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via washington, the program of the ukrainian service the voices of america, time there, i am yuliya yarmolenko. congratulations , support for ukraine must increase, more weapons for kyiv, the path to peace with such appeals , nato secretary general jen stoltonberg spoke at a security conference in sweden immediately former us secretary of state condoleezza rice also called for strengthening military support for ukraine in order to prevent russia from winning the war in an article for the washington post published in co-authorship with former us secretary of defense robert gates. responded to such calls in the biden administration and is there a danger that in the new congress aid for ukraine may decrease, let's talk about it with ostap yarosh, who joins the broadcast from of the capitalist hill of ostap. congratulations. congratulations to ostap. one hundred former american officials . raisa, hey, it attracted quite a lot of attention

. what exactly are they calling for ? to prevent it, it is necessary to provide ukraine with all the necessary weapons now, the column that appeared in your donpost is called time is not on ukraine's side condoleezza rice robert geis they say that putin believes that he can to recognize ukraine and despite the fact that the ukrainian armed forces give, as the authors of the column of this brilliant age say, to the russians with good invaders, the ukrainian economy is still suffering in ukraine from ukraine, you have a lot of people and infrastructure being destroyed and in fact the opportunity to give an opportunity to effectively fight russia on the opinion of the authors of the column depends to a great extent on western aid, they emphasize that now no ceasefire, any pause in hostilities would be

unacceptable, because it would give putin and his for the troops to regroup and rest and go on a new offensive, that is why the controller rai believes that gates should be strengthened and sharply increased aid to ukraine and provide all the necessary weapons, including tanks , including missiles and long-range radios, including modern drones, surveillance equipment and other necessary equipment for so that ukraine could not only defend itself against the russian invasion, but also push back the russians in the east and in the south, and it is interesting that reys and gates want that tanks, that the leadership of the issue of tanks has european countries, in particular germany, say that logistically it will be much easier to do than from the united states, but they have no doubts

that this support should grow. administration, yulia asked about it the national security adviser of the united states, jake sally, she and he said that this administration, the white house agrees with a-a opinions as an analysis of rice robert geitz, what is needed to increase aid and agrees and demonstrates this agreement to yuli not only in words but also in hopes, he mentioned that only last week at the end of last week the united states announced in fact the largest ever military aid package for ukraine in the amount of 3 billion dollars where they laid in particular, the bradley battleships, e.e. where they also laid additional ammunition and for high-mares for artillery, the capabilities of which were also emphasized by flight and gates also laid there and e. of important things that are now needed by the armed forces in ukraine, and e. sullivan noted that this article was published coincidentally with the announcement of this package, by chance or not, and thus the administration demonstrated that it is

ready to continue such a pace of delivery in the future. we know the speaker and kevin mccarthy repeatedly repeated that during his presidency no one will receive unlimited checks, how did he express himself, was this in particular about ukraine , is there a danger that in the new congress help for ukraine, the white house believes that there is no such risk. there is no such risk. they reminded us that in december, did the convocation of congress pass? hmm, 45 billion dollars was approved for ukraine and partners, and jaxilevan believes that this amount will be enough for almost the entire year of 2023 for military aid and not only do we know that the sums were invested there, but also for humanitarian support, economic support for ukraine, and also xl. he believes and emphasizes that , after all, the majority of americans, regardless of their political preferences, are they republicans or democrats? continue to support the continued support of ukraine and jack sullivan believes

that congressmen and senators rely on the opinion of their voters and will also take it into account despite the appeals of individual legislators in the congress who say that perhaps more inspections are needed this aid does not need to be reduced. the administration has no worries that somehow this money will decrease or be taken away. and what about what the legislators themselves think, we can listen to the comments of representatives of the republican democratic party and also independents senators, the president leads a global coalition so that equipment can come from other countries, but the message that we are taking home is that we are at a crucial moment and that providing the equipment that the ukrainian forces need will greatly help to complete this successfully, we must make sure that the assistance to ukraine that we

