this is definitely a matter of counteroffensive and offensive. hmm , that is, i am sure that our strategic partners are also preparing technical and armaments for us so that we can begin to make this counteroffensive , which has been talked about for a very long time. thank you for joining us and we have more news directly on the course. iryna koval will tell us about everything that is happening in ukraine and in the world. today is the 31st anniversary of ukraine's independence and unfortunately we are celebrating for the first time in such extreme in the conditions of the war, in fact, that's exactly how it happened. it 's been six months since the first rockets from russia arrived in ukraine and the first tanks crossed the border . iryna koval is ready

. - and our holiday does not give rest to the russians. so today and already at night they started shelling different regions of ukraine, so i will tell you about the situation in different regions literally in a moment. and also about aid to ukraine and how ukrainians in different parts of the world celebrate the day independence 15th in ukraine news time on the espresso tv channel greetings in the studio of iryna koval, we start with the situation in the south of ukraine, the russians used rocket-propelled grenades in the direction of oleksandrivka and kryvyi rih, there are hits on open surfaces, fortunately without casualties , the operational command noted three times during the night the enemy attacked our positions from the sky. along the contact line, at the same time, our defenders

eliminated 10 russian nazis and also destroyed a 120-mm mortar. however, the threat from the sea has not disappeared, the military urges not to neglect safety and to be careful of the black sea beyond cape tarkhankut along the crimean coast , hiding from a possible attack by the defense forces of ukraine, a general group of 10 ships and boats is maneuvering, of which four are missile carriers of caliber, including one submarine with almost three dozens of household rockets, aware of the threats and treachery of the enemy. be vigilant and collected, do not give the enemy a chance to break your will and faith in victory. poltava region was under enemy fire four arrivals were recorded in myrhorod, the invaders hit the military infrastructure in the cities, 831 tactical aviation brigades were noted, the

invaders hit the surface with missiles, probably kha-22, as a result of the attack, there was a fire at the affected objects, experts are currently working, information about the fires and destruction is being clarified, the terror against the civilian population of kharkiv region continues, the russians fired cluster munitions on a small danylivka village in the kharkiv district, reported to the regional military administration that two people were wounded there, in addition, private houses were damaged and the infrastructure is also undermining the artillery. the tugs to near kharkiv regarding victims or destruction there is currently no information, people are urged to stay in shelters today in the region there is a curfew all day. we remember how on june 28 of this year ukrainians set a world record for the largest simultaneous performance of the song oi in the

red viburnum meadow, then more than a thousand ukrainians in 48 countries of the world joined the flash mob. the performance of the national anthem of ukraine in honor of independence day, the organizers expect that the anthem will be sung by about 5,000 people at the same time, our correspondent tetyana vysotska is observing the process in france and is now in direct contact with us tetyana congratulations and telling many people came to sing our anthem in strasbourg good day studio now we are near the palace of europe in strasbourg, and indeed a lot of people have gathered here, our ukrainians, the ukrainian diaspora , ukrainian refugees and, of course, our diplomats , the permanent representation of the council of europe in strasbourg uh, who are the organizers of the events and just a minute ago, the world record i think was

set because everyone sang our national anthem together. it was very touching . of support and now people are not separated, they are talking and everyone is talking about the fact that it is inevitable that our victory ukraine will win and everything will be fine with us tanya we also believe in very fast help that soon we will win and you too happy independence day of ukraine. thank you for including support from the united states . president joe biden announced a new package of military aid to ukraine worth almost 3 billion dollars. this will allow our country to purchase air defense systems, artillery, ammunition and radars . in the long

term, the statement of the white house also states that joe biden congratulated ukraine on independence day , the us president emphasized that six months of merciless russia's attacks have only strengthened the pride of ukrainians for themselves and their country, the help of partners norway and great britain will buy black hornet microdrones for ukraine in the amount of more than 9 million dollars, the kit consists of two charging drones and a control tablet, its weight is 1 kg 300 g, in addition to drones, the aid package includes spare parts, transport and training, the ministry of defense of norway reports that the black hornet drone is used for reconnaissance in many countries , including the usa and great britain, the microdon is easy to operate. it is difficult to detect and it is especially it is well suited for conducting combat operations in urban

conditions with air alarms and at the same time with the celebrations today independence day is celebrated in lviv the celebrations in the city began in the morning and how the people of lviv met the state holiday our journalist khrystyna parubiy in the studio knows congratulations to all the viewers of the espresso tv channel as well join in the greetings and i congratulate all ukrainians on the independence day of our country , this morning in lviv began with an air alarm around seven in the morning, sirens sounded so far in the city, we calmly hope that it will continue to be the case today, the solemn events in the city started from the lychakiv cemetery, i would like to remind you that the cemetery has several locations where our fallen soldiers are buried, so first of all, everyone went to the field of mars, where

