biden can extend these powers herself without the participation of congress, the state department can formally inform congress that it plans to continue using these funds to help ukraine. second, the official request from the biden administration that congress extend this authority did not reach congress until last friday. and thirdly, first of all, right now, congress is focused on continuing to fund the united states government next year, because it ends at the end of this month. not only the action of these presidential powers with 6 billion dollars for ukraine, but also the fiscal year in the united states of america, and congress still has no bill to extend the us budget, even in the short term, and this is now the main, so to speak, topic of discussion in congress. katya, taking into account everything that is happening now in the congress, as the leaders of the congress and the legislators estimate, in general, the chances that they will still be able to access these... 6 billion

will be able to be included in the temporary resolution and approved? republican leaders and democrats with whom i spoke did not give me a clear answer: some claim that everything depends on the speaker of the house of representatives, others say that the government budget must be approved first, and still others generally say that the issue should now be passed to the senate, so that the house of representatives, they say, has already approved both aid to ukraine and the government's budget. i suggest you listen to what i was told. we have a lot of conversations going on right now, but tonight we want to do what is right, what is required and the american people deserve, which is to meet both of our goals that are immediately before us now, which are funding our government and ensuring the security of our elections. this is one of the reasons why speaker johnson needs to forget about his one thing. party short-term resolution, we

need to vote for the needs of the people and pass a bipartisan short-term resolution that would fund both ukraine and our government. the biden administration has made some requests to add to this resolution, but nothing will happen. if this document is not bipartisan and bicameral, and the sooner speaker johnson achieves this, the better it will be for ukraine and for us, for financing our own budget. we are now trying to push to get the senate involved in the negotiations. the speaker has already spoken about it, even before july of this year, the house of representatives passed more than 70% of all bills on state funding. instead, no bill came out of the senate. it is impossible to negotiate when only one side brings ideas to the table. i talked not only with the leaders of republicans and democrats, but also with ordinary lawmakers. from both parties, and from them i heard

clearer answers, in particular, most of them support the extension of these presidential powers with the help of ukraine, some of them reproach the president for waiting too long with this request and that he shifts the responsibility, so to speak, to the congress, and others say that this bill can be approved not only by adding, adding it to the government budget, which is what the president is actually asking for, but and having considered it as a separate bill, i propose to listen to what they actually told me. i'm very concerned that, at best, we're going to vote on a short-term resolution to fund the government that's just going to be viable, it's not going to do all the other functions it's supposed to, like helping ukraine, like disaster relief, and so on. i think the biden administration owes it to everyone, including congress, why they didn't use that $6 billion, the more they have to go to... congress to

get approval, the more difficult it is for this bill to pass the vote. this only complicates the situation. i believe that any short-term government funding resolution that we pass must ensure that we do not lose these specific targeted sources of funding that have already been voted on in previous bills. this is one of the many things currently being discussed. we are afraid of losing these powers. i am completely. support that, i think we should add the extension of that authority to the current short-term funding resolution government, or at least pass it as a separate bill, especially since the senate has enough votes to support the request. now we have an opportunity to do something to protect our national interests and help ukraine win. these 6 billion dollars are very necessary. summarizing, we can say that so far there is neither a draft law with the extension of these presidential powers for ukraine, nor a government budget, but a deadline.

affects already in a week and a half. kadia, thank you very much. of course, in these weeks and a half , we will carefully monitor what takes place on capitol hill, and not only, of course, we will also ask in the white house. and in the pentagon about why other mechanisms cannot be used to make sure that the united states does not lose access to these 6 billion dollars, which can be redirected or actually used to provide military aid to ukraine. thank you very much, kateryna lisonova, our congress correspondent was in touch with the studio from kapitaliyskyi pohorb. and actually, just at a briefing in the pentagon, deputy spokesperson sabrina singh assured that the ministry of defense of the united states intends to use these remaining almost 6 billion dollars to help ukraine. in response to a question from my colleague ostap yarysh, she assured that the pentagon is actively working with congress to extend the president's authority to use these funds to allocate aid packages. i have a question

about the program of presidential powers for ukraine. it appears that the question of temporary extension of funding is having a difficult time in congress. why not choose a shorter way and just notify. congress on intentions to continue using the balance of funds as it was done before. we plan the allocated amount according to the mandate. we can extend that authority to use those funds after the end of the fiscal year, which is what we're working with congress on. so, we have every intention of using every dollar and cent of that amount. the problem is that we cannot provide packages if these capacities. are not on our shelves, so that's something we're also working on, i'll also remind you that for six months, when we didn't have additional funding, we couldn't restock the shelves, that's why we need congress to extend the deadline so that we can continue to provide these packages. but this

