thank you for adjusting the heater and making sure the temperature is adequate without wasting money on the wind. let's beat the winter together. the son received an education and at the age of 19 went to serve in azov, that is, it was in september of the 17th year. he then was already so motivated, his senior comrade was already on a contract in azov, somehow, it so happened that the son also got fired up with all the desire to protect the homeland, and this steamboat maximalism, he really wanted to bring benefit to society and to find himself, and he was very well

full of patriotism, and he also really liked the spirit of brotherhood, this is what is in azov and his old position, he was a tank driver, despite the fact that he is a head taller than me, but he is a tank driver , a tank gunner, well, a tank gunner is an assistant to the tank commander, well, in general , every position in the tank crew is worth its weight in gold, in the public eye, but if you google it... the selfless vadym serhiyevich, the son himself, for some reason immediately translates into russian and there there is complete data that he is a tank soldier, a senior soldier, that he apparently took part in the genocide against the people of donetsk, that he fired from a tank at the civilian population and at civilian houses, and there is even a home address, my home address, well, where he

is registered, he is still somewhere in the middle of december 21st, he warned and my father said, something like this is happening, well, if it happens locally within the donetsk luhansk region, well, maybe it's something more. when he was given a short leave, er, somewhere after the new year, after the new year already in the 22nd year there, he also came home, there we talked a little, he also warned. what happened in the hell of february, well, it was a shock for everyone, and for our family too, but i made a decision, even with my wife, so i didn't talk to anyone, that i would volunteer, i couldn't stand aside, i couldn't to stand behind my son, when my son defends the homeland, even then he was healthy... er, a man who served

in the soviet army, i was a paratrooper, the connection with our son was established somewhere er, maybe somewhere already the first decade of march, the first kata of march, and i knew that my son was not in mariupol, he was in other positions, but he rushed to his guys in mariupol, and he and his comrades, those who were outside, who were on leave, who were in treatment, there in rehabilitation, but i know that their they were thrown, well, it’s no longer a secret, probably on march 25, 26, they were thrown into the already surrounded mariupol, then my son wrote to me in the telegram channel that, what a paradox, everyone is trying to get out of the encirclement, on the contrary, they are throwing us there, but this decision was theirs, their decision was conscious and... it was also an order, helicopters, boats, me

i just know that my son said that the percentage was 30 , they had losses, that is, well, that is, two or three, the third was only normal, they flew, swam, got to mariupol, before they stopped, my son was in mariupol many times, and until this, to the full extent of the invasion, he... it's a thriving place, it's, well, it's, well, just a city full of life, and what he saw, well, it's just, it's horror, it's, it's just a shock, when he saw that buildings were destroyed, a lot of enemy equipment, aircraft, helicopters, and he already wrote, father, says there are a few streets left. and

azovstal, ah, there is no connection, er, i crawled to ksp, from ksp, this is a command observation point, in order to get some instructions. the command wrote that it would be better not to overdo it, because even then, when they were in the bunkers on the way, there was no alcohol, no iodine, no greens, they ate a little once a day there, there was no water, that is, the little girl was scratched, the boys were already rotting , lose their limbs, eh, it’s just horrible, he showed me a video of a fragment that got stuck in his clothes, he didn’t even... no, he didn’t hear that it was there got stuck, it shows on the video that such a fragment is so solid, well, as i say, you are lucky, he says, well, the vagrant, well , we did not have constant contact with him, it was once every

three to four days, uh, and i didn’t have internet, because i also climbed out of the dugout to somehow catch the internet, to somehow write to us, and already... my wife received information about my son from me, but eh, where did vadim end up in mariupol, wife i didn't know, my wife didn't know at all, i didn't tell her, but somewhere over there, i told the saint-ladar arch, everything is fine, they are keeping the defense there, there they are holding on, everything is fine there, that is, i did not want to traumatize her psychologically, internally i started to sound the alarm that there is no connection with him there for 5 days, 10 days, eh... and i see what is in the news that the ring is on the outside if he constantly closes, then he already started to write to his wife that there is no connection, so he admitted a little, but until the end he did not admit that his son is in

