does not expect that this issue will be resolved before the christmas break, i will remind you that the congress goes on vacation starting this friday, so it is expected that this issue will most likely be postponed, if there is no vote in either the senate or the house of representatives for the allocation of this additional aid, but some democratic senators have already said that they are ready not to go on vacation and continue to work until the aid to ukraine is approved. in addition, volodymyr zelenskyi... has a planned meeting at the white house with president joe biden, precisely on at his invitation, the president of ukraine came to the united states, and the white house said that this meeting and this visit, he should show that america continues to support ukraine, continues to carry this leadership in supporting ukraine and that it will support ukraine as long as it will necessary. thank you, colleague, maria ulyanovska from the ukrainian voice of america service was in direct contact with us with the details of zelenskyi's visit to the united states. thank you.

the us and ukrainian military commands are looking for a new entry strategy war with russia in 2024. the new york times writes about this with reference to officials from ukraine and the usa. according to some american officials, without a new strategy and additional funding, ukraine may lose the war. like, putin is betting on a decrease in american support. and against the background of the current situation. regular aid to kyiv, it does not look so impossible. i remind the publication that despite the fact that the united states has already provided military and economic aid to ukraine for more than 111 billion over the past two years dollars, a significant number of republicans now oppose further spending, and those who are ready to vote for the allocation of additional funds want to first see a new strategy, and even the help that congress will approve, in the opinion of the american.

officials is unlikely to match the funding that was in the first two years of the war. therefore, they warn that ukraine will have to fight in conditions of a limited budget. and in the us army, in particular, writes the new york times, they want ukraine to adhere to the hold and build strategy, which, among other things envisages the development of the production of own weapons during the next year. he said that such a strategy could force russia to negotiate at the end of 2024 or. beginning of 2025. well , further on, professor of new york university igor eisenberg joins our broadcast to communicate with us. mr. igor, good evening. congratulations. greetings to you, greetings to all viewers. let's start with the meeting with biden zelensky. what is this meeting for biden? if, of course, he was the initiator, well, at least this is how it is presented in the official media. can this meeting change anything, if we are talking about the fact that... that aid to ukraine

has become a kind of hostage to internal political processes in the united states? joe biden simply supports ukraine very sincerely both as a president and as a person , and this meeting is for him, and if we even forget about the situation with the approval of aid in the congress, it is important for him to simply emphasize that he supports ukraine, and as for the president and simply as for a person, as. personality, well in this case i think that of course he had a purpose to discuss face-to-face with president zelensky certain things that can certainly only be discussed face-to-face, and also for the president of ukraine to have the opportunity to meet with senators, such a meeting took place already today, he had the opportunity to meet with her, at least with the leadership of the house of representatives, and such the meeting will take place. and yesterday volodymyr

zelenskyy spoke at the american military university, by the way, his speech and that of defense minister austin, who received him there, were very strong, that is, this visit is important, it is not simple, at all not just a symbolic visit, i would even say that it is more important than last year's pre-christmas visit of volodymyr zelenskyi, when he addressed a joint session of both houses of congress, and by the way, this visit contributed to the fact that ukraine is in the center of attention of american leaders for the second day media, because ukraine disappeared somewhere after october 7, ukraine completely disappeared from american news, almost completely, uh, well, even though israel is not in the first place in american news now, american journalists, yes they, they are looking for hot news, now the hot news is the visit of the president of ukraine to the united states, and why do you think... ukraine disappeared from

the agenda then, you say that there was no hot news, it is due to the lack of success on the front, or when america , the american media want to talk about ukraine, look... the media is arranged in such a way that , well, i think you don't need to explain, you can explain to the audience, because for them, they are private companies, they need profit, they need advertisers, that's why they, they show, especially television, they show something that will really concern the viewer, what the viewer will watch today, so they are always looking for something that is hot, hot news that will concern people, and ukraine has been absolutely ... but in the spotlight after the start of the big war for a long time time, i would say that sometimes 90% of american news was devoted to ukraine, but, let's say, when ukraine is in the center of news, because things like bucha, like raisin, like

