world, putin believes he can lose on the battlefield in ukraine. the battleground he 's trying to win is the capitol hill battleground, and democrats and republicans must unite to prevent that from happening. congress has a lot of work to do, it's true, this time we should do the work instead of playing politics, the stakes are too high. in the us senate, over the past few months, several proposals have been made to confiscate russian assets, including sovereign ones. that is, those that belong to them to the russian state, but so far no such bill has been voted on, we will see whether this one will be supported soon, the legislators have less than a month to bring it to a vote before the christmas holidays. from new york, yurii gulama, ukraine marathon, single news. 24 russian soldiers died and 11 more are still alive in the hospital of temporarily occupied simferopol. all of them were poisoned by two y. ukrainian women call out

russians in their social networks. the girls called themselves local residents, came to the checkpoint of the military unit of the occupiers and brought as many as seven bottles of vodka and a snack muscovites ate and drank everything they could, and there was allegedly arsenic from strychnine in the guest houses. have you tasted it? how do you like the hospitality of ukrainians? the women were not found. well , another effective partisan special operation in the temporarily occupied area. in litopol , at the entrance to the city, ukrainian resistance forces destroyed several russian occupiers and disabled an enemy refueling station. the main intelligence agency believes that the occupiers will try to hide the consequences of this attack in every possible way, so as not to get the nuts from own special services. i'm curious, all this knocked down and disabled enemy equipment in our temporarily occupied and already de-occupied territories, how is it neutralized and where do they go afterwards? and 1 million tons, according to

the approximate calculations of the ukrainian association of secondary metals, this is how much scrap will come out of all the equipment that has been knocked down since the beginning of the great war, this is a huge volume , the issue of ownership has already been settled, because the knocked-down trophy equipment does not belong to local communities, but exclusively to the ministry of defense, accordingly, to disposal and to him, that is, to the ministry and the map now in hand. according to the data of the state security service, more than 3,000 km have already been contaminated with ammunition. this is roughly the same as the kharkiv area, from the kharkiv and kherson regions, knocked out tanks have been taken out since the summer. our iryna antonyuk saw with her own eyes how the ukrainian land is being cleaned of russian junk under a raisin. for more than half an hour, the crane cannot move the knocked-out enemy tank. even without the tower, it weighs about 20 tons, and in a year it got stuck in the mud, but in two hours it was possible to load the russian ironclad onto

the platform. the whole process is managed by the builder oleksandr says that not only is the tank heavy, but the whole thing is rotten. but it is pierced, it is still torn there. everything is terribly clingy, what you don't cling to, it can come off, you can fall. colonel bohdan mykolyuk is in charge of cleaning ukrainian lands from russian scrap metal. for more than six months, he and his team have been gathering iron workers in kherson region and kharkiv region, but because of landmines they cannot reach everywhere. when it still succeeds, they can spend the whole day on one knocked-out tank. everything is in the swamps, and this is not the worst part. basically everything the equipment is stored, and not stored, is located in the places of decommissioning, and these are fields, these are plowing, these are forests, so the process of their evacuation from the places of destruction is very difficult and time-consuming. all the trophy equipment that could be quickly returned to the belt.

the military took them from the fields and immediately reported to the ministry of defense, on the liberated territories there was only the iron that was suitable only for museums, or for disassembling into parts, they currently do not accept broken tanks for recycling. to attract ukrainian enterprises, to attract foreign investments in order to process this metal on the territory of ukraine, in addition to this, the possibility of export is not excluded, we are also currently working on this in the legal field. there is so much russian scrap metal in the country that it will take years to clean it up , the ministry says, in order to speed up the process, the military is being helped by volunteers, like this time, the builder oleksandr , to even clean it up faster, so that it is gone, so that even children did not see, so far we managed to collect fifty tons of iron occupiers, from the kharkiv region, iryna antonyuk, rostislav sysoev, oleksiy zhuchkov, we ukraine, marathon, the only news, it happened, finally, health care institutions can send documents for military units and

