he signed the contract in russian without translation. three days after arriving in moscow, kumar says he and six other indian nationals were taken to an undisclosed location, given russian military uniforms, and the men underwent military training. i was injured already during the first week of training, i was hospitalized. after recovering a little, i looked for my friends and countrymen, and learned that they had been sent to the war zone with the egyptians and nepalese. kumar says that he dug trenches and built in the russian army bunkers in the east and south of ukraine, worked without days off, without enough food and water. i have no words to describe our suffering, we did not think about the hardships, our only motive was to stay alive and return home. kumar's family was horrified by his wanderings and appealed to india's ministry of external affairs and parliament for help. we regularly appealed

to the authorities to help bring them home. fortunately, most of those who have been scammed return home after a long time expectation. we are all happy. kumar says he survived because he refused to learn russian, and those who learned the language were sent to the front lines along with russians. kumar and 34 other indians have returned home, but the man says many of his compatriots are still at the front. kumar is calling on the indian government to bring them back home. arash arasabadi, mohit ulslam, voice of america. let's move on, we're talking about events in the middle east. along with israel's operations in lebanon, tensions are rising in the region. the last significant turn was the elimination of the leader of the hezbollah group hassan fucked up already in israel. announced the next

stage of the war against terrorists, which, according to the country's authorities, will begin soon. for its part, the us state department stated that it supports israel's right to self-defense, but seeks a diplomatic solution to the conflict. iryna shinkarenko will continue the topic. smoke was still billowing from destroyed high-rise buildings in the suburbs of beirut this sunday after israel struck on friday. the israeli military claims that the target of the attack was the leader of the hezbollah group, which in usa. not terrorist. on saturday, the group confirmed the death of its leader, hassan nasrallah. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu called nasrallah a man who wanted to destroy israel. nasrallah was no ordinary terrorist. he was the axis, the prime mover of the iranian axis of evil. he and his men were the authors of the plan to destroy israel. meanwhile, hezbollah's biggest ally iran after.

reza's mother also raised a black flag over the mausoleum on the verge of death. the symbol of mourning came as hezbollah released a statement saying that shit joined his fellow martyrs. at the same time, the group promised - quote: to continue the holy war against the enemy and in support of palestine. as hundreds of families sleep on the streets of beirut, and the lebanese government says the number of displaced people is close to one million, the israel defense forces released video footage it claims shows dozens being struck. hezbollah in lebanon. israel says it warned civilians to leave. the country's leader criticized israel's offensive. unfortunately, the law of the jungle, which rules the world, forced the enemy israel to stop all efforts for a ceasefire and continue the war against lebanon, because he does not care about the law or international law. overnight attacks in beirut continued this weekend, raising concerns about what may come next. meanwhile, hundreds of people in

baghdad rallied against nasrallah's assassination and tried to breach the fortified green zone in iraq, where the us embassy is located. we are watching this very closely to see if and how hezbollah and or iran and groups in iraq and syria. we must be prepared for a certain response. we have to make sure we're ready, and we really are. we believe that we have the necessary potential of forces in the region, but the situation... and now the livano ministry of health reports more than a thousand dead and 600 wounded in the last two weeks. iryna shenkarenko, araj arabasadi. voice of america. next, we talk about the election campaign in the usa. republican and democratic vice presidential candidates jaydee vance and tim walsh prepare for a debate.

which will take place on tuesday in new york. what will volstevens focus on and whether these debates will be able to influence the course of the presidential race, maria ulyanovska will tell. candidate for vice president. our team is meaningful, we are proud of the results of our work, not avoiding them. the team that has a real plan is trump vance's team. helping senator vidogai prepare for the 90-minute debate in new york was republican congressman tom emer. he can talk about... the economy that donald trump fixed, which harris biden was hacked. he can talk about the border that trump protected and they broke. and when he realizes that tim walls will try to avoid the question, to speak in plain language, vance will hold him accountable. minnesota governor tim

walsh is also honing his debate skills. when addressing voters, he often focuses on how important the november 5 election is. everything is on kun. only the next four years, the next 40 years. probably one of vols strongest lines of attack against vance will be reproductive rights can vance be pressed on whether trump will sign an executive order banning abortion as president, or if abortion will be allowed nationwide for a very short period of time? according to hansen, voters should not expect the candidates for the position of vice president to provide detailed explanations. about the policies their candidates are proposing. the debate is usually more about the show than the content. candidates have become very adept at evading answers to questions instead of addressing the issues they want to address solve. voters watching

