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degrees of severity, and nine more are currently considered missing. diplomats are organizing evacuation flights for those people who want to leave the region, and in the meantime , us secretary of state antony blinken visited telyaviv today. at a press conference with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, blinkin emphasized: israel has the right and duty to defend itself against the attack of hamas. this is an incredibly difficult moment for the nation. as for the whole world, if you may say so something personal, i am speaking before you not only as the secretary of state of the united states, but also as a jew, my grandfather, maurice blinken , escaped the pogroms in russia, my stepfather, samuel pissard, survived the concentration camps, auschwitz, dachau, maidanik. so, prime minister, i personally understand the terrible repercussions that the mass murders of hamas have on israeli jews and jews around the world. you may be strong enough

to fend for yourself, but as long as america exists, you will never, ever have to do it alone, we will always next to you, this is the message that president biden has conveyed to the prime minister since the beginning of this crisis, this is the message that i and my other colleagues in the government have been conveying to our israeli colleagues every day, even hourly, and here in brussels the two days have ended. meetings of nato allies and partners, where , among other things, future support for ukraine was agreed upon. our european correspondent, bohdan tsyupan, works on the spot, we will talk more with him. bohdan, i congratulate you, congratulations. if we summarize the main results for ukraine these two days in brussels. bohdan, what would you single out first of all? well, first of all, in view of what we heard just now, in connection with the news from israel, it is that the international community, and in particular.

ukraine's nato partners insist that the attention that is currently focused on the israelis' efforts to defend themselves from the hamas group, what is happening in the middle east does not mean a decrease in support for ukraine, this was said by virtually all the participants in the meetings, and we are talking about the meeting of the ministers of defense 30 one nato country plus sweden, as well as the day before yesterday there was a meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine, the so-called ramstein, where representatives of approximately 50 countries participated, and every time from the mouths of many we heard that this attention would not be, so to speak, blurred or divided, and that ukraine... will

remain under the close attention of the western allies and the aid to ukraine is not decreasing, and this, in particular, was stated by the ukrainian minister. defense minister rustem umerov, who for the first time participated in the work at the nato headquarters in brussels, and he in particular insisted that there are clear plans, in particular for the nearest months and for the winter, as well as plans for the future, everything that our armed forces and defense forces need, we already have, now you know, we are continuing our counteroffensive. everything that the defense forces require of us, we provide, both lethal and non-lethal, and this is ours, but our plan was with our partners to go through it again, these are from the winter period, to plan

supplies for three months, that is, there is a commitment and deliveries , to see what we have received, what commitments we have received, and what deliveries we already have for these three months, and from what we see with commitments, very we did not expect many things, in fact, there are positive commitments, with deliveries , the fact that we now have our armed forces and security and defense forces working, we receive them on time, that is , we are also increasing this capacity, that is, now the planning will move to the medium term and long-term, that our partners want to work with us, in the context of this long-term planning , bohdane yesterday also talked about the formation of groups, so-called coalitions for technological support of demining, development of air forces. exactly as you think partners, can it now make aid to ukraine more effective? they talked about groups,

they talked about long-term plans, for example, plans for the joint production of weapons, between ukraine and western countries. when it comes to groups, it is obvious that we are talking about the distribution of this huge number, about 50 states, which has already been said, depending on the capabilities, depending on the concentration of efforts in certain directions, and we talked a lot about the so-called tank coalition before, now you hear less about it, actually more in brussels these days we heard about the coalition for the supply of f-16 aircraft to ukraine and the united states said that it would take a more active part in those in this coalition, in which countries such as the netherlands and denmark have been quite active so far,

it was said about lithuania that it one of the states that actively manifests itself in the group that will help ukraine with... demining, and for example, luxembourg and estonia were named as countries that will focus on helping ukraine with information technologies and cyber security. it's interesting, bohdan, you know, you already mentioned that at the beginning the allies assure that they can support both ukraine and israel at the same time, however , there is concern among many ukrainians that the situation in the middle east may, at least for the moment... slightly divert the attention of western partners from ukraine. you're at nato hq, based on your impressions of what you've heard, what you've seen on the ground, is there really any reason to be concerned right now? well, actually, it is worth remembering that in addition to the huge russian war in ukraine, and

the unexpected, obviously, unexpected war with and in israel, in fact, we also have other problems to which nato, in particular, is forced to pay attention, we reported in these programs, in particular, the escalation in kosovo, also nato is responsible for certain operations in bosnia and herzegovina, very seriously, on the agenda now is the question that happened with the gas pipeline between finland and estonia. that is, we can probably only speak with certainty about the fact that uncertainty will always remain about the fact that the world is complex, certain conflicts will, will arise, and a group of countries, in particular, united in nato,

