of powerful portable battery stations with solar panels for our soldiers , we will hand over the first five stations to the 406th separate artillery brigade named after major general oleksiy almazov, join the gathering, let's bring victory together glory to ukraine, you are watching the program of the ukrainian voice of america time time, i am nataliya leonova congratulations shag will provide ukraine with a new aid package worth more than $3 billion, the white house announced on friday, among other things, the package will include combat harrows, bradley machines, other armored vehicles and shells about details about the new aid package, we will talk with yulia yarmolenko, who has just returned from a briefing at the white house, hello and congratulations to yulia. so, yulia, you

just listened to the representatives of the white house. what is included in the new military aid package and when will it be received? natalia, in fact, this is the largest military aid package since the beginning of a full-scale invasion of russia from the total amount is 3 billion and 750 million dollars, but directly more than 3 billion goes to help ukraine and a little less than 700 million to help other countries in the region if we are talking directly about the military aid that will now be sent to ukraine is actually a very long list and probably the most important and newest equipment in it is 50 bmp bredly as you said, and to them 500 anti-tank missiles llc as well as 250,000 shells of 25 mm caliber, also additional artillery is laid, this is 18 howitzers 105 -millimeter caliber and ammunition for them 36 howitzers of 105 mm caliber and ammunition for

them as well as additional missiles for himers systems, many armored vehicles, i.e. 100 armored personnel carriers, as well as additional humbi vehicles so that the ukrainians could the military could also transport its troops from the new and interesting 4,000 zumi missiles , these are surface-to-air missiles, which, as the pentagon representative laura cooper said, can be adapted directly to ukrainian aircraft, and rim-7 missiles, which are called sea sparrows, are usually launched for air defense from ships, however, as laura cooper said, in the case of the ukrainians, the ukrainian military, as she said, can adapt and launch them from soviet-style systems from ground systems ago a lot of different capacities are included in this package in fact, and if we talk about how big the aid of the united states is, then it has already reached more than uah 24 billion

. the struggle with which they are expected to deal in the future , a few weeks ago we said that we do not expect an end to the fighting in the winter, in fact, since then they have become even tougher, in particular in the donbass so we want to make sure that the ukrainians are well equipped and prepared for the hostilities that they will face in the next couple of months, this was actually the answer to my question to john kirby today at the briefings at the white house. i asked him why exactly this package of military aid is being provided right now and that's how he told that in fact all these means to help the ukrainian military are provided based on the needs of the ukrainian army to yuli by the actions

of the administration if the russians go on the offensive that the ukrainians are better equipped for defense natalya, this is also a very important question, if we are talking about when this package of military aid is provided, today at the briefing in the white house, i asked john about the measles and whether this is connected with the fact that a new offensive is expected from russia, is it possible attack from the north and john kerby actually said that all aid is again given based on the stage of the war, because he said that the white house and the ukrainian administration , the administration of the ukrainian president, are in constant contact, but he also said that in fact, according to the white house, the next few months will be quite an active and dynamic time. and in fact, he said that russia has been under attack since the very beginning of a full-scale war, and therefore it is clear that the ukrainians really need means to defend themselves. he said that he would not

link exactly the volume of this package of military aid for 3 billion dollars on average to whether russia will go on some new powerful offensive , but he said that the united states wants to make sure that the ukrainians have everything they need that is why, again, if we are talking about the assessments of the white house, i asked john kirby again if he would assess that the ukrainians are now more ready for some new offensive by russia, and he said that the ukrainians actually demonstrate time and time again that they are ready for virtually anything and they adapt very well to any conditions. let's listen to what he told me. the ukrainians were able to maintain a rather impressive level of readiness for what they faced. needs but also their abilities in the field, of course we

all talked about bradley today. but recently we talked about the capabilities of air defense and the ingenuity with which they use what they are given. the ukrainians never cease to amaze with their ability to adapt to challenges in real time and they are quite frank honest and open with all partners, including the usa, about what they need to continue doing this, just one remark, if we are talking about the bradley fighting vehicle again, jonkel would say that these are extremely important tools now because they are very easy to use, they can perform complex maneuvers in any language and together with the capabilities provided by germany and france . battlefield thank you yulia for this detailed information, i will remind you that yuliya yarmolenko was in direct contact with us from the white house.

