and he was indicted, we know he's a 58-year-old man who lived in hawaii, and before that, he spent a large part of his life in north carolina, we know he has criminal charges, he's a convicted felon, including for possessing a weapon of mass destruction, this is a machine gun, as well as for other charges previously, and american journalists also investigated his political preferences, it is known that two... in 2016 he voted for donald trump, but later became disillusioned with him, criticized him strongly , and on this in this election season of 2024, he in particular donated about $100 to the democracy campaign, and also participated, voted in the democratic primaries in north carolina, also journalists paid a lot of attention to the fact that this man fasted a lot in support of ukraine, he in particular spoke at the beginning of 2022. after the full-scale

invasion of russia, that he was ready to fight and die for ukraine, but he later admitted that he was not accepted into the international legion because he had no military experience, but also by age, the international legion said that they don't have, that the man had no connection with the unit, and they say that the information circulating in the media is not true, that we know that the man, ryne raut arrived in ukraine, visited ukraine. 2022 and wanted to help ukraine , in particular, in an interview with other journalists from the new york times, he said that he, in particular, wanted to help with the recruitment of former military personnel to fight in ukraine, but it looks like that is all that remains plans yulia, a number of lawmakers are calling for increased protection of former president trump. there is also criticism of the secret service and especially after the first attempt to attack trump. what is currently being done to... strengthen the security

of the presidential candidates, because, as you already mentioned, we have seven weeks of the presidential campaign ahead of us, and natalya, calls for increased security, especially increased security for donald trump, are renewed with renewed vigor, and law enforcement officers in it was explained to the local yesterday that in fact his security was adequate, befitting his status because he's a former president, not a sitting president, if he were a sitting president, the entire area around this golf club would be guarded, but the golf club itself... presents quite a challenge to the secret service because this is a large area, donald trump's golf clubs are surrounded by very busy streets and such bushes in which such people as an attacker can actually hide. also, golf clubs are a large area and there are no designated protected areas. the only protected place is after the essence is his golf cart, a golf machine that protects the bullet with bulletproof glass. so there are questions about how to protect the candidate... we know that

the secret service has a certain budget, it's 3 billion dollars, most of which goes to protect the current president and his family, now if there are now calls for that , to strengthen that security, there are questions about whether the secret service needs a bigger budget, which must be approved by congress, or maybe more personnel, and today joe biden talked about just that as he flew out of the white house, he said that the secret service needs support, but here the question arises, if we strengthen the security of one candidate... is it necessary to strengthen the security of another candidate and are there resources and time for this, because there are 50 days until the election, but we will definitely talk about natalya this topic in the coming weeks. of course, yuliya, thank you for your work, for your explanation , yuliya yarmolenko was in direct contact with us from the white house. we talked about the second attempt on the life of former president donald trump. until the day of voting in the presidential elections in the usa seven weeks left. both ... americans

and democrats are expressing concerns about the process of voter registration, voting, counting and certification of votes, and suggesting ways to address potential problems. this topic was studied by yuriy melnyk. democrats accuse republicans of restricting access to polling stations and conspiring to prevent the certification of results. republicans suspect democrats of falsifying open ballots, tampering with voting machines and enrolling in electoral rolls. people who do not have the right to vote. republican candidate donald trump is facing criminal charges in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which he lost. i believed that the elections were falsified, stolen. the democratic candidate, vice president kamela harris , accuses trump of undermining confidence in the election, and promises to support fundamental american principles. from the rule of law to free and fair elections, to the peaceful transfer of power. federal

agencies are preparing in case of a repeat of the events of january 6, 2021, when trump's supporters, dissatisfied with his defeat, stormed the us congress. in the league of women voters. hopes that such preparation will strengthen the integrity of the election process. i think we'll have to wait and see, we'll have to see what happens, what the results of the election will be, how people will react to them, whether there will be protests, whether these protests will cross the line into violence, and i hope that it won't. according to ben hovland, chairman of the federal election assistance commission, this year the system is working well. we had a lot of primers. both presidential and state, so the election officials have already had a lot of practice this season, and i think we're in good shape heading into november. in champaign county, illinois, local republicans in 2020 tried to get a judge to convince

county clerk aaron ammons to stop counting mail-in ballots. he rejected the attempt and i was able to count the ballots, but they were definitely trying it, as they had elsewhere. the country according to ammons, threats, intimidation and lawsuits prompted many election officials and volunteers across the country to resign. it does a disservice and demoralizes the people who do this work when we don't get the support we obviously need to be at the forefront of democracy. "it's important to invite candidates, party officials and the public to observe the system," says missouri's district director of elections. disclosure and counting of ballots, testing of equipment, manual counting of votes, verification, all this available for public viewing. republican leadership in the senate wants to pass a law that would require proof of us citizenship to participate in elections. most democratic lawmakers

