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volodymyr zelenskyi in washington and the main results of the trip to america, about everything in the material of our special correspondent from the united states, the city of heroic glory of our soldiers, there are such cases that the guys at the positions do not sleep for two or three days and sit there e- e in the trenches, how the armed forces defend the indomitable bakhmut, which has become a fortress in donbas, and why is this city so important for us and for the enemies, life next to death on the grave of a friend because of these constant shelling all people are dying almost every day in the narrow street, a report from the city where the defense of our eastern front takes place, emergency shutdowns and points of invincibility, how ukrainians fight the darkness

, there is very little light in general, we had nothing to warm up actions, consult in which regions the energy situation is the most difficult and where did you manage to stabilize the situation, or lesya russian but it's not for long, who are the biggest suppliers of grain and what is sold in our stores at 8 p.m. in ukraine, the time of the main news, on thursdays, december 22, on the air , the intera information service is oleksandr vasylchenko congratulations, standing ovation in the congress, a queue of politicians to shake hands and the result, military aid for almost 2 billion dollars , that's how it is, without a doubt , volodymyr zelensky's historic visit to the united states of america, the first since the beginning of the full-scale

invasion of washington, the president flew out immediately after the trip to bakhmut, and this is a foreign business trip was prepared under conditions of special secrecy, and the result of the trip is very successful. joe biden once again confirmed his comprehensive support for ukraine and said that with the help of the united states, ukraine will win this war, in particular the american president confirmed that the armed forces of ukraine are receiving the patriot air defense system from the pentagon . our special correspondent dmytro onopchenko has been following volodymyr zelenskyi's visit to washington from the very beginning, and he is ready to tell all the details of both the past and today. he is now in direct contact with us. i congratulate you, we are waiting for you to document the meetings of our president with american politicians. also, how are the results of this visit evaluated in america? tell tim more than that, we were seriously lucky. we saw everything with our own eyes. we had the opportunity to go into the

oval office and see what others did not see and the new tariffs that were not on tv broadcasts, that is, now we will do it like this. i know that all of ukraine yesterday, it was a huge event, followed that what's going on, a lot of things were broadcast live, so actually i'm going to talk mostly about what you probably didn't see on the air well, first of all, let 's talk about what, uh, happened in general, uh a clear understanding, i heard it from sources in the american administration that biden would not have invited zelenskyi and most importantly zelenskyi would not have accepted this invitation if there was no clear understanding at the moment when the airliner carrying the ukrainian delegation took off. well, you know there is never 100% in politics. but at least it should be little did they have any understanding of what they would be able to agree on personally behind closed doors, the two of them later as part of the

delegation when yarmak and koliba from the american side joined from the ukrainian side blinken joined, stalin joined, they will be able to decide and discuss without the press in person, you know there without extra eyes that they cannot talk on the phone, and of course there were two such topics. i was also interested in the ukrainian delegation. well , mostly in the americans from the american side. in principle, they had to discuss something that cannot really be discussed through some diplomatic channels or by telephone, and the question of the question - two, firstly, the supply of weapons - this is something that, you know, is not discussed, this is what we need to look each other in the eyes and secondly, on what terms to end this war and you know the vision of the united states is also very important i am writing this from john kir without the strategic coordinator of the us security council what is the opinion of the united states and i understand that the opinion is now shared by the ukrainian the leadership, now there is a new phase of the war, now

there is a moment that is decisive in that war and for that war, when it is possible to understand, it is possible to decide, the allies can agree among themselves in which direction, in which direction further events will go, just from today, just from that point will it be a further counteroffensive or will it be possible to aspire to give some kind of negotiations there, well, moreover, you know that not only this term peace is important here, but in the state department in the white house well, yesterday we heard it from biden personally several times , they constantly pronounce this term fair, and here it is worth understanding, and what about america, because they say this very often. well, and for ukraine, how fair should he be , so that he is fair, so that he is accepted by the ukrainian leadership, and most importantly, we are ukrainians yesterday, during the press conference, i just had the opportunity to ask exactly this question, as it seems to me the most important at the moment to ask both zelenskyi and

baidin . can you please give my question and the answers of both presidents with your vision and what is the just way to end this war and what do these words mean for you, a just peace, i will start well, i can see your man well although he is already very dear to me i like it, as for the president, a just peace is that there are no compromises regarding our land, the territorial integrity of our sovereignty - this is the most important compensation for all the damage caused by russian aggression. russia is alone, but you never stood alone, you had significant help

