[000:00:00;00] to help as much as i can, as long as i have enough health, and i hope that to victory, and we will soon win, since people like me have come to fight, then victory is only for us, and there will be victory, everything will be, then i will already with grandchildren and children, khrystyna porubiy, spress tv channel. the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas time is on the air, i'm yuliya yarmolenko, congratulations. americans today celebrate thanksgiving, which kicks off the holiday season in the us. three weeks before christmas is the time in which

the american congress. can approve a request for additional funding for ukraine. democratic congressman mike quigley shared these expectations with voice of america. he did not support both resolutions on short-term funding for the us government because they did not include aid to kyiv. what are the chances of approving additional funding for ukraine by the new year. what factors can affect the speed of decision-making? congressman quigley told about this in an interview with my colleague oleksiy kovalenko. last week, congress approved an interim budget resolution that did not include funding for of ukraine. when do you expect the divorce of funding for ukraine and the vote for it? now there are discussions in the house of representatives and the senate. we'll be back next week after thanksgiving, and i think those discussions will begin in earnest. it will be a few weeks after that because we have to

do it before the christmas holidays. so i'd like to think we'll get everything done in the three weeks until christmas. i emphasize, it will be difficult. there is an old saying in the usa, laws and sausage are two things you should not see how are made if you don't like watching conflicts, stress, then maybe you should skip the next three weeks. but i'm still convinced that in the end we will get the job done and continue to help our allies move forward and achieve their goals . funding for ukraine is not considered separately, so this is a factor and obviously there will be funding for israel, there will be funding related to taiwan, they will probably add the southern border usa. so all these will be considered together. i don't

think so. nat intends to approve funding for israel separately, i think it will be part of a bigger package and that is good news. it must be taken into account that the house of representatives is still not functioning properly, which worries me the most. this is why i voted against both funding packages, because they did not include funding for ukraine. we should not be teetering on the precipice with an issue that is so critically important to us. the white house funding request listed four priorities, including ukraine, israel, the indo-pacific region, and the us border. in the republican party, proposals were made to combine funding for ukraine together with the border issue. how different is that from the white house proposal. well, the concern is that there are republicans on the far right who will come up with options that will go nowhere and only delay everything. i think there are

democrats who are willing to discuss the additional resources for the border that president biden requested and also make certain adjustment. but if someone wants to go to some extreme and offer too much funding for something, and too little for something, i think it will create a problem. given that the resources for ukraine's new security assistance are already almost exhausted, and that additional funding is taking... time to be accepted, does this not undermine the world's confidence in us claims of support for ukraine as much as is needed? it's worrying, but i think we'll be fine. i would like us to move forward without problems, to have funding for the whole year, and we didn't have to think about it the next year. this shouldn't be a political decision, but unfortunately it is. democracies don't always go

smoothly, but i still do. i believe that the vast majority in the senate and the house of representatives resolutely support ukraine, and we will do it, it's just that at certain moments in our history there are difficult times, and now is one of those moments: andriy yermak, the head of the administration of the president of ukraine, visited washington. what are the conclusions of the meeting of the ukrainian delegation at the congress? we had meetings and discussions, and in the conditions of the current dialogue, this is critically important. this helps clarify and answer concerns that some members of the house may have . because there is a lot of misinformation. related to important issues, there are people who say that there is insufficient oversight of aid, or that we are at a dead end, i don't think so, but i believe that ukraine will win, this was an interview with mike

quigley , congressman, democrat. early elections to the house of representatives of the netherlands ended with unexpected results. victory and the most seats in the freedom party of far-right populist geert wilders won the parliament. many in the netherlands call such results a shock, in ukraine they are worried about the previous pro-russian moves of wilders and worry that the new government does not reduce support for kyiv. is there such a threat? we will talk about this with our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin. hello, bohdan. good evening. bohdan, first of all, who is geert wilders and does the victory of his party mean that he will become the next prime minister of the netherlands. well, girt wilders is very famous, actually. to everyone in europe who is interested in politics, because he has been in politics for a long time, he is 60 years old, and at least 25 of them have been at the very level of national politics in the netherlands, he

is known for his almost scandalous anti-islamic statements and positions so scandalous that for example, in great britain he was considered a very dangerous, extremist actor and in 2009 was not allowed here on the territory of great britain, as for his current position, he remains, perhaps on more softened such anti-islamist positions, he strongly opposes emigration, calls for closing the dutch border to immigrants, and wants the country to leave the european union, i.e. repeat brexit for the netherlands, whether he will be prime minister, precisely because his views are largely what some call extremist, it depends on whether

