hundreds of parishioners came from ukraine, and the choir of the ukrainian clergy prepared carols, but unexpectedly for the local priests, all ukrainians turned out to be one big choir, because who among us does not know oh, rejoice on earth, the well- placed voice of the priests helps the voices of women and even children. they were captured by enemy artillery shells when the enemy was retreating, ukrainian artists painted them with traditional ukrainian patterns, patriarch bartholomew promises that they will remain relics in to the ecumenical patriarchate, because they symbolize the struggle of the ukrainian people for its freedom. the ecumenical patriarch also announces the news that a ukrainian deacon has been ordained a priest in constantinople. from now on, he will constantly serve the ukrainian community in istanbul. further on, the ecumenical patriarch speaks

of the most painful words about the war in ukraine. the war waged by russia against ukraine, it is to me on the territory of ukraine, russia is unjust, it is a crime and a sin, after all, the ecumenical patriarch blesses all the ukrainian princes, a generous swallow has flown over the hills of constantinople, our glory to ukraine sounds, they honestly did not expect what exactly but in such and such love, because this love of the patriarch was felt for us, uh, his such paternal support of our country, and it inspires

, it gives strength and here are all ukrainians, all our pilgrims who will return to their homes, of course they will convey this joy of christmas to all their families, and of course to our glorious ukrainian soldiers clergy we have a famous fanar at the residence and the ecumenical patriarch sings a few more ukrainian carols for ukrainians regardless , now the lord from istanbul turkey oleksandr zagorodniy igor sirov tsn 1+1 marathon is the only news and the fighting on the front does not stop for a minute and more than 600 occupiers were eliminated in a day in ukraine, the total number of invaders killed, according to the general staff , has roughly exceeded 102,000 , the situation at the front remains difficult, and the russians are firing barrel and rocket artillery machines in kupyan and limansk

directions, as well as continuing offensive attempts near bakhmut and avdiyivka, a video of the russians transferring additional equipment to the zaporizhzhia direction appeared on the network, and this video is from the much-suffering maryinka, she is under a rain of incendiary ammunition , in total this day the enemy fired five rocket and air strike, our guys respond in luhansk region, ukrainian aviation and artillery hit at least four enemy control points and also repelled several attacks. they did not cancel christmas to the real headquarters and showed the national guard how the military celebrated the holiday. in the trenches this year, the soldiers celebrate it not at home . according to the gregorian

calendar in the hottest time in the city of the front near bakhmut. we asked tsn correspondent ruslan yarmolyuk to tell us separately. he is in direct contact with us. ruslan. congratulations , we have already seen your report today as ours. under the bachmut, they repelled the attacks of the wagnerites, they understand that at the front i am clearly not a saint right now but do the guys have a moment to at least take a breather and remember the christmas days. hail god, we have created a difficult but controlled situation because the occupiers are not leaving hope to improve their tactical position under the e- is in operation under bakhmut, in fact, they will endure along the entire front line of the time for the boys’ holiday in those that are practically non-existent. many boys do not even know what day it is today. even the day according to the calendar, that is, not what is there it is sunday or saturday and they don't even know 25-24 or 26 because the fighting is so intense that it just got mixed up in these guys, the fighting is very strong, they are in contact now in some places the distance

to enemy positions reaches 60,100 m and even comes to hand-to-hand combat because the occupiers do not leave hopes to get closer to our chances. they work in small groups, and they simply throw people at the meat in large, large numbers, for example, one group goes and simply knocks out our defenders on corpses, the second group cuts them and kills them again lisa, the fourth group and such attacks continue practically around the clock under the bachmut near the flint near avdiyivka, that is, the guys do not even put weapons on the ground, if there are any, they often just clean them. it is more to the rear units to the second line or to points e-e temporary deployment of units, because on the front line there is a struggle for life and death, a struggle for ukraine, and for most of our defenders who hold the defense, it is a holiday that they survived until morning

that is, they do not hide it and say that if we live where we live by morning, it will be a holiday and in the morning we will call our relatives and say we are alive, that is, i will repeat the situation is difficult but controlled, the guys do not lose hope, everyone let's say this with optimism, and what we saw, they are fighting from 20 from the age of 19 they saw older people up to 50 to 55 they all fight in the same cage they know what they are fighting for they know that they still have to lose but they know that behind them is ukraine and the ukraine that is now in the body that can sit down at the table and meet their own that is, it's all thanks to these guys who are on the front lines, and let's just say that until the new year, happiness is literally there for three weeks. we also didn't see any preparations there, especially on the front line, we saw ammunition, we saw the army, we saw guys who were training and preparing for battle, because there is no doubt that the occupiers will shoot on new year's day and on the

