just go to the site and report, and we will launch all possible mechanisms to punish the criminal. stop ua. good morning, i congratulate everyone on independence day, we are starting our special project bright people in dark times, dedicated to those who not only inspire ukrainians by their example, but also actively defend the country's independence in various directions, in the army, in the cultural sphere, with the help of a volunteer .

and diplomacy. further news from the editorial office about the most important events. kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. four people were injured in sumy oblast. the russians attacked the sumy district with rockets. three people are injured. a local resident of the sholygin community was also injured. the enemy was hitting with mortars, mortars and drones, the regional military administration reported. during the day , the occupiers shelled the border areas of the region 87 times. there were 13 thunderbolts under fire. nine people were injured by russian shelling of kherson. during the day, the enemy attacked the dniprovsky district, five women and four men in the hospital several times with drones. this was reported in the city military administration. us president joe biden held a telephone conversation with volodymyr zelenskyi and announced a new aid package for ukraine's independence day. head of the white house. expressed unwavering support

for the ukrainian people. the military support package is said to include air defense missiles to protect critical infrastructure, anti-drone equipment and anti-tank missiles, ammunition and mobile missile systems for the front line. biden also mentioned the sanctions introduced against nearly 400 legal entities and individuals who contribute russia's illegal war. risk of missile strikes. germany has warned that on independence day, russia may increase its shelling of ukrainian cities, especially kyiv. the application is posted on the website of the ministry of foreign affairs of the country. diplomats warn german citizens against traveling to ukraine. and those who are already in the territory of our state are urged to leave the country urgently. the voronezh region of russia was attacked by a drone. a fire started there, which

caused the detonation of explosive objects. such a statement was made by the local authorities. according to him, the drones were allegedly destroyed by means of anti-aircraft defense, the fire broke out after the debris fell. local officials traditionally assure that there are no victims and no damage to civilian buildings. according to the information of several russian soldiers, an ammunition depot is on fire and exploding in ostrohsk. before ukrainian'. journalists today face many challenges, this was the opinion of the participants of the discussion, who personally stood at the origins of independent ukrainian journalism. first of all, these are ethical challenges. currently, zmi employees have be very careful about releasing information, because during a war, any news can provoke the destabilization of our society. the challenges are ethical, because you have to limit yourself and not harm the state. politically, you can

hate the government three times, but you cannot shake society, and these challenges are also professional, because where a journalist should tell the truth and where is the limit of that truth, where, wherever he is, or vice versa, on the one hand, yes, freedom of speech is necessary and so on, and so on, understanding, let's say, such not the highest quality of ukrainian journalists, i myself... i it's hard for me to imagine, if given the freedom that everyone aspires to, what they will say, write, criticize, and so on and the like. in lviv, tv channel journalist khrystyna parobiy presented the book women at war, which was born after a television project for the day of defenders in 2022. it contains 20 stories of women who perform combat tasks on the front lines. on... at the time of

the book's release, three of its heroines died on the front lines. iryna pearland helped khrystyna parobiy to edit and arrange the book. women on wars, a joint project of the espresso tv channel, publisher. duhi letter was published with the support of the zhivago charitable foundation. i talked and talked with my heroines online. and i think that they, well, they opened up to me, i don't know if it was because i wrote them online, or maybe it was some kind of peculiar, like a psychologist, like i was a kind of psychologist, but they opened up sometimes i was told even very much like that. there are private things, that is, what they went through, in particular women in captivity, this book is even fuller than this project, which started on the tv channel, continues for a long time, and memory has the ability to forget, so it is also important to record all these experiences in maximum detail, because

they will also help later to remember correctly, factually remember that as happened and given, so that later we could give an assessment. because of what happened on a specific day, in a specific month, in a specific year of this terrible great war. she dresses, feeds and treats, since 2014 tetyana sila from kropyvnytskyi supports the ukrainian army. she united around helping the fighters dozens of indifferent ones. every day, as if to work, activists go to the volunteer center. they try to fulfill the requests of the fighters to the maximum. how a woman from kropynny brings the victory of our country closer. in tatyana's volunteer hub there is more power than at home in the center of two dozen rooms, sewing workshops, locations for weaving nets, warehouses with food, the third year there is work everywhere, every person

comes and already knows what they have to do in their place, two or three they go to weave nets, two sometimes one makes such delicacies. every day, because the guys keep asking for them, it's like dry rations, now i've eaten a bag and i can't be hungry for half a day, it's sweet, and it's the opposite of salty, who likes which, at first, when we just started weaving these nets , we came up with the idea that we need to write them down somehow, and that's how many grids we made every day, wrote, wrote, wrote, and then we got tired of writing them and stopped writing. about 15 people are involved in the work of the volunteer hub every day, flags and chevrons on the walls of the premises, thanks to the team from the fighters, orders, guys' request, you need to order and receive everything on time, and so every day, every day, sunday is our day off, we