other parties want to join them in a coalition, because even those results, which are now called a victory , are not enough for his party alone to form the government, because it is only a little more than 20% of the votes of the voters. bohdan wilders has condemned russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, but has previously shown support for putin's regime. what is his current position regarding ukraine and russia? yes, earlier he spoke about the need to try to find a common language with russia. he even said that the dutch could learn patriotism from the russians, but it was... well, a few years ago, in 2018, he caused considerable indignation in certain circles in the netherlands by going to

moscow, while the netherlands was still mourned the victims of the mh17 plane, which was shot down by the russians over eastern ukraine in 2014, but he changed his position, and in particular, after february, 2022, he no longer talks about somehow negotiating with russia, he condemns aggression, although one of his statements during the election campaign was that he does not want to provide political aid to ukraine, but not military support, and one of the dutch commentators spoke about this in particular today. therefore, certain connections between the party of geert wilders and putin's administration were, but they have completely come to nothing, they have been discontinued. now wilders supports ukraine, and he says that russia is waging an aggressive war against ukraine,

so here he has changed his position dramatically, but he says that he wants to support ukraine politically, but not financially and not militarily. this will be a major negotiation issue, will it change a little or a lot? it is also from open question bohdana, the netherlands is one of the countries that took the lead in the so-called aircraft coalition for ukraine. we are talking about f16. if wilders does lead the country, can the netherlands support ukraine. be under threat, well, we must also not forget that the netherlands has provided ukraine with a serious number of leopard tanks , as well as other weapons, and the position of the netherlands , when it comes to the f-16, along with denmark and other countries, has become key in this program of the western allies, the program , which is supposed to provide ukraine with these newer , western-made aircraft, ukraine has long

said it needs to strengthen its air force to counter the russian to the invaders, this position, which the netherlands is now taking, was developed by the government of the party led by prime minister mark rutte, he is now effectively out of politics, but his party ... for freedom and justice, is actually one of the obvious participants of a possible coalition with geert wilders' freedom party, so if a coalition is formed, first of all, we don't know if wilders will be able to be prime minister or if he will just be a member of the coalition, there will be some other bargaining, but in any case - in any case, he will have to negotiate. he will not be able to do what he wants, and

we do not yet know what he will actually want. bohdan, very interesting situation, thank you for telling me everything, my colleague bohdan tsyupin was on the phone from london. 27-year-old sergeant of the national guard , air reconnaissance andriy danyo, was seriously injured on april 3, 2023. got it the following is our story, you saw the first footage of incredible courage: 27-year-old national guard from ivano-frankivsk andriy danyo went to defend his homeland on february 25, before a full-scale war began. and 3 april of this year, during a combat mission , he came under enemy fire and was seriously wounded. as a result. the man lost his right arm and leg and almost completely lost

his sight. however, he continues to work on himself every day, boxes with prostheses, gets into the bar and continues difficult rehabilitation. anna kostyuchenko and pavel sohodolsky met the soldiers who help him recover. 27-year-old sergeant of the national guard, air reconnaissance officer andriy danyo, was seriously wounded on april 3, 2020 shelling on a combat mission in donbas, i felt that a bone had been torn off, it was not clear what happened to my leg there, it was broken, it hurt , the guys took me away, well, i actually couldn’t, these were very serious injuries, so the guys evacuated there to there were also border guards with us, and they very quickly organized the evacuation, and in fact, the border service was their evacuation vehicle. i was transported from after that i was already injected into the painkiller and

woke up on the second denier, before the full-scale russian invasion, andriy worked as a programmer in his native ivano-frankivsk. on february 25 last year , he signed up as a volunteer in the army. i still understood somewhere, well, as of december, somewhere on the 21st of the previous year, that there would be a war, probably that , well, it went like that, that is, well , it says a lot about it. and then i somehow sat down, thought and firmly decided that if it starts, i will definitely start, even without hesitation. when the seriously injured andrii was hospitalized in dnipro, his mother, 47-year-old svitlana fedorovych, was mistakenly notified of her son's death. this was reported from his, his direct manager that he was wounded, he was evacuated and taken away.

