for shelter, this was confirmed to us by the first deputy mayor of uman oleg ganich, but this idea was abandoned. when designing the reconstruction of this building, there was no shelter or bomb shelter, not a bomb shelter, but a shelter, because it is impossible to build a bomb shelter there, and a normal shelter was not made. we offered them to make a pru shelter next to their house, that is, to arrange it underground for you with all the norms. the funds partially, well, the people refused, we also refused this offer , we offered them to transfer these funds to osb, for them to make a decision on how to dispose of them, they also refused , so i don't know how to please everyone, because everyone is unhappy with everyone, and no one knows how to do it and how you want it, as explained by lawyer oleksandr zolotukhin, city government may use these funds only for their intended purpose. in this case, for help. to the victims and

to liquidate the consequences of rocket fire , otherwise, spending the money of benefactors is prohibited by law, but there is one thing, but a clear definition in the legislation that there is no such aid to the victims, from this accordingly, there is such a very strong expansion, many hypotheses can be put forward, what is this, what can be understood by this concept and what can be included there, the first entrance of the building that was hit by the rocket had 45 apartments, 27 were destroyed, mostly the affected residents moved to relatives or acquaintances, others use social housing, but they all say that they are waiting to return home, they do not even know which part they will dismantle, or the first entrance, that is, only one side of the house and the stairs remain, that they are there from the second the parties shall dismantle, i don't know at all whether the first entry will be demonized, we don't know anything at all.

this is the decision of the commission, as they always say, there is no clarity about anything, but mrs. olga shows her parents' apartment on the eighth floor, the door to which is ajar, but it is impossible to get inside without special equipment, the woman is outraged not only by the fact that the city authorities specifically does not indicate the period of restoration of the house, but also the fact that the relevant commission decides at its own discretion which apartment is destroyed and which is not, all the experts we invited experts, they all... i affirm that our apartment is considered destroyed, however , the commission from the uman city council believes that this apartment is damaged, as they noted in the inspection report of the visual preliminary inspection of the object, and they have never been to this apartment. to find out the answer to the main question of residents, when, call the local department of housing and communal services. now the examination is taking place, it makes comments on the drawings before

the adopted design decisions, the designers eliminate them, well, this is work, well, directly technical work, i.e. giving time to people to show something raw blueprints, some design solutions that may change , because the expertise will make comments, but i consider this absolutely, well, unpleasant, you can’t do it that way, because time people will see one thing, the facts after the examination, something else will come out, so they should be shown only the option that will approve the examination. so that the work organization project is six months, well, the work execution project will be done by the one who wins the tender. according to the official, a total of uah 76 million was allocated for the restoration of the building. most of it is from the state budget, the rest is from the local budget, but how quickly uman residents will get the keys to their apartments, we will follow the situation further. yaroslav hopatsa, oleksandr kuga, specially for espresso.

on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america chas time, i'm yuliya yarmolenko, congratulations. washington is on the verge of a potential shutdown, that is, a partial shutdown of the government. the end of the fiscal year is less than four days away, and the republic congressmen and democrats cannot agree on financing the us budget next year. the day before, the senate voted for the mechanism for approving the project of a short-term budget resolution for 45 days, which, in particular, provides for 6 billion dollars in aid to ukraine. however, speaker kevin mccarthy has already said that such a plan will not receive support in the house of representatives. what does this mean for the usa and ukraine. let's talk about it with our congress correspondent kateryna lisynova. hello katya.

congratulations yuli. katya, what is happening now in the senate and the house of representatives, and what are the chances that legislators will be able to avoid this shatdau? in general, both the house of representatives and the senate have yet to agree on a single spending bill. and they have little time, literally until the end of this week, this is the main threat that brings a potential shutdown, that is, a complete shutdown of the government, the main breakthrough that happened yesterday was the agreement, both in the house of representatives and in the senate, of procedural issues that will allow the consideration of spending bills to begin, in total, legislators have to vote on 12 such bills to approve the budget for the entire next year, but according to analysts, it is unlikely that they will be able to do it by the end of this week and the main hope is the so-called resolution on short-term financing of the government. in general, both the house of representatives and the senate have already presented their own versions of such short-term financing of the government for 45 days, but both in the senate and in the house of representatives, these resolutions, these are draft resolutions, are different, so even if

