more about the verdict against the president's son and what to expect next with my colleague oleksiy kovalenkoo is monitoring this process. hello, oleksiy. congratulations. first of all. faces about the details of this case, in which they admitted guilty of the president's son and how serious is this crime? yes, a jury in delaware yesterday found hunter biden guilty on all three counts of purchasing a weapon while under the influence of drugs, possession of a weapon while under the influence of drugs, and possession of a firearms license under the same circumstances. . actually, the charges against hunter biden were filed last september, and as we heard from the previous story, this is the first the first time in history that the son of a sitting president was convicted in a case of this magnitude, and what the defense was trying to do, they were trying to prove that at the time that anter biden bought the gun in 2018, he was clean, that is, he was not using drugs substances, instead... at the indictment, prosecutors tried to prove that gunter biden had undergone treatment before that, that is

oleksiy kovalenko, vyacheslav filyushkin, oleksiy osyka, voice of america, washington. the un general assembly elected denmark, greece, pakistan, panama and somalia as new non-permanent members of the security council for the next two years, starting on january 1, 2025. voting on the appointment of these countries was traditionally secret, like the election of these countries before of the un security council may affect ukraine. asked our voon correspondent iryna solomka, who joins our live broadcast. irina, congratulations, can you tell us how this process of voting for new members of the un security council was conducted, and whether there was any intrigue in it, since this vote was, as always, secret. greetings oleksia, as you know, usually everything is written and planned literally there for dozens of years, there is a special schedule, accordingly, when which country should become a non-permanent member of the security council, so a year ago, after all, there was an intrigue, then from january 1, 2024, belarus was supposed to be a non-permanent member of the secur

oleksii, thank you for your analysis, it was oleksii kovalenko. these days, ukraine received assurances from the g7 allies and the united states regarding new aid. yes, countries of the group seven agreed to provide a $50 billion loan with... using russian assets, and donors are mobilizing investments in reconstruction. our economic columnist oksana bedratenko will tell you more about this. oksana, hello. over the past years, ukraine has built a number of anti-corruption institutions and is carrying out certain reforms in this area. do western allies believe that ukraine has really made progress in fighting corruption? yes, precisely to explain to the world that ukraine has really succeeded. in its efforts to combat corruption is a strategic task for of the country's communications, observers believe, and it is indeed worth noting that ukraine has improved its position in the corruption perception index, which is calculated by transparency international, and a recent survey conducted by the international republican institute in ukraine showed an i

yes, thank you, oleksiy kovalenko, was in touch with us. thank you. meanwhile, the former head of the administration of the white house during the presidency of donald trump believes that the personal tragedy of the biden family can cause sympathy in americans. now both presidential candidates, trump and biden, have problems with their neighbors, and his analysis continues. many americans sympathize with that because. that the biden family is going through, while others wonder why there was no pretrial plea in this case, why it became so public, the jury did not it took a long time to find hunter biden guilty, there are many questions, but this is truly a tragic result of a terrible addiction, and so many american families have similar experiences in their own families, so no doubt they sympathize with the biden family. note that donald trump is one of those who in the past has faced'. addiction runs in his family, his brother died of complications from alcoholism, so this affects donald trump's family as much as many others. we have seen that the rep

oleksiy kovalenko, henry ridgevel, voice of america. and a little election campaign in the usa. if you ask the candidates for the presidency of the united states, which of them is more religious? most likely, each of them will consider himself. voice of america correspondent carolyn prysuti tried to find out how us president joe biden and former president donald trump feel about matters of faith, says yerena matviychuk. donald trump's political rallies are like going to church for some, my faith in jesus is very important, i know there is a leader donald trump who has been president before and who did a great job when he was in office, he will come back and restore those values, will restore piety in office and in our country. the former president does not avoid statements on religious topics. his words resonate with evangelicals and conservative christians. we have christians in our schools, in our military, in our government. tomas izbal sells souvenirs at election events. god, guns and trump is probably the best selling t-shirt of the last two or three years. however, donald

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my colleague oleksiy kovalenko spoke with eva maitland, acting editor-in-chief of newsgard and co-authorthe dugan investigation. first, can you talk about the investigation itself, who is dugan and what is the scope of the disinformation company, how did newsgart conduct this investigation? the report was released last week about dugan, a former police officer and american citizen who fled to russia several years ago after being investigated for hacking. from the moment he moved to russia. it is becoming an increasingly important part of russian disinformation operations. he started with the creation of similar videos, in which he received an exclusive access to the regions of ukraine occupied by russia. late last year, my colleague mackenzie began investigating the dc wiekley website, a website that published a lot of pro-kremlin disinformation and was quite successful in getting a lot of attention. my colleague then approached dugan and asked him about his connection to the website. as a result of this communication and our future. and research by many different organizations, includin

