unconquered cities of ukraine zaporizhzhia is a city of harsh metallurgists, famous motor builders and a powerful hydroelectric power station on the dnieper. and it is also the cradle of the cossack family of ukraine, which never knelt before anyone. during the second world war, the city withstood the soviet undermining of the dnieper river and the german occupation, and now zaporizhzhia is full of the cossack spirit, as always, standing firm

in defense of ukraine zaporizhzhia is unconquered 15:00 in ukraine and we are going on the air from the shelter because as you can see half of ukraine is currently red, so stay in the shelters because not everywhere has already been repulsed greetings to all viewers of the espresso tv channel news time of news and about the most relevant things currently in the city voznesensk, mykolaiv oblast, there were explosions , a russian rocket hit a five-story residential building, one floor was completely destroyed. this was reported by the head of the regional military administration, vitaly kim. nine injured, four of them children aged three to 17 years, one girl was taken to the hospital in mykolaiv, she lost an eye due to

enemy debris, all children are in serious condition , rescue services are working on the spot, the explosive wave also damaged private houses located nearby, at the same time, the mayor of voznesensk yevgeniy velichko, i will appeal to the residents of the community with a warning about possible repeated shelling, dear residents of the community, please keep calm, there is information about possible flights during the day, please be in a safe place. if possible, do not move around the city and please follow the safety rules and take care of yourself and the occupiers fired at a residential quarter of melitopol , the mayor of melitopol reported, so russian terrorists decided to respond to the precise strike of armed forces on the enemy's festive base, they could not intercept our rockets, instead they decided to open fire a rocket was fired at civilians from the former yakimov district, one resident

was injured and is in the hospital, about 10 houses were destroyed, and meanwhile on the border with in belarus, the situation remains tense, our soldiers continue to strengthen the defense of the north. this was reported by the head of the state border service, serhiy deineko. he went to the positions where engineering barriers are being set up at the site for shelter. deineko claims that the increase in russian activity on the border has not been noticed at the moment, and belarusian specialists are repairing combat russian aviation at an airbase near moscow is reported to the main intelligence agency, in particular, employees of the 558th aviation repair the plant periodically goes on a business trip to carry out work on the restoration and commissioning of aviation equipment on the territory of the kubinka air base, the work is mainly performed on

mig-29 aircraft, the belarusians are engaged in removing them from storage and deconservation for their further use in the war against ukraine , the mayor of the front-line of kostyantynivka oleg zarov failed to prepare the city police force and appropriated the funds allocated for the creation of the police force according to the notification of the prosecutor general's office, the mayor together with the head of the local utility company did not carry out any construction work on the installation of protective structures at the entrances to the city, instead they seized the budget funds of the city council in the amount of more than uah 360,000. currently, the issue of choosing a preventive measure for them is being resolved. the armed forces

timed the exhibition of this scrap metal to the independence day of ukraine, it is one of the few actions planned for the holiday. in addition, the monument of the motherland the mother of god and several other important monuments of the capital will be lit up in the colors of the national flag, also in sofia, kyiv priests of various denominations will hold a joint prayer for ukraine . 15 hectares of water surfaces were successfully demined in cherkasy on the eve of rescuers discovering an explosive device in the dnipro river by emergency divers of the state service the projectile was eliminated just in the reservoir, the demining process was seen by my colleagues, 20 pyrotechnicians, 6

watercraft and several patrols of the water police , the demining process begins with a survey of the river perimeter, then the equipment works to detect and install an explosive object, the wreckage of the missile at the bottom of the dnieper, an underwater drone captures the ammunition safely, it will not be possible to reach the surface according to the instructions, you will have to detonate the projectile in the river, the process is not easy and requires professional training descent diving installation charge installation means of initiation with detonations, an explosive charge, a charge on this explosive object, and then a safe distance, preparation for the team, we detonated for the safety of civilians and ships, we surrounded the place of the explosion from the first time, pyrotechnics were successful, not everything went away, the dangerous distance was

kat, well, such a duck when it went into a swimming trap back, then it stopped a little bit, it rocked and there was a jerk, and with this jerk, there are two wires in this line, with this jerk, one of the wires on a certain connection will disconnect when in specialists everything is ready, the countdown begins , the command to start decontamination of the remnants of the enemy missile arrives, attention is currently resting on the beaches of cherkasy region safely, assures the head of the state emergency service of the region andriy danyk of the dnipro water area, rescuers inspect almost every day during the full-scale invasion of russia into the region, more than 30 thousand units of explosives were defused, however, on complete demining of the region may take more than one year, experts say dmytro didora

oskaryanssons tv channel espresso of ukraine volodymyr zelensky should take part in the g20 summit at the ball if russian president putin comes there, this is stated in the statement of the us national security council, it is noted that zelensky could join virtually and not in person, at the same time , the president of the united states, biden, has not yet said that he will go to the summit but said that russia should be excluded from the g20 due to the invasion of ukraine, i will remind you that according to the statement of the president of indonesia, putin and all jin-ping will participate in the summit in november for 777 million dollars ukraine will receive a new package military aid from the united states of america, in particular, ammunition for heimers, as well as 16

