encroaches on our ukraine. in the break between shellings, or even during them, they continue to live. let's bring happiness, orcs in the dugout, let our enemy celebrate well. we want to encourage them, instead they congratulate us on the coming holidays and ask one thing, to believe in the armed forces. we are now on bakhmot. direction and would like to wish all of us good health, inspiration, patience and victory in the new year from the bottom of my heart. glory to ukraine! i want to wish you a peaceful sky, health, and that all your dreams come true. believe in us and we will win. glory to ukraine! these shots and words of our soldiers at the height of the war from the hottest points of the front. the motivation for you and me to stand here in the rear, not to succumb to the enemy's ... provocations

and throw-ins and to always believe and support those who stand for us and with you and for ukraine at the cost of their own lives. daryna dobrovelska we are ukraine marathon the only news. well, that's not all we wanted to tell you about today. the following will be about this. without water, heat, but with faith in victory. we will show you how ukrainians adapted to life in a pre-frontline city. by the day before the new year, a christmas tree under the ground ... a festive table under the enemy's nose, an exciting action, despite the obstacles. what will this day be like for ukrainians? let's show. new year's weapon package. the united states of america announced the allocation of $250 million in military support to ukraine. and this tranche, it is the last one this year, and the new one will now be available only with the approval of congress, what was included in the new package, when the next one will be voted on and why. can

ukraine be completely without american aid in the near future, he will tell about it yuri gula of the united states of america. in the united states, it's christmas week, weekends, vacations and holidays for most americans and lawmakers, but not in the white house, there on the agenda is the protection of its own border and, of course, the war in ukraine. a few days before the new year, joe biden's administration announced a new and last aid package this year for kyiv, and first of all. attention was paid to air defense. the list includes ammunition for nasans anti-aircraft missile systems and jet systems, haimars volley fire, thousands of artillery ammunition, millions cartridges, everything will come from the warehouses of the pentagon, which means that in the near future. a coalition of more than 50 countries continues to provide important support to ukrainian forces. it is imperative that congress act quickly, as soon as possible, to protect our national security interests. helping ukraine to protect itself

and secure its future. anthony blinken, us secretary of state. congress will convene on january 8, but waiting for the quick approval of the ukrainian package worth more than 60 billion dollars is hardly worth it, because the united states has own problems. the government budget for next year has not yet been approved, and this threatens a shutdown. hundreds of government organizations will close, and tens of thousands of workers will go unpaid. vacation, so here the question of priorities arises for american legislators: first their own problems, and then all others. however, after the massive russian missile attack on ukrainian cities, joe biden once again urged lawmakers to approve aid as soon as possible. this large-scale shelling was another reminder to the world that the target of russian dictator vladimir putin remains unchanged. he wants to destroy ukraine and subjugate its people. unless congress takes urgent action. in the new year

, we will not be able to continue sending the weapons and vital air defense systems that ukraine needs to protect its people. congress must step up and act without further delay. joe biden, president of the united states. the latest approved aid package was the 34th aid package this year for a total of us$24 billion. in 2023 , the so-called killers of the kenjals and aviation of the russian federation against the patriot air systems. also after. kyiv eventually received atakms missiles and 155-caliber cluster shells from washington. the ukrainian president thanked the americans for such necessary and critical assistance. everything that is needed, everything that helps tangibly. i am grateful to president biden, to congress, to both parties, and to all those who support us in this very specific task. russian terror must lose, terror must always lose. and all of us

together in the free world will ensure this, we will do everything to preserve it next year as well an appropriate level of cooperation, for the sake of our joint strength, the strength of all who... already at the beginning of next year, ukraine expects not only the approval of the congress for assistance, but also for the f-16 fighter jets, which will allow us to protect our skies, and possibly radically change the situation on the front the white house assured that, despite internal political strife on the eve of the presidential race, ukraine will not be left alone in the war with russia, and will be supported until victory. from new york yuriy gula, we are ukraine, marathon only news. well, the next one year could turn out to be fateful for the world for several reasons, and one of the key reasons is the elections in the united states of america and in russia. how the political situation in the world can change and how it will affect the war unleashed by putin, olena chernyakova analyzed. 2024 is