. you will stand alone when the freedom of ukraine was under threat, the american people did not hesitate. well, you know, now it was important to hear from both presidents, but i still wanted you to hear the context of these jokes between the presidents, there were a lot of them during the press conference and there were a lot of them during their personal communication , and since i watched it personally, well , in particular, we were in the white house and saw how both presidents walked around the white house and passed the washroom, so it is important to me i had to convey it to you. and i saw it personally and i can say that there was an understanding even in language, the body showed that there was an understanding, there was contact between the two presidents. they were joking anyway. well, what is also important to understand here is that the united states, like other ukrainian allies, will still have their

own vision, but what president biden said. it seems to me that one of the most important statements he made in the face of president zelensky during negotiations, he later told journalists in this world during a press conference that the united states , even if it has its own vision of how events will develop further, will never put pressure on ukraine and how to end this war and that in the end this just peace is about zelenskyi said now, it should be the decision of ukraine and only ukraine, what else, president zelenskyi said that he will not talk about it publicly, i will also not give details now, but this is a weapon, the issue of weapons was very seriously discussed in the white house and here again, without details, he can tell you that it will not only be the petri systems, that it will also be certain weapons, that the united states and ukraine have agreed on very serious military support and, in general, that the front is now to receive very serious supplies of weapons from america and

from the pentagon well, and from the european partners , one more summary of this visit, about which it is worth saying seriously, these are the conversations and meetings with the congress. well, once again, the president's speech in the congress was powerful, strong, which was received by applause. and we congratulated zelenskyi. well, and mostly ukrainians. and you probably saw or live or seen on youtube because i know that this is what ukraine was watching today i would like to say we will see this picture now i would like to say a little about what was not shown on television and these were closed meetings zelenskyi with and not only with the most mature speaker of the lower house, who is, well, a huge person who supports ukraine very much, but her time in that position ends in the last week .

zelenskyi met with them as a speaker, with all democrats, with republicans in the house of representatives of the senate, before going into the hall. what were they talking about ? i was told that it was important to hear as a congressman. when ukraine asks for financial aid. well, now it is not even about 37.7 or 45 billion dollars. it was important to hear from a congressman who will vote for it. they are patriotic but practical people. how will ukraine spend this money and the second is whether there will be a report and this is how i understood how much i heard very seriously very sincerely the conversation because it was behind closed doors without the press without cameras the president was with the democrats and with the republicans just about this and more at one point, when the president came to the podium , he addressed all the congressmen, all the only ones who were in the hall, and again he said that ukraine will be responsible for the money it receives from the united states. if we have the opportunity, let's listen to a fragment of the president's speech, your money - this is

not charity, this is about security and democracy, which we treat very responsibly, the struggle is not only for the lives, freedom and security of ukrainians or any other nation that russia is trying to conquer , the struggle will determine in which world they will live our children and grandchildren. well, look. this conversation of the president with the congressmen, even from the congressional rostrum. i am not talking about the conversations that took place behind closed doors. they were not complimentary, that is, the president clearly said . not very much and it was also met with applause because americans are such people and even more so american politicians with whom you need to talk as frankly as possible as openly as possible, and they appreciate it. so , summing up all these hours, what

the presidents and the ukrainian delegation held in washington, and let me remind you that this has never happened. well, in my memory, it seems to me that in history, when a foreign leader arrives at lunch , he holds the most powerful meetings, and then flies away at night. to the white house, these are conversations, meetings, speeches , conversations with congressmen. and you know, literally just now. who was at the negotiations, was in the oval office, secretary of state blinking, he literally came out here in the next week to the press and just talked a lot about ukraine and told him, he was asked a very clear direct question that i would like to ask. i stretched out my hand, i wanted to ask when secretary of state blinken personally spoke about the fact that peace is a return to the borders on february 24,

when the war began. and what will happen next? ukraine wants to liberate its entire territory. well, let's listen. there is a possibility. here's what he said secretary of state, we have the same goals and directions of action, in particular, with regard to territorial integrity , where and how to move and when to finish, it is up to the ukrainians to decide what we want, yes, it is a just peace, russia should not have new chances to repeat what it is doing now and it is wrong position to count on diplomacy eh so, in any case, everything will be decided by ukraine, everything will be decided by the ukrainians well, for the sake of these words, it was worth organizing this visit of colleagues kyiv thank you dima for this interesting and very important information for all of us it was dmytro onopchenko from washington about the results of volodymyr zelenskyi's historic visit to the

