my own eyes , i won’t even talk about the return of this traitor, we all know that after deoccupation, selling skins always flee to the swamps, and our security forces and special services will reach out to every traitor, no matter how rare the fruit is, whether it is a kiwi or durian, so feel like scoundrels, give yourself up if you don't want to become an ingredient in a fruit salad. this was the collaborators program and i, olena kononenko, if you... have information about the kremlin sellers, write to us at this email address or just on facebook, together let's send all the traitors after the russian ship. see you in a week on espresso. i flew, flew, the cough stopped me. cough is a symptom of a respiratory disease, so we treat it respiratoryly, we do. lord hyal inhalation is

a cough inhaler, lord hyal is a direct way to expel phlegm. big broadcast, vasyl zyma. this is the great ether, my name is vasyl zima and we are starting. two hours of airtime, two hours of your time. today we will discuss many important topics with you for two hours so that learn about the war. now we will talk more about the war. sergey. with us and what is happening in the world, now about what happened in the world, yuriy fizar will talk in more detail, yuriy , good evening, please speak to you. two hours to keep up with economic news. time to talk about money in wartime. oleksandr morchyvka is with us, oleksandr, congratulations, please and sports news. review of sporting events by yevhen pastukhov. two hours in the company of your favorite presenters. thank you very much to lina chechenii for the information about the news cultures, presenters, which have become familiar to many. natalka didenko is ready to tell us about the weather on advent day, as well as respect. guests of the studio andriy parubiy,

people's deputy of ukraine, was also the chairman of the verkhovna rada of ukraine. events of the day in two hours, vasyl zima's big broadcast. a project for smart and caring people. espresso in the evening. congratulations, the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas time is on the air, and i am its host oleksiy kovalenko. the administration of the us president fully supports ukraine, however, the future further assistance to kyiv depends on the congress. this was stated by the spokesman of the us state department, matthew miller, in response to a request from journalists to comment on volodymyr zelenskyi's words regarding confidence in american support. miller noted that if congress does not pass a bill that provides. help for ukraine there is no

other magical source of funding. we are ready to support additional financing for ukraine. we have one package left within the presidential powers that we can provide to ukraine this year, and then we will exhaust our capacity to provide additional security assistance. so i think that's a question for the us congress. we made it clear that we wanted something extra. we 've used those funding streams, we've almost exhausted them, and in the next few weeks we're going to completely exhaust them, and that's why we need congress to act. meanwhile , congressional wrangling continues over immigration legislation that now hinges on more than $60 billion in additional aid. the country legislators

although they claim to have made progress in the negotiations, they add that they need more time. let me remind you that the house of representatives went on recess last thursday. instead, the senate extended its work for one additional week. however, not all senators agreed to work overtime, so only 17 republican senators came to vote on monday. in general , a little more than half of the total number of senators were present in the hall. therefore, many american viewers doubt that they will vote for additional aid to ukraine week however, let's talk with my colleague kateryna lisynova about what to expect and what outcome the senators are declaring in the negotiations. she is now in direct contact with us. congratulations katya. congratulations oleksya. katya. yesterday, senators returned to work, thus postponing their christmas vacation, in order to approve changes to the migration legislation, on which the aid package for partners actually depends. is there any news on these talks, what are they saying...

senators. let's start with the fact that the senate, unlike the house of representatives, really continued your work by the end of this week. and negotiations on migration legislation, on which aid to ukraine depends, are ongoing. and they lasted a long time. last weekend, as well, both democrats and republicans claim that there is progress in these negotiations, but for now, the issue of aid to ukraine is the only news, because even though the republicans, the democrats claim that there is indeed progress in the negotiations, now they say with one voice that more time is needed. so, for example, the leader of the democrats, chuck schumer, was in the senate even in the past last week stated that aid to ukraine should be put up for consideration for a vote this week, but this week. chakumar says more time is needed, as does his opponent, republican leader mitch mcconnell, and i suggest listening to the latest statements from both republicans and democrats right now. democrats and republicans in the senate

