven in different states, and there are two of them in the democratic republic of the congo, and i also have such a coordinating office in new york, that is

, in fact, this is a logical continuation of the efforts of the international criminal court to prosecute those guilty of committing international crimes on the territory of ukraine and it will really greatly simplify the work of the international criminal court, since this office will have direct access to the place where the crimes were committed , if it is not in the territory controlled by ukraine, as well as to the victims who suffered from these crimes . a cool detail about what should i say, i am the head of this office in ukraine, this is a voice brand, she has proven herself in various international tribunals, she was a prosecutor of a special tribunal leona also worked at the tribunal for yugoslavia and at the tribunal for iraq . she has a fairly active position regarding justice for the victims of russian crimes in ukraine, in particular such crimes, which in fact

are permanent and threaten us with a constant recurrence this year, i am talking now about the invisible ones attacks on civilian infrastructure objects, from which during the cold season the civilian population suffers exclusively and mainly, including vulnerable categories such as children, women, old people, and so on , that is, it is very good that she paid attention to these attacks, maybe this will have a positive effect for their prevention or at least a reduction in the number of this year and what exactly the crimes can be investigated by the icc will investigate them and what remains outside its jurisdiction outside the scope of the authority of the services is actually an interesting question because the icc can investigate accordingly to the statement of ukraine and to the joint statement of 39 states, of which four more then joined three international crimes, these are feared crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. unfortunately, with regard to the crime

of aggression, the international criminal court has jurisdiction in the situation of ukraine and the russian federation, both parties are not members of the international criminal court . and this is a necessary condition for the so-called campalian amendments to be effective, that is, for the jurisdiction of the icc to be launched, so here we have three crimes and they are, you know , how such a constructor separate elements war crimes have 52 elements and it is difficult to say which of them the russian federation did not commit and understanding that this is an international criminal court in connection with the limitation of both financial and human resources and again are emphasized in connection with the fact that ukraine is not a member of the international criminal court with all the resulting results, we unfortunately have a limitation in jurisdiction that is not related to any legal circumstances, but is actually related to such objective realities, therefore already in february this year, during one of the events at the council of europe, in addition to khan, who is the prosecutor of the international criminal court, he stated that they

are forced to a certain extent to prioritize the crimes that were committed on the territory of ukraine , and among such priorities, the first - of course deportations of the civilian population, including children, the second priority is not selective attacks on civilian infrastructure and civilians, and the third priority is the so-called filtering measures of the russian federation, torture and indiscriminate killings of ukrainian citizens, that is, we will have such crimes, and torture should be understood more it is widely sexual and gender-based violence within the framework of the armed conflict. mass mass war crimes of the russian military shocked many in the west , however, the czech criminologist peter poyman, who studies the russian criminal world, says that the structure of the russian army is not much

different from the prison system. the criminal world and cultivated its values, the playman was thirsty, you follow the russian criminal world, you have been studying the russian criminal world for a long time , you know their rules, their values, relationships when you were among the international criminologists and criminologists who were present during the exhumation of mass graves after the liberation of the territory in kharkiv, kyiv and kherson regions, what you saw there still surprised and surprised you, if you were already in a hurry, for example, at the theoretical level , it did not surprise me because we knew that every russian aggression and occupation is connected with mass crimes. perhaps i don't need to remind you about the katyn shooting, but it's one

thing to read something in books or watch documentary films, and another to participate in the exhumation of mass graves, the first signs that something like this could happen were noticed after the liberation of kyiv region in the village of katyuzhanka, we talked to local witnesses who said that the russians buried their victims in practically the same places where they themselves had their places rest where they ate and slept and in izyum in september last year we participated in exhumations as observers and took part in documenting the bodies of war victims in izyum more than

i wrote four articles, and maybe only at that moment i understood exactly what the deviant behavior of the russian occupation authorities means. in this case, the russians killed people, kept them in prisons, tortured and executed them, and this did not have any material benefit. how can you explain the motivation of these actions, the motivation from our point of view according to the logic that works in our it is impossible for society to understand this motivation, only the logic of power and force is recognized here, which is typical of the criminal world and in some cases, people were killed in order to get their property, a car, valuable things from the house, machinery, it is still somehow understandable, the person who killed got the property, but a large part of the crimes were committed just for the sake of violence itself, one does not need to be a member of wagner's private army , which consists mostly of ex-prisoners , to feel the need to commit violence

