[000:00:00;00] defensive structures and barrier lines are being built in the northern borders near russia. lines of defense are represented by lines of trenches. they connect dugouts and long-term firing points in a single network. construction of anti-personnel barriers is also planned. the commander of the united forces, serhiy naiv, told about it. military engineers are monitoring and providing appropriate technical assistance, the work is ongoing 24/7 and will be completed on time, when needed, these defensive lines will be occupied by troops and we will we are ready for an adequate response to the development of the situation, we are moving on, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, mr. oleksandr, we listened and saw a little bit of what is happening

in... the north, and what is in the south with protective structures and their construction, but within the limits of , what can you tell me, of course, yes, well , we have been helping the military build fortifications since spring , and in other places where it is needed, and we also provide equipment, now thanks to the office of the president . but recently a congress of local councils was held and we were allocated even more equipment there, more than the 91st unit, and they will also work on these structures and help the military to build, and this will only strengthen the fortification structures, and strengthen the defense of the city and the defense of the coast. ugh, is there enough funding, is there enough equipment,

are there civilians involved in this work, that is? not military people and equipment, here is this aspect, please, a little bit, it will be like that, well, they will work, of course those people who work for the equipment will work and help to the military, regarding funding, there a separate issue will be reported by the head of the military administration in the near future, huh, mr. oleksandr, are there any deadlines for the readiness of these fortification disputes? is it a constant work because it is about improving and improving what is there? look, well, it's 100%, 100%, i didn't hear everything, because the connection is interrupted, 100% is a constant work, which continued, and it did not stop, and we constantly respond to what is there at the request of the military , if they need help, of course, all resources first they go for military assistance, only then

will civil issues be resolved. ugh, thank you, mr. oleksandr, thank you, oleksandr tolokonnikov, the head of the press office of the kherson regional military administration, we talked with him about the consequences of the enemy attack on the kherson region, and about how this region is building fortifications, that is, protective structures against the russians, and here we go later, the russian invaders changed the tactics of storming avdiivka, now they are not so frequent. are attacking, but they are using more equipment and soldiers, he told the public about it vitaliy barabash, head of the avdiyiv city military administration. evacuation continues in the city, 1,223 people remain there now, says barabash, and before the full-scale invasion there were about 25,000. what was the city like before the war came there. yuliya

magdalits will tell. almost 2 tons of coke per year, such volumes were produced by the coke chemical plant located in the city of avdiivka, these are the data until march 2022, which the director of the enterprise provided to the public. we released about 30 product videos. this product is used not only in ukrainian industry, as well as at enterprises in poland, the czech republic, and egypt. the enterprise provided more than five. thousands of people with work, and the city with warmth. avdiivka is located 8 km from donetsk. since 2013, the occupying forces have been constantly shelling the city, and since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, they have not stopped trying to capture it. stanislav from avdiivka worked as a driver at the factory when the full-scale war began, he stayed in the city and helped with the evacuation of workers.

everything that could be flown, there was no panic. it was because, well, the war is already going on in ovidia very many years. stanislav says that the most passionate day for him was in may 2022. then the russians fired at a stop at the factory where there were workers, then about 10 shells hit the bus station , up to 10 people died, 20 employees were injured, we then took the wounded people to pokrovsk to myrnograd from there, well, it was scary, to see all this, to see the dead , wounded. there were a lot of them then, this is a native thing, the city was not small without it either, it was warm, everything, exactly, after all, the enterprise

gave, the city lived at the expense of this enterprise, that's why it's my home, after the shelling in may 2022, they decided to stop the plant, says director yuriy ksynenko, they completely... extinguished the batteries, they are cold, it's very bad, but it's not critical, there is technology, there is an understanding of how to get out from this conservation, so we did everything right in terms of technology. on december 8 , the last 12 employees of the plant, who ensured its preservation, were evacuated from the avdiyiv coke chemical plant. we took out all the products that were at the enterprise, we took them out. her on well on our enterprise the company metinvest, well, and also managed to sell to other enterprises, at the moment there are no products on the territory of khz.

