ukrainian view i am iryna koval, mother , wife, host of the espresso tv channel, and i am also a volunteer. our soldiers at the front need a lot of things every day, and that is why it is part of my life. he empty stadiums without fans in the stands, deserted sports halls, and even 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, those who remained with weapons in his hands, heroically defending ukraine in this war. ukraine's second place does not suit us. we need a victory . each of you in support of the troops saves the lives of

our soldiers and brings our victory closer . broadcast from washington, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, time, i am yuliya yarmolenko. i congratulate the ukrainian power grid . is recovering after the russian shelling, according to the prime minister of ukraine denys shmogel, the number of emergency shutdowns is decreasing on tuesday, it was possible to return two blocks of thermal power plants to the grid if there are no new shellings, the new year's holidays

must pass without emergency shutdowns, the prime minister of ukraine stressed . the russian bombing of the ukrainian energy infrastructure in recent months has left more than 10 million ukrainians without electricity, many have been left without heat and water in the middle of winter, this energy the facility in central ukraine was repeatedly attacked ukrenergo general director volodymyr kudrytskyi showed voa one of the damaged substations of critical elements of ukraine's power grid during the recent attack by iranian kamikaze drones, the transformer at the heart of the substation, which provides energy to millions of ukrainians, was destroyed radio russia has already launched more than a thousand heavy missiles and

kamikaze drones, in particular, in ukrainian power grids, mainly ukrenergo facilities, power transmission facilities, and power plants and this makes the company the system destruction of the largest energy structure in the history of mankind . before the war were closely related, according to kudrytskyi, the russian military uses russian experts who know a system for coordinating strikes in order to cause as much damage as possible when it is cold outside to disconnect the heating system from the water supply network and therefore destroy this critical infrastructure because the

power grid is the main link of the critical infrastructure without it everything stops without works according to his assessment, the ultimate goal of the russians is to initiate complete neutralization of the system to cause maximum damage to the power grid most electricity in ukraine is produced by nuclear power plants ukraine has 15 reactors at four nuclear power plants a month ago after a massive russian attack, the rivne nuclear power plant, located 60 km from the border with belarus, was forced to stop work due to serious damage to the ukrainian energy system, the largest power plant in western ukraine and the oldest of the 44 operating nuclear power plants operated by the state energy generating company of ukraine energoatom rivne supplies more than 15 steps of gigawatt hours of electricity in the national network of ukraine, the director of the station said that they are cooperating with the military to protect their facility, but they need more help on the part of the international community, first of all,

we need protection, protection of those critical e-e energy facilities that could, if we are talking about a nuclear plant, that could even provide electricity to a nuclear plant, the station's chief engineer adds , we need weapons, weapons themselves, and when that's all it will be much better for us and for you because nuclear terrorism is exactly what nuclearism is, i can't give you another name. about assistance with the protection of the sky above energy supply facilities by supplying financial equipment and assistance in providing psychological support to personnel working in extremely stressful conditions, officials say that at least 1.5 billion dollars is needed for the rapid, first-priority restoration of ukrainian energy facilities destroyed by the russians myroslava gongadze voice

the americas, ukraine, and the united states, meanwhile, are recovering from the snowstorm of the century, which killed more than fifty people, despite the fact that most of the affected the weather is normalizing in the most affected state of new york, the situation remains difficult, the city of buffalo in erie county , where in the past few days the snowfall exceeded the meter mark and 20 cm were in the epicenter of the event, the mayor of the city calls on all non-rescuers not to try to get to buffalo in it is forbidden to use cars in the city, because most of the banks remain blocked by snow. it is buffalo that has suffered the most so far . the number of victims is 27 people. an emergency situation also occurred at airports throughout the country in tuesday, american airlines canceled almost 3,000 flights and tens of thousands

of people cannot get home. after the holidays , the largest number of flights, two and a half thousand on tuesday and the same number on wednesday, was canceled by one airline, southwest, in the us department of transportation called the situation unacceptable and said that they would investigate why the airline canceled such a a large number of its flights 60% of the daily number last week , the house of representatives committee investigating the storming of the capitol on january 6, 2021 made public final conclusions, the members of the committee decided to send a request to the us department of justice with a request to open the case against donald trump, lawmakers suspect the 45th us president of trying to disrupt the 2020 elections , the next step for the attorney general of the united states, merrick harland, the administration of the current president, joe biden, is trying to stay in the oscar situation, more about the development of this case will be told by kateryna lisonova pila we love

