i will repeat again on january 07.08.9 in the east, in the center and in the north, the night air temperature can drop to -10 -15°. this is the nearest synoptic perspective in ukraine. christmas vasyl, thank you very much. thank you very much, mr. taras didenko, for the information about the weather. well, on the eve of christmas eve and christmas, which will also be celebrated in ukraine, i just want to wish you peace, good warmth , take care, support each other, we are going to victory despite all the difficulties we will win this war now to you a family from ukraine for your attention see you good evening we from ukraine from ukraine live and from london. i'm yevgenia shadlovskaya and today in the episode we are talking about such a christmas truce from

putin, why is the kremlin announcing a ceasefire for the first time after the invasion, which in kyiv has already been called a propaganda gesture, they choose and cannot choose, the work of the american parliament is blocked until the house of representatives will not decide on a speaker and tens of thousands of believers have gathered in the vatican to say goodbye to the dead pope, because on the 16th putin announced a cease-fire for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale invasion on christmas instructed the minister of defense sheyguz from twelve o'clock on january 6 to 24 o'clock on january 7, i quote,

to introduce a cease-fire regime along the entire line of combat of the parties in ukraine, that is, one and a half days of silence, and putin calls on the ukrainian side to do the same before that, about the christmas truce, the patriarch of the russian orthodox church spoke kirill tserkva, in addition to putin's unilateral ceasefire, the president of turkey, erdogan , we will talk about his role later, on the air, and in ukraine, russian statements about a cease-fire are treated with skepticism, so in the president's office zelenskyi they were called a propaganda gesture, the authorities of russia declare that they have no intention of ending the war, but want to show supposedly humanistic approaches from this and let's start what do these russian statements about the christmas truce mean, we are talking about this with the military analyst, the director of the independent platform nujet ex-rysovich network mykhailo with us on the link this is the logic of these russian orders, the russian defense has already stated that putin's command gave the order to cease

fire for 36 hours, in your opinion, how will it be, the russian military will stop tomorrow to shoot and, for example, stop attempts to capture bakhmut, how it would look really very strange from a military point of view, er, an order of disposition in general, this situation a-a in fact, i also believe that this is more from the sphere of propaganda informational and psychological operations and er, i i think that this is the purpose of uh, that is, it is very simple to show how humanistic russia is, that on a religious holiday they allow people to pray and hold their uh, religious rituals and celebrations, but there is another very interesting moment, which i turned attention that after all, from the point of view of putin and official propaganda, this is not a war and this is a special military operation, how can a cease-fire be declared as a special military

operation? well, if you have started it, you can simply stop it or simply stop it, you can continue, this cannot apply to the nazis you want to de -nazify, that is, you announce a pause in denazification, and here it seems to me that it is possible that i, er, may be giving more er qualities and more er, some other meanings than it actually is. but it seems to me that russian propaganda wants to lead the russians into this deep nation, the russian public, to the fact that it is really a war, that it is a war, this is the general total, as they are already starting to say, and it is possible to lead precisely with these analogies that a truce is a war , and so on, to precisely the question of mobilization, because it is that mobilization is needed by the russian army, e.e. putin, in the end, why continue this war, which in principle means political and physical life for him, then

maybe this is just this armistice, this concept of armistice is introduced in order to gradually introduce the concept of war instead of a special of a military operation and there is a statement of national security and defense oleksiy given by fishing and lies and hypocrisy. and if you look at putin's statements in more detail, they announced a cease-fire along the line of combat , that is, to continue shelling ukrainian cities and cities in the rear with missiles and drones, but this may not be to enter into the concept of a russian truce, as in your opinion , absolutely, that is, to believe, and there is no need at all to these statements, this is a show in which the church leadership and the military and putin himself participate, putin generally likes to participate in such informational and psychological operations , that is why i think that it is not necessary to believe it at all . of course, the ukrainian armies must continue to carry out the task of liberating