congratulations, the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas time is on the air, i and the host oleksiy kovalenko. ukraine has signed security agreements with the european union, as well as lithuania and estonia. the agreement was signed by president volodymyr zelenskyi, who is visiting brussels, where the eu summit is currently taking place. the document, called the joint security commitments between the european union and ukraine, provides for the commitment of the european union to assist ukraine in nine areas of security and defense policy. including: with delivery weapons, military training, cooperation in the defense industry and demining. bohdan tsyupin, our european correspondent, who joins our live broadcast from london, will tell you the details of this agreement. bohdan, congratulations. bohdan, what is provided by this agreement between the european union and ukraine. but what is the significance of this agreement and how does it actually differ from similar agreements with nato countries? the first thing that catches your eye is the difference. between agreements with individual coun

the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas time program is on the air, i and the host oleksiy kovalenkooe biden during meeting with the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, announced a new $225 million aid package. he apologized for the weeks of uncertainty over the delay in passing a bill to help ukraine in congress. the announced package is already the sixth within the framework of the new financing. will include air defense missiles, stinger anti-tank missiles, howitzers, armored vehicles and a wide range of spare parts and equipment. i apologize for the initial weeks of funding uncertainty. we had problems with the approval of the draft law necessary for obtaining funds. some of our very conservative members were in favor of... supporting it, but we finally did it. and since then, including today, i have announced six significant funding packages. today , i'm also signing an additional $225 million package to help you restore the power grid. after the passage of the national security bill, which was a political decision, we were able to do all this. and the way you stood, how

ostabyarich oleksiy kovalenko and... voice of america.ression left millions of ukrainians homeless. almost 6.5 million people went abroad. about 5 million are in more secure areas of the country. as of the beginning of may, almost 75,000 displaced people lived in khmelnytskyi. some of them started their own business. stories of two women from kharkiv, one of whom opened up. a beauty salon, another created her own brand of underwear and the story of berdyanets, which produces paving stones in khmelnytskyi, will be told tetyana kukuriyka and serhiy rybchinskyi. this is our regular client, the fourth procedure with us. vlada glushkin opened a beauty salon in khmelnytskyi in august 2022. before the russian aggression, the girl had the same business in kharkiv. it was difficult, because after losing kharkiv, a very successful kharkiv, i had... so that it will happen again, that something will fly here again, i will train again, i will have to go somewhere, leave, for the last savings in fact, we opened this studio, and everything went well for

welcome to the air. the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas time, i and the host oleksiy kovalenko. the us, nato and allies will not back down from supporting ukraine, because that would mean forgetting the lessons of the second world war, when the free world united in opposition to a dictator. this was stated by us president joe biden during the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the allied landings in normandy, one of the key allied operations in wwii world war ukrainians are fighting. the usa, nato and a coalition of more than 50 countries stand strongly by ukraine. we will not back down. because if we do it, ukraine will be conquered and everything will not end there. neighbors of ukraine. will be in danger, all of europe will be in danger. we cannot allow this, give in to the aggressor, bow down to dictators, we simply do not think so. numerous world leaders and the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, are taking part in the celebrations in france. more about the events in france, the meeting of the ukrainian president with the leaders of the event let's talk with

to the broadcast of the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas time, i and the host oleksiy kovalenkoriority to the supply of patriot and nasa missiles to ukraine, delaying the delivery of orders to other countries. as reported by john kier, the national security communications advisor of the white house, this will be enough to secure ukraine. appropriate means for air defense for the next 16 months. the united states government has made a difficult but necessary decision to change the priorities of short-term foreign plans military deliveries of missiles to other countries. in particular, patriot and nesens missiles are instead sent to ukraine. so let me explain what that means. as you know, the united states has a strong program for the sale of military products abroad, as part of which our defense industry produces and then exports equipment to other countries, including, of course, anti-aircraft missiles. we are going to re-prioritize the supply of these exports so that the missiles that are now coming off the assembly line... are supplied to ukraine, this will ensure that we can

meanwhile, my colleague oleksiy kovalenko spoke with an expert on the creation of an international tribunalin her opinion, is, in addition to shoigu and gerasimov, an international criminal the court can also announce the same charges against other officials of russia. jennifer, what does the decision of the international criminal court mean regarding new arrest warrants to establish justice in ukraine. we don't have details on the allegations yet, but they definitely relate to the russian attacks. to the ukrainian electricity industry and likely damage, this actually led to arrest warrants of this level. in the short term, i don't think arrests can be expected, but it is unknown if there are also additional hidden statements tied to to these arrest warrants, there may be other persons whose cases the court is considering on the same charges. it will be difficult to bring these people physically to the hague, the icc does not have a procedure for trials in absentia, so the accused must be present there. fixing by the court the inadmissibility of such attacks and of course, hostilities conti