mariupol, that he is in arrears, and then, when already, a friend sent me a screenshot from an enemy channel , sent... a screenshot, the jacobites are captured, i saw my son, then i yes, i already had such a shock, so much so, i already sent a message then, how many screams, how many tears there were, he must have been in the deer park at that time, when one time, one and only time on may 29 last year, they let him call, there, that is, from unknown number, they gave me a call. i heard that the son was full of optimism then, we will be exchanged in three or four months, that's what he said, when asked where you are, he didn't answer, your health is normal, normal, that is, it was a very brief communication, on that moment i

was in positions, and we turned off the phone, put it in airplane mode so that enemy means. the communication would not recognize that there was a large concentration of fighters in one or another forest strip, and when on the 30th, the next day i arrived from the positions, there was a so-called mini minirotation, the first thing i turned off the phone was in airplane mode and sent a message to my wife there some emoticon or a flower, that's how we agreed that everything is fine, that is, i'll be in touch later. she started writing to me that something had happened in olenivka, and let me google her information on the internet, there was no internet, i climbed a tree, a tree, and so these sites opened so slowly, but for some reason i

started looking for the list of the wounded, in the lists of the wounded, which were laid out by the fringe forces, that is, the side of the aggressor. i found my son at number 54, then i was a little confused, and i immediately felt a thirst for revenge, to go to zero again, to execute again, then my wife saw an enemy video somewhere in september, a video from the donetsk hospital, well, it seems to be there for two seconds, almost even probably less than two seconds, the image of our son. quality the image is bad, the mother said that yes, this is my son, this is our vadim, and then she really confirmed that he was in the 15th hospital, as of today, it is known that the son was in the occupied territory of ukraine, we communicated

through his commander, he wrote that they were imprisoned in taganrog, where they beat the kidneys and heels, that is, they tortured him, that he was in taganrog too, but he was transferred to the territory of the occupied country, well, it might be better, maybe somewhere there are more in this area. in this country or in the lnpr there are some people who are still not indifferent, i saw videos with my son through telegram channel, i saw it with, well, it is clear that the enemy side was filming, and he said what they needed, he, well, this, no, not his words, there i know that he had... a scalped skull , to the wreckage, well, that is, if the injury is light, it is probably after olenivka, well, he

was lucky the second time, the extreme confusion of the nazov soldiers was on may 6 of this year, that is, more than six months ago, and then three enemy pilots were exchanged for 45 azov soldiers, never perceived my rhymes as poems, there is such a thing sometimes that the muse will overflow, especially when i greeted my son in absentia with for the 25th anniversary, that is, with the anniversary, without seeing him , i don't know where he is, i know that he is in captivity, there was a poem that is full of optimism, and i believe that the time will come, that the force will be released, the birthday in prisoners " son, today is your 25th birthday, you are not meeting at home, from this only despair in our eyes and fatigue,

where the promises of the authorities that you will be exchanged for a long time, when it has been almost a year of captivity, mocked, tortured and broken, you have become a real hero for us for our country, so why don't they release the brave sons of ukraine, reach out the enemy is all around you, you have taken the brunt of it all, even the volenovets of the steel structure could not withstand the nightmare explosion." in despair, i don't know what to wish for you too, your birthday, our dear vadim, probably for the children, for your children not knowing what grief and wars are, wars, ashes, smoke, we believe with my mother that a miracle will happen, you will soon return home, stand at the door and be so cute, squeeze in your arms, lifting your sisters up, it will be the best gift, inhale breast freedom, and then we will celebrate liberation and, of course, common victory. april 22, 23rd year.

