and this is something that we do not know very well, maybe yes, maybe yes, that is, it is from the way ukrainian nationalists cooperated with the british special service mishist, went through special forces training and were dropped on landing planes on the territory of ukraine, maybe someone does not know much about this, to the participation of jews in the ukrainian insurgent army, so that one of them was in fact a political consultant to the chief commander of the upa, and many such things about which we either... don't know enough or know little, can we already talk about any plans when this will the book appear? i think that it's still too early, it will all depend on how quickly i work on vacation with the health i'm in right now, er, when the vacation ends in september, and then what's back, front, front, er, thank you to you for this conversation, thank you for the conversation, for what you do both on the battlefield and on the battlefield of such

a ... how do you manage to do everything, it happens, dear friends, that volodymyr was our guest birchak, sergeant of the armed forces of ukraine, historian, archivist, head of academic programs of the liberation movement research center and editor of historical truth, and we spoke with him. about history and about the war and about how history is, how to make sure that the history of our previous losses does not repeat itself, stay with espresso, thank you for being with us, my name is lesya vakulyuk, we are looking for you. year-old valeriya styglyan.

the girl lived in the kherson region in the city of genichesk and disappeared two days before the start of the full-scale war. none during this time there was no information about the child's possible whereabouts, so your help is very important. valeria looks her age, she has an oval face and light blond hair. if anyone has seen the girl, or knows any details about her current whereabouts, please call us immediately. the hotline of the magnolia child tracing service at the short number 11630. calls from any ukrainian mobile operator are free. important information can also be transmitted using the chatbot of the child tracing service in telegram. i also want to remind you that we we continue the search for 16-year-old karina kanivets, who also disappeared in the kherson region already during the full-scale war and also on the left bank of the region.

her mother told us about karina's disappearance. imagine, a woman does not know anything about the fate of her daughter for more than a year. i applied everywhere i could. i'm already shouting as hard as i can, it's like they tied their hands and said "swim". here i am, at the moment in such a situation . karina's parents have been divorced for a long time and live separately. the girl lived with her mother, but on the eve of full-scale invasion, she went to her father and stayed with him. this territory was occupied almost from the first days of the war, but from time to time, the woman says, she corresponded with her daughter on social networks, but in april of last year the connection with karina mysteriously broke off, the girl stopped logging into her accounts and where is she now , no one knows. i have already written everywhere about the search for the child, even here, in this territory, because i do not know where else to turn, how to find the child. the girl's mother

is now also in the occupied territory, we recently met her again contacted and the woman assumes that her daughter could be taken to russia, but where exactly is not known, so it is important to know even the smallest details. i would like to appeal to anyone who has seen or knows anything about my child who has gone missing and stopped. to get in touch from april 2023, this is karina igorivna kanivets, born on august 9, 2007. if anyone has seen karina kanivets, or knows anything about her possible whereabouts, do not delay and immediately contact the magnolia children's search service at the short number 11630. calls from of any ukrainian mobile operator are free. if suddenly there is no possibility.

search services for children in telegram. i am asking my beloved child, if you see, hear me, respond. i'm really looking forward to it. thank you. to anyone who can help. i have told you only two stories of missing children. in general, since the beginning of the war, we have received thousands of appeals for help in the search. fortunately, the vast majority of children have already been found, but the fate of many remains unknown. this especially applies to the temporarily occupied areas where the work of the police is practically paralyzed, where it is impossible to leave and there are problems with communication, help to find them. anyone can find children, take just a minute of your time and go to the website of the magnolia children's search service, here you can view all the photos of the missing, who knows, maybe you will recognize someone and eventually help find them. we have created a resource through which

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the espresso tv channel. hundreds of thousands of square meters meters of damaged property, apartments, houses that need to be rebuilt. about the situation with recovery 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 am not spending money at the moment. about how to unite the country in the process of recovery in the project of the program of reconstruction and development of cities. every saturday at 18:30 at espresso. greetings, dear viewers. today we have a conversation that is worth hearing, on the tv channel we will talk with the head of the ukrainian greek catholic church vladyka svyatoslav i congratulate you. glory to jesus christ. glory forever. independence day, plus the third year of the full-scale invasion of the russian

federation. if at the beginning of the invasion there was a tendency for people to run to god, these are understandable, understandable things. many people came, some asked questions, came with prayers, came with requests, now there is such a trend that somewhere people may not come as often or pray less, because maybe someone is losing hope. and are there any, or do you observe something similar, speaking about your church, or maybe in other churches, having, having communication with your brothers and sisters in the faith, and how to explain it, or how to keep the patience and hope that should be present for such a difficult situation that exists today? well, we, as pastors, keep our hand on the pulse of our people. indeed, or another comparison, we listen carefully to the heartbeat of our

