Ukraine was presented with a list of proposed reforms, what it includes and whether future military aid to ukraine depends on the implementation of these reforms, you know, maria, that list, that document that got into the hands of the ukrainian press, it contains priority reforms for 3, 6, 18 months , and they are all very important, it is, in particular, about reforms related to the functioning of supervisory boards of state enterprises, anticorruption from. Also in general, the functioning of the Judicial Branch of government, as well as reforms in Defense Enterprises or defense institutions and institutions, however , it is worth saying that in the ukrainian press, and the information that appeared, it was said that the white house somehow passed this list to ukrainian authorities and that the future of United States aid, in particular military aid, will depend on the implementation of these reforms, we actually decided to ask directly in the white house, in the white house, is this true, does such a list exist , and does it depend on the implementation of these reforms, does the future of military aid depend on it, and we received a response from a representative of the Us National Security council, which is about this clarification , firstly, that this is a working version of the list of priority reforms that was handed over for discussion and feedback at a recent meeting, in particular the meeting of the coordinating. Donor group that you talked about, and most importantly, that this list, as they say in white home, is not a condition for future military assistance, and that the information that was disseminated in the intelligence is not correct, this is the answer we received from the white house, and in the message that you mentioned from the United States embassy in ukraine, it also says that , that all these efforts are advisory, again priority reforms, and all these efforts are aimed at helping ukraine on the way to european integration, and this was also stated by President Biden, that reforms continue to be important. Julia, thank you for this clarification, also want to talk briefly about the main topic of the week in the United States, which is a possible government shutdown, it could happen as early as next week. Now the media reports that the leaders of the senate are preparing a document on shortterm funding, and it does not provide for the allocation of significant funds to help ukraine resist russian aggression. How did the white house react, because the administration is counting on providing additional funding for ukraine. Marie, a few points, here first of all, the negotiations are very active now on the capital hill, indeed, the deadline is literally a few days away, it expires on september 30, but again, negotiations are ongoing. The second point is that even if there is no help for ukraine in this short resolution in the interim solution, it does not mean that it will not be approved later. Today in karinjenper, the spokeswoman of the white house was asked how the white house will react if aid for ukraine is not prescribed, she expressed hope that the senate and the house of representatives understand the importance of continuing to help ukraine, and matthew miller, a spokesman for the state department, also responded to that. Lets listen. I dont want to speculate based on the debates that are still going on in congress. I will say we are encouraged by bipartisan support. Which we have received from Congress Since the beginning of this war. If you look at the debate in congress, there are bipartisan majorities in both houses of congress that support continued aid to ukraine. Now look, theres a process that we have to go through and work with congress. I believe that it was important that president zelensky was able to come to the capitalist hill last week and talk directly with members of congress about what is happening in ukraine. We were able to talk to congress about the accountability mechanisms we put in place to help. Were providing, weve heard what they want to hear about accountability, we have accountability mechanisms in place and were happy to talk about what those look like, so we think its important that congress continue to show a determination to leave. Of ukraine, so that it continues to restrain and repulse the russian one aggression, to make it clear to congress that we are not going to leave ukraine , we are not going to stand by when countries try to intimidate their neighbors, that is an Important Message that we have sent from this administration, we are glad that congress will support ukraine today and we hope , that they will continue to do this, thank you for this, julia, and the last question i want to ask directly about the white house, i know that President Biden today joined the strike of workers in the auto Manufacturing Industry in michigan, the press published his photo from megaphone in hand, what is going on there . You know, maria, this is really a unique thing, because this is the first time in 100 years that a sitting president has joined a strike by workers in any industry, in this case the auto industry, today President Biden actually participated in the strike joined the picket line in the background on the nearby general motors, production. And actually, why is this happening, President Biden and the Biden Administration will say that President Biden always stands up for workers for unions, but its also very important here understand that all this is happening on the eve of the 2024 election, President Biden wants to win the support of this important union. In 2020, he won in the state of michigan. The state of michigan will