will be forced to react in some way, but at the moment it is said that the russian war against ukraine is not the same after all. what we see in the middle east, that is, the needs of israel, when it comes to military power, are obviously not the same as the needs of ukraine. there may be some, so to speak, overlap in needs, such as missile defense, but again , israel, when it comes to military power, there is no doubt that the israeli military does not need some key elements of assistance , or what the israeli army lacks weapons, on the other hand... the war in ukraine has been going on for almost two years and the needs, the needs of ukraine in that situation

are obviously a little different, absolutely, bohdan, thank you very much for your analysis from brussels, bohdan was in touch with us tsyupin, our european correspondent, for the damage it has caused to ukraine, to compensate for the damage it has caused , but now for the first time we heard about the possible concrete next steps, the next mechanisms, today the finance ministers of the group of seven... a joint statement in which they said, what are they support the search for ways to transfer the revenues accumulated on these assets to ukraine, and the day before the us treasury secretary janet yellen said that the us supports the idea that the excess profits that russia could receive, the excess profits that are accumulated on these assets, should be transferred to ukraine . i also support. consolidation of excessive revenues from russian frozen assets in special clearing centers and use of these funds

to support ukraine. russia's illegal invasion of ukraine caused unspeakable consequences human suffering and economic loss. we must continue to force russia to bear greater and greater casualties and continue our efforts to ensure that russia pays for the damage it has caused. the position of the usa is important for europe as well, the day before we heard a statement from belgium, which said that it will transfer the taxes calculated on income on assets frozen in belgium to russian assets, will transfer them to a fund, to ukraine, and next year this fund must to make 1.7 billion €, which is quite a powerful amount, and why exactly the position belgium is so important, as reported by bloomberg financial times, it is in belgium that the largest amount of these russian assets is frozen in the largest clearing center in europe, euroclear, more than 125

billion euros. oksano, are the usa and the european union ready to provide these funds to ukraine, given that the american congress has not yet approved aid for ukraine and, in principle, has not started or resumed work after the election of the speaker. indeed, astapa viewers associate the increased attention to frozen russian assets with political confrontation, which is now a new aid package for ukraine is being discussed in europe, and the us congress has not yet approved the package submitted by biden, but the us treasury secretary janet yellen says that the package will be approved without fail, and congress has support for it. funding for ukraine, both military and direct budget support, along with resources for israel, is the administration's absolute highest priority. biden we have made that very clear to congress and we believe there is strong bipartisan

support. members of congress have their own determine how this will be done after a speaker is appointed. but it is absolutely the highest priority for the biden administration. how much economic aid does ukraine currently expect to attract from its partners and what do these partners expect from the ukrainian government. the prime minister of ukraine denys shmyl stated that ukraine's honest demand is 42 billion dollars for this year and next year from western partners . economic policy of ukraine. we have just worked with the government of ukraine on the second revision of the program. as you know, this program mobilizes 115 billion dollars in investments. years to provide financial stability and predictability to ukraine. this second

review, like the first one we completed in june, demonstrates that the country's economic management, despite wartime conditions, is outstanding. here's what i can tell you: first, ukraine is making a much faster recovery than we expected, growth will be closer to the upper 3% mark, and as always my ukrainian friends say we will beat even that. second - as we can see, structural reforms are ongoing, difficult reforms even in peacetime, they are even more difficult in wartime, but they are implemented, we also see policies to protect macroeconomic and finance. stability to the point that inflation is less than 10%. we have some member countries that are not at war, but are struggling to slow down inflation to single digits, and most recently, we see the ukrainian central bank gradually moving to a managed flexible exchange rate and doing it from a position of strength, it's all very

good, but it will only last with our unwavering support. these words are important, oksana, thank you. for your analysis, oksana bedratenko was in touch with us. thank you osta. at the same time, some american experts are concerned that economic support for ukraine may be affected by issues of corruption and the implementation of reforms. this is our next story. oleksiy kovalenko will tell whether these things can affect the future aid to kyiv. the fight against corruption in ukraine is one of the key topics of priority reforms, which are noted western partners. in 2022 , ukraine took 116th place among countries in the corruption perception index, improving its position by six points compared to the previous year. however , ukraine's partners in the west emphasize that there is still a lot of work ahead. discussions about the potential influence of corruption in ukraine on the support of the united states gained new momentum after the politiko publication published details of a confidential report, which, according to the publication, outlines

