the most recent statements from both republican and democratic leaders regarding this senate bill and aid to ukraine right now. our next step will either strengthen the american position in the international arena, or knock washington and kyiv out of it. if congress does its job, american weapons will end up in the hands of ukrainians, and we here at home will get stronger military power and defense-industrial potential. it will also show what conclusions the world draws from looking at the first full-scale war in europe since '45. every day is extra the funding package remains a senate-only bill, rather than a law agreed upon by the entire congress, is a day america's adversaries are laughing at. it would not be an exaggeration to say that right now the survival of the ukrainian people, the fate of american leadership in the world, and the chances of putin's victory are many.

depends on what speaker mike johnson does in the near future, it is in his will at any time to bring up the bipartisan bailout package that passed the senate by 70 votes, more than a month ago, and he will provide ukraine with exactly what it lacks, military equipment, ammunition, intelligence support, advanced weapons and more. important words of senators, katya, i thank you for your work today. lisunova , our congress correspondent, was in touch with us. a series of ukrainian drone strikes on russian oil refineries has significantly reduced russia's oil capacity, which is the main source of russian income. the kremlin announced that they plan to protect their oil and gas facilities for using pancer missile systems. instead , ukrainian intelligence says that...

it will not change the situation in particular. read more about the consequences of ukrainian drone attacks in the story of henry ridgevil and oleksiy kovalenko. a ukrainian drone flies through a smoky sky near the ryazan oil refinery in western russia. it unfolds and crashes into the plant. this is followed by a loud explosion. the march 13 attack is one of a series of recent attacks on the oil industry. of russia kyiv claims to have targeted at least seven different ones oil refineries, mainly in russian regions, not far from ukraine. - says analyst thomas o'donnell, with whom voice of america spoke at the energy conference in berlin. war requires a huge amount of diesel fuel for tanks, trucks, etc. and therefore this region is directly responsible for the diesel needed for the war. the attacks are also aimed at reducing russia's oil revenues. another.

drone targeted an oil refinery in the nizhny novgorod region on march 12, about 775 km in the middle of russia. if you hit the refineries there, what is happening is that the amount of diesel they are exporting is decreasing, whereas before they were exporting as much diesel as oil. they have to switch to oil if they want to make money from it. roits estimates that recent drone attacks have reduced overall capacity. moscow from oil processing by 370 barrels per day, or about 7% of the total. the president of ukraine highly praised the growth of drone capabilities for the ukrainian army. these for weeks, many have already seen that the russian war system has vulnerabilities, and that we can reach those vulnerabilities with our weapons. ukrainian strikes may increase the impact of western restrictions on the price of russian oil, zaprova said. in december 2022 to reduce

the kremlin's profits. most of russian oil is now transported by tankers, mainly via the baltic sea. this opens up opportunities for allies of ukraine - says odonal. the tankers themselves are very old and quite suspicious. they could be stopped in the straits in the territorial waters between denmark and sweden and legally check. and the inspectors could say: you have insufficient insurance, or these ships. cap on russian oil prices, ukraine and its allies hope that their joint efforts will cut russia's main source of revenue, which the kremlin is using to finance its invasion of ukraine. general, oleksiy kovalenko, voice of america.

united people from different parts of ukraine. our next story is about the mortarmen of the galician brigade with the callsigns mix and did, who are now fighting side by side in donetsk region. the first moved from sevastopol after the occupation. crimea in 2014, and his subordinate grandfather left his job in poland and came to defend his homeland already on the second day of a full-scale war. now their task is not only to increase the losses of the enemy, but also to cover their attack aircraft. the soldiers told anna kostyuchenko and pavel sukhodolskyi about the specifics of their work. sight, sight 365, 365. angle 27 36, fire one mine. the crimean man calls out the coordinates of the target by the callsign mix. he is the commander of the mortar calculation of the 80th separate unit of the galician assault brigade. the man moved to kharkiv from sevastopol due to the annexation of crimea in 2014. and he went to fight in the summer of 2022. well, at that time i lived in kharkiv,

i have a child there. that's it. i started at first, but i was a volunteer. when he was no longer needed, he went to serve. in his native crimea, miks was left with his father and stepfather, but the woman became a victim of kremlin propaganda, says a military officer. we, he says, shoot by ourselves, it's just a homecoming. machoga says, we will release you, don't worry, not for civilians they are beating, and at this moment we are running, pulling people out. at first meeks was an infantryman, a stormtrooper, and later joined the gunners. glory to ukraine! the mortar crew consists of five people, a 53-year-old man from lviv with the call sign grandfather serves the weapon, we arrive while the guys are doing their business, i dig a hole under the stove, they bring the mortar, we set it up,

and then i go there, disguise myself, and clean you also have to do it, well, after the war or during the battle, well, during the battle, it rarely happened, well, it happened in solidarity. grandfather in his youth he did military service, but later he had no relation to the army, he worked as a construction worker all his life. he joined the armed forces on february 25 , 2022, why did he return from abroad? well , i arrived there, well, i was almost at the border, i arrived, i didn't say anything to anyone, i immediately went to the atm, no, i started from near snigorov, well , the mykolaiv region, and that's how we came here to the donbass. you have to work at the positions both day and night, additionally adjust the work of mortars, drones help , it is called a stream, it flies a drone day and night , that is, we constantly see everything, who is out somewhere, we see movement, a team arrives

