a complex technique that requires a high level of skill, and if today in order to master this technique, just desire and perseverance are enough, 50 years ago it was not easy to learn to be an artist in the village, i had my first impression of painting when i was three years old, when her neighbor-grandmother was repairing her hut, she removed all the drawings that were on her. and gave me a present, it was such an enemy, well, i was little, for me it was such an enemy of those ribbons, and all painted, bright, i am like that i have never seen in my life, or life was after the war, i have been since 1957, i was just over the moon with happiness, i remember the jews, then i had a strong first impression of beauty, i started copying those drawings early, as far as they were afraid that i

was just making copies of them, and that's how i just came to the art school, got to vasyl ivanovich sokolenko, i didn't have anything, no forbes, nothing, so he invited me to his place home, gave me three powders, the kind of powders, you know, used to paint eggs on they were sold in the bazaars on easter, and he also gave me his brush, a brush made of cat's hair, and that was my trick. the first to painting, but he never managed to realize his dream of studying at an art university in lviv, due to difficulties with exams in the mandatory subjects, ukrainian language and literature. we have a pro-russian city, like dnipropetrovsk. and the ukrainian language and literature were ignored in the special secondary school. and i come across an enchanted gum, this is dovzhenka, and we are hers did not pass, because at all. only the russian

language and literature and that's all, and my such attempts were over, but the artist managed to realize herself in her native village under the supervision of experienced masters, and as soon as the level became satisfactory, work at the factory began. at first it was called friendship, and then petrykivsky painting, and the factory created souvenirs that went not only all over ukraine, but even abroad... souvenirs, plates, caskets, fishing sets were made there, then the tree was gone, spoons, there , well, everything is different for kitchen sets was made, there was a lot of work, and so i gradually grew, grew, i joined the artists' union, and continued to grow in this creative environment, although souvenirs were exported to more than... 20

countries of the world, in order to survive, ukrainian folk art in the soviet period constantly teetered on the edge of prohibitions, it was necessary to survive somehow, so there, let's say, for some congress, for some anniversary of october and so on, plates were produced, which were also dedicated there to victory day, 1500 years of kyiv, well that is, a little bit of politics was brought in in the petryakovsky painting, and thanks to this... he was not oppressed, on the contrary, he developed, with the collapse of the soviet union, our factory began to decline, the salary was very low, well , it was not there at all, we still had to create souvenirs, souvenirs with which somewhere to go to somehow support ourselves, that's why we traveled around the cities, that's how we somehow survived. we were very lucky to get to visit the artists. valentina and mykola deka, their

life, their works and their history are a modern embodiment of living folk art, and their family house in itself is a living museum, because there were many famous masters of petrykiv painting in the family, including the founder of the first school oleksandr stativa, and his uncle, a well-known master and teacher, fedir panko. in addition, valentina's sisters and her children also draw. this is fedor savichapanka, the work was returned from the exhibition in the 60s of the last century, he gave it to my mother. well, these children's works are already gone, this is svetlana's work, lesina's work, one and the other, on this wall, this is mykola's work of the youngest son. it is interesting that the rooms in the house are made in a separate color, there is green, yellow and blue each of them is decorated with a st. patrick's

day painting, you see, there is a lot of positiveness in the painting, such symbols are all positive, all, bright, sunny, and birds in... what kind of twig, this means that this is wedding symbolism, well, just as my daughter was going to get married , this room was painted by the eldest daughter svetlana, this is my sister's work, a big whatman and two small ones, i will show you the room in the green color, this room was painted by valentina first. even 45 years ago, thanks to the special technology of painting , glue was added to the paint and egg yolk, they took flour, if they brewed it as a paste, then they added color, and then they created such a whitewash and

then painted on it, well, this painting was done in watercolor forms, because there was no gouache then, that is, in the year 76 , he... nothing peels off , the base, when it is good under the painting, then it holds. in addition to the painting itself, the house contains many family heirlooms, embroidered shirts, painted chests and an old computer from which applications for international festivals and exhibitions are sent. if valentina was fond of art even in in childhood, mykola came to painting, already having a family and children. well, at one time he was a learned agronomist, let's say so, he worked there with large teams of people, in two