according to ktsynenko, it will be possible to assess the consequences of the destruction and the prospects for resumption of work only after the cessation of hostilities. currently , it is already known that there are no surviving buildings on the territory of the plant. in october of this year, the russians. intensified their offensive actions on avdiivka. the general staff's announcement said that the cities, the surrounding villages and the coke-chemical plant had become targets for capture by the russians. active infantry attacks and increased the number of artillery fire, uses armored vehicles and aviation to support the infantry. one of the reasons for such activation is the attempt to seize at least... some settlements or buildings before the onset of severe cold, well, wintering in villages, cities, well, in buildings such as koksokhim, even in

destroyed ones, is much easier than in polina. the donetsk regional administration informed the public that at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the russians completely or partially destroyed five industrial factories in particular, the ilyich and azovstal plants in mariupol. a large part of the region's enterprises was also damaged. machine-building enterprises practically do not carry out production activities. damaged coal mining enterprises. as a result of the irf war , the metallurgical industry in ukraine completely ceased to exist. yulia magdalis, vladyslav okolov, mykhailo mural, ivan korsh, social news. funds for military aid to ukraine. from the united states will run out by december 30, the pentagon warned, reports bloomberg. is there progress in the negotiations regarding financing of ukraine? let's watch the latest news in the material of kateryna danylovich, and then

we will discuss with experts. the us department of defense is now spending its last billion-plus dollars to buy new weapons and equipment for ukraine. the financial inspectorate reported this in a special letter dated december 15. reports bloomberg. once these funds are spent, the agency will have no funding for security assistance to ukraine. absent congressional action, the pentagon will be able to fund just one additional aid package to protect the military readiness of the united states. ukraine has been waiting for the approval of more than 60 billion dollars of aid since october this year. then us president joe biden asked congress for more than 100 billion in support. of ukraine, israel and the security of american borders. however, republicans in congress are still blocking the tranche. the democratic leader cited border security measures as the biggest delay in passing a package of additional national

security funding. well, he's right about one thing: the single biggest obstacle to providing urgently needed relief resources israel, ukraine and taiwan, the refusal of the democrats to deal with the crisis on the southern border. national security begins at home. congress was already supposed to go on vacation in rezdlyani. the senate, where the majority is held by democrats, resumed work yesterday. but the republican house of representatives - no. according to bloomberg, they will have time to agree on assistance after january 1. talks on ways to get more national security assistance have not made much progress in the past few days. if we consider some matter is important and urgent, then we have to stay and do the work. the us senate and , accordingly, the congress, in general, by the end of the year , are unlikely to pass new restrictions on border security, on which the allocation of billions of dollars in aid to ukraine depends. a politician writes about it. kateryna danylovych, the only

public news. well, let's talk about it further with myroslava gongadze, head of voice of america broadcasting in eastern europe. ms. miroslava, i congratulate you. greetings, good evening. so, we would like to know the prospects, which prospects to get additional aid from the united states to ukraine. you see, my colleague, the author of the plot, writes that by the end of the year it is unlikely, and we often hear this term. until the end of the year is unlikely, what do you say, what do you know? well, i would really like to give good news for the evening, but unfortunately, there are some. so, as your correspondent in washington or kyiv correctly said. actually, yes, the senate is working now, and over the weekend , the white house is also involved in these negotiations, and president biden is also involved in these negotiations. and even yesterday there was information that

they did not reach a compromise, but they continue to work, and today there were already some clarifications in this process, that is, what can we expect? we can expect that if they still reach a compromise, the republicans and the democrats, then perhaps this week will be put to the vote exactly this bill on the support of both israel and ukraine, which provides 61 billion dollars for ukraine. if they do not reach this compromise, the senate will go on vacation. we we know that the congress is already on pre-christmas vacation. and that i may not quite agree with your correspondent that, unfortunately, the meeting, the next meeting of the congress of the house of representatives will not take place until thursday. january, so they expect, we've talked to

a number of democrats, particularly in the house of representatives, and they say they probably won't be able to wait until mid-january of next year to deal with this issue. so what happens if the senate passes, for example, passes this, this week this bill, then it will be submitted for consideration by the house of representatives. then, if the house of representatives passes a bill with the same content, then it will go to the president for signature, if it has a different content, then there will be a special conference between the two chambers, and only then can we expect that the bill will reach the president's desk, we know that the pentagon and the white house have announced that there will be another big party. a good aid package, the last one provided from the

money that is still left for ukraine. this is to this aid package at the end of the year? yes, it is until the end of the year. ms. myroslava, and if , in what seems to me to be an optimistic scenario, as you said, the senate votes, passes it to the house of representatives, the house of representatives agrees and goes to president biden for his signature, then when it can be according to the dates, oh this event can happen ? well, very much. there are high hopes that this will happen by the end of january next year. we must understand, in ukraine, we must understand that in fact not only the american aid today at kona, but also the european one, 50 billion dollars, which blocked by hungary, and this aid will also be considered only in the middle of january next year, that is, today ukraine is very dependent on western aid, both american and european, and in fact january 24 will be

