we will convince paragray we will win again together we are strong unconquered cities of ukraine kremenchuk is a modern industrial giant hardened by hundreds of years of struggle for freedom in the cossack times the city was an outpost against the tatars there was a fortress built by the french military engineer guillaumevasser de beauplan kremenchuk was constantly at the center of armed conflicts in the second half of the 17th century a period of almost continuous wars on these lands during the liberation struggle, kremenchuk fell into the wave of the anti-bolshevik rebellion of the chieftain grigov, 150 jews and communists died as a result of the pogrom. during the years of occupation, the nazis created a network of concentration camps in the city, where more than 90,000 civilians and prisoners of war

were murdered in two years. on morilio, but then they were last seen, their fate is currently unknown, today kremenchuk reminds the world that ukraine is fighting not just with the occupiers, but with absolute evil. but this evil has no chance against the warriors of light kremenchuk unconquered for more than 150 days without a day off on the front line, more than 30 units of captured enemy equipment tanker yevhen is

getting closer to victory every day and every day he says i am not tired, i am not tired of defending ukraine we are returning in the liberation of the city denys is already waiting for the support of volunteers and neighbors are ready to lend a shoulder even at work people don't work like that, how they work is very united people where what is lost cannot be returned we will create a new one i really want to be near ukraine demand people between ukrainians we help switch we will rebel, we will bind up, we will overcome the bristles of the news together, we are strong, the standard is cool because what comes out is a person telling about himself and

partly the viewer recognizes himself there, if , for example, we laugh at some problem, then they become so terrible vadim i congratulate you on the first channel of public broadcasting, our conversation with you will be this is a continuation of my efforts to tell the viewers of the marathon more about ukrainian and what is important about ukrainian- language stand up, so i thank you very much for finding the time and coming to us while in kyiv, for me ukrainian stand-up has become discovery after february 24. how is it not paradoxical and i don’t know, i’m the only one like this? does it seem to me that you really have such a definite surge in popularity now? began to learn about the standard because we have been doing it for a long time, for example, i have

been performing as a curate for six years, then for no one, yes. and now our channel had 30,000 subscribers before the war, now it has 70,000 subscribers, yes. and this is only in five months, that is, people started to learn about this process and now we even have such a communication between comedians, let's say yes, but i told you that sooner or later it will be fatal. that is, we already communicate with each other like this because we believed in it, and finally you explain it to yourself. well, it's really a paradox that in such a tragic period of our history, people suddenly paid attention to humor, and even more so to stand-up humor. well, it's not television humor, we'll talk about the difference, well, i wouldn't say that it was humor that they paid attention to that's a lot on music on other youtube channels, there are a lot of videos on youtube right now, such as what should be watched on ukrainian youtube, ukrainian-language ones, and of course, stand-up is also suitable if it is an interest in ukrainian, so absolutely, and they began

to listen to more music, including music. well, your colleague also started listening to stand-up stand-up comedian vasyl baidak came to us on the first channel at the beginning of summer, there are quite a few people who now want to laugh to relieve anxiety, er, to cheer themselves up, because russia is doing everything possible to make us feel bad, and we talked with him. comedy of the absurd, now he watches more of everything that is real around us, you said, and it seemed to me when i rewatched your performances, for example, that your repertoire has also changed over the past year. well, it is important here, why stand-up is a cool thing, because it is very relevant , you wrote, told, recorded it. it already exists, for example, shelter satellite, you bought this one, you joked about it, it’s relevant, it’s on the internet, it’s gone viral well, uh, i love

this genre because of that, it’s so fast, that ’s really news, yes, buying shelter satellite that is, the news is a source for you now for a joke, news, my reporter has changed. let's say that and i understand what people need. for example, if i go out in such a difficult time for ukraine and joke absolutely about some distant things, it is clear that people may be interested in being distracted, but i i still think that people are interested in hearing about what is bothering them all now . for example, if we laugh at some problem, it means that they are not so scary, but it still seems to me that news. what is the problem with them, that there is such a thin line? so what about you can joke and what you can't joke about well, for example, if we're talking specifically about the war, then i don't joke about the war and my colleagues don't joke about the war either, what are my projects, cultural defense, we joke about russia let's say that the military can joke about the war because they are directly involved in it they know what they are

