You have information about supporters of the kremlin in your cities or villages, write to this email address or simply on facebook , lets put together all the traitors on the trail of the russian ship, well see in a week on espresso on the air from washington, the Ukrainian Program voice of america time time ya maria prus congratulations pentagon announced additional military aid to ukraine for 200 Million Dollars in 44 packages of reserves of the Us Department of defense included ammunition for air Defense Systems patriot and installations himers as well as equipment for demining shells for artillery and tanks and javeline antitank complexes are also provided provision of dozens of tactical vehicles for towing and transportation of equipment, small arms and ammunition, as well as spare parts for maintenance techniques the United States will continue to work as allies to provide ukraine with the necessary means of defense and assistance to directly meet ukraines needs on the battlefield, and in the long term, germany plans to annually provide ukraine with 5 billion euros in military support until 2027 , german finance minister Christian Linner said in kyiv he added that this decision must be approved by the german parliament, the minister reminded that berlin also provides humanitarian aid to kyiv , supports displaced persons and the ukrainian economy linner also said that he personally hopes that the question of providing ukraine with taurus longrange missiles will be resolved as soon as possible, since they will help bring ukrainian victory closer to our broadcast. Please, what is their special feature in comparison with similar british french shepherds and scouts . And what do they say at the german official about the possibility of transferring them to kyiv . Our viewers have already heard a lot about storm shadow skype cruise missiles and maybe even dared to remind them that in fact these missiles are very similar, they are similar in size and weight a little more than one ton, these are cruise missiles that are launched from airplanes and how ukrainian technicians and pilots managed to to make suspensions for storm shadow missiles and scalps under the wings of su24 aircraft used by the ukrainian military. So now i hope that if germany provided taurus missiles and cruise missiles, then they could be was to find a way to attach warplanes that ukraine has to the planes, the main difference between the missiles that germany has, which, by the way, it jointly developed with sweden, compared to the shadow skype brakes in the range, while they say about the missiles in the direction of the spade that their range is provided at a distance of 250 km, then, according to the bundeswehr, the range of the taurus missile is almost 500 km. That is, almost twice as much as what we hear about the scalp and the shadow storm, and it is this range, so to speak, that is the possibility of reaching targets at such a long distance. This particularly worries german politicians, some of whom believe that such a weapon with an impressive target is obviously very far away. Perhaps even on the territory of russia it would be a step towards the actual expansion of the war before escalation, the ukrainians assure that they can promise and fulfill their promise not to use this very weapon for purposes in russia, the ukrainians say that they have their own weapons for certain necessary tasks, and we know that in germany the debate has especially intensified now around the possibility of providing these missiles, we know , for example, that at least one of the deputies from the leading representatives of the ruling social democratic party, who spoke out in favor of providing these missiles, says that he received complaints. I apologize, he complained that threats to his life were received, he filed a complaint with the police, that is, we are talking about very serious discussions in germany, but today there was a guest in kyiv e minister of finance who said that he himself is a supporter of providing ukraine with german taurus missiles and expressed the hope that this issue will be resolved soon, here is a quote from his words ee offensives regarding the offensive missiles you mentioned now we carry out the usual procedures that are also applied in relation to taurus, so we are considering the issue among our allies, including in the rammstein format, what is needed and what is possible, knowing that there are many more who sympathize with such support as i do. I hope for a very quick clarification of this issue, so well and the other day, indeed, the head of the ministry of Foreign Affairs of ukraine, dmytro kuleba, once again called for kiev to be provided with taurus and similar american attack missiles, as you really said bohdana, he once again assured many ukrainian officials that western weapons would not be used for strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation, please tell me whether it is possible to expect that the usa and germany will probably make a decision on the transfer of such missiles in coordination as it was before with the tank , it is not necessary that there will be such coordination decision, but it is likely that if there were advances from the american side, it would be at least an increase in pressure on german chancellor olaf scholz, but until recently, at least until yesterday, when germanys cdf television broadcasted his interview, he still speaks very restrainedly and very cautiously this is how he spoke about the taurus missiles for ukraine i will remind you of odesa wine as in the past we will always carefully consider each individual decision in view of the possibilities that make sense and what our contribution can be with very often they are using other weapons that could significantly help in addition to the offensive , at least thats what the experts say, its a fighter, in 16 it was previously