[000:00:00;00] there is no ukrainian arlington, where our heroes would rest. many relatives keep the ashes at home for years, with the hope of burying their loved ones with full military honors. more from vasyl sofyaniuk. leo, sensei, augustus. relatives of the dead voleniv residents of azov remember the fallen heroes during the landing of kalina on the avenue of memory in the capital. fathers, wives, daughters and sons are dead. defenders of mariupol would like such commemorations to take place in the national military memorial cemetery, but also on the tenth year of the russian-ukrainian war and at the end in the second year of the full-scale aggression of the enemy, there is still no place to honor the fallen heroes in our country. the former resident of azov oleksandr kisilyshyn, whose son oleksii was killed by the russians in olenivka, does not understand how much more time the officials need, they did not do it, and

now the delay is... well, very wrong, because i know many people, i know them personally, who they keep their loved ones at home, waiting for this, for this memorial complex. the relatives of the fallen defenders are already tired of the government's long-term promises and they openly talk about it. they say that you can't criticize the government during the war, but it seems to me that it is precisely the criticism that somehow...how to say, accelerates them to some conclusions and some actions. we even agreed to the bald mountain, because we were told that it was also the slopes of the dnieper. the mother of the fallen serviceman of the azov regiment vladyslav lytvynenko, on a pseudo-vector. mrs. vira says that they liked the bykovnyan graves national historical and memorial reserve the most. and then it turned out that tens of thousands are buried in bykivno

repressed, many have not yet been excavated. graves, and therefore the idea of ​​creating another memorial complex there was abandoned, instead they found land on the southern outskirts of kyiv, in the community of gatny, next to the southern cemetery. the most important thing is that we were promised and we have been waiting for the family for a whole year, and now it's just that delaying time and not burying our sons is simply not wrong, and families are starting to put... urns in the columbarium walls. this is how the burial places of our fallen heroes and heroines look today. cemeteries have separate rows, alleys, etc entire sectors. they are immediately visible behind the flags of ukraine and units of fallen heroes. and this is what the future national military memorial cemetery should look like. the chief architect of the project, serhiy derbin, shows the general plan of this large-scale complex. we enter the junction,

the carriageway, where there is a parking lot for 500 cars, this alley, its length is about one and a half km, this story you see is 120 hectares. it is planned to build a a museum-exhibition complex, which will include a military cemetery, funeral homes, chapels, a crematorium, a central square and an alley with a large flag of ukraine, will also build all the necessary infrastructure, equip storage, parking lots, and public. selective over time, there will be a museum and a hotel complex here. when designing the national military cemetery, specialists took into account foreign experience and the creation of the famous arlington national cemetery in the usa. they all began their history outside the city limits, just like the great arlington that we are on lean on so he was once a long time outside of washington. and then it all grew a little, grew and became a part of washington. it will be the same with us. we

are sure of it. the concept of the national military memorial cemetery was developed by specialists of the ukrainian institute of national remembrance, and it was much faster and easier than pushing the deputies of the verkhovna rada to adopt the relevant law, and the government officials to start preparatory work, admits the director of the institute, anton drobovych. that is, one one thing is to speak, and another thing is to adopt a law, finance expenses, billions of hryvnias for the creation of such an object. i think if it wasn't for full scale war we wouldn't have no. neither the law nor the decision of the cabinet about the place, the cemetery will have traditional throne burials, as well as columbariums for urns, if the relatives choose cremation, there will also be canotaphs, symbolic graves of those defenders who were not found on the battlefield, for christians they provide installation of the cossack cross, for other faiths a rectangular plate with the inscription: there you can't be anyone who builds anything, there are guys with guitars sitting in sports suits, that won't happen,

they often build monuments there. it will be a unified cemetery. so far , there are only woods and fields in the area, but the management of the national war memorial cemetery hopes that it will be operational by the end of next year. these are the plans we have in the state institution, and judging by all the information, by the timings we have today, it is absolutely realistic for us. construction was divided in order to properly honor and bury the dead and gradually build the entire memorial complex. deputies from the servant of the people are sure that it will definitely be built. the best thing to always reassure is when we say that money has already been allocated for something, money has been allocated. for the next year, this amount is about 500 million. hryvnias, so i think that 95% of the time it will definitely happen. vasyl sofianyuk, viktor zelenkov, ictv facts, single news. a christmas miracle for the family of a military man, 30 years old

