for now well, it will be a little bit, let’s say in uh, as you say, illusory in theory, but in fact, uh, this tribunal is acquiring specific features today, and accordingly, we have, in addition to this tribunal, which is spoken of here, the relevant international institutions on today, the international criminal court is conducting an investigation into specific episodes of crimes committed by the russian federation starting from february 24. i would say that this is a sufficient . committed since 2014, we must not forget that russia is waging an active war in

ukraine , launched by it since february 2014. themselves should not be forgotten and the guilty should be brought to justice . thank you oleksandr pavlichenko, executive director of the ukrainian helsinki union for human rights, in contact with our studio now anna eva melnyk will inform us of the news please thank yehor about the situation in the regions i will tell you together with the news team i will start from kherson oblast they are hunting non-stop two people died due to russian shelling of kherson oblast nine more wounded the region was attacked 79 times by the invaders in the past day they were with artillery of reactive systems of salvo fire mortars vitankov told in the regional military administration, kherson itself received 32 hits, enemy

shells hit private and apartment buildings, a car market and a utility company, two people were injured as a result the shelling of druzhkivka in donetsk region, enemy shells damaged the local ice rink , the director of the donbas hockey club reported that based on the altair arena, the russians hit the village of yakovlivka, the occupiers also got kramatorsk, mayor oleksandr goncharenko noted that due to the attack, there were emergency power outages in the city, russian terrorists do not stop shelling the nikopol district in the dnipropetrovsk region twice at night, the occupiers opened fire from hurricanes and heavy artillery, more than 20 shells flew by in nikopol itself and in the territory of the pokrovsk community, people were not affected, noted the head of the regional military administration, valentin

reznichenko, the consequences of the attacks are still being determined . while extinguishing the fire, the occupiers fired twice at the rescuers, no one was injured, the head of the regional military administration, oleg synogubov, reported that in the last day in the region they neutralized more than a hundred explosive devices already in the morning, the russians again fired at sumshchy from anti-aircraft guns, they hit the poshalygin community, and during the night twice with artillery they reached middobudsky, they recorded 38 airstrikes, the consequences are being clarified , noted the head of the regional military administration dmytro zhyletskyi, in addition, the invaders aimed at the railway in the krasnopil community, they also fired

artillery there five arrivals regarding the victims , there is no information, three times the enemy attacked the water area and the coastal zone of the ochakov community in the past the mykolaiv regional military administration noted that no one was injured and 13 enemy attacks were repelled by the ukrainian army during the past day at the front, the general staff reports in the areas of settlements, stelmakhivka, makiyivka, the site, biloghirivka, luhansk region, and the settlement, soledar, krasna gora , podhor, podgorne, bakhmut, klishchivka, cordyumivka, avdiivka , maryinka in the donetsk region, the russians carried out six missile strikes and more than fifty air strikes on the territory of ukraine, and also killed 77 times with rocket salvo systems of fire, the most tense situation is in the direction of bakhmut, the aviation of the defense forces of ukraine during the past day made 13

strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel of the enemy's weapons and military equipment, as well as five strikes on the positions of anti-aircraft missile systems . and 3 reconnaissance uavs of the orlan-10 type, a unit of the missile forces and artillery of the defense forces of ukraine, over the past day, fired at the regional concentration of manpower and military equipment of the enemy, as well as radar station of the enemy of the russians did not overflow on ukrainian soil, about half a thousand invaders wounded and dead . such losses of the attackers were confirmed by the general headquarters on december 31 in the area of ​​the chulakivka settlement of the kherson region. in the area of ​​the settlement of fedorivka, kherson region, the number of enemy casualties, and

to be specified, another 750 russians were mobilized to the graves by our defenders from the beginning of a full-scale invasion, 108,190 enemy soldiers are already resting there, our defenders are actively destroying the equipment of the attackers, namely five tanks - seven armored combat vehicles, 10 cars and tankers - six art systems, one rocket salvo system and one means of anti-air defense, in addition to the armory the forces of ukraine landed one helicopter and three drones of the invaders in the general staff specify that these data are approximate more than one and a half thousand pairs of warm valyans for the ukrainian military were sewn and sent to front-line volunteers of one of the villages in zhytomyr oblast have been doing this since 2014. painstaking work takes a lot of time and requires effort, but the main goal