talking about by the standard of a comedian, you can always see when he is not sincere or he is lying or he does not know what he is talking about, for example if i joked that i am a successful family man with four children well, no one would believe me, you all thought that i was some kind of liar. yes, i joke about the fact that i , for example, do not get along with girls, there is something about me. well, it is not so, but i am not upset about this and they believe me and they laugh at me accordingly, well, russia - this is a part of the war. that is, somewhere like about some part of the war . you are joking about the enemy. then i will repeat that when we joke with the enemy, he does not become so scary for us. quilt of snow, we do it as much as possible. but of course , without these hat throws, you know, because there are many enemies. after all, he still has something to fight, this equipment drives and shoots. that is why society should laugh a little at russia

. the enemy again during the active period of the war. this meme creation is some kind of ukrainian phenomenon. and in your opinion , it can be based on your observations, because for me it has already become a completely natural part of my life in the evening before going to bed to watch some memes, yes, but sometimes i still i catch myself thinking, is this normal? what do you know, i find some comfort in this. and i think that this is very normal, because if we panic, it will end up in the hands of the enemy. we have moments of tragedy every day , people die every day, we all understand this, but we don't need to close in on ourselves because of this, we need to have a little solace, in particular through these memes . i posted three memes there and you definitely need some kind

of reaction if you didn't react to these memes, well , a person can laugh at the insults there, or say i've already seen it somewhere, you know, such a minimal meme communication appeared on the same level as this, another thing that really impresses me in the phenomenon of the ukrainian steppe after february 24, this is a charitable component of social responsibility. you are one of the hosts of such a show as cultural defense. for our viewers, i will explain that you are inviting a famous personality. you are four stand-up artists. you are joking and in the process of doing so you collect money , most often for the military. this program is a nomadic show. it was thought that it would be exactly like this. well, a large-scale war began, and for the first two weeks we also had such a humorous super. and what should we do anyway? and what ? we know how we will be useful. we already went there and brought various volunteer things there for temporarily

displaced persons and then we sat down and thought, we humorists were doing this before that. why not somehow assimilate it for the benefit of some and we came up with such a project they called it cultural defense, we just sat down to joke and we had such a thing, we were so afraid at the beginning, the presenter comes out and says to the audience, we don't know what will come of this, but we hope it will bring some benefit. hovering over about you , we ask. and who came to us from where, there are local people, there are people not from lviv, there are half a hall of immigrants, and we said, welcome to our city, and there was such a mutual feeling, so warm, that now we are doing a great job, we received guests, we we have fun, they shoot cameras at us, and we simultaneously collect funds to support the armed forces of ukraine, it is always like this in the basement , so it is safe that you collect for something different every time

. what is their goal, they help us with a star well, it's like, when the stars started to appear, more serious military men helped us in this, uh, we can already write in direct mail with the stars and drop them, but we had gorbunov, we had dzidzio and they understand. yes, they came. so you can agree on that. that is, they are most often stars who also volunteer a little somewhere or maintain contacts with the military. it is very cool and they maintain contact with the military in particular. 000 and they will collect more, they are already connecting some of their contacts there, artem fedetsky is a football player, he is like that, he has a sports day, he is already there for someone, er, in telegram, i see that he is dropping our broadcast, drop the money, you need it, guys they are collecting, they want more people to gather with them how much was the most you were given for one such performance, a call with the hunchbacked 200 or something thousand we collected for one sagittarius that is

