time, but safety comes first. 15:00 is approaching, it's time to learn about the most important things, and our colleague anna eva melnyk is ready to share information about the latest news at this time. greetings, colleagues, thank you for your work. next , the news team will work, i will tell about the most current events, and i will start this issue with what is happening in kherson now. residents of kherson are recovering after another enemy shelling, instead of preparing christmas dinner, they are forced to clean up broken glass and crushed furniture. the day before, the russian invaders hit the regional center not only with artillery. and

rockets, fires broke out in the city , private houses were completely destroyed , high-rise buildings and a hospital were damaged, one civilian was killed, i can’t even honestly say, i didn’t have time, i didn’t understand, i’m sitting with such eyes, you know, and then the son, and the son in the kitchen in general i was sitting by the window, there was a basket with bread on my window, bread for bread is a promise. complied, polish farmers in the morning completely unblocked traffic in front of the checkpoint of the doctor shagyny on the border with ukraine. the information was confirmed by the state border service. currently, registration and passage of trucks across the border in the direction of entry into ukraine is carried out as usual. let me remind you that the day before, polish farmers announced the suspension of the protest action on this part of the border until january 2-3, if during this time prime minister donald tusk ... assures them

in writing that all demands will be met, then the strike will not be resumed. polish farmers insist, in particular, on the received subsidies for the purchase of corn and the preservation of the agricultural tax at the level of 2023. iceland joins two coalitions providing it support to ukraine and the demining change coalition, the ministry of defense reported. of ukraine. reykjavik also allocated additional funding of 340,000 euros through nato's comprehensive aid package. the funds will be used to purchase medical supplies for ukraine. the head of the country's foreign ministry, b'arni benediktson, expressed the hope that such support will lead to the strengthening of kyiv's defense potential. i should note that at the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, iceland provided humanitarian, economic and security support to ukraine. mostly, through international. organizations

such as the un, the world bank and nato. the world is sliding into an authoritarian era, so the west cannot afford to lose a full-scale war between russia and ukraine and must provide it with everything necessary, - said the minister of defense of great britain grand chaps. he emphasized that european countries should realize that aid to ukraine is not charity. in this way they are safe. t himself, according to the government official, the country should also review its defense budgets, after all you can't skimp on safety. shaps called defense spending insufficient in britain itself, during the competition for the position of leader of the conservative party, the head of the ministry of defense spoke about the need to spend 3% of gdp, but he believes that even this may not be enough. ukrainian defenders, women who were in...

russian captivity, military medics and volunteers starred for playboy ukraine. in addition to the magazine, they also made a calendar - said one of the participants of this project, volunteer dana yarova. she noted that in the magazine you can read interviews about life's path every woman according to the volunteer, the organizers will hold a charity lottery and auction, where you can get a calendar and a magazine with the signatures of all project participants. all funds collected will go to the needs of the armed forces. a decorated house, delicious meals, and the whole family at the table. this is one of the best christmas traditions. this year, the orthodox church of ukraine switched to the new julian calendar, which shifted the date of the christmas celebration. so we will celebrate it on december 25, not january 7, as before. however, no. variables remain

traditions and dinner with the rising of the first star, since it will be a holiday, my colleagues counted. christmas is one of the most important holidays for ukrainians. courtiers traditionally go to church, the whole family gathers at the table on the eve of christmas eve. housewives usually prepare 12 fasting dishes, and you can enjoy a piece of meat already in the morning. this year, many compatriots plan to celebrate christmas on december 25 according to the new julian calendar, so they are buying products little by little. however, there are still those who are used to january 7. it's for christmas. on christmas. and... prunes are bought for bigus, yes, yes, and for kutia, and raisins are bought for kutia, i will add to you, and you will celebrate on the 25th or the seventh, on the 25th, you will celebrate on the 25th or the seventh, the seventh,

i will be the seventh, at the head of the table, of course kutia, if you cook it yourself from wheat with nuts, poppy seeds and honey, it will cost almost 160 hryvnias for a large one. a christmas tree for the whole family, according to the sellers, except for raisins, the prices have risen this year, there are very few of them in ukraine now, i called the company yesterday, the trucks do not let them through, and they bring in little, the price has grown up, well, i trade at the old price, because i still have old goods, i can still sell like this, we will see later, there will be a new factory, there will be a second price, there is a demand for dried fruits, unlike other ingredients in the corner - emphasizes serhiy, but i assume that the main flow of people will be the day before... the holiday is completely zero, even there is none, girls, it happens that he will pay for the rent, such is the work now that it is better not to stand at all, in general, it is a holiday, here is a poppy, do they buy cereals or not i used to sell poppy seeds in sacks, now it's because of worry, i don't know if