tuesday's debate will get a sense of whether they like the vice-presidential candidates, but unless something unforeseen happens, hansen says it's unlikely the debate will significantly affect the american presidential race. race. maria ulyanovska, veronika balder of eglesias, voice of america. and our next story about how ukrainians are preparing for the games of the invincibles, international competitions, military and injured veterans. in 2025, the unbeaten games will be hosted by canada. there will be ukraine to represent 35 military personnel who passed the national selection. among them... national guard colonel anatoly berko from khmelnytskyi. he told his story to tetyana kukuriyka and serhii rybchynskyi. for 35-year-old anatoly byrk, the war began more than 10 years ago.

if i even had a choice not to go to war, not to be involved in the performance of tasks there. i wouldn't care if i wasn't even there. i would be a soldier, i would go as a volunteer, or i would sign a contract, but i would still go to defend my country, i don’t want to sit on the sidelines while history is being made, that's how the katsaps came to free us. my very first tattoo was done in the 14th year, this cossack, with the words, the world belongs to the brave, anatoly birko fought his first battle in

october 2014, near the village of smile in the luhansk region, he participated in the battles for the 32nd checkpoint, which was nicknamed the valley of death. the full-scale invasion of russia found anatoliy byrk in the donbas, in early march of this year he was wounded near the village of robotyne, zaporizhzhia region, in his dugout hit by a mine the shelter collapsed, we were inside under the rubble, but we got out, a diagnosis of brain injury was made. a concussion, some sort of cerebral contusion, after treatment anatoliy birko returned to the front, at the end of april he applied for selection to the ukrainian national team for the invincibles games, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,

come on, come on, select this year was exceptionally so cool, this year... a very large number such a record number of participants. glory to ukraine. 35. these are veterans and servicemen who were injured during hostilities. last year , oleksandr makovey from khmelnytskyi was the captain of the ukrainian team. it is about sports rehabilitation, new opportunities, new friends, but you understand that sport without medals is not sport, and you always want to win. that's why there is also some element of competition in this, but it is more gentle, light, let's say that where the boys are not so worried about defeat. as in regular sports. oleksandr makovei - a full knight of the order of courage in

dusseldor won a gold medal in the push kernels on wax. it's been exactly one year since we came from dusseldorf, and the emotions until now , when i remember them, i get goosebumps, but now i have goosebumps, because it's such an impression, it can't be conveyed, and our result is 32 medals, and it's very cool result, now the new measure is being formed. i help them, and i am sure that they will have more. the invincible games was launched in 2014 by prince harry. ukraine began to compete in 2017. in february 2025, the first will be held in vancouver, canada and the mountain resort of whistler in the history of the winter hybrid games of the undefeated. at the first team training, the members of the ukrainian national team were able to... try themselves in all kinds of sports and choose those in which they will compete in canada. anatoly birko chose

rowing on simulators, basketball on waxes, rugby on waxes and cross-country skiing. i want to show the whole world that ukraine is very strong and powerful. state to show the whole world that in ukraine really powerful strong warriors, even after they are injured, lose there limbs, receive... injuries that are invisible there, still they are ready to fight,

fight, go to the end. 550 participants from 25 countries will take part in the 2025 invincible games. tetiana kukurika, serhiy repchynskyi, for voice of america from khmelnytskyi. this is the story about the preparation of the ukrainian team for the games. unconquered, we end with another story about journalists and photographers who try to show the russian war against ukraine through the lens of cameras. they have no right to get used to her horrors, i am convinced of that ukrainian social photographer and documentarian, oleksandr glyaelov, who covered military conflicts in different parts of the world. recently, an exhibition of his works was held in new york . iryna solomko asked oleksandr glyadyelovov about the difficulties of working as a military photographer. before the war in ukraine , you saw the war, you were in transnistria, you were in chechnya, you were in nagorno-karabakh,

how much is this experience of the war in ukraine, it is different if you compare it, well, the main thing is the war in ukraine, in my country was attacked, this attitude, this side chosen because other conflicts were where i did not live, this year i had an exhibition in kyiv. for the first time after the invasion , it was printed by hand, and it was a small exhibition, and it was called the last moment, i found the name of the forgiveness of the slavic woman, you know, such a russian march, and i remember the times when the number one train from kyiv station left from the first platform to moscow for this march, and now trains are being sent to ukraine for equipment and soldiers of the russian army for this march. and there were only 11 photos in this exhibition, but all of them

