that we all honor with a moment of silence the memory of those ukrainians whose lives were cut short by russian aggression, both soldiers and civilians . let's observe a moment of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia.

good evening, news, results of the week are on the air. i, annayeva melnyk, will conduct this issue for you today. i offer to learn about the main topics in a short announcement: the european union is starting accession negotiations with ukraine, but hungary has blocked financial assistance for our country, what way out of this situation do european politicians see. without a new package of american aid, ukraine will run out of missiles and shells in a matter of months. what can convince american

congressmen not to give such a gift to putin? more than 1,700 civilians were killed by the russians in the buchan district of kyiv region last year in march. how people live with the consequences of the occupation. we learn about our own cultural heritage. a large-scale project was opened at the national museum of ukrainian folk decorative art. eyes of flowers. the first exhibition of works... the russians intensified their missile attacks on our cities, so on the night of december 11, the occupiers attacked ukraine with shahed drones from the occupied crimea, as well as with ballistic missiles. our anti-aircraft defense destroyed 18 shock missiles and eight missiles. regarding the missiles, the attack on the kyiv region at about 4 o'clock in the morning was carried out by the enemy... from the bryansk region, according to

the defense express agency, these were 48n6 dm anti-aircraft missiles for the s-400 air defense system. the maximum speed of this missile to the s-400 complex is 2.5 km per second, that is, the flight of this missile for 200 km takes only a few minutes, therefore, first there were explosions of the air defense system, and then the alarm signal sounded. on the night of the 13th. in december, the russians launched a massive strike with ballistic missiles on kyiv, and in the direction of one specific energy facility. all 10 missiles were shot down by our air defense forces. this number of destroyed ballistic missiles is a record. at the same time, some rocket fragments caused disaster to people. more than 50 people were injured. dozens of apartments were destroyed, the windows of the capital's school were broken. in addition, the russian invaders launch almost every night. for us

iranian shaheds, and the front-line cities of donetsk, zaporizhzhia, kherson, and kharkiv regions suffer from ballistic and artillery shelling every day. this week at the front was the most difficult for the last time, there are many combat clashes every day. now the enemy is trying to use the advantage in manpower to crush our defense. the most difficult today is near maryinka, avdiivka, bakhmut. and kupianska. a certain stabilization took place around avdiivka. regarding maryinka, there are many reports that russian troops control about 90% of this settlement . according to military analyst serhiy zgurets, the enemy will operate around ugledar to ensure the functioning of the volnovakha station. the situation near bakhmut remains difficult. in the north, the enemy leveled the defense line, starting from ivanovsky.

speaking to bohdanivka, today is also difficult around the tick. despite the active work of our artillery, the enemy is actively using a significant number of personnel there . the armed forces of ukraine say that there is enough artillery, but the enemy has a lot more mortars, and with the help of fpv drones and mortars, the invaders are trying to influence our defense line. another step on the way to european integration. ukraine was again in the center of attention during the eu summit in brussels. because of the lack of consensus , the leaders warned before the meeting began. but this summit may last several days. on wednesday evening , the prime minister of estonia, kaia kalas, said that representatives of the countries risk spending christmas in brussels if no agreement is reached regarding ukraine. however, the participating countries still managed to vote for the beginning of changes on the accession

of our country to the european union, although the joy of such a decision was overshadowed by the head of hungary. he blocked financial assistance to our state. in the amount of 50 billion euros is calculated for four years. what way out of the situation do the representatives of other eu countries see and what was the summit like in general, our correspondent natalya stareprava, who attended this event, will tell. we didn't have to wait until christmas. yes, the negotiations were conducted for a very long time. however, on thursday, ukrainians heard a warning historically important news: the european union has given the green light for the start of negotiations. regarding the country's accession to the european union. we supported the start of negotiations, it will be after the european commission's report in march. we want to support ukraine. this is a very powerful political signal. this is a historic moment and it demonstrates the confidence and strength of the european

