the winner receives not only world recognition but also a financial component - this is 30,000 € in my personal opinion the vision of the butterfly absolutely deserves this award but other strong films from morocco and from south korea iceland and other countries also participate in the competition so today we are waiting for the jury 's decision that's all for today more on our website bbc.ua take care stay safe we ​​will be on the air again on monday at 21:00 a telethon for your why information broadcasting during the war the authorities provide journalists only they did not remove the selected tv channels from

the introduction of this telethon, toxic presenters, as we call them, those who worked at one time for medvedchuk, someone else has no place here, who made the decision to turn off espresso from digital broadcasting formally rests on the law of wartime and i do not consider it necessary to explain and how telephone law destroys freedom of speech in ukraine see more lviv the cultural capital of ukraine one of the most attractive tourist and investment cities ancient architecture museums festivals and dozens thousands of internally displaced persons moved to lviv to work after the start of hostilities, and employees of the espresso tv channel on the morning of february 24, the

russian nazis began their denazification of my city, the first enemy shells flew into our military town and a military unit, my house was hit by two shells and it caught fire . which was now plundered by the orcs , my road from buchi to kyiv took as long as 9 hours on the roads from kyiv to lviv even longer, and this irpin city is a hero in the kyiv region of the russian invasion here war correspondent and presenter of espresso vitaly bakumenko lived in irpin, i called a-a a city of children because i was a city of parks, a lot of parks, very cool playgrounds , kindergartens, on february 24 and 100 children turned into a

city of horrors, on that day i wake up and immediately as usual i pick up the phone and see a bunch of messages, hundreds of messages that ukrainian cities are being bombed with missiles, that the russian army is already in ukraine and is approaching kyiv, well, it was a shock, i live in this building on the sixth floor, i looked in window and i see that there is a traffic jam of cars on the way out. well, i don’t know, it’s endless and they almost don’t move . a cloud of black smoke was already hanging over the neighboring guest house. the air was shaking, not from the explosions, this horror . the city of heroes will have to endure a little later. the sky overhead trembled . combat helicopters, vitaliy's family quickly packed their things, sat in the car and joined the endless procession of millions of cars that voluntarily moved to the west of the country, the road to the shelter took several days, now

vitaliy's wife and daughter are abroad and he himself works at the lviv espresso studio, although he spends most of his time on the front line since 2014. vitaliy is a war correspondent. i saw a lot in donbas. i myself was born in luhansk and i worked in the east of ukraine. i was on the front line. well, of course, this is the work of a journalist. the ukrainians are blessed with happiness stanytsia luhansk well, everywhere the ukrainian army has been standing since march, a journalist covers russia's war against ukraine mykolaiv oblast kharkiv oblast donbas the front stretched for hundreds of kilometers across the entire

something is incredible in the country, we are just standing between villages , well, in one village between other villages and everything is flying above us , everything is flying and it falls there and near us and flies past and it is hard to imagine well, you just have to feel it yourself, they are shooting from everything constantly in mass we er, we should record what is happening, this is our work, the video and our reports , this is proof, this is proof of the crimes of the russian army against the ukrainian people after the liberation of irpen from the occupiers, military commander espresso visited the city for the first time, where he lived with his family, this is such an alley, and there were a lot of people here stores, construction markets, a coffee shop, you can see that everything is broken due to the shelling and there is no signboard. this

tape is a warning. by the way, it is very good that it was made here as a warning that something may fall from above, like snow on your head. the news that the espresso tv channel was disconnected from the digital network reminds me vitaliy, a journalist who fought heroically on the information front all this time, now risks losing his job on the air on that day and that day. and i was told that the espresso tv channels were removed from t2, well, it was very unpleasant it is a means of mass information, first of all, i emphasize mass information because the task of the mass media is to spread information to the maximum audience, that is, it is fundamentally important for us, the morning of the fourth of april, the 40th

