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the chairman of the verkhovna rada of ukraine. events of the day in two hours, vasyl zima's big broadcast, project for smart and caring people. espresso in the evening. the chas time program of the ukrainian voice of america service is broadcast from washington. i am maria prus. congratulations. the american people will not back down from helping ukraine defend itself against russian aggression. however, tomorrow congress will finish its work and go on recess without approving funding for ukraine, israel and migration policy. the press secretary of the white house, karin jeanpierre, stated this at a briefing today. she called on the legislators to continue their work and pass.

a move necessary for the security of the us and everything the world the world is watching what the republicans are doing in congress: moscow, pakistan, iran, they are all watching, she said. the day before, the speaker of the us house of representatives , mike johnson, assured the president of ukraine , volodymyr zelensky, of his support against putin's brutal invasion. the ukrainian leader tried to convince lawmakers to approve additional funding for further aid packages to ukraine. how does it affect the further support of kyiv? the presidential election campaign in the usa, and what the americans themselves think about it, natalia leonova found out. it is urgent to provide aid to ukraine, president zelenskyi convinced congressmen on tuesday, during a two-day visit to washington. the corresponding bill should be brought to a vote by the speaker of the house of representatives, mike johnson, who the day before said that without a solution to the issue of border security, the package of additional expenses will not be considered. for more than

six weeks now, democrats and republicans have been unable to agree on what america's immigration policy will be, and no outside political force has been able to influence it. the domestic political process cannot, says democratic congressman brandon boyal. you know, i think, to be completely realistic, there's very little that people outside of the united states can do to convince my fellow republicans to do the right thing. i think that is the question. but the reality is, and it's a little hard to understand if you 're outside the us right now, that the republican party's support for ukraine has become a controversial issue. former president donald trump is very active and vocal against aid to ukraine, there are other republicans, which are for so, it really became an internal political issue. counted hours remain. legislators to resolve

the issue of additional funding this year, thursday is the last day of the session, and as soon as the issue is put to a vote, ukraine will receive help, brookins institute expert jonathan cuts is confident. there are already votes in favor, both in the house of representatives and in the senate, the matter is procedural, put it to a vote in the house of representatives, if it is a direct vote, for or against support for... we we know, this bill will be adopted, it's about the procedure, it's about putting this issue to a vote, there are enough votes in both the senate and the house of representatives, there is no need to convince the opponents, we just need to convince the republican leaders, allow them to vote for it. yes, there's not much time left before the recess and there's still a lot of work to do, but i can see the outlines of an agreement in the senate, i... i assume that

the administration will be more involved in the negotiations in the coming days to reach an agreement. however, it is unlikely until the end of this year will happen - says dalain, an expert. with congress on vacation at the end of the week, there are only a couple of days left to reach an agreement, but the chances are slim. most republican lawmakers say the issue will drag out until 2024, that aid to ukraine won't be approved by congress until january -february 2024. i hope they are wrong because the consequences for ukraine will be dire. a number of experts note that while the presidential campaign continues in the us, which has already gained momentum, the issue of financing for ukraine can become a hostage every time political struggle. the closer we get to the date of the presidential election, it is realistic

to assume that in the republican party, where donald trump is leading, more and more congressmen will be forced to adapt to his views, even those who were staunch allies of ukraine, politically it will be ... very difficult to speak against someone who is the leader of their party and has anti-ukrainian positions, but this is their choice, they have shown them that they can stand up for ukraine, they can stand up for national security. currently there is a group republicans who want to support ukraine want to approve additional funding right now, to send aid to the battlefield. there is another group of republicans who do not want to give weapons to ukraine. in general, this is a small group, but there is also a group in the middle that wants to arm ukraine, but they understand politics in washington, and they want to use an issue that is important for the white house and for the democrats to achieve concessions on other issues. currently

, slightly more than half of americans support helping ukraine in its war against russia. among among republicans in various polls, this support is between 35 and 40%. to date, after 22 months of this conflict, us support for ukraine is seen as an initiative spearheaded by the biden administration. show me another issue in american politics today where joe biden has this much republican support. there is simply no such question, except for the ukrainian one. therefore, when you hear those voices criticizing ukraine, you should remember that maybe they are... the loudest, but they are still marginal. congress has to approve an additional aid financing package for ukraine - joe biden said following the meeting with president zelensky and assured that there is strong bipartisan support

for ukraine among lawmakers. natalia leonova, kostyantyn golubchyk, voice of america. and in more detail about the results of zelensky's visit to washington, we will talk with yulia yarmolenko, who... joins us from the white house. yulia, hello, yesterday you were at this press conference of biden and zelensky in person, tell me, please, the main goal of zelensky, his the visit to washington was to convince the republicans to unblock this funding for ukraine, so far we do not see that the legislators have made progress in this, can it be said that zelensky managed to achieve this goal and at least somehow influence the opinion of the legislators. hi maria, despite that fact. that negotiations between democrats and republicans have not progressed far and given the fact that karin jahn at the very beginning of the briefing urged lawmakers not to leave washington until they approve very important funding for ukraine and israel, we can say that volodymyr zelenskyi's words did not have any