say the law already bars non-citizens from voting in federal elections and there is no evidence of large numbers of undocumented immigrants turning out in the election, as republicans often say. steve herman, yuriy melnyk, voice of america. the united states is the largest donor of defense aid to ukraine. at the same time, reporting on this assistance often becomes the subject of heated discussions among politicians in washington. some congressmen who did not vote for aid to ukraine claim precisely that american money is being lost without reporting. we. talked about it with the inspector general of the pentagon, his service oversees that the funds of the pentagon are spent properly, however, how exactly the supervision takes place, robert storch told in an interview with oksana bedratenko. you supervise numerous programs of the pentagon, how

strict is the supervision of arms deliveries to ukraine? we carry out a clear and comprehensive overseeing all aspects of care. usa to ukraine , my job as the pentagon's inspector general is to oversee security assistance, but we work very closely with inspectors from the state department and the us agency for international development to cover all aspects of aid, humanitarian and otherwise, that ukraine receives, so the oversight is clear. and covers all aspects of assistance to ukraine. how big is your team, how many people work on the supervision of aid to ukraine. in the world, which requires the response of the pentagon, but it is clearly the number one job of ukraine. i i always say that this is the highest priority of my service and my colleagues. as for the pentagon's inspector general, we have over 200 people involved in one way or another in overseeing us aid to ukraine. this includes 30 employees in the region. we have several

representatives in germany, people in poland, we have investigators and program observers at the embassy in kyiv. if we add our state department inspection partners and usaaid. there will be 300-400 people from the us government. at a certain stage, the pentagon transfers equipment to the ukrainian armed forces. do the armed forces understand the importance supervision and whether they report on time. we see a big improvement with reporting. and i think our supervision helped in this. in the beginning, the rate of reporting violations was very high indeed. part of that is because, as your viewers remember, when the war started, us officials were out of the... country, the equipment was provided, but there was no reporting and accounting, so we did a lot of catching up, there are also the challenges of wartime, a lot of this equipment used on the front lines, it's a sad and difficult situation in which to ensure reporting, but we're working on it. in one from your reports, you indicated that

corruption is rooted in ukraine, you worked on anti-corruption reform in ukraine in 2007-2009. how is the situation now compared to then? yes, this is one of the strange twists of fate. i had the opportunity to work for the us department of justice to help ukrainians fight corruption in the government. i also... returned to ukraine several times and helped develop anti-corruption laws. then the national anti-corruption bureau and a special anti-corruption prosecutor's office were created, etc. i have seen these grow institutions personally, i am very pleased to see how naboo and sap came out of the idea. ukrainians turned it into reality. however, it is obvious that there are long-standing problems with corruption in ukraine , and work is underway to eradicate it. as i point out in my quarterly report, the us continues to help with this, and our surveillance system will. in your report, you say there are 57 investigations into allegations

ranging from procurement irregularities and corruption to weapons diversion and theft. are any of these allegations confirmed? now based on our completed work, we have not confirmed these allegations, but the investigation is ongoing. almost half of these charges relate to weapons proliferation, the high risk of weapons falling into the wrong hands. an excellent question, this is unique to the conflict in ukraine, although always when it comes to large and rapid deliveries of weapons for war, where it is difficult to ensure accountability, there is a significant risk that the weapons will fall into the wrong hands, there is a risk of proliferation, in particular of sensitive technologies, which are contained in some weapons, among other things, we are investigating whether weapons are going where they shouldn't, investigators of the pentagon's criminal service are conducting these investigations in ukraine and in the region. we work with inspectors of the ukrainian ministry of defense and other institutions. to obtain the information necessary for the investigation, so there is a significant risk, but we are doing everything possible to

overcome it. the pentagon works very closely with the armed forces, which reduces the risk on the front line, and we then investigate. for those who listen or watch us, we have a website, www.ukraineoversite.gov. i am extremely proud of my team that created it together with the supervisory services of our partners. you can find and look there, and importantly, there is a link to... a line that is managed by my service and partners. if you have information about something suspicious and are not sure which area of ​​care it belongs to, i encourage you to report the information there. the site has automatic translation, it's really cool. you can choose ukrainian or german or any other language you want, that's great. do people use this hotline? yes, our inspector service the pentagon received hundreds of complaints on the hotline, based on which we started the investigation, so it's really valuable. source of information, i always say that ukraine is the number one task, but we do surveillance

