it's two o'clock in the morning in ukraine, we're talking about the most important thing at this hour, i'm olga hrytsyk, i congratulate you. anti-aircraft defense broke the plan of the russians, who again launched shaheds on ukrainian cities. enemy drones maneuvered over ukraine for several hours, but all of them were counted and destroyed. four drones were shot down over the dnipropetrovsk region, according to the operational command of the southern air defense forces, the air defense system also successfully operated in the mykolaiv region. another group of shaheds. moved to starokostiantyn, the alarm in khmelnytskyi region lasted only 25 minutes, and now we are waiting for information from air force, however, what ended this attack. this night there were explosions again in kherson, their consequences are currently unknown, but we know that as a result of the previous massive attack on the city this evening , seven people were injured, among them a 15-year-old boy, three in a medium condition. the occupiers...

hit two districts, the central and the ship district, hit a residential quarter and a hospital, one of the shells hit the gas network, the rescuers could not put out the fire for a long time, especially since the russians hindered the work aerial bombardment with repeated attacks, however , the firefighters managed and now the fire is localized. at the same time , the activity of enemy aviation in the front-line area has sharply decreased, this happened after on friday... ukrainian defenders shot down three enemy su-34s at once. the occupiers are obviously digesting the losses and especially not flying - they say in the joint press center of the southern defense forces. we observe such a comfortable use of guided aerial bombs. before that there was a period when the weather did not allow the enemy to use this method of air pressure, then using the fewest windows. weather,

the enemy tried to make up for the lost time, at the moment we see that they are in a significant deep contemplation. on the outskirts of senkivka, this is the direction of kupyan, ukrainian fighters forced a column of russian invaders to retreat. the occupiers attacked our positions with a large number of armored vehicles, but the armed forces gave a decent repulse, as a result , the enemy combat vehicles and tanks were turned back, blowing up under them. they fled along the road in such a way that they did not even take away the infantry that had scattered around. the russians are also in this direction artillery and kamikaze drones are actively used. the enemy continues offensive actions on kupinsk, for this he needs to capture simkivka in order to make himself a springboard for further offensive. in the estuary direction , they are also trying to advance, using units of storm units. assault z

pulls up certain reserves of these assault battalions to organize the offensive. in the direction of vdyiv, enemy artillery also works non-stop, the sounds of cannonade do not subside either day or night. the russians push from three directions and try to drive a wedge between steppe and coke chemical, or surround avdiivka, including using prohibited cluster shells and even try to deceive ours during one of the attacks on... for example, they planted dummies on bmp and called fire on them. at the same time, the infantry tried to enter from the other flank, but were equally repulsed. ukrainian fighters also did not allow the russians to capture the steppe village. this is a process that can be called wave-like. they support their attacks with artillery, their epidrons are constantly working and are practically on fire 24 hours a day accumulation of forces in the audiian direction of the enemy, therefore... we hear new waves of attacks and

we must be ready for it. the court chose a precautionary measure against the head of one of the main departments of the ministry of defense. he will spend the next two months in custody without bail. the name of the official is not disclosed. however, according to the investigation, he embezzled 1.5 billion hryvnias from the state procurement of artillery units for the armed forces. the ministry of defense said that this money can still be returned, because they did not have time to receive the goods. the organizer of the scheme now faces up to 15 years in prison. in the defense budget of the usa for the next year provides 300 million dollars for ukraine. the bill signed by joe biden is a record. in total , 886 billion dollars were allocated for the country's military needs. the document, in particular, increases funding for the military to deter future conflicts. meanwhile, the law on the allocation of additional financial assistance for ukraine in more than 60. is stuck in the congress,

the republicans said that they will agree to it only in exchange for migration changes, therefore, for ukrainian issues, the congressmen are most likely they won't start... earlier than the middle of january, when they actually come back from vacation. polish farmers temporarily stopped the blockade of the shegyny medica checkpoint on the border with ukraine, they agreed to let cars through if they were given subsidies for the purchase of corn, kept the agricultural tax at this year's level and continued liquidity loans, the polish government said. at the same time , the poles will even block the dorogusk checkpoint. meanwhile, analysts say that not only ukraine, but also poland itself will suffer losses from blocking the border. on according to expert estimates, ukraine already lost approximately one billion euros during this period. but

it cannot be said, in fact, that poland gains something from this, because it loses trade, it loses transit opportunities. the number of dead in lviv has increased to three, the state emergency service reports. the bodies of two men were recovered from the rubble of the house destroyed by the explosion, and an elderly woman was found dead in a neighboring house. the cause of death is currently not specified. at the scene of the tragedy, the search operation continues. the rescuers attached a dog to her service four people have already been rescued, these are two women and two children. they are alive, but have received burns. now everyone is in the hospital. for ahead. information , gas exploded in the garage next to the house, but the exact cause will be known after the investigation is completed. in zaporozhye , a demining robot was assembled almost from improvised materials, and it is already working in the kherson region. the cost of the robot is four times

