and well, if at first it was from the 24th, i was somewhere there at 10 o'clock. no, i had already been to saltov and tried there for almost two months. well, at first, well, anyway, well, they thought that infantry tanks would go there. well, what about the soviets ? films that everyone is running on the field well, but later there, well, you can say there for 2-3 weeks, well , everyone already understood that if there was no large-scale offensive, the local residents who remained in the northern selfie, this is how they perceived what they are now occupying next to them military positions, did they let their apartments, how did they react to you well at first, when we arrived on the first day, everyone there was filming everything, well, everyone was wondering what was going on there, uh, then they saw a video on instagram with how, hmm, in the position of running,

we run, but then, well, if you knew most of the residents at once they went there, they stayed, well, they say yes, there was a case with the grandparents, they went there, well , they sent me there to a separate building. there were a few more people there, we were there on the ninth floor, and there were grandmother and grandfather on the floor, well, if they had enough eh the elderly and if they said that we are here they fed us there. well, there was soup there . grandmother constantly offered er, or, well, if there were always dry rations there, but there it is necessary to run out, under shelling, a car came and took it away, and then when we were already moved to another position, if they said that well, there's no point in sitting there

, so the grandmother didn't cry and the guys do n't leave us, even though we explain to her that we don't leave the apartment in the neighboring house if it's needed there the most, the residents perceived it quite positively, everyone there helped each other that we were the residents there food, water, what do they have, the same for us, well, what could we do there, what we don’t have there, first there was light there, then the phones were charged there, the charger was given, they helped, did you go to the world championship in finland as part of the ukrainian national team, did you really count on high places? i understand that i wanted to prove myself, i wanted to show that ukraine is fighting, that it is competing, that it is winning, regardless of what happens here, on the contrary, it only strengthens the desire to be the best .

place, but for me, if the first goal was to go there and tell the athletes from other countries there, so that they tell their colleagues there what is actually happening in ukraine, not what they say on tv or social networks, er, from real services, show there this video was the main goal, but i trained as much as possible and wanted to take the first place, because we have been striving for this for many, many years, and if we finally succeeded, if it was such a difficult time, it would be great, what exactly like this it was successful. please tell me that military pentathlon is an applied sport. yes, it is a sport that helps to prepare better for the terrain. swim quickly

. react quickly to certain events. who heard what i said on the news, but they really didn't believe that it could be like that, we show a video that simple residential buildings are destroyed, they tell them it's not a military facility, people live here well, we say that's how it is there, well, if only shocked, everyone asked how we managed to train or were we able to, well, everyone is curious, but everyone is shocked, what if we were able to come there and if we showed a decent result, which countries were most interested in the situation in ukraine, lithuania is the most interested in us, if we have friendly relations with them. therefore, before the competition the guys also helped us uh well, some military units there uh with sweden

uh, guys approached there and asked from finland , now in the status of the world championship, do you plan to return to combat positions or other tasks there is a task in front of you now there is another orienteering competition now that is happening in us after the competition i will return to kharkiv again if i was to deal with my functional duties or tasks that will be set there by the commanders ukrainian army conducted a successful counteroffensive in kharkiv region and freed large territories, how do you think events will develop and the war will continue, well, if this is a very difficult question, it is widespread and no one will give an exact answer, but everyone wants to hear what did she act? my opinion is that if eh, quickly, definitely, the war will not end, but

eh, that eh, the armed forces conducted an effective counteroffensive , if for the specific city of kharkiv, neighboring cities , eh, cities, villages, eh, of course, this is positive because there will be less shelling, well, they won't be able to shell us from the territory of ukraine, that's why, of course, it 's positive and you believe in our victory, of course , in a different way. thank you very much. i wish you victory in sports competitions and in this war, thank you. i am a russian military ship. i offer a blessed weapon not a little warship ukraine!

