union, the eu is already preparing to bypass hungary's veto if necessary, for example, to allow all eu countries except hungary to provide bilateral financing to ukraine in 2024, outside the eu budget. yesterday's decisions show that the european union is keeping its promises. negotiations on joining the european union are the penultimate step for ukraine. next , the leaders must decide on the negotiating positions. within the framework of the immediate start of negotiations, ukraine must implement all the recommendations of the european commission. ukraine formally fulfilled all the conditions, except for one - the one related to the regulation of lobbying activities. the relevant government bill was only registered in the parliament. ukraine officially began its path to the european union with the start of a full-scale invasion. then the leaders of the european governments accepted the request, and now they are ready. to start negotiations on

ukraine's accession to the european community. however, a full-scale war continues. russia continues to raid ukrainian cities and kill innocent people. do they realize it? european leaders? are you ready to accept ukraine into the european union during a full-scale war? and how they will help ukraine to defeat the russian enemy together. natalya stareprava, from brussels, worked for you. the united states of america is interested in ukraine winning the war imposed on it by russia, because only in the case of victory will ukraine remain independent now and be able to restrain further possible aggressions of the russian federation in the future. us president joseph biden said this during a press conference with volodymyr zelenskyi at the white house. two-day the visit of the president of ukraine to washington ended on tuesday. it was not easy

because the american congress has not yet made progress in approving military aid to our country in the amount of more than 60 billion dollars. support for ukraine has become a factor in the political confrontation between republicans and democrats, which is moving into the area of ​​the us presidential elections. how does this threaten the interests of ukraine and what developments can be expected next. about all this and not only in our next article. fatigue intensifies, doubts grow, sunset hesitates to support ukraine after its counteroffensive failed, the world press states. the american congress does not seem to have time to pass a package of military and financial aid before the new year. it is about more than $60 billion , critical both for holding the front line and for apparently, this is exactly what

zelensky repeated to president biden, house speaker johnson and senators during an unannounced visit to the united states this week. however, the american establishment was not convinced by this. republicans and the democrats de facto have already plunged into the maelstrom of the presidential campaign, and ukraine has become its hostage. holding funding for ukraine hostage in order to try to impose an extremist republican vision of the border problem is not the way to solve the problem. if we do not stop putin, he will endanger the freedom of everyone and almost everywhere. putin will continue to move, and would-be aggressors around the world will take his cue and try to seize what they can by force. the conflict over migration policy only.

tire of the pre-election iceberg. according to the latest opinion polls, the presumptive candidate from the republican party, donald trump, is already significantly ahead of biden. therefore, the trumpists are strengthening their position in congress, despite the fact that they are in an absolute minority. they have long complained that supporting ukraine costs the american budget too much, and advise zelensky to give territory to putin in exchange for. peace, and the reduction of military aid is seen as a kind of coercion for negotiations. the numbers speak for themselves. by according to the calculations of the kiel institute of the world economy, which monitors support for ukraine, the cost of all aid packages in august-november of this year amounted to slightly more than 2 billion dollars. and this is the absolute minimum since the beginning of a full-scale war.

has found accomplices in iran and north korea and receives from them the weapons with which it kills our people, and supplies from dictatorships for russia, unfortunately, are more rhythmic than supplies from many democracies. for ukraine. the potential possibility that american leadership in the defense of the free world will become weaker or interrupted, inspires dictators even when there is only a potential possibility. it may happen that putin will welcome this new year in a good mood and not through ukraine's fault. this week , for the first time since february 24, the russian dictator held a so-called direct line with the people. he radiated confidence and optimism, they say, sooner or later. the west will get tired and turn its back on ukraine. that is when russia will achieve all its goals, and few doubt that it is about the destruction of ukraine as an independent country state many western leaders understand this threat. at

