to be the most effective, we are waiting for you in the team of tssoa asbu. together we will write the history of victory. details on the official pages of the sbu. it's 5 p.m. in ukraine and we have a news broadcast on the spresso tv channel, in the studio of iryna koval, i greet all the viewers, i'll just tell you about the most important events at this time, we'll start with the situation in kharkiv, where the russians killed one person. ten more

were injured. among the injured are two teenagers aged 15 and 16. two injured are in serious condition. during the day, the enemy shelled the civilian infrastructure of the city of kabama. one of the bombs got into a private residential building. there is also a hit on a children's educational institution. a garage and an outbuilding caught fire, mayor ihor terekhov said. half of the city is now without electricity. the metro and ground electric transport stopped. and then about the situation in donetsk region. rescuers retrieved the body of a dead woman from under the rubble of a house in toretsk. the russians launched an airstrike on the city in the morning. they hit the private residential sector. an aerial bomb hit the house. one person was injured. her with he was taken to the hospital with fractures, a contusion of the brain and a laceration. emergency and rescue operations have been completed, the state emergency service reported. rescuers dismantled half a ton of construction materials. explosions rang out in

the temporarily occupied crimea in the area of ​​kozacha bay in sevastopol, smoke was rising - write local publications, there was also thunder in balaclava and inkerman, the kerch bridge was blocked. the ministry of defense of russia reported that their anti-aircraft defense shot down four atakams missiles, the fifth blew up by itself. the wreckage fell in the coastal zone, the so-called governor of sevastopol noted. the occupation authorities report three deaths and over a hundred wounded. most of them were on the beach at that time. and to the situation at the front. the russians became more active in the turkish direction. there are ongoing hostilities, in which the enemy, supported by aviation, is striking with kababs, - said the spokesman of the khortytsia operational-strategic group of forces, nazar voloshyn. during the day, the occupiers unsuccessfully tried 15 times... to move in the areas

of northern new york and toretsk. a difficult situation in the pokrovsky direction. defense forces repelled 55 enemy attacks near novoaleksandrivka, vozdvizhenka, karlivka, nevelsky and novopokrovsky. the russians tried to dislodge our units from the occupied borders, so they involved aviation, artillery, combat vehicles and drones. they do daily. contribution to future victory. the head of the security service, vasyl malyuk, presented state and departmental awards to fighters who showed special courage in the fight against the enemy. the awarding took place on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the special operations center a. during the years of independence, the fighters of the unit constantly developed and gained combat, combat experience. therefore, the head of the security service thanked the special forces for the unique operations behind enemy lines and high work results. on the front, in particular on

more than 1,000 destroyed russian tanks. a woman who ransacked the graves of soldiers in kyiv was placed in a psychiatric hospital. the pechersk district court chose such a preventive measure for the suspect. the detainee is in a specialized institution in the village of glyvakha, kyiv region. she will stay there for 60 days until august 19, the capital prosecutor's office reported. i remind you on june 20, a woman vandalized the graves of fallen heroes and the graves of jus and petrichenko. she damaged portraits of fallen soldiers, tore out and scattered flags, and also broke lamps. missile danger. although china does not wage wars with aggressive neighbors, local residents could see for themselves such danger. the first stage of the launch vehicle fell directly on a chinese village. fortunately.

there was no more fuel in the rocket, so the consequences were insignificant. china has launched a small x-ray satellite long merch tosi into orbit. the launch itself has passed successful, the satellite is working. in orbit they met love where both did not expect it. rehabilitation and prosthetics in one superhumans center connected two hearts. snipers of anastasia savka and serviceman oleksiy levchenko. about an incredible love story and plans for a future wedding. see further in our story. superhumans. a rehabilitation center that has become a second home for many servicemen and civilians, and its team almost a family. after severe injuries, approximately 600 people thanks to the center returned to normal life. now they run again, jump, swim, conquer new heights, fall in love and

