news of the economy during the war continues tomorrow, thursday on weekdays. watch us on the espresso tv channel. i am andriy yanitskyi, together with you, our viewers. we will win the votes of america. i am yuliya yarmolenko. on wednesday, us president joe biden, even though it affected the well-being of americans, the american president associates the significant increase in fuel prices in the us with the russian war against ukraine, but the protection of democracy is worth it and

the americans understand this, the president emphasized today, top general mark miley and us national security adviser jake sullivan in a telephone conversation with their ukrainian colleagues valeriyum zaluzhnym and andriy yermak once again assured kyiv of washington's unbroken support, the efforts to help ukraine and on capitol hill do not stop let's talk about this with my colleague kateryna lisunova, who is joining katya's broadcast. congratulations, i congratulate you, julia. we focus a lot of attention on the support for ukraine, which comes from the white house, but for a long time they were not emphasized in the congress, what new initiatives for aid in ukraine are actually proposed by the legislators, one of the important initiatives for aid was not presented in the house of representatives last friday, june 17, its authors are a republican through adam e i apologize and adam kissinger and uh his fellow democrat , krez and hollagan, are both former veterans and american military personnel, and they directly call for the start of training ukrainian

pilots and crew members on american fighter jets, we are talking about the f-15 and f-16 fighter jets, and i would like to point out that the memo to this draft law explained that it is not currently a question of providing these fighter jets directly to the ukrainian military , the white house administration is still thinking about this at the same time as providing the opportunity to train ukrainian pilots can reduce the time from receiving such assistance to direct use on the battlefield, as happened with himers salvo missile systems to use which the ukrainian military must undergo training and training for a month, this bill was also accompanied by a letter to the ministry of defense of the united states of america and directly to the minister of defense shag luid osiny with a call to support such an initiative, but any initiative and any bill

it does not become a law until it is approved by the relevant committees and voted on by both chambers, that is, in the house of representatives and the senate, and for this you need constant support how congressmen as well as american society directly, and this was directly emphasized by the democrat senator through murphy during today's panel discussion. he suggests listening to his speech right now. the news will cover the war , the less lenient the american public will become regarding the extraordinary expenses of taxpayers who go to support the ukrainians, so our work in senate of the united states, given the amount of media attention given to this conflict, to explain how deeply connected the struggle ukraine for sovereignty with our own efforts to protect our democracy and global democracy , so we must continue our work, but i agree that there is a growing movement within the republican party that is less supportive of giving money to

ukraine, and the likelihood that republicans will begin to demand that any funding for ukraine be compensated reduction of other expenses in the budget, in addition to that, today the same republican, kissinger, presented another resolution to the house of representatives calling on the russian federations to implement the geneva conventions on the appropriate humane treatment of soldiers katya, tomorrow one of the selenium committees will also consider the issue of the resolution recognizing russia as a sponsor of terrorism. directly or the state department or maybe also the white house, but now the very initiative to recognize russia as a sponsor of terrorism was initiated back in may in both the house of representatives and the senate tomorrow's community will take place directly in the foreign affairs committee of the senate. and i will note that

many senators note that this bill will support new sanctions against russia. i suggest listening directly to the comment of senator rob portman. what i know for sure is that it is time to move forward and recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. and this will lead to additional sanctions, ukrainians just want to live peacefully, they did not attack, they are just defending their motherland and their families, the russian people need to be shown that this is the truth, that it is the russians, in particular, now in the donbas, russian soldiers are shelling civilian objects day and night, killing innocent civilians only because they want to live peacefully and because they want to choose their own fate, so let's follow the discussion of the entire resolution thank you katya in connection with the capitol hill was my colleague kateryna lisonova, chancellor

of germany olafshol, meanwhile, said that he does not see the possibility of negotiations between ukraine and russia in the near future, agrees with this assessment and oleksandr stuk, former prime minister of finland, and now a professor at the school of transnational governance in florence, at one time he was involved in peace negotiations in georgia, but he says that the stakes are higher in russia's war against ukraine . can officially grant the status of a candidate and the nato summit where the alliance can decide on expansion how the russian war is changing the security in the architecture in europe and why ukraine has already won in the interview further let's start with the tonatu that will take place in madrid next week, it may become historic for finland, which together with sweden applied for accession, how surprised were you by this decision, if the applications are approved? what will this mean not only for these two countries, but also for europe in general,

factories first it seems that public opinion in finland and sweden changed overnight when putin attacked ukraine on february 24, the very first survey we conducted in finland showed a change, previously there were 50% against and 20%, and then suddenly it became 50 for and 20 against, now probably 70-80% of the population is in favor of membership in nato and the swedes are not far behind, so we can say that this expansion of nato would not have happened if it were not for putin's attack . the baltic sea, european security, and i would say for global security. as our president says, finland's membership in nato is not directed against anyone, we are doing it for ourselves.

