someone will give a sweet kiss in the end and someone will wipe away an unbidden tear. and maybe someone will lose faith and strength , saving their life, but not me. i will not stand up, no matter how much it will hurt. for our dear and beloved land, i am happy to take on all the lights . i congratulate you on the air. the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, time, i am its presenter, ostap yarysh, ira incredibly agreed to provide russia with ballistic

missiles and additional drones. this is reported by the american snakes with reference to iranian officials who, in turn, promised in nato to deliver special systems against drones to ukraine in the coming days, the secretary general of the alliance, jens stoltenberg, announced this, according to him, the new capabilities will help counter a specific threat from drones, including those of iranian production. we will talk more about this and other things with yulia yarmolenko, who is joining us from the white house yulia i congratulate you. i congratulate you. so , how do the white house comment on these reports that iran is preparing to transfer not only drones to russia, but what ostapa is talking about today. the spokeswoman of the white house, karin john perry, and the spokesman for the pantogon of the rider were asked, they both said that they had seen these messages, but had nothing to add or say at the moment. corinne-jinpierre only emphasized that the united states had been emphasizing this for months and warned that iran is preparing to sell to russia, in particular,

drones, as she said, the united states will now , for its part, do everything to monitor compliance with the sanctions regime introduced against the russian and iranian arms trade industry in order to make it more and more difficult for iran to sell some power specifically for russia. today, many questions were asked of the representatives of the biden administration about why putin is now critically attacking the infrastructure, civilian objects and civilian homes in ukraine, and karin jo said that this actually indicates the fact that putin testifies to the brutality of putin's war and putin's regime, but also to the fact that putin is trying to intimidate the ukrainian population and make their lives unbearable, but she said that the ukrainians should not be intimidated by ukrainians - this is demonstrated by the united states, for its part, will continue to help ukraine as much as

necessary and, in particular, provide means to counter such attacks from the air, that is, means of anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense, and the minister of foreign affairs also commented on these latest attacks today of great britain, this is james cleverley. he said that these acts, these actions are the actions of a man who will lose the war . washington, for what purpose did he come here? what do they say about this, maybe some information, yes, ostap - this is actually interesting because we did not hear about this visit. it seems that this visit was urgent and urgent and ben wallace really flew to washington and met with the head of the pentagon , aloy oshin, as said the pet trader, the spokesman of the pentagon, that the main focus of this meeting was precisely on ukraine, on the latest developments, on how the united states and great britain can still help ukraine. we are waiting

now on the presentation of this meeting from the pentagon and also there were some reports in the british media that this could be related in some way to the nuclear threat but the petrahedron said that at this moment there is no change or no change in the threat level he said that at this moment nothing indicates that putin is preparing or making any preparations for the potential use of nuclear weapons yuriy another important issue before the elections in the united states of the treaties of congress are literally a few weeks away and now we hear that some republicans are voicing their concerns about the continuation of this unlimited aid to ukraine. is the white house confident that the next congress will approve requests for additional funding for ukraine at this time, support for

ukraine was bipartisan, that both republicans and democrats were on the defensive in support of ukraine and in fact, she thanked the leaders in both the senate and the house of representatives for the fact that all these requests from the white house for funding for ukraine in both the house of representatives and the senate passed without any delays or any problems. she said that she would not predict what the composition of the next congress would be, but she said that the white house administration is carefully monitoring all the discussions that are taking place right now on the eve of the elections and is working and will work with the congress, whatever its composition. to work with the white house and with them in order to make sure that ukraine has adequate help and, as karin said, that the white house will not abandon its commitment to help ukraine as much as necessary and

here we are directly talking not only about economic humanitarian aid, but above all about military aid safely, which is now extremely important at this stage of the ostap war . thank you and we like to follow up. thank you for your information . congressional topics , the future funding for ukraine from the congress may face obstacles if the majority in the house of representatives after the elections in november is obtained by the republican party. at least about this in in an interview with an american snake, the leader of the republican minority, kevin mccarthy, said that ukraine is important, but at the same time, it cannot be the only issue that the administrations of the biden administration deal with, and there cannot be unlimited funding here. people's deputy and

head of the party, the servant of the people, olena shulyak, who is now in our studio, mrs. olena, i congratulate you on the background of the news that we heard today, i want to ask you how ukraine is now communicating with the congress the importance of this continuous funding of continuous aid to ukraine today ukraine is fighting on three very important fronts the first front - this is military and with all partners we are talking about three important things these are weapons weapons and once again weapons ah we see what now there are successes in the armed forces of ukraine in our army, we see at what pace kharkiv region was also liberated, tens of hundreds of small settlements were liberated literally in a short period of time and we see what now there are quite difficult but successful battles in the south-south of our country, and all this indicates that ukraine now also needs a lot of weapons in order to necessarily