they are agreed in both chambers , then it will be necessary to agree on a single plan with which it will be possible to move forward, and this again plenty of time. katya, in the draft of the short-term budget resolution of the senate , funding for ukraine is foreseen, but what about the house of representatives, and if this funding for ukraine is not approved now, then when? in general, the approval of additional aid to ukraine, both in the house of representatives and in the senate, was divided, and the issues that were divided before that, in the senate, as you rightly noted, have already presented their own, their own draft resolution on short-term financing of the government for 45 days, in which, in particular, 6 billion have been invested additional dopo in ukraine. the senators emphasize that despite internal disclosures, and that is, internal disputes and even despite a potential shutdown, it is necessary to agree to help ukraine in any form of funding, that is, either short-term or long-term funding, it is still necessary to agree to additional assistance

to ukraine. senators explain that this is necessary to avoid the risks of stopping or slowing down defense aid to ukraine, and both republican leaders and democrats believe so. in the senate, i suggest listening. this the draft bipartisan resolution on partial funding of the government is a temporary solution, a bridge to cooperation and a step away from extremism. it will allow us to continue working toward full annual funding for the government and save american families from the risks of a shutdown. and this draft resolution does not contain everything that each of the parties wants, but it will continue funding the government at the current level, while maintaining. in our commitment to the security and humanitarian needs of ukraine. it will also provide for those affected by natural disasters across the country country and will start providing them with the resources they need. and while this important work continues, colleagues in both chambers are rightly concerned about a number of clear priorities. in particular, they

aim to help communities recovering from natural disasters, from hawaii to florida. also, the bipartisan majority recognizes the continuing need to confront russia and china and continues in turn in the house of representatives to believe that additional aid to ukraine should wait, in the resolution, in the draft resolution on short-term financing government from the house of representatives, there is no additional aid to ukraine, it is not specified there and not included, in particular, the speaker of the house of representatives, the main republican believes that first it is necessary to agree on all internal government issues, all issues that concern the unprecedented united states of america, and then in we can move on to the issues of ukraine. in particular, many republicans emphasize the strengthening of funding for the defense of their own border, in particular to stop drug trafficking and illegal immigrants. i suggest you listen to the speaker's statement yesterday kevin mccarthy right now. if they in

the senate want to focus on ukraine, and not on the southern border of the usa. so i think they have reversed priorities. they elect in the senate. ukraine instead of america, i know there are problems there, what russia has done is wrong and we can understand that, but we also don't want to just watch what's happening right here in america right now, why can't we handle with the border and our emergencies, why so? ukrainians already have money in ukraine enough money to last you through the next 45 days. i would like to note that despite the fact that the resolution of the house of representatives on temporary financing of the government does not include additional aid to ukraine, the house of representatives yesterday began the procedure of considering at least four bills on expenditures, which are supposed to finance

the government for the next year in particular, and among these bills, in particular there is one that includes additional aid to ukraine in the amount of $300 million, so one way or another, during this week some aid in the house of representatives regarding ukraine. to be considered katya, after all , a small group of far-right republicans opposes aid to ukraine, can this group significantly influence the vote for budget resolutions in the house of representatives, and in particular, budget ones. which concern support for ukraine? in general, far-right republicans have already made statements demanding to take away even those 300 million dollars, which are specified in one of the spending bills and will be considered in the house of representatives. in general, far-right republicans demand to stop any aid to ukraine and even threaten speaker mccarthy if he introduces any bills that they do not agree with, they will remove him from the position of speaker, and they can actually do that. thus, even though

the vast majority of democrats and republicans in congress, both among senators and congressmen, in the house of representatives, support ukraine, the big question is whether kevin mccarthy, the speaker of the house of representatives, will be able to pass additional aid at all. ukraine to vote in the house of representatives and bypass the threats of far-right republicans, which they actually actively voice. katya, thank you very much for this clarification, we will continue to cover this topic and we will, in particular, have with you... thank you for joining the broadcast, it was kateryna lisynova, in connection with the congress. meanwhile, the leader of the republicans in the senate, mitch mcconnell, at the forum of the european policy analysis center, explained why it is in the interests of the united states to continue and even increase aid to ukraine. answering the questions of the president of the center alina polyakova, he expressed the opinion that both former president trump and current president biden are responsible for the fact that the support of ukraine among americans is the first among republicans.

