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represents the national team, united by football , stronger together, my god, dear, disaster struck again, it was so nice, it was quiet, we began to untie the shackles of our slaves, until the water started flowing again. male blood. cats are married, like dogs hungry for butter, they gnaw again. shevchenko, prophet. you watch a marathon on espresso, we continue it. nataliya gumenyuk, head of the joint coordination press center of the forces defense of southern ukraine. the colonel is in touch with us. mrs. natalya, we congratulate you. glory to ukraine, i congratulate you. glory to heroes. russians again. fired at odeschyna, a rocket

flew in, landed somewhere in the field, in your opinion , what is the connection with this constant, constant shelling of odeschyna, is our permanent representative at the un, mr. kyslytsia, really right that these are attempts russia to disrupt the sea corridor? obviously, he is focused on the analytics of the defense forces, because we... predicted unequivocally, after ukraine dared to independently secure the navigation corridor without the support of foreign representative offices of foreign guarantors, these threats appeared and actually increased, were interpreted in different ways, our enemies were trying to figure out how to apply pressure in order to stop this navigation, navigation.

of civilian vessels, which is no longer strictly related to the grain initiative, reached a new level: transshipment of cargo under martial law. ukraine is a maritime country, it has access to the sea, and transshipment of goods by sea is the most effective and powerful the direction of the economy, which is able to support ukraine in such conditions. and the fact that we work, that the ports provide work, that the defense forces ensure the passage of ships, annoys the neighbor who tried to dominate the black sea waters, and today there is actually no naval resource that could maintain this dominance, and tries to put pressure on port infrastructure. is it possible to somehow protect odeschyna, so that

after the russian shelling, such terrible news about what is happening there does not appear in our news feeds people die, especially children? well , it has already been proven that it is impossible to install an absolute dome, but we are trying and trying to spread the system to the maximum extent possible with the resources we have. a network of mobile fire groups, we also activate electronic warfare as much as possible, all means that we can counter are used, and the activity of our air defense forces is 24/7, without breaks and weekends, noting that intensive combat work occurs precisely when enemy attacks occur, but also are active from tactical aviation, for example, in

the waters of the black sea or the sea of ​​azov, all this is also a signal for heightened alertness, which is why, in principle, ... and such a missile attack took place, pinpoint, as we warned, this is a tactic of the enemy, but not less inconclusive, the enemy tried to measure air defense systems, the x-31 missile is an anti-radar missile, and it was directed from the sea at the coast, that is, a check of the readiness and response of air defense systems. finally , i will ask you what is happening in the kherson region, there the enemy continues to press with artillery shelling, for the first time in 10 days he dared to use a guided aerial bomb , directing it again to a residential quarter, a house was destroyed, a five-story residential building, where a seven-year-old child was injured, all this

absolutely fits into the narratives that they promote under their quasi-elections, that they are trying to return to the right bank, that they are liberating the de-occupied. kherson oblast, but no one believes them anymore. but is it the fact that they scare, that they will attack kherson, they scare, yes, but we have reliable fortification barriers, we have anti-mine defense and mine-explosive fortification, we have the advantage of the right bank over the left in terms of geography. features, we clearly maintain fire control over the dnipro river itself, and the crossing of the enemy, even in the form of small sabotage and reconnaissance groups, to the right bank is practically impossible, the defense and protection of our borders is absolutely ensured,

and the fact that the enemy is trying to continue assaults on the left shore, says that on the left bank our bridgehead continues its own functioning and... all measures taken by the enemy did not yield results. ms. natalia, thank you for the information. nataliya gumenyuk, head of the joint coordination press center of the defense forces of southern ukraine, colonel was in touch with us. before we take a break, let us tell you that this year, on shevchenko days, the awarding of the shevchenko prize took place on time, without any delays, there is a decree. about the awarding of this highest creative award, and in for example the combat medic, scout and philologist yerena chornogus was awarded, and her nominated for a book of poems, also awarded for a collection of poems by poet,