trump we love trump two weeks before the second anniversary of the storming of the capitol by supporters donald trump, the committee that investigated the events of january 6 recommended that the mr. justice of the united states prosecute the former american president, six democrats and two republicans on the committee played a role in trying to disrupt the results of the 2020 election, we will be very, very careful not to politicize this process or the administration and the department of justice conduct criminal investigations independently without any political or other interference, meanwhile, the attorney general has the next word merick garrond who has to decide whether to act on the committee's recommendation on january 6 now president biden is doing the best he can do in this situation he says the house committee made a compelling

case in my view everything is transparent i agree with their conclusions we must continue to protect and advance democracy and now it's up to the doj so don't bother the attorney general is appointed by the president and then voted on by the senate but the doj got scandalized in the 70's then the president richard nixon tried to use the attorney general whom he appointed to implement political tasks. there is also an ethics law from 1978 that guarantees an independent investigation of wrongdoing. without the control of the presidential administration, the current prosecutor garland used this very law to appoint a special prosecutor, jack smith, who will lead another investigation. against trump payment , this appointment underscores our department's commitment to the principle of independence and non- reporting in particularly sensitive matters in turn, donald trump says that the

investigation is a new witch hunt, over the years i have provided millions of pages of documents, tax returns and everything else, and they have found nothing, which means that i have proven that i am one of the most honest and innocent people who ever lived in our country, not one president of the united states has been accused of criminal offenses, some experts are worried that the current investigation will increase political differences in the country, others believe that it is necessary to exist at least the possibility of true independence of the ministry of justice, as well as a thorough prosecution of the former president, who in many cases was outside the law. and this will have the effect of strengthening the rule of law and protecting our democracy. this is exactly what the ministry of justice is betting on. on january 6, the investigative committee recommended that the following charges be brought against trump assault

obstructing official proceedings conspiracy to defraud the united states and conspiracy to make false statements catherine lisunova petevoda kuzvara oleksii osika voice of america washington to get used to prostheses instead of legs and once again stand up for the defense of ukraine this is what ukrainian defenders who came to the united states to recover from serious injuries are dreaming of, they defended ukraine from the first day of the full-scale war, bravely survived the loss of limbs and there will already be plans for the future, modern bionic prostheses for seven soldiers were made at their own expense by the american prosthetics center, and accommodation and rehabilitation were taken over by military volunteers, who received great attention and care about them in a shunt, however, they can't wait when they fully master the artificial legs and go to help the front, and maybe even return to the front again and talk with the ukrainian defenders. my

colleagues iryna shynkarenko and oleksiy osika, i grew up with luke, the mechanic, the driver jumped out, then i didn't realize it yet the fact that i don't have legs, despite the fact that i am in the adventure of sound, there was a situation that i broke them off, that's why i had an amputation at my native height. that's how i stood out. adrenaline, i was able to put tourniquets on myself oleksandr fedun 23 years, a few months before the full-scale war, he resigned from the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine, however, on february 24, he was one of the first to come to the military commissariat, immediately became the commander of the unit, first fought in the donetsk direction, then defended his native zaporizhzhia, in may he was ambushed and detonated, the war took him both legs i was very afraid that they would be amputated, well, let's say completely with removal of the composition, well, it turned out that the lower

third and upper third of the thigh were amputated, but with such amputations, i see that most people walks and is not bothered by everything, he gets used to it. oleksandr survived 15 amputations and another 11 operations in ukraine due to a complex lesion. he needed special prostheses. volunteers paid for his flight and accommodation in the usa, and the prosthetics center in maryland produced modern bionic limbs. there is still a long and difficult rehabilitation ahead, but oleksandr is a goal that helps to quickly get used to new circumstances, a desire to return, when i return, i will return to the war, there will be no war, who will i say, to build my life in the civilian world, to kill the instructor young people who have joined the army need instructors, because there is no such thing in books, and in

any case, this is just the beginning of life for me . anatoliy kirda also wants to defend the country again as soon as possible. he is also recovering in the usa after being wounded. and to establish dolavs or armed forces or to help in some other way anatoliy morya for a large-scale war worked abroad but just learned about the attack of the russians returned to ukraine for me it lies on the surface that you have to go home, you have to defend your home they were already close to kyiv. at first, he helped expel the russians from the kyiv region, then he fought in donetsk region. an enemy drone tracked down anatoly when he left his comrades and found himself alone in a trench. when a mine flew by, i saw that the leg was already very ugly. i managed to put a tourniquet.

