independence is for you right now, well, ukrainians have not only started dying for independence now, because hetman mazepa also fought for independence, his army fought for independence and russian princes before that, that is, ukrainians fought for independence, and people who died in the holodomor died for independence and ukrainian dissidents sat in prisons for independence and stus died for independence, therefore independence is the greatest embodiment of the will of the people of any nation, the ukrainian people, like all other peoples, have the right to their you always have to fight for the state and for your independence and for independence, this struggle lasted for a very long time, but now i once had such a joke, they say that we made it to the finals, that's it we made it to the finals, and i am convinced that in this final we will win and create such a state where ukrainians they will not die, because independence is a state that protects

each of its citizens in the ukrainian state , every ukrainian must be protected, in fact, no matter where he lived, or even outside its borders, he must know that there is a homeland that will always protect him and will be fair to him for this, now there is a war going on, but this motherland is being deceived, fighting off the enemy and changing so that later there is no adverse effect. it is important to become members of the european union and nato and in order to become members of the european union we must become a democratic country to the end we are a democratic ukraine ukrainians have always elected a hetman we have never been a monarchy she there has always been respect between people and the greatest value

for ukrainians determined by international observers and researchers is freedom. reforms and why do we need them? we need them because we want them. we are so used to it. we have our dignity for our dignity. for the european peoples, this value of freedom is also very great, it also unites us with europe if we want to become full members of the european union. we have this freedom to guarantee to everyone in the country and to build a real democracy, well, actually, we are starting to do it now, and we remember that putin wanted to capture kyiv in three days, he had such plans somewhere and maybe he was already on the border with poland would for this one

time but it's been six months. what do you think? is it a merit that ukraine stands for six months and resists such a huge onslaught? the fact that we fight so bravely and defend ourselves is the merit of our people and our army. in addition, we should be very grateful to our allies because without the american or european weapons, it would be extremely difficult for us without financial assistance, it would be very difficult for us, therefore, in fact, there are three pillars of this victory, the people, the army, and our friends and partners who share our values, for which we are fighting in the 91st year for referendum, the ukrainians already then laid the beginning of a historical turning point in the world, because hmm, after the independence, then this monstrosity, the soviet union, disappeared from the map altogether, and somehow it was not possible then, if this role of ukraine

was fully subjectiveized. and now the world understands what is happening in in our territory that we are an outpost in essence and is the world ready for a turning point such as the disappearance of the union ? in the referendum, we confirmed the will that was actually expressed by the ukrainian politician on the 24th, first the declaration on the state sovereignty of ukraine, then the declaration of independence of ukraine, and the ukrainian politicians expressed their wisdom as representatives of the people for independence, and then the people confirmed it a little later in the referendum, it is obvious that without ukraine

wanting to be independent, if it were not for the soviet union, why is putin fighting so precisely with ukraine, because the meaning of the existence of the soviet the union is to oppress ukrainians and the ukrainian people. the whole essence of the union was russia's desire to colonize ukraine, and when ukrainian politicians and ukrainian leaders at that time felt that the people fought so much for this , the ally would support it, and then the people voted for it as usual when ukrainian students were leaving on the first maidan and argued for the fact that ukrainian boys served only on the territory of ukraine and not in the soviet army, which was scattered throughout the union, when they opposed the monopoly between the communist party because they already wanted to then to see a democratic society when they opposed the signing of the union agreement and when people supported them. i remember those shots, i was then working as a young journalist and i was actually the only television journalist who was

allowed to enter you while starving, because while starving, they were my friends, fellow students, i was like that i myself, like them, wanted to go there too, but i already worked for ukrainian television, then there was only one channel and they said no, you are better off filming us. so i filmed all this and then these shots were shown to everyone channels of the world, i remember when i went to a huge youth demonstration. a hundred thousand young people came out. they were students and schoolchildren. the older people were afraid, but when the students and schoolchildren came out, everyone understood that ukraine will definitely be independent. therefore, it is obvious that ukraine's role in it is very big now 100 years since the founding of the soviet union and for putin, who thinks in these symbols like any other nazi , these 100 years are a round date in which he wanted to restore the soviet union to show his greatness that's why he was preparing for war and right now he decided to start this war, but he just didn't take into account the fact that