united states of america and on the way home , volodymyr zelenskyi met with polish president anze duda, he told about this in his address. what else did he say? let's listen, dear ukrainians, today will be very short . addressing unusual conditions but as always about what we have achieved we return to don we are going with good results with those that will really help when we say patriots in in ukraine and in the united states, we equally mean the protection of the state and people, this issue is resolved for ukraine, there are actions and financial support, and there are agreements about them a little later . of the states of america to both chambers of both parties to all those who support ukraine to all those who wish victory as well as all of us victory glory to each of our soldiers glory

to everyone who barons our state we are taking to ukraine to the donbas near bakhmut and in the south, for whose decision our defense forces were waiting on the way home and met with the president of poland, ange there thanked him all the fields, the city of our rank-and-file rzeszów for everything they do for ukraine and our social protection of europe today in a special format one-on-one we spoke with ange about our interaction, i told him about what the united states had heard about our strategic vision next year, we are preparing to strengthen our joint forces, another professional today the holiday of the people who give us normality , modernity and the very level of well-being that the terrorist state wants to destroy today is the day of energy workers i dedicate all of you to the defenders of the difference of the ukrainian

light and thanked you for your work to help you, we also bring new agreements glory to ukraine, our fortress in the east this is how the president called the jumper of the american congress the heroic bakhmut, because it really is. now it is in him that the future fate of the front is decided. the russians do not stop or not for a day they attack bakhmut to take this city they use all their arsenals, count the soldiers, the surrounding fields are literally littered with enemy bodies, and bakhmut himself is in ruins, but unconquered, as if at the limit of human capabilities, his defenders hold their formation and why bakhmut is so important, my colleague iryna bagle will tell the city that was covered in black smoke from constant explosions for months 24 /7 and they go on like this, nothing changes, the place is

burning from the blows of russian artillery and where the shooting battles do not stop, close assault battles , as there were six to eight times a day, so they happen, but not since yesterday in our neighbors had three breakthroughs. that is, there are always some infantry battles. the infantry is constantly checking the battle. an unconquered place that i learned about every day before going here to washington. i was on the front line. they have been storming continuously since may and every day and every night, but bakhmut is standing bakhmut even in the spring up to 70,000 people lived here, now there are no more than a thousand left devastated and those who are almost empty-handed under the shelling are trying have time to jump into an evacuation car, a beautiful city was destroyed, there is no city, don’t be afraid and the children

who grew up in an instant from the rocket attacks on the burning of their homes show how they are shot by the russians, let’s hero bakh expired, they burned down bakhmut, a once cozy ukrainian town in the donbass, and in ruins stands like a fortress, a certain lida is constantly attacked by the russian military everyone who has in their arsenal mortars, tanks, armored personnel carriers, etc., some geese, some tracked equipment from airplanes, first of all, the tactics of the first world war, and now they are starting with their line to fire at us with everything they have, fired at us , moved their artillery 100-200 m forward

and fired again and moved forward again , that is, they are burning the area with such royal fire. bodies of enemies, according to the institute for the study of war, in recent weeks, the occupiers have not managed to increase the pace of advance, it is already closer to winter , they are there at all, this line almost does not change remains in place, and although somewhere at the beginning of the summer it was still moving so actively on our defenses of bakhmut itself, they say that in some areas the enemy managed to repel the latest news on bakhmut, all the troops of the russian federation were repelled from all the traffic jams from the city itself from the suburban temporary sectors there, but now they are all more peculiar, if it is correct to say, all their forces are directed along the flank , that is, to the north and south of bakhmut and

became only a barrage of fire, the russians switched to attacks in small groups, we communicate with you. we have air reconnaissance here conveys that there is a possible coup, they send 3-4 military personnel who go to see what kind of fire equipment we have at the positions. and after that, they send a larger group or artillery positions are covered with mortars . there are 20-30 mortars there, and we have two, three, maybe four, but lately they have been put into economy mode by a strike, and cotton played a significant role here, in the russian rear, logistics centers are being destroyed, where they are piling up. imagine how many warehouses were built by the russians, how many were planted there, and now they are all

being blown up, and when there are no warehouses, what is there to shoot at? took on some kind of political obligation, well, explain to the top leadership of the state that he really needs a victory and he constantly abandons his prisoners, simply because time is running against him, he does not just leave because everything is in them that is, the prisoner we took was not one, not two, not three, they themselves said that if you retreat , your own people will shoot you. therefore, it is with one goal to create a decoration of at least some kind of victory when, after a large-scale defeat in kharkiv oblast, a shameful escape from kherson their own civilian russians are already turning away from

