this is prometheus who bring us life, people who have already become heroes, although you won't see them in the news, warriors who will scatter any enemy, our real knights of light, thanks to you, we will survive the winter, we must be energy workers, thank you, my name is bohdan, i am kateryna, my name is dmytro, i am stepan i'm oleksandr. i was born in zaporizhzhia oblast. i'm from mykolaiv oblast.

greetings, friends, this is the face of the guest of the studio. khrystyna katrakis, the official international coordinator of the un and unesco from the global initiative. and khrystyna is also a very famous artist, there are paintings decorate the houses of famous hollywood actors and, of course, the daughter of the famous ukrainian sculptor anatoliy kushka, the author of our independence stele and it was in the likeness of his daughter that he created this monument khrystyna katrakis, the official international coordinator of the un and unesco for the global initiative in the first days of the full-scale war unleashed by russia khrystyna together with her family, she organized a humanitarian hub in the village of vorokhta in the ivano-frankivsk region. dozens of like-minded volunteers collected food, clothing, hygiene products, and

baby food for forcibly displaced people and those who remained under enemy fire , khrystyna also helped ukrainians with evacuation from dangerous areas, in particular, and abroad, but she refuses to do it herself, because i also want to urge that if ukrainians can stay and work, then let them stay and work if they can. i did not bring anyone in. but if i and my family can do this, being americans, then i am sure that ukrainians can also support their country now. when we started doing this, we arrived at the border and one of the border guards asks me because he i am standing with mark, my little son 6-year-old night, we are trying to spend the first bus from the humanitarian school, he says, "what are you doing here,

you 're an american, you can run away?" ukrainian, like everyone else. i believe that we have already won. they thought that there was some kind of warehouse worker who consumed the manufacturer of the warehouse. here on the video there was uh. look, you just explained why they did not leave ukraine, although it is really strange for many people. it's a dream to go now you have the opportunity to do it you didn't leave you stayed and how did your husband react to this he didn't persuade maybe go somewhere safe, you know it wasn't an option for me at all because ukraine is in danger i understand what can we do to help? we can do everything we can with our resources. we left kyiv the next day because of when the bombing started, but hmm, why did we leave for western ukraine because we had a six-year-old son and he just

woke up at that time? night at 5:00 in the morning from what there were explosions near our house, something is here. he was scared, he says, "mom, you know that, because the child didn't expect anything like this at all and didn't understand what war is. now he is perfectly aware and understands what war is, and you know it very well. children are growing up very much now and eh- it seems to me that this will be a new generation of ukrainians who will change the world, and not just change ukraine, but change the world, because they perceive everything in a completely different way and perceive it very consciously , and i look at my mark and how he saw this whole situation and he came all this way is with us. we have been working like this for a year, and he unloaded the trucks, loaded them, brought them to the children who were evacuated from the east, from mariupol, from kharkiv, from kherson, from

mykolaiv, he says, mother, when the war ends, we will go to rest, we will see the sea, because he loves the sea very much and dreams of seeing it, he says, but now we can’t, we help children we help a few people , that is, the child himself realizes the work he does, and when he goes to school, he tells what he did, where he went, to whom helped someone, supported someone and so on. that is why this is a completely new generation of new ukrainians and citizens of the world. i would say that because for me ukraine is now the top country in the world, by the way, i want to thank you. this is my first interview on a ukrainian tv channel. it seemed to me that i had to die . to get on ukrainian tv channels, but you see, they decided for me it's all just to die, well, you know, heroes don't happen in their own country, because you know,

we always have interviews with the bbc, all the same with anderson cooper and with fox, but the first time on to the ukrainian tv channel eh, look, it seems to me that eh and what we are trying to convey to the world is that ah yes, you can, for example, i give such an allegory because i am her mother yes, i have a small child who has grown up a lot during this war you can say, uh, buy a child a toy, you can give money to a child, but you can't buy love. if you want to show love to a child, you go and play with her. you really spend this time with the child. and this is the allegory that i give to our western partners about cooperation with ukraine e-e c during the second world war, we stood shoulder to shoulder

