are there queues, well, we didn’t see such, you know, big queues, but in principle, i think everyone had the opportunity to buy a sim card from another operator, and there are no problems with this, because they are sold even in ordinary supermarkets, so i think , everyone who wanted to call their relatives or friends or their boyfriends at the front today, they did it. thank you, colleagues, for the information, i would like to remind you that it was elizaveta krotyk from mykolaiv and gordiy yermak from chernihiv who talked about... the situation with communication in their regions, and we are actually waiting for the inclusion of our kyiv correspondent, who will tell us how else to get in touch, if there is no connection, actually kyivstar, like today, literally in a few minutes , our correspondent will appear live, we will talk about it, and we continue, meanwhile, the main intelligence agency of ukraine attacked the tax system of russia...

the successful operation was reported on their website. specialists paralyzed the connection between the central office and more than two thousand regional offices. the statement says that in internet traffic of tax data of the aggressor country ended up in the hands of ukrainian intelligence. the russians have not been able to resume work for the fourth day and will not be able to, according to experts, for at least another month, and a complete restoration of the system is impossible. the russian media have not reported the battle at the moment, and there is information about problems in the system of the road patrol service, in particular, it was impossible to register cars, according to a message on the russian resource failure of the russian federation, which actually monitors the performance of services and sites. volodymyr zelenskyi met with american... senators in washington,

this is reported in the telegram channel of the president of ukraine, he told the senators about the security and economic situation, and spoke about the importance of maintaining american support. let me remind you that zelenskyi arrived in the usa against the backdrop of the republicans blocking the provision of aid to ukraine. we will ask voice of america correspondent julia yarmolenko about the details of the visit. yuli, congratulations, tell me how the meeting went. congratulations colleagues, actually the meeting took place this morning, indeed, first volodymyr zelenskyi met with the senator, later actually with the leaders in the house of representatives, this is mike johnson, as well as hakeem jeffries, and this is exactly what it looks like from the republican leader in the house of representatives, speaker johnson, and the whole idea of , that tying ukrainian aid, voting for ukrainian aid, to directly strengthening the security of the american border, this is extremely important. week now on

the capital hill, because in a few days the congressmen will go on christmas vacation or the christmas holidays, and there is very little time left, as we heard from the leader of the democrats in the senate, chach schumer, after the meeting with the president of ukraine volodymyr zensky, he said that the meeting was extremely powerful, president zelensky very clearly described why it is necessary urgently help ukraine, how with this support... the country can win, but chuck schumer said that there is really very little time left. mitch mccone, the leader of the republicans, after meeting again with the ukrainian president, said, that in fact, he understands how important the security of the ukrainian border, the israeli border, and taiwan is, but he believes, and his republican colleagues believe, that until the issue of the american border is resolved, this matter will not move from its place, although ukraine, he emphasized to support worth it, but let's listen to what message the leader of democracy sent after.

how he met, how they met, all senators with the ukrainian president. it was a very strong meeting, president zelenskyy said clearly understand what help he needs, if he gets help, how he can win this war. on the other hand, he made it clear, and we all made it clear, if we lose, putin wins, and that will be very dangerous for the united states. we cannot allow putin to influence through any proxies what... what we should do in ukraine, he also mentioned another thing: he needs help quickly, you know, colleagues, a very important message coming from the white house, the white house emphasizes that if congressmen will still not approve aid for ukraine by the new year, then it will be a gift to putin, and the white house emphasizes that the resources to support ukraine are running out, and already in january they will not have enough funding to ...

continue uninterrupted support for ukraine, and therefore it can potentially weaken the position of ukrainians on the front lines, but it can also affect the ability of ukrainian air defense to protect ukrainian cities, which is... extremely important, right now here in the white house we are waiting for the arrival volodymyr zelenskyi , this meeting should start literally in an hour, and it will be extremely interesting to hear from the presidents whether they believe that the ukrainian president managed to convince the legislators with his visit, to approve extremely important funding for ukraine, without tying it to internal political problems of the united states. the press conference is expected at 11:15 p.m. kyiv time, and there, we hope, we will see more answers, but... what do we expect from the white house, first of all, the president will be discussed the current situation on the battlefield in ukraine, as well as what kind of assistance from the united states is now necessary for ukraine to be able to continue to defend its territory. thank you, colleague, yulia yarmolenko,

