they believe that it is not necessary to divide assistance between two important partners. the white house has already said that if the president eventually gets such a version of the johnson act for his signature, he will use the right of veto. the biden administration says that the alternative bill of the republicans only exacerbates differences and does not meet the national interests of the united states, one of which is to help ukraine protect its freedom and independence. can aid to ukraine suffer after all? we will talk about this with my colleague ostap yarysh, who is currently in direct contact. hello ostape, congratulations, yulia, ostap, why did speaker johnson decide in the end to bring to the house of representatives not the president's request for 106 billion additional funding for israel, ukraine, and security in the quiet indo-pacific region, but to present his own bill only in support of israel , and does such an initiative have enough support among legislators? yulia, there are many reasons why they want to divide this funding, one of them, which is called, is that ukraine and israel are different countries and different... therefore, this assistance should be considered

also separately, these are the arguments that we hear from a part of the republicans, whether it will succeed , whether such an initiative will receive enough support , well, i think we will know here already after the final vote in the house of representatives, yes, but at least now a part of the republicans expresses their support for such an intention speaker johnson. in particular, we know that these days, eight republican congressmen wrote a letter to us president biden with a call to split aid for ukraine and israel, they say they support aid to ukraine and ukraine to israel must win, however, they say that congress should not send, as they say, a single additional dollar to kyiv until the american president answers 12 questions and fulfills 12 conditions of these lawmakers, it is said, in particular, that the white house clarified the strategy for winning the war in ukraine, as they say, also explained what weapons have not been provided to ukraine so far, what weapons would be effective, and how the white house sees

the continuation of this war and the current state of affairs and also the use of this effective weapons, among the questions they ask the american president, is there a common vision between washington and kyiv regarding the strategy for the return of crimea to ukraine and other things, i think you can read more about it on our website, yulia, but these congressmen are talking about that as long as the white house does not address these demands or these questions, they will refuse to vote for any help for kyiv in the future, let's see if the white house will respond to such statements. ostape, could further aid to ukraine still be in jeopardy, they say republicans and democrats in the senate, because it looks like there, there is more support for unifying aid to israel and ukraine. yes, yuli, first of all it is necessary to remind, so that in order for any initiative to receive the final approval of the congress, it must pass the consideration of both the house of representatives and the senate in the same form, if now speaker johnson insists on dividing the aid to ukraine , israel. for other needs, the senate

does not seem to be pleased with such proposals, and after all, the majority of senators, such as republicans and democrats are in favor of considering this assistance jointly, there are different opinions, but in general, the majority is still in favor of it being joint. we can listen to the comments of some lawmakers, republicans and democrats, which they expressed today during the hearing in the senate, which they see as further consideration of aid for ukraine, israel and other needs. on september 21, ukrainian president zelenskyi directly told the senate: "if you stop aid to ukraine, we will lose this war." i am not exaggerating. these are the exact words we will lose this war. i asked minister austin if that was an exaggeration. he said no. so i hope speaker johnson will look into it. it is more than just a political strategy or a political gimmick. we have strong bipartisan support, like in the house of representatives. in the senate to continue

our assistance to ukraine. i'll tell you what the senate will do. we are going to put together a package to solve our country's national security problems. border security, continued struggle with russia over aid to ukraine and immediate aid to israel because we don't have it there is still time. i think these issues are very important, and they will be approved by both parties here in the senate. i am deeply concerned about the nakedness. happy that aid to ukraine can be sacrificed for aid to israel. these two issues must be considered together. wars go together as a matter of national security. i want to help israel, and i want to help ukraine. it doesn't matter if it happens separately or together. i will support it. important statements are heard in the senate by ostapa. the white house has already said that the president will sign johnson's bill as follows wants to nominate him. house of representatives, how

does the white house argue this? indeed, yuli in the white house categorically opposes speaker johnson's proposals to split aid, first, because of what the white house thinks. it is impossible to set conditions for supporting israel, in particular due to the reduction of funding for the united states tax service, but there is one more very important argument , and it says in the white house that it is impossible to separate priorities separately from ukraine or the priority of the pacific region, from the aid to israel, all these things are inseparable, they are closely related and need to be considered, considered exactly like that. the white house released a statement, an appeal, saying that if congress does not now pass critical ... important funding for ukraine, especially before winter, it will send a terrible signal to russia and the rest of the world about the indecision of the united states, and may also encourage not only putin to further aggression against other countries, but also dictators and aggressors around the world. the white house does not support such a proposal, the house of representatives, as you have already