announced that the training of ukrainian pilots would begin in august , what do you know about it . And for the german taurus cruise missiles, it is quite possible that as far as f16 is concerned, there is actually very little information, and it may even bother some people, because we have heard a lot of assurances from leading european representatives, representatives of denmark, the netherlands , in particular, who lead the socalled e coalition in 16 about that that the training will already start this summer. And im leaving out that a lot of people hoped that this training is already taking place, but there is actually no information. Were, but now we know that there is a question regarding the training of ukrainian pilots in the language. Obviously, the course will be in english, and in particular , Great Britain will participate in the training in english, and this was our european correspondent bohdan tyupen. From the weekend, russia carried out new mass strikes in ukrainian cities, in particular, today a man died as a result of shelling in kharkiv region, and the day before in kherson region, a family with a 12yearold boy and an infant who was only 23 days old died on the night of monday, russia also attacked odesa about the situation at the scene of the incident on the air of the Daily Briefing to my colleague yulia yarmolenko, mykhailo butsurkiv, expert of the Analytical Council and former spokesman of the Osce Special Monitoring Mission in ukraine, mr. Mykhailo, told my colleague yulia yarmolenko, mr. Mykhailo. Russian drones, tell us about what is happening now in odessa, where you are. How did the night pass and how alarming is the situation now . I congratulate you. They were such a terrible sword, and i watched them. They already started at two oclock in the morning and they took it away, it took about two hours, thats a very, very long time, ill be with us and as you can see, im in the supermarket phase and i live 5 km from here and i heard an explosion, mr. Mykhailo odesa its not only one of the largest cities of ukraine, one of the largest ports, this city is also of important economic importance, and it looks like russia is now purposefully trying not only to cause immediate damage, but also to significantly affect the future opportunities, the future Economic Opportunities of ukraine, what about this at this stage, ukraines western partners can do something to help avoid such strikes, and also president zelenskyi. You already talked about that black guy in odessa, and they have been attacking the Remote Control here in odessa for the past month. By the way, he is very close to me. And also the place was also attacked. So we, in my opinion, i think that they sell engines to destroy a lot of odesa specially aa ford and that it is important to export grain on duty for escalation, which indicates the responsibility of russia for the fact that ukrainian grain does not get to this is how the state department called yesterdays incident in the black sea when the russian patrol ship opened warning fire on a dry cargo under the flag of palau that was going from turkey to izmail. Thus, they were still forced to stop for inspection in the state department. Attacked more than two dozen objects of the grain infrastructure and destroyed more than 200,000 tons of grain. Washington also once again called on the kremlin to return to the Grain Initiative that guaranteed Food Security for many countries of the world you have that gas or stings and anyone ukraine hotline russia has publicly stated that all vessels heading to ukrainian ports in the black sea will be considered as potential carriers of military cargo, this is not our view , an unacceptable escalation that demonstrates the responsibility of the maritime that lake grain does not get to where it should be delivered since the termination of russias participation in the black sea Grain Initiative, the ministry of Foreign Affairs of ukraine reported that russia attacked 26 Port Infrastructure facilities and destroyed more than 2,200,000 tons of grain, we continue to closely monitor this situation , and of course we are concerned that the Russian Military may expand its targets for ukrainian grain facilities by including attacks on civilian vessels in the black sea russia should immediately rejoin the black sea Grain Initiative, this is something that we know works, it worked for more than 32 million tons of grain and it played an Important Role in stabilizing world prices and also became the key factor in the fact that the grain got where it needed to go the house on the right side of the ship and called on the International Community not to allow russia to prevent the peaceful passage of ships due to the danger to shipping in the black sea ports now there are dozens of dry cargoes to restore Grain Shipping from ukraine additional systems are needed anti Aircraft Defense and probably the escort of nato ships , politicians and experts talked about it during a recent online discussion on shipping security organized by the Ukraine Foundation usa details from andriy boris odesa, another Russian Missile and drone attack in the city, several fires broke out in the city, a supermarket caught fire, three people were injured by strikes in odesa and other port cities of ukraine, they have become more frequent since russia a month ago refused to extend the grain agreement, it guaranteed the safety of passage to ukrainian ports for commercial ships on july 19, the ministry of defense of the Russian Federation announced that it would consider all vessels in the black sea as potential carriers of weapons. The day before, a russian warship stopped a civilian vessel flying the flag of palau, which moved towards ismail and landed a Landing Party on it to inspect the cargo. I would like to see military convoys there that would ensure the safety of commercial shipping. There