move forward or achieve their goal of pushing the russians out of ukrainian territory with a statement in kyiv, us senator democrat jack ritt , together with his colleague, independent senator angus king, visited the capital of ukraine, where american lawmakers met, among others, with president zelensky, sonaturgin, however, noted that the provision of machines does not mean harm that ukraine will automatically receive abrams tanks, according to him, the united states and other countries are trying to find the right combination of armored vehicles that could be used most effectively ukrainian armed forces the united states celebrates the second anniversary of the storming of the capitol on january 6 and commemorates the five people who died as a result of these events that almost 140 were injured today against almost a thousand people open criminal proceedings some of them have already been convicted meanwhile the congress continues to be paralyzed by the absence of the speaker of the house of

representatives, disputes within the republican party continue for the fourth day, the leader of the republicans, kevin mccarthy, still can not win the necessary support misha's fellow party members know about this day in the congress kateryna lisunova she is with us from the capitol hill katya vitaya vitaya natalya so the house of representatives still has not elected a speaker today, but some conservative republicans have changed their position and supported kevin mccarthy are these votes enough to retain positions , in fact, yesterday, the representatives passed the record of 160 years by voting e 11 rounds, but it seems that for kevin mccarthy, the number 12 is lucky and today it became known that he managed to convince thirteen conservative republicans on his side, including victoria from the party that previously voted to abstain, and in this way today they are trying to get 214 votes, although

this is still not enough to get the required minimum of 218 of votes, kevin mccarthy needs to convince at least four more republicans, and now the 13th round of voting is taking place, but it is already obvious that he will not bring kevin mccarthy victory, and the extreme conservative republicans remain adamant map we don't have enough confidence in kevin mccarthy there are some who oppose mr. mccarthy these people are trying to change the rules change the circumstances that have transformed the position of speaker from a great amazing powerful position that it is now the most these remenial position something like the speaker of the british house of commons before i called it a straitjacket that some of us are trying to create with better rules and better staff because we don't want to put power in mr. mccarthy's hands

because we know for whom he will use it and it is unlikely to be in the interests of the american people. what you hear is also today that washington is celebrating the second anniversary of the storming of the capitol on january 6. did this affect the work of the congress today? actually, today's work actually began with speeches that called for respect for the police officers of the capitol for their work especially for their courage on this day two years ago so uh for such a call made both republicans and democrats all stood applauding aside that yesterday individual police officers who were present during this assault, as well as veterans of the american army, met at the capitol to make an appeal to american legislators and call on them to publicly condemn this act so that it does not happen again, the whole day became a wake-up call and a warning to me and to

many others that political violence the worst thing has become a reality that our elected leaders have allowed this to happen and yet this week the people who encouraged and even participated in the uprising are now taking their seats in the house of representatives and even leading the majority people like murderess taylor green who said that the rioters would have won on january 6th if she had been involved or the medgadz deputy who called on voters to take up arms at the polling station katya you covered these events live on the spot that day please tell me more about your own experience in fact how it unfolded the event was quite unexpected because i didn't plan to cover it, and in fact, i came to cover the test that was happening in support of taking care of trump and against the election results in front of the white house, and then already when the column started marching to the capitol, events began to

unfold unexpectedly, just now you can see a video that i took personally, and during these events, during the storming of the capitol, i would like to point out that many of our colleagues were broken by the people who stormed the capitol and treated them very aggressively, so the very fact that i managed to make this video, it was actually quite difficult, but it is worth considering. i also spoke with people who stormed the campus and it cannot be said that their goal was to directly destroy capitol many of them er were deceived by false claims about stolen elections and that er elections were rigged and most of them believed that they were not storming the capitol but supposedly saving democracy and thus it shows once again how important it really is objective information and the presentation of information in the media and in other resources, and as you can see, the