to sell or not to sell, but the price policy has not changed there, no, the price is the same as it was, and it has remained, traditionally there should be pickled and sauerkraut on the table, cucumbers, chokovi now cost 60 uah, grandma’s delicious cabbage is mostly sold for 30 uah for a half-liter can. among the mandatory dishes are lean borscht with beans, cabbage rolls and vinaigrette. prices for products have changed somewhat, a kilogram of beets costs uah 9, a head of white cabbage - from uah 20, potatoes from uah 27 per kilogram. price tags for carrots and onions are from 10. up to 15 hryvnias, greens, parsley or chives - 20 hryvnias per bunch, but meat for the christmas and new year holidays will not be cheap, if there was money, they would take everything, but there is none, how much does it cost, for example, lard, 140,

180, 120, 80 hryvnias, 170 hryvnias, 160 scapula, hay , 200 g meatballs, housewives prepare dumplings with... fillings, you will need flour for the dough, the average price of which is 20 hryvnias per kilogram, eggs - 60 hryvnias per dozen, among drinks the main thing is uzvar, there should also be fish dishes on the festive table, there is a lot of fish on the market, here, crucian carp is uah 50 and crucian crucian is uah 100, and for carp they ask uah 130 per kilogram, additionally for dinner you can bake apples, donuts, and make flatbreads. or buckwheat or pea porridge, according to economist lidia horoshkova, there will indeed be a slight increase in the price of products by 8-12% in ukraine, but such a trend is followed every year before the holidays. we should agree with you, i think it is reasonable to approach 8-12%. on the one hand

, it is unpleasant, on the other hand, it shows that we are preparing for the holidays, so this is a normal process, and the war does not interfere we have to prepare to the holidays, and the increase in prices is, unfortunately, a trend that is observed, but it fits into the inflationary expectations that were formed at the beginning of the movement. in general, the christmas table in 2023 will cost ukrainians uah 970, the institute of agrarian economics calculated. lyubov gerashchenko, oleksandr kuga, espresso, bila tserkva. fighters of the black forest separate intelligence brigade express their sincere gratitude to the viewers of espresso. it is thanks to you that we collected uah 100,000 for the repair of a car that delivers drones and scouts to the front line. every hryvnia brings us closer to victory and we thank our soldiers for a ukrainian christmas.

dear friends, viewers of our favorite tv channel, thank you for your help, for raising funds for us so that... we can repair our equipment, and as you can see, we are already in place, working, preparing to work against the enemy, to victory together , glory to ukraine! glory to the heroes and i say see you at 5 p.m. and we are watching what is happening in ukraine and the world in the next issue we will tell about the most important events and of course read more about current affairs on our website espresso tv, subscribe to our channels in social networks, be close, we will believe. hi, thank you for watching espresso and thank you for joining the collection and please do it more actively. during the festive

period, on holidays, it is especially useful, because no one canceled good deeds, in fact , in order to celebrate various important days. we want to buy battery stations of solar panels for our defenders, for the dnipropetrovsk separate brigade of tro of the armed forces of ukraine. these are the stations, and here a qr code and a card number that will help you... will help you transfer funds so that we can buy it all and transfer it to the ukrainian front. 220,000 need to be collected, and it remains to collect a little more than 231 uah. well, gentlemen, now we will talk a little about the fact that christmas is celebrated at the front, as ukrainians in general will spend 60, more than 60%. it seems that polls, the german wave, ukrainians are going to celebrate christmas today,

more than 60%, well, i'm just curious, we understand that this does not apply to the occupied territories, no survey was conducted there, well, that, as well as all the ukrainians who went abroad, we also do not know how they will be there, well, there, in principle , where they left in europe one way or another, celebrating christmas in america since the 25th, so it can still be a holiday evening for them, that's for sure. uh, let's hope that it will be like that, kostiantyn kholodov, major of the chaplaincy service and anti-priest of the orthodox church of ukraine, is already with us. we welcome you to our airwaves, glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes, i don't know how to say it correctly, or father, or mr. major, as is convenient for you, how, and how do the military address you? mr. father, appeals. it is important, because i am first of all for them, i am not a major, i am a priest, i am a major so that i understand that there is a position and there are certain