a leap year that will bring us not only one extra day in the new year, but also many elections around the world. leaders will be elected. usa, eu, georgia, romania, so-called elections in russia. and how it will turn out for the whole world is a question. but how can elections affect relations between the two states, we have already seen this year. ukraine and poland are still recovering from the turbulence caused by the elections. the grain crisis, the blockade of our border are only part of the consequences. and now there is a chance to fix them. this was announced by both official kyiv and warsaw. by the way, it was to kyiv that the newly appointed polish minister made his first... visit, in an exclusive comment to we ukraine, he stated: "the change of government in poland means that we can look at some things from a new perspective, but the strategy of our the country does not change. ukraine must win this war and putin must lose it, and

at the end of the decade we want ukraine to be a member of the european union within its internationally recognized borders. next up are the elections within the european union, and there it is also important not to become hostages of internal political quarrels, what can happen then, we can see on the example of the united states, although officially their election campaigns start in january, but in fact it is already hot. the most discussed candidates now this is your leader joe biden and ex-president donald trump. what will happen next november, i would not predict now, it will be a very fierce fight and the election will end with a minimal advantage. however, a precedent happened last week. supreme. a court in the state of colorado barred trump from participating in the election, a similar decision was made in the state of maine this week, all because of his participation in protests in the 21st, when a mob tried to disrupt the results of the election, where trump lost. however,

there is still no verdict that it was he who organized the protests the decisions of the state of colorado did not enter into force. america does not have a single cec like we do. there's a candidate... elected in each state separately pending an appeal from the trump team to the supreme court of the united states, which is in washington, it really looks like trump may not actually be on the ballot for the primary in the state of colorado itself, but that state not the first to even consider allowing trump to participate in the primaries, it's just that the other three states that have already considered it, they...said that trump, that trump cannot participate, and the supreme court will probably support trump, because it consists of nine judges, all of whom were appointed by republican presidents, and half of them - trump himself, and his second

coming, if any, may change the schedule political system in the world, and the elections themselves will be dirty, and traditionally, with a focus on domestic politics. there is a big fear that if trump comes to power for a second time, his second term will be very different from the first, and he will try to become an authoritarian ruler, will he succeed or not, well, it is unknown, the occupiers also have elections, on march 15-17 russians will go to elect putin, the logo of the russian motsevik elections has even depicted the letter b, we have already seen it. on armored vehicles that were going to kill us, and those who will be sent here after the elections will be more, but mobilization will not intensify until march, it is planned to expand the size of the russian army by more than a million people, therefore, accordingly, we should

expect a new wave of mobilization after the elections, and some additional reason can be created for this or. she can in the future be conducted covertly, as it is done now. before the elections, putin is unlikely to concentrate the information campaign on the war, and if there will be news, then only about the so-called successes, and in... this is why they will do everything possible. probably, russia will try to go on the offensive in ukraine, a new offensive, to capture something, to destroy something, to demonstrate that it can reach europe. therefore, europe will continue to build up its forces, but it will not be completely transferred to military lines. military budgets in general in the world as well as in the euro will grow, yes. in in europe, it will be quite intensive, there will be rearmament and

the issues related to the increase of military capability will be resolved, and moreover, the expansion of military presence, military presence on the territories of other countries will be eliminated. and what in the world? russia will continue to incite conflicts, but how far they will go will depend on who will become the new president in the united states and the leadership. in europe. olena chernyakova, maksym khlopytov. we are ukraine marathon, only news. the oldest russian consulate was closed in germany the other day. it worked there over two centuries, and from the new year, the germans are going to minimize the presence of russian diplomats in the country altogether. earlier, the ministry of foreign affairs of russia announced that germany, on its own initiative , closed its consulates in yekaterinburg, novosibirsk and kaliningrad in russia. why german-russian relations ever? strategic ones are bursting at the seams, anna grishina will tell. to the sounds of the national anthem

