how our today will affect our tomorrow, see saturday's political club, what saturdays are on espresso, 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 - this is help to the armed forces of ukraine, or so i thought the author and presenter of television projects that i will have to understand such things as thermal imagers, generators, quadcopters, could i, a mother of three children, imagine that just like knowing the principle of action of a diaper, i will understand on the difference between an active and passive night vision device, did my wife know that i would buy my husband not shirts for work, but bertie and tactical glasses, but since 2014 i had to

become a volunteer because our relatives were on the front lines and they needed help. each of you can help. even a small contribution to the support of the army saves the lives of our soldiers and brings our victory closer. congratulations, the biden administration is doing everything to ensure that ukraine can defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity now and in the near future. said jack sullivan white house national security adviser we know that our job is to continue our military

support to ukraine so that it is in the best possible position on the battlefield and if and when diplomacy matures they are in the best possible position at the negotiating table said sullivan he added that for this purpose the administration has appealed to the congress to provide ukraine with an additional almost 38 billion dollars for military support and humanitarian aid and is sure that the legislators will approve the allocation of this money . we have approached congress and asked for a significant amount of additional resources to be able to continue to provide ukraine with the means to wage this war. reduce our support i think every month this hope fades away the first american shipment of emergency repair equipment has already arrived in ukraine

ambassador shab rizhet bring wrote about it ot viter adding that russia's attacks on civilian infrastructure in kyiv and throughout the country have intensified, the armed forces of ukraine reported that on friday russia launched more than 60 missiles on the territory of ukraine more about washington's reaction to the next russian missile attacks on ukrainian territories help to restore ukraine's energy sector and provide kyiv with additional systems of air defense, we will talk with yulia yarmolenko, who is contacting us from the white house in italy yulia vitaya natalya so, yulia yakova shentons react to another massive strike natalya is absolutely condemned by russia in ukraine, and this is understandable, and today, in particular, the deputy spokesman of the state department said that he was angry that russia continues its tactics of brutal shelling and also the destruction of ukrainian

critical and vital infrastructure. not russia carried out more than 200 targeted attacks against energy infrastructure objects today, john kirby is a representative of the us national security council in an interview with voice of america said that in fact all these attacks in particular, those that happened during the past 12-18 hours show how important it is to help ukraine with additional air defense systems, in general, with the strengthening of ukraine's air and missile defense, he also said that it is now possible to report about $53 million . this is the aid package that he announced earlier secretary of state anthony blinky already the first tranche, as you said, really came to ukraine today and he said that this assistance will continue so that ukrainians can effectively repair their damaged power system, and also as in john kirby, the united states continues to work on the

next package of military aid, the focus of which , like the previous ones, will be on air defense. he said that it is worth expecting that the new aid package will include additional capabilities to strengthen the air and missile defense of ukraine. so yulia will shed some light on this of the new wave of russian aggression, are there any developments regarding the provision of new air defense systems to ukraine, which voice of america received at the beginning of the week confirmation from the pentagon that this decision has already been made, but so far we do not have an official announcement about it, or could such a delay be related to the kremlin's statements that such a step will be considered a provocation natalya in short, the white house says no, but let's talk about prospects and in general about the history due to the possible provision of the patriot systems really at this moment we do not have official confirmation from the white house or from the pentagon and literally an hour and a half ago my colleagues were able to ask president biden whether he is ready. is he preparing to provide petriv systems

for ukraine, what did he say, you will hear about it soon, and also as john kerby said in an interview with the voice of america, literally just now, that in the next few days there will be an announcement of a new military aid package or will it include the specific system of the patriots . of ukraine and will not affect the composition of the military aid packages that the united states gives to ukraine let's listen to peter i find it ironic and very telling that the officials of a country that brutally attacked its neighbor with an illegal and unprovoked invasion are conducting campaigns that are deliberately aimed at killing innocent civilians and the destruction of civilian

infrastructure that they use such words as provocative when describing protective systems designed to save lives and protect civilians and despite russian propaganda which they are trying to portray themselves as a victim. it is important to remember that the aggressor here is russia. and when it comes to escalation, they could somehow manage the situation even today by withdrawing their troops and saving countless innocent lives, but it is obvious that they decided to only redouble their efforts. kamenets we we will not allow comments from russia to dictate what kind of security assistance we provide to ukraine. earlier, general zaluzhnyi, in an interview with the economist publication, stated that russia is planning a new attack on kyiv and is preparing 200,000 new troops for this purpose. soldiers, if the threat is assessed in washington, natalya in washington, in the pentagon, in particular, they talk about the fact that they are closely monitoring how the situation develops.

