earning from this cheap oil, orban can finance his regime, well, if we talk about oil, then the global market is cheaper, they are already asking for less than 70 dollars, and this is quite convenient, in particular for our country, in fact, the formation of fuel prices, because there are many experts predicted that gasoline after the introduction of excise taxes will... only increase, well, excise taxes will affect the prices of gasoline and autogas, but we see that so far, in particular serhiy kuyun says, such a crazy increase in fuel prices is not planned, unless growth will be insignificant, only within 1.2 hryvnias, well, we will monitor this, we monitor the fuel market, we monitor energy, i will finish my short column today. there are many more interesting things on

the big air, stay with us, watch us! thank you, oleksandr, we are moving on, and we have an event that we will talk about and learn about the results of the award: the vasyl stus award ceremony is taking place in kyiv, and it has been awarded three... years in a row, our correspondent natalya stareprava is currently there . natalya, congratulations, tell us more details, is the name of this year's laureate or laureate already known? i congratulate vasyly, i congratulate our viewers. yes, the name of the laureate is already known, but i will announce it a little later . years, indeed, this

ceremony has already been celebrated for the 35th year in a row, but the last three years have been particularly difficult for ukraine. the ceremony began with a moment of silence in memory of all the dead ukrainians and ukrainians who died as a result of the russian piled up well, in general, this award was founded by the ukrainian intelligentsia headed by yevhen sverstyuk in 1989. in 2016, this tradition was already adopted by the ukrainian pen, the kyiv-megylian business school. and spirit and letter publishing house. this award is given to all writers, artists, musicians, directors, and media managers for their great contribution to ukrainian culture and citizenship. well, this year the laureate was tetiana pylypchuk, ukrainian volunteer, ukrainian cultural figure, director of the kharkiv literary museum. this museum was founded in the late 80s. which was supposed

to be founded in the 30s, but the soviet authorities did not allow it. the literary museum itself is famous for preserving the archives of the period known as the shot renaissance, as it is also called the red renaissance, and these archives were preserved even after the bombing of kharkiv during the second world war. in general, tatyana herself made a great contribution, as well as the preservation of cultural heritage, preservation. of all the exhibits in this museum during a full-scale invasion, to preserve them, to prevent them from being destroyed by russian enemies. word tatiana has not yet been handed over, now she will only be congratulated, today we saw in general the plots, some of the story about the stus award itself, about why this award is important, why it is necessary to remember the activity. of all cultural

figures of the 1920s and 1960s, and why does it need to be continued, announcing that the goal of russia and the soviet government in the past was to destroy everything ukrainian, and the task of our artists, as well as our ukrainians, is to prevent this to do this, and accordingly our weapons are our voice and our word. here is the news for this one just a moment, vasyl, i'll give you the floor. thank you very much, natalya, natalya's old right from the award ceremony. named after vasyl stus, an outstanding poet, dissident. and now we will watch the story about this year's laureate of the award. when they say that museums are something so old and about the past? no, the museum is about the future. the kindergarten of the kharkiv literary museum is a place of strength not only for its director tetyana pylypchuk. behind this gray fence in the center of the city for 36 years... the history

of ukrainian culture for future generations, the center of artistic kharkiv, about the past, present and future, must rap that. because we are renaming with a creak, on the days of the events it is time to look for a free place, but it will be found for everyone, here they are not afraid of heated discussions, on the contrary, they become their initiators, when i came to work in the museum, there is such a stereotyped opinion that the museum - this is such a quiet place, representatives of two different extreme points of view, that's how i saw it. their collection in the literary museum is called an effective remedy for national dementia and social amnesia, and for full-scale of russian aggression were ready. we actually had our emergency kit ready, our

exhibits ready to be evacuated by february 16th, and the bomb shelters ready by february 16th. well, these are not classic bomb shelters there with two exits and there are fully equipped. are these our basements, we understood that it would start, well, we work with such materials, we know what russia is like, the collection of objects of the litmuseum reaches 40 thousand items, this, by the way, you see, we have such a stamp here, in our until the 22nd year there was a street library, the most valuable artifacts, manuscripts and correspondence of the 20s, self- published in the 60s, 80s. we are doing digitization of even the evacuated part, but during this period, it seems to me, we have already invented the ways with which you can work with the meanings that our collection preserves without using exactly the original some of its materials from

