Transcripts For ESPRESO 20240703

The first ones will fly this week. How to save eu citizens, who are among the hostages taken by militants, this topic was particularly raised by the leaders countries of the European Union, which events in the middle east the day before gathered for an emergency extraordinary summit. Analyzed the possible consequences of the conflict, such as refugee flows , and agreed on a unified approach to the crisis, and the attack by hamas on israel, condemning its right to selfdefense, implying support for israel, while at the same time emphasizing the importance of protecting the vulnerable population. A total siege, when you block basic infrastructure, access to water, cut off electricity, if you dont allow food to be delivered, its not appropriate International Law. We affirm israels right to defend itself in accordance with International Law and International Humanitarian law. We are mobilized as the eu to support the humanitarian most vulnerable. The president of the United States will personally demonstrate solidarity with israel, in israel itself. American flight number one is due to land in tel aviv today and is already on its way there, as my colleague pointed out, indeed, and as the head of the state department said, who has been to israel since hamas attacked it twice, joe biden will also warn other players from intervening in this conflict, will also discuss coordination for the release of hostages, among whom are americans, and gumaid to the people of gaza in a way that will not benefit hamas, as well as the possibility of their departure, will also emphasize israels right to protect. Its citizens and prevent future attacks, will discuss its military strategy and hear from israels leadership what exactly the country needs. Bloomberg reports that joe biden may ask congress for about 100 billion, here package aid to israel to ukraine, as well as to taiwan. The American Press generally writes that the visit of the president of the United States to israel is risky, while the fact that he dared to undertake such a mission only emphasizes, notes bloomberg, washingtons concern that the situation in the middle east may get out of control. John kirby at the regular briefing, tonight ukrainian time, accordingly noted that joe biden, as a true friend, will ask israel, in particular, tough questions. Katya zoryan, thank you, i will add that the Islamic Jihad organization, questioned the accusation of the Israel Defense forces in responsibility for the attack on the hospital, in gaza, their statement is the tosian state agency riya novosti. Zoryana stepanenko told about political. Of all meetings and , of course, we will monitor this situation on our broadcasts. Thank you zaryano. It is already known about the death of 13 citizens of ukraine as a result of the attack of the hamas group on israel. This was reported by the office of the president of ukraine. Already three evacuation abortions with ukrainians have flown out of the country. Meanwhile , the evacuation of ukrainian citizens from the sector gas has not yet occurred. The humanitarian situation there is deteriorating. People have no water. Hundreds of refugees are spending the night near the border with egypt , waiting for the crossing point to open, they are running out of water and food. The Ukrainian Embassy in egypt is negotiating the rescue of its citizens from the gaza strip. However, they still do not have permission to evacuate. The ambassador of ukraine in egypt had high hopes for bidens visit to israel and the summit, which was planned for october 2021, which has now been canceled, on how to save citizens of ukraine. Under fire in the gas sector, the day before i asked the ambassador of ukraine to egypt , mykola nagorny, and i suggest you listen to what he said . As far as we understand, as journalists, from what has been reported these days, that the only possible way to evacuate ukrainians is through egypt, however , these days we heard from mr. Lubinets that an evacuation was already planned, but it was from the israeli side. Pinena, can you tell me now how many ukrainians are currently in the gas sector, do you have an answer, when will it be evacuation, well evacuation the issue of evacuation has been worked out since the very beginning of the crisis in the gas sector, since that time we, in coordination with our embassy in israel and the representation of ukraine at the Palestinian National autonomy, are working on the issue of preparing lists, the number of those who want to leave the gas sector is increasing, that is, if in the first days of the crisis, there were literally only a few, but as of now, we have 293 persons on the lists, i do not rule out that this number will continue to grow, because the humanitarian situation in the gas sector is worsening day by day, and so far, lets put it this way, there is no clear vision of what this crisis will be and how it will end, we see that the water has been cut off, the electricity has been cut off, air strikes are continuing, that is, people want, want to leave, we are ready, in fact, we have worked out everything the necessary issues are connected with the egyptian side, with logistics, with the delivery of our people from the gas sector to the neighboring cities and with the subsequent departure to a safe third country, that is, in fact , the only question now is the opening of the checkpoint and the organization of such an evacuation, various