thank you for your presence with us in the discussion of these important topics, our colleagues continue the broadcast of espresso. greetings to all espresso viewers, i'm anna javamelnyk and the news team is ready to tell you about the most important thing at the moment. residents of kherson are recovering after another enemy shelling, instead of preparing christmas dinner, they are forced to clean up broken glass and smashed furniture in their homes. the day before, the russian invaders hit the regional center. not only with artillery, but also

with rockets, fires broke out in the city, completely private houses were destroyed, high-rise buildings and a hospital were damaged, one civilian was killed, to be honest , i didn’t even have time , i did n’t understand. хлебница с хлебом, хлебница в древязы, and the bread here in the corridor turned out to be... russian dictator vladimir putin decided to continue the war until the final victory, while now in ukraine the existence of the entire european union is at stake, that 's your opinion. eu high representative josep

borel. he noted that the head of the kremlin expects that the elections in the usa will create a more favorable scenario for him. therefore , the top diplomat called on the eu member states to help ukraine more actively in the fight against the russian federation. the vast majority of ukrainians are going to celebrate christmas in 2023 according to the new church calendar, i.e. december 25. and only in the second year of the full-scale invasion of russia, the ukrainian churchmen reached a common decision. how the leading christian churches of ukraine took the historic step of changing the church calendar, my colleague natalya stareprava will tell. this year, believers of the orthodox church of ukraine and the ukrainian greek catholic church celebrate christmas together for the first time on december 25. a few years ago, the issue of transition to a new calendar remained at the same level. discussions this

year, this is a decisive step not only of a socio-religious nature, but also of a geopolitical nature, because it means a final divorce from the moscow church. there are several reasons why ukrainian churches decided to leave the julian calendar. first, it is astronomically inaccurate. earth orbits the sun 12 minutes slower than the ancient romans thought. therefore, in 1500 years, the julian calendar fell behind by 10 days. concerned about this, pope gregory 13 decided to reform the calendar in 1582. therefore, from october 4 it came immediately. 15th, and the new julian calendar

was named gregorian. before the bolshevik coup, the russian empire followed the julian calendar, at a time when all of europe had long since switched to the gregorian calendar, as had the ukrainian people's republic. russia did not do this step due to religious and ideological reasons. and the orthodox church, which remained at that time the only orthodox denomination in ukraine, also followed only the julian calendar. and it used to be said that society had long ago switched to a new style, and the church stuck to the old one. therefore, the julian calendar today is delayed by 13 days. since 2014 , ukrainian churchmen began to actively talk about the transition to a new calendar. so, in 2017, the verkhovna rada added a non-working day on december 25 for those ukrainians who celebrate christmas on gregorian calendar. in december 2020 , metropolitan epiphany of kyiv for... stated

that the orthodox church of ukraine will switch to the new calendar only when the believers themselves are ready for it. not long after this statement, his beatitude svyatoslav noted that the ukrainian... greek catholic church will switch to the new calendar only from the orthodox church of ukraine. christmas should be celebrated together, together with your parish, together with your church. because christmas is not a private event, it is very personal, although it has a personal dimension. christmas is a holiday for the whole people. russia's full-scale war against ukraine accelerated transformations in society. therefore, the issue of the transition to a new calendar acquired national and political features, as another way to get rid of the russian fraternal myth. therefore, from 2022 until now, many religious communities are transferring from the moscow patriarchate to the orthodox church of ukraine.

the transition to the new julian calendar was announced at the synod of the ukrainian greek catholic church in february 2023. in the orthodox church of ukraine, they started talking about it. to speak in may, however, the final decision was made at the local council already in july. therefore, the transition to the new calendar became the decisive step that had not been taken for decades. in general, the majority of ukrainians support the transition to the novylian calendar. according to the opinion poll of the razumkov center, more than 80% of greek catholics and more than 60% of orthodox have a positive attitude to this. a little less. statistics in the eastern and southern regions of ukraine, however, even there more than half feel good about it, and even the parishioners of the poskovo patriarchate also are preparing to switch to the new julian calendar, however, this share is somewhat reduced christmas on december 25 or january 7, no january 7, but why why

don't you switch to december 25, well, because that's how my parents celebrated, that's how my great-grandparents, grandparents celebrated , and i celebrate like this... once we will celebrate twice, because the children want this year, and we, our generation, will get used to it, i think that it will change in our country someday, but it will take time, there must be one a holiday, yes, december 25, there is no second one, this is what is related to christmas, the transition for this year's new calendar... is mandatory. the ukrainian greek catholic church has given time for adaptation until 2025. the orthodox church of ukraine did not set time limits. instead, it is known that 120 orthodox parishes out of 85 remained on the julian calendar.