chevrons approaching victory. although we and we are not always close to our relatives, but 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 transportation infrastructure so that we can all give our children the greatest gift, our victory. merry christmas and happy new year 2024. power. will and tenacity have been handed down for centuries from father to son, and

i am the one who carries within me imprinted on my heart cossack strength and cossack glory, i am the one who carries the glory of freedom-loving ancestors, whose unyielding will lives on 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." smyrichka is a documentary special project about

ukrainian music and its development in soviet times, a story about the ensemble and its founder lyvk dutkivskyi, who made the carpathian song popular in ukraine and far beyond its borders. at the end of the 60s , a train from chernivtsi arrived here in vyzhnytsia almost at midnight. young people drove it to the performances of a local music group. during the soviet era, musicians

played covers of armstrong, beetles and rolling stones. subsequently, the team received the name smeri. local komsomol members will call them bourgeois bandits, but the ukrainian song will resound throughout the soviet union. and we really liked to go here for rehearsals, and these windows, which are here in this room, always called us with their fire. it looked a little different the piano stood in that place, in that corner, there was livko dutkovsky's desk and the phone , which he was always in touch with, we stood in front of him with our hands on the piano, sang for an hour, and the other for an hour and a half, then

worked on the stage with the orchestra , recorded themselves. they listened to what was wrong and corrected it. red ruth. the song is performed by the soloists of the smerichka vocal-instrumental ensemble , nazariy yeremchuk, vasyl zinkevich, and the author of the song, vladimir ivasiuk. i saw smerichka, the first day of the new year, when the song of the year 1971 was broadcast, and we

were preparing for the exam and suddenly i hear the announcer announce ensemble smiri. vyzhnytskyi district house of culture, chernivtsi oblast, ukraine , my god, my countrymen, i say, girls, be quieter, and what is that, i say, my countrymen are singing, quietly, when they sang the red ruta, tears flowed in a hail of tears, you know how then in a foreign country, to hear my native language, and i didn't even imagine then that... a year later i will be on the same stage singing with nazarry vodogray, it can only be in a fairy tale, you know, a magic wand, once there is one.

applauded for so long that we already left scene, and then the applause does not stop, and the guys do not know, they pick up the guitars again, whether to play again or what to do, and we leave so confused, the scene, we left, bowed and of course left, because the script did not have such that the number was performed twice. snichka was very popular then, because we were the first to get these electric guitars, everyone knows, they closed the curtains of light, electricity , turned off, didn't give us, you know, young people loved it, everything was forbidden, smiiichka was very popular, and that's what we allowed it was broadcast on television and radio.

when we saw how well received we were, and that the central television kept us on tv for almost a month, in moscow, where we gave concerts together with the pisnyara ensemble in many places on the biggest stages of moscow, we felt that we were really popular, especially it was felt when people could not get to our concerts. after smerichka's performances in moscow, the group became so popular that volodymyr ivasyuk could not attend his own concert in lviv. natovk did not believe volodymyr that he is... a tinkerer who writes songs for the smerichka. after volodymyr pushed his way behind the scenes, he told lyvko dutkivskyi: "dude, that's popularity, you understand,

there isn't a single button on my jacket." smarichka and her songs, this drive was liked by many. and the youth who liked the seven-year-old also worked in the vyzhnytskyi district committee of komsamol. and there is data in the archive that... the first secretary of the vyzhnytskyi komsomol district committee, he supported smirichka, that is, he said, why not, where did western music come from in soviet ukraine, 1957, period khrushchev's thaw , an international festival of youth and students is held in moscow, guests from different parts of the world come there, soviet youth get to know foreigners, these youth who... saw the world differently than the one they saw in soviet society, this music, in this conversation, as

the art critic vadym skoratsivskyi said , he said that it was the acquaintance of the soviet union, the youth of the soviet union, or as it is now customary to say, the soviet union, with the youth of western countries, with music. with culture of western countries, and after 10 years , the youth who had already heard it, emancipation, felt it on themselves, heard that music, they actually developed already in that, intuitively, wanted to hear that western music again, that the youth festival, but it had so much resonance that the authorities already wanted to block the breath of this festival. the authorities, in my opinion, as a historian, having initiated

