these doubts and our pain were a little, a little, i would say restrained, but i said to him, father, thank you very much, and now before us, let's demonstrate all this, it is not an easy task to return home and convince our people of our people, so you see, the dynamics are very interesting, but our voice is important. he is changing, changing the world's understanding of what is happening in ukraine , as shevchenko said, the whole world heard what was happening in ukraine, why she died, what made the cossacks famous all over the world, and what is actually happening, i know several cases when ukrainian greek catholic priests, for example in berdyansk, became victims of the russian occupation.

only the clergy of the moscow patriarchate felt comfortable there on the same level as the clergy, particularly of the protestant churches, but not about them now. we understand that religious figures are another target for the enemy. maybe it seems so to me, but when we talk about the fact that they target medics so that they don't save our soldiers from the battlefield, when they target journalists so that they don't... cover the real events on the battlefield, when they target emergency personnel so that they do not put out fires after their shelling, they also target our ukrainian religious figures, so that people do not receive spiritual support when they need it, and the ukrainian greek the catholic church as we understand it is currently struggling with at least a few clergy that i only know now how much is it? this is a common phenomenon, how

exactly are ukrainian greek catholics hunted by the occupiers in various currently possibly occupied territories? uh, you see, it's always like that it was in history that as soon as the russian empire conquered and destroyed a separate part of ukraine, the first people they tried to eliminate were the structures of our church, why? because... our church was never a state church, but a state and nation-building church, by the way, you know, before that, russian propagandists agreed that the very idea of ​​ukraine's independence was called political unionism, it was so interesting for me to hear that, that is, they are panickingly afraid of our the church, which is characteristically the soul of the ukrainian people, which formed.

the modern face of the ukrainian nation, by the way, this year we remembered the memory of our holy martyr josaphat kuntsevich, and this celebration in rome acquired a very wide international significance and level, the lithuanian state celebrated this anniversary at the state level, we somehow together with our brothers and the sisters from lithuania understood that jehoshaphat formed the faces of the four with his figure. three modern nations: ukrainians, lithuanians, belarusians, and poles, that is, all those peoples who lived on the territory of the former polish-lithuanian commonwealth, and it is obvious that every time the moscow state destroyed this identity of the europeans who lived in this territory, it was the first to try to destroy our church, and this is still happening today, in general... in the territories

, our priests made a conscious choice to stay with their people, er, and yet they tolerate and wander around russian prisons. at the moment, there is not a single catholic priest in the occupied territories of donbass, zaporizhzhia, er, the left-bank kherson region. uh some were simply deported, like our priests from melitopol, and some were arrested, and their fate is not fully known to us, you mentioned our two priests from bredyansk, two monks, redemptorists, father ivan levitsky, father bohdan geleta, we still had information about them when they were held in berdyansk itself, it was information from those... some fellow prisoners, who were later released

and from whom we learned whether they were, or are still alive. later, what we know today, they moved from there to somewhere else. contained and their trace, unfortunately, has been lost, we still know nothing about them, but it is interesting why, why is the occupation government e decided to arrest them, because at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, residents of berdyansk prayed together in front of the inscription: "i love berdyansk." so it was a joint prayer for the city they love. at first it was tolerated, they looked at it so carefully , then maybe it changed, so the person in the occupying power, and this type of prayer

began to be considered an unauthorized protest, and out of love for the priests of berdyansk, obviously, for their people. obviously, we turn to and have turned to various international and diplomatic institutions missions with a request to help us save them. their fate is still unknown. this is how our community in luhansk, our community in donetsk and in the vicinity of donetsk was also destroyed. and recently... certain orders of the occupation authorities in zaporizhzhia were made public, which clearly issued an order to liquidate our church, confiscate our property, and ban the activities of not only our religious

