on youtube on the radio svoboda channel. greetings, it's news time in eteria express. kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. on christmas night , ukrainian defenders destroyed 28 shaheds. in total, muscovites attacked ukraine with 31 drones. air defense forces worked in odesa region, kherson region, mykolaiv region, donetsk region, kirovohrad region and khmelnytskyi region, the air force informed. also, our defenders of the sky hit two aviation missiles and two russian fighter jets. yes, the enemy su-34 flew by. in donetsk region, and su-30 - over

the waters of the black sea. in particular, five enemy drones were destroyed by our anti-aircraft defense forces from the east air defense complex over dnipropetrovsk region. two shaheds were shot down each in senelnykivskyi and dniprovskyi districts. there, debris fell on the territory of a non-working enterprise. a one-story building was occupied. firefighters put out the fire. in the pavlograd district in... , a utility room and a grain loader were damaged. fortunately, there were no casualties. one civilian was killed, two others were injured due to enemy shelling in the kherson region. on christmas eve, the occupiers covered with dense by fire to chornobayivka. later, the body of a 37-year-old woman was found in the destroyed building. the medics who arrived at the scene only declared death, informed the head of the region oleksand. prokudin in total, muscovites

fired almost three hundred shells in the region during the day. in the very center of the region , residential buildings and the territory of the plant were targeted. a series of powerful explosions rang out late in the evening in the temporarily occupied horlivka in donetsk region. after that, a fire broke out in the city - the local public reported. they claim that the warehouse of the galaxy shopping center was on fire, which sunburn. transformed the former epicenter, cars parked nearby were also on fire, previously the occupiers say that one woman died and six were injured. the traditional transfer of the bethlehem fire took place in the patriarchal cathedral of the resurrection of christ. this is an international annual scouting campaign for christmas celebrations, which consists in spreading a symbolic fire for. burned at

the birthplace of jesus christ. after the divine liturgy, the plastuns handed over the fire to the patriarch. in return, they received a bishop's blessing from him. most blessed svyatoslav wished that the candles of the bethlehem fire would be lit all over ukraine and all over the world, because it brings peace, hope and love. the primate also reminded that christmas is special, because for the first time it is celebrated together by different churches and christians of our country and the world. they say that instead of complaining about the darkness , it is worth lighting at least one candle, let millions of such candles of the bethlehem fire of peace be lit in our homeland, and therefore in the whole world, so that this christmas, which we celebrate for the first time together, together on the same day with different churches, christians, of ukraine and

throughout the world, we managed to warm the hearts of millions with the light of our faith, the light of our hope, the light of the bethlehem fire of peace. for the first time , orthodox ukrainians celebrate christmas on december 25. today , metropolitan epiphany of the orthodox church of ukraine led the festive liturgy on the occasion of the christmas of the lord god. our colleague dmytro knows more. dora, he is with us live from st. sophia cathedral. dmytro, christ is being distributed, how many people are at the service and in general, what is the mood. let's praise him. katya, i am actually in st. sophia's cathedral right now. a liturgy is held here from 9 a.m. on the occasion of christmas. it was headed by metropolitan epiphany. he has already said his word, his sermon, emphasized that...

they pray for everyone, for all ukrainians, those who volunteer, those who are at the front, those who were forced to leave their homes, epiphany also reminded who really... . our enemy noted the importance of the transition from the old style of celebration to the new style of celebration, i will remind you that from september 1, the orthodox church of ukraine approved the transition to the new julian calendar, and from now on christmas is celebrated on the 25 december we asked the people whether this is important to them and whether it is even appropriate to go to war in such times, let's hear what they said. i, i've been waiting for this, since i was young , for us to have our ukrainian church, for us to be together with europe, i have tears in my eyes, it's cool, the fact that we are already, as it were, oriented

towards european traditions, that , that we are already so much that we don't know how the muscovites were, yes, that we don't know how the muscovites were, it's important, very important. it is important, we are together with the whole world, for the first time, this is such a historic event, people say that the mood is not festive at all, because some of their relatives, some at the front, some abroad, so it was not possible to gather at the family table yesterday, but they say that today they will pray for all our defenders, for those who defend our the country and they are definitely waiting for victory, because it is christmas, they say christmas, it is the birth of something bright and new, so the liturgy continues, katya, tell me how you celebrated christmas yesterday and what dishes did you cook?

