we are somewhere in the vicinity of bakhmut, we tell you the main thing, on weekdays at 9:00 a.m., you watch the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america time time, my name is maria ulyanovska. congratulations. joe biden emphasized that the us is ramping up additional military aid, including munitions and air defense, to replenish the ironclad for israel. according to him, the white house is working closely with congress to take urgent steps to obtain funding and meet the national security requirements of critical us partners. more about the position of the american president, which he expressed during his speech, we will talk with our correspondent in the white house yulia yarmolenko. i congratulate you. greetings maria. that joe biden's ten-minute address on the situation did not take place. in israel, what was the main thing

you took away from this speech? and maria, this is actually the second address of president biden regarding the situation in israel and the attack that the united states calls a terrorist attack by hamas. what we heard today in the speech, president biden immediately emphasized several times that the united states will stand firmly with israel, will do everything possible so that israel can defend itself. he talked a lot about how terrible...the casualties are already in israel, including over 1,000 that we know have been killed, because of the attacks that started over the weekend, he also emphasized and confirmed today that the united states now knows that mr. as soon as possible to approve potentially additional aid for partners, and he also said that if any of the players in the region wanted to use the situation in israel in any way to their advantage, he

said, don't do it, that's the only message, that he has for them, and he also emphasized that our hearts may be broken, but our resolve remains strong, that's exactly the kind of speech that just came from the american president in support of israel, maria, thank you julia, we also repeatedly for these few a few days ago we heard that the usa can help ukraine and israel unequivocally at the same time, now they are talking about different formats like this. should ukrainians be worried that the attention of the united states will not be enough for everyone? you know, maria, this is the number one question, i just had an opportunity to speak with the us national security council representative, john kirby here at the white house. we talked with him about a number of issues, and in particular about whether the united states can help ukraine in the same way without interruption. the day before, john kirby said that the united states now wants congress to approve the request for additional funding for ukraine as soon as possible, so that there is not even

a single day of gap in the united states' aid to kyiv. today, he really confirmed to me that the united states and the biden administration are doing everything for this possible, and i also asked him about whether it was somehow about a possible joint request to congress, which was reported by the american press, that they said that the white house and congress will discuss the possibility of giving a request for funding for ukraine and israel together. in order to have better chances for approval of aid for kyiv. he said he would not go into details about the negotiations the white house is currently having with congress. he said that now there is a request for additional financing for ukraine, for more than 20 billion dollars. he said it was white the house believes there is sufficient funding now, and they hope to approve that funding, he said, without going into details. but, answering your question, can the united states help ukraine and israel at the same time? john kirby.

yes, he says that the united states is a powerful enough country, economically, that can help both countries, because both countries are important to the united states, to national security, and we must help them, let's listen to the comment, if not today's, and from yesterday briefing, ukraine is important. getting the help she needs, they're still on the counteroffensive, fighting russian aggression on their own soil, we don't want even one single break, so we 're continuing to work with congress to try to get additional funding, we have enough funds for a certain amount of time, but , as i said before, it is not infinite, that is why we made a request for additional funding, how this conversation is going and looks, i cannot say now, and ukraine and israel are important,

both countries need american military aid, and it is important, both to their and our national security interests, that they receive that aid. and it's good that maria, we managed to show fragments from today's interview, in fact, we just spoke with john kirby before our inclusion with you. thank you for this comment, yuli, if we are also talking about aid to ukraine, today voice of america pentagon correspondent carla babb announced the upcoming aid package that is being prepared for ukraine. you know what is included in this aid package and whether there are rockets and you you know, maria, yes, we know that, as karla bab reports, the united states is indeed preparing to announce a new package of military aid to ukraine under the program of presidential powers, we know that tomorrow there will be another meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine in the ramstein format in brussels, and obviously these two things

