[000:00:00;00] watch the full version of this bright interview with yevgeny dyky on the youtube channel facts of the week column, our ears are burning, your comments are very interesting , looking at what is happening with belarus, how everyone can't believe that this country was one of the undertakers of the soviet empire, which was officially buried on december 25, 1991 in the year when mikhail gorbachev announced during a television appearance that he was withdrawing the powers of the president and was resigning, but in fact gorbachev only performed a ceremonial function, he no longer had a chance to save the scoop after all, two weeks before that, on december 8, in the bialowieza forest, the leaders of ukraine, belarus, and russia signed a certificate of the death of the union, which was called the bialowieza

agreement. the document provided for the creation of a commonwealth of independent states. i kravchuk shushkevich and yeltsin defeated gorbachev. nursultan nazarbayev to fly to belarus and where did this historical document disappear, kateryna pavlovska will tell the final meaning of the ussr, what role did ukraine play in this, how did gorbachev try reanimate the residence of the new one and how the last nail was driven into the union, they hammered the bialowieza empty turning point of the new history that culminated in the end of the empire artificially created by the bolsheviks. i congratulate kateryna pavlovska and this is the facts of the week. now i will tell you how 31 years ago in a small village

the soviet union was actually destroyed three presidents of belarus, russia, and ukraine signed the so -called belarus agreements how did the last days of the ussr pass and why russians still reflect on it, let's find out and subscribe to our channel or to know more national flags big and small and old photos in the national museum of the history of ukraine at the exhibition flags of independence show moments that changed our country forever the flag was presented to the first president of ukraine leonid kravchuk from the canadian diaspora to canada is the country that was the first to recognize the independence of ukraine on december 2 already in 6 days, on december 8, an event will happen that will forever change the face of the world, the signing of this agreement, the first lines of which will say that

the soviet union will cease to exist . in fact, this is the beginning, we are the republic of belarus, the russian federation, ukraine, as the founding states of the ussr union, after signing the union treaty, we state that the ussr as a subject of international law and geopolitical reality ceases its existence, sensat will happen there, see that neither in the belarusian nor in the russian state archives, it is not everywhere, only copies in the same way in ukraine in the 13th year. this is the information that appeared that the original of this agreement, and it turns out that there was only one, for some reason it disappeared, no one he does not know where he is, so what will become a document, a riddle about which we will tell later in the plot of the queue, not only for

alcohol, but also for the most necessary milk and bread , but in fact the soviet union will not get the poverty and destitute of its own citizens what was cracked at the seams for a long time will become impossible in a year. the parade of sovereignties begins from the baltic countries. at the moment of the 91st anniversary, as many as 14 republics have already declared their sovereignty. but in an effort to preserve the union the last soviet kermanych plays his underhanded game on april 23, 1991, gorbachev begins the process of developing a new union treaty, work on its creation takes place in novo ogaryov's moscow residence on the carpet to the last president of the ussr, the heads of the republics are invited or the conditions and stay in the union, and in fact simply strengthen

central government in the summer of 1991 it seemed that everything was going according to plan ukraine is the last one on this list, its signature is expected in october 1991, according to the leadership, it stubbornly does not go to meet the soviet government, in fact, the ukrainians are waiting in moscow, they saw that ukraine will not enter into this new alliance agreement, that it is necessary to somehow save the empire on a strong path , because on august 19, this so-called gkchp arose. it was an attempt by the reactionary forces of the soviet union to restrain the soviet union by force , but it led to the fact that on august 24, 1991, ukraine proclaimed the

independence of ukraine, legitimizing it in sevastopol crimea, donetsk, luhansk region, the majority of ukrainians voted for the independence of ukraine, and they elected the first president, leonid kravchuk, and in a few days they began to form their own armed forces. at the same time, one critical question remained: the heating season is ahead, so with whom to negotiate the supply of energy resources with the union or with russia? was an independent goal in the city, did we sit once ? belarus needed to get oil and gas from russia, contrary to market rules, so that the population would not freeze or these issues the presidents of the three countries make a decision to meet, the place of the event

is designated the town of vizkula in the belarusian part of the belorussian forest - this is a state-owned state dacha, it was very well guarded. there was security at this state security committee of the kgb, which was preserved in belarus. and they said that they are in very good contact with the federal security service of russia since yatsin arrived, unique footage from our tv channel's own archive, the three presidents are met at the minsk airport under soviet flags, introduced when kravchuk leaves as the popularly elected president of an independent state, shushkavych is ready to negotiate on any terms, he is really interested in russian fuel. yeltsin is more dependent than anyone else on gorbachev, who is still presiding over him . nazarbayev did not fly, he was invited because they said he was ignored, he was

