espresso. the newsroom is ready to tell about the most important events of this hour. i congratulate all viewers of espresso and start with the situation in sumy oblast. russia dropped three high-explosive aerial bombs on the village of peremoga in the sumy region. damaged power infrastructure facility, private houses and cars. the shelling was very powerful - reported the mayor of bilopol, yuriy zarko. fortunately, there were no casualties or injuries. i would like to add that the village of peremoha is located 15 km from

the border with russia. the reconstruction of the de-occupied part of kherson oblast was successful despite the shelling restore more than a tenth of the infrastructure destroyed by the russians. more than a thousand objects were repaired with the help of volunteers. 400 from local budgets . in total, about 26,000 civilian objects were damaged in the region. these are many apartments, private houses, schools, kindergartens and hospitals, said the head of the region oleksandr prokudin. for the reconstruction of apartments, you can use the recovery program. residents of the region submitted more than 5,700 applications for compensation and almost 2,100 families received funds for the reconstruction of their own homes in the total amount uah 290 million. also, 370 housing certificates worth uah 486 million were received by people who lost their homes due to russian aggression.

in kharkiv, the situation with electricity is extremely difficult , all substations, as well as the chp, have been destroyed - mayor igor terekhov said, about 40% of consumers in the city already have electricity, 60% have heating, almost all houses have water, it is not known how long the restoration works will last. in the region , emergency shutdown schedules are used, electricity supply is adjusted, and the complex situation in networks is taken into account, noted the head of the region, oleg sinyohobov the primary task is to revive critical infrastructure objects, this will allow to restore the full-fledged life activity of the city of kharkiv and the region. enemy troops twice tried to storm the positions of ukrainian defenders in the krynyk district of the kherson region. both attempts failed. the russians also carried out four assaults near the zaporizhzhia factory, suffered losses and retreated to their positions. the counter-battery fight continues, they inform. in the defense forces

of the south. the occupiers do not stop aerial reconnaissance. they press with artillery, carry out airstrikes and a large number of kamikaze drones are used. during the day, our defenders eliminated 124 putin soldiers and 104 units of weapons and military equipment in the orichiv and kherson directions. dangerous work. in the dnipropetrovsk region , police officers of the explosives service neutralized combat units of russian... drones. the occupiers have been mercilessly attacking the region with drones for several days in a row. debris of one of these fell into the field. another one was found nearby, the national police reported. undetonated fragments of enemy hardware were removed and brought to a special site, where they were destroyed. attention, explosion.

and the collection of the espresso tv channel continues. the 74th battalion of the 102nd separate brigade urgently needs mavics and fpv drones. these soldiers are defending our country in the zaporozhye direction, so that they do not risk their lives and go on an assault through changing fields, drones are needed and we must help. our goal is uah 500,000. join our congregation. any amount is important. you can see all the details on the screen. they saved two people from the fire. a fire broke out in chernivtsi at night two people found themselves in a fire trap in an apartment building. one of them was injured. they could not get out of the house on their own, so the rescuers got them. the injured was handed over to medics, the state emergency service reported. the fire was extinguished on an area of ​​50 m2. the causes of the fire are being established. armed

men broke into a police station in yerevan. the event took place in the north of the city, the capital of armenia. a video of the attack was released on the internet, on which gunmen can be heard. and an explosion, probably grenades, the media assume, according to preliminary data, journalists are injured put forward the version that it could have been done by members of the fighting brotherhood organization. their 49 participants were detained this morning on suspicion of illegal storage of ammunition. the police chief is negotiating with one armed man who is inside the premises. there is no threat, but a certain number of russian troops are still in belarus, mostly service personnel who deal with equipment, said the spokesman of the state border service of ukraine andriy demchenko. the situation is under control, intelligence units are monitoring everything

takes place on the territory of belarus in order to respond in the event of a threat. at one time, russia withdrew all its units from there, but did not establish new ones. the ukrainian border is extended by oblasts. build engineering fortifications and fortifications. panic in st. petersburg. the man reported by phone that he allegedly planted explosives in the building of the london mall shopping center. russian media reports that the evacuation has begun there. according to the local publication fontanka. the suspect has already been detained, he allegedly turned out to be a foreigner, where exactly is 10 kg explosives, does not admit. works on site. zeperers blocked the nearby avenue. 137 people died in krokos city hall. according to the russian media, the number of victims is increasing, there are 185 victims. the russian ministry of emergency situations continues to analyze the rubble of the concert hall and