be one of the decisive states in 2024 and 2020. Biden had the support of this important union, this time President Biden does not have this support and he really wants to win it, tomorrow also in michigan will be donald trump, who is also trying to get these important points on the eve of the elections. Thank you yulia, we will follow the developments then, Yulia Yarmolenko from the white house was with us. Ways to implement president zelenskys peace formula, use. Russian oligarchs to rebuild ukraine and punish russia for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Prosecutor general of ukraine Andriy Kostin discussed these and other issues during the visit of the ukrainian delegation to washington. In particular, kostin met with the us secretary of Justice Merrick garland, american officials and lawyers who help kyiv in the investigation of war crimes. About cooperation the United States, despite holding the russians accountable for aggression against ukraine, kostin told my colleague maria prus. Could you name a few meetings or a few outcomes of events that you have participated in . My meetings with attorney general Merrick Garland and his team reaffirm that we now have substantial support, not only from the Justice Department s war crimes prosecution team, but also from the federal bureau of investigation, the fbi. We shared some things with these two teams, cases, some of which have gained worldwide publicity as an example of russian atrocities, and we look forward to the results of this cooperation. For me , it is very important that not only ukraine and not only the icc, as an International Judicial body, prosecute russian war criminals. It is important that other countries, especially the United States, which have specific legislation, specific capabilities, and which have great determination to help us and help ukrainians, so that they also achieve results in this work. Therefore, our work with the u. S. Department of justice is very broad, in essence, and not only to prosecute war criminals, not only to help us with our, i would say highpriority cases, such as the forced deportation of ukrainian children, but also to help us build practice in areas that have never previously uninvestigated in history, we now investigate environmental crimes like war crimes. We approach Cyber Attacks as war crimes, and we just had a very good meeting with the fbis special task force on prosecuting attacks on Cultural Heritage and illegal trade in Cultural Heritage as war crimes. Thus, we are approaching new dimensions of crimes committed by russia in ukraine and against ukrainians. And in all these issues and directions , the ministry of justice, the fbi and all Government Agencies help us. Authorities, not only in terms of cooperation in specific cases, but also for capacity building, also training our prosecutors and investigators, because we are approaching new ways and we have no room for error. Yes, you mentioned studying ukrainian prosecutors the Ukrainian Helsinki Union published a report that prosecutors, police officers, Law Enforcement officers at various levels, including your office, often lack skills and time. They feel too much pressure, so there are some problems with the progress of these investigations. How are these issues resolved . First of all, this is an unprecedented number of war crimes. So far we have registered more than 105,000 cases of war crimes committed, and importantly, these are not all war crimes committed, we understand that many of them go unreported because they are still being committed, they are still being committed in the occupied territories, or in the case of people who have already been killed and they have not been able to report the war crimes committed against them, so we understand that this huge number of crimes needs to be investigated and prosecuted, of course. And we have to do it properly because the standard of proof is very important. I always tell this to my prosecutors and all the Law Enforcement agencies, because i meet with them in various coordination very often, i tell them all that we need to ensure that the quality of your investigation, prosecution is at a high level. For us, this is the standard of the International Criminal court, because no one knows when collecting evidence of a crime that has just been committed, whether this case will not be transferred to the icc. We have to investigate it properly, that is to bring the culprits to justice. And one of the elements of the strategy is also the combination of cases. Therefore, when we understand, for example, that several missile and drone attacks were carried out, for example, by one unit of the russian army, we can try to combine these cases into one big one, because in this case it will be easier for us to establish a chain. We all know the criminal cases of deportation of ukrainian children, where parents are waiting for their children kidnapped to russia, civilian detainees this is the same crime, but with another layer, it is their children who are waiting for their parents, who are illegally detained in russia, and one from our messages during this visit and during the visit and additional events at the un general assembly, there was an increase in the awareness of the International Community, the United Nations should pay more attention, as i mentioned during one of the events, if the United Nations was so active in feeding children in other countries with ukrainian grain, the un could play a leading role in returning ukrainian Children Home from russia, using all elements of communication and pressure on the russian authorities to bring our Children Home, and this is