the only main thing on the air is the we ukraine channel, and lyudmila dobrovolska and oleg panyuk are with you. good evening, today we will talk about these topics. the mechanism for starting negotiations on joining the european union has been launched, but what will this path be? how can ukraine not get stuck in negotiations and what deadline does kyiv set for itself. when it's not time, the us senate returns to work on monday, whether lawmakers will have time to unblock aid to ukraine before christmas. disposal of knocked down enemy equipment, which can no longer be returned to service, as russian iron is sorted and remelted for what? 30 shaheds out of 31 that the muscovites launched into ukraine that night were shot down by our anti-aircraft defense. it flew in waves with russian... primorsky-akhtarsk, seshchi and

kursk. the armed forces destroyed enemy drones over 11 regions. this is already the sixth air attack on kyiv this month, it lasted more than 5 hours. this time there was no destruction and no casualties. muscovites are returning to last year's winter scenario, when they constantly combined means of aerial attack. shock drones, cruise missiles from strategic bombers, iskanders and daggers fly in waves. well, the russians are constantly attacking the kherson region, in the last day they shelled it 83 times. the enemy attacked the right bank that night not only with drones, but used almost everything at its disposal. in stepanivka, a suburb of kherson, shrapnel fell on a hospital where 79 patients were staying, a doctor on duty was wounded, and one of the buildings was actually destroyed. this is what our correspondents saw there. the first hole of the night. shahed and in

a moment a loud explosion. the moment of hitting the drone the hospital in the suburb of kherson on stepanivka was recorded on chest cameras of patrol officers. police officers were nearby on duty. there is a car. artem was one of the first to run to the hospital after the explosion. i work here as a mechanic, i just arrived. this is what the medical facility looks like in the morning, the entire building is destroyed, nurse lyudmila piskunenko, in rubber gloves with a bell in her hands, has been sweeping debris and broken glass near her office for the fourth hour, we are collecting this one right away, it is very damaged, well, you see, all the windows, everything there is broken. everything, everything possible

that is impossible, the door is inside, everything inside has flown out. hanna morovska still cannot recognize the gutted offices and her department. she says that at home she heard the rumble of a drone in her sleep. well, as the motorcycle buzzes, that's it. i woke up from the hum of a motorcycle and on the roof it was like hail, you know, yes. and in a few minutes , a call from colleagues. last time, all the windows were broken, everything was broken. now the door was broken and... all the windows were broken. during the attack , a doctor was wounded, he was just bringing patients into the bomb shelter. destroyed admin-corpus reception department, laboratory. all this must be restored. during all this , not a single patient was injured. unfortunately, the lucky doctor who was injured by shrapnel was injured. but now everything is fine. garbage and damaged equipment are taken out by employees. dawn and we are sure, today everything

will not be raked out , nor will we take it out with bags, wheelbarrows, wheelbarrows, i don’t know, they haven’t counted yet, well, you see what is being done, and there is no end to the land yet, this hospital is one of hundreds of medical facilities in kherson oblast, damaged as a result russian attacks, another 26 were completely destroyed, from kherson valery zabirko, tetiana savulyama, ukraine marathon, single news, issues of the military, veterans, houses of fortifications and weapons production. these issues were discussed for almost three hours at the supreme commander-in-chief's stake. every month should add strength to our defense - says the president. the task is to strengthen ukraine as much as possible. we are also preparing further strengthening of air defense. this has already been agreed upon. and at almost every meeting i have with leaders, this topic is heard in almost all negotiations. the subject of pbo. there will be more systems, more.

protection of the sky, and one more thing: christmas is near, and although political activity is decreasing in many countries, we continue to work as energetically as possible with all partners. who can help now, who can support in the future, and we are preparing important foreign policy contacts by the end of the year. three more ukrainian children will celebrate christmas at home. a brother and a sister, who were taken out of the temporarily occupied territories of the kherson region, are already with their mother. the third boy was being returned from russia, where his father had taken him without permission. the mother took the child on the territory georgia. every such return. this is a separate story and a special operation, on which many people are working. these children were returned through the mediation of qatar - says dmytro lubinets. russian troops are conducting active

