everyone wraps bags of gunpowder on the mines to increase the flight range, you have to do it with your bare hands, and it's -15 outside now, well, it's enough for us that we run to the pipe to work, that's enough for us, because it's all intense, it's the same it was even after work , it was really hard, because it’s all fast , there it will do this, there it will do it, this one is always there, we constantly have to light it under it, just like before the snow , just like before...

the first year, i specifically joined the airborne troops, i wanted to fulfill my dream, well, i wanted to i overcame my fear, it’s the most important thing, it’s the fear of heights, i overcame it, yes, i made my first jump, well, i hope it’s not the last, well, only one so far , well, i can’t convey it with praise, it’s very euphoric, interesting, well as they say you will never understand the first jump, he says you will understand, then he says on the second, then we will wait for ours. stepan is the oldest here, recently returned from vacation, met with his son, who is also serving, saw that i joined the army, also struggled for a long time during this year, i refused, as could, because, of course, it's dangerous here and all that, but he insisted on his own, and he initially wanted to join the army like that, but they don't take him that way, because he's 20 years old. he is not subject to mobilization, so

there was only one way out - it was to sign a contract. the birth of a granddaughter is also a serious incentive to hold on, says the fighter. i was on vacation, at the beginning of december, and i saw it, but i went specifically to see it, and to come so that she could see me when she is older, so why did you come now? this is one year, of course we have to survive here, we spend more time with them than with our families, we, if we spend 10 days at home in six months, that's fine, well, there are no problems with that, we have a stressful situation, which is not so bad now rest, well, that's not enough for us either.

we are going to the sryebrysk forest, we are passing the city of siversk, which has been living without electricity and water supply for two years, under constant artillery and air strikes from the russian army, but despite this, there are still peaceful people here. ukrainian gunners advance in another attack. strike the shelters of the russian army in advance, so that the enemy does not even think of an extreme assault, it was two tanks, there were two tanks and a lot of infantry, but our guys are good and know what they are doing. and one tank managed

to escape, hit, and one remained on our land already a little rusty, this is a joint effort, starting with our birds, and with the defense of our infantry, the opponent is worthy, honestly, they are superior to us in technology, they are superior in weapons, but... well, the truth is with us, we are on our own land, the truth is, lyman wants to reach limanu, wants to ask for a way, well then, how lucky they will be, but they will not be lucky, ah, yes, guess what, the english howitzer l-119 is ideal for repelling the assaults of the russian infantry, which are daily here, it deploys very quickly and can do to. .. shots

per minute, in the current war, it is extremely effective, really, compare it to the soviet guns on which we initially worked, they are bulky, but... it is quite a problem to place the shells, they are large and transportation is also difficult, but we we always bury ourselves, because the probability is less hit, to be honest, here you can leave, put two twigs in the field and we are ready to work, well, this is an assault gun, our 105th caliber, it is more suitable for light armored vehicles and for... to work very well, and if already take a tank and something more serious, then we already need the 122nd, that is, the 30th, but with the 105th caliber we can quite damage the tank, according to the sighting devices, we can work, and the tank,

let’s put it this way, it is not damaged but disabled. war in the forest has its own specifics, says volodymyr, the soldier was transferred to artillery from the infantry. he, like no one else , knows how important it is when you are covered by guns, from my own interview i will say that they go out like a ring of bmps and make a cross wagon, well , that is, it is difficult, very very difficult to fight with them, but maybe it happens the feeling that they are, you know, as if they are under some superimposed substance, well, they fall, get up and go on, there was even a situation once... i was on an assault, we are going to storm, as they say, an enemy trench, there was former, as we have dshv deyska, they have vdv, that is, we three, as the brain says, he is up to the end, the airborne forces

do not give up, well, while he certainly did not get a bullet in the forehead, there are options when there are air gaps, that is, you practically, it seems, have already hit the target, here... the projectile hits a tree and and it’s a pity that someone was left unharmed, well, he shouldn’t be left unharmed, but nothing , once we hit a tree, nothing, we’ll get to where we need to go, volodymyr was recently awarded for his courage and for dozens of successfully completed combat missions, before mobilization i beer delivered, was a freight forwarder, mobilized, in the beginning, like me mobilized like this, well, it was honestly scary , when you go on an assault, you, well, you have the feeling that you are afraid, well, when you already make contact with the enemy, well, you already know how automatism already works and that's it, well, simple with a machine gun, either you, or you

