not a billboard, and she got into his rib after successful cooperation with two world stars. taras hopes to see sir elton john paul mccartney and lady gaga in ukraine. he says that it is difficult to be creative during the war, but he keeps a field diary every day and promises that after the victory , the band will release a new album and songs there will be only positive ones, but it's cod oleksiy osika - voice of america first thank you for watching voice of america in ukrainian see you tomorrow, good luck take care, dad, friends, and we're not done we we continue the joint broadcast of tv channels direct and espresso for another hour, we will analyze and analyze the main events with you. this day we will discuss the 78th day of the ukrainian resistance, how ukraine is heroic in resisting the war that russia actually unleashed. not on february 24, but eight years ago.

however, on february 24, everyone they saw what atrocities russia is ready for. the russian army is currently storming several cities in the donbass. however, it has not yet had any success during this time. this is reported by the general headquarters of the armed forces of ukraine. continue to advance in the kharkiv region, they liberated one more settlement in the last week, this is already the sixth, they have already restored control over a number of villages. let's look at actually not a single surviving house, this is how the village of vilkhivka near kharkiv looks today, the occupiers were pushed out from here, and at the end of march, however, equipment still burned here on the roads

the village has not even been completely renovated yet, the streets are littered with fragments and craters from shells, some residents still return to their native places, like this, mommy, in tetyana’s, most of the residents have nothing left of their houses, only a few goats survived, which are now jumping on the ruins, waiting for two months, my dovory, there is nothing, where to live, how to survive, the first thing after the evacuation, 67-year-old mykola returned to the village, when the russian troops ransacked the village, he was wounded, i was beaten, i broke my head for 3

days. the contagion flew by. well, there is an installation, they killed him , and i can hear it beating. i went out and my comrade didn’t have time, well, nothing came to life, in spite of everything, now the man is determined to stay at work, he says that the end is not over. in two, in three, they tell me that there are people living with us who

few remain here, in general, they are working on reconstruction and delivering humanitarian aid, and they will recover from the losses caused by the occupiers here for a long time. well, just now, we are hitting the airwaves with a guest whom i greatly appreciate , respect, ah, colleague, friend, mykhailo shamanov, tv radio the host is a writer, and now misha is a fighter of the territorial defense, hello, how do you hear? unfortunately, mykhailo can't answer this yet. we've already seen him. we

hope that now the connection will be restored. professional professional professional journalist he has an extremely good sense of humor and from the first days of the war mykhailo went to war to fight to protect and defend ukraine misha hello again how do you hear yes hello i hear well and if can you tell me where you are now, if you can't, tell me what you did before, because you have an active social page on instagram and facebook. you often post something, of course, without details . please voice them. i am now with the positives on kharkivska. we are already going on for the third week. from time to time

we go on combat missions and perform combat missions. these can be completely different combat missions. it seems that something happened with our connection, we can hear you, how can you hear us, please continue mykhailo, i understand that he can't hear us, and that's why i think that we have yeah , and now we're used to the picture now we 'll try to redial mine well, if e- he is really in the kharkiv region, we understand that there may be problems with the communication of paraboys, the situation is difficult, we understand everything now, we will try to recruit him and because it is extremely interesting well, especially as a journalist, i am very, very pleased that my colleagues are going to defend ukraine and defend its integrity sovereignty, not only the professional military wants to stand up for the defense of ukraine, but also, of course, many

. well, i'm not only talking about journalists, but very, very many other professions because they understand that this is actually a war unleashed by russia, it's a war for survival. if now we don't defend our ukraine , then maybe tomorrow there won't be anything to defend and there will be nowhere to return to. i mean to my professions to my workplaces, so we still don't have a-a in connection with mykhailo. that's why there is also misha hello, finally. you see how many obstacles there are way, so that we can talk and hear you on the air, please continue, i will say that i am in kharkiv oblast, so i will tell you exactly where, because i understand that the safety of me and my uh brothers together uh, we perform various