create families. at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, anastasiya savka from lviv, with the call sign phoenix, joined the ranks of the territorial defense, later became a sniper. naza'. on november 28, 2023, the girl was injured, as a result of which her leg was amputated. anastasia underwent rehabilitation and prosthetics at the superhumans center, where she met oleksiy levchenko. boy was seriously injured around the same time. i came here with the idea that i will soon get a prosthesis. and i type, and i return to the service. here i met oleksii. we met at the reception on the very first day, that is, it turned out that our rehabilitation began at the same time, i.e. prosthetics, i asked where we could go to eat, and oleksiy immediately offered me, let me drive you here, the two of us will go. since then , anastasia and oleksiy spent a lot of

time together, underwent rehabilitation, learned to walk together again and supported each other. four months later, anastasia admitted to oleksiy that she wanted to return to the war, but he... was not ready to part with his beloved, after hearing from nastya that she wanted to return to the service, he was not very satisfied, so it was necessary to find a compromise and offered to serve together , and before standing together again to defend the state, oleksiy decided to propose to anastasia, the couple was invited to give an interview, so the unsuspecting girl was waiting for her lover behind the scenes. here it turns out that they invite me, it's already been about an hour he was there, i think, why so long, and what is with me for so long, oh, i think that, but it turned out that oleksiy, i go into the studio, there is my mother, ruksolana, my step-sister, and

oleksiy is sitting during a live broadcast in the talk show studio, oleksiy got down on one knee and proposed to his beloved. her son carried flowers for anastasia. yarema's poignant video went viral on social media. will you marry me yes, at that moment i did not even remotely suspect this, that is , i did not even imagine that such a thing could be, for it was really a shock to me, i stood there, i didn’t know what to say, that is, i immediately forgot words, letters, if... to communicate, both heroes still have a full course of rehabilitation ahead of them, they are also collecting the necessary documents for return to the front. as anastasia says, the wedding will be modest, only for family and friends. we don't want to do anything big, it's a war and it's not the right time,

so it's more for well, that is, for the two of us. friends and relatives of the superhumans center were congratulated during anastasia's discharge. emma statnyk, roman. espresso tv channel. and the espresso tv channel invites you to join the project from scratch to life. this is a collection of atvs for the rapid evacuation of the wounded and the delivery of ammunition. support the soldiers of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade kholodny yar with a donation. they choose victory every day, they do not leave the wounded and dead on the battlefield. so, atvs are indispensable helpers for evacuation. your support greatly increases the chances of a cold. not only to successfully perform combat missions, but also to return from them alive. so join the gathering. our the goal is uah 4 million. such were the news at that time. our team is working to ensure that

you see an updated news release already at 6 p.m. and later on the air, meet myroslava barchuk and the program "own names". greetings, my name is myroslav barchuk, this is a self-titled program, a joint project of ukrainian foam and the espresso tv channel. today we will talk about victoria amelina, our colleague, a talented writer, poet, who was killed a year ago by a russian missile. vika deliberately chose after the start of a full-scale invasion to return to ukraine, she actually... very self-sacrificingly devoted her life to testifying about ukraine, talking about

ukraine, documenting the crimes of the russians against ukraine, and in general lived only, lived only ukraine, she was mortally wounded a year ago, when she was lucky colombian writers to kramatorsk, when she went with them to kramatorsk, she was actually mortally wounded by a russian missile, today we will remember her age, talk about her, because... it happened exactly a year ago, this happened a year ago tragedy. my guests are tetyana teryn, executive director of ukrainian foam and yevgenia podobna, journalist, war correspondent and writer. girls, congratulations. thank you for coming. you and i have all seen it in recent years at the book arsenal, it just happened a year ago, everyone has their own memories, she talked a lot about it and wrote about... at the book arsenal, she moderated discussions, spoke, and i simply could not, when i yesterday

i was preparing for the program and rewatching these footage of her performances, i decided to start at least from a small passage where vika reads her poems, let's start with that, you see a woman with her hand stretched back, as if she is pulling a suitcase or leading someone behind her. the invisible suitcase is heavy because the woman walks slowly. such women are generally called crazy. she had nothing to take from her burnt house, and no one knows who lived there. so, tsevika emelina, today we remember her, and in fact, alone. one of the reasons is that next year, one of the reasons for this