, these are people who will donate from the hall, your viewers , as well as those who watch online and have the opportunity to transfer funds that buy tickets in the hall, these funds partially cover the filming process because we hire cameramen, well, if we come to another city, the road is blocked. you drive this cultural defense across ukraine. for example, i met you in kyiv, but literally recently, i watched a recording from kramatorsk, are you there, uh, maybe a little scared, judging by the jokes about your contacts with the military, and you, too, this recording, it also took place with a shelter, tell me a little more about it, were you not scared there at all, because it already during the period when it was hot there, now in kramatorsk you can often hear the sounds of explosions there, and i was very well, i was not surprised, let's just say, it calmed the peace of our military because they we hear we are twitching there and the military says it's

ours, it's the exits, they understand where it's coming from and where he flies off and everything is calm and the military was able to communicate very warmly with them they said that what annoys them the most from our civilian life when they call them they say we are tired of the question when to go home because we don't know it we are tired of the question of when it will all end we don't know either. well, it sometimes happens that military women are jealous of military men and say, "i know you're there somewhere with girls, and they say, 'you know what kind of girls i'm sitting in the trenches with. ' by the military yes, they were military personnel who were participating in a certain rehabilitation course. well, several leaders were also in this hall, and we had the task. well, we saw at least a little smile on their faces. and who sat until the end of the evening, just, well, so serious, i think well unfortunately, but at the end of the evening, a military man came up and thanked the guys , it was very cool. it just doesn't show human emotions.

but it seems to me that it's even more difficult to joke here than in principle during the war, you weren't afraid of what kind of jokes you were afraid of but we spoke directly there, that was an interesting moment. that is, we say to the military, we are going to screw something up now, we know that you can bend our knee, we are ready for it, well, that's how we joked with them and they laughed at it that we it went well. they fed us very well. if all the soldiers eat like that, you can’t help but worry about it. we also wanted to ask you separately about how a person who has been doing stand-up for six years or what is special about stand-up in ukraine besides the fact that you have to e- to perform in warring country and in particular before the military, well, in our country there is a very high threshold for this, you know, line to say something wrong, for example, somewhere there will be a video showing sexism or offending someone, someone from the population will get a lot of hate, especially if you post this video on

facebook, if you post a video on facebook and there is nothing wrong with the goal, there will still be 40 people who will say that the person entering was all bad and so on . it is worth reading the comments on facebook, but this is so. well, it is an interesting observation because it seemed to me that some sensitive topics are probably treated even more sensitively somewhere in the west. and you say that the ukrainian audience also reacts to the forest, it is so sharp, people will not tolerate it if something is said incorrectly, as here, someone did not understand the humor, he does not care about this is what a person will say. you mentioned that vasyl switched to ukrainian in his stand-up. there was no such question for you. because you performed. actually, the star is more likely to be in the west of ukraine, and now you are moving around ukraine like that with in your opinion, is this a phenomenon of the transition to the ukrainian language in stand-up? it is not reversible. is it still such a trend because , well, there is also a certain trendiness to it

, frankly, i would like it to be irreversible, but i just don’t see a way back well, then why does vasyl have to switch back to russian, i am sure that this is not a hype, it is just a forced measure and i am sure that everyone will switch, everyone will start to feel comfortable because at some point, as tymoshenko switches, as far as i know, he still thought in russian for a period of time but he wrote in ukrainian, now he has lost it and thinks in ukrainian, so you mentioned anton tymoshenko and i was also preparing when you watched various interviews of various stand-up artists, including him, and in one of these interviews he said that he is such a in some places, not always, of course, a soft tool for conveying to the audience some values ​​and also some messages that you may not convey directly. i'm sure that's the way it is, it's the way it works, it's a nice way, but mine is more

humorous, aimed at relaxing the viewer. the audience will recognize himself there, but he will never say it from the stage, and he may never share it with anyone, but i came out, a brave person told me what i have there, for example, i'm fat, for example, yes, it's not like that, it's not like that, i know that he's not notice for example, a person in the hall can also be fat, but she is ashamed to say it. and i went out and said and i told the pros of this, for example, and he already has this problem, if you can call it problems and it is easier with a straight line well, but it still means that you use you in this way. yes, i don't want to impose anything on anyone, i would talk about myself and a person perceives as he wants. it cannot be said that humor and some kind of humorous programs were not popular among ukrainians until february 24. since we know very well who the president is

