so that ukrainians don't think about so that they don't talk about the first place, war still comes out, war is our victory, seven days a week from monday to monday, seven different spheres of human activity, sports, culture , politics, eight presenters, espresso, journalists , experts, opinion leaders in real time about the most current events through the prism of war, every day author's projects on espresso i'm iryna koval, mother, wife, host of the espresso tv channel and i'm also a volunteer, our soldiers at the front need a lot of things every day, and that's why part of my life today - this is help

to the armed forces of ukraine and i am very grateful to my colleagues for supporting me in this . of course, for a tv host, the main job is to inform people as disgustingly as possible, as truthfully as possible. now it is mainly information about the war. we will donate, we will buy walkie-talkies, copters, pick-ups, armored cars , and fairy tales. and we also have to pay for nets, this is a special help, this is what you do with your own hands and it will go to the front line, each of you will save the lives of our soldiers in support of the army saves the lives of our soldiers and brings our victory closer,

watch the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, i am nataliya leonova, i congratulate shafman to provide ukraine with bradley fighting vehicles, and germany with marder infantry fighting vehicles and the patriot anti-missile defense system, both countries of the ukrainian military use this equipment, talk about it by phone on wednesday us president biden and german chancellor olafsholz spoke, in addition, president biden and chancellor schulz confirmed their intention to continue supporting ukraine's urgent needs in anti-aircraft defense and continue to provide the necessary financial humanitarian and diplomatic assistance for as long as necessary. as the statement of the white house says, we will

dial . our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin he joins our studio from london greetings bohdan greetings so what kind of equipment will come from the usa and germany and is it known when the ukrainian military will already be able to use it? natalya, as she mentioned, it is about the so-called infantry fighting vehicles. in fact, the american bradley infantry fighting vehicle and the german marder belong to the same class of combat vehicles that are designed to quickly transport and protect infantrymen during movement in under the conditions of battle, these machines are also equipped with cannons, machine guns, and there are versions, for example, of the american bmp bradley, which have special missile installations that can

destroy tanks and these machines are called very effective and very necessary for ukraine as to when the ukrainians will be able to receive them, we do not actually see this in the official reports, even in the joint statement of scholz and american president joe biden there is no mention, uh, even about the number although other sources report that it is likely from the american side, when it comes to bradley , it says about 50 units, and maybe as many as 40 or 50, such a figure is also given in relation to german marders, it is obviously a serious number, but not so much how much are ukrainians being asked or called upon , because ukrainian

commander zaluzhny recently said in an interview with the british economic magazine that in order to successfully and quickly conduct an offensive to liberate ukrainian territories from russian invaders, he believes that he needs 600 or 700 combat vehicles and infantry, it is possible that additional numbers will be added from other countries, not only from the usa and germany. but why now, after almost a year of russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine it was finally decided to provide armored vehicles of western production, it is about symbolism, and it is about the fact that the countries not only declare that they will support ukraine as long as it is necessary, for example, today again again in the joint statement of biden and

scholz what can be said about the reaction to the next development of the course of the russian war in ukraine we see that every time some serious dramatic events took place, let's say at the beginning of the offensive the usa provided ukraine with javelins and other portable missiles, then when the world was shocked by the russian atrocities in buch by the bombing of ukrainian cities, then germany, in particular, began to sell long-range howitzers from france to ukrainians, and howitzers also came. then there were other events in the russian war against ukraine and constantly western partners, in fact, allies of ukraine increased e-e went to a new level of military assistance ukraine received in the summer e heimers these anti-aircraft guns e not

anti-aircraft mace or e salvo rocket launchers fire such rocket artillery that was a very noticeable change for the situation on the battlefield for ukraine and now it is also clear that it is about a new level of assistance to ukraine because now there are talks again and about the fact that russia is probably preparing uh maybe new offensives is concentrating forces for new attacks on ukraine and ukraine wants to conduct a large-scale counteroffensive in order to free its territory completely from the russian invaders. but after the announcement of the provision of armored vehicles to france, president zelenskyi said that france is taking european defense support to ukraine to a new level, however, military experts and commentators are now debating whether the french m extend combat vehicle is really a tank in the classical

sense. want to show themselves from the professional side, but there is also another very, very, very important aspect , which is whether military aid to the west of ukraine reaches a new level and whether it reaches the level of supplying heavy beards of the equipment of large heavy tanks e for offensive operations, and here we are talking about, say, abrams tanks that the united states has or leopard tanks with which the german army or the french army is armed at the moment in order to provide heavy main battle tanks in the country and so on the impression is that it has not yet reached that point, but these so -called light tanks promised to ukraine by france

