from new york iryna solomko, pavlo terekhov, voice of america. here is a report from brooklyn by our colleagues: how do priests, soldiers at the front, monks and ordinary ukrainians perceive the transition to the new holiday calendar, how will it affect the traditions of celebrating christmas holidays, learned omylyano shudlyak and yurii dankevich, their report from lviv, further. when vasyl markiv with a bundle of hay in his hands turns from the bustling lviv square to those. the courtyard of the former jesuit school , where bohdan khmelnytsky once studied, this means that christmas is very close, so everything is fine, here vasyl and his colleagues are making a giant three-meter old man, an ancient symbol of prosperity, it consists of such small old men, which seem to be collected in the area somewhere three 300 pieces, so every year new ones are made, the old one is renewed, and it is stocked up in the summer grain. there are oats, and there may be barley, and wheat, rye, flax, these are all different forages , everything is collected and drie

iryna solomko asked oleksiy danilov, secretary of the national security and defense council.ch one now the situation is at a hotter point. and accordingly, yesterday the russians announced that they had taken maryanka, does this information still correspond to reality? maryanka is located, part of marinka is under the control of the armed forces of ukraine, this is the desire of the russians to capture this settlement, and if we call things as they are, here. what was left of the settlement, they actually completely destroyed maryanka, not a single house, not a single intact structure on the territory of this settlement. in general, how you are currently evaluating ukraine's counteroffensive, but time has already passed and you can probably draw some conclusions. of course, we would like to have a much better situation regarding the territorial situation, the situation regarding the liberation of our territories, but keep in mind that... parallel to this process, there were very big events and very important events on the black sea, that is what concerns the situation related

my colleague iryna solomko follows the events from new york. hi iro.iro, please tell me about the details of this meeting, what was discussed? yes, maria, as you already mentioned, it was a meeting, that is, it was an important meeting, due to the fact that recently, against the background of the conflict between israel and hamas, as well as the aggravation of other regional conflicts, in principle, the attention of the security council to ukraine decreased a little, and this is particularly evident the number of meetings held by this body devoted to ukraine, the last meeting was two weeks ago, during the ashing of china, and as i was told by colleagues, respectively diplomats, actually on... even with it there were several problems, because the chinese constantly tried to move the date. there is probably a certain influence of russia in this , because even today, during the meeting, the deputy permanent representative of russia to the un , dmytro polyansky, in fact publicly thanked the representatives of china and he in fact praised them for what duri

with new york iryna solomko, pavlo terikhov, voice of america. we conclude with this.us worked for you in the studio. see other ukrainian stories. voice of america on our website on social media and like this video and follow us on youtube and facebook. thank you for your trust, see you on the air. greetings, we are asking for your help in the search for this boy and girl who mysteriously disappeared in the donetsk region, and yes.

for details, see the report by iryna solomko and pavel terekhov. blown buildings of the world, every year 67 million passengers pass through the station, now is such a time, christmas, many people think more about the celebration, at a time when thousands of ukrainian children will not be able to be at christmas and other holidays with their parents in a russian colony, we thought for a long time how to combine the theme of christmas with the problem of ukraine and... decided that no one can tell better than children about children's problems, and the cultural initiative of the christmas carol is the most comprehensive tool we hope for. kateryna pavlevich, volunteer of the public organization razom and co-organizer of the action. he says that among the young performers there are several children who experienced the russian invasion and were forced to leave ukraine. maryet ggamel is another co-organizer of the action, she represents the initiative. russian opposition politician gari kasparov, american colonel alexander windman and billionaire businessman daniel lobetskiy now is the ti

attack, our fellow journalist marichka papleoskaite, editor-in-chief of reporters, was there, and iryna solomkoke with her. during the day.