voice of america correspondent, spoke about the meeting of the president of ukraine with american senators. challenges for global security, developments at the front and further cooperation between ukraine and the usa. in the field of defense - these are the main topics of president volodymyr zelenskyi's visit to the usa, but there is another topic that prompted zelensky to return to the white house after the last visit, which took place three months ago. olena kurenkova will continue. before arriving in washington, president zelenskyi visited argentina and attended the inauguration of newly elected president javier miley. there, talking to representatives of the latin american media, the president emphasized: ukraine believes that it will be able to overcome the pause in aid from the united states, which has been caused. political differences in the congress. on december 6, the united states announced a new military package aid for ukraine in the amount of 175 million dollars. it also included missiles for air defense systems, additional ammunition for hymers, artillery shells of 155 and 105 mm caliber of the javalin anti-tank system.

this is stated in the message on the website of the state department. however, it is worth paying attention to the phrase at the end of the message (i quote: this may be one of the last packages of security assistance that the us will provide to ukraine). without extra. funding this weapon will be one of the last we can send, ending support and giving vladimir putin exactly what what he wants it would be simply terrible not only for the people of ukraine, but also for our own national security interests, and certainly for the national security interests of our allies and partners in europe. american blood may be the price of supporting ukraine in the future, kirby added, if ukraine runs out of resources and russia goes to war with nato's eastern flank. us president joe biden also spoke about this in his address on december 6, delaying the adoption of a new large-scale aid package for ukraine in congress will allow putin gain an advantage on the battlefield. the story with this package continues since october of this year. shortly after the hamas attack on israel, bloomberg, citing its own sources, reported that president biden is ready

to hand over to congress a $106 billion aid package for ukraine, israel and the countries of the indo-pacific region, including taiwan. at least 60 billion were pledged to ukraine, and this is the budget. supporting and authorizing the transfer of weapons from us stockpiles and long-term contracts to reimburse allies spent on the training of the ukrainian military and the transfer of weapons to ukraine (the request of the white house stated). however, controversy arose during the adoption of the proposed aid package. what exactly should congressmen vote for? the speaker of the house of representatives, mark johnson, asked to separate the voting for the packages on israel and on ukraine, and later they decided to add the issue of protecting the border with mexico, which is extremely sensitive for the republic. they demanded a series of changes to the tougher policy of granting asylum to migrants who want to enter the united states. before in a decisive vote in the senate, the upper house of the us parliament, on december 6, biden urged congressmen to reach a compromise and eventually unblock the aid.

make no mistake, today's vote will be remembered for a long time, and history will judge those who turned away from the principles of freedom and let putin win. bipartisan senate caucus. looked for a compromise, but it never worked out. in the end, at the vote on december 6 , they decided to essentially exclude the issue of the mexican border, to return to biden's october project. however, according to the voice of america, many republicans and some democrats were outraged, only 49 of the required 60 votes were received. we must protect our border. this is one of the three main things that the voters of this country care about. it's common sense, it's the law, the president of the united states that we... sworn to uphold the constitution, and the president doesn't. i can't just go back to south carolina and try to explain why i helped ukraine, taiwan and israel and did nothing for security our own border. as the new york times writes, the issue of the mexican border has divided american

politicians for decades. finally , those congressmen who strongly support ukraine, such as mitch mcconnell, the leader of the republican minority in the us senate, are demanding that he be brought to power. however, as emphasized. it is important for congressmen to see that america cares not only about the borders and sovereignty of other states, but first of all about its own. as someone who is a staunch supporter of the transatlantic, i am very concerned. and us support military efforts in ukraine. there is a large enough and vocal minority that is creating obstacles to keep the bill from being introduced, so it will likely take some maneuvering on the part of the minority to even get a vote. the reuters agency notes that the difficulty of finding a compromise regarding the aid package for ukraine also lies in the extremely tight deadlines. president biden previously called the deadline before the christmas holidays, but already this friday the congressmen have to go on their annual vacation. publication sources. reports that the white house is currently active is working with republican leaders in the house of representatives to find an understanding, in

