the email address you see on the screen. it's all good, we'll meet in exactly one week. the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas tym program is broadcast from washington. i am yulia yarmolo. congratulations! the leader of republicans in the senate , mitch mcconnell, called on fellow lawmakers to unite in support of ukraine and israel. now is the time for swift and decisive action to prevent further loss of life and to punish those who terrorize the people of ukraine and israel. he stated during a speech at the university of louisville on monday. it is expected that already this week, house speaker-elect mike johnson will vote on additional funding for israel separate from aid to ukraine. senator. conel

, on the other hand, believes that funding for israel and ukraine should be approved in a package, and opposes the voices that call for an end to aid to kyiv altogether. let's remember what is at stake: russia's victory in ukraine will jeopardize the security and economy of all of europe, our largest trading and strategic partner. world war and will endanger the engine of our own economic growth here at home. if russia wins, there is little doubt that putin's appetite for absolute power will effectively extend to nato, increasing the threat to the us transatlantic alliance and the risk of war for us. such an outcome would require a significantly greater deployment of our military power in europe, and greater spending, than the support we provide to ukraine. and of course victory. russia

will be encouraged by putin's growing alliance with other authoritarian regimes in iran and china. think of it as the axis. axis of evil china, russia and iran. so this is not just a test for ukraine, it is a test for the united states and the free world. and the way to greater security for all of us is simple: help ukraine win the war. the day before , the third international consultations on peace in ukraine ended in malta. according to the words. ukrainian president. national security and foreign policy advisers from 66 countries and international organizations took part in this meeting. why are such meetings needed and are they effective in attracting more support for the peace formula, countries of the global south. we will talk about this with my colleague in london, bohdan tsyupin, who is currently in direct contact. bohdan, congratulations. what were the actual results of the third international consultations on peace in ukraine and is kyiv getting closer to its goal of introducing

a global peace summit with the participation of world leaders and agreeing on a peace formula by the end of the year? it is difficult for yulia to talk about any results, because this is actually a diplomatic process, and for example, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyi recently said that the main result there was the adoption of a joint declaration, well, actually, it's just a document with a statement about common... goals, but of course, if as a result of an international meeting, the parties could not even agree on a statement with joint intentions, then this would be a sign of a problem. as for the ukrainian delegation, its head , andriy yermak, who heads the office of the president of ukraine and is actually an advisor to the ukrainian president on foreign policy and security issues, he talked about discussing at least five points out of ten of

the so-called peace formula, he separately said on achievements in the coordination of the countries' actions for the return of children taken from ukraine to russia, that is, the specifics are such that they relate to the most concrete possible task of these consultations, namely the preparation for the summit, the so-called global summit... of peace, as ukraine announces, then, the representative the ukrainian ministry of foreign affairs , mykola tochytskyi, in an interview with the reuters agency, said that ukraine still hopes that such a meeting, such a peace summit, a meeting of heads of state and government can take place even this year, but let's take into account that there is very, very little time left until the end of the year, if we take away the december and christmas holidays, which in particular

ukraine will actually celebrate for the first time on december 25, then there are only a few weeks left, time is very little. bohdan, china did not participate in the meetings this time, could this indicate that beijing is leaning closer to supporting moscow and is not ready to support the idea of ​​a just peace in ukraine? it is very difficult to talk about china, because in fact beijing's position is twofold, on the one hand, china says that he is for peace, but at the same time china declares that it is friends with russia, president putin meets with the chinese leader , and despite the statement of china about the desire for peace, all these opportunities were never used by the chinese leaders to tell russia to stop the war , for russia to withdraw its troops, that is, this is not happening, china has its own plan, or

rather its position on the settlement of the ukrainian crisis, as the document is called, published in february this year, it has 12 points and in the first, in particular, the observance of the statute is emphasized the un, in particular the principles of the territorial integrity of ukraine, but again, when , for example, these days in beijing , the russian minister of foreign affairs shoigu, who in particular said that russia was ready for some kind of peace negotiations, then again from the chinese side neither now nor before, we have not heard any... not even hints that china, apart from the declarations, principles of territorial integrity, sovereignty, that china specifically called on russia to adhere to such principles and withdraw from the territory of ukraine, we have not heard such .