and of course they say that the ukrainians are not going to slow down, but also that russia has not abandoned its annexation plans, but they emphasize first that it will help ukraine to did not happen so that ukraine had everything for its defense, but also doubts the ability of the russian troops at this stage to really be successful, let's listen to what laura cooper said in an interview with our colleagues carly babb, we are always watching carefully where russia may try to move forward next time, what operations it may consider, winter will be a very dynamic time . some people consider winter a time for rest and recovery . and we of course expect that the russians may also try to advance, but as for the situation with russia now, it should be remembered that their troops are in a very

bad condition. you are dealing with a large number soldiers who were hastily mobilized, who were poorly trained or poorly equipped, and their morale is incredibly low, so despite the fact that we will be very vigilant and try to support the ukrainians in all their needs, we also realize that the russians are in a difficult situation. white house liaison was yulia yarmolenko, on thursday evening the congress voted for the defense budget of the us for 2023 and postponed until next week the vote for another government budget of both the documents include additional financial aid for ukraine. what kind of aid are we talking about and when should we expect the final origin of these

draft laws? let's talk with my colleague kateryna lisu novy. she is now on direct communication with us. in particular, it includes 800 billion dollars in defense aid for ukraine. please tell us more about this document and when we should expect its final origin, in fact after the vote in yesterday's vote, the vote in the senate of defense, the budget of the united states of america is only waiting for the signature of president biden, because it was already voted for in the house of representatives and last week, therefore, the defense budget of the united states of america for 2023 will be set at 858 billion dollars. and this is indicated at 45 billion more than originally requested by the white house, at the same time, the entire amount was also invested in 800 million dollars of additional defense aid for ukraine, and i will note that this is 500 million

more than originally requested by the white house at the same time, responding to the criticism of the congress that the aid that comes to ukraine has insufficient checks, this defense budget also prescribes a number of additional checks of this aid, defense aid, other financial aid to ukraine, in particular, president biden will be required to report in advance if he plans to provide additional aid to ukraine, in addition, the budget will also cancel mandatory vaccination against covid-19 for the american military in general about the importance of this defense budget yesterday under during the vote in the senate, they spoke out. as the leader of the republicans, the leader of the democrats, chuck schumer, offers to listen to their statements. just now, i spent the whole week discussing how the

defense budget will help our armed forces and national security to professionally defend our homeland, strengthen our partnership and keep adversaries like russia at bay . a few steps behind the defense budget is only the first step to the investment in modernization and stronger strategies we need to compete and win of our rivals who do not wish us well but this is a very important first step every year creating a defense budget is the result of successive bipartisan efforts for more than 60 years i have no doubt that this year will be somehow different and i thank the jam jacque rideau and all my colleagues for their thorough work on this bill katya also yesterday the senators agreed to postpone the vote on the government budget earlier they voted for the postponement in the house of representatives tell more what kind of help for of ukraine can be included in this budget and whether it will be possible to fix it by the end of this year,

in fact, the legislators from e-e bought themselves some time by postponing the approval and consideration of the government budget for next week until december 23, because earlier the previous deadline a-a set today, i.e. in fact, until today, until this friday, they had to agree on the government budget. it should be noted that the government budget is one of the most important documents that legislators are trying to vote on by the end of this year because because because it will actually finance a number of initiatives that have already been voted on by congresses that have already been agreed upon and even the allocation of funds within the framework of the defense budget that i mentioned in the previous question depends on the approval of the government budget, also a number of initiative aid to ukraine will be concluded in the government budget and this is claimed by the democrats in particular during his speeches and during his encouragement to the congressmen to vote on the government budget by the end of this year, and in particular, the

congressman, a democrat, with whom i spoke yesterday, mike quigley noted that almost 38 billion dollars of additional aid for ukraine, which he had previously requested from the white house in november, could be included in this government budget volume. it is especially important for ukrainians to wait for how the events related to the approval of the government budget will be developed, but what kind of aid can be included in this budget offers to listen to their own in the comments of the democrats , adopting the government budget as a package is the best approach because it ensures that our children, our veterans, our small businesses and our military will continue to have full access to vital services and programs on which they depend. also , the government's package budget is the most balanced approach because it will contain the priorities that both parties want to see, including funding for ukraine. we have just passed the interim

government budget. i think we will vote for the full government budget package. in the next seven days, additional aid to ukraine will be included in it. i expect that it will be possible that it changes the leadership in the house of representatives, this is critical time, despite the fact that the leaders talk about bipartisan support and this amount is significant. the amount already mentioned, $38 billion, will guarantee assistance to kyiv for the next year. thus, while the transition to a new leadership continues, there will be no doubt that the obligations of the united states remain unwavering here, the democrats in to agree on the defense budget in the format of skills and height, that is, actually as a package together with other initiatives, at the same time, the republicans already this week spoke out against such an idea, saying that the initiatives that were included in this umnius were not agreed with them, and they insist and hint that they would like to vote for the government budget already next year, when

