brussels, she witnessed how ukraine was given the green light for negotiations on joining the european union. well, let's rejoice together at the decision of the eu leaders, because even in the morning there were no great chances for such a result. therefore , the europeans showed exactly the determination that the president spoke about in his address to the participants of the summit. with an unannounced visit, meanwhile, he arrived in germany, the president of ukraine arrived. today the plane landed at the airport of frankfurt am main. about this. reported to the local police, from there volodymyr zelensky, according to the press secretary of the president of ukraine serhii nekyforov, went to wiesbaden, where the headquarters of the us military aid to ukraine is located. well , other details of the president's visit to germany are currently unknown. and let me remind you that last week volodymyr zelenskyi, since last week volodymyr zelenskyi has been on foreign trips, he visited argentina, the usa and norway. the ukrainian president also spoke at the summit in the format of a video address.

of eu leaders, which started in brussels today. plus 900 million international dollars support to ensure macroeconomic stability in ukraine. today, the international monetary fund provided ukraine with the third tranche of financing under the enhanced financing mechanism program. minister of finance serhii marchenko called this financial assistance powerful and extremely important. the funds will be used to finance priority expenditures of the state budget under martial law. in general , the imf program. which was adopted in march of this year, provides for the allocation of more than 15 billion dollars to ukraine within four years years currently, ukraine has attracted about four 4.5 billion. well, the american administration took an unprecedented step in order to satisfy the congressmen, to get votes for biden's one hundred billion dollar package, help for allies, in particular for ukraine, they offered to simplify deportations at america's borders. illegal migrants, and

therefore went to a meeting of republicans, who precisely demanded to strengthen the borders and because of that did not give votes. to what extent it will still help, we hope, and at what stage the proceedings are ukrainian issue, we will ask the person who knows about it first, this is our special correspondent in the united states, dmytro anopchenko, he is now live from the us congress building. dimo, congratulations, congratulations once again on acceptance. decision in the eu, and the question, as it became known, a few hours ago, the american legislators obviously did not have time for the christmas vacation. but what are the predictions? lsh, well , they are actually making last attempts, making last attempts to make it, because really, on the one hand, there are deadlines, there is a calendar, there is readiness, and the readiness that was talked about quite a long time ago, to go on vacation, starting from next week, from another.

what i hear here on the sidelines of the congress, nevertheless , they are trying to the last, trying to agree , trying to negotiate, and the republicans and democrats have selected their negotiators, yesterday, all evening, yesterday half the night, they met, they were in consultations with the white home, as of now, as of this morning, they even said that they had made some progress, time is running out, and that is why the leader of the democrats in the senate, chuck schumer, also turned to his colleagues senators, and to the lower...house to speaker johnson to extend the congress, to extend the session, to extend at least a few days, or maybe to meet all next week, and we don't know yet, not yet final, whether they will agree or not, whether they will be able to convince or not, there are few chances, however, there are chances , the biden administration made its move, a very powerful move , made it after negotiations with volodymyr zelenskyi, it is really such a huge advance for the republicans, the republicans. who

oppose illegal migration, for strengthening the borders, and now the biden administration offers a compromise, fresh news, offers to allow the deportation of migrants on the southern border of the united states under a forgiven, simplified scheme, and this is a step that the demo republicans could present as their own victory, demonstrate it to the voters. the only thing before that, which is currently being argued about, is that the administration only offers this simplified scheme on certain days, and they are breaking spears about, well, what does it mean? this particular day, for example, there was already a version that when 300 people cross the border, is it a separate day or not, they say, the republicans say no 500, that is , there is a certain discussion about this, about the details, in any case, the issue is openly fought for, they fight very hard, and in any case, there are also negative forecasts, forecasts for which you and i should also be prepared, for example, the leader of the republicans in the senate went to the press and said: "which, judging by everything, may be before

the holidays, before christmas, before the new year will not be in time, let's listen too. the speaker told many legislators that work will end on... agreed to pass it through the senate and vote in the house of representatives before christmas. this does not mean that it is not important for us, despite the fact that we are focused on issues around the border, i want to remind everyone about the importance of ukraine, and we heard about it from the ukrainian president, who inspired us. well, it is precisely about the visit of the president that i would like to tell you further, because i was lucky to see everything with my own eyes, well, i say lucky, because without exaggeration, without journalistic clichés, what happened these days in washington, and the negotiations here in congresses, and negotiations in the white house, these are historical events, because they are historical, not

