he saves me from the pain of rheumatism dolgit anesthetizes, reduces swelling and improves the mobility of the servant war raised its head again in europe, reminding us of the darkest hour of our history franz 24 constantly covers the events in ukraine our team on the ground and in the studio will inform you about the dynamics of events see more relevant by frantz 24 in ukrainian on espresso русский peace invades ukraine destroys ukrainians in order to survive we must defeat the inhumans all together throughout the country mykolaiv teenagers from the public association dreams of junior together with the espresso tv channel announced

a fundraiser for the purchase of 200 silencers for weapons for ukrainian fighters, in turn, our polish friends from the fonstropol enterprise volunteered to invest 50% of this project for every hryvnia you send, they will give their silencers and fire extinguishers to to the vanguard of the military who defend ukraine on the first line of fire, let's bring victory together glory to ukraine, i will watch the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america time time i'm nataliya leonova congratulations shapoky no see nothing to contradict the previous conclusions of the president of poland, duda, that

a ukrainian air defense missile landed near the border with poland. nato partners, together with this, blinken noted that the responsibility for the incident lies precisely with russia, which is shelling ukraine every day , then i said that president putin is getting louder are calling for de-escalation, instead he decides to escalate the tension by raining down dozens of missiles on infrastructure across ukraine that provides warm water and light to millions of civilians. putin seems to believe that by plunging ukrainians into darkness, cutting off their water, freezing them to death, he will break their will for those who doubt determination of ukrainians simply

look at the freed people in kherson russia's new strategy, like all its strategies, is failing ukrainian spirit is indomitable what is our obligation to support ukraine according to the adviser of the office of the president of ukraine mykhailo podolyak in his statements regarding the reasons for the fall of the missile on the territory of poland on november 15, ukrainian political leaders were guided by preliminary data provided to them by the military in an interview with tetyana vorozhko. he said that he does not think that disagreement in preliminary assessments creates tension in ukraine's relations with its partners today, the ukrainian leadership said podolyak wants ukrainian representatives to be included in the investigative group and hope that, based on the results of the investigation, we will be treated with a fair political assessment and adopted practical measures to strengthen the security of the sky over ukraine and its neighbors, on the contrary, we did not quite understand why it

was immediately said that it was definitely not a russian missile, let's not even talk about it, we understand all the political aspects of this situation, but we would like it to be yes, it is a fact, it is our preliminary assessment, based on what we saw during the day on the territory of ukraine, which was heavily shelled, and there is an attempt to make the work of the investigative commission more transparent, nothing more, we expect an increase in concrete assistance by ipl systems, regardless of all other political assessments. it is precisely after this situation and the assistance of ukraine that we want to close the sky, including over the western regions of ukraine, and thus also over the sky of other european countries so that russian missiles even there partially cannot theoretically to fly anywhere here's what we at least expect from the

full interview with mykhailo podylyuk, see in our program tomorrow the court in the netherlands found three people guilty of actions that led to the downing of a malaysian passenger plane and the death of 298 people over eastern ukraine in the summer of 2014, none of the four defendants appeared in the courtroom, three of them, russian citizens igor hyrkin and serhiy dubynskyi, and ukrainian citizen leonid kharchenko, were found guilty by the evidence against the fourth defendant, a russian citizen, oleg pulatov, the court called today's hearings in the oasis insufficient, followed from london my colleague bohdan tsyupin greetings bohdane, so the trial lasted more than two years, you followed not only today's hearings meetings, but i know that i was actually at the opening of this process. is it possible to talk about the finale, or is there a full stop? in this process, and by the way

, at the opening of this process, even then, no one could have imagined at the end of 2019 at the beginning of 2020 what kind of obstacle to the process there will be a pandemic of the coronavirus, what obstacles did it cause, for example, for traveling, for example, for lawyers to speak with witnesses, as well as how it affected the work of the very process of the court itself, but today there is really a point there is a point in the case of these specifically the four defendants, but it is obvious that we still have questions that remain open related to this case, but it is obvious that there will be possible subsequent, possibly other court trials, for example, who specifically pressed the start button that launched the missile that shot down the malaysian plane in