bohdan, one of the purposes of holding such consultations, such as the one held in malta , is to get more countries to support the idea of ​​peace on fair terms, in particular the countries of the global south, has ukraine managed to make any progress in attracting support... since the first such meetings in june, well, this question can be answered very briefly, because we can also draw a conclusion from the number of states participating in these consultations, delegations of states, in june the first meeting was held to discuss this ukrainian peace formula in in copenhagen, in denmark, up to 20 countries participated there, if i am not mistaken, then in august there was a meeting in jeddah, in saudi arabia, and there were already about 40 countries, and now ukraine and the organizers in malta said that in this

66 countries have already participated in the meeting, although again, for example, china was not represented there, but the number, it seems that the number of countries of the union bohdan, thank you very much, my colleague bohdan tsyupin was in touch from london. the united states strongly condemned the anti-semitic protests in russian dagestan. national security council spokeswoman adrienne watson said anti-semitism is never excused or excused. and the press secretary of the state department, matthew miller, during the briefing, resolutely rejected russia's claims about the alleged involvement of ukraine in such events and expressed the hope that the russian authorities would hold them accountable. we condemn the violent and anti-semitic incidents reported from russia that have threatened israelis and jews. i saw the video, as i think you did, it looked like pogroms to me. we

call on the russian authorities to publicly condemn these violent protests to bring to justice all those involved and to ensure the safety of israelis and jews in russia. russia has publicly blamed external forces for the riots. i saw their comments accusing ukraine. this is absurd, obviously. i cannot give a rating. i'm seeing reports that they're probably arresting people, i don't know the full extent of what they're doing, but we think they should hold everyone involved accountable. international observers also draw parallels between the events in dagestan and jewish events pogroms in russia at the beginning of the 20th century, some of them also draw attention to the fact that the assault on the airport in makhachkala took place after a delegation of hamas representatives was received in moscow. at the same time, the expert of the center for civil liberties, vyacheslav ligachev , questioned the spontaneity of the riots in magachkal. he told about this on the air

of the voice of america briefing. a lot of discussion now we snakes see these events in dastan. these shots shocked many, many comments. some call it a protest. someone names and parallels it with the jewish ones pogroms, how would you call these events that we saw on the weekend? it's hard to say against. because it is not clear why to storm the airport building protesting against the events several thousand kilometers away, it is difficult to call it a program, what is obvious is that dagestan is not the region, russia is not the country at all, where hundreds of people can gather and a few hours to wander around the city from the hotel to the airport, without... some sanction of the authorities or, at least, some

non-interference on the part of the security forces, and dagestan is, of course, not the region in which the security forces can to allow uncontrollable events to happen, so it seems to me that the spontaneity of this action is a little exaggerated, it seems to me that it was about a certain controlled one, which was supposed to show some kind of picture like the one we are watching now, for whom it is intended, say, it is difficult at the moment, it may be part of some regional attempts to discredit, for example, the leadership of the republic for not being able to control the situation, it may be aimed at intimidation, including...' including

to the external arena, it is difficult to say at the moment, but it seems that the authorities have demonstrated that the citizens' aggressively dissatisfied feelings have a certain authorized sewerage channel, of course, the most active rebels have been arrested there and there will certainly be some protests, but this is what the footage has already demonstrated , this is one of the illustrations... of the loss of a stable stable state of such stagnation in the russian regions, if a few months ago we first watched how the tanks of the non-state-controlled pmc wagner mr. rostov, now we are watching how the beret crowd, the international airport and the law enforcement agencies in russia, what they can't do about it, this is part of the new russian reality, and among other topics, ukrainian