do you expect that this will change the security architecture of europe in general? i think it will, but probably at the beginning the focus will not be so much nato, i think that basic europe will split into two parts , on the one hand there will be russia, in fact non-allies, if you count belarus, russia, which is an aggressive , isolated, revisionist, imperialist and authoritarian, and on the other hand, there will be approximately 40 european states that are democratic and believe in international cooperation and law, they reach from georgia, ukraine, moldova, through the western balkans and all the way to the british isles, and it seems to me that the security umbrella will soon be be guaranteed through the european union and the integration of these countries into the eu, and then at a certain stage there will be membership in nato. that is, you are basically

saying that ukraine will first become a member of the eu and then nato . to guess from my analytical perspective. i think that the realistic focus now should be on the status of ukraine as a candidate for eu membership, and then at some stage negotiations on accession should begin. meanwhile , i want ukraine to be as close as possible integrated into the current european structures and institutional ukraine will and at some stage the war in ukraine will end and after the decision of finland and sweden, it becomes more obvious that the countries that have a border with russia can no longer rely only on promises, they need some kind of security umbrella and if not membership in nato

what can ukraine rely on at this stage, it is difficult to say, the only example is finland, but it is a little unfair, because geographically, the location and history of others, of course, we are united by the fact that we europeans, we have a long border with russia. finland was able to cope without the official security umbrella guaranteed by article 5 of the nato charter. since the cold war, we believed that we were sufficiently protected for two reasons. europe and, in particular, powerful military equipment, and secondly, membership in the european union and thirdly, a strong partnership with nato, so i am sure that there will be some combination of these three things, we are sometimes too focused on ukraine's membership in nato, and my argument is because i don't think that putin attacked ukraine because of nato he attacked ukraine because he is against

european values ​​because he wanted to create his own legacy because he sees himself as peter the first you know catherine the great or ivan the terrible nato was just an excuse so you think that even the status of a candidate for eu membership will be very important for ukraine at this stage, because it is about joining the european family. just like that for russia, finland and or sweden have always been part of the event. although they were not nato members, they were by members of the european union and close partners of nato. so you know. i think that this strategic and tactical mistake by putin led to the fact that ukraine is now accepted as a european state with all that entails and we have a permanent disconnection between ukraine and russia for the foreseeable future of ukraine in view of do you see

that this war can be resolved through negotiations in the near future, the direct answer is no, i was involved in the peace negotiations in georgia as the minister of foreign affairs of finland and the chairman of the osce and we were able to agree on a ceasefire in 5 days and the reason was simple the stakes were lower not for both sides but personally for russia now the stakes are too high we are beyond the point of no return this is almost the 120th day of the war so i unfortunately think that it will a long conflict that will remain in a heated phase for a long time, i do not have an answer when it will end and i do not have a date. the minister of defense of latvia recently said that ukraine must win and russia must lose, otherwise we are only inviting new russian aggression through a few years elsewhere. do you agree with this assessment, but the eu fighter tried compac, but it is

probably much more difficult than one good phrase : ukraine must win and russia must lose, after that you begin to think what will a ukrainian victory mean and that a russian defeat and now there are essentially two camps , one - this is the camp of peace and the other camp of justice of peace - these are the people who say that they want peace at any price and we can already call them conciliators then on the other hand how do you have a camp of justice that says that we cannot lower what russia has done is because it violated international law and brutally killed innocent people, and the truth will probably be somewhere in the middle, as you yourself said, in the end there will be peace , we simply do not know what this peace will be and what the price of peace will be, but if you look at big picture i would say that ukraine has already won and in fact the west also won with it in the sense that ukraine defended western and european values, the situation would have been completely different if putin had been able to enter kyiv in 3-4 days,

but he did not and now it is only question how to act in the current situation, but i emphasize the fact that it is not the latvian minister or professor from florence or the president of france who decides what the victory will be, but only president zelenskyi and the ukrainian people, no one else, president zelenskyi ukraine people, on the eve of the eu summit, the famous ukrainian volodymyr klychko called on european politicians to confirm his words about supporting with actions and officially granting ukraine the status of a candidate ukraine is ready to work hard to become a full member of the union, he said ukraine is not just a shield europe is also a country of great opportunities for europe , he emphasized these days in kyiv. myroslava gongadze had the opportunity to talk with the klychka brothers, but how did the capital survive and function in the conditions of the war? are you trying to rebuild kyiv? how are they

