really cheers for the young ukrainian rock scene because somehow in other styles somehow more new music appears in the electronic field of pop music more appears and a lesson of something is not so often set foot by our young musician and here i heard about them they just have to more experience, and they need to allow themselves to be free on stage and understand that an artist is still an entertainer, it's not only about music. if you just want to release music so that people listen to it with headphones, that's one thing. if you want you have to perform well, allow yourself to perform, and they are still a little like teenagers, such maximalism, in the interview we have a colleague, viktor dyachenko, from the tv channel, public culture, regarding the beginning of the

national selection, you said the following. only artists, performers, but also personalities, did these expectations of yours come true, does the winner meet this year's selection, the band is creative, what is the criterion, for sure, when i said these words, i meant it my next favorite friend is krutya marina because uh, basically the judges voted for her the most, she got 10 points from the jury it's hard to listen to her, i confess because she's very dramatic, i'm not sure if europeans would have experienced the same hmmm all we feel when we listen to such words about the fact that the father of the beasts will drive away our enemies and you are sleeping because you are safe, i say the father of the beasts

will drive away and you are mine and i understood that there is a very strong message from ukraine, very correct song she is very dynamic she is not boring it it's not there, many people wrote a lullaby, you can fall asleep even to this lullaby no hardly anyone would fall asleep because there is such a dynamic at the end, beautiful marina is our national bandura and well it everything seemed very harmonious and about the personalities i specifically listened to some interviews before eurovision given by the contestants and marina said some such correct and insightful things and i understand

that eurovision is not only a performance on stage and for ukraine it is also an opportunity to speak to the world in interviews at press conferences on on these red carpets to have access to the international press and i think that she would be able to broadcast something very deep and the prices for us, uh, the audience preferred the urban planners, do you agree with them? i mean, these are our uh yes, and in principle. for me, they were very impossible to compare because they are just two different musical worlds. i

was just wondering if ukraine is ready to represent itself at eurovision. that's not the case as we are used to traditional motifs with traditional melodies, instruments, national flavor, in unproven ways, because we have already tested it, it is perceived coolly, it was cool, it was ruslana kalush, and to give something completely different, to show our youth culture that a ukrainian is not only beautiful traditions and this is such a youth drive, this is, um, this is the power of power, i see two beautiful boys on stage, i see a show, and i liked the production, they were not afraid and simply directly showed the danger of nuclear weapons in the production explosion, i don't know if they will allow such a specific

message to be made at eurovision, i would like to remind europe once again about this danger. i am sure that andrii will be able to express all the messages that are needed for the interview . it was he who gave the interview in the ukrainian language, this is a phenomenon for me in general, many people write how he is not ukrainian, allegedly he was not born here in ukraine, but how is he going to represent our country? well, you know, he is now here under during the war, they created many ukrainian-language songs that they wrote before february 24, unlike many ukrainian artists who did not write in ukrainian all this time. i consider them a ukrainian band. i have a lot of respect for him and i do not agree with such comments

, considering that ukraine was actually one of the first to choose its representative for eurovision, it is impossible to compare it with anyone else, with other countries, with other participants . doubles for ukraine. i don't think it's the most important thing for ukraine to win the eurovision song contest in kyiv for the second time. i hope we will win it , but the most important thing is to declare ourselves, show how interesting, how different we can be , what contemporaries we are europeans, truly open, youthful and progressive, that's what i 'm sure of. that creativity will cope with it. it will be interesting to see them among other contestants, but we will 100% believe that they will look worthy. so we can never ignore the topic of the world war. february 24

was etched in the memory of every ukrainian on all life and will be transmitted from generation to generation with mother's milk and this war of russia against ukraine changes each of us how did this war affect you personally what did you learn how did it change you worldview for sure before the war my life was absolutely carefree joyful and very happy because i was born and brought up in a very friendly and good family, i have a beautiful family, i have a good career and i have never experienced grief in my life, i have never lost people close to me and that's all i am, this is the maximum

threshold of grief, i survived the war first, it's for i was in shock because i wasn't i wasn't prepared for this because my life was prepared, but anyway, people have personal dramas that happen in life anyway, there are some psychological moments when people become stronger, so i was very -e internal i seem so very strong and the front is in the mind and hardkiss and rock but in fact i am very, well, very gentle in the soul as it turned out because the war broke me down psychologically, the first few months were probably the most difficult in my life, but then with that how we started

to return to creative life, began to write songs, began to perform we began to be useful, began to collect for charity , that is, i realized that i needed it, it began to bring me back to life, i think that i became stronger, i stopped believing that the world is a beautiful place where everyone is happy for you and everything is for you and if this is the saying that if this happens, it means that it is the best, everyone is like that, it means that someone needs this, that's all, i don't believe in it anymore. i understand how hard everything can be. sometimes i look at europeans and just think, so what endured they are everything that is happening to us right now, and

