it's much easier, take care of your health now, order the safe pro tonometer at a special reduced price, only from uah 499, but hurry while the product is in stock, unpack health with unpack tv, call, there are discounts until independence day on vizyn, 20% in the pharmacies of psylszynyk, pam and oskad, there are discounts until independence day on valeriana bolgarska, 10% at the pharmacies psyslanyk, bam and oskad. news time on espresso tv channel, kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. it just became known that president volodymyr zelenskyi signed the law banning the russian orthodox church. and related

organizations in ukraine. this is stated on the website of the verkhovna rada. now this means that after the law on the adoption of the law , the ukrainian churches, which are suspected of cooperation with the russian orthodox church, will have nine months to sever ties. 33rd anniversary of tireless struggle for freedom. ukraine's independence day is marked for the third time by the demands of a harsh full-scale war unleashed by russia, president volodymyr zelenskyy congratulated ukrainians on the holiday. recorded an appeal from sumy region near the psell river, a few kilometers from the border with the enemy. he thanked the soldiers who defend freedom every second, as well as all those who bring victory closer. the head of state promised that the ukrainian response will fly to every point of russia, which is a source of danger for our state and people, and putin will not dictate his terms. that which... was brought to our land by the enemy has now

returned to his home, and he who wanted to turn our lands into a buffer zone must think that his country does not become a buffer federation, so independence corresponds, pays for our peaceful citizens, on whom daggers and daggers fly, for our buried parents, for our children who are forced to study under... the faded eyes of their leader, perceive the whole world as a gray zone, and we will not allow the earth to be turned into a gray zone, where there should be a blue-yellow flag, there will not be a sick man in the red square, who constantly threatens everyone with a red button to dictate to us some of his red lines, how to live, which way to go, what choice to make will be determined for themselves only in... ukraine and ukrainians

the head of the pentagon lloyd austin and the minister of defense of ukraine rustem umyerov spoke by phone. this is the third conversation in the last 10 days. the head of the ministry of defense of ukraine wrote about this in social networks. she spoke about the current situation on the battlefield, urgent needs of ukraine and plans for the near future. the key topic was preparation for the next meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine in september. in the pentagon pretended that the conversation concerned the current operations of ukraine and the priority needs of the military. austin also congratulated the ukrainian people on their day independence over 1,100 russian invaders were destroyed by ukrainian defenders within a day, and since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the occupying army has been reduced by almost 606 of its soldiers. this is reported by the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine. also , our soldiers managed to eliminate yesterday.

tanks, more than two dozen armored vehicles, 42 artillery systems, three air defense systems and two enemy fire salvo systems. in addition , 54 cars and tankers and one special vehicle were destroyed. defenders of the sky shot down 39 drones and two winged ones over ukraine rockets the data are indicative, the general staff adds. ukrainian journalists currently 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. nowadays, media workers have to 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 can't shake up society. and these challenges are also

professional, because where should a journalist tell the truth and where is the limit of that truth, where should he 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 have a hard time imagining, if we give the freedom that everyone strives for, what they will say, write, criticize and so on and so on so similar, minutes in lviv on the field of mars and the lychakiv cemetery honor the memory of the fighters for... the freedom of ukraine and the fallen military personnel of the russian-ukrainian war. our correspondent emma stadnyk is currently being honored. emo congratulates, tells who came today to honor the memory of our fallen defenders. katya,

congratulations. indeed, military personnel, veterans, public figures, families, participants of the russian-ukrainian war and heroes gather at the field of mars in lviv from the very morning. heavenly hundred they all came here today to honor the memory of those who, unfortunately, are no longer with us, those who gave the most valuable thing they had, their lives, for our independence with you. in a few minutes, a joint prayer will begin here, and now everyone present has the opportunity to put flowers and light lamps on the graves. thousands of our defenders from the first days of the great russian-ukrainian war, which russia started in 2014. fought for our independence, first in the east of our country, and later they defended kyiv, they liberated kharkiv oblast, they hung new flags, our ukrainian flag over the newly liberated ukrainian cities. more than a thousand people

came here to the field of mars today to to pay tribute to our fallen heroes. they have already lit the candles, they are all dressed in embroidered clothes, and each of them came here as if not to their loved one. so to our heroes, among these people today there is also a relative of one of the fallen heroes who gave his life for us, for our state, this is galina beribenko, and i will pass the word to her. your relative and family friend, in order to pay respect and remember that our independence is fought for at such a price, so hard, and... that's why we must not forget not only on such a day as the day of independence, to come every time and pay tribute to heroes, not only acquaintances, but simply to all heroes who gave their lives so that we could live. flags over the graves of our

