good evening to the viewers of espresso javamelnik and it's time to learn about the most current events. minus the x-59 anti-aircraft force. defense shot down

a russian missile in the dnipropetrovsk region. the enemy target was destroyed in the kryvorizka district. it is a guided air missile kh-59, the eastern air command reported. the spresso tv channel together with the public organization baza ua is collecting funds for atvs to transport the wounded and other needs of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade of the armed forces of the kholodny yar. ukrainian over difficult conditions the military chooses victory every day without leaving the battlefield. the evacuation of wounded brothers with atvs will be faster and easier, and therefore the chances of saving the wounded are much greater. our goal is uah 800,000. with your help, we raised more than 700,000. your donation is a thank you to those who protect us on the battlefield. support this collection. you can see all the details on the screen. protests continue in belgrade . students joined the rallies against the results of the parliamentary elections. they started. a six-hour traffic blockade on

the roads, because the deadline for approval of the inspection the list of voters has expired. serbian protesters blocked the entrance to the building of the ministry of state administration and local self-government. the head of the police department said that he will not tolerate the blocking of state institutions and bridges. in this way, he hinted at the probable dispersal of the demonstrators. how ukrainians destroyed the empire of evil, with such a name. oleksandr zimchenko presented his book about the collapse of the ussr. the author recreated the daily events of 1991 and also declassified archival documents of the cia and the kgb, which were not available until recently. in the book reminiscences of participants and witnesses of independence are presented. the author promises that you will find the answer to the question of who really destroyed the evil empire. i blink.

today we are very dependent on the past, and in order to understand where we are today, why the russian federation attacked ukraine again, where do all these phantom imperial pains come from, we again need to reflect very clearly, and how the disintegration of the soviet union was taking place, because a large number of answers were precisely in that period, the period of 89, 90, 91 years. dog... five-year-old police shepherd kate, recognized as one of the best service dogs in ukraine. belgian malinois, together with their dog trainer, serve in the capital glavka. since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, they worked together at the kyiv railway station, conducted searches and searched for explosives during reports of landmines, and also demined the occupied territories of the kherson region. kate was being trained to work with sappers, she was being driven. to the training grounds, where she

looked for mines in the closest possible conditions. explosions and shelling did not prevent the dog from doing its job, says the instructor. dogs are selected according to their character and behavior, that not every dog ​​can be a service dog, a dog is the same as an employee of some security service, which performs no less work than a person, and perhaps even more important , and where for some work, so that dogs are not.. . vykoten, nothing has yet been invented to replace the dog. home cooking, ukrainian borscht and donuts. people in lviv were treated to such dishes. the annual community of st. egidius organizes christmas dinners for homeless, elderly, low-income families, immigrants and people with disabilities. students from the ukrainian catholic university distributed holiday treats, carols and gifts were not complete. such events were also held in kyiv and ivano-frankivsk. in total

, more than 200 needy people were able to feel the atmosphere of the holiday. christmas dinners are held all over the world, in more than 70 countries of the world where we have a community, and today... for the first time we are joining on december 25th just for christmas, we have already held a christmas party for displaced children from the model the town and those who just live here in lviv, and we are also planning to welcome people to old people's homes, i like the way, it's really nice, nice, the atmosphere is nice here, the people are nice, they greet you with smiles, it's like thanking god, thanking you all well done christmas is also celebrated in sweden, in gothenburg, the ukrainian diaspora organized a christmas carol for the second time. here everyone can listen to ukrainian carols, enjoy traditional christmas cuisine and chat with each other. about how ukrainians in scandinavia celebrate the birth of christ,

yuliya kysyk will tell. and what about the second holiday, i will celebrate khreshchar. rejoice, ukrainian christmas carol that resounds all over the world, this is the goal of the organizers of the event in gothenburg, says mrs. olesya, and they also want our children to remember their native traditions even abroad. it is most important for us to preserve these traditions in the world, so that children remember our native kolyada, which is practically a symbol of... our nation in these christmas times, it is very important that it is not lost among them, they will grow up, they will adapt in completely different conditions, but it is extremely important that they had something called ukraine in their hearts. the christmas carol was organized by the ukrainian sunday school

of gothenburg, many ukrainian refugee children study here, they study their native language, study ukrainian traditions and history. olesya, the founder of the school, says: last year... the community had about 3x5 hundred children, but now there are half as many families who stayed in sweden. people do return to their native ukraine, and this is pleasing, because somewhere they have already gained some experience here, but those who are practically forced to be here, somewhere within the limits of 100 families, some currently attend our sunday school, we want you , master, come. inflate, for years and centuries we have lived in a culture of inferiority, destroyed our culture, our traditions, and we want to show who we are, that is, show our identity and declare ourselves, that ukrainian culture exists, that ukrainian traditions exist, and we need it spread and

