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showed the world that with the help of extraordinary strength and courage we can resist tyrants glory to ukraine with these words summed up the year 2022 by the minister of foreign affairs of great britain james cleverley and the us secretary of state anthony blinken filled the robes the day before allies will support ukraine as long as necessary or discuss the continuation of military aid to kyiv in on wednesday, the french minister of defense sebastien lekarnyu arrived and met with the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi and the minister of defense oleksiy reznikov on at a joint press conference, the french minister described several ways in which france will continue to help ukraine send weapons from its own stocks through the european peace fund and within the framework of a new fund for 200 million euros that will allow ukraine to purchase weapons directly from french manufacturers, according to the doctor, the visit was important in order to establish

aid priorities, as minister oleksiy reznikov said in ukrainian, they remain unchanged, more air defense systems, artillery, technics, reznikov said that the country agreed on the start of a training program for air force officers for the new air defense system, the transfer of which will be officially announced later more about the results of military aid to ukraine from partners from around the world, in particular from the united states, let's talk with ostap yarosh, who joins the broadcast from ostap's capital hill congratulations congratulations how much in general, ukraine joined forces and now already provides military aid to ukraine and who is in the top five biggest donors yulia well the biggest donor was definitely the united states with since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, they provided only military aid for more than 21 billion dollars, if you calculate it, it comes out to about 2 billion dollars every month, including weapons, including ammunition, equipment and other important things for the armed forces of ukraine, but not only the united states, of course, provided

this assistance to the contact group of the ban on ukraine in about 50 countries around the world joined the rammstein format, and not only nato allies, but also countries that helped militarily, such as australia, new zealand, japan, morocco, and other countries some announced their support for the military publicly, some commanded this, and some, for example, announced it post facto regarding the five countries that provided the most military aid to yuli, that is, in addition to the united states, great britain, germany, poland, and canada, but it is also important to look not only at the absolute numbers of a and at the ratio provided military aid to the capabilities of specific countries, so according to the data of the kiel institute, for example, among the five countries that provided the most military aid in relation to their gdp were estonia latvia lithuania poland and slovakia as for what kind of support was provided by the united

states , what was most effective. helped defeat ukrainian defenders , analysts and former military officials say that the most effective systems that the usa provided to ukraine are m-77 howitzers and missile systems hymers in general, the usa has already supplied ukraine with 20 helmers systems and a gimmers missile with a range of up to 90 km. this is good, but this is not enough . the atakams missile, which can also be launched from himers, would provide a range of up to 300 km, if the ukrainians had it now, they could already hit sevastopol and others critical objects in the crimea in the sky for ukraine turned out to be

effective, the american drones switch blade and phoenix ghost, as well as the turkish bayraktarin drones were used both for reconnaissance and for striking, the ukrainians essentially have turned the combination of drones and ground forces into an art form with this they are much more flexible many of their units use tactical and long-range uavs for artillery strikes as well as for situational business of ukrainian forces in many cases they simply know better where the russians are located and can react much faster but creams and also received new drones from its ally iran , according to the pentagon, russia used hundreds of kamika drones of veteran production for strikes on critical infrastructure of ukraine in order to to shoot them down ukrainian forces, among other things , use american stingers, according to analysts, ukrainian forces managed to shoot down from 60 to 85% of russian drones of iranian production, in addition, the pentagon has already delivered to ukraine two systems of nasams surface-

to-air anti-aircraft complexes that can shoot down drones , planes and cruise missiles i hear they show themselves very well they protect big cities but ukraine is still vulnerable to russian missile attacks , in particular ballistic missiles and scandas the supreme decision will be to send advanced patriot air defense systems to ukraine, however, before they can be used, the ukrainian military must undergo special training , according to expectations, it may take several months, former military officials also indicate that the patriot system is expensive to use e missiles to petri cost three to four million dollars per piece, this is a very expensive system that will require a lot of money, in general, analysts agree on i think that the weapons of the usa and nato critically helped ukraine to protect its land, the former commander of the army in the usa in europe, ben nagodi , considers that with the necessary weapons, ukraine