there is the will of the people, it seemed to him that it would be possible to negotiate with the ukrainian government or scare it or buy it, whose destruction it is, and the ukrainian people will obey as they obey now the russians and him putin, and the ukrainian people do not obey anyone and this is his main mistake, he did not understand that this people will defend their state and i am convinced that they will win now, but look , then 100 years ago we could not get statehood because there was not such a mass will, somehow it did not have time to consolidate, and then after these pension revolutions that exploded, we again slipped there after the orange revolution to the regionals and somehow we were swayed a little. and now you have no fear that there will be some kind of wave of retreat . this is already the turning point when we will not be able to roll back and retreat from our principles, well, look first, even the

worst sims remained, although they say they are so crippled, but we elected presidents with democracy the only ones in the post-soviet space, if you don't take the baltic countries, uh, we voted, we were a democratic country. and after people went to the maidan of dignity in 14th year, which was decisive for me, then politicians and citizens realized what responsibility lies on them, maybe not until the end, but much more than before, we had a little time, we created a strong army, we, uh, adopted a law on language, we received a tomos and approved the church, these are all extremely important things, then they were laughed at, someone said there that it is not fun it doesn't matter what the difference is, but actually there is a difference for people, because people fight for it, the army actually fights for faith and fights for language, and there is

an army that can fight despite all our difficulties with weapons and many other reasons and problems. so i think that this is a turning point, it happened then in 17-18, there was not enough time to create a strong army, they tried to create it , they created it, but it was not strong enough, then there was not enough international support, now i have support , so putin believed that he chose the optimal time when the west is divided in ukraine, the government is weak, and the ukrainian people are tired of it and want to return to the empire and are nostalgic for the soviet union. he was wrong about everything that could happen then. he was wrong about the weak army. he was wrong about the west will not be the only one, and here we have to thank the united states of america and joseph biden, it is obvious, johnson, the european leaders, the leaders of our neighbors in poland, who

supported us, who united, and ... mistakes that could have been made precisely because of that , he is doomed to defeat and we are doomed to victory, and how did it happen that's why he made a mistake because , in essence, 70 years of cultural and mental occupation in us was like this and this myth that everyone was worried about that we are one people, belarusians , russians and ukrainians, what is this cardinal difference that he did not take into account between us and russia, he did not take into account what we said that ukrainians are a people who love freedom and who know how to fight for their freedom and their they can have the right to choose the president to be wrong, to choose one better, another worse , but this is the right of the people, and the people do not want to give it away, just the war between ukraine, between russia and ukraine, shows how much stronger a democratic country is compared to a totalitarian

one, as a rule, it is corrupt and it is built on fear because every official is afraid to come to putin and say something that he doesn't like. well, weren't there smart russians who realized that ukrainians are a strong people , who knew what kind of army we have, who knew that we would be to fight, of course, but each of them was afraid to tell putin, he came to him and said, oh great tsar-sovereign, you will definitely defeat everyone, you will win now, everyone will love you , everyone will welcome you with bread and salt, and putin himself believed in this, and everyone was afraid to tell him unpleasant news, they told him that he has a lot of calibers and a lot of these daggers, and it turned out that they have these daggers, but they turned out to be much less, now he is putting the people who made them in prison because he was not told the real the truth about their weapons, which we fight and fight successfully, so that a corrupt

dictatorship always loses to strong democracies, if we were a really strong democracy and not just a democracy, first of all, putin would not have dared to attack, he would have realized this himself secondly, there would be fewer victims and we would fight very effectively and strongly, but we would fight more effectively and that is why our task to build this strong democracy is very important, the ukrainian authorities understood this, because in a strong democracy, a strong state has strong institutions . the army is strong. the people have no corruption. everything is for victory and everyone unites for the sake of this victory. the power is the opposition in this and the essence of a strong democracy can bring autocrats and dictators to power, and don't you see in us such serious threats that are not situational in our construction which has now been formed, well, on the one hand, the war cannot be criticized very much, on the other hand, well, in fact, we have a parliamentary-presidential form

