the right to ask questions to candidates. the co-coordinator of the council, nika kreidenkova , assures: any pressure on the members of the grd from the judges or members of the qualification commission evaluated by them is impossible. vhdr is doing everything and there will definitely be no agreements with judges or not, because each of the members of gerde has gathered here to clean up the judiciary. and we have developed a number of procedures to exclude as much as possible any personal communication from members. grdd by judges who are evaluated within the limits of the evaluation or competition. in particular, one of such mechanisms, i never, no we communicate personally, but only through official mail, by an impersonal letter, signed by the co-coordinators. one of the requirements for ukraine as a candidate for joining the european union is the effective continuation of judicial reform, and this in particular depends on the public integrity council, because in fact the council is the main public body that signals and

draws attention to the non-compliance of a judge or a candidate for a position with the criteria of professionalism and integrity, and taking into account the professionalism of the composition of the grdd, there are no doubts about the transparency of future tenders occurs and for today i have everything. if you want to report corrupt judges or illegal decisions, write to me on facebook or to this email address. see you in exactly a week.

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much more in today's issue. about important things, in simple language, available to all viewers. congratulations, iryna koval is in the studio and this is the week's results for that. espresso channels. news, summaries of the week, every saturday at 21:00 on espresso. the program of the ukrainian voice of america chaas time program is broadcast from washington. i am yulia yarmolenko. congratulations. the united states announced another package of military aid ukraine in the amount of 425 million. it consists of two parts. armaments in the amount of 125 million dollars are allocated under the program of presidential powers from the usa's own stocks. among the capabilities that should arrive in ukraine in the near future are ammunition for nasams and hymers systems, ammunition for artillery, anti-personnel mines, and spare parts. another

300 million dollars worth of weapons will be ordered from manufacturers within the framework of the ukraine security promotion program, designed for long-term military support of kyiv. in general, you are full from the beginning invasion of russia, the united states has already announced more than $44 billion in military aid to ukraine. however, the funding, thanks to which the administration of joe biden can allocate all these aid packages to ukraine, is running out. the request for a new one should have been approved by congress, but the speaker of the house of representatives , mike johnson, decided not to bring to a vote the request of the white house for $106 billion, which provides funding for israel, ukraine, and the security of the windhoek region. protection of the american border. instead, he offered an alternative the bill, which only prescribes aid to israel in the amount of more than 14 billion dollars, and the house of representatives approved this bill the day before. what does this mean for aid to ukraine? let's talk about it in detail with

kateryna lisunova, our correspondent at the congress. hello katya. congratulations yuli. passing a bill to fund israel in the house of representatives is just the first step. what are the chances that this particular package is for israel. without ukraine will approve the congress as a whole. first of all, you have to remember that the day before , literally the white house, actually the president the united states of america said it could veto a bill proposed in the house of representatives on financial aid to israel without aid to ukraine, without the package request that the white house had previously requested. but it's also worth noting that after approval in the house, the next step has to be the senate, because any bill is considered to be approved, approved by congress, if it's voted yes in both the house and the senate. in turn , the senate now has an overwhelming majority democrats who oppose separate funding for israel and oppose separate funding are being called for a second vote, for aid to both israel and ukraine, taiwan and other needs of the united states of america

in a package, as requested by the white house and president biden himself. in turn, the leader of the democrats in the senate , chuck schumer, already announced yesterday that he will not bring to a vote the bill of the house of representatives on the financing of israel separately , and instead the senate is already working on its own bill on the financing of the necessary and emergency aid for both israel and ukraine and taiwan and other needs that the white house requested in a package. i beg you to listen to how he argues this right now in his statement yesterday. i am glad that the president has announced that this spectacularly frivolous bill, a frivolous bill that was proposed by the republican leader of the house in this time of crisis , is on the table. the senate will not take up this problematic bill from house republicans, instead we will work together on our bipartisan emergency

aid package, which will include aid to israel, ukraine, countermeasures to the chinese government, and humanitarian aid for the gas sector. let me repeat, and will not consider this deeply problematic bill... by house republicans, but will instead work on their own bipartisan emergency aid package, which will include aid to israel, ukraine, competition with the chinese government, and humanitarian aid to the gas sector. in turn, the leader of the republicans in the senate, mitch mcconnell, said yesterday that although not stated, although he did not say that he would block the republican bill in the house of representatives on funding israel separately from the package of aid to ukraine and taiwan, but nevertheless called for the approval of aid not only to israel, but also to ukraine and emphasized that this is in the interests of only of the united states of america, but in general in the interests of the security of europe, the european region, i propose to listen for we

