i regret that i was young, it was only possible not to go to the project. i didn't do it, i regret it . they said with their hands, well, if you don't like it, you can find it. well, you can find it. yes, but all the trends of recent times are unpleasant. why are they here? why are they here again? why is the nation that attacked the ukrainian donbas? why is it being filmed here? why don't they all support it ? not everyone supported even then ukraine, why are they allowed to film with us, but it wasn't, i don't know, it's possible, only now. when there's such a full-scale war, we felt strong and capable, and when our guys

at the front protect us like that. well, it's just not possible for me. i called when i posted this video. my friend from the front, he is a ukrainian artist, called me. he said, lera , if you have something like that, it's all on ours, ours, now our acting field. i don't understand why i'm here, he asked me, please do something, you're going to do it , don't let me no cooperation and when i i heard his words, i understood that no matter what i was doing, it's scary now. if someone didn't say something against me, i have very strong support, it 's our military, who are protecting my life and the lives of all our ukrainians. i just don't i may not have the right to let them down so that when they returned after the victory, they would see on the screens the projects that would be filmed. because when they put their lives there valeriya. by the way, you say that, well, you

recorded another video and, well, you say that you have some haters are now saying that maybe not everyone accepted it, but i did i've seen her comments from people who don't really agree with you, but it's strange enough. what do these people say? and we don't agree in general, and why don't people tell us what to do or, as some think, that it's some kind of struggle between the actors i want to state once again that this is not a struggle that i am against any specific actress or against any specific project. i am against all russians in my country. i am against russian co-production with ukrainian . we cannot have any joint work with the aggressor country, and it seemed to me that although my video was emotional, but i spoke and stated my position , it is broad, it covers all actors, directors

, make-up artists. no one from the russian side will be in my country, it is an aggressor country, but since the project as an actress turned out to be what she said about herself , there were people who slightly blocked this story in showdowns between actors no, it's not showdowns between actors i'm not alone now i'm supported by a lot of ukrainian artists directors make-up artists er we're not just now i don't want to leave it at the level on facebook it's not a flash mob don't call us flash mob is our civic position. so we came to this by taking huge wrong steps because of our youth. we are now uh so hard to fight with this, but we are going to the legal level, we are preparing a petition with lawyers, next week this

petition will appear, i will apply again to everyone , because in the petition we raise not only a ban on cooperation with russian actors, but also a ban on the emergence of such a law banning all content that is filmed as a co-production with russians, this cannot be on our television and i really want to appeal to all citizens of ukraine, i will really need your support so that we get, if i am not mistaken, 25,000 votes, so that this petition is supported by our government, now i really, really want to unite our whole country, please, and i want to call we need support from the ministry of culture from the state cinema please pay attention to us we are very serious we do not want a repeat of the 14th year when we did not defend ourselves there is no place for

russian actors in our country actors to directors in general, to russian figures in our country, this is an aggressor country, this is an enemy country that is killing our population valeria, and what do you think the ministry of culture supports you at all because the head of the ministry of tkachenko oleksandr tkachenko himself is involved when he was the manager of a-a channel 1+1 he himself is involved in the production of such series was defended by svaty and now he is absolutely not against even having russian experts come to us in the media space on the air of tv channels, russians criticize him for this, do you think that he does he support or on the contrary will he say that well, good russians can act in our tv series. i really believe that he will support me. also, since the 14th year, i did not understand the criticality of the problem that i enter the frame with russians. i think that people are under under the influence

of terrible events in our country, other steps will be taken , other correct steps will be taken to help the law to appear , the draft law to be created together with our help, or simply with our support, e.e. i really believe that he will hear me, i really believe that he will help me because we're not going to do it we just have to do it together, the state is creative people, state cinema only together, i really, really ask you to pay attention and support us valeria and i wanted to ask you very briefly what are the consequences of such total cooperation with the russians , production in russian, targeting the russian audience, what are the consequences it should be specifically for actors, not for the market, but specifically for actors for acting skills, because the most obvious story angle was often discussed that you have to play and work in russian, and that's why you have to practice

that's why when these actors start acting in ukrainian after these series, they don't do very well, do you agree with this and what other consequences do you see that are not ideological, but rather practical for the acting profession ? it's a shame to talk about such internal professional consequences, because now the consequences can be very critical if we don't drive them out of the country completely, but just because you're asking, you understand everything is much easier with us, cool the country is strong, creative people are strong artists, the artist must play so that the artist plays coolly with each project, grows in stature, he must play when we have tv series that you will not discover in the main