the hospital was evacuated very quickly, but they were also informed from the hospital that he had died, then according to their sources, it turned out that way, we probably found out through our channels that he did not die after all and started looking for him, he was in intensive care in the dnipro, after treatment in dnipro, andriy was sent to kyiv for rehabilitation, they flew, seagull, one more time. take your time, hold on , take your time, kneel a little, yes, super, the center of gravity holds the hand. physiotherapist inna didych has 30 years of experience in sports, three times champion of ukraine and six-time champion of israel in women's football, and since 2020 she is engaged in rehabilitation. at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, the russians deal mainly with soldiers who have suffered severe combat

wounds. i don't cry when i'm with guys, and many of them have different injuries, there are different guys, and i just go out after... the class and there i can cry somewhere, because in principle it's touching and i see how the guys come back and come back to life , and also looking at andrii, well, who am i showing, here are the videos that my mother sends me, that we shot, there short ones, well, even if he hears it, he will know that i am also crying, for the second month andriy is learning to live with prostheses. and this is all the state, absolutely all the state, covered both the arm and now the leg, and in a year i can make another prosthesis, that is, in the case of a double amputation, every year i can redo the prostheses, these are all modules, that is, the upper module in me, this is ottobok germany, the knee joint,

japan and the foot, in my france, overcoming the feeling of phantom pain in lost limbs, preparing the body for a prosthesis and moral support, the three main aspects of the rehabilitation of fighters with prostheses - says inna. a protest is not a panacea, it does not mean that a person put on a protest and he left, as he used to walk with his leg, no, all the same, the weight will be transferred more to the tour leg, which feels, which should be strong, there should be strong muscles back, press, then, the more, the more the muscles will take the load, if they are in good shape, the fewer problems there will be with the prosthesis, and in principle, well, the most important thing is probably faith, self-belief, eh, i i think that

watching more than one plot, people can, and the guys can see that there is a future, and with the help of the whole world, which is given to us, i think that it is possible, i know , those guys who already have a prosthesis came back to us, came to visit, and came, thanked, andriy lost not only an arm and a leg, but also almost completely his sight, okay, we already have slides, if you want, in front of you, the boy doesn't have a right eye, and with his left he can only distinguish between light and darkness. however, this does not stop andrii, you bend your leg a little, in order to catch, to catch the balance, i am proud of andrii, i am proud of andrii, and now it is possible

even more proud, because now he is doing even more than before the injury, because the road to recovery is very difficult. he, very painful, psychologically accepted all this, how, well, it was difficult, as he said, it was difficult, but at some point he accepted this situation and began to move on, and in general, the whole path after the injury is such a path of small steps, you don't plan for a long time, you just wake up in the morning and do what you have to do and just go forward with small steps. thanks to constant training and with the support of loved ones, andrii already feels confident on the prostheses. however, the operations did not end for him. ophthalmologists gave hope that partial vision in the left eye can be restored by transplanting the cornea. however , such operations are almost never performed in ukraine. anna kostyuchenko, pavel sukhodolskyi for

voice of america from kyiv. american families celebrate thanksgiving today. the traditional 97th annual parade took place in new york this morning. orchestras, dance and music groups, 25 giant character balloons and more than 30 festive platforms could be seen at mangen this morning. a number of stars also performed in front of the audience, including singer kasher and performer jean battist. president sha joe biden and first lady jill biden addressed the parade audience by phone. the country's first couple called on americans to be kinder to each other, to do something good on this day and to put aside differences. the bidens themselves are currently on the weekend in nantucket, massachusetts. in the morning they greeted. with the holiday of the american military, calling bases around the world, and later visited the fire department branch in nantucket, to congratulate the firefighters, the first lady treated

the firefighters to pumpkin pie. the gratitude festival was held this week in los angeles. with over 12,000 volunteers handing out food and local residents signing holiday cards and creating small gifts for those less fortunate this holiday season, organizers say at a time when there are so many things that bring people together, it's important to be a little kinder to each other. report from the festival by khrystyna shevchenko. on the territory a line of los angeles residents gathers at bowlin gills elementary school. a festival of gratitude is held here. they are giving away free meal kits until thanksgiving. vegetables, fruits, meat and cakes are in the packages. more than 15 volunteers from different parts of southern california participate in the festival. they package and distribute. food and create gifts. malworrd and her daughters create postcards. we decorate some

cards that will go into gift baskets and grocery bags that will then be given to people in need. we see a certain scale and scope of what is happening here, and we want to give back to the community and the city as a whole. each package of food is intended for a family of four, some of which will be distributed to more than a hundred schools and non-profit organizations. throughout southern california, helping poor families, the homeless, veterans, seniors, victims of domestic violence, people with special needs. we live in such difficult times that it is valuable when these people simply enjoy each other, find a common language, have a good time and help someone else. last year , the us vice president kamala harris visited the festival, this year the mayor of los angeles, karen bass, distributed food packages. this is a very important event, we have been traumatized by several events that have happened in our

