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this, but only fop and ubd, this is for example how my husband and i have a family business, they give up to 20 thousand hryvnias, i understand it. thank you very much for the bouquet of support for the ukrainian veteran business already now, find out the details on the website or by phone number. i am iryna koval , mother, wife, host of the espresso tv channel. i am also a volunteer. our soldiers at the front need a lot of things every day, and that is why part of my life today is helping the armed forces of ukraine, and i am very grateful to my colleagues who they support me, this war found me at home in irpen, an alarming suitcase was packed, but that did not reduce the excitement, explosions every minute , the gostomel airfield is on fire, russian

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on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian voice of america service is there, i am yuliya yarmolenko, i congratulate you, artillery, ammunition, more means of air defense, helicopters, a number of countries of the world are increasing military aid to ukraine and promise to support as much as necessary with such results. the eighth meeting of the contact group with the defense of ukraine, which was held at the rammstein base in germany, but the decision to transfer german tanks to ukraine leopard 2 never happened, what are the results of rammstein 8? let's talk with ostap yaroshim in washington and bohdan tsyupin in

london . i congratulate ostap bohdan. of the united states of america , this time the focus of the contact group in the rammstein format was primarily on armored vehicles and air defense systems. indeed, allies of ukraine even before the meeting the contact group made public their aid packages, in fact there is a lot of equipment, and we can only go through the main ones, in particular, britain announced that it would be the first to transfer to ukraine e . - archer artillery also germany transfers additional anti-aircraft installations another air defense system iris and estonia finland announced one of the largest packages of their e-e military aid for the entire time, heavy weapons and ammunition are also there, denmark is handing over howitzers, lithuania, helicopters, poland are joining with busy installations, and this yulia is only a small part of what the

allies announced, but by far the largest aid package was provided by the united states a in the amount of two and a half billions of dollars there, from dollars , additional 59 bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 90 stryker armored personnel carriers, and 90 stryker armored personnel carriers were also placed there, other important equipment, in particular, anti-aircraft systems defense avenger zerka saw us other brunov armored vehicles. also there, that is, the equipment that the ukrainian military currently needs on the battlefield, commenting on these packages of laziness, the minister of defense of the united states called on the allies to strengthen support for ukraine and continue this pace in the future, in particular, before spring, we can now listen to him comment to shaishyh thank you decade for the world and this is a decisive moment in ukraine's struggle for its own defense this contact group will not slow down we are going to dig deep and judging by the progress we've made today,

i'm sure ukraine's partners around the world are determined to meet this moment. the united states remains committed to leading this coordinated effort. we have a window of opportunity . so much time and we have to collect the necessary capabilities of bohdan , now about the tanks, many hoped that on friday germany's agreement to the transfer of their tanks to ukraine leopard 2 would be heard however, this did not happen, why and should we expect that sooner or later kyiv will receive tanks from berlin, it is obviously worth waiting because even at this meeting at rammstein and around it, it was not said that germany decided not to supply leopard tanks to ukraine, on the contrary, we heard at every steps what

a-a question it is open that germany in principle does not refuse such an opportunity, moreover, we know that a meeting of 15 countries took place within rammstein, i suspect maybe those in the a-a north atlantic space of those countries that are using german leopard tanks and could be part of the coalition that could supply these tanks. that is, it does not necessarily have to be berlin or not only berlin. meanwhile, the german government says that it needs time to decide on such an answer that such an explanation is obvious does not satisfy many, first of all, it obviously does not satisfy ukraine, because this morning president volodymyr zelenskyy called to turn this ramstein into a tank ramstein. perhaps he was

to some extent. perhaps we are witnesses the first steps e for which the german minister of defense said today that more time is needed, let's listen to him sometimes it arises that there is a single coalition germany blocks it false many allies say that they share the views that i presented today there are good reasons for giving there are good reasons against and in the light of the general the war situation, which has been going on for almost a year, it is necessary to carefully weigh all the pros and cons, we are not afraid of anything, we are simply responsible for our peoples in germany and in europe, and we must balance all the pros and cons against before making such decisions just like that and there is nothing else, and i am sure that a decision will be made in the near future, but i do not know when, i do not know what this decision