will be able to win back all its territories, if we continue to do what we are doing now, i think that ukraine will be on the way to the liberation of crimea until the end of august, the commander-in-chief of the ukrainian army, valery zaluzhny, emphasizes that in order to continue effective counterattacks and liberate the territory of the armed forces of ukraine, significantly more armored vehicles and long-range artillery are needed. voice of america ostap now, airplanes, nato-style tanks, longer-range missiles , these are the things that the western partners have not yet provided to ukraine, or are they profitable, that the united states and its allies will soon agree to provide such weapons, this is definitely something that we will follow very carefully in the next year . to answer the planes, the united states says that this is rather a long- term issue and such a possibility is being considered, but not specifically now, starting in 2023, the selected budget for this year provides for a provision that obliges the biden administration to consider the

needs of the ukrainian air force , including tanks, the united states will continue the supply of modernized czech tanks together with the netherlands to ukraine regarding missiles, so far we have not heard such signals from the united states, but as the pentagon has repeatedly emphasized, nothing are not rejected, therefore we will really carefully monitor in the next year what supplies will come to ukraine, as well as the results of security assistance to ukraine for 2022 year by year what is going on, ukrainians showed that they see themselves in europe. in june, after ukraine received the status of a candidate for eu membership, the flag of the union was solemnly brought into the hall of the verkhovna rada, a blue

flag with 12 golden stars, together with the blue and yellow flag of ukraine, was raised by the people of kherson after liberation in november for this year, europe has decided that it is ready to accept ukraine, says ivan miklos , a well-known reformer and former deputy prime minister of slovakia, but how and when are they waiting for ukraine in the european union , has a colleague, oksana bedratenko, talked with ivan miklos, their personal interview, then you wrote a chapter about ukraine and european integration, ukrainians had the eu flag on the maidan, they carried it in liberated kherson, ukraine is committed to joining the eu. do you think that the eu is ready to accept ukraine and whether ukraine is really ready to join? that europe is ready and wants to immediately accept ukraine is that ukraine received the status of a candidate country in june. this is an extremely important sign. and regarding the desire and readiness of ukrainians, ukraine is the first country

where people died under the european flag. spoke in favor of being part of the european union of the western world even during the revolution of dignity and this war is an attempt by russia and putin to prevent ukraine from joining the eu and nato interviewees because there is unity in the eu regarding ukraine regarding ukraine's status as a candidate, at the same time the difference is that there is a war in ukraine no country was invited during the war, another ukraine is a big country like poland . practically all the countries that have joined in recent years are not sure whether there is unity. from the eu 7 conditions six of which concern the main concern of the european union corruption the judicial system overcoming or reducing the influence of oligarchs the rule of law so here is the main concern and task on ukraine's path to membership do you think there

is political will to make reforms wartime war but despite this parliament the government works pensions salaries are paid macrostability is relatively strong under these conditions it may sound strange but the unity created by this threat to the independence and sovereignty of ukraine is stronger than before war until february of this year, it is a good strategy for the government to use this unity and mobilization of society to speed up reforms, the most important thing is in the area of ​​the rule of law, law enforcement and judicial reform of the fight against corruption. you should not expect that the country can become a member of the eu during the war, because even theoretically if ukraine is accepted and the border becomes the border of the

eu and where it is unknown, therefore the west has everything to do now to help ukraine in a military , financial, humanitarian way, especially in a military way, to return to the borders of 1991 , including crimea and all occupied territories , but ukraine has come a long way since the revolution of dignity in the 14th year, after the revolution of dignity, it has done a lot to implement the association agreement, the structure of foreign trade has changed before, the main trade and investment partner was russia, now the eu has also increased the fate of china. therefore, society has changed. and this is one of the factors why putin's plan failed, because he did not understand how ukraine has changed in the 8 years since the revolution of dignity, therefore there are extremely important arguments to accept ukraine into the eu immediately after the end of the war. when ukraine becomes a member of the eu, this is a very difficult question. i don't want to say in 3-4-5 years, because it depends not only on the end of the war, but since the

ukrainian leaders will combine three extremely complex processes of reconstruction and modernization of the country, which is extremely difficult in a country that was partially destroyed by the war, the acceleration of reforms and at the same time the realization of the conditions for european integration , it will also be necessary to convince partners that these processes are proceeding successfully, it is an important signal to attract private investors, because it is impossible to rebuild ukraine successfully and quickly without private investors, both confidence and trust will come only if not only the government but also private investors feel safe in ukraine, in my deep conviction it is not only about ukraine but also about western partners , a prerequisite is necessary. for the successful management of this process of ukraine's return to internationally recognized borders, i think any bad compromise. when ukraine, say, loses crimea or war crimes will remain unpunished such a bad compromise will create and i hope this will not happen tension and instability in ukraine in conditions of tension and instability it is impossible to

