and arrests as part of treason proceedings will not be delayed. and finally, i will tell you about another of the traitors of yakimiv, the toropov family. in the spring of last year, when the occupiers appointed their pseudo-government in the village, they also created a special detachment of cossacks to monitor public order. today we are in the akimov territorial community, in the village council, where the meeting took place. we know what this traitor is talking about: they cover criminals and looters and help loot the loot. this is how they put things in order pseudo-power structures in the occupied territories. and this yakymyvka cossack gang was led by a certain oleksandr toropov. in the past , the wife's commander is a patriot and already a member of the peacekeeping base. previously, he ran around everyone

with a tricolor rag and complained that the kyiv authorities were persecuting him for wearing the colorado ribbon. from the first days of the occupation of the region, toropov began to cooperate with the invaders, and now he has become the chieftain, leading a pack of idiots marked with the letter z. and this is violeta toropovova, the daughter of the so-called otaman. she graduated five years ago yakimov gymnasium. she was the head of the class. she was fond of the ukrainian language and literature. she enrolled in a budget study at one of the ukrainian medical universities, but the apple, as they say, does not fall far from the apple tree. local snakes report that when the invaders captured yakimivka, violetta, following her father, decided to film herself with the russian peace. the girl returned to the occupied village to seek a better fate and quickly got to the feeder. violetta is engaged in the organization of racist holidays, such as, for example, the day of the russian right. and

takes part in sports events under a tricolor rag, and hearing cotton somewhere nearby, only hopes that the occupiers will appreciate her placement and take her with them to the bolooto, when they will have to dig their heels in front of the offensive of the armed forces, otherwise, arrest, court, prison , all according to the classics, so remember, collaborator, no matter how much the thread twists , the end will be found, you will soon have to regret the betrayal. this was the collaborators program and i am olena kononenko, if you want to talk about the kremlin sellers, write to us at this e-mail address or simply on facebook, together we will send all the traitors after the russian ship. see you next wednesday on espresso.

on the air from washington, the ukrainian voice of america program chas taay, i'm yuliya yarmolenko, congratulations. midnight on saturday coincides with the deadline by which the us congress must approve budget funding to avoid a partial shutdown of the government, the so-called shutdown. currently, republicans and democrats cannot agree on a plan to finance... the government, at least temporarily. federal workers and military personnel are already bracing for an increasingly likely scenario that starting monday, they will either have to work without pay or go on unpaid leave. we will talk more about the tense situation on the capital hill with our congress correspondent kateryna lisunova, who is in direct contact with the studio. hello katya. congratulations yulia. katya, what is the slowest development in the house of representatives and the senate, have lawmakers come close to approving at least temporary funding. for the government to continue its work.

in short, no. 198 for and 232 against. with such a vote, the resolution on temporary financing of the government failed in the house of representatives. this morning, kevin mccarthy, the speaker of the house and the top republican, spoke to the press and said, he called on his colleagues, as well as democrats, lawmakers in general to support this resolution and said that he will not stop until it is voted on. in turn, the senate did not even put this version of the resolution on short-term financing of the government to a vote. it's worth it here note that a short-term funding resolution for the united states government is now the only option to avoid a virtually inevitable shutdown. but in the house of representatives and in the senate, the versions of these resolutions are different. and even if they agree on their versions in both chambers, then they will have to go to a conference and agree on a single version, and put it to a vote again. in general, the house of representatives voted in the last three days. four

bills on spending, also agreed by an overwhelming majority to allocate 300 to ukraine million dollars of additional assistance, this item was previously removed from the law. of the project on the defense budget of the united states of america, so to speak, to go to the conditions and demands of the far-right republicans, but in the end they agreed to these 300 million for ukraine, but one way or another, these approved spending bills can be called sisyphean labor, useless work, because because of many of the far-right republican amendments that passed in these bills will have no chance of a senate vote. it really looks very chaotic, but it happens not for the first time. we have already had budget stops before. the government suspended work for several weeks, then employees were eventually paid back and the government went back to work. meanwhile , mountains of garbage were accumulating, national museums