must tell the whole world about us. katya is 18, the girl came from kyiv to sweden almost two years ago, she had to leave her hometown due to russian aggression, it is not easy in a foreign country - says katya, despite this , the girl managed to find a job and enroll in a bachelor's degree at a swedish university. nevertheless , the ukrainian woman appreciates every opportunity to see and communicate with compatriots, which the sunday school gives her. what to maintain ties with ukraine and to maintain ties with ukrainians in the first place, because it is not very easy to adapt here, including all the features mental mentality. people here. shved lars joins the ukrainian carol for the second time. the man says: at the beginning of the great war, when ukrainians started arriving in sweden, he could not stand aside, so he started helping refugees, which he still does. the man says that he even has his own

embroidery, which he received as a gift from ukrainians. of course, we want to celebrate christmas with our ukrainian friends. i am very happy. received such a shirt as a gift from them. i am convinced that the swedes continue to actively help ukrainians. they are welcome here, and we want them to feel it. from sweden, yulia kyzyk, for espresso tv channel. that's all i have, but the news team is working. we monitor what is happening in ukraine and the world about the most relevant. i will tell you about the events at 18:00 in the final news release, and you can always read more about important things on our espresso tv website, also subscribe to our channels on social networks, espresso is on youtube, telegram, instagram, twitter , like, stay close.

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greetings, this is an espresso interview that we have prepared for you on the eve of a number of religious holidays, and actually, in order not to lose the most important thing, it is important to capture these moments in thoughts in our conversations with guests. which you can definitely be interested in and whose opinion will be authoritative and important for any ukrainian. i am pleased to welcome serhii dmitriev, chaplain of the shevchenko military institute of kyiv national university, to this conversation with me. i congratulate you, serhiy. father, right? you can, as you want. yes yes. actually, i'll probably start with a floor question. ah, you,

a little background. you are a person who made a decision for yourself in 2014. and together with the people who believed in you, their souls and minds, decided to join the then ukrainian orthodox church of the kyiv patriarchate. it was not a problem for you to join the orthodox church of ukraine and become a part of it, become its representative, particularly at the front as well. now ukraine is on the threshold of certain changes, and we have such a transition year when we switch to the new julian calendar. the vast majority of ukrainians after all, do they even talk about it at the front, or is it discussed among our defenders? well, we switched, first of all, to a new calendar, and a year ago many parishes already celebrated christmas according to the new julian calendar, and at that time i was the chaplain of the 30th

brigade, we witnessed christmas already on the 25th , and this was accepted military service. sheep with great pleasure, because the question was probably not in the calendar , no one wants to celebrate christmas with the enemy, everyone wants to celebrate christmas with the whole european world, and this is the first trend, and they could ask for sure such a phrase that when we will celebrate christmas , like all normal people, ugh, now this question does not arise, if only everyone understood that it already... happened and it is necessary to testify like this, perhaps single cases will occur among older people who are used to living in certain traditions, but at the front it is not at all such an important issue, at the front there is the issue of provision, evacuation of the wounded, the issue of the relationship between the commander,

serviceman, provision. weapons, it worries military personnel today, ugh, and as for the main challenges and moments of a moral and ethical nature, i understand that there is a certain secrecy in the work that you do with our military, but i i have to ask this question as a civilian, most of all a tour... a person who went to defend his country, and who, in principle, every day risks coming face to face with death. well, you know, there are different categories of military personnel, there are categories of military personnel who have been fighting since the 14th year, there are professional military personnel, there are those people who left

civilian work, there are also journalists, people from the services. uh, from business, who didn’t know what the army was, never even served, uh, limited fit, and everyone has their own requests, but if that’s the case the bottom line is probably more, uh , it's social security after being wounded, uh, what's next when you're wounded and you get out of the army, it's... probably the usual bureaucracy that now we're about to hear the report of the 100 days of the new ministry of defense, how did they work, or? changes will take place, because the uniqueness of the armed forces of ukraine today is that the reform of the armed forces of ukraine takes place right during the war, something that probably no country can

afford, we are reforming the army for the better under during military operations, you know, a new patch appeared, where servicemen write that i am ready to give my life, but i am not ready to give my dignity, ugh, this is also important. it is important that the army reform the subordination so that it is parallel and not vertical, because the serviceman must know what he is fighting for and why he is performing this particular task, and where there is communication between the commanders, the serviceman, in trust, openness, with respect , dignity, there is success, it is important, where there is success. ovation, and these are so ordinary, for sure, any problems can arise in each unit, it's normal, because it