, the tricolor is slowly being lowered from the flagpole near the russian consulate in leipzig, it was the oldest deputation of the russian federation in germany, it worked for 240 years and so ended her mission ingloriously. russian-german relations are at a sad level. on camera, the russian ambassador is trying to whitewash the situation, because over the past six months, germany has revoked the license of three russian diplomatic missions. in hamburg, münchen and frankfurt am main. these consts of the consulate were also centers for espionage. well, you can even recall putin himself, who was once there as a representative of the then soviet union in dresden. the future dictator lived in germany for 5 years and officially worked in the house of soviet-german friendship in dresden, actually spied on his own and... german citizens, kgb archives testify. and this practice was continued by modern

russia, when it issued diplomatic passports to gru employees and foreign intelligence and sent them to their embassies in the eu. only the west shortened their hands. since the beginning of the full-scale war in ukraine, he has forced the russian federation to close most of the consulates general in seven eu countries and the usa and sent home more than 700 russian so-called diplomats. intrusion. the expulsion of ukraine from the european countries contributed to it union of a very large group of diplomats, so russia had to establish the conduct of intelligence activities in the regime of war using so-called illegals, that is , intelligence officers who work undercover. switzerland is going to disperse the russian spy den, officially from now on. the decision was approved by the large chamber of the parliament, the national council. a record number of kremlin azures lurked in the small country, more than...

immunity, but now he will not save them from the trip home. moscow is interested in bern and geneva because the headquarters of 25 international organizations are located there, including the european office of the un. most of these russians who are now, let's say, in germany, they, they are against putin, against the war, but there is also a part that... supports all this, it, it, there is cooperation between this part of the diaspora and the russian embassy and consulates , then this is probably also one of the reasons why these consulates were closed, so that there would be no such cooperation with part of the pro-putin russian diaspora. with the closure of the consulates general, it will be more difficult for russians living in germany to interact with their homeland. now to get new ones. for a passport or visa, to issue a power of attorney, inheritance, you will have to go to boon or berlin from all federal states,

and there are crazy queues for six months ahead. most of the employees of the already closed consulate in leipzig will return to moscow in a few days, and it uses mirror actions towards european diplomats, for now it has closed 12 consulates general in russia eu countries. and iceland, after the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine, decided to stop. the work of the single embassy in bilokamennaya and recalled its ambassador. from next year, that is, on january 1 , the work of consulates in the german cities of munich, hamburg and frankfurt am main will be closed. european political scientists call the massive closure of russian diplomatic missions and the expulsion of their employees from eu countries, and vice versa, european attachés from the federation, as the largest failure since the cold war of diplomacy, from brussels, anna krishina, we are ukraine, marathon, only news, well

, let's go back to kharkiv, there an hour ago the russians targeted an apartment building, the inclusion will be a little later. then we continue our releases , the next topic we will talk about is how our people feel almost on the border with the enemy, more than 20 artillery shells from the morning walking in the field, is it possible to get used to this, hardly, but to adapt completely maybe here even dogs know when a russian projectile flies, people gather rainwater, because there is no drinking water in the city, they give their last savings for... and sign up for the only hairdresser who works here for free. our olena kaptyukh went to gulyai field and saw with her own eyes how this front-line city is surviving now, she will show us now. the road to gulyai field is completely destroyed by heavy equipment and enemy shells. when you go for a walk in the field , not only communication, but

also roads and cars gradually disappear. the streets are empty houses whose residents left due to... continuous shelling and still stand with broken roofs and windows, inhabited houses are visible to the naked eye, where the windows are boarded up , the roof is covered with a film, and there are still people who do not want to give their land, who simply stay in place because they love their land. the building of a local bank and a pharmacy in the center of the city was destroyed by an enemy s300, and this is how the houses look after artillery strikes, the russians shoot at...