because, not even because the president came, but because the topics, ideas, messages, they can determine a lot, what exactly it was about and what exactly i'm alluding to, let's see right now in my... plot: the powerful presidents, prime ministers and even kings of this world have come here to the white house at various times to argue and convince, prove and plead, but in any how to enlist support. and only with regard to ukraine, now the situation is different, because the support of kyiv is under wartime and already a priority of the administration of the us president. and it was precisely necessary to convince congress, not biden's team, but together with it. and the conversation in the oval office, and the subsequent negotiations, and when the two presidents spoke, there were also negotiations without the press, which were joined by key members of the teams of both politicians, were precisely about how to

ensure this support. we are moving well, and i just want to discuss with president biden how to strengthen it, especially the defense of the sky and our ability to destroy russian logistics. but western support should be guaranteed not for a day, not for one package, for a period of time, although this is where the question arises, but for now, how does the biden administration define for itself the final line, the strategic goal with regard to ukraine, to resist, that is, to fight off russia or defeat moscow? only the first person of the united states can give an answer here, and i am asking president biden about it. mr. biden, could you clarify the policies of your administration? strategy for ukraine, it is about helping ukraine to defend itself, or helping to win the war, because between these concepts are a big difference. we want to see ukraine win the war, as i have already said, ukraine must be sovereign, independent and able to defend itself,

repel aggression. this is our goal. the answer is to agree specifically: to win the war means that strategic goals must be achieved. which will be determined by kyiv, for this american support must be continuous. as for her, zelenskyi just discussed it in the congress. and not only with the leaders of the republicans and democrats in the senate, but with three senators schumer and mcconnell had the president photographed by reporters as soon as he arrived at the capitol. many meetings were held behind closed doors and the list, as i found out, is powerful. conversations with vice president harris, and house democratic leader jeffries, and nancy peloi. with the heads of the most influential congressional committees on foreign affairs, armed forces, and appropriations, it is through them that the ukrainian package will pass before going to the floor for a vote, and what we heard from congressmen, based on the results of these meetings, that the same word as from biden, victory, the president talked about it with

the legislators. it was a very powerful meeting, president zelenskyi made it clear that he needs help, and if he gets it, he is able to win this war, he... voiced a detailed scheme, what kind of help is needed, how exactly it will help to win. even many of our republican colleagues said, this war can be won if there is help, if he gets the help he needs, he will win. on the other hand, zelensky made it clear that if we we lose, putin wins. for the conservative part of american lawmakers, represented by the speaker of the lower house mike johnson, zelensky saved other arguments. if johnson is public. demanded transparency in the use of american aid, ukraine and the president personally are ready to guarantee it, and again it was about the strategy of victory. good meeting with president zelensky. i assured him that we are with him, that we are against putin's brutal invasion. americans stand

for freedom, they are on the right side of this one struggle we need a clearly formulated strategy that will allow ukraine to win. absence. clearly formulated red lines lead to the fact that first experts, then retired officials, and later members of congress began to say why ukraine should not cede territories. to end hostilities, about the attitude to such statements, i ask the president, there are many voices from republicans who doubt ukraine's ability to win the war. senator vance recently even said that ukraine need to cede some territories to end hostilities. to be very frank, you even assumed such a step, to give up territory to stop hostilities. listen, the question is not only ours. in words or in thoughts, the question is what we are ready for, what we are not, how can ukraine simply give up its

territories, that is, it is absolutely crazy, to be honest, we often mention god, it is definitely not christian, they live there our people, families live there, children live there, and all this is part of ukrainian society, but we speak about living people, they are mocked, they are raped, they...were killed and we know this very well, and to those voices who propose to give up our territories, how to give up our people, the question is not only in the land, the question is in living people, in their destinies, in their stories, the question in these families and in the children is to give up the children, let those voices be, i don't know who is talking about it, i have one question for them, are they ready to give up their children into the hands of terrorists, i think not, discussing it... on the sidelines of the congress they say that zelensky was as open as possible, as transparent

