ukrainian tennis players kateryna zavadska and daria snyur completed their performances in the second round of australian qualification. zavaska lost in three sets to the 135th ranked player of the world erica andrievich 4:36-26, and snyur lost in three sets to 15-year-old brands frukt virto from the czech republic 7:5:67 3:6 track angelina kalinina made it to the quarterfinals at the wta-250 tournament in the australian overt ukrainians needed more than 2.5 hours to win in the second round over tetyana maria from germany 4:6363 in the quarterfinals kalina will play however the ex-4th ​​player in the world, the american sofia kenin, the first player of ukraine, will hold her seventh quarterfinal at the wta level and will try to break the streak of five consecutive defeats at this stage . dynamo kyiv announced the return of oleksandr

shovkovskyi. shovkovskyi worked in the coaching staff of the ukrainian national team, but left his position after the expiration of the agreement with the ukrainian football association . shakhtar donetsk started the training camp in in turkey, the first stage of training will last 10 days at the disposal of ihor yavychevich, 31 footballers among them and mykhailo mudryk, who is actively linked with the transfer to london arsenal. shakhtar will play the first official match after the winter break in the uefa europa league with rennes, the match will take place on february 16 in warsaw on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian

voice of america service, time, i am yuliya yarmolenko. congratulations. european countries are looking for ways to transfer western- style tanks to ukraine. polish president andrzej dudy under during his visit to lviv, he said that his country had decided on the transfer of leopard tanks. but within the framework of the creation of an international coalition, any transfer of german tanks must be approved by berlin, meanwhile, the adviser to the prime minister of great britain, rishi suneka, said that london is strengthening its support for kyiv with the military technologies of the next generation to help them win the war, the recent succession agrees that tanks can play a key role where ukrainians on the battlefield, but does not confirm whether they have already decided on the transfer of challenger tanks, more about the probability of transferring western-style tanks to ukraine, let's talk with ostap yarosh, who joins ostap's broadcast. congratulations. today, the polish president made a clear statement regarding the transfer of leopard tanks to ukraine. what did he really say to yuriy?

a meeting of polish president andriy duda took place today in lviv. of the president and volodymyr zelensky within the framework of the lublin triangle and indeed, as they say, perhaps the most concrete statement so far about the potential supply of tanks to ukraine the president of poland, andrzej duda, made the western production. he said that his country had decided to transfer german companies of german leopard-2 tanks to ukraine, but he emphasized that this should be done within the framework of an international coalition. what does this mean to yuli? indeed, the transfer of such tanks must also be approved by berlin and andrzej duda emphasized that before these tanks can get to ukraine, a number of agreements must take place, a number of certain procedures must take place, and indeed now poland is waiting for all of this to be settled, a decision has already been made in warsaw, says angry here however, it is important to understand that this statement of his does not mean that this final announcement of the transfer of

tanks is a clear indication of poland's clear intention to do this in close cooperation with the international coalition of allies, so we will watch how this news will develop further, but in what words did he actually announce his intention to transfer to ukraine tanks looper-2 polish president let's listen, we will transfer a group of leopard tanks within the framework of creating a coalition because, as you know , it is also necessary to fulfill a number of formal requirements necessary for this approvals and so next, but first of all, we want it to be an international coalition, and within this international coalition, we decided to create the first tank package of the leopard tank group, which i hope, together with other groups of leopard tanks and other tanks from other countries, will soon go to ukraine and be able to strengthen the ukrainian defense such a decision already exists in poland. ostapa, is there an official reaction from germany to the nation of the statement, because again, the word of berlin in this matter

