presentations like this, a story about polony and about the sea, again, not black, but azov about a city that, uh, which also became such a symbol of uh, strength, but also very great pain, uh, we are now in such a period, and the holidays are just that the period when you think about your home the most and i remember bucha every christmas there is a very beautiful christmas tree there are very beautiful decorations around the city there is a lot of light christmas shop some children's toys and i also see and remember the video it's always the people of mariupol cities are spreading it on social networks mariupol on new year's eve, so christmas beautiful with lights and when you look at this and then and then you remember what happened to this city for four months, it's some kind

of crazy reality show. caught myself that i must somehow separate and tell about it as if it is not happening to my country and my people because otherwise it was very painful to tell all these stories of how people are being bombed , how they first hit the maternity hospital and that something seemed unreal, how can you kiss the maternity hospital, then we all got used to it, because you know it, pope, pope francis said very aptly that the city was named after mary, the virgin mary, the mother of god, it became a symbol of martyrdom, in fact, in this war of the civilian population, i always remember this legend about sahaydachny who came to moscow and heard the bells of the moscow church say, well, no , we won't even storm the orthodox there, suddenly one of the civilians will die, and now sahaydachny would change his mind very much, i think

i would personally cross myself and say no to everything. well , here we understand that the next year, so to speak, may bring completely unexpected solutions, so to speak, both for us and for our enemy, well, the situation is extremely dynamic. so we understand that the war is wrapping up wrapping up more and more minds of trends that is, it is not only about people or about countries, but you know, well, mariupol is such an impression that the russians showed everything they could to show their most terrible, not the most terrible, side and prepare us, er, because even by mistake and they crashed with gostomel, this did not happen because they did not drop such incredible weight of air bombs on the drama theater where there was an inscription children, this did not happen and what happened with

mariupol is some of the biggest the biggest wound a wound on the body of our country, i suggest you just look and remember how this city bravely held on despite everything and how this city courageously held its defenders despite everything for almost three months or 86 days the defense of mariupol lasted during of a full-scale russian invasion in 2022, the city located 10 kilometers from the demarcation line became a fortress that restrained the russian advance on the rest of the territory of ukraine, and this restraint took place in conditions of complete encirclement. from volnovakha in the north, on march 1, the occupiers transferred their strike group to mariupol, already from berdyansk, captured at that time, in the southwest, the city

was blockaded, and ukrainian forces defense in the ring, which gradually narrowed, but it was not possible to quickly take mariupol, ukrainian fighters successfully repelled the assault and destroyed the invaders, that is why russian criminals resorted to terrorist methods of war, shelled residential areas, created a humanitarian crisis, disrupted the evacuation of the population, every day they inflicted continuous attacks on the city, as a rule, they started at four o'clock in the morning, the occupiers used all possible weapons in mariupol, from hailstones to thermobaric shells, from cluster and aerial bombs to chemical weapons defenders mariupol and these are border guards, national guardsmen , marines and fighters of the azov regiment fought to the last for every quarter for every house of the city under the conditions of the blockade, our military managed to deliver food and medicine from the sea with helicopters, evacuate the wounded from azov, the plant became the last

refuge not only for the military, but also for thousands of civilians who were in a bunker for months, surrounded by azov, were shown live all over the world and begged world leaders to finally unblock the city after dozens of refusals to numerous offers the enemy to surrender in may ukrainian soldiers carried out the order of the military and political leadership of ukraine to stop the defense of mariupol more than 200 soldiers left azovstal and were evacuated to the territory controlled by russia to a colony in the village of olenivka in luhansk oblast the first prisoners were exchanged at the end of june, later several more exchanges took place now in captivity in russians remain 700 defenders of mariupol, but i would like to hope that all of them will return home as soon as possible, because they are waiting for news about their relatives who are in captivity somewhere and you don't know what's happening to her. although you can in principle imagine it based on those testimonies. but again, there is a woman, she is in