one such community is known in lviv. well, the festive services with the participation of the leaders of the greek catholic and orthodox churches will be held on december 25. despite the full russia's staff war against ukraine, our military also celebrates christmas on the front lines and for the second year in a row it's december 25th. the day before, our soldiers recorded a touching video where they reminded that the transition to the new church calendar is the right choice. this is really powerful stuff. a separate intelligence brigade of the black forest needs repair of special vehicles. a faulty car at the front can cost health or

even life. when performing combat tasks , the transport has an important function, but it quickly breaks down and requires timely repair. people hold on, technology cannot. join the collection of uah 100,000 in order to return the special vehicles to the working class condition and continue the work on adjusting the artillery fire, we have only about 20 00 uah left to collect. let's give our defenders a christmas present, you can donate using the details you see on the screen. that 's how things are at the moment, i tell you, see you at 3 p.m., novyn team. according to what is happening in ukraine and the world, in the next issue we will tell about the most important things, and of course, you can read more about current events on our website espresso tv, also subscribe to our channels on social networks, because my colleagues work for you around the clock, see you soon!

14:10, good afternoon, we welcome everyone who joins our broadcast at this moment, sp' tv channel. on the air and this is an information marathon, we tell all the most important things about what is happening in the country, the world, but most importantly at the front. and of course, we must note that today, december 24, means that for the first time ukraine will celebrate, today, a holy evening for those who are christians, for those who supported this transition to the gregorian or new julian calendar. along with almost the entire world, in that including the orthodox, since most orthodox churches celebrate

the 25th christmas in the same way, and it is very interesting how many people in ukraine will actually prepare this christmas dinner today, well, in lviv on the streets, on the eve of christmas, the stew actually very demonstratively shows that people they will celebrate today and tomorrow absolutely as if it was always 24-25, well, it's as if they've been waiting for a long time, you finally know. of course, we are somehow not very fond of holidays, to put it mildly, but last week we talked about it with servicemen with the frontline, they said: we are very happy that our families will celebrate christmas, but we do not want any pictures, uh, no reminders, because in this case, well, it hurts, it is about such a christmas should be, no a very merry christmas, you know. yes, we will also ask about this

to one of our next guests today on our air, and now we will talk about the kherson region, valery prozapas, the captain of the armed forces of ukraine, is already in touch with us, glory to ukraine, mr. valery, glory to the heroes, glad to hear from you, in general, mr. captain, i will add for our viewers that mr. valery and we will unfortunately have such a stingy picture on the phone, but as it is, let's start with kherson. in whose direction, what is the situation there now, how has the last day passed, we see that the city is mercilessly raided even at night, and still, the emergency workers have to sort out the consequences of all these destructions , well, the situation here has been for several months, one can say the same, armed forces of ukraine keep the occupying army under fire, it responds accordingly not only on... the front edge of the armed forces of ukraine, but also on peaceful cities and towns,

of course, the most noticeable attacks on kherson, because it is a large regional city, but the shelling takes place along the entire strip of the kherson region under the influence of both the kaby and the rszzo, and barrel artillery, occupation army, small villages and towns of kherson region. i think that in this way the russians are trying to restrain the capabilities of the armed forces, as well as to demotivate the population so that they agree as soon as possible to the conditions that you are hearing now, and the russians are also beginning to promote the russian official authorities and some famous ukrainian former advisers in quotation marks, who are now also promoting this idea that we need to reconcile, and lo... appeasement in blood - this is putin's goal. mr. valery, what is the current situation

on the left bank, there we read that the occupiers, this is a report of the war research institute, that the occupiers are even using chemical weapons in the krynok area, in order to force us to leave the armed forces of ukraine, this small platform. let's not go into detail, because i don't have it you are right about that, but as for... the use of chemical drops, i wonder why it was noticed only now, because at the end of last year, when we were standing in the avdiiv direction, there were already cases when against the forward positions of the armed forces this kind of ammunition was used, so this is not a secret, not a discovery for us, for a long time all units that directly participate in combat clashes have been equipped with appropriate means of protection. therefore, in this regard, there is no reason to be surprised at him, the russians