the collection. one of the missions of the museum is to return the artists of the executed revival to the cultural space. upon its creation , the museum immediately focused on... collecting this collection of the 1920s, reconstructing, piece by piece collecting what was miraculously preserved under during the soviet occupation. can you imagine, in kharkiv, in the late 80s, early 90s, raising all these messages from the 20s. it was extremely difficult, and perhaps it would have been more convenient for the museum and more profitable to talk about other literature, or... in a different way about this literature, but the museum decided for itself that there was not enough of a ukrainian voice in kharkiv. friends and partners of the museum help the ukrainian voice to be heard loudly. serhiy

dzhadan, whose first collection pink degenerate, printed 30 years ago, is also in the collection, co-founder of the pyatiy festival kharkiv, organizer and participant of numerous events within these walls. for me, this museum is not just some institution and not just an institution, but you know that i bequeathed, that i bequeathed my ashes to the museum, without these cultural institutions, such as the kharkiv literary museum, or let's say, as a literary residence, today it is already difficult to imagine our city, and i realized that all this cannot be imagined without it, now it is such a big child, a child that is actively developing and that needs a lot, a lot love, but a lot gives love the leading kharkiv artists and artists cooperate with the museum, tatyana can use magic, that is, she can calm down, she can connect, and what she does so interestingly is that she tells everyone about everyone, that is, there is a feeling that there is such a thread with which she connects everyone 'connects, connects,

connects, connects, and then feels very much when that thread is sagging, like, it 's loosening, it's pulling it, and that's it all the time, that's the main the process, it seems to me, is energetic. because it's about magic. artists go where it is warm and where there is love. tatiana filipchuk officially headed the museum two months before the full-scale russian invasion. when during the war, most of kharkiv's museum institutions froze, the literary museum was looking for work opportunities in parallel with volunteering, - says the ex-director of the institution, iryna grigorenko. honestly, when you analyze and think: "how is it, how could it be done in time?" despite... the war , the literary museum resumed the activities of the residences. she is one of the most powerful managers in the ukrainian literary community, my daughter, an artist, she is 18 years old, she is just looking for herself. here is this endurance, even in such dramatic things that her peer, who was

a volunteer at the residence in the litmuseum, i would say the chief visual chronicler, so in incredible shots, in sketches, she died yesterday from russian missiles, i think... about the fact that this girl was immediately reflected in my own child is precisely the fact that russia wants to take away our future, to preserve such children. to preserve the memory of those who have passed away. to encourage inquiries in in various formats and record the aggressor's crimes in the cultural sphere. the kharkiv literary museum continues its work. the war crossed out the beginning of its reconstruction, but as it was three years ago, artistic kharkiv meets in the garden. well, this is this year's laureate of the vasyl stus award, which is being presented at this moment. well, we will now. to continue the topic of culture. a belated award in one of the capital's cinemas

, the golden dzig award was just handed out, though. friends, welcome to our evening and special broadcast ukrainian voice of america. kicking off this broadcast, we're looking forward to the debate between kamela harris and donald trump, which we'll be, which we 're looking forward to today, and we'll be following and commenting on. my name is ostab yarysh, i am yuliya yarmolenko, immediately after our studio today, the debate will be broadcast live with translation into ukrainian, after that the briefing, specially our issue will return to the air, and we will analyze the main statements, maybe we will hear something new about ukraine as well. friends, this is the first and perhaps the only debate of this political season between kamela harris and donald trump. moreover, this will be the first face -to-face meeting of the presidential candidates, despite the fact that we have often

heard criticism of each other from both. this debate has been eagerly awaited in the united states, especially after the previous debate in late june between joe biden and donald trump, which actually turned out to be fateful and ultimately led to joe biden's announcement that he was withdrawing from the presidential race. race, but this debate is expected to be... will have a completely different dynamic, will also have a completely different pace, so we are waiting to hear what will happen, what the candidates will say from the stage, in particular about ukraine, and it is very interesting here as well, yulia, how did the candidates prepare for these debates? of course, now there are less than 20 minutes left before the debate itself, but the preparation lasted more than one day, in particular, if we are talking about the campaign of the democrat kamela harris, then she prepared for this debate for 5 days, she spent it in one of the hotels in pittsburgh, where actually such a... theatrical thing happened a recreation of what we will see today on the debate stage. her advisers played the role