are connected, and what it's about, as karla says, is actually there will be additional ammunition in this package, there will be additional missiles as well, there will be additional capabilities for both artillery and hymers, but we don't see in this package , at least from the expected long-range missiles to attacks, and i also had the opportunity today, literally just to talk to john kirby and about that, i asked him, and now that the white house is saying that ukraine has a few weeks of good weather left, so that succeed with the counteroffensive, is it not a good time to provide long-range missiles to the attacks, and he said that this issue is still under discussion, he said that the provision of such missiles is not excluded, but he said that he was not in a position to announce anything , he said that the white house, the biden administration is constantly negotiating with the ukrainians about the capabilities that they need at that stage of the war, and these negotiations are ongoing, i tried to clarify whether it was about the possibility that they would soon provide

attacks as well, he said that he will leave his comment on this, so we will wait for maria, we will continue to follow this, thank you yulia, i will remind you that the white house is talking about us aid to ukraine and israel. currently, the united states has the necessary funding to aid israel, the chairman of the committee on foreign affairs of the house of representatives, michael mccoll, said about this in a commentary to the voice of america. about what kind of priority aid the usa will allocate to israel and what is known about the probable role of russia in this conflict in the middle east, he speaks directly. we are helping rebuild the iron dome and providing precision guided missiles, that is what israel needs and they also need 155mm ammunition. now congress needs to get back to work,

we need to elect a speaker, we have the authorization to $3.3 billion that is not yet funded, and so the president has what we call the presidential powers program to. to take from our existing stock and send it to israel, that is what we are doing. i believe that any country that supports or expresses support for hamas should be investigated for complicity in helping them. i don't have any intelligence on this right now, but we are concerned that russia and all of iran's allies may be involved , so we should also check russia, china, and the middle east. about ex-commander of forces in europe, wesley clark, says that the conflict in the middle east is beneficial to russia. he points out, in particular , that the hamas attack on israel helps divert the world's attention from the war in ukraine.

russia has been involved in this from the beginning, and what is happening now is clearly beneficial to vladimir putin. he avoids responsibility. ukraine is no longer in the news, meanwhile the north. korea and iran are helping russia, and we don't know how things will unfold in israel, but what has already happened, the direction of american an aircraft carrier strike group, the concentration of all american attention is right there, while on the other side of the world china is watching and asking: how strong is america now, they are moving in different directions, they are easily distracted, their policies do not work, they cannot get a speaker of the house of representatives and cannot allocate money for ukraine, it seems that this is a good time for them. the head of the pentagon , lloyd austin , has repeatedly spoken with his israeli counterpart to find out what weapons and capabilities israel needs for defense. the us has already started redeployment aircraft carrier strike group of the us navy to the eastern mediterranean. we are talking about the presence in

the region of an american aircraft carrier, a cruiser, as well as a number of destroyers. austin also said that the united states government will quickly provide the israel defense forces with additional equipment and resources, it is about ammunition, about how the strengthening of american military support for israel can affect the provision of weapons to ukraine, iryna solomko and iryna shynkarenko learned. with the hamas attack on israel and the prime minister announced benjamin netanyahu's war, the topic of ukraine disappeared from the front pages of the world media, but according to philip karber, a military expert and president of the potemak foundation, this has little effect on the support of ukraine from the united states. much more dangerous lies in misinformation, which is actively spread, including by the russian media, that ukraine sold western weapons provided to it to hamas, including american stringers, he says. this, carrboro was told by his sources in the government and in the middle east, is not true. it was a weapon that the russians

captured in the early days of their invasion in 2022, when they captured a number of ukrainian units. the russians don't have american ammunition and weapons, so it's only natural that instead of exploiting, disassembling and trying to understand how it works, they might want to hand it over to a friendly group. proving the origin of these weapons will not be difficult, says karber. it is only necessary to compare. numbers of stringers lost in combat in ukraine with those that ended up in the hands of hamas. let's wait for the final answers, which will appear after a detailed analysis, but let's also stop the spread of this story, because it is pure russian disinformation. the flip side of this story is really powerful because it shows who is on whose side, so russia, along with its apparent ally iran, armed hamas. another question is whether the fact that the us promised to provide weapons to israel from its stockpiles will affect aid to ukraine. adrian karatnytskyi,

