times of war will talk about losses, challenges and opportunities for ukrainian culture. and 12 and 10 on the fourth of december at 12:10, i am iryna koval, mother, wife, presenter of the espresso tv channel, and i am also a volunteer. our soldiers at the front need a lot of things every day, and that is why part of my life today - this is help to the armed forces of ukraine and i am very grateful to my colleagues for supporting me in this sport during the war, what kind of

empty stadiums are there without fans in the stands, deserted sports halls and destroyed sports facilities, our athletes lost the opportunity to train at home because of the war and were forced to flee abroad in order to prepare for future starts those who remained with weapons in their hands are heroically defending ukraine in this war ukraine's second place will not suit us we need victory each of the troops can help you, saves the lives of our soldiers and brings our victory closer on the air voice of america in ukrainian and our program

chas time, i am its host ostap yarysh congratulations, president france, model macron, arrived in washington on a state visit, this is the first state visit to the white house since joe biden took office to the post of president, russia's war against ukraine became one of the key topics of discussion between the leaders of the usa and france , following the results of the meeting, the presidents once again confirmed their unwavering support for ukraine and the protection of its sovereignty, including providing political, security, humanitarian and economic aid as much as it will be needed, this is stated in the official statement of the leaders. they discussed and what we heard from them at the final press conference of ostap, this is very important in fact and from the very beginning from the president of france

emmanuel macron even before the meetings in the cabinet, he emphasized that the topic of ukraine's counteraction to russian aggression will be a key one of the first to be discussed by the president right away at the press conference. joe biden began this press conference by once again emphasizing that the support of the united states, france, the nato group of seven countries, and the eu for ukraine is extremely stable , so strong he emphasized more than ever and assured that this support will continue, particularly at the beginning of winter, when ukrainians are suffering from russian shelling, and president biden emphasized that the united states, france and other allies they will do everything to support the ukrainians and, in fact, for russia to pay a heavy price for this, this was confirmed by french president manuel macron , who in particular drew attention to the large donor conference that will be held in paris on december 13, and there he emphasized that they will mobilize efforts to help ukrainians survive this winter and a very important message indeed, ostap, to which you

also drew attention, that these countries and not only allies around the world will support ukraine as long as it is necessary, president of the united states joe biden also emphasized that all these plans that putin had for ukraine failed, then they will not succeed and the united states and allies will do everything to prevent this from happening. putin thinks that he can break the will of those who oppose his imperial ambitions, but attacks on civilians infrastructure in ukraine, reducing the supply of energy resources to europe in order to raise prices, worsening the food crisis - this harms vulnerable sections of the population, and not only in ukraine , but throughout the world, he will not succeed president macron and i have decided that we will work together to bring russia to justice for its actions, to reduce the impact of putin's war on the rest of the world, there is another important question: are there agreed

positions of france and the united states, in particular, regarding the encouragement of ukraine to possible negotiations with russia? what did you say to the president about this? do you know that you had a lot of questions directly to the president of france, emmanuel macron, whether he, in particular, will not encourage ukraine to negotiate on this at this time , and in fact, these questions were asked directly to the presidents of france and the united states at the press conference, macron's monologue was quite clear in that he said that france absolutely supports the peace plan presented by the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi. i will remind you that he presented it at the g20 summit in indonesia, speaking virtually and there it is said that ukraine is ready for peace, but on fair terms, in particular that ukraine will not cede its territories, ukraine prefers to go to peace only based on the statute that protects sovereignty and territorial integrity emmanuel macron said that the united states and france will

support the ideas of ukrainians, in fact he emphasized that only ukrainians decide on what conditions and when to sit down, because ukrainians are fighting for their freedom, but also for values, for the values ​​of the democratic world, also for the president of the united states, joe biden was asked about whether he would be willing to somehow negotiate with russian president vladimir putin to help diplomatic efforts and he said that only then when putin will be ready to end the war and withdraw his troops from ukraine at the moment, he has not seen such a readiness. let's actually listen to what the president of france and the president of the united states said about the possibility of holding negotiations and in general encouraging ukraine to negotiate. we will never call the ukrainians to a compromise that will not be accepted for them because they are so brave and they defend their lives their nation and our principles and because it will never create lasting

peace if we want lasting peace we have to respect the right of the ukrainians to determine the moment and the conditions on which they will conduct negotiations about their territory and their future, there is only one way to end this war rationally so that putin withdraws his troops from ukraine, this is the first, but it looks like he will not do this. he is paying a big price for this price but he is carrying out a real bloody retribution on the civilian population bombing maternity homes hospitals orphanages it's crazy what he's doing i currently have no plans to contact mr. putin putin let me choose the right words i'll be ready to speak with putin's fuel, if he is really interested in finding a way to end this war, he hasn't done it yet. if that happens, after consulting with my friends in nato, i will be ready to talk to putin to hear what he