and we defended what we fought for, so for the truth, for the light, now it seems to me the same time when our partners should not just give another grant or provide another weapon, although it is necessary and i will emphasize that the more weapons for the defense of the sky and the country, the better, but really come and show that they are our brothers and fight with us shoulder to shoulder, you know, the americans, you say it, you report it on all the channels that he mentioned, that they answer you directly on the channel live, but shut everything up because this is life, this is i am already conveying my message, they are hearing, they are reacting, uh, themselves. these last reactions were what well, what if russia presses the button, you know, because this is the only

fear that keeps them all in such a state of fear , you know, i say people i have a good muse, you know, the good news is that no one will press the button, this is a big poker game, you know, where everyone makes a uh poker face, i'm pretty sure they won't press it, because uh, to press the button, it's not putin's decision alone, it's the decision of his entourage which is so stuck in its own corruption and in the life they are used to and in the golden stream that for them to press the button is the end of the seventh and they would rather kill putin than let him press the plus button on the side. we also see china, which is just constantly in its rhetoric of anti е кнопочний let's say yes and you nuklair because

he has a completely different interest than the whale is waiting for ukraine to win the war to take a part of russia for itself and it will be much more than the one that russia is now trying to take to ukraine of our victory, you reported these messages not only now, since february, you have been reporting this since the 14th, when the war came to ukraine, it was not full-scale, unfortunately, this happened to us, yes, for many people, the war began in february 22nd, it actually began on the 14th, how did the attitude change international partners with whom you communicate since the 14th year and now. well, you know, probably since the 14th year, uh, the world has not taken it all so seriously, that is, it has not reacted, although if it had reacted then, now there would not be these consequences and if we did not enter what we entered then and again after all, there probably wouldn't be these consequences, uh, the thing

is that russia has, you know, there was a guy at school who likes to beat others, you know , and he only understands force, he doesn't understand words, he doesn't understand normal relationships there, and uh, those are the guys at school, you know , every time they will take it like this, they will take it, they will see how you react if you go there, they continue on, that is, they don’t stop, they do n’t stop at what they have achieved, you understand, they took the crimea, they gave it to them, they thought that you can also take kyiv, you can take kharkiv you understand and uh, i think so this will lead to the continuation of this behavior. it seems to me that the fsb was completely sure that they would be able to take kyiv in three days. it seems to me that the only thing that the fsb did not calculate was the strength of the ukrainian nation. it is the ukrainian people, and if they were to take this ukrainian people, they would probably use bulls. in three days you will understand and probably we did not sit down and

talk about this topic, this is a fact, i spoke and emphasized that the world should react. i was on the maidan with my husband and we defended the same values for me you know what i am the symbol of ukraine on the maidan, that's why for me you know it wasn't even an option it wasn't even a question how i won't participate how i won't be a part of it although i've never done pr on this i have a lot of russian fans who write me all kinds of letters and try hacks call me a maidanuta somehow, i’ve already been through everything, you know, on the maidan, it was an awakening of the ukrainian people, a real awakening, because we had revolutions before that. there were also expressions of the ukrainian people, but it was sprinkled

with the blood of innocent children of innocent people, i.e. the coup that the russians tried to do and defend yanukovych and er shoot innocent guys er people who were there he er was sprinkled with it new ukraine a new direction in life and simply they took advantage of it the moment when the maidan happened to take away what they wanted to take away because they understood that the country is now branched out, you know, in such and such a situation, and the west was not ready to come and help defend and what were they afraid of russia then? why didn't they become now russia was saying the same thing as uh, that's what we talked about, that's all, we'll take it, and we don't need anything else, we don't

need anything else, we don't need ukraine, and everyone believed that until they understood what to believe it is impossible for russia and it is simple. well, that is what they say in a simple way, and this russia has fed everyone so much, you know that now it is a collective event to simply recognize the annexation of a piece of an independent state . that russia is planning to do something because you know that we were warned by the special services of britain and america and stressed that there would be a war and although it seems to me that many ukrainians did not fully expect this the family is not excluded, you know

i was warned by the partners of the zones, they said that we must leave, we must leave here in an hour, in a day, in a week, and we made a conscious choice, you asked why it was a conscious choice to stay here and the place where we stopped when we left, we drove all night from kyiv was the only place where we could find where to spend the night was vorokhta and my husband uh he was at the beginning and in the very sense of this campaign of our mission therefore he himself is a ukrainian from odessa a very great patriot of ukraine he started 10 years together he did not he wants no citizenship, nothing to change well, even though he could be an american and so on. that’s what he says. we stopped and the next day he went to the