will look like . in the work about the fact that the german chancellor to lavsholz said he would hand over the leopard if the americans gave abrams and the united states defense minister does not link the giving or giving of leopards and abrams says that there is no connection between this however, at the moment, pantheon is not ready to announce the transfer of vebrams to the ukrainian armed forces, as it explains difficulties with logistics, difficulties with maintenance, they say in advance that abrams tanks, in particular, use jet fuel, such as delitkov tank leopard, and use diesel fuel, including however, as the director of the come back alive foundation taras said today on our broadcast, why can you always find many reasons to say no, however, in his opinion, we still need to dare and provide ukraine with what it needs equipment for this necessary weapon, because the ukrainian military has repeatedly

had to master and use it very effectively. let's listen to taras shevchenko's comment. ukraine has demonstrated dozens of times to the whole world that we are perfectly capable of dealing with various modern, latest western weapons, in some places much more creatively and effectively than did the developers of this technique think that problems can always be found, there are always options for answers, why not . tanks and those that are modern are good, it doesn’t matter. will they be leopards? will they be abrams? this will definitely happen before we get soviet or post-soviet t-72s and their derivatives or there are t-55s, and after deep modernization this year we will surely reach the western ones of tanks in this matter, minister austin for

weeks and months, do the partners understand the needs of the ukrainian army now and are they ready to meet them ? in fact, it is impossible, meanwhile, those people who promise to help ukraine and are already helping emphasize that ukraine is already receiving tanks and armored vehicles from partners, and let's not forget , speaking from london, i want to remind you that ukraine will receive western -made heavy tanks, british challenger 2 tanks - this should happen quite quickly, the french

are sending their so-called light tanks, bradley armored vehicles and german mardners, as well as very serious armored vehicles that will help ukraine, and the secretary general of nato today emphasized that other important the task of the partners is to help the ukrainians to maintain in good condition the equipment that was given to ukraine or that ukraine has, and this is also very important, yes, battle tanks are important, but all other types of equipment are also important, and in addition to adding new equipment, we also need to remember not only about new but about the fact that the older equipment that is already there must be operational, this means that ammunition is needed, spare parts are needed, repairs and training are needed.

i am very satisfied with the results of rammstein 8. he stated this in a telephone interview with my colleague ruslan petrychka, and he says that the packages of weapons announced by a number of countries and the aid that they do not speak about publicly are inspiring. as for the transfer of tanks to ukraine, and there is a breakthrough here, the minister assures us that we have positive e-e the fact is that this issue was discussed today , including thanks to the initiative of poland, the announcement by mr. president, because mdudu regarding e-leopards thanks to the initiative from the large kingdom of great britain regarding challengers today is to say that today we have a breakthrough. i consider it an opportunity for countries that own leopards to start training e-e missions, training courses for our tank crews, we will start with this and then we will move on. i hope that germany is in a calm mode with carrying out its internal consultations will also reach a decision regarding the possible

further transfer, that is, i am optimistic about it because the first step has been taken, we will start the educational project, educational programs, more precisely tank crew on leopard 2 and provide tanks to ukraine was called upon by american senators cream blumenthal and the white house, who are visiting kyiv, senators met with president zelenskyi, prime minister shmygel and other officials and, among other things, discussed the issue of military and financial aid, american lawmakers emphasize that russia is preparing before the next offensive, therefore, ukraine needs all possible help, republicans and democrats have a common goal for ukraine to expel the russians from its territory in order to achieve this goal the ukrainian military needs tanks, i am tired of this nonsense, who will give tanks first and when they will give them, the world order is under threat, putin is trying to rewrite the map of europe with armed force, we will return to the

senate and work hard to recognize the wagner group as a foreign terrorist organization in accordance with us law, and also we let's continue to fight for the recognition of russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, better russia is preparing for a big counteroffensive, it will be as barbaric and inhumane as everything they did before, but for america it is an opportunity to deter and repel the russians' contour offensive and give ukraine the opportunity to win. i repeat precisely to win because this is the only acceptable alternative, because otherwise putin will continue his offensive against nato countries, which will force the united states to send its own troops into battle. we do not should send american troops to ukraine, but we must provide ukrainian fighters with everything that we would provide to our troops if they were fighting. meanwhile, the european union helps ukraine not only with military financial and