soldiers are flown here not only on major public holidays, so you can honor the memory of those who are no longer with us here every day. catherine i'll stop, i don't have everything right now, i give you the floor. thank you emma, ​​let me remind you, this was our correspondent emma stadnyk, and right now she is at the commemoration of the fighters for the freedom of ukraine and the fallen soldiers of the russian-ukrainian war. and in lviv the journalist of the espresso tv channel khrystyna parobiy presented the book of a woman 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 at the front. at the time of the book's release, three of its heroines died on the front lines. iryna berlyant helped khrystyna parobiy to edit and organize the book. women at war, a joint project of the espresso tv channel and the spirit and letter publishing house, published with

the support of the zhivago charitable foundation. i have already spoken, communicated 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 peculiarity, as a psychologist, i was a peculiar psychologist, but they opened up sometimes they even told me their very private things, that is, what they experienced, in particular women in captivity, this book is even more complete than this project that started on the tv channel, well, it continues until now, and memory has the ability to forget, so is also important. record all these experiences in maximum detail, because they will also happen to help later remember correctly, factually remember what happened and give, so that later we can give an assessment of what happened on a specific day, in

a specific month, in a specific year of this terrible great war. air force commander mykola oleschuk signed the french bomb, which, according to him, was dropped today... on the positions of the russian occupiers. in his greetings on independence day, the lieutenant general noted that ukrainians always fight empires that encroach on our land. he on... provided that every minute the ukrainian military is defending the country and the whole civilized world will support us in this struggle, that is why today this french aerial bomb will fly on the heads of the occupiers, the air force commander wrote in his telegram channel. the espresso tv channel and the vasna charitable foundation have launched a fundraiser for the purchase of modern drones and electronic warfare systems for the third separate assault brigade of the 110th and 47th brigades of the armed forces of ukraine. the defenders in the donetsk direction every day hold back enemy attacks, defend our freedom and future.

it was these soldiers who stood to the last and defended the avdiiv direction in the spring. the brigades urgently need flying weapons and modern means of countering enemy drones. our goal is uah 3.5 million. remember, each of your donations is important, so get involved, you can now see all the details on your screens. that's all the news i have for now, we'll see. already at 12:00, dear friends, lesya vakulyuk, andriy saichuk, our next hour of today's unusual marathon, which is dedicated to the independence day of ukraine, which is called bright people in dark times, and precisely we talk about such people on our airwaves, precisely about... conversations with such people are on our airwaves, in particular, you have already seen an interview with the minister of foreign affairs of poland,

there will also be a conversation with a soldier, a serviceman and a historian who contributed to the decommunization of ukraine volodymyr birchak, there will be a conversation with the singer taras petrynenko, with the third president of ukraine viktor yushchenko, the head of the ugc sviatoslav shevchuk, this is the kind of holiday we have planned today, well, at 10 pm on the espress tv channel. watch the television premiere documentary 10 years of war. this tape is dedicated to the most important events of recent history, from when the first street actions of the revolution of dignity took place, to the national resistance during a full-scale invasion, these are stories, the history of ukraine for 10 years through the personal stories of public activist roman ratushny, his mother, poet and activist svitlana knocking down journalist tetyana chornovol, paramedic yulia paevska. i also want to thank our

viewers for being incredibly supportive of our military today, and so in a way, as if congratulating ukraine, you transfer your donations for three brigades, and already 50 thousand, friends, we are with you this morning, 52, sorry, even thousands, we have collected with you this morning, this is a record for the whole week, i hope , that the amount will be much higher, in fact. 115 of us are separated from the fact that we already had 1 and 300 thousand, this is not the whole amount, because the whole amount is 3.5 million, but it is already closer to the 3.5 million for which we want to buy drones and rep systems for our defenders from three brigades. well, now let's add taras zavhorodny to the conversation, political technologist, managing partner of the national anti-crisis group. mr. taras, we congratulate you. good day so, fresh information has already appeared. as soon as president zelensky signed the law banning the roc

of the russian orthodox church in ukraine, as it is not officially called, a symbolic step, on the day of independence, ukraine breaks this, i don't know, spiritual, if you can call it that, connection with the russian world, or this is the last nail, in fact, in our connection with russia, i mean. ecclesiastical, shall we say that we already completely independent religiously? well, look, you know how in 1991 everyone thought that there would be prosperity right away, because nothing needs to be done, no, because it is still a very long way to go, because the russians were building this system, well excuse me, but at least it has been active for at least 30 years, that is, the russian church, it has always been more than a church, it has always been... always such an arbitration, it was a center of influence,

