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verified information, convincing facts like this let's watch more, the only news in the center of events continues, the 302nd day of the great war waged by russia against ukraine is on the air, the marathon is the only news for you, the teams of facts and windows are working for you, i'm andrii kovalskyi good morning, the triumphal visit of the ukrainian president to the united states of america, an extremely warm meeting with president joe biden, a historic speech in the congress and an ovation in honor of the ukrainian leader and the ukrainian people, as well as assurances that the usa will support us until victory itself, the next aid package is almost 2 billion dollars includes the most powerful air defense system in the world patriot so , about the atmosphere that prevailed in washington and about the first results of the visit to the matter of the first foreign visit of the president of ukraine to the first full-scale aggression of russia, we will ask voice of america correspondent yulia

yarmolenko and yulia good morning have a good evening and tell me how the meeting took place andrii literally 3 hours ago, the truly historic speech of the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi before the joint session of the american congress ended and this was the final chord of his several-hour but very rich and very productive visit to washington and they received america- they received the ukrainian leader in the american congress quite eloquently, let's watch the speech broadcast in prime-time on

american channels. the ukrainian president spoke in english, he thanked every american family regarding support, he emphasized , first of all, that ukraine will never surrender, that the money of the americans, which they allocate to support ukraine, is not charity. investments in global security and aid are needed more. the ukrainian president says that the ukrainians do not ask the americans to actually join the war or to stand up and fight for them. and he says that the ukrainians can train very well on their own, and with american equipment, in particular, he pointed to american tanks and planes as well zelenskyi emphasized that next year will be perhaps even more difficult, but he believes that this will actually be the year of joint ukrainian and american victory, and one victory is important, ukraine has already won, said the president zelenskyi, we have defeated russia in the fight for the world's mind. we have no fear. no one in the world

should have fear. ukrainians won this victory and it gives us courage. it gives inspiration to the whole world. the americans have achieved this . europeans have achieved this and therefore europeans are now much stronger than they were before russian tyranny has lost control over us and will never influence our minds again at the end of the speech the ukrainian president gave the american congress, the ukrainian flag straight from the front line and from the bahmut where he visited the day before and this is actually a gift from the defenders of the ukrainian and american congress as a sign of gratitude, this is a symbolic gift, but it is important for andriy to say that in fact the visit of the ukrainian president was

not only symbolic but very productive and effective and in particular the american president joe biden, at whose invitation president zelenskyi arrived and with whom he held several hours of negotiations, bjobiden announced a new package of really very powerful military aid in the amount of almost two billion dollars and the main thing is embedded in it is the patriot installation, it is an installation that will really help to strengthen the air defense of ukraine, however , the american president emphasized that the assistance from the united states will continue as long as it is needed , and the ukrainian president at a press conference for the results of their meeting hinted that soon it is worth expecting and possibly new important announcements, today president biden announced a new package of military aid of ukraine in the amount of about two billion dollars, and the strongest element of this package is the patriot complex, which will significantly strengthen our air defense, we have a clear understanding of

how our defense capabilities will be strengthened in the coming months, i do not want to talk about it in detail now. i thought you all understand why, but i am for i am very grateful to president biden. thank you for your attention. kudos to ukraine and actually strategic coordination of efforts and discussion of how the war is happening, what will happen in the next few months. this was a very important part of the negotiations between presidents biden and zelenskyi and another important thing that many people asked about at the press conference and how both presidents see the end of the war. do they see a way to possible peace negotiations and president biden said an important thing. he said that he can actually end the war putin is literally now, but now the united states

does not see any readiness for putin to be ready to go to negotiations and ready for zelensky's proposal for peace on fair terms , so the task for the united states remains it is unchanged. do everything to strengthen the position of ukrainians on the battlefield so that when it comes to negotiations, ukraine will win and succeed, and not both of us want this war to end, and as i said, it could end today if putin had any dignity and did the right thing, he simply ordered his troops to leave, but this will not happen, this will not happen now, so what will happen next? today we talked about the fact that we will continue to help ukraine achieve success on the battlefield. it can achieve success on the battlefield with our help from our european allies and others, so if and when president zelensky is ready