, that’s all, you don’t think too long, i received the order of the golden cross, that’s probably... well , i was in the infantry, i was on many assaults, many comrades fell, where are the cries, well, i don’t know , well, maybe i earned something, it’s nice, of course, when there is such a thing in the hillfort, well , it’s nicer when you don’t lose your siblings, it is more pleasant, because for example, you know a person who drank coffee this morning, in the evening he is gone, and you know his wife, someone else, well, it is very difficult. really, you know that there is such a thing for every person , for every soldier, i think that there is a turning point in life, when, well, some event happens and you realize that damn, it 's yours, you have to go, it was hard for me, well

, shooting children, probably, yes, such a valid argument, children are our future, they are the foundation of our civilization, you just know that, damage? that not everyone understands that, damn it, now the war is not about extermination, or more precisely, not over territory, they are simply exterminating civilization, because we, the subalterns , are standing at their throats and that's all, you need to understand that, that's how they exterminate everything, and we stand for our children, well, we have to stand for a year or two, well , so we stand, then it's okay, we are now writing a great story. it is obvious that the russian army was preparing for the current offensive actions along the entire front line, first of all, by accumulating human resources, which now the armed forces grind during daily attacks on their

positions. at the same time , the russian military has not yet had any serious successes on the front lines, especially during the last two months in the serebryan forestry. where the defense of the armed forces is competently organized. it was the donbas rally, my name is yehor loginov. see you there are discounts on bronchi pred of 20% in pharmacies plantain you and save. there are discounts on citrik - 20% in pharmacies, travel guide for you and saver. exclusively on our air. congratulations, friends, politklub is on the air on the espresso tv channel. the most relevant topics of the week:

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friends, i congratulate you, have a good day, probably a good day would be more appropriate, because our topic will not be very fun with you, we have raised it on our broadcasts more than once, and we are talking about the film community, which is increasingly more is divided about ukrainian , of course, and well, it seems to me... we have now reached some new level of apogee in this division, because the confrontation, which is called heating up, we will talk about it, the fact is that a large number of ukrainian cinematographers, there are also film critics and journalists who wrote a letter to representatives of the authorities, that is, to the president, the chairman of the verkhovna rada, the prime minister of ukraine about the fact that they refuse, or they want to ask for a change. direct the money that will be allocated to cinema for the next year, for this year, or rather for 2024, to give all this

money to drones, well, in general, to the defense forces. now you and i will find out why people who are directly interested in coming to pitching and winning money in a fair competition, in order to make a movie and earn, in particular, and then travel with this movie to various film festivals, to represent ukraine, why are they turning to the authorities with a request: not to let them give this money to the defense forces, therefore, if we talk about the division of our film community, then i want to remind you, friends, that they have divided into two camps, relatively speaking , some are opposition to the state cinema and to maryna kudarchuk, these people criticize the student of the state cinema, say that she is inefficient, unprofessional, and that she is generally dishonoring our country already at the international level and is destroying cinema and... how can we live with her like this you can't, she needs to be released and to announce a new competition, and another part

of film fans who, on the contrary, defend derzkino, defend maryna kudarchuk, and these are mostly people who specialize in commercial cinema, who may have previously worked on tv series, then went to the cinema, and they are very, very concerned it is commercial ukrainian cinema, often the author's documentary... they treat cinema with such disdain, they say it doesn't make money, why is it necessary at all, these people stick to state cinema, according to my observations, these people are also divided into different such groups , some understand very well that marina koderchuk is an inefficient person, but they compromise, because they have to somehow survive, they have to make movies, they have to organize their own different film festivals, but the second part is absolutely not understands what is the problem and does not agree with the fact that there is a problem, they say that our cinema is developing wonderfully,

look, we have some contracts with netflix and well, in general, everything is fine and no resignation is needed, this is all treason. well, what i want to say is that now we have seen that this part, which is in the opposition, wrote this letter. i will say that earlier, some months ago, there were already conversations within the community about... that pitching has been announced, pitching will be announced for 2024, it will be with record funding, that is 589 million and 600 thousand uah from... really a lot, and whether to go there or not to go there, because some people say, of course go, because we have the right, this is not derzhkino's money, not maryna kudarchuk's money, this is taxpayers' money, and we have the right to come to this competition and try my hand at winning it, others say that it is unprincipled, they are generally disgusted to deal with such a person as mrs. marina and

all this state cinema, and they think that it is not very principled to come there, you have to refuse. and then already in december, somewhere in the middle of december, maryna stepanska, a director and screenwriter, wrote a post that began with the words that the budget of the state cinema in 2024 should go to drones, she says that this is not an emotional call, but a completely rational one a logical solution in the given conditions, she talks about the illegitimacy of the processes, about censorship, about ignoring the urgent needs of the cinematographers themselves, and so on, and now we see that it is obvious that the... community somehow discussed this matter and really decided that this way out, you need to give up this money, because it will still be spent illegitimately, let it be better to buy drones or anything else for the needs of the defense forces, i will say that among the signatories of this letter, it has already been signed, more than 600 people have put

