the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, i am yuliya yarmolenkohe house of representatives did not have time to elect a new speaker when a new political drama unfolded on the capitalist hill. republican leader mike johnson is preparing to introduce a funding bill for israel, separate from ukraine, and take the money for it by cutting funding to the internal revenue service. in the senate instead leaders of both democrats and republicans believe that aid to two important partners should not be divided. the white house has already said that if the president eventually gets such a version of the johnson act for his signature, he will use the veto. the biden administration says that the alternative bill of the republicans only exacerbates differences and does not meet the national interests of the united states, one of which is to help ukraine protect its freedom and independence. can aid to ukraine be affected? let's talk about this with my colleague ostap yarysh. who is currently in direct contact. ostape, hello. i congratulate yulia. ostape, why? i

on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian voice of america service, i am yuliya yarmolenkofocus of the 17th meeting of the contact group on defense of ukraine, known as the ramstein format. at the beginning of the virtual meeting , the head of the pentagon, lloyd austin, who has just returned from kyiv, emphasized that the allies are focused on supporting ukraine in its struggle and protecting critical infrastructure. lloydin reported that since the beginning of work group, its members have already pledged to provide ukraine with security assistance in the total amount of 80 billion dollars and once again assured that they will support ukraine as long as it is needed. we will talk more about this with my colleague ostap yarysh, who is now in direct contact with the studio. ostape, hello. congratulations yulia. ostape, what are the main points of... the last meeting this year in the ramstein format and what is known about the new coalition for the supply of air defense of ukraine? yes, yulia, as you already said, this is expected to be the last meeting before the new year, a

ukrainian program broadcast from washington voice of america chas time, i'm yuliya yarmolenko, congratulationsving, which kicks off the holiday season in the us. three weeks before christmas is the time during which the us congress can approve a request for additional funding for ukraine. such expectations.

yuliya, it's interesting, thank you for these details, yuliya yarmolenko was in touch with us from thete house. and we continue with news from washington. the house of representatives passed a temporary budget to avoid a government shutdown. next, the senate should have its say until then the document will be signed by the president. the deadline is midnight on friday , november 17 for funding for ukraine and other needs. this issue will be considered separately. kateryna lisunova knows the details, we will talk more about it with her. katya, i congratulate you. congratulations step. katya, so what is this, this is temporary funding. which the house of representatives agreed to yesterday, and what does it entail? in general, this is a two-step resolution on short-term funding for the government, which will fund the most important needs the government, actually, in two stages: one stage, until january 19, and in the second stage, until february 2. again, like the previous resolution , it will give lawmakers time to hammer out additional spending bills to fund the government for the rest

the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas time is on the air, i'm yuliya yarmolenko, congratulations. americans today celebrate thanksgiving, which kicks off the holiday season in the us. three weeks before christmas is the time in which the american congress. can approve a request for additional funding for ukraine. democratic congressman mike quigley shared these expectations with voice of america. he did not support both resolutions on short-term funding for the us government because they did not include aid to kyiv. what are the chances of approving additional funding for ukraine by the new year. what factors can affect the speed of decision-making? congressman quigley told about this in an interview with my colleague oleksiy kovalenko. last week, congress approved an interim budget resolution that did not include funding for of ukraine. when do you expect the divorce of funding for ukraine and the vote for it? now there are discussions in the house of representatives and the senate. we'll be back next week after thanksgiving, and i think those discussions will begin in earnest.

there you will be able to ask our hosts yuliya yarmolenko and ostap yarysh your questions live.ou for trusting the voice of america ukrainian service. i am natalya leonova. have a good night and a peaceful morning. we are looking for ten-year-old artem kholodny, who disappeared in kharkiv region back in september 2022. help find the boy his mother asked. imagine, the woman has not seen for more than a year. and did not hear from her son, i appeal to everyone who can see or know any information about my child, my son, cold artem andreyovych, if anyone has seen or heard any information, can provide it, i am asking you to do so, because the heart of a mother breaks up and, the fact is that artem kholodny's parents are divorced and live separately, so it happened that when the war began. the boy was with his father in the city of kupyansk, kharkiv region. on the third day of full-scale invasion, the city was completely occupied, and later the communication was cut off there. for almost six months, mrs. elena did not have any news about her son and only in september 2022 she received

my colleague yuliya yarmolenko followed the course of events in miami. hello yulia. usually, at such debates, first of all, they discuss about domestic american problems. but this time there was a lot of talk about foreign policy, but what about ukraine? you know, maria, it was really unusual. that's the highlight of this debate here in miami. the entire first part of this debate was devoted precisely to external issues. and indeed, if the candidates agreed in principle on what is helping israel. it is necessary that israel definitely has the right to defend itself from an attack by hamas, then from the point of view of ukraine and the further support of the united states of ukraine, then there were really different opinions here, and vive krameswamy, we know his position from the first debate, it sounded very clearly then and caused a very big wave of criticism, this time he again started talking about ukraine being undemocratic, used words like nazi when talking about ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky, for which he, his company had to actually explain those wo