dmytro khan, senior technician of the company of the 82nd separate airborne assault brigade. he serves in the zaporozhye direction. on the front line, he not only repairs equipment, but also evacuates wounded comrades. during the year of service, i was at home only once, and then in... saw my newborn daughter for the first time, however, it was on the christmas holiday that dmytro's family was able to unite, as our correspondents will tell you, when the call came, we didn't expect it, we at all they were in shock in this house, they are eagerly waiting for a guest, son dmytro is to come to his parents' house, his mother hasn't seen him for six months, so she wants to feed him his favorite dishes, she made this especially for him, it's called: dmytro hasn't seen not only his parents for six months, but also his wife with a ten-month-old daughter, he says, for the first time he saw a child in a photo on

his phone, milana was born because month, as he was mobilized, first of all, he was congratulated by his comrades. how her daughter grows up is monitored by videos sent by her relatives over the years. was only once and saw my daughter for the first time when she was 5 months old, aha, his 82nd brigade defends the country on the zaporizhzhia direction, one of the most difficult, says dmytro, here the russian army is trying to recapture the liberated villages, the senior technician of the company not only repairs combat vehicles, but also takes out the wounded from scratch, this is my swallow, a 2000 ranger with 33 wheels, yes, the engine is already dead, the valves are about. .. topli, it is no longer working as it should, and the turbine is not blowing, but it is still going at its own pace. i didn't count how many wounded i evacuated on this pickup truck, but it happened 15 times in a day that it drove to zero, there it took food and water

to the injured comrades back, often even not zero, but minus. who will include here? that's it, shot, shot. there were, well, very seriously wounded, but thank god that there was not... not a single case when i did not transport anyone, that is, all of them are alive, thank god, and they are now being treated, rehabilitated and will return to the army. however, where people do not break down, the equipment is handed over, after each evacuation the pickup truck has to be repaired, but this one has already served its purpose, so they are collecting it with their brothers for a new car , it was smoking terribly, it had such a smoke screen that it was impossible to understand, something is going, but she was leaving, well, at the moment she is no longer... it is combat-ready for the reason that the engine outlives it, outlives its age. dmytro was born in uzbekistan, his family moved to ukraine when he was five, he studied, worked and raised his family

here. the first thing is, i give a hug, it's a daughter, and then a woman, a mother, and everyone who will be there. because i really want to see them and i miss them no less than they miss me, and this dmytro is already in his native village in mykolaiv oblast opens the door of his parents' house. next to him, tatiana's wife is holding her daughter milan in her arms. she could not go anywhere without her mother and look away, but then, but then we played. we hugged, kissed, yes , i couldn't believe that the saint's husband and wife tatyana would see her, she was immediately happy, but i thought , well, it probably won't happen, i think, well, as always, they promise, they promise, he arrived earlier

than i thought, it was unexpected , i was very happy. tatyana admits to raising her daughter it is difficult without a husband, but i accepted dmytro's decision to defend the country. it is very hard, very hard, because you have always... been with a man, a man is your support, a man is everything for you, here, well, they took away your man, you remain alone, he is not near you, he cannot he can't hug you, well, everything is on the phone, everything is on video. connection dmytro says that he values ​​the time spent with his family very much, he is sure that it will help him at the front as well. you celebrate at home, not somewhere in the dugout with the boys. that's how it is somehow in a family way, you forget about what's going on there, you're like a sponge, you try to absorb this whole, as it were, home atmosphere, all of it, and keep it there as long as possible. after the new year, dmitry will return to the service to perform combat missions. sometimes at the festive family table

they want only one. oleksandra chenkova , tetyana dotsyak, yevhen rapenko, faktv, edyni news. so, now ukrainians have joined almost one and a half billion christians who celebrate the birth of the son of god on december 25. first, officially, the orthodox church of ukraine and the ukrainian greek catholic church christmas liturgies were celebrated today. transition to the new church calendar, only supporters of the moscow patriarchate, so once again about the manipulations and myths about the date of christmas and when exactly our ancestors celebrated it with details olga chitaylo: good evening to you , master, rejoice from sunrise to sunset.