veterans participated in one of the largest and most famous races in the united states, the marine corps marathon. this sunday in washington, some of the ukrainian defenders who lost limbs in the war ran their first distance with prostheses. in total , 30,000 runners took part in this year's marathon from almost. 70 countries of the world, many of them supported and inspired ukrainians. report from the marathon from iryna shinkarenko and dmytro melnyka. downtown washington gets crowded before dawn. thousands of runners are preparing to start in the 48th us marine corps marathon. together with participants from the usa and other countries, former paratrooper oleksandr shvachka is preparing for the race. in march of last year, he lost his leg during the defense of the kyiv region, and now he is preparing to run 10 km for the first time in washington with a sports prosthesis. i received the prosthesis

just recently in july. since july , they have been preparing for two events. well, they trained, there was so much free time. in the three of us are fighting, of course, to show the whole world that we are at war. that is, despite the fact that the enemy can take away our life or a part of our body. ukrainians will still be infamous and will show. to the whole world his strength of spirit. ukrainian veteran yevhen smaga is still waiting for his running prosthesis, so he will overcome the 10-kilometer distance. i was injured on march 14 of last year, well, i protested somewhere in march, after eight months, plus or minus after the injury, i learned to walk for a month and a half, and slowly, slowly, i am walking on my own, well now at the moment, i am moving myself without help, without crutches, to the finish line. necessarily

, there are 14 people in the ukrainian team at the marine corps marathon at various distances this year, most of them veterans, five with amputations, but there are significantly more participants in the marathon with ukrainian symbols. i have been carrying the ukrainian flag since the beginning of last year's invasion, because there is nothing more important than... i am with you, my friends, and i will carry this flag as long as it takes. several ukrainian veterans are participating in the us marine corps marathon of 2016. the flight, accommodation and some other expenses of the ukrainian team were paid this year by the united help ukraine charity. veterans say they felt supported both during the trip to the usa and throughout the running route. that's the main thing that we

've seen a lot of support for. americans with our ukrainian flags, with ours'. symbols covered this distance, i didn't run for the result, i took pictures next to each one, dear, i talked to ordinary people, told them about the war, because they are interested, while i running, with the support of the audience and the applause of the american marines, oleksandr shvachka crosses the finish line for the first time on a prosthesis. you know, when you think that you are doing it for the sake of ukraine, you try to run ahead of everyone, of course you would run faster by two, but, glory to all soldiers, glory to the armed forces, glory to ukraine, we will win,

teams from other countries also show their support for the ukrainian veteran. we admire their service, they are always in the hearts of colombians and the whole world. the veteran member of the ukrainian team, roman kashpurg, covered all 42 km on a prosthesis, after the finish of the 10-kilometer race on a regular prosthesis, about the full marathon distance, yevhen smaga now thought about it. i think that next year i will prepare, i will get a sports protest and 42 marathons, i dedicate this marathon to the defenders, the defenders who protect us now, and those boys and girls who, unfortunately, are no longer with us, the organizers of the marathon, the us marines , say, the finish of the race in washington often gives confidence for new beginnings. this is the only

marathon in which marines stand in uniform. from a distance, a thousand nautical miles foot soldiers help runners to the finish line and wear their medals at the finish line, so it's a very unique race, it's a great opportunity to showcase different runners, because there are many people who want to complete the distance and still be able to complete the distance and reach the finish line, no matter how they get there to the finish line, the main thing is to reach it. in total, 30,000 runners from 68 countries participated in this year's us marine corps marathon. dmytro melnyk, voice of america. russia's war against ukraine is also a war against freedom of religion, which is fundamental value for the usa as well. this was stated by leaders of christians, jews and muslims from ukraine at a discussion at the washington institute for peace. currently, a delegation of leaders of the all-ukrainian council of churches and religious organizations is visiting

