how long does this struggle last, bohdan tsyupin found out. in february 2014, not all ukrainian soldiers in crimea understood that they had witnessed the russian occupation of the peninsula and the beginning of the russian-ukrainian war. president vladimir putin did not utter the word war, and hid his actions. putin actually not only admits, he bragged that it was his decision, it turned out to be extremely popular in russia, uh, his, his rating went up a lot after that, but putin talked about making a decision, and war, as a rule, in history is counted from, let's say yes, the first shot or the first, the first start of hostilities. and

the events of the capture of the crimean parliament and the crimean cabinet of ministers were just such a beginning, so this is this is the beginning. when the russian invaders approached kyiv eight years later, the deputy of the verkhovna rada, volodymyr vyatrovych, joined the ranks of the territorial defense, and continued to look at the events with weapons in his hands, but with the eyes of a historian, more painfully at... a phrase that i heard after 24 february 22, this is a phrase that was heard by many people, in including my neighbors . that this war was simply inevitable, and the only thing we could do was better prepare for this war, prepare for the war - historians say,

it was necessary given the fact that moscow never gave up russian imperialism. the russians are trying in one form or another to restore their own russian empire, an integral part of which they see ukraine and do not see themselves not as an empire, but as an empire without ukraine. on the other hand, ukrainians are actually trying to overcome this imperial dependence and restore their independence, their independence. and here such a starting point can even be. the distant year 1917, when , in fact, for the first time in the 20th century, ukrainians declared their independence, the ukrainian people's republic, the third universal november of the 17th year, and almost immediately after that, even then, bolshevik russia announced an ultimatum, and then started hostilities against ukraine, which, by the way, were very similar to those hostilities that russia carried out against ukraine in the 14th year, that is, what is called a hybrid war, something that is presented as something very special and... an invention of the modern

russian military strategy there, in fact , the bolsheviks used it very actively in 1917, when external aggression was disguised as an internal conflict, for some misunderstanding, for a civil war, for the fact that it was not the russian bolsheviks who were allegedly conquering ukraine, but the ukrainian the proletariat rose against the bourgeois central council. there were enough reasons for this war in russia, as well as for many warriors who, professor yaroslav hrytsak emphasizes, have always accompanied humanity, since the time when there was no word, history. war is an evil, he says, which is always with us. unfortunately, evil exists in history, it does not disappear, it is always there. she is said to be called a metaphor for the devil of history. you know that the main deception of the devil is to give what does not exist. so is that. for some reason, we are different reasons attitude to see

only a good scenario in front of you, to have faith, the only way to secure yourself from war, from war, is to prepare for war, this is very important, so what is the old saying: if you want peace, prepare for war, it was as true as in ancient roman times, it remains so now, and therefore the question is very important, obviously now, whether europe will understand this, whether europe will rebuild itself, and unfortunately and fortunately, we have good signals, first of all, the budget will increase of military europe, first of all, now we have appeals, we feel this is the creation of a joint european army, that's all, that is, it says something , that is, again, i say that the only way for the opposition to defeat the devil is to oppose him , to understand that evil is still here and war is always possible, i believe that this may be one of the main lessons of the ukrainian war. veselka ukrainian restaurant. from the iconic places

of new york. the institution was founded by an emigrant from ukraine 70 years ago, and the last two years it became a place to collect aid to ukraine. this year , an american documentary was released about the restaurant film. the famous american actor david duchovny, who has ukrainian roots, voiced the picture, says iryna solomko. before the war , we molded about 3 thousand dumplings a day, now we make 500 every day, the volume has increased significantly. everyone here loves dumplings, they are by far the most popular dish. jason bircher is the third generation owner of the rainbow restaurant. he is the grandson of the ukrainian emigrant volodymyr dharmakhval, who founded the rainbow 70 years ago. my grandfather was proud to be a ukrainian, always dreamed of a free ukraine, was a true ukrainian patriot. if he were alive today, at the age of 111, he