union. this happened after viktor orban left the meeting hall. the leaders of european countries do not hide that hungary's intransigence has become a major pain point for the whole of europe. leave the meeting room viktor orbán was offered by german chancellor olaf scholz, saying that if you really don't agree, it's better to leave this hall. so 26 countries voted unanimously for the decision. hungarian prime minister viktor orban was not satisfied with such a decision. we established seven conditions accompanying ukraine's candidate status, and according to the european commission's assessment, three out of seven have not been fulfilled. there is no reason to change anything. it makes sense to return to it when ukraine fulfills everything. if you have not fulfilled the prerequisites, there is no chance to start negotiations. decision on the 12th package of sanctions for russia also voted unanimously, because just by coincidence, or irony

of fate, the chancellor of austria was not present in the meeting hall, who voted against accepting the package of sanctions for russia. the discussion was going on for the longest time. financial package for ukraine in the amount of 50 billion euros, the leaders of european countries sat on this issue all night, and viktor orban did not allow a unanimous vote for this decision, he blocked financial assistance for ukraine, and it looks like he will do it until he will not unlock frozen funds from the financial common fund. however, european leaders assure that they will return to this issue from january next year, that is, from 2024 and say that ukraine will not be left without the help of the european union. the eu is already preparing to bypass hungary's veto if necessary, for example, to allow all eu countries except hungary to provide bilateral financing

to ukraine in 2024 outside the eu budget. yesterday's decisions show that the european union is keeping its promises. negotiations on joining... the european union are penultimate step for ukraine. next, the leaders must decide on the negotiating framework. before the immediate start of negotiations , ukraine must implement all the recommendations of the european commission. ukraine has formally fulfilled all conditions, except for one - the one related to the regulation of lobbying activities. the relevant government bill was only registered in the parliament. ukraine has officially started its path to the european union. with the beginning of a full-scale invasion, then the leaders of european governments accepted the request, a are now ready to start negotiations on ukraine's accession to the european community. however, a full-scale war continues, russia continues to raid ukrainian cities and kill innocent people. do

european leaders realize this? are they ready to accept ukraine into the european union during a full-scale war, and how will they help ukraine. defeat the russian enemy together. natalya stareprava, from brussels, worked for you. the united states of america is interested in ukraine winning... in the war imposed on it by russia, because only if victory, ukraine will remain independent now and will be able to restrain further possible aggressions of the russian federation in the future. us president joseph biden said this during a press conference with volodymyr zelenskyi at the white house. the two-day visit of the president of ukraine to washington ended on tuesday. it was not easy considering the fact that the american congress has not yet made progress in passing military aid to our country in the amount of more than 60 billion dollars. support for ukraine

became a factor in the political confrontation between republicans and democrats, which moves to the plane of the us presidential elections. what does it threaten? interest of ukraine and what development of events can be expected further, all this and not only in our next material. fatigue intensifies, doubts grow. west. hesitates to support ukraine after its counteroffensive failed, the world press states. the american congress does not seem to have time to pass a package of military and financial aid before the new year. at stake is more than $60 billion, critical both for holding the front lines and for payments to teachers, doctors and pensioners. apparently, this is exactly what zelensky is talking about again. told president biden, house speaker johnson and senators during

an unannounced visit to the us this week. however, the american establishment was not convinced by this. republicans and democrats de facto have already plunged into the maelstrom of the presidential campaign, and ukraine has become its hostage. holding funding for ukraine hostage to try to impose extremist. the republican vision of the border problem is not the way to a solution problems if we do not stop putin, he will endanger the freedom of everyone and almost everywhere. putin will continue to move, and would-be aggressors around the world will take his cue and try to seize what they can by force. the conflict over migration policy is only the tip of the pre-election iceberg. according to the latest polls, the presumptive candidate... from the republican party, donald trump, is already significantly ahead of biden. therefore, the trumpists

