[000:00:00;00] president job biden is currently receiving president volodymyr zelenskyi in the white house. this is their sixth personal meeting and the third visit of the ukrainian head to the main residence of the us president. on the eve of the meeting, the national security representative john kirby said that president biden wants to hear from the president of ukraine his vision of the situation on the ground . fight last week, the biden administration announced that he plans to announce a new substantial package of aid to ukraine in the white house we work as a colleague iryna shynkarenko she joins our studio right now congratulations iryna greetings natalya iryna president zelensky has just arrived at the white house, how is the ukrainian president being received and what is the program of his visit to the white house natalya, in fact , the meeting between president volodymyr zelenskyi and the first lady was scheduled to begin at this very moment on the lawn near the white house my colleague ostap yarysh is already waiting for them at home, who will report everything on our social networks about

how it just became known that this meeting will be delayed for 15 minutes. so what do we know about the schedule of the reception of volodymyr zelenskyi here in the white house, after that, after the official meeting ceremony. so, first, on the white lawn, near the white house , jill biden, first lady joe biden, the president of the united states will meet. they will meet the zelensky couple. there will be an official meeting ceremony where they will be photographed and to greet each other according to the protocol, it takes about 25 minutes and more , and for a face-to-face conversation, the presidents will go to the oval office of the white house, where they will hold a meeting for about 40 minutes and the meeting should continue for the same amount of time, already in an expanded format, or from this ukrainian delegation and a wider circle of representatives of the white house, which we recently learned, as reported in the white house, at this meeting, in particular , the newly appointed us special representative for

the reconstruction of ukraine, penny pritzker, will be present. so i would like to point out that after the results of the meeting in the white house, the unscheduled press conference of both presidents, communication with the media at volodymyr zelenskyi should take place in the evening outside washington, and when in ukraine it will already be late at night, it will take place in the building of the us national archives, the guests of honor are representatives of the ukrainian community, and we also know that there will be certain congressmen and many media who will be able to communicate with the president of ukraine at the exact moment as predicted . i will note that this is the third meeting volodymyr zelenskyi with president joe biden in the white house and the second during a full-scale war, and the meeting took place in december 2022 , when volodymyr zelenskyi then arrived in washington directly from the front line and from

the position of the ukrainian military near bakhmut, and then he presented joe biden with an award from the ukrainian military for providing ukraine with the haimas systems. and in general, this meeting is already the sixth face-to-face meeting, as you already mentioned, of both presidents in february. this i will remind the audience that olena zelenska and volodymyr zelensky hosted joe biden in kyiv at their residence in the mariinsky palace natalya iryna over this minute, do you know what the presidents will talk about and what are the expectations from this meeting? the main expectation from this meeting is a new package of military aid from the white house. last week, the white house announced that this week they will announce the allocation of a significant package of military aid for ukraine and literally an hour before the meeting between by both presidents we heard

an official comment that today , at the end of the meeting between volodymyr zelenskyi and joe biden , a new military aid package for ukraine will be officially announced by jake sullivan and it is already known he announced what exactly will be included in this aid package. and we know that it is about the second batch of cluster weapons. about missiles for the haimas missile defense system. anti-tank weapons . and i suggest listening to jake sullivan. the meeting is taking place at an important moment . as ukrainian forces continue to make progress in their counteroffensive just as russia launched another brutal wave of airstrikes on five ukrainian cities that hit critical civilian infrastructure and knocked out electricity

for many people in various parts of the country to to help defend against such airstrikes, president biden will today announce a new military aid package that includes significant anti-aircraft assets to help ukraine protect its people, these capabilities will help ukraine strengthen its defenses ahead of what is likely to be a harsh winter of new russian attacks on ukraine's critical infrastructure in order to deprive innocent people of such essentials as heat and electricity because the president cannot reach his own targets on the battlefield, he is forced and resorts to attacks aimed at plunging the lives of ordinary people into cold and darkness .

