it also doesn't look good at a concert, there are no cranes, the stage is like that for a moment, i don't go there for glamor or the screen and the stage, the fighters need support so that they understand that they are with the people, and then i wanted to just spit in the face of these people, but i'm a polite girl and i restrained myself so as not to say any harsh words to them, now i would say, i would say in vain that i was silent then, and that's how i leveled it all, and i can still say that now, and i believe that there should even be some such program at the state level in order to ukrainian artists constantly traveled to this part and supported the soldiers. well, so that the soldiers understand that they , together with the people, are needed, they are waiting for them, they are loved, they are valued and respected, as it is in america, in america, it is an honor to do something for the military. i know even such cases when people, citizens,

see military personnel are at papa's in a restaurant in a cafe and they treat them to lunch there, coffee, something. i was at the airport, there is a 20% discount for military personnel on books. and this is everywhere in america, wherever you go, you constantly feel that we have military and they well, the state and the people are very cool with them and we support them as much as we can, let's return to the issue of language, i see you in the comments some criticisms about the fact that after the 14th year, you still had songs there from time to time somewhere it 's in russian, and what would you say now, after february 24, your position became radical regarding the language, as it was then, this is my work . this song came to me like this. and i thought it necessary to release it so that it would live. now i have such a rejection and, um , non-acceptance of what if something comes to me there

i won't do it like that in russian and then this song came to me with these chords. i went through a painful breakup with my husband. it was very painful for me and i went to the piano in 10 minutes and wrote this song in 10 minutes. i really wanted her to live it such was my sublimation into the creativity of my pain and regret. i just see another throwback there, it's like this, it's an attempt to sit on two chairs. well, i'm not reading the hater's comments, uh, in this sense, the size of the cut, how you read, and i don't even remember everything that haterism, let people write ya i believe that words are one thing, and actions and deeds are another. let people judge me. i am not ashamed of my actions, neither for myself nor for my actions. now the verkhovna rada of ukraine has passed this law regarding the banning of russian songs in public space . how do you perceive it, how

necessary is it now? well, this situation has now reached the point of no return, and we have no right to return everything to the way it was before those terrifying days before the death of thousands of ukrainians, and we simply have no right to take a step back, so the normal law is you still i will say more that when you listen to arctic and asti and others like him in the territory of ukraine, you pay royal, you pay taxes for listening to this content, and the money for this content goes back to russia to these artists , back to the russian treasury if we say so globally and for this money, then there are ukrainians . that is, this is such a small step that is worth thinking about, it also applies to e -movie content, any content that we consume on

the territory of ukraine, but it is russian, and we we pay them funds, then these funds are converted into death, so if we are not talking about royalties in this situation, for example, let's imagine, let 's simulate the situation, you are walking down the street right now, which very often, in principle, i observe and uh, some street musician sings a russian song. soldier, you know, it’s quite a popular song, you would score comments, a very tight exchange and very strongly supported low-quality russian pop , let’s say it honestly, because all these basque kirkorovs, well, i’m right, i can’t listen to that for to me, this is low quality. i know that she is one of the ukrainian artists, even back in the days when they were not supported, that is, the situation is better now, so we cannot abstract and forget all these

years that we lived next to this neighbor, this is not a selective process, these songs which we know. well, because since the soviet times, everyone has been speaking one language. but but , again, it shouldn't be like that, and these are the times when a new formation is growing up, and it's completely in their hands not to sing in the street. i'm a soldier, it's in their hands to sing in the street. there is a moonlit or red night viburnum or a bunch of different ukrainian songs there, i love oh, in the cherry tree, there was a nightingale chirping. it ’s cool to walk down the street and listen to someone sing this song to the guitar from our older generation. we can’t demand this, let’s also be honest. the youth and the new generation, they already see all the horror in this, they already understand what they should sing, what they should