term can be extended without a vote of congress, if jdeb notifies congress of such intention, why not use it? we are now working with congress to expand these powers. look, there is bipartisan agreement in congress that we will continue to support ukraine as long as necessary. you are watching, we continue the release. the russians still manage to control the western discourse about the war. in ukraine, this allows them to avoid responsibility, prevent the transfer of the war to their own territory, and use indigenous peoples in the war against ukraine. such conclusions were made public by speakers at the meeting of the helsinki commission in the us congress on wednesday, september 19. one of the witnesses, the famous american historian timothy snyder,

believes that the russian imperial ideology affects not only the russians themselves, but also many people abroad. according to him, western powers look at... the world through russian imperial optics, without even realizing it. part of empire is controlling discourse. to a large extent, the russians have been able to control the strategic discourse, establishing for us new rules of war that have never existed before. like, for example, that when you invade another country, the war should only take place within the territory of the country you invaded. such no one has said yet, because it's completely absurd, and yet, somehow, the united states has accepted it as normal, that this war should be fought exclusively on the territory of ukraine. there is no precedent for such an idea. another idea of ​​the russians, which we accepted and decided was normal, is, for example, when you and

i were in kyiv and ballistic missiles fired at the city, where we were trying to conduct normal business. at the same time, it is somehow abnormal for ballistic missiles to land outside of ukraine. to the territory of russia, why, why is it normal for one country and not for another, this is largely connected with the imperial thinking that we adopted, they say, in russia, as a country there is something valuable, special and so on, and it is normal for ukrainians to be victims, because they have always been victims. we need to examine this frame of mind, which i believe has steered our politics in the wrong direction. now i will try to answer your question about the winning plan. i... i consider that the ukrainians are right in one approach, in which it is very difficult for them to convince us. and what i will say now is consistent with the history of the empire. the russians will negotiate for peace when they think they are losing. so if there is someone who is serious about negotiations, that person should try to put the russians in

a position where they know they can lose. ukrainians understand this, but it is very difficult for them to make us understand this truth. that's why... when they talk about a victory plan or a peace plan, they mean what the west and ukraine should do together to bring russia to a point where it can negotiate sincerely. now. they are not there. this is an opinion from timothy snyder. the us presidential election is less than two days away months according to officials, the security situation around voting is becoming more and more uncertain, although the infrastructure for holding elections is becoming more and more secure, as additional resources are being invested in it. in particular, analysts in washington told about this at a conference dedicated to election security. according to them, there is currently an increased activity of external players who are... trying to interfere in the elections in the united states. voa national security correspondent

jeff seldin investigated the expansion spectrum of complex operations of influence on us voters. details in yuriy melnyk's plot. at this stage of the presidential race in the united states, efforts to sway voters to their side are in full swing. we will save our economy, we will save our middle class. it's time to turn the page. let's turn the page. but , according to us officials, russia joined the race. the inner circle of president vladimir putin, including sergei kiriyenko, ordered russian pr companies to promote disinformation and the russian state's support of the narrative as part of a program to influence the 2024 us presidential election. part of the plan, according to the us indictment, was to impersonate dozens of news websites to influence that. how american voters view important issues. another part concerned russian state broadcaster arti, who

is accused of transferring nearly $10 million to an american media company. pay unwitting americans millions of dollars to deliver kremlin messages to influence us elections and undermine democracy. russia rejects these accusations. this russophobia is an attack on freedom of speech, discrimination and... the dirtiest american games of the deep state for manipulation during the election cycle. us officials dismiss such objections as ridiculous. a declassified intelligence report released earlier this month names russia as the most active threat of foreign influence in the upcoming election aimed at boosting former president donald trump's chances. and then there is iran. we have seen increasingly aggressive iranian activity during this election cycle. it. includes iran's recently reported actions to undermine former

president trump's campaign and prevent the outcome of an election that iran believes is against its interests. us intelligence officials say china is also running a small social media campaign to discredit candidates seen as hostile to beijing. however, whether the united states' deterrence of such actions is working is questionable. i don't think it's really become the key yet. the question that is followed most american voters, however , it is really important for voters to understand what is going on and how they can be made puppets. another question americans should ponder as they prepare to vote? yuriy melnyk, jeff seldin, voice of america, washington. and the good news is, we tell a lot of stories. people who are waiting for their relatives from captivity. one of our heroines, anna zaitseva, who survived the siege

