the dehumidifier has been working in the apartment for a week . this powerful industrial device condenses 20-30 liters of water per day, so it can help the family start repairs as soon as possible. well, it can take up to a month. i think when it's in the summer, for example, it'll be faster, maybe. i think that we will dry it in a week, well, the house for a week at most, maybe even faster. of course, i want to return to my hometown as soon as possible, but there is still a lot of work ahead, so olena, there is a lack of optimism. i don't know, it will be very difficult. nine months ago, as a result of the occupiers undermining the dam of kakhovska highway. a huge wave washed away everything in its path, but not...thousands of residents

of the flooded areas have already returned to their homes, and according to the head of ukrhydroenergo, the kakhovskaya hpp itself is planned to be restored immediately after the deoccupation of the kherson region. kateryna galko, oscar yanson from the mykolaiv region for the espresso tv channel. channel espresso and ukrainian pen present own names project with myroslava barchuk. a series of conversations with ukrainian and western intellectuals who... interpret and comment on the most relevant public discussions, which news will be analyzed by the guests of the project this week and who will be the guest of the studio, we will find out already this sunday, unequivocally, the topics will be relevant, the guests will be special, own names with myroslava barchuk, sunday 17:10 at espresso. vasyl zima's big broadcast, two hours of air time, two hours of your time, two hours to learn about the war and what he lives for. world, two hours to be

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ukraine has already felt the taste of the first asymmetric victory while at sea, where relatively cheap ukrainian drones destroyed a quarter of the black sea. navy drove its remnants to novorossiysk and guaranteed the security of the ukrainian sea corridor without the mediation of turkey. implement this strategy on land is much more difficult. on the eve of the so-called elections of vladimir putin, russian volunteers, assisted by the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine, launched a raid on bilhorod and kursk.

oblasts, it turned into large-scale combat operations, the russian army, at least, has to divert its forces in this direction and turn it into bakhmut and avdiivka, that is, raze already its own settlements to the ground. the task of at least transferring the war to russian territory , the task of maximum has been accomplished - to destabilize the situation inside the russian federation, to sow despair about putin's capabilities to protect his own territory, both among the russian population and among the local elites. as far as we know, they are not going to finish anytime soon and will do whatever they can, and as we can see, they have plenty of energy lately. kyrylo budanov, head of the gur of the ministry of defense of ukraine. after the start of the raid, the aggressor intensified terrorist attacks on sumy oblast. for two weeks, putin's forces have been shelling border towns and villages en masse with guided aerial bombs, missiles and kamikaze drones. artillery, mortars and

small arms are also used. the community of velikopysarov is suffering the most, the civilian population is being evacuated. central square, velyka pisarivka, sumyshchyna. the settlement is being destroyed. er, they are destroying, bombing, our border villages , the russian army is trying to simply burn them to the ground, only from the beginning of this march and until today, the russian aviation has already dropped almost 200 guided bombs on the communities of sumy oblast, just on villages, on cities, on civil infrastructure . another way of asymmetric struggle - to deprive the aggressor of the income with which he finances the war. western sanctions do not cope with this task very well, so ukrainian drones come to help them, or rather, ukrainian drones fly in. since the beginning of the year, drone strikes on russian oil refineries have disabled 600,000 to 900,000 barrels of capacity, i.e. 10-15% of daily oil refining. these are the estimates of

bloomberg. some targets were hit at a distance of more than 100 km. in russia, they are already experiencing a shortage of fuel, it is possible that it is precisely because of this the russians have again launched large-scale attacks on our power system, because if they had such opportunities before, it is logical to assume that the missiles flew into ukrainian tec and hydroelectric power plants in winter, when ukraine was especially vulnerable to such strikes, the night of march 22, when the temperature in the yard was positive, the enemy released more than 60 shaheds across ukraine. and almost 90 different missiles. in particular, according to the office of the prosecutor general, eight rockets flew into the dniprovsk hpp, the one that was blown up by the nkvd and nazis the facility is out of order, but

there is no threat of a dam breach. the enemy is carrying out the largest attack on the ukrainian energy sector in recent times. the goal is not just to damage, to try. language, as last year, to cause a large-scale failure of the country's energy system. herman galushchenko, minister of energy of ukraine. in such a situation , the support of allies is especially important. ukraine urgently needs more ammunition and air defense systems. and if europe finally began to wake up from its lethargic sleep and increase supplies, then our main ally the united states the states are paralyzed by the pre-election struggle. the vital aid package of more than 60. has still not been approved, and the congress has gone on vacation again. against this background , president biden's national security adviser, jake sullivan, paid an unannounced visit to ukraine. he reiterated that aid would eventually be agreed, but avoided answering whether the us would provide long-range atacama missiles. as for atakams, i

may disappoint you, but i have nothing to announce today. when we can share something, we will, but i will say. that we had very constructive a discussion of our military support and the capabilities needed to make that support effective. jake salevan, national security advisor to the president of the united states of america. already after the visit, the financial times, with reference to its own sources, reported: washington allegedly called on kyiv to stop attacks on russian oil plants, saying that the biden administration is afraid of a possible increase in world prices for oil and oil products and a rise in fuel prices. in the united states on the eve of the presidential election, and even more escalation on the part of the russian federation. ukrainian officials denied this information. the white house, at the request of voice of america, avoided a specific comment, saying that they generally do not encourage attacks on russian territory.

regardless of the true position of the us, ukraine must continue to look for weaknesses in the defense and economy of the aggressor and use them for asymmetric struggle, even if the delphic union does not like it. turn on and turn on the verdict with serhiy rudenko every weekday from 20 to 22 on espresso.