win . doubt, and the second direction. the second front and ukraine are also fighting, this is a diplomatic front. and here, too, the support of the united states of america is very extraordinary for us, because the pressure on russia and the various sanctions that are carried out little by little but lead russia to financial collapse are no less important than the struggle on the first front well, the third front is no less important - it is the economic front, and here the united states of america also helps, because without a strong economy, without the support of those reforms to make ukraine a modernized, modern country, it will also be very difficult for us to win, and it seems to me now, well, there is an awareness there are two parties in the united states of america. but we have only one war and the most difficult times in the darkest times for ukraine. the united states has always supported us as a country, and i am sure that despite the results of the elections

of course we are worried, of course we are worried, but we are sure that ukraine, which stands in defense of freedom and democracy, will be supported with the same intensity, just as it was. it will not be so easy to receive support from you as the head of the party as a representative of the ukrainian parliament, of course our victory is very exciting for us and we are ready to do everything possible both at the level of the parliament and at the level of the government at the level of various communications so that such support is not reduced paniona, you, among other things, also deal with the issues of rebuilding the damaged e and destroyed housing of ukrainians, and whose assessment is now how much time and funding is needed to restore what is already destroyed and in a damaged state as of today, and the letter is with us after the first month of the war, our ministry of digital transformation made a corresponding application where

ukrainians use mobile phones through the state portal through centers of administrative services provide the state with informational messages regarding destroyed or damaged housing, to date, more than 300,000 applications have already been filled, it is about 19 and a half million square meters , ukraine needs two years to understand this, in order to build at the pace we were building before of course, two things are very important for ukrainians: work and a roof over their heads, so today we are working on a certain program on certain legislation in order to provide certain for those ukrainians whose homes are destroyed today in order for them to be able to purchase e-e apartments either on the

secondary market or on the primary market, even there without waiting for the reparations that will come from the russian federation, but we as the authorities would really like to have ukrainians stay in ukraine so that they have a job necessarily in ukraine, and as i already said, a roof over your head ms. olena, you are here now, in your plan to meet, including with representatives of the american government, what do you emphasize and what kind of support do you agree on, including when it comes to the issue of restoration infrastructure, if we talk about the issue of restoration in general, i would divide it into three main parts. and the first part is a very fast operational restoration. you see that almost every day ukraine is under fire and bombardment. literally, in the last week , more than 400 infrastructure objects have been destroyed. 50 - this is the energy infrastructure and for such an operational recovery of course you need to

find such quick money quick funds our government reacts very quickly from its reserve fund for that such funds should be provided where it is possible to repair electrical substations where it is possible to make quick repairs of transport connections and engineering infrastructure, all this money is allocated and repaired a little more difficult with such a large-scale restoration because there are also bridges and various artificial structures for that for them to be repaired a little longer, and it is precisely about such large infrastructure projects. it is difficult to restore ukraine, well, the stages we are talking about restoration are such systematic and correct modern reforms that our country needs

. of course, this is also a question of security, because now we will have to build according to new standards . and now in our homes and in kindergartens and in schools, obligations shelters must be provided; a new system of protection against bombings of our population has been revised; the second issue is energy efficiency, because russia will continue to put pressure on our energy system and it is very important for us to introduce modern practices in order for our mp volodymyr zelenskyi to say that as a result of these recent shellings, 30% of power plants have been destroyed in ukraine , is there a plan by the authorities and how to provide ukrainians without interruptions well, as far as possible, in the current conditions of electricity supply, especially before winter russia is not doing this for a reason because we are right now in the heating season, there are already certain weather conditions, let's say,

conditions when russia very clearly understands what to leave ukrainians without electricity, without heat supply , without water supply - this is, well, to practically make our settlements dead. despite this, despite the fact that the losses of the energy infrastructure are very large, and we are restoring them, the ukrainians are very clear and relate to what is happening, so if the government is speaking now that from such and such an hour to such and such limit electricity consumption ah-ah it does not cause any indignation and for example in the kyiv region there was a 10% reduction reduction but this supply is to enable the power system to work more or less to such a normal regime. i hope that all employees who work in the energy sector and they know. in this way, they were ready , they understood where they could be er certain. let's