are directly interested in stability and security in europe, not only because we have contractual obligations to our nato allies, but also because europe is our largest trading partner, the largest source of foreign direct investment, and an important engine of our own economy, i have already explained that the additional funding we are providing in response to russia's war against ukraine is not charity. these resources help the western-oriented country reduce the military power of the main adversary of the united states. ukraine weakens putin's tools of aggression and disrupts his imperial ambitions in europe, all without the direct involvement of american military personnel this is what fate is at this stage. financing for ukraine? in general, the main risk for funding and assistance to ukraine is time, or rather, its lack, the lack

of this time, because now, in general, if aid is given to ukraine, because we have contractual obligations to ours, this aid receives the vast majority of support both democrats and republicans in both houses, but the only question is when exactly will this aid come up for a vote, because washington is now standing on the brink of another likely...shutdown, because the previous resolution on short-term funding for the government was agreed to by november 17, and by then, in the united states of america, congress must directly vote on spending bills to fund the us government for the coming year and is a big question, whether it will be possible to do this, also agreeing to help ukraine during this short time, and as you know, ukraine is currently in the active phase of the war, and those tranches, the aid that is currently on coming to ukraine may not be enough, it may run out before additional new aid to ukraine is agreed, and the main

issue, and the risk for aid to ukraine, is exactly when it will be put to a vote, kite, very briefly, what is the general position of the speaker pay representatives regarding aid to ukraine, previously he was, so to speak , a two-man in support of ukraine and voted against almost all bills and initiatives in support of ukraine, but now that he has become the speaker, he stated that he believes that aid is important to ukraine, but if we are concerned about the border of ukraine , then we should also be concerned about our own border, said the speaker of the house of representatives and noted that aid to ukraine should be considered separately, but together with increased funding for the protection of the border of the united states of america and with mexico, to combine these two packages. therefore, his position now is not against aid to ukraine, but in a different format of putting it to a vote. thanks katya, we will. according to how the situation develops on the capitoline hill, on my colleague kateryna

lisynova was the liaison from the congress. state secretary sha antony blinken with a visit to the middle east. on friday, during a press conference in tel aviv, he reiterated that the united states strongly supports israel's right and duty to defend itself. at the same time, more efforts must be made to protect palestinian civilians. we need to do more, palestinian civilians. we have made it clear that when israel conducts its campaign to eliminate hamas, how it does so matters. it is important because it is right and complies with the law, because otherwise it would play into the hands of hamas and other terrorist groups. there will be no partners for peace if they are engulfed in humanitarian catastrophe and alienated by indifference to their plight. earlier in the day, antony blinkin met with benjamin netanyahu, president isaac herzog and the israeli military cabinet. in a conversation with

journalists, the top american diplomat spoke about the new horrifying footage of the hamas attack on israel on october 7, which was provided to him by the israeli authorities. the state secretary noted that how people are beginning to forget the brutality of that attack is shocking. blinkin emphasized the importance of freeing the hostages taken by hamas, and at the same time continuing to send humanitarian aid to gaza. we believe - he noted. the secretary of state that all these efforts will be facilitated by a humanitarian pause in the conflict. netanyahu, however, publicly rejected the idea of ​​a pause in hostilities unless the pause included the release of all. hostages, and our next story about three ukrainian women in silicon valley who created online courses for ukrainian veterans. the charity project new horizons hub - the center of new horizons , created to help those returning from the war to get a job in

the field of information technology, teaches courses, programming and other specialties, as well as provides psychological support. khrystyna shevchenko will tell how it works and what the military themselves think about such training. kiyanka iryna nebozhai and valeriya lyalna from kharkiv, founders of a recruiting startup in silicon valley, kateryna seladets - an investor in vencherny funds until february 2022, the women were focused on building their own careers, but after the russian invasion of ukraine , she decided to apply her experience to help the ukrainian military. we all help, we all donate and we all think, how else, what else can we do, besides donating, and the way i work with tech companies, i'm a recruiter, and i get people to work in a tech company and i have have a lot of experience and a network, and that's why i decided that this is how i can help our veterans get a job, i have a dad military and my brother has been fighting since 14,

