who is convening a meeting because of the outbreak of smallpox in europe, 100 people have now fallen ill there, the question arises about this vector and this focus on ukraine. biden is more moderate, meanwhile, they give us help, because johnson is more decisive. france has written out macron's position, only we ukrainians understand that there are no compromises with the enemy there are no such shaky positions , and there are really no such ukrainians who would not understand it now, but how can we keep the focus of the world on ourselves, when there will be smallpox there, there will be some kind of war , there will still be some kind of problem, and the world is forced to solve their problems, i will say more. well, military aid, because it can just speed up the end of the war and at the same time reduce such global costs for the war. in addition, it will help to quickly overcome various global problems that arose as a result of the war eh,

this is a food crisis, eh, the threat of famine in some countries, eh, this is just a consequence of the war, and in addition, the risks of eh, faltering and eh, provoking economic problems, energy problems, all this is precisely the interest for the event at the end of the war. i as far as i understand, the ukrainian leaders, first of all, president zelenskyi, our diplomacy basically convinces western partners that this is the best optimal scenario regarding the new epidemic , well, this is a potential challenge. we see that china is trying with all its partnership relations with russia. they are trying to maintain a certain neutrality because they understand the intensified wars , the expansion of the war, it will only create

problems for the whole world, for the world economy, and this is already a threat to the interests of china, another thing is that, unfortunately, china, as evidenced by the experience of previous conflicts, does not particularly try to be an active mediator, does not actively try to influence, well, in this case, on russia to speed up the end of this war. this is a problem. china has great ambitions of such international conflicts, mr. volodymyr, and if we also talk about the information that american intelligence and british intelligence regularly publish about putin's personnel purges in in the law enforcement agencies, he fired someone and punished someone , the british edition of the gardens claims that putin is involved in the development of a wide variety of issues related to this so-called special operation at the level of a brigadier general or even

a colonel, that is what this shows, and these personnel rotations that well, they probably still happen, how should the armed forces of ukraine use them effectively ? noted that, for example, the losses among the russian command staff are simply not comparable to other military conflicts, there are already a number of generals. i am not talking about the average command staff, the average mosquito level, but almost a dozen generals were killed in this war. this is just the successful operation of the ukrainian army. they contribute to this. the second important point is the defeat of the russian army as a result of the effective actions of the ukrainian army. they create an atmosphere of

nervousness, mutual suspicions, accusations against the leadership of russia. who is to blame for russia's defeats in ukraine and that is why the decisive factor here is that the more russian defeats in ukraine, the better the ukrainian army will fight, the more problems there will be within the russian government, historians, experience, let's end the conversation about this literally in this grouping, the east destroyed up to 80 invaders in a day this is a specific group east and the battle for the donbas , e. small question and also donbas means for the enemy of the russian federation, now they were protecting

it, now they are destroying it and even those who stayed there since the 14th year believed in something, well, i want them to finally open up to the fact that the russian federation is evil and it will be destroy without considering people for any value. this is the main problem , if for our president, for ukraine, the lives of our soldiers are very important. peaceful people mean nothing, but formally for them the reason for this war is, it’s like the help to the brotherly donbas, so that the so-called dnr of the lnr entered the administrative borders of the donetsk luhansk oblasts, and as a result, they actually destroy these donbas, so the donbass is not

interested in putin playing war, but you mentioned that he plays operational planning there at the level of a colonel, as some commentators even in russia joke that putin plays soldiers even as a child, maybe he didn’t get the hang of it, so he plays war but real people are dying and this is the main problem, that's why i have small battles, in particular, in donbas, and how much he will pay for this, he is not interested in it. no , it is like for a political leader, but we do not comment because it does not matter directly what putin thinks, the main thing for us is to win and not i would even like to analyze the motivation of his actions , volodymyr, thank you for coming out today, talking to us, appearing on the air volodymyr fesenko, a political scientist, was in touch with us. thank you, only news, together we are strong, he will support the ukrainian army