understand that there is still a lot of work ahead to pass legislation that will strengthen the security of the united states and the western world. we have made important progress, but it is not easy. the process also speaks takes more time, but no matter how long it takes, we must succeed because the stakes are high for america and for all our friends in europe, in the middle east, and around the world. we must send more aid to ukraine to defeat vladimir putin. last weekend, our colleagues continued to move toward an agreement on border security, the consequences of years of failed border policies. is just piling up now, border security policy is a complex issue, and our colleagues are at the table negotiators clearly understand that it will take some time to properly conclude this agreement and create the corresponding legislative text. i am encouraged by the desire of our colleagues to continue the current progress through negotiations

this week and beyond. thus , summing up the statements of the legislators in the senate , it must be said that despite the fact that the progress in... speeches regarding migration legislation , the strengthening of migration migration processes, the migration policy of the united states of america, it is indeed progress, the legislators say, but nevertheless, now they are in one voice declares that more time is needed, and more and more analysts, more and more observers of the american media, as you rightly stated at the very beginning, say that it is very unlikely that it will be possible to agree on aid to ukraine by the end of this year, and the time for ukraine is now is crucial. oleksii, katya, the senators actually say that they need more time, but we see that time is running out, and the defense package of aid to ukraine, which was agreed upon earlier, has almost exhausted itself. what a realistic time frame, when in the end we should expect that the critically needed assistance to kyiv will be put to a vote.

most likely, this package will be considered for assistance to ukraine next year in mid-january. at least that's what democrat congressman mike quigley thinks , who... co-chairman of the ukrainian congressional caucus, mike quigley, in particular, was one of the nine democratic leaders in the house of representatives who had separate talks with volodymyr zelenskyi last week. thus, according to quigley, the delay in aid to ukraine will negatively affect not only ukraine, but also it includes countries, aggressors, authoritarian countries, authoritarian states, in particular the russian federation, as well as china, iran and others. in addition, according to quigley , the delay in providing assistance to ukraine from the united states of america may also slow down the provision of assistance to ukraine from other western partners, in particular from the european union and nato countries. will it be possible to agree on aid to ukraine in the near future, or will it be possible to do it directly in the middle of

january next year. also, is there a plan b if in the end the aid to ukraine fails agree even in january next year. and can it be positive? role in this to be played by the bill on lendlease, which was agreed at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation into ukraine, as well as what exactly volodymyr zelenskyi's negotiations with the legislators were like, i propose to listen in an exclusive interview with a democrat, a congressman of the house of representatives, as well as the co-chair of the ukrainian congress caucus by mike quigley. let's start with your meeting with the president. it was a meeting of the president with the leadership of the democratic party party and the ukrainian congressional caucus, there were nine of us in total. what exactly did president zelenskyi try to convey during the conversation with the legislators? such meetings have three

main topics: first of all, the president expresses gratitude from himself and the ukrainian people, then he talks about the current course of the war, and then he talks about what we need to do, and also what... it is the help they need now, and then, as a rule, there are questions about a deeper study of some of these points. now the main question additional fin'. it's not that he doubts us, but obviously and understandably, he's worried, everything is fine, right? i think in this case, the democratic leadership reaffirmed our general support. when the issue of financing ukraine comes before the house of representatives in individual bills, the democrats are always united. the reasons for concern come more from opponents. in your opinion, did president zelenskyi's visit affect the congress? i think this visit was very

useful. i know how hard it is it is dangerous and difficult to make such a visit, and i respect that. i think he sent some signals that ukraine really appreciates our help and doesn't take it for granted, and that the president is here to answer your questions. it also nullifies some of the opposition's arguments. the latter were created. several false narratives about this aid and what is happening with it, and zelenskyi has arrived to directly confront them one-on-one. yes, senator vidogaya was at such a meeting, but he decided to go with her earlier, but now he cannot to claim that ukraine is not ready to answer his questions. do you personally see how this bill can pass congress? what can be the consensus for both parties on the border issue? i think the consensus is that if the republicans believe that the victory is a commitment to help

partners to strengthen security on the southern border of the united states, then there is a way. the president has made it clear that he wants it. i believe most democrats support more funding for the border, more border control resources. i have also heard from senators, democrats, that they would support changes in the border policy itself, not just in terms of resources. so there is common ground, but the art of compromise is realizing that you don't get everything you want, and eventually there will be points you don't like. when do you think this package, particularly aid to ukraine, will eventually pass congress? i am an optimist, i believe we will do it in january. if someone says we're not going to adjourn until we close this issue, that's fine with me too, but i i think that realistically we are talking about the middle of january. i hope that when we return. in january, we will agree on an aid package that will last the whole year. frankly speaking, i would like it to last until