christmas was incredible yesterday, and even better christmas will be celebrated today, the city is ready, so i will tell our viewers about all the news that is important, and then i will go to my family to celebrate. dmitry, thank you for this inclusion. i will remind our viewers, it was dmytro didora, our correspondent, who is in st. sophia cathedral. and he spoke live about the impressions of people from the service. and we go further. an evening of ukrainian carols, carols and gifts was held at the ukrainian house in warsaw. everyone could come to the holiday and spend time with a large ukrainian family. polish plastons also visited the carolers. maria chornihivska will tell more about it. there was a star that never happened before, a clear star, it spread to the whole world, it is a great joy for ukrainians living in poland

to gather in a large family circle and sing together their favorite christmas carols, which everyone knows from childhood, rejoice, oh rejoice. you, son of god, was born! the warsaw platoon also came to the west and handed over the bethlehem flame of peace to the ukrainians. we hope that it will now symbolically light up in your homes and bring you peace very quickly. we wish you this on these festive days, but not only on holidays, but also forever. mainly ukrainian families with children who came to sing carols and christmas songs came to...

oksana is from the city of dnipro, says a woman who has gotten used to life in poland, is learning the language, has started working, while she plans to stay in warsaw. first of all, for the development of children, it is very difficult in ukraine, even for those children who do not have a full-fledged school, there is nowhere to go, if so, the child must live in society, communicate, so that there is somewhere to go out, as they say, to show oneself and come out to people, and to look at someone, and so that this does not happen there is a shortage of children, so i try to drive them here wherever possible. myroslava from cherkasy, a woman with two children, has been in poland for a year, but plans to move. well, we are basically used to it here, but life here is actually expensive, so we think that maybe we will move somewhere to another country someday, because it is actually very difficult to live and pay for housing, but in general it is very nice,

people who look like ukrainians, that is why we are here of course , it is morally more pleasant and easier to communicate, well , plus the language is sufficiently clear, we learned it there, we can talk to people normally, we have polish friends. and we, of course, will always remember them, we will be grateful to them, but unfortunately, we will probably have to go further from this country. as an inexpensive country to live in, myroslava considers bulgaria with admiration for the near future. ukrainians living abroad are in great need of such joint evenings, the organizers say, so they have already planned a large-scale celebration for january 6. oh, rejoice. on earth, the son of god, was born, maria chernyakhivska,

ihor antonyuk, for the espresso tv channel from warsaw. that's all the news for this hour, plus more you will find interesting and relevant information on our website espresso.tv, as well as on our social networks, join, put your preferences. next, my colleagues lesya vakulyuk and andrii saichok, don't switch, stay with espresso. thank you! christ was born, dear friends, merry christmas to all those who can celebrate it and a peaceful christmas for us, this is the greeting for this year for all of us. thank you to those who allow our

military men and women defenders to feel and continue these traditions, who create that silence, that peace that we have so that, in order to continue our traditions, this year we celebrate christmas with the whole civilized world, muscovites are sad on this occasion, and when muscovites are sad, then we are happy. andriy saichuk, leisya vakulyuk, in this studio. today we are working for you on a reduced schedule, we will stay with you until 12 o'clock , and of course we will ask how the night passed, how the holidays pass in different parts of ukraine, because the enemy does not allow us to celebrate, especially it really annoys him that this is so actually not wrong, but not the way they celebrate christmas now, at first they forbade us to celebrate christmas, now they decided to celebrate and now they, i once saw several... that's why i came across a video, some one there, father, some mukachovsky