for the first time this year, the carol will sound only in december, not two dates, not of your own choosing , officially christmas in ukraine is december 25, and both ocu and ugc have switched to a new calendar this year, i am very happy that we have now switched to this new style, from the old one the soviet one is needed leaving, and our children will already celebrate everything in a new way, but the first year was very difficult, now they are somehow used to it, so that people... get used to the new date, it takes time, but there are already many manipulations around the topic of christmas, such as the message is being spread on social networks, they write that the celebration on december 24-25 is a holiday for politicians and not a ukrainian christmas at all. when exactly our ancestors celebrated this holiday, they will explain to us in sophia of kyiv. we are met by the head of the department of the sofia museum, but first of all he does not lead us church, and in the metropolitan building. in this room there are portraits of all the owners of this palace. these more than 20 metropolitans of kyiv, owners of the sofia monastery

yard, absolutely all of them, celebrated christmas on december 25. why this particular date? we find the explanation on the walls of the temple. on one of the icons, there is a mention of the third council of ephesus in 431. on it, the date of celebrating christmas on december 25 was approved. it was the first day of winter since the winter solstice. daylight began to increase noticeably, christmas fell on the day when daylight begins defeat the darkness at that time, there was no official division into catholics and orthodox. the churches split in 154, but still for several centuries different denominations celebrated christmas on the same day. to explain where the difference in numbers came from, the historian takes us to one of the graphics on the walls of the cathedral. imagine

this image. this is a tablet for calculating the date of easter, the actual date of easter and the problem of calculating this date is the grain from which the calendar problem began. yes, counting the date of easter, people noticed that christmas is scientifically celebrated on the wrong day. the julian calendar, i.e. introduced by julius caesar, was inaccurate. by the 16th century, there was a 10-day difference between what was happening in the sky and what was on paper. in 1582, pope gregory 13 introduced a calendar reform. this new calendar is called the gregorian calendar. the orthodox church remains on yuliansky. but both catholics and orthodox celebrate christmas on december 25. it's just that the chronology is different. it came,

it came to her, it is difficult to understand this history will be helped by the specialists of the upyrogov museum, where samples of architecture from different parts of the country are collected. such a reconstruction of our state in ancient times. this church is now part of the exhibition of the polissia museum in perohiv. it was brought here from the village of kysorichi in the rivne region, it was built in 1789 and saw about two hundred christmas services until the beginning of the 20th century. century, all of them were served on december 25, but according to the old calendar, because the church operated on the territory of the russian empire. the russian empire lived with the julian calendar until 1917. that is, they had both the church and the swedish government, but what they had on december 25, in western europe, for example, there in paris, in london, on this day it was january 7. it was even more confusing in the territories that in different years were under the control of poland and austria-hungary. there, the official state

calendar was the gregorian calendar, while ukrainians, orthodox and greek catholics in these territories basically used the julian calendar. the question was how not to dissolve, how to preserve our national identity, and that is why we are celebrating christmas on a different day than the poles, it was an element of a certain national identity. it was only now possible to return to the real date, and it is december 25 - christmas without political speculation, our ancient ukrainian christmas, with carols, grandfather and 12 dishes. angel paste. olga chytaylo, dmytro matvienko, viktor zeryankov and roman sherbakov, ictv facts, single news. decorate the christmas tree, cook foreign festive dishes and

sing foreign songs. we have come to love these borrowed traditions as our own, but ukrainians actually have many christmas symbols, and stories. they have thousands of years, but not everyone knows what a grandfather, a straw spider, or an eight-pointed star of kulyadniki means, but the russians are clearly aware that this is our cultural code, so for centuries they have been trying to erase from our memory the mystery of ukrainian christmas, which our ancestors encrypted for us in the following symbols: christmas without a christmas tree is not christmas, an evergreen tree with its pleasant conifers... it does not bring the atmosphere of the coming holiday into the house, but almost 100 years ago everything was different, the tradition of putting up a christmas tree was alien to our ancestors, because the germans invented it. in ukraine, the christmas tree appeared in the 19th century, but these were isolated cases. here it is worth mentioning that in 1925, the soviet authorities banned the christmas