washington. they say they want to express gratitude to the american government and communities for their support. every non-profit organization knows that for every dollar spent by the us government, it will cost an ngo 10 cents to do the same, for the war that the us is waging against the same enemy that ukraine is fighting, the cost would be 10 times higher, now ukraine is taking a blow for the democratic world. the only reason russia is at war with us is because we are a democracy, just like hamas is at war with israel because they are jewish. we want to talk to the american people so that they understand us, and i want to ask the muslim community, who is helping ukraine? as a muslim community, we receive the greatest help from the jewish and christian communities. why are we part of the ukrainian community, and we protect our land, and someone wants to use islam to kill people and for

their political purposes like russia and others. think of ukraine as a single people and a single land. and you should help us, because we are an example for many countries in europe, in america, of how we can live together. the panelists also commented on the legislative initiative to ban the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate. ukrainian religious leaders noted that the uocp not only has a direct connection with the russian authorities, but that this patriarchate actively supports the russian war in ukraine and the ideology of the russian world. they also rejected measures to allegedly suppress freedom of religion in ukraine, as some far-right american commentators say, including former fox news journalist tucker carson. this question has been raised by many and has been repeated repeatedly by takar carlson and his supporters even in the last 24 hours. born of a genocidal force that declared its

intention to destroy ukraine as a country, as a culture, as an identity, it is very important to understand who it is said by those who draw the attention of the american government, institutions, and the world community to it. in russia, as already said, there is no religious freedom, all denominations lack religious freedom. there is a rapidly growing evangelical community in the us, and it often has a unique and interesting relationship with the republican party, a particular part of it, and yet, the evangelical community in the us often associates itself with the russian orthodox church, for reasons of faith, and i have worked over this with ambassador herbst, the us evangelical community has an important point political significance, especially now in congress as we consider whether to continue supporting ukraine next year. they must hear from the evangelical community of ukraine about the atrocities, murders and tortures against evangelical pastors in the occupied donetsk region, they must hear about

the lack of freedoms from you, your community, what else can the evangelical community of ukraine do to help the evangelical community in the us understand that the russian orthodox church today is not an example, and there is no need to seek an alliance with it. since the attack by hamas on south of israel, jewish communities live in ukraine. in the conditions of two warriors. against the background of 600 days of full-scale russian invasion, the war also took place in their spiritual homeland. however, the history of one synagogue in drohobych proves that no war can destroy tradition and culture. the building, which until the end of the first world war was the main place of worship for the jews of galicia, survived prosperity and decline, a devastating holocaust, and a furniture store located inside in soviet times, and was revived in ukraine, even though there are almost no local jewish families left here, he says. omilyan shedlyak and yuriy dankevich. the star of david is woven into three teeth, the symbolic sign is depicted on leonid

holberg's kippah. the large drohobych choral synagogue is the largest in western ukraine. he represents one of the smallest communities of ukrainian jews. holbrech has no common roots with the jews who built this synagogue in 1865. his father comes from kharkiv and his mother from donetsk and drohobych, a town near lviv, and they were married in the times of the ussr, but it is he who retains a special historical the legacy of the building, the practitioners, the jews to have their rabbi here, well, no , yes, but, but there is a very big phenomenon of how people take care of this tradition, this persistence, it turns into some kind of educational center, when you go there, you understand what this world was like, this atlantis, which andrzej htsyug wrote about, for example, a native of drogobychna, this land of the unknown and this and that is impressive. after our victory, a lot of people will come there. urban stories with andrii yurkevich.

when we talked about the iconic drohobychan, then actually on that letter, you are one of the first with whom i would like to do an interview, andriy and leonid have been friends for many years, when a younger friend, a successful director and writer, went to the front, a senior tour guide and publicist, opened a collection in the synagogue teroborona brigade. which has not stopped since then, always gave a lot of matzah, and when some cars with provisions could not reach us, uh, there were guys who came, then i gave them jewish bread, or, as they called it, and it helped a lot , because matza is non-perishable, so there is another story when ukrainian soldiers ate matza en masse at the front and everyone was very satisfied and happy. true, sometimes it is not a proper way, because you had to put some piece of lard, maybe something else

