Ukraine must make its own decisions about its territorial integrity. Not to mention that if russia is given the opportunity to enter the country now with a victory, it will only speed up the new aggression on the part of russia , because it does not solve anything against ukraine. If we now gave up our lands occupied by russia and yes, the priority for us is to join nato, but the liberation of the territory is also a priority, even more so such a statement simply shows that he does not really understand the moods and interests of ukrainians, in turn , Deputy Spokesman of the Us State Department issued patel at a briefing on thursday stated that the United States supports efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace in ukraine, and victory will be the complete withdrawal of Russian Forces from Ukrainian Land to you decoration in ukrainiti will celebrate the 32nd anniversary of the declaration of independence from the soviet union, it will also be the second day of independence of ukraine since the beginning of the fullscale illegal and unprovoked aggression of russia, we are approaching the 18month mark of the first full scale russian invasion. Completely withdrew from ukraine, we support efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace in ukraine, which must remain an independent sovereign a democratic and prosperous country that, together with our allies, will continue to support ukraine as long as necessary so that ukraine can protect itself from russian aggression and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table. When the time comes, the russian army will be in kyiv in three days, in return for the ineffectiveness and dispelled the myth of corrupt friends untrained, without discipline and Logistical Support, this is how western experts assess the state of the russian army; at the same time, they warn that russia can attract a large the number of people and has an advantage in the air. My colleague Oleksiy Kovalenko talked to military experts. The west greatly overestimated the military power of the russian army, which was adversely affected by corruption for a long time. The experts with whom the voice of america spoke insist that the russian army has a sufficient level of discipline and Logistical Support. Has a significant Human Resource and some air resource you cannot appreciate the true power of the army until you see it in action Us Intelligence Services Intelligence swedens defense think tanks and all other experts looked at the resources and money that the kremlin was spending on the Russian Forces to make them more professional and elite and evaluated based on this data according to the experts after a fullscale invasion of russia in 2022 the world clearly saw the ineffectiveness of the russian army we saw the destroyed russian army why because we completely misjudged the detrimental effect of corruption on the russian army, corruption prevented the development of a truly professional ugu and well trained, disciplined officer corps corps, corruption, according to experts, is only one of the reasons why the russian army, which planned to capture kyiv in three days of fruitless action in ukraine for 18 months, approaching kharkiv and kherson from kyiv, in addition, the russian command did not calculate the readiness of ukrainians to defend their ukraine, the effectiveness of Russian Troops on the battlefield was terrible in february last year they had no Logistical Support their morale was incredible no one soldiers had inadequate military training its not very it is a good sign when it is necessary to turn to such organizations as the wagner group in order to attract mercenaries who were taken out of russian prisons. Despite all the problems of the Russian Forces, the former Supreme Commander of the combined forces of nato in europe, fili breedlov , notes that the Russian Army Still has significant capabilities and there are opportunities, but putin will need a huge political boost. And you continue to attract new troops, then do some things that he may have to do. I think that now mr. Putin is the same if not more concerned about his internal security more than external security yang zhezinsky emphasizes that the Russian Forces learned from their mistakes in ukraine, the russians studied their failure for a year and a half, we see greater effectiveness on the battlefield than before of course they are in a different situation today than they were a year and a half ago in attack and now in defense, unfortunately, they had a lot of time to strengthen the trenches of the mini field and take into account 18 months of experience, this is not a world class fighting force, but it is still worth counting on at the beginning of august, putin signed a law on raising the conscription age of russians, trying to avoid mobilization thanks to the variable conscription age. According to experts, the involvement of significant Human Resources in the war against ukraine can be a time bomb for russia. The russians have significant Human Resources, although their morale is low, this is a bomb. Slow motion to prevent the soldiers from returning home the truth is that they really have a lot of people if they have air defense and air superiority it is a significant advantage on the battlefield and we see the problems created for the ukrainian counteroffensive, experts emphasize today, the Ukrainian Forces face a difficult task of breaking through the defense lines built by the russian army in the last 89 months of the war Oleksiy Kovalenko oleksiy aspen voice of america since the beginning of the fullscale invasion of the western company en masse leaving russia meanwhile one ukrainian the entrepreneur personally persuades these companies not to work with the aggressor country, the founder of the company yuni kornest denys longopolyy after the start of the fullscale invasion personally turned into an activist of economic opposition to the Russian Federation together with other volunteers. He explains to a top manager why working with an aggressor country is unacceptable, however, how to deprive russia of the opportunity to circumvent sanctions and obtain western technologies necessary for military production, he told yuliya yarmolenko, do you think that in particular your actions