day of the war, the technical service of espresso receives hundreds of messages from viewers. all of them are about what the channel in the digital broadcast is no longer available on the t2 network, which covers almost half of the audience, the rada tv channel is now broadcast, espresso director kateryna yermolovich says on april 4, my colleagues and a friend did not see themselves on the digital broadcast and taking into account the fact that the tv channel was born, as you know , during the event on the maidan, we formed a sufficiently powerful team of professional journalists who joined the information war from the first days, and despite the fact that our journalists were occupied by russian troops, some of them were in hot spots and even under suspicion shelling , we continued our professional work together with espresso from the digital air, still angry direct and the fifth channel. who stopped broadcasting and for what? answers to

these questions. journalists and the media community and human rights defenders know that when russia attacked ukraine, some ukrainian channels immediately started working in an information marathon mode. on february 24, the regulator, the national council for television and radio broadcasting, allowed them to withdraw from their programming concepts, and the very next day, the ministry of culture and information policy announced the launch of a joint marathon with the participation of 1+1 stb ictv intera and the council, later they were joined by the media group ukraine and the social marathon, the only news began to be broadcast by almost all ukrainian tv channels and espresso are no exception - says editor-in-chief anastasia rava, as for the marathon, the only thing is that we

broadcast it from the first day, and its creation is up to 12 hours a day. that is, it is half 50% of our daily broadcast. on march 18, the national security and defense council adopted president volodymyr zelenskyy immediately signed the decision on the implementation of a unified information policy under martial law, however, on how to ensure such an information policy and should some channels be turned off for this? neither the head of state, nor the nsdc, nor the national council did not explain, as a result, the concern of radio broadcasting, radio communication and television simply turned off espresso from the digital air and deprived almost half of the viewers. broadcasting in

wartime, human rights protection allows, er, restrictions on freedom of speech in general, civil liberties, er, during war, er, in those cases. well , first of all, if er, some media start to promote the position of the enemy side, but none of these three tv channels belongs to such media that conduct enemy propaganda, the second case when restrictions are possible is if the tv channels provide information that is threatening to national security, e.e., to military security, in this case, the deployment of troops about the movement of e-e and so on. the level of armament is, well, there is no such thing either. in what

way could the activity of the tv channel harm the security of ukraine? espresso journalists asked all the authorized bodies of the national council of the national security and defense council of the concern rrt of the state special communications and many others. we only received a response from the security service of ukraine, based on the results of the review of your letter, we inform you of the lack of information on the issues raised. meanwhile , the media community came out in support of the tv channels. we understand that there is a political component to this. they still don't allow access to this tv station. well, in my opinion, it's wrong because we know that before the war, the tv channel took a strict oppositional position. but after the war, it was still

the tv channel said that the politicians leave the struggle until after the war and now take a balanced position, so why not include them on the air? it is wrong. espresso journalists found the management of the rrt concern, which is responsible for the operation of tv towers throughout the country, and this did not happen in kyiv , where in the conditions war, the main management decisions are made and not where the tv towers were most affected by the russian shelling, the acting general director of the concern serhii samarei was found in kovel, volyn region, in a few dozens of kilometers from the border with poland, there was an order from the cannery to arrest it, i will immediately answer that it is closed information,

i will not divulge the exact order . the military command, therefore, the information is closed, in other words, we received the instruction, and from whom we will not tell , this is very similar to the banal use of telephone law, one of the most shameful management traditions of yanukovych's time, claims lawyer yuriy krajnyak about some specifics related to the military veteran, it is simply about banal turning off the television channel from the digital air without any explanation from the decision to block the espresso broadcast on the t2 digital network, they were immediately baptized in the office of the president of the national council for television and radio broadcasting and state special communications who stated that he was simply following the instructions of the national security and defense council, everything points to the fact that

you will not find the extreme and there are no clear explanations from official bodies of any kind well, what we see is simply unsubscribes and the transfer of responsibility from one person to another, and they cannot, cannot provide clear explanations. well, because it happened . instead, the secretary of the national security council, oleksiy danilov, in an interview with new time, said that espresso's disconnection from the air was related to security issues, the war had begun, the concept of a single broadcast appeared, the channels were offered to unite, everyone was exclusively invited to this platform to participate everyone was given the opportunity to do so, if someone did not want to participate in that platform, then he should understand. we are now in a state of war. this is not about censorship