dalnosti atakams and this is how jake sullivan, the national security adviser, also reported during the same briefing, literally some time before the planned meeting of the presidents, biden and volodymyr zelensky, about this package of the new package of military assistance missiles and such s- will not enter. and i want to quote him. he said that president biden has decided that he will not allow attacks yet, but he also does not take the issue off the table in the future. it is also known that during this meeting, joe biden wants to hear from the presidency and zelenskyi about the course of the ukrainian counter-offensive from the first hand and to hear about the advance of the ukrainian army and i also want to say that a group of supporters gathered near the white house with ukrainian flags who meet volodymyr zelenskyi here natalya thank you iryna

iryna shynkarenko was in direct contact with us for this information . she joined our broadcast from the white house, where a meeting between presidents biden and zelensky will soon take place. the situation on the battlefield and the verification of already provided funds, when the key issues during the visit of the ukrainian leader to the congress, meetings both in the house of representatives and in the senate, were monitored by our converse correspondent kateryna lisunova, she joins our studio from capitol hill greetings katya greetings natalya well, you were at the scene , first of all, tell us how the meetings of american legislators with the ukrainian leader actually went, with whom he managed to meet and what was the format of the talks, this is actually the second time the visit of president zelensky after the full-scale formalization of the russian federation to ukraine, and this visit differed

from the first in terms of form and substance if last year volodymyr zelensky spoke with a single speech for all representatives of the congress, both the senate and the house of representatives, this time the meetings of the representatives and the senate were divided and made closed . represented the leaders of both democrats and republicans , that is, in fact, he did not meet with all the legislators of the house of representatives, and i will remind them 435, he met in a separate room , which, by the way, is now being shown to you also present is the flag of ukraine, which volodymyr zelenskyi brought from the point of hostilities literally from the front, during the last speech at the congress, and here in this hall , we met all of zelenskyi with the leaders of both republicans and democrats in the house of representatives, but not with all the representatives

actually the house of representatives moderate he spoke was the speaker of the house of representatives the main republican kevin mccarthy was also the main democrat of the house of representatives hakim chefris and ok the honorary speaker also arrived now she is no longer a representative of the house of representatives, nancy pilos , she was also present during these negotiations, as well as a number of other officials, so to speak, non-officials, and leading republicans and democrats, in particular, leading republican michael mccaul was also present . zelenskyi took him to this room for this meeting, in fact , a representative of the democrats, whom jeffries , while talking to the president, led him to this to this room, where they actually talked in

in this format, with only the leaders of the house of representatives and the representative of ukraine, the ukrainian president, within an hour after that, at 10 a.m. , volodymyr zelenskyi went to the non-senate part of the congress building, in fact, he went to the senate , where he was led to a meeting by the leaders of the republicans and democrats, that is, the main republican in the senate between makonov and the main democrat in the senate of sumer, they solemnly escorted him to the hall where they met, but not unlike the house of representatives in the senate, volodymyr zelenskyi i met with all 100 senators, all representatives, not a large number of senators from both the democrats and the republicans. well, actually this meeting lasted a little more than an hour, literally an hour and 15 minutes, and after that volodymyr zelenskyy left the room where they were sitting, where the negotiations were held in a closed format with senators and left his own congress to go to meetings at the pentagon, many meetings katya, what are

their main results and what did zelenskyi say and the legislators with whom he met in general zelenskyi was of few words, he did not comment much, he almost did not comment, in fact, he did not comment on the results of these meetings to journalists, the only thing he said after the meeting was that they managed to discuss many details, and he once again thanked the american people for their support, such as the congress and even the journalists who were present during this meetings a and a , for example, legislators with whom i spoke as a couple during these meetings noted and highlighted three main points of these negotiations, this is directly updated information about the course of the counteroffensive in her of the latest information on ukraine's progress in the counter-attack, the second question is the verification of the aid already provided to ukraine, which worried many legislators, as well as the approval of additional aid to ukraine, in particular the leader one of the leaders of the republicans in the non-leading republican in

the house of representatives is also the head of the committee on international relations michael mccall after the meeting in the house of representatives noted that one of the proposals was to add the provision of fsh-16 fighter jets to ukraine to the bills on expenditures that are currently is considering the congress, i suggest listening to his comment just now, i asked what is your plan for victory and what do you need for victory , in particular, these are two things, aviation in 16 and ethics, they need artillery far away and actions or to carry out strikes on crimea, where are the iranian drones flying from, now they don’t have those graphic troops going forward without cover from the sky they have to clear the fields at night with our own hands we wouldn't send our troops under those conditions so we have to give them

what they need and if this administration doesn't if he gives them this, then we have to write down in the bill on budget appropriations the weapon that the leader of the democrats in the senate, chuck schumer, in turn asked for after the meeting with volodymyr, and zelensky immediately went to the senate meeting and already in the senate meeting hall summed up the negotiations and zelensky did not notice that zelenskyi's visa came at a decisive moment not only for ukraine and the same counteroffensive for ukraine, but also a convincing moment for washington, capitol hill and american lawmakers who are now are on the verge of a possible shutdown when if they do not agree on all financial issues, that is, all government funds will be blocked, and so, for example, according to chuck schumer, the additional aid to ukraine requested by the white house, which amounts to a total of 24 billion dollars, should be added to er to the resolution to the bill on