institutions, but also humanitarian missions, such as the knights of columbus, caritas, which characteristically always engaged in saving human, human. life, what a conclusion, everyone is afraid everything that reminds us of ukraine, everything that constitutes the identity of the ukrainian people, everything that is an expression of its individuality, is an expression of its true face, everything that can give hope, hope to people that one day the ukrainian state with... can restore its sovereignty in those occupied territories, that is, you see, here it is shown how much the ukrainian greek-catholic church is considered a threat to the spread of russian peace for them, and as one of our

still underground lords once said, where there is a greek - the catholic church, there is ukraine, it is obvious that this is primarily about religious identity, which has always, always been nation-building, and we need the church not to lose its role even in modern circumstances. i know that pope francis knows for sure about these, at least two priests, and i know for sure that the vatican is still in contact with the russian orthodox church, in particular their patriarch, patriarch kirill, who literally believes that if a russian goes to kill in ukraine, then he is cleaned from any other sins, this is almost a verbatim quote from him, but less so. can we hope? on the practical manifestation of this diplomacy, the very important religious diplomacy that we are talking about, which is very often kept, despite

the fact that morally, as you said, pope francis is on our side. this diplomacy has two wings: public diplomacy. and not publicly, or this particular non-public wing can sometimes be, you know, a little stronger and more effective, that's why about all things, let me not talk now, everything secret will become clear, sooner or later, eh, but - on that occasion the stay in rome of our synod, then my participation in the papal one at the synod, indeed, our delegation had the opportunity to work a lot with various institutions of the apostolic capital, including the state secretariat, which is the core of vatican diplomacy, by the way, the holy father very favorably accepted

several profoundly important our initiatives , the creation of certain mechanisms, uh, how to monitor the situation in russia, er... to protect ourselves from russian propaganda and so on, that is, our work, i see, was very, very interesting and very successful, but specific a manifestation of this... was the participation of the apostolic capital in those international forums that our state organizes in order not only to clarify our formula for peace, but to gain the support, you know, not only of world powers and states, but also of various international institutions . and so we were very pleased that... the vatican has implemented the er

formula of peace, obviously in those parts where the church institution or the church diplomacy considers itself competent, and there are some very interesting points that already are already acting in favor of the ukrainian people and our state. first of all, this is a humanitarian issue. secondly, it is the issue of the release of our recruiters, in particular, in particular, the finding and return home of ukrainian children abducted by the russian federation. we already have certain glimpses, hopes, and first successes, i think that we are only at the beginning of a very difficult path. likewise, the apostolic capital is very active, working to unblock the export corridors

of ukrainian grain, because the vatican is part of this international institution, which is called fao, that is, which fights hunger in the world, and here, here, here, those mechanisms of the presence of activity are really very, very useful, er, for ukraine, and, er,... i think, in the future, they will be on our side , and there is one more part, very interesting, important , this is the issue of ecology, oh, thank you for mentioning this, very few people think about this, extremely, today, we know that pope francis has a special sensitivity to this issue , together with the ecumenical patriarch, by the way, patriarch bartholomew is sometimes called the green patriarch, he has been for decades the initiator of various initiatives for the protection of the environment and the development of christianity. morals , protection of the environment, here, too, we

cooperate very actively, we constantly inform about this trauma, which is received not only by the society, the people of ukraine, but also, therefore, the environment, the issue, therefore, of the threats that are connected with the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the blackmail that russia, you know, is doing , so help, that is, this power plant, which is, in fact, held hostage by this criminal, let's not talk about the ecological damage to the black sea, and many other types of wounds for the environment, which go beyond the borders of only the ukrainian territory, er, thus, this formula of peace, which is offered by our state to the world. actually, this is not just a formula, these are 10

disasters that the occupier brought to our land, 10 tragedies, each of which needs its own solution. this is something that today is very concretely, from the side of the apostolic capital, really involved, and here we felt an absolute understanding. the huge world humanitarian solidarity with ukraine is important. really taking part in at the papal synod, i had the opportunity to speak with the heads of delegates of the catholic church from almost all countries of the world, you know , great sympathy, great support, i did not meet any pro-moscow delegation, i will not talk about my conversations with catholics from russia and belarus, this is a separate separate story. here, but really, here is the very