the end of the work of this convocation of the congress, because more, i hope that if the congress comes under new leadership, doubts about the support of ukraine will not be heard from the house of representatives. again, our decision to help kyiv sends a signal to both enemies and nato friends. i am very concerned that if we delay the aid to ukraine, a lot our allies will do the same. but if the additional funding does not go through in january, is there any plan b? look, if it comes to that, there are some procedural methods, in particular, to try to release bills that have appropriations for ukraine. we are looking into it. a discharge petition forces a bill to be brought to a vote, exempting it from committee consideration. there are also bills on clean financing that finance ukraine. i would push for that as a procedural... i would push for other measures that would provided a certain amount for 3-4 months. it's

a terrible plan b, it's not nearly as good as the first one, but it's very important to avoid gaps in care. what about the landless act, do you think it could be useful? it could be some variation of it, because in order to file a petition for the release of a bill, it must be an existing bill that is pending consideration. so, there are some remedies that we have noticed. thus, according to congressman quigley, assistance to ukraine will begin next year. but here it is worth, but here it is worth noting, that even if the senate comes to some kind of agreement just now, the package of aid to ukraine, even voted in the senate, must then be voted on by the house of representatives, where now the overwhelming majority of republicans, some of whom are categorically against aid to ukraine. katya, thank you very much, i will remind our viewers that it is live. the contact was our congress correspondent kateryna lisynova, in december the president of ukraine volodymyr

zelenskyy holds a large press conference on the results of 2023, the second year of a full-scale russian invasion, among the topics he asked the president of ukraine about were western support for ukraine, which is currently stalling due to internal divisions both in the united states of america and the european union, as well as the challenges ukraine will face in its 24th year in the war against russia. the president of ukraine expressed the opinion that western countries will continue to provide assistance to ukraine. stressed that he expects the us to accept a new aid package for ukraine. zelensky also emphasized that he is sure that the european union will also allocate funds for ukraine in the near future. voice of america spoke with american experts who commented on the topics that were actually discussed at the press conference. it was a really important

press conference, which took place at a time when there are challenges, particularly with regard to funding for ukraine. so about... a message for ukrainians at home, as well as for international partners, and also for russia. president zelenskyi clearly said several things. he firmly believes that ukraine's partners will provide support. he continued to give arguments in favor of why it is important to support the ukrainian people, to help right now. so i think that was a very important message to keep sending. another message, despite all the challenges, ukraine is 100% committed to return. i think it's really important for president zelensky to talk about the challenges ukrainians face on the battlefield, highlighting what ukraine needs, including arms support. so, i think he was very honest and open. this is a sharp contrast compared to the leader of an authoritarian state, such as vladimir putin. the west could get

answers from zelenskyi, in particular about mobilization and how ukraine can move to more. offensive actions it is safe to say that zelenskyi as the president of ukraine and zaluzhnyi as the commander-in-chief brilliantly coped with their tasks in an extremely difficult time. this is well understood in the united states and in the key capitals of western europe, as well as in the whole world, by all those who support ukraine. it is not surprising that political and military the leaders of a warring country sometimes have different points of view, and disputes can arise. i remember 15 or 17 months. so when it became clear that ukraine had thwarted moscow's major invasion, and ukraine actually launched its first successful counteroffensive in '22, there were reports of some friction between the two, but we've seen a lot of different points of view in recent months, and it's also not strangely, the counteroffensive, despite the expanded opinion, was not a failure, and many influential people and media spoke about it without understanding the matter,

i think zelenskyi and zaluzhnyi tried offer their interpretations of what happened. obviously, they may not have consulted each other and that was a mistake. but i would not exaggerate this story. i am very familiar with american history. in the 1840s, we had a successful war against mexico, and then-president james polk was very nervous about the political ambitions of the general in charge, zachary taylor. yes, such things are not uncommon in democratic countries. and i do not believe that zaluzhnyi has political ambitions, although people in ukraine speculate about this. in these minutes the un general assembly convened to consider and vote on a new resolution on human rights violations in crimea. the document condemns russia's occupation of ukrainian territories, including crimea, parts of kherson, zaporizhzhia, donetsk

