[000:00:00;00] the leader of the democratic party of russia from the kherson region, volodymyr zhirynovsky , has been dancing at the okupzon concert for a year, so newcomers to the party are now accepted by another leader, leonid slutsky. we wanted to make sure that everyone we accepted into the party are really people who are with us for a long time. shakhov will definitely not be in your rotten party for long, but he will go to a ukrainian prison, i hope he will sit for a long time. and that. another collaborator from novaya kakhovka, oleksandr oleksandrovich shevchenko , born in 1986. in 2020, at the local elections, he went from servant of the people to novokakhovka city council. he promised voters a bright future. instead, as soon as there was an opportunity to make money, he immediately hid the mandate and ran to the occupiers. on march 6 of this year , all russian programs to support the agricultural

sector began to operate on the territory of the kherson region. shevchenko quickly accepted the new occupation policies, he is the owner of the eurocenter advertising agency, so he became very useful in the system of agitation and propaganda, the production and pasting of propaganda slogans, russian advertising on billboards and the installation of signs on the russian theme. due to the fact that the entrepreneurs of the kherson region do not have annual reports for the past 2 years, a special package of documents was developed. in which the ministry of agriculture acts as a guarantor. you will complete the task well, you have a position. shevchenko took the position of chief specialist of the department of interaction with the media in the occupying ministry of agriculture of the kherson region. he actively distributes interviews to russian scumbags, helps the occupiers loot our lands, and forces farmers to re-register their businesses under by rashka's laws. the potential of

khersonskaya fishery. full-scale aquaculture - 6-7 hectares of water surface. shevchenko has washed away his potential as a ukrainian figure, but he is developing the potential of adaptation. collaborators, as now in the occupied territories, do you think that russia will protect you for faithful service? make a mistake, you will either be fired or liquidated. no one needs an extra burden when scratching the swamps. zsu is near. wake up, no one will forgive you for betrayal, raise your hands and pretend to be clowns in a bloody tent, join the creation collaborators program, send information about kremlin sellers to our e-mail address or just on facebook, together we will send all the traitors after the russian ship, see you in a week

on espresso. you are watching the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas tym, my name is marie ulyanovska, congratulations. in kharkiv , emergency and rescue operations were completed after the morning rocket attack, two people died under the rubble of a destroyed building, and another 30 were injured. permanent representative of the usa to the osce, michael, reacted to the shelling carpenter. the ongoing russian aggression against ukraine is absolutely disgusting and heartbreaking. again and again we are forced to watch the death and destruction that russia continues to inflict on the civilian population of ukraine - said carpenter, recalling the rocket attack in the village of groza and the shelling of the hospital in beryslav. carpenter, carpenter recalled that attacks on civilians and civilian objects are war crimes and called for russia to be held

accountable. ukraine should. win this war so that the beatings finally stop, he concluded. meanwhile in congress a political crisis has been unfolding in the united states all week. after averting a shutdown and controversies surrounding continued financial support to ukraine, the house of representatives fired its speaker for the first time in history. after the resignation of kevin mccarthy, the situation surrounding who will become the new leader of the house of representatives is rapidly unfolding. we will talk about this in more detail with our correspondent kateryna lisunova, who joins from the italian hill. katya, congratulations. congratulations, maria. i know you 've been watching non-stop all week, so what? takes place in congress. please tell me, is it already known who is applying for the role of the next speaker of the house of representatives? so far , two republicans have announced they will run for speaker, steve scalise and jim jordan. the former president of the united states of america, donald trump, has already congratulated and supported the latter. in doing so, he also played down clear rumors that trump would also be

participating in... and emphasized that he is currently consulting on another contest, the contest for the president's chair, which he already held, steve scalise, in turn, said that even though trump had already endorsed jim jordan and even though steve scalise was diagnosed with blood cancer this tuesday, he would still fight for to fight for the seat of speaker of the house of representatives. stivka lis himself is known as a republican who has been building relationships with his fellow party members, as well as as a partner and member of the support group of kevin mccarthy, the former speaker of the house of representatives. in turn, jim jordan is known as a friend and a partner of donald trump, also a sharp critic of ukraine, and that before the full-scale invasion, during the first impeachment against donald trump, which, as i recall, was about pressure on ukraine, jim jordan said that ukraine was said to be the third most corrupt country in the world, and that he said kyiv should not be trusted