are strengthening their position in congress, despite the fact that they are in an absolute minority. they have been complaining for a long time that supporting ukraine costs the american budget too much, and they advise zelensky to give putin territories in exchange for peace, and the reduction of military aid is seen as a kind of coercion. negotiations the numbers speak for themselves. according to calculations by the kiel institute of the world economy, which monitors support for ukraine, the cost of all aid packages in august-november of this year amounted to a little more than 2 billion dollars, and this is the absolute minimum since the beginning of the full-scale war. putin has found accomplices in iran and north korea and receives from them weapons with which he... kills our people, and supplies from dictatorships to russia, unfortunately, are more rhythmic than

supplies from many democracies to ukraine. the potential for america's leadership in defense of the free world to weaken or cease inspires dictators at the mere prospect. it may happen that putin will meet this new year in a good mood and will not blame ukraine. this week , the russian dictator for the first time since february 24. held a so-called direct line with the people, he radiated confidence and optimism, saying that sooner or later the west will get tired and turn away from ukraine. that is when russia will achieve all its goals, and few doubt that it is about the destruction of ukraine as an independent state. many western leaders understand this threat. german chancellor olaf scholz said at the recent party conference of the social democrats. about the intention to strengthen support for ukraine. next year, berlin will double its military aid to kyiv

8 billion euros. in particular, it plans to provide 200,000 artillery shells. russia's war against ukraine will continue, so it is very important that germany supports ukraine. we must be ready to do even more when others begin to doubt. putin should not calculate'. on the reduction of aid from our side, and borders in europe cannot be changed by force. is europe able to completely replace the usa? the answer is no, and it is clearly stated by the eu high representative for foreign affairs, josep borel. however, europeans can do more to support ukrainian troops and for the ukrainian budget. although there are also problems within the european union, one of them even has a name, viktor orban. the hungarian leader and longtime admirer of putin

this week blocked the passage of a quadruple aid package worth 50 billion yen to ukraine. although under the pressure of germany and france , he was unable to block the decision to start accession negotiations, but orbán, just like putin, is playing the long game, he hopes for trump's victory and sees that the extreme right is strengthening its position within the eu, for example, in the recent elections in the netherlands. however , there is also positive news for kyiv. poland finally got a new head of government this week, donald tusk. who has already stated that one of his key priorities will be to convince the world that now is not the time for so-called fatigue, president zelenskyy is trying to convince the world again that the game is actually underway, that russia's war against ukraine is an attack on all of us, my government will loudly and decisively help the full mobilization of the free

western world, in helping ukraine, there is no alternative here, i can no longer listen. politicians who talk about fatigue from the war in ukraine. only a united measure can help ukraine win the war. tusk and other supporters of ukraine in the west, who believe in its victory, have little time. financially, kyiv will be able to hold on for a few more months, in particular thanks to the tranche from the imf and the help of japan, which supported ukraine due to the delay of money from the usa and the eu. but from the military. help is more difficult, the situation at the front is difficult. according to the american television company cnn, which refers to representatives of american intelligence , without the adoption of a new package, ukraine will first run out of long-range missiles, then missiles for air defense, anti-tank missiles for javelins and anti-aircraft missiles for stingers, and finally

artillery shells, this will lead to defeat, and the score, as the publication claims. is going on for months, so us congressmen need to hurry if they want to avoid such a scenario. we are in touch with the council's foreign policy expert, ukrainian prism oleksandr kraev. mr. oleksandr, i congratulate you. yes, congratulations. ukraine is now anxiously waiting for western aid, especially american aid. in your opinion, what are our chances of getting it? this support , in fact the chances are not bad, because according to the last debates and in the congress, according to the last negotiations with the white house, we see that rather the question is not about whether there will be support, the question is about when and in what final volume, that is, now the question is being resolved soon, will we be able to receive this help before the end of this year, or will it be rather the second week of january

