got mechanical knees and started walking. denys does not lose his optimism, has a hobby, gets a tattoo and is studying to become a psychologist, and also works as a first contact specialist in a superhuman company to show by his example that even with complex amputations, life goes on. khrystyna parobiy, volodymyr studenny, espresso tv channel. congratulations to the best viewers of the espresso tv channel, news time, kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. at night, the russians launched 20

missiles over ukraine, our defenders of the sky destroyed all enemy drones and one guided missile kh-59 within odesa, kherson, zaporizhzhia and khmelnytskyi regions. another iskander ka cruise missile did not reach its target, the air force reported. the occupiers attacked ukraine from the territory of the temporarily occupied crimea and the left bank of the kherson region. one a person died as a result of a night attack in odesa region, the head of the regional military administration oleg kipar reported. the russians once again launched drones in the region. the defense forces were able to eliminate nine shaheds, but one of the killed drones fell on a house in odesa district and exploded. as a result , a fire broke out in two private residences and in a storage room of a sports institution. firefighters quickly extinguished the fire. the russians shelled kostyantynka in

donetsk region, and hit the residential quarters of the city. this was reported to the regional prosecutor's office. information about the victims and destruction is currently being clarified. vovchansk in kharkiv oblast was shelled three times during the day. private households and farm buildings were damaged. previously, people were not injured. tell me about it. i washed my head oleg sinyogubov of the regional military administration. invaders also attacked the village of bily kolodyaz of chuguyiv district. well, two people were wounded as a result of enemy shelling from the village of gulyaipilske in zaporizhzhia. as a result, the victims were hospitalized. this was reported by the head of the region yuriy malashko. the russians made 174 strikes on 21 settlements. in the zaporizhzhia region, 36

drones were launched on the railway bare ground, malitok machtsi and novodarivtsi. as a result of the attack, the object of social welfare was destroyed infrastructure. and to operational information from the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine. 89 combat clashes took place at the front during the past day. the defense forces repelled 12 enemy attacks in the bakhmut direction and 14 attacks in the kupian direction. currently, the enemy does not stop trying to surround avdiivka. there, the occupiers attacked our positions 17 times. however, the soldiers of the armed forces gave a worthy rebuff to the enemy. ukrainian soldiers also continue to occupy positions on the left bank of the dnieper. they are fighting a counter-battery there and are chasing the rear the enemy during the day, the ukrainian aviation struck 21 areas of concentration of muscovites and their equipment. instead, rocket launchers. hit the control post, two

ammunition warehouses and 13 artillery pieces of the enemy. according to popular belief , one cannot give in to negativity today. our defense forces gave reasons to rejoice and destroyed another 1,250 invaders. and in general, since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, more than 364 thousand russians will never upset anyone again. also... the reason for joy is the amount destroyed enemy equipment. last day , 19 tanks, 25 armored combat vehicles, 36 artists, 56 cars, three volley fire systems were turned into scrap metal, and four units of special equipment and the same number of air defense systems of muscovites were burned. the ukrainian sky, 40 drones and one cruise missile will never rise again. the general staff reminds that all data are approximate.

the espresso tv channel, together with the public organization baza ua, are collecting funds for atvs to transport the wounded and other needs of the 93rd separate mechanized division. brigades kholodny yar of the armed forces of ukraine. in extremely difficult conditions, the ukrainian military will choose victory every day, not leaving wounded comrades on the battlefield. with atvs, evacuation will be faster and easier, and therefore the chances of saving the injured are greater. in general, our goal is uah 800,000. with your help, we have already collected over uah 465. your donation is a thank you to those who protect us on the battlefield. therefore , support, do not leave. are indifferent, in fact, if this amount is divided among all of us, it is not so much. well, russia is again complaining about a new attack drones allegedly, 33 ukrainian drones attacked the lipetsk, rostov and volgograd regions of russia.