mariupol happen, of course, it causes great empathy of tv viewers and those who read newspapers but i would like it not to be such a price for paying attention to...hamas attacked israel, then of course, all the american media completely switched to israel for about a month, 90% of the time in all american news was occupied by israel, or now they switched to something else, but during the last two days in ukraine, i see on cnn, and on msnbc, and in the newspapers, much more than anything. what other news, that is, from this point of view it is good that ukraine is again in the center of attention, that people see that the actual war continues, what if about it haven't spoken for a while, it doesn't mean that it's over, but actually we mentioned the publication in the new york times,

where they propose a new strategy for ukraine for 2024, does this indicate that the united states also are already considering the possibility of certain territorial posts. ukraine, which ones exactly? i am sure that the joe biden administration is not considering such options, it will never admit that russia has annexed ukrainian territories, and what it may be considering is simply a military strategy, a security strategy, a strategy of so that russia can't and can't invade more, but so that ukraine at the same time has the opportunity to... liberate its territories, so it can be about strengthening the ukrainian armed forces, strengthening ukraine's ability to defend the territory that is free, and strengthening ukraine's ability , to conduct counter-offensives and

liberate the territory, i think it is absolutely in the same vein as the interview of the former chief of general. headquarters of the ukrainian general muzhenko bbc, recently a large interview where he just talked about that ukraine needs to switch to active defense, i.e. not to give russia the opportunity to advance anywhere, to conduct a counteroffensive wherever possible and to liberate ukrainian territories wherever possible, but the united states, at least under the biden administration, is... definitely never it cannot happen that the united states admitted that russia annexed some ukrainian territory, this is simply impossible, absolutely, and then what do you think the negotiations could be about, which are mentioned from time to time by the american media, and who will lead them, given that ukraine

has made negotiations with the current russian government, namely putin, impossible at the legislative level? eh, you know, there are a lot of negotiations, hypothetical negotiations, a lot... american high-ranking officials spoke last year, they believed, i think, they even believed sincerely that if ukraine frees part of its territory, a large enough part, that it will force putin to conduct negotiations when ukraine liberated almost completely the kharkiv region, liberated kherson, did not give russia anywhere to advance in the past year, for which putin has not shown any readiness for any negotiations, and therefore i... do not see in the statements of high-ranking american officials in recent months, in fact , nothing about negotiations, on the contrary, for example, and state secretary blinken, and secretary of defense austin, and the director of strategic communications, national security council, admiral kirby,

they constantly emphasize that russia is not ready for any negotiations, and it will not conduct them, so we need to help ukraine. that there is no talk of negotiations at the moment, but negotiations on putin's terms are not negotiations, but actually capitulation, which is... unacceptable, this is what high-ranking american officials emphasize, that is, they are the opposite recently, even about the hypothetical negotiations they talked about, what if ukraine liberates its territories, a large part of them, then it will have a strong position in the negotiations, which will force putin to negotiate, from this point of view the american high officials have moved away, that is, i think that they do not expect that putin will go to any negotiations heard, mr. igor, thank you very much for joining the broadcast. ihor eisenberg, a professor at new york university, was in touch with us. thank you.

fighters of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine from the artan special unit carry out tasks where death is nearby. bakhmud, kherson, the occupied territories and the deep rear of the russian army. in particular, without the cover of aviation, the hurivians returned to ukraine control over the boyka towers in the black sea. russian fighter jets attacked pryamisinka directly from the boat, despite continuous attacks by russian forces, and set out to rescue their colleague who had fallen overboard. taras levchenko, a journalist of radio svoboda, recorded an exclusive interview with a special agent with the call sign saba, who participated in this unique operation. your most famous operation, artano, is meant to have taken place near the so-called boyk towers. in september, the main intelligence office reported on this operation. called her unique. boyka towers are oil production platforms near the shores of crimea

in the black sea. can you tell me the details? what was happening then, because the media also has it the information that one of your fighters on the call sign conan spent 14 hours in the open sea, but you, your colleagues, saved him, is meant. the black sea is an open sea, even if the air temperature is warm, the wind is strong there, a person is wet, and it penetrates him, and there. you freeze, you need to be well covered there, these were diving suits for wading. the hut was primarily an enclosed space, short distances, they took automatic short-barreled weapons with them, usually used anti-aircraft guns, there were a lot of planes flies, and guided missiles were grenades with them. there we also got into a storm, our boat submerged in water, probably