next year, so i have almost no doubt that this help will come, it's just a matter of two compromises. in the first compromise on the final size of this aid, and the second compromise, when exactly they will be able to come to a certain agreement both on the issue of the border and on the issue of support for ukraine. ugh. and if we assume that the congress will not approve the aid to our country, then what is the probability that lendlis will work and under what conditions, because this is not free aid. landlist is currently not working, we just need to be clear about what from september 30. this year the law on lendlis was not extended, was not extended for absolutely objective reasons, because at that time there was still a debate about the federal budget, and the law on lendlis was actually considered to be passed without problems if without problems the federal budget is going to pass, right now lendlease won't work, that's one thing, and secondly, lendlease won't work unless there's money for that

lendlease to work with, because the modern iteration of lendlease is very different from what it was in the 40s , modern lendlease, when in... was adopted in the 22nd year, it was adopted so that in the case of an inadequate position of the congress, not in the case that there would be a majority of trumpists in the congress, because then there was the same calculation, and the president of the united states could by his executive order without the need to turn to congress, to allocate appropriate amounts to ukraine from the existing budget monthly or there biweekly and so on, that is, now lenlease is not working, because it is basically not there, it cannot work. because this draft law is currently not extended, and a plus, even if it were if it was, it would not work, because there is simply no corresponding budget that can be drawn up with the help of lendlease as a legal instrument. and one more clarifying question: in your opinion, the united states of america will allocate money to our country, but how important are the deadlines until the end of this

week or already next year, what will this affect? this affects the lives of our defenders, that is, it affects the time frame and how quickly we receive this or that type of weaponry, because we are talking to you not only about airplanes, long-range missiles, some unique weapons, we are talking about... in fact about artillery shells, we are talking about infantry weapons, we are talking about repairing our armored vehicles, we are talking about replacing the barrels on our artillery, we are talking about rockets for highmars, that is, and we also say that it is necessary to mention about our air defense, indeed, european partners provide a lot, but we require comprehensiveness in this provision, therefore every day, every hour of delay is very, very difficult for us, and it is very, very important that it be adopted as quickly as possible. because after the adoption of the relevant budgets, you yourself understand , a certain time must pass for the order, for the manufacture, or at least for the delivery of the corresponding weapons,

usually, keeping in mind 22-23 years between the allocation of a specific amount of funds and the delivery of these weapons to ukraine about two weeks passed, that is, it is necessary to push back from this. thank you for your clarifications, we were accompanied by an expert of the council of foreign policy, ukrainian prism, oleksandr kraev. and we go further. ukraine's losses due to the blockade of the polish-ukrainian border amounted to more than 9 billion hryvnias. the state customs service did not receive so much money - said the deputy prime minister yuliya sverdenko. in recent weeks, the governments of ukraine and poland have held a dialogue in an attempt to find compromise solutions regarding the unblocking of the border. and on december 11, the poles unblocked. checkpoint yagodin-dorogusk. however, until now , there is almost no truck movement in the areas of krakowiec, korchów, gravaruska, grebene, and the chegen medical center. just provision

stable export is one of the priorities for us next year, but for this we obviously need more anti-aircraft defense systems, we did it, if you know. you know, the military risk insurance program for ships has already been launched, it should be up and running within a few days. more than 20 million subscribers of the kyivstar mobile operator suffered another blow to the russians this week. this cyber attack was called one of the most destructive such operations by the intelligence of great britain in its report on december 16 beginning a full-scale invasion of the russian federation into ukraine. on december 12 , kyivstar, the largest mobile communications operator in ukraine, which provides

more than half of the population with mobile communications and home internet, suffered a devastating external intervention. its effects lasted at least two days. the cyber attack also disabled air-raid sirens, some banks' atms and shopping terminals. almost two years ago , the russian... the occupiers staged a genocide of ukrainians in the kyiv region. only in the buchansk district, according to official data, more than 1,700 bodies of tortured and executed civilians . today, after this terrible nightmare, residents of the de-occupied cities and towns of the region are learning to live anew. what was the fate of ordinary people who survived the occupation of russian barbarians. see further. bucha is the name of this city. now all over the world is associated with the terrible crimes of the russian occupiers. in 33 days, the invaders executed 461 inhabitants of the city. this is him who was shot, these are my