short-term financing of the government and that it must be agreed during this month until the end of the fiscal year, i propose to listen to his statement just now the outgoing president zelensky arrived at a crucial moment for of his country and for the congress right now ukraine is participating in the great counteroffensive against putin's military to take back its own territory and turn the tide of their bloody and brutal conflict but this is also an important moment for the congress and obviously if we allow a government shutdown to shut down the government or pass a resolution on temporary funding without aid for ukraine so the damage this will cause to the ukrainian counterattack will be devastating in fact i would like to quote president zelensky during at our meeting, he said: if

we don't get help, we will lose the war, this is a quote from president volodymyr zelenskyi, this is how acute the issue is for ukraine , the issue is that congress has little time to prepare the budget for next year, what is the situation with the approval of additional aid for ukraine in the amount of 24 billion of dollars that biden is asking about now, the resolution, the bill on temporary financing of the government does not include its additional aid to ukraine in the amount of 24 billion dollars. the resolution should be included in this draft law on temporary financing of the government, additional assistance should be provided to ukraine , i spoke with the legislators of the house of representatives yesterday and they really emphasize that assistance to ukraine should wait and the first step should be the approval of the budget for the government, the inclusion of finances for ukraine in the resolution on the temporary the government's budget is the wrong way in this form, it will not pass, it is better not to propose that it will not pass

, the vote is mine to go on a separate issue, but financing for ukraine is all that has support in the congress and we must make sure that this support does not disappear and it will largely depend on zelensky's appeal. i always emphasize that inspections in ukraine are probably 10 times better than they were in afghanistan and the presence of a special prosecutor was one of my amendments to the defense budget yes this guarantees that we will have good reporting that the funds are used properly to fulfill the tasks, it is necessary to include additional funding for ukraine as it is now in the future, it is a pity that it has not been included now, but i am doing everything it is possible to change it. i think that we need to first solve our larger problem of funding our own defense department, funding other departments , and only then we can talk about additional funding for ukraine . to make sure that the internal problems of the americans

are solved, funding for ukraine needs to be added, and i think that eventually we will do it when we reach an agreement. i hope that everything will be solved quite soon, the vast majority of of representatives supports funding for ukraine to help them win this war and defeat putin whose aggression cannot be tolerated or ignored i think we will have a majority when it comes time to vote the proposed resolution on the government's interim budget calls for funding for 31 days so we can vote on 12 bills on spending , the correct procedure would be to first agree on 12 bills on spending so that we can then focus on the real priorities in politics and other necessary in attachments thank you katya for the detailed story with us in direct contact with the capitol was kateryna lisova reconstruction of ukraine, a topic that

is actively discussed during zelensky 's visit to the usa. from the economic recovery of ukraine in new york, it is precisely with her appointment that business associates hopes for the acceleration of reforms in ukraine to convince investors to invest in ukraine - this is both a sprint and a marathon - he says pritzker she is convinced that now is the time for reforms for rapprochement with europe even during and precisely after russia loses its war of aggression ukraine has the conditions for economic rapprochement with europe educated talent and labor force fertile land extraction of natural resources and access to the single european market are components success they are even now the second - ukraine has a window of opportunity for reforms deep patriotism of the ukrainian people and

national consensus united in favor of carrying out reforms that create conditions for future success of ukraine and we all know that these reforms must meet the expectations of the private sector so that business is comfortable in this environment and is ready to risk investing in the third economic recovery of ukraine - this is both a sprint and a marathon , we must plan a european ukraine integrated into world markets with long-term sustainable development on the basis of pure digital competitive technologies, this is a marathon, and just so you know, i am a runner, but we also need results right now to give impetus to recovery so that ukrainians could confidently return home and start building for the future, this sprint training of ukrainian pilots in the usa will begin in a few weeks after the initial training in english, which will begin soon , pentagon spokesman petrahedr stated this during a briefing on thursday, he also commented on

the provision of another batch of tanks to ukraine in abrams regarding the abrams tanks everything is going according to schedule for reasons of operational security, i will not be able to go into details about when exactly these tanks will arrive, we expect that they will be in ukraine in the coming days and weeks as far as i know training for f-16 udans has already started but as for training here in the united states we expect ukrainian pilots and engineers to arrive in the united states soon to conduct initial training in english and then pilot training will begin weeks after that, more of the us sonata on wednesday endorsed the nomination of us navy commander gen. charles brown to chair the joint chiefs of staff for according to the proposal of the us president jobiden, brown should replace general mark milli, who is retiring already this fall, during the hearings in the senate regarding the approval of his