misinformation that was perceived by the american citizens in this period ended with such tragic events that ended at least to the five people who died, thanking you, i will remind you from the studio on a direct link from the capitol hill was kateryna lisunova, you are watching with the voice of america eastern rite christians celebrate christmas ukraine this year, for the second time, the metropolitan of the orthodox church of ukraine celebrates the epiphany christmas liturgy in the dormition cathedral of kyiv-pechersk lavra, which previously belonged to the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate, but should the moscow patriarchate be banned in ukraine and what awaits the russian orthodox church in in the future, maria ulyanovska spoke with sociologist of religion, professor

emeritus of dzhorstau university, jose kosalova, mr. casanova. greetings. and when ukraine received thomas, in one of the interviews, you said that you were against banning the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate in ukraine. please tell me if your opinion has changed now. i think that you were better than you , and the issue was resolved by dialogue and consultation with the military church. i have the opinion that the state should not defend the church uh, what pants uh, it was found public service , i.e. polled survey that only four to five we ask the population - this is you uh, they are considered as an affiliate of the eggs of the church, but even this

little five, there are just a lot of people and the main one to the fact is that they are the virgins of this church, they are already ukrainians and that they are the whole of ukraine and they are against russia, they are citizens of ukraine and how come they have the same rights, freedom of religion, every non-citizen, and the state is a function of protecting the religious freedoms of all citizens on ukraine, but is he on the river in but the main issue for the state in a war situation is to guarantee national security and state security for ukraine, the same function has the same function to defend the religious views of all citizens and ask them not to go, not to be familiar with one church and oppose another church, but the main thing is the main question is the

function of the special war situation is to guarantee the national e-e e-e hmm sakyuri and it is the heat. i think that there is a way of inselivsya, but also in general the main one. i say there is a reaction of the church in the context. situations of a full-scale war, in your opinion, can the state afford to have a religious organization affiliated with the aggressor, a religious canonical essay of some kind, say what we are and uh, it is related to the incomimer, eucharistically, we are also incomir, our church, what is the mother church, say , eh, roshechka church, but eh -e institutional because you

cannot very clearly show that they do not have any contact in the sense of financing the political ideologically and so that they will become the defense of ukraine against a little aggression, as they will show the appetitors, how they help the enemy, whether he the case is criminal and this element is very clear, it is necessary to criminalize it through the jullistic system, but you need to keep your cool rivne. and what do you think, is the russian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate some kind of threat to the ukrainian state and does ukraine have to do anything with it at all ? the ideology of russian peace is a political theology that the patriarchy already has, that you not only do not oppose it, but are opposed to the

aggressive war, about the criminal war, but to do something about it and think how a holy war is in progress and the church simply sacralizes it to say that it was launched against the ukrainian nation, there is a sacral process, it is holy, that is, any priest or faithful people from the ukrainian orthodox church hold this concept of whether it is a knife so that they are a sabine against ukraine and the assessment and the ukrainian church, the right still needs to say very clearly what it is, what kirill says simply is

, and the topic is not christianity, it is heresy, and because there is nothing to do, i want them to be respected as a church in ukraine, and as for yours a view of what awaits the russian orthodox church in the future. how can it come from calls for genocide, the justification of war, to once again orthodoxy, the church is that it has never frittered that history into the collaboration of the tysov regime and sees itself as running , no lab assistant of the regime, that is, they have to once the church in germany had to re-flash the satur after nazism, they had to re-flash and go to themselves. you are asking for reflexes. the problem is that

this church went to the inauguration from stalinism, and then you and i to the soviet mlism. what is the post-inauguration with putin and they they use it after mirvumen that they already had in the second world war that the latter is good because he defends our people against fascism because of that we can collaborate with and now putin is good because he defends peace your fascism from ukrainians what do you not want to be part of the handle of peace, and because of that it is good that we are treating them as long as they do not see that this is a terrible collaboration, they die, or you are on the river, it will be very difficult that the church can live