we know how they bark when a shell flies, mr. mykola is on his street for the main... humanitarian worker from volunteers and lifeguards are distributed to neighbors. set and hygienic set. once, he says, more than a hundred people lived on his street, now 13. and his wife are hiding in the basement from shelling. in front of the entrance to löh , a self-made protection against debris was set up. here with bricks, there barrels filled with bricks. that the fragments did not hit. show off the most valuable firewood. spent everything they had saved on them - uah 25,000. stock. for the whole winter, free wood was never delivered, they promise for march -april, but there is no need anymore, well, it’s like that on the shore, water, although only technical, is delivered here by rescuers, but with drinking water the problem is, we can still have a half-full bottle somewhere, we really cook with such water from

the rainwater, and despite the difficult weekdays, they still prepare for the holiday, so i decorate it. they work quickly in helmets and bulletproof vests, because the center is the most dangerous place in the damaged city. we are going to meet the new year, the second year of the war here. festive tables will also be here, each hostess prepares something of her own. well , as always, olivier, the children gathered these holy mushrooms. they refer here to the holiday and beauty, to iryna nikitina, a local pen writer, the only one in the whole city is in line, war is war, life is going

according to schedule, but if not me, then who? well, here i have a 73-year-old mother, a 93-year-old disabled grandfather, they don’t want to, but where do i take them, her client iryna says, and she didn’t want to cut her braids , she had to, she cut everything, very well, why, because after these shellings, after all this , the hair is very damaged, falls out, before the full-scale war there were about 15 thousand inhabitants in gulyaipol, now it is 10 times less, every day someone leaves the city, and some the other way around. she is coming back, she was not at home for six months and could not live without home, she came back, and more tears, of course, do not pass at home. laundry is in full swing at the invincibility point, its manager... sergey laughs wildly, everyone wants to be clean in the new year, they don't know if they will have time to pick everything, there are mountains of bags of clothes. well, the queue is alive with us, it turns out, people

bring, put, well, everyone is the same, there is no such thing as an acquaintance, how do they live in such difficult conditions, they answer in unison , i am at home, i am at home, and as long as i am at home, i am not afraid of anything and... from the zaporizhzhia region, olena kaptyuk, daria zyryanova, we are ukraine marathon, the only news. celebrations and rejoicings during the war. is it time to celebrate the new year? this dilemma is faced by many ukrainians, especially when there is an alarm in the country, rockets are flying at cities. at the same time, despite the danger, some people ignore the alarm signals and continue to do their usual business. psychiatrists are already calling it... the new normal, so what is really happening to us, how does the brain react to it, and is there a universal way to get rid of depression and stress. victoria dmytrenko figured it out.

missile attacks, landings and destruction, for two years of full-scale war, these sounds, unfortunately, have already become an integral part of the life of our cities. but despite the pain of the tragedy and sirens, ukrainians continue to live, go about their business. having shelter, once at the beginning of the war, people could not even leave the bomb shelters for days. is such a reaction to potential danger normal now ? experts explain that all these are natural mental processes. at first , fatigue appears in a person, then habituation. the brain actually makes predictions and calculates the probability of events all the time. and since not all signals anxieties end with arrivals, the reaction to everything is calmer. at the same time, we can see less selection, less activation. structures related to the processing of emotional signals, unfortunately, this applies to any stimuli, even such terrible things, which at first seemed to us impossible

to get used to. in general, scientists say, people are usually divided into those who subconsciously avoid, suppress any negative information, on the one hand, this is such a protective reaction, on the other, then anxiety will increase, because the problem has not gone away, and it is not clarified, that is, the level of uncertainty is very high, it turns out that by avoiding negativity... we can drive ourselves into a state of depression and stress even more. it is another matter when we react to negativity with concrete actions, for example, we do not ignore anxiety, but go to shelter, do not turn a blind eye to the needs of soldiers, but donate or volunteer, do not ignore our depressed state, but look for a rational solution, such as communication with relatives and friends? another effective way to start living a full life is to keep busy, it should be some kind of... the system-forming activity of a person, that is, everyone needs to have a job, and when you have a job, your job and your activity, which

fills you with a certain meaning of life, and it is too important to learn to understand your condition, so as not to stress constantly and for no reason, for this our scientists have developed a special test, sometimes you think that i have no strength, i passed the test, it says in... i answer questions and fix negative and positive pictures with my eyes, and this is what i have: 12%, that is, i do not concentrate on unpleasant ones emotions, yes, that is, you are in general you have no distortion of the negative, it means that there is motivation and they know how to give birth to life. in order to increase vitality, experts strongly recommend that, instead of giving up holidays and feeling guilty about joyful events, you should still add more warm and pleasant moments. why are holidays at all, they create a rhythm in our lives, they do not prevent us from getting into a routine, when you are in the same rhythm and gradually, gradually, you start to burn out,