will do literally everything, literally everything, what is possible in order to discourage the desire to de-occupy our territories. we talked to the mayor of novaya kakhovka this morning, and he told us that even there on the outskirts of the community, closer to the wells, local residents complained that they felt something so certain. burning in the eyes, obviously these are the consequences of the action of these chemicals, these substances that are contained in k-51 grenades, which are dropped from drones, it's good that your guys, that you are provided with everything that allows you to work calmly and not harms health. please tell me, in general, how the russians are currently behaving on the left bank in the areas where you are, how active they are, how frequent are

the assaults, attacks, how brazenly they behave? well, again, i will not go into detail, i just want to emphasize that... that the hostilities do not stop for a single day, here , day and night , the russians are constantly trying to carry out such small counterattacks, but in general, if you look at deeptape, this is open information, of course, the depth of theirs defense is quite powerful, so i urge everyone not to expect any breakthrough news in the near future. because the war has obviously already dragged on and we need to regroup ourselves, accumulate material and armed resources in order to overcome those fortifications that are defended by shooting, but well, in these conditions, by the effective means of the occupation army, and they are building on the left

bank now, in fact now in december some new additional fortifications, something? some fortifications, preparing to linger there for longer, well, their line of fortifications is quite serious, i am not revealing a military secret, and the russians themselves show it, in general, i always said, even in last year’s broadcasts, including on your tv channel, that the russian army has such an unpleasant tradition of strengthening precisely during hostilities , and they show that they are quite a serious force, that... their capabilities should not be neglected, despite the fact that this is a completely unfair predatory and predatory war on their part, that they no longer have such a military potential, which once had a small soviet empire, but , as you can see, they have large stocks of obsolete weapons and a serious mobilization resource,

they are using this now, there is no need to be afraid of this, there is no need to sprinkle golum on the fire. i refer everyone to the article of generals zaluzhny and zabrodsky in the fall of 2022, where everything was predicted. another thing is that a small percentage of ukrainians paid attention to this article, because everyone watched the same marathon, and now i think that life will force you to listen to the professionals and see an objective picture of the world, not the one that pr people try to paint. regarding the objective. picture of the world, in your opinion, what general conclusion should be drawn from this year in order for the society to receive some adequate information about what is happening at the front. i mean, for example , there was an article in the new york times the week before last that referred to the marines interviewed

who survived the undercover assault reporting that there was an entire battalion of casualties, that there... the assault was, this a real meat grinder is not prepared and so on and the like, but the ministry of defense promised to comment on it somehow, in the end it did not even comment, because of this the marines who were killed were not resurrected, i think, and because of this everyone ran to write down the call-up points for mobilization, because in our country everything is fine , i'm not sure either, that is, will we still have some new one in the new year, i hope, a policy of informing society, where more... the military will determine what information to give, well, i'm not an active serviceman, i won't comment some the articles of people with whom i was not close, the only thing that i want to remind again is that there is no good in war, and it is generally unjust in its essence, so if any of the ukrainians still has not understood 2014 and from 2022, but

is horrified from what is happening, well then again... it is necessary, as you rightly say , to pay attention to information policy, what we are dealing with, because trying to calm people down, say , as everything will be cool and healthy, in the near future, well, it's wrong, it won't be neither cool nor healthy, many tens of years, even after the war ends, now we have to concentrate for... the whole country, the whole society, which is stronger, to work with our western partners, who are also active reasons , some are beginning to doubt that it is necessary to support ukraine as much as necessary, and not as much as possible, and we are not so weak, again, there is another side of this

information policy, so as not to give up, relatively speaking, prematurely , because now i i read a lot, i hear that it was an unsuccessful counteroffensive, a failure, i even read such things, excuse me, but what have we been doing with the russian army all these months? look at the balance of costs in terms of personnel and weapons between the ukrainians and the occupiers. i believe that we are destroying the potential of the russian army in advance, years in advance. it is necessary to withstand this difficult stage, to continue the struggle, but to change the approaches to the transition of the entire country to war, to... depletion of resources, and in order for all millions of ukrainians, tens of millions of ukrainians, to start participating in this, not just watching the er screen,