and parks were closed, and the military did not receive salaries, and this all hurts. and of course, after a shutdown, the government doesn't go back to normal, it takes time, so there's a price to pay, but that's the price of democracy, sometimes it seems very confusing, but at the end of the day, usually the parties reach a certain compromise. this question of the voice of america journalist from the english-language service was answered directly by an expert professor of george washington university, and he, as you heard, noted that in general, americans are generally used to shutdowns, because they have already happened in the history of the united states of america, but it is worth it here to add that this may have a negative impact on aid to ukraine. katya, you already mentioned the resolution that kevin mccarthy offered today, it failed this vote, why are the republicans in the house representatives do not agree on the version of the temporary budget resolution of the senate, because the solution, at least, has bipartisan support in the senate. a similar question was raised yesterday

by the leader of the democrats in the house of representatives, hakeem jeffries, and a similar question was also asked of kevin mccarthy by journalists today. the latter stated that he would not vote and would not bring the senate to a vote. version of the temporary funding of the government, at least because there are not enough funds to protect and strengthen the protection of the border of the united states america and mexico, but in fact there is another, so to speak, stumbling block, this is the position of far-right republicans, who declare that they will not vote for any bill that includes aid for ukraine, and as you know, in the senate resolution, on temporary financing of the government , $6 billion in additional aid to ukraine, extreme ... republicans say they will block any such bills, and if house speaker kevin mccarthy cooperates with democrats and brings it up for a vote, they are also threatening to remove him from his position, what can they actually do. katy, if the shutdown does happen, what would that

mean for the united states, can you talk a little bit more about that? in fact, it will primarily affect millions of government officials, that is, government workers, or those people who are connected. with the government, pointed out that it is not only bureaucratic representatives so to speak, but also representatives of the american army, uh, they are not, they will either not receive a salary and will be forced to go to work to receive these funds later later, or others will forced to go on an unpaid leave of absence, so to speak, for an unknown period of time, but i must add here that in fact it will affect not only government officials, or those connected to the government, but also ordinary americans, because part of the... of government funding there is also transport, there is in particular air transport, there is also railway, there are special social benefits, there are medical social benefits, as well as the provision of visas and documents, that is, people who are waiting for their documents, passports, will have big problems with this, there will also be closed national parks and so on

itself, this also applies to cleaning up garbage and other social works that will directly affect the lives of americans and that generally delays the work of these, these spheres, these industries for now for an unknown period. katya, thank you very much, we will monitor how the situation develops, my colleague kateryna lisunova was in contact with the congress. white hopes that the republicans in the house of representatives will support the senate's temporary budget proposal, which includes $6 billion in funding for aid to ukraine. if the shutdown happens, depending depending on its duration, it may affect the ability of the united states to continue providing uninterrupted support to ukraine. this was stated by the director of the us office of management and budget, shalanda young, at a briefing in the white house. as with our other defense and diplomatic efforts, we will

do as much as we can. of course, there are some residual funds to support certain programs, but it will have an impact. we cannot do more with fewer resources when it comes to the military effort. time rules exist for a reason. it takes money to buy certain things, and we also worry about our own supplies. even if we could continue to send the capacity, what can we do. to ensure that u.s. readiness is not compromised, that's why i'm concerned about that in the context of the shutdown and that we can continue to provide critical assistance to ukraine. that's why you saw a bipartisan move in the senate to keep the aid going. american top general mark miley, who headed the joint chiefs of staff of the united states, officially resigned, to be replaced by general charles brown. on friday , president joe biden and the secretary of defense will attend a special ceremony in honor of the milis. austin, they talked about the achievements of the general in office, in particular, helping ukraine repel

russian aggression. it is a great honor for me to be the 20th chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. the combined force, as i said, is the most lethal and capable in the world, and our enemies know it. we supported ukraine in its struggle for freedom against putin's war of aggression and strengthened the nato alliance. now consider all that our military has done during mark milley's tenure as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff: we sent the world to ukraine's aid to repel the russian imperial invasion. general milley has a deep sense of history, he knows that future generations will judge us harshly if we fail to protect the post-war order built by american leadership, and so he did more than just study history. he entered history. during his