all over the world, because the pentagon is represented all over the world, and we need people on the front lines, and unfortunately, some of them are literally on the front lines, we need, for those people to speak up if they think something is wrong and we can investigate and figure out what needs to be done. there are reports that the pentagon overestimated aid to ukraine, indeed it allowed for more supplies. is this accounting? the error has already been fixed. we 're doing everything we can to get the pentagon to fix it. we were concerned about that early enough. and we consulted with the ministry. simply put, the pentagon used a replacement cost methodology to estimate supplies. if you give a car as a gift, you probably can't buy a new car for that amount, right? because the car now has a different price. in reality, everything is a little more complicated, but mainly it led to an overestimation of deliveries by $ 6.2 billion. we conducted up to... additional surveillance and found at least another 1.9 billion including depreciation,

so we have provided recommendations to the pentagon and are working on their implementation. how much do you rely on ukrainian government information and reporting compared to us aid to other countries? all situations are different, and what distinguishes this situation on the ground is that there are no us troops, the number of us troops is small, the us relies on the ukrainians and in terms of security... assistance to the ukrainian armed forces. they inform about what is happening, report about the state of the art, etc. when we conduct an investigation or analysis, we are actually under memorandums of understanding that ensure that we get the information we need for oversight. i have been to ukraine twice since the start of the full-scale invasion. the last time was in january and i spoke with ukrainian leaders about the importance of providing clear information so that we know what is going on and have oversight, so that the american people know that there is accountability and... oversight, so it is critical to have information, that is why we have a hotline and we call on everyone who

has such information to report. at these meetings, what did you hear, do ukrainian officials understand the importance of reporting? yes, without exception, they recognize the importance of providing us with the information we need for oversight, to ensure accountability, and frankly, for decision makers in washington to know. i'm a nerd at the capitalist graveyard, and you know, i don't define the field. but i am often asked that we receive the necessary information, we receive it and work to keep it that way. when 2 years ago on september 15, the armed forces of ukraine raisins were released and a mass grave was found on the outskirts of the city. more than 450 bodies of ukrainian soldiers, civilians and even children, many with signs of torture. volodymyr vakulenko, a local

writer, was buried in grave number 319, as later established by the examination. before his death, he buried his diary, which he kept during the occupation. ukrainian i'm changing. victoria died in kramatorsk last summer. her death coincided with vakulenko's birthday. anna kostyuchenko and pavel will talk about the mystical path of the writer's last book sukhodolskyi. this is the diary of the ukrainian writer volodymyr vakulenko, exhibited in the holodomor museum in kyiv. the man started it. when his native village of kapitolivka , kharkiv region, fell under russian occupation in february 2022. the last recording was made on march 23 of that year, the next day the occupiers came for volodymyr, says his father volodymyr vakulenko senior. writer volodymyr vakulenko

was born in kapitolivka in 197, where he graduated from school and technical school. in 1991 , he still served in the soviet army, where he was very active beat up with a spinal cord injury, volodymyr was placed on disability. in the 2000s , he worked as the editor of the children's and adolescent newspaper krynytsia in the city of izyum and the editor of several magazines and almanacs. he started printing himself in 2008. in total, he wrote 13 books. the latter was published after his death on the basis of a diary from the occupation. this year the description of 36 pages was printed as the last book of the writer i transform. the occupiers came for volodymyr on march 24, 22nd. he did not hide, he knew that he was disabled. he has a disabled son. on this very thing, i am overwhelmed, and

we cooked there in the garden on the barbecue, there or. on april 3 of that year, the russian propaganda telegram channel starshe eddy published a video with a civilian prisoner. the writer's mother, olena ignatenko, later recognized her son in these shots. it is very difficult. it is very difficult to imagine those last, last moments of his life, it is very difficult. very hard, extremely hard, i will never be able to accept it, never. as experts of truuns, a non-governmental organization that investigates international crimes, established, the russians brought vakulenko to school number two in izyum, which was occupied since march 12.

