then with the presentation of gifts this year, due to a full-scale invasion, the gifts went by mail, we managed to deliver parcels for about 300 children of sofiechka, this is a set for an artist, a cool set, look, i am an artist, so i dream of a scooter to ride, because they have them in ukraine in its streets this year mykolais has made my dream come true, he gave i have wireless headphones that will help me in my studies. i also dream of becoming a blogger, so those headphones will help me become a blogger, and the most cherished wish of children is peace, they wrote about it in everyone letters, they simply ask for peace, they ask that our soldiers be warm and very often they refuse gifts and say

that they should transfer money to some fund or buy something for our military, that is, it is a completely different generation of children, of course we they couldn't leave karina without a gift of embroidery, that's why i want to give you the embroidery that you asked for, such bright colors, i love it, bright bezgerna unfolded see how you like it i really like karina, she is a very creative girl she is engaged in modeling and loves to sing, and also dreams of singing with her idol yulia sanina, she listens to such lyrical songs as fun, but clarifies, in addition to russian ones, i see spring in you, in the thickets of green, forgotten

paths, you come to me and there is no need to bring me a flower of hope, because you have been around for a long time entered my dreams, this is our moral, ethical and social responsibility. i believe that all people according to their capabilities can and should find the opportunity to take care of these children so that they do not lose faith in people in ukrainians and understood what and for whom their parents gave their lives. i always, if i was upset, i came first not to my mother, but to my father , because he was the closest to me, but he was just like a friend to me. mom, in general, i miss him and want him to other families did not have this,

our support and gratitude is the least we can do to join the campaign, it is very simple, anyone who wants to can go to facebook, find the page i am in mykolaiv and find the letter that this person will like and become mykolaiv or help mykolaiv as a gift i congratulate the child with a fairy tale on the air, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, time, i am its host, ostap yarysh, great britain announced its intention to provide ukraine with a constant flow of artillery ammunition throughout today

, 2023. of security with the leaders of the countries of the so-called joint expeditionary forces, the british prime minister called on partners in the next year to maintain or increase support for ukraine on the same day, the minister of energy recalled limiting the price of russian gas this is how consumers in europe seek to protect themselves from the sharp rise in prices caused by the russian invasion of ukraine. representatives of which countries gathered today in riga, what was the purpose of their meeting in general, we are talking about 10 countries, in fact, led by great britain, it includes the baltic countries, scandinavia, as well as the netherlands and iceland and these are countries that cooperate very closely militarily in this region, which is very obviously

close to russia and which became extremely important in connection with the russian war in ukraine. so, in fact, this meeting was to confirm what these countries are already doing in efforts to help ukraine resist russian aggression and ensure the permanence and continuity of this process, first of all, but also the possibility of increasing aid, in particular, the british prime minister rishi ruskus stated this. i suggest listening to a quote from his speech first of all more military aid must be provided to match the current situation this means more air defense means more artillery and more vehicle defense from the united kingdom we are committed to keeping aid at this year's level of 2.3

billion pounds or exceeding that amount and i i strongly encourage others at this table to do everything possible to maintain the strong support of bohdan, this meeting in rhys took place on the day of another attack by russia with drones, ukrainian cities, what is most needed in ukraine and how can european partners help here ? ostape well, you already heard from rishi isunak, in particular , the mention of air defense means, there were also talks about the importance of artillery and, in particular, ammunition and ammunition, which ukraine spends in huge quantities and the stocks of which obviously need to be constantly replenished, and it is not only about warehouses er, about taking ready-made projectiles, for example, in order

to establish their uninterrupted supply, and next year, what does it look like. it will be very necessary for ukraine, but about what exactly, and why emphasized kyiv, it is probably best to listen to an excerpt from the address of ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyi, he used a video link to address the participants of this meeting in riga and in particular he said the following i am asking you to increase the possibility of supplying air defense systems to our state, help speed up the relevant decisions of partners one hundred percent air shield for ukraine, this will be one of the most successful steps against russian aggression, this step is needed right now, and for our defense operations to be successful, we need modern armored vehicles, especially tanks, there is no explanation because

ukraine still has not received a decision on the provision of modern and effective tanks, in particular leopards, this is vitally necessary, yes, these are really important words, important priorities that need to be paid attention too bohdan, one more topic today after almost six months of discussion of the european the union agreed on an upper limit of seven per russian gas, what does this mean in practice and why did it take so long to agree on it? well, we can say that these discussions are very complex discussions that lasted possibly longer even more than six months and we remember that not so long ago the western countries finally agreed on the upper limit for russian oil and it is only about russian oil that is transported by sea, here we are talking about gas prices in europe and by the way, despite the fact