, ordinary soldiers of the russian army who are not have prison experience, they also commit violence because the general culture in society prepares them for this motive and all their previous life experience in russian society prepares them for the fact that they will use violence and demonstrate deviant behavior because they have not seen any other behavior in their life did not meet models of behavior, the gestors of the sectors acquired a soviet country, historians who studied the soviet regime and totalitarian regimes say that the bolsheviks already at the beginning of the 20th century destroyed the traditional family as a place where the children were safe, where they could learn values, now we see that in russian society, mothers give their sons to military commissars, women are happy that a man will go to war and if this service is under a contract

, he will receive money if he goes and dies, she will receive some compensation and maybe even to get rid of a domestic tyrant who beats her , can we say that the russian state supports such relationships in families, it is difficult and difficult for families, this can hardly be limited only to relationships in the family, which are mostly very bad because of the spread of domestic violence, we ourselves have witnessed many such relationships. i traveled a lot in russia and during some criminological conferences we went to places where it could be seen , for example, areas where people live on the margins of society in big cities, for example, in st. petersburg. we were in in an apartment building where there was a police station on the first floor, and on the top floor there was a den of drug addicts, where drugs were brewed, that is , a child who was beaten by his parents and who had problems at

school could very easily find his way to drugs and look for salvation from their problems in them, and as an alternative for young people there is a semi-criminal or directly criminal organization, the prison system, its home is a subculture that tells young people that being a criminal, a person who has spent many years in prison, is an excuse to to be proud of yourself and to respect someone else like you. these structures educate young people in the spirit of violence and as a result lead young people into the hands of private armies that are currently fighting against ukraine. this was an interview with a czech by criminologist petro poyman we continue with other topics near kupyansk in kharkiv oblast russia has been building up its troops for a long time, but is gradually retreating in the south thanks to the offensive operations of the armed forces voice of america correspondent geyser murdoch visited two front-line cities in ukraine, a large novosilka

and kupyansk are introduced to the games by protégé yuriy mamon on the first floor of this fire department has reason to celebrate, the war is not over yet, but he is retreating little by little because the counter-armed forces are attacking in the south of the country for according to the sheltered residents here in velyka novosilka of the donetsk region, they currently record only 6-7 explosions a day. what is already a holiday compared to what was before, well, i say there are flights, but i say it is much calmer now, people have started to leave their homes more and go to the store like this what has become safer now at a time when in the south the armed forces are counterattacking on the northern front around the city of kupyansk, the ukrainians have taken up defensive positions, the russians have pulled up their reserves and are trying to take the city in the kharkiv region under their control again, the same residents

they are preparing for evacuation while the post office is still working, they are sending their most valuable things to the interior of the country, well, i don't know, maybe they will bomb and nothing will be left here, but there it is all needed, i am going to go myself , i am sending the most necessary things a year ago, thanks to the successful operation of the armed forces, ukraine retook kupyansk, which was under russian occupation for more than 6 months, local residents fear that soon the russians will again start a full-scale attack on the next city , post office workers deliver pensions issued for several months in advance, in case in battles will begin in the city during the first occupation of kupyansk, many people remained, however, to potentially experience a second occupation, they have no desire, that's why the postal workers are leaving, they say they will be here until the branch closes , we will work as long as the post office works to velika novosilka, which is located not far from the epicenter of the counteroffensive in the south despite the fact that the war is receding from the city , the locals are also not returning, the houses

are destroyed in the courtyards of moga, those who stayed and survived all the horrors of the great war believe that one day life will come to this town will return , but today they are happy because the constant shelling has at least stopped. its most important component of the shows themselves is the so-called showrooms where fashion designers can present their products to american retail chains this year in one of these shows nine were presented at once ukrainian designers, they told iryna solomko and pavlo terekhova about their plans olena batyar, founder, owner and designer

of the ukrainian brand amg olena says her brand specializes in vip clients and customers , one of the most famous first ladies of ukraine olena zelenska, she came to us, she loves our brand very much and i am very proud of this , of course, yes, we work, we make many beautiful things for olena, self-selected by this brand in july 2022, olena zelenska spoke before the members of the american congress and called on them to provide more aid to the armed forces of ukraine and i made for her a very beautiful suit with black and white embroidery with a white stripe . this suit flew around the world. it was very cool.

