winner and i want to happily inform you that in this nomination the book called windy mountain received the most votes, that is 38% of the votes, 2,000 almost 2,600 readers voted for you, so we congratulate you and finally, the statuette, the prize that we must we will definitely send you instead the winner shared her impressions with us thank you very much such a pleasant surprise for me really unexpectedly i want to thank all my readers who voted for me this is really a huge responsibility and a huge incentive keep on writing, because when the war started, we all started procrastinating a little. i know my colleagues also complained that they were not writing. meanwhile, the main award of the book award goes to the publishing house

, our format and to the author of the book - the winner, not the purple one, and the writer herself notes that she will continue to write for teenagers abroad, where she is now, because today young ukrainians are in great need of high-quality national literature. i welcome the program of the ukrainian voice of america service to time and host ostap yarysh in the usa called russia's morning attacks on kyiv by iranian drones shameful and promised to continue military support to ukraine, including anti-air defense means, in the white house they declared that they would stand with ukraine as long as necessary in turn, and the eu's chief diplomat, jose borel,

assured that these attacks would only strengthen loyalty in support of ukraine, he indicated that the european union is increasing military aid to ukraine to more than three billion euros and is starting a training mission to train the ukrainian military more about reactions the usa and russia's attacks, let's talk with yulia yarmolenko, who is joining us from the white house. yuriy, i congratulate you. and yulia, jacko , the official reaction. further escalation of the russian attacks. she said that the united states strongly condemns these attacks and that such an attack, in particular on kyiv , on the city center, only shows the brutality of the russian war. she also emphasized that the united states will continue to provide support to ukraine as long as it is needed, as

an example, she cited in particular the results of the regular meeting of the contact group with the defense of ukraine, which took place last week in brussels, as a result of which a number of countries emphasized that they will do everything possible to deliver additional systems to ukraine air defense as soon as it is physically possible, jeanpierre also emphasized that the united states will do everything to control compliance with the regime sanctions of the united states against russian and iranian production and use of weapons, in particular to prevent additional sales of such drones as happened with the sale of iranian drones to russia, what about europe from elena berbok, minister of foreign affairs of germany, she also called today's attacks on ukrainian cities a further escalation from russia, and the danish minister of foreign affairs, jeppe koffe,

said that today's events only emphasize the need for a very strong response from of the european union, in particular he emphasized the importance of the implementation of the training mission of the european union for the ukrainian military and also said that european countries should spend more money in order to deliver to ukraine the latest air defense systems, in particular, as well as the latest weapons from nato. also, we heard at the end of last week nato secretary general genston stated that nato as an alliance in the next few days should deliver equipment to ukraine that helps to counter to iranian and russian drones, if we return to the united states, today john kirbitt is the coordinator of the strategic communication of the us national security council, today in

an interview with the morning, he also stated that as he promised. will do everything to ensure that ukraine has the air defense systems necessary to protect the ukrainian sky and also our colleagues from the voice of america in an exclusive interview with john kirby asked him a question on friday about what the united states can do to help ukraine defend itself specifically against vidra drones, and this is what jokerby answered: we provide the ukrainian military with a full range of capabilities so that they can better protect themselves. we knew that these drones would begin to be used on the battlefield that when we publicly declared that the russians are bailing out geraniums here in order to buy them, it remains to be seen how significant a role they can play. but it is clear that they have lethal force, and therefore one of the things that president biden talked about with zelenskyi is additional air defense capabilities, and you saw after the meeting of the contact group in

brussels, which was headed by defense minister austin, some countries such as germany and spain agreed to provide certain additional means of air defense. and we also let's see if we can do something to improve ukrainian air defense, we will do it. the current attack also caused discussion among american military experts, in particular the former commander of the us ground forces in europe, ben-hudges, says that ukraine should be able to destroy the launch sites of enemy drones. the sites were not there. what else do experts pay attention to ? also, in particular, jun-kir spoke about the fact that this has a completely different effect and also unites the west , and today andersen, one of the american experts, said that after this attack, after iran has also supplied deadly drones to russia, the usa,

canada and europe should do as much as possible to punish iran and russia, but he also called for the provision of fighter jets and tanks to the ukrainian military, in particular, if we are talking about the same ben hodges whom you mentioned, general , he is talking about that it is really necessary to help the ukrainians and actually to eliminate the threat even at the launch, as he said, it is necessary to help ukraine to provide it in order to prevent even the departure of such dangerous and deadly drones, there is also a lot of interesting said hertlin, you are another american former general and now a military expert, he draws attention to the fact that these iranian drones are made in such a way that they can avoid the radars of the latest high-precision air defense that can be provided by western countries, but these drones are quite slow and very loud and therefore,