moving? of russian propaganda about the so-called special operation against the military in our native city destroyed more than 220 multi-story buildings where civilians lived stargorod the building behind me also became a target after this shelling, four people died, everything is said by russian propaganda lies. we are currently doing reconstruction, our main priority is to finish everything before the onset of cold weather, because people need to return to their homes, so we are now investing a lot of money in the reconstruction of this building, the overall structure is stable and this gives us the opportunity to rebuild the house as soon as possible. we are meeting with the people who live in this house.

they want to know when they will be able to return home and the main question of every ukrainian is when this war will end unfortunately for the second question i do not have an answer only one person in this world the one who started this war has an answer when it will end this man is sitting in the kremlin in moscow and he is sick he is definitely not healthy because to start this senseless war in europe the biggest war after the second world war, such a decision could not be made by a healthy person. you said that you are investing a lot of money in the reconstruction of the city, but the economy of ukraine is now in a very weak state. the western community claims that it is trying to help, or do you feel i want to say forward. i would like to

thank everyone who supports ukraine, who supports our struggle for independence, for territorial integrity, for our common values, because the reason for this senseless war is the desire of ukrainians to be part of the democratic european world, but in moscow they did not accept our desire want to restore the soviet empire , we were in the ussr and do not want to return, this is the reason for this war - this must be understood by everyone and we need help now, the economy of our country is completely destroyed, the infrastructure of multi-storey buildings destroyed, and that is why we need help, we need the support of countries that can help right now, we need political help, we need economic help, we need defensive weapons . secondly, we don't know how long

the senseless war will last, and that's why we are ready to fight. i have one appeal. ugh, we protect not only our city and our country, not only our families and our children. we protect each of you in the west because we do not know how far the russians will go, and they will go as far as we allow them. now there is a lot of talk about peace talks, about peace efforts, what do you mean by such peace talks with russia and what do you see ending of this war, i don't know what they are talking about, what compromises can we talk about, what compromise solutions can we talk about? from ukraine of every aggressor and only after that can we talk about some kind of peace with such and such

. i was surprised, volodymyr, you have been here in the capital since the beginning of the war. why did you decide to return to kyiv ? be it about a sense of duty, i would call it that and i believe that all ukrainians, men and women, feel this calling, you just feel where you should be now and we share the same feeling now, this feeling is quite obvious to me, you just stand up your right to live and make a free choice, and i think that this largely reflects the existence of all people in ukraine, you mentioned the sense of duty, how you see this duty, the different stages of the war from the first day. now the russian military is not on the outskirts of kyiv, as it was at the beginning and we are doing everything possible so that their invasion of this region does not happen again, we are doing everything so that the russian

troops do not return, which they are definitely planning to do, i started as part of the territorial defense, where i entered, and i also have the opportunity to support various initiatives, whether in the humanitarian field or in the financial and any other spheres , using my connections, my network of contacts in the so-called free world, and this is very important for the defense of our country . of ukraine on march 1, as part of the ukrainian delegation, where he met with all the key politicians of germany to make sure that germany continues to support us to support ukraine in the world and the international community's understanding of this war or do they understand what is happening in ukraine even during war there is evolution nothing can happen in one

day everything takes time fortunately and at the same time unfortunately for our happiness this war ended in three days the russian military did not capture our capital and all of ukraine in three days and although we need support right now and i understand that it will take time for the international community to wake up to understand that this war is only the beginning, if we stop the russian military here it will only be the beginning , they will knock on the door of other nations immediately after the capture and subjugation of ukraine in case it happens and it should be obvious slowly people are waking up gradually people are starting to understand the governments are starting to understand the danger that threatens their free world which is functioning so far unfortunately it takes time but i definitely see the evolution of this process eh how do you see the end of this war? how long will it last? imported

military in this case is putin's army because he is the commander who started this war. it is important that the russian military leave the territory of ukraine without exceptions, this is our goal - this is our idea this is what we are fighting for, we are defending our right to live to choose how we should live and this is what we have been doing since 2014 , since the actual invasion of russia into ukraine, this is how long the war of the democratic world has been needed these eight years for awakening, unfortunately, this is what we are facing. we now need to liberate our lands, and this is exactly what we are fighting for. i believe that these questions should be addressed to the russian side, we are not the ones who started this war, and these questions should not be addressed to us, this is our home and our home must be free from invaders, despite the fact that some ukrainians who