of moderators who asked sharp, uncomfortable questions. one of the advisers is philip raines, he played the role of donald trump, by the way, this person was preparing hillary clinton for the 2016 debate, then she also opposed donald trump, as you remember, she lost the election. but philip rance, if people, people who know the man, say he's very... into the role, he not only reflects the way donald trump speaks, the way he answers some questions, but even he dresses like donald trump, and during this training, people who saw it with their own eyes say that he was in a loose-fitting suit with a long tie, so as to resemble donald trump himself as much as possible. if we talk about the main tasks for the company of kamela garis, then for her, of course, the main challenge is to present herself to america. with donald trump, everything is clear, part of it. americans love him, someone doesn't like him, but many americans know him, along with kamela harris

they say they don't know her and don't understand her, so it will be very important for her to introduce herself to america today, before kamela harris tries to introduce or try to define her rival donald trump to americans. as for the strategy, people who are familiar with kamela harris' strategy, they say that first of all she will try to demonstrate, to show that donald trump is a person who only cares about... his own interests, not about the interests americans, chooses about the interests of his rich friends, but again, not about americans, either, they say that she will try to push him to self-destructive remarks, as it happened before, they also say that, unlike joe biden, who tried to present donald trump as a threat to american democracy, kamela harris will try , on the contrary, to belittle donald trump himself, to say that donald trump is the past and she is the future and she will make america better, has better policies, but in this context it is very important that kamela harris actually said clearly what kind of policy she is going to

the president with, what kind of president she wants to be, and regarding another strategy, the day before kamela harris' company tried to launch a whole campaign, in particular advertisements, in which they tried to show, to question the ability of donald trump to be the commander in chief, and in particular launched an advertising campaign with former high officials in the administration of donald trump himself. these are the people he called before he hired that these are the best people, this is john bolton, the national security adviser, this is mark milley, the top general, this is former secretary of defense esper and... and there they picked quotes in which they question donald trump's own ability to protect the national interests of the united states and to be commander-in-chief, and this ad interestingly ran precisely in pennsylvania, where today's debate is taking place, but also ran on fox news in palm beach, where donald trump's residence is , so that donald trump actually saw this ad. said kamela garis

will focus or concentrate one of her chi lines. donald trump, who said he doesn't care about americans, she, that that candidate who understands the middle class, who cares about the middle class, and it's interesting that donald trump is actually going to use that line as well, but to kamela garis for not caring in her 3.5 years as vice president about ordinary americans, that ordinary middle-class americans have become worse off for a democratic administration, that's one of those, one of those lines that donald trump is expected to use in the... in this debate, unlike kamel garis yulu, he looks like he didn't prepare how seriously before this event, at least the preparation for the debate according to the press report was more free-form, no one looked like that, played the role of kamalegaris, instead, trump sat at a table with his aides, members of the campaign, who asked him pointed questions, tried to somehow provoked or asked the questions that

they might expect to hear from the stage today, and in this way helped prepare for these... debates, we know that among those people who were involved in this training were, in particular congressman from florida matt gates and also the former democratic congresswoman from hawaii tulsi gabart, who, by the way, has now switched to the republican camp, supported donald trump in this election, what is interesting is that in 2020 she also ran for president of the united states and was on the same stage of the debate then together ash harris and unlike donald trump, and she says that ... in the debate and helped donald trump with this, another interesting detail that the press report pointed out donald trump is that when there was a debate in 2020, then there was also a vice presidential debate, kamela harris then debated mike pentz, and the audience then remembered the phrase "camaleri" "mr. vice president, i speak," when mike pentz

tried to cut her off during that conversation, and she wanted to finish her point, donald trump sort of shared his.' advisers and aides that he will not allow camela harris to behave like this at these debates, so this is another interesting detail that is being reported in the press. in general, assistants advised trump to be more constructive in his speech and not indulge in any personal insults or taunts, maybe on the harris camera, or mocking some traits or policies that we have seen before at donald trump's rallies, this is one of the traits that he... is trying to build his campaign, to charge the voters, so the advisers say that perhaps at these debates it is worth refraining from such remarks, so as not to harm his own performance at these debates and no, somehow do not take away the points that donald trump may get, instead, one of the strategies that the audience is talking about now that donald trump may follow