a senior researcher at the atlantic council and co-director of the ukrainian-jewish meeting foundation, is convinced that don't worry about it. on the territory itself, israel has billions of dollars of american weapons left, which can be made available to the israeli armed forces when the need arises. and this can be done, it is not necessary to transport them, to create new warehouses , some, some of these weapons are already on the territory of israel, and i think it is enough for israel to fulfill its mission, to overcome, at least, hamas in the south, karber in turn, believes that this situation can still add arguments for those american ones politicians calling for aid cuts.

us stocks are running out, the israelis are using us tank and artillery munitions as well as aerial bombs, this will reduce our stockpiles as well as available resources and thus an argument to reduce support for ukraine, this is a concern, but it is a short-term phenomenon in my opinion. however, he also draws attention to the fact that joe biden's administration has repeatedly assured of support for ukraine, so the commitments must be fulfilled. he is more concerned in general reducing the american stockpile of ammunition and weapons. that in july, the us administration spoke about it publicly, and president biden ordered the pentagon to work quickly on increasing the ability of the united states to produce all types of ammunition. after all , there is more and more evidence that our help is needed in asia, the pacific ocean, europe, it is needed by our allies, ukraine. now. it's just a question of how, how much and how fast to produce, and i think that decision will be made within a few

weeks. at the same time, karbor warns ukrainians from comparing the military aid provided to the usa, ukraine, and israel, because the media have already published unsatisfied comments by politicians and experts on this matter. you are not one country, the us supports many people around the world. be grateful, appreciate, formulate your needs, ask. how you can help nato, not just how nato can help you, and everything will work out. karatnytsky, in turn, says that the priority of these problems may change. one argument is simply that, well, we now have the challenge of china and the challenge of iran and the threat to israel and ukraine is not a top priority for us, and it will be these some isolationists who... want to cut aid, especially in the republican party, but the second argument,

which is much stronger, is that actually there is a group of countries that are trying to disrupt the international order and bring it to the point of invading warriors, to chaos and to attacks on the civilian population, and it is necessary to fight this challenge both in ukraine and in the territory of the near east. he also notes that russia it takes many fronts to... disperse us aid, so in his view, the so-called hawks will end up with stronger support among the american population, and this will ultimately lead to a more active american involvement in protecting the world order. iryna solomko, iryna shinkarenko, voice of america. at the same time, in kyiv, those with whom voice of america spoke are optimistic and believe that

the united states' support for israel will not affect the level of support for ukraine. kiyan's opinion was studied by anna kostyuchenko and pavel. perhaps this will spread some kind of fake with the aim of distracting russia's aggression, that america will stop supplying us with weapons and funding, but i think that nothing like that will happen, that everything will be fine, i think that we have a common enemy with israel, these , well, actually terrorists, hamas and russia, that's why i think that the state already needs to support us and israel, because otherwise it's all a flame, it will only grow stronger, it can disappear. such attention to ukraine, because we know that israel has a visa-free regime to america, for example, it's not just that, so it's really worth thinking about, because we 're now, well, i think that this invasion in general, it's directly, directly related to russian aggression towards ukraine, i really hope not, in principle

