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, welcome to the broadcast of the program of the ukrainian voice service america's time and presenter ostap yarysh after 8 months of russian occupation, ukraine liberates kherson, and according to the ukrainian authorities , special operations forces have now entered there, the rest of the troops on the approaches to the city, as stated in the white house the day before, in the kherson region, the armed forces of ukraine are winning a victory over the invaders, as well as in the battle for kyiv and in the battle for kharkiv, however, the united states emphasizes that russia's war is still ongoing. american president joe biden, in his comments to journalists, said that he does not think that the conflict will be resolved until putin will not be taken away from ukraine in the us in kyiv also emphasized the decision to end the war, russia can accept it at any moment if it wishes, i am inspired by the news about how the brave defenders of ukraine entered the city of kherson, russia could end this war today by withdrawing its troops from the

rest of the territory of ukraine french president emmanuel macron also congratulated the return of kherson to ukraine. he said that this is an important step on the way to the full restoration of ukraine's sovereign rights, and videos from kherson should remove any doubts about how the majority of ukrainians who were under russian occupation feel about whether they want to be part of ukraine or russia commented on the liberation of the city at the washington institute for the study of war, meanwhile, the bolt was released and the entire mykolaiv region except for the kinburn spit was announced by the head of mykolaiv oba, vitaly kim since the beginning of the war in mykolaiv, critical infrastructure has been suffering from russian shelling, what is the state of the electricity networks in the city and in the region, and why in some places electricity should be restored in its former form it makes no sense lesya bakalets learned from the head of the mykolayiv oblenergo vadim danylkova half a billion hryvnias in damages from the shelling of

the russian army, so much was previously calculated by the mykolayiv oblenergo for 8 months of the war and this is only in those territories to which specialists have access mykolaiv oblenergo is under constant attack if the first attacks in ukraine took place on october 2 aimed at the energy system of the whole of ukraine, then in mykolaiv oblast these attacks have been taking place since the very beginning of hostilities, since transformers are constantly damaged in our country, so you can imagine that today there is such a shortage - it is 100 tons of transformer transformer oil, constant shelling hits the transformer, the transformer does not spill into the transformer oil, the cost of one 1 ton of transformer oil is about a million hryvnias, that is, only the oil that we need to replenish, we now need to spend 100 million hryvnias from february in mykolayivska in the region , energy consumption by industry decreased by 5 times, correspondingly decreased and the company's profits are enough, says vadym danylkiv, only for fuel and

modest salary workers, all dismissals took place among those who were scared and who did not want to work like that. they probably disappeared at the end of february, at the beginning of march. after that, i know that there are still people who believe that this is their own, there is a front, actually an energy front, and often experts oblenergo work in conditions close to the frontline if the light goes out somewhere as a result of explosions as a result of damage during hostilities, this is a dangerous place and it is to this place that our installers are forced to leave, fortunately for us there are no fish, this is really a great happiness for our company, because our colleagues who are in the same conditions in the war zone, unfortunately, have lost their lives and those who blew up a mine and quietly fired at us, only two men were

injured while performing their work we provide those brigades that are close to the combat zone with bulletproof vests to the east of mykolaiv, where yesterday there were hostilities and occupying troops, power grids actually do not exist, populated areas are actually destroyed there do not exist no 10-20 people live in some settlements and many villages. somehow, where we have the opportunity, we supply power in those places where the networks are restored, they were restored improperly. we will be forced to be there after the victory. they did it in such a way as to make it possible to now get light in the house, to ensure the possibility of transmitting electric energy, but in this mode in peacetime and of course it is impossible to leave rebuilding these

networks in such a state that they were impractical in mykolaiv and oblenergo say that they plan to build new ones on these territories based on modern technologies and standards and the european union, this particular zone, which is near mykolaiv and mykolaiv itself. we want to move parts of mykolaiv itself now and build networks on 04.20. which apply apply three clauses, i.e. automatic switching of network disconnection, which is also very important, and the international energy class is now an association of a large number of enterprises that in in principle, the mykolaiv region was chosen as the mykolaiv oblast as a pilot project for the restoration of electrical networks, according to vadym danylkiv, oblenergo experts were waiting for the release of the mykolaiv oblast and kherson to start work. yesterday, the head of the mykolaiv ova, vitaly kim , asked the workers of communal services from the de- occupied territories to contact their