to talk to the russians, he will also be able to succeed because he will win on the battlefield, and in fact, this visit of president zelensky has already achieved one important success because today there was no american media of any kind or any television that did not talk about ukraine and talk about the fact that this support should continue for ukraine . she told about the first results of volodymyr zelenskyi's visit to the united states, the occupiers from the new rear in the kharkiv region during the day, the russian army shelled at least 16 settlements in the region, mainly the border areas were hit, in particular, kupyansk , vovchansk, kozacha lopan, and in the pecheneg community, a tractor driver was blown up by an enemy mine, a man was questioned russian troops carried

out more than 20 strikes on the border settlements of the sumy oblast. mortars of gluhivsk from rocket systems of volley fire, so far there are no reports of victims, the situation with power supply in kyiv is currently the most difficult in the country. this statement was made by the general director of the company serhiy kovalenko clearly, according to him, 60% of transformers in the capital were damaged, the situation may change for the better when the repair work is completed and provided that there will be no new shelling of the energy infrastructure, otherwise the situation may become even worse, the armed forces of ukraine are vacating the territory and returning the electricity supply there, ukrainian energy companies today they are doing literally impossible for the ukrainian energy front to stand. they are fighting blackouts, balancing with switches, or every ukrainian in the house had light and without hesitation go to restore the

destroyed or damaged power system for the occupied cities and villages. they often work in the snow and in the rain. and they don't give up until late in the evening and today, on their professional holiday - energy day, they have time to do everything and everywhere to clear overgrowth of power lines in cherkasy oblast and help the victims in to the neighboring regions, this brigade recently returned from mykolaiv region, there has been no electricity since march, most of the important equipment was damaged by shelling, we repaired 110,000 lines and 35,000 were damaged so that changes or shells broke even such anchors were already damaged oleksandr pihu, electrician of high-voltage lines says i just found out that i had to go to help mykolaiv oblast, despite the worries of my relatives, i agreed without hesitation. i once looked at the snow

maiden , how she suffered. i wanted to bring some good to the people, and that’s why i went there with joy. i saw a screeching nin lombano and many high-voltage lines were broken. wires were broken. poles were knocked down. they had to be restored under constant rain and in the mud. they worked from early morning until late in the evening for two weeks. at first we were a little afraid, we walked around and looked, and then i will tell you, no one addressed us, we were just doing our job and everything was very badly damaged, the supports were damaged, the supports were damaged, they were themselves there was a lot of damage to the wires, a lot, i have never seen such high-voltage lines, where oleksandr works, he maintains more than 3,000 km of high-voltage lines in cherkasy region, there are five brigades currently in service, each of them, in addition to working in their own region, also helps neighbors on

business trips, they worked there from early in the morning and until dark, even at the darkest time of the day , they restored and repaired in order for people to have light, it was necessary to restore these lines as soon as possible. in ukraine, specialists on the ground do the literally impossible, sometimes in a few hours they restore light to people, the networks are not adapted to being turned off and when we turn them on , a lot of different emergency situations happen, it burns equipment that cannot withstand these overvoltages in the networks, the automation refuses , only highly qualified people are accepted for this workers, and now they are a cat, because such a person is worth his weight in gold at the front, many energy workers are fighting in the rear, and those who are

left are holding for themselves and for them, but they do not complain, because it is not enough they know the price of victory when you look not at people , but you don't feel tired anymore, you already see what i'm doing, you're doing work. that's why it's all right. ictv facts - the only news for the opportunity to leave the city and spend the winter in those regions of ukraine where there is warmth in the homes , the kherson authorities are retreating and have found critical infrastructure in the region. the most evacuation trains arrive in khmelnytskyi and kirovohrad regions, so in khmelnytskyi region more than a thousand families of people have already settled, and at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, they accept children and kindergartens. only a few weeks i left my native kherson due to constant shelling by the occupiers, and he is already going to the army