the republicans will come to the majority directly in the house of representatives, so the next week will actually be decisive for many university initiatives, and in particular, for additional assistance to ukraine with us on direct communication from the capitol hill was kateryna blesunova expectations from the confrontation on the battlefield this winter and the lessons of the war in ukraine for military leaders of the whole world with my colleague tetyana, the vice president of the royal united institute of defense studies, retired general de petrash, recently published a report devoted to the preliminary conclusions of the hostilities between russia and ukraine in the first five months of the war, which attracted a lot of attention military analysts and the public, there will be no significant slowdown

in military operations during the winter, the ukrainian armed forces will continue to advance, liberating their territory from the enemy, believes general petraeus it is impressive that ukraine, a country less than one -third the size of russia and without all the natural gas, oil , coal and other minerals, now has a larger and more capable army than russia and it will continue to win back its territory to liberate the territory seized by russia from february 24, in the conditions ukrainians usually fight for their state and in their country, citizens will do everything possible to support their soldiers, if a soldier knocks on the door of a citizen of ukraine and says hello, can i warm up and eat a bowl of soup, it is obvious that the answer will be yes, please, this cannot be said about the russians, ukrainians are better equipped, better dressed, know the terrain, and the russians don't

really have this, the mobilization carried out by russia was terrible, they actually throw soldiers on the front lines like cannon fodder and this can become a problem for them again after all, anyone with a machine gun can be a difficult challenge, but these are not these organized, coherent and combat-ready units that ukraine is fielding, the general believes that ukraine has the right to strike military targets, but russia his view will not become a significant factor that will affect the development of the confrontation. i think that in the future there will be reluctance for ukraine to use the weapons provided by the west to attack russia because of some fear of the third world war or something similar. i do not think that this is completely unreasonable. however, i think it is quite natural for ukraine to respond to russia for its actions, the weapons it has and they are doing this very impressively, the bigger factor , he says, will be the processes inside the russian

army, the factor is the huge losses of which russia suffers in ukraine and returns home whole, returns seriously wounded, which gradually begins to raise questions among the russian population, and you can see this in russian polls about the nature of this war, how it is going and whether it should be continued, at some point vladimir putin will have to admit that this cannot go on to continue, he still does not see it, the russian army has a number of shortcomings that affect its combat capability, petraeus points out, the russians have demonstrated many shortcomings, they have shown a very serious lack of logistical capability structures and the terrible state of their communications which are high frequency unencrypted and single channel again anyone with a police scanner can find and

jam their conversation or record if soldiers criticize their officers and then upload it to social media there were times when the russians obviously made progress, but in the end it was not what was expected from the russians, considering all the time they had for training while on the border of ukraine in russia and belarus before the invasion in the same time the west will continue to increase military production and the supply of weapons in ukraine , petraeus is convinced, pensions will continue to greatly expand the production of types of ammunition and weapons systems, both for transfer to ukraine and to replenish our own stocks of these specific ammunitions in ukraine, says petraeus, changing the understanding of modern warfare throughout the world from in the voice of america, he shared two of the many lessons of this war: firstly, leadership matters; president zelenskyi is an excellent strategic leader

who brilliantly accomplished four tasks of strategic leadership, namely generating the right main idea or strategy, communicating it effectively, controlling implementation and determining what needs to be improved to do it again and again and again, on the other hand, president vladimir putin has demonstrated terrible decision-making ability, obviously he made catastrophically bad decisions , communication was terrible, execution was terrible and they seemed to learn little by making the same mistakes on the battlefield and internationally secondly he says this war which is being fought with the largest number of intelligence and artillery in history variable understanding of what is and what is not in the enemy's range during the cold war when i was a major on the inner german border as an infantry officer there was a saying that what

you can see you can hit and if you can hit you can kill and in this war it was even more proven than during the cold war, because we did not have drones, we did not have all the means of intelligence and surveillance that allow us to identify and see the headquarters of the enemy, his material and technical means its barracks its production facilities on a global scale you start to think what could be done in say a hypothetical theater in the endopacific region when you can see everything reach everything kill everything so this is really quite a dramatic example of why we have to rethink our platform force structure that we have how can we strengthen resilience and other important components and this is what the pentagon in washington is currently doing of foreign policy of the usa tetyana vorozhko oleksiy aspen kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america a hug dog

ukrainian psychologists gave this name to a toy therapist from israel almost from the first months of the full-scale war in ukraine a unique program of psychological support for small ukrainians has been in operation developed in israel, a methodology thanks to financial and logistical support is based in the usa of the charitable fund of american ukrainians is used in various regions of ukraine as well as in places of refugee settlements abroad why its features and why the toy has such a name will be explained by anna kosyushenko. 9-year-old anya is playing with her favorite toy. in fact, at these very moments, she is undergoing a process of psychological rehabilitation. this is anya with her family .

