i am very grateful to my colleagues for supporting me in this sport during the war, which is empty stadiums without fans in the stands, deserted sports halls, and also destroyed sports facilities. our athletes lost the opportunity to train at home because of the war and had to flee abroad to prepare for future starts. who remained with weapons in their hands are heroically defending ukraine in this war, the second place of ukraine will not suit us, we need victory, everyone of you can help, even a small contribution to support the troops saves our lives soldiers and our victory is approaching,

i congratulate on the air the program of the ukrainian voice of america time and host ostap yarysh , ukrainians and americans are fighting for common values , volodymyr zelenskyi emphasized this in his speech before the us congress. for support and emphasized that the americans are not just helping ukraine in the fight against russian aggression . the draft law on state financing, which includes almost 45 billion in additional aid to ukraine and partners, but when to expect the final vote and whether volodymyr zelenskyi's speech had an effect on the legislators, we will ask kateryna lisunova, who is now joining us from the capitol hill, i congratulate you, i congratulate you, ostapenko, about the results of the speech of the ukrainian president in congresses, we can talk. what main theses did you highlight

from his speech? of senates. thus, volodymyr zelenskyy was able to personally discuss the issues that interest him with the main representatives of american politics in the congress. the second achievement of volodymyr zelenskyy can be called the very fact of speaking at the congresses in the right of time e of the main american media. thus , volodymyr zelenskyy was able not only to address the legislators, but also dollars of the american people, on which the politics and position of both the congress and the white house actually depend on the speech of volodymyr zelenskyi, the main phrases of the speeches it is possible to single out two - this is victory and russia is a terrorist state or state-sponsor of which these two phrases were the red line

of volodymyr zelenskyi's speeches, in addition , he paid great attention to the allocation of additional aid for ukraine and, in particular, emphasized in his speech that the ukrainians do not demand american troops on their territory because they can handle it on their own with american weapons, they can perfectly use it on their own, and he hinted at tanks and airplanes in particular i suggest you listen to a fragment of this speech just now. i believe that there should be no taboo between countries in our alliance. ukraine has never asked american soldiers to fight on our land instead of us. i assure you that ukrainian soldiers are perfectly capable of controlling american tanks and planes on their own. a symbolic exchange of flags because volodymyr zelenskyy brought the ukrainian flag with combat and combat

zones in the city of bakhmut and handed it to the speaker of the house of representatives nancy pylosya and she in the answer handed the american flag to the ukrainian leader and noted that it was the flag that flew over the congress building on the day of volodymyr zelenskyi's visit and they actually removed it from the building to hand it over as a symbolic gesture of support by the united states of america names in bakhmut yesterday ava avakin when i was in bakhmut yesterday ukrainian the heroes handed me the flag, the battle flag is the flag of those who defend ukraine , europe and the whole world at the cost of their own lives, they asked me to bring this flag to you , the us congress, members of the house of representatives and senate or decisions can save millions of people so let these decisions be made let this flag stay with you ladies and gentlemen this flag is a symbol of our victory in this war we stand we fight and we will win

because we are united ukraine usa and the whole free world really important words katya, you watched this speech personally in the congress as american legislators. and in general, the guests reacted to the speech of the ukrainian president, were they really satisfied with it? as you saw on the live broadcast of voice of america, there was a lot of applause and in fact these ovations of the american legislators were even about the speech of volodymyr zelenskyi, for a moment he even tried to speed up his speech er and because his speech was constantly interrupted not only by ovations, but also uh, the american legislators stood up and expressed their support after the speech volodymyr zelenskyi and the historicity and importance of her speech were emphasized by a number of senators and contestants, in particular the speaker's office and representatives nancy-pilosi said that it was inspiring and very important the speech also leader of the republicans in the senate mitchmahono said that aid to ukraine is one

of the most important priorities now in the whole nato world... well, i will note that there is also a certain criticism or an alternative position because, for example, the leader of the republicans in the house of representatives, kevin mccarthy, said that he supports ukraine he believes that this is a very powerful speech of volodymyr zelenskyi, but he does not support an unlimited check for any state and directly for ukraine , he once again emphasized to us the need to check the assistance provided ukraine was also criticized by another republican semi-capitalist who stated that the main priority of the united states of america should now be the issue of emigrants who are directly across the border of mexico and the united states of america should concentrate on internal and internal issues as the first priority, but it is important that the ukrainian leader was brought before the speech eh

