her immediate relatives did not contact the police or us, and since, as nastya's friend says, she disappeared together with her relatives, it is actually possible to write a report to the police just to no one. however, katya , the friend of the missing girl, does not lose hope, it really touches the core of her soul. this girl who still in fact, the child herself has been looking for her friend as persistently as possible for the fourth month and believes that she is alive and well and is asking us very much to show this appeal to nastya if i really hope that you see this message, i am very worried about you because she is already leaving it's the fourth month without you. and i'm very worried about you, your family, sashka, so please. just if you can get in touch, i'll tell you that you're alive. that you have food, drinking water, clothes, and that you have a roof over your head. you are fine. please just say that you are alive and i will be the happiest in general since the beginning of the war. we have

received thousands of reports about missing children . please go to the website of the children's search service. here you can view all the information and photos of the children who are currently wanted. maybe you are someone will you recognize and help me find the program of the ukrainian voice of america service on the air, i am yuliya yarmolenko. greetings. the united states announced a new military aid package for ukraine in the amount of 820 million dollars. among other things, two of the newest air defense systems on sams were installed there. before this, the chairman

of the joint chiefs of staff of the us staff mark miley held a telephone conversation with the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine valery zuluzhnym the general discussed the current state of the war and miley once again emphasized unwavering support ukraine by the united states more about the new package of aid to ukraine, let's talk about ostap yarysh who joins ostap's broadcast. congratulations ostap , tell me more about what is included in this new package of military aid and what kind of system it is, what is included in it, a dubious system, the price is the key package of this a key component of this new defense package announced by the white house, but in addition to them , maybe there are other things in this package, this literally happened, we heard the announcement for uh, we are not satisfied with our broadcast 24, what do you have there about it? in addition to us, additional missiles for hammer installations were also laid there, they also laid up to 150,000 shells for 155 mm artillery and also four

counter-battery radars. it is also possible for yuriy to emphasize that ah, the experts emphasized that in addition to the hammer installations themselves, it is important to establish the uninterrupted supply of battle supplies so that actually all installations are effective now in relation to us, what kind of system is this, it is a system of norwegian-american production , an anti-missile defense system, which are considered to be the newest systems, one of the most modern in of their type they are in the service of twelve countries , including protecting julia the sky over washington and over the white house since 2005, it is considered one of the most modern installations, the most modern equipment of this type, now there are two such e systems . how many countries have rallied around the world to help ukraine, we know

that the united states has provided seven and six-tenths of a billion dollars in military military aid to ukraine since the beginning of this administration since the full-scale invasion of russia. this amount is almost 7 billion dollars. if we take the volume from 2014, from the beginning of russia's war against ukraine for these eight years, then this amount is almost 9 billion dollars. we know that about even more than 50 countries are providing aid to ukraine, as joe biden said yesterday according to the results of the nato summit, we know that these countries, more than 50 countries, have already pledged to provide ukraine with about six hundred tanks also, uh, 500 units of artillery, as well as jet systems, a hall of fire, air defense systems and other important things that ukraine asked for, that is, we see that not only the united states or britain, which ukraine talks about a lot, but also other allies and partners, not only in nato, are

joining of this help, here is the request today, defense minister lloyd austin was at the ceremony of the change of leadership of the european armed forces command at the patch barracks base in germany. tell us a little about the role of this base in the efforts to provide ukraine of military aid that the role of this base is really difficult to overestimate, it is one of the key centers that coordinates all western aid that comes to ukraine, as you correctly said, this base is located in germany in stuttgart, there are military personnel from about 30 countries who actually coordinate this aid which arrives, as the forint police correspondents wrote, who had the opportunity to be at this base, every bullet from western aid that enters ukraine passes through this base and they are also coordinated they are drawing up the routes by which this aid should arrive. are these air routes or foreign routes? they are looking at what is the best way to deliver this aid to ukraine. they are also coordinating the training and