has in mind. and besides, it's absolutely important, as emmanuel said we must support the ukrainian people, it seems to me, yulia, important statements and quite clear, both from macron and from jobain yuriy , one more question, now we'll figure it out, tell our viewers a little about the format of the concrete of the state visit, how it differs from official visits that were earlier and from other leaders of countries and how they generally accept macron's emanation in washington demonstrates that it takes place with the countries that are the biggest allies with which i have the most friendly relations in the united states, and it is especially distinguished by its enormous pomposity, very there are many celebrations, official receptions, and in particular, even the exchange of gifts, as happened this morning, in particular , the president of france, monol macron, brought

the president of the united states a jobyden vinyl record from the soundtrack to the movie man and woman is a movie that joy joe biden watched on her first date, but also today, jill biden , the first lady of the united states, is hosting an extremely large gala state dinner for the macron couple, in which 300-400 guests will participate, the menu was developed almost 6 months and there will be a lot to celebrate there, so this is really a very defining visit and thank you for your information. thank you for your work. yarmolenko and we continue with other topics , first the full-scale invasion of russia, the charity organization of the ukrainian in colorado actively cooperates with other funds to help ukraine, the other day the american presbyterian church in

denver organized an e-e forum under the slogan we are all ukrainians or tell the parishioners how to help ukraine attended the event svitlana prostinska and olena andryushchenko, a native of mariupol, tetiana karamazina, at the time of the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine, lived in irpen osia. her family was in her hometown. left homeless in irpin, in mariupol, we had three apartments, two houses, and nothing left except our family home, which seems to be there, but it's like it's not there, because there are no windows, there are no walls, the roof is broken, we all survived, and for us, i guess it is strange to be happy for the 22nd year because at least we are all healthy and we are safe. on this day, tetyana, a parishioner of the local presbyterian church, tells about

her experience with her family. the purpose of the meeting is to draw fading attention to the situation in ukraine and to raise funds for the needs of ukrainian orphans tatiana shares the story of her father, who helped to take people out of mariupol, this route was a line of contact between the two sides, and there were always hostilities in front of them, a car broke out on me for them, they were fired upon, when they were checked, they were allowed to go on, and after this column, they were fired upon, despite the fact that there were small children in the car at our first meeting, when i saw him i didn't even recognize him because it was my father's fate to drive around mariupol, collect and help people, that he saw a lot of things and if we now we are sitting with you and we do not think what we will eat and drink, they extracted water from the snow and he was looking for food and firewood to burn because again

we have a one-year-old child who stayed with my parents together with tatyana, a migrant from the dnipro iryna kryukova shares her story she told the americans about her long journey to denver, my friend, it was really very difficult, we were there in poland for a few months, and we were in germany , we went to visit friends, but they also have four children and they helped all their relatives then when we flew to mexico, we lived there with our children in a tent city organized by volunteers together with the mexican government. and it was difficult morally because it was a difficult road, we had never flown so far. we did not know anyone there . the territory of the sports complex there, but it

was right inside a very criminal district and we couldn't go out anywhere, we had to take care of each other's safety and those families who were with men, what are they they took turns both at night and during the day. iryna dreams of returning home to her husband in a peaceful ukraine. she took part in the denver show. the woman created a telegram group where she shares with other immigrants from ukraine advice about life in the usa, how to issue residence documents, a work permit, receive social and humanitarian assistance the church in which the fundraising took place has been helping ukraine since the very beginning of the full-scale russian aggression , iryna shatalova with the charity organization ukrainians-colorado says, the church in denver which from the beginning, almost from the month of march, received a very large participation of many in helping ukrainians, they invited us so that we could

tell what we do, how we do it, and present the stories of the refugees who came to colorado, their stories, and above all, they want to hear from us how they can help ukrainians here and in ukraine has been going on for almost 10 months and it doesn't look like it will end soon, there is still a need for medicines, food and other help. so we organized this event to remind people about the war in ukraine and show how americans can help the collected funds, the church usually donates the funds to the ukrainians of colorado foundation, charitable organizations of volunteers who have been helping ukraine since 2014, since february of this year, they have significantly increased their activities and become the leading institution in denver that organizes aid, is hospital aid, is military aid military personnel, various equipment , medicines, and military personnel who have lost their limbs, i