tv presenter and military dmytro lazutkin, in the category of journalism , yevhen maloletka mstislav chernov and vasylisa stepanenko were awarded for a series of... serials about the siege of mariupol, jamala was awarded, she was included in the list of leaders, she received the woman in arts award, she was also awarded an award for the album kirim, karmela tsepkolenko, tsepkolenko, i'm sorry, the composer also received an award, in the theater arts category, the director and producer were awarded ivan uryvskyi for the performance of the konotop witch. in addition to his productions, ivan oryvskyi became famous this year due to a scandal regarding the production of ivan karpenko's play the bad landlord, where he changed the name of the hero zelenskyi to zaluskyi, and many of

the audience perceived this as a manifestation of censorship. the artist andriy yarmolenko, the author of the series of works ukrainia, was also awarded in the visual art category in this award nomination. and these are the results of this year's appointment of the shevchenko prize. dear friends, let's go to... and before we go to another break, one more the main thing, it is important, we collected 41 00 with you this morning, i would like to remind you that we are collecting for the 12th separate special forces unit, who did not have time to donate or donated this week to our other collection, which we already closed this week, i would like to remind you that 800,000 hryvnias were raised by us and... for the 81st separate airmobile brigade, those who want to join with their donato can do so now, you see the qr code on your screens, you see the card number, i remind you that we are collecting for a buggy, on a buggy for evacuating the wounded and transporting combatants kits, this is very important and necessary, this

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the blood of the peasants flowed again, the cats were gnawed like dogs hungry for butter, gnawing again. shevchenko, prophet. the premium sponsor of the national team represents. united by football, stronger together. dear friends, we are back on the air, continuing. victoria oliynyk, a parliamentary analyst of the movement, is honestly in touch with us. mrs. victoria, we congratulate you. good day. i know that the parliamentary, that the movement honestly investigated the openness of local councils, i even a little i looked at which regional councils and city councils are still open, which ones are still closed, something is very closed, chernivtsi yes. i understand correctly that the chernivtsi regional council, yes, well, we know why, because there, if anything, immediately people with hatchets

fly by on horses, and that's it, and the end, in chernivtsi region, chernivtsi region, yes, everyone saw that the video with the people who attacked and the funniest thing about this video is, if i understand correctly, or the saddest thing is that it turns out that those men, they already have a bunch of people in that, in that war, and that one participant already that war with the russians, the second one on a horse, those. that already mobilized with injuries came to mobilize them, and it is not clear who is mobilizing whom, maybe too many in chernivtsi region were not mobilized in that village, maybe that is the problem? well, but it’s probably more visible to someone on the mountain , well , we’ll talk less about those who are on the mountain too, probably, but let’s first talk about the results of your openness rating, what it actually showed, and this is the third wave of our monitoring, the first two took place in in 2022, that is, even at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, then we understood that due to

martial law, due to restrictions, there could be certain closures of information, but in 2023 , such and such ... excuses are no longer quite appropriate, so we nevertheless promoted this openness again, and on the positive side, a significant number of councils have significantly increased their openness, if we are talking about the city councils of regional centers, then almost all councils here received a high score for the level of openness, the only exceptions are the zaporizhia and kharkiv councils, and the kherson council is currently not functioning fully, because a military administration was formed there, and therefore we could not assess the openness of the kherson city council. but it is justified because the situation in kherson was really special and they need more time to stabilize their work. kharkiv and zaporizhzhia still remain closed to citizens in a certain way. okay, it's about this information, according to which criteria it is actually evaluated, whether it is possible, whether they can somehow

affect these results on this board. we want to say that the results have already had a very significant impact on councils because... that this is the third wave, and when in the first or second wave we were not answered, ignored, there was not a large number of published documents, then in 23 they called us , asked if they had received everything, asked to clarify what was wrong, they would finalize everything, that is, the public coverage of their previous closedness led to the fact that now the councils have become much more open. well, with the exception of zaporizhzhia, which did not improve at all kharkiv slightly improved its performance over the entire two years, but still remains closed. the criteria there are simple, it is the announcement of the meetings, it is the possibility of physical access of citizens to these meetings, as well as the publication of video recordings of the meetings, and documents, the same as draft decisions, decisions, minutes of meetings, and we are also