training of the ukrainian military that takes place in western countries. well, they are also watching in real time what the journalists who were able to write write. to be at this base watching how the hostilities in ukraine are developing in order to coordinate in the best way the actual flow of this aid and the flow of western weapons for ukraine today indeed, the united states secretary of defense voleybostin was also there, as well as general mark mili. and they addressed the military of this base. now we can listen to what the head of the pentagon said when addressing the military working in stuttgart. he also asked about ukraine in his speech. let's listen to what his words were: baseless aggression. russia against ukraine is the greatest threat to european security since world war ii . putin's war of choice threatens not only ukraine's sovereignty, it is an attack on transatlantic peace and security. a reminder, tyrants believe that their imperial

appetites are more important than the rights of their peaceful neighbors ostap. if we are talking about western aid, how do western leaders generally assess how much this western weaponry helps ukrainians so that they really exert influence on the field? western aid had a great influence on the course of this war, which really helped the ukrainian military, in particular, training, and now what western leaders are saying is that it is important in ukraine to switch to nato standards from soviet weapons to switch to nato standards is what we are seeing in principle now. and this is what, according to western countries , will continue in the future . in the amount of more than 800 million dollars,

canada remains another leader in supporting ukraine in the world. it provides not only military aid, but also powerful financial and humanitarian aid. recently, canada became the first of the countries where at the legislative level allowed to confiscate frozen russian assets and direct them to the reconstruction of ukraine about the main highlights of kyiv's aid to ottawa on canada day, which is celebrated today, i spoke with the ambassador of ukraine to this country yulia kovaliv we talk a lot about the aid of the united states about how humanitarian aid is provided to the country about canada is known a little less and what are the main accents of canadian support at the moment and what would you like to see more of. aid primarily as of last week canada provided financial support to ukraine, the

funds of which physically came to the accounts in the amount of about 1.8 billion canadian dollars, and this is money that directly entered the budget. the number one country in terms of the amount of physical financial aid provided to the budget of ukraine, e.e. canada also provides us with military aid in the canadian budget for this year, 500 million dollars have been allocated to e for the provision of military aid and it is very important and we are working directly with the canadian government and our partners here in order to ensure the fastest possible delivery of this aid, which is to arrive in kyiv . a big aspect is the actual political support of canada canada is a leader in

several areas of the introduction of sanctions directly canada was the first country to impose an embargo on the purchase of russian oil and gas and canada literally last week became the first country to adopt legislation that allows for the seizure of russian assets and their transfer to the reconstruction of ukraine. i just wanted to ask about this draft law. if we are talking about the seizure of these frozen russian assets, what amounts can be involved and how important it is precisely for the help with the reconstruction of ukraine, of course, this is actually a very important precedent that canada has made in eh in helping to rebuild ukraine eh at the beginning of the next next week we will have a big conference in lugano, which will actually be dedicated to the reconstruction of ukraine, the amounts of funds that we will need for reconstruction reach hundreds of billions of dollars, and russia

must pay for all those atrocities, including assets that must be seized in various countries, including canada, this mechanism will allow us to find and collect and transfer such assets to ukraine as of today. as of now, the identified assets in canada are more than 300 million dollars, but the work to identify these assets continues and we continue to cooperate with the canadian government for identification of these funds, and we will also actively work to cooperate on the actual implementation of this law. and this should become one of the important sources of funding for the reconstruction of ukraine not only from canada, but also from the governments of other countries of our partners, ms. yulia, also during the summit of the group, the prime minister of canada herself justin labor, he announced that canada will allocate additional funds

to help ukraine temporarily store grain that is currently blocked in the ports, tell us a little about these efforts with the help of canada itself so that there is no food crisis in the world, the issue of grain storage is important for us in the context of both providing ukraine with actual grain and the possibility of exporting it to world markets, and just a few weeks ago we turned to the canadian side of the country with a request to help to us not only about financing, but actually with the help of canadian companies and technology to ensure the delivery of such mobile granaries to ukraine and very, very quickly. we are grateful to the government of canada and the ministry of agrarian policy of canada who responded very quickly to this. and canada actually announced 52 million canadian dollars of support for the actual construction and delivery