leaders. the local government plans to to return the administrative staff there so that the liberated settlements can once again function fully lesya pokalezi dmytro savchuk voice of america tim in the usa, the counting of votes after the midterm elections to the congress is still ongoing, despite the fact that they took place on november 8, there is still no final picture of the composition of the future congress at this moment. we will ask oleksiy kovalenko about the latest news, who is closely following the election process and is now joining our broadcast oleksii, i congratulate you . first of all, let's find out what is the reason for the slow counting of votes this year, and in fact, in the united states, the counting of the votes of the midterm elections that took place is still taking place this week to the house of representatives and the senate of the united states . more than two days have passed since the polling stations closed. but we still do not know the final results and the counting of votes for the house of representatives and the senate, and this situation is not

uncommon in the united states, where media representatives usually announce some interim results. election results a-a blank voting results and determined by statistical counting by counting votes a by clerks and stockholders of the united states and to begin with we we know that the entire voting system is very decentralized and each of the 10 us states has its own voting rules, and so some of the americans came directly to the polling station and voted directly there, some of the americans voted by mail before that, some of the americans used voting machines, and some voted with the help of paper ballots, some also used special boxes for ballots that were located in public places, therefore, taking into account the

differences in voting and the differences in the rules with regard to voting in different states, this process may last for a certain time, oleksiyovych, do you know when the final results can be expected and have some kind of picture regarding the house of representatives and the senate, and in fact, ostapa, there is more certainty regarding the house of representatives regarding the counting of the votes of the midterm elections, the voting of the additional payment of representatives and most likely, we will know the final results of the count regarding the representatives' fees already next week, there is much less certainty about the vote count mid-term elections to the senate where a-a role where the final results depend now mainly on the voting in three states, these are georgia, arizona and nevada, and at the moment, currently in george, a candidate from the democratic party is leading, but he a-a did not get the necessary votes 50% of the vote in this

election so there will be a second round of voting on the horizon after the counting of about 82% of the votes as of today the representative of the democratic party is in the lead regarding nevada there now about 90% of the votes have been counted and the leader there is the candidate from the republican party, however, it is very important to understand that the white house has already emphasized many times that despite the fact that who will win in these midterm elections to the house of representatives and the senate. despite this, the white house will work with representatives of both parties. that for the sake of the american people and now offer to listen to the comment of the speaker of the white house cain-jin pierre on this matter,

the american people expressed themselves with the help of their votes and once again proved that democracy is who we are and although we don't know the results yet, we do know that states across the country registered a record voter turnout and the election of these people spoke about their concerns, from the fight against inflation to the fight against crime, the protection of democracy and the right to choose, these are the issues that the president has focused on since on the first day and this will mean that they will remain his main priorities and as he announced yesterday, regardless of what the final result of this race will be , he is ready to work with both fingers for achievement of success for the american people, there are literally 40 seconds left. were there any violations in these elections? or maybe external interference from other countries, but in fact there were no mass violations. there were trainings of foreign countries, in particular

, russia and china . the discrediting of both the republican and democratic parties and the goal of these companies with disinformation from russia and china was to sow a divide between e-e voters and to discredit both parties as much as possible, however, as i already noted that there were no mass violations and the elections were mostly very peaceful. thank you very much for this information. i will remind you that oleksiy kovalenko was in touch with us. let's move on to other topics . trade actions against the background of tense relations between moscow and washington, we will ask our journalist oksana bedratenko, who researched this topic, who is now joining our broadcast, about the meaning of this step. oksana welcomes i congratulate you, why is this step important to deprive

russia of such a status? and this step signals the isolation of russia, that the russian economy is increasingly moving away from the market in its decision. economy and these trends only intensified after the russian invasion of ukraine. it is also important that this announcement took place on the eve of the g20 , which brings together countries representing 80% of world gdp and according to the expectations of the us government at this summit, russia will feel its international isolation even more. today i spoke with a scientist at george mason university in the usa, christina mcdonial, and she believes that the doors of the world economy are closing for russia. this is another blow to the grave of the russian economy. this adds to the

steps taken by the biden administration and other major economies since march, they gradually adopt laws and regulations that cut off russia more and more from the world economy, remember in march the biden administration took away from russia the status of trade preferences, which gave russia equal conditions of access to the us economy along with other countries of the world trade organization, of course, except for countries with which the us has free trade agreements, then the us, the eu, and other allies began to impose trade financial sanctions against russia, in particular, russian institutions which accused of helping the russian invasion, countries from the uk to australia are taking measures to make it increasingly difficult for russian companies and workers to sell goods and services to the world russia is becoming more and more isolated from the world economy oksana and how exactly will this loss of the status of a country with a market economy affect russia's trade epidumping