assaults in the tavria direction, advancing with armored vehicles with the support of artillery and aviation. gulyai-pole, robotine and malutok are fired at from the rocket systems of salvo fire . the armed forces of ukraine are holding a position on the left bank of the kherson region. in zaporizhzhia, our troops are being attacked from the sky with air and war missiles drones the muscovites are relentlessly advancing in the avdiyiv direction as well. there are the most combat clashes here. there are heavy assaults near the steppe right now. operational situation on the fronts. see how are you. these are already historical shots of the training of our attack aircraft from the 24th separate mechanized brigade named after king danylo. the group goes on an assault to repulse the positions of the occupiers, it will become known later, this tericon on the outskirts of horlivka has been occupied since the 14th, and our flag is flying here, and behind us is our ukrainian hornivka, ours is donetsk, donbas is ukraine, we must

we will win, glory to the armed forces, glory to ukraine, despite the difficult weather conditions, our guys will continue to repel enemy attacks, the hottest in the avdiiv direction. russia. here again they launched a mass attack with a large number of infantry, armored vehicles and aviation. our positions are bombarded both day and night. first of all, they prepare their attacks, pre-attacking our positions with aircraft and fpv drones, and then the equipment starts to move and is accompanied by enemy infantrymen. we regularly observe special forces, they enter a member of the drg, which is trying to get into the territory of the avdiiv coke-chemical plant. destroyed near its walls. our defense forces, the military say, are pressing simultaneously from four directions to surround the city and seize avdiyivka. when they go forward, then they don't succeed, they attack a kilometer or so a little further east or west, change their tactics,

change the direction of their attacks, try to find some kind of weakness, but of course they suffer huge losses. they are actively storming. and marienko this week russian propaganda declared once again that she had captured the city. however , the commander of osuv tavria, general oleksandr ternavskyi, denied these statements. according to him , now there are heavy battles, but the city has not been captured. and this is also an element of informational psychological struggle. however , in those areas where our units carry out tasks, despite a significant advantage, it is possible to restrain the enemy. for more than a month , the russians have been attacking our positions in the direction of bakhmut. main. the goal is to regain lost positions near andriivka and klishchiivka. at the moment, the situation is in the bakhmant direction tense the russians are going, using all their possible forces, straight down on the asphalt, well, the parts we have

are blown up by mines. well, but, but it goes. the enemy's tactics here have changed somewhat, say the military. now a prepared russian landing party has been brought here. what is being taught to them is monitored. according to the book with the use of armored vehicles, almost everything that they have now is taken away from drones, armored infantry, they use it during a storm, that means, but the picture does not change, our line is clear, here our guys are holding it, heavy fighting continues in the lymanuklupin direction, the rashists have started to transfer new assault units here, the most enemy attacks near sinkivka, the russians, the military say here, are trying to create for themselves. for the further offensive on kupliansk. certain rotations, more techniques have appeared and, accordingly, the emphasis is placed on this. this week, the enemy is using equipment more actively and this equipment is again being destroyed more actively. we can see this by the results in just one day, on lemanok

in the kupin direction, nine tanks are big losses against. now the rashists are actively using drones along the entire front line, the military says that the use has increased in... several times, now we see that in particular in the southern directions, even in the avdiiv direction , the enemy is trying to use this ... defeating the russian occupiers with kamikaze drones is not a problem, it is quite a big danger for ukrainian defenders, 38 kamikaze drones were used last day, and the day before about 45 kanikaz drones were used during the day, because the russians are focusing on uavs, they are also necessary for our military, because there are not enough drones on the front - say the military. now the war has changed somewhat, it is primarily wars...logies and who has more of them. lyudmila havrylyuk, we are ukraine, marathon, edine news.

1,230 civilians are still waiting for something in avdiivka , despite numerous offers to evacuate them to safer places. they also live in the basements of private and apartment buildings, which often already stand in ruins. some stays in their homes. according to the head of the avdiyiv city military administration. on average , three to six civilians decide to leave vitaliy barabasha from the front line per day. in recent days , we have all felt that the russians are trying to change the tactics of their air attacks. realizing that air defense has been significantly strengthened in kyiv, they attack the capital with ballistics, because it is significantly more difficult to detect and shoot down. but the main intelligence management, it is convinced, the enemy will continue to change the route. time and place of launches of both missiles and drones, what he hopes for and how