would surely take up arms and go to the front. i'm probably too old for this, but i'm trying to follow his path and do my best to help ukraine from here. director michael fiore, who has been a loyal customer of the restaurant for more than 20 years, had the idea to make a documentary about veselka even before the full-scale invasion. mutual friends and colleagues introduced me to tom and jason and on november 21st i met with them and suggested the idea of ​​telling their story from the point of view of the three generations who ran the establishment. i thought that the film could be based on a story about fathers and sons. jason himself started working in the rainbow as a teenager, then received an economic education and did not plan to work in a restaurant, but when his father

tom decided to retire, he realized that he had to take care of the family business. now he works in veselka 12 hours a day, six days a week. this is a favorite job. i really enjoy, especially the people i work with, they give me the most love. the history of the rainbow is the history of new york and the city's ukrainian community - says jason. it's a meeting place, it was like that on 9/11, it was like that when the worst hurricane sandy hit the city, when the first invasion started in 2014, people came and said how can we help, how are you, how is your family? mike fiori started shooting the film a few days before russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, so the theme of war, community unity and aid to ukraine became one of the key themes in the film. the community was very supportive, people brought clothes, food, personal hygiene products, everything that

they thought could help ukrainians, and jason and veselka were like a beacon calling them: "come, support, do everything you can." until i started making the film, i didn't fully realize how deeply rooted the rainbow was in this community. when you interact not only with the people who come to the restaurant, but also with different groups, you realize that it's not just the restaurant that feeds the community, the community feeds the rainbow. fiora mentions that the first few weeks it was very difficult to remove workers, because most of their families were in ukraine under fire and in danger. there was a point where i realized that no one really wanted to talk to me, and understandably so. you 'll see in the movies that i ask people to tell their stories or share a moment with me and they say no. however, he

managed to become his own for the rainbow staff, and people stopped hiding their feelings. at a certain moment of filming, michael realized that in the difficult time of the war, jason became a father for their employees. we see in real time jason becoming the father that is needed here, he is the right leader at the right time for the rainbow. jason also became a sponsor for 10 ukrainians who came to the us under the refugees from ukraine program. there is a line in the movie that i always say yes, i never say no, they asked me to stand. sponsor, i filled out 10 questionnaires, nine of these people are now working here with me. during the two years of the war, the staff of the restaurant increased by a quarter to almost 100 people. due to great interest in ukraine, its cuisine and culture, jason opened a small rainbow branch at new york's grand

central station. during these two years, bircherd donated 600,000 dollars to various ukrainian organizations and projects. these two years were an emotional roller coaster. in the first year there was a lot of support. many politicians, the mayor, the governor, athletes came here. now the topic of supporting ukraine has become an issue. controversy in washington, but i believe that, among other things, with the help of this film we will continue to highlight the needs of the ukrainian people and the army, i will do everything that depends on me. the film was voiced by the famous american actor and winner of the golden globe award, david duchovna, who has ukrainian-jewish roots and was born and raised near the rainbow. the birchard family personally knows both the actor and his mother. the idea of ​​inviting a spiritual belongs to michael. i

wanted everyone involved in the making of the film to have a connection to the rainbow and to put their heart into the work, not treat it as just a job. and david feels the script and not just reads the text. not only does he have a perfect voice, but he is also a wonderful person who supports the film tremendously. michael came up with the name of the film "rainbow at the center of the world". this is a line from a song that was written specifically for the picture. the director dreams that the story of the rainbow will be seen by as many people as possible. meanwhile, jason is preparing to open a new facility in brooklyn in april. over 70 years, jason says, his family's restaurant has fed about 10 million people, so now he dreams of feeding ukrainian dishes to 100 million americans across the country. with of new york by erin solomka's voices. they can live in safe countries without shelling,