processes in the case of disputes over trade with the usa in order to determine whether the country defies irynka does it sell goods below cost price? the usa usually uses data provided by the country itself, they trust this data, but if the country does not have the status of ukraine with a market economy, then the usa uses data from other countries, there is no trust anymore to the data of this country, it is applied as part of anti-dumping processes, now, as mcgrenil tells me, there are six such cases regarding russia, where russia may lose access to the us market due to extremely high tariffs, due to new procedures, in general, these cases usually concern metallurgy or chemical industry products for in order to separate

russia so that russia does not have access to the financing of the magdeniel council, as well as to other sectors of energy, the country cannot completely abandon russian energy resources in order to switch from russian energy resources to something else will go a day and at least from two to five years there may be other things. for example, khrystia freeland, the vice prime minister of canada, called for the exclusion of russia from the group of twenty and the expulsion of russia from the international monetary fund in order to deprive russia of access to key of international financial institutions, as well as having such a question , this week in the usa, we know that there was the vice prime minister of ukraine, yulia svyridenko, including here she called on the usa to open access to the american market for metal from ukraine and also called

introduce sanctions against russian metal, was this decision to withdraw the market economy status in russia a response to the call of the ukrainian vice-premier e-e yes e e minister of trade szajeno raimondo after e meeting with the ukrainian government delegation confirmed that the us is ready to support ukraine e-e are ready to restrain russia, and it was also about metallurgy, in particular, we know from ukrainian reports that ukrainian metallurgy has become a symbol of ukraine's resistance in the face of russian aggression, a symbol of fortitude, all in the world knows azovstal, everyone knows the heroic defenders of the united states from the very beginning in order to help ukrainian metallurgy. back in march, they eliminated import duties, in the case of the united states, 25%, and in order to open their markets for

ukrainian metallurgy on one year a-a, however, of course there are objective limitations why ukraine cannot now flood the american market with its metal, according to the estimates of the world bank, ukraine has lost half of its metallurgical capacity because most of ilyich's factories were destroyed, there are also limitations on exports through the black sea eh and therefore regarding the prospects of ukrainian metallurgy regarding the access of ukrainian steel to the market, we will see later how will this topic develop? it looks like this step is really important and symbolic, there are also some practical solutions. thank you very much for coming to our broadcast. thank you for your expertise. you always help us understand the issues of the economy of

trade and other things. let me remind you that oksana bedratenko was in touch with us in the studio. our website editor and journalist of the ukrainian voice of america service. others also pace november 11, the united states celebrates veterans day. on this day, people who served in the american military are honored throughout the united states. there are now more than 18 million veterans, many of them from the beginning full-scale russian aggression, they could not stay away and went to ukraine. my colleague iryna solomko, on the eve of the holiday, talked with two veterans who trained ukrainian civilians in lviv for three weeks . during his six-year military career, the former special forces officer of the american army more than once performed difficult missions in cancer and afghanistan no and novellson gave the defense of the us 4 years, of which a year would have spent cancer until this spring. denta and ethan did not know each other connected their life paths and russian aggression, because both of them started thinking about

how to help ukraine. i decided that i wanted to do something before february 24. i know that it will be necessary and many veterans felt that way. i was not able to help when i was withdrawing american troops from afghanistan and when i saw what was happening in ukraine, i realized that this is my opportunity to help with what i can to save human lives in ukraine. i see ukraine as the most important front in the global conflict between authoritarianism represented by russia and china and the event. i believe that everyone who believes in freedom and democracy has a duty to contribute to this struggle and help in ukraine, however, i had a personal motivation after serving for five years, worked in turkey as a civilian providing aid to syria, with my own eyes saw this conflict and its consequences garden regime was supported by putin i spent a lot of time documenting russian war crimes all this time the free world the west and