from new york iryna solomko, voice of america. the united states does not forget about the war that is still going on in ukraine. we will be on it. read breaking news and analytical materials on the voice of america website in ukrainian, watch live broadcasts, full versions of interviews and stories on our youtube channel, and of course, subscribe to our social networks to always be informed in actual and true news. thank you for staying with us, good night, good morning, see you soon. we are looking for 15-year-old vitya khudoshin from mariupol. the last time the boy contacted him was on april 1, 2022. then he remained in place, the situation there was very tense, fierce fighting continued. since then, almost two years have passed and there was no more news about the boy. where he is now is unknown. therefore, i am asking a lot, especially to the residents of occupied mariupol, who may now see me on social networks. closely take a look at the photo of vita khudoshin, if anyone has seen him or knows where he might be, write to the

attack, our journalist colleague marichka paplooskaite, editor-in-chief of reporters, was with her iryna solomko spoke. during the day. er, well, i tried to count, it was somewhere, five or six sirens, they are literally, well, one ends, the next one begins, and at that very moment you hear explosions, that is, if in kyiv we hear a siren and such we will be protected by anti-aircraft defense, and we are not too worried, although there are also tragic hits here, but they are much less, and there it is constantly, constantly flying somewhere, and actually this day i heard these you... that they were shining, that is, if in the morning it was somewhere very far away, then it was towards evening closer, closer, closer, and at the moment when the train was brought in, when people gathered to get into the car, at that moment an explosion sounded very close, but it was not yet right at the station, and at that moment the station staff, they reacted very well, they got all the passengers down to the shelter, actually it was... well it was a matter of a few minutes there because it was very lucky that at

iryna solomko spoke with him in new york.uhler, an american painter from brooklyn, always brings sunflowers when he comes to his photo mural in mengeden. it was these sunflowers that ukrainian artists painted around nivychyna and the cars shot by the russian military, in which the inhabitants of rpiny tried to escape from practically surrounded city. after the liberation of kyiv region, the cars were taken to one place , which became... when i arrived there, i was very moved, because these are civilian cars, they are not tanks, and there were children in these cars, and people left toys and flowers for them, and to be there, walking around them, it's really impressive. i wanted to bring it here, because residents of new york will not go to ukraine. this is not the first photo of philip buhler's morality in new york. in 2020 , on the eve of the us presidential election, he installed a thirty-meter installation, which he named. the price of lies. he collected 2000 on it presidential candidate donald trump said at the time. when

experts told my colleague iryna solomko about this.n and how to overcome this problem, see in its plot. philip carber, a military expert and the founder of the descendants foundation, returned from the front a few days ago, says that he saw with his own eyes, how much the intensity of artillery shelling by the ukrainians has decreased. the reason is the decrease in stocks of 155- caliber shells. therefore, they are using less and less every day, trying to save, which means that the ability of the ukrainians to compensate for the numerical advantage of the russians is decreasing, and especially now, when they are trying... this is one of the explanations why the russian attacks in avdiivka had a certain success, even though the russians suffered huge losses, they were able to increase the encirclement a little, so the ukrainian guys scary, they desperately need this ammunition. the decrease in the intensity of shelling is also evidenced by satellite images of the front line, says george baros, an analyst on russia and ukraine at the ins

with india hicks in iryna solomko and pavlo cheryakhov spoke in new york. hicks is a famous and successful businesswoman and a member of the british royal family. before the start of the full-scale invasion, she talks about... she didn't know much, but in the very first days of the great war she went to poland to help ukrainian refugees. a few weeks later, she crossed the ukrainian border for the first time in her life and went to the liberated buchi. it was amazing, i have never seen a devastated city, i have never seen people who have lost everything. there i met anna, she is 87 years, she has no family, she had nowhere to go, her house is gone, she lived in the church, and we met the saint. church, when his house was bombed, he told the residents: come with me, and they all lived in the basement of the church and did not come out, because every time someone tried to do so, a sniper was working. india hicks is a member of the royal family, her grandfather , lord louismanbatten, was the uncle of prince philip, the husband of elizabeth ii. and the last gove