bodies are still being found there. let me remind you, the night before , unknown people with machine guns broke into the city hall hook before the start of the performance of the russian band piknik and opened fire. after. shots, a fire broke out in the room, the roof collapsed, four suspects were detained in bryansk region, with them investigative actions are being carried out, writes the relevant agency of the russian federation. according to the dictator putin, all four fled from russia through ukraine, where a window was allegedly prepared for them. our president rejects this version, and the terrorist organization idil claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack. fire at another oil depot, this time in the temporarily occupied crimea near the village of gvardiyske in the simferopol district. smoke can be seen from afar, eyewitnesses write. according to information from open sources, the object was attacked by drones, the ukrainian ministry of energy reports. morning on the peninsula

about 20 explosions rang out. after the explosions in gvardiyskyi , the occupiers began evacuating people from private sector buildings. that's the situation for the moment, then see the project own names with myroslava barchuk. good evening, my name is myroslava barchuk, this is a program. "own names, a joint project of ukrainian foam and the espresso tv channel. you remember that even before the war we talked a lot about how important culture is, and now it turned out that during the war this culture is perhaps even more important, perhaps this culture gives forces, keeps the spirit of many people in

the front-line, border territories, in the de-occupied territories, and today we will talk about exactly how the ukrainian pen travels with volunteer trips to the east of ukraine, to the south of ukraine, carries books to destroyed libraries and thus supports people in these territories. my guest today is tetyana teren, she is the executive director of ukrainian foam. tanya, congratulations, thank you, it is important for tetyana and me to talk today about our impressions in general of these trips of volunteer ukrainians to the east, to the frontline. occupied territories, and we will definitely talk and mention all these fantastic, shocking stories, but tanya, let's start with what pen is. perhaps no one, no one knows for sure, some people have never heard of pen and what does this organization do? pen, first of all,

is an international organization with a central office in london, and accordingly, in fact, in every country of the world there is a pen center, and it is an association of writers, journalists, cultural managers, translators, in general people who work with the word, and what is important to say in the context of what we plan to talk about today, that pen generally arose: 1921, that is, it is the post-war period, the time after the first world war, when the thought arises in intellectual communities, first in britain, but then in other countries, that in a period of such great challenges, which are in culture, which are in journalism, challenges with freedom of speech, it is very important that people who work with words are about united and could to work together with these challenges and develop our culture and literature. even before the great war, before the beginning of the great war, the ukrainian pen began to become a very influential

organization, and perhaps now it is the most powerful voice, yes, the most powerful advocate, one, at least, of the most powerful advocates of ukrainian culture in the world, and in fact the most influential organization in ukraine, please tell us about our community, what does the community do, what kind of community is it in the ukrainian cultural field? you know when i am now especially abroad, talking about our work, who we are, what pen does, who is our association of ukrainian authors, very often this causes some surprise, because our work is very different from what other pen centers in other countries do , it is obvious that it is connected with the war, and these... changes, these disagreements, they have been there since the 14th year, because pen worked with the cases

of ukrainian authors of political prisoners, and not every country has such challenges , with which the pen center is supposed to work, but actually today i talk very little about what we did before 22nd year, because obviously our work with political prisoners, with ukrainian hostages of the kremlin continues, but most of our initiatives are primarily cultural, they are suspended. and then we begin the process of finding those areas, those roles, priorities, where we can be the most useful as a community. today, our community consists of 163 ukrainian authors, writers, journalists, rights activists, and cultural managers. and we planned to talk with you today about volunteer trips, and i think that this is exactly the kind of experience that is great largely determined what we do today. if you try to... somehow sum it up, highlight some directions, i would first of all talk about the support of this

community, the fact that we can live together such a complex, difficult experience in our country, in the life of every family and every person, this support is also very practical, palpable, since we introduced scholarships, yes, public, closed scholarships, in order to help individual families, individual... authors, artists in ukraine, and on the other hand, we even last year, we continued our festival for young writers with the goal of continuing the literary process in the country, so that this continuity between generations is preserved, on the other hand, if we move more to volunteer trips, then i would say that we are also engaged in recording the war experience, we work and collect new poetry, we collect diaries, documentary. tour and our books in the library of ukrainian pen series are based on this, at the same time