that of course this step aimed primarily at russia, by far the largest supplier of this raw material for europe, but it is actually about gas prices in general, which have jumped incredibly this summer in europe and so the problem was that a number of governments in europe believes that it is very dangerous to interfere with market mechanisms and they were afraid that if they were to impose some serious restrictions on the price of gas in europe, then the suppliers of this gas would simply supply it somewhere else to other markets and then europe would have even bigger problems with gas, but now there are the agreement is an agreement that must still be approved by the leaders of the european states and on february 15. it must gain strength. thank you, bohdan, and

we will monitor how this mechanism will work. thank you once again for your information let me remind you that bohdan was in touch with us, this full-scale invasion of russia became a powerful impetus for the creation of a number of new organizations to help ukraine in the usa, their founders are usually ukrainians who moved to the usa not so long ago, mainly they join forces around the provision of humanitarian and medical aid, one one of these new organizations is called aura. iryna solomko and pavlo terekhov visited its warehouse in philadelphia to win not only in war, but also in peace. famous western and ukrainian people offered their recipe for the post-war reconstruction of ukraine economists believe that after the devastation of the war as a result of the reconstruction, ukraine should become a member of the eu, and that in order for the economic miracle of ukraine to come true, not only the end of the war is needed, but a stable peace is needed, and ukraine must regain all its

territories, say the researchers of our main assumption is that russia is a threat for ukraine, it will not disappear anywhere, but ukraine receives security guarantees, i.e. there will be a guarantee that russia will not attack ukraine again in the near future, but other options are important. well , let's say that russia can break up into several countries may have some kind of revolution in them, they may transform with north korea come only and both confidence and trust will come only if not only the government but private investors feel safe in ukraine , in my deep conviction it is not only about ukraine but also about western partners a prerequisite is necessary for the successful management of this process of ukraine's return to internationally recognized borders, i think any bad compromise. when ukraine, say, loses crimea or war crimes remain unpunished, such a bad

a compromise will create and i hope that tension and instability will not happen in ukraine in conditions of tension and instability, it is impossible to successfully reform the country, well, it is clear that this will require very large funds, and according to the estimates of the president of the european investment bank, it was more than one trillion dollars, according to the latest estimates, but it may well be that it will be more because we attacks on ukrainian infrastructure continue, according to researchers, ukraine will need from 500 billion to a trillion dollars for reconstruction in the next 10-15 years to get such money ukraine must prove that corruption is a thing of the past and it is surprising to find a microch despite the war, the reforms in ukraine are ongoing , a few months ago, the ukrainian government announced that they have approximately 70% fulfilled the previous terms of the association agreement in the country of the

war, but despite this, the parliament is working the government works, pensions are paid, salaries are paid , macro stability is relatively strong, under these conditions it may sound strange, but the unity created by the threat to the independence and sovereignty of ukraine is strong, stronger than before the war until february of this year, and this is good the government's strategy is to use this unity and the mobilization of society to speed up the reforms. we say that it is necessary to start the reforms now, because when serious money begins to flow out of ukraine, we must be as honest and clean as possible, so to speak , to convince our western partners because they are investing in the new ukraine with guns projectiles, the group of seven agreed to create a single platform for the recovery of ukraine in the middle of the last century, the historic marshall plan spurred the development of europe after the second world war. then one state, the united states, provided aid to 16 european countries, today

the situation is the opposite, in the restoration of a single country, more than a dozen countries will participate, there are three important things that must happen, this is coordination, coordination, once again, coordination , because what we are seeing now is a kind of competition between by various sponsors, donors and so on, of course it is very nice that so many people of the organization want to help us. but we want to avoid a situation where there will be some kind of useless duplication , the j7 platform will coordinate both short-term and strategic financial aid in ukraine and the work has already begun about it during the conference at the brookings institute , the representative of ukraine at the imf, vladyslav rozhkovan, told the bow from the marching plan, the question we are discussing about the marshal plans, who will be the next marshal or marshal for ukraine, because we still lack someone who took this leadership role in the world, here is a list of people

i thought about, but at the global level, there is no such leader yet, ursuo funderlein , president of the european commission, samantha power, president of the usa, johnson dry, dombrovskyi, who is one of the biggest allies of ukraine, from lipton, who worked for the defense forces, and now in the us treasury, as well as general petraeus, who closely monitors the events in ukraine, at the same time , reshkovan says, the amount of aid allocated in ukraine lags behind the declared amount, the authors of the study indicate that in addition to budgetary aid, it is necessary to attract private foreign aid the capital can come in a few months after the end of the war, when the reconstruction of bridges , electricity and other infrastructure has already begun, says horotnychenko , to restore the infrastructure or it will be carried out the state will have to restore some basic things, but over time, the role of private money should grow, because in the end, the state, well, the amount of money