our heroes who died during after the full-scale invasion, everyone paid their respects by playing the heavenly hundred and moved to the 76th field of the lychakiv cemetery, where our defenders who gave their lives after 2014 are buried. then everyone went to the lviv regional military of the administration, there was actually a very moving ceremony or a ukrainian flag from children to a cadet of the lyceum named after heroiv krut and he raised a blue-yellow flag near the administration also today they prayed for our for the health of our defenders in the garrison church, i will say that today it's actually a sad day in lviv, because the city will soon say goodbye to another one of our fallen soldiers, so we must remember at what price our freedom and independence are given to us - studio thank you khrystyna and

let's move on to the next news. azov is all of ukraine. soldiers of the regiment of the same name congratulated ukrainians on independence day in zaporizhzhia on the island of khortytsia. according to azov residents, ukrainians have become more aware and therefore stronger to finally give a devastating answer and forever punish war criminals for all these centuries. azov soldiers are convinced that the task is not an easy one, but ukraine will definitely win, this is what the soldiers of the same azov regiment who escaped from the hell of the azov steel say. for us, they wanted to destroy feathers with blood, but from this from the ashes, the spirit of steel was reborn, now together in each of us, azov is all of ukraine, one and the same, and happy independence day, the american company

brickmania toys, which produces custom lego sets and military-themed minifigures, congratulated ukrainians on independence day in a published video ukrainian military and equipment made of lego parts. there is our dream mig-29 fighters and armored vehicles for the video, the company used real sets that it had previously released in support of ukraine, god bless the cossacks, that was all the news at that time

once again we congratulate you on independence day, the updated edition, wait in less than an hour, watch the espresso news and euro espresso programs for ukrainian refugees in europe, joint broadcast with the atp channel, radio svoboda programs , voice of america time-time programs, inclusion of public television journalists , news broadcasts on our channel bbc news ukraine and france 24 as well as the broadcast of the information marathon the only news together we are the strength glory to ukraine some creatures he hunts washing machines and we are from

ukraine and insure our machines online at hotline.infance hotline finance insurance of course online congratulations friends i congratulate you on the independence day of ukraine and the next anniversary of our elected statehood and there will be many more such anniversaries and many holidays and i believe that these holidays will be in a peaceful and united ukraine, which will become an important part of families of european and civilized peoples in their struggle against dictatorship and autocracy, dictatorships will not win freedom, russia will not win ukraine and today we speak in our project dedicated to the

anniversary of ukrainian independence from the executive duties of the chairman of the constitutional court of ukraine serhiy to the chairmen i congratulate mr. serhiy good health, thank you for agreeing to participate in this project of ours dedicated to the independence of ukraine and this allows us to return to the 90s in a completely different i would say in a completely different social atmosphere i remember how i was leaving the congress of the people's movement of ukraine, the first congress from the founding assembly, at which i was one of the journalists who covered this event, and how the people in the tram in kyiv. it seemed to be high-speed tram number three, which borshchagovka walks with some surprise, i looked at the blue-yellow badge that i simply left after this founding congress, because it must be said that it was not worn so simply back then. and at the movement congress,

everyone was wearing these badges. continue to live in the soviet union , not even in this perestroika moscow, to which they are accustomed , but simply in the ordinary soviet union, i felt myself at this congress, a movement. i even called my article the aquarium of freedom at one time. and you were one of those who were activists of this organizations that is, i worked on the charter. and what were your hopes in a situation when it was clear that the majority of society did not share my ideas of the independence of the country? i already said that i was one of those who worked , he was not the only one. how did it happen, i worked on this statute in the summer, practically it was he who, in its modified form, the constituent congress praised, but in addition to the statute, i am working on some sections of the program e-e that were adopted by the constituent congress, in particular, programs that related to statehood, programs that related to the future legal system or

what we then called the legal state, although the communists before gorbachev forbade talking about the legal state at all, and this concept was returned by the communists at their congress, but in the party resolution they called everything the celichov legal state. and before that, starting with lenin, stalin, brezhnev and others it was not possible at all, this word was so, you know how, well, well, the ban was a taboo on the concept of the rule of law, and you said about the atmosphere, i want to say my feelings on that day, those three the days of my own feelings, because this is true. this was the soviet union, the communist party was in power, it was armored personnel carriers around our house of culture, and the polytechnics were surrounded along shevchenko boulevard and so on. and so on, you know, then it was not possible

ukraine was not dead yet to sing, at that time it was not possible to use blue and yellow colors, at that time it was not possible to draw a trident at all, and when the organizing committee was preparing for the congress in the summer before september, the artists were headed by lyalya skoryk. is for in front of which the presidium was supposed to sit and the word movement was really written there there really was a trident there really were blue and yellow colors of the flag and what do you think and what did you do it so to speak the youth wing of the movement to which i belong i was young then but the older wing, let's say, writerly, poetically, scientifically, it rested in the crimea at writer's cottages, beaches, everything else, and came when they saw how the youth wing was preparing for the congress, they wrote this opinion

