[000:00:00;00] we are not running away anymore, we continue to cook in the kitchen, there is no need, the worst thing is, it seems to me to be at war, as for me, it is aviation, because you do not know when it will fly and where it will fly, and there is no time to go anywhere to hide, however, oksana vinnyak does not regret her decision, although i, i don't know, make a small... small contribution to that victory, so that it will be easier for our guys here on the front lines, it is very, very difficult for them, but we are all trying i can help them with anything, so i will help as much as i can

i will be able to, as long as i have enough health, and i hope that we will win soon ... we will win, since people like me have come to fight, then victory is only for us, and there will be victory, that will be all, then i will already with grandchildren and children. khrystyna porubiy, espresso tv channel. welcome to the broadcast of voice of america in ukrainian and our program chas time, my name is ostap yarysh. joe biden signed the bill on temporary funding of the government, which was approved by the us congress the day before. the document allows you to avoid a shutdown by allocating money for work some federal institutions until january 19, and others until february 2. the pentagon welcomed such a decision by congress, but urged lawmakers to act

as soon as possible. to consider an additional request of the white house, which, among other things, includes aid for ukraine. but how long will the us be able to support the ukrainian armed forces before congress considers new funding. i asked the pentagon's deputy spokeswoman, sabrina singh, about this, and this is what she replied. how long can you support ukraine before congress considers a new one funding? because we have seen that the last aid packages have been smaller and smaller. this is because we have there is no additional funding, we invited it for that, to provide security support to ukraine and to replenish our own stockpiles, again , the additional aid bill for ukraine in congress, we continue to urge congress to pass this bill as a package because this is an emergency request, this not part of the budget process, this is a large amount that we want congress to pass for ukraine, for israel, for investments in the indo-pacific region, and

of course, on our investments in our own. defense industry. that's something that we will continue to urge congress to support , but you're absolutely right, you're seeing smaller aid packages now because we have to break it down because we don't know when congress is going to pass additional funding. we also continue conversations with allies and partners, because we are not the only country contributing to ukraine's urgent combat needs. as you know, contact group with more than 50 countries are providing aid to ukraine. so not only here. the u.s. supports ukraine, but as president biden has made very clear, we will support ukraine as long as it takes, which means passing our additional request to congress, and we hope they will. still, how long do you think you'll have enough money before congress takes care of it, it's weeks, months. each package is different in amount, you see smaller aid packages, i won't predict how long it might take,

it will certainly not bring any benefit to the ukrainians, but it will really benefit the russians. i can't give you a timeline for how long we 'll be able to provide these packages, but what i can say is we need congress to pass a request for more aid. sabrina singh added that a little less than 5 billion dollars remained for the supply of weapons to ukraine from american warehouses. at the same time , the us still has about a billion to replenish its own reserves. meanwhile, the united states is closely monitoring all information for use by israel american weapons and emphasize to the israelis on a daily basis the importance of protecting the civilian population. the representative of the us ministry of defense, mara carlin, told journalists about this. the loss of an innocent life is a tragedy, the official said. she emphasized that the united states believes in the necessity of observing all the laws of war. at the same time, the pentagon condemned the fact that, according to american intelligence, hamas uses the largest hospital in the gaza strip as its command post. according to

american officials, it puts. under endangering the lives of innocent palestinian civilians and once again demonstrates that hamas uses them as human shields. in the southern part of israel, the city of eilat became one of the main shelters for the evacuation of people whose neighborhoods came under rocket fire from gas. however , it is impossible to live peacefully in a resort town now. eilad is now targeted by drones and missiles. natalya mozgova found out the details. iryna shinkarenko will announce her story. after the alarm goes off, residents of eilat in southern israel have about 30 seconds to take shelter. however, when on the local school was hit by a drone, sirena did not warn about it, only. most of the students had already gone home, but there were still about 40 people in the school. we have been preparing for the last

few days, we had a lot of practice, so the students knew what to do, we were lucky that no one was hurt. this is a real miracle. the drone, israeli officials say, came from syria, the house. but no one was hurt. the israeli resort town of eilat should be a safe haven for more than 60,000 people. evacuees from cities and villages in the south of israel, that were subjected to rocket fire from gas. however , this city became the target of ballistic missiles launched by houthi rebels from yemen, as well as drones from syria. gala's mother, sharon harari , had previously assured her daughter that school was the safest place because there was no shelter in their home. i really thought that it was the safest place and that the girls would have to continue their education despite the war and continue to live, but unfortunately it was not the case because there was no siren and no warning and anything could happen. the woman says the conflict