and reform the odesa region is one of the regions that from the very beginning of the full-scale attacked by the russians constantly defend their native region from the first days of the war , people of various professions, from a hairdresser to a policeman, joined the ranks of the territorial defense, what unites them today and what they dream of after the end of the war will be told by anna kostyuchenko and pavel sukhodolsky, who visited the brigades during of military exercises near odesa, in this video the 126th separate territorial defense brigade of the armed forces of ukraine is working on russian facilities in the southern direction in september 2022, a 51-year-old lieutenant colonel serhii petrenko trains the brigade's servicemen, he

is from the mykolaiv region, he began his military service in 1988, and in 2014 he served in the zone of operation of the joint forces in the east of ukraine until 2018, when he took a well-deserved retirement, and at first a full-scale offensive by the russians took up a weapon again and voluntarily went to the ranks of the tereo the experience that was in the ato the experience that was in the military service well, also received considering my profession is an engineer from the operation of weapons, i hand over to our anti-terrorist forces. this odesa brigade was created in march. it started fighting in april and since then has repeatedly participated in hostilities in the south of ukraine, when our guys were involved in hostilities for the liberation of our territories in the mykolaivsk kherson region . all these actions showed that we good people were sued

by the perfection of the odessa tereoshniks. these are the mounted anti-tank grenade launchers. they are capable of hitting enemy defense equipment at a distance of more than 1.5 km, and some german to reach the enemy at a distance of more than 6 km already during one of the first gods, lieutenant colonel petrenko says, the stereo volunteers skillfully covered the enemy warehouses with ammunition and from the first mine already hit this warehouse, and at the beginning of october, the odesa tereoshniks shot down an enemy rocket in the region simply from small arms. we the sound started, the officers from the commanders saw the fire, and we opened heavy fire. all together there were 11 of us fighters, they hit

it, the volunteers worked as archaeologists and in may, the diggers unearthed the ancient amphorae dated to approximately the fourth and fifth centuries bc, the find was handed over to the archaeological museum of odessa. before the war, many of the fighters of this odessa brigade did not consider themselves military. mykyta worked as a hairdresser. and didn't finish it, didn't have time. at first, it wasn't me who decided that it would be the right thing to do, children to the army and at least make some effort to protect their homeland here, and i believe that you you can change the place of consumption, but your home will be the same, so you have to

protect it. at the beginning of the war, you had to think about all this for a while so that the thoughts were of the same quality, and in march it was already clear that you had to leave. well, that's why ukraine left - this is our home and they came to us and we are on our own land, so we will not go anywhere from here, this is probably a motivation for you, you can take sisters, nephews, a girl, i don't want the enemy to come to my house, well, of course , i don't want my relatives cried to see this one a sunbed that's why i'm here when the war ends when we win what are your dreams what's the first thing

i want to do return to my main profession cutting people's hair on the very first day when it's all over i'll leave no one works anymore. it's a pity that the red-haired guy who was false in this job and over time everything was destroyed. well, i actually just want to find myself back to work and to a peaceful life . they are also waiting for me there, so i think everything will be fine. good. we will all return to reconstruction and development. i am because of your humidity, and while the field training continues, today we are charged

with practice of shooting from a grenade launcher. kirill senior lieutenant oleg doronin. glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. he is a native odessan. a veteran of the law enforcement agencies of ukraine. they will never take these weapons already lessons, but these russian pallets are as if they are not called e see they forced me back from the brava to take weapons in my hands from the first days of the full-scale offensive of russia, oleg enlisted in the ranks of the volunteers and led an anti-tank battery. after some time, part of my unit performed tasks on the front line. and they performed tasks with honor , honor, and dignity. some of these servicemen were awarded

state awards. risking one's life is simple for oleg, we understand that apart from us, to protect the motherland, our families, our children, grandchildren, parents, there is no one else, it's a dream that it's all over, that all the boys returned home alive and, so to speak, i want to hug my relatives, my children at the beginning of december, the 126th territorial defense brigade received its battle flag during the hostilities, 15 fighters of this brigade received state awards, the 17th decoration of the minister of defense and 25 more decorations of the commander-in-chief anna kostyuchenko pavel sukhodolskyi for the voice of america from the odesa region download the voice of america mobile application, the application

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