cheaper than european counterparts, but it still exists in a single copy, which prevents them from being mass-produced, explained olena k. every half-meter, a russian mine. these shots filmed by the military in the zaporozhye direction. here are the mines. many of the mines are of the old model and many are unclear why they do not detonate after the set deadline. sapper karen martirasyan spent a month in a hospital bed, demining the kherson region, when a mine exploded nearby. there was an anti-tank mine. approached. to her , well, something blew up, if it hadn't been determined that i was face down, i already remember only the hospital, a protective suit saved karen from death, but her arms and legs were cut by fragments, she almost lost an eye. if only at one time, we would have some kind of robot,

it would be possible to simply give it a charge there, it would come up, put it next to it and not go to it. ruslan anikalov shows the long-awaited demining robot, six of these were handed over to the ukrainian sappers by the british, which is almost attached to its arm, as it is now approximately, it is capable of lifting the gnp up to 20 kg, it has a lot of cameras, both on the arm and on the clinch, how much is this one? approximately 800,000, and this is already the development of zaporozhye inventors, an analogue of a western robot, but in four times cheaper, engines from a children's gyroscooter, engines on the hand - this is... seats from mercedes, part of the circuit boards is chinese. denys kabanenko headed the school of robotics for 5 years, his students won gold medals at engineering competitions, and with the beginning of a full-scale war, the teacher realized that his skills would be needed in demining. one camera, two cameras and three

cameras. controlling the robot is quite simple, we tried it ourselves, and in a few minutes it was lifting even small objects from the ground. from the first time, i've been this saber cat myself be'. denis sent one of these robots to the kherson region, the materials for its creation were paid for by volunteers, now it is in the hands of experienced sappers, clearing fields from a russian ironclad, but they threw it away and left, this is a humanitarian exchange, it is the state emergency service, explosives experts, these are the people who well , they liquidate ammunition after some arrivals there, it... is used directly in such risky cases. engineers would prefer to mass-produce such robots, but they don't have the money for it. denis applied for various grants, but he says that

no one is ready to invest in front-line production yet. from zaporizhzhia, olena kaptyuk, daria zeryanova. we are ukraine, marathon, the only news. an official of the capital's military administration is helping. deputies of the kyiv city council to evade military service, he facilitated the registration of false business trips to the military administration of kyiv and received suspicion for this, the state bureau of investigation says. two local deputies and one of their assistants were supposed to serve, but they did not appear in the military unit for almost a year. instead, money was received regularly. in august, everyone was declared suspect for their own evasion. the commander of one of the military units of teroborona, where the men were supposed to serve on mobilization, contributed to the illegal stay in the kmva. suspicion under the same articles was reported to a high-ranking official of the kmva, who contributed to the registration of the lime. the sanction of the articles provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of up to 10 years, she

lost her husband on the battlefield, but for the sake of victory she found the strength to continue working. inna gordiy opened her own atelier and still does thermal clothing, balaclavas and other things that are so necessary for the military. however , she told our olga kosenko how she and her husband failed to realize their dream and open their own business. on the day of inna gordiy comes to the stele as a dead hero, here is a photo of her husband ruslan, he died last year in october in donetsk region during enemy shelling. kotusyk, i always called him that. rusyk, with love, with tenderness, i still do not believe that he is not there , i guess she made up some kind of fairy tale that he was far away, because he was abroad. ruslan worked in germany as a crane operator, and when the full-scale invasion of russia began , he immediately returned home to defend the country. the first military item that inna sewed was a plate carrier for her husband. there was nothing to take, i will tell you honestly, no velcro,

no rivets, nothing, as you can see, here they are even multi-colored. inna has been here since she was nine years old, her husband set up this workshop for her, the machines, the tables, all the parts , he did it all, and when my husband died, they brought me things, i left them here, i guess, well, i've been here for three months i simply could not to come in, but still decided to make her dream come true. loved one and return to work, later she received her first order to sew thermal clothing for the military, sews for defenders for free, and also buys materials at her own expense. the fabric was carefully chosen so that it was warm, stretched well and did not melt when it burned. you see, it generally crumbles like a bag, put out and that's all, it won't do any harm, it's just that during the shooting , one of the customers, volunteer lidia semenyuk, came and asked to sew 10 sets of thermals. common trouble with another of their relatives, both lost their husbands in the war, and the help of the army helps to survive