their signatures, and there are a lot of cinematographers who are currently at war, who are also military personnel. these are yaroslav pilunskyi, a cinematographer, and serhiy lysenko , and yuriy gruzinov, and volodymyr yatsenko, a producer, serhii mikhalchuk, a cinematographer, in general, well, people who, from the very beginning of the war in 2014, understood that cinema is important, culture is it is important, it must be maintained that it is a weapon, they have already come to the conclusion that under such conditions it is necessary to refuse, but i will present you with another point of view. people who support state cinema, and very recently there was a zino winter film market from the odesa film festival, people gathered there from this, let's say, pro-dershkin party of the majority, well, it's such a big, big event in general, which takes place every winter, and it also happens in the summer, cinematographers gather and solve there some issues related to the market, there was really a lot of

interesting things, but there was a panel called with various different ones. by people who are engaged in cinema, and so they discussed this letter, and with from my point of view they completely turned it upside down because and they started saying that this letter is wrong, that these people who signed it just don't understand the power of culture, they don't understand the power of cinema, well it's really funny because they understand, and they didn't say a single word about the real reasons for signing and publishing this letter about the fact that cinematographers are against state cinema, against the current one. politicians of the state cinema, and they believe that there are also a few more points that they believe are wrong, they believe that these points it is necessary to record, decide and only then carry out pitching, of course, but it is already much more transparent and correct, but let us now listen to artem kolyubayev, he is a member of the council for the support of cinema, which the court

recently recognized as already illegitimate, and here it is... he says the following, he even accused his colleagues of spreading ipso-russian, we have to fight for the culture of ukraine in the same way, and this is a big separate fight that should be, as for the letters, well, you know, we always have treason seekers full, it really bothers me when they do that producers who left ukraine and are already working on foreign productions, and they say that...

ukrainian society on the topic of whether entertainment content is needed there during the war, whether some other content is needed during the war, or whether everything should go to drones. well, this is the opinion of artem kolyubaev, you see, he also did not say a single word about the true essence of this letter about state cinema. by the way, here on this panel, in the first row, maryna kudarchuk was just sitting, i asked a question to the honorable speakers, well, almost all the speakers then they started. to repeat the same thoughts that you can't refuse money, cinema is a weapon, colleagues simply don't understand that it is a weapon, i asked them the question of what the judges would become in this. why do they , did they not finish reading, or did they not understand, and they never gave me an answer to this question, i asked it again, they started talking

about something completely different, and that is, well, we can understand that people or really they didn't read the letter, or they didn't understand it, or something was wrong there. i will say one more word about yaroslav piluunsky, about yuriy gruzinov, well, just so you can understand for sure that the people who signed this letter perfectly understand that cinema is a weapon. in 2014, these two cameramen were captured while filming the occupation of crimea, when they got out, they edited a film called stronger than weapons, it was one of the first such films about the revolution of dignity, about the beginning of the war, and the title came from the phrase, which was told to yaroslav pilunsky by a russian soldier in crimea, he said: "your cameras are stronger than weapons, that is, cinema is stronger." weapons, this was outlined by these people back in 2014, and now people who cooperated even with the russians during

the war, who did not understand before the power of culture, the power of cinema, and the fact that war is happening in general, they are now teaching people, who understood all this perfectly from the very beginning , this is the situation we have. we will talk about it now with the two female producers who signed this letter, let me remind you, it was signed by more than 600 people. we will talk with olga bezhmelnitsina, she is a producer, the head of the board ukrainian film academy and a member of the european film academy, as well as with yulia sinkevich, co-founder of the ukrainian film academy and again a member of the european film academy. girls, good day. good day. we can boast that we have a lot of members. members of the film academy, this once again proves that ukrainian cinema is european cinema, but there are such conversations that we can lose these positions, let's talk with you now,

because you see, you and your colleagues are accused of you are dispersing treason, and what do you need to do to get involved and do something wrong pick up russian, well, i'm being so ironic, well, i 'll admit right away that i'm just, well, i can't take any side, of course. but since i've come back from this film market, i 've seen that your opponents are really manipulating this letter, so i 'm a little bit surprised after this event, but let's explain why you think and your colleagues think that this pitching should be canceled , to give money for drones or not for drones, for any needs of the defense force, and not for movies, why do you now have the impression that this pitching will not be there'. active, dishonest, what will be wrong with him? yulia, let's start with you. yes, thank you, elena. i believe that in fact, and i really stand on