russian telegram channels and the ministry of defense of the russian federation write about it. in the rostov region, the drones allegedly flew to the local military airfield. 559 guards are based there. 559 guards bomber regiment and deployed frontline su-24 and su-34. they claim that all uavs were intercepted by russian air defense. two people died as a result of a fire in rivne. this was reported to the emergency services. the fire engulfed house. during the extinguishing of the fire , the firefighters discovered the bodies of two men. the deceased were 37 and 38 years old, the cause of the fire is currently being established. more than 2,000 trucks are waiting in line at the border with poland. currently, three crossing points of ravaruska grebena, krekivets korchova and shagini medica are blocked. spokesman of the state

border service andriy demchenko stated. according to him , there is traffic in these directions, but it is not intense. meanwhile, another ukrainian driver died on the border with poland. the tragedy occurred at the krakow-korchów checkpoint - said volodymyr balin, vice-president of the association of international carriers. according to him , the driver of the truck was taken away by an ambulance. the man died on the way to the hospital. let me remind you, this is already the third case of death due to a strike of polish carriers at the border. for the first time in the history of the vatican court. jailed cardinal is 75-year-old angelo becha, he will have to serve 5.5 years in prison for participation in a criminal conspiracy, fraud, corruption and disclosure of secret documents, the vatican press service reported. betchu was

deputy secretary of state for general affairs, the trial against him and nine of his accomplices lasted two years. and while ukraine is just getting ready for winter holidays according to the new calendar, the cities of european countries are already decorated with festive lights, getting ready to celebrate christmas, ukrainians abroad also plan their leisure time, decorate their homes and prepare gifts for their loved ones, as our compatriots celebrate christmas in the bavarian city regensburg, as well as how they celebrate the holidays, will be told by my colleague olga dutko. in anticipation of christmas, the ukrainians of bavaria organized. festive evenings, which combine leisure time for children and adults with volunteering, among other things, collect funds for a car for ukrainian defenders. we prepared a lot of food with the ukrainian women, plus there are many souvenirs, the quality was made

by our women, and we would like to collect more funds to help our ukrainian soldiers, first of all, the association of ukrainians, some asset. for children who are in dire need of it right now, and the second is, of course, charity, it is a collection to help ukraine, we collect for a car, for our boys at the request, and this is not the first time we provide assistance. ukrainian children take part in a play about st. nicholas, organized by a local priest. they prepared a play, mykolaiv, for ukrainians and also to introduce a little bit of our tradition to germans. very good, everything was perfect, we arrived an hour early to rehearse it all. this is my first performance, i have already performed in germany and ukraine. children also have the opportunity to make their own

holiday cards. today we do a christmas card, a ukrainian christmas card, and it symbolizes the ukrainian christmas carol. a star is a symbol of joy. in germany, ukrainians share ukrainian traditions, it is important for them to support their native traditions abroad, every year with a little one with my children, i personally still holding them in my arms, we prepared a month before christmas, we studied new carols, prepared a mini family nativity scene , and this tradition was nurtured in our children, we all sing carols in different families, at friends' houses, and also sometimes at places we don't know.

i see the results, it's their emotions. in the holiday season a group of ukrainians, who moved to germany because of the war, also participates in the evening, singing purely ukrainian songs, carols, christmas songs, says the leader of the group. it was hard for us, like all people, there was depression, and we started singing over a cup of coffee, we are nobody, we are amateurs, we are not professional singers. the center of celebrations in the city is the christmas market, where you can buy souvenirs and drink linden wine, and a ukrainian stand is also presented here, the proceeds of which go to the needs of the army. olga dudko, from germany for espresso tv channel. i will conclude with this output.