territorial procurement centers online. the system of electronic document management was also launched in hospitals where the wounded pass a military medical examination, i.e.... now the soldier will not have to wind up the kilometers, or the documents regarding his vacation, or his unfitness due to his health, all the way to the military unit. doctors themselves will send them in electronic form, and the military can immediately go to the tcc at your place of residence or vacation. now pay attention, if the institution to which the military applied does not have an electronic document management system, the ministry of defense asks to report such cases to the hotline. well, that's not all that we planned to tell you about today. the following will be about this. currency without restrictions. the national bank is ready to sell its population in any volume, which has become possible since the beginning of december. roman, a volunteer and

a military man. we managed to talk to the couple who found out the sex of the future child of the child together at the front, and this video went viral. so who? lovers are waiting. the ministry of reconstruction of ukraine and the ministry of infrastructure of poland agreed on the partial unblocking of the border. the ugryny dolgobychuv point will be opened for empty trucks, and a separate registration in the e-queue system will be created for them at the yagodyn dorohusky krakivets korchova points. a pilot project will be launched for a month with registration in the e-queue immediately before crossing the border at the nizhankovichi, malhovice. according to the calculations of the ministry of economy of ukraine, our exports through poland have decreased by 40% since the beginning of blocking by carriers. meanwhile, ukrainian drivers who have been unable to enter ukraine through the korchova krakivets checkpoint for more than two weeks have announced a hunger strike. they say that the polish transport inspectorate has started

fining them for violating the work schedule. ukrainians demand the passage of 14 cars per hour, checkpoints have been blocked by polish transport vehicles since the beginning of november, including humanitarian cargo and fuel, and already about a thousand of our cars are blocked by slovak carriers in the direction of vyshne nemitske, uzhhorod. voting for the new composition of the polish government, led by the leader of the civic platform, donald tusk, may take place on december 11, and this will happen if the prime minister from the former government, mateusz murowiec, does not receive a vote of confidence from the diet. donald tusk believes that. president andrzej duda will swear in a new government in december. parliamentary elections in poland were held on october 15, and their results determined 460 members of the lower house of the sejm and 100 senators. upper suitcase - station russia. well, in russia

there is no work, no housing, no social benefits. deported from europe, russian spies wander in their historical homeland and wander into their own nothingness. life in a collective letter to the kremlin dictator, well, meanwhile, moscow is awake and continues to recruit new agents in the eu countries, in particular among refugees, so that they, for example, monitor the movement of military and humanitarian cargo to ukraine and pass this information to the russian special services. anna grishina knows more about it. this is a copy of the letter they wrote putin personally has 11 employees of the main directorate of russian intelligence. previously, the authors held positions in russian diplomatic missions in the eu, and after the full-scale invasion of the aggressor forces in ukraine, europe sent them back to their homeland. for many officers' families, the unexpected departure from diplomatic missions became a personal tragedy and caused numerous problems, we

are told to be patient and everything will be sorted out in the near future. from the letter of the employees of russia to putin. but time passed, and nothing changed for the better, so the document ended up in my hands. russian investigative journalists, and they claim that it was secretly handed over by one of the employees of the intelligence agency, before the publication of the names of the authors of the letter, the reporters hid it for security reasons. i checked everything, called the officers, they denied what they wrote, i went to their wives, they answered so vaguely, it is clear that the initiative did not come from the spies, but from their wives. serhii kaniv, journalist. on two kukuzhs of a4 format , the peasants fight the dictators, who say that there are no positions for them in the department at home, and places in kindergartens and schools for their children, and this is said to be thanks to the fact that for years in the west they gathered information for the kremlin about the internal political situation in ukraine and