fact that we are in the world network, er, of the catholic church, and today we have this network on our side, well, this is a unique way to not only convey the truth about ukraine, but also get the necessary support us. we don't have much time left, and i don't. the right to detain you longer than we agreed, but this is a little question: the year 2023, unfortunately, is crowned by the fact that not only conflict and war in ukraine. is on the front pages, we see what is happening in the middle east, we understand with a sinking heart how the situation may develop in latin america, for example, yes, but it is more about politics, i would like to pay attention to what the good our friend and analyst karl volokh says,

i sometimes look at ukraine and it seems to me that we remained an island of adequacy in the world in the sense that the near east, and we see the protests of the muslim world very often of such a destructive nature, so we see some disturbance of anti-semitic movements around the world at times, and we continue to witness it and, unfortunately, at times victims of what the russian orthodox church does, their rhetoric, their propaganda and so on, we manage to... keep, you know, a cool head and a warm heart towards everyone in the world. i don't know, it's strange, on the one hand, because we are in the vortex of all these events, and on the other hand, it gives great hope that it is in ukraine, the ukrainian people, that it is possible to set a trend in the world, you know, not

to be too sharp where it can be avoided. our indigenous people practice islam, and these are our crimean tatars, for example, and we also have representatives of other religions, and this is not a problem. do you think that this is really a miracle for the modern world? you know, the whole world today understands that ukraine is the epicenter of global world changes. by the way, the head of... diplomacy of one of the european countries, i won't say which one, to me said the following phrase: whoever has not been to kyiv today becomes an outsider of world politics and diplomacy, whether the whole world wants it or not, today he is going to ukraine, trying to understand the tectonic changes that are happening right

here in our country, because of this, how will things flow further events? the history of not only europe, but the whole world will depend. and here ukraine sets many trends today. for example, a few months ago, the all-ukrainian council of churches visited the united states. at the peak of these polarizations, even society in the usa, where on the one hand there is a muslim environment, and on the other hand, the jewish ones tried to reach out and capture as many of their supporters as possible, and here comes the all-ukrainian council of churches, where a jewish rabbi and a muslim mufti, orthodox and catholics sit together at the same table

of different traditions, including protestants, i.e. the all-ukrainian council of churches... just by its appearance it was already some new trend, there is nothing like it in any other country in the world, but in all those, i would say, moments, our church, ukrainian, greek catholic church has its own special mission and its own place, we are almost the only church in ukraine that has a global network of presence, so... you could see, you know, from those shots, the surprise of our president zelensky when he met the ukrainian greek catholic bishop while visiting argentina buenos aires, who welcomed him there in latin america and told him about the centenary of the ukrainian community and our church there, that is, it shows that the global

network of the presence of our church and in... the ukrainian diaspora is the heart of that ukrainian world, that world ukrainianness , about which our president often thinks and speaks today, even in my opinion, in recent days at his press conference he spoke about 60 million ukrainians, half of whom live abroad, and this half mostly gathers in the network of the religious structure of ukraine greek catholic church. indeed. "when the war in the holy land started due to those terrorist attacks by hamas, i was at the papal synod at that time. and it was really visible how ukraine began to disappear from the vanguards, so, uh, international news publications, er, daily

reports, that is, our war began to recede a little into the background, and this could not help but worry us, and then our church began a powerful advocacy activity, trying to do everything to... not forget about ukraine , but you know that it has become obvious to everyone that russia is exporting war to the whole world in order to divert attention from its own crimes on ukrainian soil, but our church in cooperation with the world ukrainian community will not allow this to happen, and therefore we will continue to act at the international... level, using all our means that we have, the last, naturally, i had the opportunity precisely in the context of all those moments of the export of war

