in their hands, they heroically defend ukraine in this war, the second place of ukraine will not suit us, we need victory, 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. three hundred days have passed since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia, now president zelensky visited the front-line bakhmut, where some of the hottest battles are currently taking place, and awarded the ukrainian defenders, the military in turn handed it over to him the ukrainian flag with a request to hand it over to the us congress was grateful for the military

assistance, meanwhile, the congress itself is preparing to consider the white house's request for additional funding for ukraine and its allies instead of the previously announced almost 38 billion, now they propose to allocate about 45 billion more, let's ask yuriy yarmolenko for more details who joins us from the white house yulia i congratulate you i congratulate stepa yulia the project published today for which we see new funding amount for ukraine and allies propose to increase by 7 billion what they have invested there now and how much time do legislators have in principle to consider this issue yes ostape a whole series of important functions there however, i will stop at only a few 9 billion in this bill envisage and propose to invest directly in military aid to ukraine for training, for equipment, for ammunition, everything that can strengthen the ukrainian military, in particular, logistical support , and this bill also provides for an increase to 14.5 billion

of the us president joe biden so that he can allocate his own weapons from the reserves of the united states, they also propose to allocate almost 12 billion to replenish the reserves of the united states directly, because equipment for ukraine has been allocated from these reserves for the past 10 months, and i also offer almost another 7 billion for of the european command in support of their mission is also not only military aid, it is also about almost 13.5 billion in economic aid, almost 2.5 billion in humanitarian aid and separate the point is about support for ukrainian forced migrants. it is also proposed to allocate almost two and a half billion dollars for this. so, in fact, there are a lot of important points and this funding is necessary in order to support and help ukraine for the

next year. that legislators can really pass it soon, legislative ostap has literally three days left because on friday they go on christmas vacation and in fact there are some worries that this process can delay because the democrats are proposing to approve this funding for ukraine as part of the large government budget, the republicans are not very satisfied with the fact that they are voting for everything comprehensively. however, they do not have any objections to the ukrainian issue. indeed, this package covers everything. we will watch how others will vote for it. things i'd like to talk to you about this week we're also waiting for the possible announcement of a new military aid package from the us one of the biggest questions is whether there will be advanced patriot air defense systems, as far as they could be effective for the defense of ukraine at this very time, this is the most high-quality

and most advanced weaponry from the point of view of anti-air defense, which is in service with the american army, but they also say that the patriot can complement the system in general, the air defense system of ukraine, however patriot is not the answer to all questions, experts draw attention to the fact that it is an expensive installation, it requires long training, but it is also not intended for for the protection of an aggregate of cities or regions, and for the protection of some important infrastructure facilities, for example, one of the experts, richard hamil don, a former american colonel. he says that, for example, the ukrainians could use this system to protect their vital energy infrastructure of the point defense system. that is, you can use them to protect certain critical facilities they can not protect entire cities but can protect a very important building or facilities depending on how many patriot systems they

receive if they receive ukraine has to decide how many lives of important infrastructure objects they can protect i think that certain objects of their energy infrastructure that have been under such severe attack for the past month or more should have been prioritized for protection if they do receive patriots also talk about the threat of a new potential attack on ukraine from the side of belarus , american military experts assess the possibility as such, you know, we spoke with them until shai vin said that in fact the threat is from the side of belarus not directly, but it came through russia from the very beginning, and belarus is actually an accomplice of russia in this war, but john kerbin announced that the belarusian troops are not directly participating in the war until now. and in fact, he said that the national security council does not see any signs that they ben-hodgest will also go for it - he is the former commander of the us army in europe, with whom i

spoke today, he agrees. he says that he does not actually see signs that lukashenko will go for direct intervention and the participation of his troops in the war is written by president putin i came to minsk not just to bring mr. lukashenko a christmas present, but lukashenko is in a difficult position that he created for himself if he surrenders his soldiers, and he seems to have about ten battalions of tactical groups, so they will be destroyed in the first days. i think he knows that the ukrainian troops they will be crushed a second time i am not sure that the belarusian military really wants to fight against ukraine so i think that lukashenko will continue to do what he is doing to satisfy the kremlin enough to keep him in power but not to do anything more that would lead to the loss of his own troops it would be a great time for nato to hold an urgent exercise in let's say litwicz poland

