[000:00:00;00] and taiwan, the strengthening of the protection of the united states of america precisely on the border with mexico was already prescribed, and they say that the division of this package request for assistance is necessary for the republicans in order to advance their own initiatives, in particular, such as reducing the funding of the tax system, the democrats said in the morning that they are urging not to vote for aid to israel without aid to ukraine, i propose to listen to the statement of both right now. we want to combine funding for the security of the us border with ukraine, because i think we can reach bipartisan agreement on both of these issues. the american people are very concerned about this, and so am i, and i can tell you that the republicans in the house of representatives are as well, we have commitments and things that we can and should do around the world, but we have to take care of our own home first. , and as long as the border is open forever, we open ourselves up to a great threat, it's just a matter of principle, if we're going to take care of

the border in ukraine, we have to take care of the american border as well. while the deadline for the rank-and-file is approaching, and the republicans in the house of representatives are pretending to care about our dashboard, they are leaving the ukrainian people helpless in their war to stop putin. they are hindering the support of our ally in taiwan against beijing's aggression. after 22 days of radical maga-republicans holding the house hostage , house democrats...get to work to solve the american people's most pressing problems, reduce spending, fund our government, and make sure we send aid to our allies without no conditions katya, in that case, when should we expect consideration of funding for ukraine, and what, in principle, are the risks of considering aid to ukraine separately from israel. this is a great last question, generally the main question, about the risks of aid

to ukraine if aid to israel is considered. now in the house of representatives, when exactly the aid to ukraine will be put to a vote is currently unknown, and this is actually the main risk and the main questions regarding additional aid to ukraine, as they claim legislators with whom i spoke earlier, if aid to ukraine is brought to a vote, it will be voted for by an overwhelming majority, both republicans and democrats, even despite the growing opposition to aid to kyiv among the republican party, while some legislators say that even more so if to combine aid to ukraine with strengthening the border of the united states of america, this may increase support for far-right republicans who oppose aid to kyiv but favor strengthening the border of the united states of america, but in fact, when will this additional aid to ukraine be put to a vote is the main question now, because washington is now facing the risk of a new government shutdown, and as you know, the short-term resolution on financing the government

of the united states of america was approved by november 17, and before that number of issues, many spending bills to finance the united states government for the coming year, and the question remains whether additional aid will also be agreed upon during this period ukraine? absolutely, these are very important questions, katya, you know, we also heard a statement from president biden, he said that he could veto the separate funding bill for israel if it does pass in congress, what is the republican response to that? since this morning, the republicans have been very determined that they will vote for aid to israel without aid to ukraine, that is, separately, and called biden's statements about the possibility of promising such a bill shameless threats, they are using the republicans' statement this morning just now. house republicans will always support our precious

ally israel. let's speak loud and clear when it comes to the terrifying rise of anti-semitism, both here at home and abroad. we proudly support israel, not joe biden's army of irs agents, and shame on joe biden for threatening to veto this important israeli aid package. katya, thank you for the clarification, we will definitely return to this topic and follow it. kateryna lisunova was in touch with us capitol hill. meanwhile. the state department and the treasury department of the united states have introduced additional sanctions against russia. they concern more than 200 individuals and legal entities associated with the russian invasion of ukraine. sanctions are disrupting supply channels for components critical to supporting the russian military, the us treasury department said in a statement. under the restrictions, in particular, a network of companies supplying dual-use electronics, drone manufacturers, as well as other companies and russian officials. read more on

the website. america in ukrainian. the war between hamas and israel brought many builders to a standstill. in ukraine, in particular due to the lack of workers. until recently, almost 90,000 palestinians from the west bank and gaza worked on israeli construction sites. how this problem is solved - found out the voice of america correspondent in jerusalem, jan boeshat. iryna shinkarenko will introduce his report. at the beginning of october , it was crowded here, the builders were finishing the construction of a complex of three high-rise buildings nearby tel aviv. the owners say they sold 180 apartments at a price of up to a million dollars. each and were already preparing to hand them over to buyers. however, after the hamas attack on israel on october 7 , the workers, mostly palestinians, disappeared. haim feiglin, vice president of the israel construction association, says that because of the war , israeli companies and the government have prevented

palestinians from returning to work. currently , the situation in the israeli construction sector is quite difficult. we are at war and palestinian workers, who make up about a quarter of our human resources in the industries do not try to work, do not have the right to work in israel. most construction in israel is on hold, with local construction companies needing to replace more than 90,000 palestinians who worked in the industry before the war began. now their work permits are either revoked or they are simply not allowed to return. the construction association estimated that 10% of the palestinian workers were from gaza, the rest from the west bank. feiglin says more. sees no future for palestinian workers in israel. now, we are leading negotiations with india. we are waiting for the decision of the israeli government to approve this and hope to hire 50 to 1000

