kosa, as well as co-coordinator of the security and aerospace working group of the american-ukrainian business council, mr. pavle, congratulations, nice to see and hear you. good afternoon, sergey. i would like to start with a statement, which was made just a couple of days ago by the spokesman of the us state department, matthew milder, he... said that the funding in the following years will be less, it was immediately perceived by a number of experts and journalists there as a betrayal, and then it was, let's say, a more detailed reading of this statement, it was said that washington insists that ukraine's aid to kyiv should contribute to the fact that the ukrainian side could independently finance, produce and procure. weapons, that is, in fact, it is about giving ukraine a fishing rod, and not the fish itself we see, we mainly get used to it, the question arises, is this already a reflection of the permanent policy of the united states towards ukraine and in what direction will relations between ukraine and the usa develop further in this particular segment? well, if i knew how re