, he noted that these data about the third most corrupt state in the world do not correspond to reality, but at least these are the statements of jim jordan. it is also worth expecting that the debate of the candidates for the speaker, the position of the speaker of the house of representatives, is possible will be will be seen on american media next week. katya, thank you, tell me what is happening now in the ranks of the democratic party, what are the democrats saying about these candidates? the democrats themselves can actually nominate their own candidate as well. most likely, he will be the leader of the democrats in the house of representatives, hakeem jeffries. but with the way republicans currently hold a majority in the house of representatives, it is highly unlikely that democrats will be able to install their own democratic speaker during a republican majority. democrats also note that they are not going to participate in the internal competition of the republicans in the house of representatives and call it the actual struggle of the republicans and the civil war of the republicans in the house of representatives, in which

they do not plan to participate. thank you, and the last question i want to ask you, i have to ask you, the issue of ukraine is a cornerstone in the congress, should ukrainians be worried about future support. in the house of representatives, now there are three main risks for aid to ukraine, this is time running out, as well as the conditions of far-right republicans, who can put their votes on demand, that is, they oppose aid to ukraine and can say they support any of the republican candidates who, if they block aid to ukraine, as well as any speaker who may not support aid to ukraine , at least that's what mike quigley, a democrat and co-chairman of ukraine, said. of the congressional caucus in the house of representatives, with whom i had an interview just yesterday, noted that this congressman was the only legislator from the democratic of the party, who did not support the short-term resolution on financing the government, because it did not include additional aid to ukraine, more details about what risks there are now for

ukrainian aid, as well as what role trump can play in all this, offers to see in our interview i why did the democrats vote for the speaker's resignation and do you think it was the right decision? we saw this as a civil war within the republican party, and it's not for us to get involved. there is also a credibility issue with speaker mccarthy. i was in congress during assault on january 6, the next day, speaker mccarthy rightly blamed president trump, but later changed his position and even tried to discredit the commission's investigation. this damaged his relations with the democrats. then, in june, we concluded an agreement that was supposed to finance ukraine. it was an agreement on the national debt limit and it set all the basic figures of our budget in advance, but a week later he reneged on his word again and sided with the far right. so we decided that the republicans should deal with it themselves his party. it is hard to say what will happen next,

but it is clear that this is bad for our democracy. what is the further procedure? how long can it take to appoint the next speaker? it's a house vote , but since democrats are in the minority, republicans will have to. to do it yourself, you need to score 218 for or a majority of those present. we've all been sent home now, while the republicans are holding meetings to sort things out. as soon as we get back to work, we will have an organizational meeting next tuesday, already on wednesday, we think, the republicans will schedule a vote for the speaker. the problem is how to get someone in office, because any new speaker will be operating under the same rules that mccarthy had. they allow a single lawmaker, who alone... may not be in the mood, to propose that the speaker be fired, so a handful of people can do it. the concern of the rest of the world is that we are leaning towards the far right vector. there are 435 legislators in the house of representatives, of which a handful of people have disproportionate power over

by all, but inclines others in his direction. in addition , these people are not pro-ukrainian. anyone who cares about this war should pay attention to last thursday's house vote. we voted for $300 million in direct aid to ukraine. i can't remember. no vote more illustrative of what we call the reagan doctrine. we will always unceasingly support our allies in confronting russian aggression. this is the reagan doctrine during this vote. all the democrats stood for, and 117 republicans voted against, only 101 republicans voted for. this is a small advantage that shows that the reagan doctrine has failed within the republican party. we see a new group of republicans pushing in an isolationist direction. that is why i was the only democrat who voted against the resolution on short-term financing of the government, because i believed that this was our last best chance to finance ukraine. we can still do it, but there is a lot of risk because we can see. suv in support, and now, in the middle of this chaos, i am not sure if we will be able