. it is about the safety of words. it is a frank manipulation, insists the editor-in-chief of espresso anastasia rava. have we ever been offered to join this marathon? no, we have not been offered. we are ready. i think that my colleagues support me. we are ready to join and become part of the marathon of one single news but on parity on equal terms with all the other participants. espresso should be returned to broadcast also because the fight against the aggressor is now being waged on the information front, the professional and patriotic work of the tv channel's journalists will only bring our victory closer, human rights activists say that if in russia the government wants to hear only one voice and it has achieved this, it has imposed an absolute monopoly on society which is not

undermined by anything, this is a complete and total monopoly on the media space, and for me the fact that there is a plurality of voices in ukraine, which actually boils down to the unison of a patriotic position. this fact for me is proof, we thereby prove that we are not russia, the unjust, illegal and unconstitutional decision to turn off the tv channel outraged not only the ukrainian media and the human rights community , scientists, cultural figures and even members of the polish diet sent their appeals to the ukrainian authorities with the demand to return the channel to the air; in the end , the authorities had to react 11 in may, the parliamentary committee on humanitarian and information policy held a meeting at which they were supposed to establish who made the official decision on the digital broadcast

espresso direct and the fifth channel on the territory of the occupied territories russia as a terrorist state increases the presence of its information channels, while in ukraine, in ukrainian , the patriotic tv channel that was born on the maidan is actually turned off the air and the tacit consent of all state authorities to this situation is simply does not invest in any adequate understanding of the situation and within the framework of the information war and identifying the person responsible was not simply a decision made by the national defense security council on march 18, 2022 regarding the implementation of a unified information policy in the conditions of martial law, that is, on these channels in these three countries, the broadcasting of the channel is carried out by the council that maintains a unified information account, the

decision of the national security council indicated that it is necessary to implement a unified information system and what this means, that it must be carried out, was it given by the state communications service on the instructions of the mrt concern to switch the channel, this is the question. i did not say that the communication administration gave direct instructions, as you say . transferred the responsibility for the shutdown to another colleague about the disconnection of e-e, there were no relevant documents for themselves, or they kept silent or waved their hands, just as nervous about the existence of his

decision or written formalized in me personally unknown to the announcer of the rt concern kyrylo danilov refused to answer the direct questions of the people's deputies at all since this is supposed to be information with closed or restricted access, it turns out that you switched the channel yourself, this is your decision without any instructions or any reasons. that is, it is here the enterprise is the decision of the national security and defense council, which was previously mentioned and the decision of the rnc vat, there is no indication of the concert, the concern was not mentioned, we mentioned the national council, so we will consider the attention of the public discussion and now there will be questions for you who made the decision, i will tell you this is not a question of public discussion what first of all, we

now have a committee, we now have a committee without an obligation to answer to the people's deputies , meanwhile, in the very apparatus of the national security and defense council, they claim that the documents did not give any instructions to turn off the tv channels accordingly, the number or the closed decree of the president for these dates, which was somehow distant to the first president, gave some such orders , there is no e-e closed e-e decree does not exist and did not exist, does the decision of the national security council contain a decision to switch off or switch everything is already clear to the sbu channel, as they say in the public open. that is, what is written there is nothing else. the issue of the parliamentary committee became obvious

. none of the structures that made the decision to turn off the tv channels simply do not exist instead. information broadcasting within the framework of the telethon, the only news is carried out mostly by entertainment tv channels from oligarchic media groups, while the only structure that took responsibility was the concern rrt could not refer to any of the official documents, espresso journalist vitaly portnikov does not hide his indignation, or we have to determine with you that there was some official arbitrariness and we must clearly recognize who is the author of this bureaucratic arbitrariness, it is obvious to provide the conditions for a person who , contrary to the law, made such a decision, i have not even the representatives of the concern. and those who gave them such orders, they don’t want to name them here for reasons of secrecy and for reasons of corporate solidarity, these people should simply bear responsibility, and until the culprit is named, the media community hopes for a quick

return of tv channels to the air, as well as for the fact that the events surrounding the shutdown of espresso are not a clearing of the media market for the sake of the oligarchs or a political massacre that only benefits the rashiv invaders. as far as we knew about it there were talks about compensating the tv channels from the budget for their participation in the telethon, but we don't know if this issue happened in the sense that if and when the martial law would end, so that the authorities would not have such a desire to leave this control -e over a reliable space e-e and then so here we are already very, very alert about this espresso war correspondent vitaliy bakumenko walks at will with an