washington's multi-step plan to combat corruption in ukraine. corruption at the highest level - says document, can undermine the faith of ukrainians and foreign leaders in the government of the warring country. commenting on the issue of combating corruption in ukraine, the jdp emphasizes that anti-corruption reforms are one of the priorities in the dialogue with ukraine. it is important for ukraine to demonstrate anti-corruption measures , understanding that ukraine will remain a neighbor of russia, they need an economy that can support a security apparatus that can deter future russian aggression, and they cannot do this under conditions of wide spread. corruption in various sectors of the economy. experts note that concerns about the level of corruption in ukraine are not new, and although it is expected that military aid to the white house will remain unchanged in case of support in congress, the implementation of certain anti-corruption reforms may depend on ukraine's further receipt of some types of economic aid. i think there remains a certain level of concern

about the issue of corruption, and although the publication in politics exaggerates it, president biden has raised the issue. also heard from members of congress that they were raising this issue as well. this is a serious question, but it is not must affect military aid to ukraine, it must remain very strong, and we must continue to move forward with aid. according to him, this push has strong support within ukrainian society, which has become less tolerant of corruption since the full-scale invasion. in today's ukraine, there is zero tolerance for any corrupt behavior. pressures from both ukrainian society and the white house, says the director of the institute's anti-corruption, democracy and security project brookins' jonathan cuts, can help the ukrainian government implement reforms more effectively. of course, ukrainians want anti-corruption reform more than anyone, but this support is needed and

a push is needed to make sure that the ukrainian government carries out the reforms that it claims and that it needs in order to meet the eu criteria to start negotiations for membership in the european union . but this is a separate issue from the question of accountability for the use of american military and economic aid, which is often raised on capitalist hill. to date , inspectors from the us agency for international development, the state department and the pentagon have completed 33 inspections of aid to ukraine, and another 72 are in the works. none of these checks revealed thefts or abuses, - emphasizes john herbst, an analyst at the analytical council. the us has a vital interest in putin losing the war in ukraine. this is the reason why we provide significant military and economic aid to ukraine. there are problems with corruption in ukraine, but there is an extensive system of control with the help of which we provide, so we have no evidence that there were serious abuses of our aid to ukraine. there is no reason why we cannot

serve our national interests by sending significant aid to ukraine while encouraging ukraine to anti. corruption measures. experts say that in the long term, a transparent economy will make ukraine stronger in terms of security, but in the short term, no matter what accusations are made against ukraine, it should not lead to the loss of military support from the us, on which the country's survival depends. oleksiy kovalenko, dmytro melnyk, voice of america, washington. and we end the issue with a story about a ukrainian apiary in the heart of new york, which has been kept by a ukrainian family for several years. they call their business bee diplomacy. their beehives are made... in the ukrainian style. ukrainians also tell the residents of new york about the benefits of bees and teach them not to be afraid of these insects. iryna solomko and pavlo terekhov talked to beekeepers on manhattan.

in new york, the district where nataliya okolita from family around the houses there are many parks with flowers and trees, an ideal environment for bees. the idea to start bees on mangedena came to natalie on the playground. i was here with... my little son on the playground and i wanted to sleep all the time, i was very restless, and having my husband, who agrees with the family beekeeper, i knew that there is a practice in ukraine of sleeping with bees, and i , i have never tried this practice, but i was told that it is the best sleep of a lifetime, that is, in 40 minutes you can fall asleep for the whole night, and i was constantly thinking, where can you make me this bee hut here in new york, so that i can just sleep, not far from the house where the family lives, there is a garden, which we and i have a park, and natalya suggested that the manager place it there are hives, i see him for the first time in my life and he saw me for the first time in my life, this

is 2019, not the 18th year, and i say to him: eron, my name is natalya, i have an idea, he says yes, i say, well, an idea he says so, i say, wait, well, i didn't say the idea, he says, i see you, i say, yes, yes the idea, i i say, it’s bzhol, he says, yes, that’s right, this idea is what i wanted, he turns out to be in this garden for a very long time, he dreamed about... bzhol, aaron scott is a jazz musician in the past, and now the manager of the garden, he says, for a long time wanted to breed bees in it, because they are disappearing, and he wanted to somehow help this. at first it was not easy, the neighbors reacted in different ways, but now no one even thinks about it. our street is full of flowers and bees, and no one notices it anymore. this is the idea of ​​being with nature, one must be natural, to exist in it, everything is connected. bees are very important, without them there is no pollination, without pollination there is no food. natalya and her family decided that manhattan bee hives should only be in the ukrainian style.