they can be eliminated from such ordinary lighter and smaller a-a sophisticated weapons of the west, in particular from stingars, he also said that it can help uhm help eliminate electronic jamming and in particular, the means that nato announced that they will provide to ukraine, as well as mass shelling , so again, there are many different opinions, but what do we hear from the west that aid should continue to increase and what do we hear from the white house and that this will continue in particular, last week we heard from the e-e administration that in the near future the additional first two nasamb systems that were previously promised should be delivered to ukraine. washington promised to transfer yes indeed, yuriy, we will monitor it. thank you for the information, i will remind you with we were in touch with yuliya yarmolenko and the mature house. meanwhile, today the head of the international

monetary fund is starting to work on a new program for ukraine about what funding from the fund will be and what awaits the ukrainian economy and ukrainian immigrants in europe . oksana bedratenko spoke with the director of the european alfred kemer of the imf department hopes to receive 15-20 billion dollars from the international monetary fund in the government next year in order to decide on the parameters of the imf program will analyze the state the budget submitted by the ukrainian government, the budget should address the needs of the people, they say. in the fund, this budget will focus on vital infrastructure. it should take care of the needs of the population, including funds

for displaced persons. loans and not only from external donors post-war 2022 the imf expects that next year will be a year of economic growth in ukraine, the territory of economic activity in march 45% of ukraine's gdp was affected by the war, now it is significantly less than 10-15%, so most of the economy can already return and resume production - this is an extremely important driver, it is also possible to return people to work and eventually the ukrainian government wants to return refugees and re-integrate them into the economy international the monetary fund has allocated almost 3 billion dollars of emergency financing to ukraine this year, but it seems that the fund is no longer ready to provide money to ukraine without conditions regarding reforms and lack of oversight of economic policy in ukraine, we are moving to a new stage, as i said

, the economy is reviving, so there will be a broad imf program for the ukrainian government with supervision and a more formal macroeconomic framework, what does this mean , it will allow better policy coordination between the government and the national bank, it will provide this envelope with funds, what are we still working on the need for external financing of the day is 3-4 billion dollars per month and it will become clearer where these funds will come from big funding historic & drive in in 2022 ukraine held a historic fundraising from international donors 35 billion dollars it is necessary to conduct such fundraising for the 23rd year to cover the needs of the budget and eventually, when conditions allow, we will have a program financed by the fund this year, the largest external donor for the ukrainian budget became the united states, which allocated 13 billion dollars of economic support to the imf believe that

despite the crisis, the international community has the resources to help ukraine, i think the international community has the opportunity to provide the necessary finances to ukraine, however , it is obvious that this is a separate issue, budgetary possibilities europe is reducing due to anti-pandemic costs , they are also planning financial support for the population to ease the increase in the cost of living what happened because of the three energy stocks caused by the russian invasion of ukraine, it requires budgetary discipline from the europeans, but they found a way out this year in order not to borrow funds to help ukraine outside the existing budget and they will find funding to support ukraine. i am convinced ukraine to stimulate the economy, the government of ukraine hopes that ukrainians who are now those who work in europe will return home, although the european economy already relies on

ukrainians to a certain extent. europe has accepted ukrainian refugees extremely well, and budget expenditures for them have been large in some countries, exceeding the percentage of gdp, but europe is really trying to integrate refugees into the labor market. the production of these conflips is then arthur in kissing, however, the revival of the ukrainian economy will depend on the military situation and the russian shelling showed that stability is they say fragile at the imf oksana bedratenko dmytro savchuk voice of america when russian troops surrounded sumy at the beginning of the invasion , more than two thousand volunteers came to defend the city after the retreat of the russians, a large part of them signed a contract with the armed forces, others organized themselves into

voluntary formations of the territorial community, now they are studying military affairs and are engaged in fire training, filled in the event of danger to be on the alert and sumy tell olena adamenko and mykhailo zayka, the boys gathered in different ways to defend our city of sumy from a student to a pensioner, even those who never thought they would pick up a weapon, but they took a son, too. the student wanted to be a student. this man served in the special unit of the ministry of internal affairs for more than 20 years. that is why he asks not to give his first name or nickname. in 2008, he was retired due to his health and as soon as russia annexed crimea, he could not

stay away. many people made such a decision in 2014. they volunteered to work near donetsk. in the past, the policeman served as a volunteer in the ato for 5 years, in the 19th he retired again. he was already going to rest, but it didn’t happen. on the 24th, the guys called and said that the man was involved in a tobacco business in pink panama. 61 years old, he is called grandfather for more than half of oleg andriyovych’s life. worked at the sumy khimprom plant there, and the war caught him, the city transport was no longer moving, and on the sumy khimprom, including