is weakening, we are standing here against china, russia, north korea and iran, this already says that you are on the right side, secondly, we do not lose a single american military, ukrainians are fighting themselves. as a result of the transfer of weapons to ukraine, we are also developing an industrial base in the united states, a significant number of americans work here, people in this country who again build our industrial base, relative to our gdp, this is a really small share. that we are providing for this effort in ukraine, if putin wins, nato country will be next , i think it is much wiser to stop this invasion, push it out, and the only ones who are willing to participate in this are the ukrainians themselves, ukrainians are showing courage and bravery , and i think it inspires the rest of the world to elect their leaders in countries that are not ruled by autocrats. when we send weapons and ammunition to ukraine, we are in favor of more modern ones advanced equipment, we should be rebuilding our industrial base even without a war in ukraine

due to increasing competition from russia and china, there are some americans who say that this is far from the far east, and that's where our real concerns are, but prime minister the japanese minister said if you want to send a message to president xi, beat putin in ukraine. the south koreans are worried, the filipinos are worried, the australians are worried, so it really has a huge impact on asia and the future. the reason is that the support the opposition of the former president is falling among republicans, this is bad news. the good news is that the leadership of the congress, the leaders of the committees, the armed forces, foreign relations and intelligence budget issues are in the camp of support for the ukrainians. i think the american people have been introduced to oman to some extent. i don't think they understand the facts. my big gripe with the president is that he's not aggressive enough,

the announcement of the arms transfer is made, you read the fine print and you see it's not going to be for another six months or a year, so i mostly agree with administration, but i think the president has done a poor job of getting the arms support in a timely manner and explaining to the american people, nobody has a bigger audience than the president, and here we have a current president with a big audience and a former president with a big.. .it's no wonder the former president has more influence with republicans, no wonder. due to the russian war against ukraine, the united states has increased its own ammunition production, but it still remains at an insufficient level. he told about it us deputy secretary of defense william lapland at a panel discussion in washington. according to him, the defense budget of the united states is now half of what it was during the cold war, and this directly affects production volumes. people who remember the good old

days, think back to 1987. in 1987, our defense budget was about 6-7% of gdp, which is twice what our defense budget is now. today we would have to add about $20 to have what we had in '87. after the fall of the berlin wall in we don't have that. yes, we spent a lot on wars. but not on procurement programs, it was probably set the minimum that is needed, but what i have been emphasizing for the last year and a half, what is really important is production, because if you do not start production, you will not feel the scale, you will not have a supply chain. now we have the minimum necessary volume of production and maybe even lower in some cases. in the last year and a half , we have solved some of this through ammunition for ukraine, but we still have a lot of work to do. to us we had to work a lot to quickly set up production for ukraine and to replenish our stocks. shells for

155 mm artillery, stingers, javelins, etc. to some extent, even missiles for the patriots. saw figures for 155 millimeter shells. we've doubled our production in just the last six months, and we'll hit 1,000 shells a month in about a year and a half. the situation with stingers, javelins and others is also quite good. so we work. and what is the situation in ukraine with the production of its own ammunition and other things equipment, in our briefing program we asked taras chmut, director of the return to the living foundation. how are things in ukraine now with its own production, when we talk about ammunition, missiles, about drones , what is the situation here with this now, it is different, in different industries differently, somewhere it is better, where there were more developments, some industries are completely new and are being mastered, but we can definitely say that they are not yet able to cover all the needs

of the war and all the needs of the front, taras, what you can call an unequivocally successful case with what you said, from industries that actually increased production by a sufficient amount, and what should be strengthened or changed, on the contrary? drones, this is a kind of top ukrainian products from the point of view of this war, both aviation and surface, and now land ones are being mastered, well, this is the top one, what to increase , ammunition, armored vehicles, unfortunately, the need is many times greater than the sum of both the west and ukraine can provide when it comes to cooperation, it is possible with western partners, including the usa, when we talk about production, or some projects there are many different developments that are already being implemented, or maybe something is in the plans, ukraine is really ready and expects western companies to join us, because there are many advantages that we