they were tortured there, the investigation established that two of the writer's fingers were broken, he was probably shot there , the investigation established later. the writer was shot twice with a makarov pistol, in the stomach, and the heart was shot through. vakulenko's body was found on may 12, 2022, in kuvet between kapitolivka and izyum. he was buried in the izyum forest in grave number 319. later, after deoccupation, dna examination confirmed that he was volodymyr vakulenko. on december 6 of the same year, he was reburied. volodymyr wrote a lot, he wrote poems, he wrote children's stories because his son

vitalik, who has such developmental features, showed him how important it is to write such stories. here are good light stories for children to feel supported. in december 22nd , the writer and activist victoria amelina brought volodymyr's excavated diary to the vivat editorial office, says olena. she understood that it must be printed. despite the fact that vika was not his friend, she realized how important it was to continue his voice. victoria amelina, as an activist. member trus hounds joined the search for volodymyr when he disappeared in march of 2022, says olena rybka. after the liberation of kharkiv oblast in september, victoria amelina went to kapitolivka. and on the instructions of vakulenko the elder, she found a diary hidden in the attic. victoria herself was mortally wounded during the shelling of kramatorsk on

june 27, 2023. she died of her wounds in the hospital on july 1, the birthday of volodymyr vakulenko. and on may 23 this year, during another shelling of kharkiv, a russian missile hit the topography of kharkiv. it was in the shunt the tannery was destroyed, seven people died - says olena. one of the books "hunters for happiness", which was being prepared there for publication, belongs to the authorship of the ukrainian writer and military man valery puzik, he was the illustrator for vakulenko's last book, i am changing, already when the fire was put out, and for some there in literally some time we found 200 copies of valery puzik's book, that moment when you realize that the rocket has hit, it was just completely destroyed by fire. water and all, but it's still a word remains, and so does volodya, he died, but he left his diary. after the end of the exhibition in kyiv in

november of this year, the diary will return to the kharkiv literary museum. volodymyr left behind not only creative achievements, but also two children. the elder vlad lives in poland, and the younger 16-year-old vitalik has an autistic disorder and lives with his grandmother in kapitolivka. according to volodymyr, it is for such children. and wrote his children's books, including a collection of poems and a party book. vitalik cannot read it himself, because he has stopped in his development at the level of a two-year-old child, - says 72-year-old olena ignatenko. i am his official guardian, but i am many years old, and this is the question, what next? it oppresses me too, but he just... talks and, let's say, serves himself with 40% interest. olena egnetenko raises her grandson for a pension

and royalties from her son's books, and the writers' union of ukraine also provides humanitarian assistance, the woman says. the first edition of the book, i believe, was 1,500 books, the amount of more than uah 240,000 was collected. for the vakulenko family and for me it is very important for the world to hear about this book, because it means that the memory of volodymyr vakulenko, as a writer, will live on, and she is not buried in that grave 319, but she is now helping her son vitaly to live , i turn, i turn into a section, into a space, into a shot, creates something that is doomed to

perish. on independence day, the president of ukraine posthumously awarded vakulenko with the order of merit of the third degree. victoria amelina received the same order posthumously. investigated by truuns with the support of the clune foundation foundation for justice, established the identities of the four soldiers. employees of the so-called lpr, who kidnapped and killed vakulenko. in the village of kapitolivka , a mural was made in memory of volodymyr vakulenko. it was opened on july 1 of this year on the birthday of volodymyr and on the day of the death of viktoria amelina. trees grow in front of the mural, which vakulenko planted during his lifetime, because he dreamed that one day there would be a beautiful park in his native village. anna kostyuchenko, pavel sukhodolsky for voice of america from the kharkiv region. we will say goodbye on this, you watched program of the ukrainian voice of america service, chas time, also join our daily briefings from monday to friday at

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for it we need to understand with... in general, what you live and what is the course of your thoughts, that is why we ask you in each of our programs most importantly, today in the second part of our conversation with andrii we will talk about the hypothetical, i really hope that it is still hypothetical, but the possibility of revanchist attempts by russian and pro-russian forces in our country, possibly even after the war with the russian federation, of course, if we survive as state, as a country, because... what is actually happening in georgia right now, and it is quite interesting to observe the rhetoric of local churches, so to speak, they are already preparing their population to shake hands with the russians and apologize for resolved, the conflicts unleashed by the russians on the territory of georgia, and what is interesting is that this is really a country that has also experienced a terrible war, in which, by the way, 20% of the territory is occupied, until now, russian troops are stationed there. and

the russian troops also killed, raped, destroyed populated areas there, well, as they say, the standard, unfortunately, recruitment of a russian soldier, of the russian empire, so that’s why we will talk about it, i already announced it today in the second part, however, of course , we're asking you, and we're interested in your opinion on this, because we're thinking about our country, and we, of course, try to prejudge, perhaps even hypothetically, some processes that... are possible, again, in our country. so, today we have a survey: is a pro-russian revenge, similar to the georgian one, possible in ukraine? if so, you can take your smartphones and phones, vote absolutely free of charge, call: yes 0800-211-381, if not, 0800-211.