exhausting this tactic can be for us and effective for the enemy. first explosions, then anxiety. the capital is attacked with fast ballistic missiles. here are the consequences of just one of these attacks: fifty injured, damaged high-rise buildings, burnt cars and a mutilated grandpa. the wreckage of the downed ironman flew in all directions. ballistic missiles were also shot down, first there were eight on the 11th, then there were already 10, they were all destroyed, we are talking now about the iskander m, this is a ballistic missile, and also the s-400, this is what available in russia. the flight time to the target in such a weapon is a matter of minutes, and that's literally. for example, the iskandyr m missile, which is launched from ground... installations, gives a range of 500 km in 4 minutes, another 48n6 launched from

the s-400 installation, has a smaller radius of attack, but is not inferior in speed. they can reach the city of kyiv from the bryansk region, the distance of these missiles is up to 240 km, and we have 140 km to the border. and unfortunately, all this bryansk region is forests, that is, they have a place to hide from potential strikes of ukrainian artillery. the main problem is that these rockets fly by ballistic trajectory. well, they fly quite fast, so much so that you may not have time to turn on the air alarm in advance, and the enemy also chooses the night for a reason, he tries to attack by surprise, reducing the amount of time for reaction, but without success, since the ukrainian air defense destroyed all 18 targets launched on the night against monday and on wednesday let's remember may, let's remember june, 2023, well , everything was flying over kiev, and daggers, and calibers, and kha-11. and ballistics, and also shaheds, so in

principle, kyiv, unfortunately, cannot get used to this. experts believe that such attacks are just testing the capital's air defense by the enemy. the main goal in the future is to deliver a massive mixed strike. that is, missiles, ballistics and cruise missiles can be used at the same time. the question is when they study our air defenses. what is an anti-aircraft missile? a rocket flew, it is a piece of iron, if so very rough, to understand it, to calculate in its direction, a radio beam is sent from the radio radar station, but this radio beam , both we emit and the enemy has a special equipment to see it, and this is how everything is calculated, they study us, plus for them it remains a matter of professional honor to destroy at least one patriot anti-aircraft missile system, and they do not rule out that the goal is to leave... infrastructure objects and terror-population, if the information about the use of ballistic missiles from

s-400 installations is confirmed, this will indicate a dangerous trend. the enemy has a colossally large potential in a part called the s-400 triumf anti-aircraft missile complex, released outside of 560 installations with the total stockpile of missiles ranges from three to five, and some sources say that they have 7,000 of them, so this is a colossal potential. and... the enemy will not be able to launch all of them, because the primary task of the s-400 is to protect the sky, and the russians need it, because drones continue to reach russian cities. this system is against it. air defense as well as anti-cancer defense, their use for missile attacks on cities is a secondary function of them, but they were designed from the beginning to shoot down planes, not to attack cities or there infrastructure. and because of such use , missiles lose their accuracy - says the expert. especially if the distance exceeds 200 km, then the error of defeat can

reach a kilometer, but this does not reduce their threat, both for kyiv and for all border areas. bridge. only the patriot air defense systems, which ukraine needs even more, can protect against the ballistic threat. vlada tsymbalenko yevgeny olinsky we are ukraine marathon the only news. berlin is sending ukraine a winter package of humanitarian aid worth more than 6 million euros. transfer 500 generators, heaters, battery packs, tents, beds, blankets, water stations and living containers. germany also handed over a new one to ukraine. military aid missiles , it included shells, drones and cars, and kyiv received the second patriot anti-aircraft missile system along with spare parts and missiles for it, the main political result of this year with a plus sign for ukraine, the eu decision to start negotiations on our accession to european union. european leaders have demonstrated

the ability to compromise, effective and effective yes, but not everything was so cloudless, on the same brussels. at the summit, where a fateful decision was made for us, austria unexpectedly presented an ultimatum. so how did the european leaders manage to push through the decision? so, our joint victory, how it was won, and what remained behind the scenes of the summit that told ukraine yes. anna grishina about it. then, as the negotiations on ukraine's accession to the european community officially begin. we have ahead. a difficult path with obstacles, and this was already proven by the summit in brussels, where the fateful decision was made. hungary ignored the vote, but austria began to issue its ultimatums. hungarian prime minister viktor orban categorically insisted: ukraine is not yet ready for european integration, he was persuaded by his colleagues and the eu leadership for 8 hours in brussels. the details

were leaked to the press. german chancellor scholz invented a way to make a decision bypassing budapest, he proposed. orban to leave the room for 10 minutes, to drink coffee, that is, not to vote, but also not to promise a decision on ukraine. we had a good debate, but in the end i felt that it would be difficult for us to reach an agreement. here scholz made a proposal, can we make a decision without the presence of orbán in the hall? then a unanimous decision is reached without the presence of hungary. according to the rules, it is possible, we were able to make a decision. in the end , all the principledness of budapest turned out to be just a pursuit of money. hungary demands that the european union pay them 30 billion euros to restore the economy after covid in exchange for their vote for ukraine, and yet they have once again blocked the allocation of long-term aid to us in the amount of 50 billion euros. brussels responded to this, they have a plan b, and each of the countries members is ready to prepare their own financial support packages for ukraine. that is