can offer to western europe, well, in fact, this is a unique story, but in but at the same time, there are many risks and obstacles, from corruption to bureaucratic, from the speed of deployment, because producing armored vehicles or deploying ammunition production does not happen in a day or a month, we need everything for yesterday, already this evening in california in will take place the second debate of the contenders for the republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election . seven candidates who have met the qualification requirements will take part in this round of debates. they are florida governor ron desantis, former south carolina governor nikki haley, senator tim scott , entrepreneur vive kremaswamy, former vice president mike pentz, former

new jersey governor chris christie and north dakota governor duckberg. former us president donald trump participated in these. debates, like the first ones, will not be taken. now, according to polls, he is ahead of his rivals for the party nomination by at least 40%. trump himself will hold an election rally in the suburbs of detroit this evening to enlist the support of working-class voters. the ukrainian issue was one of the leading foreign policy topics in the first republican debate, and although foreign policy is not usually a priority for americans when it comes to electing a president, on the eve of the debate the ukrainian community in california held an action to explain why the issue of ukraine is important. in bakersfield, the home town of house speaker kevin mccarthy, activists raised the ukrainian flag and held a demonstration. khrystyna shevchenko attended the event. in the center of the republican city of bakersfield, california, there are ukrainian

flags, posters, information stands and artifacts from the battlefield. ukrainian activists came to the city. from various state organizations. bakersfield is a very important district for us because it belongs to kevin mccarthy, who is the speaker of the lower house. and here, unfortunately, there are very few ukrainians, there is no centralized ukrainian movement here. it's such a complicated situation in american politics right now that 20 republicans are demanding certain...things from this speaker, and he 's working for them right now, as we say, but we wanted to remind him that who he should be working for is his constituents , and his voters support ukraine. mira reuben and a group of like-minded people came from san diego, another group came from los angeles, and the main organizer of the action is the activist of the local community of beckersfield, pastor angelo frazier,

who has been advocating for ukraine in bakersfield and washington for more than a year. we will now take a very important photo, we will unfurl a large ukrainian flag under the sign of the city of bakersfield. in this way, we will show unity and that we stand together with ukraine. unfurling the flag, the activists read a prayer, among them not only americans of ukrainian origin, but also those who have no direct connection to ukraine, such as peter lahr, who is engaged in countering russian propaganda. many republicans stop supporting ukraine, and unfortunately, we believe that to a large extent this step back in support is the result of the influence of russian propaganda. russian propaganda works and changes. americans, it encourages americans to believe that ukraine does not matter, although in fact it does, the professor of the university of california

, bakersfield, charles lam, who is a representative of the minority from hong kong, joined the campaign. hong kong went through a democracy movement that was suppressed by the chinese communist party, and since then we know that china has quietly supported russia throughout this war, and we know that if ukraine fails, there will be much worse consequences, including a chinese invasion of taiwan, and that is why the people of hong kong are recklessly supporting ukraine. activists are closely following kevin mccartney's position on voting and supporting bills that provide aid to ukraine, and are also actively calling his office to convey their own position to voters, politicians, and republicans. from bakersfield, khrystyna shevchenko, for voa. and in the international court of the un in the hague on wednesday

another hearing of ukraine's lawsuit against russia under the genocide convention was completed. this is just one of a number of cases related to russia's war against ukraine in international courts. and consideration of these cases is still in the initial stages. let's talk a little more about the current subpoena with bohdan tsyupyn. who researches the topic and is currently in direct contact with the studio from london. bohdan, congratulations, first of all, tell a little about the essence of this case. ukraine filed a lawsuit under the genocide convention. but it is not only about accusing russia of committing genocide, or not yes? well, actually, this case, this lawsuit was filed in response to russian aggression. in fact, the filing was made on the 26th of last year, at a time when russian troops were advancing, approaching, in particular, trying to get closer to kyiv, and there are stories about