105-mm howitzers and shells for them, the pentagon reported that such guns of the armed forces of ukraine have already received from the british and the weapons have shown themselves well on the battlefield; in addition, the american partners will deliver even more anti-tank weapons and a half thousands of rockets and 1,000 javelins in the package also 15 drones against location missiles and armored cars the united states of america will help the people of ukraine quote how much how much will it take, us secretary of state anthony blinken said, and added the courage and strength of the ukrainian army and its people are extraordinary, so the united states will continue to provide additional systems to maximize the impact on the battlefield and strengthen ukraine's position at the negotiating table with a new aid package for almost 800 million dollars , state aid already reaches about ten and a half billion dollars, the

ukrainian armed forces use this support very effectively to protect their country, says blinke in support of the armed forces of ukraine in kyiv a charity bike ride took place, we will tell you about it in our next issues a-a in mariupol the russians robbed and destroyed the gallery named after kuindzhi, the occupiers crushed everything, including the exhibits of the children's exhibition, the advisor of the mayor of mariupol, petro andryushchenko , emphasized. of the city's museums, including the original painting by arkhip kuindzhi from the art museum, and the city was almost completely destroyed as a result of enemy shelling from mykhailivska square will send two real mobiles

to the front and these cars were bought and delivered to ukraine with the support of the irish government and philanthropists, and in particular the association of irish people in ukraine . what is happening and where exactly will the ambulance be sent? yes, i have good news . you have already spoken about the support of the united states, but not only the united states supports ukraine, the whole civilized world is with us, and here is an example these are two ambulances, they were given to us as part of charitable assistance, one car was given to us by a benefactor from britain and another one helped to purchase and equip the government of ireland. i want to point out that these are not just ambulances, they are real emergency vehicles, they are equipped with everything necessary to carry out the entire complex of activities

that you need cars, they are tall, a person can stand at full height, for example, a doctor who will help a patient who will be in this car, it is very convenient completely in the car is equipped, as i already said, with everything necessary and all this was purchased as part of the assistance of ireland and britain, and in general i want to say that ireland is very supportive and helps ukraine a lot, if we talk about medical care and such emergency vehicles, then it is already close 40 cars were handed over precisely with the support of ireland, the government of ireland also contributed to this, the association of e-e ukrainians in ireland and i will also note that the resuscitation car is quite valuable . such a thing that you need to buy because if it just an ambulance, it costs somewhere around $12,000, but if it is equipped with everything necessary for a complete set of

resuscitation measures, it can reach $50,000. and so already about 40 cars have been transferred to ireland. and in general, as part of such charitable assistance, which concerns e.e. it is precisely such ambulance cars that in partnership with smart medical, and it has already been transferred about 100 cars for which people helped to collect funds and governments in general from different european countries and this help is already in for ukraine, one car will be sent to the kharkiv region, the other to bakhmut, they will be there very soon to carry out the entire set of measures, and if we are talking about ireland in general, i want to note that this country, which has a cold climate, very warmly received ukrainians who were forced to leave ukraine due to hostilities due to a full-scale attack by russia and ireland has already accepted

almost 50,000 ukrainians and they help us not only in the medical field, it is also his humanitarian aid and the direct placement of ukrainians there our association of ukrainians in ireland also contributes to the ukrainians being comfortable there, there are already such shops, a bunch of charitable aid to ukrainians, they can use everything for free, this and various such informational support, that is, ireland is very supportive of ukraine, and we can see it on the example of these e-e cars well, i will also note that they are quite bright. they will still need to be camouflaged on request if they are at the front so that they are not so bright and then they will be able to perform their functions directly. studio, i have words for you, i am for inclusion and i want to remind you. this was our tetyana litvinova, who is currently in kyiv and talked about the ambulances that will be sent to the front with the help of

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today. the first six months of the war, and the invasion of ukraine and russia, the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine, and we ask famous ukrainians what this day means to them. we start with a question to everyone equally, what is independence for you personally, i will allow myself to expand this question a little to give such a context to the 21st year on the eve of a war about which not everyone guessed.