, the eurocouncil confirmed that kyiv will receive the promised 50 billion. we have. tools to ensure that ukraine can count on our support, there is a strong political will of 26 leaders to accept this mega package. blackmails brussels and austria. during the summit, vienna did agree to give the green light for the start of negotiations. on the condition that the member states, together with ukraine, will accept one of the austrian favorites, bosnia, which was once part of austria-hungary, into the eu. however the austrian chancellor left the room during the vote for two. package of anti-russian sanctions. it is precisely ukraine with its international authority and political weight that helps everyone to overcome the european stagnation of the expansion of the european union. some countries from the western balkans started negotiations almost 20 years ago, and the process has not moved. the european union did not understand the importance of enlargement, and now ukraine, resisting russia, has proven how

important it is. even before ukraine received candidate status, countries such as france the netherlands, denmark... denied our membership in the eu, but still voted for the start of accession negotiations. even slovakia, which threatened to promise, supported the start of negotiations on the european integration of ukraine. she explained her decision not at all encouragingly for the future. we are talking about a political decision, it has nothing to do with reality. the next step of agreeing the framework of negotiations is scheduled for march 2024, and it is being written again. pejski zmi will be the subject of a complex debate at one of the upcoming eu summits, at least the hungarian one the prime minister, or putin's trojan horse, as many high-ranking officials in brussels call him. has already declared that he can block ukraine's admission to the european union 75 more times. one of the belgian publications noted: ukraine should calmly accept all difficulties

on the way to european integration, they say, from time to time the country's members will speculate on the ukrainian issue in favor of their interests. however , sooner or later the european union will have to give in and let in a new member, ukraine. from brussels, anna grishina. so, the mechanism accession negotiations have been launched and the ukrainian government will start working with the european commission on their preparation next week. we have a long way ahead of us and difficult compromises with allied countries, which are also our economic competitors. well, one should not forget that orbán did not go anywhere. so how can ukraine not get stuck in negotiations like the balkans? and what deadlines kyiv sets for itself, olena chernyakova will continue. a positive message from brussels for kyiv, the opening of negotiations with ukraine,

has already been called a historic victory in the west, and from the emotion of joy we return to the european bureaucracy. and our first, next step is the screening of national legislation - this is a process where the european commission will analyze the compliance of ukrainian laws with european norms. and then it is necessary to hold an intergovernmental commission and agree on a negotiating framework that will become a guide. the nuance is that we need to complete all these processes by march, because we are pressed for time, since internal political processes will begin within the european union. it is very important to actually do this before march, because then the election campaign in the european parliament actually begins, and then the change of the european commission, and then the actual presidency of hungary, so we have to set ourselves... such high deadlines, and as far as i know, the first meeting between government negotiators and representatives of the european commission, and only then

the actual negotiations will begin, long and no, it is record fast, in croatia, which was the last to join the european union, it took about four years. everything will happen according to the plan the eu enlargement algorithm, which was last updated in the 20th. it provides for negotiations on 35 chapters, now divided. into six clusters, that is, sections, here are all of them , for example, the ninth - financial services, will regulate the activities of banks, insurance, and the 12th - food safety and phytosanitary policy, will adjust the rules for the production of products, animal feed and fertilizers for plants there are norms for energy, and for the rule of law, and even for fishing. and you need to open and close there will be 35 chapters. the first section of fundamentals , i.e. fundamental rights, opens first and closes last, it is obvious that for some processes, for some decisions, we

