today i have everything, it was judicial control and i, tetyana shustrova. if you know the facts of corruption in the judicial system, or you want to report a judge's abuse of his authority or illegal decisions, write to me on facebook or to the email address you see on your screens. all the best and we will meet in exactly one week. you are watching the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas teim program. i am natalia leonova. congratulations. an aid package for ukraine and israel is critically needed and requires the fastest possible response consideration, especially in view of the onset of winter and

worsening weather conditions for the ukrainian army. this was stated by the coordinator of strategic communication of the us national security council, john kirby, at a briefing in the white house. his statement came as the us congress returned to work after the thanksgiving weekend. we are in critical need of the additional funding requested by the president. and i would like to remind members of congress when they return to work that the figures in the supplemental request are derived from detailed information provided by our ukrainian partners and our israeli partners. we didn't pull this out of thin air, it's in line with what our partners have told us they need in the coming months. and in both cases, time is getting less and less. you saw that in the case of ukraine, the packages under the presidential powers program that we provide now have less funds allocated because we simply don't have any.

the flexibility that there used to be in terms of the amount of aid that can be provided in each package, and look, we're at a critical juncture, the winter months are upon us, for for the ukrainian army, they will be particularly noticeable, in particular, it will be more and more difficult for them to conduct operations when the weather becomes less favorable. so we hope that when congress gets back to work, they will act with the same readiness that we are trying to act with on implementation. of this additional request. for its part , the us state department is optimistic about the us package for additional funding and expects the senate to begin considering the issue in the coming weeks. this was stated by the assistant secretary of state for affairs europe-taurasia, james o'brien, during a briefing on monday, november 27. for the security of the united states, for the security of the alliance, and for our key partners to feel. itself in

safety, it is important that we provide the necessary assistance, it concerns both ukraine's military needs and its economic prosperity. ukraine pays 60% of the military costs of the war, and our european allies, who in total provided over 100 billion euros in aid to ukraine, while the us provided 70 billion. it is important for our partners to hear that we will continue to fulfill our role. the representative of the state department also noted that there are no signs that. wants to conduct meaningful peace negotiations and denied that the usa and germany are not publicly pushing kyiv to negotiate with moscow. on monday , us secretary of state anthony blinken is heading to brussels, where the nato foreign ministers will meet on november 27-29. james o'brien said that the secretary of state will emphasize the alliance's continued support for ukraine in its war with russia at the nato meeting in brussels. at the same time, nato secretary general yen stoltenberg: on monday, during

a press conference in brussels, he said that the allies agree that ukraine will become a member of the alliance if it implements reforms, but full membership is impossible while the war continues. our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin follows the events in brussels, he joins our studio from london. congratulations, bohdan. greeting. bohdan, over the weekend , defense ministers lloyd austin and rustem omerov discussed the situation at the front and security assistance priorities. ukraine. yen stolteng and minister of defense of great britain grand shaps noted the intensity of fighting in ukraine in the past weeks. how do europeans assess the course of hostilities in ukraine, bohdan? well , actually, what is happening in ukraine now, what are the consequences of the summer counteroffensive, which international partners paid so much attention to. the general secretary was repeatedly asked about this today. nato in

brussels and correspondents, in particular, asked how the western partners of ukraine and nato, in particular, would respond to calls. that sounded for example, from the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, general zaluzhny, who said that ukraine needs steps, in particular, a technological breakthrough to prevail over the russian invaders, but today the nato secretary general focused on what is not necessarily, that the front line has changed not so much, the ukrainian armed forces were not able to liberate so many territories, which many ukrainians probably hoped for, does not mean that the ukrainians did not succeed in this war. of course