tenure as chairman of the united of the joint chiefs of staff, mark was steadfast in leading our military. we are in, in my opinion, one of the most challenging security environments our world has faced in a long time. it was critical for us to strengthen america's existing alliance from nato to the indo-pacific region. the us supports the great people of ukraine by making sure they get the equipment and support they need to defend their freedom. special attention is paid to the parliamentary elections in slovakia on september 30. there is a probability that to the authorities former prime minister robert fico may return to ukraine, who openly speaks of his intentions to revise bratislava's foreign policy course and, in particular , to refuse active support to ukraine. the social democratic party of smr, led by him , is currently in the lead according to opinion polls. to what extent fico's potential coming to power may not be safe for ukraine, we will talk about it with bohdan tsyupin, who is currently in touch from london. bohdan, i congratulate you on how

likely it is that the politics of slovakia may change as a result of the parliamentary elections regarding ukraine? well, obviously everything will depend on the results of the vote on saturday , september 30, and so far the polls show that none of the individual parties will have a monopoly, none of them will get... 50% of the vote, so there will be coalitions, and the question whether the coalition will be led by, for example, one of the poll leaders, the smer party and former prime minister robert fico, who says that he does not want to help ukraine militarily, or whether another party, which also shows itself quite strongly in the polls, will be a progressive the slovak woman with michal semichka, who says that she will continue the course that the slovak government is leading so far. slovakia has helped

ukraine a lot, provided ukraine with one of the first soviet-made mig-29 fighter jets, and experts say that everything depends on the distribution of forces as a result of the vote. in spite of the same, regardless of whether death or progressive slovakia wins the election, we cannot now determine which of these two subjects can form the government, because neither of them will have the necessary 76 members of parliament and both coalition partners will be needed. peter pellegrini's glas party becomes the main coalition partner open to both parties. and in fact, they will be the ones who will decide whether the rapidly progressive slovakia can form this government. bohdana is slovakian, the country is small, but it is a member of eu and nato. can the potential change of course of the government in bratislava affect the general support of ukraine in europe. there is another small country in the eu and in nato, whose leader viktor orban

is very vocal against military aid to ukraine, against sanctions and so on, and if in slovakia will have another voice like mr. orbán, then it is obvious that the problems with the unity of european aid will be even greater, and in bratislava they believe that the smer party and its leader robert fico sound like the hungarian leader now, the reality is that we can to get a government led by former prime minister robert fizo and his smer party, that the direction, smer, social democracy is a party that is openly anti-ukrainian, one might even say pro-russian, they say, for example, that when they rule, they will not to give ukraine any military aid, which is easy to say, because we gave away almost everything we had and we don't want to give away the new leopard tanks we got from germany, but the rhetoric is clearly pro-russian and

in many ways consistent with what orbán says, we need stop the war and make peace, but there is very little criticism of what is russia doing? bohdan, we have two minutes left, are many slovaks generally in favor of moscow? well, if you look at the eurobarometer survey conducted recently, in fact, in august, more than half of slovaks, 51% believe to one degree or another that it is necessary to continue to support, to show the solidarity of europe with ukraine, therefore. the majority of slovaks are in favor of supporting ukraine, and so far, that is what the slovak government has been doing, including military aid. but this 51%, if you look at the other 27 countries of the european union, it is not so big, because in the scandinavian countries, for example, in finland or even in distant portugal, this indicator reaches 70,

80 and even 90%. also. the key question is how to help ukraine, because how say, the forces that are called anti-ukrainian in hungary and slovakia talk about what they are for peace and what the price of this peace is, they don't care, they don't recognize russian war crimes in ukraine, they keep quiet about the occupation of ukrainian lands and consider it just , that it is possible to draw borders, they say that we are for peace, already... what is the price of this peace, they do not care, and this is the real problem. bohdan, thank you very much for this explanation, we will monitor how the actual parliamentary elections in slovakia. my colleague bohdan tsyupan was in touch from london. over the course of three weeks, 18