daughters, my husband. ms. halyna shows photos of murdered relatives and friends. at the beginning of the occupation she and her family were hiding in the basement. a lot of peaceful people were shot at the windows. on my second, too, my son went to the teroboron, he called us and said , do whatever you want, get out, but we have to run away from here, then the woman and her family went to poland and could not stay in a foreign land, she returned home, slopereg is our ukraine, we we love her, well, no matter where we are, at home it's better, at home it's better, and that's all, so ukraine is... borodyanka was also under occupation for only one month, but for the locals it was an eternity. you know, there is such a thing as wanting to wake up. from

somewhere stuck on this on the 23rd on the 24th, and it's like you're sleeping, and the dream is a nightmare, and you can't wake up from it. mrs. lilya saw with her own eyes the horrors of the russian invasion. on march 1, the occupiers dropped an aerial bomb on her house. the woman's family miraculously survived, the very next day they all managed to leave the warts together. we, one might say , left under bombardment. she was 3 months old, we were driving along the highway with a stroller on... inside, men on the sides, so that in case of anything, it would be possible to protect, and after the deoccupation of kyiv region , ms. lili's family returned to their native a bearded woman, and her husband went to the front. my husband is currently in the war, he is my officer, he is now, he was a year ago, february 23 will be a year since he went to fight. the woman herself helps the soldiers as best she can, weaving camouflage

nets. a lot will already be paid. already on august 16, 48 pieces, this is the 49th, only as of may 2022, more than 300 burials of civilians were discovered in borodyanka, and another 41 dead were found under the rubble of houses, the bodies of residents of borodyanka killed by rashies are still being found on the territory of the community. this is so cool, thank you, good friends, what are you don't forget us, if possible. we are taking as many people as possible, and this is volodymyr, he delivered humanitarian aid in occupied irpen, the full-scale russian invasion, like most people, was a terrible surprise for him. on the 24th, i woke up at 7:30 a.m., i open the news, and there is a war, a war, a war, i say, marin, a war has started, that cannot happen. the man did not

get lost, he organized his friends and together with them he was involved in the evacuation of civilians, making from two to six trips every day. residential complex pokrovsky, we came for four people, it turned out to be 18 , and we were in two cars, and there were no children, that’s all, well, as for you and me, there are quite a few people, and here we were, in my opinion, 13. people crammed into two cars. despite the crimes of the russians and the destruction in irpen, volodymyr did not leave his home either, and today he lives in the city with his family and a paradise of cats. youtube star? pony, good. today, civil infrastructure is being actively rebuilt in the buchansk district. people are returning home, but the terrible genocide is arranged by the occupiers forever.

left behind a painful memory. according to official data, in march 2022, the russians executed more than 1,700 residents of the district. artem lagutenko, oleksiy kutsuk, espresso tv channel. against the backdrop of the destruction and looting of a number of ukrainian museums by the russian invaders. deeper knowledge of our cultural heritage is especially valuable. so in the capital for the anniversary of artist hanna sobachko six quid. is a large-scale exhibition project, more about anna, a master of bright and individual self-expression, her work and events in our next story. 140 years ago the world the outstanding ukrainian artist hanna sobachko shosttyk appeared, today her works can be seen on scarves, stamps and even embroidered shirts. however, if not for a lucky incident in the distant 1910 about the talent of a woman. perhaps

no one would know. anna, like her products, was unique and became an innovator of ukrainian art. she was the first to start drawing fantastic flowers, not having plants as models, not having botanical reality as models. her flowers were fantastic, but so were the principles by which she arranged them, and also the fact that she is the first among non-professional... artists, and she had no professional education, started using color. she drew in the best traditions of folk ornaments, wove fantastic flowers into fairy-tale plots, and signed each of her paintings. in memory of the work of sobachko shostak on her 140th anniversary, the national museum of ukrainian folk decorative art opened a large-scale project, eyes of flowers. compositions.