, what else, uh, it’s not written that it’s the upc mp, ugh, but just so-and-so, so-and-so, and explains, says, and it’s necessary to celebrate january 7, holy evening, january 6, i think, i’ll google it him, and you know, and you know that if you look at the father from the front, then he is a father, and if from behind, then he is already a slob, well, seriously, the orthodox here are like those of moscow. and i find that his last name is something like mamasiev, mamasuyev, mamasuyev, oh, and what does he mean, he was born in sambor in the lviv region, but in the family of a military serviceman, and here i am, and he was born somewhere there in the year 66, i understand that this is the son of the liberator, simply and simply, and he made a heart-breaking career as a priest, and here in the 90th year, alexy, the one whom the russian, already deceased, their patriarch, sent. that, mamasueva, mamaseeva, that means, to ukraine and

exiled him, well, exiled him, assigned him to transcarpathia, and now this mamasuyev is telling the ukrainians in transcarpathia, not only them, that christmas should be celebrated on january 7, this is how russia now celebrates, because it has now decided to celebrate this christmas, little introduction, friends, in a word, you understand, yes, that the ukrainian orthodox, phew, orthodox church of the moscow patriarch. here, because ukrainian somehow does not fit, because it is some kind of schizophrenia, she is still trying to keep ukraine together with russia in the russian infofield and together with the russian calendar, that's the name, she doesn't want to let us go, but we, but we show them who we are with and what we really are, that we are europe, not asia. serhii bratchuk, spokesperson of the ukrainian volunteer organization. and the south joins us, unfortunately , this night was restless in the south, mr. serhiy

, christ was born, if you celebrate christmas, of course, but how else, as a deacon of the orthodox church of ukraine, how, how did the night pass, tell us, because she was restless from what is known, the shaheds were destroyed, but unfortunately there is a hit, let me first anyway i will support your flash mob about scraps with literally one line. and i liked about the father and the bow, i will definitely tell it today, not to veterans, of course, to my brothers, first of all, i would like to say that the scraps are now in general trouble. because in the next century it will happen, accordingly, because the calendar and the weather still do not depend on the moscow church, they will celebrate if they are in ukraine, i hope they will no longer be, but in muscovy they will celebrate christmas for according to their calendar, but already on january 8, well, such is the running of biological natural clocks, so

they do not affect here, well, actually, if we talk about more serious things, about the fact that the war continues, unfortunately, we had... very loud in odesa since the evening, and everything possible flew here today, and the missile was a cruise missile, x31p, it is an anti-radar, supersonic missile, and even now i read some experts claim that we did not shoot down such a thing, well, i, as far as i remember this was shot down, however, the rocket is very heavy for destruction, shot down, destroyed, then the shaheds left, they destroyed 17 pieces of them above odeshchi. no hits were allowed, unfortunately, there is falling debris, well, of course, these are the consequences of this combat work during air combat, this is, first of all, the rozdilnianskyi district, there it got into the administration building of the object, which is preserved, thank god, and of course we are talking about that guessed that they could hit there, this is the first, second, the port infrastructure, this is

already odessa, in particular, debris also fell, there is no serious damage, there are certain... let's say that there were fire locations, but it was all localized quite quickly, the rescuers worked as usual for 12 points, there were no casualties, that is, i say again, no hits were allowed, everything that could was destroyed, and now, as they say, it is known, but the icing on the cake - this is of course a fighter-bomber that was flying towards us, just as it struck this blow, but... they say, that's all, nothing, but you can congratulate the crew of the cruiser moscow, they have another achievement, they have been an aircraft carrier for a long time, and now having an isa-30, and by the way, odesa's score in battles, aerial battles with the enemy, is increasing, at least for april last year, it was 7:0, now we have 8:00, i think i was not

wrong, because i entered the count so very carefully, so 8:00, thank god everything happened, but glory of course, first for all the weapons... to the forces of ukraine for giving such an opportunity to count 8:00, the actual downing of this so-30, what is it called there, s or m, modified, yes, this, this, i understand, is enough to advance their bomber, absolutely true, well , the russians’ aviation is always good, again, why the russians, these are soviet gains, they they are ashamed to talk about it, and actually the helicopter... it was ours, because they left the ukrainians, and let’s not forget korolyov, he is a ukrainian, and this is already about the rocket, if including it, so their losses are really huge, for 5 days, four planes, i think that's enough, no, it's already five, five, five planes, that's su-30, now we'll add, so five, and su-34, if