thank god, someone they heard me, the guys came. well, we went to the hospitals later, ukrainian volunteers in the usa helped to transport anatoly to america, here he was also fitted with a modern bionic prosthesis , a team of physiotherapists is teaching him confidently to walk with a new leg, and the fighting spirit is supported by volunteers and american veterans here, this is the atmosphere here, they embraced our friends here, united heop ukrainian, they are all like, but like our family, we are very raised, even how they behave with us , and well, the atmosphere is simply wonderful here we meet with american veterans, we became friends, they are very friendly, they are good guys

, we understand each other even though we speak different languages ​​ruslan tyshchenko has been defending ukraine since 2014 in donbas, and six months ago he was seriously wounded in kharkiv oblast by a projectile, just like in the movie i look at him as he flies well, then, well, the explosion, well, i threw it away, realized that i needed to screw up a bit, took out a knife and half-crawled to my boys with a knife already in the hospital ward. ruslan found out that his left leg had been completely amputated. i do n't have any. i wasn't really worried about him, i thought how a woman would know what would happen to me. it seems that a

ukrainian woman is a military man. she is one of the strongest, she is ready to endure everything. she is courageous and she is strong. ruslan suffers from phantom pain, but the most difficult thing for him is it was getting used to without life at the front, however, he does not lose his humor and says his little dream has already come true when i received a prosthetic prosthesis the guys have already received some protest and they threw the leg over again and everything was a dream mmm even sometimes it was a dream, it was like that, that's what i wanted to do that's what mike did here he says how to paint you please paint like my flag this is how it was formed these ukrainian soldiers

are worth from 70 to 130 thousand dollars because these soldiers who are undergoing rehabilitation in maryland have very complex types of injuries in their spines there is a chip that reads how gas rights and he repeats very angry, this part is changing, this is being applied, yes , you can run, ukrainian soldiers received prostheses for free, they were paid for by the center of orthopedics and prosthetics in the state of maryland, which, on its own initiative, allocated about half a million dollars for artificial limbs for seven ukrainian soldiers, we have physiotherapy twice a day with such a frequency of adjusting the prostheses but i think everything is going well they will live with comfortable comfortable prostheses with a high level of functions we are happy to help i think that the number the number of injured soldiers in ukraine is terrible and we want to join the assistance of accommodation and

psychological recovery of soldiers who came to america for prosthetics . the charity organization united help ukraine took over. volunteers say they are trying to do everything to put the soldiers on their feet and bring them physically and morally. other funds are ongoing. solders about office ukraine iryna vashchuk handed them over to us and said that the boys are coming and accept them and we accepted them and we accept them as if they were our own relatives and they were on a very thin they were ready to give their lives to the thread of death, so now we are doing everything we can to make them happy here, to be comfortable and to get away from this horror that they experienced . in ukraine, we and our husbands communicate with american

veterans and military personnel, and indeed we see how the state supports the military, we see how they gather themselves. many years have passed since the war, and they communicate, they organize peace initiatives, they together football is played in general, rehabilitation after such amputations is said by american doctors to take about a year, however, the ukrainian military is already ahead of schedule iryna shynkarenko oleksiy osyka voice of america ukrainian startup esper-bionics specializes in the manufacture of bionic hand prostheses before the war, the main markets for their products were europe and the united states, and at first in active hostilities, the need for their prostheses increased directly in ukraine before the start-up itself, as well as a large part of other ukrainian businesses, a whole series appeared

challenges, in particular, ensuring uninterrupted work, but where there are challenges, there are opportunities , experts say, the indomitability of ukrainian startups calls for increased attention from investors, and those engaged in military development receive an additional boost. how did the full-scale invasion of russia affect the world of ukrainian startups? the founder of the start-up club and that entrepreneur came to the united states a few years ago with his startup that helps boutique contact an expert ask questions and get the answers you need founded a year ago the war started and we had to part with part of the team because we had several people who lived here but had roots with the aggressor country because when you have friends die or the people who