by 60 percent, and the machine gunner, who was standing on the bow with a machine gun, went headlong into the water, and it was not a wave, well, the storms are strong there, well, with the help of higher forces and the skipper, we, we did not have a hailstorm, we got out. i wouldn't say dry out of water, i would say dry, a little wet, but they came out whole and whole. there is information on the boyko towers that russian helicopters used to land there, if necessary, there are platforms there, artolhitny, there is even a video where a special unit from the fsb trained them. i don't keep records of defeated opponents, i don't keep records of captured property, that's it. does not fall under my competence, in open sources it was indicated that

the nevab rls was captured and unguided air missiles were captured there, bunks, ugh, gryuma. rls , the radar complex, as far as i understand, he controlled everything through the warning, well, that is, the movement of ships in the black sea, and in general , in russian, in general, well, they lost this opportunity, as far as i understand from your words... the operation, ukrainian military intelligence was not covered by aviation at a time when the sky over the black sea was full of russian aircraft, how big a risk is it to your life? we understand, we are proceeding as if there was overlap from the aviation side, it would be much better, easier, more convenient, safer, you are the navigator, and you had a hand in planning these operations in the black sea, tell me, i enlisted my men, they sailed, swam, we swam a lot, including swimming with hands and feet tied,

swimming in uniform, in assault boots, they are chosen by the water, pulled down, as well clothes, it gets wet, restricts movements, a person has to take off his ronjelet so that he can weave, such thorns are also carried out by us, you know, probably the most touching moment that i have... had in my entire service, this is the rescue of conon's brothers , i came from the sea earlier then, we leave without a phone. in my personal, when i arrived, i received information that the cannon had fallen by the sea, well , to open the sea, knowing what it is, how many kilometers from the coast, what waves are there, i will be honest, i thought that there was no chance, i was very tired, extremely tired, went to bed,

woke up and learned that he was alive. you see, this is such an example, i will take the risk for myself , there is no need to give up, our commander did everything to find him, it is very difficult to find a person in the open sea, very difficult, well, practically unreal, the victory of ukraine is for you when will this war come? so we already won, at the beginning, they didn't... come here, we are talking with you in kyiv, people live a civilian life, isn't that what victory is, temporarily in the occupied territory we will do everything for their release. on the same point, thank you for your trust, daria kudimova and the entire

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for more than half a century , a monument to lenin has stood in the heart of the capital at the corner of shevchenko boulevard and khreshchatyk street. there were several attempts to demolish it. however, exactly 10 years ago, it was finally overthrown. it was the overthrow of the lenin monument in kyiv that caused the chain. reaction throughout the country, which was later called the lenin fall. people rejoiced. people took hammers, well, when they knocked him down with a crowbar, when they had already knocked him down, people there directly led dances, collected pebbles as a memory, took pictures, well, that

was really what lenin was for - he was a symbol of the ussr. in 2013, they tried to demolish the almost four-meter pedestal of ilyich on basarabka at least three times, the first two times the law enforcement officers resisted, but already... the third time they just watched. lenin in the center of kyiv dragged everyone else along with him. only during december 2013, more were overthrown in ukraine three of these. they overthrew lenin and felt everything. now let's overthrow yanukovych. indeed , viktor yanukovych fled in two months. and since then, the process accelerated, and monuments to soviet figures began to be torn down in the southern and southeastern regions. in particular, in 2014 in kharkiv. the second highest lenin in ukraine fell, decommunization officially began already in 2015. thanks to the package of laws, it was possible to remove thousands of soviet toponyms, names,

memorial signs and monuments. from the beginning of the full-scale invasion to deradinization, derussification also joined. so we finally got rid of not only lenins and stalins, but also pushkins and chkalovs. after the full-scale invasion, everyone... it became clear that there should be nothing russian in the capital of ukraine, there should be no russian propaganda, there should be no russian symbols, we have enough of our own heroes. the capital, as of the end of 2023, is 98% free of colonial signs and figures. in particular , several high-profile and long-awaited demolitions took place this year. motherland lost the soviet coat of arms from its shield, and of the park... finally, pushkin disappeared, even the rider shchors, for whom leonid kravchuk once posed, was dropped, and they promise not to stop there. paton bridge, a few more that