with money, scan the code even in wartime ukrainian publishing houses do not stop working the other day in dnipro they presented a gift edition of the book hryhoriy skovoroda the world caught me, it is the most complete and scientifically weighted collection of works of the thinker and poet, it was dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding ukrainian, which is celebrated this year and more about ukrainian literature and its importance we spoke with the general director of folly publishing house oleksandr krasovetskyi about publishing and literature more we are talking on our air oleksandr krasovetskyi , the chief editor of the folio publishing house. i greet you , oleksandr. good evening. we are on the air. keys, it is directed, what

has changed? and what, on the contrary, have you already lost, let's say forever for yourself, first of all, we resumed the work of the publishing house around the first days of march, we did not work for two weeks, and we are working remotely because our the printing house in the city of dergachi, north of kharkiv , survived, but there is a problem with the work there, everyone was evacuated, secondly, the publishing house in kharkiv had several arrivals, it was not terrible, it was um, what happened there, well, there are problems in the publishing house, but we learned to work in remotely, we work in various printing houses in the country, including in kharkiv, one of the kharkiv printing houses even during the war printed a gift edition of skovoroda with illustrations by oleksandr royburd, which we presented yesterday

in dnipro, it's true that you worked on it for one and a half years, actually, why so long? well, because it's a very high-quality gift edition . leonid from chkalov is well-known and i think that the best specialist in frying pans was added with illustrations by oleksandr royport . very expensive precious edition hm and i am sure that other editions are related to the year of skovorody. we will also have time to publish it in time. this is a complete four-volume annotated uh-uh, this is fiction

about the frying pan, and this is his biography, which will be published in the new series life of outstanding ukrainians, written by myroslav popovi, and uh-uh this edition was published by ivan drach and serhiy krymskyi about 40 years ago, since then it has not been on the book market, but it is precisely in connection with this issue that the demand for ukrainian editions is growing in the world as a gift, and in the middle of ukraine, what is important now they turn to you with proposals for such finds to translate books that have not been published there for the last 40 years. and they are valuable now, let's say a number of ukrainian authors have appeared, although you really know them, you have been cooperating there since the 14th year. of course, i will ask you about the book a month war, a chronicle of events that also came out with the speeches of the president of ukraine. this also fits into this context, but in the meantime, how much has writing influenced the folio and jump out, maybe also knowing

the potential of writers, give them tasks, let's let's say we'll write about it, the reader will read it now, let's understand for now that the book market is in a state of semi-anabiosis, we ship a large number of books for free it's going to poland it's going to the czech republic, austria, etc. and the market itself is about 15% of what it was before the war . second, now is the time for factual literature, not the time for great novels, not the time for books that will be considered textbooks for many years. everything will end now is the time for books that are, er, a retelling of what is happening in the country in order not to forget later

. and it is very important not to forget and write down, note down. this is what the publishing house is doing now. unfortunately, a new topic has now been added - these are crimes in kharkiv oblast, in liberated and non-liberated villages and cities of kharkiv oblast. who do you cooperate with who can record this fact in fact? they are competing with journalists who write detailed articles who also collect this fact. in fact, they should be some kind of investigators. is it really possible to find such authors? are these authors journalists who have these skills, and primarily journalists because writers are people who write

more slowly and who have to think through everything that is happening, and many of the writers are now on the forefront of information in a different way. well, for example, andriy kurkov gives daily three four five interviews in different countries in different languages ​​travels to exhibitions eh and i don't think he will be able to write novels now yes that's for sure but roman you say there is no demand for them directly please tell me what to us not even us to do with the russian language in books. and what do you as a publishing house and what do libraries do with russian literature voice their position let's start with something else and what is the demand for, this has also changed a lot in the fate of such classics in book sales as it is now there was never in our history the classics in first of all, you have no idea

how many people are looking for orel to read, because what is happening in russia is actually just a live adaptation of orwell, there are a lot of books that read remark, people who read remark, but what about the future the fate of the russian language and book publishing. let's start with the fact that there are approximately 280 million books in ukrainian libraries, that is, 14,000 public libraries , including in the territory that is now in its 24th year of occupation, of which approximately 30 million are books that got there during the time of independence of ukrainian publishing houses, and maybe less, it is about 30 million, too . during these times of russian publishing houses and about 200 million there are some soviet books, so