options are being considered, that is, we understand that the only point before cortona can be rafah, it is about 600 kilometers from cairo, after which people can be taken by buses, either to the cairo airport, or to one of the airports in the sinai peninsula, probably it could be sharmasheikh, each side has its own interests, of course, and its fears, the egyptians have great fears that this situation may go out of control, since a large number of people have gathered at the border and it is not excluded, lets just say, which, which of on the palestinian side, no one can provide organization, that is, there are fears that there may be a large number illegally crossing the border, not a large number, but we are talking about tens of thousands, yes, tens of thousands of palestinian refugees, whatever. Against the background of the fact that there are already a large number of refugees in egypt, against the background of the unstable situation in the region, these are refugees from sudan, these are refugees from libya, these are refugees from syria, which can also lead to an aggravation of the humanitarian situation in egypt itself, it is clear that the israeli side has there are certain fears that together with the refugees, militants may leave the territory, respectively, those who are involved in committing crimes, and hamas is interested, of course, in keeping as many foreigners as possible in the territory of the gas, since they actually act as human shields. We can see from the news that the situation is quite tense, that the israeli aviation is striking, including in the immediate vicinity of the rafah checkpoint, that is, it is such a mosaic that has a contribution to put into, lets say, a puzzle in order to ensure the evacuation of people. And from ours side i know that there is an injured person in the gaza sector, one person is injured, received minor injuries, one person received quite severe injuries, is in intensive care, and with the egyptian side, including, we worked out the issue of, in the event of the opening of the humanitarian corridor, the referral ambulance if necessary, if there is such an opportunity to evacuate the wounded member of ukraine, this is a man, yes, this is a man, these are two men, and he is in the hospital in the gas sector, yes, you say that it is dangerous even at the rafah checkpoint maybe because of the blows, in general, how does this communication with people take place, taking into account that their phones may already be discharged there, it may not be possible to contact where they are waiting now, do you understand where the people are, how to collect them quickly or not quickly, relatively speaking, whether it is possible. You tell everyone to gather there in two hours and how will they get to the checkpoint . The issue of communication is mainly not dealt with by our embassy, ​​it is dealt with by the embassy of ukraine in israel and the embassy and Representative Office of ukraine under the pna, however, we have a clear understanding that approximately half of the list of people is already within reach from 30 to an hour, from 30 minutes to an hour, in the southern part of the gas sector and can reach, lets say. The checkpoint, at this time, about the same number are in more Northern Areas and will need one and a half to two or more hours to reach the gas sector. Well, as far as i know, there are also a large number of citizens of the United States, there are also citizens of turkey, i say the largest countries that have somewhere between 300 and 500 people each, there are also citizens of eu countries, and we must also understand another issue, that northern sinai, on which the rafah checkpoint is located, it has been in modern conditions for a long time, it is a zone in which an extraordinary state, this is the zone of antiterrorist. Operation of the Egyptian Special services and troops , that is, to actually get to rafah, it will take the embassy and to get buses there, it will take 68 hours, just from cairo, we cannot before there is no way to get there, because the agreement listings and approval of access to information takes place through the ministry of Foreign Affairs of egypt, in which a special headquarters has been established. Uh, so far this headquarters has not given such permission to move to sinai and to rafah to any embassy, ​​as far as i know, for security reasons, it is not excluded, i can say, of course, i have to operate official information, but as far as i know , the egyptian side is working out various, lets say, evacuation possibilities , including that of foreign citizens, by the forces of the relevant. Structures egyptians will be safely taken away from the rafah checkpoint itself, and all procedures and , lets say, Border Crossing registration and some control and some security checks will be carried out at another point. We also have the question of why we say yes, not only the transportation of the meeting and so on, but we must understand that a significant part of the citizens of ukraine is not documented, there are people, which means without at all does not mean ukrainians documents, whether they were there illegally, the matter is because the citizens of ukraine are mainly ukrainian women who married palestinian citizens and their children, that is, people who have been in palestine for a long time, children are born, documents expire, and according to our estimates, somewhere more than 50 