of the volunteers is to keep the defenders of ukraine from freezing . our correspondents visited an improvised production facility in one of the villages of zhytomyr oblast. old outerwear is not thrown away; it is worn out. for sewing felt boots for the front line , they are engaged in this here. since 2014, children have been going to the ministerial school with bags on their backs, then a little finger, then a fur coat. the teachers helped during the break, the school director during the break, she stood alone and expressed the drawings about the creation of these fur coats, everyone helped the whole village of nina stepanivna, her son, her grandson and her late husband were soldiers and for years the woman worked in the atelier in 2014, she saw a soldier in summer shoes on tv in frost then and decided together with other women to unite and sew felts for the military, the village school supported the initiative, ms. nina has patterns

of different sizes, the most popular 42nd is always on her feet, but she is happy that she is doing something useful business, children, small, big, are coming, and now there are small ones, what can we help you, what can we help you, let's help you, because i didn't forget, let's thread the product into the needle. schoolchildren from different classes are involved in the process of creating valyans. this is such a small step, but it is important for our victory, that's why we help them. we are now on the front line . it's cold, but felt boots well, they can warm up when i put them on in work classes, children tear apart old coats, coats, fur coats at the seams. i personally have two brothers in the war, and this affects me like no one else therefore, thank the people who are sitting here now, who are engaged in this and thank all those volunteers who bring clothes, down jackets, different fur coats , everything that can warm you. nadiya has been sewing felts for the front for almost 9 years, all by hand, i cut this

needle thread and i hem this to the girls, the girls cover the tops, and the boys don’t hesitate to turn out the skirts, they usually instruct the boys to do it correctly so as not to tear . with the help of which you can turn out dumplings and just how correctly olga joined the volunteers recently, her son-in-law helped with a sewing machine, a woman can make up to five pairs of felt boots in a day, when there is no light, everyone is making blanks, it is very necessary i am already running because i know it is important to me how to communicate with people, because at home it is already very difficult to sit and i know that this is not a benefit, it is not every day i sit and everything has to be sewn or

cut something, i help. multi-layered, after that it is necessary to sew all the parts to each other with high quality, there was a problem with galoshes, but immediately there were patrons and benefactors who helped us solve this problem, and they gave us money or bought galoshes themselves, and thus all these felt boots who went to the front, our soldiers were fully equipped , considering the weather, volunteers say their felters to the military at the right time with materials and threads, residents of the entire district and the local sewing factory of zhytomyr oblast yuliya synelnikova vitaly sinelnikov for the espresso tv channel, it is incredible , the nation is incredible, there are countries, ukrainians have united around the armed forces, and the world

has united around ukraine, may it be so until our victory. this is what i tell you. see you at 11, and read more about important things on our espresso tv website as well subscribe to our channels in social networks like stay close the release of the third stream of the educational program of women's leadership feminity from the forex company took place in december , unlike the previous two such programs this year, its participants were not only company employees, but women from different parts of ukraine who seek to develop their leadership skills in 2022. we saw the need for such development among the women of ukraine. we realized that right now is the time

for women to implement changes in their own lives. they have this need because we expanded this initiative in myunytsia to the all-ukrainian level, where we involved 50 women of ukraine in our classes , held once a week for four months, 120 women learned to strengthen their positions in society and in the environment, these were how to overcome impostor syndrome and self-doubt, how to present your ideas, how to develop a strategy, how to manage changes, how to negotiate and resolve conflicts, how to manage conflict, you know, soft skills are professional, yes, that is, we did not specialize in a specific industry or a specific specialty, but for these skills, the goal is the skills that everyone needs. lawyer olena sydorchuk found out about the feminity project from social networks and immediately applied . at that time, the woman was working as a self- employed person and was thinking about her own law office, but in the conditions of a full-scale

war, opening your own business was scary. however, after completing the fmunity course, olena realized her dream without hesitation, and during this project, i realized that you should not postpone what you want to do, you should do it here and now , and in principle, my main change was that that i dared to found my own law office and i am currently working on its size, now the woman has two employees and an office in kyiv, but she works mostly in lviv, most of her clients have moved everywhere with positive results in one way or another, all the graduates of the program achieve, say the organizers of the project, and often these women themselves create changes in the communities. well, in our country, five women developed a project for gender strengthening of their communities, and they received uah 100,000 each from forex for their implementation, this is also a

youth camp and a community for female war veterans, some women dared to complete their educational course because they wanted to teach under the curtain of the lesson, the participants defended their projects and received diplomas for completing the program of the forex company, promising the development of women's leadership will be supported in 2023 iryna ostrovska tv channel espresso cinema television sports music education free people have a choice choose what you want on megogo war has raised its head again in europe reminding us of the

