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energy. president putin is trying to use winter as a weapon in the war against ukraine. a two-day meeting of the foreign ministers of nato member countries will begin on tuesday. the head of the foreign affairs ministry, dmytro kuleba, will take part in these meetings. american sanctions against russia had a significant impact on its war in jim o'brien, the coordinator of the state department of sanctions, who is currently on a visit to ukraine, told ukraine in an interview with the sinn channel. we will talk about this and other topics in more detail with yulia yarmolenko, who is joining us from the white house. congratulations yulia congratulations natalya so, we are from bucharest is taking place against the background of russia's continuous attempts to destroy ukraine's infrastructure, freeze and plunge its population into darkness. the ukrainian leadership is asking for more anti-aircraft systems to protect against russian missiles or this issue will be considered at the meetings in

bucharest. and in general, what are the expectations from yuli, certainly natali, in fact, the spokesman of the state department over the price announced this morning that the russian war against ukraine will be one of the leading topics of the meeting of foreign ministers of nato countries in bucharest. in addition, they will also discuss energy security, as well as the change in nato's strategy, as well as other critically important topics , us secretary of state anthony blinkin himself, visiting bucharest, said that the main topics negotiations, this will be a coordination of efforts to help the ukrainian victory, and it is important that the word victory is heard again, and from the messages from the statements of high-ranking american officials, we know that in addition to the meeting of the countries, the meeting of the foreign ministers of the nato countries will also take place on the sidelines of this summit and the meeting of the foreign ministers of affairs of the group of seven countries and the topic of these meetings will be directly how they

can, how these countries can help ukraine , as well as the ukrainian energy system and also protect the ukrainian energy system from further future russian attacks. sambir himself, the secretary general of nato, and genstoneberg stated at a press conference that during these meetings he will insist that the countries continue their assistance to ukraine. he is saying that, indeed, nato countries provide enough air defense systems, but even more must be done, because this is the number one urgent topic for ukraine and he emphasized that everything must be done so that putin does not win, the allies provide advanced air defense systems and other systems that can confront the threats posed by various types of drones as well as cruise and ballistic missiles. i expect that one of the messages of the meeting of

foreign ministers here in bucharest will be the need to further strengthen the supply of both air defense systems and, of course, spare parts for ammunition for various air defense systems, as well as the need for training because we should help ukraine to protect itself from this terrible type of war, i believe another important issue is sanctions pressure, state department sanctions coordinator james bryan recently met with ukrainian leaders, what do we know about the details of these meetings, should we expect any changes in the us sanctions policy, do you know the details were very important, the messages sounded during jim o'brien's visit to ukraine, in particular, in an exclusive interview with jim bryan himself said that the sanctions imposed by the united states and its allies have an extremely large impact on russia and their ability to wage war. he said that in fact the sanctions have prevented russia from waging a modern war because russia does not have a sufficiently accurate high-precision weapons also there are not enough spare parts

and he particularly emphasized the importance of export restrictions introduced by the united states and allies, however, jima brian also says that the sanctions pressure should continue and he said that western countries have really helped or hindered and hindered in fact and conduct their own or in healing his imperialist plans, however, more must be done and an important message that sounded during his visit is that the united states will be with ukraine until the end of the war until ukraine succeeds and we too we know that andriy yarmak, in particular, during these meetings, as he reported, he also emphasized the importance of recognizing russia as an official state and sponsor of terrorism, so far we do not have an answer to this from the state department. linguistically

, the white house is already actively preparing for, in particular, the french flags solution, but not only that . is usually done by the first lady of the united states , and today joe biden officially opened the season at the white house by announcing the theme of today and this holiday season, and the theme is the unity of americans . she emphasized that despite the fact that there are many differences in the country, it is very important to remember that the values ​​of who stand america, they unite all americans. thank you yulia. yulia yarmolenko was with us in direct communication from the white house. this week, the ministers of the group of seven in bucharest will also discuss support for ukraine in the field of energy. this meeting can become an important mechanism to improve the coordination of international support to ukraine at a time when the world is horrified by the russian shelling and is ready to provide even more support to ukraine about