provide to their government more effectively and to the right places because i have concerns when i was in ukraine about where do the billions of dollars in humanitarian aid allocated to ukraine and a lot of things are for ukraine or marked for ukraine or are they really for ukraine, so i think we need a little more transparency with which i came here is accountability for the funds and equipment provided, i came back extremely impressed with the level of accounting for the use of these materials and funds, a huge audit with the help of software ensuring a physical audit, just tracking. my task was to make sure that the resources provided by the american people are used for their intended purpose, and i am convinced that this is the case with you will monitor the development of events. thank you, ostapa. ostap yarosh was on the call from capitol hill. meanwhile,

the ministry of defense of great britain declared that their commitment to ukraine will remain unshakable and in 2023 military support for kyiv will be either the same or even greater than last year . from great britain may become the first country to provide ukraine with western-style heavy tanks, at least london is considering such a possibility. this is reported by the american british media with reference to own sources in the government, what is it about and how this may affect the willingness of other countries to provide heavier weapons to ukraine, let's talk with bohdan tsyupan, who joins the broadcast from london. bohdana congratulates. i think that today

it is perhaps worth reminding about a certain evolution of the question regarding tanks, the need for tanks for ukraine, because when the ukrainians heroically repelled the tank columns that were carried in the spring in kyiv, here in the west, some analysts even said that perhaps the era of tanks has passed , but now, in particular, ukraine and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy emphasize that tanks are being crushed in ukraine, the commander of the zaluzhny valery zaluzhny says that ukraine needs hundreds of tanks and, actually , tanks of the international the community in ukraine provides but still these are tanks of the soviet model, so to speak, updated and modernized, but ukraine says that it also needs western tanks, and britain may, i emphasize, may be the first such a country, if the discussions going on now in london are fruitful, we are talking about the british heavy battle tank challenger 2

, it is really very heavy, more than 60 tons, and with full equipment more than 80 tons, it is a huge , huge machine, maybe great britain will be able to provide about ten such giants machines at least this is what he is talking about now, but what will be the solution? we currently do not know yet, in any case, it would be very symbolic and it would be another step in the development of the development the direction in which the military aid is being developed to help ukraine from the western side of bohdan when khotynsky's decision in those mass media that refer to unnamed sources in the british government say that the decision will probably be announced in the coming days, maybe weeks, i'm missing that it will happen with the approach of the so

-called ramstein, the regular meeting of several dozen countries of the main donors of military aid to ukraine, this meeting, this meeting, the regular council is scheduled for this month bohdan, if great britain takes this step and transfers challenger tanks to ukraine, even if only 10, could this potentially push germany to transfer leopards to ukraine? as for germany, germany has already taken a lot of steps away from the position it held before. when it generally declared that it would not provide ukraine with offensive weapons, now we know that the germans provide powerful howitzers and now it was announced about e armored vehicles e

marder diem germany always emphasizes that it does not at all reject such an opportunity to provide ukraine with leopard tanks, it is primarily about e this german vehicle, but they emphasize that this decision will be coordinated with the allies, that is, what is great britain doing, what is it doing the united states, what france is doing will matter, will have an impact on germany , and this was announced today by the spokesman of the german government, listen to how he explained the position of the government at the moment there is no intention to supply in leopard-2 main battle tanks to ukraine, we recently, in close consultation with our american and french friends, approved a very far-reaching decision on the supply of infantry fighting vehicles. now we are thinking about it, everything else, if this question arises , it would be necessary to agree, for now you

can see or read on the pages of newspapers and in separate interviews there are various rumors, but i have not heard any official initiatives or requests from poland or other countries about such a proposal. if such a proposal appeared, it would be interesting to see how other countries would react to it bohdan remains less than a minute, do western analysts associate such a change of position regarding the provision of certain heavier weapons from western countries with a potential escalation on the part of russia ? in fact, it is possible to trace that this evolution of military aid in ukraine takes place depending on the situation on the field, because from the russian side, the more bombings, the more the international community and

in particular, western countries are ready to help ukraine and that they are ready to help in new ways. my colleague bohdan tsyupan was in touch from london. a chance to prove that attacks on ukrainian culture are also a sign of genocide , the voice of america said in the human rights organizations of writers and journalists in america in december, a delegation of american authors arrived in kyiv and presented a report there about the loss of ukrainian culture due to the russian war, iryna shynkarenko spoke with the co-author of the report, the first director of the american organization, their interview, further in your report there is a lot