what is the greatest value for them when they talk about ukraine and uh, there were very different answers, but more than 80% of ukrainians in the east and the west said that the most indisputable value for them is the independence of ukraine, and the invasion itself showed that the war showed that these were not empty words indeed, ukrainians were ready, as it turned out, to shed blood for this independence, although probably different people put different understandings into it, i meet i meet, for example, with the opinions of volodymyr dubrovsky of the znesen group recently wrote about that if ukraine becomes nationalist, it will not be the ukraine that he would like, or, for example, a conversation with andriy sudomoru and one of the brilliant linguists, translators, and writers who also said that if the ukrainian language is now e-e, it will cease to be alive and will lose its meaning i don't know the connection with the 19th century conspiracy,

so he doesn't want that kind of language either. i, and this shows that for us, we seem to have lived with some ideas of our own about what the ukrainian state should become, but everyone struggled with what she seems like a cocoon from which something must eventually emerge, some kind of butterfly, that's why, from the perspective of this is your answer, what is ukrainian independence for you, why is it important, and i'm sure from the fact that this year is so special for me independence day now i'll explain why it's for me why it's special and well, based on the year of birth in 1960, i was 31 years old when our independence was proclaimed in august 1991, i lived exactly the same number of years

and after that, another 31 year, that is, uh, this year, 2022, i can talk about the announcement ukrainian independence is my life 's equator, so, in the future, i hope it will change into a year of greater, if longer , my life experience already in independent ukraine , but this year, perhaps, this is a unique, only such opportunity to say yes, half of my life, half of my life i was waiting for this independence. and for half of my life i was happy with it because for me personally it is the most important holiday of the entire

annual holiday cycle. in the same summer of 1991, when i start to remember this extremely dramatic situation, the red route festival in zaporizhzhia ended, the next morning we learned that there was some hiccup in moscow that the soviet leader gorbachev was somewhere there they were removed from the authorities and interned on the southern coast of the crimea e-e in connection with some threatening state of health there and so on and so on and this um remained a clear thing e-e forever remained as e-e this is the chain from the

days that is, august 18, the 19th, then a few days in the train from zaporizhia back to lviv, and then the journey from lviv to frankivsk and that he was uh from home, that is, the closer he was to home, so returning from this trip to zaporizhzhia, there were more signs of victory, that is, on the evening of august 20, it was already clear that this is choking and that ukraine is simply obliged in the coming days to use this historic chance and thank god that our political leaders at that time, well, first of all, they are the most active deputies of this people's

democratic and minority that we have in the parliament was thank god that levko lukyanenko and dmytro pavlychko and everyone-everyone-everyone and others seized this opportunity and took advantage of it, and so what happened that could have seemed like something absolutely incredible to my parents, and it seemed so . grandparents, but i remember how my father and mother could not believe their happiness that here we are also independent . dependence

that is, we have now realized how much it really is, how much it is, it is an incredibly great opportunity when the country is independent, when the country can develop and at the same time does not leave the feeling that 30 years to a certain extent may have been wasted somewhere, do you share this feeling and will it give us a certain impetus when this war will end with a ukrainian victory, i don't think that historians of the future will judge these 30 and now 31 years as exceptionally and exclusively wasted, that is, in my opinion, everything developed exactly yes and only as it could develop, we entered independence with a completely post-soviet society in which a certain time was needed for a certain adaptation to this very idea, and which today, well, actually,

already in the fourth decade of years after the achievement of this independence, already on my the view is much clearer, much clearer, much more clearly aware of the value of independence. here we definitely fell into a certain self-delusion when we decided that the soviet union fell apart peacefully and calmly . to repeat that the very fact of this civilized divorce from the moscow center is that this is a huge luck that this is a huge historical success of ours, that is, let's check for a second, it seems that

he uses the term postponed war. i also use this term, it seemed to me that i also came up with it somewhere but if it sounds and in mykola rybchuk, then how is it possible that he got it from you ? i don't know exactly what about this, well , in any case. our society decided that a civilized divorce happened once and for all and this is a settled matter and it is possible to develop with a great russian neighbor and some civilized, beautiful neighborly relations there, this is possible and it is the most serious loss of these years that we,

frankly speaking, did not realize of the russian threat, they were not aware of that, well, that is, not everyone was aware and those on whom state decisions depended, they were just to a lesser extent aware that russia would attack, that it was preparing for it, that it was over it has been working with folded hands since august 24, 1991, what she only dreams about is to tear away piece by piece of territory from us, to install her own puppet governments in kyiv, to keep us completely under control, and that's what the leadership of ukraine mostly took this threat lightly and did not take it into account