you just understand that, god, we are strong now. it is certain that everything that you did not plan for this year, uh, went awry. at first, on a large scale, it was russia against ukraine, you did not give up, and you spent almost 20 charity concerts, but with creativity, correct me if i say that there were certain problems, because this year only two singles were released, so one of them is the song mayak, which was written recently, but it was written several years ago, why did they return? get and again for the first time after was written during vinnytsia like mama like you and it is very nerve-wracking to play dramas very hard to perform live emotionally and i wanted to write some very motivating, very driving, strong and

energetic song and it is much more difficult to do this than to write a lyre, which i will tell you in such a situation in which i am now is our soul and that's why we looked for something that already had demos and we had a demo mayak, but it wasn't the same as you can hear it now, we pushed it to the maximum energy, energetic, we worked on it for several months so that it really had this sound uh, yes, and even metal, it’s not even a year, you’re already metal, he charged to the maximum and i was just imagining how our guys are winning back their territory and listening to this track. yes, i want her to inspire, and that’s exactly what she is about that at the moment every person is important, everyone can become your beacon

, the light you will follow, the light that will save you from her fiercest storm, but we are now experiencing this storm, i added the following additional lines at the end, these are already fresh lines, exactly p- after the war about that that in the wild storms we are not alone in every sea there is a lighthouse for you at the very end you have already decided to celebrate the new year and christmas so you will celebrate at home here eh hmm well i am not sure what i will celebrate because now it is more childish for me this is a holiday for a child, but the child is not in ukraine. mine is now , that's why there is something special, we record it on st. nicholas' day, and yesterday i gave birth to a christmas tree, this is the only thing. i must have done something to create some kind of

mood. here i am, i think that's it it will be very quiet rest easy at home and i want to ask about one more holiday, have you already decided how to be, how and where you will determine the day of our victory oh my god, of course it is here in kyiv and i can’t even imagine so far it is so difficult for me to imagine how exactly it will be or are we all let's go out in the square on the street or where we will be gathered for sure it will be some kind of mass psychosis no no no i wanted to say ecstasy but it's also not the right word it's you know when i have something like this here's a picture that everyone just goes out into the street and nothing threatens anything more here i think it's like that on the streets of kyiv. i didn't join you like that. lukyanivka,

please . thank you, julia, for this conversation. that united us in the fight against the aggressor and, of course, the loud victories of our athletes on various fronts is the final digest of the temporary sports team of the public good evening to everyone, we are starting from the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the top athletes of ukraine have united to to fight for the homeland, someone mastered the art of volunteerism, someone showed diplomatic skills on the information front , and someone went directly to the defense forces with a weapon in their hands . evgeny perestenko continues to talk about the all-encompassing role of sports during the war. on

february 11, 2022, at the beijing olympic games, scalatonist vladyslav geraskevich live showed the world his position no war in ukraine was written on a paper message at that time a peaceful country could not think that in 13 days its territory would be invaded on a full scale the enemy of eretskevich will invade and many ukrainian athletes will not be left behind , together with their father, coach mykhailo. they went to de-occupied ukrainian cities and villages, brought humanitarian aid and held sports workshops for children affected by the war. that we are able to provide this sport to children, the participant of the 2020 olympic games in tokyo, oksana burchyna , or the bronze medalist of the tokyo olympics in karate, stanislav goruna, from the first days occupied their front oksana received at home people who were looking for shelter in beach safe regions stanislav changed his kimono to pixel and

went to the location of the military unit so one of those few mornings when i woke up and didn't want to sleep even before i fell asleep i was moved by the call and the classic phrase stas voyna began to collect and come to the part in april, goruna sold the olympic bronze at a charity auction for 20.5 thousand dollars, the award was bought by a fan from japan, but he promised that after the victory of ukraine he would definitely return the medal karate two-time olympic champion in kayaking and canoeing yury cheban also decided to use money for his title to support ukrainians $110,000 for three olympic medals inspired cheb to take such a step another legendary ukrainian sportsman basketball player stanislav medvedenko two-time world champion in los angeles - lakers auctioned two trophy rings for over $250,000. medvedenko transferred all the funds to the reconstruction of the destroyed sports infrastructure, a new example