are three nato countries with access to the sea romania , bulgaria and turkey. Anderson, a Senior Researcher at the atlantic council, says that nato ships could to become a shield for commercial ships in the black sea he said this during a webinar dedicated to the safety of shipping off the ukrainian coast organized by the ukraine Usa Foundation then a coward he lives in a bunker moves he will not dare to attack nato ships with armored trains, because if he starts a war, it will not be provoked by nato, and by putin himself, at the same time, the United States is not yet ready for such steps, in an interview with voice of america on july 28, said the Strategic Communication coordinator of the Us National Security council, john kirby insoring warship there is an active discussion now about the introduction of warships into the black sea, i think we all understand that this will only increase the tension and increase the opportunities for a potential conflict between the west of russia and this is not what we want another participant in the discussion about the safety of shipping, congressman marci kaptor, believes that in order to promote its interests in washington, ukraine should more actively use information weapons among the people who live in ukraine died in 3233 when the soviet union hit the grain with force , just like russia now takes it away by bombing grain warehouses in odessa and other places kaptor says it was not for nothing that she compared stalins famine with putins grain blackmail in america and in general in the west, people should understand the scale of the tragedy that putin is carrying today our the world is faced with a new threat, so the American People and our partners in africa, who suffer the most from the loss of access to ukrainian grain, should understand the history of how russia uses food as a weapon since russia withdrew from the black sea agreement , the price of grain in the world, according to the state department , is 8 , the un warns of the threat of famine in the poorest countries of the world, especially in africa, despite the fact that african countries suffer the most from the cessation of supplies from ukraine, the leaders of the continents countries often take a neutral position regarding russias withdrawal from the grain agreement among the leaders of 17 african countries who recently traveled to russia, most of them can be said to be copies of putin, most of them are more interested in investing in their luxury and militarization than in providing food for their peoples and in Rural Development according to expert africanist herman ndofor , the strengthening of democratic movements in africa is equally important to fight the food crisis. Moreover, there is someone to rely on, according to herman, the majority of the population africas young people are under 30 and they share the values of democracy and the free world andriy borys voice of america in fact the naval blockade of the Russian Federation and the constant attacks on the grain infrastructure of ukraine have already led to an increase in food prices all over the world, and this primarily concerns poor countries , in particular africa, which have found themselves dependent on of russian food supplies, however, as in conditions of drought and other problems with production, local farmers are forced to use further in the story muhammad grows corn, rice, wheat and other grains at most 17,000 ha of his land, the man recently decided to expand his business and by opening a flour mill of his grain for the constant operation of the enterprise, he does not have enough, he relied mainly on imports, but these days , the man says, wheat is very difficult to get with is a down wheat is like a diamond not gold, a real diamond look what political upheaval wheat is causing in the world it is very difficult to get it today because demand exceeds supply nigeria is the second country in africa in terms of wheat consumption but less than 10th this wheat is grown locally, the rest is imported, the local government is trying to stimulate local farmers to grow more rice and wheat in 2015 , they even launched a corresponding program. Our policies have never been consistent paincosistent because of russias war against ukraine these two countries are the largest producers of wheat in the world grain prices in in july of this year, russia also withdrew from the grain agreement , which again blocked the transit of ukrainian grain to the black sea. Moscow allegedly took such a step because of western sanctions. A little later, russia holds a summit with African Leaders and promises to provide africa with grain for free in order to mitigate the consequences of its withdrawal. From the agreement vinfieldat ee money, i have additional money, we believe that russia is engaged in politics with the help of grain, however, it is quite possible that we receive part of this profit, and even this will only be better, because we need it we eat a lot of wheat in this country. In july, the president of nigeria declared a state of emergency in the field of Food Security and ordered the withdrawal of seed fertilizers from the reserves to relieve pressure on the market. And next planting season, according to the forecast of the Us Department of agriculture , Wheat Production in nigeria will increase by 42 next year. The farmers there are still skeptical, but they really want to believe in such optimists forecasts yuriy mamon voice of america since the beginning of the fullscale war with russia, about 50 thousand ukrainians have lost at least one limb , literally standing on their feet, many of them help the lifesaving center of the charity fund that provides medical services to wounded soldiers, and volunteers of the center , with the help of american benefactors , take part in evacuations from anna kostyuchenko and pavel sukhodolskyi will tell the people