i'll repeat myself again. mr. valeriu, thank you for the conversation, i'll just add a note that ben hodges actually said that yes, the west is disappointed, actually, with the way the counteroffensive looked and its results, but he added, admitting that ... it's actually a defeat not of ukraine, but of the west, which was unable to provide us with everything necessary for a counteroffensive, so i understand that such a recognition does not make it easier and simpler for us, i definitely do not like the word defeat, this must be excluded, there is a war going on for the destruction of which there may be temporary successes and there may be, unfortunately, temporary failures, the war must be continued. i also completely agree with mr. valery here, that i am really, i am not completely wrong yet, i completely understand why

there is such a wave now, the pendulum has swung, and now all the people who have already booked tickets in yalta for the next a year, but now they say, ah , that's all, something like that is happening, what is it, do we still have to fight, well, but this is actually just an overheated society with lies, outright lies to us. marathons and so on from the mouths of all these politicians, but in fact i do not understand what to sprinkle the head with ashes, the west absolutely seems to me, it understands all the challenges and dangers, it gives itself the impression that it is called, and the potential for help, which may come next year , starting with the same planes and so on, and i will remind you that most of the leopard tanks, only 30 out of 200 were sent this year, well finally. they are starting to find someone else to fight, so that there are enough motivated ukrainians who believe in victory, this is important, and not only to believe in victory, for those who cannot join

with their own physical strength at the front, then you can always donate to any chosen need of our defenders, the very end, if possible , today is the eve of the holidays, will it mean anything for you, for your boys, of course it will, first of all, i am very... from the fact that ukraine has finally joined the whole civilized world in this calendar, because i have been alive for a long time, i remember even literally until the extreme years before even 2022, i was greeted with 23 february, you remember, was the day of the soviet army, now that the holy evening has finally come to us on this day, and not together with the russians, i think that this is a good sign, at least ours. section will celebrate today, we wish you happy and peaceful holidays, thank you, mr. valery, and without you the holiday would be impossible,

cheerful and peaceful, that’s for sure, that’s for sure, valery prozapas, captain of the armed forces of ukraine was with us, now a few words about avdiivka, we understand that the situation there is difficult, the battles for the city continue, the occupiers have changed again tactics, and now because of this it is very difficult to carry out the evacuation of the civilian population, and... the occupiers are constantly shelling ukrainian positions and constant and aerial attacks too, let's see in our next article how our defenders manage to defend the city in these conditions. the operational situation in the east and south of ukraine remains difficult. in the kupyan direction, the combined forces repulse enemy attacks in the area of ​​senkivka settlement, kharkiv region, where the occupiers tried. break through the defense of our troops. inhabited positions near the contact line are covered by artillery and mortar fire. over the last few days

, the invaders in the direction of bakhmut have been almost constantly attacking klishchiivka, trying to break through from the north and in the direction of the road from ivanovsky. the sections of the front near avdiivka and maryinka in donetsk region remain the most difficult. this week, the russians entered the avdiyivka industrial zone and consolidated their positions. there they went to those fortifications that our military had previously received and then tried to move towards avdiyivka itself, but for the last... two days this week, i can talk about a certain, let's say, situation where our military received reinforcements, and the enemy's intention to encircle avdiivka did not come true. in the zaporizhzhia direction, the defense forces of ukraine repulsed all the attacks of the western recruitment and robotyn, where the enemy tried to dislodge our units from the occupied lines. kherson was subjected to artillery fire in the kherson direction.

lviv, tyaginka, ivanivka and ochakiv , mykolaiv region. the enemy also carried out an airstrike near krynyk na kherson region. the invaders tried to knock out our units from the left bank of the dnieper. however , the ukrainian troops gave a decent rebuff and inflicted significant losses on the attackers. in recent weeks, ukraine has been on the defensive along most of the front. this happens in response to calls. president of ukraine volodymyr zelensky to speed up fortification works in key sectors. at the same time, the enemy conducts aerial reconnaissance, which makes it difficult for ukrainian fighters to build a defense line. we are talking about the lines of the second there and the third, which are, let's say yes, according to our troops in certain directions, because we can take into account different scenarios of combat and combat operations and there may be scenarios that, in particular, in such directions as avdiivka,

there, maryanka, khmut, there, in particular, also the same, kup' yansk, there may be situations when we have to retreat to positions that will be more advantageous from the point of view of defense, and there we must have sufficient protection. our soldiers continue to hold the defense steadfastly, despite the fact that most of them have been fighting for 22 hard and long months. i flew, summer, i flew

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