bomb shelters and constant fear for their lives, instead they choose to be in ukraine. voice of america met with citizens of the united states, great britain and denmark to find out why they stay in ukraine during the war. lesya bakalets heard their stories from kyiv. during the first week of the war, we understood that we can be confident in the ukrainian army. i'm at home here, i already feel more like a tourist when i go back to the uk. from the us congress in washington to a cold warehouse in the suburbs of kyiv. stephen moore, the congressman's former chief of staff, knew exactly where to be when russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine began. i bought binoculars, walkie-talkies, flashlights, medical supplies, stuffed everything into four very large suitcases. and on the way, flew to frankfurt, and from there to bucharest, then to the ukrainian border, it was the fifth day

of the war. the line to enter ukraine was much shorter than the line to leave, but i had a goal - to help, so i couldn't help but go. at first, stephen went to romania for medicines and humanitarian aid and transported goods to kyiv at his own expense. then he founded the charity fund ukraine freedom project. now he spends more time in ukraine. i have two main reasons why i am here. the first - i just love ukraine. second, freedom for me is a fundamental value, and ukrainians are fighting for this right now, for their freedom. when steven returns to the united states, he goes to talk to his former colleagues in congress. on one trip last fall, he met with about 100 members of congress. he convinced everyone: ukraine needs help. america lives under the illusion that it has a choice

whether or not to participate in wars in europe or the middle east, but the choice now is whether to send relatively inexpensive weapons now, or to send our troops later, to risk the lives of our sons and daughters because putin is not going to stop at ukraine. while the war continues, steven is going to live in ukraine, he often goes to the front and when he introduces himself. jokingly says that he is stepan. he does not even think of returning to his native denmark and karen marie kragend. we met in the center of kyiv right after her ukrainian language lesson. karen marie is fluent in english and russian, but she believes that this is not enough for life in ukraine. i came to kyiv to work in an it company, and about six years ago i opened my own business here, actually. around this time, i celebrate 17 years of my life in ukraine. karen marie recalls that she adapted to

the then new country for her very quickly. i felt that i feel good here, i feel like i am at home here. well, in about a week. i already then got settled and knew: here is my tram, my three stops to work, here is my supermarket, here is my bakery. you know, everything just fell into place. therefore, when before the start of... i remember very well how i got a call from the danish embassy. in kyiv, we were sitting with another restaurant and both said: yes, yes, we understood, but no, thank you, we are staying. when the shelling of kyiv began, she did go to the west of ukraine, and then she received an offer to work in the netherlands, but she was only able to live there for a year. i have agreed with my supervisor that i will not to extend the contract, and on july 23

she returned home to ukraine. i was traveling by train from poland, when we crossed the border, my phone connected to kyiv. roy received a message: "welcome to ukraine." and my soul immediately became calm, i returned to where i should be, i now feel half ukrainian. speaking about the war, karen marie says that it is ours and wants to be as useful as possible for ukraine. financially is obviously one of the ways to help. i also work now with a large charitable foundation, i advise them on strengthening their structure. and british teacher ben evans, he moved to kyiv in 2015 to teach at an international school, where he met his future wife. this is home now, here we have a home, we got a dog, here is our life, work, our students. by february 24, 2022, he also received a warning from his country's embassy and

, like karen marie, refused to leave. when i came to ukraine, everyone was there. so open, so friendly, so hospitable to me, i felt i had to thank to be here useful ben says that at the beginning of the great war, he and his wife lived for some time in the west of ukraine and only went to great britain for two weeks, settled matters with documents and immediately returned, and from september 2023 their school in kyiv began full-fledged offline education. i began to understand more clearly my role in society. i used to just think, yes i am... teachers, here are my students, teaching them is fun. i enjoyed my work, and now many students come with their worries, they need to talk about what is happening now, they need my support. i now more than a teacher, i am the one who is nearby , who are you, i think i understand better than other foreigners what is happening in ukraine, not only because i live here, but because the war directly affects my family, cousin my

wife is fighting, he is now in the east. life in kyiv has changed, but compared to... the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the city is alive again - says ben. he is impressed that restaurants are open, delivery is fast, and people are as united as possible around one goal: to win the war. ukrainians are actually doing the impossible. this collective resilience amazes me. everyone, even grandparents, children, everyone contributes. i have never felt such a unity, it is so exciting that you just want to be a part of it. war for the american john sennett. began, as it did for most ukrainians, with explosions. i remember waking up at 5 a.m. from a loud sound, i told my wife: it's probably better to go to the shelter, then we watched the news, read about queues at the border and decided to stay in kyiv. on the third day, i went to sign up for the territorial defense, but they already had it ran out of weapons at that time.