needed for reconstruction, no budget will pull, but some private companies did not even wait for the end of the war, nestle announced its readiness to build is there a new factory in ukraine? is it necessary to create a mechanism that will provide insurance for investors? it is similar to the guarantee agency of the world bank, something to insure investments against military risks, and there are also several large ones. projects are dominated in the book, such as, for example , the reconstruction of the railway under the european track width, or the reconstruction or reconstruction of the city in the east of the country, despite all efforts, the success of reconstruction is not guaranteed, analysts say ronishchenko points out that there are both successful and unsuccessful examples of reconstruction, and ukraine can repeat the experience of germany, france, italy to get very fast economic growth, there are also negative

examples of the reconstruction and cancer of afghanistan, when a lot of money was invested in this country, but the result can be said so-so but we must learn from these mistakes if ukraine can achieve its goal and become a member of the eu. this will change not only ukraine but europe, says miklos venri, address of the center and rupiah countryeken when my country slovakia and other central european countries entered it was very positive for them but not only for them, it became very useful for western european countries. it became an incentive for faster growth, for example, in the east of austria, which developed quickly after the expansion. this is a great stimulus for the border regions of poland and slovakia, as well as for the eu as an institution, it is primarily emphasized by analysts that ukraine must win the war, this is the basis of the stability necessary for an

economic miracle and the readiness of the international community to help invest in ukraine oksana bedretenko kostyantyn glubchyk voice of america this was a story about a variant of the post-war reconstruction of ukraine by oksana batertenko, and here is a story about a charity organization in the usa aura, which helps ukraine, see further chernetsk president of the organization aura, translated from english, the abbreviation means the american-ukrainian aid association itself the organization is located in one of the suburbs of philadelphia. one of the largest ukrainian communities in the united states lives here. the neighborhood has a cultural center, which at the beginning of the war was a place when people brought aid to ukraine and where volunteers gathered. i was responsible for sorting and sending all this aid. transport

and of course i am busy 24 hours a day, you can say that, but when the war started and my wife read on facebook that they were collecting aid for ukraine and went to the store bought things and said take them there i came to the ukrainian center, and it was possible on the second day of the war, and i left them there, and to this day i deal with it and other things that were still to be sent to ukraine. andriy decided to create his own organization, we understood that everything should be sent to ukraine and people there need it and there were already refugees that we knew about and there were people who suffered and occupied territories and we

understood that we needed to send it and since we were doing it we just decided to continue further and gathered all those caring volunteers and created an organization iryna yamborkovi is the president and andrii's right hand, just like him, she could not remain aloof from the events in her homeland after a week of reading the news and i would cry at home if i didn't have the strength to cry anymore, there was an internal need to do something to help and then i already knew our ukrainian volunteers are collecting aid as it came, as many know, it remains until today, then the charnetsk tymburko rented a warehouse, held a meeting, drew up the organization's charter, elected members, yes, the management of the organization currently has 30 of permanent members, its contributions are indeed quite symbolic $50 per year there are also active

volunteers who come to help them there are more than 200 there is a group created in viber and we communicate with them there through this group the main efforts of volunteers lead to the collection of sorting and sending aid ivan svitskyi to the united states i have been working in the united states for 24 years in construction, i have a duty left that i have many friends left in ukraine who went to fight and i thought that i have a duty now here to help them, there are already many of my friends that and will never return again and died, and since i have such a goal, decide for myself what i can do with it, i will help pack and sort food, for example , with a blue safe, medicine with red tape, the army, a lot of it goes to the army, and so on, hygiene in purple color and

we try to make not very big boxes such that they can be lifted and sent, according to charnetskyi, the most money goes to the shipment of goods, it is tens of thousands of dollars, at first the volunteers did not have such funds, because most of the help from benefactors came in the form of things or goods, so other organizations helped with logistics, this is a foundation that helped us with the logistics of shipping our cargo. and we work with them around the clock, and they are our main partners since may. 144 pallets with humanitarian cargo is more than 50 tons of aid. aura also has partners in ukraine who deliver aid to those who need it the most. they take it all to the de-occupied territory on the second day after the release of the raisin. they were already there and already

they gave out our help, it's medicine - it's, it's food, it's hygiene products, a lot of hygiene products were handed over, and it's also sleeping bags, it's also mattresses, it's also some thermal clothing , so that military units or regional administrations turn to us and submit requests, we discuss these requests and if possible what can we buy or send if we have it in stock maksym goroshko is another member of the organization, he is like ivan almost every day at the warehouse i help open the warehouse close the people here i meet i am responsible for gathering people and physically doing something load load disassemble translate chernetsky notes that lately they are receiving less and less help and this worries the volunteers very much because the needs in ukraine