because one of the most dangerous conditions, when the same depression can imperceptibly to get close to a person when they are in the same year, your holiday is primarily about support, about connection with loved ones, of course. in the conditions in which we all live, large-scale celebrations are inappropriate, because the general mood in the country is completely different, but intimate family gatherings are definitely about support, and the main words: life goes on . victoria dmytrenko, vyacheslavdychanskyi and danylo horodetskyi: we are ukraine, marathon one news. christmas tree underground in avdiivka, and new holiday traditions just a few kilometers from russia on the de-occupied kharkiv region. dreams about done'. in rivne, or attempts to rebuild a home and life in the kyiv region, the we ukraine team found sensual stories of war in the west, in the center, in the east of the country,

what is really worth in... for all of us to cross the threshold of 2024 under the blue and yellow about different destinies and intersection points further. welcoming the past year and believing in a miracle is certainly easier when in the family circle, with the most delicious food, because there was something and where to buy and cook it. when there is a home, there is a place to put a christmas tree and something to decorate, and there is someone to take a holiday selfie with. about radically different new year's holidays and definitely different us. 10 km from russia , nataliya krasovska is preparing for the holiday . she lived here in a border village in the kharkiv region for six months of occupation . for the new year, we decided to buy new toys,

new toys, new life. all hopes were for the best, one of the dreams of the 23rd was to hug relatives who were deported by the russians in droves, the whole family is scattered around the world, and my husband and i welcome the new year together, this is our family tradition now, they are becoming different christmas and new year and among the settlers in rivne, here the blazhenko family felt a second, or more rarely, a third wind. as soon as they came to us, they liked it very much, mother, grandfather and two daughters are crammed into 17 squares of the dormitory, the cat mania is also being evacuated here, also a double migrant, she survived in donetsk from donetsk, kurakhov, and from kurakhov in exactly, old lady, she lived without us for an hour. the family was not at home for almost 10 years, almost two of

which were false. ian goes to his native walls in his thoughts almost every day, because of this he does not look for them work, but from month to month the desired move is postponed, we will stay here for the time being, because there is nowhere to return, but there is a roof over our heads, and temporary walls, and everyone is nearby, so it is a holiday to be here, they are already dressing up, all these traditions are more our ukrainian ones are shown. we didn't have that in donetsk, we just had carols and that was it. immediately the family learns about sneb and about poor kutya. well, the dishes must be lean dishes, and mom wants duck. therefore, mother and daughter go shopping together. in the meantime, another mother will set the festive table in the new year, but also in new, permanent walls. an invitation to us, our new home. 130 square meters in five days, three bedrooms and a kitchen

, a studio for... in the berezov family, haitians from sumy oblast printed on their own 3d printer. we were looking for ways to speed up the construction of houses. and after seeing that technology, we decided to implement it here in ukraine. we want to make a revolution in the field of construction. alina definitely smiles at the revolution in her mind, because the desire to cook breakfast in her own printed kitchen brought her mother back to life it was not even the construction itself that dragged out, but the people, it dragged out a lot. right, i saw it. for six months, the eyes did not dry from tears, the russians burned down the family's brand new house with bursts of fire, they did not even register it, and in a matter of months , the owner of the house remained near bakhmut forever. when i was going to bakhmut, i still strongly dissuaded him, i said, well, they came to us here, don't go there, you already forgot, forget it quickly, if we don't go there, they will be here again. there, now in

avdiivka, where the occupiers are erasing all boundaries hell residential areas crackle from enemy fire, apartment blocks fold into card houses, as if they are not made of concrete. the shots of the city are more reminiscent of scenes from the movie about the end of the world. but despite this , several hundred civilians still remain in the city. the city is almost dead, there is no electricity or water in the place. russians use a used one. the tactics of small groups, come in, try to gain a foothold, but the ukrainian military gives them a decent rebuff. it would seem much worse, continuous cannonades overhead, all around complete darkness, life in the basement, but even here the soldier finds light. avdiivka now has a christmas tree with decorations. evergreens from the front are definitely the main ones for each of us.