collected data about the ukrainian army. long before the start of the svo, our military intelligence officers managed to establish the location , number and availability of weapons in the units of the armed forces, the mobilization and operational plans of the armed forces were obtained, the locations, surnames and home addresses were established, and from the letter of the employees of russia putin. in poland, the trial of 16 people accused of espionage in favor of moscow is about to begin, spies were active from january to march of this year in warsaw and several cities bordering ukraine. the investigation proved that they monitored and informed their leaders about the movement of western military and humanitarian cargo for ukraine. one of the tasks of this spy network was to monitor the transport of weapons. as a result, it was established that this group. was preparing for sabotage activities, the sphere of their interests included military bases

in poland, as well as seaports that are also used to transport weapons, especially from the united states by sea. polish political scientist philip bryjka said in an interview with mykrain that the russians recruited spies through social networks, mostly among ukrainians and belarusians who left for poland. these are people who most likely had a financial motive. since the basis for recruitment is usually money, financial benefits, ideology, that is, possible support for the policy of the russian federation. all the accused are awaiting trial in sizo, they were arrested by polish law enforcement officers so that they would not flee to the russian federation. the russian soothsayers leaked out even before that. since the beginning of the great war in ukraine, 10 employees of the representative office of the russian federation have been expelled from the headquarters of the alliance. they worked under diplomatic cover, but in reality they turned out to be russian spies. one of them, oleksandr smushko, by a strange

coincidence, was the personal translator of the minister of defense of the russian federation sergei shoigu and the chief of the general staff of the russian federation valery gerasimov. in general, after the russian invasion of ukraine and the eu countries sent home more than 700 russian diplomats. they could not arrest them because the holders of diplomatic passports are protected by the vienna convention. currently in brussels. another high-profile investigation is underway regarding the head of the russian mission to the eu, kyril logvinov, his belgian law enforcement officers suspect him of working for russian foreign intelligence and recommended that the diplomat be expelled, but he is still working, why european politicians do not understand. if the belgian security forces really recommended that he be deported, i am very curious why the european external action service did not do this. martin, vice-president of the european parliament. meanwhile , details of the exploits of russian diplomats in

the eu, those who turned out to be gru officers, are emerging. the western media learned from police reports that the kremlin possypaks were repeatedly detained by beatings and drunken brawls on foreign missions. from brussels, anna grishina. we are ukraine. only news marathon. banks that have cash currency for the population can. sell it in any volume. the national bank has lifted all restrictions. gold reserves are sufficient, so the hryvnia exchange rate will not be affected by the removal of obebiz. and that's not all. the national bank has expanded the list of services for which cross-border transfers can be made to citizens, in particular military personnel, who need treatment outside of ukraine. also, the nbbu allowed the payment of visas for the period of study, and the payment of students' study conditions, i.e. accommodation and food. and insurance of medical services for ukrainian students abroad.

this is the liberalization of the market, that is, the removal of those restrictions that the national bank once had when it was struggling with instability on currency market. that is, when the war began, a lot of administrative restrictions were introduced, now partly by the national bank, seeing that the situation has stabilized on the foreign exchange market, among other things, these restrictions are being removed. exactly in of these changes means that the national bank does not see the risk that they will affect the currency market, if they did, they would not take such steps towards liberalization, so no changes, no pressure on the national currency rate is expected. komirne owes several tens of billions of hryvnias to ukrainians owe for heating, and mostly they are displaced persons. those who chose far from the front line, relatively safe places in ukraine, or even went abroad. how will the debtors be punished and how will the teploviks help them? olena kosenko asked.