i know how hard it is when they come home and look for themselves. they are starting to do something, so in march of this year, iryna and valeriya founded the educational project new horizon hub, which helps ukrainian veterans get new professions in the field of internet technologies. the first free online course was launched four months ago. the main subject is one of the most popular in this market - data science. the group consists of 20 veterans. you have those memories, reflexes remain. to certain events, you can't even control them, it's just this post-traumatic syndrome, and maybe someone just needs to lie down and it will pass, i don't know, i needed to kill my brain, replace this negativity with a positive one, the foundation will be laid, the understanding of it will be laid , there are teachers and administrators, they worry about our

education, in addition to training with the military , ukrainian psychologists work and teach courses as store specialists. valley, as well as from ukraine. in the next set, the co-founders say, new items will appear, will teach cyber security and even marketing, because there is a demand for less technical specialties. we have a very high demand for training in new trades to then learn to work in technical companies, but not all veterans want very technical specialties. and we now have more than 100 veterans on the waiting list, and among them there are many who want to. to learn something else kateryna seledets joined the project already after its creation, she brought her experience as an investor and helps to attract funds, because training for veterans is free. as as a rule, our course lasts four months, there are about 20 students in the group, the cost of one student is about 1,250 dollars, that is, for one course we usually collect 25,000

dollars, which in principle is a considerable amount. the first year... the girls financed it from their own pockets, and also collected donations on social networks. they are trying to raise funds for the next courses by organizing charity events and looking for partners. the first graduates receive diplomas from the ukrainian partner of the project, then certificates for obtaining a profession will be issued from new horizons hub. at the next stage of the project , its founders plan to launch seven educational groups at once. san francisco california khrystyna and bohdan shevchenko for voa . this year, the majority of orthodox ukrainians celebrate all religious holidays according to the new calendar for the first time. how believers perceived the transition of the orthodox church of ukraine to the new calendar. how many parishes will celebrate christmas in the new style? in particular, my colleague myroslava gongadze

had the opportunity to talk about this with the metropolitan of kyiv and all ukraine, epiphany. in he also shared his interview. why is the law on religious communities necessary and does this document suppress the rights of believers in ukraine? for the first time this year, ukraine will celebrate christmas according to the new calendar . how do you feel about this event, how does ukraine perceive this event today? i personally did not even expect, i think that a part of it, even the orthodox church of ukraine, will remain in the old style, but the absolute majority, that is, only a few will remain in the old style, absolute. switched to new style. why is it important for ukrainians, for ukraine? in general, now is the time to implement such reforms, you should distance yourself from everything russian. what was instilled in us for a century, and that is why society now very keenly feels this need to distance itself from everything russian and

to get closer to european, to get closer to what it lives by, now this especially applies to the orthodox world, because the majority of orthodox churches, after all are on the novivillian calendar, and that is why our church made such a historic decision. in these active, active discussions are taking place in the parliament regarding the regulation of the orthodox church here in ukraine, the activities of the orthodox church in ukraine, the law has already been passed in the first reading, unfortunately there are organizations, religious organizations, which still maintain institutional ties with the aggressor country, that's why the parliament has now passed the first and last bill on the prohibition of religious organizations from having ties with the aggressor country. all-ukrainian church council

on religious organizations recently i met with the chairman of the verkhovna rada and asked the question, we even held a vote, whether there are religious organizations that want or oppose such a law, and everyone unanimously, unanimously supported this decision, which is necessary. such a law that will regulate this situation so that the aggressor country does not use religious organizations for its own purposes, as a weapon, because the enemy, as we see, quite successfully, sometimes uses, the religious sphere, uses religious organizations for its own purposes, in this hybrid war . we went to the lavra and saw there the parishioners who were praying in the street. and they say that we also belong to the ukrainian orthodox church, yet many people do not fully understand the affiliation of this or that church

to this or that metropolis, how can believers even understand which church they go to, well, you see , some masquerading under the name of the ukrainian orthodox church, not being a ukrainian church, but having affiliation and connection with the russian orthodox... church misleads ordinary believers, it is dangerous, because sometimes the enemy disguises itself, and now we see in many different areas that the enemy tries to disguise itself as ukrainian, but does its job of supporting the occupier, and therefore we must settle these issues, even if we go back to the draft law, there is no question of banning any community via: a religious organization in ukraine, it is about the fact that any religious organization in ukraine has no right to have a connection with the aggressor country, i am convinced