store to buy just food for us, and he says that there are no empty food stores in hrytsiv, but they are full of people, they go and go are going and in the first week there were already 2,000 displaced people, and a week later there were already 5,000 displaced people for a small town like vorokhta and he is a man, roman, says something must be done. we must do something . to do, he is the crisis coordinator of the un and that's how this project started, yes, yes, that is, he started spending the night there and stayed there for a long time, that is, the chosen place was chosen by fate, you know, plus the child started an ear infection, if you understand how painful it is for the child and we need there was somewhere to stop for him to heal, you know , to get antibiotics and so on, and that is, fate

itself chose the place, chose us and roman, uh, started this idea, and i supported it, and that's how our whole mission and what we created began, because before that, we were mainly engaged in you know the goal of the sustainable development goals, because this is a un fund, the whole table of sustainable development, what is it? it includes 17 different topics, including ecology, the fight against hunger, equality, and so on, but you know, we met with companies with people told how important it is to pay attention to the environmental friendliness of the factories there, so that all the rights of all people are taken into account, so that there is equality between men and women in the workplace, but when the war began, all these goals became

much more acute, you know, and we continue that mission anyway, because we provide people, so that they don't starve, so that they have a healthy lifestyle, at least there we transfer the medicines we receive, although we are not a medical institution, but a fund, so that they have hygiene, and so that they have clean water that is, everything that we can provide for these purposes, we transfer and help people, and these trucks from the un are coming, which you mentioned, which your son is disrespectful, no, it is strange that according to our statute, you know, there is such a stigma, because i understand that a- and there are different e representatives and they stay different traces behind them yes at the time when we made this choice to stay er i said that i give up everything that is i work for free we all

work for free video he we do not get anything because we took all risks at your own risk to stay in the country do not leave under patronage there e-e background to the un or other organizations as it was proposed to us and e since they are not responsible for our lives and we are not their problem, all these problems are on us and as part of the e un program with sustainable development goals, according to the contract, we have the right to collect money for the un, but not receive anything in return. that is , it is very strange, such unity, eternal charity, let's say, but this is our mandate . the contract is unity, and therefore all the aid is humanitarian food, it was absolutely

provoked by our connections with companies with corporations with people and which we built during this period and we ugh-ugh continue uh-uh in this style and work with such organizations as wings of hope as neslya and others and uh-uh the only thing uh, part of our team uh, there are representatives who have a warehouse, who have trucks and they drive themselves, they are members of our team and that's how we rallied, but imagine that for a year we all work for free, most of our team are idps from donetsk kharkiv mykola vorokhtu came to us and said we want to help and yes, you saw the photos there, this is how our team was created

. how much did you help? well, first of all, we make monthly reports , even though we are not responsible for anything. we owe the un permanent reports. that is, we must sign for each cookie and prove that we did not steal it, you understand, even though we ourselves they got mine, agreed on it, and so on, that's why i think we became such a small miracle, you know, because we are absolutely honest, and despite the fact that we report both to the un and to ukraine and to the world, to donors, we have all documents in the open eh, we accept deliveries both to the frontline

regions and for idps, but eh, you know , being an american, this is a very important aspect for me, you know, because, as joeplex said, you can’t run away from only two things: taxes and death. there was a lot it is easier and calmer to have clear papers and documents, and we were there from the very first, we opened on the third day of the war, and from the third day there was the first truck that we received through the romanian border, er, at night, no one knew anything, there was complete panic in the country, you know these roadblocks we didn't know what to do, what to skip , but we did it, and since then we have never stopped, although a lot of warehouses , a lot of organizations have closed, and we have seen it both in the lviv region and in the ivano-frankivsk region, where we are territorially

located, but we are holding on and we we hold on, probably because we are such a small miracle, you know what, uh, as they say hutsul voltonuti, you know, a little crazy at the beginning, you did it all yourself, there was no team. yes, i think you stayed up there at night. my child, the child slept in cars, he has such a gypsy, i have a gypsy child with a gypsy life but he is actually a superhero and i am very proud of mark and my husband, because without them , none of this would have happened at all, but you know from the first days how it all happened to us rallied, came down from the mountains to the people and said, listen, well, roman negotiated and said that something must be done. do you agree that a