are only increasing due to increased missile attacks, for example , their baby boxes are in great demand in ukraine, help to families with newborns, etc. recently, these first boxes were distributed in ukraine in the chernihiv maternity hospital . should not be done somewhere in those territories where the fighting is most active and they are simply delighted because there is everything necessary for a mother for a child there and clothes and some first complementary food and hygiene and diapers well, we thought that we would send a few pallets and that's all, let's stop there, but they are asking for days, they are asking to continue, that this is a very cool project, the volunteers are already thinking about what they will do after the victory, among the areas of development of prosthetics and rehabilitation of wounded soldiers, as well as the reconstruction of ukraine, philadelphia, iryna solomko-valo terekhov voice of america this year almost 7 million

children in ukraine are in danger due to attacks on energy infrastructure such ideals of the united nations children's fund unicef with the support of the organization the most important families with children receive gifts for the holiday, including more than 100 million in total financial support this will help families survive hard winter, i say to yufunda, meanwhile, in the usa, for the 9th year in a row, volunteers have been collecting new year's gifts for ukrainian children, that is, after a full-scale invasion, they tried to help those who lost a parent during the war after february 24, many more displaced persons were added to this list . lesya bakuvets will tell about the charity event. and all the boxes are dolls for girls under 7 years old. they are so beautiful. by the way, there were many requests for the doll. this is a profession. it is a doctor. it is a teacher. there are cars, coloring pages

, and educational games, in total, almost 2,000 gifts that the united help of ukraine charity has collected for ukrainian children. today, we have collected 5 groups, which are the criteria for distribution across different territories. in ukraine, each group has its own coordinator who is currently dealing with this list and is relying on gifts for everyone, children and families of military casualties, displaced persons or orphans , volunteers say that the most difficult thing was to compile the lists in the liberated territories, now they often move well, some leave, some return, and it is very difficult to understand who is really there now on the spot with volunteers who are directly in the kharkiv region turned to local councils and with the question what are the children or institutions that do not work with minor orphans and they answered we don't even have databases or computers to create these lists for you valentin koshelenko is responsible for the delivery of toys specifically to kharkiv oblast and kherson oblast he says local volunteers who

often go to the liberated territories are very helpful here, they tell you where and how many their children are, what their age is sometimes they even convey the preferences of children on the basis of this data. volunteers in the usa compiled gift lists on the website of a leading online store. further, the link was distributed on social networks, so everyone is willing to do so with one click. i could buy a toy for a ukrainian child. she is very surprised that we collected them so quickly. it was almost a week before the meeting. everything was already bought by the new year. the gifts must be in ukraine. each box is marked and decorated with snowflakes. the gifts will arrive on christmas eve . from americans who are the elves of santa claus, gifts for children united help ukraine collects for the ninth year in a row, but for the first time this action became so large-scale due to the war of children who need attention became significantly it's more, it's very sad, it's very painful to watch and know what we buy for children, uh, whose light has been taken away, we should make some kind of small celebration so that they at least

feel something, that in the midst of this war, in the midst of all this sadness, there is something cheerful and happy and that they there was hope because of the war, almost two -thirds of children in ukraine have become internally displaced persons or refugees , the un also estimates that at least 972 children in ukraine were killed or injured in the first 6 months of russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine in the organizations recognize this only the data that is now possible to verify only mykolaiv among the dogotars dmytro savchuk voice of america but saint nicholas did not ignore the children of ukrainian immigrants in los angeles a-a he came to them with the help of ukrainian volunteers who helped to meet the saint and with the ukrainian children who are there , our correspondent khrystyna shevchenko saw this with christmas gifts, all

20 families are celebrating christmas and st. nicholas for the first time not in ukraine but in los angeles to support children who had to leave their native homes american companies and private patrons brought gifts to the ukrainian cultural center everything that is happening in ukraine this year needs humanity and support more than ever therefore we want to bring this holiday magic to the ukrainian people toys sweets winter clothes babies who have only recently seen the horrors of war in their home willingly choose for themselves gifts i am from the kherson region, i received it barbie i am very glad because i do not have too many of them thank you very much parents say to celebrate nicholas and prepare for christmas among the ukrainian community, it helps them to forget for a second that because of the war, they have to

live in another country, we arrived two months ago and at first it was very difficult to find your way and you did not understand why you are here, i have been pulling you home, but now little by little you get used to it. and thanks to such holy meetings, you understand that you have to live on and they support you, these events and the people who surround you and our children, they just now started to enjoy life again, this is ours. now this is our family here, we remained our family in ukraine and now this is ours. this is our support . american benefactors also gave the families christmas trees and the opportunity to buy the necessary things in stores with chipovar hristov. our organization gave christmas