of mariupol together with her three-month-old son in azovstal, waited for her husband after almost 2.5 years. during the most recent exchange prisoners of war, her kirill, the soldiers of the azov brigade returned. their story from maria olyanovska continues. the whole world saw anna zaitseva's story. during the siege of mariupol, together with their three-month-old son, they hid for more than 60 days. on april 30, she and 156 other civilians were evacuated from mariupol through the humanitarian corridor. the girl's husband , kirill, a former marine , left military service shortly before the full-scale invasion, but joined the azov battalion after february 24. he probably came to my bunker twice to to bring food to civilians, some information, medicine. and the last time i saw him was at the beginning of march. thereafter. he was wounded in the leg. when civilians were evacuated from ezovstal, the military remained under siege.

there was almost no hope of their rescue, but in may 2022, the defenders of mariupol managed to be evacuated from inevitable death in russian captivity. after some defenders of azovstal were exchanged, they gave me information that he was seen by the volenivtsi and during the terrorist attack in olenivtsi, he was there is present, and he survived, but after that the connection is lost. i don't know now if he is alive at all or not. while waiting for news about her husband, anna recovered herself and took care of her son, who is now 2.5 years old. she says she learned to live with this pain. because really it's all hard, and you understand that you have to be strong not only for yourself, but also for your husband and son. i think i've become a lot stronger, but every time, for example, women come up to me and say, you're so strong, i say, you know, i wish everyone

not to be strong, but to be happy. you can be strong, yes, it should be in harmony, but the main thing is to be. happy for almost 2.5 years , the girl did not have any information about her husband. the red cross could not confirm whether kirill was in captivity in russia, but like thousands of ukrainian families whose relatives disappeared during the war, anna believed in a miracle. i'm sure he's alive because i feel this way, i shouldn't lose hope. when we last saw each other in azovstal, he promised me that he would return, he keeps his promises. i know that... did you promise him something too? yes, i promised him that when he comes back, we will also have a daughter. i really hope so. on september 14, during the exchange of prisoners of war, kyrylo returned. it is difficult to recognize a young man in a tired man. freed from captivity, ukrainian soldiers report torture,

hunger and abuse every time. kirill returned with 23 soldiers of the azov brigade, who were exchanged for the first time in 2.5 years after... a full-scale war. now kirill is waiting for a period of rehabilitation next to his wife. anna says that it is one thing to return from the war physically, and another - return from the war emotionally. it was a story from maria olyanovska. since 2015, willsay hospital, one of the oldest and best ophthalmology hospitals in the united states , has been performing complex operations and restoring sight to wounded ukrainian soldiers. all medical care received by defenders. free, the hospital covers all expenses. we are talking about tens of thousands of dollars for one operation, for example, only a corneal prosthesis costs $30,000. iryna solomko and pavlo teryho visited the clinic and talked with the doctors who are making incredible efforts, so that wounded soldiers could see again. yuri bilyk, professor of ophthalmology,

has been working as a plastic surgeon at wills eye hospital for more than 30 years. he is engaged in reconstruction of the eye, both eyelids and... one of the best eye hospitals in the usa, it is located in philadelphia, where a large ukrainian community lives, that's how everything was in the ukrainian community here, we all helped everything, that is, this is such a tradition, such a community knows the phone, my colleagues know, and there are organizations, people from the community who will call me, but i can say that the administration here, not only here, al in jefferson too. but he very, very never says no, everything somehow finds a place and sometimes you really need equipment and so on, but they smooth it all out without a problem. roman wangeryuk, one of the volunteers of the revive soldiers ukraine charity fund. this organization

was one of the first to bring ukrainian military personnel to wills i hospital. back in 2017. when we brought here our first, one might say subordinate patient, vitaly halytsyn, blind for eye surgery, vylzy hospital, the doctor at that time said, the american woman who operated on his eyes said, i hate putin so much that by doing this operation for free, it is mine, it is my contribution, and we will fight together. the hospital has never refused the foundation assistance. mark bleacher, chief medical officer. he says that the clinic considers it an honor to help wounded ukrainian soldiers. we use all available resources to meet the needs. we also have several donors who are good friends of the hospital who have also contributed to the fund so that we can continue to provide assistance to the ukrainian soldiers who