talking about the documents of the work of permanent commissions, if these all documents are available in a timely manner, it would be very... easily allows citizens to follow how the council works and to what extent, what decisions it makes, and of course, to be able to influence them. mrs. victoria, you know, you are talking now about regional centers, yes, regional centers are large cities where there is a critical mass of activists, despite the fact that a large number of these activists are now defending the country with weapons, they are still indifferent. people, if you go to a lower level, to smaller cities , where there are activists, but in small towns everyone knows each other, and your activism can slip by your side, because if you become active a lot, the city authorities can indicate, i don't

know, in it happens to us that sometimes by summons close up so to speak, the mouths of people who do not care where the funds go, what they are used for, where it is possible that some funds are stolen, and why they are stolen, but what about the transparency of small local councils? i myself am from a small town in the rivne region with a population of 4,000, i really understand what you are talking about, because if regional centers very often fall into the field of view of large national organizations, then... smaller councils, of course, feel freer in this matter , because there are very few physical opportunities to monitor all these councils, but in in turn, the movement honestly now works in regional centers, that is, we do not currently have regional analysts who will help us cover activities not only at the all-ukrainian, national level, but also at the regional level, so we are starting work in this

direction, because if such main points we have already practiced a little and openness has increased, then we understand that really... on the ground, it is necessary for there to be activists, and it is necessary for these activists to have reliable support in the form of some kind of protection from national organizations, because we all understand that it's one thing when you're in your small place and you don't have any opportunity to go all out on a national level, and it's another thing when there are some organizations that support your activities, for example, like our movement honestly, and we think that this will help to develop this story with openness and with the fight against corruption very much. on a smaller and more detailed level of local councils, when will the results of this analysis of small local councils be known? we are currently working to highlight the most critical issues, that is, show them clearly somehow, and people from the regions tell us what to write about first of all,

because we most likely will not be able to conduct all such general monitoring, because there are thousands of letters, thousands of sites that need to be monitored, and we have a very limited resource, unfortunately, but regional analysts who live right there will help us tell about such super-critical stories and most likely help to solve them, it has already started, there are already several publications. we will continue in this direction, but how are these can people find you, me or you find them? we have vacancies in various regions on our website, so thank you very much for asking about it, it is very difficult for us to really find people who are really passionate about their work, so we invite and will be very grateful if through this broadcast about our more people will learn about vacancies and regional opportunities, all this is on the rukhuchesno website in a separate section of vacancies, we sincerely invite you. and we will be grateful for your active work, because even after the publication of this material to we received comments from a large number of people from regions such as zaporizhzhia, dnipro, kharkiv, who said that although the assessment is

high, well, in their opinion, too high, there are such and such problems, and we are currently working with them to understand what how it can affect either our rating, or how we can influence the council to open up its work more, i understood correctly, that is, people who live in populated areas, towns, who want to be transparent, there was a transparent work of local councils, can join your team, and this that is, they will be on a voluntary basis of some kind, or will they also receive some kind of salary for this, no, of course, of course, we understand that any work must be evaluated, and it is clear that this is a certain fee basis for activity, for coverage , well, this is a certain kind of methodical support and informational support for these people, because we understand that locally... it is more difficult, scarier, at the national level we understand that the influence is much greater, but what about local information , which you will already get, what people are worried about, what their

infuriating in the work of local councils? we can start with the zaporizhzhia regional council, because it outrages the largest number of people, and this council has never met for 2023 to start voting, that is, sessions have been convened, but deputies have never come, and as emphasized by... local activists , among these deputies there are also a bunch of representatives of the already banned opzh, these people receive salaries from the budget, with which such a local pool of activists strongly disagrees, and it is worth noting that the defense committee recently decided to recommend the verkhovna rada should suspend this council for the time being and transfer the powers to the military administration, because it has already become clear to everyone that the council does not work and will not work, and the citizens and the entire region cannot... function fully qualitatively, but, as the activists say, most likely, the whole council will remain with salaries, it’s just that someone will work in the military administration and