everything where i work, part of the people work, live in the suburbs, countless serum turners had to transport people to their homes, and that was the first time i talked with russians, yes, these people were not of slavic nationality , they did not show any cruelty on the first day, they asked where we were going, we explained to them, they let us go , well, after a certain time, you know, they left, they quarreled here on the territory of the sumy region, in the city of sumy, where our community was shelled, if oleg andriyovych, although during his military service in the soviet army, had to hold a weapon in his hands , then a volunteer with the call sign docent did it for the first time in february of this year, associate professor is his position at the university and his scientific title. this stocky

man, a member of the academy of engineering sciences of ukraine, taught engineering disciplines for bachelors , masters, postgraduate students, including chinese ones. from the very first day, i conveyed to them the information that i had in access, i and we sent the photos , especially the reed man, when all the bandushkas were there when i said that i changed the laptop to an automatic machine. he says that you are doing the right thing. that is, i would also protect my family among volunteers who protect sumy are not only local businessman andrian came here from lviv at the beginning of the full-time invasion, the man helped evacuated women and children reach the polish border, and also collected and sent humanitarian aid for the umanshchyna, which he was here , the humanitarian of each part and stayed here, the worst was with his wife, that's all somehow we came to such a decision that i'm going and that's why i'm now

where i should be while still in lviv andrian was injured on the street just as i was preparing the car because it was necessary to meet people in the morning and the place where we lived, well, a rocket hit from different sides and a map fell and somewhere in udarnoy, a shock wave pierced the membrane to the armed forces of ukraine. andrian tried to enter the armed forces of ukraine since 2014, but due to his health, he was not accepted into the army . that is why he joined a voluntary formation for the same reason, most of the volunteers serve here, i had a heart operation a year and a half ago, a guy from the marine corps, he is generally contused, he is also with us on welfare, because he cannot go to the armed forces, the commission will not let him go, so he he stayed here and it is clear that he was involved here, the fifth himself also has military experience in the late 80s, he served in nagorno karabakh, invented

children, destruction by destruction, the occupiers entered sumshchyna, left, so the city was guarded by volunteers from all directions, we have people. instead of law enforcement officers, volunteers not only patrolled sums, but also carried out combat tasks of theirs, such that they got stuck, those who got lost, there are enough non-renters, they can also be competent second-hand chatbots therefore, they found such moments when they could be mistaken for someone yesterday, they pressed something, then their tiger

was dissected and documents were handed over. unlike the ground defense units of the ukrainian armed forces, volunteers of public formations do not receive salaries, the city community pays them six and a half thousand hryvnias per month of social assistance 5 times less for the teroboronov, however, this does not reduce the number of volunteers, says their commander, when this issue was being regulated, i thought that my people would run away, and i was very surprised when in it's not that people didn't disperse, i have a lot of applications for admission to date olena adamenko mykhailo zayka voice of america sumy this is the story of sumy and next we will talk about the volunteers of the international group founded by mozart, founded by the colonel of the us marine corps andrew mildon, volunteers evacuate civilians and combat zones in ukraine are engaged in the

training of the ukrainian military and help people in need with food, water and medicine will be continued by viktoria babinska shortly after the beginning of the full-scale aggression in february, former colonel of the us marine corps andrew milburn organized the first lessons in combat tactics in an interview with the voice of america. the veteran said that representatives of the ministry of defense of ukraine asked him to help organize accelerated courses for soldiers and officers, as well as for ground defense brigades kyiv and kyiv region. these guys received weapons that were distributed near the ministry of defense building, they took kalashnikov assault rifles and went to fight the russians in buch irpen and other western in the suburbs of kyiv, everything was happening like lightning. i was asked to create something like a buffer group where these guys could receive at least some training on how to move in the urban environment and not

die, how to handle weapons without shooting each other, but as a result, learn to kill the enemy and train one unit, we were given only 5 days, a kind of accelerated course , my team cannot make professional soldiers out of individuals, but strangely enough, it gives them a chance to fight, a former marine says that despite this in contrast to the fighters of the russian infantry fighting vehicle wagner , the main rule for a dozen volunteers of the mozart group from different countries of the world is the prohibition of the use of weapons, andrew milburn emphasizes what the mozart group is, we are not armed we are not mercenaries, we do not do anything that contradicts the foreign policy of the united states we are engaged in evacuation civilians from dangerous areas , as well as the training of ukrainian soldiers, there are no contradictions or moral ambiguity in this. in mid-september, the volunteers of the

mozart group evacuated several dozen people from bahmut place in donetsk region, local residents olena and nadiya were among the survivors, who decided to leave the city after nadiya almost died during the alto shelling. i already had problems not only in me что когда произошёл взроз возле моего дома имени problems already started when the explosion happened i was concussed near my house, but now everything is fine, it often happens that i don't remember the words, i still haven't recovered here, at that moment, at the same time, they created an atopy, they were completely crying, so poor this the car, they were all in bulletproof vests in the fairy tales, that is, you were actually taken out after the postle, under the bullets, under the explosions. i remember they were muttering, so they were shooting