successfully reform the country if it enters the european union what will this mean for the geopolitics of europe balance of influence of new and old members of ukraine after victory in this war ukraine will be among the most powerful countries in europe in military terms and not only due to the equipment and weapons they receive, but also due to the practical experience of war, as well as the readiness to fight and protect values on which the european union is built in terms of economic development, there is clear evidence from the first and other waves of expansion when my country slovakia and other central european countries entered it was very positive for them but not only for them it became very useful for western european countries it became an incentive for more rapid growth, for example in the east of austria, which developed quickly after the enlargement, this is a great incentive for the border regions of poland and slovakia, as well as for the eu as an institution, and europe needs incentives for growth

competition, it was an interview with ivan mikl as a result of regular russian shelling of the gas infrastructure in the east of ukraine and as a result of the shutdown of some power plant units on wednesday, the electricity deficit in the ukrainian system increased. this was reported to ukrenergo, while the situation remains difficult in all regions. alternative ways of energy supply, however, how the dean of the faculty of electronics provides himself and his neighbors with the energy produced by his solar power plant and how it creates competition for ilon the mask will be told by olena adamenko and mykhailo zayka on alternative ways to provide electricity in the conditions of the energy crisis, scientists are working in sumy and have already found several options, the neighbors are delighted with what we are doing and say very cool oleksiy and i will not disappear, when the electricity goes off, they say socket yes i say,

of course, let's go oleksiy drozdenko from sumy accumulates electricity produced by solar panels on the roof of his house and shares it more with our neighbors, we call to showdown electric cars kyiv kharkiv and we are asking for live batteries to sell them to us, we are planning to provide four three four houses these are the neighborhood e-e up to 10 hours of electric autonomy by searching for different ways to produce and store electricity in the conditions of the energy crisis, oleksiy is professionally engaged, he heads the faculty of electronics and information technologies of sumy of the state university, this trailer is another development of oleksiy and his colleague elon musk, the design of which is similar to ours, only he used a different type

batteries such as in his teslas, and the most pleasant thing for us was that he did it a month later, we were the first sumy scientists to spend less than four thousand dollars on the manufacture of this trailer of the power plant, this is the cheapest model, according to oleksiy, if tesla showed only a demonstration trailer concept in the summer of this year similar power plants are already being produced in ukraine. at the industrial level, in particular, in volyn and vinnytsia, but they are more expensive than the sumy analogue. the price was the key criterion for the people of sumy. trailer for the military, we can provide energy to any roadblock, field hospital, command post, or some small group of scouts who

are located in an area that does not have electricity and is deployed by one person per five to seventy minutes, i get a mobile power plant, it consists of six solar photo modules and batteries from ordinary trucks, they are inside there, the third element is an inverter that combines the correct operation of the batteries, monitors charged and also makes it possible to connect other sources of energy, for example , a generator, according to oleksiy, their example of combining solar panels with batteries in sumy is already used by civilian consumers, several people in their homes on the roofs there cover the entrances, even on the balconies they placed photo modules eh, they made a combination

of them with batteries through storage devices, rechargeable devices and through inverters eh, they get hours of that electricity when we currently have eh shutdown so this is such a step for autonomy in addition to accumulation of electricity sumy scientists are improving the materials of solar panels yes as part of the nato project science for peace, the people of sumy , together with the university of valencia, are looking for optimal methods of obtaining new materials for solar panels to make them cheaper and safer for the environment. in fact, the heart of future solar panels is created in this laboratory. for example, this panel and the absorbing layer are polycrystalline cream of the temple, all chips and all electronics are made, therefore pure silicon is already if we get a number of other