city recently, so to focus the holiday with a wonderful event where families from all over the city come together is the perfect thing that we really need right now. the festival has been organized by the volunteer organization big sunday for 12 years in a row, this year more than 17 people were fed here. with of los angeles, khrystyna shevchenko, bohdan shevchenko, for the voice of america. this year , thanksgiving day in the united states is also celebrated by many forced migrants from ukraine. for many of them, this holiday is unusual and new. to support people who face the holidays without a circle of loved ones, in washington and the surrounding area , holiday dinners for immigrants are organized at churches and volunteer centers. do ukrainians like american traditions and what are immigrants grateful for this year? iryna shinkarenko and vyacheslav filyushkin learned. ukrainian lesya bakes for the first time turkey usa for thanksgiving. this is a mostly american recipe. the turkey

has been soaking in orange juice for 12 hours since yesterday. it is baked for about three to four hours, an orange with an apple and celery greens are placed inside. and every two hours of cooking, you need to take it out every... 15 minutes and water accordingly to make the turkey juicier. lesya came from ukraine to the usa a year ago with three children, her mother lives here, from whom the woman borrowed the recipe. last year, we celebrated at my mother's house, she cooked for us, and it was a novelty for us, it was very much the first time for us, but everything was delicious and this year we will repeat it. this tradition, lesya chose a traditional american decor for the american turkey.

15 minutes before cooking the turkey, rosemary sprigs are added, they give this meat its taste and smell. for me this year, pojaka day is a sincere gratitude to my friends, to the people who surround me, to my family, and accordingly to the united states, for the fact that i and my family is without. and i want to wish all this to all ukrainians, safety and a peaceful sky. the turkey prepared by lesya in the church of st. andrew near washington was treated to the thanksgiving day for immigrants from ukraine, so that they could celebrate this holiday for the first time. volunteer olena, who has lived in the usa for many years, talked about the traditions of the american table. ham and mashed potatoes with gravy are also often served. and what is purely american is a bread filling with vegetables and fried green

beans in a mushroom sauce with fried onions. the children liked the ham the most, and the adults liked the fact that they are not alone on the holiday. this thanksgiving will be our first in the states. and we are very interested to learn about this holiday, about american traditions, to feel the spirit of this day of thanksgiving. the main goal is to meet together with relatives and friends, to celebrate the unity and essence of the family. thank. for everything in the family, for each family member, for a roof over the head, for food on the table, and also for the integrity of the state as a whole. these words especially resonate in hearts immigrants, iryna from kyiv came to the usa with her son, she says the decision was very difficult, her daughter and husband remained in ukraine. a lot of new friends, it's great

that when they are there, but actually our roots are ours... our family is all there, and we, of course, when such a holiday comes here, there, it's christmas, or it's easter, is it, thanksgiving day, at this time you, you are grateful that you are here, but at the same time, you miss your family a little, and you want to be with them at this moment, i miss my family, but i like it holiday, i think it's a good holiday to invite people who don't have anyone to celebrate thanksgiving, an american tradition. newly arrived ukrainians , together with immigrants from other countries, were treated to a festive dinner by various volunteer and public organizations, including the development council of the ethiopian community in washington. we've been hosting this event for 12 years, just in time for thanksgiving. it's an all-american tradition where everyone gets together and shares bread, and this event

introduces new people to this tradition. there are many lonely people here. people who came without families, so this is a way to give them another family, acquaintances, friends, people have left their own families at home and the holidays are coming up, so we all gather here and say that we are here for you, whether you need help or support, yesterday, my mother bought a large turkey from the store, she bought a turkey , i am very grateful that this country accepted us and that my children are safe, but... of course, we read the news every day, we worry, since we are from mykolaiv in we are not very calm and our parents are there, so we are constantly in touch and in news and events at home, and we miss our family and home very much. in addition to missing her family and home, solomiyka from the kherson region admits that she also misses her favorite holiday

dishes. this is chicken, grandma, my grandma was good at cooking pizza and salads, iryna shenkarenko, vyacheslav filyushkin, voice of america, free voice of america application, the application allows you to automatically bypass blocking thanks to the built-in vpn service, read news, watch news programs and videos, and also listen to podcasts: ukrainian voice of america service. we, the ukrainian voice team america, thank you, our viewers, for your trust, support and attention. we wish safety, peace and well-being to every family.

see you tomorrow, all the best, pa-pa. we are looking for 16-year-old daryna zhuraravel from the kherson region. imagine, the girl disappeared on the first day of the war, and until now there was no news about her. i know that when the full-scale invasion began, daryna was in the town of nova kakhovka, which is still under occupation. maybe that's why the girl doesn't get in touch. that's why i'm asking everyone, especially the residents of livorno kherson regions, which may be strange... this program in social networks. look carefully at the photo of darina zhurravel and try to remember her face. if someone suddenly sees the 16-year-old girl, or you become aware of her possible whereabouts, do not hesitate and immediately call us on the hotline of the magnolia children's search service at the short number 1163. calls from any ukrainian mobile operator are free. if it is not possible to get in

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