, a tailor, a complaint against us, they wrote a denunciation they they said that these extremists who were preparing the movement in the summer went very radical and they use the blue and yellow trident symbols and so on. and so on, you understand. kravchuk got this situation . who came to that place? well, on the first day of september, there were different feelings, and when the cossack march, which had never been heard in soviet times, was played on the radio or on television, i began to cry. because when i heard that music , which was forbidden and i did not know it, i first heard it in in my life, i heard the cossack march at the polytechnic on the morning of that september, when the founding congress of the movement was opened, then drach told me, and pavlychko said: we

thought you were sent to us, but you say: when i saw you cry during the cossack march, he says, all doubts are gone. already parted yes, i remember, i remember this melody by sergey because i really liked it, i thought why i had never heard it in my life, but it's interesting, and then i'll remember how it ended, with what a red viburnum, the choir of leopold's fox, not yet ukrainians were killed by red viburnum then it was anthem then it was this pathos it was this elation it was what in the end constituted this ukrainian spirit, the spirit of ukrainian immortality, remember , compare red viburnum - it is like the final stage or it is like the apotheosis of the founder from the side of the movement and red viburnum today, what are its sounds, what are its meanings, and it still inspires. that is

, it is what actually constitutes the spirituality of ukrainian existence, and ukrainian and not ukrainian indestructibility through spiritual symbols , through music, words of songs, and so on. these are these. feelings, because already later. of course, when we adopted the constitution, we wrote down what the national anthem is, what the national coat of arms is, and so on. ants kissed and tears flowed because it was. it was incomprehensible, unexpected, it was not. it was, but it was natural, you know, you mentioned kravchuk, and i also thought that we need to figure out why the ukrainian communists were so incredibly unmodern. i was at the founding congress of the people's front of estonia came there on the first day, the first secretary of the central committee of the party,

vaino vialis, the chairman of the council of ministers of the estonian ssr , indrik toma, and the chairman of the presidium of the supreme council of estonia, arnold ritter . ride so it will be clear that this is the people's front, this is the people's, even the party leadership of the history is close to the people. and only really leonid kravchuk passed the founding congress of the movement. i would say not from my own his wish was then sent, and he was only the head of the ideological department of the central committee of the digger of ukraine and a member of the central committee, not even a member of the politburo of the central committee of the communist party. in fact, the party leadership of ukraine ignored the congress, they even forbade us to write about this congress. i don't know if you know that i wrote the text about the founding congress of the movement before the congress began and before we were forbidden to write. that is, we had time to publish in the newspaper youth of ukraine a message that the congress had begun that there were that it was opened by the delegates, that means with

national songs, but this did not happen, i made it up just to have time to not print it, and then everything was banned for 10 days, i remember it well, i know it very well, because i also observed it with my own eyes and everything was heard my ears, why was it different in ukraine, by the way, i am the same as you in estonia, i took part in the founding congress of the site in vilnius in the palace of sports and saw a powerful explosion under the national elevation, it also made a huge difference to me impressions of i it was accordingly so to speak well, i would say such a leader was already in the preparation of the ukrainian er-er ukrainian ukrainian insurgent movement, among other things, what is happening you see in estonia there was a

people's front in lithuania there was a people's front and in er-e in latvia and in lithuania, there was a website with its own name, and when we were preparing the founding documents, i them and the statute and the program, i convinced pavlychka and yavorivskyi and drach, let's come up with a way that we don't need the abbreviation e-e npu or how popular fronts were in the baltic states. i say let's be it became and i put it in the statute with its own name, i tell you, they will write in the english-language press in the world press , we don't need an abbreviation that won't be understood. we need it to become original, actually, and i capitalize it everywhere in the statute . reconstruction, but then everywhere according to the text movement movement movement and with capital letters of course, linguists and linguists argued that this contradicts the ukrainian spelling