the implementation of economic sanctions against the aggressor country, and political, in particular, in the organization of the united nations, the european union represents ulovskoh there in an interview with elena solomko, he told how the un countermeasures against russia what are the shortcomings of the system and russia 's membership in the council of security e-e i congratulate you, mr. ambassador last week, the theme of the war in ukraine once again echoed in the hall of the un security council. speaking during the first session, deputy minister of foreign affairs of ukraine eminedzhebarova noted that ukraine's current goal is to achieve the adoption of two resolutions on the creation of special tribunal and regarding the peace formula. what is your vision regarding the prospects for the adoption of these two documents? first, i would like to evaluate these meetings, so in essence they do not lead to decision-making, but they have value. because ukraine can present its position regarding what is happening in the real life of ukrainians and although there are different

views among the members i think it is very important to see how isolated russia is regarding the resolution they will be considered by the general assembly closer to february 24th the anniversary of the invasion it is possible to have tactics and to understand which provisions will be supported by a wider range of countries is also important for the vote what will happen in ukraine if the russian attack on civilians continues to logically adopt decisions that increase responsibility for crimes, this is an important issue because ukraine is negotiating regarding this resolution since last year, not all are against eu member states have publicly expressed their support for it, why we 27 countries have declared that we believe in bringing to justice whether through a special tribunal or a mixed tribunal or whatever it is true that apart from this discussion about the crime of aggression, there is very important work being done by the international criminal court and we are doing a lot to support it. do you think

ion is doing enough to bring russia to justice? i think we could do more. and of course, given that russia instead to reduce and reduce their attacks actually increases them we are obviously not very effective but i always believe that there are limits to the capabilities of the united nations given that russia has the right of veto in the security council because the council security has powerful powers, but it will not be able to use them because of the right of veto, which blocks a step that the un can take, our ambitions together with ukraine. however, we already have tools, in particular, the international criminal court, which are already working, and we must provide them with practical and political support so that they can carry out our work, and then we will see how far we can advance with the next resolution, we have already mentioned the debates of the security council on the rule of law that took place last week, but listening to them, ukrainians first of all they see the representative of russia, which refuses to

implement the decisions of the international court of the united nations, which are part of this system, about which responsibility can then be discussed, security is blocked, there are restrictions, because it is the body that usually ensures the implementation of decisions. therefore, we have missing elements in the international architecture, but this does not mean that we are without tools because the opportunity always works too slowly but it works and in many conflicts criminals are brought to justice over time returning to russia's membership in the security council there was a statement of minister kuleba that russia illegally took the place of the soviet union, the security council and the un ukraine began this conversation hoping that russia's powers would at least be suspended for now among the member states, there is no great support what is your position on this issue i represent the eu and the un and i will not defend the un with all its shortcomings and problems, one of them is that a country like russia has the right to veto, this is of course a flaw

in the system, but we must do our best using what we have. the un alone cannot solve the situation in ukraine, but it can to help in combination with what the eu is doing, for example, providing arms and sanctions against russia. that is, we are simply trying to mobilize all the mechanisms we have, but returning to your question, i heard this debate. i think that everyone understands ukraine's position on this, but part of what the un is doing is precisely so to have this platform for conversation yes russia is a permanent member you can question the procedure of its acquisition but the only thing we have today is the un with its shortcomings and we must work within this framework what are we doing so deprivation russia. who will do this? i understand that the ukrainian position is that the russians illegally obtained the seat, but i do not see any real further steps. we were very critical of russia after the war in georgia, the annexation of crimea in the 14th year of what it

did in syria. we condemned one step at a time, but we must also recognize that russia has a permanent seat in the security council and we are simply trying to raise the price of retribution for what it is doing in ukraine . a member of the security council who vetoes resolutions regarding his own aggression undermines trust in the un system as such and yes. that is why other un bodies are becoming more influential and important , including the general assembly where every country has the right to vote, but if you look at the member countries you will see a number of states that do not represent their people because they were not elected democratically and this is a disadvantage because the un in this context has no criteria for membership, but there is definitely a demand for the existence of such organizations as the un where all nations gather together regardless of are they democratic or not? in my opinion, the main problem is the right of veto and the fact that it is used by russia to protect very

narrow national interests, an equally important problem that arose due to a full-scale invasion is the threat to food security and was partially solved by signing the grain agreement, which expires in march, will it continue? we hope that russia will understand that it is also in its interests to continue this agreement. profit russia doesn't listen to us kyiv doesn't listen but i think she listens to what the rest of the world says because she still tries to keep at least a few partners so as not to burn all bridges she is looking for new markets because we closed our markets for her she is also careful to the voices of developing countries and the global south, countries have already insisted that moscow does not withdraw from the agreement and does not interrupt the export of grain from ukraine, this happened in november, when this discussion sounded. the last time