, military achievements are partially possible measured in square meters, but also in losses, you can inflict on your enemy, and so the front line has not moved much, and of course we would like them to free as much territory as possible as quickly as possible, but although the front did not move, the ukrainians were able to inflict damage on the russian invaders large losses, both in personnel and in the elimination of their fighting capacity, so these are significant gains, as well as the ability to push the black sea fleet of the russian federation out of large parts of the black sea, so all this is an important military achievement, what we have not seen any significant territorial gains in recent months. bohdan, secretary general stoltenberg also stated that while the war continues, full membership of ukraine in nato is impossible. what security protection alternatives are offered to ukraine. what should kyiv expect from the

brussels ministerial meetings? yes, in fact, this meeting , which will take place tomorrow and the day after tomorrow at the nato headquarters and actually the ukrainian day, so to speak, with the participation of the ukrainian minister of foreign affairs dmytro koleba will be the day after tomorrow, so this meeting will not predict that there will be some concrete steps to bring ukraine closer to membership, moreover, mr. stoltenberg said that while preparing for the summit in washington next year in july, the partners will decide on what concrete steps can be taken closer to that date on the way to what everyone agreed as the future membership of ukraine in the alliance, but obviously not now , now the allies and nato are emphasizing on the further support of ukraine, on the fact that

the allies are working on providing, in particular, new types of weapons, for example, training the f-16 for of ukraine, also about the future. work to increase the compatibility of the ukrainian military with the troops, with the armies of nato countries, that is , there is obviously still a lot of work for specialists, the military and also politicians. bohdan, state secretary blinken will also take part in the first meeting of the nato ukraine council. his deputy, james o'brien, called this meeting part of the process of finding ukraine's place in the alliance. bohdan, what is this platform and should we expect any specific decisions as a result of these discussions? well, read about this site, about the council of ukraine ukraine, we talked a lot when it was created at the summit in vilnius last summer, this

is actually not a specific mandatory step in bringing ukraine closer to nato membership, but it is a platform where the parties can... cooperate more closely and approve the necessary decisions . thank you bohdan for your work. our european correspondent bohdan tsyupin followed the course of the nato meeting in brussels. he joined our studio from london. polish carriers on the border with ukraine continue their blockade. on november 27, they started a round-the-clock strike at another medic sheghini checkpoint. polish carriers insist on stopping. the so-called transport visa-free, with which, in their opinion, ukrainian transport companies are a greater competition for them. alina makarchuk, the head of

the polish ukrainian portal ukrainapl, told more about the current situation on the border and whether the blockade affects the supply of military aid to the armed forces of the ukrainian armed forces in the voice of america briefing. at the moment, we have almost 500 ukrainian drivers who have been unable to work for 22 days. normally to cross the ukrainian-polish border. literally 5 minutes before our inclusion , polish minister of infrastructure andrzej adamczyk expressed his support and support for polish carriers. i was very much waiting for what he would say, because he is the only person with whom ukraine could negotiate now. this is obviously bad news for ukraine. as far as i know, the minister of infrastructure of poland sent a corresponding letter to the ukrainian counterpart, to our minister of infrastructure, in which he asks ukraine to fulfill the postulates and main slogans, carriers, the polish ones, of course say that they let

humanitarian aid and military aid through once an hour or once every three hours, at which checkpoint, but we know that this is time, and time is important for ukraine today, one more thing, about which it is important for ukrainians to know, the confederation will block the border until a new government is formed, so if ukrainian transporters or drivers listen to us, go to other crossing points, do not hope that this protest will pass soon, the first week we still believed that they would disperse quickly, when we saw that there would be no reaction from the polish authorities, then we understood that this protest was for a long time. to date, they are talking about a blockade until january 3. what ukraine can do in this situation is to fulfill one of the postulates of these carriers, that is to exclude from the queue trucks that return empty from ukraine to the schengen zone. this is the only thing that kyiv can do, go somewhere, take a step towards itself, all other postulates of these carriers to ukraine. can't, that's why it's an absurd situation, from which, unfortunately,

today there is no way out. since the start of the full-scale invasion, lviv has hosted more than 5 million ukrainians who sought refuge from russian missiles and occupation. 150,000 of them remained to live in the city. the mayor of lviv, andriy sadovy, says that on the eve of the full-scale russian invasion, they closely followed the reports of american officials. and prepared for worst-case scenarios. today, the city is one of the most dangerous cities in ukraine. andrii sadovy invited the voice of america to the unbroken center, created on the basis of the first medical center association of saint saint panteleimon. wounded soldiers and civilians are brought here from all over ukraine. since february 24, 2022 , medics here have rescued more than 2,000 war victims. myroslava gongadze visited the center. thank you for inviting us, where we are now, so look, now we are still in our medical association