it, it fills you up, you understand that you are needed, that you are doing a useful thing, and of course, you are distracted a lot by this, and this thanks to the military is very expensive. after the victory , inna dreams of sewing wedding dresses and stage costumes, but for now she is focused on helping the defenders. i will not. we ourselves are asking, as they say, to push, to force them to take. from cherkasy, olga kosenko, oleg klymenko, we are ukraine, marathon one news. on the eve of christmas, the ukrainian military starred in a video, where christmas carols were sung, calling on the world to continue supporting ukraine. in their performance, slightly changed texts of world- famous compositions, for example, by john lennon and frank sinatra, took on a special meaning, because in the dugout near bakhmut on the ruins. the cultural center or the railway station in lyman, ukrainian heroes remind the world of the horrors

of war, which can spread to their peaceful lives. at this hour, i have everything, i am about... until four, and just now the paragraph with yulia galushka will tell how a ukrainian generous conquered the whole world. chevrons approaching victory. but we arrived normally. nothing broke, everything, mom, come on, i'll dial later, sir, what are you doing,

be careful, yes, yes, i'm kind of gentle, it's in the cans, and i, to be honest, i'm not very good, so mom is for you i cooked, i'll come, if you don't eat, i understood, plus, come on, we'll leave, and we 've reworked it a little, it's a really powerful thing. mattress, petrovich, what pizza did you order? no, it is. this is a really powerful thing,

oh, i almost killed myself, they're going to put generators here on... horses, put a generator emits gentle gas, therefore only outside 6 meters from windows and doors, safety rules are observed, they save lives, three more bodies will come.

a song that has become popular on all continents of the world, and sometimes there is no idea that this melody is ukrainian, this is a paragraph, a song, the story of a christmas superhit, my name is yulia galushka, subscribe, like and comment on this video, or as many viewers as possible have seen quality ukrainian content, and we will talk about it with my guests, this is the author of the study of the history of generosity, katina peresunko, i welcome you to the studio, and i congratulate the violinist and composer kyrylo stetsenko. it seems to me that you are the best one to tell us about shchedryk, and you know the most about him, and now the audience will understand why, but i want to start such a question a little like with an asterisk, because shchedryk is shedrivka in ukrainian , in the translation into english it has already become a carol, how did it turn out, then

a carol or a carol, who knows, but you understand, other peoples do not have... a distinction between carols and carols, they have everything carol, true, true, and they these christmas carols, on christmas, when should we sing on the 24th or 31st, for the new year, yes, yes, yes, this, this is really generous, and what is interesting, i think, well, we are a very old nation, we have a thousand minus a thousand years development of our culture. and this can be very well traced in our carols and shedrivkas, but what is interesting about the new year, the new year was celebrated on the vernal equinox, that's why also, that's why the swallow , that's why the swallow flies like this in the spring just for them and, by the way, they are also generous - these are also birds that fly somewhere to cyprus for the winter or to egypt, and they arrived just in april

and may, well, now let's go to the history of the generous leontovych. shchedrik wrote, well, it is considered that for more than one year, he wrote it probably not very correctly, because he took and actually artistically processed this work, what was the difficulty then, was it some kind of perfectionism of the author? yes, many of his contemporaries and today's composers speak of leontovich as a jeweler-composer, since 1913 he started to work more or less finally. a collection of ukrainian songs, which is actually generous was printed as a national charity with that text. if there is a gun hanging in the theater, then sooner or later it must fire, we have a violin lying around, well, i cannot but ask you to show me what is the masterpiece and symphonic nature of this simple, as you say, folk melody,

which leontovych arranged, well, actually, it it's not... a symphony by itself, it's just these notes. and so always, you know? leontovich left these four notes, but leontovich uses an art called counterpoint, that is, how to combine melodic lines, one melody line, second melody line, third melody line, and he wrote this arrangement for four voices. a normal mixed choir , sopranos, altos, tenors, basses, and he just did it brilliantly, that's all, well... let's do a little experiment, can i play it sitting in a chair, i confess, never in my life i played sitting down, but i don't want to drag out the topics of the program.

bravo, well, i heard the choir, i heard the choir, despite the fact that it was one violin, but in the hands of the people's artist of ukraine. thank you for both the performance and the arrangement, but here is a question, you know, to the shadow, as to the researcher, because there are many wonderful songs, many are wonderful. treatments , but not all of them become popular , what happened to the generous man, that he flew like a talisman to a wide audience when he was presented by the choir of pidoruda oleksandr koshyts,

it was then a mixed choir consisting of students of the university of st. volodymyr and students, women's higher courses , that is, then women and men and girls separately on... it was a mixed choir that performed in the hall of the merchants' meeting on christmas day 1916, today this is the national philharmonic, during the christmas concert the premiere of shchedryk took place, and here koshyts remembered that even then this song caused a standing ovation from the audience, do you remember what the song shchedryk is about, a swallow flew in and became, well, the word in the song it is about the fact that a swallow flew... to the owner's house and blessed him for a happy new year, that is, in fact, this kyiv performance of the philanthropist somehow prophesied us a happy