, i am interested in the spelling. in a word, and it went on like this, they already wrote in english the movement and not the moment regarding kravchuk, otherwise p. vitaliy, it could not have been because kravchuk was forced to come to that congress, remember the summer months when kravchuk's public debates, among other things, were broadcast live on tue-1 as a leader, an ideologist, an ideological leader, an ideological leader of ukrainian or soviet communists in ukraine, as he argued, he proved to ivan fedorovych drachug who he was, that he was not yet the head of the movement, but he led , so to speak, organizationally, this nucleus, as a poet, as he was then elected on may 1 before that in lviv to the soviet union of the supreme soviet in such terrible elections and so on, but he won, he was

a leader. turned his back to drach. they sat with their backs, not facing each other arguing, but with their backs, because kravchuk fiercely argued that we do not need any movement, what are you here with the bander nationalistic symbols, blue and yellow, we have everything, we have blue and yellow look at our flag over there yellow the heart of the hammer is gold, it is yellow, and look at the red and blue, there is already blue. that is, these colors are present and this essence is communist. of course , he understood everything perfectly, he perfectly understood what the history of ukraine was, but he continued to play what an ideological guest should have played communists in ukraine because ukraine had and has and these days prove that it has a

defining value for muscovy as a part of the muscovite empire separated from the muscovite empire. the empire cannot exist without muscovite, so all efforts were abandoned. uh, when he came to power in kyiv, uh, gorbachev gave gorbachev, so to speak, a little bit of uh, well, somehow he dissolved and gave a little bit of freedom. it was already possible to talk about on television in moscow on the first worldwide channel, there was a program uh, where is he in hey guys, i don't remember the name of this program. this program is theirs, but in ukraine it was a sight in ukraine, it was suffocated because it was necessary to keep ukraine in what was once called the hedgehog 's glove, that is, in the vise of the kgb's blizzards of the totalitarianism of the communist system, so to speak and that's why kravchuk played his role and he

proved it, by the way, let's go back to, again, today. if the program is released on the day of the declaration of independence, when the flags were raised, it was for kravchuk that independence was declared, but the flag, you people, nato is not a crowd. sorry, that will be a bad word. the mass mass of those who were waiting to leave within the walls of the verkhovna rada of the ukrainian ssr on august 24, 1991, they demanded a blue-yellow flag and that kravchuk, well , raise a yellow flag raised by two flags at the same time under kravchuk raised two flags soviet blue-yellow er red-blue with a hammer and sickle and ukrainian blue-yellow at the same time on the fortress that this was

an ancient concept regarding the declaration of independence, just a dotted line i will tell you i already after the movement was created i wanted to get ukraine to allow the use of a blue-yellow flag, as it was allowed in the baltic countries. do you remember that at one time there were two flags? i wanted to write an article about it. well, the editors of the newspaper told me that i could not write. such an article because i am a university student. and this is a big deal. the bander flag, in fact, was fought against by the entire communist leadership, people were kicked out of the hall of the verkhovna rada of the ukrainian ssr . valentina shevchenko, the then speaker of the verkhovna rada, did this when the people's deputy of the soviet union mykola kutsenko came with a badge , she kicked him out and on violation of the constitution of the soviet union because i was not allowed to be a union deputy so i went to leonid kravchuk at that time, he was already the secretary of the central committee of the party and leonid kravchuk said that if you write an article, we will publish it and

use two flags. and i have one condition: you must find a well-known ukrainian intellectual writer with a party ticket , it is desirable that he gave you an interview in which he said that you can use both that and the other flags and , unfortunately, mr. serhiy, i did not find such an interlocutor, but i’m sorry, this is my hose about the period when the ukrainian ssr was a constituent part of the soviet union of the ussr and when o-o-o er-er in the evening of august 24, they announced what was announced in my er-er deed deed which original do you know this document i keep what was proclaimed declared the independence of ukraine as an independent state that could have been on the mast of already independent ukraine the soviet flag of ukraine it seems that the ukrainian communists

did not understand what they proclaimed at that time, for example khomenko khomenko was then i don't know how it was called today, that is what the head of the secretary, then i think it was in pravdilami or i don't remember, but in any case, it was an instruction and the cylinder said both because well, they were scared and they hanged me, but you know this symbol, i can tell you that it is symbolic, it happened that way and it had its own meaning, why. because the idealists are represented by members of the movement or movements or those who still left the levko luk camps yanenko, the mountains are not burning, iryna kalynets, others are those who went through the repressions of the brezhnev regime and so on. and even the gorbachev regime, these are idealists who wanted

an independent ukraine. not in the world there was a goal to have an independent ukraine well, it was not wrong when they say that kravchuk was never independent and that is why it is their symbol . camps of those who were buried or were reburied er already already already on ukrainian land they this was theirs this was theirs was the meaning of life and they aspired to it and that is why these two aspirations came together, the aspirations of the communists to maintain power but idealistic idealism and the ideal of an independent ukraine in the anti-communist part of the verkhovna rada as well