ukrainian territories, regardless of what the aggressor says. it is strange that the aggressor offers us some kind of reconciliation. and you can do whatever you want there because of how it will be on the battlefield, i think i still hope that the armed forces of ukraine will continue to fulfill their tasks if the russians want to stop fighting it's their business, they can simply get together and leave the ukrainian territory, we don't limit them in this, in fact, that's why now this is what russia wants to achieve, this may be a provocation, this may be an intention to show that , in principle, the kremlin is ready for negotiations . how is the war going now, what is it that is ready for negotiations, he needs to fix the situation in some way, the kremlin is in a state of disaster that february 24, february 24 is a series of disasters that continue to gain momentum and once again

i will repeat without mobilization in the general aviation, total mobilization, they have no chance at all to somehow even try to change the strategic situation, they currently do not have reserves to create additional groups, for example, in order to form enough groups to conduct an operation with belarus, there are not enough reserves to stop ukrainian offensives in the east and in the south, they understand this. to do this, they want to provide themselves with some kind of operational power. using various methods, including such as a cease-fire, such as constant calls to the world community, look, we are ready for negotiations. and the ukrainians are not ready, although what kind of negotiations can there be regarding the aggressor's troops, it is necessary to withdraw the aggressor's troops from the territories and then start negotiations regarding the punishment of war criminals and the payment of reparations to ukraine. here, negotiations can only be held about this and that all this is, of course, uh, informational and psycological propaganda operations,

which are aimed, among other things, at provoking , including at delaying time, mr. mykhailo, please stay in touch, let's talk more details about weapons, western partners transfer armored vehicles to ukraine, france promises light wheeled tanks, bastion armored personnel carriers , this was officially announced the day before, and the united states, according to the american media, is ready to transfer bradley armored fighting vehicles to ukraine . technically, bradleys are not tanks , but they can significantly modernize the ukrainian ground forces. the kind of firepower that the abrams have, and they are just as the washington post writes, which abrams and they refuse to provide to ukraine , in return, according to the washington post, they are still ready to provide bradley, of which there are thousands in the american arsenal, until now, ukraine's partners claimed that the logistics of western armored vehicles are too difficult. germany has repeatedly rejected ukraine's requests to provide infantry fighting vehicles and tanks, mainly on the grounds that germany did not want to be the first to do so

, and the first delivery of western mobile armored vehicles is still one milestone in the supply of the armed forces of ukraine a few weeks ago, let me remind you, the biden administration announced that it would provide kyiv with a patriot missile battery - this the most advanced air defense weapon in the arsenal of the united states, contact us, military analyst, director of the independent platform union polities resort network, mykhailo samus, if the united states provides these brandley armored vehicles, will other countries that support ukraine, for example, germany , follow them? brady - it would be a very, very great gift for the armed forces of ukraine, because these are really heavy armored vehicles and infantry that really do not have such artillery weapons as a tank, but in in any case, to carry out offensive actions, heavy armored vehicles

to support the infantry are just as necessary as air, and this, i think, would be a breakthrough from the point of view of providing ukraine with heavy equipment , indeed, it is not a tank, but it is a bradley in some modifications it can be 30 or more tons. that is, in our understanding of traditional ukrainian, it is closer to a tank, of course, because ukrainian armored personnel carriers, for example, can weigh 14-15 tons there and are twice as heavy. if we talk about our other allies, well, for example, too germany could also put its marder bmps, which are approximately in the same class as bradley, and this could also help us, but here again, not to overdo it, as they say, because if the united states can give us a few hundred, for example , 300 bradley, then it is better to stop on one type of infantry fighting vehicle of this class, and it is precisely for this infantry fighting vehicle that the entire system of training crews

of training specialists in material and technical support of logistics and so on should be built, because if we have 10 types german, french, american, in particular, tracked bmps, then this will already be a huge burden on the ukrainian army itself in terms of logistics and repairs, etc. if we focus on the bradley bmps , for example, france is now giving us imx light tanks 10 is also very cool. after all , they still have a tank-like 105 millimeter gun and just light tanks can be very, very useful to us, especially if they are quickly put in this spring company and that would be, i think eh- that's exactly what it's about general zaluzhny said in his interview that he needs tanks, he needs armored vehicles, he needs artillery, and it is very difficult to provide from a technical point