candidacy, on july 11, general brown highlighted the conclusions that he personally learned from the russian war in ukraine, in particular, he called the importance of information on the logistics of time necessary for military operations, the willingness of the military to fight and the capabilities of air defense. brown is a former fighter pilot. over the past 11 years, he has had seven deployments to military conflicts in different regions of the world. despite the sharp rebukes that have been heard these weeks between the governments of poland and ukraine, the policy of the european union does not change and europe continues to firmly support ukraine politically , economically, humanitarianly, diplomatically and militarily , said the spokesman of the european commission, peter stanu, such an assurance was given after the statement of the polish prime minister moroviecki that that

poland is not transferring weapons to ukraine at the moment, the statement was made against the background of the dispute about unilateral restrictions on the visa of the ukrainian border to poland, why is this aggravation and how it can affect poland's aid to ukraine, we will talk with our european correspondent bohdan tyupen, who is joining us london welcomes bohdan bohdane so what do moravetskii's words mean that poland is no longer sending weapons to ukraine? sounded so harsh in fact, and also against the background of such a serious dispute between kyiv and warsaw , these words, which were said by the polish prime minister on the air of one of the polish

tv channels, were immediately picked up by the european the mass media are many english-speaking, for example, and it turned out, at least in the opinion of many people in poland, that they misunderstood the polish language of the polish prime minister, the nuances are really small, that is , it is about whether poland stops military aid to ukraine, uh, in poland they said no, not that did the prime minister mean whether poland will not supply the line with more weapons, they say in poland, no, this is not what the prime minister meant. today, i separately asked a polish columnist, one of the representatives of the polish institute of foreign affairs in warsaw during the day ligowski explained what, in his

opinion , the audience should understand. an interview with a polish tv channel, it's not that poland has stopped supplying weapons to ukraine, he didn't say that, he said that at this time poland is not supplying weapons because we have already handed over what we had. that is, we don't have long-range missiles. we don't have modern ones. airplanes and the fact that we had soviet-made tanks and artillery we have already sent how deep the roots of the dispute between warsaw and kyiv are obviously trade disputes between countries - this is not an exclusive phenomenon , they occur constantly and are often resolved but in this situation can we now talk about the crisis in ukrainian - in polish relations, it is obvious that there is a crisis at least in the way

the words are perceived as harshly perceived as words both from the polish and ukrainian sides , and at the level of the highest officials and from one on the other hand, it is about well, the relatively recent dispute over the import of ukrainian grain is related to the specific economic situation due to the war over the black sea avocados, but sometimes the polish representatives slip up, for example, in explanations about the relations between ukraine and poland and about poland's aid to ukraine, suddenly somewhere in the middle points jumps out that poland is raising the issue of the events of 80 years ago, during the second world war, when it all comes together, when such emotions are raised, then there are obviously

problems, and i spoke about this today in another polish analyst lukasz adamskyi is talking to me. but here, that is, the interests of ukraine are also contradictory here. but i think that everything can be resolved in conversations , but those conversations should not be accompanied by such rhetoric, because this rhetoric causes such emotions, it irritates she winds up spiraling emotions, and as a result she leads to the fact that then the politicians of both countries, uh, start a kind of rivalry more acutely with criticizing the neighbor, well, with the sponge itself bohdane poland from the beginning full-scale war was the country that definitely provides all kinds of assistance to ukraine. in addition, it constantly calls on other countries to show solidarity in supporting ukraine. could this worsening of relations affect

the partnership between kyiv and warsaw? the polish mass media indicate the opposite to the desire not to worsen relations to the desire to further help ukraine and to keep disputes separate from helping ukraine in the war, in particular about this is what daniel solikowski told me. strategic in poland, there is no doubt that support for ukraine will continue, military and political, and it is important that poland will support ukraine's desire to join the european union and nato. this continues to be in line with polish interests.

a normal phenomenon between partners. thank you . it is perhaps worth adding news to this . just now, from official sources in warsaw, it was reported that polish president andrzej duda emphasized that poland has specific agreed contracts for the supply of further weapons to ukraine, she will fulfill them and will continue to help ukraine bohdan for your analysis with us in direct contact with london was bohdan tsyupin he helped us deal with the dispute that arose between ukraine and poland against the backdrop of restrictions on the import of ukrainian grain on this we will say goodbye, did you watch the program of the ukrainian

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