consume, and where to say no, well, if a young guy sang this song, would they notice b or not, would they say something no, i don't do that, i don't do that if i go up to every guy and do this i will spend uh time and energy better i will spend time on my creativity and with my creativity by my example and with the help of constant publicity i will give others an example that is better to focus on that yes i more i will do it, if i , on my part, will call to constantly do , set this example and act. and after i will call from my information platform to nurture ukrainian and consume ukrainian, then perhaps this guy who plays the guitar, i am a soldier, can

he will be inspired by my example and think and think, but really, what am i going to do, that's what i mean. well, actually, we're writing an interview at the moment when you literally returned from from the war zone. so you do a lot of volunteering, and you collect. i saw there for cars and for medical equipment, some tools, so what is the biggest project you are implementing, in your opinion, and how many , what scale did you manage to implement? what you can be proud of your own well, when did it start? a full-scale invasion of ukraine. i took the position that i will not go anywhere with the country, that my place is here with the people, with the country , especially in such difficult times. at the most, i went to america in order to raise funds at

charity concerts. uah 5 million, which were transferred to children's funds, to aid funds to the wounded and also to the armed forces of ukraine. piece for with the help of which all the debris can be seen during the operation, one such table costs 100,000 dollars, well, it is not a high amount. many people gave everything, but we still collected some of these funds for these x-ray tables. we wanted to collect half a million dollars, but we collected a little less recently, i gave a concert in dnipro, bartolomeo, and thanks to this concert, we also collected more than uah 65,000 in donations, thanks to which we organized a holiday for the children and fully covered all communal debts. the concert in

mukachevo was also in support of the 105th battalion of the 63rd or 65th mechanized brigade e in order for them to have a car because a car is in the war - it is here now and tomorrow it will be gone, a shell hit and that's all, and we constantly need these drones, cars, and more. when i went to america for general concerts, i had i also had individual charity solo concerts, for example in washington, and now let’s count, they collected about 300,000 uah, and i sent these funds to a volunteer who helped the azov unit. that is, these funds were completely gone. i was also in denver for a solo concert in america and the community denver ukrainians gave me personally the funds for the azov residents for help. i came to kyiv. i met with the sister of one of the azov residents. i

gave her all these funds that will go. them and well, i don't stop, i'm always going somewhere, i'm collecting something, so we came back literally yesterday, i came back from concerts for fighters, there were hot spots, i won't name the artists who refused to go there because it's scary, well, again i still have the same opinion, if he is a popular artist, it is not because he was given this title in the office on the sidelines and clapped in the palm of his hand that he is popular, like our president volodymyr zelensky, who did not leave, who remained in the country, this is the popular president - he is a person who is with the people so are artists - they are people who should be with the people, and i want to show the soldiers that i am not afraid, even though i am

scared, because the cities in which we were in are flying in. these cities are divided into sectors by orcs , and then every day they fly in three by four five shells and there are concerts, yes, if there is an air raid, everything ends and you have to go to the bomb shelter, so i'm scared, but the soldiers are fighting for us, i have no right to be afraid, that's the kind of politics i recently published, and a photo in which the glass in the car is broken wreckage yes on this glass i wanted to say in this car we were driving this was not there was such a moment after which i would like to say that and i could sit there in this place no he could not become a turning point in such a way that he would also start to fear ot as you said some artists well me i could and from the package, of course, during the active hostilities near kyiv. i lived in kyiv, i

went out in the morning, i counted the explosions. and one morning i counted 21 explosions and stopped doing them because they continued, so i was very scared when something happened near us in pechersk arrived at night and delayed the house delayed the glass trembled and we did not then for another hour my knees were cotton wool and i was just all wet from that fear all my t-shirt clothes in which i ran out into the corridor with my sister niece i was very scared but everyone is scared but we have to fight in this. i consider our indomitability of ukrainians that despite the fear, despite the darkness that is closing in on us, we all have strength and there is light and i will go to the light as long as my heart beats and my dad is in kharkiv to me it is also scary for him, he operates on the wounded and constantly flies there kharkiv at all now there is no security there, something is constantly flying there from different regions i am