the recent party conference of the social democrats, german chancellor olaf scholz announced his intention to increase support for ukraine. next year, berlin will double its military aid to kyiv. up to 8 billion euros, in particular plans to provide 200,000 artillery shells. russia's war against ukraine will continue, so it is very important that germany supports ukraine. we must be ready to do even more when others begin to doubt. putin should not count on a decrease in aid from us side, and borders in europe cannot be changed by force. is europe able to completely replace the usa? the answer is no, and it was clearly stated by the eu high representative for foreign affairs, josep borel. however, the europeans can do more to support the ukrainian army and the ukrainian budget. although there are also problems within the european union,

one of them even has a name. viktor orban. the hungarian leader and longtime admirer of putin blocked this week. the adoption of a four-fold aid package for ukraine for 50 billion euros, although and under the pressure of germany and france, he could not block the decision to start accession negotiations, but orban, like putin, is playing the long game, he hopes for trump's victory and sees that the extreme right is strengthening its position within the eu as well, for example, in the recent elections in the netherlands . however, there is also positive news for kyiv. poland this week finally got a new prime minister, donald tusk, who has already said one of his key priorities will be to convince the world that now is not the time for so-called fatigue. president zelenskyy is trying to convince the world again

that there is actually a game going on, that russia's war against ukraine is an attack on all of us. my government will loudly and decisively support the full mobilization of the free western world. in helping ukraine, there is no alternative here, i can no longer listen to politicians who talk about being tired of the war in ukraine, only a united measure can help ukraine, win the war. tusk and other supporters of ukraine in the west, who believe in its victory, do not have much time. financially, kyiv will be able to hold out for a few more months, in particular thanks to the tranche from the imf and the help from japan, has been shouldering ukraine's shoulder due to the delay of money from the usa and the eu, but with military aid it is more difficult: the situation at the front is difficult. according to the american television company cnn, which refers to representatives of american intelligence, without the adoption of a new package, ukraine will first

run out of long-range missiles, then missiles for air defense, anti-tank missiles for javelins and anti-aircraft missiles for stingers, and finally artillery shells, this will lead to defeat , and the account, as the publication claims, is going for months therefore, american congressmen, if they want to avoid such a scenario, need to hurry. oleksandr kraev, an expert of the foreign policy council of ukrainian prizma, is in touch with us. mr. oleksandr, i congratulate you. yes, congratulations. ukraine is now anxiously waiting for the west. can, especially american, in your opinion, what are our chances of getting this support? in fact, the chances are good, because from the latest debates and in congress, from the latest negotiations with the white house, we see that rather the question it is not about whether or not there will be support, the question is about

when and in what final volume, that is , the question is now being resolved rather whether we will be able to receive this assistance by the end of this year, or whether it will be rather the second week of january. next year, so i have little doubt that this aid will be there, it's just a matter of two compromises, the first compromise on the final size of this aid, and the second compromise, when exactly they will be able to come to... agreement both on the issue of the border and on the issue support for ukraine. ugh. and if assuming that congress does not approve aid to our country, then what is the probability that lendlis will work and under what conditions, because this is not free aid. lenlis is currently not working, we just need to know clearly that from september 30 of this year the law on lenis was not extended, it was not extended for absolutely objective reasons, because at that time the debate was still going on. in relation to the federal budget, and the law on lendlis was actually considered such that it would be

passed without any problems if the federal budget passed without problems, right now lendlease doesn't work, that's one thing, and secondly , lendlease won't work if there's no money for that lendlease to work with, because the modern iteration of lendlease is very different from what it was in the 40s, modern lendlease, when it was adopted in 22, it was adopted so that in the case of an inadequate position... of the congress, in the event that there was a majority of trumpists in the congress, because then there was the same calculation, and the president of the united states could by his executive order, without the need to refer to congress, to allocate to ukraine from the available budget the corresponding amounts are monthly, or there biweekly and so on. that is, now lenlis is not working, because he is basically not there, he cannot work, because this draft law has not been extended at the moment, and plus, even if he was, he would not work, because of the corresponding budget. which can be signed using lendlease as a legal instrument, there is simply no such budget. and one more clarifying question:

in your opinion, the united states of america will allocate money to our country, but how important are the deadlines until the end of this week or already in next year, what will it affect? this affects the lives of our defenders, that is , it affects how quickly and in what time frame we receive this or that type of weapon. because we are talking to you not only about airplanes, long-range missiles, some unique weapons, we are actually talking about artillery shells, we are talking about infantry weapons, we are talking about repairing our armored vehicles, we are talking about replacing barrels on our artillery, we are talking about missiles for the highmarrs, that is, and we also say that it is necessary to mention about our air defense, indeed, european partners provide a lot, but we demand comprehensiveness in this provision, therefore every day, every hour. from the line it is very, very difficult for us and very, very important that this be adopted as quickly as possible, because after the adoption

of the relevant budgets, as you understand, a certain time must pass for the order, for the manufacture, or at least for the delivery of the corresponding weapons . usually, remembering the 22nd and 23rd years, between the allocation of a specific amount of funds and the delivery of these weapons to ukraine, about two weeks, that is, this is what you have to push away from. thank you for your clarifications. we were accompanied by an expert of the ukrainian prism foreign policy council, oleksandr kraev. and we go further. ukraine's losses due to the blockade of the polish-ukrainian border amounted to more than 9 billion hryvnias. the state customs service did not receive so much money - said the deputy prime minister yuliya sverdenko. the governments of ukraine and poland have been in dialogue in recent weeks in an attempt to find. on local decisions on unblocking the border, and on december 11, the poles unblocked it

checkpoint yagodin-dorogusk. however, until now , there is almost no truck traffic on the sections of krakowiec, korchova, gravaruska, grebene, and medika chegyny. ensuring stable exports is one of our priorities for next year, but for this we obviously need more money. systems and about air defense is needed, we have done, if you know, already started a program of insurance against military risks for ships, it should be operational within a few days. more than 20 million subscribers suffered another blow from the russians this week mobile operator kyivstar. in its report on december 16, the british intelligence agency called this cyber attack one of the most destructive such operations since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation into

ukraine. on december 12 , kyivstar, the largest mobile communications operator in ukraine, which provides more than half of the population with mobile communications and home internet, suffered a devastating external intervention. its effects lasted at least two days. the cyber attack also disabled air raid sirens, some banks, atms and trading terminals. almost two years ago , the russian occupiers staged a genocide of ukrainians in the kyiv region. only in the buchan district, according to official data. discovered more than 1,700 bodies of tortured and executed civilians . today, after this terrible nightmare, residents of the de-occupied cities and towns of the region are learning to live anew. what was the fate of ordinary people who survived the occupation of russian barbarians. see further. butch the name of this city is now worldwide

associated with the terrible crimes of the russian occupiers. in 33 days, the invaders. created 461 a resident of the city, he was shot, this is my daughter's husband. ms. halyna shows photos of murdered relatives and friends. at the beginning of the occupation, she and her family hid in the basement. a lot of peaceful people were shot at the windows. secondly, mine too. and the son went to the teroboron. he called us. said, get out as you want, but you have to run away from here. then the woman went to poland with her family, but could not stay in a foreign land, so she returned home. vopereg is our ukraine, we love it, well, no matter where we are, home is best, home is best, everything, so what ukraine is ukraine. barodyanka

was also under occupation for only one month, but for the locals it was a whole century. you know, there is such a thing where you want to wake up, but somewhere you are stuck on this 23 by 24, and it is as if you are sleeping, and the dream is a nightmare, and you cannot wake up from it. mrs. lilya saw with her own eyes the horrors of the russian invasion. on march 1, the occupiers dropped an aerial bomb on her house, the woman's family miraculously survived, the very next day they all managed to get out of borodyanka together, you could say... they were driving along the highway , too, a stroller in the middle, men on the sides, in case of anything, to be able to protect, and after the de-occupation of kyiv oblast, mrs. lili's family returned to her native bardyanka, and her husband went to the front, my husband is now at war, he is an officer for me, he is now a year ago