functional duties, according to the position , according to the rank, i have to perform certain functions, therefore for this. so, mr. father, christmas for the military, what will it look like this year, does it matter to them that we celebrate christmas two weeks, 13 days earlier this year, or are they tied less... this they add that we do not celebrate a date, we celebrate an event, and if this event is determined by the majority of orthodox churches and our calendar and already by the synod of our church, and by christian churches everywhere, both catholic and protestant, and we celebrate on the 25th, then in principle , i don't see the point. here somehow to be attached to some date other than december 25, that is why we celebrate the event, it is

important for us, and when we will celebrate on which date, it is not so important, what can i say, compared to last year , last year, for example, it was said there, i don't know, for example, the blessed sviatoslav of the greek catholics said that all those who want churches, communities, and the faithful can celebrate christmas eve on the 24th, that's okay. but since the church officially still held the main services on the seventh and sixth, it was last year, so in reality no one supported this voluntary call, although if you look at lviv now, which is far from the front, of course, then in principle there is it seems as if they always celebrated here, as if everyone was preparing only for the 25th, and in general no one ever celebrated christmas on the 7th, that is, they passed absolutely without , you know, without any... problems without slipping, i also say this that, in principle, what

the church does for the parishioners is very important, that is, it is a sign that it is, and here on the one hand we have a survey where more than 60% of ukrainians have accepted this transition to a new calendar and are ready to celebrate today, for example, cover the holy, holy supper, but on the other hand, we understand that much more churches are still in... under the moscow patriarchate, or it does not mean that in reality we will have some kind of line here split, and in fact half of ukraine will celebrate there now, and half then. when we now have jordan, i am right, yes, well, the moscow patriarchate from the very beginning, from the days of ukraine's independence, worked for the division of ukraine, and they will continue to do it for them, and they are no longer the same, they do not have that

power, that influence they had earlier, so i would not say that now due to the fact that the date of the celebration of the nativity of christ has changed, there will be some kind of split in society, no, they are supported by fewer and fewer people, and the era of the russian church in ukraine is coming to an end. please tell me if there is generally an opportunity to celebrate at the front, and when we know that the chaplains usually... christmas try to come to be close to the soldiers, it is not a matter of necessarily serving all the services that are prescribed for this day , and it is about being together, so that they feel that the chaplains are with them, they are actually carrying out their mission, what do the soldiers ask for when the chaplains go to them, and is there

a difference between ordinary trips and such festive ones, somewhere there on easter, on sometimes you know, this is the first christmas when i will celebrate in kyiv, and not at the front, in the last nine years, from 2014 until this day, until last year i celebrated christmas at eh, i won't say at the front, because it not the front line, but the second, third line, i went to greet our soldiers who are asking, asking... to carol, together, to carol, those who are such church people who used to go, are asking to go to church, they ask that they be confessed and receive communion on this great holiday of christmas, they ask that there be a corner, eh, to somehow prepare it, and we

organized it all, whether on the spot, whether i brought it, or uh, well, in general, we already have a military chaplaincy service in... in ukraine, in the armed forces and in other military formations, therefore , the position of a military chaplain is provided for in each brigade, and if the brigade is on the front line, then the chaplain must be there too, and he must take over the organization of this holiday and fulfill it. you know, we will have this time if the pope's greetings at the same time. francis and others is so ambiguously perceived by many ukrainians, even those who are under him , so to speak, there omophorus, and, i mean, in particular, the greek catholics, a large community in ukraine as well, and the pope is also known for the fact that this year he wanted to cancel the statement about the existence

of a just war, which says that any war is not just, what do you think about a just... war as a military chaplain, and you know, the current pope, he is like that, he is from latin america, where e prevail such leftist views, where there there were communes of post-communist societies there, and, as for the leftists, they are mostly pacifists, as if like. would like to be, and these pacifist attitudes, they are mainly left-wing people, people with left-wing views, and the roman pope is no exception, he will not be able to cancel this doctrine, because the right to defend oneself is not prohibited by the holy scriptures or the bible, well,

no, no holy writings, not canons, we must protect each other, that is, take care of each other. this includes protecting each other, and the army, it just stands in defense of the country, and it is on the defense, our army is on the defense of the fair, the restoration of justice, if my border has been violated, we must restore the effect of this border, and this is justice, this is the fair restoration of our borders, so, i think, that 's it a losing idea, although there are some protestant ones. churches that have a similar doctrine, not resisting evil, and they are pacifists in their, in their creed. so, i watched how the rhetoric changed, how the words changed, the priests' answers to questions about the war in the last 10 years

