we use our knowledge and skills to oppose 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, i'm sure it's an ordinary study, everything is supposedly not bad, but only this damn habit of being late, what else well, sports, as the coach says,

there will be people from me, competitions, trips, there are those whom i love, whom i cherish, the people for whom i am, the army, the rules of a warm country, healthy care. thank you for adjusting the heater and monitoring the sufficient temperature. by spending money on the wind, we will overcome the winter together during a long power outage, prepare products that can be stored for a long time without a refrigerator, keep products from the refrigerator on the balcony if

possible, make sufficient reserves of hot water in thermoses for preparing fast food, prepare now, we will overcome the darkness together, the european union will allocate 18 billion to ukraine euros of macro-financial assistance next year, this is stated in the conclusions of the european council , the leaders agreed to urgently intensify the provision of humanitarian aid and assistance in the field of civil defense to ukraine, as well as to help restore ukraine's critical infrastructure to help pass the winter. in addition, the eu heads of state agreed to increase military support for ukraine, in particular with regard to air defense, and to direct efforts to bring russia to justice for war crimes, the leaders of the european union are ready support ukraine's peaceful initiatives to

end the war signed by the international community , whether the occupiers will sit down at the negotiating table and will withdraw troops from ukraine. my colleagues talked to diplomat oleksandr levchenko about this. friends, our information campaign continues. olga ninsonazar is long. we are adding our guest right now. this is oleksandr levchenko, a diplomat, e. we have had a lot of events in recent days that are very important for our victory over the russian aggressor, including, of course, the j7 statement and the meeting, the speech of president zelensky at this summit, as well as the economic the summit that took place in france, the heads of foreign affairs of various countries, in particular the g7, will meet in

brussels in order to build a strategy of support. president zelensky once again announced theses and steps regarding peace in ukraine. there were a lot of interesting statements. i generally appreciate this dynamic . temporarily at the end of this year, by the way, i will remind you that literally a year ago in december , ukrainian diplomacy was also at the highest level, we tried to rally even before the large-scale invasion around us almost all the countries that are in the eu and across the ocean succeeded in the signs. and what will happen in the 23rd year, given that such comprehensive support, in your opinion, the 23rd year will also be difficult, we must end this war victoriously, it will not just meanwhile, the determination of the armed forces of ukraine of the ukrainian people with the support of our

allies from democratic countries. our allies because this is also the common interest of the entire international community, if russia itself does not end the war, does not withdraw its troops, then it must somehow be pushed to make peace, force it to withdraw these troops, so that diplomatic activity, for example, at the end of the year. it has always been in december every year somewhere from the middle , the main final e-e measures regarding the president's speech are held. it is clear that the presentation of the program builds e-e peace and steps towards this for ourselves, we are doing this once again.

it is clear from the big seven that these countries were previously familiar with this plan of president zelensky, meanwhile, his voice rejo his status that this could be the official plan not only of ukraine but also of our closest allies in the g7 and this joint plan with that joint plan - in 10 steps and establishing peace and ukrainian diplomacy and the diplomacy of the g7 countries continue to work on putting pressure on the cream on its closest allies so that this war ends on the terms prescribed by international law is the provision of the territorial value of any a member of the international community and the founder of the un is precisely ukraine. that is why these conditions are understandable and

they were discussed at this summit in the studio, in particular, trade unionists. ukraine is working to ensure that among them are not only the countries of the west, but also the united states, great britain, etc. which are part of jiven and also works to ensure that ukraine is supported in particular in asia and africa, but a very revealing moment was at this summit in paris, the prime minister of cambodia spoke. in particular, i drew attention to what he wishes for us miru does not use the word victory and he says that this war must end diplomatically, politically, that no war can stop the war. how to understand this means that after all, asia, the countries of asia remain under the information cap of russia, well, it is clear that some countries are far away from the theater of hostilities and the understanding of what

is happening here in the heart of europe, what will end the war diplomatically, politically, yes, we are only for that, we propose this plan of ours, it will end very simply, uh, russia withdraws its troops from the territory of ukraine, and this is not its defeat . it simply returns to its territory, we simply fix it, sign the contract, give guarantees, etc. just wants to fix the front line as a line between the states, so to speak, of relations and the demarcation of the new demarcation between the russian federation of ukraine, there will never be such a thing , the ukrainian people will never agree to that