people will need, or, lets say, or extending the validity of passports, or entering children in passports, or issuing temporary return permits, that is, this is also a big problem, and this problem is relevant not only for citizens of ukraine, but as far as i know, for citizens as well other countries, mr. Ambassador, regarding money, does the embassy of ukraine in egypt have money for all these expenses, or who undertakes these obligations, well, i can honestly say that, unfortunately, we can find sponsors, and we understand also the fact that there is another category of citizens living in the palestinian territories, these are not those citizens who are in israel or for tourist purposes or visiting their families or something else. In this regard, the issue is still being worked out that the evacuation of ukrainian citizens will be carried out at, probably at the expense of the state, at the expense of the state, in this regard, uh, im honestly not sure whether the egyptian side, or rather im sure that the egyptian side 100 will not finance, uh, the chakters of the flight, that is, it will be carried out by the ukrainian side, i m sure that part of the transportation costs to egypt will also be provided by us, since, lets say, from the moment the consul and our employees met with the citizens of ukraine, all responsibility actually falls on our side, and do you have an understanding, those ukrainians citizen of ukraine, who applied for the evacuation of the gas sector, where do they want to return to, whether to ukraine, i dont know, whether to stay in egypt, whether there is such a possibility that there will be anything further with them at all, well, the fact that they will not stay in egypt is 100 , since, together with the submission of the lists , the embassy undertook that the ukrainian side guarantees that all foreign, well, not the ukrainian side, but this is actually a requirement for all foreign embassies, including the same, i say and the us embassy, ​​and the embassies of the European Union countries, that they guarantee the evacuation of their citizens from the territory of egypt within four days, that is, as far as i understand, we are currently working on flights to one of the European Countries or poland or romania, and depending on that, we will see how the evacuation will be carried out in the future ukraine from these airports. My colleagues and i. On the fate of ukrainians in the gas sector, in particular, and we also covered it, you saw on our broadcasts the stories of ukrainians evacuating from israel in these extremely difficult times and such a situation extremely difficult in the middle east, you can always find more materials on our Radio Liberty social networks, as well as on the Radio Liberty website, here is one such story, also from our fellow journalists, now we will tell you, volunteers organized for ukrainian soldiers and their families hiking in the carpathians. Such a journey is rehabilitation and at the same time such a test for those who lost limbs in the war, because recovery after a serious injury requires time and patience, and the support of family and friends is very important for them, as the soldiers say. As mountain trails were covered by the ukrainian military, see the story of halyna tereshchuk. I dont have any experience of climbing mountains with partisans yet, but i hope ill make it to the end. This warrior climbs to the top of the mountain on a prosthesis. Kharkivyanin volodymyr malikhin is on crutches and for the first time with his wife and son is climbing the koliv bezkyd. Everyone here saw how i managed to get up, but i was a little tired. He somehow is always determined for the best, so that everything will be fine. On february 31, 24, volodymyr voluntarily changed the trainers sports uniform to a military one, in the first weeks defended his native kharkiv, saved the life of a wounded brother during heavy battles in bakhmut. I thought i would put the firstaid kit under my head so that i wouldnt leave it on the ground, so that i wouldnt suffocate, and i would only approach my head myself. Ran into a mine. The wife immediately went to her husband in the hospital to be by his side, she was preparing her little son to meet his father. When he had not yet seen dad, the doll said, here is dad, now he looks a little different, there he is without one leg, in order to somehow prepare him for this, but at the first meeting, well, bohdan is somehow like that, dad, you have there is not one leg, and the main thing is to read, because i havent seen them for a very long time, thanks to them everything is fine. I smile all my life and think, well, no, but ill be brutal, now ill be wearing prosthetics, now itll be like fashion , ill be a polo robot for my son, ill return to training, if they dont take me back, ill train people, or ill try to open my own rehabilitation center, the mountains, birds singing , the sun and relatives nearby, this adds strength and energy to the soldiers, volunteers also carry the soldiers on a special juliet chair so that they can see the incredible views of the carpathians. I think about how we will settle with these people in general, as a society , how much we owe them that they made such a sacrifice, and i dont know how we will settle with them, and there are many such people, me too, on the 25th went to serve then resigned in the fall. The soldiers want the impossible, to heal all the destinies and lives of