addition, the biden administration is ready to make certain concessions to republicans and make it more difficult for migrants to obtain asylum in the united states. olena kurenkova, dmytro suslav, public news. an air alert is currently underway in several regions of ukraine, if you are in the odesa, kirovohrad, mykolaiv or kherson regions, go down to shelter and stay there until the air strike. keep yourselves. the man died as a result of enemy fire kupianske in kharkiv oblast. this was announced by the head of the kharkiv regional military administration oleg senigubov. another local resident was injured and was hospitalized. during the day, the russian army struck kherson, targeting an educational institution, oleksandr prokudin, the head of the regional military administration, said in a telegram. according to him, russian shelling damaged the facade and roof of the building. the flag flew over one of the terekons within the occupied gorlovka, it was repulsed by the soldiers

of the 24th separate mechanized brigade named after king danyla, president volodymyr zelenskyy wrote on facebook. in september , the general staff reported that the ukrainian military had established fire control over the bakhmut-horlivka highway, and this, i quote: significantly complicated the logistics of the russian troops. horlivka is located approximately 60 km from donetsk. more than nine are under russian occupation. years, the ground forces of ukraine, and behind us is our, ukrainian horlivka, us, donetsk, donbass is ukraine, we will definitely win. a shovel, like a machine gun, is an infantryman's best friend, yes say fighters who hold the front in donetsk region near kordyumivka. every day here is a groundhog day, shelling and setting up positions, but the military say they know for the sake of it. why did taras ibragimov spend the whole day at the positions with the soldiers of the 28th brigade.

we go to the positions of the infantry of the 28th brigade on the outskirts of kurdyumivka on foot in the morning so as not to attract the attention of the enemy. we are accompanied by the company commander on the callsign marine, he says that it is relatively quiet here today. so, as the enemy is now and we are now on the defensive, as we do not have such offensive actions, sides the enemy and ours, then we are now standing and entrenching ourselves, setting up our positions. satiating the enemy's breakthrough. as early as six months ago, these positions were won in heavy battles, recalls morpih. the 28th brigade has been participating in the battles for kurdyumivka south of bakhmut for more than a year. every movement we make is a loss. small, big, there is no difference in principle, the fact that you love it is very bad. here, our every move forward is a loss. which we try to reduce a lot, analyze all our

actions that we had, on the approach to the position we meet the sappers, they came back from the gray zone, they left us gifts, we are now taking them, they will be gifts, and what will you do with it, either it will go to our pilots for plastic surgery or it will be put in a position against the russians, we will sew it up from the infantry, because the enemy does not use a lot of equipment, it uses a lot of manpower, thermal imaging. we constantly observe movements in our direction, we can see white houses starting to rot, there is already a cordon. at the positions , the commander of the department meets us at the call sign a ninja, he is like a morpig, a personnel soldier. but 120-150 m to the enemy. the enemy is pressing every day, every day there are shots, rpgs are working, mortars are working. eh, they broke our loopholes there, we are also cleaning and restoring them. and i will say that we also inflict good damage on them.

while we are talking to the commander about the beating, another soldier is cleaning the passages in the trenches, how often can you be found here, that you are shooting each other. the military noticed that the enemy had begun to strengthen one of the firing positions and decided to shoot at that one the side of a convenient grenade launcher, everything was worked out,

hit there. take away, they hope that they will be able to get something from us , but we will not give ours in any way, so no one will take anything from us, not even us, and we don't need someone else's either, by order of the commander we are returning, the day is at the infantry positions... only begins, the military continues combat duty on the outskirts of kurdyumivka. taras ibragimov, social news. today, the minister of defense rustem umyerov and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine valery zaluzhnyi visited the positions of fighters in the eastern direction. there, they were congratulated on the day of landlords troops the minister presented awards to the soldiers , the commander of the ground forces and

the head of the khortytsi operational-strategic grouping of the troops oleksandr syrskyi told the minister and the commander-in-chief about... the situation in his direction, they also discussed the needs of the military, and after the press conference on the results of the meeting with the minister of defense of latvia rust omerov, in response to a public question , said that there is no question of dismissing a laborer, and i always, well, joke about this question with valehich, i say this time who is firing you, that is, in this regard, i am always open, i want to point out that... everything that is needed to win, we do, and i am the fifth minister, probably in this position, on the bench, i don't know what he was , that is, everyone is changing, everyone is absolutely changing , we will do everything we need to win, but today there is no such question, thank you, dozens of