of view. well, in principle, our partners have already given us a lot, for example, self-propelled artillery installations, the ukrainian army is doing well, they give us a lot light armored vehicles of various types are coping, so i think it is possible to start with heavy vehicles. i am sure that the armed forces of ukraine will cope with this and will use it very effectively on the battlefield, but if the united states will hand over the bradley to the ukrainian military then. does this mean that the ukrainian armed forces no longer need the abrams, about which there is a lot of talk, they are needed because the brady is an infantry fighting vehicle - it is a machine that can transport the landing party and support the infantry, their tanks have a slightly different function, that's all - after all, firepower is security, it’s mobility, which gives just the right support. already a mechanized infantry unit is armed just like, for example, bmp in relation to the scrappers, there are indeed certain technical possibilities, well, special features. excuse me. that is

all tanks are very heavy. they can have a mass of 50-60 t. that is, it is very difficult to even move them around the territory of ukraine. they may simply need special and transportation, they need special maintenance, a repair base, and so on, but on the other hand, you have to start, and abrams is and the candidate who can be the best in terms of quantity and the possibility of fast delivery, because if we talk about pards a in germany, there are physically few of them, they have to be produced, and the production of such and such equipment requires a big a-a long time and large investments, and that is, if we order 300 leopard tanks there now, they will be ready in at least 3 years. of course, such terms are not acceptable for the armed forces of ukraine. abrams can be delivered right now, and again, i think that the armed forces with the abrams you did it. if you

would give them to us right away in certain sets and with appropriate technical support, thank you. by the afternoon, the military observer mykhailo himself, the director of the independent platform nuture point express network, was in touch with me in his assignments to the russian army about the christmas truce, putin officially refers to the appeal of the patriarch of the russian orthodox church kirill, but here it is important that the president of turkey called on putin for a unilateral truce, because they had a telephone conversation in pridugan, and this is what was reported in ankara as a result of this call, the president of turkey told putin that international efforts in the search for ways to peace should be supported primarily by the parties to the conflict themselves, the parties should strive to find a just solution, he also told putin that calls for peace and negotiations should are supported by a unilateral ceasefire, what redugan meant, his press service did not specify, the kremlin had a slightly different message about this call, as we have just seen, iyer dovgan also spoke with

president zelenskyi regarding this conversation, the press service of the turkish president reported that redugan declared his country's readiness to mediating efforts to achieve long-term peace between ukraine and russia, and we are in touch with the senior analyst of the atlantic council in turkey yevheniya haber, she joins us from odesa , yevheniya vitayu you are on the air, erdogan offers to be a mediator from the first days of the full-scale war of russia against ukraine, but for erdogan, it is also a matter of domestic politics, because this year in turkey there are parliamentary and presidential elections. this is how he benefits politically from this role of a peacemaker. i congratulate you. in fact, as you have already noted, this is the absolutely consistent position of president erdoğan, who constantly offers his services as a peacemaker even when objectively there are no conditions for them. if we are talking about full -scale peace and not about some individual

initiatives such as the grain agreement or, let's say , the exchange of prisoners, is there a foreign policy advantage in this, because really if a ceasefire is possible in some way, then turkey is extremely interested in this, turkey really feels the impact of russian aggression in ukraine, is it a negative impact it is not in various spheres, and therefore interested in restoring stability, but this is a matter of domestic politics, because it is clear that the goal of president erdogan is the nobel peace prize . the speaker of the turkish parliament submitted erdoğan's candidacy for this award, and today there was news that the nato speaker also offered pakistan the peace award. this very well shows what are the ambitions of president erdoğan in the region in the world to demonstrate

that turkey is the only country that somehow managed to at least to reduce the level of escalation, if not to settle the conflict, on the other hand, it is obvious that on the eve of the elections in the country, which are to be held in june, president erdogan is also interested in resounding foreign policy successes and turkey intermediary grain agreement but at the same time, the negotiation process between ukraine and russia is actually frozen. in your opinion , erdogan is interested in thawing it as soon as possible. it is beneficial for him. i think that president erdoğan is interested in being very active in this direction. to be honest, i do not think that now in turkey has some kind of naive expectation that the conflict can be resolved by such peaceful negotiations, and i say conflict even though it is russian aggression because it is a theater of minology that is usually used by the turkish side and that's all