people, and i can say that indeed the beginning of this full-scale invasion has been a great shock to everyone, we have all changed radically, even though the war is already on more than 10 years, but perhaps so personally this calamity touched every... every ukrainian, every citizen of ukraine only with that full-scale invasion, and i do not observe any, let's say, hardening or vice versa, distancing people from the theme of the eternal or from god, on the contrary, we see a colossal conversion, many, let's say, from other... fields of human knowledge, doctors, psychologists, noted that when

the war began, all human relationships were zeroed out, the relationship of a person to himself, to his personal life, the relationship between people, even the relationship to the closest people, the relationship to the state, to the church, all this is in a state. understanding, including when a person is looking for god, or has already had a certain spiritual, religious experience. the war intensified man's search for meaning, man asks himself: why did this happen to me? god, where are you when we are being killed, how to choose the right... well road, landmarks during such a great disorientation, and this is all, let's say, pushes

a person to seek these, these answers to such very difficult questions, and we all understand that no person can answer these questions, the answer can be given only by the one in whose hands lies the fate of man and the whole. world, er, and a person, even a non-believer, he is looking for those eternal values, without which his life has no meaning, and it is obvious that reevaluating all his spiritual and moral guidelines, er, a person in one way or another gets closer to god and to the church, i want to tell you that we have experience that certain... our parishes, in particular in central, eastern, southern ukraine, have changed by 100%, there are

such communities where 100% of people were evacuated, but new ones came, this year, for example, all our prayers, the pilgrimages we had, we could not organize them, because we live under martial law. but all were very crowded, people are searching, people, people are thirsty for god, and that christian community that feeds people with real spiritual food, it is very popular today. therefore, i can say that the ukrainian people today, in the state of war , are experiencing some kind of special spiritual conversion. that thirst for god is especially there

is acute, and all our churches are full, and there is not a single priest who would feel unemployed, we all really work, well, at the limit of our strength and capabilities, but we serve the lord god and our ukrainian people with great joy. if in the christian sense. at least in the evangelical sense, christians understand what the freedom that christ gives is, and independence, spiritual freedom. so where the spirit of the lord is, there is freedom, jesus said that i give you freedom, see that it continues there, the truth, so that your freedom is not an excuse to please your flesh, but the essence of this freedom, that independence, which the ukrainian state celebrates, political, cultural, spiritual, however you would characterize it, we are independent from what, and

how, as they say, this independence relays us, how explain it? well, let me take this opportunity to congratulate all our listeners on the independence day of ukraine. today, this day is a personal holiday of every ukrainian of every ukrainian family, because we feel that whether we will have a free, conciliar, independent state, our lives directly depend on it, the issue of our independence on... freedom, it is a matter of life and death of the entire nation, therefore this is a personal holiday. i remember how, when only we got this independence, in the 91st year, in all our churches spontaneously, on august 24, it was a spiritual, almost religious

holiday. i remember how in those first years i was independent. that day, people gave up everything and the first thing they did that day was go to church to pray, it was a very, well, spontaneous movement, it was independence, first of all it had a spiritual meaning, and there are several dimensions of this the spiritual meaning of our state independence: first, we all understood that... the independence of ukraine is a gift from god. we then saw how, at the dawn, let's say, when this independence was just, just, just showing itself, like the sun rising from the horizon, the ukrainian greek-catholic church came out of the underground, which became, as it were, this stone that

hit those clay at the feet of that soviet colossus. it just fell apart. we understood that independence, our state, is a gift from god, a gift as god's answer to the centuries-old struggle of our people, which we we call today national-liberation, the crown of these struggles was the martyrdom of the ukrainian greco-lod church, in particular during the communist era. regime, for which the people thanked, but this gift had to be kept, we all saw that this state, which was born after the collapse of the soviet union, is still a post-soviet state, that freedom is a multi-meaning concept, it has not only

meaning some legal or political. the first is moral, in christian philosophy and theology we are always used to talk about freedom in such a double meaning, freedom from and freedom for, when talking about our national freedom, this is how we talk about the independence of the beginning, this is freedom from enslavement, freedom from... those neo-colonial encroachments of moscow, which today especially manifested themselves in the whole bloodshed during this full-scale invasion, but this is also freedom, for this freedom we still need to be able to use it correctly, we as christians

have been convinced many times that freedom is the ability... the ability to do good, if this the opportunity, the opportunity to choose good, we use it for evil, then we can easily lose this gift of freedom, so, let's say, this period, which we call the young, independent ukrainian state of the 90s, the way opened before us, the transition to of ukraine to a truly democratic state. and this period was very difficult. marked by several revolutions, when the people did not want to lose their independence, but took responsibility for their freedom.