lviv from mariupol, a woman who was waiting for her husband from captivity, he is not a military man, but they waited for him from captivity for nine months and he he finally came back to her now she lives in such a temporary town for internally displaced persons another new abbreviation that appeared in our country and in this and this difficult time she found the strength not to break down losing a roof over her head losing uh understanding that with her husband, she waited for him, waited for him in the end and, in addition to all that , she opened a flower shop and she said , moreover, she tells other residents of this town that we do not have the right to sit idly by and this is also some kind of breath like ukrainians in such in difficult conditions, finding themselves somewhere far from home, being simply

disassembled into atoms, they gather themselves together and, moreover, organize something around themselves or organize other people who, perhaps , do not have so much of this inner spirit not to fall, not to despair, but to continue to live on despite everything, seeing, seeing all kinds of things and not fully understanding that i have to correct my relatives, the truth cuts a little, so to speak, the soul, so to speak , the internal space of a person is not a new one. unfortunately , history is not new. for our country for 8 years, we have had such people, their stories, their status, very often they were bullied by society, the state, as they could, as they say, and dug up, but really internally displaced persons of people from mariupol in our country, now they all get a lot support to the extent that we can provide it to them and if it was possible to call on everyone to do this in the future, in particular, in the center of mariupol, which is engaged in this assistance to the people of mariupol, then it is definitely worth doing it like this.

mariupol is actually, well, i don’t see it in history , that is, something similar was probably under the time of the yugoslav wars, when the cities tried to demolish the same dubrovnik, a croatian city that the serbs tried to demolish from the face of the earth, but also tonic, well, that was earlier, yes , that is, the second world war, that is, that period , that is, but 20 because the 21st century, which 20-21st century, you understand, i don’t know, there are some space technologies, moon masks, two or three, and so on. and here, literally in the center of europe, they are starting to demolish the city together with its inhabitants with artillery . they are traumatized, that is, people who lost everything, but not just lost, they also experienced something that god

forbid they experience. it will be possible to return as such, but people who visited the drama theater in which a russian aerial bomb fell and they were there, donate human flesh, flesh was everywhere, flesh, blood, children 's flesh, and so on. it is very good to read on billboards, but it is much more difficult to feed and help those people to adapt, because mariupol residents have seen billboards somewhere , hold on, wake up, the story is slowly receding . we live in a system where we do not control our

state. that is, we try to somehow evaluate what is happening, but just like in mariupol, now i will tell you that even recently, a polish tv channel asked for a story about mykhailo dianov, and because he was operated on, they were interested. but i i thought that we already have this story, so old a person has returned as a prisoner and we exhaled as if without relief because we have new and new challenges, new new cities where they are occupied and some very terrible new truth is revealed there, but but i think that simply we need a certain distance because such things are talked about and they become national symbols, but we just need a little distance, because the distance between people. because it seems to me that we are beginning, well , involuntarily, but to voice history because it is really painful. it's so simple, we all still don't have with a hundred percent certainty that the next mariupol cannot be anywhere , i don't even know in lviv, and this and this is what,

unfortunately, unfortunately, it is a little bit of each of us - important events, we are happy, we are sad , but we have a lot of emotions every day we're simple, but i'm saying it didn't happen anywhere, it will be absolutely correct formulas , so i just mentioned it. yes, we live in a world where mariupol can happen in every city. but people live with the event to do it with every city with every ukrainian city and this is it if only the shares of the situation well but but but we know this story well i i now remember how to answer here on espresso andriy marusov which just came out as a report and i i call him, he is already somewhere i was there in kyiv even in dnipropetrovsk