a whole system of interrelationships, balances and so on, so yes it won't work out quickly, here you know what can be done there with a kind word and a gun, that is, a separate line is, of course, the work of counter-intelligence in the moscow church, there are already five high-ranking sbushniks there already. 25 cases related to the highest echelons of the russian church are already in court, approximately 100 more proceedings are in court. and pretrial investigation and so on, that is, here they must understand that ah, punishment is not inevitable, but the second, more complicated story in reality, is is related to what to do with people, because many people go to the russian church, and do not go to the ocu, we must understand this, and

not that, you know, they are so pro-russian, well, because they are so used to it, because it goes... because the russians have built this structure quite competently, and therefore there will be a whole lot of hard work here in order to create a real gap, yes a real gap in relations and so that this church is not used as a method influence on our state, informal method, listen, but when they talk about how even more effective, mr. taras? when they talk about how ukrainians have changed in 33 years, it is important how ukrainians have changed in the last two or two and a half years of war, and we can best see this in the representative of the people, the people, the people of ukraine, who is undoubtedly president volodymyr zelenskyi , you know, in the 19th year, the victims of the supporters, well

poroshenko himself, the president, then supporters of zelenskyi called him an armovir. army, language, faith, because this slogan was heard very often. today, we see that zelensky does not get out of such a military style. he now speaks everywhere only in the ukrainian language and emphasizes his patriotism and belonging to ukrainian culture and now also faith, i.e. the one who called tomos thermos, today actually signed an important law banning moscow orthodoxy in ukraine, i.e. actually this... today, armovir is to a certain extent also president zelensky, although, for example, there was such an incident in kyiv yesterday, someone posted it, one can only guess, and you can guess in fact, yes, someone placed such and such billboards in kyiv, everywhere, in the center, in particular, where it was written, independence, army, language, faith, yes, they

immediately received an order, it is not known from whom, well, an order , which was obediently fulfilled by all those... commercial structures, that is , they understand that they will have to pay fines for non-fulfillment of contracts and so on, and here and there these workers explain that we do not know, but they gave the order back to dismantle everything, right there, independence, army, language, faith, well i don’t know, somehow, on the one hand, i understand that such a pin was probably a little provocative, and it was read in these messages for the current government, but giving such an order... to dismantle, in principle, completely patriotic posters, is somehow, well, i don’t know , it's somehow strange to me, it's somehow even a little wild, we are generally a free country, well, in this case, i think that we should also ask the position of the mayor of kyiv, because we know that if it happened in kyiv, then usually, too, well

the entire advertising market is actually obeyed by local authorities, and therefore there... it is necessary too to find out if they had anything to do with it, if there were any orders in theory, then why was it thrown out, why was it not ignored, for example, and so on, but in this case, in reality , i did not see anything like that, especially on these posters, because well, now it is not an election campaign and it will be for a long time, most likely it will not be, obviously, and on this day of independence, which we are celebrating, this is very important. feast, feast now, which, what weight, what weight is increased by that sacrifice that is paid daily, at the same time now we have a difficult situation at the front, today the russians have already entered novogrodivka, and perhaps literally today we are losing this city, one, another city in donbas, this all adds

such bitterness to this holiday today, what do we need, what emotion and thought do we have to coin today, in this 33rd year of independence, what is your advice here, mr. taras? well, ukrainians should understand that the army should be the backbone of our state now and in the future, yes, and around which the society should be built in general, why? because the army finally will allow ukrainians to break out of this vicious circle, in which... we were the last ones, well, i think 400-500 years ago, why because of your geographical location and the absence of, for example, natural... damages and such a steppe, steppe landscape. ukraine has always been very vulnerable to various attacks, has always been

vulnerable to various, well, with a greater number of people wanting to conquer our land, and you know this, kissinger, in his such a fundamental fundamental work of diplomacy, said that eastern europe is a no-man's land, and... . on the territory of which, well, conditionally broadly understood the germans and russians have been investigating the last 300 years of relations, in principle this is the second world war, but it mainly took place on the territory of poland and ukraine and belarus, and the main victims were precisely on our territories, and in general, if you look at in the 20th century, how many ukrainians died, civil war, famine, then the soviet, well german war. against the soviet union and vice versa, well, according to various estimates, from 15 to 20 million ukrainians died, if we take the entire period, and therefore we must stop breaking this vicious circle, ukraine