ukrainians destroyed by the enemy, and also to be accepted by ukrainian society. This is what ukraine looks like today, ukrainians, and in fact, at this historical time in which we live, it is important to record, remember learn about these stories, i will remind you that rfe rl has another youtube channel, rfe rl. To ukraine, it is called, there are many stories about how ukrainian heroes live, soldiers after the war with the injuries they received, about how they live, here is the last story on our channel, how the family of a crimean lives, who actually died in the russianukrainian war, how his little daughter lives with his wife, all these stories are extremely important, they are all in our social networks, on our pages, do not stand aside, but now we want to talk a little, well, as if about education, artur proydakov, this year he got into the rating of the 50 best teachers in the world according to the version of the global teacher prize 2023, he is a teacher of ukrainian language and literature, his native kadiyivka in the lughan oblast has been under Russian Occupation since the 14th year, despite russianspeaking environment artur was fascinated by the ukrainian language and culture, listened to okean elzy , watched ukrainianlanguage movies, read danat zabushka, and later chose the profession of a teacher of ukrainian language and literature, about the language situation in the luhansk region, about the peculiarities of education during the war and about what language is heard more in the school corridors of the capital, artur. Told my colleague iryna sisak in an interview. Arthur, first of all, i congratulate you on entering the 50 best teachers on the planet, according to the global teacher prize 2023. You are a teacher of ukrainian language and literature, you come from luhansk region. In ukraine, there is such a stereotype that russian is spoken everywhere, is it true or not, and what was the language picture in your native kadiivka, which has been occupied since the 14th year . Thanks for. Hello, i was born and worked and lived in kadiivka, i used to be called this city stakhanov, for a large part of my life, up to 24 years, including until 2014, and i can say for sure that it was very difficult to hear the ukrainian language on the streets of the city, dialogues were mainly held on the streets in the russian language, ukrainian could be heard in rural areas, more where people are older, ukrainian could also be heard. In the mass media, you consciously decided to study ukrainian philology, being in a russianspeaking environment, how did you come to realize that this is your way, the crazy influence of ukrainian culture, a lot of people in the east of ukraine actually listened and listen to okean elsa, and this is for them an example of a living ukrainian language, including the influence of ukrainian culture, the influence of ukrainian dubbing , and i always note the influence of ukrainian sports commentators, these were the main sources for me, that is, i could not hear the ukrainian language on the street, but media, cultural products and books, literature, the ukrainian language, especially modern ukrainian literature, i discovered yuriy andruhovych, serhii zhadan, irena karpa, lyubko derysh, oksana zabushko in high school, it was some kind of new jacket, and i thought, what is it possible, skadivka, you moved to sumy oblast, and from sumy oblast to kyiv, now you teach. Schoolchildren of the capital, despite the war, the educational process continues, how is it happening now, how important is it to continue education during the war, what is this importance . Well, here i can rush now with a quote from linston churchill, for whom we are fighting, yes, if not for culture, for education, but actually its very important, especially it was visible in the first weeks, full scale invasion, and we resumed the educational process in march, in the middle of march 22. Online, completely online, children joined from different corners, and i realized then that it is very important , so that the children could simply talk about who, where, who feels what, who communicates, since september we had full offline training, but again, the children got involved there and training was involved, including why it is important, because the children, well should be included in educational the process and not just scrolling through the telegram tape, what is flying where, that is, about the quality of education, knowledge precisely. It is not worth talking now , do we even understand what damage the war has caused, educational losses are on several levels, a city dash a village, in a big city, for example, i may have had the opportunity to go offline, because there is a shelter in the school, but in rural areas there are no computers , there is no internet, for example, in b there is no shelter, children did not go to school, there is a gap between different social groups, there are many such nuances, and we definitely have a step down. But to talk about the fact that at school it is not necessary to talk about knowledge, in general, no, i would be here for balance, so it is necessary to change, change different activities once, you need to use different approaches, two and take into account the realities, if there was an air alarm at night and the first year test work, and the children come somewhere not sleeping, or they talk about who is there, what, where they flew and so on, do not conduct the