will ask for a transit period, such a transition period, and we will also expect their adaptation from the european commission, that is, from members of the european union. 40% adaptation of ukrainian legislation. will apply specifically to the agricultural sector, the minister of agricultural policy stated earlier during a meeting with his french counterpart in kyiv. agarny ukraine's potential is 25% of all european potential, that's a lot. and what disputes with member countries can be, we have already seen when even some of our neighbors opposed the export of ukrainian grain. another important thing here is that it is france that is ready to help us adapt. the number of issues that... will have to be worked on is actually significant, the standards that need to be implemented, and these are directives, it will also be important for ukraine to join and comply with standards in the field

of ecology, but france is ready to accompany ukraine is on this path. the speed depends mostly on the work of the state, and eu leaders can either facilitate it or block it. budapest can and will try to resist. to hope that orbán will leave the room again and not vote in vain, and his... political adviser seemed to hint: at the next entry he will be able to block 70 more times. they often used as an element of a certain possible blackmail, the question of support or voting for there support ukraine financially, or sanction policy against the aggressor state of russia, within the european union the union is now having serious discussions about how to change the procedural points so as not to be hostages in the future in making... such important decisions from certain leaders, i will say so, not even sometimes not countries, but leaders or political forces that play , maybe not even for the eu.

eu reform can become. the second factor that will slow down our movement. what else will need to be addressed and seen in such a helicopter v, yes, in a broader focus, is the reform of the european union itself, because everyone is talking about it in such a way that it should be reformed internal procedures, and secondly, how the european union will move with other countries, in particular with the western balkans. and moldova , with which we also started negotiations, so in fact we started with them at the same time, but whether we will come to the eu at... and not the same time is the question: analysts in europe call the approximate date of the expansion of the european union 2030. olena chernyakova, maxim khlopotov. we are ukraine marathon, the only news. defense of the state, support of the military and veterans of the armed forces of ukraine, and european integration. here the main priorities of ukraine for the coming year - says volodymyr zelenskyi. a hundred

representatives of communities from all over ukraine gathered at the congress of local and regional authorities. and government officials, another 1,500 participants joined the event online, talking about strengthening air defenses, housing for veterans and displaced people and loans for businesses, and how to increase the number of quality shelters in frontline regions and clear mined areas, but most importantly now at all levels to show that ukraine is ready to membership in the european union. we have a decision to start accession negotiations. this is a good and very important result, it is a change in the political reality in europe and an institutional proof at the level of the whole of europe that ukraine will be a member of the european union. we have to work together with the european union already on the details, on the subject, on the framework of the negotiations and start the process of full integration of our institutions, state institutions,

legal ones. norms and reality of life up to european standards. rest is not on time. the us senate returns to work on monday. senators did postpone the start of their christmas vacation while bilateral negotiations continue on the provision of additional aid to ukraine and israel and the protection of the us border with mexico. well, the speaker of the house of representatives from the republican party, mike johnson, and also. in the senate, where the democrats have a majority, they have repeatedly stated that they will not vote for the package of aid to ukraine and israel until there are provisions on changes in america's migration law, whether the americans will have time to unblock aid to ukraine before christmas, yuriy gula will tell. clouds above the capitol began to thicken long before the arrival of volodymyr zelenskyi.

support issues. for american legislators, ukraine is now more like a political game, because the presidential elections in the usa are just around the corner, in which both republicans and democrats play an important role. and our president also made his move in this party. to convince congressmen, not to stop financial and military aid to ukraine, zelensky came to the usa in person. the party leaders of the senate, democrat chuck schumer and republican mitch mcconnell, although on different sides political barricades, but in... on that day, both of them wore blue-yellow ties and met zelenskyy together as well. they smiled kindly at the camera, but all the masks were already removed behind closed doors, where the meeting was taking place. republicans say that they listened attentively to the ukrainian leader, sympathized with him, and applauded his speech, but they did not change their opinion. first, protect your border, and then the ukrainian border. we had a great meeting with president zelensky. i repeated to him that

we were standing. with him against the cruel putin's invasion, but the biden administration is demanding billions of additional dollars with no oversight, no clear strategy for victory, and no answer to the american people. i have made it clear from day one that our first priority in any national security spending package will be our national security first. rumor has it that the white house did not plan contacts at the highest level, but it is zelenskyi's third time. the idea of ​​a full-scale war was accepted by biden, and for the first time the words no came from the mouth of the american president simply about supporting ukraine to the end, but also about victory. we want ukraine to win the war and, as stated in the un charter , protect its sovereignty, and today i announced an additional $200 million in defense aid, but without additional allocations, we are not giving ukrainians the opportunity.