. they still found some photos of him, they still found that he was some kind of activist, and without thinking for a long time, the officer said, "go ahead , shoot him, too, he's there, go behind the house and beat him, just because that young soldier wasn't sure." and that the idea behind and that's all, and he had such an idea while he was walking and he already thought that this was the end of the sea. he met another officer who asked where are you taking him, you said well, oscar, but it's like to reset it, someone said what is he there for, someone says so you let him go, what are you, this one, and he told him that, go, he says, but don’t let us get any more skills, and he immediately left the city on foot, there, i don’t know how, at night and he walked the steppe for two or three days and slept in the steppe in in the bushes, a person survived just like that, and you understand what kind of person this is you know, as a concise one that you are used to seeing at some international meetings, who

speaks english somewhere there with some donors and experts. and here he went through it because of some simple horror of the affairs of the 20th century. by the way, bohdan krutayevich is a crimean citizen who is the defender of mariupol from azov, who noticed that we asked where to block, he says i don't have the data, whether it was possible to do it but we didn't have, uh, we didn't give reasons why it couldn't be done, and uh, the most - for sure what i noticed more vividly for myself now in the defense of mariupol is that they did not ask for evacuation from there, but they were ready to continue fighting, just give us a corridor and give us more help, we will continue where the blockade is not just get us out of here, but give us the opportunity to continue, this is possible

history of the second matter what do we understand so that it was not possible to do this until the end, well, from the city survey, to break through the corridor to mariupol, this means that it was de facto unblocked, and so we understand how much the enemy depended on or disagreed on that place but all the same, that is, when we talk about the mariupol syndrome, that is, i think that in the 90s , after the srebryans were cut off, no one could have thought that we would experience something like this, at least on the european continent, here we found out what is this, this is death, what is this barbarism, i don't want to talk about medieval barbarism, it's just at the level of some animals, it's not barbarism, that is, death in its most unfavorable forms that it can come so close, that is, to the world that was being built. well, how did you understand the world, the modern world described by all possible fukuyamas, they are simple, lord, i don't want to mention this prophet, so to speak. and here it became clear that this is not possible, such a leap into an unknown

past, you know that there were more peaceful times. so we, like ukraine, defended in the world that there, for example, kyiv e was spelled as kyiv, but in kyiv eh, and at the time when we defended the proper ukrainian sounding of the name of our capital, i could not think that the whole world would now know the names of our cities and towns and even villages, because now on on any continent, people know exactly how the name is pronounced bucha e.e. vorzel gostomel izyum e.e. kupyansk kherson and different ones and in chornobayivka and so on and so on and mariupol included, but i'm sure well, at the time when we were fighting for kyiv, i didn't want kyiv b so that we would actually win these things that our cities in the whole world are known for precisely

such a heavy and painful price for foreigners who have studied these cities and so on, we all present here at our solemn table must repent so that a significant part bridge we would not have found where they are before the war are on the map. do you understand this? this story is about how i didn't know about kupyansk, i confess, i also didn't hear a lot of discoveries. well, the most discovered there were, of course, the discoveries of buryats of various people who learned what such a city 13 was, and who managed to return to it with the wind now they will tell if it were in generations, but before there, well, there was a village, well, everyone left in the 13th and did not return, marked with blood, you understand, but every city it already has a recent history that is radically different from that history, well, such of the bizarre history of the 19th century, where there were the best dumplings. well, if you read

local history guides to certain towns, you know ukrainian, and here it's blood, it's heroism - these are completely different new stories, and here we gradually come to what about a story about the latest symbols, that is it is not only such visible artifacts, so to speak, it is a story starting from the rooster and ending with the stories of people, that is, there will be more stories written until , so to speak, the history of the war in the russian federation will be brought together in our country the history of the people who experienced it in history, how they experienced, how they behaved, this will be a separate page in modern world history , so because i am repeating this thesis on the continent on the peaceful continent, which was most concerned with what feminists, conditionally speaking, and equal rights of absolutely different versts, it became clear here what is it possible that the sky is falling and nailing it to the ground, do you understand with such

bloody nails? well, in any case, we understand. a lot of new things, that is, unexpectedly new things, some funny roosters, do you remember? well, let 's watch the plot now. and after that, we 'll talk. azov steel is the last batch of metal from the factory, before it was 17-meter letters, i believe in the armed forces of ukraine near my mother's homeland, in the museum of the second world war in kyiv, which were remelted into thousands of bracelets, all the profit from their sale goes to a fleet of naval drones 5 g of steel became a symbol of ukrainian indomitability. the next symbol is a kitchen cabinet with a ceramic rooster on it,