decisive in this context, it really depends , because we see today's statement of the commander of the operational and strategic grouping of tavriy troops, mr. tarnavskyi, who says that due to the lack of ammunition, the armed forces of ukraine are reducing some military operations, so of course your the words are confirmed by the military. ms. myroslava, today we talked with the political scientist and internationalist dmytro levusy about the latest polls among americans and... they have increased the support of ordinary americans in ukraine, can ordinary people, i.e. the voice of the people, and this support in... which is growing, somehow influence at the decision of the congress? you understand that, in fact, support for ukraine remains, both in the united states and in america, general public support remains, and this support also remains in political circles and in congress, in particular, both on the republican and

democratic democratic sides, the problem is only such a small number of republicans. particularly in the house of representatives who are just blocking this process, there are no more than 10 people who are strongly, some of them are strongly against the support, and they have actually blocked this process, linking it to border security, after it has been blocked in the house of representatives, the senate began to talk about it a lot, and today, as we know, the leadership in the senate also began to talk about what is so national. security in the heartland of the united states is more important than anything, and even the greatest friends of ukraine, we believe, senators , such as lincius graham, he clearly said, we will not help ukraine until we solve the border issue, that is

in fact, a group of people is blocking this process. and this issue of borders, an internal issue, which, you see, slows down this process, is it - what is fundamental, is it urgent for resolution, or can it be prolonged? of course you know that the question of the borders of the southern border in the united states, well it's been going on for years and years, decades, i would say, and actually we remember that even during the trump presidency, you remember the story of building on the... all of this has been going on for quite a long period of time, but today actually the republicans found, this part of the republicans found and tied this process to the aid to israel and ukraine, although, again, they don't just want

some small changes in the legislation, in particular regarding migration policy, they want a serious, serious process, a serious changes politicians, and that's where the problem is with the democrats, because for the democrats, in fact , the openness of the borders and the willingness to accept migrants is also very important, and why the democrats are very careful about this, because it's an election year, and it's clear that a large part of the progressive, progressive part of the democrats will be against if the democrats, the central direction, if they agree to some radical changes regarding the migration law. mrs. myrosla, thank you very much for this conversation, thank you for these explanations. myroslava gongadze, head of voice of america broadcasting in eastern europe, they talked with her about state aid

to ukraine. so, this winter, ukraine will receive several more patriot air defense systems, president volodymyr zelenskyi said during the conference, i will remind you. ukraine received its first patriots in april from the united states, germany and the netherlands. what else the ukrainian military destroys enemy equipment on the ground, in the sky and at sea, and which weapons from partners help the most on the battlefield, see below. this is the british tankchallenger. the first 14 units the ukrainian armed forces received into service this spring, it reported on its website. ministry of defense of the united kingdom. this tank is a sniper rifle among tanks. the world record set on this tank is more than 5 km t-55 and the german leopard tank. ukrainian fighters received the first 14 samples from polish partners in the spring of this year, according to data on the website

of the polish ministry of defense. this graphic was prepared by slovo i dilo at the beginning of the year. here is an approximate list of weapons, which western partners promised to provide us. these are weapons, in particular, from the usa, the united kingdom, canada, sweden, latvia, estonia, lithuania, france and others. how much equipment we got as a result during the year is not disclosed, answered the question of public spokesman of the ministry of defense hilarion pavlyuk. foreign governments periodically report on shipments. according to the calculations of the word and deed resource, as of july. about 60 leopards arrived, denmark, the netherlands and germany provided 10 more at the beginning of autumn. according to roman, the co-founder of the deepstate portal pogorily, received from partners this year and. and bmp have become one of the most useful types of weapons on the battlefield for the ukrainian military. among other things, roman singled out the

bradley bmp. the exact number of the us defense ministry was not made public, but in the summer, on the eve of the nato summit, they promised to provide another 32. the combat work of these machines was shown the other day in the 47th brigade. the rifles that we see now near avdiivka, with the soldiers of the 47th brigade, they work very efficiently, destroy the enemy and do not give. move there in the area of ​​the steppe of the same itself, an effective weapon that helps our soldiers directly on the battlefield in the front line to defend our country and not let the enemy go further. commander-in-chief valery zaluzhny released this video of american atakams ballistic missiles in a telegram this fall. those missiles, on the one hand , are only capable of reaching a range of 160 km, but... nevertheless, we managed to hit at least three military aircraft in the temporarily occupied territories, as a result, the enemy