if such bee diplomacy was to be a cultural bridge between ukraine and america, since we have such a long tradition of beekeeping, if these beehives were made according to such a traditional ukrainian design, and the frames, which are elongated, such as those that reflect natural ones, if.. forms, natalia's husband andrii, from he himself made the same beehives from a cedar tree that his father uses in ukraine. the next task was to get the bees. and as always, such an american story , they were almost ordered on amazon, they were delivered to us by mail, then they were in two such boxes, they traveled here from georgia, and we settled them. there were two families of them, we had such a solemn event - the coronation, we called them. two queens, because they lead two families, and we had a big event here for the local children, everybody, probably 80 people were here in this

garden, but the first two families did not survive the winter, the beekeeping epic lasted for several seasons. it was a traumatic moment for me, i honestly cried, i didn't even hope. then we bought again, in the 20th year we again ordered beech trees, but already local ones. and unfortunately, they also died, that is, we could not understand what, well , what if it was the case, and the 21st year, and this is already such an if, still a period of covid, but already, well, that is, when nature began to revive, when but the whole industry fell silent, the locals just moved in with us bees, it's just that they flew from somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, and they invited themselves to the hut and they settled in the spring, we opened a hive, and over time, the family of new bees multiplied to three and continues to increase the population every summer. communication with

residents of a big city who know little about bees has become a new challenge for beginner ukrainian beekeepers. people did not know what bees are, we had to present them, show them what beehives are, how to work with them, how to keep a distance from beehives, because bees they react to perfume, to shampoo, for example, if you messed up your hair, they very immediately ... to that, they feel this fresh smell of washed hair and they can immediately attack you, that is, for people, something had to be explained, you know, what it is such and how to work with it, because not everyone can tell the difference between bees and wasps. the ukrainian couple has the official status of certified beekeepers, granted by the city authorities. in new york, until literally 2000-2000 years ago, bees were potentially equated with snakes and tigers and lions, so they have such a gradation was heaven then there was an initiative group, his name is andrew the beekeeper and he has a wife, a ukrainian by the way, and he and this initiative group went to the local authorities and they

achieved that. that it is legal to keep bees, honey is a product of fermentation, and there are certain characteristics, when honey becomes ripe , full-bodied, it acquires body like wine, it acquires such strength, when honey, if, when you strain it, it lays down like this flakes, and it really lays down, that is, it is so very thick, ukrainian jolars already know in new york, recently a stranger called the couple to rescue a swarm of wild bees that ended up in the center of manhattan on madisons clear gar we went, we just took a small box, went down to the subway , went with this box, shook these bees into this box, packed them and back to the subway, brought them here. the beekeepers settled a new swarm in a beehive in one of the bronts parks. the family plans to develop a new location here. now they are helped by andriy stepan's father, who was forced to leave ukraine due to the full-scale invasion of russia. prior to that , he counseled children online. ukrainian bees.

he says, they are more industrious than the americans, but also more biting , we were waiting for you, i will now take honey from them, which you can take and build a nest, i build a nest for myself on eight frames, if a large family is good, well, i have there is nothing for the family, i leave eight frames for the winter, i have such pillows, i stuff them with leaves in the fall, when it has already fallen, i insulate them a little and that's how they go into the winter. ukrainian beekeepers' honey is special precisely because it is collected in a big city, says natalya. we are not in in some agricultural region of america, where everything is treated destructively with pesticides and herbicides, here they do not treat it with anything, that is, it is such a truly organic autotentic honey, without any chemical impurities.

we share honey and people there praise us, i don't know, they like it, they say that there are some very exquisite tastes, they like that it is from mangetin itself, you know how it is, now the family is planning to expand the honey business and start selling natalka's dream of sleeping on beehives, that's what they are for they went to ukraine and saw how it works, natalka jokes, buliki-lezhenki for the city of new york is a very radical project, so the family plans to implement it in the countryside of the state, it is made as a platform. the bees are below and they fly in from the outside of this house on the sides, and a person enters through the center and he lies down on this platform, he does not have direct contact with the bees, except through the surface of the bed where he lies, it is warm, there is a smell , aroma, that is, it is like a 4d effect, i would say, it has a lot soothing, it has a positive effect on sleep.

in addition, natalka... to help ukrainian beekeepers restore apiaries lost due to the war from new york iryna solomko pavlo terekhov voice of america. download the voice of america mobile app. the application allows you to bypass blocking automatically thanks to the built-in vpn service. read news, watch informative programs and videos, as well as listen to podcasts of the voice of ukraine service. america and that's all we'll say goodbye, watch also our daily briefings from monday to friday at 6 pm on youtube and facebook, where you can ask us your questions live. thank you for trusting the voice of america in ukrainian. good night and good morning, see you soon.