workers from india to be able to restart the industry and get it back to normal. before the war, about 140,000 west bank palestinians worked legally in israel. and illegal, says the economist and former representative of the palestinian authority. it 's a destruction, it's a disaster, poverty will come with it, other reactions will come with it, and of course it again depends on how can we end this war. many palestinians who used to work in construction in israel are waiting, including sazeit from the city of ramallah. i come here to drink coffee in the morning. zeita says that when hamas attacked israel, he was told by his employer not to return, and on construction sites that are still open, mostly chinese

workers are involved in construction companies determined to hire workers from other countries instead of palestinians. janbosh for voice of america from jerusalem. this is the story with israel, and so on we are talking about how american institutions are helping to restore sviatohirsk in donetsk region, which was badly affected by the war. after liberation from russian occupation , sviatohirsk became twinned with two american cities. yaroslava movchan and artem chagalin will tell how the americans are helping now and plan to help in the future. a resident of sviatohirska walked several kilometers from her house to the bath complex. marina brought a bag with dirty things in her hands. a woman wants to take a shower and wash her clothes. it is very convenient, because there is no water supply in the city. we don't have cold water at all. svyatog was under russian occupation for almost

five months. the city was liberated in september last year. olga kartashova was among those who greeted the ukrainian military. on the 12th, i saw that our guys, with our chevrons, entered sviatohirsk. if the electricity supply in sviatohirsk was restored almost immediately after the deoccupation, there are still problems with the centralized water supply. one of the reasons is that the surrounding area is still mined. locals go only paved paths and asphalt. there are a lot of these items here, as well as traps and roaches and everything else , demining departments of the state emergency service, they work on most of the front lines, before the great war, the town had a little more than 9,000 people, during the occupation there were half a thousand, now twice as many . i was not here during the occupation, but i returned, it was very difficult for us, well, when this

module was organized, it was very, well, for all people, a need, because there was nowhere to bathe, wash, street sanitary the module was arranged in the middle of residential buildings, the complex has four containers of 300 liters each, water is brought by tankers, procedures are by appointment, men and women visit the pond according to the schedule. up to 30 people can take a shower per day. here in our module there are showers, three people can wash at once. oleksandr, the stove-maker, is responsible for the uninterrupted operation of the module. my task is to fill the stove so that the water is hot, to make sure that nothing breaks, if something breaks, i do the repairs. bath and the laundry was equipped thanks to

international funds and organization. in march , sviatohivska became a sister city and already helped with heavy equipment, for example. this very dump, funded by residents of easten , connecticut, was delivered to sviatohirsk, donetsk oblast, ukraine. they gave us a present, samo. 15 tons, they are currently preparing a pilot line for purchase , and we are still negotiating with them about an excavator that will be able to work in our territory , because there is a lot of work, because we actually, if we are talking about svyatigirs, there approximately 80% of us have destruction, these destructions must be removed, people know this. volodymyr rybalkin says that in general , 19 national organizations and 17 international organizations, including the american city, are involved in the restoration of sviatohirsk. which twinned with sviatohirsk, is ashland in the state of

oregon on the west coast of the usa. with the help of the americans, they hope to establish production in order to create jobs. yaroslava movchan, artur shagalin for voice of america from sviatohirsk. thanks girls, goodbye. and we continue. other topics: ukraine has become a close military partner of the united states and is actively integrating into european structures, and the ukrainian army has turned into a powerful force capable of repelling russia. the american historian and writer michael kimage, who wrote a book about the impact of the war in ukraine on world geopolitics, is convinced of this. he told more in an interview with oleksiy kovalenko. in your new book , you describe how the war in ukraine affected global geopolitics and politics. processes in the world, can you tell our viewers what

the era of instability in question means in a book? the war has opened several sources of instability, the first major war in europe since 1945, and it is creating instability in the region, affecting grain prices and inflation worldwide. another matter is the tension between russia and the usa. of course, the battlefield is in ukraine, but the level. the tension between russia and the usa cannot be compared to the cold war. during the cold war , countries were on the verge of conflict. now it feels like they are directly involved in the conflict. there are also closer relations between russia and north korea and between russia and iran, which provides new military technologies. additional sources of income for russia and iran have ramifications throughout the middle east. so the war added many sources of instability. obviously.