are still the next level of assistance very, very desirable for ukrainians, as the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi and also the commander of the ukrainian of the armed forces, general zaluzhny. thank you, bohdan. let me remind you that our european correspondent bohdan was in direct contact with us. us president joe biden commented on the statement of the president of russia, vladimir putin, about the alleged announcement of a so-called ceasefire along the entire line of combat of the parties in ukraine for the christmas period. i don't want to answer what putin says, it's interesting that he was ready to bomb hospitals, kindergartens and churches on december 25 and on new year's, i thought he was trying to breathe, he said president biden in the congress of the united states has been unable to elect the speaker of the house of representatives for the third day. this is the third most important

position in the united states after the president and vice president. the republicans who won the majority in the house of representatives cannot agree on the candidacy of their leader. follows the topic on the capitalist hill. congratulations to katya. congratulations to natalya. so, katya, the election of the speaker is essentially delayed because of a small group of republican congressmen. why are they blocking decisions and what is the position of those who support those on the map, in fact , the eighth round of voting for the position of speaker of the house of representatives has just ended, and as of now, the votes are the same as yesterday and the day before yesterday, and 20 conservative republicans are in the opposition and do not allow him to gain the necessary 218 votes to embrace the position of speaker of the house of representatives, which means that the united states are actually going for a hundred-year record because 100 years ago, back in 1923, in order to approve the speaker, it was necessary to vote 9

rounds, and the ninth round of voting for the speaker of the house of representatives should begin soon, if it also turns out to be a failure for kevin mccarthy, then this will put a risk in the 100-year record and the duration of the approval of this position regarding the question what exactly are the oppositionists demanding and so the so-called conservative republics, from the beginning they set a number of demands, this was related to positions in committees and other procedural requirements, but as of now there are so many demands that one gets the impression that the question lies in the personality of kevin mccarthy, and certain conservative republics directly claim that kevin mccarthy represents the so-called status quo with which they are competing. as for those republicans who support kevin mccarthy, yesterday, republicans who are veterans of the american army entered a joint

statement who said that they are not going to be held hostage by 20 conservative republics. he is not going to surrender to them . we have 20 people who demand that 2001 legislators surrender to them without no justification personally i won't just give up if you have conditions give them we will consider them that doesn't mean we will necessarily fulfill them but we have to discuss them we keep asking what you want what you need but these 20 people demand unconditional surrender in particular they are demanding it from congressmen veterans of the us armed forces we will not surrender unconditionally our collective frustration is that we are not getting any specifics in response what steps will secure these 218 votes for kevin mccarthy so that we

we have finally moved, now we have the same numbers after each vote nothing changes each side digs its trench deeper i think this is a disservice to those men and women who depend on us abroad and those who elected us katya so what are the options for getting out of this situation how can the house of representatives unblock its work, i will note that nine rounds of voting is a 100-year record, but it is not the largest, for example, in 1856, during the civil war, the election of the speaker of the platopresniks was delayed for two months, i.e. in fact, according to experts, this procedure can last forever and these repeated votes can be endless because there is no mechanism that can stop this vote or change the system of this vote, although there are several ways to change the procedure and directly if kevin

mccarthy refuses to run and the 20th conservative republicans with other representatives of the republic of belarus, an agreement regarding an alternative candidacy and will agree to this alternative candidacy and will nominate this alternative candidate, who is supported by the majority of e-e republicans or the majority of republicans who support kevin mccarthy can go to cooperate with the democrats and ask them to simply not come to the next vote, and in this way the number of the required minimum number of votes will decrease because the minimum in the bureau is calculated from the number of people present. risks in the fact that bills will not be approved, and including various bills for important for the united states of america, there are other bills that relating to ukraine, thanking us for direct communication from the capitol hill was kateryna helisonova, a unique wooden

church that volunteers in the lviv region have been trying to preserve for over 325 years, at the same time, since 2014, they have been helping the armed forces of ukraine, in particular, from the fragments of thermal imaging cameras, they create their far-sighted devices that see to a much longer distance between the originals , what to preserve history and how a volunteer seems to combine these two cases in the conditions of war, omelyan oshchudlyak and yuriy dankevich also said that it is similar to the usual picnic, but these people didn't come here for a vacation on these containers, used motor oil, hydrophobic solution. in mine , shingles are boiled, small chipped slats with grooves, this will be a new roof for the old church . my grandfather once taught me that a shingle is worth as much as a loaf of gray bread is for the church, we have 22,000 hours this is a huge