crisis is starting, a problem is starting ? e. matviychuk, who owns the warehouse and cars and all the other local people who work and help us and provided these resources, they went with us to the border every day, loaded and unloaded the trucks , delivered the local women to everything and it's just, well, i've never seen this, it seems to me that russia wanted to divide the country, but in fact it united ukrainians like no other, because now it seems to me that no one loves russians in ukraine and everyone understands who is the enemy, do you understand because we, for example, have now helped many

newly liberated territories of ukraine, including mykolaiv oblast, i talked to people from snowurivka, which was under occupation for a long time, you know, and a woman told me such a phrase, you know in these regions, they were mostly russian-speaking he says, but you know my children, who were russian-speaking since childhood, have now consciously switched to the ukrainian language, and they have two-year-old children whom they teach in ukrainian, for them, after all that they have experienced, it is a conscious choice, you understand, it is not that someone forced them is there a school program that forced no, it is their deliberately de-occupied territories, you help them, and you talked a lot about idps, who were the enemy, or were they possible, was there any story that stuck in your memory, you talked a lot with these

people, there are many stories because it is like e- it's honest you sit down and it seems to you that this did not happen to you at all and this whole age did not pass like a minute but some of the stories for example we have our little mascot in our e at our base yes in vorokhta it is at our warehouse and base this is a little girl and her name is marichka, we call her maria from mariupol, maria of mariupol, and her mother is svitlana, they were in the last wave of people who were evacuated from mariupol. basements hiding from regulars explosions and the parents refused to leave. they stayed in mariupol and unfortunately we have almost no contact with them now. so, the biggest

grief for svitlana was when she and i gave birth to this girl on the way to us, and that is, we have such cities in the kyiv point , that is so the family accepted her, she came from mariupol on the way to vorokhta, vorokhta, and this is maria, uh, from mariupol, this is our little one, this is our plan . -e protects our mission and reminds us that mariupol will be ukraine and everything will return to its place. in other words, this is one such situation, and this svitlana says for me, for her, it was the most tragic, what she says. when i gave birth to a child, i could not even connect with my mother and told me to say that i had a baby girl

because they are even so and so in the basement with dad and they are older people, that is, there are a lot of such stories in our country because these people actually left at critical moments. i know that you helped people leave in columns, for example we helped people who were under fire, we helped people leave ddavyzhivka, this is borodyanskyi, e.e., to the district and borodyanka mak special under makarov. you must have seen many videos where there are children and people right in the forest, landings by the road , cars shot at and it was terrible because these people were just driving in russian bmws and were being shot by whole columns. although they were driving in a civilian column with white flags and inscriptions, children were sitting in the cars, children of 2-3 years old, and these were the buryats there. and they were just shooting these columns and in us was like that

the case when there was one woman, it seems that the second car in this convoy is an older woman and for about 70 years in this car she and her grandchildren were driving. and when they started shooting, they shot her completely, and from her leg, her arm , and so much that pieces of her body were simply scattered around the car, they were on top of her grandchildren who were sitting in the car. and when the buryats pulled her out of the car, because they then walked around and watched as they pulled out these people whom they shot, she asked them and said to finish me off, and they said that they promised me, she said how what about you they shot the whole column of people, he says, well, we saw hundreds of you when they were shooting, and then one beet says, well, she doesn't live until the morning, and she says to him, who are you to

tell me whether you're alive or not? women and she survived and they put her in pieces practically, you know, we brought her to zhytomyr, then when she was at least a little transplantable because she didn't go to vorokhta, she still had open wounds and then they helped her to join her children whom we part of it was previously exported to germany we took this column with the red cross to germany, but we are also recording, we are recording all the confessions of these people because i know that the war is over and these people must answer for what they did to the population, how they were abused, how they were shot and how they buried people by the road and so on and so on. that is, we are these people from

buchi makarov's bearded village, we, we, we, we all collected these testimonies, we have them, and there were such heroic moments, there are many stories, but under makarov, there was only one woman, then a child the woman took out the whole column of these shot people herself she simply transported them to our border to our soldiers. the woman herself is a fearless mother, and when they talk about ukrainian women, it seems to me that there are no more heroic people, you know, and imagine how strong they are when her husband was simply crushed the head was simply crushed , the skull was put together piece by piece, put together , and he is now in germany and the whole family is being treated, that is, you know