, where our patients are being treated, there are a lot of wounded by the forces of ukraine, and we will now swim along the corridor to the rehabilitation center, so that you understand, this unique bridge we built it in three months, it is impossible in america, it is not possible in any country in the world, it is possible only in ukraine, because there used to be a polyclinic and we rebuilt the polyclinic and now it is a rehabilitation center, only one part, so that we are constantly increasing our capabilities, because every day new wounded and we constantly have to look for new areas, but now you can see here, construction work is underway, we will complete two more floors here, and together we will already have 6000 m2 at this location for rehabilitation during this time you talked about the number of wounded that this hospital received, so that you understand, more than 15,000 wounded, these are women, these are

children, these are older persons, these are ukrainian heroes, and in fact this continues every day, every day we we receive the wounded, we provide assistance , these are operations, extremely complicated, so you understand, some unique technologies, these are all types of rehabilitation that are possible, well, in general, we are builders who think. and where people should live, where they should work, how they should build their lives, how they should they should do sports, because today we feel a special responsibility here in lviv, because we are, after all , safer, so the lions are attacked, but it is not what is in kherson, it is not what is in zaporizhzhia, that is why 90% wounded, these are ukrainians from different regions of our country, plus, well, just so you understand, 150 thousand... displaced people now live in lviv, including women and children, but thank god they all got involved in our lives, so

unbroken is a large part the life of the city, the life of our country, and i see now here, the military, here here they are being rehabilitated, here the rehabilitation process is taking place here , this process is actually going on all the time, now we can see the halls where the boys practice, yes, i will tell you a little more about the procosystem, what is it, god bless you. good day, you see, we are finishing up these two floors right now, and this is how it will look in the final, so what is there below, who helps in how this whole thing is financed, look, well, one of the floors is dedicated to... the city of vilnius, they had 700 years, and they decided to give us 7000 for the 700 years of vilnius, because we are a city partner with vilnius, the mayor of warsaw rafal transferred 2 million zlotys, the mayor of freiburg martin transferred 5,000 €. governments, that is, all sister cities, in principle yes, the german government allocated 9 million euros in general

, so you understand, that is, we have collaboration with many institutions, with foundations, we have collaboration, and of course that the city budget, of course that citizens, there is the filips company , the ikea company, the it-cluster, in fact, this is a joint work, hundreds of thousands of people and structures, god bless you, congratulations, and take a selfie, and now, thank you, you have a military injury, yes, a soldier, legs and an arm, that’s it, come out , you see, the guys are working here , the anbroken foundation, our supervisory board includes the catholic university, the it cluster, the leadership academy, and well, they help us , how to do it correctly, because i didn’t know how to ask for money before, you understand, but today we are building it correctly, by the way, the chairman of the supervisory board is father praz, who

was the rector of the catholic university for many years, it’s like this, you know, joint work, everyone , all together, all together. november 25 ukrainian the diaspora in washington commemorated the victims of the 32-33 year holodomor. the event took place near the holodomor monument already at eight o'clock. yurii solonets and vyacheslav filyushkin talk about how sha and ukraine are intensifying their efforts in the struggle to recognize the holodomor as a genocide of the people from the scene of the events. washington, d.c. fourth saturday in november. ukrainian diasporans and caring americans gathered at the monument to the victims of the holodomor to commemorate the ukrainians whose lives were taken by the artificial famine perpetrated by the soviet regime in 32-3