of volunteers somehow accelerated , lets say, the weakening of the russian economy, and we were heard in washington and in europe, in brussels and in luxembourg, that we need to do secondary sanctions because the muscovites are quite effectively bypassing sanctions, well, you cant say that its massive, e. E. , expert imports fell in them, well, quite sensitively , but in several positions, for example , electronics for the military, e. E. , they found a very large number of lyzes, and now, e. E. , our main trainer, the front, is working on helping our to impose secondary sanctions on partners, first of all, secondly, we started working with large legal companies, and not only those that already file wellfounded complaints about the fact that the Company Remains , even small loopholes that currently exist are covered. Well somehow, yes, in the beginning, you actually worked to put pressure on companies that are public, what were the arguments then and what are the arguments now, and are there any companies that are immune from public condemnation of companies that remain in russia now . Well, almost all of them they are immune because of the waves of shame that we splashed on the internet and not only even on the streets of europe when people came out against such companies and they are no longer sensitive, but they are very sensitive to regulators and now we we work so that e. E. Auditors pay more attention to the risks that companies have. Working e. E. In mordor, it is now very painful for them because it affects the share price on the possibility of raising money in those companies. Because now we say the guy and you are putting the lives of your employees who are in mordor at risk because they can be physically killed there by accident or focused and this has an impact, this is the first thing but the company that has remained and such arguments are in effect because they all have a reputation as of the employer if the employer does not protect its employees and does not affect the risks that they have, then well, this is very powerful, but they have questions about what it is for. And it is for the sake of profit. That affect demand, then the answer is, well, it remains in russia and having risks of financial , legal, ethnic, and even for the lives of its employees, do they receive in the mediumterm horizon profits that compensate for everything . If before the answer was , well, we hope that all competitors will leave we will have a profit, now the Economic Risks that have been added do not allow them to answer this question very confidently, but you said that right now you see certain concessions or certain shifts from the point of view of the United States or certain other western countries, they they are introducing just those sanctions to close the whole stars. I understand right. Yes, yes, by the way , there are tools against those skis, but they are very long. Well, for example, we find a company, we prepare documents that will allow us to move there a criminal case, for example, in germany yes, but it goes on for months, well, we have such cases that cannot be moved from their place for about 89 months , but now it is starting to be solved systematically, and when the sanctioning authorities there, uh, start paying attention to it, thats it is starting to work more efficiently, meanwhile, the russian ruble has fallen to its lowest point, at first a fullscale invasion of Foreign Companies that still work there, it is becoming increasingly difficult to leave, oksana bodratenko told jeffrey sonfel from the gila school of management how the companys exit affected the the economy of russia and why even a roll of toilet paper costs much more than a ruble. Tali, in an interview, you have been researching the exit of International Companies from russia for some time, how to measure the trends now, this is an extremely massive exodus, an unprecedented exit of international corporations, unprecedented in history, when companies protect Global Values or this enlightened understanding of selfinterest or humane compassion, but more than a thousand 100 companies have completely withdrawn and we are updating this database for people, it can be viewed for free on the yale Website University when hundreds of corporations leave. They think they are making a sacrifice. But in fact, they were generously rewarded on the Financial Markets because they reduced operational risk, financial risk, reputational risk, that is , they did the right thing and it did not harm them. They also have to add approximately 400 International Companies remained in russia and it is a shame for this , none of them in russia are doing well, it is not clear why they are staying if you look at the companies that have left and those that are thinking of leaving now moscow is introducing restrictions how different was the situation for the first wave of companies that exited from those who want to exit now, a great question, those who exited first shocked many, even i was surprised by the very first wave after february 24 , 2022, and i have been studying the social impact of corporations in my first book, the corporations view of state interests for 40 years im studying it i ve never seen oil giants tech giants Service Companies be at the forefront of social justice in the world they often try to hide from controversy but the First Companies attracted a lot of attention for them, this is a new role, when the company, manufacturers of consumer goods and others followed, it was also important , but the first ones were shocking, the second wave was powerful and massive , then there was the third wave, now it is the fourth, they stayed in russia for too long and now they regret it because it is a little more difficult for them to leave they can still leave. Just close the company. Many, Many Companies like bp or exung have given assets worth 79 billion dollars to this company, the ones that are left should not give away such large assets if they just close the company and leave, so their excuses are laughable and very cynical, they say putin creates barriers because of high taxes or we have to kiss his ring so that he will be allowed to leave. Nothing needs to be done, just go. They also say absolutely false. When they say that they have very