very sorry for all the people who live under these shellings, well, it is terrible, do you want to go to kharkiv? well, i want to go to kharkiv, yes. i was already at points there are 30 km away from the heavy shelling, but the military themselves are just letting us on the ice. that is, we say we will wear the armor of fairy tales. we are not afraid. we want to support the boys, let's go in some small groups, they say. no, we respect your wish . but we want to keep you. who will give us concerts? to give then, well, in general, our military, they are so cool, we didn’t even know all of them until now, how cool we are, if the gods exist, then they wear the uniform of the zsu, please tell me, if you had the opportunity to colleagues who refuse to go to support our military. something to say or some kind of argument. that moment is the fact that it is

necessary to do something for our country, for our military. people with different emotional perceptions of reality, but an artist, in my opinion, is the person who should lead the way. has strength and should set an example, i want ukrainian artists to lead, be brave and be united with their people and their fighters and support them thank you very much only united together we will win understand we can only be so uncomfortable questions witty conversations the most interesting inside byraktar tox to fridays 21:00 in marathon the only news fighter vitaliy merinov returned to the lion of the national guard a full-scale war just started in ukraine an experienced athlete a loving father and

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a soldier will not offend a child. in the interview at the first thank you for agreeing, you are still in the ranks of the terrodefense, of course you personally, when you made this decision, on what emotions did you praise that you will also go somewhere, exchange the camera for a machine gun i have together they camera automatic well, but in fact if you already go there with a camera, then without a main weapon somehow it will be unnatural there, it will just be wrong. it is wrong. i served a long time ago in the soviet army, i remember something primitive and immoral there, but we were ready that we would really have to conduct direct contact fire with the enemy, i will tell you that a weapon is a weapon, if

there is a weapon, if there is one, it can be handed over, then it can be anything, and i try not to give in to some romantic or other emotions, but this is a suit, a new situation, a new reality, have you been to donbas before? ah, when the war started 8 years ago, you mostly traveled along the front line. you traveled and showed your paintings of the one who passed through the fire, and not only this film. if you used to travel as a film artist, well, i am a phase, and during the time i was there, i filmed lysychansk for the last time and moved a little to the other side, it is directly near severodonetsk lysychansk, you were somewhere on the eve of the brutal battles or during the brutal responses, and

happened so that a very nice person flew to lysychansk. i am not talking about severodonetsk there, the front-line guys used to come and tell me. i managed to shoot something. it is already very serious and there are losses and there is a victory. the main thing is that moralin's victory, because it sounds trite, but in my own earth and they don't know why they came, do you have any things after this trip that you can't get out of your head, emotional ones that hit you hard, well, with age, the perception is a little different, i can't say that i was shocked, contused by what i saw, but when today you see a person and tomorrow he is gone, well , it can't help but stop it, time, and another very positive impression, i was impressed by what

interesting people are fighting there. behind the bridge and a young guy, mykhailo gerasim, says to me, what are you doing here, our graduate? well, here he is, fighting three actors from the movie toloka, which i also showed while there was an opportunity on the war, three actors are fighting, it's amazing and in general, there are just very interesting people, it impressed me and since the first once when i was in the 15th year of the sands and i would even say that these are deeply intelligent people, they are a little emotionally detached, but when you start talking, for example, i met there lyubchyk callsign lyubchenko lyubchyk he started asking

me about cinema and i wasn't able to answer all the questions, he's not just a movie buff, he's not just a collector. he also knows a lot about ukrainian cinema. and how do they know the history, you can just sit there and listen to some facts that i simply didn't even imagine. how do they know there? literature but of course it is as if it were a parallel world. and the main thing is that they are fighters. you mentioned your former students. and what did you study as a dean? and what do you feel when you see students at the front? i'm getting my master's degree and a guy comes up to me and says well, i studied at the theater director's theater school