, that is, how can you say, these are our allies, well, america, yes, i really hope that we should be interested in the fact that, as in... sooner the conflict in israel ended and then the whole world switched back to ukraine. and there is a war going on there now. and there and there is a war going on. therefore, the united states will to provide equal assistance, because the future of not only ukraine or israel depends on it, but everything that happens in the world, if we speak globally. i am convinced that the legs of the events in israel are growing from one place, and therefore the united states must provide global assistance to both israel and ukraine. global, both to israel and ukraine. in news from the united states, the un general assembly elected new members of the human rights council for the next three years. russia failed to be re-elected. april 7, 2022 general assembly the un supported the decision to exclude russia from the organization due to the full-scale invasion of ukraine. currently, moscow tried to return to

this body, but did not get enough votes. instead, europe will be represented in the council by bulgaria and. albania. meanwhile, in washington , the atlantic council analytical center presented a memorandum to the president. more than 40 national security experts have prepared a document that suggests concrete steps to help ukraine win the war against russia, as well as how to help ukraine join nato. the main condition for victory over the russians is the timely supply of necessary weapons to ukraine. and the most effective and reliable means of deterring any future russian aggression is ukraine joining nato and ending it. its integration into europe, says the memorandum. this document was prepared for the next nato summit to be held next year in washington. and we continue with the story about drones that save lives. the american company brining from

sisytle created and sent to ukraine drones that help search for people under rubble. how exactly do they work? drones, andriy borys will explain. they destroy the enemy on land and at sea, scout enemy positions and adjust artillery. these works changed the course of hostilities. the war in ukraine revolutionized the world of combat drones. while most of them aim to take human life, this drone saves lives. his name is lemur. the drone is manufactured by the american company brining in one of the technological centers in the usa, in the city. the main task of lemur is search operations in partially destroyed buildings, instead of sending a person into such a building that may collapse, or there are destroyed stairs. how exactly does it work? first the drone has to enter the building, if the windows are intact, it

can break them with the carbide tip. next, with the help of... a gift or a laser radar, he scans the room, creating a three-dimensional map of it. the same technology is used in self-driving cars. this is how, for example , a 3d map of our office looks like, which was created by a drone in just a few minutes. by using of our software, the drone operator receives it on the phone in seconds. lidar and optical sensors help the drone to avoid obstacles, which makes it much easier. it actually works autonomously. next, with the help of thermal cameras , the robot detects whether there are people in the room and establishes contact with them. built-in phone and loud, it allows you to communicate at a distance with people inside. lemurs were tested last year in turkey, they

helped rescuers in sorting out rubble after a powerful earthquake that struck the east countries. drones are working with the consequences of the war in ukraine. the american company claims to have sent 60 devices to help, but they are performing search and rescue of the previous model. missions the ukrainians made a number of comments on the drone, which we took into account in the following developments, precisely thanks to their recommendations, we built a laser scanner that allows you to abandon gps. gps is especially dangerous in wartime, when the russians use electronic warfare. the improved lemurs are also planned to be sent for testing in ukraine. the company says it is important that they get to where they need to be on time. consequence of the war, according to the kyiv school of economics. at the end of last year alone , almost 150,000 houses were destroyed in ukraine. we want

people not to be left under the rubble. our team trained specialists in ukraine for some time, and it will be the same with lemur 2. the brink company hopes that law enforcement officers will be able to use lemurs. drones with a built-in communication system could be helpful for negotiations with criminals who took hostages. there is already an order from the new york police. andriy borys, voice of america. and the very end, a story from india, where there is a small ukrainian community, its leader, tatyana akram, met her husband when he was studying medicine in dnipro in the 90s. today they live in new delhi and my colleague tetyana vorozhko came to visit them. a native of the village. maryna akram of orzhytse, poltava region, has been a resident since 2000, she came to live with her husband tanvir, whom she met in ukraine. tanvir studied medicine first in odessa, and then in dnipro,

then they quickly found a common language, and today there are as many as five of them. ukrainian, we only have textbooks in russian, so it came to us that he speaks more russian, and i also understand ukrainian. marina says that when she arrived, she felt a shock at first, but quickly. fell in love with this country. the first impression i got after leaving the airport was the smell of spices, humidity, like nacha in a bathhouse, it was very strange then, because it was not yet the kind of airport you have seen now. eh, then in front of the airport there was something like a fountain, or i don't know, some kind there was a building and people were lying around it, and i asked my husband, why are they lying there? right on the asphalt on the street, he says: well, someone here does, someone, someone lives like this , today the couple has two adult children, the husband has a career as a family doctor, marina