good relations with russian workers, if they take care of the russians workers, they left because the task is to create as many difficulties as possible in the economy so that a catastrophic war does not spread. This is a humane solution. Another argument that we hear in the press is that assets companies that leave russia end up being putins allies at a big discount or for free. Is this a fair argument, or will russia be able to use these assets to copy the business that International Companies were doing there . The argument is completely unfair, its not true. Actually , corporate greed or institutional inertia will not allow them to do the right thing. No one left. More assets as Oil Companies what did putin do putin sued major Oil Companies because he needs their Technology Russia cant govern equipment, russia has the most outdated labor force and the most Outdated Technology among opplus countries russia alone spends 46 dollars to extract a barrel of oil and then another 12 dollars to deliver it to the destination if you add this, it is more than the price of russian oil urals they sell cheaper the cost price because they are so incompetent in contrast, saudi arabia spent 22 to produce one barrel of oil, this is not saudi technology, it is western , mainly american technology, if you look at other industries in russia, they have closed 99 of car production, more than 60 of retail trade at Russian Companies worked in that field not because putin loved them, but because they need technologies that quickly atrophy, they need spare parts that wear out quickly, they need marketing, brands that control quality, you will not see anyone outside of russia at the wheel of a lada car on world markets, there are no russian consumer goods, they produce Raw Materials for the world as colonies that were previously exploited for Raw Materials , no final goods, only final goods what they give to the world is cyber terrorism and i dont think many people want to buy it, they have nothing. If putin thinks he is better than mcdonalds, let him try limiting potatoes. But before moscow, there were queues for mcdonalds, now they are not. Like biomedicine and production russia cant do anything if they had the skills these businesses wouldnt be there in the first place no Technology Transfer marketing or training no new spare parts if it takes 16 months and six times more money to get a new screen for the iphone and maybe something gets smuggled in, then no. Putin does not survive, he cannibalizes the business, now almost 65 of the business in russia is controlled by the state, he just robs the video expert, what is the impact of the exit of business on the russian economy , should we expect an economic crisis in russia like us we see that although russia hides Economic Statistics from the imf and the International Community , the russian economy is falling sharply , approximately 35 million highly qualified workers have left russia, there is an extraordinary outflow of knowledge and capital, no one does not want to invest when there is no rule of law and there is the rule of the ruler, in fact they burn the furniture from the living room like a cancer of the ruble exchange rate, even a roll of toilet paper costs much more than the ruble, meanwhile, we at the voice of america will continue to talk about ukrainian organizations in the United States , this time Iryna Solomko and Pavlo Terekhov visited boston, where the sunyashnyk miru Charity Organization, founded after the euromaidan by ukrainian tennis player kateryna malakhova, is located. The company focused its efforts on provision of tactical medicine to the ukrainian military, more about the history of the organization and its activities in the plot, which came to the course, the volunteer career of the founder of the Charity Organization sunflower world, kateryna malakhova , began with her native town of nova kakhovka, which is currently under occupation in 2008, kateryna as a promising ukrainian tennis player was invited to study at an American University at the university, so it happened. Whats more, i was very active there and i listened to some speech of the dean and for what everything in life is possible you just have to dream and for some reason i had such a dream to bring a playground to Novaya Kakhovka of the american model, because at that time in 2011 there were no playgrounds in Novaya Kakhovka, that is, everything was left over from the soviet union, that is, those iron rods were absolutely dangerous, the dean, who was sleeping here, i met her and told her that you know, your bias inspired me so much that i have such a dream, it helped us at that time in 2013 to raise 30,000 dollars, however, euromaidan forced kateryna to seriously engage in volunteering malakhova began to mobilize people in boston, where she lives, through a facebook group, and then with the annexation of crimea by russia and the beginning of hostilities in the east of ukraine, she began to collect funds for uniforms for the ukrainian military, all i did was sent her sister to buy ukrainian souvenirs , found people who flew from kyiv, she gave all these souvenirs in suitcases, they brought them, and every sunday i went to the Ukrainian Church to of the Ukrainian Community and sold. I basically went to work at the same time. Malakhova, who wants to found an organization, says she thought about the name for a long time, so it happened that my father, who no longer has any snakes, was a farmer, and we were in the kherson region, he had just fields of sunflowers in the beginning. I i just wanted the name to be simply sunflower, and then someone has this name somewhere in another state, and thats why i decided, well, if i came up with a name , the organization engaged in tactical medicine with the help of volunteers who bought and filled all the necessary medical backpacks for combat medics later the backpacks became the calling card of mir sunflower someone shared with me the list of the backpack and this backpack was founded by a ukrainianamerican doctor who worked for the American Army the cost of the backpack and filling 1,200 for a long time katerynas backpacks together with volunteers assembled in our own basement and we never skimp on the quality of a single unit, we only buy tourniquets