roles russians are not always but i mean well, someone takes the main roles and ukrainians, but the trend is such that there must be 1-2 russians in the main roles, we lose the opportunity to constantly increase our skills, constantly increase our professionalism, actors must play, we must play, we must not give our roles to anyone, absolutely with you valeria, thank you once again for this video of yours that stirred up our party. i really hope that it is informative. i am very grateful to you. we will support you. we urge our viewers to sign the petition and follow this issue further. it is really important . valeria, thank you and for what do you know for our time? valeria hodus was an actress who politely announced that she needed to stop cooperation with russian

actors, which, unfortunately, is still ongoing. well, then we will talk with two more actors with slava bobenkov and with irma vitovskaya, she will also be with us in 10-15 minutes, the actress is one of the few who categorically refused to participate in russian projects at the beginning of the war that began in our country in 2014, and now we are with vyacheslav babenkov we also talk to actors who have also participated in tv series and make wonderful short comedies that everyone should watch. thank you. good day to you. what’s more, you record the videos in english, and the movies you see are comedies, which, well, at least i watched the short ones. they are filmed in english, that's why i think so. what are you aiming at some other market, right? well, what was aimed at the western market is this. that's exactly what

we had a shipment of russian actors, that's why i looked at the west. look, you've written to the whole thing, now you've written posts of course, almost all of them are the end of a real party. everyone has different views. you wrote, in particular, that we are all to blame for bringing our serial industry to such a state . the responsibility of both the audience and the actors and everyone who did not hide exactly what happened, what had to be done and when it had to be done, well , you can say that i recently started my acting career and i joined the actors when, well, in 2017 because that's why and if everything was here for me to

say so, but it was necessary to do it probably because of the independence of our ukrainian, but already later after the 14th year and for me it was always uh well, that's when i got into acting in the profession of cinema and it's real i was very surprised because in in ukraine, that is, in a separate country, so to speak , non-ukrainian actors are loved and booed, don't splice their a--but here are the russians. i think why this is illogical, and i studied in america at the film academy and there, uh. in order to work there, uh, a foreigner has to there was a huge way to go, you just have to be a few times better than the locals. that is, they

have some kind of it, it’s not only in america, it’s also in britain, in france, they have some kind of protection of their staff, their actors, so that they are better, so that they earn money more money to e-e industry was developing. on the contrary, the russians came here and there. i think why. and they also filmed in russian. it was very strange for me. so, you write the same thing in your post about, well, this is a lot when talking about it, of course, about the attitude on the non-filming site and before filming, probably to russian actors to ukrainian actors, and it’s not just ukrainian actors who sing backing vocals here. and you also write that it was directly said that you are ukrainian actors, well, they are less professional. but in russia, you say the st. petersburg school school so this level

look at these actors. but at the same time, well , first of all, tell me, well, how is it practical to refuse you directly, and the ukrainian producers said that the russian ones are better. and you are here if you are not capable of anything. well, i do not want to name names, and i think these people have changed their minds now, but that's how i once came. i went to the master class and to the casting directors. i read the interviews of the producers, and they used the russians as an example. here they are, look how cool they are. what are they like there? what kind of schools do they have? how do they work? well, me look, i came, i think. well, these are the rules, so i guess you have to look at them, but the more i looked at them, the more i understood that i don't want to be like them. to my colleagues

, to the group, i won't say that it's 100% perfect, but, unfortunately, i have such experience that the percentage is probably 80-85. it's just some trash , because i started. er, a staged actor there. well, like mrs. irma vitovska. maybe for the time when i was there in the 17th year maybe i would have been treated differently. and since i started. of course it was and i thought that it might be so and it should be. no, i don't know because i had no experience , but then when i had experience in the western seraglio, i received a small role, but there is a relationship to the work. to the actors. well, you understand that this is just some uh-huh, a colossal difference, and i then

thought, this is how i want to work . well, i won't say that there are russians in the projects, but for some reason i do n't it seems that where there are russians, everything is done somehow through one place, so eh and i say well, everything is somehow not as eh should be, it seems to me that they come to the playground drunk and they don't want to do what they are told, no eh in general, in ukraine, we don't have such an institute of reputation, that is, in the west, if someone leaks something there, you can lose your career . skreber is here you can come well, not you

as it is, again, it's not a big deal but there were cases when people come drunk, they don't even know the text, they're not ready, and then everyone everywhere is guilty , the artists in clay costumes are that one. well, that's it. the arrows start to be translated and you think, god , why is that the case with us, actually, well, yes, how i started from scratch, i communicated, it’s not like there, you know. you can think. here babinkov came and demanded. give me conditions there, give people like me . there are thousands, well, hundreds of actors are produced every year. hundreds of ukrainian actors are produced and there is no work for them. very difficult to get into even these low-quality series, and then you meet them there, you see them there somewhere