actually help children, orphans, elderly people and children who are critically ill. can we help them? can we meet with ukrainian refugees and activists? on this day, hundreds of people came to many war stories of ukraine literally moved them to tears . diana had to say goodbye to her mother, who stayed in kharkiv to work in an animal shelter or rescue them near zavaliv. for safety reasons, the woman sent her daughter to friends in germany, who agreed to become her official guardians as diana and her mother, there is a new german family experiencing dramatic changes caused by the war, see the plot and khrystyna shevchenko, five cats live with them in the house and

the same number of dogs in the yard, they keep geese and ducks, not long ago this german family adopted i have diana, a 16-year-old immigrant from kharkiv. i met her mother through animal rescue. i felt her fear for my daughter's life, so we did not hesitate to agree to take her home and i am very happy that she is safe, we made this decision in in the city with my mother, because it was under fire for a long time, she did not offer us that there is such an option to go to germany . at first, i did not want to because this is my hometown. this is my native country, so i do not want to leave

it. для меня это будет лучше when the war started, diana studied in the tenth grade and lived with her mother in her native kharkiv. her mother, yuliya kryvorodskyi, is a well-known volunteer in the city who has long been working at the kharkiv animal shelter emi maloveskiv. kharkiv at the beginning of the war, she is engaged in evacuating animals to safer places when the war started, it just so happened that my mother was not with me she went to kyiv on february 21, february 21, er, she warned me, she explained to me what to do if the war starts and she is not there, then more than 100 days i was staying with friends of the family. i wasn't with her, and it was very difficult because i was always with my mother. i went through

it. and now it's a little easier for me because i already know what it is. that's understandable. i'm for them. i miss you, i really don't like it very much хорошая женщина uh, i was under shelling for about 100 days. at first, uh, i couldn't believe that this is a war , what is it, that they are really killing, that these shellings seemed to me to be something so unimaginable to someone for some kind of dream the film is not happening in real life eh taungakov iz complita her city is destroyed her school is bombed her mother is on the front line in kharkiv saving animals and people from the first day of the war everything has changed you are losing your friends the houses you know are broken the school is destroyed i

like it pity her and her mother her mother calls every day and me i say please come. you can also stay with us. i want you to be safe, but it is very important for her to help people in kharkiv and animals. hello, mommy, hello. diana says she can't help but worry about mom, and i know what it is, some kind of explosion. i i know what it's like to sit and just think before going to bed, i'll wake up tomorrow or they won't kill a rocket or something else or i'll wake up under rubble, but i can understand why she doesn't want to go because she loves her country and it's not just some words she says it's amazing by actions, but the truth is that she loves people, she wants to

help, she wants to be useful in something, well, she helps animals, she helps, er, people, and i respect her for that, but she is first of all my mother, i love you. while this woman, babette and tom call diana their ukrainian daughter, because they have an older daughter who does not live with them. at first, i thought that maybe it would be too crowded here, and then we decided that we simply cannot send diana back. we have a room that is not free, but we freed her. three no we use it so often ukraine! we are

really a real family. we are happy to have a second daughter, and she is happy to have a second mother. i feel that these people love me as much as i love them. they want me to be protected and they do all this for this. they communicate with me they are considered to be considered their own opinion because of the excellent relationship with the adoptive family diana says germany will never replace the native home we are classmates many of them went abroad

those who stayed in kharkiv were those who were under occupation. i would like to get an education and return to ukraine, that is, i have it in any case. the goal is to return. i want to help my country as much as possible. i want to help my city rebuild. to see it and i want to do it, says a 16-year-old girl who has changed not only her surroundings, but most importantly her inner world. as before, it will no longer be in my mind's eye. that's what i didn't understand before, i understand now that i have new questions and i'm no longer the same person i was before the war in düsseldorf khrystyna ta bohdan shevchenko voice of america how

to overcome fear in war and reveal your full potential in battle, how to save the lives of soldiers by using other people's experience and how military methods were created, which today are successfully used by the armed forces of ukraine. the book we were soldiers and young about the vietnam war is gaining popularity. the publication describes the world's first successful use in combat airmobile troops and, among other things, tells about the participation of ukrainians in the vietnam war as part of the american army, continued iryna matviychuk, well , it would be useful on the battlefield, so the book we were soldiers and young people is gaining new popularity, the battle that changed the war in vietnam , published in ukraine back in the 18th year, this was a successful edition, but the war began, people began to learn , and this book describes one of such very successful