invited, but he flew first, he flew to moscow there, as if his plane was being refueled, something happened and he managed to talk with gorbachev about the games saw him advised not to fly, there was talk that gorbachev had promised nazarbayev to preside over the new parliament of the union what de jure still existed besides the biggest conflict that you did not before that meeting between the yeltsins and kravchuk just the formation of separate armed forces of ukraine on their harvest fields, we ate strategic legislation m last the entire first day of the seventh of december, and as it turns out , gorbachev had such an influence on yeltsin, who offered kravchuk and shushkevich to sign a joint agreement and remain part of the ussr, where are my memories of makarovich

at first they pushed him this contract, but he said to boris mykolayovych and if the whole nation had elected you as president and the whole nation had voted for the independence of the russian federation , would you sign this document today, which essentially cancels your same position because with er-e yeltsi in his directness in such russian said that no, of course i did not sign, it becomes clear that the union must be ended all night long negotiations will continue in the schools behind the scenes dozens of qualified lawyers from the agreement on the legal destruction of sovka will be ready for all three parties in the morning. but not everything will shake in yerk's hand. kravchuk will convince him again. he

will tell me personally. who are you? well, this igor yeltsin then took a pen in his hands and said yes, we must end the hunchback, in fact , the then president of belarus has doubts. if two hours before the signing of the treaty on the commonwealth of independent states they said that i would sign the agreement on the end of the soviet union de jure, i would say that this is something wrong, but he will sign the agreement without hesitation and when the others sign their signatures, the ussr will officially be destroyed, and the cis will come to replace it, that is, the commonwealth of independent states well they will inform by calling both gorbachev and the president of the united states that she was in the kremlin, this will cause hysteria

, they spoke in vain, i am speaking in general, it is a shame. at first they called the soul there, and it was not true for him. the first call was to him and he was informed that on december 25, gorbachev will symbolically resign from his position, which will also officially no longer exist, but it will not be easy to curb russia's imperial ambitions already in 1996. yeltsin will regret the belovezhda agreements and the russian duma will even approve the resolution of their election precisely in the part where the union was destroyed, and in 2013 the belarusian archive will secretly disappear, and the original of the belarus agreement can be connected with the fact that in general, in russia, statements about that this is an illegitimate agreement that, in fact, the soviet union did not cease to exist, in fact , it can be connected with the work of the russian

special services there, of course, experts believe that the date when the original of the agreement disappeared is important, because in 2014, russian aggression will begin and so will putin will repeatedly declare that for him the collapse of the union is the greatest geopolitical catastrophe, after which he will repeatedly demonstrate the same intentions to connect the incompatible, just like the last president of the ussr at the time, although from russian society instead i received hatred and oblivion kateryna pavlovska ictv facts of the week - the only news more interesting and throughout the week you will find on the youtube channel facts of the week subscribe to us so as not to miss the analysis of the main events of the week and interviews with cool experts and we say goodbye to

you until the next sunday glory to ukraine, we studied for a long time to become who we are, we improved our skills and when the time came we stood up to defend our country, we apply our knowledge and skills to confront the enemy to bring our victory closer and return to our work. we want to build and create, repair and construct, but we are ready

for resistance. if you ask me who i am, for sure, the usual study, everything is supposedly not bad, but it’s just the curse of habits , i was late, what else anu sports, as the coach says, there will be people from me, competitions, trips she is those whom i love, whom i cherish, people for whom i am, i am an army, the rules of a warm country, healthy care. thank you for

adjusting the heater and monitoring the sufficient temperature without spending money on the wind. we will overcome the winter together during the long shutdown of electricity, prepare products that can be stored for a long time without a refrigerator, keep products from the refrigerator on the balcony, if possible , stock up on hot water in thermoses for preparing fast food, get ready now, let's

defeat the darkness together, mariupol, a symbol of the indomitability of the ukrainian army , a hero city that has been on its own since the first days of the russian invasion the most combat-capable russian units and, having taken the blow on themselves, choose time in ukraine mobilized the reserve, 86 days of heroic defense become real for the enemy a nightmare, the russian army loses thousands of people, hundreds of tanks and combat vehicles, despite the insane superiority in armaments, the russians