tasks i i understand about well, too, probably how i will voice it, but they are completely different, despite the fact that we are a territorial defense unit that actually supports kyiv, eh. what kind of atmosphere do you have? you are trying to memorize all the military stories that you describe so often on facebook. you are adding your already signature humor uh, how uh, you don't hear us. as far as i understand correctly, unfortunately, mykhailo shamanov doesn't hear, he doesn't hear my questions, it's unlikely that we can continue the conversation it will work, let's try to recruit him now. i would like to talk to him again with mykhailo. we worked together on the direct channel for a long time, in particular, in the morning

speech, so i know this person very well, i respect him very well, and we are waiting for us to reconnect for now, let's look at another material, how in the front-line city of bakhmut in donetsk region, the local hospital receives an extremely large number of wounded from the battlefield there, only a few tens of kilometers, how soldiers are saved from the front line, about this further in the material, a small hospital in the front-line city of bakhmut, in donetsk region, is overloaded, they are admitted here a large number of wounded from the battlefield, which the fighters call hell, it is only a few dozen to the frontline. under the sounds of shelling , paramedics and volunteers come out to rescue of the ukrainian defenders came to the military, who handed over to us the 200th soldier, seriously seriously wounded, very seriously wounded by shrapnel wounds with

open fractures, whom we rushed to the hospital when we returned, respectively. to the same point where we were supposed to be based, this is from point e - well, in the football league of this point, he was already broken to join the volunteer brigade of civilian medics, some people even came here from canada, there are so many human tragedies - says the med volunteer, she still hasn't seen some of the people just cried and asked why my life why my life i'm 89 and all my neighbors are young people died and what do you say to that the main task of this hospital now is to stabilize the condition of the wounded so that they can be transferred to larger hospitals in the west of ukraine and svitlana druzenko, who manages the evacuation volunteer brigades does not hide the number of victims is huge in different cities. every day,

every day, people die, and many die, because this is the most terrible thing for me, and i. well, this is what i think about, and for me, i really want it to happen as soon as possible ended and i understand that they will not end everything goes on and on and i still think it will last for a long time bakhmut is a city on the front line and a key center for people fleeing from the luhansk region further to the east, the local people are fighting here every day, the situation is difficult who sveta sveta constantly they turn off the water constantly they turn it off in the new districts in general for months now, they don’t have water, they don’t have water even once fighting from all sides in severodonetsk every day they go to this hospital as they do every day one by one the ambulances go to save all the wounded here and new ones are taking risks and actually life is friends. we

return to the conversation with mykhailo shamanov, the journalist, the writer, and now the defense bicenter misha, please tell me how you feel, are you suddenly starting to lose the optimism that can be seen in your posts on social networks "because, for example, yesterday unfortunately, the commander died, a friend and brother, i will not tell the details of how it happened, because of course it happens. well, there is so -called emotional burnout, we understand that this war will probably last a long time, but we have no other choice i understand that we must be ready for a long war, we often talk about it behind

our brothers. different versions, i.e. the first version, that it is possible that putin will pass uh, because in reality it is very yulia, what is already happening for the third month, for the second time, they still hoped that hmm. that is, you know, hope has always been there, a person uh, should hope for something good good, actually now as we speak, when already on may 9, we signed one letter, uh, i know that the american weapons started working, why they started working very accurately, and this is the hope of a certain commission of the mood of the orks . optimists, of course, that diagonal mood swings, i mean,

i know that you, uh, there are positive ones before there are negative ones before it knocks out, but what do we understand that we are now here for the new ones, we have to in no way provide fruitful uh, because it depends on us we only small drops that create this big sea or maybe an ocean that is 100% resistant to russian aggression, and you say that this is already coming to the understanding that it is unlikely to end quickly and yesterday or the day before yesterday, the ex-commander of the us troops in europe gave a prediction that by the end of summer at the beginning of autumn it will be possible to push the russian army there at least on the border february 23 how do you evaluate such a forecast well i will tell you it is difficult for me to

say anything from the point of view of strategic plans because i am an ordinary military ordinary soldier i i am only following an order, i can judge only by the information we receive from open sources of energy, which we receive from not completely open sources, eh, i will tell you that, for example, here in kharkiv oblast, the russian army was pushed back almost to the borders. and here we received a question from us actually , we are just discussing, and we will create as brothers about what will happen next, or well, one way or another, russia will try to bombard ukrainian territory with artillery. ukrainian troops are there, will they give us an order to go to bilhorod? for example, this is also interesting question, but we don't have an answer to it right now , er, about what happened, and such conversations are heard among you, so such a scenario could be. that is, we are