magical effect on the legislators the day before. we also hear from representatives of the republican party and from the democratic party. democrats talk about the fact that the meeting was very... important, that they only strengthened their opinion, why it is extremely important to support ukraine, and the republicans with whom my colleagues talked, although they softened their position a little, they talk about , which definitely supports ukraine necessary, but they say that they have another priority right now, which is the security of their own american border, and i spoke with serhiy kudela today, he is a professor of political science at baylor university in texas, and he says that from the beginning it was clear that very it will be... difficult for volodymyr zelensky to somehow influence this opinion, because, he says, volodymyr zelensky tried to convey messages about common values, about why it is important to support ukraine in order to preserve democracy around the world, but in fact, they spoke with republican legislators in different languages, and it is not

about ukrainian or english, but about the fact that now the republican party and the democrats too, the most important issue for them is internal political discussions, which... concern the border, so the mission was very difficult. let's hear what he told me. it was obvious from the very beginning that this is mission impossible, because already. we heard last week that it would not be considered until the end of this year, and a compromise is unlikely, and we also saw that volodymyr zelenskyi came to washington with traditional geopolitical arguments, but he came to a bipartisan conversation that revolves around domestic issues, and therefore these geopolitical arguments, they actually did not work, that is, zelenskyi and senators ... spoke completely different languages, for zelensky, as we heard during the press conference, it was important to emphasize

that ukraine is at war with an authoritarian state, that is, he emphasized the values ​​that unite ukraine and the united states in the war against russia, but for the senators, for the republicans, the values ​​they have now are of secondary importance, the primary importance is to demonstrate that, to demonstrate that joe biden does not think about the southern border. a demonstration that the biden administration despises or ignores the needs of ordinary americans, and therefore volodymyr zelenskyi's argument, unfortunately, could not be effective in this dispute, in this debate. yulia, speaking of the final press conference, what were the key messages of biden and zelensky, and did you hear any new important announcements? maria, of course, the key messages were clear , which is that we need to support ukraine as soon as possible,

so as not to give a gift to vladimir putin, again, we need this funding, without which it will be very difficult for the united states to continue helping ukraine, and volodymyr zelenskyi is actually very gave good arguments about how american aid contributes to the success of ukrainians, he emphasized these successes a lot, several important messages that i highlighted for myself: first, we have heard several times from president biden that the united states... wants ukraine to win this war. we rarely hear such precise wording, and it was also pointed out by ben godges, the former commander of the us army in europe. he said it was wonderful that such messages were being heard. now the united states and its allies must do everything so that ukraine can win this victory. and the other message that we heard, on the other hand, president biden said at the beginning of his press conference that the united the states will support ukraine as much as they can. earlier we heard that this is as much as will be needed, but now the message is changing a little, and

serhiy kudelya, for example, drew attention to this, he said that in this way biden admits that the aid for ukraine may not be unlimited, but david kramer , who we talked to is the director of the george w. bush institute, he reads it differently, he thinks that in this way president biden is just trying to get congress to act as quickly as possible, and as for the message victory, david kremir believes that president biden and the biden administration should have started to voice this message even earlier and convince the voters of the united states itself, why it is important to support ukraine, why it is important that ukraine wins and russia is defeated? let's listen to his results. i think the words as long as we can mean as long as we have enough funding, and that's a way to remind congress. that funding to support ukraine will run out unless congress approves additional funding, our options

help will be severely limited, and i hope that the administration wants ukraine to win, not only to be able to defend its territory, that's a huge difference, and the goal, in my opinion, should definitely be the victory of ukraine and the defeat of russia. it's unfortunate that we have to say this bluntly, but the defeat of russia must be in... if we can help ukraine defeat russia, it will be a huge blow to putin and his ability to threaten ukraine and other countries in the region again. and maria david kramer told me that yes, now, it looks like that position republicans and democrats are completely different, but he believes that sooner or later they will reach, find a compromise, and still agree on both the border and continued aid to ukraine. thank you, yulia, it was. voice of america in the white house, yulia yarmolenko. ukraine is not ready to give up

its territories in exchange for the end of the war - president volodymyr zelenskyy said the day before during a press conference with president biden. zelensky reminded that in the territories temporarily occupied by russia ukrainian citizens, including children, live there, and they remain in... recently , publications began to appear in the western press about the possible need for ukraine to give up part of the territory and sit down at the negotiating table with russia. my colleague tetyana voroshko. spoke with one of the authors of such material, charles kupchan, to understand the arguments of those in washington who suggest that ukraine initiate negotiations with russia. here is david aragami's response to your article. he said, i quote: yes, of course, if we say: "let's sit down at the negotiating table, the russians will already be there, they want to start