it is not just a fixation, it is a documentation, it is what surprises other pencenters is that our organization works with the documentation of war crimes, against culture and against the media, we have such an important area of ​​work, and this primarily happens in volunteer trips, so when we go to the front-line territories, not liberated, and on the basis of these materials that we with... we are already preparing our reports, we are preparing materials in other languages ​​that we can distribute to our entire international community, yes to hundreds of other pen centers, and for sure i will also separately highlight the continuation cultural life in ukraine, even in such a difficult time, i see it as a big priority, culture cannot stop, the development of culture and endurance cannot stop, and in addition to the fact that we constantly travel to other... we organize events, we support libraries , in addition, just in february of the 22nd

year, the space of the ukrainian pen in kyiv begins to work, and for us it is already such an autonomous project and part of our work, i believe that it is one of the most active cultural centers in kyiv today, even this week there are six public events that take place every evening, with a different format for different audiences and with a mandatory gathering at... the ukrainian army. these are probably the most important things to document and support our community and culture. now let's go back once again to the... trips, where actually on the one hand we support libraries, we take books to the least destroyed areas, that's what they call unbreakable libraries, and this initiative, and on the other hand we take many western intellectuals, western writers, and this it started in june 22nd, yes, actually these

trips are voluntary, and we have a video, this, a trip to kherson, it’s already december 22nd, it’s december 22nd, but it’s just that, i understand that it was peno's first trip to kherson, so i want to start with it, especially since in this video that you and i selected before this conversation, before this conversation, there is victoria amelina, who was still alive then and whom you meet on the railway station in kherson, let's see, please, it's december of the 22nd year, and the train... pen to kherson.

what do you remember from this trip, you were her participant? and now i was watching these shots and realized that besides the fact that victoria is no longer with us, and victoria is such a big motivator for me that these trips began, she supported me in the idea of ​​going to kharkiv, this is our first direction, the beginning june 22nd, and then victoria, as she starts documenting

crimes, working with trushauns, starts writing her book in english. language, she always tried to travel with us, and this was also an interesting story, because she learned about kherson at the last moment, she was for across the border, on an advocacy trip, and she just writes to us there a few days before that, friends, and i still have to get to ukraine, but i want to come to you at least for one day, to be with you in kherson, and that's why she she is coming to us by train right on that day, just two days on the way, but in order to be with us, she is... in kherson, victoria is not there, and there are also shots of the library of oles honchar, here she is in these shots damaged, but after that we remember that already last fall this library, in fact we say that it destroyed, yes, it is not just damaged, but it was destroyed by the occupiers, and what i remember about that trip, i remember, of course, a certain

inner anxiety, those were very difficult days, and we know that the situation in kherson has not changed, and on that day... there was constant shelling in the city, especially closer to the dnieper, and honchar's library was literally on the bank, and literally from the windows of the library we saw another, different bank of the dnieper, on which the occupiers were standing, i remember this feeling that was just in the air, because a few days before that there was shelling, maybe remember, the supermarket in the center of kherson, and just in the air, there was such tension in the air, but... at the same time, i remember an amazing meeting in the shelter of the theater named after mykola kolish, and representatives of the cultural community gathered in this shelter, librarians came, people who... work in museums, mostly people who stayed in the city in order to keep the funds, to stay, as if responsible for what was important to them.

of course, i remember these stories, i remember these voices, i remember the librarians who, in order to cooperate with the occupiers, did not go outside work, but did not want to lose contact with readers and published books from their own home libraries. i remember what the theater experienced, i remember the story of alexander in the book. and probably, the biggest shock for me was , of course, the history of the art museum, the history of the museum from which the occupiers stole most of the exhibits, funds, this is such a simple physical feeling, a huge loss of some kind of your culture, and the same of the local history museum, as well next to the local history museum, we then only got into the art gallery, the shelling began and right next to the art museum, i remember this long conversation, i remember... that we went down to the foundations where these works were stored, it was just a feeling, as if there is a physical body of your culture, and as soon as you see how part of the organs were taken from this body, as if it was

such great physical pain, but on the other hand, these people, we then went to the volunteers, and these volunteers are also history professors, scientists, people who created their volunteer community, and they continue to work, to distribute humanitarian aid. to help the military, actually these trips, you know, on the one hand, they always have this kind of pain in them, because you listen to people, you see wounded cities, you see damaged or stolen cultural heritage, but on the other hand, it always gives strength, and strength is given by example these people, their history, the way they hold on, how they continue despite everything to defend their cities, protect their land and develop... yes, yours, your cities and your villages, this is such a level of strength, such a resistance that you keep coming back and as if you were there for several days without sleep and on the way, to you