of indomitable spirit was demonstrated by one of of the country's most titled kickboxers, roman shcherbatiuk, at the beginning of the war, the athlete was in the ranks of the cherkasy region, in the spring he defended ukraine under the guise of an agreement in july, in order to defend the country's honor at the world games, he temporarily increased his military service, and when the bronze elections were held, he again returned to the location of the armed forces of ukraine, this is only a small part of the athletes that bring us closer to our dream victory, each in his own place, but with one common goal of the sports resistance of ukraine, we will discuss with the ex-first racket ukraine and now a soldier of the national guard, serhiy stakhovsky. congratulations, serhiy. i am very glad to see you today. actually, this is how it happened

from the beginning of the full-scale invasion. other kind of domestic forms, for example, these are athletes who directly went to the front to defend ukraine and athletes who actively volunteer for it, helping to provide for our defenders, everything is necessary in fact, despite the fact that you are in uniform, i will ask you which camp you belong to. i exaggerated from one second to the third, so i manage to do one and the second and the third sometimes and mostly now all extreme months. this is of course more active participation in hostilities, but you i am i understand that when you go to combat operations, you bring something else, because you are actively volunteering, and in particular with your best man serhiy rebrov, no one stopped us from doing everything we can in order for us to win, and to the extent that there are opportunities and there are some gaps, of course we do everything eh i know that the help from eh serhiy rebrov is not much announced, that is, no , it is not in such a public space, but i know that he handed over a lot of cars, is this number or can it be called more than 20

, but it is not only the car is there and the equipment and protection systems are there and the weather station is there. there is a lot of things in principle. well, serhiy is not just a public person. it is very difficult to drag him into any social media if you are simply not there, but in fact it is, well, the financial plan. he is a very big war. at the moment, it is bakhmut as a setting in general there now it is actually like this now yes battlefield although it is evil there and there were in the summer and there in the summer it was already loud then there was only an artillery barrel now it is already directly fighting the weather is not helping us too much because it has been there for the last two weeks a lot of fog but during the fog they are somewhere you showed us there dilapidated schools dilapidated sports halls that there is anything left of the city at all no of course some buildings are still standing but such that they were untouched i think there are very few of them and here it is free sports infrastructure, well , it is not there, yes. and here we were at this school. it is a

sports school that has been very nicely renovated and it is not there. oleksandr longopolov, your partner for decades in the ukrainian tennis team, is now also in the ranks of the defense forces. and for you, this is from the beginning of a full-scale invasion this person whom you have known for many years has somehow changed, somehow you saw him from the other side, well, 100% he, uh, became quite categorical and critical, and he has an incredibly negative attitude to everything that russia does and to the structure that passively they correctly relate to what russia is doing, that is, even to the structure of the atp, which was our employer there, and he is really incredibly patriotic, the main thing is positive and he is making efforts to destroy the enemy and well, honestly, i did not expect that, that is, his return this it was very powerful for me, such an impulse, i watched it, i

thought, well, it’s really cool, he’s great, you manage to follow ukrainian sports a little, how do you yourself consider ukrainian sports since the beginning of the full-scale invasion he after all, he gained or got into it, lost 100%, because what can you call it if we don’t have young people who can’t exercise , they can’t train, there’s no place to train , and a very large number of pistons went abroad, but i would say that in the conditions of such an ecological under pressure, our athletes show incredible results. and this is a fact because under the same conditions, you can't go home. you can't live at home. you're always abroad . you're always stressed. and of course, this is the first powerful push. i remember there even in the first month of the war there was a certain message from the president that the athletes should leave, they should perform because we don't know when was the last time we saw the ukrainian flag at any distance, so of course they will speak for the first time such a person would say a-a energetic

replenishment of the military because there is something to be happy for a-a of course it is a class for the world to show that ukraine is still and even being in a state of war and which is devastating for us they still have be able to perform and show the result to show our flag and ours is very cool and of course they are such a core we have a community group there sports resistance where we tried there at the beginning of the war in fact until now and there to exclude russians from their sports at international organizations and support there what are the specific messages that need to be supported from ukraine so that it is somehow centralized and that, well, really, a lot of athletes have joined. this is very cool. we all believe and hope for the next year. 2023 is the year of victory. actually, i am for you. i am giving this opportunity to wish something to our viewers. well, maybe for myself in this

year 2023. but no, i think we all need just one victory for everyone, and for us to win, for us to push them out of our land, celebrate and start rebuilding our state. thank you very much for taking the time and thank you very much what for everything you are doing now thank you serhiy stakhovsky as the leader of the ukrainian tennis team, a military volunteer was a guest of our program today and we continue in 2022 changed the lives of ukrainian biathletes who , instead of sports weapons, took up combat weapons unfinished due to the war in the previous season , changes in the composition of the national teams, as well as for the first time in this century, the new president of the federation how the most medal-winning winter sport exists in ukraine and how it plans to develop despite the full-scale invasion will be told by andriy sukhatskyi, the last season for the ukrainian biathlon team ended early due to the war, our the athletes missed the last three stages of the world cup and