number and a huge amount, the church is covered with native shingles, it looks much better . even the headquarters is a sheet of metal that shines. well, it really distorts our culture. we decided that war is war, but our soldiers are there at the front, they are just fighting for our culture for our identity for our cultural heritage even during the war entrepreneurs psychologists financiers and journalists students teachers and architects restorers and even a prosecutor all of them gather every month in the suburbs of lviv the goal is to save this wooden church that does not fall only because of supports installed from the outside and the year 1693 is written on the inside above the door. here in the village there is a tradition that this church was brought from somewhere and installed here, and it really has places under foxes. it is clear that it was

weighed down and moved there, the church itself is from logs that are only split and not even hewn are very archaic. a very ancient system of preparing the material and we assume that it is much, much older, it may even be the 16th century, which would mean that this is the oldest church in the lviv suburbs. andriy salyuk and associates have been trying to save the church on their own since 2013 year for public donations, in order to protect the building from moisture, they covered it with a special film and have already completely restored the church bell tower located nearby. it looks good. this is my personal photo. a few days after these shots, smoke could be seen from the bell tower. russian rockets fell on energy facilities only 10 km from here. private houses were also damaged since the

russians occupied crimea and entered the donbas in 2014. to work for the needs of the armed forces of ukraine in their office a giant flag hung with military chevrons these are gifts from those who received help at the front main requests night vision devices thermal imagers binoculars monoculars, sights, periscopes, weather stations , drones, sometimes cars, the volumes are small, but the military appreciates them for their expertise. very often there are both, most often we do not cooperate with the middle and lower ranks, this is

also not accidental, this was our strategy from the very beginning to help those who are in the line of fire, their first volunteer experience andriy received back in the fall of 1990. when help was organized to organize a revolution in granite, the first large-scale student protest in kyiv on the eve of the collapse of the ussr, then tents and sleeping bags were needed. today, he appeals to his followers on social networks and calls on them to pass on damage from the front with thermal imaging cameras , because over the years their volunteer group has also learned to manufacture and repair a variety of equipment, this is a device that sees thermal radiation from various surfaces in them . if you have a thermal imager, no one is there for 500 for 800 m will not sneak up on you imperceptibly, snipers will see targets there, including up to 2 km. we once also had the opportunity to use some old british thermal imager with an american flash matrix and make such a hybrid with it, which gave 4.5 km/h for a month 4.5 km the

visibility is very good. and in fact, when the guys call you there at 5:00 in the morning and say, you know, we tried to bypass us this morning. alive and you understand what it all means the meaning is that war affects everyone, victory depends on everyone, with this slogan volunteers have been encouraging others to join in 2014 for many years, as a reminder, the guard saluk is just as well versed in models of sights or thermal imagers as he is in the intricacies of restoring churches, the time will come, he says, and military thermal imagers will be needed for his favorite cause restorations view daily book yuriy dankevich for voting america from lviv charity organization ukraine with chicago directly cooperates with the ukrainian general staff founders of the fund owners of 20 logistics

50% of companies of ukrainian origin finance the fund with their own funds, have already sent hundreds of tons of military and humanitarian aid to ukraine as volunteers established contact with the office of the volunteer, how they check requests for help in the general staff and how the stars of the ukrainian scene are involved, the volunteers told about it to my colleagues yarina matviychuk and pavluv terohova, the city of chicago, one of the main transportation centers in the united states. it is also home to one of the largest ukrainian communities in the united states, when it began in february a full-scale russian invasion of ukraine ukrainian owners of the largest transport companies in chicago decided to unite to help ukraine logistics companies that were competitors at the time in the american market all the owners of ukraine united we decided to create a fund we did not know each other personally although

we did not know each other personally. literally in a few hours, we made all the necessary decisions that we will create a fund, how we will make decisions and how we will work. this everything was voluntary, whoever wanted to joined in order to provide the fund financially, the owners of the company, who were recently also competitors, agreed to make weekly contributions from personal funds. on february 25, we already started working on the phones to collect some funds. we didn't have any accounts yet where to deposit funds. it was less than a week ago. of the taxes was $5,000, namely more than $150,000 every week, respectively, on the first day we collected one and a half million dollars, to date the funds have already absorbed more than $20 million, they open bank accounts and register officially a charitable fund from the first days of its foundation, millions of dollars are on their account, the challenge is to properly use these funds, purchase appropriate goods and give them to those who really need it, volunteers

are starting to look for contacts in the defense departments of ukraine in order to work directly with the armed forces we went to the general staff to fully explain the situation to us, what are the needs, what is important, how to convey it correctly so that there is no abuse there, a memorandum was created with by the armed forces, signed by mr. zaluzhnym about cooperation. well, it all started accordingly. first, the military leadership asked them for bulletproof vests and helmets to protect the lives of soldiers. in the first three months of work , volunteers say, they sent 10,000 bulletproof vests and more than five thousand helmets to ukraine. urgent need - sets of military uniforms of military uniforms have already been handed over more than 10,000 sets, the set includes uniforms, pants, jackets, shoes, backpacks, knee pads, gloves, glasses,