february 23 will be a year, as he went to fight , the woman herself... helps the soldiers as much as she can, weaves camouflage nets, a lot will already come, already on august 16, 48 pieces, that's 49. only as of may 2022 , more than 300 burials of civilians were discovered in borodyanka and another 41 deceased was found under the rubble houses, the bodies of the residents of bardyanka killed by rashies are still found on the territory of the community, this is so cool, thank you. good friends, you will not forget us, now we will transport as many people as possible if possible, and this is volodymyr, he was transporting humanitarian aid in occupied irpen, the full-scale russian invasion was a terrible surprise for him, as it was for most people. on the 24th, i woke up at 7:30 a.m., opened the news,

and there was war, war, war. the husband was not lost, organized his friends and with them was involved in the evacuation of civilians, made from two to six departures every day, zk pokrovsky, we came with four people, 18 turned out, and we were in two cars, and that's all, and there were no children, that's all, well, how about us and you. despite the crimes of the russians and the destruction in irpen, volodymyr did not leave his home either, and today he lives in the city with his family and the kutiv clan. youtube star, sorry. today,

civil infrastructure is being actively rebuilt in the buchansk district. people return home, but the terrible genocide organized by the occupiers forever left behind a painful memory. according to official data, in march 2022, the russians executed more than 1,700 residents of the district. artem lagutenko, oleksiy kutsuk, espresso tv channel. against the backdrop of the destruction and looting of a number of ukrainian museums by the russian invaders, a deeper understanding of our cultural heritage is especially valuable. thus, a large-scale exhibition project was opened in the capital for the anniversary of artist hanna sobachko shostak. more about the master of bright and individual self-expression and... creativity and events in our next story. 140 years old that is why the outstanding ukrainian artist hanna sobachko shosttyk was born. today, her

works can be seen on scarves, stamps and even embroidered shirts. however, if it weren't for a lucky incident in the distant 1910, perhaps no one would have found out about the woman's talent. anna, like her products, was unique and became an innovator in... she was the first to start painting fantastic flowers, not having plants as models, not having as models, well, botanical reality, her flowers were fantastic, but also fantastic were the principles, how she composed them, as well as the fact that she is the first among non-professional artists, and she did not have a professional education, she began to use color, painted in it... in the best traditions of folk ornaments , she wove whimsical flowers into fairy-tale plots, signed each of her paintings, in memory of the work of the

shostak dog in her 140th jubilee in the national museum of ukrainian folk decorative art opened a large-scale project eyes of flowers, artistic compositions were combined with embroideries, ceramic products, graphic sketches, there are artists, our contemporaries, who... and we tried to create to continue, here is what was started by our ancient ancestors, what was visualized by the six-legged dog and what we are trying to carry into the future. the exhibition and educational project begins with an exhibition of more than fifty works by ms. hanna. a grandiose program is also planned: excursions, lectures, book presentations, as well as a thematic concert of the bach amateur choir. the eyes of flowers show a wide range of motifs. which the outstanding ukrainian artist knew and interpreted well. this is the first time that a non-gallery display of the work of

hanna sobachka shostok is presented, and the origins are shown, from where that creativity was born, that is, it is not only some genetic code that was embedded in it, but it is what was in the peoples, in folk creativity, and what she saw. anna sobachko. ostak became a unique phenomenon not only in the history of ukrainian, but also world culture. her works were exhibited at more than 40 exhibitions in ukraine and abroad, starting from 1913. ghana's creativity is full of dynamics and freedom and remains a discovery both for our contemporaries and for the creators of new and unofficial art of the 20th century. we have in the person of hanna sobachko-shostok is a phenomenon, a phenomenon , eh. a woman who, one might say, was even ahead of her time, because it seems to me that she should be understood as the first avant-garde artist, the first