the resistance of the future sixties, which began in the late 50s years, in the early 60s. we are talking about the fact that the authorities were dissatisfied and did not know how to stop it. initially , dutkivskyi made this vocal-samental ensemble in order to organize dance evenings for young people in the cultural center. self-made guitars , learned to play, and everyone enjoyed it, then dancing, shake, charleston, these ... fakes, this, this, all this was a bourgeois ideology, god forbid that it spread among the youth, then it was forbidden it was very difficult to find records of foreign artists,

but he managed to listen to some links of those instrumental pieces on the radio, he even tried to remember and do something in smirizhka, and similar things here in vyzhnytsia caught the radio abroad, well, yes, did you listen to it too? listened, the noise was terrible, but through that noise you could hear the beatles, the rolling stones and so on. i call it ukrainian dissidence, in the actual western ukrainian lands. do you know why? because dissidents are dissidents, they thought. in opposition to the system, it was those, one might say, the sixties who composed the basis of dissidence, these were those dissidents

who wanted to learn something else, they wanted to learn and bring it into their twisted soviet system, of course the soviet authorities did not allow this, lyvko dutkivskyi, he managed to... organize this, this collective, he understood what is needed at this time, he got fed up with these western beat groups themselves , you know, probably through lyvk dutkivskyi, and passed that bridge to the creation of that smerichka, which we eventually had, through lyvk dutkivskyi, through his personal moreover, lyvkodutkivskyi is a bridge from european culture, western culture, from those covers that we say, or

through covers, and. to that smerichka, which developed the national culture, the national song, and she brought such a breath of fresh air, which in principle was liked by many, even those who wanted to criticize her, but could not. levko dutkivskyi was a real discoverer of talents, the producer of smerichka at the time, he was not only a songwriter, he taught young students of the vyshnytskyi school of arts to play instruments, in the days when there were no electric guitars, he made them with his own hands. levko dutkovsky is a person, i think, who was not appreciated enough during his life, and he felt it, and it hurt him, and i want this person to be talked about, his songs to be played, so that we do not forget, because it is

ours ... our treasure, priceless, because in fact, levko dutkovsky created the pop song. it was dutkivskyi who invited nazarriy yaremchuk to the smerichka in 1969. young nazarii sat in the hall during the rehearsal and did not dare to come up and ask to sing. or could he have known then that later his name would be associated with a ukrainian song. at concerts abroad, he will be met by full halls of people. and videos on youtube will gain millions of views. of course, i liked his beautiful timbre of voice, clean intonation, and i saw that this is the kind of boy who could be a good singer for... at that time

he was still a self-made smirichki, i offered nazar to sing smirichki, he happily agreed, let's remember , smyrichka arose in these conditions of a totalitarian regime, it arose in... it received a breath of life, and she passed this breath on to others, she gave a breath to every performer, who was then actually appreciated by the youth and appreciated by the entire soviet society, not only ukrainian, but also abroad, when the ukrainian song poured abroad, very much us well received with

concerts. and in toronto, and in montreal , and in tender bay, and in wedmonton, in vancouver, the concerts were full halls, full theaters, and now it’s easy to talk after 35 years, and i feel those halls, when at a concert we are sometimes three times they sang snerik's house, the red one ruta, water fountain, people applauded until we started again. we didn't play, but played with a whole orchestra , so we didn't need any phonographs, and that's why the furthest we 've been is in vancouver, in the west of canada, and of course, when we were at a concert back when there was a soviet union, we traveled vladivostok, khabarovsk and performed there in front of our ukrainians who came

from the frankiv region, from chernivtsi region, from lviv region, who lived there in vladivostok, and then we were invited to the island of the sea of ​​japan, and we sang to the guitar there. they started with the rifle song of kalyna, the one that is so popular now, and ended their performance with the national anthem of ukraine. well, say so, please, it, our independence in 1991, was not created just like that, it...