support of the ukrainian veteran business , find out the details on the website or by calling the phone number on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian service in the voices of rakych time, i am yuliya yarmolenko , welcome to western leaders and diplomats condemned the next massive missile attack on ukraine, according to the armed forces of ukraine, on thursday morning, russia fired 69 missiles at the ukrainian territories, 54 of which were successfully destroyed by air defense forces. thank you for the skill of the air force of ukraine. ukraine will win. britain's malinda simmons emphasized with her

actions that moscow rejects zelenskyi's peace plan and demonstrates that it does not want peace, while russia wants to force itself to answer that it seeks peace, in fact it continues to commit war crimes against ukrainians, the prime minister wrote on twitter that estonia is the path to peace she added that it would help ukraine win and increase military aid, meanwhile , canada's permanent representative to the un, robert ray, emphasized that ukraine has every right to destroy the sources of attacks in russia in he wrote on twitter that the response to russian aggression from facilities in russia and the black sea should be effective air defense and self-defense capable of destroying the sources of aggressive attacks. this is called self-defense and fully complies with international law. ukraine must be able to defend itself, wrote nato commander-in-chief james jones. the ukrainians agree . can strike inside russia to disrupt

supply lines, but for this ukrainians must be equipped with longer-range weapons, which became the main lesson of the first lesson of the war and which they see the development of events, they did not resign, he shared in an interview with the voice of america ukraine store, on the one hand, ukraine is still confident that it can expel russia from all occupied territories, if for them this is the criterion for victory, then we are likely to face a longer war, on the other hand, if russia wants to to enter into peace negotiations under conditions acceptable to the ukrainian people, for example by pledging not to invade anyone other than georgia and other countries, then i think there is a possibility to end the war in 2023, but it is still too early this is to predict that russia has an advantage in population and i know that they are preparing troops as fast as they can but to

succeed in such a war their soldiers need much more training russia has never turned its army into a 21st century army unlike ukraine it is very important to show putin that the american-european union on matters of aid to ukraine is not weakening, but becoming stronger, and with the xiaomi of the west and nato is extremely important, also because it is a signal to other autocrats who are closely watching by what happens when a dictator starts an unprovoked illegal war and what consequences it has for his reputation and status, the former commander of the us army in europe and now, military analyst ben hodges believes that ukraine will be able to regain its territories next year, but for this victory, the white man must also believe home and provide the necessary weapons, we talked earlier about the middle of next

year, ukraine can return crimea. is it still your assessment that ukraine will win the war and return its territory, so and so i i believe that by the end of next summer, ukraine will be able to liberate crimea, but our problem is that the white house and the pentagon are not sure that the ukrainians can do it, so they do not dare to say that we want to win. and that is why we will give everything that is needed. so this is a challenge and i i believe that ukraine should be demonstrated by people like me and other supporters of ukraine who believe that ukraine can do it, we should continue to prove why ukraine is able to force russia to leave crimea and it will not necessarily be something like a frontal attack by tanks through the perekop isthmus, and i can imagine that general zaluzhny and his staff will be in the pentagon where they say, look. this is how we will do it, but for this we need such and

such weapons. opinion what weapon is the most necessary since the west currently does not provide long-range radio missiles to judge the attacks, is it or something like this that will help the ukrainians isolate crimea by destroying the kerch bridge continue to attack the land corridor that passes through melitopol and of course continue to strike the russian headquarters, airfield and ammunition depot in crimea, so in my opinion this is the most important thing that needs to be provided, of course, and i also believe that we should have provided tanks a long time ago to help with the offensive capabilities of the american congress plays a key role in approving funding for aid to ukraine about the results of the year and the future support of kyiv by american legislators let's talk with