to agree on anything before the forty-day deadline expires, and we need to agree on something for ukraine as soon as possible. who can actually be the next speaker? the names we're hearing the most right now are steve scalise and jim jordan, but things can take a turn for the worse. we already had people whom no one predicted, but they became speakers, i am not present at the negotiations of the republicans, they decide it on their own. here. i'm a spectator just like you, let's see if they can pull it off figure out, i think there are about 100 republicans in the house of representatives who are more rational, thoughtful, understand the need for compromise and want to move forward, i'm concerned about the others, a group of two to 20 people who are extremists, and a group that is actively influenced trump, so that they would be putin's pacifiers. it will be difficult for us to get the support of the latter when needed. in your opinion, how can the resignation of the speaker affect aid to ukraine? the main

threat is time, we are not doing legislation now and it is hard to say when we will let's get back to business as usual, aid may be delayed because of this, in other words, i'm concerned that putin apologists now have disproportionate control over whether the ukraine aid bill makes it to the floor. do you think that the house of representatives will have time to pass any bills regarding ukraine during these less than 45 days. first , you need to vote for the speaker, and second, i think any deal on ukraine is likely to be part of a larger funding package, or another short-term resolution, or hopefully a full budget for the year because short term resolutions don't really work very well, except before he left speaker mccarthy said the priority is funding the us border, well that could take forever, that's one of the reasons the democrats don't were interested in keeping mccarthy in office, he hasn't been very ... helpful in any way, so it 's hard to predict, first of all, we'll see what

happens next week with the speaker, hopefully the candidates don't make some terrible deal , which will harm ukraine so that get this position. we have far right republicans to derail the appointment, it only takes a few people. whoever becomes the next speaker needs the votes of all republicans, so the far right can make radical demands, and i'm concerned that one of them might involve ukraine. full version. see an interview with mike quigle, the head of the ukrainian coconut in the congress, on our website, as well as on the youtube channel of the voice of america ukrainian. i will remind you that my colleague kateryna lisunova followed and told us about the chanting at the congress. and before other stories, there are many mobile dental clinics operating in front-line areas in ukraine. volunteers organized one of them. organized by volunteers of the

life saving center charity fund. anna kostyuchenko and pavel sukhodolsky visited the mobile office in donetsk region to see how the teeth of soldiers and locals are treated. this mobile dentistry has been working for the ukrainian military in donbas for more than nine months. the ambulance was converted into a dental office by the volunteers of the life saving center. they work here volunteers too. kiyanka tetyana zhukova works here. i have been a dentist's assistant for over six months. the woman has more than 20 years of experience in dentistry and a higher education in psychology. to be useful and bring victory closer. these are not pathetic words, this is really a call of the soul. a working day in dentistry on wheels can last 12 hours. unfortunately, our soldiers have many problems. the conditions in which they are, unfortunately, add to their problems, well, to us . in an improvised office. servicemen can receive the full range of dental services except

prosthetics, says iryna varfolomyeva, a dentist with almost 40 years of experience. to work on a volunteer basis in donetsk region , iryna temporarily left her own practice in kryvyi rih. i have a medical center , an office, the equipment there is a little better, it is a little less comfortable here, but 90% everything is fine here, only 10% discomfort, everything else, the last word and x-ray. volunteer dentists set their own duty schedule, if one needs to go home, someone else comes, treatment is free... expensive, that's all it will be good, news without dentists, unfortunately, is impossible, so if the tooth had not been treated , i would not know how i fought with the slides, many soldiers leave written thanks on the flag that hangs in the mobile office. however, they often want to thank the doctors at least

with flowers - says assistant tetyana. they try with candy, they even try with money. we have one answer. we take the orcs. in addition to military personnel, local residents also come here for dental treatment. and then, and then his mouth was agape. now a new tooth. mobile dentistry of the life saving center is working mainly in the frontal zone. but if urgently needed, it can work even several kilometers from the contact line. during this time, more than a thousand servicemen were able to treat their teeth without being separated from their unit for a long time thanks to volunteers. anna kostyuchenko, pavel sukhodolskyi for

voice of america from donetsk region. we wish good health to the ukrainian military and move on to history from the united states. the world culture fair took place in washington. 1700 artists represented 180 nations of the world at the festival, including ukrainians. especially for this event, they put hopak on 100 dancers. the american capital has never seen such a mass performance of ukrainian dance. yurii solonets and vyacheslav filyushkin watched how it looked. as a sign of solidarity with our ukrainian brothers and sisters, we present to you the heart of ukraine. this was the first time that such a mass riot was performed in the american capital. more than 100 dancers from ukraine, new york and pennsylvania came to washington to show the culture of their