materials alternative to silicon there - these are the materials of harkoperide kharkiv-henide, which allow us to increase the efficiency factor and also increase their environmental friendliness, that is, it does not contain heavy metals and other such things in its composition a device that allows you to generate electricity by using the pressure drop of compressed gas, such a unit can be used on a gas distribution network, it is impossible, the mains pressure there is several dozens of atmospheres to feed into our e-e networks e-e they are simply not designed for this and there is a so-called deceleration - this is where this pressure comes from, just air, we propose to

equip most emfs with turbo-expanding units that will additionally produce electrical energy when this development is distributed en masse on gas now, partial sanctions will give ukraine well, well, tangible, let's say additional generation, according to denys kurbatov, such units can be put into mass use already in a year olena adamenko mykhailo stutters suma's voice in the united states the season of winter holidays continues, a group of friends in washington decided to make their traditional caroling special this year by adding

ukrainian carols to their repertoire. and colored fragments. and some even go to christmas carols every year. bonikavchuk sings carols with his friends, but this year the christmas carol will be special because in the repertoire ukrainian songs i started this tradition in december 2005, i used to live a few blocks from here and one evening we invited some friends over and we had some wine snacks and some sheet music we decided to rehearse some carols and go caroling down the street what for washington not at all i haven't had such an experience here before. i was new to this area and we just went to the nearest neighbor's house and started singing. we didn't warn anyone that we were coming. my neighbor opened the door and her

my little son, who was 6 years old at the time, came running already in his pajamas i still remember how he listened to us with wide eyes he was delighted with this experience and it reminded me of my childhood because we had carolers coming all the time i grew up in canada in a very bright ukrainian community, and i want to continue this tradition, which is part of my ukrainian identity, it is important for me that my daughter and her friends know about caroling and support this tradition, tell us about caroling, this is not the first time for you, yes, i i have been caroling for many years. i don't know how many. what is your favorite carol? i like them all , but you sing it the best and you probably know all the words. joy to the world. i sing it

most often. my mother taught me one day. on christmas eve, i stood on my bed and sang for her, and you do you know any ukrainian carols? no, but my mother sings them. i don't know much myself, but have you ever heard shchedryk? this is a ukrainian carol . it's my favorite. then we were lucky. boni, i want to ask you more about your ukrainian roots . you talk about how much it means to you. means, please tell me, has it always been like this? did this feeling of well-being change in any way? i grew up with pysanka vyshyvankas all my life, i danced and toured with a ukrainian dance group, i ate traditional food and it was part of my life, regardless of my ethnic origin , the people who lived in my community knew about ukrainian culture in there is a huge active ukrainian community in canada. when people in canada

ask what is your nationality, we don't say canadian, we say i'm ukrainian, and that's why when people here in the united states ask me about my origin i say that i am ukrainian-canadian i joined the ukrainian community here in washington only this year now unfortunately for infamous reasons people are very interested in ukrainian culture and tradition and that is why in the last year i have been talking much more publicly about my ukrainian heritage i have begun to publicly show my ukrainianness this year, that is why i decided to perform several ukrainian carols this year, in particular, and to honor the centenary, the generous session, who will carol here with you today, probably not neighbors after all, for them you will sing there is warned the neighbors to wait for the carolers at home will sing today my

friends and bronte friends from school their families and in general friends of our family from different parts of washington i look forward to seeing what you can do in a few minutes after of our conversation, the first guests come to help the carolers bonnie has invited the ukrainian choral chapel rehearsal begins alleluia to miracles i am among the guests the future us ambassador to estonia josh kent and his son will both sing ukrainian carols for the first time but they say that learning the words was not difficult, i also sang halati in english and i am glad that my son will be here a-a i think this is a good advertisement because now a lot of americans have

the ukrainian flag in the house and just so that they listen and and what is ukrainian uh, the toilet and bowls are generous, meanwhile, most of the guests have already gathered in the backyard of the house before caroling, they warm themselves with hot apple cider. i congratulate those who joined our caroling for the first time, a surprise awaits you, but also those who have been caroling with me for more than one year, i also today i will surprise us, we were lucky, this evening a ukrainian choir joined us and they will sing carol of the bells for us in ukrainian, we congratulate them generous generous generous a swallow flew in it began to mix together on the street in winter but people gathered in a circle to sing the first christmas carol starting from the ukrainian sky and earth angels people

come to traditional american christmas carols by singing carolers go to the neighbor's house i have friendly and cheerful neighbors take hot drinks and let's sing for them

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