my colleague kateryna lisunova yak joins the broadcast from the congress building katya congratulates yulia katya with what results from the point of view of aid for ukraine this year in the congress ends and should we expect the same level of support from the new convocation in the new year both the republicans and the democrats with whom i spoke say that in support of ukraine in the next year will be unchanged, although the republicans will most likely insist on increased checks of the aid that comes to ukraine in relation to the results with which this year ends, then for ukraine in first of all, it ends with the speech of volodymyr zelenskyi in the congress, which many legislators have already called historic. it enabled the ukrainian leader not only to address the american legislators, but also to the american people, whose position actually depends on the policy of both the congress and the white house regarding the important end of this year. this is already the allocation of additional aid in ukraine in the amount of 45 billion dollars, which was included in the regular budget for the next year, it is

difficult to say how much zelensky's speech influenced the votes of legislators, but it is worth noting that the representative of the republicans in the house of representatives, he mccarthy, who previously criticized the provision of aid to ukraine , said that ukraine will not receive more unlimited checks in the new congress, criticized almost all items of the government budget, except for aid to ukraine, in general, about the role of ukraine in american politics and about zelenskyi's speech was summed up in a comment for our colleagues from the armenian service by contrast, democrat judy lou offers to listen to her comment now i was in the hall congress during the speech of president zelensky and it was very inspiring, it is inspiring because ukraine had much less opportunities to fight back against the russian invasion and yet they were able to stop russia from taking over ukraine and it seems that they will succeed

step by step in completely pushing russia out of ukraine, of course the ukrainian people endures great suffering, nevertheless, the courage of the ukrainian people is an inspiration for everyone , the struggle in ukraine is very important, it shows if all those who love democracy unite and support those who have become victims of this kind attacks and captures, then we will be able to achieve success and support democracy around the world katya, what important legislative initiatives for ukraine are still worth waiting for in the new year, at the end of this lesson, the senate committee on international relations supported a resolution that recognizes russia's actions in ukraine as genocide against the ukrainian people and this means that already next year it is worth waiting for consideration of this resolution by both the senate and the house of representatives, and one of the authors of this resolution belcardin today published a statement on twitter that it will become one of his of more important priorities in the next year, a document on the recognition of russia as a state sponsor of culturalism is also waiting for a vote. in addition, it became known

at the end of the year that the legislators are also working on another document that recognizes russia as an aggressor country. however, this document caused a number of criticisms among ukrainian organizations. in addition, i spoke to with representatives of the ukrainian congressional focus and they claim that next year they will publish new legislative initiatives in support of ukraine katya they say that about the new composition of the congress at the end of the year, the scandal surrounding one of the newly elected legislators is returning, this is republican george santos, who apparently falsified his biography, one of the false facts was that santos was of ukrainian jewish origin, tell more about this story . e four-year e republican george santos was elected to the house of representatives from the state of new york in this year's midterm elections, although already after his election a number of american medi made public the investigation, which revealed that he was not who he claimed to be. it turns out

that he falsified the data in his biography, which related to both his education and his work and, in particular, his national origin, in particular, santo claimed that he was a ukrainian jew whose ancestors left ukraine that before the second world war, due to anti-semitic persecution in ukraine, he also stated in an interview for the american media that ukraine is a totalitarian state and is not at all a beacon of democracy in the world, and spoke in particular against providing additional aid to ukraine, it is true that the american media discovered that santos does not have any ukrainian-jewish origins and that his ancestors were born in brazil, and even before the second world war, samsantos commented on such investigations and apologized and admitted that parts of his biography are false. in fact, he refuses -e to leave his elected position and said that only american citizens can remove him from this position

next year and i will note that another american legislator two weeks ago ago, he also declared his ukrainian jewish origin, i suggest you listen right now place in western ukraine, my forefathers are from western ukraine, they had 18 children. they faithfully believed in the bible and in the first commandment of god, be fruitful and multiply. my grandfather was one of the three who came to america and the remaining 15 remained there and when the nazis captured western ukraine they came to my great-grandmother her husband was a famous jewish scholar at that time he had already died they told her to gather her large family 35 people over the age of 85 came to the porch years to four months, the nazis said to go with them, my great-grandmother had a strong character, she said we will not move from our place, they shot them all. thank you, katya, for your report, for your analysis, in connection with the

