heather conley sees her main task as listening to and informing americans and at least trying to convince the skeptics. if it doesn't work, i can. oleksiy osyka, voice of america. you know, oleksia and gazerkonli in an interview with me, she nevertheless expressed her belief that the democrat-republicans will be able to agree and approve funding for ukraine already at the beginning of the year. thank you very much, yulia, you were in direct contact with us yulia yarmolenko. ukraine is actively working to restore air connections from kyiv and lviv. this was announced on january 18 by the deputy head of the office of the president of ukraine rostyslav shurma at a panel discussion at the ukrainian house in davos. aviation connections with ukraine may resume as early as 2024. the mayor of lviv, andriy sadovy, expressed his hope for this in an interview with ostap yarysh, a journalist of the ukrainian voice of america service. according to him, for this it is necessary to strengthen the ukrainian air defense system, as well as take a number of other measures to international level. well, from

this is how heather conley, president of the german marshall fund in the usa, comments on it to voice of america. i i believe that this can happen only if the support for the measure stops completely, and ukraine has to take a break. but again, i think that the russians will not go to another minsk. they want to take everything. vladimir putin speaks of odessa as a russian city. they want to... establish a puppet regime in kyiv and make ukraine cease to exist as a separate country. you know, once again, in the worst case scenario, ukrainians will still be in the european union and nato. in order for ukraine without the occupied territories to be accepted into nato, advocates the former secretary general of the alliance anders fogh rasmussen, although the ukrainian authorities say that they are not ready to cede territories to russia, even temporarily. all predictions and scenarios are built on the basis of existing political schedules and war. can take a completely different path if there is a so-called black swan, an unexpected event, such as the death of putin, a natural cataclysm o