is to criticize kamales for the bad decisions of the administration that she represents, he is also expected to be ... on the border, the economy, the foreign politics and other things that donald trump talked about, well, in the end, i think we will hear about it soon. well, literally on the eve of the debate there were also a number of public opinion polls, and the latest poll data shows that the chances of kamela harris and donald trump to become president are almost equal. now you see the overall national poll 48-48 and in fact, as we know, kamela harris has. firewood is literally less than a percent, which is why it is shown at 48-48 approximately, that is, at 0.8% in the country as a whole, these are the average data of seven national surveys. as for swing states this year, some with harris in the lead, others with trump, like pennsylvania, we know that the average of seven different polls shows harris leading by 0.8%.

in georgia, the average of six polls shows trump ahead. by 1.3%, in wisconsin the average result of five polls shows that harris is ahead by 3.4%, in arizona the average result of five polls shows that trump is ahead by 2%. so analysts say that this shows that the surge of support and enthusiasm that kamela harris had in the first week after she was actually nominated for the nomination from being, being the only candidate from the democratic party, and especially after the convention on... the democratic party, this enthusiasm is a little bit leveled off, and the latest polling data indicate that the election will still end with a minimal margin, in fact we will be watching, so now in... the big task for both candidates is actually to win the support of those voters who are still undecided or who are hesitating for whom to cast their votes and they will primarily appeal to them pennsylvania,

which is very important in this election, we mentioned it, more about what expectations in this state and in the city of philadelphia, on the eve of this debate let's talk with our correspondent maria ulyanovska, who is currently working at the scene, maria, i congratulate you, thank you for joining the broadcast, tell us what is happening now at the place of maria yakov fila. welcome to you, welcome to our viewers, we are literally in the center of the city of philadelphia, this is a unique historical area, this is where the founding fathers adopted the declaration of independence, the constitution of the united states, and behind me is the constitution center, this is the museum and educational center of the american constitution, where they will take place debate. which we are so looking forward to, maybe you can hear the music here quite loud, there are a lot of people and we have been here since the morning and more and more people were coming,

towards the evening, people came to support both candidates, like donald trump, as well as kamelo garis, people came who wanted to express their position on political issues, in particular we saw activists for women's reproductive rights here, also in the city today we saw and observed a large protest against the policies of the united states, against politics. regarding the war between israel and hamas, people will say that the united states is supporting israel, which is committing war crimes in gaza. we have not seen any protests in support of ukraine yet, but we have seen various signs, various posters, various advertisements in support of ukraine around the city, and in general, the city can be seen preparing to hide debates, a lot of political advertising, as if from the parties themselves. as well as amateur posters, stickers, people are really politically charged, we walked and heard people discussing different candidates among themselves, they also sold t-shirts

here on the perimeter, people came from washington dc to sell these campaign t-shirts, we even saw a bus driver stop her bus to buy a t-shirt in support of kamela harris, so politically charged is the city right now, and really national polls show that the debate will be very heated and ... there is a lot of convincing to be done with those voters who are still on the fence, and pennsylvania voters are just that voters because pennsylvania voted very differently on different presidential elections, and we've also talked to people to hear what they expect from these debates, and it's very interesting that almost everyone, both donald trump supporters and kamela harris supporters, will say that what they want above all is to hear a constructive debate between the two grown people on political topics, they want to hear their positions, they don't want to listen to arguments, they... don't want to listen to personal insults, and we've already seen various debates like donald trump, yes and camila harris, and people say they really want to to hear a grown-up debate, but they have little hope that it will happen

because, they say, the bar is pretty low right now. if you talk about the issues that are of interest to the average american right now, it's definitely domestic policy, it's the economy, it's inflation, it's health care, it's gun ownership, it's security, it's the southern border of the united states, it's all, all those issues , about what voters told us, both democrats and republican voters, if we talk about foreign policy issues, then they don't really care, or they care less, many voters said that they don't really understand it, those who support ukraine and so said that it is necessary to continue doing it, but there were also those who said that they are already very tired of of this war and that the war must be ended and an armistice must be concluded, and they expect their candidates to show what their foreign policy will be on this issue, in particular, and in general, they ... really want to to hear first of all the specific political steps, the specific policy that will be followed by them candidates, both donald trump and kamela harris. maria, you already talked about the fact that