by special eh hmm escort leaders both republicans and democrats what to emphasize on party support katya one more important thing that i want to discuss with you literally before our broadcast, the senate voted for the draft government budget, which pledged almost 45 billion dollars to help ukraine and its partners, because zelenskyi's speech had an impact on this vote. what approval procedure will follow, in fact, it is difficult to say how motivated the legislators were, especially the speeches of volodymyr zelenskyi, because even before his speeches on tuesday and talked with the senator and they expected that this bill would be approved even yesterday, but it did not happen and partly in fact it did not happen because the speech of volodymyr zelenskyi, which took some time, and in fact the consideration of this draft law in the senate lasted until two o'clock today, after which the senate actually considered all the amendments to the government

budget of 1203, which includes 45 billion ugra in additional aid to ukraine, and in fact finally voted for this the bill means that the floor of the house of representatives, which will consider it today or tomorrow , and uh, then it has to be signed by the president of the universities of america, joseph biden, but it is worth noting that the deadline the approval of this government budget is actually tomorrow - that is until friday night, we will keep a close eye on it, well, the latest information, as always, will be on our pages, all on social networks, so follow us. also there, katya. thank you for your work, for the information, i will remind you with we were in touch with kateryna lisonova from the capital hill, and more about the reactions of the american press and observers to the unexpected and short visit of the ukrainian president to washington, let's talk now with yulia yarmolenko, who works from the white home and joins our broadcast, yuliu. i congratulate

you. so, how much attention did zelenskyi's arrival here in the united states attract in general, and what are they saying about it based on the results of their visit? visit not only in the united states, but all over the world, in particular, and for the speech he delivered at the congress, taki's commentators spoke today, saying that this visit was extremely effective and very timely, because they emphasize that before zelenskyi had several important tasks , first of all, to outline what kind of help ukraine needs for the next few months. when ukraine is not going to stop its counteroffensive, we know that, as the pentagon says , winter will be a dynamic time, so outline what kind of help, what capabilities, and capabilities ukraine needs for this. promote and consolidate the opinions of both republicans and

democrats regarding support for ukraine and definitely also explain to americans, ordinary americans, why it is necessary to support ukraine and this is what observers say, president zelensky also managed to send two important messages to president biden: firstly, that ukraine will never give up, that it will not make any concessions or unfavorable negotiations, and that the united states will support ukraine as long as necessary, in particular, david kramer from which were communicated indicates that this aid should be increased ukraine i believe this sends a signal that the united states stands side by side with ukraine and zelenskyi that the united states will continue to support ukraine of course there was an announcement of one patriot system but we need to send more it would also be important to provide attack missiles and i hope we

will do that tanks and other ukraine needs a lot more help i think this will open the door for more help where does the money go ? however, i also spoke with the political scientist serhiy kudala, and he is convinced that such opinions of skeptics remain marginal. let's listen to the skeptics, they will remain skeptics and those voices belonging to the isolationist isolationist wing of the republican party, they will continue to defend their positions. but it is obviously clear that they will be marginal to the republican party , and it is unlikely that after that forum, which uh, with which , as with how they met zelensky yesterday and and with the ovations he received during his speech

, it is hard to imagine that in a few months the policy of the united states towards ukraine will change radically, and the policy of the united states towards ukraine is interesting to yuri. zelensky's visit to the white house. now, how different was it from the previous visit, which we recall was in september 2021, as david keimer told me, this is heaven and earth, because in fact, that visit in 2021 took place after president biden spoke, in particular, with russian leader vladimir putin and this visit is in 2021 , in fact, at that time, neither president zelenskyi nor president biden knew which, specifically, how powerful the relations between the united states and ukraine are now, as analysts say, it was actually very visible that, firstly, the two leaders trust each other , secondly, the relations between ukraine and the united states are at a completely new level, now it is clear

that this cooperation is absolutely strengthened, that the leaders communicate with each other from time to time, that they know each other very well, and that in fact these relations are also very strengthening, as serhiy kudelya said. i also like the fact that the ukrainian president flew to washington on an american military plane, this also shows that the united states is ready to support ukraine, this is symbolic a gesture, but it also has weight, and also, as serhii kudelya said, the very big difference is that now, in 2021, the united states thought maybe there are some chances for negotiations, maybe there is a chance for compromises between ukraine and russia, serhiy kudelya says now, the united states does not they see that there is an opportunity for negotiations. at this stage, at least ukraine will not be pushed to this, first of all, now the united states is concentrating on something else. let's listen

now . the goal of ukraine is absolutely victory on the battlefield and this is also in it. it seems to me that there is a key difference, and in the summer of 2021, the united states was not ready to support ukraine to the end, but on the contrary, it was looking for ways to somehow reconcile putin and zelensky. and now the main goal is the biden administration is setting itself the goal of helping ukraine regain control over its territories and liberate its lands. i wonder if presidents biden and zelensky have a common vision, as i just talked about serhiy tow about the conditions on which this war should end, this is a very important question of ostap and what we heard at the press conference of biden and zelensky biden said that they have a common vision of what this