affects the children. even when the child is not suffered physically, she suffers psychologically, and children of all ages are scared, they don't sleep at night, they are afraid to go to the toilet by themselves, they don't play it can happen again, the other day the israeli army announced that it intercepted a zemlya-class missile over the red sea launched in the direction ylata from yemen. dorinrai's family survived the october 7 attack by hamas militants on their nir-oz settlement. of its 400 inhabitants, at least 20 were killed, more than 70 were kidnapped. dorink. says the militants were in her house, but could not enter the fortified room where she was hiding with her husband and three children 8 hours. the family evacuated to eilat, which is now under fire, and it will be years before the niroz survivors can return to

their kibbutz, if they choose to do so. there is a plan that we will come to some place with buildings that are very different from ours , just for two or three years, eventually we have to go back to the kibbutz after everything is fixed and rebuilt, i don't know if i will go back, actually, to be honest saying i'm not coming back because my kids are very scared and so are my husband and i, we've been assuring them all our lives, do not be afraid, the soldiers are here, they are not protecting , they will never allow anything to happen to us, however, on october 7 during the attack, the woman says, no one came to help, iryna shenkarenko, natasha mozgova, voice of america, this is the story from eilat, ukraine established diplomatic relations with israel in late 1991. the first ukrainian consul in israel was dmytro chikalykin, a diplomat and a military translator from arabic and hebrew. in a conversation with our journalist natalka churikova, he told how

the gas sector and the west bank of the jordan river stood, and also about the beginning of hamas activity. their interview follows. by a twist of fate, hamas owes its active popularization of its activities. exactly to the israeli then uh, controlling authorities, because they saw in this organization , which is called, the organization of islamic resistance, but it started with such a lie, that is, the coordination section of social programs, and how exactly ... the future leader of hawass, such such a charismatic character, sheikh yasin, he first created educational centers for training, for providing medical care, and thanks to this

, gained popularity, because they really collected large sums for their activities, and they saw it in this - the israelis, the israeli authorities saw it as an alternative to organizing a recall. palestine and to a certain extent they contributed to the development of this organization, although later, when the so-called stone revolution, the intefada, began, then the policy of hawass changed radically, they moved from social programs, from educational and medical projects, directly to military confrontation and became the most ardent fighters at that time, together with aljihad al-islami, which was created, was created on the basis of the muslim brotherhood, became the most radical forces in the gas sector, and the intifana lasted quite, quite a long time, and

no one expected that it can turn into such crimes, which , as we have seen, well, this could be expected, given the level of the depressed economic and social situation in this region, let me remind you that this strip is 40 km long and from there 10 to... 15 km from oshirshka, where 2.5, 2.5 million people are concentrated, very densely built-up , 5,500 per square kilometer and 5,000 unemployed, 100,000 homeless people, that is, well now, when was the last time i watched footage there from the streets, gas, they are more or less paved, normal, paved, and i remember our first visit there with the then ambassador to ukraine in israel, the future ambassador to the united states and canada, yuri

mykolavych sherbak, and we in order to reach the headquarters of yasser arrafat's apartment, which was at a distance of 9 km from the point the eres border crossing, we drove for 40 minutes, and while accompanying us, they shot two or three of these kalashnikovs there, because they had to scare them, there were some... carts pulled by camels, camel horses, they hit these butts of their machine guns on on the side, on the side glass of cars that were speeding away, because there was no traffic, not a single traffic light, and there was such a crowd of pedestrians, motor vehicles and animals moving, well, it was a very depressing view, as it seemed to me. not

one of the main problems of this mess and such helplessness, this is a crisis of the elite, a crisis of the leadership, because unfortunately they were imbued there with various corrupt connections, i remember vividly, i even remember how, after one of my meetings , they took me there, showed me the terrible conditions there, in that these refugees lived in these camps, and then poshupka tells me this in my ear, seeing off one of the figures closest to ararat, says: well, you understand that 30 there is a 35% kickback for every charitable contribution you make to our charitable fund , to any account in the european bank, that is, i was just infuriated by such audacity, in his speech, president biden united ukraine and israel, and said that these two countries have, are fighting a similar or long-term

