how are his chances assessed and what could this mean for ukraine? it's very interesting, actually, because we know that in order to choose the next head of the nato secretary general, you need an absolute consensus and the agreement of all 32 members of the alliance, and now there are two candidates, that is mark ruit, the prime minister of the netherlands, who is leaving office, and it is also the president of romania itself, klaus iohannis, who put forward his candidacy in march, when it became clear that mark rutin had. there is not enough support now, there are several countries that oppose his candidacy, this is actually hungary, slovakia, romania, and at the time it was turkey, now turkey has changed its mind, and so many people said that this visit to washington would also be an attempt by klaus iohannis to maybe win the support of president biden, but today john kirby said that the president biden and the united states support mark rutt, as they have done in the past, regarding exactly what klaus jaganis. to become the secretary general of nato, he

talks about the fact that it is very important for the alliance to have the voice of eastern europe, he talked about that, he wrote a column in which he explained his idea, how he sees the alliance in the future. he said that there is nothing more important for the alliance than to do everything so that ukraine can win, and for this we need all the help as long as it takes, and he also said that nato has a moral, political and strategic obligation it is necessary to ensure that... ukraine will steadily advance towards membership in nato and the european union. thank you, yulia. it was voice of america's white house correspondent yulia yarmolenko. and the annual nato exercises have started in europe unbroken defender. for the first time, as a member of the alliance, sweden takes part in them. the country has advanced defenses of its own, which could be especially valuable to allies given the threat posed by russia. about this in...

the head of the eastern european bureau, myroslava gongadze, told the briefing program on the air. this is the first exercise of its kind, and it should be noted that it is under the leadership of the united states, the largest exercise in europe since the founding of nato. and in fact, sweden was a neutral state for 200 years, and in fact, the russian aggression in ukraine provoked, or forced sweden... to ask for nato membership, it submitted an application, and what is interesting is that today sweden is actually training together with the americans, but also together with italy and with, for example, military, from hungary, and hungary, as we know, tried until the last to prevent sweden from joining nato. well, it did happen in march, and now.

there is a huge number of military personnel of various kinds, military pilots and helicopters and of various other types, and here in this at the moment they are trying to seize this area, that is, they are taking off and descending from large planes on parachutes and, so to speak , training how to do it, and here you see now, this is a medical helicopter, which was also trained today and... in what way deliver soldiers wounded from the battlefield. myroslav, can i ask you today, i know, you spoke with a number of generals who are participating in these exercises there, how seriously they take the potential threat from russia, because we hear repeatedly from all the leaders both here in washington and in europe, they are talking about the fact that if russia is not stopped in ukraine, then russia will go further, as much as sweden worries that russia can pose... a threat to them too, yulia,

this is exactly the question i asked the swedish military, as well as the american ones, and i must say that one of the american generals first went to the press and started talking specifically about ukraine, about the danger of russia in ukraine, about aggression and about the fact that nato must be ready for any similar similar actions of russia, and he said that... we will support ukraine to the maximum, this is my statement, this is a statement in support of ukraine, what can we say, if we talk about the swedes, they say that it was never news to us that russia is a threat, we have always perceived russia as a threat, it has always in our, so to speak, in our national priorities was like a threat, and nothing has changed for us, and we should be ready already yesterday for the fact that something could happen on the european level. continent and, but

in order for this not to happen, we must support ukraine. the russians are trying break through ukrainian defenses in donetsk region and reach the cities of kurakhove and pokrovsk. this was stated by the commander-in-chief of the armed forces oleksandr syrskyi. according to american analysts, the main attack of the russians is now focused on the time gap. why are russian forces advancing and will american defense aid help the ukrainians? andriy borys analyzed the military situation together with experts. this is footage from chasovoy yar in donetsk region, which is under daily shelling by the russians. not a single surviving building can be seen in the city of 12,000 people. who lived here before the war remained several hundred chasiv yar is now the number one target for the russians, according to the institute for the study of war. the northern part of donetsk region is of operational importance. sloviansk, kramatorsk,

druzhkivka and kostiantynivka are, as we call them, fortress cities, because they are well fortified. all of them are connected as links of one chain. they are in the immediate. geographically close and easy to defend, but if the russians succeed in seizing time in the coming weeks, it could potentially open up a dangerous scenario. the russians will try break through a small seam that connects kostyantynivka and druzhkivka, and thus split the line of defense. two weeks have passed since the approval of the new aid to ukraine by the us congress and the sending of the first arms package within the framework of this aid. russians all this time. continue to advance in donetsk region, when will we finally expect the result of aid at the front? the congressmen themselves admit that they approved the funding too late. i was informed that they are working as fast as possible to get help to the front lines.