russia, the sanction, in fact, the order to sending a missile launcher to russia and so on and so on, these are very serious questions. hyrkina, who actually arrived in ukraine at the head of a group of armed men, declared himself the leader of the so -called dnr, then the minister of defense and was responsible for the actual use of weapons, and therefore the judges in particular had to decide the issue specifically, for example , about his responsibility, and this is what the judge stated today in the gas court decided whether a long but limited imprisonment would be sufficient in view of the fact that it was not established whether girkin knew

about the use of this particular set of letters and was not directly involved in the actions, but the opinion of the court is that a limited term of imprisonment would not be fair in view of the responsibility of gorkin as the minister of defense and the commander of the armed formations of the dpr for the use of weapons in the conflict. therefore, the court's sentence was the maximum for which the netherlands allows life imprisonment, but the benches of defendants today and as well as during the entire time of the case consideration. as we have already mentioned, bohdana was empty, in view of this, how will the sentence of three of them be implemented. so, the accused were tried in absentia. and it is actually possible it's a little strange, but these days there is not much talk about the punishment of those people who have been found

guilty, especially in the netherlands and in international circles, there is a lot of talk about achieving justice, about the next step in the judicial process, which is professionally following all rules, listening to all parties on the basis of a long-term investigation, very clear conclusions were reached about who did what and how it happened why did almost 300 people die, as for bringing to justice , this is actually another question, can for example, to be e p girkin captured in ukraine , now they say that he is fighting there and even saw a message about the announcement of a reward for his capture for extradition to the netherlands, it is obvious that they are hoping for such a thing, but at the moment i think that many people are satisfied with the actual achievement of justice, finding out exactly what there was also a clear

definition of who is to blame, in particular, the responsibility of russia as a state in the situation that the ship called an international armed conflict, on the condition that russia controlled the so-called formation of the dnr, thank you will be following gas developments this week the united states congress has returned to work after a nearly month-long break and midterm elections until the end of the year lawmakers will work in the old house and in january 2023 the newly elected congress will begin work meanwhile this tuesday the biden administration has already addressed congress with with a request to approve the allocation of almost 38 billion dollars of additional aid to ukraine, the funds should be used for

security, humanitarian and other needs, the aid will be provided in parts during the next of the fiscal year, according to the statement of the white house, these funds should be enough for kyiv until october 2023. my colleague , kateryna lisonova, is now in touch with the capitolologist. we will talk with her about the final results of the midterm elections and the new aid package for ukraine. congratulations, katya, congratulations, natalya. with american legislators, are they ready to support a new aid package for ukraine? if so, when should we watch the vote, as democrats and republicans with whom i spoke, i emphasize that they are ready to support the new aid package for ukraine, let me remind you that it is about 38 billion in the valley, of which almost 22 billion will go to the defense sector. at the same time, the conference emphasized that this package should be voted on by the end of this year, because supporting this package when the new congress starts work will be much more difficult

, but it is not it is connected with the fact that there will be less support for ukraine in the new congress, but also with the fact that the new congress will have many other priorities for legislators' visas, i suggest you listen to what exactly the congressmen told me, just now we insist on that to vote for an additional aid package for ukraine during this year until the end of the current congress. i hope that this aid will be enough until june or july of next year. congress with a new composition will be very difficult. the lame duck session is a meeting that is held after the elections, but before the new congress begins, it is a very busy four working weeks. we have a lot of

finished business, but i hope that we will have time to agree on this package. it is important that we send a strong signal to the russians and also to all the enemies of ukraine that we will support the ukrainians and help them survive this winter. billion dollars at the same time, i asked them why they could, during the discussion in the congress, increase the amount we hear of $38 billion, and they said that it is unlikely, because now there are a lot of voices regarding necessary additional checks of the aid coming to ukraine katya according to the latest vote counting data in the next congress, the democrats will have the majority in the senate and the republicans in the house of representatives, tell me in more detail what the results of this year's midterm elections are, that's right, natalya, despite the fact that votes are still being counted in some precincts, and in particular in in the state of george, i have already understood the arrangement in the upcoming congress