how ukrainian government officials and lawyers drafted this lawsuit partly in an evacuation train from kyiv to the west of ukraine, that is, it is actually about ukraine's response to russian aggression, but this is not a lawsuit for the actual crime of aggression, when it is about aggression, then here ukraine is very loudly insisting on the creation of a special international tribunal, and in this case the events are actually still developing, when it comes to this specific lawsuit, which we are currently talking about in the international court of the united nations, then yes, it concerns the convention on genocide , the signatories of this... un convention are both ukraine and russia and in total more than 150 countries of the world, so russia is obliged to fulfill it,

but the accusation addressed to russia is that it abused, is abusing, this convention, because one of among the many excuses that were announced by representatives, prominent representatives of moscow at the beginning of the open invasion last february was the statement that russia was forced to act, in order to protect from genocide, as it was said, people, particularly ethnic russians, in the so-called lnpr-dpr, entities that moscow de facto created itself and then declared that it was protecting them from genocide. ukraine says that this is a terrible lie, which is the correction of even worse crimes, and this is how the representative said about it of ukraine, at the very beginning of this stage of the war.

russia is waging war against my country, hiding behind the terrible lie that ukraine is committing genocide against its own people. this lie is russia's pretext for aggression and occupation. russia has not provided any credible evidence, it cannot. in fact, it was russia that turned the genocide convention on its head. the international community approved the genocide convention to protect russia invokes the genocide convention to exterminate. bohdan, are there any decisions or resolutions for this moment, how this matter can be done develop further, and when can we expect verdicts? by the way, there is already a decision , there was a decision, an urgent decision was announced immediately in march of last year with a demand for russia to stop hostilities in ukraine while the case is being considered, russia did not comply with this decision.

but in general, the case is still at a very early stage, in fact, at the very beginning, despite the fact that more than one and a half years have passed, and specifically this hearing concerned the statement of the russian side that the court, the international court of the un, does not have the right, does not have jurisdiction, to judge for as it is claimed here that russia is responsible for russia's actions against ukraine and that the case should not be considered at all, and now the judges, in response to the arguments presented by both the russian side and the ukrainian side, have to decide, they say that it will take at least several months, if the case will start a trial on the merits, then it may take several years, it will take literally one and a half minutes, what is the power of international courts, given all these statements of russia, can we actually hope for justice to be established? considering that,

that russia has already ignored the initial, so to speak, decision of the un international court of justice in this case says a lot, but on the other hand, russia is forced to participate in this process because times are changing, and for example, for more than a year and a half, on the side of ukraine, which is unprecedented, in this... case, more than 32 countries of the world have come forward, presenting their arguments, in fact, supporting ukraine, not now at this stage, no one expects that, say, russian officials, russian leaders, someone will come to moscow there and will arrest, but there are such issues as reparations, compensation, there are generally

international issues that are developing and developing ukraine hopes in the direction that is needed for justice. thank you, bohdan, for your internship on this topic, my colleague, bohdan tsyupin, was on the phone from london. and on other topics, official baku plans to return ethnic azerbaijanis to the territory of nagorno-karabakh. this was stated by the head of the state committee on refugees, rovshan rzaev. last week, during a military operation, the armed forces of azerbaijan established control over nagorno-karabakh. more than three. years, it was an unrecognized republic inhabited mainly by armenians, now they are fleeing en masse to armenia, fearing persecution by the azerbaijani authorities. western countries insist on sending an international monitoring mission to the region to monitor the observance of human rights. at the beginning of this week , the head of the us agency for international development, semantha power, went to armenia, and in particular, she announced the allocation of humanitarian aid to help with urgent needs

displaced persons and those who remained in nagorno- karabakh. the white house says they will continue to help those affected by the crisis. voice of america correspondent heather murdoch, who is currently in armenia, will tell more about the situation in the region. i am currently on the border between armenia and the region known as nagorno-karabakh. the cars you see are mostly people evacuating from karabakh. today there were huge crowds of people, thousands of refugees. and multi-kilometer queues of cars, today people told us what they experienced recently a terrible experience, they are traumatized, many people are sick or injured, many talk about missing people, there are injured or even dead, those who managed to cross the border, they were lucky, they had transport and means to get out, but even they talk, who left their native homes in a hurry, the road was difficult, people did not even take food and water, they are hungry and exhausted,