by russia, to have a meeting with the heads of various states of europe, somehow the lord god arranged everything, that at the moment of good news from the european commission from brussels, i was physically in the premises of the european parliament. there are many beautiful, interesting, positive notes and many such rays of light, but we must see that light, not think that the world has forgotten about us and turned away, let's not look for enemies where there are none, be it in europe, or in washington, or in the vatican, let's create, look for our side. to persuade those who really wish us well, yes, perhaps to win friends where we do not have them today, and here

the ukrainian greek-catholic church feels its special mission, which it will confidently, methodically and successfully fulfill . thank you for this talk on christmas eve, i hope our viewers had as much fun as i did, and many more… guidelines for the entire next year. blessed sviatoslav shevchuk, father and head of the ukrainian greek catholic church for the espresso tv channel and together with the espresso tv channel, and we wish everyone a merry christmas and a happy new year. turn on well - it's when everything is as you want. click and you are in the world of cartoons. click and around the universe of cinema, and what's next? oh, what is needed. megogo,

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face. the girl looks about eight years old. she has light blond hair and dark eyes. if suddenly someone sees anna roslyakov, or does anyone know where she might be now? do not delay and immediately call us on the hotline of the magnolia child tracing service at the short number 11630. calls from any ukrainian mobile operator are free, or write to the chatbot of the child tracing service in telegram. any information is important. i also want to remind you that we are continuing the search for 14-year-old tolia lyashenko from the left bank of the kherson region. the boy lived in the village of baltazarivka. this is the chaplin district of the region, which was also occupied at the beginning full-scale war. the relationship with the boyfriend ended at the end of march 2023. and for 9 months nothing is known about the fate of the child. but i really hope that with your help

that... if anyone has seen the boy or knows where he might be now, don't delay and call us on the magnolia children's hotline at the short number 11630. calls from any ukrainian mobile operator free. and i would like to ask for a moment of your attention, i want to remind you about the search for 17-year-old denys smirnov from odesa. the boy's disappearance is not related to war or occupation. i know that the teenager was in the local hospital, on december 6 this year, around 12 o'clock in the afternoon, he ran away from the medical facility, the teenager did not return home, and no one knows where he is now. the police say that denys has never run away from home before and they really hope for your help. so, pay attention to the photo: denys smirnov looks a little older than his 17 years, he is thin, about 175 cm tall, has

short dark hair and dark eyes. if anyone has seen the guy or knows where he might be now, call 911 the line of the magnolia child tracing service at the short number 11630. i would like to remind you that calls from any ukrainian mobile operator are free, or write to the chat bot of the child tracing service in telegram. it is possible that denys could simply decide to run away from home for one reason or another. of course, so far this is only an assumption, and as the experience of the children's search service shows, it is. in adolescence , boys and girls often resort to running away. we talked about this topic with a psychologist and collected a lot of advice for parents that can definitely prevent it sudden escape of the child from home. one of them is to properly set boundaries with your children. create a safe space for your child, because children, especially teenagers, live in a state of constant war, hormonal war, war with themselves, war for their

place. in a group of peers for his future, for his values ​​and beliefs, and in order to have a little rest from this, to have at least a little opportunity to reset, the child must have a place in the world where he will feel safe, it can be his room, if the rooms no, it can be a corner in the common room or something else, but it should be a place where she can be heard in safety from claims, from remarks, from complaints, from everything else, and even when you ... want to express some claim or complaint to the child, think , consider how much it is now important how fundamentally important this complaint is for your relationship, for raising a child and so on, and maybe, thinking this way, you will give up this idea, you will keep silent once again and keep your warm, trusting relationship.

stepan barna, currently a sergeant of the 10th separate unit of the edelweiss mountain assault brigade, and until 2023, ukrainians knew him as a people's deputy, ex-head of the ternopil regional state administration, philanthropist, entrepreneur and scientist, now instead of a high position, he holds the title of defender of ukraine, they recall. in the past , stepan says: being a politician is not a choice, a vocation, but now he calls military service his duty. i was aware that there would be a war. all the time, i was convinced that this war would be full-scale with russia, i did not believe that russia would calmly put up with the fact that that there is a ukrainian state. 10 years ago, when the first...