military propaganda. and now the second wave of mobilization, well, if you can describe it that way. and if the people do not watch military topics, they do not consume this product, this is such a military surrogate. then how is it for war? to send, that is, for them, it is a big headache and it is possible, this gestal can be closed only with real victories, not invented , only real ones, that is why they are fighting for any settlement and even announce now that if they move away from bahmut, they have concentrated here a large number of people who they moved here from the kherson direction. if they screw up now and here, it will be a disaster for them , you know how defeats in the spring and during rest, it happens that the guys at the positions do not sleep for two or three days and sit there in the trenches, the ukrainian military fortresses of bakhmut are bleeding the russian army, and

experts and analysts already call this battle the decisive one in this war. they are binding a large number of russian groups. now just imagine the amount of logistics concentrated in that direction, that is, such a big magnet in order to attract the maximum number of russian of the military for that it is possible to ensure a breakthrough in some other areas where these russian soldiers have become much smaller, the indomitability of the armed forces outside the country is already being studied by foreign armies, and the ukrainian military themselves explain their superhuman exploits with one thing, honestly, i don’t know. well, ukrainians somehow know more than me , it’s difficult to explain. volya, that’s freedom to the last drop of blood, it’s in us. well, it’s just in iryna’s blood, details marathon

, the only news, tv channel inter and near heroic bakhmut holds the defense of siversk , a city nearby, along which the enemy's defense line also runs. artillery and aviation work there 24 hours a day. despite this, there are still quite a few civilians in the settlement, and our venkor stanislav has returned to siversk. kuharchuk and further his report becomes russian artillery on the sides of ravines and broken equipment, but the sight of the cities themselves is even more horrifying, the once cozy siversk is shaking from the explosions, the street and houses are destroyed by shells, and the biggest trouble is brought by the russian aviation, it has become more active here in recent days. that is why local residents are once again in the basements there are no civilians left in the city, there are still a lot of people surviving as best they can and they are happy for any help. fresh bread, well, we

drove the rest of the way in the morning. they got used to it a little bit, but i would n’t fly here. that’s the main thing here. it is flying like this, there is not a single one left in an intact house, that is why the locals are forced to live in cold and dirty basements, unsanitary conditions are another problem with their water. there is neither technical nor drinking water in the city, people collect rainwater or melt snow. the 20 liters of water that we brought are divided between two basements. there is 20 liters in half. thank you very much. despite the poverty ,

we can drink coffee from the basement. here he lives like four neighbors. he says that it will not freeze in the winter. everywhere ukrainian flags and you above make an inscription mother ukraine our father stepan sila we have one long live the maidan well it seems that nothing can break his strength of spirit but at first glance this is already over coffee uncle sashko confesses that he is tired of surviving it is hard on the soul something is hard on the soul of course, it is understandable, morally , mentally, to take death, all the seas are waiting for everyone. the russians are hitting the city chaotically, because where it will fly to. the next time, no one knows , it will be the grave of a friend. there is no

way to bury them in the city cemetery, that's why local residents bury people so easily in flowerbeds under houses and such that the russians will be pushed away from the town and their hell on earth will finally end three days before more than 100,000 russians were killed, this is today's data from the general staff, for 10 months of war in our army , one hundred thousand and 400 enemy soldiers were eliminated , in addition, our defenders destroyed and divined equipment worth billions of dollars, and 3,000 tanks, more than 280 airplanes, and almost as many helicopters, and they also burned down. almost 2,000 artillery systems were shot down. six and

a half hundred cruise missiles were also eliminated. they will have enough power over the enemy, we need weapons, but we already have our main weapon, these are our soldiers, and then there is a story about one of them, a young marine. he defended mariupol , lost an arm and a leg, survived torture, was captured and returned home unconquered novel only 20 and on his shoulders the defense of mariupol a serious injury, captivity, liberation and 11 operations instead of years and legs prostheses, however, he is from odessa, so he does not lose his sense of humor clan do not hang the nose and everything is normal years no legs no well nothing but i always dreamed left and will learn

to eat at the age of 18. after graduating from the transition school, roman went to serve, dreamed of becoming a marine and got into the reconnaissance company of the 36th separate brigade of the naval forces of ukraine when a large-scale the invasion was on the first line 35 km from mariupol. our task was er perfect quality but to transmit all the information er where it is located behind the movement of the enemy by pressing the enemy's equipment with infantry an armored personnel carrier was coming at us, they repulsed how many opponents we passed. so that our company could do even a little while they did.