diplomats from the european union came to transcarpathia to see for themselves that the national... minorities they do not oppress in ukraine, the press service of the verkhovna rada reported on facebook. mrs. eu ambassador in of ukraine, kateryna maternova, and more than 20 diplomats from eu member states visited places of study of representatives of the hungarian community. deputy and head of the subcommittee on higher education, yuliya hryshina told the diplomats about the life of representatives of national minorities in the region and the new law on national communities. according to her , the document takes into account all the recommendations of the european commission and the venice commission. commission the new law makes changes to seven laws of ukraine on national minorities, local self-government, education, state languages ​​and media. during the meeting, representatives of hungarians from transcarpathia published an appeal to the chairman of the european council, charles michel, and the prime minister of hungary, viktor orbán, and urged them to support the decision to open

negotiations on ukraine's membership in the european union. as the spokesman of the head of the hungarian government said in a comment to the mta agency. orbán sent a reply to the hungarian community in a letter, the prime minister stated that, i quote: the start of negotiations with ukraine is not at the right time, instead , orbán offers a strategic partnership of the eu with ukraine. hungary signaled the possibility of starting negotiations on ukraine's accession to the eu. the minister of foreign affairs, dmytro kuleba, announced this on the air of the telethon, he said after yesterday's meeting with peter szijjártó, that there is no threat that hungary will block ukraine's membership in the european union. kuleba also said that the summit of eu leaders on december 14-15 will be difficult. five issues regarding ukraine will be considered there. opening of negotiations on membership in the eu, launch of a financial support fund, approval of the amount for the european peace fund, from which will finance weapons, the 12th package of sanctions

against russia, establishing rules for interaction with frozen assets of russia. at the same time , the federal chancellor of austria, karl neghamer , believes that in order to join the eu, ukraine must have general conditions without preference, because , for example, bosnia and herzegovina is also currently negotiating to join the eu. the chancellor's opinion is published on the website of the austrian parliament. his words were commented to the public by the deputy prime minister for euro-european and euro-atlantic integration of ukraine, olga stefanishyna. today at a meeting with the minister. of european affairs, the austrian colleague confirmed that they will support the decision to start negotiations, but of course they demand more, let's say so. a broader solution for all enlargement countries, i emphasize again that ukraine has not used and will not use any personal discounts in this process. has

our state fulfilled all the necessary requirements, olena bliznyakova will tell. more than 90% of the necessary steps that we outlined last year in our report have been completed, the rest of the reforms are already on way on november 8, that's when ursula fonderlajen announced in brussels that the european commission recommends the european council to start the process of negotiations on ukraine's accession to the european union. i want to make it clear that i intend to do everything to convince my 27 colleagues that we need a positive decision in december. discussions regarding the decision to be made on december 14-15 began between the representatives. 27 member countries at the beginning of the month. at that time, reuters journalists wrote and got acquainted with the initial version of the document. it is the start of negotiations

agreed, although hungary, for example , does not change its rhetoric. prime minister orban insists that kyiv is not ready for accession. ukraine's membership in the eu and the start of accession negotiations do not coincide with hungary's national interests. ukraine must complete the implementation of the recommendations. progress of the commission will be assessed at the summit in march 2024. in november, the european commission considered four of the seven important steps that kyiv had to take in order to start the negotiations to be fully implemented. the decision also discussed specific additional requirements: an increase in staffing the number of the national anti-corruption bureau, the abolition of restrictions on the powers of the national agency for the prevention of corruption, the adoption of laws to implement the recommendations of the venice commission on laws on national minorities, as well as the adoption of a law that regulates lobbying according to european standards. on december 8, the parliament supported three european integration laws at once