what is happening here in europe and understand all the dangers of russian aggression more clearly , because ah, a russian soldier can come to their homes. well, you mentioned the position of cambodia, and it is as smooth as, in general, frequent speeches at the un general assembly and a number of international institutions where everything must be resolved peacefully and so on. no one is against it, but we understand that someone came to us with a sword, sometimes our families take our property and such a robber should be talked to accordingly . pointed out, mentioned about russia that it does not want russia is only spinning up, more precisely, putin's russia is spinning up this flywheel of war. i would just like to remind you about the numbers, a little about the defense budget, we often mention here the increase in spending , for example, in the united states next year on defense, and this is more than 800 billion dollars, russia is also increasing its

spending at the expense of ordinary russians, of course, this is roughly the equivalent of 143 billion dollars, which is equivalent to 9 trillion rubles in rubles, but hmm, that ’s what economists who work with numbers say what will not be enough even for such a small amount of money in order to provide all the needs of the army of the russian federation. how do you assess the prospects of the army of the russian federation in the 23rd year ? campaigns from the month of february, from the 24th. and they need a lot, despite the fact that they have already lost a lot in ukraine, well, in the grand scheme of things, i don't care what they lack. not including will they have enough strength will they have enough strength to wage war since that's what they want in ukraine in the 23rd year, that's what

the question is, what am i leading to, that every ukrainian doesn't care if they have enough or not enough, the more they don't have enough, the more they declare unrealistic goals, it means they won't achieve them, but you have to understand that this is a very dangerous adversary, they have a gold fund and a diamond fund, that is, if something is missing from the budget, they can get money elsewhere, so it is necessary to understand that we need to build a policy regarding this russian defense budget also budget ukrainian together with our allies and with what finances we will end uh this war that uh and in victory it will end because financing less than the armed forces of the russian federation will make it too and too difficult for us now the framework is clear, how much russia wants to invest and so on

, whether these funds will be enough or not is another question , but we have to do what we have to have the appropriate funds so that these funds are sufficient, whether it is additional financing or financing through reconciliation there is the pocket of an average russian citizen in the russian federation. it took place. that's why this process is important. ukraine continued to receive this financial support alongside the latest weapons. it is given to us by the europeans. russia's budget and whether this funding is enough for ukraine, what to defeat the russian federation studio well , i can't help but ask you about the varost, which he keeps going to, doesn't stop going to

our enemies, in particular ukrainian diplomats , received a bloody package again, this time in greece, according to the ministry of foreign affairs, this is the 33rd case in the last two weeks, and in this way they threatened a diplomat of ukraine in 17 countries, what are they leading to, what can this lead to in general and i think that you, as a diplomat, must have mentally put yourself in the place of your colleagues, yes, she will not lead us to anything with this, do not scare us with such things, uh, yes , they are unpleasant, yes, they are primitive, yes, they are neanderthals, they do not answer at all, not at all that by some rules of diplomacy, we continue to follow even the lowest human standards well, that's how we need to understand who is our enemy and in general his logic and level of thinking therefore, we need to understand that if it is not russia itself that is doing it, then someone under its control and leadership, so to speak, and so further , this once again suggests that the western special services

should step up after all to find these senders of these envelopes. because this is to a certain extent terrorism, an outright terrorist in relation to ukrainian diplomatic representatives, russia and the state and the sponsor of terrorism have already recognized this as many countries of the world, the european parliament, the nato parliamentary assembly and so on, but it would be very important that these customers and the executors of this dirty work regarding the primitive intimidation of the ukrainian diplomatic service be found. speaking with us, as they say, will unite our ranks and we will be more disciplined, and we are certain that even more must be done in order for the enemy on the diplomatic front not only to be pushed back, but and destroyed, and in the meantime, we continue to work with our

partners with what we have, after all, there is a principle of irreversibility of punishment for a crime. and this is a crime. for this crime, someone must suffer a very serious punishment and make it public. who is really behind this, the studio? thank you for your analyst oleksandr levchenko, diplomat, extraordinary plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine to the republic of croatia in 2010-2017, thank you. well, we continue the broadcast. according to the results of the meeting with the president of the national library of the country, laurence angel zelenska, replenished the ukrainian bookshelf and handed over classical and historical literature, as well as educational and children's