said, clearly stated that they will promise to such an initiative, if it receives approval, and insist that ukraine, israel, and other priorities expressed by the white house should be considered together. really ostap, there is no shortage of news and interesting details from capitalist hill. thank you very much for telling me the most important thing, it was ostap yarysh, in connection with capital hill. already on friday, us secretary of state anthony blinkin will go to israel again. this will be the second trip of the top american diplomat to the country in the last month. there he will meet with representatives of israel authorities, and will also visit other countries of the region. the day before, during a senate hearing on funding for israel and ukraine, blinkin's opening speech was interrupted five times by protesters calling for a gas truce. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu dismissed the possibility, saying it was a gift from hamas. the leader of the hamas group, which the united states has recognized as a terrorist group, threatens to destroy israeli

forces during a ground operation in gaza. meanwhile, violence is growing in the west on the banks of the jordan river. voice of america correspondent ian boshart was there. with his report by iryna. in a refugee camp in jenin on the west bank of the jordan river, children play with toy weapons in the same place where just hours ago, israeli forces eliminated two fighters of the islamic jihad. children run, shoot and hide from imaginary enemies in the streets, which are still fresh from bullet marks and bloodstains from a recent battle, some pretending to fire into the air in honor of a fallen soldier. it's not scary, i fear only god. jubar is 12 years old, he dreams to study, to become a professional football player and fighter, his toy gun has the image of a friend who died during a clash with israeli forces. he was here, they

were there, and then boom, and he's dead. aisarar al-amer, the commander of the local islamic jihad group, was killed that morning, his. drew hundreds of people in what the un says is the deadliest year for palestinians in the west bank in 15 years, with more than 120 palestinians in the region killed since a hamas attack on october 7 that killed more than 1,400 israelis, most of these palestinians were killed by the israeli military during raids on refugee camps in search of people suspected of links to hamas, in addition, in the west bank , attacks by jewish settlers have increased and the number of palestinians killed by them is increasing, the palestinian government says , that in this small village near the city of nablus, jewish settlers have killed at least five palestinians in the past two weeks. murat ob says that he was shot. i was sleeping when i heard

an announcement from the mosque that people were also attacked needed help, ran and saw my cousin lying on the ground. i put him in the car, and when i went back to help... another bullet hit me in the back. every day new photos of palestinians who died in clashes with the israeli military appear on the streets of the towns of the west bank of the jordan river. janvo, the voice of america from the west bank of the jordan river. and my colleague natalya myzgovaya met in israel this morning with the parents of 23-year-old shanna luk, one of the hundreds of victims of hamas militants. three weeks after the bloody attack on music festival in the south. israel, shani's parents hoped that their daughter was alive and possibly in captivity in the gaza strip. the video of the girl, who was captured by the terrorists during the festival, and then oppressed her in the gas sector, was circulated by the news agencies of the world. this week, israeli experts conducted a dna analysis

of festival goers found at the scene of the shooting and confirmed that shanni died at the scene, and was already dead at the time of the video. her father, nisim luk, told the voices. about what he felt when found out that his daughter had died. i would like to say. as the father of this wonderful girl who was killed. shanni was fragile and gentle, she loved to dance, attend parties and travel the world, she had so many friends, she had such a kind heart. on the one hand , it is very difficult, very difficult to realize that our beloved girl has died, and we will probably never see her body. but on the other hand, it's a relief that she died and didn't suffer. and that she is not in the underground tunnels of hamas. it was at the venue of the festival

more than 260 bodies were found, approximately 250 more people were taken hostage. and we continue to release such a level of religious freedom, which ukraine has at independence, it has never had in its entire history, says metropolitan of the orthodox church of ukraine evstratiy. star. as a member of the all-ukrainian council of churches and religious organizations, he is on a trip to the united states, at a time when the issue of future aid to ukraine is under consideration in the us congress. ukrainian religious leaders meet with congressmen, politicians, experts and leaders of religious communities to tell them about religious life in ukraine and what is happening with priests and churches in the occupied territories. my colleague natalka spoke with metropolitan eustratius in the voice of america studio.