of ukraine, what was he like before he was elected to this position? we also know that such tv shows as the league of laughter, uh, how again, the same 95 quarter had its audience, or the audience of these tv shows and the audience of ukrainian stand-up, they somehow overlap with each other, well, now there are a lot of stand-up comedians who absolutely do not like the laughter league, they say , god, how could you play it? i loved it, i played the laughter league, i played kvn well, because it is primarily a humorous discipline, there were clear boundaries . when you should write humor and when it should to be shown there, you taught humor the standard now for beginners, they learn simply from their mistakes like this and no one tells them, they did not make a funny performance, well, i will write funnier next time, and this is how humor crystallizes, and in the laughter league we had editors who directly monitored how you are writing this match of stand-up artists. it is probably a little bit. the problem was like that. well, i don't think it's a problem because playing this game is

, first of all, a cool computer. i have many cool acquaintances since then. there are many stand-up artists who played with me in the league of laughter. we we are friends already for many, many years, and by the way, there was a filming recently, well, league of laughter at the beginning of a full-scale war, well, before the start, and now it will not be released, and the fate of this project is unknown, maybe there will be no league of laughter at all, and stand-up will still exist, well, that is, the audience, can you say that it somehow intersects is it still very different i think not different audiences i think not and although i didn't research it, but my question was what it was related to because i thought whether ukrainian stand-up can claim any er mass audience and so that he, in particular , brings you some income in addition to pleasure and er charity, the standard is already starting to bring in income and even before the war it was because people are starting to see and want to see stand-up comedians at their corporate shows, unfortunately

, the audience is not always ready because the organizer may want it, i want to say the comedians, we came and people are eating, people don't even look at us because the organizer and one organizer wanted it, it's fun, cool, thank you guys, you understand, you have to get to this point, so that the supervisor puts the plate away, let's say so, he came back, yeah stand-up, i know what it is. well, i understood that many stand-up artists are busy in life outside of stand-up as a host of some events. but is it correct? i understand that now you are called not only as a host of an event, but also as a standard to perform at so, therefore, to combine. for example , if there is a wedding before the wedding, we talk with the young people. maybe you want a stand-up, and in addition to the price, stand-up is also included. something new, but yes , mainly for those who do stand-up, then there is also something to do. finally, i probably want you. to ask to address our viewers who

, uh, still, due to rather difficult circumstances, they may feel so certain despair. how do you , for example, look for inspiration for yourself in order not only to continue working, but also to joke in these conditions, you know what my inspiration is with each one, in particular, we take cultural defense on our project, with each conquered centimeter of our ukrainian land, and the humorous wings also began to work harder, that is, breathing became easier . the militant gordians liberated chernihiv oblast during the offensive in donbas and there are partial successes. now it is starting to fly around the crimea. i like it and let's say it inspires not only stand-up comedians. but every ukrainian, that's why we do everything to ensure that the armed forces work and win back accordingly, and we ourselves will also have motivation to work further vadim thank you very much for this conversation and i wish you success eh both as a stand-up artist and as a

philanthropist who supports the armed forces of ukraine in particular. the heroic colors of the galicia-volyn principality during the time of the ukrainian people's republic, this flag is gaining national significance today, yellow-blue has become a symbol of freedom for the whole world, small steps begin big things, the next step is your state, this is us, this is a sports hall where ukrainian athletes could train, but since russia started a full-scale war in ukraine. silence reigns here. russian and belarusian athletes are silent. they pretend as if nothing happened and with their silence support the murder of destruction and this cruel war.