de facto, are there no threats to us? while you are fighting for democratic values, we will lose this there are always threats to democracy. but the fact is that every nation elects for democracy all the time. you cannot choose it once and it will always exist, just like freedom of speech, which is one of the signs of democracy. wow, people, even the most democratic countries such as the united states states of america or european countries. there are journalists everywhere. everywhere there is a government that tries to limit them. they defend freedom of speech. they go to court and win and prove their right. this happens everywhere, even in the most democratic country or the essence of democracy is the constant struggle for freedom, we are at the beginning of this process, so the threats are greater for us, but when our people saw that democracy was threatened by something, it means that independence was threatened. i personally don’t believe. and you knew that there would be a

war, so you understood that at your age it would be real. street people, i didn’t believe that there would be such a war in my life, but i knew about it since the time when western intelligence began to talk about it and when there were direct facts that under the guise of training, russia is withdrawing troops to belarus and to the borders of ukraine, it is obvious to me that if a gun hangs on the wall in the first act of the theater play, it will fire in the second, everything is happening for what reason if the russians are withdrawing troops, it means they will go to war for a year before the war, i understood that the war would come to me now. facebook reminds us that in this studio we talked about it with antin borkovsky and the guests that friday about the probability and reality of a full-scale invasion already when these were a message from western intelligence do you think we could have minimized the losses somehow reduced this

negative effect, we could have if we had developed our own army already after the 19th year and we stopped doing it and actually the industrial complex if all our glorious missiles and anti-tank installations all these thighs we still produced neptunes, and we actually produced them until the 19th year, and then in fact there was no funding for this, if we, realizing that there was going to be a war, had mobilized earlier to protect the south and north of ukraine, the situation would have been would be normal in another way, but the young people cannot help but make mistakes, these are natural mistakes, especially when this young people came out of such a large colonial to ask you about the language, because you are one of the authors and the initiator of this law, on the one hand, nonsense that in the country should have some kind of separate law that protects the state language, and on the other hand, constant speculation, again, myths about the

language being out of date, and don't touch the language, i'm watching it now. people there from my village, for example, as you already know on facebook there with they write on their birthday in ukrainian i'm so happy, i'm so happy and i think well, class, finally, we finally got it when we saw the tanks already under our house and what do you think this is, this has already become a fixation er rethought this attitude or trend no, what kind of trend is this trend - this is what came up and went away because it is fashionable, and people now remember their language not because it is fashionable, although it is also fashionable, of course, but for many there was a different fashion and a different module was imposed on us, they remember the language because they are beginning to realize who they are starting to realize that they are fighting because they are ukrainians, that they want to expel them from their native land because they are ukrainians, that they want to deport me or kill me because they are ukrainians, the enemy directly says and

writes about this in their articles, and then they understand that if we are ukrainians, we have to stick together to stick together to stick to values ​​by the history of our history and what unites us language is what unites us the most as well as we are every nation obviously, the majority are christians although there are different denominations, a large part of our people are atheists in the post-soviet period there are also many of them, but even regardless of faith, we are all united by language and people, this is now this identifier and people feel it and they understand that the attack that is coming is an attack, first of all, on language, too, because without our language we become a mass part of the soviet the russian people, anyone , only ukrainians, and people want to be ukrainians, because to be ukrainian is to speak ukrainian, this is the main identifier