irp broken by the resolutes. whom i haven't seen for several months, they first went to poland to see their girlfriend, and now they are in vilnius and everything is fine . the espresso airwaves may soon disappear, and partner programs from those countries that provide ukraine with the greatest support for america's voice, radio liberty, bbc and franz 24 we all have a common enemy, russia, and i believe that attempts should be stopped

pressure on tv channels and if well, i understand that this is politics and if this is a political decision, then we must find the strength and cancel it because we are working on the same information front and we must be a strong fist to counter the russian strike propaganda work for vitaliy is also an opportunity to support his family, pay the mortgage and repair his apartment damaged by roaches in irpen.

tore the curtain, then flew through the bedroom, this bedroom flew into this plaster wall and flew out of here and tore off a piece of the ceiling as well, this is a children's room, a children's room for i can't imagine what would have happened if we hadn't gone to beat the electricity supply in vitaly's house with hail the journalist brews a strong espresso and shares a cherished dream that he wants to see come true on the day when ukraine will declare victory over the russian invaders , to be in the studio on this day and personally say it on the air of the espresso tv channel and i hope that such

i will have an opportunity ukraine in the war with russia defends its independence and democracy freedom of speech is its fundamental value it is unacceptable that in ukraine, as in russia, there should be censorship and restrictions on free mass media, return the espresso tv channel to the air, congratulations, friends, vitaly portnikov and we continue the broadcast of the television of the express channel, let's talk about where we are now in reality , at what point in this war that vladimir putin started on february 24, 2022 against ukraine. i remind you that you can ask your questions on the internet facebook page of espresso tv channel on my own page or we managed to answer some of these questions in our conversation, so

as you can see, the real battle for donbas is happening literally before our eyes, a very difficult battle, the enemy is trying to occupy the entire territory of luhansk region in the near future of ukraine and proceed to the occupation of donetsk region. why is there such an intense war happening there now? there are several reasons. the first reason is purely political, as you know, the so-called special military operation by the president of the russian federations were started by vladimir putin immediately after he recognized the independence of the so-called donetsk luhansk people's republic, the leaders of the puppet entities turned to him with a request to protect them from the so-called ukrainian aggression, russian officials are still inventing that ukraine was already planning to attack the er, the territory

of donbas occupied by russia and to liberate their territories, although you and i saw very well whose troops are, in principle , near the ukrainian borders. and was there the accumulation of ukrainian troops near the administrative borders that separated the free part of the luhansk and donetsk regions from the parts occupied by the russians. thus, in principle, the main goal of the special military operation, even from the point of view of russian propaganda and russian-official discourse there, is the complete occupation of the luhansk and donetsk regions, so that in putin 's language it is called and the whole operation to restore the territorial integrity of the donetsk luhansk people's republic putin can afford to lose, relatively speaking, in any direction, but but not there, because a loss in the luhansk and donetsk regions will mean a failure, a special military apparatus can always be used as a victory if the situation for putin goes

badly, it’s just the fact of the occupation of the luhansk and donetsk regions that the request of the leaders of the puppet administration of these regions has been fulfilled specifically military the operation has come to an end and that's the point. everything else is, so to speak, goals of a completely different nature, which of course can be pursued, but it can also be postponed for later , that's why, of course, right now there are such serious fears the price of luhansk oblast because 8% of the region's territory was under the control of the occupiers after 2014, now there is much less left to buy than e-e in the territory of donetsk oblast and luhansk oblast has thus become the first point of application of efforts for the russian armed forces, now the question arises apolitically, what will it do putin if this occupation succeeds, this is clear from the decree of the president of the

russian federation regarding the simplified procedure for granting russian citizenship to residents of four ukrainian regions of luhansk and donetsk kherson zaporizhzhia oblast, since russia already had many decrees on the simplified granting of citizenship to residents of the former soviet republics, this decree is as much an attempt to somehow simplify the self-operation of granting citizenship as a clear signal. joined to the russian federation are luhansk, donetsk , zaporozhye, kherson oblasts. effort