- announced prime minister shmyhal. it is about nabu on the zk, as well as about the rights of national minorities, the government approved the bill on lobbying. in the european union there is absolutely absolute majority who support open. membership negotiations with ukraine, if ukraine receives a favorable assessment at the summit in march, then the eu will convene an intergovernmental conference where the member states must approve the negotiating framework and technical document. after that, substantive negotiations can begin. in the case of a positive political decision this week, the commission can start preparatory work, in particular screening, i.e. checking compatibility with eu law. olena bliznyakova, daria sydorenko, social. news truck blocking the polish-ukrainian border near the yagodyn dorogutsk checkpoint has been cleared, traffic has been restored there, deputy minister

of community development, territories and infrastructure serhiy derkevych said during a meeting with diplomats. according to him, the government is currently working to unblock all checkpoints. yagodin dorogusk himself began full-time work on december 11. the decision to open was made by the head of the local government. based on the violations that the protesters allowed, not allowing humanitarian and dangerous goods to pass, we we hope that the ravaruzka ridge crossing point is located in the same region , we hope... for a positive decision there as well, we had information yesterday that communications are actually going, communications are already going at the local level at other checkpoints, but we did not see the specific

decision of the local leader vit that the coordin will be unlocked. the new polish government found a way out of the crisis to take into account the interests of its carriers on the one hand, and to immediately unblock the border with ukraine on the other. as he said during his speech in the diet new prime minister donald tusk, cabi. did not take care of the interests of transporters and refused to control the border with ukraine during the war. according to tusk, he and the ministers of the future government deliberated over this almost all night and found ways to resolve the situation. let's return to communication: the police can help ukrainians with it. minister of internal affairs ihor klymenko suggested to contact the nearest police station if necessary. and how else can you get in touch when there is no network, daria sydorenko will tell. dasho, good evening, tell you and share the secrets you know. greetings slava, the first thing i would like to say is

that the communication problems also affected our film crew in preparation for this direct inclusion, so this topic is extremely relevant today for our film crew, in particular, during the day i tried to check various tips that was given by both official bodies and information that we know from the experience of blackouts last fall and winter, in particular, for example, ihor klymenko, the minister of internal affairs, reported in the morning, for example, that the numbers of all emergency services are working as usual today, but i would like to note that if you do not have a connection on your mobile phone, you will unfortunately not be able to call the emergency services, so for this you need either a cellular connection from another operator or access according to the landline phone, which can either be at home, or you need to go somewhere else to find it, for example, mr. ihor klymenko also suggested contacting the police,

police stations, emergency services, rescue points, and invincibility points , etc., also from the previous experience of last year's blackouts, information is known that it is possible to install special applications that can work for the communication of citizens without access to a mobile network and without access to the internet, i installed one of such applications to check how it works, the way it works is that you can with bluetooth. to contact another person at a distance of 100 m, this is such a rather annoying distance limitation, or also this distance extends to another person who has this application is installed, even if it is a person not from your contact list, and so the person who has this application installed can also work as a kind of relay, so that your message will eventually reach your contact, however, when i

registered and entered this application, he showed me, for example, that there was no subscriber around me in the radius with whom i could contact, or whose application i could use as a kind of relay, so that my message would still reach the addressee, so i was able to send just a message to the general group so that anyone who has such an application can see it, it can be useful if you, for example, like many people woke up this morning without connection, do not know the situation and just write to such chat, for example, what... happened, to find out the general situation and someone is nearby in this general chat, he can provide you with such general information, but still, i received such an experience. also, as ihor klymenko noted, you can turn to points of inviolability or to other state ones institutions where, for example, there may be landline phones. i visited one of the post offices that was closest to my place of residence. there, the employee told me that, unfortunately, such a service is not

provided, but when i asked her, saying that i do not have access to a mobile phone and i need to contact my relatives, she suggested that i simply use their working office by phone, and i ask our directors to give a live now so that we can see a little how it happened, here is where you can call from, maybe there are no landline phones, no, there is nothing from anywhere, and you don't know, maybe there is a place nearby? because there is no connection, until the third window, please, and also, again, as advised by mr. ihor klymenko, the minister of internal affairs, i tried to ask for help from the police patrol, which i met in the city just walking on the street, and asking for...

help, also informing that i don't have a mobile phone connection, and i need to call my loved ones to let them know where i am, what's wrong with me, whether everything is okay, in general, and alone from the patrol, a law enforcement officer, gave me her phone so that i could call and there basically report the data that i want to inform my subscribers, so, in principle, the law enforcement officers, at least the experience that i got today, they helped me with that. so, this is the information and our impromptu inspection for today, and i have received the word "slavo". thank you, dasha, for such tips and for checking these so-called life hacks, right? yes , dari sydorenko, a social correspondent. the ministry of internal affairs will check the information of journalists of the publication schemes