close, for the third year people are tired, and i don't have a day off, because the guys go at any time and at 5:00 p.m.: 00 and at 20, they go. and they come to my house, pick it up, and we load it up. 63-year-old tatiana comes from a large family. from childhood, her parents taught her to help others. before the war, the woman supported the sick, and since 2014, the military. in order to scale up the efforts, i created a volunteer hub. yes, only cars to the front more than two dozen have been handed over, and this car is already going to the front. about a month ago, they turned to tetyana oleksandrivna for help. my friend has been here before. we were still studying, he told us who to turn to, we turned to them and they helped us to fulfill our combat tasks, well, this is the 24th, no, of course not the first, and it has been in these years since the 22nd, before

i had others, but now when buses, minibuses are gone, nets, first aid kits, clothes, pillows, mattresses, food, defenders' requests are also handed over, volunteers try to... fulfill as much as possible, they do a lot and to thank those people who come, i wish more of us would come here, we do all this to win, every day, work, work, to make life easier for our guys. volunteers are supported by locals and immigrants, despite the opinion that people have started to get tired, trust in the center, says ms. tetiana, is growing from kropyvnytskyi for the tv channel. the espresso tv channel and the vesna charitable fund opened a fundraiser for the purchase of modern drones and electronic warfare systems for the third separate assault brigades of the 110th and 47th armed forces brigades. the defenders in the donetsk direction hold back enemy attacks every day. defending our

freedom and future. it was these soldiers who stood to the last and defended the avdiiv direction in the spring. brigades urgently need flying weapons and modern ones. remember that each of your donations is important, so get involved, you can now see all the details on your screens. to find out more interesting and up-to-date information, follow the updates on our website espresso.tv, as well as on our social networks, we will see you soon than in an hour. later , my colleagues lesya vakolyuk and andriy saichuk will be waiting for you on the air. in the third year of the war, the enemy wants to plunge us not only into darkness without... a light avenue, the darkness of despair, how the ukrainian rear accelerates the dead victory, see

the special project espresso, bright people in dark times, business. kartsberg has been investing in ukraine since 1996. one of the pearls of the company is the lviv brewery, the history of which began in... 715, which is where the name of the brand comes from. since then, the enterprise has been a symbol of the city. the wort is boiled in these copper vats. after fermentation, filtering and cooling, the finished beer is bottled. here, every drink preserves a century-old history of brewing traditions, every year the company invests in the modernization of equipment to meet the highest global standards. lvivskavarnia is one of the three breweries of karsberg ukraine, and despite the fact that we will celebrate 309 years this year, er... production is quite innovative and modern, of course, it would not be possible without investments,

the company invests about 200 million uah every year in lviv piova. the company says, during full-scale war managed to preserve a professional team, implement programs to support employees, reintegration of veterans, and most importantly - to scale the social responsibility of business to the needs of the country. over the past three years, the company has implemented more than four dozen humanitarian initiatives worth about half a billion hryvnias. community support is the main strategic priority of our company, we have three key directions, namely the production of water for humanitarian needs, building up communities, as well as investments in rehabilitation of those who suffered during the war. by the way, the lviv peovarnya is the first peovarnya where we started producing water for humanitarian needs back in march 2022 . the company continues to tell the story of one of the oldest drinks from... beer on kliparivska street, the unique interactive museum and cultural complex

lvivarnia operates. here visitors are told about the history of beer and lviv, as well as the development of the brewery. you can also see the brewing process live here and try local experimental beers in the tasting room halls we began to transfer 30% of the cost of our ticket to charity, namely to a communal institution, an institute of the city. which is engaged in improvement and assistance to immigrants who have found shelter in our city of lviv. lvivarnia takes an active part in the life of lviv, supports the initiatives of the tourism department and the city council. the suspended ticket initiative is also popular. every visitor can buy and give a ticket for military or internally displaced persons. in 2024, on the territory of the museum and cultural complex opened a new klepka mini-brewery. local beer varieties are brewed here. according to yuri huk. harlsberg strives to create ukrainian craft that can compete with international ones. the company invested

almost uah 9 million in the opening of the brewery. the goal of this bakery is to produce an understandable, affordable product and at the same time to experiment and surprise our consumers with something. according to the results of 2023, the karsberg ukraine company became the leader in the tax payment industry. the enterprise provides work for more than 1,300 workers and more than 20,000 workers places in related industries. ukraine. the manufacturer is known even abroad, because the drinks are exported to 20 countries of the world. work assistants who deliver goods from the warehouse and self-service vending machines. ants pharmacy was the first in the pharmaceutical market of ukraine to introduce such technological innovations. in this way, the company facilitates