as possible, and as clear as possible regarding the goals of ukraine and the consequences of the indecision of the congress, yes, the congressmen have questions, and the answers to them were heard firsthand, and this is one of the results, among others we can name the allocation of the next tranche of military aid to ukraine, and direct agreements with the largest american arms manufacturers, but what is even more important is not even this, but those messages that were heard publicly, and you heard them in this story, and about ukrainian red lines, they were voiced president zelenskyi, and that the goal of the states is not just support, not just deterrence, but ukrainian victory, and biden said this publicly. from washington, dmytro anopchenko, serhiy koval, the american bureau of the inter tv channel, marathon, edyni novyni. the united states of america will support ukraine as long as it can, said american president joe biden, during a recent meeting he announced a new military aid package, and also called on

representatives of the republican party to unblock aid to ukraine, whether he was successful the visit of the head of our state to the american continent and what help should ukraine expect? mykhailo podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the president of ukraine, told us about this in an exclusive interview. mr. mykhailo, president volodymyr zelenskyi's visit to... the usa recently ended, and as a result, joe biden announced a new package of military aid to ukraine totaling $200 million. is there any information about what is included in this package and how important it will be for our defense? well, any military package is important for us, that is obviously, and any military package includes key, fundamental things so that we can have the ability to continue to conduct defensive tactics, this is the jet. projectiles of a certain range, these are also the corresponding missiles for air defense, as such

, taking into account what russia is doing today, but i would still look at the visit more broadly, it is not only a question of a practical military aid package, it is a question of changing the emphasis that we hear in american politics today, it is so clear that there is an internal debate between republicans and democrats regarding the migration policy of the united states, they have the right to discuss it, of course, this is a manifestation of democracy as such, but... in my opinion, the president of ukraine succeeded in emphasizing, once again, re -emphasizing the fact that the war has not gone anywhere, that the war in ukraine continues, that is, in your opinion, zelensky managed to move this conflict from a dead point? absolutely, absolutely concrete, pragmatic discussions both at the republican party level, and at the democratic party level, and at the senate level, at the congressional level, why without help... today in ukraine, it will mean that the united states is not investing in its security, as such,

because if you don't invest in ukraine today, you will invest 10 times more money in other security programs tomorrow. if russia does not lose today, it will mean that there is no stable world, you cannot guarantee your future. all the same, joe biden, one might say, accused the republican party of what they might say did something like that. improve the situation in terms of further assistance to ukraine. i understand that these are internal affairs of of a specific country and two parties. but in your opinion, can it? to be one of the key american parties, a profitable victory for russia? nonsense, absolutely not, it will mean that ukraine did not lose, it will mean that the united states lost, including that the democratic coalition lost, that the democracies lost, and the democracies do not know how to defend themselves, and this will give hope to everyone else that

it is necessary to compare with russia, that it is necessary to conclude pacts and alliances with russia. anything that russia will dominate the world, in my opinion, none party, european, american, i have classic parties, they are categorically not interested in the russian federation not only winning, but not losing, but there is one nuance, and the president of ukraine emphasizes this, namely investments in the military production of the united states , that is, you keep the money even for yourself, you provide us with the tools for conducting an asymmetric war on a parity basis. if on the future. the elections in the usa will change the political leadership of the country, can this affect military aid to ukraine. well, first of all, let's go we await the results of the political process in the united states, this is an internal manifestation of domestic politics. it seems to me that if we cooperate effectively today within the framework of the global strategic partnership between the united states, european countries and

ukraine, we will get results. this is the first, second, in parallel with the processes that are taking place in a number of countries of flight... processes, today we have to invest in our military production together, again with partners, that is, we have to reduce dependence on the supply of weapons as such, and by the way, this is again a global state program that ukraine takes care of, recently also our president had another unannounced visit to norway, as a result we get additional air defense systems to protect our skies, can we say that if suddenly help ... from the usa there will be even a temporary, but pause, then europe can lend its shoulder. in my opinion, northern europe absolutely and sincerely believes in ukraine and provides everything necessary both from the point of view of finances and from the point of view of weapons, everything that they have, and accordingly invest in production, buy for ukraine and so on. but i would still not be pessimistic. but