are powerless in front of the defenders. six months ago, this would have seemed impossible, because artur was defending mariupol from all sides , russian troops were advancing, artillery shells were demolishing quarter after quarter, mariupol became his artur moved here as a second home in 2020, because he had long dreamed of serving in the azov regiment. there was a difficult selection process. he won the right to wear a uniform. he signed a contract . because the city is tidy, the embankment is well-kept, the azov beaches, life is raging here, artur has already made an offer, but alina

did not have time to move to mariupol, the aggravation began at the front, we followed many telegram channels, and through news in the telegram, we saw that something must happen, but it was precisely the understanding that there would be a full-scale war of this kind. well, that is, we did not know about it on the night of february 24. mariupol will receive the first missile strikes, let's face it, on the night of february 23-24, around 4 o'clock - at 5 in the morning they reported that everything is already alarming, that is, we are getting up, guys, full-scale deadlines, the enemy is advancing quickly and the volnovach is coming from the crimea, and within a week it will close the ring from march 1. mariupol is surrounded , it is no longer possible to leave the city, get ammunition or reinforcements for the military also against the mariupol garrison, the russian command is throwing its summer divisions, they are pushing

through the ukrainian defense with artillery fire, attacking with tanks in the sky, complete dominance of the russian aviation, the enemy had very strong artillery and aviation support, and they could not do anything with the aviation because we were not e- e anti-aircraft means and that is why the aviation flew without, well, that is, we simply sorted out planes and artillery already in march, the enemy breaks through mariupol itself, there are fierce battles against russian tanks in the city, it is fighting in essence infantry becomes infantry, and arthur already in march, our army already started to be silent because there were no shells , there was no bull, there was no bull carriage. that is why it was very difficult already in march it was clear that we would have to hold on very strongly almost by our own strength, that is, with a machine gun behind our back rpgs and all such villages would have to come after that, azov marines,

border guards, even local patrol policemen bite into every quarter, the russian army suffers insane losses, they marched in droves. this is the 41st year, so to speak, this is tactics tactics soviet-style wars were crushed by the crowd and they went, they crossed over their fallen brothers, so to speak. someone was wounded there, he crossed over because of him, and it is increasingly not clear what they are fighting for, why, if you look at the equipment of those soldiers who came against us, that is, in the military formations of the dpr of the lpr it was without a bulletproof vest, they had soviet fairy tales of the soviet model even during the second world war, in these iron fairy tales, you just need to pull some kind of fabric over them to have the appearance of a modern fairy tale, that is, everything and they went with a machine gun in their hands, three stores on the side and without

body armor, they threw minced meat at us. arthur's group hunts enemy tanks in battle, everything that can shoot. however, his last combat mission in mariupol ends unsuccessfully . enemy tanks and infantry are storming, we need to do something and we have five men left, we then go out and start doing something, somehow defense , then the group commander was wounded, two members of the group went to help the commander and i stayed with my fellow machine gunner, we fought off the group. no, i was not a local fellow of hers. that is, we did not know where to go, and i made the decision to return to our base if anyone remained there. that is, we will go out with them and evacuate, if not, well, we will give the last fight, but returning both fall into a trap. we began to run across the avenue to our base city, and

then the enemy tank began to fire at us, first from a machine gun, i was hit in the leg by a bullet, and my comrades he ran back a little further, he was already wounded themselves arthur and his brother are saved by their comrades and taken to the hospital, fortunately the bullet passes through the exit , there is no fracture. at that moment, mariupol is already completely engulfed in fire, the medics have to work under artillery cannonades in many wards, the windows are broken in the morning. arthur wakes up from another shelling by the russians. they are hitting the hospital. they destroyed the entire russian infrastructure, it didn't matter when they hit, it didn't matter whether it was civil or military infrastructure, they destroyed everything in a row, the russians destroyed hospitals and kindergarten schools historic buildings were destroyed by a maternity hospital and an aerial bomb was dropped on a drama theater in the basements of which hundreds of people were hiding, the occupiers are burying people in mass graves, it will become known later in the city that

tens of thousands of civilians died in the city, alina learned about artur's injuries only a few weeks later, he briefly wrote back everything was fine, he could not then there was no connection to call me yet, he wrote that i have a small injury but don't worry, everything is fine, i'm alive, everything is fine, they are looking after me, there is medicine, everything is there, and the other wounded will be evacuated in march at azovstal, front-line medics are setting up a hospital in the raw bunkers of the plant. it was an ordinary soviet-type underground bunker. there was no medical equipment there at all. the conditions were extremely unsanitary. there were no places where people could lie down to sleep. people just slept on the floor. the wounded just lay on the floor and everything was just, for example, an ordinary soviet table, operations were carried out on this table,

