[000:00:00;00] well, we got a little confused, well, because we flew through all this, well, that is, all this chaos, but anyway we put the rocket, well, it’s good at least it’s standing, we must definitely go there one more time, the morning dawned, the first of october, hell, phew, this already the following day , i already calmed down more, then yes, it is like that and... they start shaking, well, there is such a thing, in short, it was, but, well , you can say that it was scary, yes, fear plays an important role in battles with tanks , the fighters admit, whoever succumbed to him first lost , it was such that there were four tanks, and here, three tanks and beterers left, we have such shrapnel, well, what hit the tank, well, he was still

scared. something happened there, ran away. in addition to the trophy cornet, these fighters fight with ukrainian thighs, or rather, their newer modifications. skiv is, our development, the same lean, anti-missile complex, 4 km, it is an effective range, range, an effective device for reducing equipment. although i never actually shot, it somehow turned out for me that i seem to know this, well, the installation, as if i don’t know, it’s my own life, today these warriors are on vacation, and soon they will again have to go into a terrible battle to stop the occupier. artem lagutenko,

oleksiy kutsuk for espresso. you are watching the ukrainian voice of america program. my name is maria olyanovska. congratulations. the pentagon, the state department and the ministry of finance called on congress to provide ukraine with almost $12 billion in budget support. in a joint letter, they urged lawmakers to vote on president biden's additional homeland security package. minister of finance janet yellen, minister of defense lloyd austin and the secretary of state. anthony blinken, together with the usa administrator, samantha power, stated that direct budget support to ukraine is inextricably linked to the country's success on the battlefield in resisting russia's illegal invasion. we will now talk about what is happening in the congress itself with our correspondent kateryna lisonova. hello katya. greetings maria. tell me, please, now i know that hearings are ongoing in the house of representatives on two draft laws related to ukraine.

the first concerns the transfer of frozen of russian funds to ukraine, what exactly he foresees, that's right, maria, in fact, today in the committee on international affairs of the house of representatives, hearings are taking place, where a number of bills, a number of resolutions are being considered, and among them there are in particular two issues important for ukraine, two documents that concerning the direction of ukraine, today's meeting is actually not just a hearing at which this or that issue is discussed or raised, but it is actually a vote that the members of the committee will vote to carry out the house of representatives, or not to vote in the house of representatives. and in general, one of the bills that you mentioned, the first one, is a project that will allow, will allow the state department to transfer russian seized assets that are located directly in the united states of america to ukraine, for its recovery and use for ukraine's needs, for defense needs, or otherwise. in general, the legislators, speaking in support of this

bill, stated that it is russia that should pay for its war, and it is russia that should to provide ukraine with support funds, thus, in fact, this money, which was seized, in particular, the central bank of the russian federation of the united states of america, will be able to be transferred directly to ukraine, and also this document, this bill blocks the white house's ability in the future, for example, to transfer back to the russian federation these currently frozen russian assets and in fact for...' obligates the white house to transfer this money to ukraine sooner or later. some legislators also emphasize that the state department itself and now has the right to transfer these funds to ukraine, and this bill, this document, will actually put pressure on the state department to do it as soon as possible. i propose to listen to the explanation of this bill from the heads of the committee, both a democrat and a republican,

right now. we cannot forget the importance of the war in ukraine. all these conflicts are interconnected. russia, china, and iran are working together to undermine the security of the united states and our closest allies and partners. if putin succeeds in ukraine, it will only encourage our people enemies and will undermine the interests of our own national security. we need a plan to win as quickly as possible, and that plan must ensure that the us does not carry the burden alone. that is why i introduced a bill on restoring economic prosperity and opportunities for ukrainians. this bipartisan and bicameral bill requires the biden administration to hand over russia's frozen sovereign assets to ukraine, and it's time for russia to pay for the war it started. my bill would also deny the biden administration the ability to defund russian sovereign assets to vladimir putin until russia compensates ukraine. as