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sure of your strength, patiently call for help, if possible, use the telephone, knock on the pipes, the heating batteries. medical assistance if you know the likely location of the victims under the rubble, report it to the rescuers your help can save lives chiefs, our struggle with you continues, it is a hard daily struggle, it takes a lot of strength and energy from us, but it is energy, it is a struggle for the truth and it is a struggle for victory, that is why each of us holds our

front. we hold the information front , the social team works for you. we will traditionally start the information hour with the address of president volodymyr zelenskyi. i wish you good health, dear ukrainians, we are actively preparing for a new week, which is very important for all of us, for our country, the day of our flag, the day of our independence. honoring the veterans of the war for the freedom of ukraine is ahead. the crimean platform is ahead. this year, especially this year, literally in the air of crimea, one feels that the occupation there is temporary and ukraine is returning . we must celebrate our legion. this is and will be a ukrainian tradition. we celebrate those whose lives became part of our national history. not to wipe out anyone, ever, any enemy, next week, as always , important negotiations and visits of true friends of ukraine are planned; ahead is the landmark milestone of six months of this full-scale

the invasion of the war that changed everything for ukraine and for europe and for the world of course there will be time to say about it in detail, but let's still think about it, let's evaluate what path we have traveled and how much we managed to change what almost everyone in the world thought about what supposedly it is impossible to change how much we managed to win from the russian army, which for decades it was thought that it was supposedly overtaken, i remember the first days of the full-scale invasion, i remember what various advisers told me then i know that many of them are now ashamed of these words that were sounded during the time of february 24, during these 178 days, ukrainians proved that our people are invincible - they are our defenders, defenders are invincible. i thank everyone who showed their strength during this time. thank you to everyone who fought and fights for ukraine. thank you to everyone who fights and helps our

soldiers and our state. and unity, our faith in ourselves, allowed these six months to pass and approach this week, which is always important for every ukrainian, honestly and we say honestly. for the sake of the victory of ukraine, what must be fought for? there is a lot to be done, a lot to be endured, to be spent unfortunately, there is a lot of pain, but ukrainians can rightfully feel pride for themselves, for their country, for their heroes, and let us all feel it together today, let's feel what power there is in our people , in our beautiful people. this power is always was and will be as long as we believe in ourselves as long as we preserve our unity only as long as we fight for ukraine as long as we work for our common ukrainian victory we have be aware that this week russia may try to do something special from something particularly cruel, we have such an enemy, but

also any other week for these six months, russia has done the same thing constantly. nasty and cruel, one of the key tasks of the enemy is to humiliate us ukrainians, to devalue our opportunities our heroes to spread out of disbelief fear to spread conflicts therefore it is important never for a single minute to give in to this hostile pressure to wind ourselves up not to show weakness we all have to be strong enough that resist any enemy provocations as much as it takes to make the occupiers answer for all their blows and blow the roads to kharkiv to donbas behind the last rounds of infiltration camps forget to irpin for all the cities we must all be strong enough to stand and go all the way to the ukrainian victory that's why we stick together, help each other, restore the destroyed, fight for all our people and

cheer for those who represent ukraine today, definitely for usyk, our boy is true to himself, we believe in ukraine. kudos to each of you and everyone. glory to ukraine to the heroes of glory. how is the struggle for victory in the occupied and temporarily occupied territories going on ? so, i wanted to ask at what point? i saw what started. the truth is stinging the eyes of the occupiers. they are painting ukrainian symbols in kherson left by ukrainian partisans. and what do you know about that ? indeed, ukrainian symbols appear every morning, despite all the efforts of the occupiers to somehow

intimidate the ukrainians of kherson. still, the movement against drivers appears every morning, new patriotic inscriptions, those that bring hope to our people, that is, kherson is ukraine, the armed forces are already close, the occupiers are running away, etc. they tear off these tapes in order to have time to deal with all these inscriptions, they bring in young people from russia or the crimea, that is , they can't even do this on their own, so much is so hot, these kherson people are they do, they write, they show with all their might that kherson is ukraine, what is the general situation in the city now, how is kherson living in the conditions when, well, what we all dream of will happen. and i am sure that in kherson