that soon a corresponding law will be adopted that will clearly regulate the issue affiliation of one or another religious organization to the center of the country of the aggressor. how will you apply the law, because what i hear... that over the last year, the property of religious organizations of the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate was transferred to newly created public organizations, they were taken from the local community and transferred, and then, well, just follow it yourself this whole process will be very difficult, do you think that it will not be a teaching process, not everything will be simple, clear, but there are cases when they manipulate, create different organizations, but they are separate. cases in ukraine, the property belongs to the communities, the communities make the appropriate decision, and how do the heirs continue to own their property,

the church or other premises that are near the church, i.e. gradually we see that during this time about 2000 communities have already joined the orthodox church of ukraine, and therefore now we can talk about the fact that we are the largest religious organization, the largest religious association in the country, because, if we talk about statics even before the war, it was declared that the moscow patriarchate has approximately on paper about 11,000 parishes, 2,000 joined the orthodox church of ukraine, at the time of unification we had about 700 parishes, now it is about 90 parishes, but it should be taken into account that they still lost, because the russian orthodox church annexed 2,000 communities in the occupied territories, that is why now they are close to communities in ukraine, that is, they are already much smaller than the orthodox church of ukraine. gradually, this process continues, it is

irreversible, communities are joining. peacefully, calmly, voluntarily, that is, there are none persecutions, relevant decisions are made in accordance with ukrainian legislation, everything is happening in the legal field, and the orthodox church is interested in this, and practically during this time we have won all lawsuits, that is , we are moving in the legal field, because we are creating a single local ukrainian orthodox church forever, and therefore everything must be done correctly. it is done correctly, because we want the unified church to be established, and the unified church is the spiritual foundation of the ukrainian state, because without a unified, strong ukrainian church, we we will never build the state that we all dream of, and a lot also depends on the church, because the church has an influence, and we see this negative influence of the russian church even

in the second qi after a full-scale invasion, it is a soft power that is invisible, but it influences, the ukrainian church, it really influences the patriotic upbringing of the ukrainian society, it supports the ukrainian army with chaplains, there is a huge need for this now, that is, we are the soul of the ukrainian people, and the body cannot be ukrainian and the soul russian, it is a difficult time in ukraine now, with what pains do they come to you, parishioners, now we feel that people are really a little morally tired, of course, that people are exhausted, er, people feel pain, but we have no right to give up in this difficult time of trials, because we we know our history, because the enemy came to destroy us even a century ago , let's remember, for a short time we had a ukrainian state, we had

a ukrainian church, but because of unnecessary quarrels, because of misunderstandings, we lost it all, and what happened, came famines , who took tens of millions of human lives, the enemy came to destroy us, so we must continue to rally, unite , encourage each other and continue this persistent struggle, which will certainly end in our joint great ukrainian victory, that is, we are doomed to victory, but we need to work, do not give up, continue to go forward with this path we have chosen, we have chosen the european vector of development of our ukrainian state, we want to continue to be an integral part of the european community, we are now fighting for our freedom and of course we pay a high price, but victory will certainly be on our side, because on our side is the truth, and truth, light, life always wins.

watch the full version of myroslav gongadze's interview with epiphanius, metropolitan of the orthodox church of ukraine, on the ukrainian voice of america channel, and finally, the story of how embroidered women from ukrainian craftsmen who suffered from the russian war are in demand in the united states, at the social enterprise free thread in kyiv region, women they teach embroidery for free and provide work, the development of the enterprise is helped by orders from washington for sale in maistryna, in particular, they produced collections of ancient embroidery with patterns from different regions of ukraine. iryna shinkarenko and vyacheslav filyushkin found out which embroidery designs are most liked by american buyers. we started embroidering this, this, this element, here it is, but a little bit in other colors. oh, this is the beginning, there will be such a shirt, this is the shirt of the crimean region. this ornament.

iryna, a migrant from crimea, shows an embroidered shirt with a pattern from her native ukrainian peninsula, which she herself participated in creating. i am sad because i was born there. how can i not be sad? but i really hope that soon we will return to the ukrainian crimea. in crimea, iryna managed a branch of the ukrainian publishing house. after the annexation of the peninsula , she moved to kyiv without a job or friends. before full scale. started to master a new profession after the war, this is how we start, enter, what is the size of the embroidery that will be sewn, now iryna works at the social enterprise free thread in vyshhora near kyiv, where women learn embroidery for free and then get a job,