above all for ukraine, for europe, but also globally, you mentioned north korea and iran, and what about china, which vladimir putin recently visited, it was his first international trip of this level since the announcement of the warrant for his arrest by the international criminal court. this trend was noticeable back in 2014, when due to the annexation of crimea. occupation of eastern ukraine against russia , sanctions were imposed and relations between russia and the west gradually broke down. so russia was looking for new relations and markets, and china became an obvious partner. since 2014, russia has been trying to deepen ties with china. and from 2022 we can already talk about russia's acute dependence on china as a market for russian gas and oil. china is also a source of a kind of international support and legitimacy in the un. and in the global market of political views,

i think the war does not play in china's favor, but it definitely brought the two countries closer together. in this the new global geopolitical peace you speak of, where exactly do you see ukraine? ukraine has become a close military partner of the united states, not yet an ally, but a close military partner. and ukraine is integrating. structures in a way that i think was difficult to imagine 3-4 years ago, so not yet a member of the european union, but moving in the right direction, now it is a real process. ukraine is part of the event, and this is the most important consequence of the war for ukraine. globally, much more countries are aware of ukraine than before the war. it includes a lot new partnerships, for example, with japan, south korea, singapore, australia, canada. you note in the book that russia

is exploiting fears in the world based on its nuclear power and nuclear weapons. do you think this strategy still works? i think to some extent it still works, and it 's more than a strategy, i don't think the united states, for example, can ignore the fact that russia is a nuclear power. if russia were not a nuclear power, i suspect that the us would be more directly involved in the war. the fact that russia is a nuclear power is an obstacle to external support for ukraine, and putin has done a lot to increase the fear of the population, i think, especially among the population of germany. but to some extent the united states, emphasizing that russia has changed its nuclear doctrine and is more open to the reckless use of nuclear weapons. my personal opinion is that russia is very far from using nuclear weapons in ukraine or anywhere, but fear is quite a powerful political force. putin wants to show the world that this is a war that is getting out of

control. dangerous, that she is silly, that it is useless, there is no reason for long-term support of ukraine from other countries. if we talk about pressure points that the west can use against russia, sanctions are already in place and russian assets are frozen, the west provides support to ukraine, military and economic, what else can the west do to increase this pressure? i think that the economic side of the war was perhaps the most difficult for the west. the strategy behind this is to slow down or prevent the modernization of russian, and it seems to have worked relatively good with sanctions, and we could see more success in the coming years as russia finds it difficult to get certain parts, technology, material goods for its military machine. what sanctions did not do, with their help, it was not possible to fundamentally change russia's calculations, perhaps it is too much

to expect this from sanctions. what the west has to do, and it will not just be to show moscow its patience and perseverance. there are countries like slovakia that create problems in europe, there is hungary, there will be elections in many european countries, and this may change support for ukraine, it is important to note that us support has been strong and growing in strength. you said that the sooner politicians in the us and in the west understand the global aspects of the war in ukraine, the sooner they can build a path to peace and a path to russia's failure in ukraine, from a historian's point of view, what that failure might look like russia? i think it will be very difficult to get a complete victory over russia on the battlefield, this is a possible scenario, but it is difficult to achieve. russia is a big country with a big

army and nuclear power, so such a victory is very difficult. the russians have the opportunity to destroy russia from the inside, but it is difficult to do it from the outside. but i don't think that leaves ukraine or ukrainians without options in this war. i believe that it is necessary to demonstrate that the war is useless for russia. so that they don't waste their efforts, expand their capacities, they won't get anything from it. it was an interview of oleksiy kovalenko with the american historian and writer michael kimage, the author of the book about the impact of the war in ukraine on world geopolitics. full watch the version of this interview on the youtube channel of the voice of america in ukrainian. and we end with a story about ukrainian cuisine in washington. near the capitol, there is a cafe hung with ukrainian flags, where

congress workers often stop by for borscht. however, the owners of the establishment are not ukrainians. who manages the cafe and how do the guests taste ukrainian dishes? see in the plot. senators, lawyers and other white-collar workers come to this small cafe, hung with ukrainian flags, for borscht and other eastern european dishes. as the employees of kapitoliya enjoy ukrainian cuisine and who the owner of this establishment is, you will find out very soon. in the first half of the day, there are no visitors here. someone is coming. to have lunch, some for coffee, and some stop by to say hello on the way to work, but it was n't always like that, when oksana was just starting this business, everything pointed to... failure. the previous owners of this place brought only losses, and oksana, who worked as an economist in belarus for more than 20 years,

understood this well. when i looked at the accounting department of the previous owner, it was scary there, that's why they were selling this business. it was a big risk for you to buy a coffee shop that was completely unprofitable. yes, first of all, the end of covid, and here is such an area where mostly offices, they are closed, they even. now they are not working all week, i still took a risk, i decided, i will change everything here, i will advertise more, i will change the assortment. and the name of the institution, which oksana chose lemon, did not feel good either. lemon, lemon in america is not considered a good word for a product, for a name, it means bad. i say, well, it will be sweet lemon, sweet lemon, bright, beautiful that is everything. was against, yes, and the cafe was initially unprofitable, and the name was lemon, but love and feeling helped make it