took up machine guns, in particular major of the national guard biloschuk received a trip on february 24, went to his unit and the national guard from pidruchnyi, and merkushina sr. became a border guard. the flag of ukraine was actually raised once. it was time to protect it and change the biathlon rifle to an automatic machine. in the summer, the athletes were released from the units to the national team, but the three stages of the world cup already in the new season turned out to be difficult. only artem piva's apprentice was in the top 10. biathletes are worried about their relatives who remained in ukraine . my parents live in the military border. and that's why every day, well, the wounds start at home. you call when you ask how you are doing, but the war opened the possibility for athletes to finally express themselves freely regarding the personnel policy of the biathlon federation, some of the biathletes were outraged by the actions of naturalized russian women who left for russia during the war and kept silent about the

war, the result of the verbal confrontation between the athletes and the federation was 1.4 ex-russian women abramov in both, moskalenko and sidorova were expelled from the team, and because of the century-long era of volodymyr brynzak at the head of the federation , he did not go for new elections, and they were held for the first time with several candidates dmytro pidruchny in the end, he lost to people's deputy ivan krulka, who became the new president of the biathlon federation. thank you, dmytro , for the fact that you and i were rivals. it was a big change for me . two teenagers, 19-year-old vitaly manzen and 17-year-old oleksandr merkushin is also betting on the future of the federation, which wants to develop biathlon infrastructure throughout ukraine. the first task of restoring the base near chernihiv, which was completely crushed by the russians, has already been allocated by the chernihiv regional council funds for the project of the new arena, reconstruction is something

that awaits not only biathlon, but will dominate ukrainian sports for many years after the war, the russians are currently destroying the pearls of the sports infrastructure of ukraine, the count has already reached hundreds, how russia destroyed peaceful ukrainian sports all year here is the story of denys zevchenko and yehor in july, ukrainian sports continue to lose their infrastructure due to shelling by the occupiers, according to the minister of youth and sports of ukraine, during the war, 148 sports facilities were already damaged, 28 of them were completely destroyed, the damage is serious, as we they calculated somewhere around more than 200 million dollars, this is already an amount. well, because it is a large sports arena, the lyodova arena swimming pools , which were built in the last two years, only last december, they reconstructed the largest mario field pool, they also spent 12 0 of the budget, it is completely broken, as well as the largest indoor one in ukraine last

september, the ilychivets sports complex was built in the mouth of the mouth of the best bmx track in ukraine, now it looks like this from above in the renovated olymp sports complex in flint and the monument of rubizhny palace of sports in north donets, the russians destroyed the symbol of the city the ice arena is being destroyed, the key sports facilities of the regions where thousands of champions have been raised, such as the excellent base near chernihiv, where the biathlete daria blazhko hid from shelling in the basement of otut in march, but even under such conditions, ukrainians are thinking about the future and are starting to restore what they can in april, dozens of people they came to clear the debris at the ski base near chernihiv, where they resumed training, but what did the russian rocket do to the kyiv avangard complex, timi, they already cleaned the inside, what you see now, they threw it into on your facebooks and instagrams calling to do the cleaning and here, for example, yurko is from my gym, we do

fitness together, and he does bodybuilding . the donetsk region was the most affected. 60 damaged objects among the cities of kharkiv, 11 arenas of them are the stadium metalist club unifect olympic swimming pool aquarena figure skater maksym nikitin calls scottism what the russians did to the ice rink saltivsk ice where he trained and our second home and the message about the hit of fascist rockets in our rink of course, she really upset me. i don't know why our ice rink was not arranged by an old rascal in the kremlin. the world champions in artistic law of the kharkiv arena. lokomotiv shouted at her. now they don't even want to see russian women at the competitions . do you see them ? i thought that fights would start there, they would have started

because our locomotives would not have passed by in that locomotive . minister, we will rebuild the destroyed arenas and cities, divided families, torn apart by life, this is all reflected in the eyes of a ukrainian athlete who goes to the arena to compete for his country in 2022, the phrase fight for ukraine has acquired a special meaning and every victory of a ukrainian is reflected in our hearts

in 2022 athletes of ukraine won almost three and a half thousand medals at official international competitions. and this is more than 3,000 reasons to smile to our volunteer soldier, energy engineer , medic, rescuer, to all ukrainians who now united in our desire for our great victory, which i hope and believe awaits us already in the next year with the coming one. take care of yourself and your families. see you in 2023.