capitol hill was my colleague kateryna lisonova. in 2022, poland entered the the five largest donors of military aid in ukraine confirmed their role as a key ally of the pna in countering russian aggression and an indispensable partner of the us in the region. on february 24, more than 7 million ukrainian refugees crossed the border of poland to find temporary refuge in europe , today ukraine and its nato allies rely on poland to deliver weapons and humanitarian goods to ukraine. will never leave ukraine alone, his words were confirmed by actions a day after that visit on february 24, when russia invaded ukraine, the polish-ukrainian border was filled with ukrainians fleeing the war

welcomed with open arms lukash damsky from the hrushevsky center in warsaw noted that poland has become a haven for millions of ukrainian refugees and poland and ukraine have mutually expanded the rights of their citizens, the expert noted that a common threat changed the not always smooth relations between ukraine and poland, the war greatly contributed to the intensification of contacts to a huge increasing trust and sympathy for each other , it also showed that both states have a common interest and a common vision of the future . in may, the president of poland andrzej duda became the first foreign leader to personally appear before the ukrainian parliament at the beginning of the war, dodan announced his support for ukraine's desire to join the eu and criticized voices in europe that called on ukraine to accept some of putin's demands. in his opinion, any territorial concessions by russia would be a blow to the entire western world. ukraine has several where is the right to give one's wheat? i want to say clearly that only

ukraine has the right to decide its future, only ukraine has the right to decide for itself, the world must demand from russia full withdrawal from the territory of ukraine and the cessation of violations of international law in 2022. poland became one of the leaders of military support for ukraine and, together with the baltic states, a lobbyist for the integration of kyiv into the eu, and therefore poland's strong position in relation to ukraine contributed to the development of relations between warsaw and washington, which have recently been quite difficult president biden's visit to poland at the beginning of the war, his meeting with ukrainian refugees and american military personnel present in the country emphasized the commitment of the united states to supporting ukraine's struggle for democracy and self-determination the united states also demonstrated that poland is a historically important battleground for freedom and security in europe for generations warsaw stood where freedom was tried to be suppressed and freedom won today's battles in kyiv mariupol

and kharkiv the last battle in a long struggle hungary 1956 poland 1956 and then again 1981 czechoslovakia 1968 he declared the commitment of the usa to help ukraine and noted that russia's actions in ukraine contributed to the strengthening of unity among allies russian troops met with brave and steadfast ukrainian resistance instead of breaking ukraine's resolve russia's brutal tactics strengthened resolve instead of dividing the west and now stronger and more united than ever russia wanted less nato presence on its border but now we have a stronger and bigger presence here over 100 000 american troops, together with all other nato members, the united states and poland became the first and fifth countries in the world in terms of total financial contribution to ukraine, according to the

kyiv institute of world economy, during the 9 months of the war, both countries allocated 55 billion euros in support of ukraine, as the polish territory was a territory to support ukraine. war and life in constant danger ukrainians continue to adapt to new conditions put up christmas trees and preserve aspects of peaceful life incredible resilience of ukrainians the leaders of the usa and the eu constantly note why this is happening and what will give the ukrainians the strength to win. my colleague maria pros talked about it with the military on the front lines and psychologists. hello everyone. we are from ukraine. zaporizhia region