, they record some monologues there, they take them there, in which shorts do you think, why why? i didn't want them to have such a barrier to professions in the form of well, some kind of artificial barrier in the form of this russian growth of some kind, vyacheslav . i think that this people will gradually disappear. and in- in the film industry and we, the media, ukrainian society, who must now somehow unite in order to change more than one situation. i thank you for this broadcast. we will monitor the situation further. we will talk with irma vitovskaya, who is famous

not only for her roles, not only for popular love, but also for the fact that she fundamentally refused to shoot in russian projects, and let's say this before it became fashionable. irma, i congratulate you, i congratulate you, glory to ukraine glory to the heroes. irma said in her facebook posts that you supported valeria khoda. they said that she was well done for admitting her mistakes and saying so publicly . by the way, what do you think we have a lot of support? you could say that it's too late. you, uh, so the actress has caught on, how old am i ? for 8 years, in all the interviews, i said that we should stop cooperating, no one listened to me. now i wo n't support you, you did the opposite, why is it important to support, and because none of us people have the right to a mistake even when it is very tragic and

the main thing, as alina vasylivna said on the fall, the main return, oh life - it was not she who said it, it seems that other ukrainians said it. now she was confused , she said life is a big ice skater who managed to pass without falling, and i have no right to condemn her words because i am not a party to the victim in me the only thing that my relatives suffered was that they lost their property in donetsk, but this is not such a sacrifice, you know, although it is also a blow to my sister, i don't know which one already lives there, it is not known who, but i don't have the blood to make such direct claims to my colleagues but i chose it for myself after ilovaisk, the decision was final for me, the point is that when we were shooting the products that we entered before the annexation of crimea, we already started to create it and

uh, they gave the go-ahead and that is, we signed it, it was a tv series, these are all tv series, not about propaganda, not about fun rides on tanks. and we finished it, and in this way, i had one day in the second project, which was filmed somewhere from october, already a cold period, just after ilovaisk, and i closed this day and said goodbye to the whole group. this ship because what happened in ilovaisk in the debaltsevo volnovakha of zelenopilya, the first days of the war and in the crimea, we do not forget our first boy who died in the crimea and then the crimean sidewalks and all the events related to the outflow of people who will be forced to flee and sasha chernyavsky, who was killed at the eurobaydan in donbass, and a lot of rybak, er, the guys who were with him became and when

vasya was a blind man, i was simply already convinced that i had fastened myself, chose the road that i can no longer turn back, and the mikhailovsky wall, as it were so and so i wrote as a guest. do you understand that this is your moral center from above? don't forget that i'm an actress, but i didn't become a historian of the concept of responsibility historically for all the generations that made a sacrifice. look at all the experts in this subject or the companions of photography, they stand firmly on their feet and it doesn’t matter if they are in hungry corridors. do they have any institutions like the institute of national memory, which i respect volodya and that vyatrovych and now drabovych anton well, you understand this, people, there is such a responsibility to you when you feel the past very strongly. i am not

a trained historian, but i will not add to the problem. probably who had a different position from yours, how did they explain that they do not refuse to continue acting in tv series and there and in some films that, well, they are not just shot in russian, they are shot not just for the russian market, they are also permeated with these russian not the narratives, so what they said were the arguments, look at this complex as well. well, you are right, people are not only looking at ideological things or historical amnesia, most of my colleagues really have problems with this subject, but they are not obliged to know it well, they are doing something else work, although for me he is an ideal actor. he still represents an era in one role or another. you always come into contact with a person of an era . therefore, it is an important subject, as it turns out, for all citizens of ukraine, and now they are precisely regulated. but what it concerns, well, the difficulty is some kind of a mess, sick

parents and loans are not closed. i never condemned, i did not support it, i frankly said about it, they all know. i think that there was some moment of discomfort and maybe even some kind of aggression. as for me and people like me, there because no only me, you know rima zyubina and tatiana, my mikina and marina koshkina, and there are a lot of stars who today make up who did not cooperate with the russian and russian-speaking market. and why do i not believe in the russian -speaking one? of identity, this is the continuation of the exploitation of common narratives. even through humor, through love , because of this, i also sinned with this before the euromaidan, disappointment after the orange revolution, when i clearly felt the message from my side, when i was made to understand that there will be no one more successful than lesi and roma in ukraine i will not allow it, i understood that this is politics, there will be no more such series , there will be morons, there will be some non-ukrainians in a