we had to do it for several months therefore, and i have said this many times. unfortunately, that hasn't happened, so for now i'm just hoping that help arrives as soon as possible. i wish it would happen much sooner. this is a question i keep asking the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and everyone else. why can't we pass this on as soon as possible? slow aid to ukraine is disastrous, for its people and for our goals as a country that supports its friends. from the air , the city of kharkiv is currently the most vulnerable to russian strikes. guided aerial bombs are destroyed almost every day infrastructure of the largest eastern city of ukraine. kharkiv could protect additional air defense equipment, which is sorely lacking, experts say. the new us aid can only

partially help this, because air defense systems, radars, missiles for air defense are a scarce resource, and russia will try to use it. and of course, 61 billion sounds like a large amount, but if you look at the details, many of the ammunition and equipment that ukraine needs at this stage of the war are very expensive. the question immediately arises, what will happen after that, how structural support can continue. according to nicolange, a researcher at the sepa center for european policy analysis, the western allies , for reasons he does not understand, simply keep in warehouses weapons that should be... why is spain sitting on hundreds of tanks and anti-aircraft systems, against whom do they want to use it? if russia is allowed to advance in the direction of spain, then we will be dealing with completely different problems. greece, other countries that

have a lot of military equipment, if they will just look at each other and saying it would be great if someone did more won't help. i think that we see a lack of flight... another problem that does not give ukraine the opportunity to fully defend itself, according to experts, is kyiv's commitment not to use western weapons to attack objects on the territory of russia. kharkiv is located approximately 40 km from the border with the belgorod region. russian air bombs have different ranges, from about 40 to 60 km, that is... russian planes can bomb kharkiv indefinitely, without leaving the international airspace of russia. that is, even if ukraine has enough patriots, it has to wait for a plane or a bomb to cross the border. we must give the ukrainians the green light,

the opportunity to strike legitimate targets on the ground, as well as in russian airspace, in order to protect the cities of ukraine. the same limitation. does not allow ukraine to fully use long-range atakams missiles, which have recently been supplied by the united states, with their help it would be possible to destroy russian logistics hubs and headquarters in border regions. says george baros, an expert at the institute for the study of war. if you just look at what is in the 170-kilometer zone from the contact line in the direction of belgorod, kursk, rostov-on-don, you will find at least five or six air bases, dozens of ammunition depots, logistics bases, headquarters of many formations, for example, the 20th joint military action against russia,

the slow approval of aid, the limited number of weapons, all this is the result of the lack of a clear strategy for the war in ukraine, he says retired general herbert mcmaster. we keep saying we're with you as long as we need to be, but i think we need to define what that means. i think there really should be two fundamental military goals. the first is to stop the offensive. the second is to regain territory that was lost at least after a full-scale invasion in february 2022. so, once you clarify those goals, then you know you need a multi-layered and echeloned ppo. a long-range precision weapon is required. ukraine should shoot down not only arrows, but... also kill the archer, you need a number of military and logistical capabilities to

launch an offensive. at the same time, the general believes that russia's capabilities should not be overestimated either, it is suffering huge losses, and moscow's failure may be approaching due to apparent successes. it seems that ukraine is in a very difficult situation now. russia was able to fill the losses at the front, it does not care about the dead, although... it has 30,000 killed and wounded per month. russia receives territorial gains around the time gap, but the protection of new territories for it is also expensive for russia. i think we should take into account that every army has a tipping point, and i do not rule out that in russia it may just happen. currently, russia is using nuclear threats to once again intimidate ukraine's western allies - the institute for the study of war believes. the ministry of defense of the russian federation announced the training. the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons, however, the us state department stated that they see no

reason to adjust their own nuclear position because of this. andriy borys, kateryna lisonova, yulia yarmolenko and anichki kvadze, voice of america the united states, canada, great britain, most of the countries of the european union and other states ignored the invitation to the ceremony. inauguration of vladimir putin. the day before, ukraine called on the international community not to recognize putin as the legally elected president. let's talk about it with our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin. hello, bohdan, tell me which countries boycotted the ceremony, and which countries had their representatives there. if we talk about the broadcast of this event, this pompous, theatrical event events, actions. which was obviously seen by all russians with televisions and which was

also broadcast to the whole world, no one actually showed the boycott, that is , there were no empty chairs in the huge hall, where there were huge, again, a crowd of people, dusty chairs, but we know that most countries in europe, we know... that the united states, great britain, canada and others not only did not congratulate putin on his election victory, but were not represented in any way at any level at today's pompous event in kremlin. we know that the countries that were there probably still have some reservations, because they don't brag about it very much. it is unofficially known that