the wording you mentioned. when, after all, unilaterally, it is obvious that russia should cease fire, but there is always a certain space in order to save putin's face, these are all features of turkish diplomacy, so i think that these attempts will continue, at the same time , we also receive military deliveries from turkey is not such a public issue and turkey usually gives reasons, but the same cars and armored vehicles of the porcupine that we temporarily heard about, we do not hear from him periodically, but it is obvious that these deliveries are going in ukraine, the same main characters are two parallel tracks, and the fact that turkey talks about peace does not mean that it is some kind of pressure on ukraine to give the occupied territory, this is a world track that somehow allows it to show such foreign policy activity, but at

the same time, it also supports ukraine's idea of ​​emphasis on the fact that the territorial integrity of ukraine must be preserved, he is also constantly present. well, here is turkey, it maintains such close relations with moscow and with kyiv. and if we talk about erdogan's calls to putin and zelensky here's what you read in these official messages here's what the presidents talked about, what concerns the conversation with er putin, this is erdoğan's third er goal. the first point is the gas hub, the energy hub er, its creation in turkey, building turkey's capacity in that including this tie-up to russian gas to a large extent this is the idea in which putin himself is very interested because he needs to sell russian class somewhere and this is the interest of president erdogan and turkey on the one hand of course it is an economic benefit on the other hand it is again

the opportunity to implement such a long-standing idea or even a dream of creating a gas hub in turkey. another question is how realistic it is, under what conditions, in what form, russian gas or other mixtures will be supplied to the european market. but nevertheless , this is an energy component. the second question is crude oil as well . very clearly read in all the statements of the turkish side is the need to clear the border areas of syria from cult militants, there were meetings at the level of ministers of defense and at the level of ministers of foreign affairs, now there is an active attempt to somehow normalize relations between turkey and syria, and this is also the reason that russia plays an important role. therefore, it is necessary to agree on these joint patrols along the border and on the format of cooperation on syria. regarding the

negotiations with president zelenskyi , the priorities for the ukrainian side are again very clearly visible, this is the preservation of the grain agreement - this is the exchange of prisoners - this is the zaporizhia npp, nuclear energy security, and actually the implementation of the ukrainian peace formula it is obvious that turkey has chosen for itself these priority areas: food security and energy or nuclear security. therefore, these are the key tracks on which negotiations between ukraine and turkey are proceeding . implementation of the ukrainian formula of peace, thank you mrs. yevgenia, we were contacted by yevgenia khabar, senior analyst of the atlantic council in turkey and the united states, a crisis is unfolding in the congress, the lower house, the chamber representatives cannot choose a speaker or a speaker for the third day, her work is practically

blocked, legislators cannot deal with any other issues, they cannot adopt new laws, new congressmen cannot take the oath, and this despite the fact that after the new year, the republicans have a majority in the house of representatives, but their representative is kevin mccarthy cannot gather enough votes among his fellow party members and until he manages to win the support of the opposite camp of the democrats. so what is happening, we talk about it with the correspondent of the ukrainian voice of america service, kateryna lisunova, is in touch with us from washington, and the last time something like this happened in the house of representatives was 100 years ago, then it took nine rounds to elect the speaker , today was already the seventh round, that's how many more times they can try to elect the speaker of the house of representatives in fact , the eighth round of voting is already taking place, so we are actually approaching the record of 1925. i apologize for the 23rd year. and that is 100 years

ago, we are approaching this record when as you correctly noted, the voting lasted for nine rounds, he noted that in 1856, the election of the speaker lasted as long as two months, according to experts, and in fact, there is no mechanism that could stop such endless voting in the house of representatives, now in the house of representatives and among the republicans. in fact, two alternative methods to change uh the procedure itself is if kevin mccarthy withdraws uh his nomination and 20 far uh far right conservative republicans come to an agreement with the rest of the republicans on the nomination of an alternative is complete and they will already be able to vote for it, or the republicans can agree with the democrats, guaranteeing them some places in separate committees, that a certain number of democrats simply do not come to the next