the war develops, so must our economic strategy. this includes support for ukraine, which will allow it to become a full-fledged economic player in europe. and this should be done during the war, not only after victory. of ukraine. today's bill deals with one of the potential tools that we have not yet used: the transfer of frozen russian sovereign assets to aid ukraine. this is one of the means to which we must strive for together with our european partners. we are currently seeing encouraging signals from europe, where most of these russian assets are concentrated and whose legal conditions are more demanding. i keep saying that we must act. coordination with our democratic allies in our support for ukraine. our unity and determination have always been something that putin does not hope for. katya, let's also discuss the second bill, which is currently being considered by legislators. i know that

they could potentially convict of kidnapping ukrainian children by russia. what is known about this document? in fact, this is not a bill, it is a resolution, a bill differs from a resolution in that the bill will require some active actions and force these active actions. instead, the resolution actually expresses the position of the congress and this second document is a resolution that condemns the illegal abduction of ukrainian children by the russian federation and directly condemns it as a direct violation of the genocide convention, i suggest you listen to how this resolution describes directly republican anne wagner. a cold-blooded act of pure evil is the fact that putin's military forces are kidnapping hundreds of thousands of ukrainian children, taking them from their loving parents and guardians to raise them as russians, this is a blatant attempt to erase ukraine's identity as an independent nation, i believe this is an act

of genocide, only the butcher attacks families and children, and it is obvious to me that putin is personally guilty of the shocking atrocities and war crimes that the people of ukraine are suffering from, he must be stopped. punish. this resolution strongly condemns russia for this flagrant violation of the genocide convention. and it sends a clear signal that the united states congress is watching, and that we stand ready to hold putin accountable for his crimes against humanity. i would like to note that both documents, both the draft law and the resolution, have not yet been voted on in the house of representatives committee on international relations. it is expected that this can happen literally in two hours. but if they are agreed upon, then they will be put to a vote in the house of representatives. thank you, katya, we will follow the work of legislators, i will remind you that kateryna lisunova worked for us from the congress.

meanwhile, the state department has denied reports that us and european officials have allegedly begun secret talks with the ukrainian government about the possibility of peace talks with russia to end the war. he reported this with reinforcement to his sources. nbc channel. the deputy spokesman of the us state department , vedan patel, once again emphasized: there is nothing about ukraine without ukraine. conducting any negotiations depends on ukraine, as we have noted many times, nothing will happen about ukraine without ukraine's participation. we do not know about any talks with ukraine, about negotiations, except for talks about peace formulas, which were discussed during many meetings. but it is still clear. that the kremlin has no interest in negotiating or ending this war. we continue to be committed to supporting our ukrainian partners. meanwhile, the white house and nato reacted to russia's withdrawal from the arms limitation treaty. it's about an agreement

1992 between nato states and the six warsaw pact states. it set limits on the number of weapons and military equipment for participating countries. in 2007, russia suspended its own. participation in this treaty, and now has finally withdrawn from it, in turn the usa , britain and germany stopped their participation in this treaty, because a situation where the countries of the alliance adhere to the treaty, and russia does not, would be unsustainable, says the nato statement. meanwhile, israel observed a moment of silence for the victims of the war with hamas. per month after large-scale terrorist attacks by israel , about 1,400 people, mostly civilians, died . the israel defense forces says it is striking at the very heart of hamas' capabilities, gaza city. the goal of the operation... to destroy hamas and free the hostages. the spokesman

for the israeli armed forces, daniel agari, said that they managed to kill several field commanders of hamas, and combat engineering units destroy every tunnel they come across, he said. at the same time , the ministry of health of the khaza strip, controlled by hamas, reported that from more than 10,000 palestinians have died since the beginning of hostilities in the region. among them are 4,237 children. the united states supports israel's right to defense, but calls for temporary humanitarian pauses in the gaza strip. the scale of the suffering was recalled today in the white house. today is one month since the horrific attacks by hamas on october 7. we want to take a moment to pay tribute to all the victims of this terrible terrorist attack. people were killed at a music festival, killed in their homes in front of their children. this is a terrible day when dozens of people took in hostages, many of them remain hostages. our thoughts remain with all of these people and their families. we also