i greet you bishop eustracia in the voice of america, your visit is happening at a time when the question of aid to ukraine is being discussed in the congress, is it a coincidence, are you working for this aid, i congratulate you, i congratulate the audience, to some extent it is definitely a coincidence, because this visit was planned since the beginning of this year, we have been working on the possibility of a delegation of the all-ukrainian council of church religious organizations to come to washington, the united states of america, because we understand very well that both our voice and our support in helping ukraine are necessary and important, because we, as the council of churches, represent people, we represent the people, the all-ukrainian council of churches and religious organizations unites... almost 95% of the religious network of ukraine, that is

, it includes those religious organizations that represent almost the entire religious spectrum of ukraine, in particular, these are orthodox, catholics, latin and eastern rites, protestants of various directions, jews, muslims, and, as we have direct dealings with people, with our believers, with our communities, and we feel and duty, but we also have the right to speak on their behalf, and that is why we feel the obligation to convey this opinion so that you hear not only the opinion or position of politicians, because often, especially in the current conditions of the disgusting information war, aggression , and, showers and such a crazy squall

disinformation, which is constantly launched by the enemy against ukraine, and such mistrust is planted in politicians, in the state, we speak on behalf of our communities, we speak on behalf of our faithful, we speak, we testify, i understand... or our responsibility before god, however, before your arrival, the campaign to discredit ukraine became very active, and for example , a journalist who used to work for fox news, tucker carlson, spoke with the lawyer of the russian orthodox church, bob amsterdam, here, about the persecution of christians in ukraine, 45 million views, what can you say to people who talk about being harassed.

in ukraine, well, first of all, these are the basic rules of copper media, just purity, copper, and not only to listen to what is said, but to see who is speaking, that is, who is spreading this information, this person, his company, hired by a pro-russian oligarch, vadib novinsky, it was... publicly reported that they were hired on the money of this person, who was a former politician from the party of regions, a person who... was connected with russia all his life, but not long before during the great invasion, she actually received a ukrainian passport from yanukovych, who was a deputy from sevastopol, after that sevastopol was occupied, then he was a deputy from mariupol, and we all know very well what happened to mariupol, then he renounced his deputyship and now lives in

europe, but at the same time he is a deacon of the moscow patriarchate. and so he hires this firm in order for this firm and this person to continue the campaign that the moscow patriarchate and pro-russian forces have been conducting for many, many years to discredit ukraine, with discrediting the ukrainian state, and therefore it is not surprising that those who spent a lot of time spreading russian narratives will continue to do so, they are not telling the truth. they are just spreading propaganda, or rather one of the key questions that we heard here in washington was whether there is religious freedom in ukraine, and if any one denomination or any one person said that there is religious freedom, it

would be possible to question it, but excuse me when the whole church council, christians, jews, muslims, orthodox, protestants, catholics, in one voice say that ukraine has never had such a level of religious freedom, which ukraine has at independence , our religious organizations have never had in all history, previous, in all centuries, especially in soviet times, on the one hand, on the other on the other hand, the occupied territories and the russian federation itself, there is no religious freedom there. why, if these people actually disagree about religious freedom, did they at least say something about the persecution that the russian federation systematically carries out in the occupied territories, which takes place in occupied crimea, how many priests are

in russian prisons. were you asked this question, did you answer, we told, certainly, we told. about what is really happening, we talked about the kidnapped priests who are now in russian prison, we talked about the destroyed, looted shrines, we talked about how any religious activity that is not related to with the loyalty of the russian federation. it was. natalka churikova's interview with the metropolitan of the orthodox church of ukraine is in execution watch the full interview on the youtube channel of the ukrainian voice of america. freshly baked bagels for california restaurants are baked by emigrants from ukraine. a special