of donetsk how it happens. Pavlo kovalenko, a 34yearold from kyiv, went to defend the donbass from the separatists. In 2014, i would have been on the maidan at first, well, the maidan somehow encouraged me to make ukraine independent and a European Military state, then the wringing of crimea from the russian territory of the russian side began, and ato began, and since february of last year, sergeant kovalenko fought against the russian occupiers, first in sumy oblast, and later returned to donbas right there on may 5, 2022 , during the battle with the russians, pavlo was wounded, wounded. The grotto brought out the timed oboe, and as if we were aware of the battle, and well, i heard the tin going, but i didnt see it yet, then it was already uel, when the flash was a projectile hit pavels right leg and badly damaged the left one, he went through a demonstrative thank god that he lowered his voice just understood the trajectory and turned to the side меня, well, its literally in the meter , можеt быtь, можеt быtь, one and a half dynamics remained alive after the evacuation, the man underwent treatment in dnipro , lviv and kyiv due to Severe Damage to his left leg, it was not possible to save it in 11 months of treatment. Pavlo underwent more than 30 operations, but he is already learning to walk on prostheses a little bit about today he won what again meters so this is my small victory already four steps ramps and Everything Else so that well the main thing is to walk expediently and everything will be fine the most important thing is what is in your head and the most important thing is your motivation the main thing is you the desire to live, to live, to benefit the lutenist and the understanding that life does not end yet, so you do not have a limb. I am simply saying that we are not weak for the weak and i will tell you honestly. Pavel trains every day, lifts dumbbells, swings his back. After all, to move on prostheses, you need strong body muscles. Uh says the main motivation is his wife and children, because pavlo is currently the only breadwinner in the family. Volunteers from the Life Saving Center helped pavlo buy prostheses. The cost of one such prosthesis is more than two half a million hryvnias , its just a thrill to walk on them. I walked on hydraulics on pneumatics. 47yearold Vyacheslav Zaporozhets had a successful Construction Business before the great war, and at the beginning of the war he devoted himself to volunteering. The center organized by him helps your wounded soldiers. I managed to create a Multidisciplinary Team of specialists in our team. Seriously injured in 2023 , 20 workers have already received functional prostheses thanks to the center. 30yearold military serviceman mykhailo drobotenko is waiting for an operation to remove the device that fixes the thigh bone or to start to fully use prostheses and while he has time, he is training. Mykhailo participated in the operations of the joint forces in donbas since 2015. He started as an artilleryman and then served in the special forces for 6 years. At the beginning of the fullscale invasion of russia, he defended the luhansk direction as an infantry platoon commander there on march 24. Last year, he was wounded both legs in the settlement of voronoi, i was there in the forest under the ego of donetsk, i was blown up in front of an infantryman , i lost my limbs , then there was an evacuation for maybe 20 minutes. Due to blood loss, he lost consciousness at that time, mykhailo underwent more than 25 operations, he began to share videos of his rehabilitation processes on social networks and currently has more than 40,000 fans to show that life does not end after an injury, whatever it may be, so that people do not lose heart, many people watch my videos and they think its easy for him, but every Training Session is hard work , but i like to train myself , im getting recharged from it, it made me handsome, we still need to see if these prostheses can walk thats one thing, but we need to squeeze more out of them for such money, such money, in addition to caring for the seriously wounded, the volunteers of the lifesaving center are engaged in evacuations from the donetsk direction, what flew over the throne dropped an explosive substance on us in the first days of the war , special vehicles are often needed for such raids, because they have to transport the wounded in a serious condition, in this case , american ukrainians came to help the center of the united help Ukraine Charity fund, which bought and handed over ambulances. United help ukraine is always on the lookout, they dont buy any old cars there, they analyze them they analyze the application, what kind of car is needed, and then they also analyze its condition and even do technical maintenance. Thanks to the support of united help ukraine, we were created as such, now i call our movement private disaster medicine from american benefactors, ukrainian volunteers have already received 10 fully equipped ambulances that have the equipment is necessary to stabilize the condition of the wounded during transportation, there are ventilators and defibrillators, says 50yearold paramedic maksym nazarenko, they have to be used if the condition of the wounded suddenly deteriorates, the Protocol Task is to accompany the wounded, to look after their condition, if there is a deterioration , to make a decision on the basis of the situation. That is, it can be either analgesia or an active drug, or in the worst case , it is resuscitation actions for a day, volunteers the lifesaving center has up to five evacuation raids from the east to the nearest big city , during the year of operation they evacuated more than 11,000 wounded anna kostyuchenko pavel sukhodolskyi for the voice of america from the kyiv and donetsk regions , lets finish it in the studio maria prus worked for you thank you for your trust dose