a negotiation process because that will send a signal to our allies that we're not going to go in . '' they fail to advance successfully, what is the strategy? i think that if ukraine offered a ceasefire, opened the door to negotiations, most likely the russians would say no, thank you, but by making such an offer, ukraine puts the responsibility on ... russia what she said no makes it clear to both americans and europeans that russia continues to remain non-negotiable, continues to remain an aggressor, continues to be unwilling to try to settle the conflict at the negotiating table. officials in the us will tell you that they see no sign of russia's willingness to engage in any meaningful negotiations, and why would they, why

do you think putin would want to negotiate with ukraine right now, when his... economy is at war, his political the regime and its ideology are kept at war. i think, that putin should be tested to see if he is willing to try to end this war. and let's be honest, putin was dealt a serious strategic defeat. he has already lost ukraine, he has lost several hundred thousand russian soldiers. he experienced a heavy flight of the best and smartest russians from the country, because they are against the war and do not want to be sent to donbas. die in the trenches, so it's entirely possible for me that putin might say that my best option at this point is to try to negotiate about a ceasefire, to try to start a diplomatic conversation with ukraine. what do you think the demands of the russians will be if they sit down at the negotiating table? i think, at least at the beginning, the russians would demand from ukraine to recognize the land that is under

their control as part of russia. this is not an issue that ukraine should or would like to consider. and it is not something that the united states or other western supporters of ukraine would consider. i think a lot can be done in the long game, and to suggest that in the end ukraine has a better chance of rebuilding territorial integrity at the negotiating table than on the battlefield. i really believe that. so, what possible concessions can washington and nato countries demand or expect from ukraine? i think the more important concession, if you want to call it a concession, would be to try to stop the bloodshed, and that means saying to the russians: if you are willing to retreat, we are willing to retreat, we are willing to withdraw the heavy weapons, we are willing to create a sanitary border between our troops and yours , so the idea would be to get a strategic pause to disperse ukrainian and russian forces so that ukraine can begin

to focus on reconstruction and self-defense in the long term, and i would postpone the conversation for the future. which will continue between russia and ukraine, mediated by the united states, other allies, regarding the final fate of the territory still under russian occupation. i think most analysts here and in ukraine will tell you that russia will simply use this opportunity to regroup, rebuild its military, perhaps wait for supplies, wound north korea, and attack again. russia can do this regardless of whether the war ends on today's lines. confrontation or tomorrow's contact line or on the borders of '91, russia will probably rebuild, rearm and one day may try to attack ukraine again, so ultimately the strategy here has to be to make sure that ukraine has what it needs to protect yourself. you say that for ukraine at first it was a war out of

necessity, and now it has become a war for choice, but most ukrainians will not agree with you. they say they fight because they have no other choice. ukraine could have lost 200,000 people now, i'm guessing, since we don't have figures for military casualties, but during the holodomor, ukraine lost up to 9 million people. so, if ukraine stops fighting and allows russia to occupy it, ukrainians can expect another genocide, based on the history, the behavior of russia in the occupied territories, and based on what the propagandists openly say in russian television at first, ukraine fought for its survival, putin tried to swallow the country, set up a puppet of the kremlin and do with ukraine what... he considered necessary. ukraine has so far succeeded in thwarting these plans and is now fighting for the remaining territory still under russian control. is this fight legally justified? yes, is it

morally justified? so. is this strategically wise? i'm not sure here. and this is because ukraine can survive if it does not control all of donbas, if it does not have control over crimea. how do we know that? ukraine had no control over crimea after the 14th year, and everything was fine with the country. it's not ideal. no country wants to suffer the loss of any part of its territory, the amputation of any territory, but it is obvious to me that currently ukraine is fighting for its survival, they are fighting for the return of the rest of their territory, and in the end, good politics and good strategy - it is not only the achievement of the desired, they are aimed at achieving the possible. full interview tatyana voroshko with charles kubchan, a professor at george town university and a former high-ranking official. administrations of barack obama and bill clinton, see on our social networks and on the voice of america website, in ukrainian. and republicans in the house

of representatives now plan to vote to formally open an impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. some conservative lawmakers accuse him that, as vice president, he could violate ethics and benefit from the business deals of his family, including his son gunter. investigation lasts almost a year. but evidence of alleged violations has not yet been provided. potentially , the impeachment process could end with the president's removal from office. the case could also drag on into next year as president biden races for re-election. his most unlikely opponent will be ex-president donald trump, who was impeached twice. the white house and biden's son call the investigation baseless. some republicans also say there isn't enough evidence to move the case forward. but speaker mike johnson expressed confidence that the formal initiation of the investigation will be voted on.