. 28-year-old konstantin matveev in in 2015, he already defended ukraine from the russian invaders in his city, he miraculously survived the retreat of the occupiers, 17 people were shot, three people were taken out by the defense, i myself was the driver had to drive without sveta, without anything, so far the husband is still there in one of the kindergartens , in peace and support, in eight months of isolation and occupation, they were exhausted, they knew that we were the people of fate, because they turned off the lights from the sixth day, everything is not sveta, nothing there was no car with ukrainian flags and we couldn't believe it, we couldn't even think of what was happening. and already on the 12th, we were already on the square, there were big shots. there was no light, there was no water, there were no plans, there was no money, there was no food. not

we arrived with 30 uah in wallets after the liberation of kherson khmelnytskyi region has already received more than a thousand families of people from the village, mostly in kindergartens where the stoves have been preserved and which do not depend on a power outage , and this is the best option because the heating will start here, in any case, people will be warm because of it we take care of a kindergarten in the neighboring village of sokolyvka. we are ready to accept those who want to stay away from the smog, because there are conditions for a comfortable stay in the room, a clean and tidy bed, a bed, a bed, mattresses, pillows , and the heating must be gas, well, we have gas and there is a stove where you can eat, cook and insulate. khmelnytskyi region has received many displaced people since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. 60 million was allocated only from the regional budget for the internal displacement of

people for their needs. we are uniting everyone who can help, the region is ready to accept another 5,000 people of kherson and here they are trying to find empty houses that will become places for people, let them be temporary but homes lyudmila tsymbalyuk anatoliy dmytriv facts ictv the only news salvation for the residents of vinnytsia has become one of the creative spaces of the city here during power outages it people work teachers freelancers students there is always internet and electricity thanks to the generator one workplace costs uah 150 per day the price of fully insulated rooms reaches two thousand people willing to work in a month, a lot of people book seats from 9:00 in the morning in a creative space with several floors where up to 300 visitors can work at the same time, there is also a kitchen where bartenders cook tea and coffee, but the most important thing for the residents of vinnytsia is access to the internet, because this is the only way they can do their work. most of the visitors work for foreign companies, but they pay taxes in ukraine, which also go to support the

armed forces. these are the places where they basically unite people and give to be able to move forward. that is, we help each other , they help us so that we do not close down, and we help them that they also had the opportunity to work for almost 270,000 cars for the armed forces of ukraine, the auction collected nikita titov's graphics in ivano-frankivsk is an artist known for his anti-war posters in ukraine. nikita titov is an illustrator from kharkiv. his graphics before and during the war motivated many ukrainians to support local volunteers. he agreed to sell his paintings at an auction where money was collected for the armed forces. one of them was exclusive, this is a poster that the artist dedicated to the ivano-frankivsk city where he now lives and works, for which they raised the most, as much as 78,000 hryvnias, a total of 265,000 hryvnias were collected for these money will buy cars for the ukrainian military in our army, it is already constantly

in need of monetary assistance there or some necessary things or cars, and i would really like to be able to collect as much as possible there and do something more useful, that's all the news at the moment. and the next issue is exactly at seven in the morning, so don't miss it, don't miss it , because next is the press conference of the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi based on the results of the meeting with his american colleague joe biden zelenskyi president zelenskyi i have the great honor to welcome you to at the white house, we spent a lot of time on the phone and it is very nice to see you live again. we often talked and were on the phone during this conflict. we especially spoke so

that we could look each other in the eye, because this crisis became an inspiration. not only the ukrainian people, but the whole world this is your first first visit outside of ukraine since the beginning of the war in february, the strikes have damaged civilian infrastructure, it is difficult for school children, we are already approaching the new year, it is very important for the american people and the whole world to hear from you mr. president and about the need to be together and support you. at two o'clock in 2023, and this is exactly the mark of three villages, the mark of 300 days is an unprovoked,