of information about the destruction of ukrainian libraries , books, museums. how did you collect this data and how do you assess the loss of ukrainian culture since february 2022 we got numbers from different sources ministry of culture and information policy of ukraine has been tracking these destructions since the beginning so they have pretty complete data also unesco is tracking it as part of their work in addition, there are civil society organizations, some of them located in the usa, that also use technology such as satellite imagery to track the destruction, so there are a number of governmental and non-governmental organizations that focus on detailed and accurate descriptions of what was destroyed by the russians during this war . in september, the ukrainian authorities announced that 49 libraries were damaged, and in august there was an interview with oksana boyarina, who is on the board of the ukrainian library association

association and she estimated that about two and a half thousand libraries across the country were closed due to destruction or because their employees were forced to ukraine. is it possible to estimate how many publishing houses lost their business because of the war and possibly lost their future book collections? we know that kharkiv was badly affected by the war, some publishing houses lost their premises, many lost their employees, some died, others were forced to flee to ukraine, bookstores closed in retail outlets, the damage to this business is obviously great, but we also know that three months after the start of the military invasion in february, the ministry of culture of ukraine conducted a survey and found out that approximately 74% of publishers still try to work in a certain way. at the same time, it is quite stable,

for example, vivat, one of the big publishing houses , opened its first bookstore in kyiv in october, so this industry is suffering a lot, but it is looking for inventive ways to work and survive. in your report, you noted that russian attacks on ukrainian culture are targeted and the ukrainians themselves know it , but is it possible to prove it to the whole world, first of all, one of the reasons why it is obvious that this is a deliberate attack on culture is that the attacks are so widespread, it is not about one or two strikes that could have been inflicted on the cultural center of the theater or museum, we are talking about mass destruction, so the opinion arises that this is purposeful, in addition, certain work has been carried out, there are very specific examples, for example, there are studies of a number of american organizations that examined sights, including museums, that have suffered damage and can be explained by their proximity

to military facilities, these museums are located in the hinterlands around them, there is no military infrastructure near them, there are no military personnel, so there is no reason to shoot at them, and about one of the facilities that we documented it hurts me a lot to speak. this is a small palace of culture in lozova near that building. there was nothing of military importance, so i think there is a lot of evidence that indicates that for the attacks of some of these objects there are no other or they are symbols of ukrainian identity and ukrainian culture, you also mentioned some organizations and documents that protect culture, whether it will be possible to punish the russians. i believe that the final prosecution always takes a certain amount of time, but the international community has developed a mechanism, a commission to investigate human rights violations in ukraine - this is a mechanism gathering evidence, they

involved experts, people who have experience in the investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, so this is an important component in the process of prosecution and ukrainians will obviously allow it, and they themselves are exemplary in the tomos. how much effort are they spending to collect evidence of war crimes? which courts can make decisions in this case regarding ukrainian culture. we should emphasize more on the fact that crimes against culture are also war crimes, they fall under certain war crimes, some of them can even be considered atrocities, and when evidence is collected, it will probably be possible to show that these are signs of genocide, because they are aimed at erasing the identity and the entire ukrainian people

. but i think that we should do more to force the international community to invest resources in the investigation of crimes against culture. we hope that we will it be possible to force the commission for investigating violations to reveal these crimes and collect evidence. in your opinion, is it possible to restore ukrainian culture and how can the world help in this? we can translate more books, we can translate more ukrainian literature into english, we can translate more ukrainian literature - these are the things that can be done that will help preserve culture in the future and possibly reduce the scale of losses on ancient ukrainian traditions, with a carol prayer and 12 dishes, the ukrainian community celebrated christmas this weekend of los angeles gathered in the church where volunteers prepared a holiday dinner, what they prayed for at

the service in california and what was served to the holiday table, khrystyna found out shevchenko ukrainian orthodox church of st. volodymyr continues . this year, dozens of ukrainians are praying here for ukrainian victory in the war and for the army, and for ukrainian immigrants, which has increased. in los angeles, almost every sunday there are new people, there are new people, there are new families. in ukrainian communities in general, i want to say unite more and it seems that each other helps each other more, they also sing ukrainian carols together, meanwhile, work is boiling in the kitchen, the volunteers have taken up the goal prepare a traditional twelve-course christmas dinner, i have borscht, which is grilled with dried mushrooms, ukrainian