project that employs ukrainian women has been launched in silicon valley. how does the bakery work, are the resettled women satisfied with their new job in the usa. khrystyna shevchenko learned. since the very morning, three ukrainian women have been working on the dough, baking traditional ukrainian sweets, bagels with filling. we bake with poppy seeds, apricot jam and strawberry jam. larisa vakulenko from ternopil oblast, like other women, got to california after the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine. olena gerasimyuk from vinnytsia came to visit her eldest son in the city. berkeley, a woman couldn't find a job for a year, and this is the first job i found here, i'm glad that i found a job with my compatriots, because i really, really miss communication in the ukrainian language in a foreign country, and this job, she makes me feel at home, so more comfortable for me. svetlana is 60, she was forced to move

from the ternopil region, just like olena later moving had problems with finding a job. ignorance of the language and advanced age hindered - says the woman. it's very difficult for me to find a job here, because i'm not young anymore, it's very difficult to find a job, but i got this opportunity to do baking, and i'm happy to do it. the opportunity was offered by oleksandr zabelin, a ukrainian emigrant from odesa. oleksandr moved to the usa back in the 90s. in california , he is engaged in business and was the founder of several startups. open a bakery for employment of ukrainians. immigrants he was prompted by events in his homeland. i went to school in ukraine and unfortunately my school no longer exists. my school bombed and it was in the center of the old city of odessa, it broke my heart. the man decided to help refugees and at the same time promote ukrainian pastries.

i decided that this would be one of the best ways - to create a community where all ukrainians who work together in a common kitchen can speak ukrainian and not worry about a new language environment. oleksandr says americans are not familiar with bagels. as, for example, with french croissants, so he hopes that his product will become popular due to its uniqueness. it is very interesting how some customers carefully ask about the product, what is it, they are so small, let us try a few, let's see how it goes, and then they call us again and say that they are sold out. while developing the recipe, oleksandr tried to recreate the taste of bagels that he tasted in a restaurant in odesa as a child. he works in the kitchen with women and delivers pastries himself at a local coffee shop. today, bagels are delivered to 20 local stores cafes and restaurants. oleksandr is now

trying to expand the startup and hire more immigrants. in the future, we plan to open our own cafe of ukrainian pastries. berkeley california khrystyna and bohdan shevchenko for voa. and the story about an atypical farm in ukraine, which was created on the model of some american ones, is not the end. cows are not milked there. and do not wean free-ranging animals from their calves at any time of the year, search for herds with the help of trackers and smartphone contact. on an interesting farm on tetyana kukuriyka and serhiy repchynskyi visited khmelnytskyi. i have such a handsome boy, such a handsome boy. three years ago, anna necheruk and gadkina had a dream that she would connect her life with the village. i am 100% a city person. i was born and grew up in vinnytsia, my grandmother also lived with us in vinnytsia, and i didn’t have any vacations in the village even at my grandmother’s, and i came to this village for the first time, it was the spring

of 2020, i fell in love with the village where eight houses lived immediately - says anna. at first, she and her husband taras hid here from covid, later stayed and began to revive the husband's grandmother's business. our cows are independent, they live their own cow life. and i only help them in this, i want to make sure that while these cows live here with me, that they have maximum freedom and feel as comfortable as possible, it is clear that my calves grow up and i sell them to people for cows , and they will still be milked later, i realized that i am running a bull and anyway at some point in his life he will go for meat, but as long as he lives here, he gets high, annata dad... times they don't milk their cows and they don't wean their calves, the animals are free-ranging at any time of the year, the territory of several hectares is limited by an electric shepherd, i

like it here, such columns and all the way to the field that is being plowed, under the field further to the left and it rests against the pond, and the shepherd, in principle, this is such a not very complicated construction , it has to be done a few times, these are insulators, they are called and it goes directly here... such a tape, not a tape, a string, in which a metal part is screwed, which directly transmits current, this is what gps trackers look like, they have a very simple design, uh, they have a sim card, and there is a special program on the phone that actually shows in real time where the tracker is, that is, where the cow is at that moment, there we used to go there, already during the full-scale war, the farm was replenished with poultry, this is my peach