ukrainian avant-garde artist. anna sobachko shostak's unique work of art is preserved in the collection of the national museum of ukrainian folk decorative art. since december 15, most of the works are exhibited at the exhibition and educational project eyes of flowers. touch the art of an outstanding ukrainian artist. you can until march 31, 2024, kateryna galko, yuliya belska, espresso tv channel. that was this week in the presentation of the espresso team. watch the news, weekly summaries, every saturday at 9 pm and every sunday at 9 am. everything will be fine and take care. vasyl winter's big broadcast. this is the great ether, my name is vasyl, we are starting winter. two hours of air time. two hours of your time.

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greetings, we are asking for your help in the search for this boy and girl who mysteriously disappeared in the donetsk region, and i also want to ask everyone who watches this video, please share it on your social networks, so there will be a much greater chance of finding the children or finding out at least some information about them, so do not remain indifferent. so, sasha and artem, they are brother and sister, the girl is 15. artem is 13. they disappeared in the city of toretsk. it happened on july 15 this summer, and since then nothing is known about their fate. they do not contact each other and are officially considered missing. so please look closely at the faces of artem and sasha ropot. if you suddenly recognize them, or you know where they may be, do not delay and immediately call us on the magnolia children's search hotline at

the short number 1163. calls from any mobile operator are free, we will thanks for any information. we are also looking for another brother and sister, their names are danylo and bohdana gevalo. the boy is nine years old, his sister bohdana is five years old, and their father is asking for your help in the search. anyone who has seen my children, please contact the children's search service and the national police. thank you, because i miss my children very much, i want to see them already. now more than anything in the world, mr. mykola wants to see his children again and, most importantly, to find out that everything is okay with them. when we talked with the man, he he was very worried, he was of few words, but you could feel the warmth and tenderness with which he spoke about his son and daughter. well, they love kindness, self-respect. the father

said that when... a full-scale war began, his ex-wife and children found themselves in the occupied part of the donetsk region, the husband himself was in the territory controlled by ukraine. for a while they managed to talk on the phone, the husband was worried, but at least he knew that his children were alive and well, but then they stopped contacting each other and until now, unfortunately, their whereabouts are unknown. danilo and bohdana are officially considered missing. the children's father asks you very much... to remain indifferent and help him in the search for his son and daughter, and for our part , we ask you to share this video about danylo and bohdana in your social networks, because who knows, maybe your friends or acquaintances will recognize the brother and sister and will be able to tell important details, but to look especially carefully into the faces of the children, i ask the residents of the temporarily occupied territories of the donetsk region, where danylo and bohdan of course, in the occupied territories.

ukrainian tv is not broadcast now, but this video can be seen there on youtube or other social networks. so, if you recognize the brother and sister, please inform us on the hotline of the children's search service by short number 11630. if it is inconvenient or impossible to call, you can write to us on the website or in the chatbot of the children's search service in telegram. now, due to the war in ukraine, the number of cases of children's disappearance has become ... even more, but at the same time, as before the war, unfortunately, children disappear, in particular, on condition peaceful territories. a child can get lost at any time and anywhere, for example, in a public city. so here are some important tips for parents. please explain to your child that if he is lost where there are many people, he must stand still and wait for his parents to return. also, the child should find adults with a child or an elderly woman among people and say that she is lost, but at the

same time, in no case... you should not go anywhere with adults who themselves offer to take her to some other place. in turn, to parents the most important thing is not to panic, and if it was not possible to find the child immediately, contact the police immediately, provide a photo and all the necessary information about the child, also call our hotline on 11630, and we will advise you in detail how to act and what to do first in such a situation. and finally, as usual, i ask you to go to the children's tracing service website, take just a few minutes of your time, there are pictures of all the boys and girls we are currently trying to find, please look carefully at their faces, and if you recognize someone or know at least some information about one of them, do not delay and call the hotline of the child tracing service 116/30, calls from all mobile phones.