i welcome you, dear tv viewers, on the espresso tv channel, studio zahid program. we will analyze the most important events that unfolded in the united states of america and the european union, ours today. guests matthew bryza and valery chaly. matthew bryza, ex-adviser of the united states secretary of state, former director of european and eurasian affairs at the us national security council, will be on the espresso tv channel. glory to ukraine, mr. ambassador, i congratulate you. glory to the heroes. what is happening in the world, what is happening in washington. we simply do not have time to react to extremely different and sometimes contradictory signals. on the other hand, we feel that the kremlin is celebrating. yes, they are preparing. to prolong the war, and they feel a certain weakness in decisions on the part of the

so-called collective action, and we in ukraine are extremely worried, in particular, it is not only about the supply of weapons, but also about money, the ukrainian budget depends on american aid too much. the situation in washington is something completely unexpected for me, and based on our you previous conversations, which i really always love and appreciate, it's ... something completely unexpected even for the washington political elite, because the support, the continuation of military and financial aid to ukraine is very strong in the congress, so what happened is that a small group of extreme republicans , trump's supporters, the so-called maga group, were able to politically blackmail president biden, saying: "okay, we know you want this help for ukraine, maybe we do too, but we won't give it." her green light until you agree to what we we want, namely the protection of

america's southern border. we are talking about the borders of ukraine and we want to protect them? yes, but let's secure the us borders first. i think it's ridiculous, irresponsible, and damaging to america's reputation in the world, but that's our reality. dear mr. ambassador, what signals are sent from the kremlin to washington, and who, for example, does putin signal to in washington besides trump, and how strongly does this generally affect american aid to ukraine? putin is very happy, he said about it the other day during his big press conference, which he missed last year because russia was not performing well on the battlefield. this year he held a big conference and said that he is sure that russia will win the war because the united states will lose patience with supporting ukraine. i think he's wrong, and the republicans who are causing this

political mess about aid to ukraine will suffer politically, but ukraine is not better off, so this big political mess in washington is a big gift to putin, firstly, because he harms ukraine's ability to continue its offensive, and secondly, because it also undermines the united states' leadership in the world and our ability. to be the so-called leader of the free world. and this is the most shameful moment for american foreign policy that i can recall in my entire adult life. mr. ambassador, i take your forecasts and your assessments of the situation extremely seriously, and accordingly i would like to ask you now to answer honestly, what do you think ukraine should expect in the next couple of months from side of the united states. does mr. biden have a plan b? biden doesn't have a plan b, what he

needs to do, and i hope he does, is to agree to what the country wants. republicans, namely to change their administration's immigration policy on the southern border of the united states with mexico and allocate more money for the southern border. i am not pessimistic about whether aid will come to ukraine or not. i am concerned about the timing, as the negotiations will continue for several weeks. knowing president biden, i think so in the end he will accept such political blackmail and give it to the republicans. what they are demanding for the protection of the us border with mexico in order to get this help for ukraine. this is a terrible precedent in american domestic and foreign policy. but i think that biden will eventually give in and ukraine will receive this money. the only question is when it will happen. yes, mr. ambassador,

quite alarming signals are also coming from the other side, in particular, it is about various military-political-expert environments that say that ukraine should prepare for what to a deep, deeply echeloned defense, this means that perhaps we will not receive extremely important offensive types of weapons, additional, yes, for which we very much hoped, well, and accordingly, we also understand from the other side that the united states, well, perhaps they do not want to raise the degree of escalation, maybe certain consultations took place in third countries, maybe with the help of viktor orbán, maybe with the help of chinese comrades, yes... well, where was it said, for example, that a quick allocation for ukraine, the f-16 can fundamentally change the situation. i don't think the biden administration cares at all about what the chinese or viktor orbán say. orban is generally disliked in washington because what he is doing is clearly pro-russian. who knows

what kind of corrupt connections are behind this, but he is definitely not trusted in washington. in a way, even worse for my country, what is happening is simply a sophisticated political case of blackmail by the extreme wing of the republican party of president trump, who, frankly, destroyed the political party i once loved. this is not about strategy, but about a terrible example of the internal political dysfunctionality of the united states. but i'm ... sure that ukraine will get f-16s and longer-range missiles, and it's a shame that the biden administration is taking so long to ask ukraine to provide these weapons. if they had secured it at the beginning, the situation on the battlefield would have been completely different, and of course, in favor of ukraine. well, literally