, so the democrats will have a majority in the senate, now they have 48 seats there plus and two more seats of the independence party, which are in a coalition with the democrats, at the same time, if even after the elections in the state, the creative a-a positions are divided equally, well, 50 to 50, the democrats will still have an additional vote . the majority in the house of representatives and have already nominated kevin mccarty for the position of speaker of the house of representatives. i should note that he should replace the current democratic speaker nancy pilos offers to listen to the victory speeches of both democratic and republican leaders right now markle meteran americans have had their say in perhaps the most significant midterm elections in modern history our democracy is now at stake

our fundamental freedoms are at stake it was a choice whether to move america forward or hold it back and the american people said loud and clear the democrats will keep the majority in the senate in russian is of i am proud to announce that the era of one-party rule democracy in washington ended washington has regained the system of checks and balances the american people have regained the right to vote in their parliament under the leadership of our republican team we will begin work to return america to the right path but i emphasize that according to the experts of the political experts with whom i spoke the end of the midterm elections by the godfather once in of the united states of america is only the beginning of the presidential race, if it has already become known this week that you have your residences in lagos, donald trump announced that he will run for office of the president, and i want to be a candidate from the

republican party, but i would like to point out that the republicans have yet to elect and nominate him as the only candidate, the current congress has initiated a number of important bills in support of ukraine, we know that he has to work until january 23, did you manage to find out katya what the future will be these initiatives to the new congress this is how natalya the current congress initiated many important draft laws, as well as in a resolution in support of ukraine, in particular, on the recognition of russia's actions in ukraine genocide against the ukrainian people, as well as the recognition of russia as a state that sponsors terrorism , according to the comments of the congressmen with whom i spoke, these bills will have a chance to be approved and voted on in the new congress , but already now the congressional focus, that is, the association of contestants of democrats, republicans, is creating new bills who can increase assistance to ukraine

. awarding laureates of the international media freedom award among the winners is ukrainian pravda editor-in-chief serhiy musaeva, what does this award mean to her and how and where does she see the end of the war? including this recognition of the independent journalism of ukraine because it is really one of the basic values ​​in our society and for me it is very nice because the journalists of this year are ukrainian journalists received, for example, a knighthood award for their work. they receive recognition in the world, and because it

is really their work that is critical and important for the country. it saves lives. how has ukrainian society changed in general today? to cope ah well, we have a lot of pain ahead of us, a lot of work, because now we are all running a sprint, and the marathon distance, yes, and i think about the fact that in the end everyone will understand. i think that many have already understood the value of the country, the valuable land and me it seems that the decommunization process is very important for our country, because, unfortunately, she did not understand how much i am joking about the colonization policy, because

it was so ingrained in me as a child who grew up with the russians of crimea and who conducted experiments on me. and polls, i'm sorry, that's the way it goes, then when all this happens, you just get rid of yourself, cut off these colonial stereotypes, thinking complexes, and i think that society is experiencing this work right now and understands itself better not understands the crime that russia and the soviet empire committed for decades and centuries in relation to ukrainians and crimean tatars .

this is our ability or the ukrainian ability for pluralism and democracy. do you see such a result? yes, they ask me this question, which i believe will not happen because i believe very strongly in the power of civil society, a society that she really went through the first revolution, the second orange revolution, the second revolution of dignity, the occupation of crimea, she helped build the country during the war and fought for values, and i see, i see great potential in these people, in their actions, i understand that now they are focused on other issues, but i am sure that when the time comes, they will be able to focus on important issues for the country, its continued existence and its democratic path. i am sure that the ukrainian people will not allow

the construction of a dictatorship because they have paid a lot i paid a high price for democracy, he paid a very high price for european choices. and this gives me hope and the last thing is how you see the end of this war . i see the end of this war. i said this in 2015 that everything started with crimea, with crimea, with the occupation of crimea and everything must end with the liberation of crimea before crimea is liberated. ukraine can not be sure of its victory in this war, and the civilized world can not be sure of its a-a victory over putin over e- whose dictatorship he is built and all this that is now called the word russia until crimea is liberated eh russia will use it like this peninsula as a

military base and hmm she will use it in order to eh for instability in the black sea region there are nato countries in the black sea region there are a lot of countries in the black sea area where russian missiles can fly, and therefore the issue of the liberation of crimea is a question of international security, the security of nato member countries, and it should be understood as soon as possible, if not in 8 years understood, the sooner he will understand that you cannot negotiate with putin then i must capitulate i am the hitler of the psycho of the time in germany in full interview with the editor-in-chief of ukrainian pravda serhii musaeva look at our pages in social networks more than 250 elderly people