ukrainian symbols are visible in philadelphia. we know that philadelphia has a very strong ukrainian diaspora. what does the ukrainian diaspora want to hear and see today at these debates from both candidates? we also spoke earlier today with the honorary consul. of ukraine in philadelphia, iryna mazor, and she actually told us that pennsylvania has one of the largest ukrainian communities in the united states, before the full-scale invasion, according to her calculations, there were about 200,000 ethnic ukrainians, but after the full-scale invasion, she told us, more than 100,000 ukrainians came right here, because there's this big ukrainian community here, they're very politically active, and we talked to her about what ukrainians here in philadelphia and in pennsylvania in general expect to hear from this debate and who are they...vote let's let's listen ms. irina, thank you very much for agreeing to meet with the voice of america. we're in philadelphia right now, where the presidential debates are happening, maybe the first, perhaps even the only... trump,

how important is this event for philadelphia, in particular for pennsylvania and for the ukrainian community here? well, yes, as you said , today is probably a historic day, because traditionally, the city of philadelphia is a more democratic city, but the suburbs, which is the part that's outside of philadelphia, it's more pro-republican, and accordingly, today is in the cradle democracy in the first capital. states , there will be these political debates, which our ukrainian community is really looking forward to, because what we want to hear is number one, this is the position on ukraine, or what will be the position of the candidates on the ability of ukraine to repel attacks and strike back at an aggressor, whether ukraine will be able to get more weapons, whether ukraine will be able to get more aid , will america increase its aid in

contact with... our european partners, we know that both candidates have so far such a blurred position on aid to ukraine, both want to end this war, kamela harris says it will continue help, but does not talk about how the voters, right here, that, in addition to hitting back, what they want to hear from the candidates in this debate, what will be important for them to vote for one candidate or the other candidate, we're actually also very ... we want to end this war, but on the condition that ukraine will not break its hands, that ukraine will be able to return to its borders, at least in 1991, that ukraine will be able to defend itself, that ukraine will have some security guarantees, that is, we want to see a clear position regarding the protection of ukraine as a strategic partner of the united states. we know that the ukrainian community here in pennsylvania is quite large, if not

the largest...compared to chicago, of course, in terms of how politically active it is, and how much the ukrainian community can really influence how this state votes, so that we know that pennsylvania is a state that votes differently in different elections, and for the votes of voters right now candidates will compete, the majority of ukrainians who live in pennsylvania, they really are are politically active, but we have one goal, we are what is called bipartisan activity, that is, we try to work with two parties. so that, regardless of which party this or that legislator belongs to, to form his policy regarding ukraine. that is, our task is to show the legislators that it does not matter which party they belong to, because we are trying to show both parties, both sides, that supporting ukraine is extremely strategic for the united states, that supporting ukraine, it is actually good for the economy of the united

states, and what... the support for ukraine, it is necessary because it is the support of the eastern border, that is, it is the defense of the nato countries, that is , we try to work with every legislator and with everyone with every person, regardless of political views, because regardless of their views, supporting ukraine is in the interests of the united states. let ukraine fight back. and this is probably the main message that we want. for our legislators to hear and for the candidates to hear, of course there will be candidates to shape their foreign policy after they take office, respectively, after the election, when they take office as president, and accordingly that policy, it is, i think, somewhat shaped because the previous candidate trump, he was already president, and accordingly khairis is competent, she has a lot of political experience, that is, i think that they already have a very well-formed

point of view about ukraine. we hope that voters of ukrainian origin will vote not for some candidate for political interests, but for that candidate which will provide a more detailed and clear answer regarding the position on ukraine. these opinions are very interesting, of course we also expect to hear a more detailed and constructive position of both candidates regarding the policy on ukraine, maria, thank you, we will follow the debates, which should start soon. from minute to minute, maria olyanovska was in touch with us from philadelphia, where the debate between kamola harris and donald trump is taking place tonight. we will follow and after these debates we will continue their discussion here on our channel with the main summaries, as well as theses about what the candidates for the presidency of the united states said today. here you can see the actual footage from the beginning of the debate in philadelphia, again we will now stream this debate with live translation.

ukrainian and we will also monitor.