, when a full-scale invasion began, no one, of course, not a full-scale one, but just an invasion , that donbas was then occupied by crimea, then yes, our priests, chaplains always said that we need to defend our borders, our country, but very often they said that really... shooting, killing, is bad, it's a sin , the military, as it were, have a special attitude towards the military, but they talked about these things very delicately, now, when we talk to the chaplains, we hear things more and more often like, russians are not our neighbors, russians are not those about whom he wrote in our case are not those about whom it is written in the bible, that there it is necessary to be careful with them, friendly and so on. about the fact that we must physically exterminate them , otherwise they will exterminate us, that is, this is a threat to our country, to our people, or the military themselves

perceive it this way to the end, not in conversations among themselves, but when they communicate with priests, that is, have they already understood that this is one cohort, one gang and that you are all together, er i... i will tell you this, since the 14th year i, i have been watching this evolution of the commandments our priests and commanders, then somewhere in the 15th year after debaltsev, such a question did not arise, even, even, even after the savur grave in the 14th year, because to shoot, not to shoot, it was at the beginning. ato, when people were afraid to raise their weapons, when people were afraid, they said, martial law has not been declared, but we are conducting hostilities and so on, that is, there were

some moments that prevented the use of firearms and weapons in general, and when the soldiers themselves understood, they didn't have to explain that they need at least the country, not the country, but themselves protect because from the hands of saboteurs , occupiers, and they can die, they have not thought about it, there are no problems with it, there is, you know, there is a commandment not to kill, but there is no commandment not to protect, we, first of all, are our soldiers understand that they protect life in peaceful cities and villages, and they protect their neighbors, their friends, their families, and... and this does not contradict either the holy scriptures or the teaching of the church. fathers, we have literally a couple of minutes left, but

the state agency ukrinform published the following news three hours ago: christians in the western rites will be celebrated today on the eve of the holiday. what are your thoughts and emotions about this? i don't know what the western rite is, what the eastern rite is, i know. these are the people who believe in christ, and we believe in christ, we believe in his incarnation, we believe in his saving mission, we believe in his resurrection, and we will celebrate it, er, christmas, we will celebrate it coming into the world, and the fact that he was with us and lived with us and taught us, we thank him very much for that, the fact that he saved a person from death, and today... we will too, i don't know why they divide, western, eastern, today the orthodox church of ukraine celebrates the holy evening, er, this is eastern, this is a church of the eastern

rite, but er, why did they write like that, well, i guess you should ask them, thank you very much for the answer, thank you for this conversation, kostyantyn kholodov, major of the chaplain service and archpriest of the orthodox church of ukraine was with us, we are going for a short break, then we will return. and we will have as many as two guests , we will talk about certain military things, stay with espresso. there are discounts on molteren porte 20% in in pharmacies plantain to you and savings. the traveler knows what helps. attention, an incredible novelty from despair. super warm and very comfortable alaska stayle boots. perfect fit, water repellency. material and a feeling of warmth even in 30-degree frost. alaska stayle boots have a universal design and practical black color. therefore, they will fit both men and women. sizes from 36 to

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they promised that in the new. this year we will get it all, but in general and the trend is that there is less support, that they are depleting their reserves and at the end of this year there was significantly less aid than at the end of the previous year, everyone noted, and the institute for the study of overseas warfare said that yes yes yes, if all this aid stops coming to ukraine, we will not be able to hold back the enemy on our own, how many percent of that is the truth without objection? are there any other options, maybe we need to become a little more active, do something ourselves in the end, you know, the question is absolutely correct, the only thing i would say is that the specificity of your activity is that there is truth, there is falsehood, and how to understand, how to distinguish the information that goes especially abroad, whether it is sponsored by the russian federation.