visit kharkivskyi this much per month theater actor anton zhalyakov and his team of like-minded people, in order to support lonely pensioners who were deprived of the opportunity to feed themselves by the russian authorities, the volunteers spent all their own funds, but financial support came very unexpectedly, how the kharkiv volunteers are coping and how the american astronaut scott kelly helped them, anna kosyuchenko and pavel sukhodolskyi will tell you, so dear, it is not difficult for anyone. please take it as you take it , we are waiting. actor anton zhalyakov has been volunteering for the eighth month in a row, dear friends, volunteering has begun. well, after a few hours, the war soldier together with his colleagues on

the stage supports more than 250 lonely elderly people bring food and medicine to them. at first, the actors did it with their own funds, but then the money ran out after we had been working on it for two months. we realized that our resources were exhausted and there was simply nothing to fill the car with, and then we said out loud on social networks that we let's do it, we'll do it and after that you can get a lot of help. astronaut scott joseph kelly saw anton's post on social networks and immediately responded to the plight of kharkiv residents. thank you, by the way, to our friend from america, astronaut joseph kelly, who is also somehow found out about us and got involved in our cause , made a big post on twitter there, and the americans could also support us financially , bambita, can you give us the volunteer expenses of each of the

several hundred wards anton and his team visit twice a month, these are people whose needs we already know, we we know what medicines they need, we know about their personal affairs, who has any of their relatives at the front, how are they doing? well, this is already the conversation of some such friends . purple lipstick kissed by babushkas for the address anton uses a bus that was once given to the theater by a benefactor, but now instead of costumes and scenery, humanitarian aid is transported here, now we go to people, this is such a private sector. there, apart from two, it’s uh, uh, separate for everyone. we have to go, that is, we have three crews and we cover the entire city of kharkiv and we simply visit

all districts. have we reached 65-year-old varvara sizova she lives now with her blind sister, both are pensioners , the daughter of mrs. varvara, who was the main breadwinner in the family, died during the shelling of the russian army on the kharkiv polytechnic institute, please tell me what happened, and right at work, the granddaughter is in germany, how can i find your neighbor on this street for help from anton and volunteers are waiting for about 15 more families zinaida ivanovna 72-year-old zinaida kolchak lives with an old husband and is waiting for her son, who volunteered to join the army back in february . there is no news, yes, what is the next question? well,

he has not fully said, no, no, no, no , i can’t tell you, i can’t even open the store anywhere . of the surviving building, local resident iryna lives with neighbors, her apartment was badly destroyed, iryna herself also suffered serious injuries due to shelling. it starts to snow all the way to the back and approximately to the back i am all wounded anton has 60 addresses today, he says that for the people he visits the visit of volunteers is not only material but also psychological help between the volunteers and the old women during the war an almost family relationship was formed, says the man in we have grandmothers who are so grateful that every

time we come, they try to congratulate us on something. and now that the apple season has started, we leave with a full trunk of humanitarian workers, i come with a full trunk apples and those excuses that we also have apple trees don't work, someone gives us pies on the go, someone gives cupcakes, well, that is, they also want to be somehow grateful, to give something of themselves, not only acting on the stage himself, but also managing the kharkiv children's theater timur from 60 of the children who played in this theater , there are only four left in the city, one of those who remained is 16-year-old denis, a volunteer, together with a mentor, the theater is probably a second family for me. i feel very good there. i decided that i will help. i am filled with joy. when elderly people they rejoice because they are helped zhelyakov admits that he misses his favorite thing well,

on christmas holidays they staged a play called the little prince. at that time, more than 10,000 spectators visited his theater, there was such a commotion. this winter, there were so many children and adults here, excited before the beginning, crying after this scene had several tons of sand on the main city of the desert, there were 60 of our children from our theater, there was a projection here, there were luxurious scenery, the actor is sure that he could actually do this in kyiv or lviv, where the theaters work despite war but is guided in life by the words of the beloved writer antoine de saint-exupéry and cannot leave the old women we are responsible for those whom we have tamed anna kostyuchenko pavel sukhodolskyi for the voice of america from kharkiv download the mobile

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