. journalist taras belika herself defends ukraine on the front lines and publishes daily episodes of her video blog where she talks about the psychological and emotional state of ukrainians, soldiers and civilians, tells what started with what he tried to explain the changes in the mood in society to his wife, but later dozens of people joined the project at the peak moment - there were 80 people, but among them there are professional psychologists from belgium, the czech republic, germany, the netherlands who helped me and told me how to correctly identify conditions , there are people with temporary of the briefly occupied territories, who have been watching something there since the first day, these are people who are more professionally trained psychologically and they simply send me a summary of the observation of behavior in certain groups, you can call it focus groups civilian and military also send me messages to the point that these are military personnel who know that in each

group there is a person who is a vocal and opinion leader for them. and very often these people write to me. what i noticed is that now, unlike the beginning of the war, negative news and triggers do not lead to a decline in morale, on the contrary , they cause more determination to fight, when people are constantly under stress, and we were under such deep stress in the first days probably 50 we have constant emotional swings when we reacted very sharply to various news and various triggers and everything from the outside, we were constantly afraid of something. well, there was a new massive missile attack, and it did not shake us in any way, but what the new petriv systems can provide us is very encouraging. psychologist from lviv, volodymyr stanchyshyn, researches wars on the state of the ukrainians. he explains that the ukrainians had

to adapt because this is how the human psyche works, that under any circumstances the task is to survive. we become thermal, which you called the results. us as a daily challenge also this war will be different from the war of the second world war the first world war which is what we can we have a chance today we have psychotherapists to prescribe psychologists again support the world communities of psychotherapeutic stanchyshyn explains that trying to survive, ukrainians, unlike other societies, cannot focus on development but at the same time, going through the experience gives a new direction of movement when the war ends, the war will not end we really have many years ahead of us well, as if the continuation of this the war, the continuation of the fight against our internal corruption and our internal problems,

such as unemployment, in order to fill all of this in order to preserve the same ukrainian language it's true that the war pushes us back, but where it pushes us back, it gives citizens who say, " but now i'm ready to pay taxes in a different way , it's like, well, like investing in ukraine, you believe in her, well, like in her strength, and what we 'll be able to see after the war" ukraine's identity on the world stage on the world stage, it is also about the internal strength that we have. professor kakarin korostiliy, the people of crimea, has been researching the issue of war and peace settlement at george mason university in virginia on february 24 together with american colleagues for 20 years. conducts a number of studies in ukraine on the perception of war and victory, she said that the results of the polls proved that ukrainian lands are the most valuable thing for ukrainians and they are not ready for territorial concessions nfo ukrainians ukrainians want

a ceasefire and a peace process, but they will not agree to any concessions territory because there is a firm belief that aggression cannot be justified territory - this is an important value and there is also a strong belief that ukraine is on the right side of the war, this is a belief in a just war, this is very important in because how people perceive where they are going and that they are really protecting democracy for the whole world is an important component of the stability of ukrainians in korostylina, she calls volunteerism and the involvement of almost every ukrainian in the work for victory. she believes that this is exactly the reason for increased attacks against the civilian population. so much aggression and aggression against the civilian population in ukraine killing civilians is not just a by-product of the war against them specifically targeting them directing attacks to intimidate the government to force it to surrender this that what the russians did in the beginning but then they

also saw the massive involvement of civilians in the joint resistance then they started attacking civilians to reduce their numbers and also carry out revenge killings so the increase in the number of civilian deaths in ukraine happened in particular because of the resistance and resilience of the ukrainian people, at the same time, for more than 10 months , there is obviously fatigue from the war both among the ukrainians themselves and abroad, which leads to a lower level of support for ukraine from foreigners about we have seen a lot of support among the people, but unfortunately this is repeated in every war. i have studied wars in 20 countries of the world, of course, current and past conflicts, but we see that the normalization of violence is happening, it has become a part of ordinary life, and this is unfortunately is happening in ukraine, if you look at the news in the united states, the number of reports about ukraine is clearly decreasing, psychologists say that these processes are