itself must become a military power, and in order for no people to have stupid thoughts about ukraine, you can only believe in yourself, in the ukrainian army and your own rockets, your own missiles and your own military equipment, so the army a... develop the military equipment, yes , in which money needs to be invested, now at least give the opportunity to export industrial complex enterprises, so that they bring money into the country and pay taxes and produce, and we must understand how our society should be built in the future, this is the main lesson that ukrainians must learn , and to understand that this is a solution to many problems, for example, we often think about what to do with demography and so on, but demography has not started. there are places where there is no security, ukraine must ensure its own security and reindustrialization of the country, then the demography will be better, because people will return to

safe places and they must have work. mr. taras, thank you. taras zavgorodny, political technologist, managing partner of the national anti-crisis group was with us, dear friends, before we go on a break, i thank you, because already collected almost 60 thousand this morning, add more. the qr code is here, help our defenders. further on... on our airwaves there will be a conversation actually within the framework of the marathon "bright people in dark times", a conversation with a military serviceman, our defender, a historian who started the process of decommunization, volodymyr birchak, about historical parallels and what is happening at the front, see further, and andriy saichuk and i will return to this studio at 2:10 p.m. and continue this marathon dedicated to independence day. be with us. there are discounts until independence day on citramon donation 10% in psarynsky bam and oskad pharmacies. ordinary things become unreal. heavy bags

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little is known. what is happening must be understood. antin borkovskii and invited experts soberly assess the events, analyze them, modeling our future. every saturday at 13:10 with a repeat at 22:00. studio zahid with anton borkovsky at espresso. hundreds of thousands of square meters of damaged property, apartments, houses that need to be rebuilt, about the situation with reconstruction in different regions of ukraine, about... people's rights, opportunities and personal experience. this is what olga's house looked like last year, and this is what it looks like now. i'm not currently spending money. about how to unite the country in the process of recovery in the project of the urban reconstruction and development program. every saturday at 18:30 at espresso. people who choose independence, people who inspire by their own

example. people who bring victory closer. rescuer, ensign of the state emergency service, yuriy lozynskyi worked in the subway until february 24. now his job is sorting rubble after shelling, putting out fires, it's a constant risk, a risk for the sake of people, and you have to risk your own life. we cannot be defeated as long as there are such people, bright people in dark times. congratulations, you are watching the espresso tv channel. my name is lesya vakulyuk, and we continue the series of interviews with people who make ukraine better on the espresso tv channel. today, i am visiting a person who makes ukraine better in two ways, in the historical plane and in the plane when he himself writes the current history with a weapon in his hands. volodymyr birchak, volodya for me, because i know volodya a little longer, when i

asked myself how? to introduce myself, then volodya answered me: you can just be a sergeant in arms forces of ukraine, and from civilian life, historian, archivist, head of academic programs of the liberation movement research center, you can also mention that the editor of historical truth, if it is not too much, i believe that it is not too much, and there are still many different pages from your life , which we will remember today, and i also want to tell our viewers that i have actually known volodya since the summer of 2021, before the full-scale invasion of the desert. a little more than six months, and we just worked with volodya in the same documentary project, 10 days of independence, where i was one of the screenwriters, and volodya was my consultant and actually explained what and why, how everything happened in the last 100 years of the history of ukraine and why we chose these 10 days of independence, because these are the days when ukrainians gained independence over the centuries , gained statehood, well, but then

something... something happened in our history, and the gaining of independence did not end in 1991, and now you, volodya, are literally fighting the 11th day of our independence, or you, as a historian foresaw and knew, that you will have to go to war? well, actually, that is, that is, i was preparing myself for a full-scale conflict, and actually i was preparing my family and friends. about the fact that it is most likely inevitable, and that is, i am not the only one, i am not unique in this, i know many of my brothers who analyzed the international situation, who analyzed the things that the country is doing 404 , can we call it that today, so as not to talk like a volon de morda, ah, that it all leads to a full-scale conflict, after all, you very aptly mentioned ee... this documentary

the series on which we worked for 10 days of independence and espress viewers, as far as i know, had the opportunity to watch it, because it was broadcast on youtube, absolutely, absolutely, and simply, if we analyze the history of the 20th century, actually the ukrainian 20th century of the struggle of ukrainians and of ukraine for its independence, we will see that the one that is of a different scale, that is, the war that began in the 14th year, which we now call modern russia. the ukrainian war, it obviously started much earlier in xx century, and its already such a full-scale stage or a full-scale cycle, it was inevitable, and perhaps we will touch on this issue somewhere today in the conversation, this is a very important issue for understanding that you can never trust russia, you can never believe in some ephemeral peace or truce, in which russia offers you and... and at the same time.