discussing completely different options. what will we do next? well, everything depends on us, eh, we wait . we are actually carrying out the order for the third month, he is at school, er, we are disciplined ourselves, bilhorod of course we will not leave without an order, so we will see what happens, we understand that the russian troops are retreating because they do not have and did not have the strength to take kharkiv and now we can there will be regroupings and attempts to create, that is, to try to take, for example, other cities there, the same, that is, to advance over the zelensk direction or in the southern direction. that is, it is kherson mykolayiv and others, and maybe this luhansk direction, too, and where will we go? next day or there will be an attack . next week, which one is also unknown

and this is also a big question for us, a great book everyone is encouraged to read by mykhailo shymanov, a man - instructions for use, we are waiting for the second book, you own, yourself, facebook, yourself, what do you hope that you will finish the second and third about the war and somehow manage to find time, maybe make some notes for yourself there and maybe you are really actively working on the book? -25 it's already here in the evening. to be honest, i didn't even think about it, but it kept happening, that's why they spent two hours there, and these two hours were just spent on the wooden floor in defenses, in unloading with automatic weapons, and then, well, you know that one. was not

that is, there was anxiety, there was fear, what would happen next, so we actually didn't know we were there. i think we are alive there. in a couple of hours or so, everything else will happen. and in such a state, i certainly didn't think. and when the war became work, i have i mean, one way or another, we are at work now, we just changed, that is, i would be a journalist, leading writer, and blogger, and at some point i realized that we just changed jobs. i do not hope that we changed jobs temporarily, but i still know some times when there are time to rest by the way, we are with very interesting people, i fight here and there, bank employees and drivers, that is, people who never thought that they would be in the military and pick up a machine gun, and we arrange certain

certain discussions there on historical topics, on religious topics some special economic ones and everything else and it’s very interesting and of course what certain notes are made there from time to time i even post some interesting things on facebook and i hope that i will write a book about it for you because each of my subdivisions of the subdivision i have already written it e- e must get his there is something to write about everyone. i honestly wonder how much courage and heroism these people have, because they are charismatic people and how interesting it is to be with them. well, i mean, we spend 24 hours a day with them, 7 days a week. it's very nice that i know these people and got to know them. you know some of them since 2014. i met them for the first time on february 25.

i don't regret it in any way. i'm very glad that i got into such a team . zero eh we we communicate with women er, well, the only thing is that there is a certain armed men's monastery that performs combat missions er, i hope that soon, well, you will probably be able to leave this men's monastery, we are waiting for you, let's celebrate the victory together, er, we will also wait for your book everything you promised live that it would be, that's why you won't turn back, as time will come, everything is written down so that as soon as the war ends, the world will see your book sooner. and, of course, take care of yourself and your brothers with whom you are now defending ukraine. thank you very much what is it glory to ukraine glory to the heroes all is quiet and have a peaceful night aa aa mykhailo shamanov tv presenter

radio host writer my colleague i am glad that we finally managed to reconnect with misha, although we correspond from time to time on social networks, i ask as he says, everything is ok, because i understand that there are more details in military matters, where they are, what they are doing, unfortunately , it is not possible because we care about their safety, about their lives, friends, now we will watch the address of the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, every day he records the results of the day talks about the most important thing, let's listen together to our defenders and defenders, i don't get tired of repeating these words, addressing everyone who protects the state. today, these words sound especially on the international day of nurses, a professional

holiday of tens of thousands of ukraine and also ukrainian medical brothers who do one of the most important things for victory, they save the lives of our soldiers and our civilians. occupation did not stop working and saving people tetyana tarasenko ali chernitsy and lyudmila gusy from sumy oblast vera celik oksana umanets and iryna vernyhori from chernihiv oksana balandinii from luhansk oblast no klymenko and maria adamenko from kyiv oblast nataliya abashnyk from kharkov i thank all the medical staff from the bottom of my heart to the sisters, to all the medical workers and workers who