of such mobile granaries to ukraine, as well as 2 million for the work of veterinary phytosanitary laboratories that will be installed on the western border in order to to speed up the logistics of grain to the world markets from ukraine, one more thing , canada is also one of the countries that has a fairly comprehensive program for accepting refugees from ukraine, and one of the conveniences is that ukrainians can get a work permit for up to three years, and if we talk about it, how many ukrainians have already taken advantage of this program and arrived in canada? roots cultural roots in canada is one of the largest ukrainian e-e communities and communities of ukrainians living abroad in canada, it

has more than one and 4 million ukrainians and of course in the first days of the war all ukrainians in canada but also canadians, others of various origins , responded very warmly to their own help to ukrainians , opening their homes and helping those ukrainians who arrive in canada. to date , about 52,000 ukrainians have already arrived in canada over the past two and a half months. canada has introduced a special simplified visa program for ukrainians, most of the province also provides free education for children in schools, health insurance, canada has also introduced financial assistance to ukrainians arriving in canada in the amount of 3,000 canadian dollars for one adult and one and a half thousand dollars for one child, and it is equally important that canadians actually accept ukrainians very warmly, they help ukrainians who are in

each of the provinces, we see a lot of such warm examples when canadian government ministers personally welcome e- e special flights a-a which in partnership with the republic of kazakhstan were provided by the government of canada to help ukrainians to fly to canada and this is such a very warm, very human e attitude towards ukrainians and we are grateful to canada itself for such a warm welcome this was an interview with the ambassador of ukraine in canada, the war in ukraine, record inflation, the reform of the armed forces, all this is part of the political debate on the eve of the midterm elections in the gang, which will take place this fall, but the candidates from the party in the states are in the districts, it is already determined whether the democrats will be able to get a majority in the house of representatives and the senate, the opinions of analysts were collected by yurii mamon, midterms elections in the usa will be held on tuesday, november 8, but since march the country has been actively voting in the primaries of the so-called preliminary

elections, when candidates from the party are determined konui 435 seats in the house of representatives and 35 in the senate, moreover, the entire lower states elect local authorities, considering that the campaign is in full swing, observers are already predicting a disappointing result for the democrats, according to analysts, joe vaiden's party will most likely lose the majority in the house of representatives. the worst scenario for them is also control over the scenario, however, the party of the incumbent president almost always loses midterm elections, say analysts and has to do, one of the reasons lies in the turnout of voters, people who are dissatisfied the state of affairs in the country, the party of the president, in this case, the republicans, increases the probability that they will take part in the elections, dissatisfaction is a strong motivation, the second reason is what we call a thermostatic reaction, what does this mean, society in this case is a certain thermostat, the thermostat

is designed to maintain a constant temperature in the room, that is, the voters always tend to vote in the direction of policies opposite to those pursued by washington in the midterm elections in 2022 the situation for the incumbent president and the democratic the party is strengthened by political problems, inflation in china has reached a 40-year record, exceeding eight and a half percent, and according to social polls, it is the increase in prices that americans consider the number one problem . and also, in a certain way, in the war in ukraine, the democrats, in turn, will want to play on the figure of donald trump and in each undefined district to remind voters that if you elect republicans in congress you should elect supporters of trump international

politics traditionally worries americans less than internal affairs and problems but the war in ukraine and unanimous support of kyiv experts say united americans from different political camps this topic remains in the focus of attention of voters and politicians smackers except for one country so far it is support for the idea of ​​advocacy of democracy, as well as the fear that inaction will allow the authoritarian regime to spread throughout the world and become part of it, so i think that the citizens of shah and politicians in both parties understand the urgency of the situation, if we don't act and continue to support international efforts, we will face long-term, really negative consequences around the world, the mid-term elections are seen as a test for the current president, but this time, the spotlight is also on the popularity of his predecessor, viewers are watching closely according to how they vote for candidates