conflict, we know that israel has now been given aid, for about three months, if this the conflict will last longer than three months, how much will it affect the support of ukraine in the west? well, in fact, the israelis have, in addition to this traditional channel of financing, 2.5 2.5 billion dollars, which they receive from... the federal from the federal budget american, but there are charitable, jewish charitable organizations all over the world that have repeatedly saved , saved israel, i don’t know that, i didn’t watch the movie goldemay, but i read her autobiography and the biography written by a famous israeli journalist, so here she is

was the absolute champion in terms of the amount of charitable funds raised at the time, and today just such figures could collect sufficient, sufficient sums to cover the expenses of, uh, israel, and i think that here it will not fundamentally affect the aid, ukraine, the main thing is that there should now be a consensus, a bipartisan consensus in congress, which... will allow allocating the funds required by president biden to help ukraine. this was natalka churikova's conversation with dmytro chykalkin, the first consul of ukraine in israel. and our next story is about the difficult situation in which families with children in the front-line ukrainian areas now find themselves. at least a dozen families with children remain in the village of primorske in zaporizhzhia, about 15 km from the front. despite

constant shelling, they do not want to leave their homes eva myronova and oleksandr oliynyk will tell the story from the scene. when. kozatska sloboda, a seaside settlement of the stepnohorsk community, is located on the left bank of the dnieper, 20 km south of zaporizhzhia. before the russians blew up kakhovsky es this summer, the village stretched along the shore of the reservoir, since then the water has receded. vasylivka, occupied by the russians, is 25 km from here in a straight line to the south. primorske is often shelled from there. we have flights every day and at night. it comes to us every day. and day and night, and there was a shelling at night, and the day before yesterday there was a shelling, and yesterday there was also the second and the 26th here, a neighbor died, we have fun here, well, we have fun here, local resident volodymyr says

that he was left alone on the entire street, after the recent massive shelling, when about a dozen houses were destroyed and his neighbor was killed, everyone left except him, he has the same reasons as others, to leave funds for housing in a safer place, it is a pity to leave your house, no, i don't want until i'm not, no, i don't want, i won't be yet, i'll press, i'll go i don't want to, well, we live, it's scary, scary, so what to do, i can't leave it all, i can't leave it all, despite constant enemy shelling, in the primorye village , the inhabitants, from almost 4 years before the war, among them at least 20 children , and even halyna's large family, which has seven children aged from two to 15 years. the children do not want to leave, the children here study with us, let it be online, it is difficult, but we study, study, study whenever possible, and the older ones help the younger ones, the younger ones

help the younger ones. elder david says that he does not feel free in a foreign country, experience evacuation... brought a positive result, the boy wanted to go home, at home, everything was his own, everyone was familiar, and we left once, i didn’t like it very much, because there are very different rules, there is not that, there is not that, and not very, everything according to the schedule, all this, but at home i wanted to go outside, i went out while my husband was at work, galina and her older children were taking care of the gentlemen. the family keeps four goats, a cow, poultry, they say, it also depends on the livestock that they cannot abandon, if possible, people leave, no matter how many or how much they eat, but it seems to me that who is on their own

land, he does not leave for a long time, many returned, those who left, we also left, we will return. and i think i won't go anywhere anymore. halyna's coma, tetyana, is a volunteer, helping local residents and the military. she confirms that over the past six months , many people have returned to primorske. they said that at first they helped, fed, food, it was all free, and then they said that guys, look for apartments and move out of these bases and settle in apartments, and it is very expensive to pay for an apartment now, where do people get it from? money, and they are returning home now, everyone, everyone is returning home, because it’s free, you understand, nothing happens anywhere, the children of the industry spend almost the whole day walking in the yard, no one hides during shelling, well, we ’re probably used to it, we’ve had it here often ,

which is also near here near the farm, and on the beams and on the field, since i have a lot of them, they walk around a lot. they don't pay attention so much as to direct. in the first days of november, during the russian shelling on the edge of the village , two local residents were killed. projectile flew over halyna's house. we were all in the house, and it flew higher behind us. there was a supply, it happened that the windows were cracking, and the doors were cracking, and the roof was cracking, but yes. you weren't really scared, you were more scared that it just happened to be nearby , i'm more afraid of the little ones, because... nadya sometimes they get so scared that it's up to it, that they can fall asleep immediately after that, myryk, it happens that