russia's full-scale invasion forced millions of ukrainians to seek refuge abroad or in the hinterlands of ukraine. but even though the apartments were empty, the suppliers charged the payment for the storage, but not everyone paid the bills. like marina, who left for ireland with her 13-year-old son after february 24, he is raised alone. for one and a half years of stay. abroad accumulated a considerable debt for heat, now pays it in parts. i had a little problem with hryvnia savings, you know, because. live, live in a country where, well, the standard of living is completely different, ireland is one of the most expensive countries in europe, so it was a bit difficult for me, at the moment, my payments are evened out, the most painless way to pay off the debt is a restructuring agreement, that is, for payment in installments, it can be signed remotely through the

diya portal, for a period of up to five years, and certain you will have to pay the percentage of the debt immediately. if we have enough. of the amount of debt, if the debt is up to 4,000, 20%, if it is more than 4,000, we have 100,000 each, there are such people, old people die, youth appears, youth begins to solve this issue, there is 30% of the amount of debt. at the beginning of the year, the debt of ukrainians for heat and hot water amounted to more than 28 billion hryvnias, has the situation worsened 11 months later , they still do not have the final energy figures, only cherkasy with a population of less than 3,000 did not add 328 million empty apartments are also heated, says the director of the cherkasy enterprise, so moving abroad or to another city is not a reason not to pay extra. for 2-3 months there is arrears for the service and there is no communication with the client and there are no attempts by the client

to somehow correct the situation, then we first send a claim, then a sub. to court despite the martial law, heat suppliers have the right to sue debtors, explains cherkasy lawyer valery makeev. you can go to court, but not without demanding the recovery of money and fines. if the person is abroad now judicial practice has changed, this does not exempt a person from responsibility. a person can involve a lawyer or a trusted person in his defense. if the meeting is ignored, the court will issue a decision in absentia. then the executive service, which can arrest, will take over the case. to debtors from cherkasy , olga kosenko, oleg klymenko, we ukraine, marathon one news. a cancellation warning has been issued in the west of ukraine, almost half a thousand settlements have already been cut off, and more than half of them are in the lviv region. rescuers had to free a bus with 60 children from a snow trap were returning from a tourist tour, another passenger bus was also

pulled out of a heap by rescuers in the lviv region, near staivka. transcarpathia and prykarpattia were covered with rain until rivers overflowed their banks, rescuers are pumping water out of houses and rescuing people in the rakhiv region after half a house was washed away. the flooded highway from mukachevo to lviv. kyiv and the region are warning about ice that will cover all roads overnight, difficult weather conditions will also be in the north of the country tomorrow. heavy snowfall also covered europe. in bavaria, the transport collapse due to ice cream munich airport was closed and 320 flights were cancelled. it's summer there. so that he was supposed to fly to the climate summit in dubai, he froze to the runway. the most powerful snowstorm in the last 15 years hit the south of germany, the railway was also stopped there, many passengers had to spend the whole night in trains. currently , multi-kilometer traffic jams and numerous accidents are recorded in munich.

one of the largest airports in great britain, in glasgow, also stopped for several hours, and an orange warning level was announced there. due to infrequency for the conjugate kingdom, low temperatures down to minus. but you and i don't have to be surprised by snowstorms in december. there are only four days left until st. nicholas, and then it's christmas. for the second year in a row, ukrainians celebrate these holidays in conditions of full-scale war, under russian shelling. how will we celebrate this year and at whose expense are ukrainian cities putting up christmas trees, lyudmila. found out here is a real new year's miracle: the main christmas tree for lviv was grown in his yard by 75-year-old mr. yop, for more than 20 years he took care of the tree. our christmas tree was so small when joseph brought it from the carpathians, we decorated it, it glowed, we were happy.

the family wanted to present a 14-meter christmas tree to the city. the host personally went to the city hall and this year it will be the main thing. decoration of christmas lviv. i believe that with this act of mine, what we accepted, what we decided to share, that beauty, that joy is ours, let's call it, you can, everyone. we hope that our hundred-year-old christmas tree will be the beauty of this year's christmas. the christmas tree has already been set up on the square by the anti-stop theater, her decorate the light illumination, which was purchased back in 18, at the top is a new symbol of anti-tank food. kyiv is still without a new year's atmosphere, for the second year in a row loud celebrations and holiday fairs are not planned in the capital, but there will be a new year's tree, it has already been installed traditionally, near sofia, clean the cars already. place on the square, they will light the new year's beauty in the capital on st. nicholas day, december 6. as last year , decorations will be installed at the expense of benefactors,