years we stand before you in this sacred moment, remembering. victims of the famine of 32-33 years, we also pray today for our country, which continues to fight against russian aggression and for its independence and freedom. hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. we have to share this tragedy here in washington, because it is not... only a ukrainian tragedy, it is a world tragedy, and because of that we want the whole world to know this, and that it never happens again, anywhere . ukrainians should tell the world about the scale of the crimes of the kremlin, because stalin aimed to destroy it the ukrainian people, from seven to 10 million

innocent men, women and children, were starved to death for only one reason. they were ukrainians. 35 american states have recognized the holodomor as genocide, this is the result of the hard work of ukrainian diaspora, legislators and activists, but efforts to recognize the artificial famine as an act of genocide in the usa and other countries have constantly faced russian resistance, says oksana markarova. only in the 1980s was legislation passed, a commission was created, and work really began. and this work, unfortunately, faced very big obstacles, both in the united states and in other countries, and in particular in ukraine, because russian propaganda was very powerful, unfortunately, to explain that we always told the truth about the holodomor, because it is the same crime, as we see now, came to honor the memory of the victims of the holodomor and the assistant administrator

of the bureau for european and eurasian affairs erin mckee, who speaks about the new crimes of russia. the barbarity of putin's illegal war is hard to fathom, tens of thousands of victims among the civilian population, systematic kidnapping and the resettlement of ukrainian children to russia, the destruction of towns and villages, and the deliberate targeting of grain facilities. so today let's pray for our partnership, which is now stronger than ever. as the ambassador said, it is time to redouble our efforts. so that the holodomor would never be forgotten, parents and children also joined the events, because it is the children who are the carriers of the nation's dna, - says adrian pidlutskyi, who came today with his son mark, well for us, even though we were born here in america, my parents came from ukraine of the regional war, we, growing up, always knew about this tragic event, i know that many

people died like this in ukraine almost 90 years ago, and you also studied in a ukrainian school, like yuriy solynets, vyacheslav filyushkin, voice of america washington. the yellow prince. writer vasyl barki, who lived in the usa, is essentially the first literary work on the subject of the holodomor. iryna solomko and pavlo terekhov found a ukrainian school in new jersey whose students read this work. together with them, they visited the grave of the writer and talked with people who knew the writer during his lifetime. for the children of the ukrainian saturday school at the church of st. andrew's monument, the outstanding ukrainian writer vasyl barka is not just some gray-faced man from a book. the barge's grave. is located very close to the school at the pantheon cemetery, where the most prominent figures of the ukrainian diaspora are buried, and every year in november, students come to his grave. according to tamara skrypka,

custodian of the funds of the ukrainian free academy of sciences, who was friends with the writer, barka was extraordinary personality so he was very original , it seemed that he had some kind of style, well, maybe a little artificial, but in fact he was like that, he perceived the world in a completely different way. because a person could not live for so many years, imagine being such an ascetic in that tower and loving life, the thinking was such that as he also understood it, he said that i, you know that this generation does not understand me, but i am for the future i am writing, he went to fight in the war, was wounded in 1942, in 1943 the germans took him to forced labor to germany, he never returned to his homeland. at first, that means, when he came from the deep camps, he will come. to new york, he had to work in the first months in a french hospital

, at a menial job, and it was such an interesting company, because levko and his wife oksana chikalenky, hryhoriy kostyuk, yuriy lavrinenko, an opera singer from kharkov, worked there. sunday, well, that is , it was like that. the ukrainian elite, who were forced to earn money in this way, cleaned the floors, but at this time he had already begun to process the materials that he brought from dp camps, about the famine, these are his personal memories, which he recorded from his brother, the writer himself managed to avoid the famine, because he lived in the city, but barka recorded his brother's memories, which formed the basis of his documentary novel the yellow prince. skrybka says, at the same time he decided on seclusion and became a so-called white monk. the writer moved to the town of glen spey, where ukrainians had their own settlement. he settled in