which was left hanging on the wall of a destroyed house in the village of borodyanka near kyiv. people on social networks began to spread the phrase how are you, the kitchen cabinet is holding on later, a copy of the ceramic rooster that survived on the cap was presented to the former prime minister of great britain boris johnson, currently the prices for replicas of the ceramic statuette reach 40,000 uah at auctions, and the word palyanytsia became a symbol of ukrainian resistance at the beginning of the invasion, there was a report in social networks in which foreigners could not pronounce this word, say the word palyanitsa garbage, say polyanitsa polyanitsa polyanitsa polyanitsa strawberry, say it is connected with its phonetic features, which letter t cannot be pronounced by the invaders after

the russian propagandist skabeeva called the palanitsa a strawberry, this is became a meme among ukrainians in social networks, within a week after the start of sales of the russian warship stamp, more than 700,000 copies were purchased, the director general of ukrposhta notes that at the first auction more than uah 5 million was collected and donated for charitable assistance, people waited in lines for more than 10 hours to buy a stamp later ukrposhta issued other series of stamps with various military designs such as good evening we are from ukraine crimean bridge encore glory to the armed forces of ukraine and others also the postal company plans to issue a stamp dedicated to the liberation of kherson during the russian invasion such a humorous word as cotton appeared in colloquial ukrainian the phenomenon became so popular in the russian-controlled territory that ukrainians in

social networks invented a ukrainian mythological animal with the symbolic name cotton wool that burns russian warehouses, factories and other places filled with flammable substances and materials . some individual, this or that symbol of this or that war or resistance or this or that tragedy or just professional some so to speak professional such and such a glass so what's wrong with me from the first day of the war, and so to speak, the first day of it, which we met together with the yatski system on the air, yes, it was this pot , it was with me. well, i don’t know if it’s just a talisman, but just as a guide, this bracelet dived and they are filming until now. well, i took it off today just so as not to do advertising. it is true that it is no longer visible what is written here, but it is so. well,

we understand. so, this is exactly what will create the newest absolutely history of the newest ukrainians , that is, understanding. well, trying. somehow, i don't know how to fix my memory or create reflections with the help of these or other objects. that is, someone was clinging to that rooster, boris johnson. yes, but on the other hand, this rooster is a story, it is actually a terrible story, that is, to which the world is not used to, and i, for example, such an important solemn story was the story andrii korostyshivtsya died on february 26. he was a civilian who lived in chernihiv oblast and he saw a column of russian tanks . so he was driving on his own tires. speed and began to press her, they shot him, this story is for sure well, i can't get rid of it in any way, and that is, i think that each

of the ukrainians experiences it on their own micro level , there are many, many stories like that. well, when we talk about those symbols, that is, with on the one hand, well, it’s like because it’s a funny story there about buryats, there are some people there who can’t pronounce the slang, on the other hand, we understand. well, what is this cockerel when he was with us there in one family in the center of kyiv, but on the other hand , we understand what his time she too resonated with some associations that people who lived through the great war had before, it is about the second world war, and we live in that world of symbols, and our task, so to speak, is to make our symbols come as close as possible to the europeans . quite correct symbols, that is, what is now. well, it means our ukrainian history, that is, they are interpreted normally in the world, that is, they are perceived, they enter, that is, starting from certain phrases and ending with certain artifacts. well, the phrase good evening we

from ukraine well, when i hear it from foreigners , that means that they enter our world , that is, with the help of such, well, as if, well , undemanding phrases, not too smart, but it works, i think that you know what and just if you rewind a little, eh how little did we learn about ukraine, how little did we know until now, the war woke up a little and opened us up to the world because they suddenly showed us what exactly is different from the russians. years of cultural diplomacy is when you take, for example, pink floyd and take a song that is with the song of the sich riflemen and which was covered by khlevniuk, and it becomes an international hit that finally learned it all over ukraine, but i hope that after the first verse, ukraine will learn the rest because there are good words and