she spent the entire time of the beginning of russia's full-scale aggression against ukraine in kyiv, hearing shelling and sounds rocket attacks on the capital, the windows were smashed after we had two flights here 600 m from the house in this kyiv family anya is the middle daughter she perceived the war more deeply than others constant stress affected her mother, olena, tells about her daughter's behavior. she was very tense. i think that out of three children, she understood more than anyone else what was happening and the depth of this war and these guys, well, of the whole situation in general. she became very withdrawn, she even became somewhat aggressive . she was constantly tense. help came in the form of a toy with a psychotherapeutic effect , hibuki, which is a dog-hug, which in translation from hebrew means hugs, after about 3-4 weeks, we

already had a result, well, such a premium result we began to communicate with the children again. well, she is friendly. she became calmer. this technique was invented in israel as a means of psychological rehabilitation of children during the second lebanon war in 2006. we drive away rockets. year, one of the first to use it was viktoriya nazarevich, a psychologist with 27 years of experience. at the beginning of the war, she was confused by the number of children who suffered psychologically from the reality of war. and of course, the best method which can help to overcome such an acute trauma, it is a toy because a toy is a safe space, it is something that we can hug, that we can interact with , these ears can be closed when it is very, very, very loud around you, you can cry

together or buns, when it is traumatic, you can pet him and comfort me when i am very sad. children who have received hibuki literally do not let go of the toy. i sleep with it and we take it home. victoria explains that children personify the toy and because of this, they allow them to experience the stress of hibuki, and they do not accumulate the same greatness in themselves, and so on. how do you have long paws, hibukas were invented for a reason , it allows the child to constantly have a toy that is pleasant to the touch near him, what is it, what can it be hung around the neck, on the belt and simply held like that, hibukas can be held in hundreds of different ways, these unique methods of contact with a dog they help the child to work off the stressful state, says art therapist marina cherkashina this month,

what i noticed with the dogs herself, well, children, they don't have such, uh, you know traumatic memories of the war and when explosions sound like that, they are a toy that they take this fear with them and apply it to her, already more than 5,000 children in different cities of ukraine have been able to experience the therapeutic effect on themselves, but this became possible thanks to the help from the american charity fund united help ukraine, which bought these toys for small ukrainians and pays for the training courses of psychologists and their work, because before using it, psychologists must learn the technique of using hiboki fantastic results we got after the first experimental process when we uh thanks to uh to our friends from america, this is not united help ukrainian, who supported us from the very first days of the opportunity to get these

dogs . when the children receive this dog, we did 1.5 a per 1500 protocol analysis so that they become calmer. they receive their own coping strategies for overcoming trauma. they find unique methods of contact with this dog. they find some personal characteristics that give a specific child the opportunity to withstand this situation withstand circumstances that are unrelated from childhood can play with them sleep and take them to the bomb shelter when the alarm sounds we ask yes and i turn on the light sometimes in kyiv alarm signals sound several times a day well, i show that panics, but inside it's just a manicure next to the hibuka, eight-year-old pavlo feels calmer, says his mother,

maryana, a woman, like a man, went to serve in the armed forces at the beginning of the full-scale aggression of russia, classes with hibuki is shared by maryana, it had a positive effect on the boy's psyche. well, he changes completely, he shows us a lot of new things, we get to know our child from those sides that we did not know, inspired by the israeli method of therapy, ukrainian psychologists invented the author 's analogue of a hedgehog that is attached to handles. thus also constantly accompanies the child during the day, this is our biological and cultural symbol, which actually activates our archetypal structure and gives the child the opportunity to protect himself from what what is happening is to endure this with what little needles the hedgehog has, and supposedly to protect himself from that traumatic situation, in addition to that , we expelled the rockets, and my daughter came to help the children overcome the stress of the war . ukrainian psychologists also involve

art therapy techniques while hibuki sits nearby 9 - elderly anya draws her feelings on paper hm, because this is an invisible costume and so that you will not see it at war anna kostyuchenko for the voice of america from kyiv here is the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america time join our specials on social networks on youtube and facebook at 18:00 kyiv time, where you can ask questions live in our and journalists in the studio was nataliya lounova, thank you for trusting the ukrainian voice of america service, take care, have a restful weekend, the most important events, the events that are happening right now