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we will continue our broadcast with a clear espresso . on december 25, 1991, us president george bush announced the decision of the us to officially recognize ukraine as an independent state, about this milestone in the history of relations between ukraine and the us reminded the ambassador of this country to ukraine, bridget breed, on the eve of christmas already in the 22nd year, on christmas of the 91st year, the then president recognized the independence of ukraine. this week , president biden met with president zelensky, emphasizing the strong strategic partnership between the united states and ukraine with the bipartisan support of the congress, which will ensure the freedom of ukraine and its people will have a democratic and successful future , the us diplomat wrote on twitter, let's watch a small story about 31 years of diplomatic relations between ukraine and the united states fear

before the collapse of the ussr and fears of ukrainian independence, ukrainian-american relations began from this point in august 1991, during a visit to kyiv, then the capital of the ukrainian ssr, us president george bush sr. called on the verkhovna rada to preserve the soviet union freedom is not the same as independence americans do not support those who seek independence to replace the tyrants of the center with local despotism, and the speech went down in history under the name cutlet in kyiv as an example of political myopia and miscalculation already in a few weeks ukraine will declare independence and in a few months the ussr will collapse in the usa, even though they have recognized the new reality nevertheless, relations between the two countries were restrained and cautious, all because of nuclear weapons, which washington did not want to see in ukraine, only after the infamous budapest memorandum did relations begin to warm up and

president bill visited kyiv clinton ukraine decided to give up nuclear weapons after the collapse of the soviet union your decision made the world safer for the american people ukrainian people and all humanity the nuclear-free honeymoon did not last long , numerous scandals surrounding the kuchma administration , the gongadze affair, and the so-called chain mail scandal, when washington suspected kyiv of selling a radio-technical intelligence station to iraq, worsened relations between the countries, they normalized only in 2005, after the orange maidan and the victory of viktor yushchenko, then the president bush jr. did not repeat his father's mistake and supported ukraine's course to join nato, i will make every effort to ensure that ukraine and georgia receive an action plan regarding membership. i think it is in our interests as nato members and i think it is in the interests of ukraine and georgia as well. however, at the

bucharest summit, kyiv did not receive a pdp because of the position of berlin and paris. then there was the revenge of the pro-russian forces of yanukovych, euromaidan and the beginning of russian aggression thanks to the political and ukraine then withstood the financial support of the usa, but the reaction of the obama administration was completely weak. washington was afraid to supply weapons to kyiv and did not want to burn all bridges with russia. we will never recognize annexation crimea or a violation of ukrainian sovereignty , if russia continues its aggression, there will be tougher sanctions and even more losses for it under president trump. ukrainian-american relations have become as pragmatic as possible . washington has started supplying ukraine with javelins in exchange for contracts for the purchase of american coal and locomotives, i gave you anti-tank weapons , president obama sent you pillows and sheets many people did not want to do it but i did it after february 24

washington became the undisputed leader of the western the coalition that helps ukraine deter the russian onslaught, zelensky's visit to the usa and his speech in the congress testified to the new nature of bilateral relations in the 300 days of this war, we have really started a new stage in our mutual relations between ukraine and the usa. we have reached the level of real alliance, which is 100% filled with real content and at the beginning of the war, the united states had already provided ukraine with 13 billion dollars in direct financial aid alone . in 2023, mr. oleksandr hara, an expert on foreign and security policy of the defense strategy center, together with us, watched this story. oleksandr, we congratulate you. well, when you

look at these archival videos and speeches, and at george the elder with his cutlet on kyivska, this quote that freedom is it is not the same as independence for obama and clinton and even for biden, not for biden, but for trump, it gives the impression that this is all from someone's past life. and now it's a new life from a new page, but it's all wrong the american policy towards ukraine was different in different historical periods, what it is today and how much it has evolved since the decision by the states to recognize ukrainian independence, which happened on december 25, 1991, please, well, i would say there are always four components that we have to take into account in order to assess the current state of our bilateral relations, this is definitely an evolution of thinking, including the strategic thinking of the united states

itself, consider ukraine, for example, you asked about how much and there was disarmament, remember there were scandals, well, first of all, definitely three tragedies in new york, i am gongadze, but there was also kolchuga and radio continent, that is, these are relations, how ukraine behaved, and then the corruption scandals, or yanukovych, they definitely reduced the desire of our american partners to do something in the ukrainian direction, although even during yanukovych's time, they did not freeze relations, they simply reduced the volumes of interaction that were, and the third point is unconditional european partners and the year 2008 budapest in i apologize budapest bucharest male where germany and france blocked ukraine from receiving the membership action plan i want to say what was the clone and then it was actually a global war from 12 years old what was it called and e russian federation was extremely important for the united states to