put it this way, the destruction of the infrastructure and if you look at how quickly such repair works take place, it says about what, er, these specialists were ready, mrs. olena, finally, another thing is also interesting: the eighth month, it is already almost the eighth month, how the work in the ukrainian parliament and the interaction between the factions have transformed during this time how was it, how am i now from the first day of the war, from the first meeting on february 24, when we voted and decided to introduce martial law, and in the parliament there was a union of all factions and all deputy groups of all representatives of political forces, and we all represent such a unified defense the coalition and hundreds of draft laws were passed during this period, of course, most of them relate to these two topics: the defense capability of our country and, of course, social laws that concern the protection of those people who need it

it is also our immigrants, it is also our pensioners and other unprotected segments of the population and now literally today we had a meeting in the parliament on security conditions of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, it worked for a little more than an hour, and therefore all decisions were made in a very clear and coordinated manner without discussions because security issues it is in the first place, but until the moment when the draft laws are brought to the hall and in online mode and all factions, all groups discuss controversial issues and bring eh in negotiations to a certain consensus and already in the hall they are demonstrating such one hundred percent unity, well, this is normal for a country in which there is a war and there is a single party, our president volodymyr zelenskyi said that there is a party for today in ukraine - this is the ukrainian people, that is why the parliament protects the interests of the ukrainian people, for this

information, i will remind you during the conversation you were with us on the air , there was a people's deputy, a deputy of ukraine, also the head of the party, a servant of the people, olena shulyak, let's move on to other topics, in new york there were several not quite ordinary baseball matches on the field with the teams of the new york police and ukrainian baseball players left the fire department, the purpose of their visit to the usa is not only sports, but also charitable. nataliya leonova tells us more about baseball. one of the most popular sports among americans a few years ago began to gain supporters in ukraine. for seven days, ukrainian baseball players competed in the homeland of the sport at the salkoens stadium on coney island, brooklyn. the ukrainian national team competed with the team of the new york police department we are always

thinking about what is happening at home all the time in contact with our relatives every hour in contact with them, but we also feel a responsibility to the ukrainian people and to the american colleagues who organized this trip . children's sports grounds, it's very good that there is a baseball team in ukraine, that they came here to draw attention to the situation in ukraine and collect money for help to young athletes the visit of ukrainian athletes to new york began with a meeting with the mayor of the city erica madamson and don't stop running here is this team that shows resilience, the ability to move forward no matter what, this meeting is dedicated to sports sports can unite the country can show what the country is going through now we express our

full support to ukrainian athletes and thank them not only during official meetings, but also on the streets of the city, ukrainian athletes feel new york hospitality, i heard glory to ukraine he told me much more times than in ukraine, that is, i go on an excursion with us, and a girl just runs by and shouts glory to ukraine last year at the european championship, the ukrainian baseball team took 13th place, the visit of ukrainian athletes to new york organized by the dmytro sagaychyk foundation - a york policeman jokingly says that it is better for them to spend a bad evening on the baseball field than a good one at work, this one could not be called bad, although the ukrainians lost to the americans, because the defeats of athletes only harden them, they say athletes about the project that shows. well, the first thought that may come to me is that everyone

needs to fight on their front. for today, these guys, i have all the coaches - this is our front, this is a sports arrest. our next story is about a young restaurateur who decided to popularize ukrainian cuisine through kiev-style cutlet, former actor oleksandr bakumov, despite the full-scale invasion of russia, opened a ukrainian fast food in the center of the capital about a short path from a film actor to a restaurateur and business in wartime conditions anna kostyachenko and pavel sukhodolsky talked with alexander a child's dream yes, i began to have nightmares about all my relatives, ah, sitting on a stool, and there were all kinds of poems from the age of six. alexander vakumovu knew that he wanted to be an actor, however the path to the dream was not easy for some time. agents and directors did not believe in him. i believe that a person can achieve any goal and i was there. i studied to be a

journalist and worked. i already worked as a journalist and an editor. although i worked to become a model i wanted to become a model, i liked the hotel industry, i started working there as a doorman, then as a concierge, then i worked in an office, then i was like this and until as long as i can . began to appear in ukrainian tv series and also starred in the clip of the british singer kal the mascot. i have a type similar to the singer kal skota, and they selected me even without a casting. i remember they came to the location and told me who i'm such a singer wow thank god they refused to dissolve and then they got to know me, even a photo by the way, i'm with him uh and on independence square, a full-scale offensive of russia caught the actor on the set of the new ukrainian film love without

hesitation, where oleksandr's partner on the set became olga sumska because of the attack the russians stopped shooting, then the actor took his wife and young son abroad, and he himself returned to kyiv to friends with whom he began volunteering for the front. we decided to run, we are not going anywhere because of the war many restaurants and cafes in the capital closed down, and when life in kyiv stabilized somewhat, oleksandr found like-minded people and opened a new fast food restaurant right in the center of the capital . i know, as if he had been preparing his main dish, one of the culinary symbols of kyiv , the kyiv-style cutlet. we opened the restaurant on august 24, on the independence day of ukraine.