true freedom is always associated with responsibility. and then it seemed that we all were we really want to use the fruits of that independence, but not everyone is able to take responsibility for it. ready, and here, i think that the role of the church and churches in the process of transformation of ukraine is very important. in particular, our church immediately began educating its people, educating them to dignity and freedom, to responsibility for their state. i recall the words of my predecessor, his beatitude lubomyr. in the first days of the orange revolution, because some in power said that a crowd had come to the square, earlier

lubomyr had said: "no, it's not a crowd, it's responsible citizens who not only exercised their free and free democratic choice by coming to vote, these are citizens who are ready to defend their city." voice, and i remember his speech on the second maidan of dignity, and when, when did this happen the event, which we call the revolution of dignity, well, this responsibility for dignity, it manifested itself at an even higher level than during the orange revolution, it is obvious that educating citizens to realize their dignity is already a revolution, that is why this process of transformation of ukraine from posov of yeti state, an arbitrary democratic state, how

to build a society that is not only free from, but free for, this process is still going on, i think that the war that we are going through today, this is another stage of this process, but i have this feeling , that all those previous years of building an independent ukraine were only preparation for the exam, the real exam, unfortunately, this terrible war became, and watching how my people pass this exam today, well, we... we all thank god for that that our people today even in in the context of this tragedy, uh, they are creating

a new type of political nation, and today our independence is being evaluated in a new way not only by ordinary ukrainians, not only by ukrainian society, but also by the world community. how do you explain, uh... well, now about the explanation, first of all, during these more than 30 years, the moscow church had a huge influence on the minds of ukrainian women, i will call it the moscow church in general, because their patriarchs were commemorated there, first there there was alexy, then cyril. they exerted political influence, they exerted financial influence, they they cultivated oligarchs, they cultivated politicians, they campaigned for certain politicians simply in their churches. and mm, for a long time it was all perceived as, well, this is the choice of the people, we have such and such a ukrainian church, there is a conditionally orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate, and even a full-scale

invasion of thousands of murdered ukrainians, murdered priests, by the way, the blessing of the moscow church, weapons with which ukrainians were killed, all this did not immediately lead to a decision to ban this church in ukraine, why did it take so long... all this could not be born, why could not simply put an end to it, and besides, in your opinion, people who got rid of or will get rid of this moscow word, they will be tormented by its absence for a long time, as they say, or if they want god, they will come to you , to epiphanius, to other priests, and they will listen to the word of god, everything will be fine. well, you see, the spiritual enslavement of ukraine began immediately when the russian empire began to colonize step by step. e-e

territory of ukraine, starting from the 17th century. the history of our church here is vivid example step by step, as soon as russia, the russian empire annexed new ukrainian lands, it began to destroy our church. and so the final destruction of our church in the then russian... borders happened in 1839, and it is obvious that then russia tried to russify this territory with the help of various symbols, even monuments, everything possible was used in order to confirm this, you know, such, well, just a murderous ideology. orthodoxy,

autocracy, nationalities, and even then the russian imperial authorities saw the church as an instrument of enslavement, and this i am very sorry to say, as a person who represents the church, it was such, i would say, a shameless instrumentalization of the church in the name of imperial interests, and then obviously ... that church that even lost the right to have its patriarch, it turned into a department of the state machine. metropolitan andrey sheptytskyi called it kazon orthodoxy. it was obvious that there was a minimum of spirituality and religion, and a maximum of faithfulness, such a kason state control over the conscience of millions

e. people, for example, when this autocracy fell, during the february revolution of the 17th year, i remember these statistics, when for the first time during the first world war, e., russian soldiers at the front were not obliged to go to confession, because by this time everyone had to go to confession and receive a certificate of beneficence from the father, huh. and here for the first time there is no king and there is no longer such a duty. in fact , in the 17th year before easter , only a couple of percent of soldiers in the russian army went to confession. and it caused a huge collapse back then the ability of this church to control people's thoughts. and then everything went downhill, that is, with

the speed of a snowball. who simply washed away this church later in the bolshevik revolution. unfortunately, all those consequences were fully felt by ukrainians. in particular, when stalin revived the instrument of manipulating the religious feelings of believers in the soviet union, reviving the russian orthodox church. having concluded a cooperation agreement with her. her, then she became a tool no longer of the tsarist, but of the communist regime, as we were not surprised, i remember my childhood, seeing orthodox fathers with communist awards, and then the bishops of the russian orthodox church received state awards for closing churches, their own, well, we, then, the children of the underground

persecuted church, looked at... well, really with horror, and now, when ukraine became independent, this independence nevertheless began to require certain changes, er, we all today, er, remember and know the term decommunization, yes, it spontaneously began to happen in western ukraine, that lenin fall took place back in the 90s, here, but on it's a pity... central, eastern, southern ukraine lived according to other rhythms, and that's when the whole neo-colonial face of the russian government and the face of the moscow patriarchate in ukraine appeared.