supported by donald trump not only his chance of winning may depend on this, but also what the republican party will be like i am not yet on primer resort and judging by yesterday's results of the primaries, it was a pretty good day for donald trump, some of the candidates who opposed him and supported impeachment against him lost, this is an unstable trend, but there are no clear signs that the voters of the republic are turning away from donald trump, not every candidate he supports will win, but so far we are not observing fundamental changes, the full political picture will become clear closer to the fall, and in the meantime primaries still have to be held in more than half of the states yurii mamon daria actions goods voice of america nailing calls herself an american refugee from ukraine. she worked for several years as an english teacher in the village of radovel in the zhytomyr region, and when the

war started, she and other teachers were forced to leave for los angeles, where she lived before, but vicki is so used to ukraine that how and ukrainians in america experience culture shock details in the story khrystyna shevchenko wikinealing has been teaching english to ukrainian schoolchildren in the village of radovel, zhytomyr region since 2020. as part of of the village restoration project, i was hired as an english teacher at the lyceum. i teach at the lyceum from the second to the 11th grade. the woman herself applied to participate in the project, because she has special feelings for ukraine. from 2016 to 18, she worked as a peace corps volunteer. it was difficult for me not to i will lie. i didn't understand. the most difficult thing for me was the language, but i was able to find friends. i could talk to people about personal things. good day. good evening. good. i can say hello. good day. good evening

. ukraine vicky had no idea that in addition to teaching, she would have to become a refugee. we are all emigrants in ukraine, people who lived in ukraine and for whom it became home. we all thought that everything was fine, that putin was only bluffing, that he was not going to invade , we have been at war with russia since 2014. as soon as he attacked, we were all shocked, we had no idea that he would start shelling and bombing innocent civilians, then we realized that it had become a reality and how serious it was, the woman was not going to leave even despite the invasion of the russians however, it quickly became clear that this is a full-scale war. at first i wanted to stay. i planned not to leave, but on the 25th there was a knock on my door . it seems that it was on friday. one of my colleagues knocked and she said that they were being shelled, and

then i decided that it was time to leave. that's why i packed my backpack vicky and her colleague from zhytomyr evacuated to lviv by train, the foreign citizens were extremely impressed that the ukrainians knew what was happening, they were very well organized in terms of safety and the possibility of evacuating people and everything the information that we foreign teachers received came from the ministry of education and from ukrainian teachers. now vika lives in los angeles and does not remain indifferent to the events in ukraine. she attends the protests of the be ukraine movement . she carries the ukrainian flag and a cross that was presented to her in olevsk in zhytomyr oblast with her everywhere. i planned to stay there i have all my clothes my cowboy boots my bicycle everything in ukraine i'm really looking forward to going back and living there before the war i only planned to come home for the summer eat american food taste mexican cuisine hang out in amusement parks settle your

american affairs and then return back to los angeles vicky temporarily lives with her brother like many other ukrainian refugees waiting for the end of the war to return to ukraine from los angeles khrystyna ta bohdan shevchenko voice america recognized ukrainian borscht as non-tangible cultural heritage of unesco that needs urgent protection, the relevant decision of the organization was made today at an extraordinary meeting culture of ukrainian borscht preparation was included in the unesco list at the initiative of the ministry of culture of ukraine, expert maryna subotiuk and famous chef yevhen klopotenko, the issue was supposed to be considered in 23, but due to the russian war against ukraine, unesco declared that this cultural heritage is now under threat, colleague kateryna lisunova talked about it with by yevgeny klopotenko, what does the recognition of borscht by unesco as an all -ukrainian type mean for ukraine ?