to give lukashenko a reason to say look i ca n't fight in ukraine i have a threat on my western border which is of course not a threat but it would be a way to almost give him the opportunity to find an excuse for the deed. thank you very much for your information. i will remind you that yuliya yarmolenko was in contact with us from the white house, but about the fact that the government of ukraine expects a repeated offensive and what weapons from the north asks kyiv to zachidana and at this stage and many other things, the secretary of the nsdc of ukraine was questioned by myroslava lugadze. he told more in her interview. in the 10th month of the war, russia understood about losing on the battlefield, what are the biggest risks of all in these conditions

for ukraine today and how you see the further development of the military military process, we understand that today the ability of the russian federation to defeat us in an open battle does not exist, they are now in a dead end and rat, what a dead end, it is very dangerous and we are preparing very active until the next month, two or three, which may be a decisive moment. why, because now the russian federation, taking into account the fact that it does not want to accept the position of the entire world community and understand what is there, it is necessary to leave now, and so that as little as possible was inflicted directly for of the consequences of their countries, they will continue to sit because they will put it to the end. so even today , understanding these challenges, we are preparing as much as possible, but we also understand that we

need the absolutely necessary help of our partners and i want to say yes, the help that was given in march, april, and may is a completely different help than what we receive today, i thank all our partners for this help and i would really like to draw attention to one more thing that in europe a certain number of countries have also changed their opinion , and if you did not previously supply fairy tales and some armored vests, today they are already supplying heavy heavy weapons, which we absolutely need in order to conquer this enemy, but we are aware that we are protecting not only ourselves we are protecting ourselves in europe today from this influx i was able to visit the belarusian border i was able to visit some energy facilities of ukraine and everyone is talking about what is needed pavlo it is necessary to protect the sky er american side and european

already says that they will supply more and focus specifically on these on these means of protection e-e, has this process already started or have any e-e of those willow-armed options been delivered to ukraine, this is a process he it has been going on for quite a long time, do you remember that the whole world remembers that we begged back in march, in april, we begged, let's help close the sky so that there would not be such a large number of deaths, this is the civilian population, unfortunately, that is, it did not happen in time. that's why should have happened, in our opinion, and today i want to note that every day we will all receive more anti-aircraft defense to protect our country, and this push- about it moved from a dead point, which was actually in the middle of summer, so we were uh alone with these challenges. i emphasize once again that now this process is going on, we

will receive pleasant news about this almost every week, moreover, we will receive directly all these means of protection, for this we still need to conduct training, and that is why our students are currently studying abroad boys and girls, in order to master modern weapons as soon as possible, which we currently need to protect our sky . re-invasion and already on the part of belarus and the active involvement of the belarusian military in this war against ukraine, how do you see it? how do you assess these risks, the risks exist, we never hid them because belarus is a country that is occupied by the russian federation, unfortunately they are not independent especially what concerns the military sphere and those challenges that are

in advance, this issue was raised at least three times at the meeting of the supreme commander-in-chief, there were decisions about checking the readiness of our border troops of our border guards of our territories that are on the border with belarus, such checks continued and they do not stop today. we are preparing for any scenario of the development of events on the side of belarus, as well as i, we are talking about external challenges, there are also many internal ones challenges, in particular, now the ukrainian authorities have started to work on the work or the destructive work of the russian orthodox church in ukraine, what is the progress in this and how do you see the further actions on the other hand, in this player, we are not fighting the church as a religious institution. here we are

today . a person is currently in danger for those who are dangerous for our country, then we make appropriate decisions and we don't care if a person is in a duckweed or a person in a brion or in some other clothes, it will be in relation to the letters none to any people who support those on today they are helping her. so our national security is being harmed. this is what concerns the situation. it started not today, not yesterday . relations and corresponding criminal proceedings against each of the participants in this process, and therefore this process has moved from a dead point, the elements you see inside the country, well, taking into account the fact that we

have a large common border, we have very simple linguistic communications of such challenges we have a lot of them, including the fact that the russian federation has never abandoned the desire to seize our territory and the active phase that began at the end of the last century, it is constantly a challenge for us, they are there, we are working on them uh, not all the results i can emphasize publicly, sometimes there are exchanges of people about whom not much is known in society, but this is an exchange of precisely those people who worked for the russian federation, because our task is to return do we have the approximate numbers of ukrainian prisoners of war who are currently on the territory or under the control of the russians, we have exact numbers, but we

would not like to emphasize them because this issue is extremely sensitive, this is the issue of the exchange of prisoners it is constantly under the control of our president because, once again, our task is to return all the prisoners home, all the boys to the girls who, for one reason or another, we will say that the situation has ended up today in the hands of our enemy and what does ukraine need most today, besides air defense? as you said, we need tanks, we need artillery, we need the right amount of shells for them, but in order for us to defeat the enemy on the battlefield, i am no longer sure that we need all this as partners. will provide so this will be our joint preemption against the enemy, who today is not only our enemy