with coordinates, a shot is fired, we see hits, misses, we rejoice, that is, a little, if nearby, it is the other way around, that is, well, we see everything, that’s all... mortars in donbas use both soviet mortars and allied weapons. anna kostyuchenko, pavel sukhodolskyi for voice of america from donetsk region. congratulations to the organizers of medical centers at the revolution of dignity for professional work at the general staff of the armed forces. this is the story of maria nazarova, who has been building and developing tactical since 2014 medicine in ukraine, integrating nato standards into it. why the best medicine is artillery and what experience of ukrainians should be adopted by the world, maria nazarova told in an interview with yuri solonets. how do you think ukrainian tactical medicine has changed in the third year of full-scale training. it is worth starting with the fact that we first

formed it, then reformed it, and this process is still going on. when we started in 2014, we were really doing everything from scratch with very, very heavy resistance. of the system that was before what he knew before the 14th year the ukrainian army, exclusively soviet instructions, and it may sound terrible, but it must be accepted as a fact, we had exactly the same as in the russian army, only much less money, in the 14th year we began to wonder how we to make our wounded survive, because if we do as the soviet textbook says, they somehow don't survive, and that's very good, because the russians don't survive. but it is very bad for us, because we do not know anything else, then mass borrowing of these practices began international, well, first of all american, and we set ourselves the goal that it would be as the american book says, here it is very important to understand that when we think that

we are not so perfect, because it is not equal to how in the us army, you have to calm down, because here we don't need to have one-on-one like in the us army, first of all, we are fighting on our own land. secondly, these are completely different conditions of provision, thirdly, this is not a contract army, but an army of the national liberation war. we do not expect the people who participate in the war that they are all. professional military, we make something better out of what we have, and so if we don't have it exactly like johnny from alabama, it doesn't mean we have it bad, it's just a completely different environment in which this tactic is formed medicine, what we have achieved, that we are doing something that others have not done before, this is a very in-depth training in tactical medicine for people with no medical education at all, no medical training, as i have already said, there is suspicion. which teach the soldier to replace the tourniquet with tamponade and bandage, this, this

a simple mechanical manipulation, but it can be very dangerous if a long time has passed since the tourniquet was applied, because if several hours pass, and removing the tourniquet can be dangerous for the patient, we began to transfuse blood at the pre-hospital stage and those units. who started really doing it, they saw a huge improvement in the survival of the victims, thanks to the fact that they took it upon themselves to train their combat medics, to buy, to find through volunteers refrigerators and blood warmers, we have already really started to transfuse blood in a trench and it works and it's completely safe, it's universal blood that doesn't cause compatibility reactions, it's a refrigerator that stands in position, it can just be powered by that generator that works for drones and walkie-talkies, and in the moment when

these medics or in this place find a wounded person who has lost a lot of blood, we will pour warm blood into him and thus bring him back to life, this is a huge achievement of ours, are there enough combat medics now, they are needed all the time, they needed all the time, well of course, this terrible shortage persists , it is so terrible, we can have an option when a surgeon is in the position of a combat medic, this is categorically wrong, not because no, not because a surgeon is too good to be in the trenches , and because a surgeon is needed in a hospital, and if , if he, if he is in the position of a combat soldier, it means that we could not hire a person without a medical education, it is very bad, i would, i would like to have there was a surplus of combat medics so we could rotate them. that we could send them, help them to the medical company, to the staging post, to the hospital, and they

still had such a component that they could do this, and so we have combat medics, which are fewer than doctors, what can the american partners to improve the current state of tactical medicine in ukraine? to improve tactical medicine and the survival of the wounded, the american partners have to give us more weapons, and this is not a canned phrase that... that, you know, that coincides there, maybe with general calls, it's a very simple understanding any medic in ukraine that the best medicine is artillery, i know how to provide help to my victims, i am very good at doing everything related to the hospital stage, and my colleagues, we have blood, we have ultrasounds, we have bandages of all kinds and so on, we cannot get a patient out for six hours, the only cure for it is this. drones, reconnaissance, communications, these are all military tasks that must be

accomplished in order to improve the survival of our wounded. first, there will be fewer of them if we have enough of these weapons, aircraft, and secondly, if they are, we will be able to take them out much faster and provide them with assistance. it was an interview with maria nazarova, a ukrainian combat medic, watch it on our youtube and. other platforms. we are finishing the issue of the story about the contribution of the ukrainian diaspora and americans to the collapse of the soviet union. ukrainian historian oleksandr zinchenko examines this question in his new book about the questioning of the ussr. our journalist hanna tverdohlip asked the author of the book and the participants of the events from the american side about the period of ukrainian independence. this story continues. as a sign of disagreement with russian imperialism, activists trampled and sprinkled under the us congress. the flag of the soviet union on the ground. similarly, in the 1970s in cleveland, ohio, students protested,

went on hunger strike and burned the soviet flag against human rights violations in the union and for ukraine. in 1972, on january 12, there was such a mass arrest of ukrainian dissidents, and from that it began in some communities, including in cleveland, we came... we had young students at the demonstration 24-hour hunger strike, i remember one of those times in cleveland. it was the coldest day. in the 1980s and 1990s , people from various states came to washington to protest against the crimes of the soviet union. separate rallies near the soviet embassy and the white house were attended by many thousands. the ukrainian diaspora actively helped ukraine and demanded that the us government recognize its independence, after the ukrainians expressed this desire in a referendum.