books to the encyclopedia of modern ukraine. days ukrainian book institute publishes information on the most popular books in ukrainian book collections in seven genres of popular fiction on its website of literature and literary fiction that ukrainians read, have they started to do so more, in a conversation with the writer dmytro kapranova, our broadcast continues and next, we will talk about the fact that the second all-ukrainian national reading week has started in ukraine, actually. this was announced by the minister of culture and information policy oleksandr tkachenko and the ukrainian book institute together with the ministry of culture and information policy of ukraine initiated this event. health glad to hear from everyone and congratulations on the national

reading day, how is it not surprising that today when the lights are turned off in our country when there is no internet , reading books becomes strangely relevant. well, it's fun and a means of spending time and obtaining information. it would seem like a disaster it is bad, but it has its specific, well, not to say positive, but specific features that contribute to the increase in reading books. that year, too, there was the all-ukrainian reading week, and there was also such a factor at that time that was affected. there were thousands of people who could to spend on books and people were very actively involved in this. if you compare the effect of last year and the current one, actually well, i understand that we can't sum up right now, it just started, it will be until december 19, but everything is what was expected

, what the organizers are counting on, and what kind of effect should this lead to? events are held in order to increase the popularity of reading, reading week is when everyone demonstrates that they read books, because a book is, you know, how the church saw the cross, did not see, did not cross the book must be in front of the eyes of the younger generation, the book must be in front of the eyes of potential readers, and then people will reach out to it, so such measures are not some kind of marketing trick - it is a state institution, the ukrainian institute of books, which came up with this and conducts it for the general popularization of reading in order to people mentioned that the book is still an eternal value, why is it eternal? well, at least because if the electricity is turned off, the paper stores information, you know, and the hard disk will crumble there after 10-15 years, the book will not crumble. we will never

today we pick up books that were printed in i don't know in the 15th in the 15th centuries and they store information, so the book is eternal, at least from the point of view of preserving information . another issue is reading itself as a way of interacting with a person. you probably drive in transport and you can always tell by the face of the person who is sitting in front of you. is she reading or sticking something in front of her eyes? as and very simply, a person who reads has a meaningful expression in his eyes, there is work going on in his head, they are spinning as well as there, the fish thought they were walking, why, and because a book is all-in-all material for you to make a movie in your head when you read a good

book so you make a good movie in your head. and what is it like to make a movie? you have to be a director, you have to be an actor , you have to be an artist, you have to be a costume designer, that is, you start a whole movie factory in your head, these eights work in your head, hollywood, it is clear that the work of this hollywood cannot help but be reflected in the expression of your eyes. therefore, a person who reads this is a creative person. this is a person who creates a new work of art from his head . this is his individual movie. a person who even watches a movie made by another director always says that it is not so wrong. filmed in your head will always be absolutely accurate for you that's why when you read you are better than spielberg better than terentino better than any director because this movie absolutely accurately reflects your

acceptance of the book for it actually we are the book to the artist, first of all, and in february. dmytro, you just probably didn't pay attention to what you are together with. modern teenagers are deep- thinking and play games. and he looks immersed, but i would like to ask you about trends and trends, after all, you mentioned that. what kind of facial expression do people read? things were a surge in their popularity after there in 2010, well , in 13th year, at least the trend then was that people began to read more especially electronic means, or now when, in recent years, in the last few years, more attention is paid to the smell of paper, to the fresh e-e of this very book so that you can touch it with your own pen, drink, buy, read

, and the trends are exactly the same, but uh, can we talk about the fact that reading has really become more, because in the last uh, years, this is exactly what we are talking about in our book, the publishing house has improved the issue in this some books began to be bought more, so i understand even more, which books began to be read more and more. in what language, e-e, the history of electronic books is a typical case of a novelty that captivated everyone and to which everyone cooled down in the end. well, remember, everyone's eyes were there. eyes then tamagotchi all died and disappeared as a phenomenon, the e-book was also very fashionable while it exists, it has saturated the maximum market that it can carry there, well, in developed countries, up to 20% of people buy and read e- books in our country, much less because we have er, well, in the wild market, therefore, the wild market always does not promote consumption, but the point is not that the point is that the e-book

is no different from the paper book from the point of view of reading. that is, you take a text in front of you and you shoot a movie based on this text in your head everything is clear, but it has its own specifics in terms of distribution, so you go to your home and if you have a bookshelf in your house, but in your study, every book on this shelf screams to you: take me, read me. remember, did you buy me at the lviv forum or us in the book room arsenal, and i still haven't read it. you owe me. every book talks to you, but when you open your gadget, there is a book bookmark in front of you, e- books, and everything in order for them to knock on your door to wave at you . more than paper books, e-books are bought but not read, and this is the main problem. and the main thing is that hinders the development of e-books. although from the point of view of the economy, e-books are not