farms, they have irregular working hours, but we already had three children and construction, so the question arose that he should change his place work and he gradually began to help me there in my drawings of plans, and everything, well, it turns out that way, they say that i attracted him to my work, and it is the circumstances, not him, because i told him, look for yourself, i don't want to be responsible for your decision, you have to accept it yourself and the choice is yours. in the end, the passion for painting turned into a big family business, now it even operates tourists. khudir with a hotel and a place for conducting master classes. and there was only one old house there, and such a fence made of roofing felt and such and such a chimney stood above the grave. and look what we have done with it in just these

years. mostly children come to us, mostly in spring and autumn master class, it's petykiv painting, fidalka-motanka, pysankart. straw weaving, pottery, that is, guests can choose any master class that they like, arriving guests can stay in the mazanka, which is already more than 100 years old, or in a newer, also clay building, which was also built by ground volunteers using the old technology, and there were there were three men from poland, one girl from germany, one from italy, and there were also a group of volunteers from ukraine, they wanted to see how the house was being built, because now no one will be such... we had an adobe house for a mini-hotel, then we also decided to cover it according to old technologies, in the winter we mowed ochered and ryegrass, and this very mini-hotel is covered in such an ancient style, yes,

please, here such, you see the walls are thick, good walls. there are also rooms for convenience. the last couple built a family gallery. on one side - mykola's works, on the other - valentina's. and if the craftswoman continues to be engaged in painting, mykola also creates original works that captivated us naivety, which is characteristic of folk art. three works of the triptych, it is called the birth of the world. each family has its own ua. about the creation of the world, our traditional ukrainians even before christianity believed that the world was born in this way, the eye of god, it flew from distant worlds, flew through a continuous unsightly darkness, and somewhere this eye stopped, from a pure tear it was formed,

the firstborn, the first god was born a juicy genus that began to fly beyond this eye, driving away darkness, darkness, gloom, creating life. space, and then this stopin shed a tear on this eye, which grew to the eye of erius-virius, on which grew the primeval oak tree with the apples of youth, and the first gods who used these i... apples, they were immortal, and he also flew away on the top of the oak and began to create our world. mykola's family was wealthy, but the soviet authorities dispossessed his father and deprived him of the house, which is now only in this picture. so i will just take up my mother's stories, i drew this village, she told me this, i drew it, you see , there used to be some cool roofs shades such haystacks, hay and fields that

were near the manor, we had a lot of impressions from the day at the artist's farm, but the old houses and galleries are not all that we remembered this day, the painting was born on the white mazanka huts, that's why my idea was to create... to make such a hut so that it travels, that's what valentine was called and the traveling hut, it was made at the zaporizhia base, i have a brother, he helped to make, as the zaporozhians say, to make such a hut, and then we painted it as a family, by the way, this one even though the kalush group was shooting the video kalushski vechernitse, i will arrive with a heavy head.

in fact, our team was enchanted by the world that mykola and valentina created on their farm. we really wanted to come back here without... cameras, just to live and paint with a cat hair brush, and two paintings from the gallery even went with us to kyiv. this series is about the ukrainian east. there were supposed to be architectural finds of the donetsk region and slobozhanshchyna, but today part of these historical ukrainian regions are... occupied and in what condition will the architectural monuments be after the victory is unknown, but i would like to raise

video archives and news chronicles and remember that the cossacks still live in the territory of the historical donetsk region, there were special skoloskips that were lit, if the enemy was approaching, they were lit and passed from tower to tower, in the city of svatov luhansk local residents of the region independently built a model of the ancient cossack. in the middle of the 16th century, there was a village of cossacks from the zyum regiment of svatovo luchka. from similar watchtowers, they looked like enemies. then they were mainly crimean tatars. about 10 people from our swativchan residents took part, and the help of the military was there at different times, too, and about 10 more people. before the russian occupation, on the feast of the intercession, locals gathered here annually to pray for peace in ukraine. so, no matter how much the kremlin propaganda tries to prove that left bank ukraine

is originally russian land, the preserved monuments of folk architecture and culture say the opposite: whitewashed huts with reed roofs, cossack towers, traditional ukrainian embroidery and costume, whitewashed and painted stove, carved chests and icons, decorated with towels with inscriptions in ukrainian . how much more i want to tell about the ukrainian east, about everything that the ethnographic museums of the donetsk region and the occupied slobozhanshchyna hide. and everything that we will certainly come to restore after victory. we still have many films ahead of us and