this support to ukraine in the energy sector oksana bedratenko spoke with the director of ebr in eastern europe mateo patrons and international donors to help ukraine in this situation, what we are doing first is russian aggression, we have created a program that provides for the investment of three billion euros this year and next year in the country we focus on supporting the real economy we cannot finance the budget but we can and must support the real economy and our program applies to five main areas, the first is trade support, the second is energy security, and unfortunately it is becoming more relevant, the third is vital infrastructure where we provide liquidity for ukrzaliznytsia and we work with the provision of liquidity by the mayor's office of several cities, the fourth is food security, the support of agricultural companies directly or through the

financial system in order to get a multiplier effect, the fifth area should have been pharmaceuticals but now we are expanding our support to other companies and industries including ener speco we have provided 300 million euros to oil and gas in addition to this on monday we signed an agreement with the norwegian government which will very generously provide another 200 million euros to the grand campaign so the total package for the company will be half a billion for electricity we provided 500 million euros of liquidity for ukrenergo and our management yesterday approved a package of 372 million euros consisting of a three hundred million euro loan from the european union and a 72 million euro grant from the netherlands when you do you communicate with donors, is there a willingness to provide support and financing or are there reservations , especially against the background of rising energy prices in europe itself, no, especially when it comes to the recent crisis in the country, the international community mobilized very effectively and quickly, there are several platforms and

especially one that is managed by the united states to to mobilize funds and equipment to support ukraine, so i have no doubt that these efforts will be successful in reducing the consequences of the truly barbaric actions of the russian federation. judging from my own experience, when we were defining our strategy for supporting ukraine, we saw strong support from donors who cover our risks or provide funds to our partners in ukraine, this is proof of how the international community was actually mobilized in support of ukraine, recently the ukrainian government said that a new attack on ukrainian infrastructure is possible in a week, what can ukraine, with the support of donors, do to prepare for such an attack, unfortunately, here we are entering the space of security and defense and international the community can provide support to the ukrainian authorities for preparation but i'm afraid not much can be done in this case in a week emergency repairs and reconstruction of the power industry will be needed and when the situation stabilizes a thorough assessment must be carried out the international

community must gather again and support the reconstruction of the energy infrastructure in cooperation with ukraine the money will arrive and the 150 million euro program of our 2022 program will start already in ukrenergo, because it is a line to support liquidity which helps ukrenergo to support activities, a new part of the program was approved yesterday by the board and will be provided as soon as the authorities finish the negotiations, more international meetings of the group of seven are planned, this issue was discussed at the un. what do you expect from such meetings of the international community? my biggest hope from these meetings is to strengthen coordination between the various parties that support ukraine. which is very important and will be even more necessary in the reconstruction stage, i welcome this series of meetings and events if they go in the direction of strengthening coordination and at some point the creation of an all-encompassing and general coordination

platform in support of ukraine, the story of almost every mariupol resident who survived the battle for their city and the occupation is the story of survival on the edge of life and death mariupol woman valery tried in the war zone and then the russian occupation for more than 100 days, the worst of which she survived alone, how she managed to deceive russian soldiers several times and what she did to keep from going crazy, she told our lviv correspondents omelyanovich for we tracked the corner of yuri dankevich, i had such a

magnetic board, you could write with a marker, and i just wrote the day i wrote that i was alive, the day i was alive, even if they come and see that at this moment i was still alive amen, there were moments when it was so scary, so scary you you can't go out, you can't talk to anyone, there are no neighbors in my basement. i'm in my basement, and there's no one around except those neighbors, and i realized that i need some form of communication with someone. i started keeping a diary, i just described every hour. every day i'm there for everyone i turned to god, i turned to my parents, i turned to then i realized that at one point i just addressed almost everything to my husband

, that is, i communicated with him and i began to write, i described how i would like to go somewhere with him or go and there i discussed with him some movies the books that i read at that time it is impossible to describe everything because if that diary is found, it will be even worse for you because i could not write that ours came, i could not write that the russians came the morning began with the fact that at 10 o'clock i leave the basement is a yard and my guys come out through the broken fence, as i saw. ours by

the color of the bandages on their hands and they show me from afar, they quietly raise their hands and lower their weapons, five guys came. i just took one by the hand and i kept it for a very long time, because it is obvious that our soldiers are more impure. further down the street stood v their equipment is also russian-russian yes and ours came out and hit her with the first shot or after 4 hours i come out of the basement with white bandages then it wasn't our five people standing