old christmas day, on january 7th, everyone is on alert, everyone knows what to do and believes that, in principle, victory will be ours, because we have no options and we know what is behind us ukraine studio is very difficult, but the most important thing is what we want to convey to our fighters and we convey it on the occasion that we are praying for them now . son ruslan yarmalyuk about the situation in bakhmut, which has become another fortress city in ukraine well, today is also the day of field service, we heard about such a profession, the military who deliver state secrets to the front lines or to high offices existed even in the days of kyivan rus, but few people know about it because these specially trained people work quietly and inconspicuously, who are the

feldgeggers? why are they so necessary nowadays in the conditions of war and blackout, and why are secret documents still being transferred from the hands of a correspondent in the 21st century tsn oksana radionova witnessed the work of field workers and now she will tell about it, it is their cargo, it is always a state secret , their place under any conditions is to deliver secret information to the first person of the state or the military leadership on the front lines. guards of state secrets, the death of hunters, except for us, no one will make hunters today is a birthday and until the holiday. and does not

show his face, he is from the ferdieger dynasty, about 25 years ago, the chernobyl disaster occurred. he, like other foilers , delivered correspondence to the temporary commission that worked in the chernobyl nuclear power plant zone risking his life and health, he will soon lead, risking his life, he is an agent of the forestry service, the existence of which is known only by units, everyone thinks that foliegri is somehow related to the forest for some reason, and they connect us with foresters who are you? i am a representative of the government forestry association we carry out combat tasks, and that is why we are military enzymes. a hunter is an armed soldier who delivers the secret correspondence of the first persons of the state, the heads of state bodies, diplomatic mail, especially important cargo to the front lines, personally in the hands of this is what you are delivering classified materials to, this is special, these lights are soaked in a special

liquid, not only the head, but the whole body, if you can say so. in terms of losing never their work is always a risk today in the conditions of a full-scale war has acquired invaluable importance about those games are moved by train or plane tickets are bought a year in advance if we say about railway transport, there is a separate compartment about us, we do this so that we are less seen and less known about us and you always wear pixels, you usually wear pixels, but sometimes there were such circumstances that you had to be unnoticed, you had to change into civilian clothes, every foil can perform its duties ties

not only within the borders of ukraine, but also outside its borders . and why today in the era of digital technologies , because secret information to prevent its leakage is transmitted only in paper form, and no one but us can't do, they never know what's in the envelope. they are forbidden to name the addressee , but today, for the first time, journalists witnessed the transfer of the secret of mr. brigadier general, urgent correspondence, our envelope is for yuri shchigol, brigadier general and the head of the state service of special communications and information protection, who is subordinate to all certain games countries the age of digital technologies and we still transmit information in paper packets, perhaps it is worth switching to modern technologies we are one of the more digital countries in the world, but there are situations when it is impossible to deliver user correspondence due to

the lack of electricity, lack of communication, for example, bakhmut, for example, newly liberated territories where there are some military personnel who need it. also , it is impossible to deliver secret correspondence and do it with the help of digital technologies. and field fires are a phenomenon only in ukraine, or in other countries in the world there is still such a service in all countries of the world, there is a field service, there are responsible persons who send correspondents from one address to another without intermediaries, did we have attacks on the front of the games, yes, in 17-18, we had attacks on feligians and tried to use correspondence, there were cases even when they were taught, but thanks to law enforcement agencies , they were returned toys, routes are classified in case of force majeure and the danger of information leakage always have secret plan b the shortest time of delivery of secret information quite often very fast run you have some special things we have to be able to do a lot but don't tell anyone in fact

yes if someone succeeds what is banal to take something and deliver it somewhere, that is not the case, we know the result we are working towards in order to defeat the enemy for the liberation of ukraine and on how high or high offices may depend fateful decisions for the country and the lives of our defenders on the frontline oksana radionova danenko sakivskyi and oleg borshchevskyi tsn marathon the only news help in need in lutsk took care of people who found themselves in difficult life circumstances igor palitsa foundation just together purchased and handed over almost 4000 food items to the needy of sets decided to help lonely pensioners and people with disabilities, first of all, this initiative is being organized for the second time . tsn correspondents will tell you more about the

visit not empty-handed and oil. on the doorstep, they are called before, says a retired woman, she used to bake much more often, but now she is not healthy, what do i do, do my legs hurt ? the medicine is poor, the woman spends the most money, there are no children, so you have to constantly save, you can save with firewood, it’s a little cheaper and it’s warmer in the room, how about people like mrs. lidia i decided to take care of the city council and the igor palytsy foundation, only together they bought 4,000 food kits, the sadness of stew and pate, which fell apart only together for the second time at the beginning of the war,

helps specifically this category of luchans with grocery kits, because they are the ones who need our most attention and support this time, the kits were replenished with important products, which were added in time, such things are really necessary now, you can say, strategic stocks, such as matches and a candle, maybe they know . caroling this evening good evening make a little better a little more fun holidays for the wards of our territorial center for these people who need special attention to all those who cannot come here for social products the workers will bring them home. 84-year-old mrs. lidia, having received the gifts, thanks and tells the guests about her dream to wait for the victory over the