historic homeland. many of them born in america, some in mixed families. i like it the most. perform, that is, you see how my dances, how my soul helps others to be joy, and to give joy to others and show what kind of culture our ukraine has, which i consider the best, when i dance, it feels like i can, you know, communicate with my ancestors, and yes, because everyone before me danced like that, it makes me feel good to show where i'm from, to put a hopak on the hundred dancer. the director of the volozhka dance school from philadelphia, larisa spisich, took up. to her for this several ensembles had to be combined. since everyone was from different schools and dance groups, separate rehearsals had to be held. we only got together twice to

put the choreography together, so it was exhausting, but the effort was worth it. in total, more than 17,000 artists from 1,880 countries represented their nations at the world cultural festival in washington. half a million spectators gathered to watch their work, and it took 3 and a half days to see all the performances. the presentation of the ukrainians had a title the heart of ukraine, because they came to the american capital with a special mission. why do we sing in wartime, why do we dance in wartime? because this war is a genocide against our culture, so that's what we have to do, show the world our culture, and so i think it's also our weapon, our cultural weapon, and our cultural identity, which is very important to show on

such a big scene. after the hopak, ravi shankara, the spiritual leader and founder of the festival, asks the audience of half a million to get up from their seats. i am asking you get up from your seats for a minute for peace in ukraine. for a minute, about half a million spectators on the square in front of the us congress freeze in complete silence. yurii solonets,

vyacheslav filyushkin, washington, voice of america. dancers on the opposite side of the usa in california draw attention to the war in ukraine with their creativity. for this purpose, a group of 30 artists, including ukrainian emigrants, created the kolodance ballroom dance show, which they perform in los angeles. what exactly are they showing the american viewer, tell me khrystyna shevchenko. in the alex theater in the city of glendale, los angeles county, a dance circle is underway, translated from english as a circle dance. 30 ballroom dancers from california show different types of ballroom dance in a performative dance production. and you know, we all knew each other for a long time, many of them are our friends from ukraine

, whom we knew back home, many of whom we grew up with in the same dance studios, and we moved together a little bit at different times, but it so happened that most of us ended up we are in california, and we knew each other, but the idea itself is creation show, appeared naturally after a full-scale invasion of ukraine took place . the show was preceded by last year's dance fanzine, then the dancers performed emotional numbers that conveyed their pain about the war at home. and in that month, the first month, because all the families were at home and everyone really danced, their story, their pain, their emotions, their experiences, and it was so energetically strong that we were very then inspired to develop this project and further and just then united after such success, they could not stop, so they created the circle of deence.

the central theme of the production is a circle, it symbolizes the cycle of history. we use ballroom dancing and we use four styles of ballroom dancing. this is a european program, a latin american program, theater arts, and american smooth. these are four of the five styles that are found in ballroom dancing. we use almost all styles. and these dances, they are combined into 23 numbers, which in turn are combined into one story that tells a circle. most of the dancers are ukrainians, but there are also americans and africans in the team, although they knew each other from competitions, before the show, they had never danced together, but the war inspired them to unite. we try to work to educate people. ukrainian culture and evoke feelings through ballroom dancing, beautiful music and visual art on displays. large

displays with animation make the show full of visual content, here the drawings of modern ukrainian artists are used and transformed into animation. the costumes of the dancers were specially made for the performance by ukrainian immigrants in poland, as well as in kyiv. we have ethnic elements, in we have such, you know, headbands, they also remind me of hutsul ones. a little, but with poppies, we have beads, of course of various kinds, and imitation embroidery, these are hand painted flowers with paint on the fabric, and pasted with stones, the musical accompaniment show is ukrainian classical pop songs in an orchestral arrangement for ballroom dancing. also at the show , a charity auction was held by the stand with ukraine foundation organization. the funds will be used for military and medical purposes. khrystyna shevchenko, reb of ukraine from los angeles, for the voice