second, swallowing uh, dumpling, all these soviet templates, all these visions of the khokhla through the prism russian generics and they were further, god forbid , hipster, god forbid, space, god forbid, science, what are you, late dances and celloids, that’s why it was politics, and i saw that all ukrainian-speaking products were diseases. it was conscious give me a job i'm confirming it now years we remember olena yeremiyeva producer 1+1 ukrainian doesn't work we don't know ukrainian joke we don't know how to build we in ukrainian don't know where to hold the discus we are some kind of this is all a conscious story that hung on our population and fixed it in the fact that they gravitated to russian tv series and even here in western ukraine, with which i am now going to kyiv, a lot

of people told me well, why don't we shoot like the muscovites, why don't we shoot all this special work and this is a very informational attack on the brains of our population, of course , we were used as a toolkit, because i needed it, and we were. well, there was no such aggression, so there was no war. i never went to any kind of propaganda there. filmed and all the rest went, well, this and this shows that the actor is absolutely not historically advanced , well, they do not understand that they become hostages of the toolkit for the new for the new er for the new there pougas which will then be removed, you understand , for a new missile because when georgia was in we started filming white guard, so absolutely se- series that was produced by oleksandr soviety, our ukrainian producer. and finally, here we have just seen footage, in particular, of the film with your participation, my thoughts are quiet, wonderful comedy by this

i advise you to see who else has not watched you, despite the fact that you refused to cooperate. and many were afraid that we would not be given projects , on the contrary, you had so many cool roles in the cinema. what do i think? well, i don't i don't know what's wrong with you, how did you feel about this rejection? but it seems to me, as viewers, that you are the opposite. well, if you won even after that, but why were the others afraid to give up? we, on the other hand, have had absolutely normal funding for the cinema itself since 2014. it was possible to come to pitching tv series were also switched to movies. why was n’t this done? let’s say for the actors, the actress’s profession depends on many factors, maybe many people would like to do it. there weren’t so many offers to get involved and give everyone an offer. i don't know why i was so lucky,

it's just that i believe that it's god's providence and there's probably a story like that when the film really got in that it was my work . are healing uh, at this age, why is it so, i don’t know, it’s necessary to ask later, woman, why did you give me so much for a movie? i never thought that, by the way, i’m inviting you to the cinema house on tuesday, the 26th, for another debut movie, you know that i’m all debuts support all the popular directors, i want young ones to become more, then there will be more proposals for all colleagues, actually we have one literally one minute left, i apologize, very little time i want to ask you, i ask you a question, a proposal, i can't condemn here colleagues because this is not my case

yes, this is not a rule, unfortunately, and i have to admit that it is an exception, but this is not a rule, why did it happen to me? i thank the lord and ukraine, and probably my army, and again, literally just a minute. there is very, very little time left, if possible, briefly . tell about your vision of the development of the serial industry in particular, considering that the problem of the participation of russian actors has already become urgent. will something change or not? what do you think if the people who lead the so-called brains for the projects that will be founded will advanced into ukrainian culture, i mean advanced into ukrainian culture, not the school program, there are echoes of them somewhere, which they know distortedly, i am convinced, and they will simply pass the year that concerns literature, because this is the first impetus for, er, some new ideas, because

their ideas are born only on the basis when you are savvy with other people's ideas, well, what were the heights, i mean from the shot revival and this is the 20th century, what a dash of incognito for many of our excuse me media people when they get busy now there with my education, then they will appear. i already, uh, at first, when i started, uh, this movie industry was shouted, i told television, why don't you shoot mila and the screwball? these are your householders, who are oriented to her, well, this product is in the form of you have 12 serials, you want 200 serials , uh, why don't you shoot irene rozdobudko, why do people have scripts lying on the table, you just don't feel but you don't feel the estopect of ukraine, its cultural background, its identity, its humor andruhovich zabuzhko, it's all out of context you understand all our literary achievements and a lot of young people and all of them. zhadan arose like this. zhadan arose long before the

cinematography began. it is a matter of self-education of those people who lead the processes of launching this or that content. unfortunately, we already have to pass the floor to another presenter. i completely agree with you. thank you for your position. thank you for setting an example for your colleagues. well, i hope the turning point in the production of our tv series is when the actors themselves began to be indignant, so that the producers would then start filming tv series with russian actors, and our actors began to refuse to go out on the set with their russian colleagues, and now we will watch what will happen, they say that it is necessary to break this situation, just now sign petitions and everything else, it is very good that this turning point happened, and this is all i have, thank you for watching me