, and luhansk regions. the resolution also calls on the russian federation to comply with its obligations. in accordance with international law and immediately stop violations of international humanitarian law against the inhabitants of the temporarily occupied territories. this is the eighth un resolution on this matter condemns russia's violation of human rights in the occupied crimea. why this resolution is important and how it differs from the previous ones, let's talk with voice of america at the un correspondent iryna silanko. irina, congratulations. irina so, how does this resolution differ from previous resolutions on crimea? congratulations. oleksiyya, first of all, and it is important and according to experts' estimates, even to indicate that now the effect of the essence of this resolution, it extends not only to crimea, to the entire temporarily occupied territory, and why is this important, according to estimates experts, because in essence it fixes this connection between crimea and the newly occupied territories, and that is, it says that in essence all this full-scale invasion, it began

, respectively, from crimea, yes, that is, it was essentially a consequence of crimea's aggression, this a full-scale invasion, or you can look at it... in a slightly different way, that the occupation of crimea was essentially a preparation for such a large-scale seizure of territories by russia, and therefore it again shows that what ukraine is trying to convey to the whole world, what about russia's aggression against ukraine? did not begin in february 21st, but in the spring of 2014, and as the resolution shows, the same violations of human rights that were in crimea are recorded in all these territories, moreover, this list has even expanded. because there are a lot of references to torture, for example, in one of the points it is mentioned that these tortures are simply used by fsb representatives, and that it is about torturing people with electric current, and also that they are strangled in order to... extract some confessions. in addition , we are talking about the militarization of youth, about destruction of cultural monuments in the crimea, i.e. crimean-tatar, crimean-tatar. and also the destruction of kokhovskaya gs, the situation

around the as, that it is mined, and this is a danger not only for ukraine, but for the whole of europe, that is, this is such a very huge and quite such a solid list of those crimes against humanity, violations of human rights, which now russia is committing crimes in ukraine, and for experts, they say that this is very ... important, because in this way it will help the prospect of bringing russia to justice. it is important that there is still this resolution, which has a purely human rights aspect, which focuses on human rights, and is literally such an encyclopedia of human rights violations in crimea, there is always a very comprehensive list, in fact, of key problems, and you can track the dynamics, and in the end, i believe that that all these resolutions will also be in the materials of international judges, the tribunal, regarding

the crimes of the russian federation on the territory of ukraine. iryna, how do human rights activists evaluate the new elements of the resolution, and can you describe their importance? yes, oleksiy, in fact, human rights defenders define the following two very important points. the first point... this is in the context of the deportation of children, and here in fact the attention of the international community was very great to this issue, first of all, due to the criminal proceedings initiated by the international criminal court and also to some extent, probably even to a greater extent, these orders for the arrest of putin and lviv and bilova, but for the first time the international community essentially proposes certain mechanisms for solving this situation, that is, the resolution clearly states that first, of course, this the deportation of ukrainian children... to stop , and secondly, ukraine, russia must finally hand over to ukraine, must hand over to un agencies, as well as international organizations, the list of these deported children, including those children

who were adopted, because they were in fact, it is much more difficult to find them now, because their surnames are being changed, that is, it is much more difficult, and russia should accordingly transfer this list and do everything to bring them home safely, and the second very important point, that for the first time on at this level, the concept is fixed: and in general , the issue of civilian hostages, before that , the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine , dmytro koleba, spoke about civilian hostages only once at the un, speaking at the general assembly, now this concept is fixed in the resolution, which clearly states that russia is detaining civilian hostages in the occupied territories, accordingly, this is a violation of international norms, and accordingly, russia should stop doing this and return them home. crimea is not limited to the peninsula, which is currently the crimean resolution, it is generally about the same. the crime of aggression of the russian federation on the scale of the whole of ukraine. next, a lot of attention this year is to the deportation of children and very clear requirements to the russian federation, they are quite practical. yes,