tree, and after the famine in 1935 , the soviet authorities introduced it again. christmas tree, but as a new year's tree, it is no longer crowned by the star of bethlehem, but by the soviet pentagon, its five corners symbolized the unity of the five continents in the struggle for communism. what made ukrainians old was their attribute of christmas - the spider. this straw figure symbolizes the universe that the spider weaves. according to legend, in on the day of the winter solstice, the world is born anew, along with the sun, and this straw figure seems to renew the world. every christmas, this is actually this kind of shape, this is a more traditional spider, this is actually my fantasy, such a christmas star. such christmas charms have long been made in prykarpattia, they are made from hundreds of straws, only from rye and wheat straw, which is collected at the end of july. it is cut, strung and shaped into rhombuses. each figure is held

on one thread, and this is a difficulty, because the straw is very brittle. there is no such thing anymore opportunities, as it was according to tradition on... epiphany, to burn it, that is, it was burned once on epiphany and it was believed that all bad things went away with this epiphany, now i no longer had such a more decorative meaning, and people keep it for themselves since the year year. it is not for nothing that another ukrainian christmas symbol, santa claus, is also made from ears of corn. ethnographers explain this as an ancient bread-making tradition. grandfather is the last dream of the pispoli, which was threshed last, already after christmas. later, the first sowing in the field was done from that grain. this is a symbol. the endless cycle of life, and grandfathers are generally very multi-tiered, and some craftsmen make not three legs, but there may be more legs, and the more magnificent the grandfather, the richer, the richer the year will be. there are many variants of grandfathers, and their complexity is in no way affected

by the sacred meaning. in addition to the fact that this is such a very traditional decoration and it is already nice to return to our ukrainian, it is also creativity. you will definitely not see ukrainian carolers without the octagonal star of bethlehem, because it is the main attribute of christmas, a symbol of birth and light there are no limits to the creativity of modern masters, on the current christmas stars and scenes from the nativity scene, the ukrainian military. there are enough people willing not only to purchase, but also to make their own. i tried to make such a star for the first time on my own, and to be honest, the experience is really very impressive and pleasant, because it is so... a return to our roots, i think our ancestors also found some outlet in this, a dinner of 12 fasting dishes and a candle on the table, which calls to the souls of relatives, there is also our unique... christmas symbol, maybe because of the war, but ukrainians

began to be more interested in their identity. almost 200 spectators gathered at the lecture of ethnologist anna nikolayva on ukrainian christmas symbols at the capital's courage bazaar. we were so busy with other things that we didn't pay attention, we didn't have time to delve into it. now the full-scale invasion of russia on the territory of ukraine, it showed us that if we do not remember... who we are, if we do not take this responsibility, it will be quite difficult for us. there is no christmas in ukrainian traditions attributes for beauty. each has a sacred meaning, its own code of our history. ethnologists are certain that there is nothing wrong with the fact that we hang a wreath, put up a christmas tree, or bake a german stolin. both european and ukrainian symbols glorify light. the main thing is that borrowed traditions do not supplant our thousand-year-old ones. daniila samsonov, iryna tamchyshe. ictv facts, single news. this year has given us few reasons for joy. a year ago, we

hoped for victory in the 23rd year, but the enemy is big, strong and insidious, and we did not get everything promised by of the event however, our defenders did liberate part of the territory and now continue to heroically destroy the enemy and maintain an active defense. and obviously the whole country needs it. prepare for the war for a long time, and so far what events this year have shaped our lives,

tatiana nekonechna collected.

for the first time in a year they eat fresh delicious fruit.

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bourges in the crimea. who do

you take? and our father is childishly protecting somewhere in the east

of ukraine, he remembers the holy evening, that's all we wanted for now. let's tell you, we're holding our line, taking care of our own, and see you soon. chevrons approaching victory. although we are not always close to our relatives, what we do gives our children the opportunity to be safe and immerse themselves in the fairy tale of the winter holidays. we protect our country and restore its transport infrastructure, so that we can all give the main gift to our children, our victory, merry christmas and

happy new year 2024. strength, will and perseverance have been passed down from father to son for centuries, and i am the one who carries the cossack strength and cossack strength imprinted on my heart fame i am the one who carries the glory of freedom-loving ancestors, whose steadfast will lives on. and to this day, i am the one who for centuries carries the spirit of struggle and ideas, the one who will never bow down to the enemy, i am a warrior of ukraine, indomitable and unconquered, i will defend

the land given to me by god, and always believe in my invincibility. i am a russian warship, i suggest you lay down your arms and surrender. ukraine has more glory.