just worked with you, you can't work with the russians, so if that's the case, we'd start all over again while i was in new york looking for investors and selling them the product, almost the entire technical team of the project is in ukraine, including pavla's partner maksym rindya they did not stop for a single day and psychologically they are very strong the same situation of ioanna billivantseva, co-founder and operational director of a startup that manufactures bionic hand prostheses, in november, however, she appeared on the cover of the american magazine time after the russians began shelling the ukrainian infrastructure for anna and her team, the main challenge was to ensure the constant work of the startup in ukraine, where most of the team is located, the startup also has offices in new york and berlin, when it became more safer. all our guys, engineers, said we are ready to come back. here we have a good office, this is our own office, we rent the premises, they set up fully

autonomous heating, lighting, internet servers, eh, the team is absolutely prepared to work in such conditions, among other problems that anya has to deal with and her team, a violation of logistics, because the terms of delivery of parts have increased significantly, which used to take two weeks. does not add delivery from poland to ukraine if before the war the key markets for their prostheses were europe and the usa, the war significantly increased the demand for their products specifically in ukraine. now we have already installed two prostheses for the military in ukraine. we have requests for 100-200 hands only for ukraine and we need to expand production as much as possible at a fast pace where we don't have people to expand the team because well, we understand that we can and we have a desire to help to ukrainians who have suffered and who need modern claims and next year we

are already expanding production we ordered very good equipment abroad, the office is expanding and the war and did not know the places of ukrainian startups are attracting additional attention from investors ihor makhaniuk has been with his evening fund for 10 years engaged in investments among his wards, many ukrainian startups say that even this year, well, he invested money in several projects and problems, we got to know them probably in march and invested in april and this company is built on a protocol to help ip address owners license their ip address for the meta universe. it is important that the team had several offices to work with. some of the people were in ukraine and some were in western europe and in march and april they made a record profit, we were extremely impressed by this, another investor, vadym rogunskyi, now

sees no more attention to ukrainian startups, and this is related to charity or the desire to help ukraine, and to the extent that the owners of startups are able to adapt to work in war conditions, we invested money in all or eight startups with ukrainian founders, but at least one of the founders of each project is outside of ukraine, this is important for decision-making, those who have successfully passed such trials, they will return and focus exclusively on business, they will outperform their competitors at the moment cargo times and it hardens the community a few years ago he expects a lot of market growth it will be much bigger than before just because people are learning entrepreneurship now and there will be more people who will be able to build international global startups, because now ukrainians have become much closer to the western and global economy

, entrepreneurs from other countries are also discovering ukraine for themselves, and after the war they will come to ukraine with greater interest in money and attention, investors note that startups have been actively developing in ukraine since february are related to military topics and defense, in particular with air defense and drones , and they see significant potential in this direction from new york iryna solomko pavlo terekhov voice of america this year, tens of thousands of forced immigrants from ukraine who arrived in america after the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia in california celebrated their first christmas in the united states. the ukrainian community of los angeles decided to organize a special holiday for them with traditional nativity carols and homemade dishes, the immigrants say for them and their children, it is very important to hear the ukrainian language and

multiply traditions, especially when our khrystyna visited a home thousands of kilometers away at a ukrainian christmas in los angeles shevchenko carol after carol is sung by the ukrainians of los angeles who came to the vespers at the ukrainian orthodox church of st. andrew, among them are those who arrived in the city after february 24 and are celebrating christmas for the first time outside of their home, for example, natalya, who came with her children from kyiv, what are you doing? the language, understanding of the surrounding people, they did not forget the lord and they sang everything about the will, because in the country

to live forever in hell, a black soul in order to reproduce the spirit of christmas, there is a nativity scene in it, on a volunteer basis, they participate active representatives of the community and american artists of ukrainian origin, so our task is to not only support ukrainians abroad, but also good from the other side, unfortunately, because these ukrainians could be in ukraine, but we are all here, we, they left and are there for whom am i for whom in there are many of us. we will all be caroling, so volunteers prepared ukrainian dishes for the guests, kutyu borscht , mushroom gravy, the event was organized by the charity fund ukraine foundation. today we

celebrate christmas - this is the first time that ukraine celebrates christmas with the whole civilized world on december 25, the purpose of which is, firstly, to raise funds for the armed forces, and secondly, to gather all ukrainians who have gone abroad and do not have relatives and friends to celebrate with them e christmas holidays, we wanted to give them warmth and comfort chornobay the organization will donate proceeds from tickets to the event to the ukrainian army 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 informational programs and videos and also listen to podcasts in ukrainian of the voice of america first mom

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