just peace should be and what was important was heard at this press conference biden emphasized that at this stage the united states does not see that russia is ready for any productive, effective and fair peace negotiations , and therefore the task of the united states remains to support ukraine so that ukraine could be successful on the battlefield bosman we both want this war to end like i said it could end today if putin had any dignity and did the right thing and ordered the troops to retreat but that won't happen won't happen now so what 's next we're talking about today they said that we can continue to help ukraine achieve success on the battlefield it can achieve success on the battlefield with our help with the help of our european and other allies so that if and when president zelensky is ready to talk to the russians he could also succeed because he won

on the battlefield, these words of the american president are important to yulia. thank you for following your information. i will remind you that yulia yarmolenko was in touch with us, and let's move on to other topics. moldovan intelligence believes that russia intends to attack their country in 2023, the implementation of this depends on the situation in ukraine, the head of moldova's intelligence emphasized, in the event of the implementation of such plans, the russians can attack ukraine and from a new front they believe that they think about the potential threat to the residents of the border in odesa, a na kostyachenko and pavel sukhodolskyi went to the village of velika mykhailivka to find out that 20 km from the border with the unrecognized transnistria, nina anatolyivna was born and grew up in velika mykhailivka , a village in the southeast of the odesa region with a

population of about six thousand people . she worked all her life in the local production, now the owner of a local bread stall, so in addition to this, i also have two large cities and i stand here until three o'clock, the heat is not hot, i go to the potato farm, i shoot the beetle with dill, you understand this movement, this is the life of the crops and there is no more firewood, it is on the mountain. hm, dry forest , forest, go get a branch for yourself. collect, do not climb from the village to the border with the unrecognized transnistrian republic in a straight line of 20 km, however, nina is not worried about the possibility of russian invasion from the border. what are you talking about ? well, it's just a pity how poor they are. it's bad for us in the trenches because there is no light, but they are good and they tolerate and

protect us. thank you. god forbid. what if we would be standing here today if it were not for them and they protect us. thank god and we are here. let's hold out to victory however, nina anatolyivna's optimism is not shared by all residents of the great mykhailivka , this is always because it is not far from the borders . well, we are supporting the ukrainian military all the time. can we support the army of the ukrainian military ? donations for the armed forces grandson of mrs. lyudmila, one of the participants from the group, they collected aid in the summer and are going to put a vertep anti-military anti-butin but actually we are approaching the border with transnistria customs village kochurgan oleksandr

kovalchuk military officer born and raised in this area 25 km from where my parents live 25 km from moldova in 1991 separatists with the help of remnants of the 14th army of the ussr initiated an armed conflict near the moldovan city of tiraspol and created the so-called the transnistrian republic, unrecognized by international society, was introduced into the region by a peacekeeping contingent in the 92nd movement, despite international agreements and a un resolution. moscow has still not withdrawn its the military contingent from transnistria poses a potential threat to ukraine, now i am standing behind shevchenko 66 now i am on

the border with the republic of moldova, but in fact, behind this hill, the unrecognized transnistrian republic is located, according to certain data , where the enemy russian contingent is meeting , so in which case the tank will be able to to get to the nearest veliky ukrainian village in about 20 minutes, according to oleksandr kovalchuk, after february 24, the authorities of the unrecognized transnistria tried to check their the mobilization reserve for the needs of russia planned to mobilize 80,000 contingents, but since the locals have at least three passports, according to the unofficial information we have , 18 men came to the military commissariat of the city of tiraspil, according to the lieutenant, at the beginning of the war against ukraine , many suspicious men crossed the moldovan border near tiraspol under different passports, during the year, a lot

of young men and middle-aged men came to transnistria, who said that they were visiting relatives on their own business, but returned i never guessed that these are personnel officers or simply personnel of the russian army who are waiting for something, but there are no more than a thousand such people according to the information that we have the possibility of an invasion from transnistria . even if this happens, lieutenant kovalchuk convinces ukrainians that they are ready to respond, and even if there may be some kind of conflict, ukraine will win unequivocally based on the amount of force we have, because russia has shadow missile attacks on the energy systems of the odesa region, so