wage war in afghanistan. well, the europeans took their own destiny and still do. by the way , they didn't do it before, and that's why, let's say, the americans liked it and they didn't want to get involved in european affairs. and that's exactly why josh bush obeyed, including angela merkel, by the way, she recently defended her position on bucharest in 2008 and on the minsk agreements, as if she did it specifically so that ukraine would have time to prepare for the next invasion of russia, although germany during her time did not give us a single cartridge i didn't sell it, i didn't hand it over. well, of course, russia itself is the fourth factor. how it behaves is definitely a large state in terms of the size of its territory and what can kill our world: nuclear weapons, chemical bacteriological weapons, and not conventional weapons. in fact, this was always a factor that was taken into account in washington and certainly always looked at it that way. by the way, this speech, which

is called cutlet in kyivan, but in fact it has a different meaning. it was in the american language. this is the name zeisin yorktimes gave to such boyguz speeches when he should have said on the contrary that the evil empire must be ended and ukraine must and other republics must gain independence . that's it, that's history. the current relations must be looked at through the prism of all four factors as let 's start with the russian federation, it is a revisionist country , extraordinary, let's say so dangerous, taking into account the greatest nuclear potential as a strategic tactical weapon, and it is actually waging war not only against ukraine, but against the norms and principles based on international law international law of the world of institutions and actually this is extremely important and

we definitely told this to the european americans from the 15th year, but it is very good that at least in the 22nd year it reached them and they they consider ukraine to be of color. here, free education in the east and the restoration of the territorial integrity of ukraine are essential for other powers, primarily china, but also there and north korea, iran, not to do any nonsense regarding the capture of states or disregard for international law, this is the russian federation, europe, despite the fact that it was, let's say, i ignored, in my case, primarily old europe, germany, france, some other states, they ignored the interests of central eastern europe and their own your allies and the eu, as well as ukraine , of course. and uh, she tried to get us as many cheap russian resources as possible and sell her goods on the russian market, and you did not look at the fact that they are becoming dependent on russia, how russia infiltrates through this

strategic corruption into the political means circles in politics are actually european, but on february 22, 2022, it changed radically, and we can see it, first of all, in germany, from the united states, it really was a complete foreign policy failure on all fronts, and the most important thing, definitely for us, is ukrainian language, do you remember president poroshenko's statement that i cannot defend myself with bed sheets? that is, in principle, he did not want to help ukraine in any way, let's say, because he was dealing with china and believed that european affairs should resolve these conflicts , well, there is land and merkel they tried to do it with trump, and it should be said that it was not thanks to trump, but thanks to him, the professional team of mcmaster, metis, who was the minister of defense, john bolt, the national security advisor, the united states

revised its approaches and began to deploy its military and diplomatic machine to counteract the greatest threat to the interests of the united states is the russian federation, and from a strategic perspective china is absolutely essential , and with it they began to supply us with not only but other weapons. mr. biden realized the danger of continuing the bad policy pursued by his former boss panama and for me . including american approaches, the key point for me is that for biden, the ukrainian case is, let's say, a legacy in foreign policy, and success in the ukrainian direction is fundamental for him, because it will be written about in

the history books that he stopped the biggest war, which means in europe after the second world war, he did not give a chance to this fascism . well, he does not flood like that. but in essence, russia is fascist, and he stopped it from continuing its aggression against other countries, because i have no doubts that ukraine was not the only one salt, and there were the european nato countries, primarily the baltic countries, which would be next if the failure were full of reactions from the european fm of the americans, and that is why it is important for him, and that is exactly why we will almost say yes at the level of allies, although we are not allies, we do not have a similar agreement, for example, with israel or with taiwan, we are not members of nato, and we actually have these two goals , which should be the strategic goals of ukrainian foreign policy and diplomacy, to become allies of the de facto ideology of the united states and then we will have long-term support

with weapons and other things and actually then we will have the opportunity to defend our independence in a strategic perspective not only now when russia is weak because russia will definitely not change i do not believe in democratic russia and that is why we have to be powerful to be a part of the euro-atlantic and trans-atlantic world, members are the senate, there can be no alternatives. actually, we can agree to a temporary strengthening of some kyiv contacts, as they call it, but it is definitely not should be substitutes. well, actually, that's why we have to work with the neighboring states, which are one of our most important allies and should become our neighbors. we saw the great , great, great role of poland, well, poland, of course, has always played such a role, but even the baltic states are small in size, the territory is not the size of the heart and the help they provide to it