. he is the enemy of the entire civilized world. are undergoing rehabilitation in the state of maryland , a retired lieutenant colonel of the us army, senator cadakworth, piloted helicopters in the war in cancer, she was hit by an enemy rpg, so she lost both legs and almost lost her arm. served in the national guard, gave birth to two daughters and was elected to the house of representatives, and later to the senate , speaking with ukrainian soldiers, she emphasized that it is necessary to continue to live on evil as an enemy, answering the question of our journalist kateryna lisunova, the senator stressed that she supports the provision of additional aid to ukraine, in particular, anti- aircraft defense systems, patriot, my artificial legs

, my wheelchair, my crutches, my shower chair, these are all the tools with which i can live my life, these things do not define who i am they are no different than a hammer screw or a steering wheel in a car it's just something you need to use to live after being injured i gave birth to two girls i became a us senator i i was able to live my life using additional tools that do not define who i really am, this is just what i use to be myself, and in new york they also help ukrainian military men to recover, a center for good deeds was opened there, this is a special house in which two wounded soldiers who came already live to new york for prosthetics and rehabilitation , in total there is room for six patients in the building, the initiator of the project is already preparing to receive a new group of wounded people, iryna solomko and pavlo terekhov visited the center for good deeds nastya one apartment in new york is located not far from the beach and the ocean. at the time of filming

, two wounded ukrainian soldiers lived in it. this project was initiated by a volunteer, oleksandr rubtsov. i didn’t rent a house for them, the idea arose to rent a house and make a center for the boys here, where they will live at the time of prosthetic rehabilitation and on the first floor we will even make a gym that is too small will be able to train train how to do homework from our rehabilitators in the united states, originally from poltava region , before the war in ukraine had a successful business in florida, but at the beginning of the war, he left the business for his wife and moved to new york to establish a system of prosthetics and

rehabilitation for ukrainian military personnel have lost their limbs, so far he is the main storyteller of the project from his own savings , he has already spent tens of thousands of dollars on the project we ukrainians are all alone in the trenches and the others in the warmth, in the good, and i have the feeling that i can, i can, i want to, and i did it even before the war and helped all my life, but i couldn't, but now it's just such a turbo mode and i'm not interested in anything else. i'm only interested in the number of guys god forbid, the girls we will put on their feet, who will leave, everything else is not interesting. oleksandr was interested in prosthetics. he was interested in the war. he and several friends flew to poland to set up a system for evacuating people from kyiv . during one of the evacuations, buchi

met a girl who, because of shelling, lost a leg and needed a prosthesis, i offered to find out, and i got really excited and studied a lot of materials there and figured it out. i found a belarusian with an amputation with ukrainian roots in the flora where i live and in his place in 2003, in 2003, he was blown up in iraq mini bo and he took me to see our prosthetist, dr. stefan stefan manucharyan, originally from armenia, i have lived in the usa for 30 years, he says that he has been interested in prosthetics since he was a teenager, when he saw the consequences of the spitak earthquake in armenia, when he heard from a patient about oleksandr and that he is looking for a prosthetist for his project, i was immediately interested and i never even agreed. i agreed to help without hesitation because i have

been doing this for the last 30 years and it is my mission in life to help people with disabilities. we decided that the best option would be to do it in new york because it is easy to get there, there is a direct flight to new york, and my clinic is also here. well, in principle, my clinic is already here. anton domaratskyi was the first ukrainian patient. on the 14th, after living in the east for a year with the beginning of a full-scale russian invasion, he returned to his regiment i remained in the operational reserve and when the big war had already started, you were called, you came right away, there was nothing at all. believe me, for some reason, all this time, i expected that this was not the end. were not fully disassembled, i.e. prepared their emergency bag. he received