receive even more money from the budget for salaries, this is the biggest outrage of local activists, because they are in favor of opzzh being there did not receive funds and had no influence on the decision, we also wrote a separate news about it, well, thank you very much for your work, mrs. victoria, victoria oliinyk parla. on the contrary, in some cases of local regional and city councils, regional centers, well , in the meantime, listen, my following story at cambridge university, one of the oldest universities in the world, attracted attention, pro-palestinian activists committed an actvan. just now you see how some girl just first sketches with red paint, ah then this anarchist

some kind of sign cuts it and some kind of satanic sign, i don't know, a sign with the word pentagram, some kind of sign cuts into the portrait of lord balfer, it's happening in trinity college, it literally happened today, as far as i understand, everyone is discussing it, it's important here, surely someone else can say is arthur james the same? balfour, this is the prime minister of great britain at the beginning of the 20th century, he was one of the most famous intellectuals of great britain at that time, he headed such a circle, which included intellectuals of that time, and he is called one of the greatest such ideologues at that time, or, let's say, a person who very much supported the zionist movement and actually there theodor herzl, for example, about the creation of the israeli state, he believed that it was for... for europe, and actually provided, being as prime minister, and then as minister of foreign affairs already in the cabinet in lloyd's cabinet, he provided all kinds of assistance to the israelis.

to the jews, who were going to build an israeli state in palestine, and until now that is why he is so hated by pro-palestinian representatives, well, but here is another really shocking act and fact of vandalism just in britain, that's right, uh, i don't know what, what's really with those students or who they are, i think, i understand that they are students of the same cambridge, here is such an interesting moment that i wanted to share with you, and... but that's not all, let me remind you that today we have taras hryhorovych shevchenko, we celebrate his birthday, he was born 210 years ago, 210 years ago, anniversary, 21 years, you can say, kobzarev and you know, we will have one of the brothers kapranovy today, let's talk about shevchenko, about how he is honored in the whole world and in russia, whether he is honored, my,

my, my good good... familiar and famous serbian journalist borys varga, who studied in lviv, and large, and in fact has some ruthenian, ukrainian, that is, origin, roots, or there is such a ruthenian community and territory in serbia, ruthenians who have a connection with ukraine live compactly there, historical, so is he, he published today, for example , shevchenko's poem translated into the seb language, but i... didn't risk it actually read it, so as not to make fun of everyone who knows the serbian language well, but for example, the ambassador of japan in ukraine took a risk and read the lines of shevchenko and vyshyvantsi, but now we will learn ukrainian or japanese, if we can show this fragment of the video from the japanese embassy, we are not ready to show, but

we will show after we look. dear friends, i also want to remind you that we have a collection going on, and if you have not yet congratulated taras hryhorovych on his birthday today, you can do so by donating for the 12th of a separate special forces unit, qr code, you see, it's here, give it, and now we're listening to who, the ambassador of japan in ukraine.

that's it, the ambassador of japan read lines from shevchenko today and congratulated ukrainians on the birthday of our kobzar, dear friends, we are slowly approaching 3 p.m., which means that we will now finish watching a fresh selection of news from anna yevimelnik, what happened there in ukraine and the world, as we now learn, we still have a long way to go. almost two hours into our espresso marathon, we still have interesting tails, i already told you that we will have one of the kapranov brothers and we will actually talk about today, march 9, as the birthday of taras shevchenko. we also remind you that we have a collection going on, keep an eye on our qr-codes that appear throughout the ether, or go to the espresso website, espresso.tv, there

you will find volunteers in the espresso section. section for donations, look for this collection or some other, in any case, this money will go to our military, but now anaeva melnyk and the news, let's see, i'm ready to speak. congratulations, colleagues, thank you for your work, the news team will continue to work, and in this issue i will tell the details of the successful work of the armed forces of ukraine on the left bank of the kherson region and beyond, stay with us. the russians targeted a power substation in the zaporizhzhia region with a drone, the ministry of energy notes that no one was injured as a result of the attack, the equipment survived and there were no power outages. the occupiers killed a woman and wounded a seven-year-old boy and a man in kherson region.