their legs were cut off, whose hands were already cut off by shrapnel that was no longer, well, it was impossible to save and i amputated an extraordinary soviet table. but a good bomb flies there and a fire started in the bunker. i was sleeping on the bed and literally for a second . and they saw that he was waving his hand. and they dug up a lot of wounded azov people and remained under the rubble . it was impossible to get them, already wounded. arthur tried to help the defenders of the surrounded factory as much as he could, looked for food in warehouses, dug out from under the rubble canned goods drew water. these days became his personal hell. he saw the suffering of the wounded and the death of his brothers. he asks about the most emotionally difficult moment when we were told that we were going into captivity. when the order came to go into captivity, it was the hardest. we understood that azov is like a bone in the

throat of the russians and they they will humiliate us as much as possible, only there were guesses that they could drink us, it was hard to torture us, and that's why i didn't want to do better because of the scene. well, there was death, alina lost contact with artur for two months, nowhere i called to find out how he is or is he alive everywhere was silent on may 7 the last time i wrote and simply and i waited i went to two jobs i worked all the time so as not to think about where i turned to, the hotlines could not answer me but they transferred me from one to the other because - and there is no information. artur spent a deer in prison, then he was transported to donetsk under guard, he was kept in the hospital, the wounded were given only preventive medical care, so that the guards did not die, the representatives of the so-called dpr pressured them every day tina's morality we were told that we would face trial,

that we would face the death penalty, that we would be shot, then we were told that the government had sold us, we were officially recognized as deserters, well , that is, they asked us as much as possible, they tried to morally destroy artur and other wounded soldiers they take you out of the hospital three times, allegedly for an exchange, the bus stops in the field and returns to the hospital again, they say to the military that the ukrainians do not want to exchange prisoners, they say you are there no one is waiting for you, and after the second time, i already there was no hope that we would be changed for the fourth time when we were driving. all the way i thought, well, this will happen again and we will be turned back, but for the fourth time, artur and his brothers saw the ukrainian checkpoint and the blue and yellow chevrons of the military. the emotional surge was very strong, i wanted to cry from happiness, that is, when our ukrainian doctor came to the bus to distribute us to

hospitals, he said glory to ukraine, we were then in chorus with everyone on the bus he led him as a hero glory i wanted to cry at that moment, well, it was so much it's nice, the first thing arthur calls alina, but she can't believe it, the voice was just different, so quiet, hoarse, and i was afraid that someone else was playing a trick on me. well, everyone knew that i was worried about me. a lot of people were worried about him. even those who don't know him were all for they prayed to him alina rushes to the dnipro hospital where they took her lover waiting at the entrance he came out such a thin little one in general he is just like me just a little taller in two months they will get married arthur confesses to him that he is incredibly lucky, first with wounded, because the bullet went through the exit, then he miraculously saved himself in a bombed-out bunker, he survived a concussion, and then he was released from captivity, he is sad because many of his brothers

are still suffering, many boys are seriously wounded, and those who are lying there, whose wounds are already rotting , that is, well they are really rotting, wounded, already standing, there was an unpleasant smell on the whole floor, and they all stayed there, that is, they were not returned. that is, i do not know how these lists were made, how the russian side chose our people, but well, for sure i was lucky, heroic the defense of mariupol united not only ukrainians, it united the whole world, so says arthur and adds that no matter how many tanks the enemy has overtaken to destroy ukraine, he will not succeed in anything because the ukrainian infantry prevails in the most important thing it protects its most important thing - this is the spirit because we understood why we are going forward. yes, i will die, but i will die for my country with a weapon in my hands. that is, i will not let the enemy pass further to my family. i will not let the enemy destroy ukraine. and this

allowed us to fight without fear . orest drimalovsky won maksymilian ilchenko program windows stb nuclear news this is my country my pains my friends parents children neighbors students doctors teachers warriors we are all regardless of age beliefs preferences convictions we are all united now we will win glory to ukraine a year ago i considered the title of olympic champion the main victory of my life today, like all ukrainians, i longed for one single victory

, a victory in the war with russia. on february 24, ukrainian athletes became our ukrainian athletes and the olympics. thousands of my colleagues changed their training halls to the battlefield. many of them, unfortunately, will remain there forever among them my comrade the master of sports from greco-roman wrestling ihor the shepherd games russian and belarusian athletes at this time who openly and who silently supports the mouth and genocide therefore their only achievement on the international arena should be lifelong shame and exile i call on you to support ukraine on the sports at the front, your word will help put the enemy on the shoulder, share your posts with company hashtags and call for a boycott of russian and belarusian athletes