, manyunky, you are a peach, we have a lot of foxes and in fact they came here to me, you know, they came like at mcdonald's one cash register, do you want a chicken, do you want a guinea fowl , you want a duck, and here i am made such a metal net, here it is plastic, because there are still ruffians, if the birds are bigger, then the cows are on the contrary, before the full-scale war, anna says, there were more than 50, now there are 14. we sold such a large amount of livestock last year, starting from september to october, in october he received a summons, he was taken away from december 1, and the first winter, it was a very difficult winter for me, the first that i am a city person here, but here in the sidrov region, water has to be collected for the cows, it freezes, this alpine cow, she is called the daughter of she's shallow, she's like that here... at the end of last year, taras went to the front, and anna started volunteering, an atypical business model, anna says, allows me to help the army, i can volunteer.

i can go to help the guys, i can transport something, for example, how much to take , that i went south to my husband twice, i bought a car there, provided them with a kitchen, they created their own, i carried body armor, helmets, food and everything, whatever, even in the last two months i went to zaporizhzhia twice, if i killed the cows, i wouldn't be able to pull them out, anna's friends and her husband's parents help her to combine volunteering and the farm, anna says it would be very difficult to take care of the farm herself. i made a canopy, i really wanted, you know, such a beautiful terrace, i really wanted a terrace, i understand, i don’t have enough houses , i will still make a closed veranda, but already for next year, and now it is such a party station for us, and a station where everything can be put together , this is my harvest, which i did not have time to collect and process in time, but there were frosts, i had to go straight away, i just collected everything, collected, collected, brought the class here, and now something needs to be done with it, but i still

haven't figured out what? you just have to eat, but i give out zucchini here and there, and my mother, good afternoon, anna nadiya’s mother has moved from vinnytsia to zhar, she says that while her son-in-law is in the army , she will help her daughter, and here is his guitar, he sings and plays beautifully , sings, yes, he is well done for three, i sobbed and cried when, when he was taken into the army, i was so worried, and i am worried now, i pray for him, all my friends, i ask, please pray for my taras, so that everything he was fine. that all boys returned to end this war, in the first days of a full-scale war, a family of nechpruks hosted immigrants , three families actually spent the night here, how we all fit here, i really don't know, my mother slept in the kitchen under the rug, my husband and i were on the sofa and there was a family with two children with us in the big room, but thank god everyone settled down then , and i think it's very cool that i continue to communicate with many people, but not in the summer on the farm.

anna's children from immigrant families rested, and it was then that she had an idea, not just to develop the farm, and to turn the burn into a place of emotional reset, she was born in the forest, she is a forest mafka in our country, my dream is one of the biggest, and this is what i really want to do, is to create a tourist map of ukraine here , to make our fire, in order to receive people here and give them, first of all, what i am for camping next year - says anna, but when taras returns from the war, they will make a tourist magnet out of fire. tetyana kukuriyka, serhii repchynskyi, for voice america, from the bottom in khmelnytskyi. we are looking for 13-year-old sofiyka nikifora. the girl lived in mariupol and disappeared on

the first day of the full-scale war. for almost two years , nothing is known about the fate of this child, so i really hope for your help. look at the photo and remember sofiyka's face. if suddenly someone sees the girl or you know her whereabouts, do not delay and call us on the hotline of the magnolia children's search service at the short number 11630. calls from any ukrainian mobile operator free of charge, or write to the chatbot of the children's search service on your phone. i also want to remind you that we are continuing the search for 17-year-old serhiy samoilov, who also disappeared in mariupol , his mother said that on the very first day of the full-scale war, the city was very restless, and with every hour, the situation only rapidly worsened, because of the bombings, the family was hiding in the basement, but shelling was far from the only problem of the residents of mariupol. there was no internet, light, or water, we even

drank water from those... he didn't drink, he couldn't, they ate to be honest, it was very difficult for us, the stores were all ransacked, there was no lift, nothing, we just sat there and ate what we wanted. despite all the horrors , the lack of internet was what bothered 15-year-old serhiy samoilov the most at the time, that is why the boy wanted to go with mariupol he was very interested in computers, studied programs, tried to develop them there, created servers, and why did he actually leave home , because at home there was no connection, no internet, of course, there were problems with water and food were, he was going to go to side of pokrovsk. serhiy planned to go to his mother's acquaintance in pokrovsk, which is also donetsk region, about 200 km away.