unjust, and large -scale attack on the people of ukraine. for 300 days, the people of ukraine show russia to the whole world their steel is the essence and unbreakable confidence in the fight for their country, i will tell all the people of ukraine, the sum of the people of ukraine, their determination and resilience in the face of the realistic appetites of the country who believed that you can and they that they can win you over and they don't succeeded, but you still persevered and you are fighting when the freedom of ukraine was under

threat . the ukrainian way for ukraine. this is much more than just a war. the american people know that if we stand up against such attacks on the essence of democracy and territorial integrity, the consequences will certainly be much worse, as i say. as i said in february , when the russian tanks were in ukraine , we always stand against the killers against whoever is the aggressor, and even before this

invasion began, putin was also increasing the number of troops on the border we er-er worried about ukraine being ready for a-a before this war. we gave ammunition, artillery systems , and we not only did it ourselves from the very beginning, our partners are our allies in this world. and together with ukraine, i express my a-a support and unprecedented sanctions were introduced against the kremlin in order to make it more difficult for it to maintain almost 2,000 e-tanks, more than 800 actin systems, more than 2 million units and artillery ammunition, more than 50 e-e

systems of ukraine, this is all in order to strengthen ukraine, we are not together provided billions of dollars of direct support so that the budget would not help the governments of ukraine to provide basic services, state services and perform state functions for the people of ukraine oh, and this week, through the world bank, they distributed ukraine this billion in aid dollars, many ukrainians had to flee from their homes, they are all over europe, the peoples help, they understand the problems of ukraine, the united states, more than 220,000 ukrainians who became refugees in ukraine in the program of ours in the program that we have

to serve the states with aid and provides 274 over 274 million for humanitarian aid to ukraine , food is provided and cash assistance to millions of ukrainian refugees, and so that they have access to drinking water so that they can keep warm during the cold winter of the united states to our allies and partners around the world, it was critical to support the success of ukraine, ukraine won the battle for kyiv, for kharkiv, for kherson, ukraine won at every stage, and mr. zelensky, you clearly let it be known that you are

looking for peace, he is not ready do you want to seek a just peace? we also know that putin has no intention of stopping this terrible war and the united states wants to make sure that the brave people of ukraine will continue their struggle against russian aggression as long as it is necessary and all support in the congress of both parties and i am waiting for the opportunity to sign, according to the agreement, the decision on the additional 45 billion dollars and also the law on the financial allocation so that the ministry of defense can more conveniently and easily provide critical types of weapons for

ukraine today okay, the next tranche has arrived this is 1 billion 950 million provided for the equipment, the equipment that is needed in ukraine, the supply of ammunition and the following months for e-e, for artillery, for tanks, for missile systems, and for high-precision missiles, let's say zrk patriot e we will also provide the necessary training for ukrainian personnel so that they continue to defend their airspace , the batteries of the patriot air defense system will be a critical asset for the defense of ukraine, all together with humanitarian aid, and we

must clearly say to the ukrainian people what russia is doing, it deliberately attacked a critical civilian infrastructure of ukraine in order to deprive ukrainian people during the coldest , darkest period of the year, russia uses winter as a weapon to deprive people their time to eat is the most recent example of the crimes committed by russia against the civilian population of ukraine. the united states and our partners and allies realize the importance of the former. it is important that ukraine be able to rebuild and repair this critical infrastructure as a result of this attack by russia, and efforts in congress so that they

led today to the fourth night of the jewish holiday of hannukah and president zelenskyi and among many people they are celebrating a holiday when a small group of soldiers repelled a much stronger numerically prevails that the army and they had only maybe have oil for one day but they lasted 8 days and it was on cold, thinnest days and this light will forever leave and drive away sadness the human spirit is not victorious if people are ready to do what is right