three were in balaclavas entering the house they check and they take my jacket to me and throw it away, they say yes, i say mine, and it’s just a protective green color, it will be without anything, but i just bought a military one in the store , i went out and said there are more berets, whose berets are there. on steps into the basement and i hear them leaving. i just run out and see that they are not on the premises. i just run into the house. my husband's uniform was hanging in the closet. they hadn't opened it at that time . and just like that, i throw on my uniform, close the toilet , turn around and they come out around the corner. they dug

everything there, it must have been scary that everyone has a question , you live here alone, you just answer yes, the russians, that’s when they asked one patrol to look at the phone. and i’m just his god there from i somehow charged the neighbor’s car to 10% there, and it didn’t have time to discharge until that moment, and it simply turns it on, where it’s like, unlock, show the gallery, i’m showing my house from the photographed one . then delete and i turn on such a stupid trick and i just tell him and i say to delete ours and how will i compensate later, he is like that, that is, you will compensate, i say well, they didn’t

shoot and he looks at me and he well he didn’t catch up with me so little well she deceived him and he says, well, leave it, leave it, it’s not scary, so i kept at least some photos, the way the city is built, the coastline, it carries the sound. that is, no matter where you shoot, it carries you three times louder. the sea is 300 m below us, and there was a volley of ship artillery from there. and it's a very scary sound, they were shooting from automatic machines from machine guns and just all over there. there are iron fences, this metallic sound, when it beats, you just come out of the basement and you have half such an op-op fence, something, and you immediately go to the

basement of your parents on the eighth floor apartment and the windows face our side and mom says that dad used to go up to the floor every evening and look in that direction and we were shelled then everything rained down with these phosphorus hails they just didn't know if she was alive i didn't know if they were alive well, you understand if they died somewhere, then you don't know where i didn't know if the husband was alive because they were surrounded then, you are preparing, but really, you yourself are scary . your body is already through they stopped shooting for a month, and already

the troops began to redeploy and expel the equipment from us, and it was possible to go outside. we had a problem that these intersections are intersections - that's the maximum you could go to, because you reach the intersection, they tell you further. well, you can they will take a chance to go there, but they will kill you there. i returned home and just sit, and literally an hour later i have knocks at the corners because i open the gate, my father is standing and he just looks at me and says that all our lives are

horse towns by russian troops every day dozens and hundreds of ukrainians remain homeless, these people now do not know how and where to survive the winter, many do not even hope that they will be able to receive financial assistance in the near future to rebuild their housing, how are ukrainians solving this problem, and who is helping them, maria ulyanovska lyudmila lutsenko will tell a widow and a single mother built this house in makarov by herself for 14 years, she lived here together with her youngest daughter, grandson and old mother in february of this year, the woman was completing the renovation that she finished all the repairs and constructions, i am glad to be alive , she did everything for the children, for the grandchildren, for herself, for my mother , because my mother does not see anything in me, does not walk. lyudmila remembers how two days after the start of the war, the circle

of the russian military entered makarov's daughter and grandson managed to leave 82- the one-year-old mother was temporarily with relatives, so in the occupation ludmila remained alone until march 1. in makarov, there was no electricity , no internet, no communication. it was scary to go out into the yard, as soon as we went outside, i immediately felt the machine gun aiming at my fence, let’s just say it was a hole , they immediately turned the machine gun on me and while they were walking i couldn’t even move in 10 days ludmila and her neighbor managed to leave makarov when the armed forces liberated the village. lyudmila returned, but instead of her house she saw the ruins of gorillas. according to the neighbors, the russian military entered her house on a tank and then fired at it. it was very painful. you see, it was a house where everything was already there, my whole life was there, all my things, all

the photos, everything was complete. in the summer, the woman lived in her garden under a canopy, but with the approach of winter, it became impossible, and now lyudmila lives with relatives and neighbors, and agreed to housing to help the nest charity project, they announced a fundraiser for the construction of a temporary modular house for lyudmila, which they plan to install on her plot of land , according to the project, as a result of the russian invasion, more than 100,000 families have already lost their housing, we work only with families who had a private house that was destroyed, ukrainian legislation is not flexible enough, these people will most likely be the last in line for financial assistance to restore houses here, these mobile homes have a very long service life, from 10 to 20 years, we attach them to existing systems of heating, energy and water supply, according to ukrainian experts, such modular houses can become a temporary solution for those who have completely lost a roof over their