today was waiting for me because i didn't know what the meeting would be, well, i only found out yesterday that they said that god is not exactly what they said that it is like that counter counter strike counter strike on russian propaganda the counter attack is already the russians . there is something moscow borscht we used to be angry there and we are the only ones you want to take him away and now if this organization confirmed that he is our ukrainian, then it is already impossible to take him away because all the words of any other country everyone claims they no longer have any meaning because we we gave so many facts and no one gave more facts than the ukrainians that borscht is ukraine and no country in the world that took part in the meeting was able to dispute this thing this means that we, well, forever , if you can say so, they said that we have our

dish and it is only ours and let the russians eat, let china eat, let the italians, the french , anyone eat, but also our ukrainian case, this is the first , second, that we are one step behind other herbs such as baguette, such as neapolitan pizza, such as hummus, such as pita bread. these are the dishes that are there. that's why the borscht didn't stand up. it's no worse than neapolitan pizza on the same level. it's 20 - that's why the ukrainians got such a victory. i think that when we received the tomos and said that we have a ukrainian church, this is normal. well, it is understandable, because i am a church. something a little similar we got our well how did we get it was always scarce, but we had times when it was taken away. we returned ours and legally confirmed that it is ours. we do not just say that

we have good borscht and it is ours. and we legally confirmed that it is ours . astronomy, because before we used to say that ukrainian cuisine is the best, it is astronomical, but now we can say no, it is not like that. country kitchen thus this decision, which was made today, is huge for the country, because the world will now know that the gastronomy of ukraine exists and that all the dishes that vereshchak gamula and varenyky and lard and bograch and shpundry have now received, well, these things, borscht opened the door for all others dishes that are in the world. we want to show the world that you have done many projects to promote borscht to recognize it as a historical ukrainian dish. tell us briefly about all

the efforts you made along the way. well, we had to find people who know how to do this. to be able to submit an application, you need to open a public organization, you need to do research, you need to find funding for this research, you need to travel around ukraine to film, as in different regions, three generations, grandmother, mother, only daughter , a-a, from e-e, they will pass on, they will pass on the recipes that this recipe is family huge, it is necessary there is not just one recipe to create, but without a license for borscht, you need to create such a table of ingredients that are used for which holidays and where we use it, how deeply integrated is borscht our culture and where were the first historical facts of the origin of borscht, evidence that we have cities of borscht, evidence that we had cossacks with the surname borscht, they are there, we have an index of borscht, we have billions of things that simply show not just a

dish, what is it culture about the fact that we do not have one or two recipes we thought it would be possible to submit one recipe for borscht, but no, because there is no one recipe, because for us it is culture for us it is not about it as something special for us and that is why we cannot give one borscht we can have it with or without beans we can only give a set of ingredients that people usually use when preparing borscht . it is so in this case. swimming so that everyone eats it and preserve it and kept it when i found people's books, but olga franko or release knovetska will find what there are for 100 years, i went into some warehouse. i don't know what will happen next, but people who there will be some who will be interested in ukrainian culture , gastronomy, they were just that such a president existed and i made this president and hey, just a

person who took it wanted, worked a lot, talked a lot with the ministries with various there without and everything but everything is done and for me it’s just tears that i have done for my people in my field what they have and i will not stop doing of course but i believe that many popular people famous people can do things much more treatment of the day of the constitution of ukraine in in south carolina, residents of the myrtle beach town held a charity event in support of ukraine. volunteers from the volt for ukraine foundation collected funds for medical equipment and assistance to refugees. we celebrate the constitution day of ukraine in ukraine. the community about the situation and the war in ukraine. we collect money for ukraine for medical kits,

trauma kits that you collect yourself and then send to ukraine, the results we have 100% there are continents, we want to do more, help more, for today our donations, our help is already more than a million dollars. we also send boxes of suitcases with specific help, such as uniforms or shoes for the military or medical kits, and at the beginning of the war we managed to deliver even this to mariupol and that's the end of it. thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian. see you next next week. pa-pa