is of decisive importance, the action of international practice is such that the producing country has to agree to any deliveries of its equipment to a third country, we know that tanka leopard is produced by germany, and therefore now, in fact, all eyes are turned to berlin after the statement , because i dudy and the rest of the german government, after this statement from the polish president was heard, said that at the moment he does not we do not know of any requests from other countries, official requests at least regarding the transfer of german tanks to ukraine, and on olena berbuk, who also visited kharkiv, she commented on this issue also to the german on television, she was asked what exactly germany is playing and whether we should expect approval from berlin in the coming days for such supplies . anna olena berbuk, in fact, the minister of foreign affairs of germany, she did not give a direct answer, she so automatically avoided answering this question, they said that she understands that there is a lot of pressure now

the gentleman understands that this issue is urgent and urgent, especially after visiting kharkiv and seeing the destruction on the part of russia, but she has not given a clear answer so far, we will actually watch the reaction in berlin by the decision of olafajolets, i will also remind you that on january 20 there will be another meeting in the rammstein format of the contact group for support of ukraine, so we will watch to see if there will be any news. until then, i will only add that volodymyr zelensky, commenting on the words of his polish colleague angela, people expressed the hope that this international coalition about which the polish president says, will he really be able to reach an understanding and make a final and positive decision for ukraine regarding the transfer of german tanks to ostap? germany also to the united states, should we expect that after the united states transferred to ukraine or announced the transfer of bradley fighting vehicles, the united states will eventually agree

to the transfer of abrams tanks to ukraine? days, especially after the united states announced in the previous package of military aid for the transfer of 50 e combat armored vehicles bradley are asked whether we should expect after this the provision of abrams tanks of american production, in particular today . apart from jeanpierre, the spokeswoman of the white house was asked about this, she also did not give a direct answer, but she said that the united states will continue to do everything to ensure the victory of ukraine on the battlefield regarding abrom tanks with julite pentani confirm that everything remains on the table and everything is open, however at the moment, we are not yet ready to announce at least publicly the transfer of such tanks. earlier we heard that we hoped that it was european countries that would take the first step in the acquisition of western tanks, because it is the opinion of the united states that this should be done it would be much easier for the united states from the point of view of

logistics . indeed, next week there will be an extremely important meeting, a meeting of the contact group with the defense of ukraine in the pentagon on the eve of pjsc ryder, this sentence of the pentagon said that the minister of defense will leave loydostein top general mark miley and this is a meeting that will be held at the rammstein base, where, as usual, the future military aid for ukraine is discussed and what we heard from president biden last week that the war is now at a decisive stage, so we will wait for decisive announcements that could potentially be and at this meeting of the contact group thank you very much ostap my colleague ostap yarosh was in direct contact with the studio and in the united states on this day more than 1,200 flights were canceled and almost 8,000 were delayed due to

a breakdown in the aviation computer system on the night from tuesday to wednesday, the problem was recorded in the program of the federal aviation administration. this is a commercial flight notification system that notifies of restrictions or warnings in real time. the us federal aviation administration ordered all airlines of ukraine to suspend flights until nine in the morning. now the system has been restored, but the flights are delayed continues at the moment, the cause of the failure is unknown, there are no direct signs of cyber, so there are no at the moment. this is what the us minister of transport said under butechich, but completely reject such the likelihood is that he cannot until all the details of the morning malfunction are established, the decision to suspend all flights was explained by the minister , and for security reasons, it was decided that we

continue the release, the american slavic researchers are taking, as they say, the decolonization of research in the region, the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine prompted many scientists to reconsider the approach to the study eastern europe, which until now was russian-centric decolonization, will be dedicated to the conference of american slavists, which will be held in philadelphia in the fall of this year, however, what does this mean in practice? and what role did the russian -centricity of the study of the region play in the erroneous forecasts on the eve of a full-scale russian war? my colleague tatiana spoke about it with the assistant professor of political science at the university of tavts, the vice-president of the american association of ukrainian studies, oksana shevel. and from what we see russia's war against ukraine is highlighted and discussed, we see to some extent that some assessments do not correspond to reality, for example, the readiness of ukrainians to resist to resist, it was underestimated, and the willingness

