chernev, people's deputy of ukraine from the servant of the people, head of... the permanent delegation of ukraine in the nato parliamentary assembly. congratulations, mr. yehor. good evening, good evening. ah, yegor, somewhere, if i'm not mistaken, in november, you said quite optimistically that next year , american aid will definitely be there. tell me whether you still maintain such optimism, and to what extent , that these delays in voting. were due to russian influence or is it something else? well, i am confident that the vote will be taken, and i am based on the fact that the question of aid to ukraine for the next year is not in the congress or the united states senate or the white house, that is, the absolute majority agrees on the therefore, about what needs to be helped, and even... the numbers that were proposed by the white house were not revised in principle when they came to the senate, and we became, unfortunately, hostages of domestic political issues, quite sensitive, internal political issues, because ukraine is voted together in a package together with the border and also israel and taiwan, and the border is, well, conditionally, conditionally you can call it a border, yes stre