the cop-28 world climate conference ended in dubai. for the first time, almost 200 countries of the world have agreed to gradually abandon oil, coal and gas, and more than 100 countries have committed to triple production volumes by 2023. renewable energy, but the agreement does not have a clear plan to abandon renewable sources, cannot force any of the countries to do so and contains many gaps, it leaves island and poorest states vulnerable to the effects of climate change, floods droughts and cyclones, say representatives of these countries. opec welcomed the final agreement, while saudi arabia, the world's third-largest oil exporter , said the text of the deal would not affect oil sales. the media reports that on climate change. the summit had more than 25 fossil energy industry representatives who could influence delegates. the situation between guyana and

venezuela around the oil-rich province of essequibo remains tense. on sunday , the regime of venezuelan president nicolas maduro held a referendum on the annexation of this territory after that, both countries concentrated their troops on the border. guyana and venezuela will hold mediated talks on december 14. other latin american countries and the president of brazil. could there be another armed conflict on the world map and does russia have anything to do with it, iryna solomko asked. hayana is one of the smallest countries in south america, with a population of less than one million. it is the only english-speaking country, but its economy has been booming for the past few years. the country's gdp grew by 68% in 2022. and it became the state with the fastest growing economy in the world. by the end of 2028, experts predict another 115% growth. the reason for such an economic miracle is the export of oil. the first

oil field was discovered on the shelf in 2015 in the essequibo river basin. after that , american companies started mining it, which was the beginning of an economic miracle. however , according to experts, this also aggravated the situation surrounding the dispute between venezuela and guyana over the province of sequibo. everything west of the essequibo river is, according to our history, the territory of venezuela. this area is 159 km. this is the essequibo region, which it is subject of dispute. according to armas, a venezuelan opposition politician in exile who now lives in spain, the position of venezuelans on the province of sequibo is one. this is the territory of venezuela, but the dispute itself has been going on for more than 100 years. at the same time low. first of all, the usa and great britain recognize the territory as part of guyana. the case regarding the province is now in the un international court of justice. according to leopold lopez, also

the exiled venezuelan politician. the opposition has always advocated a diplomatic path resolution of this dispute, unlike nicolás maduro, who in the last few weeks has gone to escalate the situation. he appointed the head of this disputed region, mobilized military units just yesterday. maduro is a very irresponsible person, so i do not rule out an escalation that will turn into a military conflict. the president of guyana, arfan ali, has repeatedly said that the position of ukraine regarding on the eve of the presidential elections, which will be held next year, he decided to mobilize the electorate. venezuelans, regardless of whether they support the government or not, generally support venezuela's territorial claims, and so this is an opportunity for the government to try to build

popular support for the national. to compensate for the fact that maduro himself is very unpopular. lopez agrees and reminds that there have already been similar precedents in the history of latin america. latin america is famous for the dictatorial regime in argentina, which used the malvinas issue to divert domestic attention and try to consolidate unity. this is exactly what maduro is trying to do. experts also note that maduro resorts to scenarios used by russia. for the annexation of territories, for example, he has already announced the issuance of venezuelan passports to residents of the province, as russia did in crimea. lopez also draws attention to the fact that since 2007, venezuela has been militarily dependent on russia. starting with automatic weapons, the armed forces of venezuela use kalashnikov assault rifles and ending with the air force. venezuela has a fleet of su aircraft, as well as anti-missile

defense. for the last 10-15. venezuela bought about 16-20 weapons from russia billions of dollars, and of course, all training for the use of this equipment is carried out by the russian military. lopez is convinced that russia is interested in creating another geopolitical crisis at the hands of maduro. so i think maduro is counting on the kremlin a lot, so it's not surprising that two days ago the kremlin announced that maduro was going to visit moscow in the coming days. there is a lot of evidence that putin and the kremlin support this. the united states, which has not only geopolitical, but also economic interests in guyana , after the escalation began, called for joint military training. publicly, the american authorities comment cautiously on the situation. us deputy national security adviser john feiner said during his speech at the ottoman security forum in washington that for the us, sekiba province is the territory of guyana. last week between the un people's court

has ruled that any unilateral, military, or any action that amounts to the use of force to try to change these borders will be illegitimate and should not be carried out, so we are really concerned about the referendum, the rhetoric that we hear, and our message is very clear, this is all illegitimate and should not happen, these continuous threats that the venezuelan government is constantly making must stop. but will maduro move away? threats to a military invasion, here the opinions of the experts with whom the voice of america spoke were divided: ramsey does not believe that the venezuelan government will escalate and the negotiations will continue, but lopas is convinced that the force scenario is real, he will also need the intervention of the united states, and in this russia is interested. with new york iryna solomko, pavlo terikhov, voice of america. we conclude with this. maria prus worked for you in the studio. see other

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