here they have equipped heating points for the residents, they say that they are ready for a possible invasion , life is moving in its course by the enemy and we will not give up , this is definitely a victory for us, everything is arranged, everything is done and everyone is ready for what you dear ones, we will say yes to the moments that will be from the side of transnistria, maybe you are from agricultural products and local farmers suffered from the war, so here we are belligerent towards any invaders , we are masters of our land. if someone wants to come to visit without questions, and if somewhere with the intention of taking something from us well, i think that he will be given a decent rebuff somewhere, and i think that people are joking about the fact that they actually intended to come here and take something from us, and while the villagers are selling the remnants of the harvest at the local bazaar, the village is living its life anna kostichenko pavel sukhodolskyi for the

voice of america from the odesa region, russia's war against ukraine turned the global energy market upside down, moscow forced european countries to look for other suppliers , use new energy sources and develop alternative projects according to experts, the place vacated by russia can now be occupied by ukraine itself, leading american analysts recently spoke about this during discussions in washington organized by the usa ukraine foundation, cooperation with the ukrainian embassy in the usa, voice of america correspondent natalka churikova will continue at a time when almost half of the ukrainian infrastructure is destroyed and millions of ukrainians periodically remain without electricity and heating due to the russian bombing ukraine is imperceptibly integrated into the european energy system, says anderson a researcher of the american analytical center atlantic council about e-e before this lp since march

of this year, ukraine joined the european electricity grid, it was first a supplier and then began to import electricity from europe when the russians began to bombard its electricity grid, the same with gas ukraine now imports russian gas from europe, but it is not for long, russia actually supplies gas only for two countries, slovakia and hungary, where it still has support, but it can stop gas for them in one day, this is purely a political decision and here ukraine comes to the aid of europe despite the war, it was able to offer its huge gas storages to european countries that need to stockpile gas for the winter. ukraine can produce wind and hydropower plants at prices that

european manufacturers will not be able to compete with after the war ukraine can become one of the main energy suppliers for europe kurt volker, the former us ambassador to nato, who currently works at the center for the analysis of european policy ukraine, believes that ukraine should become an energy supplier for europe because it will provide a business basis for payments in ukraine, it will ensure the supply of energy to europe at a lower price for consumers, and it will replace russian energy and this is another area where it is possible to speed up reforms in ukraine, which , according to volker, are extremely necessary reforms in the energy sector. the european union and ukraine should start right now, because instead of providing budget aid to ukraine and now it will be able to pay kyiv for services in the supply of energy carriers, energy expert of the transatlantic leadership network de bra keygen believes that now, when a large part of the

soviet energy heritage lies in ruins, is a good time to modernize the ukrainian energy network so that it meets the needs of the time i i think it is extremely important that we look at these solutions from the perspective of the 21st century instead of generators, but i think we need to look at microgrid technology to increase them application to the scale of ukraine, microgrids or smart grids, a technology that includes a small number of consumers who use a local energy source, such a network is autonomous, but at the same time it is connected to a centralized network, that is , it is very stable, the researcher believes that the only problem is that no one has yet applied it for a country the size of ukraine but according to keygen, there are advantages in this, new technologies

will bring private companies eyes on their investments. ukraine is also extremely interested in ukrainians who have proven themselves as resourceful innovators can be co-creators of these changes we want to involve private industry in this because they really have a lot of technology and i think that in the long run it will be a great advantage because ukraine can become a model for others in the development of smart grid technology, just like the military in ukraine, western weapons systems are being improved, which are supplied to western countries, this can also happen in energy, the researcher says that these technologies are the future in ukraine and the usa, where instead of 5 million people in the network want to have 5,000 people, such a network is easier to fix, and if there is a problem with electricity, the local hospital or school will not be disconnected from the network, the attraction of western investment can help

solve another long-standing problem in the energy sector, corruption , the analyst of the center for strategic and international studies of the usa, edward, is convinced a show that knows well ukrainian difficulties in the past, the reason for corruption was that the government manually controlled the energy industry, set energy prices, this gave opportunities for corruption and business groups controlled the sector, but ukrainians now, when it came to the army, showed that with the help of a strong civilian sector, they can create effective state institutions , besides, the country will need money, it will need a lot of financial assistance from the west. and money always comes with certain conditions, so i think that ukrainian government officials must also understand that future agreements will include money from western taxpayers and they may look completely different from the past energy integration will drag down the entire ukrainian economy

, experts are convinced anderson - predicts that if ukraine quickly adopts common legislation of the european union, it can become a member of the eu as early as 2030 natalka churikova kostyantyn golubchyk voice of america download the voice of america mobile application, the application allows automatic bypassing thanks to the built-in blocking vpn service , read news, watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts of the voice of america service in ukrainian, and on this we will say goodbye, also join our daily briefings on the 18th of kyiv on youtube and facebook where you can ask us your questions live. thank you for being with us. thank you for your trust. i wish you a peaceful night and a peaceful morning. see you soon on the

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