this thursday, putin told his russian fellow citizens for several hours in a row about how cool he is, how he... manages to implement all this, in particular, russian aggression against ukraine, and he has not given any adequate signals that he is ready, so to speak, to enter into a different level of negotiation, at least in the public part about it it was not possible what is your overall vision of a possible major diplomatic connection? at the moment i don't think so, xinjin pin is trying to strengthen his partnership with president putin. to weaken the united states at the world level, and what is happening between shinjinping and putin, similar to what is happening in the united states congress with the republicans, precisely because biden wants this support for ukraine. the extreme republicans are opposed, so is xi jinping, who would welcome an end to the war, wants to undermine

the leadership of the united states and biden's leadership in the world, so he is going to stay with putin. having said that, i believe sindpin, like erdogan here in turkey, would like the war to end, but for now he is more than happy to work with putin rather than push him to negotiations instead, he is ready to push ukraine into negotiations so that it gives up its sovereign territory, while simultaneously weakening the united states, unfortunately, it is so. antony blinken says about steadfast. today, president biden talks about resolute steadfastness, but who will pay the necessary amount of money into our budget, so we understand that it is not only about the support of our army, and in general also... about the macroeconomic stability of our state, and i see several problems, well and accordingly, if a great debate begins in the united states, which may

end, for example, with a decrease in funding for ukraine, in your opinion, how actively will paris and berlin be ready to work to support us, that is, at what level 100%, 120% or 60%. the council of europe is currently debating money. for ukraine, which is blocked by viktor orban, it is about 51 billion euros, or thereabouts. i think he will give in eventually. orbán always behaves unstrategically in relation to the transatlantic community and selfishly, i.e. only for himself, only for hungary. so he will either give his consent together with other eu members to provide financial assistance to ukraine, or he will have no choice, if separate. member states will decide to do so, but it is quite obvious that many eu member states are going to provide aid to ukraine, regardless of what viktor orbán says. as

you have already mentioned, among them are germany, france, great britain, although it is not a member of the eu, but will provide assistance, as well as the countries of northern europe. president zelenskyi visited oslo the other day, and the leaders of the countries of northern europe declared that they would provide ukraine with the necessary assistance. i believe that conjunction. the states will also provide it, it's just not politically possible for the united states to end its support for ukraine, they're delaying it because of this pointless internal political debate that i've already mentioned. i don't want to play a big conspiracy theory, but if there are forces in the west who want to hear, so to speak, putin's idea to stop financing ukraine, and then, they say, the war will end, it makes me feel creepy, so i 'm afraid that certain... environment is, and exactly on them, putin broadcasts his false signals and his propaganda, if we talk about the general stability of the west in the ukrainian issue and in

the issue of russian aggression. as i said, there are extreme republicans in the united states who support trump and who support anything against biden, and they will never change. in addition, throughout the transatlantic family, both in the united states and... in europe , there are unknown political figures who receive bribes from russian services in exchange for defending pro-russian positions, and we all we often hear about such cases. i'm not saying that any american politicians are taking money from putin, but it's definitely happening in europe, and maybe it's happening in the united states as well. what i am trying to say is that in the end, not only the morality, the rightness and the strength of ukraine's struggle, which lies in its survival... will ultimately unite all of us in the transatlantic community to give ukraine the help it needs, but the strategic imperative will also

drive us to do so. directly there are people who claim that by destroying such a number of russian military capability, ukraine is clearly not only doing a difficult, horrific and deadly job of increasing security for all of us, but also making it less likely that russia will ... go after ukraine and attack nato territory. smart people realize this, and we just need some time to sort out this ridiculous campaign politics in the us. what is being said in washington about general zaluzhnyi, and what, for example, could president zelenskyi and president biden discuss among themselves? as the scandal is enough for me, the use of the term "deadlock" by general zulzhnym is not only a situation in washington. but also fueling the debate in ukraine about whether president zelensky is not voicing an unrealistically positive assessment of the situation on the battlefield, really good sources of information about