the work of its employees and speeds up the process of customer service. now, to receive online orders, we do not need to stand in line, the patient just needs to get his order number, enter it in the tablet, which is near the atm, pay for your order with the help of a bank terminal and, practically without the participation of a pharmacist, enter the code and receive your order yourself in the cell. over 24 years, the company has opened more than. 1300 pharmacies in 190 cities and villages of ukraine. more than 7,000 employees work in the network. it is important for us that every customer who comes to the pharmacy should not be left without attention, get all the medicines, hygiene items, cosmetics that he wants to buy, precisely in our pharmacies, we are distinguished by a wide assortment,

we are distinguished by new innovative technologies service in us. will be removed by our qualified quality staff. at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the ants pharmacy donated more than uah 110 million to charity. the network constantly cooperates with various charitable foundations. come back alive serhiy prytula's charitable foundation, yunaite-24, hospitalists together. also closes individual requests of the military. only since the beginning of the 24th year , we have already spent more than 32 million hryvnias on the needs of the military, hospitals, and on help for especially vulnerable people. vulnerable sections of the population. the benefactors transferred it to a front-line hospital ventilators worth uah 46 million. in addition, the company continues to support almost a hundred employees who protect the country as part of the armed forces. we help the units where they serve in every possible way. we buy ammunition, bulletproof vests, helmets, tactile devices, etc. we received and

continue to receive many requests from their heads of units, in which, in which they serve and nachmedi. in order to transfer medicines for them, such assistance has grown into a corresponding permanent project, which it is called medicine for the armed forces of ukraine, which continues in the future, during the full-scale invasion , we handed over uah 8 million worth of first-aid kits to military units and will continue to hand them over in the future. the anz network assures that the client can find everything from his list in one place and there is no need to waste time looking for drugs all over the city, besides, there is a profitable loyalty system like, you just need to call the number of your mobile pharmacist to accrue bonuses. you can order products not only in stationary pharmacies, but also in the chatbot, on the website and in the mobile application.

we congratulate everyone who joined our telethon today from the very morning, and of course we congratulate everyone on independence day, the 33rd day of independence is celebrated by ukraine, bright people in dark times, that's what today's day of our telethon is called, and... uh in fact, this is a marathon of our tv channel until the day of independence, during the day on our airwaves we will talk about these bright people who, in a very dark time, a difficult time for ukraine, are doing everything to ensure that this independence this time was defended by ukraine. so, during the day , we will have conversations with extraordinary people,

stories about our military, volunteers, doctors, in the history of those who, with their daily actions and indomitable spirit, bring the victory of ukraine closer. in particular, we will have the third president viktor yushchenko on the air, we will have the head of the ukrainian greek catholic church, his beatitude sviatoslav shevchuk, the minister of foreign affairs of poland, radoslav sikorsky, a great friend of ukraine, and volodymyr birchak, a military serviceman, descendant, soldier of the ukrainian insurgent of the army, who today also joined the armed forces of ukraine as a volunteer and is fighting and already has no... or injuries, and we will also have singer taras petrynenko, you know that mr. taras very rarely gives interviews, this is a big exception and great joy that he agreed to give us this interview, yesterday he had a concert in kyiv. the special project for independence day will conclude with the television premiere of the documentary film 10 years of war, which was filmed by the espresso tv channel. i was at

the pre-premiere screening and i highly recommend this film to you, it is extremely emotional and well even... it was sometimes difficult and easy to watch her, because she gave a feeling and elation, and you know, and some sentiments, because a lot of what is said there passed through all of us. the independence of ukraine is created by each of us, even in the darkest times, there are bright people who bring our victory closer, that's what we will talk about today, we are already joined by ms. zoya yarush, deputy of the kyiv city council. dear ms. zoya, congratulations, i congratulate you and everyone on the independence day of ukraine, and first of all i want to thank you. to everyone to those who actually now choose our independence and confirm it, these are the defense forces of ukraine, and volunteers, and each of us

who, to one degree or another, participates in the defense of our independence. what is independence day for you, how has the attitude to this date, to this holiday, changed? you know, i don't think it's going to change in me. simply, as for everyone, we all understand what price ukraine and ukrainians have already paid and will still have to pay for our independence, it was always a holiday for me personally, and this is the price that was paid loved ones, friends, all of us, it’s simple, well , it’s difficult, but we have to go through this road, we have to go through this road, you know, if putin and his, his intelligence, his advisers, they, before their full-scale attack