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, the only news is together we are strong, the armed forces of ukraine need drones, do your part, our weapons are the truth, the only news is with you, we are working on the front lines of the information front, we are talking about the current events of the russian-ukrainian war, everything will be ukraine, the only news in the center of events, what is the standard, what is cool, what is the person doing tells about himself and partly the viewer gets to know himself there, if, for example, we laugh at some problem, then they are not such a problem, it becomes scary vadim i welcome you to the first channel in the public our broadcast conversation with you will be 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 see us in kyiv. for me, ukrainian stand-up became a revelation precisely after february 24. how paradoxical is it ? and i don’t know, i’m the only one like that. does it seem to me that you really have such a definite surge in popularity now? well, not specifically. in my standard, of course, and it’s a pity that it was the fault, let’s say, the war that people began to learn about stand-up because we have been doing it for a long time, for example, i have been performing as a curate for six years already, it is simply not for anyone, 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 we are now between comedians. we even have such a communication, let's say yes, and i told you that it is sooner or later. that is, we already

communicate with each other like this because we believed in it, and finally, but how about you for yourself explain it well, because it is real it's 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. this is not television humor, we'll talk about the difference, well, i wouldn't say that it was humor, but a lot of attention was paid to music on another youtube- channels are currently showing a lot of videos on youtube, such as what should be watched on ukrainian youtube, ukrainian-language ones too of course, stand-up is also suitable if it is an interest in ukrainian, so absolutely, and they started listening to music, including music more well, stand-up has caught fire there your colleague stand-up comedian vasyl baydak came to us on channel one at the beginning of the summer, there are many people who now want to laugh to relieve anxiety, er, to cheer themselves up, because russia is doing everything possible to make our mood bad, and

we talked with him in particular about the fact that his repertoire changed a lot after february 24, he was focused on absurd comedies, now he is more attentive to everything that those around us really addressed the language. changed well, it is important here why stand-up is a cool thing because it is very relevant, you wrote it, told it, recorded it so it already exists, for example, prytula satellite, this one you bought, you joked about it, it is relevant, it is on the internet, it has spread well, uh, that's why i love this genre that he is so fast, really news, yes, the purchase of satellite shelter, that is, news - these are sources for you now for a joke, news, my reporter has changed, i will say yes, and i understand what people need, for example, if i go out in such a difficult time for ukraine, and it will take absolutely about some distant things, it is clear that people can

be interested in being distracted, but i still think that people are interested in hearing about what is bothering them all now, if, for example, we laugh at some problem, then it is not so scary, but it still seems to me that news what is the problem with them is that there is such a fine line and what can be joked about and what can't be joked about well, for example, if we are talking specifically about the war, well, i do n't joke about the war and my colleagues don't joke about the war either, what are the cultural defense projects with me joking about let's put it this way, the military can joke about the war because they are directly involved in it. they know what they are talking about. according to the standard, a comedian can always tell when he is insincere or he is lying or he does not know what he is talking about. if i were joking about what i i am a successful family man, i have four children. well, no one would believe me, we all thought that i was some kind of liar. but i joke about the fact that i , for example, do not get along with girls, there is something about me. they laugh at me accordingly

russia is a part of the war. in other words, it's about some part of the war. you joke about the enemy. of course , i'll repeat that when we joke about the enemy , he doesn't become so scary to us. regarding jokes about the enemy, do you have any red lines? to be honest, i don't . i say as much as possible to cover with snow as much as possible, and we do that. but of course, without these caps, it seems that there are many enemies. he still has something to fight and the equipment drives and shoots. that is why society should laugh a little bit, we are not so afraid, but still understood that this is the enemy, various jokes from the enemy again during the active period of the war this meme creation is some 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, this is some memes yes but sometimes i still 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. let's laugh a little and, of course, every day we have moments of tragedy, 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 . you sent three memes to your friend there, and you definitely need some kind of reaction if you didn't react to these memes, well, a person can be offended, laugh, or say, i've already seen it somewhere, you know, such a minimal meme communication appeared on the same level as this one more what really impresses me in the phenomenon of ukrainian stand-up after february 24 is the charitable component of social responsibility. you are one of the hosts of such a show as a cultural defense for our

viewers. i will explain that you are inviting a famous personality . you are four stand-up artists. man, you joke about some news and in the process collect money, most often for the military. this program is a nomadic show. weeks we also had such a humorous stupid and what should we do anyway and what do we know and what will we be useful we already went there and volunteered various things there for the temporarily displaced persons and then we sat down and thought we are humorists, we did it and before that why not somehow assimilate it to the benefit of some and we came up with such a project called 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 tells the audience that we do not know what will come of this, but we hope for some it will be useful. we sat down in the frame and there was such a