, of course and they are well done. in the morning, the bus came in the morning. during the day they drove people four times for sure, they drove people to kramatorsk, they brought us to kramatorsk and dropped us off quickly, they fed us, they gave us a bed , then we had dinner, they fed us, that is, everything was organized, that is, everything was organized former marine colonel ender milburn says that during the seven months of the war, they managed to bring about 400 ukrainians to safe places , while he emphasizes that several thousand residents did not want to leave the zone of hostilities, they were delivered medicines, food and water, the mozart group now functions exclusively at the expense of of donations milben is firmly convinced that the volunteers of the multinational mozart group face an important task of saving the lives of ukrainians viktoriya babinska sanzharkhamidov volodymyr sergeyev

the voice of america is our next story about ukrainian immigrants who started their own business in warsaw, two friends from kyiv who had to flee to poland in the spring decided not to sit idle and opened a second-hand business, women had never done this before, but a full-scale war and departure abroad forced to learn a new job , says khrystyna shevchenko in the central district of warsaw, in one of the small shopping arcades , you can see such a sign, the yellow and blue colors indicate that this is a second-hand shop belongs to ukrainian women and here they are, the owner and saleswoman of the consulting firm oleksandr demyanov and valentina nazimova, two women from kiev who had to flee from the bombing of kyiv to warsaw. the first

one left kyiv with her daughter and pets in february. oleksandra was actually scared because she has a child and i never wanted to so that she would even know what war is, you understand, we took our animals with us, we have a big dog and a cat, and we had to go with them right away, and in short, we could not find a place to simply stop, even for night because with a big dog no one wanted to take at first they looked for housing in western ukraine, but in the end they agreed to accept oleksandra with her daughter and a big dog, acquaintances of acquaintances in warsaw such a difficult period of suspension when you show off some such worthless hmm i don't even know what you can't do for by education, a chemist-technologist oleksandr was looking for something to do, her savings gradually

ran out, soon a friend with her daughter joined her in warsaw. she offered to take my youngest daughter and took her with us delivered her by car and met her there. and later i drove up to them in may. their husbands and valentina, the eldest daughter, remain in kyiv. the women had an idea to open their own business in the polish capital. oleksandra vardak herself is a beautiful ball. she has become a regular client and friend, actually from business. she says that she wants to help ukrainian business. i have been with whom i like for a long time. i really like the assortment, but for me it is very important that the person from ukraine who fled the war, for valentina, who did not know polish at all, it was difficult to imagine how

she would be able to sell goods in the first month when they opened, er, well, they already sold and i already sold because er, they talked a lot with poles and the language was all time is on the ear and they are friendly, you are working now and she deserves the highest knowledge, the girls deserve the best, and they have a good product here, and the truth of the situation in szczecin is a difficult situation with the war, we are experiencing oleksandr and valentina has not yet received a large profit from the business, but they have already been able to break even, and the main thing they say is that engaging in a new and interesting business was able to distract from thoughts about separation from my family. we study every day we study study we watch

uh on the internet we look at trends because young people are very sensitive to trends even in such conditions in which we currently exist, they still want to look good or will they return to ukraine oleksandra and valentina, they still can't give a clear answer to this question, so far we don't know, we're all waiting, we believe in the armed forces that the war will end, from our side, we help as much as we can and materially and read the news, but in order not to worry all the time, we're distracted, we work hard we really want to go home, seriously, but you know how we are going now, forward, forward, we can't, we are already legally registered, we already have obligations here, hmm, something needs to be done, go home, just like that, i want to, i can't think that if everything will be fine, we just let's maybe

for two countries to somehow exist well, somehow it will be like that and maybe we will sell that business and then valentina and oleksandra are convinced that doing a new business also gives them strength and the opportunity to maintain optimism from warsaw khrystyna ta bohdan shevchenko voice of america this is the story from poland and we will continue on this goodbye, also join our daily briefings at 18 and after kyiv on youtube and facebook and you can ask us your questions live. thank you for being with us. good night and good morning . see you soon.