teaches ukrainian at a private school and writes poetry, this collection, i i named it in honor of my husband, to whom several e-e poems are also dedicated in this collection, kiss my sadness, and when i give this collection as a gift, i always sign it. may the one who heals yours always be nearby sum and in 2018, marina headed the ukrainian community. in india, it is small, but it consists mainly of such mixed families as marina's. the majority of ukrainians living in these asian countries are the wives of ukrainian women. there is also a certain share of businessmen and women engaged in business, there is a small share, students. there are no ukrainian restaurants or ukrainian cultural centers in newdil and other indian cities. the community center is the ukrainian embassy. as an organization, we are not registered. under the laws

of india we can act as unregistered organization, but we cannot, for example, open an account on which we could collect donations, funds and use them for our own, some cultural events, etc., therefore, we do not have, of course, neither our center nor our premises, and that is why the embassy comes in very handy here, because sometimes we held master classes, or pysanka, pysanka master classes, petrykyvka master classes, ambassador of ukraine vindi, oleksandr polishchuk, says that the embassy also has a lot of why does it rely on the local community, indeed, it is ukrainian the diaspora in india is probably not as big as in canada, but it is quite numerous, and most importantly , it is very warm and always responds to

all our requests, problems, and not only that, but we also share together the events related to commemoration of fallen heroes. however, community activities are limited outside the embassy building. we have no right to act here as a political force. with this, says marina, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, they managed to hold several protest actions. a separate action was also held by the association of medical students who studied at ukraine. in fact, we supported us, and we supported them, and they also separately held their own action, spoke out against the war, they held a march, er, which expressed a protest against

these aggressive actions of russia. against ukraine. but the protest action during the visit of the minister of foreign affairs of russia sergey lavrov in the spring of last year lasted only 5 minutes. here, even holding the ukrainian flag in your hands can already be considered as a political action, simply standing. we unfurled the flag, literally 5 minutes later the police came to us and asked collect the flag and end the action. maryno, says that things from india to ukraine, they. they don't send much, as for money, almost everyone in ukraine has someone at the front or a forced migrant, a small community sends money mostly to its own. marina sees the greatest perspective in the development of cultural ties, in cooperation with the embassy and cultural organizations. it is cultural vectors, it is exchange, cultural exchange, arts, singers, dancers, exchange of students, maybe. marina says that

she has not met yet. any indian supported the russian war against ukraine, but they expected more from the indian government, because india is a democratic country, and for now she and other ukrainians in india are looking for ways to help their distant homeland, long for ukraine and pray for victory, soul and body, we will help for our freedom tetyana vorozhko, sankal bagitsa, dmytro melnyk, voice of america from newly india. on this, we are looking for 16-year-old daryna zhuravel from the kherson region. imagine, the girl disappeared on the first day of the war, and until now there was no news about her. i know what when a full-scale invasion began, daryna

was there. in the city of nova kakhovka, which is still under occupation. maybe that's why the girl doesn't get in touch, so i'm asking everyone, especially the residents of the left bank of the kherson region, who may be watching this program on social networks. look carefully at the photo of darina zhurravel and try to remember her face. if someone suddenly sees the 16-year-old girl, or you become aware of her possible whereabouts, do not delay and immediately call our hotline. magnolia children's tracing services by short number 1163. calls from any ukrainian mobile operator are free. if it is not possible to get in touch by phone, write to the chatbot of the child tracing service in telegram. any information is important. i also want to remind you that we are continuing the search for 16-year-old karina kanivets, also from the kherson region.

her mother told us about the girl's disappearance. imagine. the woman hasn't done anything for over five months...'