refer to those soldiers where the moscow boots stood since the beginning of the collapse of the soviet union, that is, you have seen most of these soldiers, right? well, you see, i was in transnistria, but i had a very short experience there, and such a clean 15 minutes on the battlefield, a bullet in the leg and everything, and even the film disappeared, then i was somewhere... it was the end of january 1994, the last phase of the first karabakh war. i was so it happened that there was a lot of blood on the azerbaijani side. this part of the war, they attacked each other in battalions, and then the end of the first chechen war, and already in the mid-90s, i told my friends in kyiv that russia would come with a big war, i knew, i certainly knew it, i understood it, because i worked a lot in different ways, and in russia too, and in 1996

, after seeing grozny, i immediately understood what kind of war it would be, and it is the same. it's just that other weapons now have more of them, that's how they fight, they, they don't count their own, and they don't spare anyone at all, you work exclusively with film, that is, it's an analog camera, and it's with you all the time, i know that you always with with it, the film sees as the human eye sees, and the modern matrix of the digital camera sees much better, here i am building my... implementation of what i see, how, how, how my eye sees, but there is a certain cunning here, you know, because the main thing for me is that i love a friend, i am such a photographer that i, well, development is just a routine, but when i shoot, i can already see how it should be printed by hand, and this

love has not yet passed , if you shoot for yourself, for your own projects, then you shoot black and white photos, this is how you see the world, that is, you also see the world black and white? i also see the world in color, i see what i want to photograph, i see how it should look in black and white, three times in my life i have done this with a digital camera, the last time a month ago, i photographed the work of an ambulance of doctors without borders in donbas, they are evacuating the wounded to a large hospital further to the west, but they were very short on time. because there is film in kyiv, if i had more time, i would shoot on film, and so i asked my friends for a good digital camera, but lately you have been positioning yourself as a social a photographer, because you initially, and even not only me, positioned me like that, because what i document, as a documentary photographer, it concerns such, you know, unfortunate creatures

of life, i supposedly my voice speaks about those who on.. . has its own voice, well, such big projects were about children, about i made a big story about a big project about a virus infection in ukraine, it was initially related to initiation, drug addiction, i have been photographing since 1997, the last shootings were in 2018, it is very stretched in time, you see, that's it when they told me you were a military photographer, back in the days of ato, i did not agree. no, no, i've been several times, well, life is long, i've been several times, and now i don't argue anymore, because the only thing i photograph now is my relatives, friends and the war, you've probably heard that you're called a quixote with the camera, well, it was how you feel about it, because such an image is very difficult, i think that some part can and is, i, i am not so idealistic, because i am

still investigating reality, not dream some kind of reality, but as an attitude towards people, then yes, yes, and the struggle for what is the basis of my worldview also, yes, you have a very emotional photo, and now with the war, very often these accusations are heard that ukrainian journalists, photographers, documentarians, they perceive it all too closely, and it certainly affects the quality. from the fact that, well, that should not be the case, this emotionality, it interferes, whether you agree with it or not, if you compare it with the photography of the vietnam war, it was also very emotional, it was taken by western photographers, the first thing a journalist who came to saigon did was go to the bazaar and buy military clothes for himself, and even some of them on

the trips were armed with weapons, such things that a journalist should be... neutral, aloof, as you can to be detached when this is your country, it was attacked by the enemy, tell me about the detachment of photographers, allies in the second world war, for example, well, we cannot treat this war differently, and we are dying, but to treat it without emotions is not not only ukrainian journalists should, but also western journalists, i think that yes, this attitude towards evil is... personified, there is real evil that creates what they create, how to treat it? i am like a photographer trying to show what this war has brought. my country, i do not have the right to get used to these horrors, i also have to acutely feel and show them myself. why do you think it is still not

understood abroad, after three years of war, after buchi, after izyum, it is very difficult to leave the comfort zone, and there is an illusion that it is possible to come to an agreement , this is how it happened, you know, these ten years after the fall of the berlin wall, because they cannot put themselves in our place, it is not... the indifference to accept that the reality of the world in general, not of ukraine, the reality of the world, the world order is broken, it is changing, the faster you act, the less it will be consequences of this hack, unfortunately, everything is going very slowly, do you have a project that you have been dreaming about for a long time, yes, but could not do it, i was thinking about how to approach and it is about war. to these traumas, post-traumas, how to work with them, as well as understanding what if you you start doing it, it's for a few pictures, i