an abandoned water tower. representatives of the diaspora like to talk about how barka i was so deeply immersed in the topic of hunger while working on the yellow prince that i ate practically nothing for weeks. skrypka adds, barka was a vegetarian. when we were there, they brought him cabbage rolls, it was just around the time of the holiday, and he takes them, he has to have dinner, we sit, there is only one room and, of course, there was no kitchen, and he takes these cabbage rolls in a colander and washes, and when we ask what you are doing, he says: i don't eat meat, so why don't you tell me, i'm somehow uncomfortable. in the evening, he lived until the end of the 80s in the early 90s, barka, who had heart problems, survived an operation, and the ukrainian... the authorities that took care of the writer, because he had no relatives or loved ones in the usa, allocated him a room in verkhovyna's house in one of the settlements of ukrainian fraternal union. skrybka says that barka did not have time for

conversations, he lived in his own world and this world satisfied him, but he met with dissidents from ukraine. also, according to mykhailo andreets, archivist of the ukrainian historical and educational center, barka gave an interview to the ukrainian voice of america service. in in the archives there is an interview recorded in 1994, where bark talks about his first impression of the declaration of independence. well, the first was my joy that my yellow prince served the events, the referendum. i even read in a non-ukrainian newspaper, here in america, about the circumstances on the eve of the referendum, then in that newspaper it was reported that on the eve of the referendum, gorbachev spoke on central television. moscow and threatened the ukrainians: if you vote for independence, you will get blood and fire and destruction and further that

the correspondent writes: and on the eve of the referendum, they were shown the film hunger 33 on the yellow prince of barka on all the channels of the country and crimea, and he says that the impression was not so strong, so deep, that they despised all the threats of gorbachev and voted for the referendum. the writer worked on the yellow prince all his life, its first part was printed in the usa in 1963, after that the work was translated and published by a prestigious french publishing house. according to skrypka, there are also translations into english and russian in the archives. it's already after after his death, this complete edition came out, unfortunately , after his death, why? because there were problems with recruitment. it was very difficult to work. you understand, he finalized, finalized, that is, it seems that the set is ready, it can be published,

but he still wanted to change something. something to add, despite the fact that the yellow prince is not a mandatory work of the school curriculum, saturday school student tetyana kontsograda read the novel. i think it's very important to read these books about the famine, about such hard times, because if we don't know it, then we will never understand what we fought for independence and generally what happened once. according to iryna gladun, deputy director of the school, she would like to. for barka to return to the compulsory program. meanwhile, teachers are trying to interest children in his work and talk about the holodomor. children need this so that they know how it was before, how it happened, that this is not an easy topic, and that you should value and protect what you have. that is why, according to gladon, teachers bring children to barka's grave. the writer spent the last years of his life in a home for the elderly, despite the fact that he had

a son. and barka's grandson was dying alone. skrypka says that after emigrating, barka saw his son yury, who was born in the year of the famine in the kuban, only once. the son came to his father in the early 90s. those who saw said that the meeting was quite cold. it's been more than 50 years, they haven't seen each other. and yet he lived in a different culture, he was brought up. barka bequeathed the ukrainian institute to his archives. literature by words violins, which barka handed over and the will and archives, the writer dreamed during his lifetime to see a complete 12-volume edition of his legacy in ukraine, however, his works have been stored in the funds of the ukrainian free academy of sciences for 20 years, funds for their processing and safe translation not yet in ukraine, but skrypka believes that the will of the outstanding writer will be fulfilled, and a complete collection of his works will still be printed in ukraine,

with voices from new jersey, iryna solomko, pavlo terikhov. you watched the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas taay. i natalia leonova. good bye. we are looking for 16-year-old karina kanivets from the kherson region. her mother told us about the girl's disappearance. imagine a woman for six months nothing. doesn't know about the fate of her daughter, i turned everywhere i could, i'm already screaming as much as i can, it's how they tied my hands and said, here i am at the moment in such a situation, it so happened that karina's parents separated long before the beginning war, lived separately, the girl permanently lived with her mother, but on the eve of the full-scale invasion she was with her father, and when the russians entered, she found herself in the occupied territory, from time to time, the woman says, she ...

with her daughter on social networks, but in april the connection with karina mysteriously broke off, the girl stopped logging into her accounts, where she is now, no one knows knows