enemy . before the christmas holidays and will support those who need it a little tetyana khomych anton onyshchuk lutsk marathon single news ukrainian leadership is actively working to ensure that the united states transfers more air defense systems patriots about it in the ambassador of ukraine to the united states, oksana markarova, said on the air of the telethon that washington has agreed to transfer the first and only such system to ukraine, and it is being decided how the ukrainian military will learn to work with the patriot complex, the ambassador emphasized that the historic step of the united states will open an opportunity for all other partner countries in which all system is also to make such decisions and expressed to the action that we will be able

to contract for the future some systems meanwhile in new york the ukrainian community today is going to arrange a christmas nativity scene near the main tree of the city near the rockefeller center, it will take place at 10 p.m. kyiv time, but olga koshelenko from vlaska tsn is present at the rehearsal right now, who will tell the details of the event. congratulations, what exactly are the ukrainians going to do today on the main christmas tree in new york? congratulations , we now we are in the church of the holy trinity in new york, where the preparations for the festive christmas nativity scene are being completed. and literally after this inclusion, we and the community will go to the rock feller center, where the main the christmas tree of new york is here, the community of parishioners of the church organized 9 years ago under the ideological inspiration of father todor mazur to make such a nativity scene. father todor says that he has been serving here for 28 years and always wanted to make a nativity scene as it was in his childhood and everything was not so simple in it -york has to get a permit in the city to do the nativity near the

rockefeller center near the main christmas tree and this organizational work they are the son took on more than 27 participants who play you know that one gets sick one has something but he is still a replacement we get out of position we leave we will perform now how are we going to be here somewhere so necessarily so we have a little bit of a problem, you know, we need a permit there, so they don't let us in without a permit, they do n't let us in, you know, i don't know, you know, all sorts of problems, we tried to go to the bottom of the city, we were told, well, they told us that we can go even today there were already several rehearsals earlier when they were just starting out as actors, they had to meet more often at least twice a week , they came after work, learned the words, did rehearsals, and now they already say that everyone

knows the roles so much that they can replace each other if necessary natalya maksymyshyn for example for she is a nurse by profession, but she is the organizer of the nativity scene, she says that they found various scenarios on the internet, worked on them, combined them and together created this nativity scene, a separate story - these are costumes, they are all sewn by the parishioners themselves . here are the original ones made 9 years ago, and the community here supports them, restores them and keeps them in the costumes were in working condition, all the people were parishioners and relatives, as if they were acquaintances here in the church hall, everything was done by hand, we still have leaves , eight years, nine years ago, there was a designer, olena rogalska, and we created together, the scenarios were all created here in the church forest spontaneously, as they knew how, and they did it, and now i will ask you to show footage

of previous nativity scenes. this is how the actors in costumes get on the subway and go to the main christmas tree. he perceives it as it will be this year we will soon see and for now all the participants of the nativity scene with the best wishes now want to congratulate him on victory and peace for ukraine best wishes for peace and health to

everyone there thank you for this christmas spirit greetings from tsn to everyone who celebrates lascore tsn olga koshelenko took a peek at what christmas nativity scene she is preparing near the main tree new york ukrainian community well, as for almost christmas gifts, here is a message from about of the united arab emirates, they will transfer two and a half thousand generators to ukraine, half of this aid has already been sent, the rest is promised to be transferred in january, the emirates noted that the aid to ukraine is part of efforts to mitigate of the humanitarian consequences of the conflict and that the generators should ease the difficult living conditions of the affected families, the current aid from the arab emirates is part of a larger package of 100 million dollars that the oe allocated for humanitarian aid to ukrainian civilians , the light that defeated the darkness, famous buildings in kyiv turned into art objects thanks to to the world show from gary hofteter, the swiss are known for their grandiose

promotions all over the world, so they decided to support ukraine and present christmas lights to all of us tsn correspondent nataliya yarmola today i came with the capital, now i will show you and tell you live. i hope the colors of the capital shone natalochko. congratulations, i know that yesterday this illumination was turned off as a sign of solidarity and for the victims of the shelling in kherson. has everything been restored yet? well, which art object impressed you the most. congratulations, hello, everything has been restored today. and i must say that live it has a fantastic effect. kyivans are literally hunting for these illuminated buildings of kyiv all over kyiv, but now we are near the ministry of culture and information, a whole crowd has already gathered here and everyone is waiting for when it will be illuminated and how it will be well, while i will tell you about the sms light show, which the author called the christmas light, he arranged it for ukrainians and came here from a long way from switzerland