borscht and ukrainian borscht, the list of lean dishes is endless, there will be red borscht , mushroom gravy, we will have potatoes, baked cabbage, stewed fish, fried fish of two types , how do we say salad with beetroot like sauerkraut , you should eat it, we also have a brew, we have kutia, which is very tasty with candied fruit and nuts , that is, as god commanded, as he has, as according to tradition, the dessert is also a traditional cheesecake and poppy flower when everything is ready, volunteers set the tables after the service, parishioners come to the dinner, what is ending and a new one is coming, among whom are many ukrainians who arrived in los angeles after february 24, they say that this year's holiday dinner is special, because because of the war, they want

to observe ancient ukrainian traditions even more who support the spirit of the nation, all funds collected from dinner tickets will be donated to the armed forces of ukraine from los angeles . in washington, a ukrainian family from kyiv, even though they were forced to flee from the war, decided not to stop the ukrainian tradition of caroling and presented a real holiday to ukrainian families . the carolers on the streets of the american capital were listened to by yaryna matviychuk and kostyantyn golubchik . good evening to you . god was born in the hay, these carolers were brought from kyiv to the checkers of ukraine every year they caroled in kyiv with the students of kpi now

are restoring the tradition of caroling among the ukrainian diaspora and that the first ray is shorter than christmas caroling and this year there was a great nostalgia for it. and every year people invite us and they are happy about it. to see ukrainians and for the sake of these emotions, we go. we miss this and especially if they know that these are not just ukrainians. they came to the states a long time ago and they have been here for 10 years, and we are still a especially if people find out that among us carolers there is someone who fled the war and they are here because of that, it feels completely different ruslan and yuliya arrived in the usa

a few months ago before christmas they wrote a post on social networks asking who would like to invite carolers to their home they say that there were few requests at the beginning, but the caroling schedule was completely filled. we talked to some of our ukrainians and told them about our idea. he said, let's do it here and wish our compatriots a merry christmas. and here we are. wrote on the facebook pages in social networks and we started to be invited by ruslan, the artistic director and conductor of the people's academic choral chapel of the sikorsky kyiv polytechnic institute, his wife is the choirmaster of the same choir, already here in washington, they accidentally met their former student darina, who emigrated 9 years ago darina happily picked up the idea of ​​caroling in ukraine. it seems to me that people are

a little spoiled because for them carolers are hacks and a lot of them, it is often not interesting if everyone got used to it, it is something domestic, and here it is if it is this is a way to touch your previous life in ukraine, to your traditions, to your language, to your christmas carols, this is something not so native and it is perceived in a completely different way here , especially by those who have not been in ukraine for a long time. and in ukraine, according to tradition, after the caroling, the carolers receive a symbolic gift. usually it is some kind of candy, money, someone, something, something more alcoholic, it is more than we want , the main thing for us is that there should be emotions for us personally, so that we feel that we want to do it

yulia is a native of bohuslav, kyiv region, when the war began, her husband was on a business trip abroad near their city, powerful explosions of military warehouses, several cities of the region, including gostomel irpin and bucha, are under occupation . i had no thoughts of going abroad under any circumstances. we sat for a week and ran to the bomb shelter and we ran for a week. we could no longer run. that i, at the end of march, they leave for germany in the summer, the search for asylum continues already in the usa, here ruslan quickly managed to find several part-time jobs by profession i do not sing in the choir, i sing in the church, i help in the music school as a music director, that is, everything

related to singing with response with music, yes, i am a cuckoo. generous evening, good evening to good people. the hosts who hosted the carolers do not hide their tears. hearing the christmas carol is a very emotional experience for them, which reminds them of their parents' home and childhood. what is more emotional when they sing refugees who left their home forcibly. it is very difficult for sure to leave your country fleeing from war. it is completely different. when we arrived, we came as tourists or as emigrants. let us celebrate. our family, olga and volodymyr, say that they did not expect that one day they would succeed here in the usa. to pass on to his three children such an important for