nevertheless, there is one country in europe that very often makes decisions about aid. ukraine, it's no secret, is hungary. and actually, during the visit to argentina, as far as is known, zelenskyi had the opportunity to talk with hungarian prime minister viktor orbán. do you have any information about what they were talking about, and could it in any way affect the position of the hungarian government? you and i perfectly understand that the president of ukraine quite clearly fixes the key points about the fact that it is strategically beneficial for any country to support ukraine. not to care about pro-russian interests, but let's expand on hungary, well , first of all, it blocks corporate programs of the european union, national governments decide for themselves how much to give aid, i want us to clearly record this: there are many national support programs ukraine: the government of germany, the government of france separately, the government of the netherlands separately, the governments of northern europe and

so on, they all give us a separate help, big, it is very often big budget ones. military aid programs , this is the first, the second, of course, hungary has its needs within the european union, it decides at the expense of such a rather rigid position, i think that it wants to receive certain dividends there, that is exactly why we work and believe in victory not only on at the front, but also in the international arena, thank you very much for the interview, in odesa hospitals they continue to provide assistance to five odesa residents who were seriously injured by a massive drone attack last night. among the wounded three children, a 12-year-old girl and two eight-year-old boys. they have closed craniocerebral injuries, the state of health is closer to satisfactory, doctors say. also today , an employee of a communal institution died in one of the hospitals. he was injured in

an air attack, his heart stopped. the enemy is attacking the south of ukraine, and odesa region in particular. drones for the fourth day in a row, but on the night of december 14, the attack was particularly massive, for six consecutive hours, starting from the evening until late at night, terrorized the region with several waves of drone attacks. from the temporarily occupied crimea , 32 rocket-type anti-aircraft missiles were fired in the direction of odesa. all kamikaze drones and air defense forces were destroyed, but as a result of the air battle , civilian objects were destroyed. damaged over. houses in odessa, among them a hostel. two cars burned in the incident. the odesa regional prosecutor's office is conducting an investigation into the violation of the laws and customs of war, recording the consequences of armed aggression. russian federation, well, on these shots, the work of the defenders of the sky on the night of the massive terrorist attack, video later made public by the border guards of the belgorodnist detachment. in the east, now

in the full sense of the confrontation of ice and fire, due to weather conditions and solid equipment in donetsk region, front-line logistics have become more difficult, aerial reconnaissance, the use of drones, even just walking is very difficult. on the front lines, soldiers have to walk a lot. the weather makes adjustments to the course of hostilities, but does not stop them. about it in the story of ruslan smyschuk and vadym revun. they worked in the bakhmut direction, together with the fighters of the 80s of the galician assault brigade. like ice trees, ice bushes, ice

grass, this is how the steppes of donetsk near bakhmut now look, and this is how they sound and thunder with fire, they entered the whole company, so they are constantly climbing from three sides somewhere along the plant. they send one group , one is fixed there, then another one goes, if they destroy it like that, it goes on, like that for the whole night practically, they go out in the evening, when it gets dark and climb until morning, well, that’s how it is constantly every day, every day there are dozens of drones in the sky, went into the last shift, then met three fp drones, as soon as the eagles start flying in the morning . well, we work on them, and so basically we work from morning until dark at night, without leaving the sky, we observe the sky, the old

soviet complex of front-line air defense, the army air defense of the front edge, carefully camouflaged, like all the equipment here, it hunts large russian drones , because planes and helicopters do not risk flying to the affected area. this machine, when it was created, directly, then there were drones, but they were reactive, it is not designed for the quantity and quality of drones now, therefore here, the efficiency of work on that machine goes massively only when there is a good and well-trained crew, i have three enemy targets, these are three halls, stanislav. from the complex, it shoots at the target , it is difficult to hit new and modern drones with this old complex, but their targets are often drones , translators and control and reconnaissance drones,