ukrainians for the us and allies are social networks, and it is clear that now the counteroffensive is not advancing on land, although it is in the black sea. the creativity of ukraine, its sea and air drones really caused great damage to the russian black sea fleet. forcing to relocate it away from ukrainian territory to novorossiya. the media is not talking about this story loudly enough. but in reality, the russians managed to dig in their defensive positions, making it much easier to dislodge them. at the end of the day, we in the west are not helping ukraine properly, because we still haven't given ukraine what it has been asking for for so long, namely f-16 fighter jets and longer-range missile systems, which are absolutely necessary for ukraine's success, so i believe that president zelenskyi it is important to be as honest as possible with the ukrainian people, with

the united states and our allies. according to nato is that ukraine fights bravely and effectively, and no nato military would even dare to do what ukraine is doing without air superiority, which means that ukraine should get f-16s and longer-range missiles. prospects for the introduction of lendlease as a certain insurance mechanism. i hope that the american legislation has already taken all the necessary steps to start giving us weapons in case of something. in debt, i think that's possible, that's how the political situation in the us was developing a year ago, but now that we're in the crazy circus of the us presidential race, everything becomes unpredictable and depends on negotiations like the ones we talked about, about biden changing his policy on the protection of the southern border of the united states, in exchange for the agreement of extreme republicans to help

ukraine. so at this point, god only knows what will happen. you remember we talked to you a few months ago, sir borkovsky, and i said that the fate of aid to ukraine largely depends on who will be elected as the next speaker of the house of representatives of the us congress. then it was about two candidates and neither of them was elected. and the speaker of the house of representatives is mike johnson, an ardent supporter of president trump, who ... is determined to force biden to take such a politically humiliating step and change his policy on immigration to the united states in exchange for support for ukraine, and this struggle will unfortunately continue for the next few months thank you very much, mr. ambassador bryza for this honest and extremely informative conversation on the air of the tv channel, i want to remind our tv viewers that matthew bryza,

ex-adviser of the state secretary of spolucha, was currently working for them on spresso. states, former director of european and eurasian affairs at the us national security council, god bless america. glory to ukraine and the hero. glory. valery chaly, former extraordinary plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine to the united states, former deputy director, will be working on the espresso tv channel. of the presidential administration on international cooperation. glory to ukraine. mr. ambassador, i congratulate you. glory to the heroes, congratulations, we want to summarize the dry results of president zelensky's visit, and this is not a story about a formal visit to our president, it is about very specific decisions that were made or postponed by the american administration. well, first of all, the dates that were in the request of the ukrainian side were not initially accepted by the partners, joseph biden did not have time for a meeting at that time, well, it happens, but

there was a desire. to synchronize with the implementation of the form of defense cooperation between ukraine and the united states, which was logical, because the military-industrial lobby in the united states can influence, could and can influence the situation, because 90% of all funds from the military budget, what is sent to ukraine, they remain in the united states, that is, they work for the us economy, they create jobs, they go for technological rearmament. for example, as part of this rearmament of atakams missiles, those currently in service are being replaced with new missiles pirsm, the range is greater and the accuracy is greater, and in principle , the ukrainian program contributed to this, including that, so i think that all these arguments, well, which did not lead to the visit at that time, they,

well, i do not want to connect them with the approaches in the military sphere, rather... it would be more desirable for the administration to invite the president of ukraine to lobby, to push the 61.4 billion aid packages. well, it is good that this visit took place, i knew it and washington knew it, and here everyone they said, nothing in this regard the visit of volodymyr zelenskyi will have no effect from the point of view of the congress, because everything in the congress is already clear to everyone, is good. news , there's bad news, bad news , everybody knows, in america, there's an election, and it's not just a presidential election, it's a congressional election, i mean, the entire house of representatives, and 1/3 of the senate, and you look at the rhetoric, the traditional republicans , they switched to the rhetoric of just a marginal group, which was marginal, and now is becoming mainstream, this is, as they said, a small group of magus.