year 1917, that is, for the whole year, not the holiday of the new year, for the whole year, which will be, that's right, so i am understand, and this is the year 1917, when the monarchy of the russian empire fell, and when the ukrainian state formation had already begun, the minister was created then. of culture, which was called the ministry of education and art, where, among other things, mykola leontovych worked , that is, it is also important for me to tell in this story that mykola leontovych was not only a composer, he was a civil servant of ukraine, a government official of the ministry of culture. after the declaration of independence in january 1918 , the world had to recognize an independent ukraine. and of course, the bolshevik invasion began russia, that is, it was necessary for the world to recognize its independence. country and also provided military aid in countering the russian occupation, and it was in this context that simon petlyura, about whom we will talk more now,

initiated this idea, this decision to send a choir under the instruments of oleksandr koshyts to europe, which would through music, through song , opened ukraine to the world, proved to the world that ukrainians are not russians, ukrainians are an independent nation that has the right to an independent state. it's, it's very, very, sorry, important, what tina said because 100 years ago, ukraine was in a much worse state, because the majority of the world did not even understand that there was such a nation, much older than the muscovites, that is, the russians, and petliura simply understood this perfectly and found a way to reach hearts, and the fact that we are now known in the world , this is also simon's merit. and a bunch of choirs who simply developed some kind of, you know, this emotional aura and this

cultural noosphere. which we can already rely on it, but look, you modestly remained silent, so i will clarify: wikipedia, writing about the chapel under the košice cannon, she writes: the republican chapel of košice and kirill stetsenko, your grandfather. yes, that was the story here, just tina, it was the first one who began to emphasize so vividly, in fact, as you say, and there is, as it is written in wikipedia, because petlyu. instructed on january 1, 1919 at an official meeting with oleksandr kosyts and kirill stetsenko that you must create a chapel, and if not, what did he say, and if not, then he added, laughing, i will shoot him, well , that is, he was then the main ottoman , yes, that is, the ukrainian commander-in-chief troops, and therefore allowed himself such jokes that were appropriate, but at the same time he and košice had known each other for a long time, and why are we

talking here. and about koshyts and about stotsenko, and i return again to the music department, to the ministry of culture, because oleksandr koshyts was the first head of the music department of the ministry of culture of the ukrainian people's republic from june 1917, in january 1919, when, as a matter of fact, simon petlyura had already given this assignment , kyrylo stetsenko was the head of the music department, that's why kyrylo stetsenko was at this audience, well how responsible official, but it was his duty, if i may. shchedryk , that is, well, there are two versions, either mykola leontovych directly sent to košice, who presented this work in kyiv, his own shchedryk , the one he wrote, wrote, and would continue to write if koshets was not for it, or perhaps kirill stetsenko, because he contributed to the popularization of the creativity of his very close friend, and i

mentioned something else, that's all. in the memories of kirill stetsenko's wife, yevgenia stetsenko, which, going back to the fall of the russian empire, monarchy, then he remembered, his wife recalled that leontovich and stetsenko hugged each other in joy, that is, this is how mykola leontovich met the fact of the fall of the russian monarchy, they were sitting in the villages, again, i cling to this word, it was southern vinnytsia, stetsenko was in rusav's head, and leontov seems to be in tulchyn. as far as i am not mistaken, that is, we know from the same memories that they went to visit each other, and leontovych also came to them on a bicycle, he liked to pick raspberries, he rode on a bicycle, and somehow through the thickets, so that it was faster, and stetsenko is on a horse, and stetsenko wrote it, so who thinks that he doesn't know such a composer, it was kyrylo stetsenko who wrote koliskova, those younger than me may not remember, but i fell asleep to it. a quiet

evening descends on the earth, and the sun sets darkly. simon petliura, conductor and violinist, george hershim worked generously, what did you bring me a rag, carol the belsa could not... be,

the chapel under the cannon of košice, is going west, you know, it doesn’t fit in my head a bit after all , the beginning of the 19th year, the bolsheviks already are approaching kyiv, on our territory, on our lands, terrible battles are going on, here people are going on tour, aren’t these the tours that we imagine now, that’s how it happened then, i understand how important this was, well actually cultural diplomacy, would you call it some kind of musical landing now? or cultural landing, as it was now called cultural-national propaganda, but even in the then and western terminology, there were no british councils, giota-institutes, and such a term cultural diplomacy for 100 years in no the country of the world did not exist, that is, there was usually cultural propaganda, it's just that today this word has such a negative meaning, then also in principle.