i want to tell you that public libraries take the place of old waste paper in the civilized world, a book in a library lives 10-12 years, after 10 years if it is read, it is bought the same if it is not read on so it is not needed, it is the most expensive thing in the library not a rule, this is an interesting rule, i did not really know it in libraries in our books live in libraries for 60 years. they are not read, they simply fall apart because they are old people over soviet literature. that is, this is such an unspoken rule in european libraries. 10 years is a rule of its own. this is a recommendation between the association of librarians, which should be changed, because the most expensive thing in libraries is the shelves, not books with books they need to be filled with modern ones that are in demand and scientific libraries should keep a large number of books, everything that was published for researchers and not for the mass readers, that is, it was still

turned upside down in soviet times, and our libraries still need systematic work, of course, the state does not have money more than once. and to renew everything, that is why i consider it necessary to create a fund of new revenues for libraries, which was financed not only by ukraine and european countries that help us to print e-e books in this fund for modern ukrainian publishers librarians should choose e-e books from it to replace those books from russian publishers that will to withdraw at this time 100 books were withdrawn 100 books were received and funds were replaced the idea is beautiful rationally actually i am interested i think even countries will support especially poland which directly made libraries such places public in it it managed to achieve this and the idea is beautiful you see it has already been formalized the last question i have for you i want to say that ukrainian

society seems to have decided on this issue, but i want to hear your opinion, and it is now spreading with such crazy speed and power that those who supported it are quoting verbatim one of the posts of the bulgakovs and pushkins they brought this war to ukraine those who supported the bulgakovs and pushkins after the 14th year do you agree with this statement well let's divide pushkin was never our writer pushkin was always an imperial russian writer this can be investigated according to his books, as for bulgakov , whoever he was, he was from kyiv, he wrote about kyiv. yes, he died in moscow, but he was a kyivan, and therefore i believe that it is up to ukraine to deal with its own literature, it is our literature, its it is necessary to comment, research, etc. it is not necessary to put it in schools in the program, but this is our writer, that's

why yes, he is what he is, he described kyiv from his point of view, including the imperial point of view, but this is our writer, just as our writer is, let's say, viber is our writers are oleksandr green, who lived in crimea, and you need to understand that yes, the soviet union mocked oleksandr, but he is our writer. let 's leave him in the history of our literature. volodymyr korolenko is our writer who lived in poltava let's leave it, let's have them, let's investigate, mr. oleksandr, the last question is what are you personally reading right now, what does your soul need, because i follow you on facebook. how did i start to read much less than i used to read before? it

turned out that for me there is a way out. it's just writing and not reading, and i spend my free time writing books. i wrote one, and you already managed to publish it. it is called tomorrow with three stories about what is happening now, the last of them does not have subtitles in putin's head, it is one day of his because of his thoughts, and as for reading, i am reading one of the books on military history and in parallel i am reading one of the books of eremimeter french author friend andrii kurkov, the author of whose field we will continue to submit hmm, but i read more manuscripts, we have already started receiving documentary books about what is happening, and the next book that will be published will be a book of two female journalists then there is a brown yevgeny likeness, er, which is called february february 2022 oh, you see right away

, recommendations were given and announced, i thank you for contacting us. i remind you that oleksandr krasovetskyi, the chief editor of the kharkiv folio publishing house, was in touch with us now. thank you for the conversation. and the people of kherson continue to demonstrate to the occupiers that kherson is ukraine. at the railway station of the city, unknown people raised the ukrainian flag. this was reported in ukrzaliznytsia, and in more detail about the current situation in the city, we spoke with the mayor kherson igor kolykhaev mayor of kherson igor kolykhaev with us p igor we congratulate you good day, mr. igor, what is the current operational situation in kherson and you know, it was very nice to see the footage on which we observe that over the railway station, er, the blue-yellow flag is for majors - this inspires faith in optimism and certainly inspires hope in our victory" over the railroad

station, but for today, the 77th day, kherson is under the control of the occupation of the russian federation, there are no green corridors with the beginning of the war, but we hold on and support each other in the markets and in the stores there are a lot of products from the russian federation because i already said that there were no green corridors, the prices of the arrows are rising rapidly, but the prices must be increased we don't have the opportunity, that's why it's very confusing for our residents of our city, uh , i really wanted them, uh, right now, how will they place