need we are glad to be able to contribute to help in this important situation that is happening now. we are glad that we can somehow help the ukrainian armed forces and the ukrainian people. bilyk says: wounded people with very complex multiple injuries are admitted to the hospital. almost 20 ukrainian soldiers passed through the hands of surgeons. usually, operations last 5-6 hours. they are not made in ukraine. it is very difficult to do surgery. we need a lot of tools, well, we need artificial rings and so on. and this. here we do so the longest that, as far as i know, was dr. said's operation, she had to put, well, an artificial artificial cornea, and it lasted for several hours, sometimes... it happens that the surgeon, the retinal doctor starts, where the corneal doctor does his part , where i am the end with eyelashes,

it depends, and what is the damage, that’s all, it ’s all on me, it’s hard to see, i’ll tell you, because these young guys mostly have a wife, have children, and they come, and sometimes they have with... in one eye, sometimes they have vision in both eyes. doctor zeba said, bilyk's colleague. very often during the operation they work in pairs. her specialty is the cornea of ​​the eye. explaining exactly what it does, sait compares the cornea to a window through which light or images enter the eye. most of the injuries i deal with are corneal ulcers from blast injuries. it is a window in their eyes, opaque, white as a wall. so... often , in addition to the cornea, you have to work with

the retina, which is handled by a separate surgeon. gathering all specialists at one table is not easy, a separate nurse is responsible for this. she plans all operations, nothing couldn't happen without chrissy's help. how do you like working with ukrainian patients? great, they are very. grateful, i feel we are doing an incredible service for them, their families. said says that most of her patients are young men with wives and children. usually, both eyes cannot see, there is no question of a complete restoration of vision, but for doctors, and for soldiers and their families, even a partial ability to see is already a victory. the wife of one of the patients said that she would finally be able to leave her husband at home alone, until she could not operate. to do this because it was dangerous. all operated ukrainian servicemen must take eye medication after returning to ukraine. many of them are not

in ukraine, so before sending the patient home, said prepares recommendations and medicines. karen, one of the patients, is returning to ukraine next week. does he have all the drops? make sure everything is written out and the eye doctor at home will know what to do in the long run. bilyk admits, sometimes, after the operation did not bring the desired result, he has to remove the eye, and this is a very difficult psychological moment and conversation, and sometimes they come and it is not possible to help, and sometimes the eyes come and such, well , he has so much trauma that we, i have to remove, pull out the eye, because it is better will look without an eye, has an eye prosthesis, the most difficult conversation, she came here, we can't help, nothing helps, maybe time helps, i don't know, everything

is difficult. bilyk notes that there are no half-tones in the war in ukraine, there is a struggle between good and evil, his colleagues understand well whose side they are on, helping and restoring the sight of ukrainian fighters, so they say, they will do it for free as long as there is a need. from philadelphia, iryna solomko, pavlo terekhov, voice of america. and that's it, thank you for watching voice of america, in ukrainian. see you tomorrow in our programs briefing and chas time. all the best, take care. pope!

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the victory together. glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, today in the verdict program with serhii rudenko. fiery arguments for long-range. ukrainian strikes on military facilities in the depths of russian territory weaken the offensive potential of the enemy on all fronts. what other reasons are lacking for western partners. a comprehensive strategy for success. in the usa, they are waiting for a conversation with the president of ukraine about the prospects of curbing russian aggression. will volodymyr zelensky's victory plan work before joseph biden leaves power? not until decolonization. verkhovna rada deprived of russian narratives of the names of 328 settlements

in ukraine, why residents of pavlohrad, pervomaisk, senelnikov, yuzhny and yuzhnoukrainsk still cling to the soviet past. glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program. my name is serhiy rudenko, i greet everyone and wish everyone good health. for the next hour, we talk about ukraine, the world, the war, and our victory. let's talk about another terrorist act of the russian federation in the city of sumy, and about what is happening in kurtshchyna, and how volodymyr zelensky will present the victory plan biden, trump and harris literally in a week. however, before starting our conversation with our esteemed experts, i suggest you watch a video of how the 21st separate battalion of special forces.

the other day, the presidential brigade repelled another assault by a whole column of russian equipment, special forces rolled out enemy tanks with fpv drones, let's watch this enchanting video.