we say, this is also a very respectable technique, and take it today. no, yesterday it was a little calmer on the banks, if we are talking about the left bank, there are no cab launches, of course, they will now pull up what they have left, at the beginning of the war, to make no mistake, there were approximately 130 plus or minus somewhere, and during this time quite a lot has already been lost, there is no recovery, no matter how the bunker grandfather stated, because building an airplane, well, it's long, it's long, and for the russians, even more so now thanks to these chains. sanctions, they are interrupted at least a little bit, not to the end, unfortunately, but they are interrupted, so the losses are serious, eh , again, another icing on this cake of ours, christmas, we have today at 16 destroyed, you heard about it in odessa, but yes , he said, ignat said, that soon two squadrons will report this one, yes, i

ran this morning, looked, i didn’t find it, it’s true, well, well, such things happen, so what such, well, odessa. again for the first time, again the f-16 turns out, after all, we had them for the first time, they had and did not say, yes, well, this kind of nonsense, it seems that for putin himself, for the russians, odesa somehow, especially they offended something, this attack holy evening, she was definitely thought out, was, was some kind of act, i don't know what, some kind of offense, well, it's not an insult, it's some kind of, i don't know, logical moments from childhood, it's still possible there , a child, a daughter, someone from odesa will give him a pike on the spur of the moment, well, that can be, but about christmas eve, well, i have a wonderful flag behind my back, there all. it is clearly written: the devils die, the sun rises, the ukrainian sun rises, the devils really die, so everything, everything is fine, everything will be fine, and the fact that we are such a bone, well, i congratulate something, well, thank you

very much, mr. serhiy, mr. sergey, there is such a journalist, our colleague, a media expert and already a writer, because she wrote a book a call about a girl who grows up in odesa, who speaks ukrainian, tries to... fend off the influence of people around her who say, why do you speak ukrainian, because that's how she speaks, because that's how her family speaks, this girl is growing up in some town or village, i have only read the description, i have not yet read this book, but it is interesting to actually read it, and we actually once had such an argument with ms. nina, because i have my own stereotypes and she has her own ideas, and pain i worked in kyiv. very often at christmas i heard that a well, these are from western ukraine, because i am from western ukraine, these are from western ukraine, they will definitely go to celebrate christmas, they will work for the new year. but she convinced

that it was such a stereotype that only in the west of ukraine christmas holidays are celebrated, that christmas holidays were celebrated every year in her as well, as soon as it was possible to do it openly, because we know that in the soviet union all this was forbidden and you could be sent somewhere to some camps, or the easiest punishment would be to lose your job. uh in fact, as in odesa, or is this war, which awakens such interest in ukrainians to, to their roots, and sometimes very often in ukrainians not, not by origin, but ukrainians who choose to be ukrainians, they also begin to teach these traditions and want to implement them in their families. as? in odesa this year, actually this calendar, to be honest, yes, i would like it to be a little faster, so all this was implemented, gradually, well gradually,

it is, somewhere at 11 o'clock today after the service of god , you see, well, i only came from field, i say, i was not at the service, unfortunately, but i will be, at 11 we will have christmas carols in the church, people who can work today, of course, people will come, and yesterday there were people celebrating. there will be carols quietly, we will celebrate in the city , there is nothing so massive, but still gradually people who went to sleep on february 23, they still wake up on february 24, it is true, and i say once again, i wanted it to be magical stick, you know, once in a while and everything would be fine, someone like that, you know, i'm more surprised by young people, i'll try this morning also said, you know such a concept ... on january 7, we got used to it, i say, listen, and the logic, let's turn it on, first jesus was supposed to be born, and then your new year was supposed to come, and people start thinking, and really,