have the strength to move on, you know, i have the same feeling as you, these people to whom we come, and the cultural communities of these frontline territories, they think that we are coming to support them, and we always tell them that they support us. i always, no matter how physically exhausting these trips are, because we always have a lot of very communities that we visit, but you come physically tired, but just terribly, terribly somehow inspired by what you see, actually, well, as an example of these people, yes, of resilience and courage, we have now watched kherson in december 2022, yes, we have another video, and... this video is already quite fresh, it has been two weeks since this video, we also went to kherson with with the pen group to open such bookshelves in

the shelters, just imagine that kherson, which is currently under continuous shelling all the time, the local community there wants to have in the shelters, in the basements of their houses, maybe, at least bookshelves with ukrainian literature and ukrainian-language . there is such a kherson youth initiative, which is called books in hiding , and together with these people we went not just to the right bank of the dnieper, but also to the korabel district, where there is, where it is quite dangerous, and because of the shelling, we went to the district called ostriv, and here is this the district is just a few kilometers from the russians' position, it's 3-4 km, maybe 2 km, and people live there and they want to open bookshelves in their basements in order to read books and have some kind of community

own today, these people will join, and so will we let's listen to them separately, but here's a video that was filmed by this community of books in the shelter, let's see how they record this, this action of transmission. books pen. hello. today i will tell you our story. to be honest, we didn't even think that this story would reach such a scale, but we are pleasantly surprised by how people can help each other. the history of the creation of this mini-project is quite interesting, but more on that later. yesterday was a very emotional day for our team. together with penklub ukrain and the kherson state regional administration, we visited underground shelters. which are located in the city of kherson and officially opened three new book shelters. this small project is a starting point for our team

to create... much bigger and grander projects in the future, i hope that the books in the shelter will help the residents of the city, who are still under fire, to stabilize their mental state and distract themselves from real events . i believe that the beginning has been made, and then there are bigger grandiose projects, even such ones small guests were at our opening, and we sincerely hope that the book will become your safe shelter, with this very project we want to protect the book fund of kherson, because against the background of shelling from the russian army, the city's libraries are constantly being destroyed, unfortunately. despite everything, we were able to make a safe library, we hope people will enjoy reading books in us, exchanging and bringing their own. many thanks to ponklubbrain for being able to visit us, as well as for bringing many of your books and participating in the opening of new book shelves.

thank you so, you saw that on this trip there were volodymyr yarmolenko, the president of ukrainian peno, literary critic, tetyana ogarkova, the beautiful poet kateryna kalytko, so for kherson, and for us it was very, very important, and we want to include kherson now, we hope , that we will succeed, volodymyr klyutsevskyi, the deputy chairman of the kherson oda for humanitarian issues, is in touch with us, mr. volodymyr, i congratulate you, can you hear me? so i congratulate you, yaroslav can be heard very well, mr. volodymyr, first of all, we welcome you we remember and remember with admiration your initiatives, people of kherson, please tell us about the initiatives and actions that are currently being held in kherson regarding books, regarding the collection of books, and here are your wonderful ideas about vilna

, read a ukrainian and russian book about the occupier, yes thank you for the given opportunity to disclose this information, indeed, on the occasion of the birthday of our great kobzar, we came up with the initiative to implement a series of book promotions throughout ukraine, which was supported by the ministry of education and of science, supported the authorization. protection of the state language taras kremin and e-e, in fact , everything started with the initiative project of our e-youth e-books in the shelter, who developed this project and took the initiative to open books in our warehouses in the city of kherson so that people could read

ukrainian-language books. that's right. for us, this initiative was supported by the authorities, and now we are collecting books from all over ukraine as part of the one student one book for kherson campaign. the ministry of education and science asked all higher education institutions of ukraine to accept students books were brought and they were sent to kherson so that we could in this way remind our shelters by creating corners, such book shelters, because when the orks were there, more than 150 thousand ukrainian books were destroyed, and we want to replenish these funds, primarily in shelters, we also have an action that is supported and implemented and promoted by the authority to protect the state language, it is

freely read in... ukrainian, which provides for the collection of books for the library funds of those regions that have suffered er, destruction due to armed military russian aggression, er, sumy, kharkiv, zaporizhzhya, kherson, mykolaiv regions, and we also have one more within the framework of these two actions, if people bring russian-language books. we also take them, but we hand them in for recycling and as part of the campaign with a russian book about the russian occupier, we will donate to the appropriate bank, we will donate to help the armed forces of ukraine, that is, russian-language books help our boys win in this war, so eh... eh see from