the defenses of lysychansk and severodonetsk, he was blown up by a mine and lost a foot, he says that almost from the first day he set his sights on returning to the front line to his comrades, the goal was not just put on a prosthesis and recover to be mobile and functional, that's why i started consulting with doctors and prosthetists . the first thing i was probably sorry for was that i was temporarily knocking out the members of the group and the defense of ukraine in new york. he is actively working on recovery because he wants to return to his unit as soon as possible and get back on his feet. he is being helped by a rehabilitator. dmytro shevchenko is now for a week because he needs a little more

rehabilitation because i am sure that you will not be able to . dmytro is from kharkiv, but he has been living in the usa for more than 20 years. when oleksandr rubtsov approached him and offered to join the project, he immediately agreed to all of this. our money is small, some kind of donation, but at first, the guys with their families were strengthened by their families in order to save money, but now we already have a house and now the team is already growing a little, and i hope that there will be more and more results in this, so that we can help how are there more boys and girls? viktor nesterenko is another of dmytro's wards. he is 23 years old. he is a marine. he is a marksman and a water medic from the donetsk region. this is already his second injury while performing a combat mission.

i am satisfied with the rehabilitation, but i am careful with my plans for the future, now the war must end, then i will make plans for the future, i want to return, but i want to return to my boys, but there is already an opportunity almost none oleksandr is already preparing to meet a new group before them in ukraine , his volunteers cooperate with hospitals and collect information about the needs, now rubtsov's goal is not only to increase the number of those who can be helped by his center, but also to open a rehabilitation office in kyiv where it would be possible to establish the maintenance of prostheses he is more ambitious and, together with stefan and dmytro, to open a full-fledged aid center in poland on the border with ukraine, this will allow as many wounded as possible to receive high-quality prostheses and return to a full-fledged life as soon as possible life from new york iryna solomko pavlo terekhov voice of america your next story is about a german rescuer who exchanged a vacation in

thailand for war nilsal from nuremberg has been helping ukrainian firefighters in kharkiv for several months now, together with them extinguishing fires caused by russian shelling khrystyna shevchenko will tell more at the end of this in the winter, firefighter nils sal rested in thailand until he saw the news from ukraine. i actually see in the news what happened in ukraine, especially in kyiv, so i saw that there were many human suffering i felt that with my qualifications i can't just stay and watch i need to go and do something very quickly nils decided to end a long vacation and go to ukraine my family was a little worried they said that maybe i should stay in the eu and do something like to drive

a truck to bring some humanitarian aid to refugees, i decided not to do this, because this is what so many people do, i saw that in ukraine, many people need rescue forces, so in march i came to kharkiv, where i joined the local rescue teams while we were in kharkiv we had a lot of shelling every night there were rockets and explosions sometimes the detonations were very close and then i could watch at night the white light and the screeching thunder of the wreckage i felt a metallic taste on my tongue when it was very close and at the same time i a little i was worried because i saw that many people, especially at the beginning of summer, returned to kharkiv. i saw that many children were also already there somehow blindly. we had many fire calls, mainly at night, and these calls were mostly objects

of civil infrastructure, while it seems that it continues and now, therefore, it was schools that were food warehouses, it was power plants, as well as hospitals and a fire department. when i drove through the city, there were many destroyed buildings. but not all of them were destroyed, but it is very noticeable that the ones that were destroyed were they are very reminiscent of the city infrastructure, also nils simply distributed food to people as a volunteer and documented war crimes. nils says that when ordinary people in kharkiv found out in shops that he came from germany, sometimes it was difficult for them hold back tears, but his compatriots treated the work in ukraine differently when i returned from ukraine, some of my close friends of my close social circle appreciated it very much, also ukrainian refugees , for example, i spoke on stage with a speech, but on the other hand, this is not the whole picture in germany, there is also a lot

of disinformation spread, probably from the kremlin, who says that for him the war in ukraine is also his war directed against everything that we achieved after the second world war, two world wars and the holocaust, a war that undermines the organization of the united nations, the universal declaration of human rights, as well as universal freedom, democracy and equality this war knows no borders khrystyna bohdan shevchenko voice of america download the voice of america mobile application , the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service , read news, watch informative programs and videos, and also listen podcasts of the ukrainian service of the voice of america and on this

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