, the words of the great forest have become a cliché for a long time, and you once fought like israel, the killed children in irpen, buch , mariupol, and the killed children in the south of israel are a completely new nazism, which we already have today in the 21st century, we have been fighting for 10 years. israel has been fighting back like this since the beginning of the battle creation of the state. these two countries are facing world evil today. holberg recalls coming under fire for the first time in 2019, when he was visiting friends in southern israel. then he was sheltered in mamada - a special shelter room. in 2023 , his native drohobych was already bombarded with russian missiles. i heard these explosions, the first moments were scary, but in the end, i had nowhere to run, because the shelter from my house, my four floors, is very far, except to go out into the corridor

between two walls. but in the end, something has to will happen, it will happen, and you can't get anywhere here. on his tours, leonid holberg talks about three peoples, three religions and three cultures, ukrainian, polish and jewish, which over the centuries were the basis of drohobych, rich in salt deposits. in drohobych at the beginning of the 20th century, there were three roman catholic churches, there were seven churches and the last pre-war jew of drohobych died in 2015, he was alfred schreier, an outstanding musician, a student of bruno schulz, a man of incredible culture, most of the local jews were destroyed during the holocaust, and

the great choral synagogue stood empty. as well as other synagogues of galicia. eight years ago, andrii yurkevich made a theatrical performance inside the building in memory of 230 local jews, among them the classic of polish literature, bruno schultz, who were killed in 1942 during the early hours of thursday afternoon, when the germans liquidated the drohobytsk ghetto. the table on the grave is collective. restoration of the bozhnytsia building began in 2008 with the help of charitable funds, and was completed. in 2017, after another two years, the great drohobytsk synagogue finally came back to life, the torah was brought here again, it was accompanied by dancing, singing, music, they carried it through the village street until it was brought here under a heap, they escorted the bride, because she is the bride of the lord, they proved to the people, it was such that those who could not come, then they stopped minibuses on the street and those asking simply

to stop to look, because apparently drogovych had never seen anything like this, probably since the beginning of the 20th century, when the youngest one was built, in the crusher in 1909. in the same 2019, drohobych was visited by david avigdordor, a rebbe from the american goven state of connecticut, the grandson of jacob avyakdor, the main drohobytsy raben. which yom kippur holiday held the last divine service here, it was in the fall of 1939, just before the outbreak of the second world war, there were seven more young neighbors from kyiv and from america with him, and when he read the prayer, here on this bimir, which is behind me , well, it was a tribute not only to the avigdor family, which survived the holocaust, but in general to all those whom we are just mentioning,

yakov avigdor's grandson david stepped on the threshold of greatness. drohobytsk synagogue 80 years after his grandfather, leonid, left there for the last time holberg, enters her door every day with the hope that all the wars of the world will forever remain behind these walls. omelyano shchudlyak, yuriy dankevich, for the voice of america, zdrogobych. and that 's it, thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian. see you tomorrow, all the best, take care, papa. greetings, we are asking for your help in finding this boy, his name is mykola kochenko , he is 11 years old and he is missing, before the full-scale war, mykola lived in the urban-type village of gornostaivka in the kherson

region, this is the left bank of the dnieper. russians almost they immediately occupied gornostaivka and, unfortunately, after that the connection with the boy was cut off, there is still no news from him and nothing is known about his fate. of course, mykola may now be on the territory of russia, but it is possible that the boy still remains in gornostaevka, but due to the fact that this is a temporarily occupied territory, for obvious reasons, it is currently very difficult to find out about the fate of the child, whether he is still there and everything is fine with her. but at the same time, there is hope that this video will be seen on the internet by the residents of the still occupied gornostaevka, where mykola lived kochenko. so i appeal to you first of all, if you know anything about the boy, please do not remain indifferent and inform us on the hotline 116.30. if it is not possible to call, please write to the chatbot of the child tracing service in telegram. any even the smallest information.