conversation is that we next year in english, the book of the age, which is actually called, which is also about women, it is called looking at women who look at the war, yes tanya, so this is a book that was unfinished, yes, it, it is only 60% done, tell me please, what kind of book is this, what is it about? she and how did vika conceive her? you know, when we talk about this 60%, it is of course a huge convention, we cannot estimate how much victoria managed to do and how much in the process of writing, she would have changed this book, because as long as our editorial team worked with arrangement of these materials of this book, we encountered the fact that there were many versions of the same material in victoria's archive, so i am sure. that she would have changed something in the process, she would have added, there would have been new voices and characters, so

it is very difficult to assess what the writer would have done with his text during the following months of work. speaking of this book, you already mentioned how victoria at the very beginning of the invasion was looking for this role for herself, a new, very selfless role, when she returned to ukraine from abroad, she was a volunteer, she helped... evacuate people, settled them in lviv, helped mothers with children to get abroad, and besides, of course, she had a question, what can i do as a writer, as a person , which works with the word, and so this documentary poetry appears at the beginning, we just listened to a fragment, she begins to write a lot of essays, columns in english in order to explain and testify, so about what is happening in ukraine, and i think for her... big such an influence on her decision was our trip in early june to kharkiv,

pen's first volunteer trip, getting to know human rights defender oleksandra matviychuk, and i think that then she realized that a word can really not only record and describe, it can also testify about crimes , about what is happening to us, and then she decides to join trusshouse, an organization that has been documenting war crimes since the 14th year, and when very recently... i took the liberty of finally opening our correspondence, looking through our messengers, i found here this period, it is the end of june 22nd, when victoria first says: that i want to write a nonfiction book in english, and it will be a collection of stories, reportage stories about ukrainian women who have been documenting the russian war against ukraine since the 14th year. that was the initial idea, and in the following months, i think with my wife too, she shared with us, her friends, fragments of this future

book, these reportage stories, but only later, and especially when we were working with this hand. the description made it clear that how really a very talented writer, she made this writing difficult, she added excerpts from her diaries, added essays, recorded special interviews, there are reports of truuns sex missions when they went to the front-line de-occupied territories, there are poems, that is, it is really very difficult documentary writing, and i would say that from this idea to preserve the voices of witnesses, to preserve... bald women who convey the experience of war and record russian crimes, she moved to such a higher mission, if we talk about cultural influence, and her main task was to show that these crimes did not start in the 14th year, that they actually started several centuries ago, and in particular she draws very

precise parallels when she talks about the 20th century, that is, she writes a lot about the period of the shot revival. she talks about the sixties, she talks about algorska and les tanyuk, who also found evidence of crimes in bykivna, and brings it to our period, in particular to the case of volodymyr vakulenko, and this story is very painful and mystical for us, because july 1 is approaching , and this is the date of victoria's death, and at the same time it is the date of birth of volodymyr vakulenko, whose diary victoria found on... we will definitely talk about this story separately, because it is impressive, it is also connected with how as vika said for the first time that we are living in a new shot revival, and i want to talk about it separately, i have a question for evgenia, as far as i understand, you actually became the first

heroine of this book, and you became when you started communicating from... the story, you actually became friends, please tell me how it was how she addressed, how she spoke to you, she wrote for the first time on june 20 , 22, wrote, this correspondence began with the phrase, i really need your interview, i am writing nonfiction, and it will be about women who document the war, and it started with a refusal, because they explained that i am not suitable, i am not a documenter in the classical sense of the word, i would write as a journalist about the war, and they said no, no, i want to, come on and that's it, they agreed on a meeting and during the meeting her first phrase was: well, now tell me how it's done, because i'm like, i'm doing such an interview for the first time, so as a journalist, let's learn, that is, it's very interesting, the first conversation lasted four hours, and here we were just sitting in a cafe on the christmas tree and talking, and we realized that we had already