america. and we end the program with a small story from india, where there is a small ukrainian community. its leader, marina akram , met her indian husband when he was studying medicine in dnipro in the 90s . today, the family lives in the capital of the country, new delhi. about how ukrainians live in india and. marina akram told my colleague tetyana voroshko what challenges await those who try to engage in social activities for the benefit of ukraine. 10 years ago, george chuning was the deputy company commander in afghanistan. in the armed forces us forces, he served five years, when he returned to civilian life, he could not find work for a long time. the most difficult thing for me was to build a civilian career. i was lucky, i had an education and i explained that although i had never worked in a similar position before , i had served in the army and had important skills, but it was difficult to find the right person in the right company who was willing

to listen to it, and not just hire someone. another who has worked in this field for the past five years. finding a decent job was even more difficult for william atig, who joined the ranks of the us army right after school. he fought in iraq, and when he was discharged in 2010 with the rank of sergeant, life had to start practically from scratch. like many veterans, i suffered from drinking and did not take good care of myself. it was very difficult during the year. i didn't feel the dignity, the respect i deserved. as a veteran, many people wanted to support me when it came to things like putting a sticker on my car or saying thank you for my service, but when i needed a job or some kind of service, i seemed to be turned away in a job that i could have easily done because of my skills in the military, when i was in command, leading people into battle, and being denied minor, low- level managerial positions. george chuning was lucky, he got a decent job, in particular, he managed

to work at facebook, where he developed an application for veterans that allows you to explain military skills to employers. veterans can provide information about their military service and are offered job opportunities at facebook or other companies for which they would be a good fit. so the service: i was in the land forces, my military rank is an infantry officer, and then in the field of interest, i will choose data analysis and search. and then there are jobs that have actually had infantry officers or... with similar skills, and that becomes a conversation starter, a way of saying, i know my background is problematic to explain, but can we discuss this position? thanks to the support of other veterans, william atig managed to overcome alcoholism, get an education and a job. a group of people came together to create training programs for veterans, and i was able to complete the training

program and became a highly qualified builder. could make a lot of money, and it allowed me to live the american dream that i fought for, and i hope that ukrainian civil society and the government will start creating these programs now, not later. now william attig heads the union that deals with the employment problems of american veterans, and he and george chuning say, it was a story about american veterans, i apologize, a story about the indian community into the ukrainian community, and you can watch it next week, it 's live, it happens, and we return to the story from ukraine, the last story for today about a veteran who lost a leg, but returns to defend his homeland. a 47-year-old native of kyiv with the call sign "hulk" volunteered for the front at the beginning of the great russian invasion in october last year. in october last year , he was blown up by a mine while performing a combat mission in the luhansk direction.

however, as soon as the fighter received a protest, he again wanted to return to the bench. hulk is not began to apply for disability, instead he decided to fight on a prosthesis, the soldier was questioned by anna kostyuchenko and pavel sukhodolskyi. a 47-year-old operator of strike drones with the callsign hulk is fighting on a prosthesis, the lower part of his right leg was torn off during a combat mission in the luggan region in october 2022. stepped on an anti-personnel mine and that's how the injury happened. leg in one direction, i'm in the other direction, in the first question, there is a leg, the guys said, brother, unfortunately , it's not in the leg, well, squeeze, scream, cry and scream, how much it hurts there, why would i to upset the boys, i was the only one who, at that moment, was struggling not to lose consciousness, there i breathed deeply, drank a lot of water,

in the first days of a full-scale russian invasion. hulk left the management of a private business in kyiv, his wife and two children and went to the front as a volunteer. at first he defended kyiv as an infantryman, then as part of a rifle company he defended kharkiv oblast, in the summer of last year he began to use a drone instead of a machine gun as a weapon. his brothers gave him the nickname hulk. it is better not to be angry, because then damn it, you won’t stop me, probably that’s why haalgum, after being wounded, the soldier was treated in one of the kyiv hospitals , where he underwent a dozen surgical interventions, thank god, everything will be fine in ukraine, yes, yes, everything will be fine, that’s all, come on, at the beginning of may 2023, the serviceman got back on his feet, instead of his own foot he was fitted with

a prosthesis, made by an american manufacturer, the cost