heads and it is possible, due to the scale of the destruction, to live in they will not have to wait months. a large modular town is being built in irpen on the territory of one of the abandoned sanatoriums, that is, literally under the pines . a few days ago, they started installing modular houses. in fact, these containers are adapted for life. this is definitely a temporary measure, but it will greatly help people who simply have nowhere to live right now. there is also a town in bucha, it has been there since the summer, it is polish aid to the office of the united nations high commissioner for refugees in ukraine, which has approximately 7 million internally displaced persons and about 8 million ukrainians moved in search of safety abroad, experts believe that the duration of the war and the creation of acceptable conditions for life in ukraine after the end of hostilities will be decisive indicators of what percentage of refugees will return, at the same time, according to experts, state housing construction projects can restore only a small part destroyed housing fund in ukraine, they are discussing the possibility

of attracting international donors. the fact is that the state now has a priority task to restoration of infrastructure and budget money mostly go there, therefore we definitely need the help of allies and partners, necessary investments , self-renovation of housing lyudmila says that she is not going to leave her native makarov. she dreams of returning to a peaceful life and later rebuilding a house in which her mother, children and grandchildren will be comfortable. maria ulyanovska anushovitsyn voice of america went to the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine in february, the american orthopedic doctor of ukrainian origin yakiv gradinar decided opened a non-profit organization for ukrainian patients in minneapolis already at the beginning of summer, his team of american veterans and doctors accepted the first group of patients from ukraine with the help of donations from all over the world, the protest fund now has a rehabilitation clinic where it helps patients, including ukrainian soldiers, to get

back on their feet and to recover from the war and ilona voytovych and valeriya shmarko, the founders of the clinic and their patients, spoke a thousand kilometers from the front, a group of ukrainian soldiers is holding free, high-quality prosthetics in the usa, steps to a full life are helped by the foundation for prosthetics for ukrainians in minnesota, this is the fifth group of ukrainian soldiers that the foundation has brought for prosthetics since the beginning of its work, some of these servicemen lost their limbs due to russian artillery shelling at the front, others like as vasyl stepped on an enemy mine in a ukrainian hospital, he was forced to amputate his leg below the knee while lying in the hospital. well, i found my wife in an online store the contacts of this clinic of this foundation filled out the

questionnaire and a few months later i received a call for a three-week rehabilitation program under the supervision of ukrainian and american professionals. more time is spent on physical training and adjustment of the prosthesis for comfortable and reliable use today it hurts, tomorrow it no longer hurts and this is all corrected by the method of adjusting the prosthesis itself cultivator, this is very important because in this i see the uniqueness of this program in that it is not just that a prosthesis was made, you went home with it and you have a lot of questions that you will not be able to answer, and here we live practically in this clinic and all the problems that arise, we immediately

solve them here on the spot for denis every step, he says, is a test on the way to victory, but with the help of specialists, the wandyshin protest, it is easier to do it , mr. yakiv gradinar, who is our doctor and mentor in everything, if without his help we would have er, nothing worked at all how igor, a prosthetist with 15 years of experience, after the start of a full -scale invasion, began to think about the most effective way to help ukraine. i always looked not to miss such opportunities to help people, and this gave rise to the idea that we bring ukrainians prosthetics where they will be able to get quality prosthetics where they will be able to rehabilitate a little bit from the syrians and from the current situation in ukraine almost half of the

clinic's professional team is made up of american volunteers, says yakiv ukrainians from the local community help with accommodation and the donated work of the fund comes both from ukraine and the usa. each group goes to which state. we want to convey to the ukrainian society the ukrainian society in other states and also to convey to the american society that behind the broken houses there are people who are injured and who need help and i will tell you it works quite well and that it is nice to see more and more americans come to meet at the airport, it is very nice how many ukrainians need prosthetics is currently unknown, according to the information of the foundation, the number that continues to grow may reach one and a half thousand and 22 people have already received assistance. the foundation has registered almost

600 more both military and civilian people, including children , and many of them are convinced that the foundation will be able to return after receiving appropriate assistance to a full life, some return to the front, of course, i want to continue military service , to benefit my country, my homeland , valery shmarko, ilonovytovich, with minnesota voice america will be great program of the ukrainian voice of america service time join our special broadcasts on social networks on youtube and facebook at 6 p.m. kyiv time, where you can ask questions to our presenter and journalists in the studio, nataliya leonova. thank you for trusting us. thank you for watching . voice of america take care and have a peaceful night