many expeditions to the diverse, unique ukrainian east. what does the city of the future look like, it is human-centered, and it is simply a person as such that can be built this is an ecological city at the expense of. a lot of things in common, such as shared consumption, shared public transport and some spaces and everything else, yes, when we... share something, some things between us, in my calendar there is february 24, you understand, that's why i put it the number 24, i go in and look, we don’t care what kind of ninth we have there today, yes today, and i look at 24, now we are in this difficult time , it is the beauty of our painting that protects us, because

they say that beauty will save the world, creativity is spirituality . because spirituality is people positive ones, those who would not want to go there to oppress and terrorize someone and go to war against someone, if all the people around were so positive , then probably there would not be today's events, because spirituality is above all in human life.

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with a telephone survey, turn on and turn on, the verdict with serhiy rudenko from tuesday" to friday from 20 to 22, good evening, we are from ukraine. greetings, dear tv viewers, my name is vasyl zema, this is a big broadcast on the espresso tv channel, and i and my colleagues are with you for the next hour and 46 minutes. ukraine will win. biden made a statement in washington, many other statements were made about the strengthening of air defense for ukraine and about the financial support for our country and why nato countries outside the ocean and in europe should not allow putin to win this war. because it's a security issue decade, as was said with sullivan. the f-16 is already in the sky over ukraine in the summer, should we believe the promises, or will we have to wait until the end of this year again? what are the chances that

american fighters will be in our skies by the end of august. they hit their pockets, rapidly, water prices are rising, tariffs are rising, what will we wash with and how much will we have to pay for water now, and why so unexpectedly, as they say, without warning, they decided to raise the water price, well, adventure baby, is it going the minister of justice resigned, did he write whether or not he wrote an application for dismissal, the whole story is unfolding around this today, we will also try to discuss it, and unfortunately, by the 34th... the number of dead as a result of the enemy attack on the city of kyiv has increased, more injured people have died, as of now we have 34 of those who died as a result of the enemy's terrorist attack the day before yesterday on... the territory of our state in the city of kyiv. so, we are starting, and serhiy zgurets is ready to talk about the f-16 and other promises that ukraine received in washington

at the nato summit. sergey, congratulations, please word to you i congratulate you, vasyl, i congratulate our viewers. today, in our column, we will really talk about the nato summit, about the first f-16 for ukraine, about new air defense complexes and about other details. which are important for our defense, more on that in a moment. the 75th nato anniversary summit is currently being held in the usa, which will last until july 11. the proposals of this summit for ukraine remain less ambitious than hoped for in kyiv and in some states of the alliance. we are, of course, waiting for the final communiqué, but most likely there. thesis about ukraine's irreversible path to nato membership with an emphasis on the need for ukraine's active efforts in the fight against corruption. so now our

partners and ukraine itself are more focused on solutions aimed at protecting against a russian attack in the near future, which is important in this sense. at the beginning of the summit, the leaders of the five countries undertook to provide ukraine with additional anti-aircraft defense equipment. announced five new strategic systems, i.e. those capable of solving the tasks of anti-missile and anti-air defense, these are the patriot complexes first of all, and it is stated that such a transfer will be made by the united states, germany, the netherlands, all one complex, and also romania and italy will transfer sumpti. the news here is actually that the united states will hand over one more. patriot, because we already knew about all the other patriot complexes, because the more declared complex from germany is already on duty in ukraine, but in general we are talking

about eight patriots and one sumpti complex, maybe later there will be more sumpti, although there is also hope for patriots , which are now in orders of israel, which removes them from combat duty, and in the future, they may also be handed over to ukraine. also , during the year, our partners promised to provide a significant number of anti-missile and missile weapons to various complexes, from patriots to nasams, hawks, aristis, and so on, which indicates that this direction remains extremely important for supporting our air defense, while the additional five patriot complexes will help ukraine. but they will not be enough for full protection - said volodymyr zelenskyi, and volodymyr zelenskyi also said about the new need for fighters for the air