test work, it is not a secret, not a secret, it is Common Knowledge that previously, although, the educational process took place ukrainian, during breaks the children often switched to russian language, some because they speak it at home, some because of not standing out from the student body, what is the situation now, what language can be heard in school corridors today, so i will speak for kyiv, for kyiv schools and such mediocre kyiv schools, official the language is ukrainian, the teachers communicate in ukrainian in classes, well, as of now, i notice such a trend in quotation marks, a return to the russian language, until february 24, the same picture was there, after february 24, spring, summer, autumn, maybe winter, i saw such trend, ukrainianization began very massively and many people, at least tried to speak ukrainian, including children, now i notice that, unfortunately, i may be exaggerating, yes, but what i see is russian, well, lets not dominate, but it is actively present, i i think the question here is a children and b parents, parents, many who communicate with children in russian, i think that this is basically the norm. And that is why here we , for example, on the basis of the school last year, are now doing such a Conversation Club for parents, where we pump vocabulary, i think that somewhere in society, maybe there is some such a moment of relaxation, i dont know if i have the right to say this or not, but here we are, some people are beginning to feel that this is somewhere very far, somewhere in the east, in the south, i hope it will not be taken as a provocation, but i advise parents who live here, perhaps in kyiv or in another region, on the occasion when. To go outside of kyiv and look at kyiv oblast, which was occupied by the russians, and this is very true, clears the consciousness, me personally in this the plan is motivated by the monument to Taras Shevchenko in the city of borodyanka, which is a shot monument, and i i understand then that culture is important, we started our morning stream with news from zaporizhzhia, where Russian Forces attacked the city at night, and now in zaporizhzhia again. The air alarm sounds, the military Regional Administration warns that there is a threat of using ballistic weapons, namely Russian Troops attacked the city with rockets last night, and previously, as the head of the Regional Military administration Yuriy Malashko said, these were s300 rockets. There were six flights in the city, the locations of three are already known, three more hits are being sought, malashko said in our broadcast, as of 90 in the morning, it was known about two dead people, three more. People are considered missing, some people were also injured, malashkovo reports that the residents of the house, which was broken into by Russian Forces in the center of zaporizhzhia, were evacuated to a safe place, they are being given medical and psychological assistance, Emergency Services continue to work on the spot, rescuers are clearing the rubble, the residents of the house return for things, but they do not let them in precisely for security reasons, and also the residents of the house who were hit by Russian Forces, tonight, they say that little has survived in the houses, and among the victims are young people , yes, my things, everything is damaged, there is no room at all, now it is not possible to go up there yet, who are your neighbors, what kind of young people are these young people , they recently got married, guys. With a girl, they lived, well, as if in an apartment, they brought the boy, with his parents, with his parents, i know what the neighbors passed on, the mother was taken to the hospital, and the father tried to resuscitate his son himself, i will remind you, this was the testimony of the woman , which stands near building. In the center of zaporizhzhia, which was targeted by Russian Troops at night, they previously targeted a c300, and according to the ministry of internal affairs, rescuers evacuated about 50 residents of this highrise building, and even now in zaporizhzhia , an air alert continues, and Public Relations correspondents report explosions in order to quickly find out about the news, what is happening and the analysis of what is happening, then you subscribe to the social networks of Radio Liberty, we are everywhere, in all social networks, where it is convenient for you, also here on youtube, on the Radio Liberty channel, set the bell so as not to miss important broadcasts, where we, together with experts and responsible people for certain directions, discuss the events taking place in ukraine. My name is kateryna nekrecha, i say goodbye to you, see you tomorrow, our entire team wishes you a peaceful day, see you soon. Greetings, its news time at eter espresso, kateryna shirokpoyas works with you. That night, the russians hit a highrise building in zaporizhzhia. As of now, it is known about two dead. Another eight people were injured, five of them are in hospital. Three people are considered missing the head of the regional said. Yuriy malashko of the military administration. In total, the occupiers launched six s300 missiles at the city. In the building that was hit by the rocket, the entrance, from the fifth to the third floors, was destroyed. A young couple may be under the rubble. The local Authorities Say that the enemies targeted the social infrastructure. They aimed at the social infrastructure. And why not