. it is necessary to survive, that is why people do it completely consciously, some consciously fall into some kind of veil , some understand that everything was where they tried to adapt, to be liked in order to make money, that it was all delusional, and the truth is in something else, and that is why they return to their side, for example, russian-speaking kharkiv is shelled like this every day. mariupol, which was not there either, is completely ukrainian-speaking. here in lviv, we meet immigrants from kharkiv, mariupol, kramatorsk. i see them because we have a public organization that for the children of these immigrants, he makes workshops, chess tournaments, various other entertainments, he and i engage in various other entertainments, and when i awarded the children in our tournament and they passed, i asked everyone where are you from, from donetsk , from kramatorsk, from kharkiv, from kherson, all these children

spoke ukrainian, that's why when they say russian-speaking kharkiv, i well i don't agree with this a little, really, there were a lot of people there who spoke russian or listened to that language in the city, although for many of them it was ukrainian, for the majority almost all of them remained ukrainian native language, even when they did not communicate and when there is a threat, you always return to something of your native language, and now they are returning to this native language, that is why i never considered kharkiv to be russian-speaking, apart from the fact that it is the center of ukrainian culture and the house where shevelev lived is symbolic for me the house and today the people who protect kharkiv or the same zhadan who works as a humanitarian there and helps a lot of people people who my friend the deceased who died for pleasure before the war barbara from lviv who moved to kharkiv and fell in love with this place or the same kurbas who is also a lvivian who created a

fantastic theater there, eh, this is the same ukraine as lviv, sometimes in some ways even more, eh, we perceive cities through personal so now we have listed who you know, with whom you are associated with a specific city who can we get in ukraine, e.e., for example, there were the british, churchill . who do we have here, such an iconic, powerful figure who can play such a personal role in history and in this war, we will be victorious, you know, it is difficult to talk about this, because churchill was not alone about churchill they started talking long after the war, because immediately after the war he was not elected, he lost the election and he was not that great and many people in principle condemned him or believed that he was wrong or did not agree with him and the population also did not vote for him will be evaluated by our people. we will not understand right away. this evaluation will come after some time. for me, of

course, every hero who fights at the front is a hero for me, uh, obviously, the military, the ukrainian command - these are all heroes, probably among them there are people who make mistakes, probably among there are people who came from the soviet army and were not modernized. and there are those who graduated from west point or american military schools or ukrainian officers who are already absolutely european officers who are in no way inferior to the nastivists there. there are different people everywhere, but each of them is a hero as well in political power e- each of them, each of the politicians , including me, each of the parliamentarians and each of the heads of state and the president are all contradictory figures, but now we are all fighting the invasion of the russian nazis as one, and people will judge later who was right and who did what? years later, the

question is whether you, in particular, and the government will be ready to make unpopular decisions and not be elected even after victory for the sake of it. well, i personally never counted solely on popularity and voted for many things which are not popular, listen, we came in the 14th year, our treasury was empty and it was very difficult for people, it was popular in the post-soviet countries, it was so that you give money to people, you promise gold, you raise pensions, you distribute salaries, you raise salaries and when we came after the maidan, and there were several tens of thousands of hryvnias in the treasury, especially salaries to be distributed, and in order to receive international funds, it was necessary to make very unpopular decisions, so for me there is nothing strange about making unpopular decisions the war itself is not popular, the mobilization is unpopular, everything that is happening now is not popular , the people themselves understand that now is not the time for popularity, but

in a while it is time for everyone to unite to defend themselves, and politicians become strong then from politicians to statesmen, they don't think about elections. it seems to me that this is the most important thing, i'm sure in the conditions of war, they don't think about elections, this is a unique time, such a historical one, to show itself to strong people, we hope that the country will be in the first place for everyone, and what is victory for you now? this is a very popular word i think that everyone is waiting for it and everyone is playing when it will happen, but on the other hand, we understand that it will not be easy and quick, so what is it for you that the end of the war and the restoration of a strong ukrainian state that will become a member of nato and the european union is for you victory for me because it guarantees our further peace, obviously the liberation of the territory. i am very worried about crimea because, as i have always believed that ukrainians have the right to their state, their independence, their