disclose information, take concrete steps to return the children, give information about where they are, regions, names, and so on. then, finally , certain messages regarding the civilian hostages, as we call them, are more clearly formed, that is, they are people who are not related to the military. prisoners were abducted, many of them are being held now in crimea and iryna, but did the names and personal stories of those who need immediate release appear in the new resolution? yes , oleksiy, you know that this is part of the advocacy of human rights defenders, but this time the problem is that, according to experts' estimates, there is no number of hostages currently being taken by russia, there are certain figures, for example, according to skrypnyk, there are two. ukrainians are considered missing, and usually some of them are obvious civilian hostages, according to the international media initiative for human rights, for example, they verified and confirmed somewhere close to 200

of these civilian hostages, so the real numbers are much more, it is very difficult to understand, that is, who to put there according to the human rights defenders, but this year the approach was that we put people there who demand immediate release, who are in in a very difficult condition, and in particular we are talking about a spanish citizen, he is 75... and he is in a very difficult condition, he was a volunteer in kherson. and we propose that, for example, let's at least start negotiations with russia with the help of some countries about that let's at least start the first steps there, let's free the women, return, or , for example, those people, people who have serious health problems, who were victims of torture, who very urgently need medical help, and a separate point of our advocacy with colleagues were just people who are in need. help is very urgent, because they can die, they have a very serious illness, and this year two political prisoners have already died.

thank you very much, she was in touch with us. un correspondent iryna solomka. without remnants of soviet buildings and with memorials in memory of the victims of russian crimes. a group of students from the usa created a project to rebuild the ukrainian city of izyum, which was under occupation for about six months. working on ideas for rebuilding the city, the american students learned more about the crimes of the russians against the locals. residents, as well as about the life of ukrainians before the war. the project was presented in washington. details in the plot of iryna shinkarenko. at the us state department building, a group of university of virginia students shows a photo ukrainian raisin, the most destroyed city of kharkiv oblast, and its own project for its restoration. i did a lot of research

using google. with what kind of destruction we are dealing with, she put on the map both the destroyed buildings and those that stood. the current figure announced by the mayor of izyuma - 80% of the destruction, in my opinion, is absolutely accurate. we saw all this in satellite images during our research. the 24 students of the faculty of architecture, who worked on the project, had never been to izum, but spent several months viewing photos and videos of the destroyed building. cities and satellite data. polina developed a housing reconstruction project, tried to make it comfortable, economical and taking into account the habits of ukrainians. our temporary housing models for different types of families. we expect that within a few months of the start of construction , people will move in, and then in a year and a half, it will all be taken apart and all the materials will be reused for the construction of permanent housing.

i think the hardest part was understanding the priorities and cultural differences. we learned a lot about local traditions that are important to people, about which we have not even heard before. for example, gather in the town square for local events, such as new year's or christmas. this is not something that usually happens in charlottesville, where our university is located. architect students from the usa often, instead of clear schemes, offer ideas on how, in their opinion , it is better to rebuild izyum, integral elements of their project - memorials to the memory of murdered and tortured ukrainians. one of them is the symbol of a five-story building torn in half by a russian projectile. the housing complex that

was demolished to form this large... a chasm not only in the building, but also in people's lives, this is exactly what we wanted to focus on and build such a peculiar monument, in order to ultimately create an unusual space, so that people would know about what happened not only in one apartment, but in the whole city. the students also plan to leave the russian torture chambers in the raisin for people from all over the world to see, as well as the place of the mass burial. about 440 people were found in the town of the mass burial, so we wanted to create a space right there for people to come and grieve over that horror. university professor suzanne morse of virginia has worked on projects for cities destroyed by wars and natural disasters more than once. however, raisin considers it special.

about the size of our city of charlottesville, we have about the same population, we have a river, we're very interested in culture and historical sites, and about the same scale, so i thought the students who couldn't be there, better will understand the impact that a city of our size can experience, this is the first reason, and the second is the incredible devastation that the city has suffered, the work of american students will be needed in restoration of ukraine, confident in... pischa, who supported this project. it's very important to reach out to the private sector, in this case academic institutions like the university of virginia, to actually help us solve one of the most difficult problems we have as a democracy and help ukraine, led by ukraine, work to rebuild its future. so that's a very important part of the work of the state department: looking outside for expertise and resources and perspectives, and

now it's very important to ... reach out to the next generation of these young people.