remember and pray for the thousands of innocent palestinians who were killed during the october 7 conflict. and even more people were injured during these operations, and one and a half million became internally displaced and left their homes. as a result of the attack on october 7, the hamas group managed to take more than 240 people hostage. so far , hamas has released only four. grouping declares that it is ready to release all prisoners in exchange for the freedom of all palestinians imprisoned by israel. at the same time, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu rules out any negotiations. meanwhile, the relatives of the victims of the attack are in despair due to the lack of any information about the condition of the hostages. voice of america correspondent natasha mozgova visited shanni luk's family, this week the family received confirmation of the death of their daughter, who was brutally killed by militants during an attack on israel. yurii mamon will announce its plot. 22-year-old shaniluk became a symbol of cruelty

hamas, she is one of 260 people killed by militants at a music festival in southern israel on october 7. shanina simluk's father says the family recognized her tattoo on an unconscious woman seen on social media in the back of a hamas pickup truck. my daughter shanny, a beautiful, very beautiful girl, and most people saw her in a terrible way, she was thrown into a pick-up truck and driven away in gas, since then, of course, we have no idea where her body is, however we have received confirmation that she is dead and was shot on the territory of the music hall festival shani's father says that the family did not know that the girl had gone to a music festival that day. i was convinced that she was in tel aviv in her apartment, so we called to warn her to go to the basement, because we knew that she was a long sleeper in the morning, and we wanted to tell her to go to the shelter,

so that there was a threat of a missile attack. she picked up the phone and said, "i'm at a party in the south, by the gas, and we're heading to tel aviv because it's a mess. even though they saw a video of a girl with a similar tattoo in the back of the car, the family believed in the best, especially after a message from one of the activists from gaza that shani was in the hospital, but..." last week, the family received confirmation of their daughter's death from a group of forensic experts who analyzed a fragment of her skull. it is very difficult to realize that our beloved girl has been killed, we will probably never see her body again, but on the other hand, it is a relief to know that she is dead and not in much pain, and that she is not in the underground tunnels of hamas. forensic experts at israel's

shura military base are still receiving bodies, many of which are dead and difficult to identify. we saw signs of violence, we saw decapitated bodies, we saw dismembered bodies, we saw bodies that were handcuffed, we saw burned bodies. i guess that's enough to say that this is not something we usually see at a crime scene. relatives of other victims come to the lukiv house to support them, one of them is the father of an israeli reservist killed in kvar az. nissim says, israel wants us but hamas must pay for what it has done, forensic experts are meanwhile working to identify the other dead. yuri mamon, natasha mozgova, voice of america. today, ukraine and israel are united by a common trauma, a clash with totalitarianism, and the understanding of this experience is possible only through the prism of a common historical past,

says marcy shor, a professor of intellectual history at yale university. she is the author of the book about the revolution of dignity in 2014. and continues to follow the historical and social context of the russian war against ukraine. dmytro kolchynskyi spoke with the researcher. the experience of living in extreme conditions, facing one's own death , facing the most terrible and cruelest that people live in moments of torture, in moments of war, when you look death in the face, and in the face of human tragedy in general. on this basis, there is a solidarity of those who... have gone through deep traumatic experiences, and it is not the solidarity of those who have forgiven each other and forgotten the past, it is the solidarity of those who have a deep fundamental understanding of what this experience is, it is not the experience in which most of life is spent, these are the most desperate moments of extreme states. even those who were on

opposite sides are bound together, or can be united through such an experience, and it's not about forgiving and forgetting, it's about shared understanding. i think that this is an important element, among jews, among ukrainians, among poles, there is an element of solidarity from the experienced upheavals. also, there is a feeling that really blossomed during the maidan that this could be a new beginning. it was the maidan that created ukrainian jews, that is jews who were not just post-soviet jews, in general, or russian-speaking jews or multilingual russian-speaking jews, but people who really identified as ukrainian jews, i think that now you really have a community of people who definitely identify as ukrainian jews in the civil sense. i think freud was right about the return of the repressed, that repressed traumatic and psychological states don't just disappear. you know, they come back in different forms and