york to show them in the showroom as part of fashion week is my mission. i want to show what ukrainian fashion is to the whole world, and we have very cool things, very cool, high quality. we create unique products . yuliya yarmolyuk is another ukrainian designer who came to new york to show her products by representatives of american retail chains says raisinka her brand is very meme - it's pleating we have waists we have slender shoulders we like to make a figure sandy times uh our woman is always like this you know easy beautiful gets compliments we have a lot of orders coming from america yes well, we work through the site and a lot of women appreciate our designs, that's why we are here in principle to work more closely with the market. kateryna basovska is the founder of the ukrainian jewelry brand samokish in shurum. she represents several

collections of jewelry in which natural stones are used , it all started as a hobby , but already in 7 years the designer decided to enter the international market. jewelry is actually fashion, first of all, that's why america also likes large , massive, spectacular jewelry, or they like to look stylish, fashionable, modern, spectacular , attract attention, in fact, my beautiful ones, that 's about it, alina kacharovska, another ukrainian the designer who flew to new york to meet with potential buyers, unlike the rest of the shoe designers, is presenting herself in the new york showroom for the third time, and it so happened that when it was the first time two years ago, it was our first appearance at an international market and we had no idea or guess about who we are

in this market and what it looks like from the point of view of the competitive environment, what is the uniqueness of the offer. that is, we simply got such a unique opportunity and went to show ourselves received the first orders, uh, they were small, they were shipped the next time, the war started , well, that is, then, well, we were not talking about any orders or anything. i couldn’t because we didn’t know at all how we would exist . now the designer came to new york with a clear strategy its goal is cooperation with major retail chains and independent stores, that is, for us it is cool and reputable, we want to get into specific independent sources. and this is a good coverage because they are all over the country, er, all of the united states , and in terms of volume, this is what we can take on himself responsibility and to say that we ship so many orders per season and year. go to the american market , ukrainian designers are helped by john sidari , an american chest of drawers expert who for many years

has been involved in sales of such a well-known brand as vivier-investwood, and she organized it two years ago during the new york week fashion, the first showroom with ukrainian designers started with four brands, this time brought 9 managed to do it with the support of the us government agency for international development usaid, we launched a grant application so that all ukrainian designers could apply there, there were many criteria to choose, it was not easy, we need to make sure that the brands are not only ready to enter foreign markets, but also that they have adequate prices, as well as some experience of selling on international markets , it is a pleasure to work with ukrainian designers, they are creative and responsible and grateful to me the nicest designers i had the chance to work with. they really appreciate what they do for them, usually when

you work with brands, when you provide them with five contracts, they ask why not 10 - ukrainian is completely different. all the more sees in the ukrainian fashion industry a huge potential for development on international markets. unfortunately, the war affected the analogy of goods , so timely and high-quality delivery is currently the main challenge. he says that even the participation of one of the designers in the showroom was under threat. that is why the collection was delivered from kyiv. by bus to barcelona and i waited until six in the morning for her to arrive. it was very risky, but among the greatest advantages of ukrainian designers, she sees that almost every one of them has their own production in ukraine, for most global brands, when they place orders at factories in, say, china or italy, they can be the hundredth in line , ukrainian designers work faster than anyone else, some ukrainian brands in

the showroom can release products at once, everything between the designers say they participate in the showroom and entry into the international market is their answer to russian aggression, none of them left ukraine and did not stop production at all , there is no fear as it will be, it will be, there will be no light, we will solve this issue, we will not heat, we will solve it with generators and candles . that is, we have been through a lot . we survive how poor, i want to say how cool we are, how quality we are, that we have a lot of talent in ukraine and look at us not just because we have a war in the country, but simply look how cool we are, we are simply worthy of this and for now

er, we are developing and growing in ukraine and we are ready to enter the international market and find new customers from buyers all over the world, actively develop at home and generally actively develop business in ukraine - this is our strategy to fight against the aggressor, jen says that in the future will help ukrainian designers, its goal is that as many american stores as possible have and sell ukrainian brands , because such fashionable ukrainization also helps to fight against russian propaganda and increases the recognition of ukraine in the world from new york and

we will say goodbye to this. thank you for trusting the voice of america in ukrainian. have a peaceful night and a restful weekend. see you soon . see you soon. we are looking for 16-year-old karina kanivets from the kherson region. her mother told us about the girl's disappearance. where are you? maybe i’m already screaming . how can i do it? how did they tie their hands and say they were going to give birth? i’m in such a situation at the moment. it just so happened that karina’s parents separated long before the war began. and they lived separately, the girl permanently lived with her mother, but on the eve of the full -scale invasion, she was with her father when the russians entered, she ended up in the occupied territory, the woman says from time to time she corresponded with her daughter on social networks , but in april the connection with karina mysteriously broke off, the girl stopped visiting in her accounts and where she is now, no one

knows, she has already written, even here on this territory, on search for a child, because i don’t