he will throw a tantrum, danyut, like me, is not very afraid, masha is not afraid at all, because she has her own peace, ravines, they are afraid, but not very much, in primorsk, she often disappears due to shelling electricity, it interferes with the study of the elders, who are connected in the morning at the very first thing, friends came from first from that part of the village, then from this one, we sat, played, wrote off each other's homework, studied poems, another problem of the seasiders - the lack of technical water, which was taken from the kakhovsky reservoir, is now in place of the sea, thickets of reeds and young trees , as well as puddles in the distance, hundreds of coastal residents do not

have water, and there will be no water, and there will be no water, it is unlikely that we will have any in the near future water will be after the war, we'll see, we'll live, we'll see, at this time now, who will do it, no one will do anything, galina's family lives near a well, of which there are three in primorskyi, so they have drinking water, but many local residents on the edge of the village depended on dry wells. kakhovki, it's easier in the village, it's easier to live, and if it wasn't for the water that broke the dam, that there is no sea water, it would be now, winter is expected here with concern, this year there is no state aid in providing firewood, the local administration says. well, state unfortunately, there is no program this year, but we have appealed to almost six or six charitable foundations, well, we are appealing to everyone we can, who can help us, someone will call back. will provide us with help in wood or in pellets of some kind of fuel, but so far no one has given us official information. despite everything,

the mother of many children does not lose her optimism, the family almost prepared firewood for the winter on their own. there is firewood, let's buy more briquettes, and we will live, a large family is often helped by volunteers and soldiers. the latter, however, advised to temporarily remove the flag of ukraine from flagpole near the yard, so as not to expose children to danger. eva myronova oleksandr oliynyk for voice of america from the zaporizhzhia region. this is a story from the front-line areas of zaporizhzhia. we return to stories from washington. the courage of the nation photo book with that name was presented in the american capital by billionaire and philanthropist howard buffett. it contains his photographs from ukraine during the war. what the billionaire was not afraid of, why the billionaire did not... through the minefield and what history in ukraine he cannot talk about without tears, they know

ivana pidborska and oleksiy osyk. the vanguard of tears. i don't think you can see so many people killed and injured and not be affected by it. this is a war against. civilian population, which took away tens of thousands of people, including children, the war took away their hands, took away their legs, took away their lives, this obviously causes emotions, you moved me to convey the emotions and horrors of war to those who may never come to ukraine and will not experience the war personally, howard buffett published

his photos in the form of a book. when you return from the birth, you understand that here, in in our country, in washington, people argue almost hysterically about little things, it's like watching that daycare when people die there, it's very personal to me, and i think it's my job to try to find a way to make it personal for other people to support ukraine. are your photos about death or about life? that's a really good question, nobody's asked me that before, although i don't like it, yeah, but i think they're more about death because i think ultimately you have to realize, you can't

have life if you don't stop this death. usa , thank you very much, howard buffett is aware that he is putting himself in danger when he takes pictures several kilometers from the fighting, but he says that the desire to help is stronger than the fear. my sister jokes that i'm like a cat, i have nine lives, i don't know how many more, but you know, i was in a helicopter. in which they fired from a kalashnikov machine gun, several times they put the barrel of a machine gun to my chest. i don't think about it. i was in kyiv about a month ago, which is being shelled so that the windows are shaking. but here howard's father, the famous investor warren buffett, is not so easy on his son's occupation. he is 100% supportive,

he scolds me a little when i show a photo where i go through the replacement. no field he says you know i'm not sure if you really need to do this so i think he 's a little bit worried about me but you know and sister and brother when we talk about it they're all supportive by 100% you can't criticize someone who is trying to help millions of people. the howard buffett foundation has spent over 500 million to help ukraine dollars from february 2022. since that time philan. i have visited ukraine nine times and am planning a tenth trip. i'm not kidding when i say that i'm coming back for the tenth time, not enough time in ukraine, not enough time with people in ukraine, not enough time to see what 's going on, but this is the best i can

do. you have bankers, bakers, computer people, people who take up arms that have never been held before and fight for their country, i wonder how many countries in the world, including this one, my country, have done that, stay strong, you must be strong, you must know that you will win this war and the sacrifices will not be in vain. ivanna pidborska, oleksii osyka, voice of america, washington. download the voice of america mobile app, the app allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service. read news, watch informative programs and videos, and also

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soon. greetings, we are looking for this boy who disappeared in the luggan region during the occupation for a long time