need a long time there, and we have several dozen more commemorative plaques that will be removed literally in a few days after the decision of the city council. in order to leave a memory of the atrocities and colonial policy of russian figures, they planned to create a monument museum. propaganda, however, later he was forgotten, but not forever: every, even a fallen pedestal, has its owner, mostly these are local authorities, so the dismantled workers, stakhanivites, soldiers and poets are in temporary storage, after the victory they still plan to implement a museum of totalitarianism, be it the soviet regime, today there is no such museum of totalitarianism there or by any other name, there were really thoughts. fight it on the territory of the former vdnkh, but this is the site i mentioned, namely the aviation museum in

the zhulyan district, it was also considered as a possible place for organizing such a space, and it is possible that after the end of the war there it will be organized. for 10 years after the fall of the soviet granite leader in the center of the capital, his so-called greatness finally dissipated. during this decade, ukraine gained new, real heroes, who now have to fight with the new russian leader. kateryna galko, oleksandr burlevich, andriy verstyuk, espresso tv channel. congratulations. a favorite genre of russian propaganda is to tell how the west is rotting. well, here you are now... they have such a new idea to tell about how this russian car came to an end to the german automobile industry, and it is interesting that they

not only tell this to themselves, but apparently they also dragged their satellites from the alternative for germany, such a german party, which has its own faction in the bundestag, under this whole story in principle , it cooperates so closely with russian propagandists that some... of its deputies broadcast on russian television, it seems, more often than on german television, well, actually, listen to a wonderful speech about how the end of the german automobile industry is coming, and now with german the auto industry, yes, just a collapse, to put it simply, the german auto industry turned from national pride into almost the most problematic... industry, it's hard to believe, but just a little bit more, and the german auto industry will become a symbol of national shame. the opposition finally initiated a hearing in the bundestag on

the situation in the german auto industry. german well, all these conversations are really about the fact that the germans still do not buy gas as the russians would like, even if it seems that they should be happy, they themselves screwed this gas to them at the beginning of the war , they tried to pressure, raised prices, well, that is, they actually did it. everything, so that europe tries to give up russian gas as much as possible, but no, don't come, and now this new round of pressure seems to be coming, and there are talks about what, look, the chinese who buy russian gas, they and cars in they are selling russia, they thought they were ordering russia, i refuse the largest market for the german auto industry,

sick tranzit gloria muni. that they are interesting for some reason exclusively towards kadyrov recently, because, for example, such propagandists as margarita simonyan, until now they. how they bought a chinese car, but kadyrov gave luxury cars to his chechen security forces, his pushers, and according to the head of chechnya, these are modern and high-quality cars that he gave to his superiors and commanders of security units, and there is not a single, obviously chinese car, there is only a car or an american general

motors, or from... attention, german mercedes, it turns out, that's how they get there, only the chechens will have german mercedes, so you can say, it's a lot of trouble, probably kadyrov, because if he had known that at that moment fresh fields were brought to donetsk, then of course he would not have bought mercedes under any circumstances, but the piercings, let's also look at what kadyrov didn't know. friends, if you are thinking of buying yourself a new field, the problem is solved once and for all, please, there are three new fields that arrived here by truck, this is the city of donetsk, this is ilicha 23b, this is a mazda car dealership, which for 7 years has been selling like crazy, yes and new cars, it's just space, that's it the beauty now costs 1 million 210. 1,210 and

the field is soft, comfortable for winter. it was at this moment that kadyrov must have cried somewhere, because he did not get such a royal cornfield somewhere, it must have gone into other hands, but he could, he could. moreover, as solov'ov, who himself... has german cars, but it turns out, they are not aesthetic, he suddenly discovered, and in general , all western equipment is not aesthetic, he says, ugh, it's unaesthetic, here it is not beautiful, here we have technology, it is not in it, there are forms, here is the level, andrey nikolaevich is stupid said that an ugly plane won't fly,

it's the same here. judging by how often airplanes began to fall in russia, or simply did not take off, they probably finally became ugly for some reason, why they became ugly, we don't know, but they don't fly and that's all, well, in the end, there was also such an interesting moment, three months ago, when kimchanin came to russia, he was shown a russian car, and then the process was told like this...