the international community did nothing in my opinion it led to russia's invasion of ukraine and i felt an obligation to do something to help, and ulson initially thought of working with humanitarian aid, but then saw a report about how three american peasants flew to lviv at the beginning of the war to train ukrainian civilians there. i learned from one of these veterans that the team was looking for others former soldiers who could replace them in lviv, where they are working together with ukrainians on the creation of a training center for civil defense. ityn and dan came to ukraine in april and spent time in lviv for three weeks, there were several types of people who passed through this training center, some of them were territorial defense forces, but the vast majority were ordinary civilians. many of them knew that they were being mobilized. so they wanted to undergo some training . had certain basic knowledge and experience in owning weapons, knew how to shoot, move around,

sell information only while working at the black summer center, 120 ukrainians received basic training, worked from the first level the skills they needed to have in order to be effective this handling of weapons and various combat exercises how to contact each other respond to indirect fire how to enter and clear a building build an effective operation of the unit in particular when it moves to have maximum security and really protect yourself and those around you by training civilian instructors realized how important it is for the civilian population to have basic military skills and be able to be a reserve for the defense of their country in the event of armed aggression , so the idea was born to establish a non-governmental the organization of citizens into the military, various governments and the international community are certainly doing enough to protect ukraine and support democracy, and for me, the hope is to help build a movement of citizens around the world for

the general protection of democratic nations, we are working to create an organization that will receive all appropriate state permits to be able to continue what we did in ukraine and also spread it in other countries. we want to give people the opportunity to protect themselves, their families, their the land and preserve their freedom, veterans admit that the phrase feelings of national pride and unity of people are the most in ukraine, blakley says that before this he saw something like this only in the layer after the terrorist attacks of september 11, he also adds that he cannot wait for it to end us and for personal reasons, the american dreams of leading to already of peaceful ukraine his wife and child to show how incredible this country is they organized a women's choir of women gathered by a kyiv conductor who herself was forced to leave for

germany female choir members provided new content they sing only ukrainian songs that they want to hear the whole world will continue khrystyna shevchenko with oil i am a conductor choirmaster and also i am a classical chamber singer academic chamber choir khreshchatyk is a municipal choral collective, one of the best choral collectives in ukraine, i work there as the chief conductor , war broke out and my family and i made a decision to first of all, i came here to protect my children. of course, everyone has their own story. and it was a difficult path. but as time passed, after a little bit of hesitation,

i realized that something had to be done. a women's choir was created because it was ukrainian women. abroad, we had as many as four girls come to the first rehearsal, then gradually, let's say, one by one, they joined us eh. we were looking for posts in different eh groups. second in life is communication with my fellow countrymen that i can perform ukrainian music that i can perform ukrainian music together with my compatriots here that i can spread ukrainian culture and it is like therapy for me here

because i feel a little like i am in my homeland when i have a rehearsal. today we will sing hits alone. you tricked me, you don't come to me. oh , gosh, gosh, cheremshina has arrived, by the way, and then we will sing the wedding in the arrangement. 90% of zubytskyi are still those who came from ukraine at the beginning of spring. i am from the city of starobilsk, luhansk region. i am trying to keep in touch, but now it is extremely difficult and very often i do not succeed. that is, the connections there are cut off, there

is already another internet, others mobile operators and e. unfortunately, my relatives are all there. but i was very lucky that my mother did not use the last opportunity and they left on april 8. hmm, they evacuated by bus because, unfortunately, after that date, all the evacuation buses were canceled due to the fact that they just killed people i was born in the city of lysychansk, luhansk region, and now my relatives have left there because it is dangerous to stay there, and i contributed to this, because my mother did not want to leave there, but everything came to the point that if they did not leave, i might never see them again. that there is no one who would not be interested in it, they are also inspired by them, a stimulus appeared in them, a

sense of being here appeared, music never told me, it always pulled me out of some such difficult situations in life, and here, first of all, my native music ukrainian, secondly, the people who are here, who also experienced it, i also experienced it, because we are all in the same car if it broke now, then they understand what i feel, i understand what they feel, we are all friends, and we worry about each other and support each other as best we can. well, you were badly deceived by our mission now during a very difficult situation, it is to constantly remind as much as possible that ukraine needs support very much and and when i said, i drew, if we do not support culture, then what kind of

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thank you for being with us, i wish you a peaceful night and have a peaceful weekend, see you, i'm iryna koval, mother, wife, host of the espresso tv channel. and i'm also a volunteer. our soldiers at the front need a lot of things every day, and that's why part of my life today is helping the armed forces of ukraine, and i'm very grateful to my colleagues for supporting me in this. the war has become as a part of each of us, i try to find the strength in myself not to despair and continue to help our warriors wake up in the end