of russians to resist the actions of their authorities was also overestimated to some extent . let's say the majority of people in america, in various countries of western europe, even if they studied at universities, they may have listened to a single general course about the history of russia, and this general course, which covers many centuries, is obvious that they russia is often very centric, and there are regions that are less, well, there were no parkours. in the very center, kremlins and other things are given less attention. it cannot be said that all such courses are because of course, if it is appropriate to read there, we will skip courses for graduate students or some courses for students. high school students, that means there will usually be more nuance in the teaching of this history, more attention will be paid to it, but in general, what is the

average citizen, the average student for, so to speak. these are really such courses that pay more attention not to the region, not to russia, but to other countries in the region, the so-called post-soviet region or in eastern europe , there are much fewer of them, this can be related to the fact that they know ukraine much less than they know russia . that in principle there cannot be something so fundamentally different from russia that if we assume that civil society is weak in russia, well, it means that it is probably also weak in those countries or even weaker, so if it means democracy there are problems here, there will be problems with democracy corruption in russia, well, it is obvious that there is also corruption in ukraine, and that is, this different difference between these countries, of course, was explained less

. attention in general courses, so is the demand of students, but the decolonization of russian soviet studies right now is tempting to pay more attention, not to russian regions, but to various countries, including ukraine, central asia, and there is something to talk about ukrainian voices about ukrainian researchers . that is, there are not enough of them, or there is simply no demand , that's what the bigger problem is. it seems to me that there is a little bit of something else, if a person is going to study , just say, i will study russia, no questions ever arise . yes, the country is important to everyone, it is big, you are studying, so if someone says that i want to study ukraine, well, it does not mean that i cannot, there are many people, including me. i know many colleagues who have taken ukraine, which means that we have jobs and other and such an attitude that it may not be enough, that

it may not be important enough, they have obviously become more in the last 30 years than there were, but of course there are not so many of them, let's assume specialists in russia, yes, and then when the question arises, who will we let go, do we hire someone to a university, that's what it means if a person specializes in only one small country. we won't necessarily skip ukraine. it can all be some country in central asia or eastern europe, the baltics , or will she be able to teach in such a way that it would be it is interesting to many students that everything means that enough people will pass these courses, so that is, these questions also arise. well, when we talk about uh. well, for example, in the museum, i saw with my own eyes that a person was born, an artist was born, it is written odessa, and russia explains to me that this is because odessa is on at that moment it was part of the russian empire, but this is not the case when we talk, for example, about a person born in delhi during the time when india was a colony of england. no one says that a person was born in england. that

is why this difference is happening there are several reasons, one of the reasons is that russia has always positioned itself , first of all, as a colonial country, so if we look at the soviet period, so what does this mean that the ussr fought against colonialism and they supported how many decommunization movements there are sometimes, that is, even itself i'm going to say that the russian empire, let's skip the good one, it was called the empire. the soviet union was also an empire. it's just that some average citizen will say that it's not even perceived like that, and secondly, russia always made an emphasis, and this was also partially it is easier to do because it was a territorial empire, it was not an overseas empire like england. so it was obvious there where the metropolis was located. and where were the colonies, and in russia it was growing territorially. that is, where exactly did it end, so to speak, russia itself was leaving, the empire was beginning, that was enough it is difficult to say yes odessa was

what it was an imperial conquest from the point of view of today 's ukraine obviously yes. russian land, yes, and this narrative, in principle, leaked abroad, and even the very fact that everything soviet was called russian. i would have been one of the readers of the student’s diploma of this how is it a couple of years ago. when he was describing the events of the second world war and i told him why are you doing it like that, it's quite obvious that the army was there and he was so surprised, well, isn't it possible ? you can also say that this is a process that has lasted for centuries. and is there some kind of internal resistance in this process of decolonization? are these purely structural problems? i think it is because many people believe that too. by the way, by the way, the argument that they say that look i am a specialist in history. i