even so, that's why we have a lot of work, i will say yes, a lot of work, and thanks to you, colleagues, our other colleagues, informants and not only, we will still return these traditions, embody them, especially again , let's start with this, so that muscovites to finish off the russian empire celebrated christmas on december 20, 25, 26 and 27 the russian empire, then the bolsheviks came, and they put their chuchudra in the mausoleum and moved the crucible, so that we tear scraps, there will be in odesa too, everything is fine, good tearing of those scraps, in fact, the holidays contribute to just that. mr. serhiy, thank you, have a peaceful christmas, may this day be peaceful, even after such a restless morning and night, serhiy brachuk, spokesman of the ukrainian volunteer army, was with us in the afternoon, and

now we will move to avdiivka, where very restless, vitaly barabash, head of the avdiiv city military administration is in touch with us, says our editor, warns that the connection is bad, bad, but we will still try to talk and ask what is going on in the studio. it is happening, mr. vitaly , christ is born, we congratulate you, glory to ukraine, congratulations, but tell me what is happening now in avdiivka, what is this morning like, for sure , what, no, for sure what, for sure, what is the festive mood, for sure in avdiivka, well, yes, there is no festive mood, this, this is true, because as it continues, well, as it was, as hot as it was in our direction, they remain so, but you know, no matter what, it makes me happy that... that we are we are moving away from our neighbors , these kacepur macaques, and even in such things as christmas and so on and so forth.

i have roots from western ukraine, although i was born in donbas, and for me, christmas in my family was always december 25, despite the fact that i was born and grew up in donbas, so i personally am happy that finally , we we will even be in such things as the whole civilized world, and not these things like damn, not goodness and so on and the like , so really, well, such things, they should have been more, well, i don’t know there in... in 1991, definitely , and even now, there wouldn’t have been such conversations, and maybe there wouldn’t have been a war, well, yes, if we had done it at the start, we immediately cut off these communicators. well, of course, you don’t need to hang them there on the gallows , but nevertheless, they were necessary since poland itself did it at one time, yes, to whom, since you are kamunyaka there for 25 years, you have no right to touch the authorities there in any way

, yes. in 25 years, well, they are. everyone has already gone to the other world, yes, thank god, here we are what we have, yes, well, unfortunately, it is very hot in our direction, the enemy does not leave any reluctance, no attempts to drain the city, enter the city, take it, of course, they do not count anything, neither personnel nor equipment , at any cost, they have to complete the tasks set before them, of course, that there are some deadlines for them... they set something, they are constantly moved by these deadlines, but i am sure that they did not manage to do it until december 14, until it was not possible to do that in the new year and it will not be possible before the presidential elections or pseudo-elections katsapuri on the swamps, they also won't be able to take the widow, and i have no doubt about it, so the guys are holding on, pulling, minusing these macaques in packs there for

yesterday... somewhere around 50 in our direction were minus, about 100 rattled, as they say, they were banned, uh, the technicians there also beat up a couple of dozen yesterday in our direction, well, they crushed them normally, the guys are holding on, as one of the commanders said, we are trying to give ourselves a present for the new year, they will slander as many of them as possible, well literally, butusa actually wrote about it two days ago, that finally... they came under the fortifications of the ukrainian units holding avdiivka, and he writes about the fact that the russians will lose many times more at avdiivka, precisely because they are constantly storming, despite the fact that we have advantageous positions there, avdiyivka is very important for ukraine and for the front, of course it is important , of course, you know, from some strategic

point of view... from some tactical point of view, even from a moral point of view, yes, how many losses have we already had, yes, how many civilians died, how many soldiers died, and that, well, it's a very simple thing, yes, how many of them have we already ground there, this avdiiv meat grinder, it's really working at full capacity now, of course, i don't know, i have such and such an internal feeling. that in avdiivka it is not that they will break their teeth, yes, their spine will be broken in avdiivka, and i really want very much that there will be a fracture in avdiivka, a fracture not only of their spine, but also a fracture in this war. last week, 14 people left the city, and as of this morning, we have 1206 people in the city, of course, that their...

let's put it this way, the day looks very ordinary.