, i want to graduate from you, i want to shoot a movie well, i ask him well, where are you from now i say i fought for a year and four months and now it means i i am a civilian and there is a student sitting in front of me and it is not known who can teach whom and who and why, and this is the student andrii ivanyuk. i met him right on the first day when he appeared in the theater. yes, here i was trying to teach you something, and here you are me. now let's teach, and i saw how much experience ah , here he is, here i am, how he appeared in the position, how he himself, how he prepared the position, how he gave prompts, how he belt - explained er, it's an experience of a year and four months

on the front line, then he shot the film easterner. you know, this is his film, we see such a parallel to cinema in your conversations. war, cinema can be a tool in war, it is a weapon. well, if we take the classic example of our enemies, they conducted art training, artistic training, well, yes. if quite specifically, from 91- th year, but earlier of course, they told us tales about how kind they are, how humane they are, soldiers, a soldier will not hurt a child. on the 23rd, many people said, no, how come. well, these are brothers. well, what do you say? who will attack us? well

, fear god. so, of course, these are weapons. and i made sure many times when i was transporting movies . films are very interesting, and so is the world of the ukrainian hero - this is traditionally something from the times of the soviet union, because remember the estonian hero in the soviet film , even lyubchyk, the one who knows about cinema, will not remember everything, because there were no heroes, only russians, only who won russia, but now we need it well, it already heroes are already appearing, there are already many films that tell about ukrainian heroes , we need to develop this front, support it, because without a hero, see how we can make sure, on the example of hollywood, without a hero, something is

a movie. talk about culture, and in boris johnson's book about churchill, he mentions such an interesting historical fact, when during the war, he was asked why the latter invests such crazy money in culture and does not send it to the front, so churchill asked a counter-question and what are we fighting for then, ah , actually, i have a question for you. why, when we have a war in the country, why is cultural identification important now, you see? identification is what is called the national idea in a mysterious way, and

very often, well, at least i often heard it in russian, a little bit like that. what kind of national idea do you have? well, it's like a formula, just like that, for example, the square of the hypotenuse with the rabbinic square the sum of the squares of the legs is not a formula and it can be very easily confused, but everything is in principle enough. it is clear, first of all, it is absolutely pointless to address this question to politicians, it is not their business to form the national idea, the national idea is formed by poets lina kostenko, for example, a few measures of music skoryk quotes aphorisms from films and all this, little by little, this protective wall builds the national idea. this is a very complex substance

. the empire always took care of this very seriously and bought poets, directors, musicians, composers and they are, well, steely people, basically they couldn’t help but sing their own, and the empire already selected there. well, for example, well, it’s not that simple. it’s brilliant. russia can’t understand it with the mind, and that’s an indulgence for everything. but today, he can come to bucha while shooting a child, but with the mind you don't understand russia. that's what you think. you think just like that. i came and shot him. yes, you fools don't understand with your mind, but this is how it was imprinted by the arshin. in general, it does not measure a

special gender in russia. you only have to believe. this is one millionth part of the russian national idea and such fragments . a lot stolen, not stolen there, and so on, we need to create this national idea in a good sense, a national myth, which well, i can’t say that it doesn’t exist. thank god, there is, but everything must be invested and invested, as churchill said, money, everything must be invested, and considering what you just said about these bought poets, artists , talented people, what russia has turned its culture into. well, as practice shows, this is a kind of nightmarish paradox, and the culture is known throughout the

world, it is advertised, it is studied used these people. maybe they didn't even suspect how events would unfold, but in the empire, she turned them into drgs, which are launched through language, through examples of genius art, the main tool, of course, is language, which is very easy to turn against any country, russia, there где русский язык всё это тоже честноциональной day russia there where русский язык dot and they come you recently addressed your russian colleagues and in a video message in one and you mentioned there about your teacher who kvass in the river ah, and you remembered such a moment. what is he, this teacher? he taught you to distinguish fascism. by the smell

, you understood what fascism is now