i think that russia heard this message was before i hope that this logic will prevail when making a decision on the extension of the agreement, there are opportunities to expand exports, because now we have not reached the maximum capacity, so it is necessary to put pressure on russia to agree to the fact that this mechanism should be expanded so that we can reach the mark of all millions of tons of grain every month instead of four, which are now red ukraine, the war in ukraine showed the weaknesses of not only the un, but the eu, in particular, when hungary essentially blocked the adoption of sanctions against russia by president putin completely miscalculated in many areas , including in relation to the european union, he did not understand that by his actions he created a lot of unity within the eu, considering that in the european union there is always a discussion before we adopt each package of sanctions. the measures we take against russia are extremely powerful especially if you take into account their price for eu countries and business, so i don't want to point to one

or another country, there will always be internal discussions, but what the european union managed to do in this direction is quite it is amazing that the solidarity of our population in all eu countries is very strong. i hope that it will remain so in the future . the impact on the economy will be more and more destructive, of course, the sanctions that are geographically limited to the territory of the eu are not the whole world, therefore, in an ideal world, these would be sanctions adopted by the council and the security council, which would be mandatory for the implementation of each by ukraine and world, this is not our case, that is why russia was able to diversify and find other markets for some of its goods, and this partly explains

why the consequences of the eu sanctions were not as immediate and numerous as desired, but they have an effect, you can see that the russian economy is feeling their impact. thank you for the conversation, thank you very much at the un, such volunteers made them, and the owners of the company themselves, now their own workshop, took up the production of trench candles for the ukrainian military. in a small candle workshop in the state of wisconsin, its owner christiana pours blue-yellow wax into glass jars and has been doing so almost every day since the beginning of the full-scale war in ukraine to make a candle

. her 83-year-old ukrainian grandmother who left for the usa during the second world war works in the workshop. this is my grandmother . she is from ukraine. she helps us so much. every day she works on something. hello, glad. to meet what do you do you help us with the bags for the store yes ukrainian candles correctly she sticks the stickers it is very useful because this is the thing that has to be done she takes them home she works at home and works here this is the least i can do previously in kristiana's business i only worked six

people, when the war began, an american woman of ukrainian origin decided to sell yellow and blue candles and give all the profit to help ukraine, the amount of work increased so much that she had to work in this family without days off, christiana's father is an emergency doctor help, i also mastered the candle business, or, uh, how to prepare candles, or clean candles, or give stickers, and wax, and what needs to be done, i will do. the demand for ukrainian candles was so great for their production . volunteers from neighboring states came to join us. or even people who came from california just to help us imagine we have already made over 85,000 of these

candles in less than a year and our bisma usually only makes 12,000 candles in a year and we have delivered these candles to every state in the us also in canada or every single stay in red state from the sale of blue and yellow 30 dollars for each christian managed to collect more than $ 850,000, which she handed over to a charity fund together with her countries. we first started when the war broke out and the christian started, and we did not think about this project that it will be something so big ah and she wanted at first maybe 5 thousand dollars of a good allowance for together woodpecker and then it just exploded like it exploded that 5 thousand dollars

was a long time ago therefore it was already now the demand for ukrainian candles is a little less against the company plans to raise a million dollars by the anniversary of the start of a full-scale war, and with the onset of winter, christiana decided to send a batch of trench candles to ukraine. she tested them several times before finding a good option, this is at least 50 hours of light from one ribbon, this is paraffin wax, we used tin cans so that they do not break 2,000 candles have already gone from the usa to ukraine, and this is only the first batch. each trench candle was made at the expense of ordinary candles purchased by the americans. it goes where it is needed, to hot spots on the front line. so that people who need just such a reliable

candle, so that it is so that they have access to light, but where else does it go, there is a kiss of energy, it gives people here the opportunity to connect to the cause in ukraine, it is also important that light and a candle goes to ukraine, but such a spiritual light goes to america that a person specifically buys and includes himself in the victory. faster to a faster victory. such a company of christiana sends a handwritten note with wishes from the americans to ukraine. many people write in english. what are they from what are they with ukraine what are they what are they praying for ukraine what some say that ukraine