free the ukrainian brothers from of the shackles of moscow there is this couplet and it has been going on for 100 years and part of the country sang now they are singing this song all of ukraine and it is also very important that ukraine is now united but i read, for example, that one of the most popular of mobile games. that is, this is a game that is in the mobile phone of every third person in the world. well, maybe i am exaggerating. it is one of the most popular. with a budget of billions, they took a line of some of their new superheroes and added a ukrainian cossack and a cossack, and art superovy, that is, he it doesn't pop up, it's not sharovarschyna, it's cool, cool heroes and they're super cool to us, it means that some teenagers , people, children in brazil, somewhere in africa, who have smartphones because there is a conditionally free game of americans in america, it's the number one game for example, on mobile devices, wants are downloaded and appear. and these ukrainians, we now

know what they look like, this is their identity, this is their culture, and such a small breakthrough, they can be invisible, the cossacks and the names of their terrace and marichka . and marichok as well as against the names themselves. but sometimes you don't think that all this is a little tacky, so pretentious in terms of the fact that we still show the world what it expects from us to see, but the tarasimo river is so familiar you know a lot about our history here. i honestly don't know much. i know a lot. there were several books in my class. you can say that, but look at the thing. what's the beauty? my friend is marichka. what's the matter? it's not maria, but marichka. okay, there are names of people. there are enough names with such names, but we return to, you know, some such

established things and we try to promote them instead of what is possible to look at something modern and we can create it modern and let's say there could not be only one name in this world you understand how at one time, the british were called john boone, but who likes it or not? will there be many unknown germans there ? another story is the approach of others, and so on and so on. so softly we call them what we really call them so no national council will miss people disbelief so we are the symbols by which the world recognizes us, we also recognize ourselves because how many of you knew about this rooster from the vasylkiv juniper plant i in principle, i love all kinds of ethnic things, vases

, jugs, mugs, and so on, figurines. but honestly, to my shame, as a person who was very interested in cultural topics in journalism, i constantly filmed a lot of materials about it and wrote about it even on my pages when i was no longer working as a correspondent. i didn’t know about this vasylkiv mojolykovy plant. i’m ashamed and this rooster looks stylish and i think that now many ukrainians look a little differently because we had such an attitude towards it and this is some kind of village again, the name is taras. but in the village, somewhere there , people call taras. and now, that's how we go through the world. sometimes that's what happens to us. it happens to us with the same generous man . that we had for a long time the same oh in the meadow, the red viburnum was sung anew at this very moment when pink floyd sang it, we did not perceive it differently then, i

agree with khrystyna that sooner or later we will still come to some other things, just when they are fully assimilated this plast is like this almost folklore of the previous culture, then you can move on well, we are just a little different now, i am now the radio, all those patriotic songs, all the radio stations are trying to spin something patriotic, new ukrainian -language and very often yes, but i'm calm because i understand what we're for- now we 're like well, how are we when we're children now there's a reason to go there that is, we take it all and eat a lot in ourselves fill up fill up with you otaku for some basic things someone there says god, how much. well, but we have to go through it, get a little full, and then we will be able to then , having assimilated it as our own, then we will be able

to create something there. sharuvarshchyna, a kind of peasantry, is so hopeless, you see, i don’t want to just call it that, that’s when kuchmy was late, when everything was falling apart, it appeared and was sold as ukrainian, but at the same time , something fundamentally different was growing. and now we will see how everything healthy will overcome everything, so to speak you understand the literal meaning of saying this, this, that, plywood, that is, a person must also pass through it, obviously, because it was foreign to them, as if they ate that plywood, only there was some russian . there are still some picky things we have to say to khrystyna by good evening. everything is fine already at seven. i agree with the fact that mass culture should be developed in ukraine, eh, as far as i'm concerned, we don't have enough of it either in cinematography or in music, we constantly we have you know either at all or so