teach the history of, let's say, russia in some university there. i don't teach it. that way, how does that mean me? well, indirectly, they can blame so many teachers and professors who teach history from this part of the world. they think that they already mean for a long time, they have been more critical about this, that is, they do not draw any direct parallel, let's say from kyivan rus there to today's russia, so they will not say that it is in the soviets or that means the soviet government brought some positive modernization only there and so on, but they no longer do the origin of russia from kievan rus' is that all they lead if you take a course that will study the history of russia? who won't tell you as a graduate student what kyivan rus was, then it came to mean putin's russia and what this is some kind of direct entrepreneurship, as putin says, primitively, of course, it will not be like that, but if you take an average student who may have taken

a course there once or at a school or university, then they have such a thing, then they will not be there, they do not know let's skip about some of the processes that took place during the 300 years between the mongol invasion and the so-called unification of ukraine with russia. they don't know that yes, but here, that is, the only thing that was there was kyiv rus and then so somehow we came to russia there, it took hold of three people in the west, it was an interview with an associate professor of political science at tavtsvit university, this is oksana sheval, the president of the american association of ukrainian studies, read the full version on the website of the voice of america in ukrainian, of course, a toy can become an effective means of psychological help for children and even adults, so decided ukrainian psychologists who are looking for effective ways to overcome

post-traumatic conditions in young ukrainians who are suffering because of the war and so they decided to create toy psychological help rooms anna kostyuchenko and ivan pavlovich will tell more about how such rooms work and how the american charity fund helped them nine-year-old irynka calmly plays with goats in the family circle but a few months ago, they shuddered at the slightest noise, says her mother nataliya ladan, the girl and her family live in the village of krasylivka, kyiv region, in march , russian troops were only 5 km from the village that's why the family constantly heard shelling and was afraid that their village was being occupied, we had four places here, the adults were there in the same month, one of the russian rockets hit the family's house , natalya says, we were in the cellar, there was

a loud explosion, the noise was incredible, the children started screaming, the lights went out, well, that was it very terrible, a russian rocket just hit us, badly damaged the roof of the house, so natalya, her two daughters, her sister and two nieces left for western ukraine, they returned after the liberation of the kyiv region at the end of april, these little girls are running the tears are rolling, but even then natalya noticed that her daughters are still under great stress because of the war, they shudder at every show. could return to ordinary games, says natalia, until she visited the toy therapy room, this is such a special space organized by a

psychologist and a child, even an adult can come and receive such psychological healing help is definitely more pleasant for three of the four girls of the ladan family, the toys chosen in the room have become best friends, well , online lessons, then i was a marshmallow to myself. he already says it's okay with the second request, you'll be fine. well , i sleep with her very often, and when our online lessons start. irynka also chose a toy for herself fluffy zebra, but the girl's subconscious worked in such a way that she transferred all her fears from the russian shelling to the

toy and began to fear it, and when i went to sleep without it, i had a terrible dream because i asked you to hide with it well, so that i wouldn't be afraid. it's much easier farewell local psychologist vita moskalenko says yes, the girl gave all her acquired fears to toys and now she can choose a new toy friend who will fill her with strength in the therapy room with a toy psychologist works individually with each child, hisses additional questions, helps the girl put away the toy that is most suitable for her psychological state, is so flexible after hesitation, irynka chooses a snake as a symbol of her own strength, so she is my toy therapy room