, obviously, to very carefully study the sociological polls, the public mood in ukraine, and i think that there were many signals that tempted putin to take this step, to resort to this step is quite imprudent, dangerous... foolish, i mean about a full-scale invasion, i think now if he could rewind time, he would refrain from this step, because he understood how difficult it was, but i understand why he could, we, we understand why he could do it , because according to sociological polls on the eve of february 22, ukraine looked divided, ukraine looked like it was not very... uh, not very much in this whole, you know, ukrainian discourse, uh, what kind of narrative, shit difference, he was, he was loud, and he sounded, he sounded like

mainstream, in the end, the president became a person who played in second-rate russian comedies, and and and, who began his campaign speech with the fact that you have no right to take these comedies away from us, we will act in them, show them to people, and and and it was those signals that probably putin somehow read them like that, you know, but if he would have been very attentive, he would have paid attention to some more figures of these polls, more than 80% of ukrainians in all regions, in all age categories, answered the question in the affirmative , is valuable for them, the independence of ukraine, and this prototype of some kind of political nation... it was not noticed by these kremlin strategists, and it turned out that these were not empty words, that is , for ukrainians, this independence, this kind, it is some kind of, i don’t know, proto-patriotism

of lybin , it turns out, he was, he was strong, and so strong that people were ready both russian-speaking and ukrainian-speaking, both east and west, to defend this independence, that in this independence, why is it so important, to have their own country? you know, it's probably somewhere deep inside us, like that they say, genetically, although this is not a completely correct expression, yes, but this is really our historical path, that is, the path of many generations, the path of centuries that we followed, and when i talk about the current war, i am talking about a ten-year war that has been going on for centuries , and in fact it is so, because many... ukrainians laid down their lives in liberation wars many centuries ago, these were wars first with poland, the polish-lithuanian commonwealth, then there

were wars with the russian empire, with tatar raids, and that's it everything lasted quite a long time with us, and so did we during the soviet union paid a high price, because how many of us have had and shot revival. and these ukrainians who sat in russian camps, and all our dissidents, these are also all those people who, to one degree or another and at a heavy price, went and paid for ukraine to become independent sooner or later, and such examples from history, well you can call it long enough, only a limited time, and here is this independence on december 1 , 1991, when there was... a referendum that confirmed the actual independence of ukraine, and there, if i am not mistaken, about 90% voted for independence, it was our parents, in fact, because i did not take

part in that referendum in... security forces, and now we, the next generation, once again confirm this choice. therefore, this is actually a historical heritage and that way, and actually, a historical opportunity of our generation, simply not to lose it, and pass it on to our children, so that they do not pay this terrible price that we have to pay now. that's why this spirit of ours, it... absolutely, as they say, it cannot be crushed, it will still sprout, but really, 90% of ukrainians at that time answered yes to this survey about whether they support the idea of ​​independence, december 1, 1991, it happened 32 years ago, it will soon be 33, how does the world... does kyiv today

celebrate independence day? any mass events, of course, will not be held in the city of kyiv, because actually we all know about putin's desire to always spoil our holiday to the best of his ability, we heard a warning from the national police, which is, perhaps, the us embassy itself, although they every year make such a warning to their citizens. however, in order to ensure safety measures there will not be any such global mass events, but there will be certain local exhibitions, festivals, some other events that everyone can attend, of course, keeping in mind the safety measures, i can name just a few that are top for me, which i have already chosen, this is

a pro-ukrainian festival, which will take place in... a ukrainian house on khreschatyk, this is an exhibition, war and reverse perspective, which opened literally yesterday in the national museum of the history of ukraine in the second world war, and this is an all-ukrainian folk art fair, which opened in the honchar museum, and actually, if you search, you can find something that is more to your liking and to your heart, but... how are military and veterans somehow integrated into this holiday in kyiv today? on the holiday itself , well, just recently, we had a forum of veterans, and i think that they are now participating in all events, but again, it must be understood that this is not yet some kind of global celebration, it's all just that. .

with such local measures, i don't know what the general mood is now, 33 years, you know, this is the age of the cross, as they say, but what, what, what, what are the thoughts about the future, actually, everyone is waiting for victory, the thoughts have not changed, yes, there is a certain, certain, not that fatigue, but a certain understanding of that if we... at first, it sounded even from the televisions about two or three weeks, now there is an understanding that this path is not short, it is not easy, it is definitely difficult, and that's it, i think many people now, well , at least what i feel in my circle, uh, there was such an inner awareness and such an iron rod, that no matter what the path is, we will still

go through it, and from... it will not be short, yes, it will not be easy, but this is our path, you see, uh, in physics there is such a thing as a bifurcation point, it when there is a system, it can turn around and go in the other direction, relatively speaking, here we are in our own, in our short history of this independence, this new republic, because there is still a ukrainian people's republic, so we have already passed, probably, we are passing now to such a third point of bifurcation, maybe a fourth and it is just, it every time its scale... is growing, i mean, we have already twice, at least the country could turn to a completely different path, asian, not european, the path there, i don't know, belarus, uzbekistan and there from other countries, and eurasia , eurasian that whole community, and every time, i remember, just the fourth or fifth years, because i remember them very well, because i worked on the fifth channel, i literally spent the entire orange revolution on. ..