voting and thus the number of the required minimum number of votes will decrease because it is necessary to get the maximum from those present and in this way it is possible kiwi mccarthy will be able to get the necessary number of votes but as of now it seems that both sides and this implies a conflict you yourself the republican party, i.e. the extreme right conservative republics and other republicans and directly kevin mccarthy are going all in, so to speak, and they are playing long and high, they are actually playing on each other's endurance. so who is kevin mccarthy, who has already given the seventh round, and now the eighth round is taking place but seven times he failed to become speakers what is known about him and what is the reason for this conflict in the republican party why he is not supported by members of the party females he mccarthy is a career politician they have been in politics for 16 years years ago, and at one time during the presidency of donald trump, he was also a loyalist of donald trump, although after the storming

of the capitol on january 6, he noted in one of the comments that it was completely the fault of don ta and trump, which is true, then he again restored relations with donald trump and won his support both in these midterm elections and in his own vote for the speaker of the house of representatives, because yesterday in his e-e social network the coward donald trump declared that he supports the candidacy of kevin mccarthy and called on virtually everyone republicans to vote for him and it would seem that the position of londotrap should have convinced far-right conservative republicans, who are very often loyalists of donald trump, to vote for kevin mccarthy, but they decided not to do this, and some of them even said that donald trump should not support him on the map, on the contrary, he should withdraw his nomination regarding the claims of these conservative republicans to kevin mccarthy, as claimed by the republicans who

support kevin mccarthy well, and in principle and conservative republicans, they have a number of demands that they want kevin mccarthy to fulfill, and it concerns positions in committees, it concerns some procedural issues . as if simply in principled reluctance, he sees this in mccarthy as the speaker of the pay of representatives, and some of these conservative republicans call him a representative of the so-called status quo and the so-called washington swamps we will see how the eighth round will take place, whether the speakers will choose the payment of representatives in the eighth round, but this has not been the case in the american congress for a long time. thank you , correspondent of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, kateryna lisunova, in the vatican,

they said goodbye to pope benedict xvi, the pope who abdicated for the first time in half millennium for the catholic church it was a truly unique farewell ceremony because it was the first time an active pontiff was present, usually when the pope dies, he temporarily takes over his duties chamberlain until the moment when the church does not remove a new leader, a memorial mass was held on the steps of st. peter's cathedral , thousands of people gathered in the vatican square, after that, a closed service and burial took place. benedict xvi was buried in the crypt in st. peter's cathedral. benedict xvi renounced the holy see in in 2013, after eight years of rule, stating that he was doing it because of his health, he was 85 years old at the time and he was one of the oldest cardinals even when he headed the church and even then he was thinking about what you to go to rest abdication from the holy see is a rare phenomenon for the catholic church , as was the funeral of benedict xvi and with

details bbc correspondent ali maqbool benedict xvi's coffin is carried out with the largest church in the whole of christendom to say goodbye to the former pope and conduct him on the last journey to st. peter's square in the vatican , 50,000 people came to greet the procession with loud applause, this is the last lap, both popes are close by. pope francis led the memorial service during his sermon, he compared benedict to jesus. we want to do this with the same wisdom, tenderness and devotion that he gave us over the years

together . although, of course, pope benedict was no longer the current pope, at his funeral there were many rituals traditional for papal funerals and liturgies. what is unusual is that at this funeral, for the first time in many centuries, all prayers were dedicated to both the previous and current popes, and here is the last farewell prayer to the coffin of pope benedict, and a letter was also laid, which described in detail the achievements of his life, there was a line about his role in the fight against violence, but this angered some of his critics. but there were

others who after at the service they shouted that on the dictation of the 16th should now be considered holy, that's all for today, read more news on our website bbc.ua and subscribe to our pages on social networks, mine on facebook, twitter on instagram tiktok and on youtube you can watch our news release if you suddenly missed it on the air see you tomorrow across the field through the grove mykola is hurrying in his bag bringing us gifts tanks javelins planes and mines guns and cartridges