i believe the only antidote if it validating, psychoanalytic in a way, and based on the fact that you can't make it go away. but you can heal it. you can make the demons come out into the light and at least fight them honestly and with your eyes wide open. the inability to confront the crimes of stalinism is at the root of the current pathology of russian society. you know, this is the root of the anthropological disaster that reigns in russian society now. and i strongly support the following argument: to live in a totalitarian society means to be in it part of and what is happening now in the gas sector is one of the most terrible moral dramas. how to distinguish innocent citizens from terrorists who are connected to hamas, those who have just killed children in front of their parents. because living in a society governed by a terrorist regime means being involved in

it and being its victim at the same time. the main question should be how we can look at this totalitarian experience with our eyes wide open. to understand how it is possible, how it came about, how it happened, and to understand the experience enough to prevent it this now and in the future, the holodomor then , the genocide now, what about justice, such an exhibition was opened in washington on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the holodomor, today more and more countries recognize this crime as genocide of the ukrainian people, while the kremlin denies it and whitewashes the deliberate killing of millions of ukrainians in 1932-33. in the museum of victims of the communist regime, they tell what is common between the famine created by the soviet government 90 years ago and the russian war today. ivanna

pidborska and vyacheslav fyushkin know the answer. about the famine should know as well as about the holocaust and holah. with these words, the exhibition in washington, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the holodomor in ukraine, was opened. quentin, who has ukrainian roots, read about this tragedy in books. it's amazing that hey, 4 million people died, and they kept quiet about it for a long time. anna, who has been studying in the usa since august, heard about it from her grandmother, who was born during the famine. it is very difficult for me, for example, to throw away food, i try never to do that. food must be protected and respected, because once our grandparents there did not have it at all and growing up, well, in such conditions, she taught me that you can’t throw away bread, if it has fallen, you have to pick it up and kiss it, once

i really didn’t understand it, maybe i laughed a little, then my grandmother came up with something, but when we older, now i understand what she is talking about, tears appeared in the girl's eyes , she is already deceased, but the grandmother's words are still alive in the girl's memory, and she especially began to understand them with the beginning of... the war, if i live to live it will be so-and-so, there i will go here and there, or i will go there and there, and i will not do that either i understood, i thought, well, how can you not live to see it, well, of course, you will live to see it and we will go, or we will leave , and now i myself say the same, because we are ukrainians, we cannot plan anything now, michael savkiv, one of the leaders of the ukrainian community in the us, says: again, as 90 years ago, moscow is using food as a weapon. the world community is also starving not because of a lack of food, but because of a lack of ukrainian grain exports, which are blocked by a tyrannical

and repressive regime. one of the first countries in the world to recognize the holodomor against ukraine lithuania became a genocide. ex-premrem of the country andryus kubilyus calls to demand justice for ukraine now. a special tribunal on the crime of military aggression, the second demand of justice: russia will have to pay for the damage it caused to ukraine and the last part - ukrainian membership in nato. anna says: "as russia did not try to destroy the ukrainian people, it did not succeed , it did not succeed then, and it will not succeed now, she believes. that ukrainians have already formulated such resistance to everything that is happening to us, that there is nothing scary, i, for example, have no fear that there, oh, a rocket is flying

, we have such collected emotions that i will stand, i can do it, it doesn't matter that, no matter what, we will win, ivanna pidborska in yacheslav khilushkin, the voice of america, washington, hope for victory - this is what feeds all of ukraine now. and we will end the program with a story from ukraine. have you ever heard of adaptive clothing? the average consumer knows little about it, but with a large number of injured people in ukraine, there was a need for it such clothes since mass industrial production does not exist, volunteers have traditionally taken up filling the industry. lesya bakalets will tell how the owner of branded clothing came to the aid of the wounded and why women, who are called fairies, sew underwear from brightly colored fabric. this is an adaptive t-shirt that can be completely

opened on both sides for convenience, on this side there are also velcro, you can put it under the injured person, open it, make a bandage and then close it again, craftswoman olga skidynets processes plain t-shirts nada. has been active for more than a year, sewing was her hobby before the war, now it is a way to thank the ukrainian military. it happens that an order comes from one of the hospitals, and it is necessary to sew, for example, 20 t-shirts, so i sew all the time, before the great war, families of bedridden and immobile patients knew more about adaptive clothing, but now the demand for such products has increased precisely among wounded soldiers, due to complex injuries they cannot. put on a regular t-shirt or pants. sometimes, they are given elizave devices and they have ordinary ones