've moved on, it's impossible, and it looks like now i'm going to do something along those lines with doctors without borders, if i'm still alive, when this war is over, because nobody knows when it will be over , and will it just be an interruption of this war, because the main goal is that it does not exist in our country, that it does not exist at all. then, if it ends, i'll still have time to photograph what she did anyway. and on this we will say goodbye. thank you for trusting the voice of america in ukrainian. i wish you peace good night and good morning. see you soon. see you soon. discover the power of cooperation at the 31st lviv international book forum, from october 3 to 6 in the powder tower and downtown lviv,

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a special view on the events in ukraine, so it is not necessary to say that the fish rots from the head, no, not from the head, and beyond its borders, who then for china, my heart hurts, all this is in the information marathon with mykola veresny. saturday 17:10, sunday 18:15 at espresso. we are servicemen of the griga separate unit, named after volodymyr griga, of the unmanned aviation complexes of the 76th separate battalion of the 102nd separate brigade. in the zaporozhye direction , combat clashes take place daily due to the constant assaults of the enemy. this does not bypass the gulepil direction, which our battalion has been defending for almost two years. for now we will rub. triple the means of adjustment and fire damage from the sky, so we are asking everyone who cares to raise funds for 20 duuj mavic classic and 10 mavic

3t drones, yes. not small, but the lives of brothers and your relatives are much more expensive, we really hope for your support, donations and distribution, let's not let the occupier take a step further, and let's speed up the victory together, glory to ukraine, heroes, glory, congratulations, friends. a new week and we begin, as i said in the announcement 30 minutes ago. today, without khrystyna yatskiv, several programs will not be her, or rather she will be, but in the second part, so at 21:15 we expect khrystyna before our traditional discussion. today, as always, we

start every monday with the fact that... we will talk about the new week, about the current week, about the latest events, about what ukrainians should expect and what the world should expect, in principle, from what is happening in the political, in the military, in the geopolitical component, but today we will also talk about what happened last week, because these events will be significant, or rather will have a significant impact on the week today on... the current week, because significant events took place last week, important events, this is zelensky's visit to the united states of america, this is also the presentation of different plans, different visions of how the war in ukraine should end, and of course, today we will traditionally consult with you and ask you what your opinion is about these the events that took place last week,

more precisely, regarding zelenskyi's visit. to the united states of america, so our traditional poll today is as follows: are you satisfied with the result of zelenskyi's visit to the united states of america? if so, then absolutely free, you can take your phones or smart phones and dial 0800 211 381 if you think that no, this visit was in fact, or you are not satisfied with this visit. 700 211 382 at the end of this hour we will draw up intermediate results, at the end of the next one we will have the final results, and of course the first part of our conversation, the first expert, the first, the first thoughts are actually about the situation at the front, it is about the ongoing war and which, unfortunately, will continue, so today we have...

dmytro snigerov, military expert, co-chairman of the public initiative, live on air the matter is the matter. mr. dmytro, we are glad to see you on the espresso tv channel. good evening, glory to ukraine. kudos to the heroes, thank you for the invitation. mr. dmytro, we will start, of course, with the operational situation, what is happening in the east of our country. so, if we talk about the situation, the russian invaders continue to storm the positions of the ukrainian defense forces. we see that in general, since the beginning, even today , more than 80 combat clashes have taken place, and of course the most active directions are the ughledar, pokrovsky, and chasovoy directions ravine, as well as the kup'in direction, by the way, we will talk about this in more detail, the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine informs about this in general. but with regard to the kupyansk region, we, more precisely, with regard to the direction of kupyansk and the district. we

certainly see that there are still attempts to break through, there are attempts to put pressure on the positions of the defense forces, in particular, the enemy is preparing new attempts at large assaults in the kupinsky direction, this was reported by veteri espresso, deputy commander of the bepak achilles shock battalion of the 92nd brigade oles malyarevich. let's hear what he had to say. the target is completely there everyone understood - it is to capture the entire left bank of the oskil river, and they are moving towards this goal without putting their lives and resources at risk. in recent days , they have not had any territorial gains, for now they are confident, this is my personal subjective opinion, that they are preparing a new new storms are so big.