the french ambassador was supposed to be present at this ceremony in the kremlin, and there were also reports, again, unofficial, the capitals do not brag about this, but according to reports, there were also supposed to be representatives of some diplomatic level from hungary, slovakia, and also greece, cyprus and malta, that is, if we are talking about the countries of the european union, nato countries and so on. the most important thing we know now is that that... that most of the countries of the west, most of the countries of europe and the european union, actually ignored it, and the high representative of the european union confirmed that there was such an agreement among the allied partners. another important matter is the inauguration of putin, after many

discussions with the member countries, i sent a message to all of them that in my understanding, it would not be right not to... my advice was not to attend, i believe that most countries -members will not participate. and did the western countries heed the call not to recognize ukraine putin's legitimacy? not only ukraine called not to recognize putin as the legally elected president of russia, there was even, let's say, a resolution of the european parliament with the same call and... and most of the countries, again, the countries we are talking about, the countries of the west, if you can say that , condemned the conditions under which the russian elections took place, that in fact no serious opponents of putin were allowed there , and so on and so forth, but when it comes to

the very demonstrative step of not recognizing the president. vladimir putin's russia, then on countries have not taken such a step so far, that is, it was obviously done by ukraine, ukraine, which is at war with russia, but other countries, for example, the spokesman of the us state department said the day before that in washington, in particular and probably in other western capitals they see the situation in such a way that the president of russia will continue to be vladimir putin, as he has been until now. bohdan, what signals of the sunset could be heard in putin's speech? if you analyze putin's speech, the first thing that catches your eye is what he said specifically about the event

there was a proposal or such a statement about the readiness to carry out a change. speak, but, as the russian ruler said, under certain conditions, if russia will be respected, but this speech, the russian ruler today began by congratulating the participants of, as he said, a special military operation in ukraine, that is, he from the very beginning of his speech today in the kremlin celebrated the war, he in no way... hinted at a desire to end the war against ukraine, moreover, he boasted that representatives of occupied territories in the territories of ukraine, which russia has occupied and holds, that is, if we talk about the general tone and essence

of what came out of vladimir putin's mouth today. then the signals remained basically the same, he remains the ruler of this country, he still wants to wage war. of course, bohdan, thank you, it was the european columnist of the voice of america, bohdan tsyupin. and to other topics. a majority of young american voters say they would like to vote in... this year's us presidential election help someone other than joe biden and donald trump, who are more likely to become candidates. this is partly due to the older age of these candidates, which are other issues that concern young voters, see in the story. in a race between the two oldest presumptive presidential nominees from

the major us parties, this campaign has raised questions about the suitability of the presidential candidates. of the state, especially from the youth, desmond cager wishes he had another choice. if the republicans or democrats are able to put someone else on the ballot, for whom really worth voting for, then i 'll vote for them. a pure research poll last week found that 2/3 of voters under 30 would switch to either candidate if given the chance, so who among young people supports biden or trump over concerns about francesca's reproductive practices. i think the topic of abortion is important to me, having an abortion, the right to choose, the issue of abortion rights and recreation. marijuana will be on florida ballots in november, it's getting youth out to vote democratic party, says jayden donofrio.

young voters have a real opportunity to shape the election picture here in florida. we see that pro-choice and recreational marijuana are critical to the beliefs and priorities of young voters. some young people oppose biden for his support of israel in the gas war, but this is most likely because of it. he will be voiced by eliana stein. one of the most important things for me right now is continued support for israel, especially in this ongoing conflict. that's why i really appreciate everything that the president biden is doing to support israel in this ongoing conflict. young people supporting trump include wisconsin voters briana bonilla and jonathan boyer. i've tried to talk to people who don't like trump, and they say, you can and... so i think that's the main problem: people aren't willing to listen, they just say, if you like trump, you're a terrible person. yes, there are never open discussions. i

feel like if there's an opportunity to have an open discussion, i feel like a lot of people, let's say, just act like you you can't convey anything. young trump supporters are used to people their own age questioning such political choices. if i walk into a bar in the cap, trump. 2024 people look at me strangely, like i'm crazy, but i don't care. turner says he admires trump's anti-corruption stance. i think there are a lot of very scandalous things going on around the world. i think trump is one of the few who actually has the guts to name these people and not be afraid of them. i just feel what he's going to do what is best for the country. the survey was conducted in march. showed that among americans aged 18 to 29, biden's support is 3% higher, a much smaller gap than the 24% with which biden won among young

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