profitable, so i think, when you work on something, no matter what. at the time of the opening of the coffee shop in ukraine , a full-scale war had been going on for almost six months. therefore , oksana hung ukrainian flags throughout the facility and placed boxes from local organizations to collect funds for aid. my friends thought that the owners of this establishment were ukrainians, because of the number of flags, like you treat such a comparison, because i am sure that it is not only these people who had such an opinion, it is absolutely normal, i had no doubts that it is necessary to help ukraine, and this is what normal people should do, i feel how much this touches you, because even when you spoke, you had tears in your eyes, oh, i couldn't speak at first. about it in general, i'm simple , when people came, i'm just simple, i have to work, and i'm like that, let's not

talk about it, i support, but let's not about this is to say, because, even he says, of course i am asking for forgiveness, but this is for me, of course i apologize, but for me it is a painful topic, i have many friends who have moved, for me ukraine - i don't know, it's like a sister, i see , you write everywhere not just borscht, but ukrainian borscht, yes, ukrainian borscht , because the girls in the kitchen are ukrainian, they did it like they did at home, because i once made borscht and brought it to tonya, and tonya is a professional cook, she tried it and says: oksana, it's not borscht, i said, okay, i won't argue with you, okay, i won't i argue with you, because ukrainian cuisine is much richer, to be honest, than belarusian, americans are not used to this kind of food , we tried to cook it, they like it, but they don’t

order it, but they don’t order it, do you have such a place near the capitol, are there many famous congressmen, it happens, i'm not very close to american politics, and when they had their annual meeting, recently it was shown on tv, my husband was sitting, watching, and i was sitting and just saying: this is my client, and this one, and this one is my client. well, here is sanders, who was also nominated for president during the previous elections. he is a regular customer, he often goes to the cleaning service near us, he is so interesting, we became friends. oksana became friends with former wisconsin senator russ feingold, whose grandparents are from russia and galicia. and he didn't introduce himself as a former senator either, he asked where i was from.

my regular customers, who come in almost every day, or several times a week, come when they go somewhere on vacation and say: "oksana, i won't be there for two weeks, i'm going here and there, i won't be there to you were not worried." you have a rather responsible mission, to prepare borscht for the first heads of state. yes, svitlana tykhanovskaya also ate it. she also liked it, those who have never tasted it ask, what is it? i say: beet soup, beetroot soup, is there anyone like that? no, no, i don't like beets, i then bring some, i say try it, maybe it's not what you think, and probably 90% then say, oh, it's delicious, but where is borscht and blue -yellow flags, there it is about ukraine, ukrainian borscht, according to our recipe. they mostly spoke words of support, they tell us that well done, that we support, and some say, we come here

because you support, but in another way, it will be supported. until ukraine wins, because oksana is convinced, there is no other way, well, then , the truth is yours, because the truth is yours, and everything will be rebuilt, and everything will be fine, the most important thing is to win with the least loss of human lives, and then we will build, then we will help build, and then we will help, download the voice of america mobile application, the application: allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service. read news, watch informative programs and videos, and also listen to podcasts of the ukrainian voice of america service. and on this we will say goodbye. see also our daily briefings from monday to friday at 6 pm on youtube and facebook, where you

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see you soon, see you soon. greetings, we ask for your help in the search here 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 gornostaevka in the kherson region, this is the left bank of the dnieper. the russians occupied gornostaivka almost immediately 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 gornostaivka, but due to the fact that it is a temporarily occupied territory, in force for obvious reasons, at the moment it is very difficult to find out about the fate of the child, whether she is still there and whether everything is okay 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 gornostaivka, where mykola

kochenko lived, so i am appealing first of all to you , if you know something: 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 children's search service in telegram, any even the smallest information is important. of course, searching for children from the temporarily occupied territories is a very difficult, usually lengthy process. however, our experience shows that the search must be continued even in the most difficult, or sometimes it would seem... hopeless situations, so, for example, we were able to find a boy, by the way, also from the currently occupied part of the kherson region. nothing was known about igor since february 24, 2022. we only knew that he lived in the village of sonyachne, kherson region, which was under occupation. in our program, we called on the residents of this village, if they still see us on the internet, if possible, of course

, let us know if 17-year-old igor is still living in sunny and if everything is fine with him, and it worked, we were sent this video with igor. i live in the village of sochny, kherson region, with my husband and grandmother. everything is fine with me, i have no ukrainian connection, as i live in the occupied territory. the boy confirmed that he still lives in the village of sonyachne with his grandmother and grandfather, but all this time he could not report himself, because there was no of ukrainian mobile communications. i really hope that the story of the search for demyanchyk tyurin, who went missing in mariupol, will end with the same happy ending. i am asking you immediately, please share this manhunt video on your social media pages. this is actually very important, because you have to understand that the more people learn about the missing boy, the more chances there will be to find him. so please don't