worse, maybe even better than paper ones, because they are not forces us to waste paper, i don't know the paint, but it is more economical, it costs less. but she has such a flaw, she is not alive, they are you for her. you should perfectly collect your thoughts and read this on an e-book instead, the paper book is eternal. it has been tested for years, i would say even for decades, and it has already turned into our living interlocutor, as for what is read, how are they read, you and i live in an era of complete contradictions, because covid, which was a huge disaster for the economy thanks to these otkoy thousands who were allowed to spend on books thanks to the fact that people were locked up at home without the opportunity to go to work there and to the movies and so on . well, this is idiocy, of course, but so so so it did

what is already here, but thanks to this, we got stimulation of the publishing market and during these days, thousands of publishers managed to survive, and on the other hand , war again, what is war, war is a slipper, but today, for example, our electricity is turned off. and what does this mean that printers cannot print attacks ? it's simple. the main printing houses are located in kharkiv, and while we had kharkiv under direct fire, we were under direct fire, but to a large extent, it stood because of the fact that there are a lot of very good printing houses that simply can't work. today, they can't work because of the light . market, and on the other hand , what booksellers have been fighting for for many years has happened, the import of books from russia, which, according to various estimates in the eu, held 60 to 80% of our market.

a competitor on 60% of the market on 80 even in conditions when you have a hook and printers do not work even in these conditions you have the opportunity to expand because you have new readers, you see that we do not have clear solutions at all, and besides, we have these readers they started reading ukrainian because today, well , speaking russian, reading russian, well, to put it mildly, it's not comilfo, but the game is shorter, it's not a patriotic act, that's why people understand and reach for ukrainian books even today. undoubtedly, we can see a unique phenomenon when in the conditions hot war when in the conditions of the occupation and the destruction of the economy, the book industry not only did not die, but new books are published, the writer goes on tours and in general something so strange happens that two years ago you and i would have told a healthy person there

what would happen, we would have spit in our eyes and never believe it, but you see, god loves to surprise us and we don’t wallow in surprise, i want to ask you one last question: how will the war with us change our writing , because now, unfortunately, life throws up a lot of drama, and there is not even a screenwriter here no writer, no science fiction writer, could invent such plot lines, and which life itself is throwing up now, how will the genre palette change from now on , lord god knows that i am a better screenwriter than all of them, it is true that i am a much better writer than all of them, it is true, to invent such twists none of us would ever be able to this means that our e-writers receive unique material, unique emotional material, unique plot-related material for further work, that is, what was the crisis of writers, well, in general, there is nothing to write about in the world

in order to feel the pain, a person must, i don't know , go somewhere in africa and see how elephants are killed there, and here today we have a huge number of people with primary emotional experiences of death, blood and high feelings of salvation, friendship, love, and all this is greatly exacerbated by war and today's generation creative people, not only writers, but also actors and playwrights and screenwriters, that is, those who work with human material receive a unique emotional experience, we really live a real life, have real words, have a relationship with real death with real tragedies that cannot be sucked out of our fingers. happiness

, perhaps luckily, other countries do not have it. unfortunately , we have it, but what we have, i will have to use my optimist's premonition here, or it will not necessarily be military prose, without a doubt. after all, love remains love even in peacetime and wartime, but it simply intensifies and allows you to write love so that even when you are talking about peaceful times, the person who reads understands that this is really a true feeling , which applies to education in particular to the market, it applies to , er, any drama or tragedy or even comedies, because who laughed while serving in azov and we probably never laughed here above you flies around here everything blows up and the boys roar and the boys are cheerful and this is the only way for a person to survive in this world, thank you, we will believe in this the soil that is now riddled with people, but there are already

many masterpieces and we will receive ukrainians receive a lot and even police awards. we thank the writer dmytro kapranov for joining our broadcast. valeriana pidmohylnyi misto, and in particular , the worlds of the commonwealth of nations are also reading about our exquisite ukrainian nobility and max, you see me, now i am drawn more to fiction, reread steven kinga one of the last books well, now the historical research stefishif is an american researcher a-a hm cleopatra’s time the book itself that’s the name cleopatra is quite interesting check the haircut does he read anything besides the news is he ready to share what he read before dir