t-shirts in boxes, balaclavas, even socks we bought it in a few months, the volunteers realized that they cover all the needs with their own finances, so they attract the stars of the ukrainian scene to fundraise at concerts in the usa and at festivals of the ukrainian community, ukrainian bands, singers who come here, bands such as sky without limits, kalush, they help us raise funds that we then use it for the further purposes of the fund, the biggest fundraiser turned out to be the band's tour without restrictions, they managed to raise more than 175,000 from the fund's budget. we thank them very much for this was also held after the concert , an auction was held at which the guitar of the band was handed over, a flag with the signatures of prominent persons, i.e. in this way, we raised these funds after

festivals and concerts, more people will learn about heroes of ukraine, as a result , investors will appear among americans , this owner of an insurance company came to the office of the foundation to give volunteers a check with funds collected by its employees and the company to support ukraine during the war a few months ago, i was in this office and the girls who are here working told us about the ukrainian people, what difficulties they have to go through. and then we decided to do something for ukraine, get involved somehow, we told all our employees about ukraine, invited people from help heroes of ukraine to the office to tell them about the situation in ukraine and their needs, they came talked with us and it really inspired our employees. they started making charitable contributions. the company decided to allocate as much money as the private employees make, so i hope. today we brought a very good a check that will help in their efforts, so the fund

went from helping clothes and body armor to the purchase of dual- purpose military goods, we say that there are thermal imagers , night vision devices, drones, collimators for which we have all the main american licenses for export and import for procurement and in order to legitimately take them out to export to ukraine, accordingly, as well as ukrainian documents on guarantee letters, which we have the right to legally import into ukraine in general, as the volunteers say help heroes of ukraine during the 9 months of the war sent 150 tons of military aid to ukraine, among them 100 american cars, these are live pickup trucks, they are all bought here in the united states of america at auctions or from people who cannot withstand heavy loads, that is,

you can put grenade launchers on them, you can put when the carrying capacity of these machines is much better than that of an ordinary civilian machine, in the fall drones were added to the urgent needs of the ukrainian army, this is the next batch of drones , there are 31 drones in monetary terms almost 100,000 dollars, which will be sent to the front lines, in addition to military schools, this backpack has a comb, a flashlight, a towel, toothpaste, hygiene products, this is already the second batch of 500 children's backpacks from american schools, in general, the fund has already sent one and a half thousand tons of humanitarian aid to ukraine because the fund was founded by carriers, all goods that we send to ukraine are packed as efficiently as possible in such uh, gay lords

, pallets, and we have free space if it goes in a container, there is no room at all this team includes both the owners of the logistics companies themselves and their employees chat where the whole company we have a chat roman our director writes what is needed for example this is the kind of help we need, for example, 15-20 people and each of the owners of the company writes back in the chat how many people can send today for this job if our employees go on volunteering during working hours, their salary is credited to them, the guys say that the specifics of their business, transportation, also contributes to charitable activities, each of the fund has its own staff and own freight transport, which is often used for the foundation's activities, for example, there is a charitable foundation that needs to make some kind of transportation from california to

chicago . business time and speed of response to things is critical thanks to this i think we are very different from other foundations volunteers receive requests for help from military units and units later they send these requests to one of the branches of the general staff of the armed forces for verification, if the need of the military is confirmed only after that, the volunteers send the goods as needed, we verify whether it is a legitimate military unit, where it is located, what needs it has, whether they do not have what they have on the balance they ask that this is done only so that there is no duplication of volunteer assistance in ukraine, 15 people work at the foundation, the volunteers say that they are determined to work for the long term and are already developing a strategy for the foundation's activities after the ukrainian victory party discussed this issue, but i think that we will definitely start with children , that is, first of all, if a school, for example

, is destroyed, a school or a kindergarten is destroyed. that is , we will focus our attention and help on restoring this as soon as possible, because children are the flower of the nation most of the co-founders of the fund have been living in the usa for about 20 years, have families, stable businesses, this war turned them from competitors into partners, the guys say that they protect places with their volunteer activities my childhood was very ukraine, as i said myself, everyone has brothers, i am classmates, and everyone has their own street, a favorite place where no one wants to see someone else's boots, because they are someone else's tanks, these volunteers are naked people, those who help, those who fight and those who pray for first and second iryna matviychuk pavlo terekhov voice of america we will say goodbye on this