always was and always will be, but it has to be solved, that's all. military chaplaincy service of the armed forces of ukraine. relatively newly created history, yes, and extremely important, and from , you know, from the start, from birth, immediately in... in the grind of war, in fact, how this structure manifests itself now, can we say that it is also reforming on the go the way all the armed forces are reformed, because if you want to survive, change, well, we understand that it is a completely new structure in the army after the adoption of the law, that surely changes must happen and there will be mistakes, that is also normal. but the main thing is that we correct them , so that mistakes are corrected, but today we see this way more, probably model countries

of nato, in the armed forces of the ukrainian and icelandic service, it is more, probably a model, unfortunately, er, of the chinese people's republic or even the russian federation there , because today under the leadership of the chaplaincy service, these are secular people, people who have neither spiritual nor religious education, and we, of course we understand that our medics are commanded by a medic , snipers are commanded by a sniper, who provides, for example, there, if it is an international department, these are people there with an education in international, international relations, and when today the chaplain service is headed by former officers of the moral and psychological software. those who were called zampolites, such a service will be reformed and move very slowly and for a long time, eh, well, and for sure, we understand that

chaplains are also not ready to accept these positions today, they do not have military experience, but this problem must be solved, that is, this story is not about satisfying the spiritual needs of a person, but more about, i don't know, fixing the brain. where it is necessary , this is how the zampolites think, unlike chaplains, there is still a misunderstanding of what a chaplain is for, not everyone has a simple understanding of what he does in war, there is a commander with experience who clearly understands the functions of a chaplain, how to use him, as a combat unit, and there are people who simply do not understand yet, and it also depends on the commanders from... of course, it depends on the whole structure, exactly what will be the training of chaplains , how to recruit them, join the army, because not all chaplains today are ready to join

the army precisely because of, let's say, such a created artificial problem that exists, well, a civilian clergyman can join the ranks of chaplains, i understand correctly, well, according to the law of ukraine, a chaplain is a priest. yes, who has graduated and has a higher theological education, has a certain experience, pastoral service, and then he receives from his religious organization a mandate for the right to carry out compilan activities, and he joins the army, already as a priest-chaplain, undergoes additional training and enters a military unit, where they carry out their activities, and so on. learning to gradually enter a new team with new rules of life and military life, this is a normal time. and

usual training, to the extent that in the community of clergy in general there are processes that are similar to the relations of military personnel with civilians, so very often a military personnel, falling into the rear, feels, to put it mildly, uncomfortable in in connection with how civilians behave, how they live, how they shape their lives, sometimes forgetting a little. do it with an eye, at least for the war, but is there such a situation in the circles of clergy, that is, in order to want to be a chaplain and go to spiritually support the army, well, it is necessary to respond to some internal challenge and have a certain internal courage on my opinion, are all clergymen ready for this? well

, the service of a chaplain is difficult. ugh, this is very different from serving in the parish, if we are talking about the orthodox, such a traditional church, because this is a different schedule of the day, these are completely different people, we cannot impose our faith on military personnel, it preserves their religious freedom, someone can be a non-believer in your unit, someone a believer, and this is no place to proselytize when you're recruiting. to satisfy their religious needs within the limits of their competence and within the limits of their religious freedoms, of course someone, maybe there, he does not want to go to the services and this right must be protected, well, a serviceman should be protected so that the chaplain was also not... that did not harm his

service, it is a different schedule, when you have to come to the service, you have to become a military man somewhere, but you will not turn into a one hundred percent military man and remain a priest, but you are no longer such a priest as in civilian life, and this balance is also difficult for a chaplain to maintain, where when you have to pass, let's say, 50/50 of these skills, if i tell you that i was... a witness to the conflict of a military chaplain and a civilian chaplain, and a military chaplain, without holding back his emotions, asked: why are you not? pull yourself away from the trough when you've had your fill, i won't say now where it happened because it would be unethical, but the story of me, i was waiting for our conversation with you because i wanted to ask a question exactly this, it's a story about what we understand

to be sacred... ministers are people first and foremost, with pluses and minuses, but they, they try, like each of us , to be closer there. nevertheless, here is the feeling that perhaps our religious community in our country does not fully provide support, a comprehensive chaplaincy community, do you have this feeling? well, let's say that no one should provide, our community is provided by the state, the state, the religious community in the army, or some special support of the chaplain within the church community, well, for me it is enough, for someone it may not be enough, and this is a question

for every religious person. .. because, for example, each religious community takes care of its chaplains and various priests who serve there in hospitals and so on. since the orthodox church is a young church, well, a church that was constantly in repressions and persecutions, up to the 18th year, we can say, and there until the 14th, the church and... which were destroyed, institutions were destroyed, priests, even under yanukovych's regime, it is very difficult to build such a structure, for example, as the roman catholic the church, which has its own funds, support funds, structure, and in general , religious life in ukraine was destroyed, and...