[000:00:00;00] in ukrainian, all these traditions, language, culture, history, now you have arrived on the land of your ancestors, what do you feel here? well, first of all, i traveled a long way to get here. i came from los angeles. and it is not so easy and simple to fly, first a transfer, then the suitcases are lost, as always then go to warsaw then by train in total it took us 36 hours and i arrived here yesterday and i am prouder than ever that i am here ukraine is a day is a dangerous place today, were you afraid to go to ukraine where there is a war going on

it is dangerous just yesterday there was a drone strike from through the window of my hotel room and i saw i actually have a video during the period all my friends and especially from los angeles are like why are you going why are you going to war in a country that is considered the fourth category and the representatives don't let catherine go it's dangerous we can't control her safety but you still decided i had to, it was important for me to be here, it is important for me to show or something to show everyone that i support you and in this i am the only one with you thank you for this thank you thank you you are the first

ambassador from canada e-e from the united project 24 aid to ukraine got into this initiative. how did you become our ambassador? it is important for me to give back. my career is a stage. i was an actress, a director, now a producer. i always wanted to work in a foundation that helps women and children. women like in vikings or eh boundless sky you play this role but in fact real stories of women who are actually fighting for what they believe in is freedom or some other thing i founded the vinnyka foundation which not only controls but also really our family motivates, so all the money that the vynyk foundation has already attracted and will continue to attract this year will all go to united 24 so it happened that the war started and that i

knew that i had to devote all the efforts and money that the vynnyk foundation will attract, all this will go to the initiative of president zelenskyi united 24 when we say united

24 we mean a huge machine because for me and for a person who comes from a strong family it is very important that the family is united and stays together and especially this war in the family is torn apart men on the front lines, women left and returned, displaced children, some people were forcibly resettled. it was important for me to have a project that would bring everyone back, and really family - it's done - it's family that's important to be together, that's what i believe i come from a very strong ukrainian canadian family my parents celebrated their 52 uga with four children and i am very proud ha golden wedding so so wonderful

for their 50th wedding anniversary i brought them here to kyiv for the 30th anniversary of independence it was a wedding gift from me but how can i said this when the family is together and at home, especially when houses are being rebuilt, so that everyone can gather in the kitchen and eat together, this is important. i think that this message is important for returning to normality in canada, now they treat ukraine and, most importantly, the idea of ​​actively helping ukraine. i know that my family is very involved, my mother runs the ukrainian canadian congress, she also worked with sick children from ukraine , transported them so that they could receive appropriate cancer treatment, yes, and

i also have two sisters, lida, she collected clothes in volunteer centers and soup kitchens never a day if all the migrants in which all the refugees were brought could pass and at least choose things for their children i think it's possible to say that a lot still needs to be done. i think we can get used to this war. we shouldn't feel comfortable in it. you should continue to talk about it. speak publicly. ok is this something or should it be on the front page at least every week if on a daily basis it is really important for all humanity to have a voice and speak express themselves and if many

do not know where to start is everything speak let you be heard say something do something lead to your candidates online to the foundation page guilt that will go to united 24 there you can not only donate money but also give your time to make efforts of talents there are many ways to help twenty for united 24 what you say to people in your country and not only in yours and i am your supporter why should they report for ukraine, what arguments do you use, well, it's just for everyone . this is not only the ukrainian war, the war of everyone from everyone, every country, every culture

, every identity, every sense of tradition, this is something in which we as one world must to unite and everyone must play their role, how is the attitude towards ukraine and its needs changing, because the war has been going on for more than a year , starting in february last year, we felt a lot of support, but time is passing and people abroad are getting tired of bad news from of eastern europe is getting tired of the topic of ukraine do you feel it one of the ambassadors said this is from the stage and i will repeat his words if you are tired then doing is not enough we should never get tired of this and never get tired of fighting but i will say

one thing ukraine is now on the map people now know what it is to be ukrainian, people know what a strong ukrainian spirit actually means, and this is what i am very proud of everywhere in los angeles. and even recently in colombia , colombia, and a month ago i was in israel, when i say that i am of ukrainian origin, they me they look like this because this is what happened now, people who really did not know ukrainian culture and do not know what it means to be ukrainian are now waking up and now they are realizing the sense of integrity . they are now so strong that i do not know if it is possible to imagine any other culture