also important to be aware of, but high-ranking officials in the united states and europe constantly they emphasize that they will support ukraine as long as it takes in their determination to go to the end, they also convince the ukrainians themselves, both at the front and in the rear, 4 km 42 is not the hardest thing to do eh well, we will run exactly as long as necessary and it is certain that today in ukraine there is also a lot of fatigue this is really an existential war for ukrainians, you think that what ukrainians have an advantage over russians today, we have our own existential war for existential war is a war of meaning, a war of the meaning of existence that ukraine can exist only if it wins this war although it is impossible radically, you know that the world can end, it is impossible, because today it is impossible to break a ukrainian, and you are aware that no matter what our

enemy does, we have to do only what we do, and he does a lot of work, but we will redo all of it. velidakensa of the zones of the christmas holidays has already traditionally celebrated exciting gingerbread constructions this year. she decided to recreate one of the bitterest consequences of the russian war, the destroyed mariupol here, from the sweet pastry drama theater maternity hospital and azovstal with figurines of indomitable ukrainian soldiers, one of the defenders, mykhailo dianov, during treatment in the usa, came to see the recreated painfully familiar city, the author of the project believes that he and the rest of the ukrainians will soon be able to visit the real liberated mariupol, they watched the process of creating a ginger city iryna shynkarenko and dmytro melnyk at first, i made the particle so normal, and then i had to destroy it because when a-ah russian a-

ah aa bombs fell on it, uh, houses today they really destroyed them, this is an american woman of crimean tatar origin, valida kent, gingerbread houses before the winter holidays , she has been baking for 15 years, this time she broke and crushed her cookies for the first time and created a ginger city for the first time with such pain and pride at the same time i made mariupol a-a factory theater hospital because for me, mariupol is a person of dignity, ukrainian russian troops stopped here for a few months ago, they could not overcome these people,

ukrainian soldiers and medics, women and men, and valida decided to create children in mariupol from cookies during the summer, she had never been to this ukrainian city, so she prepared for a long time , read books, watched photos and videos before and after russian atrocities among the buildings that she tried to recreate from dough the maternity hospital on which the russians carried out an airstrike here russian bombs were delivered, and then i gave birth to women like this, and there was a woman who died and she, too, will be here, the most difficult thing was to make a copy of azovstari , for this validi had to become a baker as an architect and an engineer at the same time, i wrote two diploma theses of some students about er

domina workshop because i needed you to understand er understand what it is, how it works , valida's husband helped build the railway, and the figurines of ukrainian defenders were made by their son, this is already big what kind of machine guns is this? and this is the azov military theater next to the mariupol drama theater made of cookies, just a reminder that when the world celebrates the new year, there is a war going on in ukraine near the mariupol theater, there was a christmas tree and there was a wedding there they say i don't know the holiday, but not at the moment. currently, it's nothing good instead of a christmas tree in the ginger town of valide, russian rockets, i made a rocket, for example, but my husband

said that it's wrong because they, uh, bombed, uh, the theater, they animesolz will take rockets, but something else there was a weapon, but it is not possible to see 12 kg of flour for more than a month of daily work on cookies, valida spared no effort because she wants to tell the whole world about russian crimes in her family , more than one generation of valida's parents, crimean tatars, victims of stalinism the regime deported a-a my a-a parents a-a to the success of the state and my mother was born in a gulag the russian government for a very long time a-a destroyed our er-e for something and hm seven

mariupol made of cookies is exhibited in the ukrainian house in washington one of the defenders of azovstal , mykhailo dianov, has already looked at it. he received a gift of his own figure made of cookies, but decided to leave it on the ginger azovstal. meanwhile, the author of the project believes that soon she will be able to visit the real ukrainian mariupol, as well as her family's homeland in the liberated crimea, iryna shynkarenko, dmytro melnyk, voice of america, and that's the end of it. thank you for watching. voice of america in ukrainian. see you tomorrow. good luck. take care, dad. andriy yanitskyi keeps the economy under control. yes, it's about economic news on the espresso channel, but it's not about dry numbers and arrogant terms, it's about the economy is available about the ability to analyze , forecast and profit about what the

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