were forced to leave their homes are already slowly returning to their hometowns, there are also those who have no place to return. refugees from ukraine continue to arrive in the united states in many cities on they are helped by ukrainian americans, volunteers in new jersey in jersey city have already taken under their care more than 60 families and help them not only with basic necessities, but also with the search for housing and medical care, talked with volunteers in new jersey our iryna solomko tamara sibir, an american of ukrainian origin, at the beginning of the year together with like-minded people from the public organization ukrainians of jersey city. she decided to introduce americans to ukrainian culture, but on february 24, she forced volunteers to quickly adapt to new challenges and tamaro headed the direction of helping refugees. i am the fourth generation in my past uncle pravuyko

went to ls-island and there he collected people he didn't know and brought them to my house, to our house. was even born. and my uncle did it and i thought that it should be continued and people from ukraine should help because they have no one since the beginning of the full-scale russian aggression. tamara and a team of volunteers helped 64 families who came to new york and jersey - networks support with food, housing, solutions to medical and migration problems, help with work permits and registration of children for school, we have a system that tells each other that we have a google form, so on the internet they sign their name where did they come from, how did they come to whom and how to help them there, i especially go to each of them, they call me there, they tell us their whole story, how they got there, how to help them, and after that

we already know how and to whom to send them to help lyudmila golovko is one of those who received help. lyudmila from lviv came to the united states with her four-year-old daughter before the invasion of russia. she stayed with relatives, says osia and the family stayed in ukraine. the children are safe with us. the children do not hear sirens. it's hard without a husband, it's very hard without people close to you and probably the children hold it, the children hold it, and i 'm sure that every man of the woman who is here with children , like my husband, says stay here, don't go, don't come back, the child should be sorry to see the sun and not hear the siren , lyudmila tells i came with one suitcase, hoping that the war would end quickly, so there was a

need for clothes, a toy for a child, and other support, having felt for myself how important this first aid is, eventually i joined the volunteers myself. i want the war to end soon. i want to help here are people who are lucky because i have a family here. because i arrived and i immediately had a roof over my head, there are people who arrived without anyone and it is very difficult, therefore it is very good to help and rally and support each other that you are not alone most of the families we care for tamara and her team are women with children, according to the volunteers, one of the important stages of adaptation for young ukrainians is the return to school helps him with this natalia and the description of the stomach of the council of education jerzy siti says she came to the usa herself as a teenager, he knows how it is not easy for me, how

for me, a ukrainian child from kyiv with my favorite school, to get into a huge american school was simply terrible when there was a different america, then american children were less able to accept migrants. i felt strong nostalgia for my native school." we have already turned to volunteers and volunteered to serve a certain number of ukrainians for free and sleep. we were immediately contacted

by people representing a small medical center and a generous indian-american dentist. the doctor just changed, he says i watch the news all day and i can’t do it anymore, what should i do? volunteers work with benefactors who are ready to provide housing for free to refugees from ukraine, they help in finding a job and generally adapt to a new place tamara sibita and like-minded people promise not to stop and to help the refugees as much as it will be necessary from znijersi iryna solomko the voice of america

did his duty worthily, soldier serhiy, on behalf of the president of ukraine, the supreme command through the armed forces of ukraine, i ask you to accept this flag as a symbol of the state whose son served freely and to the end heroes don't die heroes don't die heroes don't die watch this documentary in the program tomorrow and we say goodbye goodbye dad we are looking for 13-year-old melanie mak and her 16-year-old brother ivan the photo of the missing

children was provided by their mother, imagine the woman has n’t heard from her little one for more than a month, i don’t know what happened to her. where are the children now? it so happened that the parents of melania and ivan have divorced and have been living separately for a long time. the mother lives in poltava region and the father in kharkiv region. the war began, the children were with their father. here in this small village of lisna stinka, this is the kupyansk district of the region. as you know, it was occupied even in the first days of the full-scale invasion of russia. on february 27, the orcs entered kupyansk directly and soon moved south and captured a number of villages, in particular and the forest wall. for example, now also in a village that i visited under occupation, everything here was almost completely destroyed, and let's listen to how the locals were hiding from the war, what were we really doing , he dragged the bed into the cellar here in our cellar three families were hiding