that is, the link of expensive and technological uavs is critically important for the russians. come to the small blue one, it is white to the left, the operator will not immediately know whether he hit it or not , because all these gases are from the rocket, it everything is going right for me, yes, when i got out of the car, the commander told me that there was a destroyer, well, of course, i was very satisfied with such a result, all this in the conditions of a constant hunt for such complexes, for which the russians sorry for the drones. in addition to the fact that, when we work and express, for example, a target for the situation of the orlandchal there, we still need

to watch so that sometimes a lancet does not fly in and we do not become a target for it, but such weather also affects drones, our pilots say, flying now is very difficult, both for us and for russians, the main problem is stroke. in such conditions, battles are now taking place in the direction of bakhmut in the area of ​​klishchiivka from donetsk region ruslan smechuk, vadym remu and ihor shchepyt, details, tv channel inter, fon edinykh noviny. president volodymyr zelenskyi was inspired by the european union's decision to open negotiations on ukraine's accession to the eu. he

called it a victory. across europe, the head of state wrote on twitter. he thanked everyone who worked for this decision and congratulated every ukrainian. and he also noted: history is made by those who do not tired of fighting for freedom. let's go further. kyivstar completed connecting the voice service and almost completely restored the home internet. the mobile operator announced this on facebook. as the company noted, in some settlements with communication still in... there are short-term difficulties, but specialists are working on them, on their elimination. the company assured that personal data of subscribers were not compromised. they also promised compensation to subscribers who had no connection or could not use the services the operator the security service of ukraine has opened criminal proceedings in connection with the cyber attack on kyivstar. one of the versions of the investigation called the involvement of the russian special services. mykhailo

meneliuk was trying to figure out who... was involved in the attack and how to protect himself? there is no connection, i woke up, i started running around the district , in cafes, say there is wi-fi, there was no wi-fi, the barista gave me the internet, i realized that this is not a zombie apocalypse, but that it was just covered by kyivstar. kyivstar became the target of a powerful hacker attack, as a result of which communication services were temporarily unavailable access to the internet. at first they didn't know what to do, but then they said to go to the store right away to get the card. due to hacking of a mobile phone operator in ukraine, services of the kyivstar network became unavailable to more than 20 million subscribers. the company later reported that hackers had damaged the core of the network, which is responsible for processing traffic between users and services. for the safety of subscribers

, the company's specialists were forced. turn off communication. the digital infrastructure of kyivstar has suffered critical damage, which is why it requires restoration in compliance with all security protocols time from us. the question of who was involved in the attack did not remain unanswered for long. russian hackers from the so-called group of sun drinkers claimed responsibility. they wrote about it in their telegram channel, but here it is worth understanding that this group is part of the headquarters of the general staff of the armed forces of the russian federation, better known as unfortunately, in russia, or fortunately for us, all adequate hackers and specialists, specialists from information security, in my personal opinion, already somewhere in georgia. there are people in uniform, under the fsb and gru, these are not free people. however, the hackers even loudly announced that they allegedly destroyed the company's internal network infrastructure and stole personal information of customers, including passport data and addresses.

kyivstar denied this information , stressing that the systems that store subscribers' personal data were not affected, but another question arose: how did the hackers manage to get into the very core of the company? it is almost impossible to make an attack of this scale simply through dedos and through an external move, because there was access in the middle. in other words, experts assume that , just like many missile attacks, a cyber attack on military facilities and energy enterprises was carried out by the russians with the support of a traitor or possibly several, exactly how and who these traitors are, the investigation should find out. the sbu provides assistance to kyivstar employees and coordinates the efforts of all other government agencies to restore the network as soon as possible. we started to provide voice communication services. the restoration of the network is gradual and very careful, because there are still

possible de'. what difficulties, at the same time we are working on the restoration of sms and data transmission services, we will do everything to restore these services, the main question is whether it is possible to dial each other, just now i will dial the operator who is standing across from me, he has kyivstar, so i dial, i hear a ringtone, hello ? there is a connection. even the american company microsoft and the swedish ericson are helping to restore the work of kyivstar after a large-scale cyber attack, and while the work continued, other telecommunications operators experienced a significant increase in traffic, there were temporary problems with the operation of applications, on financial institutions began to complain about malfunctions of atms and payment terminals, but onobank did, they wrote back.