families in the us took in ukrainian children whose parents had died or disappeared. at the front mostly, these are families of ukrainian emigrants who live in the state of pennsylvania. the children were able to see america, communicate with their peers from the usa and distract themselves from the tragedies they experienced. about the american journey of young ukrainians and what they taught the families that accepted them. in the plot of iryna shenkarenko and kostyantyn golubchyk. and here we were chipped it was alone, we climbed on all kinds of such things. this is it. here we are on the ocean, i'm sitting, warming myself, so they smeared me with cream so that i wouldn't burn, well, here we already burned, on an excursion we went to washington, we saw such a huge tower and what i thought was the president's white house, somehow he was called, ten-year-old vasylyna will bring many pleasant memories from the usa to cherkasy, she

spent three weeks in america and flew on a plane for the first time in her life. i'll look out the window, and there this wing is fluttering like that, i think so, even if it's not fell down vasylyna was invited to the united states to distract herself from an extremely difficult period in her life. the girl's two older brothers are now at the front. dad died last october from wounds received on the front line. such a photo, such a photo, he was still at home, still like this, his call sign was chup. and that's all. with a mechanized mill, such memories are very good with him, that i have a very cool memory , i don’t know why, we once bought a pizza with him and he didn’t know how to cook it, i also didn’t know that we constantly either they made it at home, or they ordered it, and he kind of took it, it was there

the film is upside down, we didn't notice it, he took her microwave oven, this pizza burned from the bottom. vasylyna, together with her peer, marta from ternopil, was accepted in the usa for three weeks by the family of alina vechir, who is the daughter of emigrants from ukraine. marta's father, maxim the military man, went missing last december near bakhmut. he says: i will go as a volunteer, and i cried then, because i knew that they would not always give him a phone. because he was already in the army, it was very tough there, yes, once he arrived with a wound, he, well, right near donetsk, was wounded by shrapnel, and the second

once he fell ill with something there, he was cold, then after about a month he disappeared already, it's better to give you a braid, right? do you love only him? alina has four children of her own, she says, she could not help responding to the request to host children from ukraine, but there were worries before their arrival. i thought, what if we get shy girls who won't say what they want, and i 'll just guess all the time, but they're not like that, our girls are not shy at all, they know how to tell what they need . to me the family liked it very much, like... i immediately came with marta and they immediately started smiling , hugging me, i was so shocked at what was happening,

we were also a little worried how we would cope, we have four children, how we would handle them to drive somewhere, but my husband and i took two trucks and were able to transport them all. alina was born in the usa and speaks mainly english, so do her children, however , the whole family immediately got along with the girls and often words were not needed. there was a moment when one of the girls became very sad, for me it was it was difficult because when it's your child you know how to comfort them, how to help them, and this is a child who's only been living under my roof for a few weeks and who misses her daddy so much, and all i could do was just sit and to hold her until she calmed down and it was hard for me as a mother to watch this child go through this pain over and over again. in september , 28 children from ukraine, whose parents died or went missing at the front, came to pennsylvania, they were accepted by 18 families, mainly from the ukrainian diaspora, as part of a joint a project to support children united for

ukrainian kids, a public organization of the reformation movement from ukraine and the ministry from the usa. the local protestant church, one of the pastors of which is also from ukraine, helped to finance the trip and find host families. as an organizer i said. that i will take two or three children. thanks to our church community, we were able to place about 20 children. we conducted a special training for families and explained the basic rules to them. one of them, if the kids don't mention their dad, we don't ask, and what we do noticed, and this is the feedback i collected from many host families, the children really wanted to talk about their dads, they told the details, they were very open, they said what gifts and dads left the family, what parting words they said to them, there were a lot of such tearful conversations , when we cried, the children cried. the goal of the project is to distract children from

the war, to give them the opportunity to rest from sad emotions, the volunteers say that within a week the children became calmer, they were taken on excursions, horseback riding, and also organized a day the camp, where they practiced under a special program to support children who had experienced trauma, we went... to the ocean, there were such big waves, we were so close to the stones, that's how we did three somersaults with our girlfriends, we did, we also saw there dolphins, a shark, i really liked the ocean, it was just such salty water , it was completely unexpected, in general, according to the united for ukrainian kids program, the organizers plan to organize such a vacation for 3 ukrainian children, to receive the next group in december, families from phila are preparing telfii, a families in which the children have already visited plan to continue communicating, they say that in three weeks they managed to become relatives, iryna shankarenko, kostyantyn golubchyk, oleksii