something so homely about something special in our country, nothing is served simply on plates. we called it monokoletta, yes, that is, a very quick creative cutlet that you get in a take-away format, as you can take it in your hands and immediately eat it despite the war between russia and ukraine a new ukrainian fast food is developing, the owners are planning to expand the network, oleksandr says their business is another symbol of the struggle of ukrainians, the whole world is talking about us and they know us as an unbreakable nation, and this cutlet itself and this dish and this business itself says even better than me because one day when everything is opened it will travel around the world and i believe that chicken and the kyiv calendar it will become a 100% world brand i believe that this is the first such dish that can be there one day open up somewhere in manhattan, not a bone pavel sukhodolskyi for america's vote from kyiv here are

the stories from kyiv, we also tell other stories later countess bazlova became famous for her embroideries in which the artist depicts current events in belarus with a red thread on a white background tells the stories of political prisoners using national belarusian motifs, and at the beginning of the full-scale russian aggression in ukraine , she began to create works and will continue the ukrainian theme for us. supported the protest movement creatively by posting on her instagram page illustrations in the style of traditional belarusian embroidery, which were not only a manifestation of creativity, but also a political statement in a series of her works, the story of a belarusian survivor embroidered in red on white can be seen women's marches of policemen who went over to the side of the people of the riot police, auto bags

of demonstrators with flowers and the presidential candidate svitlana tikhanovskaya vyshyvankas rufina called the visual history of belarusian protests from 2020 with the beginning of the war in ukraine rufina started making survival kits on the ukrainian theme and recently, president volodymyr zelenskyy surprised the public and the artist herself unexpectedly appearing in public in a khaki embroidered shirt made according to her design on zelensky's embroidered shirt , a battered tank under a battered armored personnel carrier is depicted on zelenskyi's embroidered shirt , a battered tank is shown, a battered armored personnel carrier is depicted. the image of a heart from above as a sign of love, they also hold a braid as a symbol of victory and peace and from above two doves facing each other also as

a symbol of love and as a symbol of peace in the artist's may began to cooperate with the ukrainian clothing trend ind sewed most of the money from the sale of their shirts with embroidery goes to support the armed forces of ukraine, now the president of ukraine has one of these shirts another popular project that finap is doing again together with sofya tokar freind in delaris is a series of portraits of poles yazniv in belarus and this project, the formation of our sychet collective happened about an hour ago, the idea of ​​the freaming in dellarus project and the formation of our stoychuk collective took place about a year ago, when it became clear that the number of political prisoners is increasing every day, and although rufina had the opportunity to draw this in digital format, it is impossible to survive in such a volume, so it became clear that this project must be done collectively and it is necessary to connect people and create a circle of solidarity, so we decided to give this work to the world so that everyone who wants to can

connect to the project, those who want can connect to the project, so in addition to belarusians who are in the country and outside the country, residents of russia, ukraine, poland, the czech republic, lithuania, as well as in the usa and even in japan, rufina's embroidered pictures have become widespread in social networks. her works have begun to be shown at exhibitions. currently , several such exhibitions are held simultaneously in germany, latvia, the czech republic, poland and italy. here is an illustration of this case, if more than one person was convicted in the same case, that illustration is constantly repeated here is a schematic image of the political prisoner himself, his name and surname if i i find some personal information about a person. do they know what she is interested in? does she have children

, pets? what is her profession? i always try to depict it. for example, here we know that a person has three children. railway partisans who did various sabotage on the railway hand will order 110 such portraits are completely ready so far, another 382 are in the process of embroidering images of political prisoners about 260 of the project participants, here is the man who was photographed, this is a person who took a photo against the background of the government building with a red and white flag. the most interesting thing is that this case is alone, that is, no one else has been convicted of it, that is why it is called angotid 3721 because this person was detained on the 21st of the year and her grandfather was shot in 1937, that is, this family was not in agreement with the regime.

no. then, no. currently, there are more than 1,300 political prisoners in belarusian prisons. rufina and sofya say that the project will exist until the portraits of them are completed, and then of all these portraits will create the final work, a huge canvas, a unique mosaic about the fate of the heroes of modern belarus, viktoria babinska, maxim moskalkov, voice of america, download the voice of america mobile application, the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read news, watch informative programs and videos, and also listen to podcasts of the ukrainian voice of america service and on this we will say goodbye. thank you for being with us. have

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