help ukrainians to fight every day and night. i call on everyone today who has not yet had time to thank them to do so and eight years of war in donbas and two the years of the pandemic and the third month of the full-scale war and their entire professional lives, they dedicate to you all the society for ukraine to live. i was very pleased to see the working conditions of our ancestors in the center of pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery in kyiv. construction and it is a really modern building, it feels that our medical system, that our medicine can really be on a par with the best world medical systems, we invested in the development of medicine and the entire social

infrastructure before the war, and we will certainly continue to do it after the war. let the occupiers not hope that they will stop us during the hostilities , since february 24, russian troops destroyed 570 health care facilities, completely destroyed 101 hospitals . stupidity - this is barbarism, this is the self- destruction of russia itself as a state that at least someone in the world could look at as a cultural nation. state that any education only hinders it but what can be achieved by destroying schools by destroying ukrainian schools all russian commanders who give such orders are simply sick and incurable but all the hospitals that the occupiers destroyed all the schools

all the universities they built all the houses bridges enterprises we will restore everything today, the occupiers were also in poltava oblast, in kremenchug, and again in the factory. so that people simply did not have gasoline, well, they are really sick in the zaporizhzhia region, in the cities and villages of donbas, but what does the russian government give them? the strategic defeat is already obvious to everyone in the world and even to those who still continue to communicate with them, just in russia, there is still no courage - to admit that they are cowards and try to hide the truth behind missile, air and artillery strikes , so our task is to fight until we achieve our goals in this war free our land, our

people and reliably guarantee our security. i spoke with the president of finland today, they discussed the euro with him. regarding ukraine and defense cooperation, i spoke with the president of slovakia with luzana chabtova thanked for the support provided to ukraine, agreed on the next steps in the entire spectrum of relations, defense of sanctions, the economy, in particular, fuel imports and further rapprochement with the european union, they are preparing to continue special communication formats with friendly societies, in particular with students of partner countries, you will soon contact american students, as well as students of other countries europe, we must spread our ukrainian ideas and explain at all levels how exactly we ukrainians see the life of europe and the world after this war of wars which changes everything in world politics, i am grateful to the friend

of ukraine to the prime minister of the netherlands markuriuty for today's address to the verkhovna rada of ukraine, this is an important gesture. and even more important is that the netherlands advocates the rejection of russian oil and is ready to implement it without delay, signed a decree awarding our defenders the title the hero of ukraine is awarded to colonel roman volodymyrovych kachur, commander of the 55th separate artillery brigade of the eastern operational command of the ground forces, awarded with state awards 269 servicemen of the armed forces of ukraine, 14 of them died forever. glory to all who stood up for the defense of ukraine, eternal memory to each and every one who gave

their lives for ukraine. glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. to hold a referendum in mariupol, the mayor's adviser petro andryushchenko said in a telegram about this, however, he says that they cannot either confirm or deny this information, they continue to monitor it, there is also information that they want to include mariupol and also the pseudo-republic of the dpr of the lpr immediately into the russian federation well, earlier such information also sounded about the currently temporarily occupied kherson that there is no there either a-but the collaborators declare that they will not hold any referendum on the further fate of kherson they they will immediately ask russia to annex kherson to them. this is how the occupiers operate, and information about kherson has already arrived from the fsb officers from crimea, who have lists of ukrainian

patriots, those people who went to actions in support of ukraine, and they pass these people they are taken home, they are taken in an unknown direction and we can only guess what is happening to these people. however, let us accept this information. i mean the information about these axis pseudo-referendums and the attempts of the occupiers to include these territories in the composition of russia, it is not possible so much because we believe to our armed forces, so that they do not occupy any of our cities and try to annex them to russia, the lend-lease has been signed, the latest arms deliveries will soon arrive in ukraine, and then we will be able to fight much better, much more effective, and we do it in an extremely cool way. so the whole world is

surprised. and really, the whole world did not expect this from ukraine. however, with these supplies of modern weapons, we will be able to counter-attack the enemy much faster and, of course, we will liberate all the occupied territories , including donbas, including crimea is only a matter of time and time is not so long, friends . let me read the latest information, the latest news , because it is important to know what is happening, so there is literally information about the explosions in zaporizhzhia half an hour ago, explosions began to be heard in mykolaiv , and sirens are still going on, so we emphasize