small tension between us, the audience, the little one turns on about you , we ask . it's kind of mutual, it feels so warm that now we're doing a great job, we've received guests, we're having fun, cameras are being filmed at us, and we're simultaneously raising funds for the support of the armed forces of ukraine. other do you have contacts with some military units, what does it look like, how do we appear there , star guests, the military have access to them, we collect them for some of their goals, they help us with a star. the serious military helped us in this, uh, we can already write directly to the stars ourselves and drop them, here we had gorbunov, we had dzidzio and they understand. yes, they came.

so you can agree to that. that is , most often these are stars who also volunteer a little somewhere . or maintain contacts with the military very cool and maintain so in particular contact with the military is very cool as stars compete with each other they ask and how much did gorbunov collect 200,000 and they will collect more they already connect some of their contacts there artem fedetsky is a football player and he has such a sports the day he is interested , he is already there to someone, er, in telegram, i see that he is dropping our broadcast, drop the money, then the guys are collecting, they want as many as possible to gather with them, how much was the most you were given for one such a performance is equivalent to 200 or something thousand. we collected for one stream. that is, these are the people who will donate from the hall to your audience, as well as those who watch online and have the opportunity to transfer funds to those who buy tickets in e-e. these funds partially cover the filming process because we hire operators 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. maybe a little scared, judging by the jokes about your contacts with the military and you, this recording also took place with a shelter, tell me a little more about it, were you not scared there at all , because it was already a period when it was hot there now in kramatorsk so there i often heard the sounds of explosions and i was very well, i wasn't surprised, let's just say so, it calmed the peace of our military because they we hear we are twitching there and the military says it's ours these exits they understand where it arrives and where it departs and it's calm like that and the military is very they were able to communicate so warmly. they said that their greatest joy is from our civilian life. when they call them, they say we are tired of the question of when to go home because we don't know. we are tired of the question of when it will all end. we also don't know. and sometimes it happens that the military

military women are jealous, they say i know that you are there somewhere with girls and they say, what can you do to the girls, i am sitting in a trench, you know. and you were there in kramatorsk speaking in front of the military. yes , they were military men who were taking a certain course rehabilitation. well, several managers were also in this hall, and we had a task. well, we saw at least a little smile on their faces. ah, some of them sat until the end of the evening. they were just so serious. i think. unfortunately, at the end of the evening, a military man came i thanked the guys , it was very cool. it just doesn’t show the emotions of a person. but it seems to me that it is even more difficult to joke here than in principle during the war. during the war, you weren’t afraid of what kind of jokes you were afraid of, but that’s what we said there, that was an interesting moment. that is, we we say military, we're going to blurt something out now, we know that you can shoot us in the knee, we're ready for that, well, that's how we joked with them and they laughed at what we did. well, in general, it went

well. very well, they fed us very well if all the soldiers, all the soldiers so they eat for that, you can’t help but worry, we also wanted to ask you separately about how a person who has been doing stand-up for six years, is there any special feature of stand-up in ukraine besides the fact that you have to perform in a warring country, and in particular in front of to the military, well, in our country there is a very high threshold of this line of saying something wrong, for example, a video will be released somewhere, or sexism or offending someone from the population will attract 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 it in the end, there will still be 40 people who will say that you will die, that everything is going badly and so on, just read it, it is worth commenting on facebook, but this is such an interesting observation, because it seemed to me that it was about some uh, well, sensitive topics they are even more sensitive somewhere in the west. and

you say that the ukrainian audience also reacts to the bolilist, she 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, he will immediately say it, you mentioned that vasyl baidak switched to the ukrainian language in his stand-up, there was no such question for you because you performed and actually the star is rather in the west of ukraine, and now you are already moving around ukraine with your tour, in your opinion, this is a phenomenon of transition to the ukrainian language in stand-up, it is not the other way around is it still such a trend because, well, there is probably a trendiness in this as well, frankly , i would like it to be irreversible, but well, i just don't see the way back well, then why should vasyl go back it's in russian, i'm sure that it's not a hype, it's just a forced measure and i'm sure that everyone will switch and everyone will start to feel comfortable because at some point tymoshenko will switch. as far as i know, he still thought in russian for a period of time, but he wrote in ukrainian now in