john senet moved to kyiv from florida even before the pandemic, his wife, a ukrainian, who after years of living in the united states... this is our home, and the more we lived here during the war, the closer we became to people from our area, our churches, even passers -by seemed strangers, so it was difficult to imagine how we would leave it all. but john's decision was not emotional. he says that already in the first days of the war he received a strong argument why he can stay in the capital of ukraine. i was impressed by what the ukrainian army is doing, so we remained we would not have stayed if we did not trust the ukrainian military. john recalls, the first time kyiv was empty, only a few shops were open. now life

has returned to a conventional norm with military adjustments. a rocket is flying, so you have to hide. the alarm ends, everyone leaves and people go for coffee. it's incredible to see, to feel how life goes on despite everything. yes, people are sometimes tired, sometimes irritated, but somehow everyone gets together and goes to work, to live life, so to speak. not sure the americans could show the same fortitude. john admits that none of his family or friends understand his decision to live in the middle of the war. the same situation is in... mari ben and steven, but their relatives have already realized that it is useless to persuade them to return to their homeland. lesya bakalents, voice of america, from kyiv. download mobile. voice of america. the application allows you to bypass blocking automatically thanks to the built-in vpn service. read news, watch informative programs and

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friends, we are live tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms, for those who are currently watching us live there, please like this video and also vote in our poll, today we ask you about whether russia can provoke in ukraine maidan 3, yes, no, 0800 211 381, yes, if you vote by phone. if not, then 0800 211 382, ​​call, all calls to these numbers are free, everything is quite simple on youtube, either yes or no, your own option, please write in the comments below video, and i want to introduce our first guest, this is roman bezsmertny, politician, diplomat, extraordinary plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine to the republic of belarus in 2010-11 . mr. roman, i congratulate you and thank

you for being with us today. good evening, mr. sergey. well, since we are asking our viewers whether russia can provoke maidan 3 in ukraine, i will also ask you in the format of a blitz poll, since you know and understand exactly how the maidan movement in ukraine works and where the maidan comes from? no, this chatter, this is endless on the topic that someone is there we are governed by ukraine, whether across the ocean or under it. by eye all this chatter is not from the intelligent head of those who conduct this conversation. the fact is that whoever is in power, but these are our geniuses, or forgive the assholes. and what to do with them will be decided by the ukrainian people, not muscovites, or someone from the west or east and so on. and why in your opinion, it is quite active now.

the authorities say that russia can organize this maidan three there, will it not happen that under all this, under the special operation that the ukrainian authorities are talking about, well, they can in principle, anyone who will protest against the ukrainian authorities there, not on the maidan, but simply oppose the ukrainian authorities, is there a danger that such a person can be counted as an accomplice of the russian federation, that is, he implements maidan 3, came out irudenko said to the maidan, or roman bezsmertny, a member of the maidan 3, and the pso of the russian federation? well, conversations will always be held, mr. sergiu, and the reason for these conversations is different. it is known that sabotage is being carried out by the enemy, and this can be seen from the actions of the special services, security services and the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense, which constantly provide facts, these facts are confirmed.

subversive work of the fsb and the foreign intelligence service of russia and in western countries, especially the current situation in poland, france, and germany, this is confirmed by a number of facts that have been published and so on, and from my point of view, when such information appears, and it does not carry confirmation, documentary, factual or operational actions, it is only... a tool for influencing the information space, and as for fragments, about which you said, it is obvious that we come from there, and we are not deprived of all these dislocations both in the head and in actions, and we understand perfectly everything, including, both in society and in ...