of the march sample, this is a nato sample, that is, it is very important for us, backpacks are given to paramedics units that have passed the courses and can provide medical aid since 2014. The organization handed over four thousand backpacks from 45,000 firstaid kits after a fullscale invasion of the mayor s office for free. Here we fix two terms, this is the sound, we will be scissors, and this is a marker to write down the date when they were imposed by the eu, recently backpacks are ordered in ukraine, supporting the local economy, moreover, due to high demand in china raised the prices of its own products, donate to the work of the organization both residents of boston and neighboring states since february 24, the sunflower of peace received 9 Million Dollars in donations, we were very lucky when one of the donations was there for a Million Dollars of the former employer of the owner of twitter, so you know then in the first week or two, it was so much, the amount was so little unreal well, we were just scared so much that we didnt want to accept it. We think its some kind of story. When our children collect and sell lemonade and drinks yes for us and its 15 dollars, you know they are also very expensive at the same time in Novaya Kakhovka , which was occupied practically from the first days of the fullscale invasion , katerynas mother stayed to take her out, it was not easy. At first, my mother refused to take er because people knew what do my sister and i do, and so if it was very difficult for us to find a car and mom needed to get to kherson and it was a very, very difficult way because she had to move through roadblocks, they were taken out, checked checked suitcases were usually checked and phones are now being helped by kateryna to take care of her three children. Meanwhile, kateryna has more work. Since the beginning of the full scale invasion, the number of volunteers has increased to 2,000. Marina kolisnyk is one of them. Kharkiv, but i never considered myself ukrainian. Well, im jewish. Vatmaidan maidan changed my attitude towards ukraine for ukrainians. I called katya. I want to help. I cant help you, i just cant. Because this is my therapy, malakhova says that among the volunteers there are also many americans. These are absolutely people who maybe three years ago had not even heard of ukraine and they stand so devotedly. And you know, they sometimes write notes to our soldiers and simply thank them or say you are in my heart im thinking about you now and may this backpack save your life. Increase donations. Allow sunflower peace to expand its activities. Says malakhova, it took almost 9 months for the organization as a whole to start the machines, and literally 1. 5 weeks ago we sent them to the front and they are already working, what is the advantage of these machines, they are like mini tanks and i , even if they they run into a mine, they bounce back, they dont explode, if so, and they pass by, as it were, in shifts, then they are very fast, thats why even if they are armored, but in principle, if im honest, these fast ones should be in every brigade, according to malakhova, the sunflower of peace, there are practically no organizational costs salary only a few employees in ukraine save money for future assistance in the reconstruction of ukraine in this way kateryna dreams of building a new playground for Novaya Kakhovka and it is possible one day to win the Mayoral Election from boston Iryna Solomko Pavlo Terekhov voice of america with this inspiring story we will say goodbye to you see you soon tomorrow on the air of the chastime program, peaceful night, good morning , goodbye, we are looking for 14yearold anastasia parfenova , who disappeared in the city of odessa. I know that on august 4 , she, as always, left home to do her business but she still hasnt returned. Where the girl might be. Now, unfortunately, no one knows, so your help is very important. Please look closely at anastasias photo. She is thin, she has blond hair and green eyes , the girls height is about 165 cm. At the time of her disappearance, she was wearing denim shorts, a dark brown tshirt with flowers and a brown cap. If suddenly someone has seen nastya or knows where she might be, do not delay now and immediately call us on the hotline of the magnolia child tracing service for short by number 116,000 0 calls from any mobile operator are free, any information is important, this is only one story of a missing child in general since the beginning of the war. We received almost 3,000 requests for help in the search, fortunately, most of the children have already been found, but the fate of many remains unknown, especially this applies to the temporarily occupied territories where the work of the police is practically paralyzed, from where it is impossible to leave. But there are communication problems. Everyone can help find the missing children. Take a minute of your time and go to the site. Magnolia childrens Search Service here you can see all the photos of the missing, who knows, maybe you will recognize someone and eventually help to find them, look at the photo, this is 15yearold ilya polishchuk from mariupol, imagine the fate of this boy, nothing is known since the beginning of a fullscale war, contact with me was lost on february 24 and where he may be now, no one knows, that is why i am appealing to everyone who sees me now, and especially to the residents of mariupol, who may be watching this program on social networks, look carefully at the photo of the boys, he looks 1415 years old in he has light blond hair and dark eyes, if anyone has seen the boy or knows where he might be, dont delay now and call us on the hotline of the magnolia childrens Search Service at the short number 116,000. Calls from any ukrainian mobile operator are free. If there is no way to call, write i also want to remind the Chatbot Service for searching for children in telegram that the search for 15yearold mark smorodinov, who also lived in mariupol and also disappeared on february 24 of last year for one and a half years, is still ongoing during the war years, there was no news about the child and where the boy might be now no one knows, that is why your help is important
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