experimental applications of airmobile troops, effective use, respectively, in us and in ukraine also now has agromilne troops. although they fly less in the air, it is still one of the more capable parts of our armed forces. i think that is why there is interest in this book based on the research of historical works on the war in vietnam. as part of the american army, they fought for about 400 ukrainians says oleg fashovets and no matter how this war is perceived in the world, he says for the ukrainians and for everyone who took part, this war made sense, it brought the collapse of the soviet empire closer to one of the ukrainian servicemen the origin of the native of ternopil oblast, myron diduryk , is mentioned more than 30 times in the book, the fishing rod is the commander of an infantry company, diduryk played a key role in the battle in the kerank valley - the first major battle of the war in vietnam in relation to his own tudorik, the average ukrainian emigrated, whose parents

mostly emigrated during the second world war, emigrated to the west, they have no illusions about the russian-soviet occupation regime, they go to the west, but maintain ties with ukraine, accordingly, they raise their children themselves myron didorik was a man, let's say, so hot-headed that he also believed that it was necessary to fight the threat of communism and active actions, not just by passively protesting leaving the soviet occupation, but in some way to oppose that communism with weapons in hand, and he, as a professional military man, chose a business trip as they say, i am talking about vietnam not only because he was a professional military man, but it was

his specialty, so to speak, for career growth, of course, it also helped, but above all because it was an opportunity to resist communism, an opportunity to take revenge for the suffering of his parents, an opportunity to take revenge for the bloody repressions that the soviet government carried out here in the 39th and 41st years on the territory of galicia, myronti durik belonged to the ukrainian patriotic organization plast, in the usa his comrades called him a mad cossack general helmur, the co-author of the book, considers diturik the best company commander he has ever known. he carefully thought out every operation and always tried to use as best as possible the villages that he was experienced by his people, knew his subordinates , who was capable of what, always distributed roles very successfully, and actually thanks to this, he was involved in operations that others did not manage from the outside, it looks like some kind of madness, he was a big man who

fought twice in vietnam during his second tour in 1970, he died while performing a combat mission, historian oleksandr dedyk draws attention to the fact that today the ukrainian armed forces use the legacy of the introduction of combat, which, in particular, was created and developed by the soldiers of their time in vietnam well, let's say we can talk about the fact that the fire support that is being carried out now for the ground operations of the ukrainian army is carried out, in principle, according to the instructions according to the provisions that were worked out for nato troops and , first of all, for the troops of the united states, and these instructions arose in an empty place they arose also by calculation of experience and not in vietnam artillery support aviation support for infantry actions that are separated from the main forces this is actually this thing that did not occur in no other war and this is something that works today almost every day, the authors of the book, participants in the war in

vietnam, general galmur and journalist joseph galovy , described what they saw and experienced on their own experience in 2002 in the usa, a movie is being made based on this book with mel gibson in the lead role in his famous speech, the main character mentions ukrainians among american soldiers, according to the historian oleksandr dedik, the book helps to prepare for battle psychologically in this book , it is important that it reflects as truthfully as possible reflects reality as faithfully as possible reconstructs the course of battle how do you deal with your fear fear will still be experienced you are a soldier for the first time going into battle fear is not inevitable you need to deal with fear you need to overcome it somehow this book shows very well how different soldiers overcome their

fear how different soldiers find their place on the battlefield as different soldiers discover talents that they did not even expect in themselves, their commanders did not see these talents in them, did not expect that they would do it, but in in critical situations, a person suddenly mobilizes , a person gathers all his will into a fist, as they say, and whoever gathered it was able to gather it in one way or another, he begins to influence the course of events , the moment of mental inclusion in the war while reading is important for the training of military personnel , historians in the usa say this book included in the list of recommended mandatory reading for marine commanders when you read this book it achieves that effect of inclusion as if combat operations how good is it it was written for the training of a military serviceman. she thinks it is also effective. historians say that there is no war if it is researched and studied. it

will be useful for everyone. who is ready to defend his country without the experience of others, relying only on his own, will have to pay with a lot of blood in order to to save this blood, you need to know and someone else's experience , first of all, this book is important for the military, just as someone else's experience of art shoots since 2009, it began to publish books on military history , professional military literature is directed to strengthening the country's defense capability to work on publications, the publishing house engages ukrainian and foreign specialists in the history of the theory of military affairs iryna matviychuk yuriy dankevych kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america and with that, we say goodbye, join our daily briefings at 6 p.m. and in kyiv on youtube and facebook where you can live ask us your questions. thank you for being with us. have a peaceful night and a peaceful morning. see you soon