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political analysis, objectively and meaningfully, there is no political season, exclusive interviews, reports from the hottest points of the front, svoborla openly and without bias, draw your own conclusions. good evening, my name is myroslava barchuk, this is the "own names" program, a joint project of ukrainian foam and the espresso tv channel. you remember, even before the war , we talked a lot about how important it is culture, and it turned out that during the war , this culture is perhaps even more important, perhaps this culture gives strength, keeps many people in the frontline, border areas, in the de-occupied territories in good spirits. and today we will talk about exactly that, and how the ukrainian pen travels with

volunteer trips to the east of ukraine, to the south of ukraine, takes 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 for that came for tetyana and i, it is important to talk today about the impressions in general from these... our trips of volunteer ukrainian foam to the east, to the front-line and de-occupied territory, and we will definitely talk and remember all these fantastic, shocking stories, but tanya, let's start with that , what is propene, maybe no one , no one knows for sure, some people have never heard of propene and what this organization does, pen is primarily an international organization with a central office in london and accordingly... in fact, in every country of the world there is its own 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 is that pen generally arose in 1921, that is, it the post-war period, the period after the first world war, when there was an opinion in intellectual communities, first in britain, 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 , so that people who work with in short, were united and could work together with these challenges and develop their 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 mogu... voice yes, the most powerful advocate, one, at least of the most powerful advocates

of ukrainian culture, in the world and actually the most an influential organization in ukraine, please tell us about this, about our community, i.e. what does the community do, what is it for community in the ukrainian cultural field? you know, when i now, especially abroad , talk about our work, who... what does pen do, who is our association of ukrainian authors, very often it causes a certain surprise, because our work is largely different from what other pen centers in other countries do. it is obvious that this 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, political prisoners, and not every country has such challenges with which ... should work pencenter, but in fact today i talk very little about what we did before the 22nd year,

because obviously, our work with political prisoners, with the ukrainian hostages of the kremlin continues, but our bigger, most of our cultural initiatives 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. our joint ... note for today is 163 ukrainian authors, writers, journalists, rights activists, cultural managers, and today we planned talk to you about volunteer trips, and i think that's... that's exactly the kind of experience that has shaped a lot of what we do today. if i try to sum it up somehow, to 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, as we implement. there were scholarships, yes, public, closed scholarships to help individual families, individual to authors, artists in ukraine, and on the other hand, even this year we continued our festival for young authors of the script 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 literature, and based on this, our books in the library of ukrainian pen series are published, at the same time, it is not just a fixation, it is a documentation, this is what surprises other pen centers, 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 when we go to the front-line territories, not liberated, and on the basis of these materials that we collect, we are already preparing our reports, we are preparing materials in other languages ​​that we can distribute to our entire international community, yes, hundreds of other pen centers, and probably i alone highlight also the continuation of cultural life in ukraine, even in such a difficult time, i see it as a big priority, culture cannot stop, cannot stop... the development of culture and endurance, and in addition to the fact that we constantly travel to other regions, we organize events , we support libraries, in addition, just in february 22nd, the space of ukrainian pens in kyiv begins to work, and for us it is already such an autonomous project, that 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 in support of the ukrainian army. these are probably the most important things to document and support our community and culture. now let's once again return to the volunteer trips, where actually, on the one hand, we support libraries, take books to the most destroyed areas, that's what it 's called. these are unbreakable libraries, and this initiative, and on the other hand, we are bringing many western intellectuals, western writers, and it started in june 22nd, yes, actually these trips are voluntary, and we have a video, this is a trip to kherson, it is already december 22nd, it is december 22nd, but

just that, as i understand it, that it was peno's first trip to kherson, that's why i want to start with it, all the more... more in this video that you and i selected before this conversation, before this conversation, there is victoria amelina, who was still alive then and who meet you at the railway station in kherson, let's see, please, it's december 22nd, the trip pen to kherson.