it, there is a lot of unemployment and uh, there is no work, and people, um, are surviving, if you can say so, at the moment, there are problems with payment salary treasury payments do not transfer wages , there is a delay of up to 20 days, people are already taking care of themselves, they are worried about this, this is a teacher, there is a problem with cash, and pensioners are also expecting a pension, and there is no cash , they cannot receive it from ukrposhty this is how things are. now in our city, er, about 45 er percent of our citizens have left er. now there are very long queues to leave, because for more than er, seven

er, days they do not let our er e residents are not allowed to pass almost the residents of our region fighting is going on near david ford e in the middle zone there are deaths e-e and we e-e are accepting e-e refugees now e-e we place them in our e-e educational institutions e-e and feed them but hm it is very hm difficult now e the situation is the psychological state for that city and for our citizens, mr. igor, on friday, may 20, the operational command of the south announced on its facebook page that the russian occupiers blocked the exit from kherson, and they are trying to send all those who want to leave to the annexed crimea. what do you know? about

i want to say that a safe green corridor is really not allowed in the direction of kryvyi rih. and there is a corridor to melitopol. you can try to go there. well, there is no safe corridor either, and now it is being asked to send that place to side of the targeted crimea, it is true, mr. igor, let's say a few more words about the collaborators and about the occupiers, what is the style of their behavior, how do they actually behave? well, as for the occupiers, there are really our city now has roadblocks, yes. and uh, really, when they stop us, we see that people are uh, asked

to provide passports, passports, and also ask to provide uh, a mobile phone, and really, looking at mobile phones, you can’t say uh- they will not let go, they will not let go and they ask a lot of questions if they find anything there in the future - in mobile phones, this is what concerns the occupiers, a lot of equipment drives around our city, the city and with the military of the russian federation. this is very annoying to the civilians of our city. as for the collaborators, well, how do they behave, well, it’s hard to say. well, because in our city, i see them on telegram channels on e-e television and city television that guests from the russian federation come there and e-e they

communicate and offer e-e there are certain steps so that in the future it would be possible to join kherson oblast to the russian federation, so now they can offer well, i didn’t hear, i’m sorry, please suggest or at least in your opinion they can offer what you can’t offer this germany to the russian federation, this is what is being said now. well, if we are talking about the interaction of the occupiers with the collaborators, of course , we can fantasize here and there, guess what issues are being discussed there regarding loyalty to the adoption of certain decisions. well, in particular, the vice- the prime minister of russia, marat khumsulin, and representatives of the united russia party also came, i have such a question: what the hell and what

did they forget there ? even uh, they have some plans and they uh, uh, even try uh, to make it so that uh, kherson region joined the russian federation, that's uh, that they are uh, for the last time. they are really discussing what plans i don't have such information. well, we know the clear, conscientious, courageous position of the people of kherson, and all these vice prime ministers, this whole united russia, this whole uh, give me the company, the people of kherson have already sent the russian ship

a to the place of deployment many times ot if we talk about it, the occupation plans regarding the holding of the so-called a-a referendum, it is already known that certain of these plans were delayed in terms of time, there was even a date that was postponed to the fall there on september 11 a-a and it is interesting why this particular date was chosen. if we talk about postponement, what does it indicate you know, it 's hard for me to say now, but we should have a referendum on april 17 and april 27, then from may 1 to may 10, then from may 10 to may 16, but step by step it is being postponed to these dates, but why is the new date of september 11 named now? even this is some kind of round date uh, uh, well, he can't say why, but it's us, as we see it, we see

that ukraine's martial law will be extended to uh, up to 90 days, i uh, my vision is that after uh there will almost be a counteroffensive and hmm, they are probably hesitating in some way so as not to somehow make a pole-start there in an incomprehensible direction and have not taken any more ill-considered steps that we might be. uh, their side. well, i don’t know why exactly why exactly september 11 will be called such a date, but it vision i see that well 90 days this is what can be somehow er provide such er hmm sure steps on our

part but i also think that all these residents of our city that we want to return to the life we ​​had on february 23 - it will definitely come peaceful life after our victory well, no referendum, we will definitely not take place everything that the russian occupiers get so these are the first three letters of the name of the city of kherson thank you, the mayor of kherson ihor kolykhaev was with us for everything well our value equality may 21