, this is an all-ukrainian initiative, it belongs to a psychologist from kyiv, victoria nazarevich, the first of its kind a room was opened in june for the rehabilitation of children from buchi. now there are about 100 such rooms throughout ukraine. at the beginning of the project, more than a court of ukrainian children received help in such rooms. we change the understanding of myself, who am i, for example , we had children, for example, a child there, i go to school all the time, everything is comfortable . to build this so-called new identification, a new self-understanding , adults are also helped here. 40-year-old olena popovych is from donetsk, so the war for her began in 2014, at the same time she left everything and started

building a new life in the kyiv region for five years therefore, she settled in the village of krasylivka with her family and opened her own business in a massage parlor . however, due to the full-scale attack of russia , there were almost no clients left, and the woman felt despair. i had the feeling of someone at the age of 14. i am in despair. i didn't have any strength left, he seemed so sad to me at the time. when i saw him, he was so sad. it was my inside, but inside there was the same sadness as i saw in the eyes of this dog. after therapy , strength and self-belief returned to elena. gradually the village returned and elena's clients who left due to the march offensive of the russians

gained strength. i felt someone. i had more energy. this is the energy that i felt that i had lost. she returned to me. the toy therapy project began after the american charitable foundation united help ukraine sent hibuki toys designed by israeli psychologists specifically to overcome children's stress, then ukrainian psychologists realized that the toy can become an effective therapeutic tool ukraine helped us a lot and we are helping we plan to cooperate with him, they did not help us and they help us with materials and support, and we have good plans and are very grateful for the child's desire to move to the therapy room with a toy , says vita more than once, the six-year-old boy dima today again wanted to change the toy and

what did you want, what do you need now support, help, strength in the armed forces, i will fall asleep, what else is barbie home for? in this way, every child can take the very thing that he really lacks in the form of a toy. there are plans to open similar rooms for ukrainian immigrants in poland, germany , bulgaria and the united states my toy book anna kostyuchenko for the voice of america passenger buses with humanitarian cargo left from kyiv region to ukraine riga authorities presented 10 buses to kyiv and residents of latvia filled them with gifts for ukrainians at the point of departure the buses

were visited by correspondents of the russian service, the voice of the brand, nataliya leonova says, pasta in one box, clothes in another, animal feed in the third, one of the greek trolleybuses parks, volunteers sort humanitarian aid in a matter of days, residents of riga have collected tons of food and essential goods to send to ukraine, feelings of deep joy and gratitude to these people are latvians because they give aid not just handing it over. it's nuts, then a nutcracker, if they hand over a generator, they immediately hand over a canister of gasoline, what kind of spare keys, that is, people think, how are the ukrainians today, in conditions of shelling by missiles, how are they all this to adapt, they prepared a small stove immediately, gas cylinders. that is, it shows that they are doing this for themselves, and unfortunately

, few countries demonstrate this . izyumi it all happened here in latvia, and people still remember it, and that's why they collect these things with such love. ukrainian refugees inna came to latvia with her son in april. last year she lives with relatives and got a job as a baker's assistant. my family came to me because the garden was on the third day of march. we didn't have to leave because our city had been occupied since march 3. russian soldiers felt like masters in our city. it was unbearable. everyone is doing their job. our men are at the front. women. can they help? they send those who ca n't leave. we don't have the opportunity. someone

was left homeless. this is not even discussed. time came and helped, they came and worked among latvian volunteers oleksiy, 20 years old he works in riga as a driver of public transport oleksiy not only helps to load aid, but he himself will sit behind the wheel of one of the buses and go to ukraine via the bus, we will drive the buses through poland to the ukrainian border, we also help download the help collected by the residents of latvia, including our employees, and we brought participated in it, we actually sincerely want to help ukraine in such a difficult situation. yes, there are people from latvia in ukraine the residents of ukraine help the ukrainians with their army, the ambassador of ukraine says the way to victory looks like the ukrainian army will win at the front and then the sanctions will finish off putin's political regime and then there will be a new russia with which we may be able to deal today, this is an army of rapists and criminals, so with

them no one except our military will conduct any dialogue, but the dialogue will be the one we see now at the front, and this help has a huge price in order to support the front nataliya lounova vladyslav andreev voice america riga download the voice of america mobile application, the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read the news, watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts in ukrainian, voice of america services, the first language. thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian . happy mondays and fridays in kyiv. we'll see each other soon. take care , dad