osyka, voice of america. on thursday in new york , for the second time, the awarding ceremony of the winners of the albie awards, founded by the leading actor george clooney and his wife amal, a well-known human rights defender, took place. the award was named in honor of judge alby sachs, who, because... with apartheid in south africa, is among the laureates of this year's award ukrainian human rights organization truex hounds. at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, its employees conducted 70 field missions, the purpose of which was to record war crimes in ukraine. iryna solomko will tell why this organization received the prestigious award and how it helps bring war criminals to justice. roman avramenko is speaking before that audience for the first time, and he is proud of the work his team has done documenting war crimes in ukraine. the name of his organization in english is hounds for truth, according to roman, their mission is

to help the victims of russian aggression to punish their executioners, do not expect us, when we leave them, we see the way they look at us, it is very binding that we can in our teeth bring this justice back to the people we were with. anna neistat heads the investigation of russian crimes in ukraine at the clooney foundation for justice. with the start of the full-scale invasion , bringing russian war criminals to justice has become one of the fund's key priorities. we worked day and night to prosecute the crimes committed in ukraine and worked side by side with trusgauns. therefore, for us it was not just an organization, not even a ukrainian organization. it was a close partner. the organizations began to cooperate almost immediately after the invasion. their methodologies for gathering evidence are very similar. we do not maintain a generalized

documentation on human rights. we focus on prosecuting specific criminal cases and they, like us, focus very well on gathering evidence, evidence collected properly can be used for prosecution, the same goal in trushounds, including award quotas, says the human rights activist, tell about specific people who are fighting for justice. in the case of ukraine, the whole world has heard about what is happening, and even those who never knew before now know exactly what is happening there, but few know why they know about it, very few people know that such people like roman, documenting war crimes roman abramenko started in 2014, in september of that year he went on his first mission to document war crimes in donetsk and luhansk regions, later crimea was added, then there were people who knew what to do, had experience.

the 2008 war in georgia and understood that it is necessary to immediately document on the hot tracks, because the evidence is lost and then it will be impossible to restore it. since then, roman and his team have conducted more than 220 field missions, more than a third of them in the last year and a half. before the war, the organization was involved not only in documenting crimes, but also in procedural changes, working with prosecutors and changing their approaches to investigating war crimes. this... big one we have already started spreading the expertise outside the country, unfortunately, there are many countries in which there are also active or frozen conflicts, so we trained groups, first of all, human rights defenders, representatives of civil society, in georgia, tajikistan, and kazakhstan , were, during, the conflict, a new , new round of conflict in nagorno-karabakh

, and at the beginning of the great war, of course, the need for our expertise, knowledge grew even more, due to a certain large-scale invasion, we had to increase the number of documenters, lawyers, investigative and field visits, for example, the team is currently working in the mykolaiv and kherson regions, documenting the consequences of the explosion of the kakhovskaya dam. we work in a rather narrow field, that of individual, criminal responsibility for committing international crimes, and we have from the very first day of our existence since 2014, so that the evidence we collect can be used in criminal cases in the courts, for that justice be served in the form of criminal prosecution. in general since 2014, roman's team managed to document about 4x5 war crimes, some of which became the basis for two of the three lawsuits that the clooney foundation, together with trus ghouns, is preparing to submit to the law enforcement authorities of one of the european countries for

the initiation of a criminal case within the framework of the so -called universal jurisdiction, we understood that the main, main burden of prosecuting war criminals would, of course, fall on the ukrainian justice system, therefore they additionally understood that it was necessary to use, apply the principle of extraterritorial jurisdiction, so that other countries prosecute war criminals for crimes committed on the territory of ukraine. we are trying to establish the perpetrators, specifically the commanders, who are responsible for everything that happened in the occupied territories, or for indiscriminate shelling with the use of specific types of weapons. each case involves multiple crimes, so we're really trying to find patterns. in each case, we represent the survivors or the families of the people who were killed. this is very important step. anna neistat says that.