it's interesting, very cool, meetings were held here, various poetic communities, there was such

a cluster of literary and artistic life here, there were unique editions, well, as far as i understand, rare editions survived, that's what i was told, as in reality. what do you remember from this trip, were you a participant? and now i watched these footage and realized that, in addition to the fact that victoria is no longer with us, and victoria is such a great motivator for me that these trips began, she supported me in the idea to go to kharkiv, that's our first destination, the beginning of june 22nd, and then victoria, because she's starting to do... documenting crimes, working with trushauns, starting to write her book in english, she tried to go with us all the time, and this it was an interesting story,

because she found out about kherson at the last moment, she was abroad on an advocacy trip, and she just wrote to us there a few days before that, friends, 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 came to us... by train right on that day, just two days on the way, but in order to be with us, she goes to kherson. victoria is not there, and there are also shots of oles gonchar's library, here in these shots it is damaged, but after that we remember that already last fall, this library, in fact, we say that it is destroyed, so it is not just damaged, and 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 the situation in kherson, which is 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 that a feeling that was just in the air, because a few days before that there was shelling, you may remember, a market 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 theater named after mykola kolish, and gathered in this shelter representatives of the cultural community , librarians came, people who work in museums, mostly people who stayed in the city in order to preserve the funds, to stay, if they were responsible for what was important to them, of course i remember these'. history, i remember these voices, i remember librarians who, in order not to cooperate with the occupiers, did not go to work, but did not want to lose contact with readers and published books from their own

home libraries, and i remember that that survived the theater, i remember the story of alexander 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 and funds. it is such a simple physical feeling of a huge loss of your culture, and also of the local history museum, just as close to the local history museum , we only got to 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 funds where these works were kept, it was just a feeling as if there was a physical body of your culture, and as soon as you see how a part of this body was taken away. as if it was such a great physical pain, but on the other hand, these people, we then went to the volunteers, and these volunteers are also a professor of history,

a scientist, people who created their volunteer community, and they continue to work, distribute humanitarian aid, helping the military, actually these trips, you know, on the one hand, they always have this kind of pain in them, because you listen to the people, you see the cities, you see damaged or stolen cultural heritage, but on the other hand side, it always gives strength and strength is given by the example of these people, their history, the way they hold on, how they continue despite everything to protect their cities, protect their land and develop their own, their cities and their villages, this is such a level of strength, such a resistance that you return every time and it is as if you have been there for several days without sleep and on the road. do you have the strength to move on? you know, i have the same feeling that you have, these people to whom we come, and indeed the cultural communities of these front-line territories, it seems to them that

it's... we come to support them, and we always tell them that it is they who support us, and i always, no matter how physically exhausting these trips are, because we always have a lot of very communities that we we visit, but you arrive physically tired, but just terribly, terribly somehow inspired by what you see, actually, well, by the example of these people, yes, resilience, courage, we have looked at it now. kherson in december 2022, yes, we have another video, and this video is already quite fresh, in this video for two weeks, we went to kherson with a group pen, to open such bookshelves in shelters, just imagine that kherson, which is now under continuous shelling all the time, the local community there

want to have in shelters in... the walls of their houses, at least, at least bookshelves with ukrainian literature and ukrainian literature. there is such a kherson youth initiative called books in shelter , and together with these people we went not only to the right bank of the dnieper, but also to the korabel district, where there is, where it is quite dangerous, and because of shelling, we went to the district , which called the island, and here... this area is just a few kilometers from the russian position, 3-4 km, maybe 2 km, and people live there, and they want to open bookshelves in their basements in order to, for to read books and have a community of their own, today these people will be included, and we will listen to them separately, but here is a video that was taken, that

was taken by this community of books... covered, let 's see how they are, this is recorded, this particular action, the transfer of pen books. hello, it's me 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. and... together with penklub ukraine and the kherson state regional administration , we visited the underground shelters located in the city of kherson and officially opened three new book shelters. this small project was the start for ours teams 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. state and distract from real events. i believe that the beginning has been made, and more grandiose projects will follow. even such small guests were at our opening. and we sincerely hope that the book will become your safe haven. with this very project, we want to preserve the book fund of kherson, because against the background of shelling from the russian army city ​​libraries are constantly being destroyed. unfortunately. despite everything, we were able to do it. a safe library, we hope people will like to read books in us, exchange and bring their own, we sincerely thank the ponclubs for the fact that you were able to visit us, also for the fact that you brought many of your books and took part in the opening of new bookshelves, thank you, so you saw that volodymyr yermolenko, the president of ukrainian peno, a literary critic, and tetyana ogarkova, a beautiful poet, kateryna

kalytko, were on this trip. so, it is 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, deputy head of the kherson regional state administration for humanitarian issues, is in touch with us, mr. volodymyr, i congratulate you, can you hear me, yes , i congratulate you, very well heard, miroslav, mr. volodymyr, first of all, we remember you and remember with admiration, and your initiatives. khersonskyi, please tell us about the initiatives and actions that are currently being held in kherson regarding books, about collecting books, and here are your wonderful ideas about vilnius read a ukrainian and russian book about the occupier? yes, thank you for this opportunity to reveal this information, really

before... before the birthday of our great kabzar.