decisions, i also believe that the crimean tatars have their rights as a nation and we have do everything to ensure that the rights of the crimean tatars are protected, of course i love crimea, the mountains and the sea. luhansk region, you know that the majority of our literature is representatives of the same shot revival and our luminaries were born there, we can also mention saussure and ivan dzyuba and stus who lived there and many, many others of whom there are many, representatives of ukrainian luhansk region and ukrainian donetsk region brought in many people but ukrainians for whom this land is their own have the right to return there and be protected on this land. so when all ukrainians are

protected for me, this will mean victory for us we are talking at a time when for several hours a day even in the cities of western ukraine we hear alarm and see rockets, so i, as a person of faith, do not know what we will find. but i know for sure and believe that the generation of our children will live in a strong and independent ukraine in i have no doubts about this, thank you, thank you. mykola knyazhytskyi, people's deputy of ukraine - this is an interview before the independence day of our country, we hope that our children will live in an independent ukraine, but you and i now understand in real time what the price and value of this independence, because ukrainians are dying for it every day right now, independence is important . watch espresso, because it is a true channel with a ukrainian point of view. stay with us

. 16-year-old liza mandych disappeared in the kharkiv region. she lived in the village of kivsharivka, which was occupied by the russians at the beginning of the war. then the connection with the girl was cut off, all this time without losing hope, liza is being looked for by her friend, it was she who told us the details, which i hope will help in the search. so, in the first days of the russian invasion, liza mandych called her friend and said that she was very scared. well, that's what they said. of course it's scary that there are planes flying there and they're very close. well, to russia, if it was the kupyan district, the mother of lisa's friend also joined the search and the woman told us what the connection was. i was with liza only in the first days of the war, and then he disappeared. there was no contact with her at all. she was nowhere to be found. she was not on instagram. she

tuned in to all these social networks. and for three whole months, there was no news until suddenly at the end in may, the girl gave about herself to know and wrote a message, and then she appeared suddenly on may 27, literally for 5 minutes, she sent two such messages that i was in the lpr and i was going to pay attention, that is, whether she was being taken away or she was with her parents, she did not write anything, and the communication was interrupted, therefore, from may 27 and so far there is no connection with the visa. however, her friend and her mother do not stop searching and say that very important information recently appeared, which really inspires hope that everything is okay with lisa. at the same time, lida did not get in touch, but her friend did on instagram eh and i wrote to her and she said that lisa from kivsharivka is fine with her. well, at the same time, i don't know why my friend was able to get in touch with alizen.

lisa's friend also looked for a man on social media who now lives in occupied kivsharivka, and he also claims that a man saw lisa claims that she opened the door for him and that everything is fine with her, that is, two people have already said that liza is allegedly at home in kivsharivka, but at the moment this information is not confirmed, because at least there is no photo or video on which you could see liza, so her a friend asks the residents of sharivka who may see this program on social networks to also check whether she really lives in kivsharivka and the girl names the exact address where liza lives, the first microdistrict, the 31st building, the fourth entrance - the ninth floor, and there is no apartment number, but there is a door on the left and the left side of the apartment look at the address where

lisa mandych lived and maybe lives now if you have such an opportunity, please come and check if liza really lives there, if the information is confirmed, please do it photo or video with lisa and send us on the facebook page of the children's search service or to the chatbot of the children's search service in telegram of course i really hope that everything is fine with lisa mandych she is at home but there is simply no way to get in touch for one reason or another connection, however, this information has not yet been verified and the girl can actually be in any corner of ukraine or even abroad, so i ask everyone look carefully at liza's photo, she looks 17 years old, about 160 cm tall, she is thin, has blond hair and gray-green eyes wears glasses by the way, we also found lisa's instagram page, but her account is closed and it is unfortunately impossible to write her a message, so if you have seen lizomandych

or know where she might be, dial the short number of the child tracing service from any mobile operator 116,000,000 calls to our hotline are free, or write to the child tracing chatbot service in telegram on the air from washington, the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america, i am yulia yarmolenko, i congratulate the us secretary of state anthony blinkin called the international community to continue strengthening