deviated from the topic on which we were going to talk, and somehow there was a certain age. but there was some kind of, i don't know, some kind of magic in her, like a person, that when you talk to her, the next time you meet her, you come to her as if you've been there for 10 years they knew each other and were friends, somehow i don't know something about her, she had such an attitude towards people that you feel, so she is your old friend from a long time ago, then she deciphered the text there and wrote that i need more to see how you work in the field, and we went with her several times to bucha, to irpin, we went to bucha. to the station street, towards the camp where the residents of gostomil were shot by the russians, they also went to the church that was occupied, where the russians set up their positions there, about few people wrote this then, and vika helped a lot in the process, that is, she was not just like that with the observer, she was looking for people, she approached, she is like that, oh, tell us, well, that is, she was so actively involved in

this process, and then we used to go to yablonska street, where the mass shootings took place , well, we spent a few days like that, she just watched and if she herself had joined this work, well, indeed, somehow it happened imperceptibly like that , that vika has already become a very important part of life, because somehow when her it didn't happen, the first thing that became clear was that, well, how could this person have so many friends and she was enough for everyone, and this was some absolutely amazing feature of hers, and by the way, i also thought that it was just her as if we have some kind of special warmth. between us, later, when people started writing, i understood that she had such a dedication to all people, i understand correctly that you, she was one of several people that you took her to yours. .. destroyed apartment in erpin, one of two, one of two, it was, it was a new person in in your life, in principle, to be honest, i looked disgusting when i entered the broken

apartment, there were immediately rivers of tears, i could not accept it for a very long time, and besides my best friend, there was only vika, i don’t know how that's how it happened, it's just that vika could somehow reveal a person, you trust her immediately, but with her i don't know, i'll say what, how to explain it, but there was something in her that you immediately trust her. and we walked together and even one there on the balcony on our broken me from our photo with her there is it in the house directly it seems that people who did not know tanya for many years, they do not realize what kind of person she is, how much she took every human tragedy, each and every one of these stories, she did not just write them down. that's how she wrote, because for her it was like a part of her own catastrophe, can you talk about your memories about it, why,

why it was so important for her, why she so, so delved into and included in every pain, you know, it's probably difficult for me to explain this feature to a person, but recently i reread it the first novel, november, and there very precisely and metaphorically the main character is endowed with this excessive empathy, and for me it is something very close to the image of vika, because it is impossible to explain this excessive inclusion in your pain, in your story, that is i think that this is such a special innate trait that did not allow her to ever stay away, that is, now zhenya has described her story, i have my personal story... when vika and i were not yet close friends either, but she just quietly, without even writing directly writing to my colleagues, she became and was there for me, and for me these are some things, well, that

have changed our relations forever, this is what i always remember, and really in this year, when there are no ages, it just amazes me , and i sometimes see a kind of mysticism in this, i am amazed by the number of those people who have come into my life, who have become friends, and who are simply... colleagues with whom we started new initiatives, because at the beginning they wrote, or approached some events, said that i knew the age, but you know, just two days ago we received a letter in pen from the cuban pen center in exile, a cuban pen-center, and an american volunteer comes to our space in kyiv, but he also belongs to this organization, who has been coming east to work for three months since the summer of 22, he... worked in bakhmut, he worked in new york, constantly in kramatorsk, he helps volunteer centers, and he comes to our space and says: i just wanted to come and tell you that

i met victoria twice in my life, i was in kramatorsk on the day of the tragedy, and if i can help and do something for her memory, or at all for you, please tell me. this is some kind of amazing story, and in a year there are such people who in ukraine, in different cities and abroad, simply came up and said: i listened to victoria, i read her text, i managed to cross paths with her, here are such people, well, just hundreds, and this is like a miracle for me, this is what surely helped us all to hold on, because we probably perceived that these were such signs from vika, who continues to support us with her great love and support constantly, but this also describes very well who she was, and it's not only about empathy, it's about a very subtle feeling uh... how important it is to get to know people and create new and new connections all the time, that is, what was very, very important to her, you have to know this person , you should