and electricity will be used to a limited extent. all expenses for her arrangement and provision of lighting will be without the involvement of budget funds. we are not planning any mass events for christmas and new year. i really hope the consciousness of kiyans that during the annual and winter holidays, not a single firecracker or fireworks will explode. unlike last year , there will be a christmas tree in dnipro this year, the mayor of the city said, although the opinions of dnipro residents were divided on this matter. i believe that it is more important that this money be transferred to the guys for the same drones and so on. and if you want a holiday, i think everyone does a ukrainian can create this holiday at home, quietly. i am neutral, probably because there are no children, and this joy is already, for adults, not very relevant, such mass events, i am now in the period of war, i would be a little

more negative about it, because they said that a very large amount for christmas trees goes, then of course everything is needed there for the army , for help, but the city hall explains that the christmas tree will not be installed with budget funds, however, when exactly, they have not yet decided, they decided to be without a christmas tree this year in kropyvnytskyi, 3 m provided for the purchase of a new year tree will be redirected to the needs of the armed forces. are you waiting for a christmas tree this year? no, our guys are more important, so i'm against it, it's not the right time. but the festive locations will be arranged before st. nicholas day. as last year , small living trees will be installed on the square in honor of the cities of heroes. there will also be a holiday fair. kropyvnytskyi schoolchildren will decorate food stalls near the city council. in the military administrations they call. do not neglect safety measures, do not gather at mass celebrations and be responsible for air alarms. the curfew has yet to be lifted do not plan lyudmila havryliuk, yuliya babak,

oleksandr stasyshyn, sofia moskalenko, vyacheslav vendechanskyi, yevhenii lopatnichenko, volodymyr vizhbynskyi and artur perikhanyan. we are ukraine, marathon, single news. this photo went viral all over the country. eight-year-old lyuda from gorenka, kyiv region. in the walls of the school, he writes a letter to st. nicholas, asks him for a new one, because the russians burned their centenary in march. therefore, now the third-grader is forced to go to a neighboring village to study. the ministry of education heard the girl's request and decided that st mykola needs help - says darya tsesaruk. what, lyudmila, are we going to school? holding her mother's hand, eight-year-old lyuda hurries to math class. this subject, her favorite to be late. it is impossible to make it in time, the third-grader wakes up at dawn at 6 in the morning, because she goes to school by bus from the other end of the city. and i like that her favorite teacher and friends are here and she is in

this team, they are very friendly, she has only been studying here for the last year, there is nothing left of her native school in horynka except a pile of stones. that the school is on fire the family learned from neighbors. who , even in spite of constant shelling , did not risk leaving the front-line village, there was nothing to save there, a desk of people and a beloved bear made of pine cones turned to dust, she was very sad that lyuchnyi class burned down, her beloved burned down, her vest and shoes were black, lyusya then i was very upset, we were sitting in the basement then, lyusya was crying, but the building of the high school, which is only a few meters from here, was almost not touched by the russian iron, only from an enemy strike. they have grown old, but even this room is now under lock and key, we don't have it storage facilities, yes, this is a big problem, but it is very good that we have organized full-time education, well , there are sixth-tenth grades, then mixed

education, all the others are full-time, although in two shifts, so all the local children, there are more than a hundred of them, go for knowledge to the neighboring institution, enemy shells gutted it too that march, in order to save the history within the walls of the hundred-year-old school , volunteers took it under their wing, to bring the students back here, they replaced almost everything here, the children come to us in two shifts, they are already used to our schools, i think, eat i like it, it's cozy, quiet, calm, warm. little lyuda took it upon herself to solve the problem, wrote a letter to st. nicholas, and asked the wizard to build her a new school. the school, by sound, and there were many people were accommodated. and arrived. this letter went all the way to the ministry of education, its head promised that the new school would still exist. there is only hope for nicholas and the letter, people wrote to initiates from us, when they saw it, commented, oh,