. that is why he and his entire team refused to celebrate christmas comfortably with their families as a sign of solidarity with ukrainians who were separated by the war, and let's hear what he said about it. i feel your gratitude with all my heart , i decided to drive here because i was lucky visit 87 countries all over the planet i've seen so many nations and cultures and then i thought why don't i come here to you for christmas when you don't have enough energy to light such a light that will shine for the whole year and everyone will see what happens so truly the day before the show was canceled due to the events in kherson, but today the church of st. nicholas shone before our eyes, it was decorated with blue and yellow stars and ukrainian ornaments and

doves of peace, which even flew in the sky, it seemed so above the church, and ukrainians so were so delighted with this show that they couldn't even applaud, everyone was holding their phones, taking videos, photos, and let's listen to their reactions . i was just passing by the olympic one. it seems that this is exactly what is needed to lift people's spirits, you cheered us up, we want to see something beautiful at such a time, we saw st. andrew's church in the photos, we really liked it, now we want to see it in person, it's very cool, we like it and you i like it and it’s very nice . we saw the biggest crowd near the installation at the central station of the capital. it was also lit up in blue and yellow colors and the starry sky and completely painted with the ukrainian state symbol and the

coat of arms of ukraine from the installation. the organization then digitizes it and plans to sell us to a special website and on these funds, then collected funds to create new light shows for ukraine well, that's how switzerland gave ukrainians a little bit of christmas and light and once again proved to the whole world that light does defeat darkness. hello, thank you natalochko correspondent of tsn nataliya yarmola has already seen the unique light show presented to the residents of kyiv by the world-famous artist from switzerland, gary hoftetter. if you too can see it at the stelika . iron nicholas traveled by ditlakha train from large families and family-type orphanages, many of them left their homes because of the war and still cannot return because the house is still occupied so that the children would forget a little about all the problems and

just be happy during the train journey , there was also a fabulous performance. and at one of the stops, mykolaiv was waiting for everyone and the first lady olena zelenska wished everyone a peaceful and happy childhood. and everyone together asked mykolaiv for victory, i wish you all healthy, happy, may you all be well. in our country, may you grow up smart and cool ukrainians will be from the village of gornostaivka, if we wish ukraine peace. well, then we have a christmas bus on the tram route every year, the land group of the television service news rides with people on a festive tram and sings with passengers, we missed only one year due to strict covid restrictions, the 22nd special, the most difficult war year when, due to problems with electricity , even trams do not run in the capital, but

tsn correspondent natalya nagorna decided not to to betray natalochka, i can already hear a little and see that you have passengers singing loudly and cheerfully. well , what do people say about the appropriateness of such christmas promotions? congratulations halochka. merry christmas to everyone, i can't really hear you because in our with us here is a band called kolodiy and there are five musicians here at once, we are passengers. i think i will soon go on the second round in order to dance with us in order to be with us to take up the phones to sing along today here with the ukrainian lunaveim of course christmas carols were played by our father bandera and a lot of christmas songs. as you can see, even passengers are dancing under our bus who walk along the tram route and do not want to go, but want to receive a little miracle

, because a miracle is extremely important now i wish a miracle to all of you and if you can do it for the people who are close to you, definitely do it despite the war and the enemies for evil, i would natalochko congratulations to all your companions thank you , the ability not to lose heart under any circumstances is also resistance to the enemies and even though we have songs now mostly here are important, but the time will come and we will definitely sing the song victory, we will come back to you natal well, now you will hear the premiere of the single, probably the main song of the year by chervonaya kalyna, in a christmas arrangement and made by the chief music producer of 1+1 serhiy mogilevsky specially for our new year's broadcast on december 31, incredible meetings with people of the year, stars of ukrainian show business and the most famous hits await you, all this on the same evening from 6

p.m., but right now you can listen to and download the christmas version of chervonaya kalina to your playlists and social networks tsn .ua it just appeared there so listen and download this is how ukraine began its cycle of christmas and new year holidays this time in the most difficult in our modern history 22nd year we have not yet made a final choice between the two calendars, but we are more and more inclined to celebrate together with the civilized world. as you can see, we do not give up on our traditions , as well as the strength of our ancestors, this is also a support . today, our ruslan yarmolyuk worked with me, he is on the front line, the communication does not allow us to see him. ukrainian carols to the ecumenical patriarch natalya nagorna, have you just seen her, who did not

betray the teseniv traditions, did go on the christmas car, not the tram, but the bus, nelikovalska, who measured the degree of mood in the center of the dark but indomitable capital on sofia square. and my colleague marichko padalko, who told how during the war and blackouts, our lviv does not give up its christmas traditions. thank you, friends, we will not let the enemy steal our holiday, i also hear this phrase very often these days. merry christmas i congratulate everyone who is celebrating today and may all the heavenly forces help our forces of defense turn evil deeds blessed ships