he has already lost it, he 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, in one of these interviews , he said that humor is sometimes not always like that of course, a soft tool for conveying to the audience some values, and also some messages that you may not convey directly. so it works in a nice way, but my humor is more aimed at relaxing the viewer, but i just told my life story, i relaxed him, he understood that in theory he could have something like this, the standard is cool because the result is a person telling about himself and partly the viewer recognizes himself there, but he he will never say this from the stage and he may never share this with anyone, but i came out brave and told what i have there, for example,

i am fat, for example, yes, it is not like that. it is not like that. i know that he does not notice it. for example, the person in the hall can also be full, but she is ashamed to just say. but i came out and said and i told the pros of this, for example, and he already has this problem if he can call it problems and perceives it easier well, but it still means that you use it in this way let's say yes, i don't want to impose anything on anyone, i would talk about myself and a person can be perceived 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 of ukraine is, what he was before this election position. we also know that such tv shows as the league of laughter, er. again, the same 95 quarter had its audience, or the audience of these tv shows and the audience of ukrainian stand-up, they somehow intersect with each other, well, now there are a lot of stand-up comedians who absolutely they don't like

the league of laughter, they say, god, how could you play it? i love it, i played the league of laughter, played kvn well, because it is primarily a humorous discipline, there were clear boundaries . when you should write humor and when it should be shown, they taught how to write humor . beginners, they learn simply from their mistakes like this and no one tells them, they didn't perform funny well, i'll write funnier next time and that's how the humor crystallizes, and in the laughter league we had editors who directly followed the way you write. these are freedom-loving stand-up artists. this is probably a little the problem was like this well, but i don't think that it was a problem to play this game, it was the first class in the community, many cool acquaintances since then, many stand-up artists who played with me in the league of laughter, we have been friends for many years. and by the way, there was filming recently, well, the league of laughter was at the beginning of a full-scale war, well, before the start, and now it won’t be released, and the fate of this project is unknown , maybe there won’t be a league of laughter at all, and stand -up will still exist, well, that is, the audience, can we

say that it somehow intersects? is that all ? - after all, they are very different people. it seems to me that no, different audiences. i think that no. and although i did not investigate this for you, my question was what it was related to, because i thought whether ukrainian stand-up can even claim to be a mass audience. well, let it be for you in particular in addition to pleasure and er charity brought some income the standard is already starting to bring income and even before the war it was because people are starting to see want to see comedians at their corporate events and depp, unfortunately, the audience is not always ready because the organizer might want it, i want to say we came to comedians and people are eating, people don't even look at us because the organization and one organizer wanted it, it's fun, it's great, thanks guys, you understand that you have to get to this point so that the audience will put down their plate let's say that's how the standard came back yes, i i know what it is. well, i understood that many

stand-up artists, their profession or occupation in life outside of stand-up is the presenters of some events. but is it correct? i understand that now you are called not only as the presenter of an event, but also as a stand-up artist to perform at is it possible 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 uh, yes, mainly for those who do stand-up, then i also want to do something at the end you should probably be asked to address our viewers who, uh, still, due to rather difficult circumstances, they can definitely feel despair. how do you , for example, look for inspiration for yourself to not only continue to work, but also to joke in these conditions? you know my kind inspiration with each if, in particular, we take cultural defense to our project with each conquered centimeter of our

ukrainian land and the humorous wings also began to work harder, that is, it became easier to breathe. chernihiv oblast was liberated during the offensive in donbas, and there are partial successes. now it is starting to fly around the crimea. i like it. let’s say that inspires not only stand-up comedians. but every ukrainian is therefore doing everything to ensure that the armed forces work and win back accordingly, and we ourselves will also have the motivation to work further. vadim thank you very much for this conversation and i wish you success , uh, both as a stand-up artist and as a philanthropist who supports, in particular, the armed forces of ukraine, thank you very much donetsk luhansk kherson zaporizhzhia we will be ukraine, we will not forget, we will not forgive, we will not

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