force in the amount of as many as 128 f-16 aircraft. we used to talk about 90 planes that denmark, belgium, the netherlands, and norway were going to give us, now there are 128, that's in money, i think, more than 20 million. dollars, and at the same time, this need is stated as not long-term, but urgent given the fact that the russians have 300 aircraft there, which are actively used for strikes on ukraine. let's see what will happen as a result of the changes in washington, but zelenskyi said that we are increasing the number of aircraft available to ukraine. at the same time, today there is actual super news that denmark and the netherlands have already started. the transfer of the first f-16 fighter jets to ukraine and already this summer they will help defend against russian aggression,

us secretary of state anthony blinken said today, let's hear his direct speech. i am also happy to announce that the transfer of f-16 fighters from denmark, the netherlands is currently underway and these fighters will fly in the skies of ukraine. this summer to to make sure that ukraine will be able to continue to defend itself effectively against russian aggression. exactly how many planes will be transferred, of course, has not been announced, this question has not yet been answered, but the alliance has reached an agreement in principle that ukraine will be financed over the next year in the amount of 40 billion dollars, for the next year these are significant figures, too. it has already been agreed on the creation of a new nato structure, i think, at the level of a separate command, which will take over the responsibilities of the contact group on defense issues of ukraine, i think, in addition to the format. or

instead of ramstein, what is the importance of this direction and this decision, because previously promises were announced by a number of countries, and then the pace of delivery did not match what was declared by these or other countries, just as we have an example with those 14 brigades , about which volodymyr zelenskyi says that the brigades are equipped with personnel, but they are still waiting for the equipment promised to us by our partners, so this new structure has just the right coordination. to receive such help, as well the issue was resolved that assistance in the training of our military at various levels will be expanded, as well as the issue of defense-industrial cooperation with ukrainian enterprises will be discussed so that they more actively participate in projects within the framework of the state and to create those models that we desperately need on the field battle, so in any case it can be argued that all these measures bring

ukraine and nato closer together. in such a practical and operational sense, and what else needs answers is the strategic question itself, which consists in when ukraine actually becomes a member of nato. and now we are joined by oleksiy yizhak, an expert of the national institute of strategic studies. mr. oleksiy, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you on the espresso channel. in return, i congratulate you. well, actually we know that the invitation to join us. then our state will definitely not get it this time, but the diplomats came up with the following approach: a bridge to membership, with which the ukrainian side, and even more so the white house, apparently agreed. how can you evaluate this decision of the alliance regarding of ukraine, er, and what was the main reason for such, such wording, whether it was the corruption that was mentioned there, or the fact that in fact

the country... nato and the usa do not know how to provide security guarantees to a country that is currently at war with the russian federation. what are your assessments of this situation? well, if it is practical, legally, then in order for ukraine to receive an invitation, it is necessary for this summit to have an agreed protocol on accession, that is, a one- page text where it is written, in what format, within which borders ukraine becomes a participant. this one systems of collective defense, well, we did not decide because of too many opinions, too many countries, well, i think that there were various options that could be discussed, everything else follows from this, well, not ready, not ready, not ready to consider, and here are two factors, as always they are, the first factor is that russia is at war, this factor that russia is creating is insecure, that they are not ready to fight, there is such a zone in them. conflict, it

should be outside nato, although i think some countries agree that they are ready, well, to join this war, but there is no consensus, no, no membership. another question - this is trust in ukraine, well, trust in the elites, trust in the power apparatus, when they talk about corruption, that's all, you need to understand this and remind once again what corruption is, what it means. corruption in english in european languages, it means corruption, it is not necessarily that someone there takes bribes, but that they believe that the ukrainian political system has elements of corruption that do not allow to be a member, a member of nato, or the ukrainian elites have elements of corruption that do not allow them to freely discuss at the club level

common security issues, i think two... these factors exist, if it were not for the russian factor, well, although it is difficult to say, if there was no russian factor, perhaps there would not be a sense of threat and there would not even be such support, so here everything related to membership in nato, from my point of view, it remains at the level of the bucharest summit, ukraine will one day become a member of nato, well , now there will be the word irreversible status of a nato member, although we still have to wait for this wording, but what is practical there five... more points that the secretary general spoke about, well, at least a few points are known, it is very important, it is serious, i think, what points are you talking about so that, well, our viewers, well, i say, those points, what you mentioned, the command, the command, the ukrainian command, it is engaged in preparation troops, and aid coordination, as far as i understand, is instead of remshtein or something like that, well...