get to know her, she always told me this about my wife, and probably we started to communicate more closely when the age passed, but it is also thanks to her, and there are a lot of such people in our lives now, you know, we just remembered our trip, zhenya was not on this trip, but they mentioned our trip to chernihiv. and i remember that in the ages there were such special antennas, in fact, when she heard, we talked with people, met, and she immediately recorded all my stories and stories, and then she remembered me, and she came and asked who this person was, to whom you hinted with whom this and that happened, yes, can she tell me about that and so on, and it was amazing, because really we are now... experiencing, that is, the mass of these tragedies, losses, it is so great that as if dulling, we, as if our body dulls the sensitivity, yes, or some kind of it actually

this empathy. and vika, on the contrary, she constantly, constantly took it into herself, got involved and so on. ah, i want to ask you about your book, zhenya, her war, i read it, it’s a new book by evgenia pumbonaya, which was published in uvivat itself, that’s right, literally this year, i bought it at the book arsenal, and when i read it, i thought the same about age, but you wrote this book. and is this also the story of women, 25 women, and the book is simply impressive, extremely poignant, did age have an influence on your decision and actually on this one, on creation of this book, vika knew about it, it was just this offer then, and vika and i discussed it, i said that i didn’t want to write, vika on the contrary supported it, she says do it, don’t be lazy, do it, and one of the heroines, that’s it also

such a story, one of the heroines of her age actually gave contacts, and i could not agree on the text, because the phone was always, i don’t even have the contacts of this woman, i don’t know how to give her a copy, because she didn’t even give her last name, this is the only person without a surname in the book, and i could not even give her the text for proofreading, because the phone was always on and we called from her phone, that is, one heroine is a woman from izyum, she is a woman who was engaged in burials in occupied izyum, who also experienced a very terrible story there, this is the heroine that vika recommended. and we really discussed it with her constantly, she suggested other heroines, well, but if we had one such thing that if, thanks to her, there is this heroine, there is this story, and i was reading your book and thinking about how great work, how important these testimonies are all, actually bika started this work, and did it very well a lot, but all these stories that are recorded,

they are extremely important and yes. that's why it's so important that this wiki book comes out, tanya, this book, i understand correctly that this book was already in the wiki we 're talking about looking at women looking at war, it was already written in english , yes, that is, it was created in english, but she decided from the beginning that she would write in english, because it was important for her to speak to a foreign audience, she actually found a certain mission in this too, when she thought what an author could do and in general... a writer, a person who works with words at this time, she decided that as an author who knows english flawlessly, as an author who studied and studied creative writing abroad, she decided that she would try to write immediately in english, and this absolutely beautiful writing, and it also adds such a painful sense of loss, because you realize, well , not just that this is a person who wrote very well, who was good at fiction, documentary writing, but this is a person who

wrote english, who could.. . to speak freely with the whole world, well, what a loss simply cannot be estimated. tell me, please, how you said that there were several options, how you, the editorial team, how you chose the option and who else worked together with you on this book, and we worked with the husband of vika, with oleksandr amelin, with her friends and my now close friends iryna grushe. and sasha dovzhik, and i also think that this joint work, which continues for us in different ways, became a huge support for us, that is, we spent all this time together, and this did not mean that we only talked about the book, but we were going, we met sometimes and every day, sometimes less often, met mostly online, but sometimes live, in order to discuss essentially every page of the manuscript that

vika left us, that is, every page. page we decided what to add, what to take into account in this story, our general decision and also the decision of the publishers was that the intervention should be minimal, this text is already as victoria created it, and the story and the life, it is part of this text, so we had no right to interfere in it in any way, the only thing that we they did, these versions were brutalized, because... who really left a huge archive, she wrote down a lot of stories, but she didn’t even have time to decipher them, because, let’s say, to kherson to record one of the heroines, she left for two days to the book arsenal, and this is just an audio file, but we checked the texts, if we saw any text that was written out more than what she had copied into this final manuscript at that time, we returned it.