who... paid attention to us, the ruins were dismantled in the summer, instead of a school dusted with snow meadow, every time the director svitlana looks at that wasteland from her office, tears roll down the river, she devoted more than 20 years of her life to this institution, first studied, now i work, i learned to write my first letters in that class, so that 's it my second home and there my children studied in this building, and therefore you know this, a part of me, now she and the entire family of kuts in especially little luda, hopes that the new school will be even better, and also dreams of waiting for dad's war, he almost two years ukraine is defended at the front. daria csserok oleksandr petrovskyi, we are ukraine marathon, edine novosti. well, many of you, i think, have already seen this photo, and the video story of this couple has gained hundreds of thousands of views in a few days. pregnant, she went to him at the front to find out

their gender together. unborn child, who are they, these lovers, and what was written in the envelope and with which she went to the front. our oleksandra stasyshyn listened to the story of maksym and svitlana from them. she is 1000 km away brings almost to the front to her husband an envelope in which the gender of their future child is written, he does not let her go from his arms from happiness, runs after the train saying goodbye, she does not hold back her tears. this is actually the envelope that was in the video and in the photos that spread around the network, they saw there that we will have a son in a few days, this video has received almost 2,000 views, and the story of this couple has not yet appeared on all ukrainian and foreign media, and even a year ago, neither the volunteer svitlana nor the soldier maksym

would have guessed that one message to... but will change their lives, wrote a military man, i don’t know him, i’m so-and-so, so-and-so, we need a pickup truck, i noticed that the letter was so well written, we couldn’t help with the pickup truck, unfortunately, but we sent them a generator, and that generator lit up both of us, brighter than the sun, we immediately started communicating with him from december, he is in the trenches, i am in my warm bed in lviv, a year ago already a little more, there were heavy battles and and so about what, about what, but now i didn't think about relationships at all, it appeared brightly in my life, like an angel, who so illuminated my path. from the first days of a full-scale invasion, maxim is fighting in different directions, while on february 22, the office of the financial auditor in an international company became a warehouse, and svitlana 's work colleagues as volunteers, together created a charity fund. we have several directions, cars, drones, communication, medicine and everything

else, we have already sent. 33 cars, pickups, suvs are fast, after talking about the pickup , an online correspondence started between the volunteer and the soldier, and two months later they met, instead of flowers, maksym brought gifts from the front. case from scinger, this is some kind of metal product from a sleeve, it is written to the world. such gifts for the first date are given in the 23rd year in ukraine. love developed and in the break between rotations, the couple got married. we had a day and a half. for all the meetings, we were almost there before the store closed, we bought these wedding rings, but we managed to buy clothes for ourselves before the store closed. in the summer, svitlana found out that the baby's gender was written down in a secret envelope at the hospital, and the woman went east to maksym with it. it was so hard to hold that envelope and not be able to open it, and then travel with it for 19 hours on a train, no signal call will replace you with a person. that

hugs you, such an important thing that will never happen again in your life, and if there is an opportunity to live together, then you should do it, that their videos will be dizzying and they had no idea, and i wrote this text for myself and filmed this video before for everything for myself and for maxim, so that we have memories of our time with him, this means that ukrainians have a response to love, if our son is punctual, then on february 24 on the 24th, a son will appear in the world... a pickup truck , which introduced them to maxim's brigade, the volunteer did organize and hand it over personally, so that they could see their beloved for a few minutes next time, now the couple's biggest dream is to raise a child in a peaceful country. we have chosen a name for our son, it is an authentic old name, we will definitely share it in february. from lviv oleksandra stasyshyn, volodymyr vizhbynskyi, we ukraine. marathon, single news. here.