important not only for ukrainian children, it is important for many others. Children in many other countries of the world where their rights are violated in many other wars and conflicts. This message is also repeated by president zelensky, have you voiced it, do you feel that you are being heard at the international level, especially in the United States, what can be done about it . As i already mentioned, karim khan and i were at this event regarding the deportation of ukrainian children, and i spoke after him, i said. That karim and i will do our work, we will give more results, but this is not enough, holding them accountable for the deportation of ukrainian children does not automatically mean that our children will be returned home, i mean there is no mechanism that would automatically return children to ukraine from russia, only because more and more criminal cases will be investigated and brought against those who commit this crime, of course we also we will impose sanctions on those who are involved in this illegal activity in russia. We will also use all other ways, which i will not talk about publicly, to return our Children Home to ukraine. What is important to me is that all the power of the United States is not just ready to support, she really helps us. Well, if we talk about ukraines attempt to prove the fact of genocide, what are the main obstacles on this way . After all, with the way ukraine is trying to do it. We hear its very hard to prove that there was intent, isnt it . Yes, but i would say that we have a special team in the investigation and prosecution of crimes of genocide. We have, i would say, quite Significant International support at the expert level. I would say that perhaps the best world experts work with us. In we have a Strategic Plan for how to continue to do this. Its a process, its not just a criminal case. Important, of course, not only. Prove the scale of atrocities, the variety of atrocities. We are now using this approach also in the case of forced deportation, abduction of ukrainian children, forced transfer of them from one group to another, as one of the elements of genocide. We also discuss the deliberate destruction of everything related to ukraine and ukrainians. I already mentioned Cultural Heritage, this is also one of the elements that i will not go into to go deeper, all other elements of intentions, but we are clear we are moving forward. We understand that in order to get closer to proving genocide, we need to first address crimes against humanity, which are the next level of war crimes, and we will move forward because we understand that genocide was committed by russia in ukraine, we understand , that it will take time for us to get, i would say the necessary amount of credible evidence, internationally credible, maybe 150 credible, to not lose this case, and we we understand that. Conservation on an industrial scale, generators, power banks and gas burners. Ukrainians are preparing for the second winter in the conditions. People are bracing themselves for the worstcase scenario, when russia attacks the Energy Infrastructure again and there are Power Outages. Lesya bakalets saw in kyiv how the people of kyiv prepare their homes and the owners of enterprises prepare their office premises. A huge diesel, 5. 3horsepower generator. This generator saved eugenes coffee shop last year, he opened the establishment in september and literally in three. The first week happened russias massive shelling of ukrainian Energy Infrastructure. During the first halfweek of outages, no one understood what was happening, there was no network, no electricity , no heating, yevhen barely found a generator , then the demand for them grew rapidly, then he bought a gas boiler for heating the facility and organized uninterrupted internet. The expense item was huge. It probably made up , well, in fact, half of the budget was open. Coffee shops, within a week the coffee shop turned into a coworking space, people from all over the world came here to work and warm themselves surrounding houses. It seems that 36 people are seated, in the corridor and on the stairs there are also about 15 people, that is, about 50 people, yevhen is preparing in advance for this winter, he and his colleagues have developed a scheme for seating people, bought extension cords, fuel and a supply of food for two weeks. They were worried about the generator, they took it out completely, cleaned everything, changed the oil, the last two days our electricians have been messing with the wiring, because there are also such drops, just the voltage, evgeny says, after last years winter, he is optimistic about the challenges of this one, more calm, in fact, when psychologically we understand that we have already experienced it, which means we will experience it again , the winter is not terrible for the it companys team either control even last autumn, after several Power Outages, they understood, to continue working in a Large Business the center is impossible for them. We decided very urgently and quickly to look for a place that we can move to that will provide us with security, electricity, the ability to function and be warm, because it was still very much winter in the Business Center coldly. Therefore, the team rented a threestory residential building and organized a coworking space for its employees here. We understood that we can provide a bomb shelter here and here we will be independent, that is, we will be able to put two, three, 10 generators, in general, as many as we need, and we will be able to go directly with the owners for some negotiations regarding the installation of certain equipmen