the position that financing cinema, especially now, when there is such a big full-scale war, it is directly the duty of the state, however, we see that this is a competition, there are rules, these rules are not clear , these rules are not transparent, commission. from the support of cinematography has already been recognized as illegitimate in a court of law, that is, we understand that this competition itself, it will not be held honestly, it will not be held transparently, it will not be carried out clearly, and moreover, its results will also be very questionable from the point of view, both from the point of view of its content and from the point of view of its legal status, in addition, in general, when this money is counted. in the country's budget, they are included in film production, as well as documenting war crimes, this, in my opinion, is also a manipulation of concepts, because the state cinema

has neither the competences, nor the tools, nor the authority to document war crimes in general, these are completely different concepts, which cannot go together with film production, and indeed, this letter is to some extent already a rather... serious step, which , unfortunately, not all cinematographers can afford to take in such difficult times for ukrainian cinema, but it is really such a choice that they wanted this money to really served to protect our country, rather than being distributed in the way that money was recently distributed there for tv series, we know this scandalous story, which was worth the position of the ex-minister of culture. and actually, this is such a very difficult choice for filmmakers, which is forced were to do due to the fact that the institution of state cinema is completely discredited, absolutely. the accredited

composition of the council for supporting cinematography, that is , trust, because the result will really serve for the development of cinematography, in the progressive part, and it seems to me that it was precisely the progressive part that signed this letter, our film community simply does not exist. and now we are showing you on the screen, our dear viewers, the beauties from the films, those people who subscribed, or directors or producers. hello, the same question, only to be more specific. maybe on the other hand they say, well people, in particular, those who are with you and say that, well, this pitching will be held anyway, we will not cancel it in any way, because we are small people, no, we are not, we are not small, maybe they will cancel this pitching, but maybe not, we now see that the authorities there do not always listen to any protests or letters, but they really say that pitching will be held, people will receive money, but

tv series are not foreseen. a lot of money, for some movies that are like tv series, for something commercial, well why not go try it, well we we are making ourselves worse, people say, why is it better to refuse? lino, first of all, thank you very much for explaining the whole situation in such detail, because usually people only see our appeal and no one understands the context of what is happening, that is, it arises here. there are really many opportunities for manipulation, and i want to answer your question exclusively to focus on the facts, and this is very important for understanding why we are demanding to redirect this money right now, that is, this is already the seventh letter today, which the film community sends to representatives of the authorities, the president, the cabinet of ministers and others with their claims, with their disagreement with the work

of the state cinema. that is why the community consolidates and expresses its distrust of state cinema, that is, it is already a fact. the second fact is that the council for the support of cinema issues was recognized by the first instance of the court as illegitimate, and here it must also be clarified that there is a law that says that every two years, it must be re-elected under some extremely difficult conditions, today there are no reasons for not holding this competition , that is, state cinema. during this period held a competition for the director of the dovzhenka center, why they can't hold a contest and re-elect the council, no one logically understands, that is, i'll give it to you, i 'll beat you, i'll just tell our viewers what the council for the support of state cinema is, it's for the support of cinema, it's actually a body, which, well , well, in fact, they have the final say, who will be given money, who will not be given money, they give estimates already after

the pitching takes place, there are expert commissions and... then the council inserts estimates and they can, and we on in practice it has been seen in the past that their grades can completely change the results of the competition, and now in this council there is , for example, the same artem kolyubaev, whom we listened to, he is a producer and a long-time partner-friend of andriy yaermak, and colleagues there from bigusinfo did a big investigation about him, you can look to remind yourself, there is also yuriy gorbunov, our beloved, well, i explained to our viewers just what this council is and why it is important, yes. thank you for the clarification, that is, today this council was recognized as illegitimate by the first instance of the court, we are waiting for the appeal as well, so that in the second instance to prove this, and the question is that this illegitimate council, the state cinema, in which there is distrust, the state decides to allocate a record budget, there is also a question of strategy, that is, a few months ago there was a situation when the state cinema developed a strategy,

they wanted to approve it very. in such a way, quietly, as to say, they put it forward for approval, without discussing it with the community, and there were no public readings, and this strategy was canceled, because it was really incomplete and it did not take into account the context of the war at all, that is, the plans according to which derzhkino is trying this year to distribute this money, to carry out pitching, which they recorded in this strategy, that is, even this strategy was canceled, and we have the situation today, we have a number of these facts that cause public indignation , mistrust, illegitimacy, the absence of a strategy, and this body receives record funding today, we all have big questions about how this money will be distributed, under what conditions this pitching will be carried out, and most importantly, we have them all today.