suffered significant destruction of its aviation equipment, in particular, assault aircraft helicopters this is how the paatriot anti-aircraft missile complex works. ukraine received the first patriots this spring. also, the system of ukrainian and air defense systems was strengthened by other installations from western partners, in particular sampti, nasamsa, airisti, etc. according to the deputy director of the ukrainian company for the production of equipment, rep. anatolii khrabchynskyi, together with the enemy's attempts to test ukrainian air defense, the approaches to countering russian air attacks are also changing. we see how we have first western samples that can respond powerfully to winged rockets then we have an increasing number of mobile groups that... act in the name of the united states provided military aid to ukraine in the amount of more than 40 billion dollars - the pentagon website reported in the summer. other partners have provided

military aid to the armed forces of another 27 billion dollars, the report says. ukraine needs more technical support, in particular air defense systems, tanks and shells - says roman pohorily. darya sydorenko, ivan gorbunov, social news. the first ones appeared near the akademik vernadskyi station this year. darling subantarctic penguins, this is reported in the national antarctic science center. well, we will continue to talk about this with vadym tkachenko, he is a biologist of the 28th ukrainian antarctic expedition. mr. vadim, i congratulate you. good evening, glory to ukraine. so. tell us, please, is this event for you such that the first chicks? of course, of course it's an event. all polar explorers. and all ukrainians who follow the station are all waiting for the hatching of the first penguins, we

love them, and this is part of our job, to follow when they hatch, and what else part of your job is to monitor how and when they hatch, then what observations happen next? then we look at academic performance, overall academic performance. how many chicks hatched from this one, which one was demolished, how many chicks lived to reach the nursery, how many chicks changed their plumage and how many chicks went into the water, huh, mr. vadim, and you can somehow help the mother birds, the father birds, or the little ones, that is, people, no, no, no, you can't, that is, we can't interfere in nature, we can only observe and that's all, ugh. how many chicks already appeared, you can directly count them one by one, as of, as of the day before yesterday

, there were eight of them, huh, yeah, how many more are expected, we expect them, much more, because almost 500 eggs were laid, huh, and each of them should bring chicks, and chicks, the only thing that, unfortunately, not all. live, so we will estimate their number, ugh, their hatchability is affected, predators and weather also affect them, yes, and 500 eggs, how long will the process of hatching chicks last, very quickly, within the next month, counting from december 12, within a month they all hatched, not only ours. subantarctic penguin chicks have also hatched penguin penguin chicks,

it's a different type of penguin, that's right, ugh. mr. vadim, what are you seeing now, you are watching the process of the chicks hatching, and there are already eight, is everything going as, say, last year, previous years, that is, is everything in order, if to ask in simple language, so far everything is fine for subantarctic penguins, they have more areas for nesting, there are generally more of them than the year before last, more of them than last year. and they came to the island earlier, they started nesting earlier, and they laid more eggs, huh, so it's better for everything, yeah, and when, and you watch these birds all year? no, from our island, our island, the subantarctic penguins leave, they finally leave somewhere in

may, and then they come again. back to nesting, and this year they came in september, huh, and what are you doing they are already in september was waiting, waiting for the snow to come down to find clear areas to build a nest, but what do you do from may to september? we have a lot of work, there are only three biologists at the station, and we work in all directions, but each of the biologists has 3.4 technical tasks, huh, and i understand that this is not a normal question, how difficult is it for you? i look at your face, i can't understand, it's burns on your face, it hurts, how difficult it is, but if we have everything in order, we work in wonderful conditions, you can not worry about us at all, the only thing is that the sanskrin sometimes does not help a little, but that is okay, mr. vadim, i wish you success in your entire

expedition, in what you are doing, thank you very much, vadim, shevorony, who are bringing you closer victory before we went, we drew lots, and guess what, i got the devil every time, and i don't know something. did you want to be an angel? and we also went, i was the oldest, i got together , i said, well, who will be the king, they say, well, who, kolia, well, you, well, well, well, the king, coal, and what did you want to be? who did you want to be? a miner?

come on, what are you? good evening, are we from ukraine? come on generous, generous, generous, a swallow has flown in, it has taken care of itself, people, well, great, and your king is correct, but no, no need, we are like that. simply.

oh, i almost killed myself. they will install generators on the balcony here. put on the generator emits carbon monoxide, so only outside six meters from windows and doors, observe safety rules, they save ukrainians. boloya will come to denmark again, fate will change, our vorichenki will change