the post-war emigration, the one that came, they lived for. idea of ​​ukrainian independence, it was very politicized emigration, and they embodied it in their children, as i and my brothers who were already born here. in 1991, there was a split in washington regarding the future of the soviet republics. the state department was more cautious, and not only the state department, but the bush administration in general. congress. with the support of ukrainian americans, activists, was more determined in favor of independence. the pentagon was also more sympathetic to the idea of ​​ukrainian independence. historian oleksandr zinchenko tells who could convince officials of the us ministry of defense. mykhailo gorenka, he was greeted as ukrainian

valens. that is, despite the fact that his formal, only formal position was. very modest, that is, he is just an ordinary member of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, he was organized, he was received at a very high level, he was organized a meeting, it seems, for five key ministers of the administration, one of those meetings was with the head of the pentagon, the secretary of defense with dick cheney, and you have to imagine, yes, it is september of 90, and at this moment operation storm is taking place. that is , in fact, well, cheney had the head of the pentagon had important matters that day, and he had that day there were some meetings in the white house and events in the congress, he was also supposed to receive the ambassador of saudi arabia with a working lunch,

about half an hour was reserved for a conversation with mykhailo horyn, and this is how it happened that... that when mykhailo horyn came, he charmed dikacheny so much in some incredible way that this conversation stretched for about an hour and a half, goren found some such words that allowed him to convince him that ukrainian independence, not only is it not a threat to the united states america, rather the opposite. subsequently, orest dechakivskyi, an american of ukrainian origin, son of a member of the oun, wrote the text of the congress resolution on... knowledge of ukrainian independence. ukrainians in the usa called legislators in support of this resolution, wrote letters, and lobbied. the resolution received bipartisan support and was approved by congress. and president george bush, by the way, had a close friend from among americans of ukrainian origin. it was taras shmagala who organized the meeting of the president with representatives of the diaspora. after this meeting an information leak has occurred. zmi began to write

about bush's commitment to the idea of ​​ukraine's independence, despite his famous speech in kyiv in favor of the narrow. alliance with moscow. oleksandr zinchenko tells about the collapse of the soviet union and the american angle in this story in his new book, how ukrainians destroyed the empire of evil. i was interested in showing the ukrainian perspective of this story, because usually books that describe the collapse of the soviet union show it from the perspective of moscow. and according to this, in such a focus, it is precisely the ukrainian narrative, it falls out very often. it is clear that just as a ukrainian wrote a book about how ukrainians destroyed and destroyed the empire of evil, the same book could be written by lithuanians about how lithuanians destroyed and destroyed the empire of evil, the poles and eventually the russians, that is, it is not actually about absolutization of this

statement, we are talking about the fact that the ukrainian role was certainly very important. it was ukraine that put a cross over the soviet union, as the last, at that time, very terrible totalitarian empire. hanna tverdohlip, dmytro melnyk, maksym shulga, voice of america. and on this we will say goodbye. see also our daily briefings from monday to friday at 18:00 on youtube and facebook, where you can ask us your questions live. thank you for trusting us. good night and good morning, see you soon.

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trust of russians in these elections, does it mean that this trust in the pews, trust will encourage putin to loosen his hand even more in the war against ukraine, against the west, and in general, will we see a completely different putin, given that percentage, on which he refers to in his trust and in his trust in himself, well, i think that we will not see anything, mr. se... new, to him and before these pseudo-elections , no one tied their hands, now even more so, that is, he will , well, he actually said this at this so-called press conference after the announcement of these figures, that he will continue the war, that the goals of the so-called special operation he is going to fulfill that he has already agreed to

some... a sanitary zone on the territory of ukraine, well, you know, this traditional delusion that comes from him already, in my opinion, does not surprise anyone and does not require any analysis, it is simple well, the continuation of that absolutely catastrophic, by the way, for russia the course he took, starting this full-scale aggression against ukraine, he will pay for it, it will be... and his personal tragedy, because he will either end his life in a gas prison, or he will simply not be physically able to it will come, but it's his choice, he made it, that's why he bears the responsibility, regarding the support , you know, he was really painted, drawn and so on, but at the same time it's equally important to emphasize that, after all.. ...

after all, the vast majority of the russian population supports him, and let's not to deceive ourselves that there is some kind of opposition there, that there are some people who are protesting, who do not agree, we looked at these protests, the green card in the ballot, there is a firecracker, and some completely inadequate standing at 12 o'clock e. with pre-election ballot boxes, this and there is something called the russian opposition, so in fact the overwhelming majority of russians are chauvinists, and we must talk about it, we must remind about it time and time again, explain it to our supporters...