do not pass the sleeves, let's say, the arm, because there is a construction going on there. olga gives the sewn clothes to volunteers, who then deliver them to hospitals. the craftswoman also collects donations for individual orders, all for free, for fabrics. there are, for example, elizarov's apparatus located very high, and then they turn to me. wounds are showing and i am re-stitching clothes under this wound. the main requirement for such clothes is that the material should be soft and natural, and the accessories, for example, the lip, should not be rubbed. when i them cut, i cut the corners here and burn them, because then they become softer. designer rostislav satana also pays special attention to fabric for adaptive clothing. he and a team of four women sew special suits for the military from scratch, the suit includes an adaptive t-shirt and adaptive pants, but during the summer we also started to make adaptive shorts, we

started to do sleeveless, because the guys said that soccer... hot rostyslav is the owner of a clothing brand, at the end of last year a wounded soldier approached him through acquaintances and offered to sew adaptive clothing, so that it was both a brand and adaptive clothing, at the same time, so that he felt comfortable, not in hospital clothes. rostislav developed the design based on the feedback and wishes of the military. they really like that there are pockets, for example, i came up with them when i just lay down on the bed in these pants and thought about how to make these pockets correctly, if, for example, in all pockets, our usual cut is so that when you lie down, everything falls out in the pocket, then i realized that they are mostly lying, i realized that it is necessary to do the other way, that you can lie down and show a phone that will not fall out, seamstress girls are shy to speak on camera, but they confess when they are working, they constantly think about the wounded, they say that if they accidentally prick themselves with a needle,

how they repeat the mantra, let it hurt me. and the defender does not hurt. if rostislav deliberately makes adaptive clothing in a military style, these volunteers chose a radically different approach to the production of adaptive clothing. we are already preparing for the new year period, we have luxury, leopards. watermelons, carrots, knights and dinosaurs. from all these cheerfully colorful fabrics, volunteers will sew special underwear for wounded soldiers. we are making an adaptive design. underpants, underpants, with winter underpants, that is, these are underpants that are special for our wounded soldiers with velcro, such underwear is not sold, there are no manufacturers, but it is a necessity for wounded soldiers, it is not just about hygiene, it is about something much more, they say master, in principle, underwear

is about dignity, a lot in hospitals before... with the fact that the medical staff, yes, well of course, serving, there are nurses and the like, don’t engage in nonsense, why is there such underwear, they covered it with a diaper enough, but i always say, remember yourself when you are in a bad state, and the first thing you want is for everything to be here was close to the body and covered, that's why underwear is made so that... our soldiers, defenders and girls also , even in the hospital bed, feel confident, protected, and that no one takes away their sense of dignity, even in such trifles. the girls have been sewing underwear since the beginning of the war in 2014 and already have their own

brand, someone said that you girls are real fairies there, and she gave a little fairy tale somehow and everyone liked it, everyone started writing in the comments there were fairy tales. the fairies say that the wounded boys did not immediately accept the cheerful prints for underwear, but the volunteer girls who deliver clothes to hospitals tried. the girls who take care of the boys in the hospital, they just make a show of these panties every time. marchenko and her fashion blog. shaking underpants, underpants, underpants, underpants, please appreciate, snares, look how beautiful, we sew our own girls, cups, avocados, they come up with a story for each picture, and it is so uplifting, and the boys are involved in it, even those who are sad and unhappy, they

smile, our main task is to... still support their mental health as well. in a week, the fairies sew 200-300 adaptive underpants. halyna admits, they not only help the military, they also save themselves, because sewing distracts from bad news and calms, and with good thoughts comes the hope that someday such bright fabrics will again be used exclusively for children's clothing. lesya bakelets, voice of america from kyiv. download the voice of america mobile app. the application allows you to bypass blocking automatically thanks to the built-in vpn service. read news, watch informative programs and videos, and also listen to podcasts of the ukrainian voice of america service. really