-what other country are these really citizens? people now, even those who are not soldiers , who have not trained, they are all on the front line and make this contribution. i know women who left but came back, in particular, to help , because this is their home, this is where they are happiest and that's a lot to say about everyone running away, i.e. returning to fight, did you mention the ukrainian spirit and my question is the following and the heroism of ukrainians is not just beautiful words ah in what action in what events did you personally feel this heroism and spirit of ukrainians and here is maybe store such stories from our struggle during the war with russia, you personally remembered

a very good question, maybe it's a little too early to ask, because i'm only now feeling this need and appetite to study these stories. i feel that as an actress, director and producer, i would i just wanted to make a public announcement right now. i want to hear everyone's story. maybe i can somehow do it through the vynnyk foundation. where can you submit your story? i want to hear it from you . i want to hear from those on the front line. i want to hear how your personal heroic journey took place, i want to be able to hear these stories . i think we can collect some of them , perhaps, and take them to the world platform. so , i encourage everyone to come to the vinnyky foundation

or write on instagram. there was a way to record. all these stories are to be documented, i feel that everyone has the right to tell their story, they can inspire other people not only to fight for freedom, but to make sure that this does not happen again, in the end, i have to ask how you feel. how long are you ready to support ukraine? i will fight as long as i can and even if it will be a struggle for the duration of my life, i will be with you. thank you, i am sincerely grateful for your position on ukraine, you are truly a true friend of our country. glory to ukraine glory to the heroes. this was the my story program. today we listened to the story of the hollywood actress with

a ukrainian heart, catherine vinnyk, the next will be here. well, here it is. our workshop is united, the color of the association of artists of the city of zaporizhzhia is 150-160 people, well, let's say that's what they came for, we just gather good people who do something with their own hands and we do exhibitions in ukraine, we were in kyiv and in western ukraine, the tree dries with sufficient humidity

and temperature, this is the bark. i use it for these cossacks. i cut them out of old acacia . the first layer is selected and remains under the cork on which you can already carve the image of the cossacks of such household items, and the linden is more suitable because it is very long and eternal and it cuts beautifully, this is the alder . they are also a good color, the whole texture. but there are big things like that, i make orders and i am sad, well now there is a big problem because hostilities took place there and the boys are not allowed into the forest because it is all mined there

, so we have big problems people from different villages come from different parts of ukraine and bring their craft products, preservation of one and a half and two tons of products, we sent to the front from our native festival of the festival of home preservation, the author of which is my wife nataliya babenko, she is also a folk craftsman here and does decorative and applied arts well, she is at home now because she works as a humanitarian, there is such an algorithm, that is, we choose people who are very old in terms of age , we also have people living in our house who came from the occupied territories we help there, there is a very large report, passport and identification code and photos with parcels are also recorded there. we also make sure that everything is clear. meat volunteering. it's like that in life. and now i'm also the chairman of the condominium. there was a conflict situation with the previous chairman of the condominium . well, we have to

i had to take responsibility and i took it because no one else took it. it's just a thirst for justice. when i put everything in order with my new work with condominiums , creativity still remains, and then i'll come back and look and move on. a specific tool this is so that you can choose some large vases and choose a tree from here. well, i have them somewhere around 350, so we cut them. when it cracks a little, then the tool is good, then the tool that is sharpened, it shaves off the hair. when do you start ? in the process of going, it is better not to touch you, because you are already cutting , cutting, cutting, and you can't stop until your hands fall off, well, over the years, this is the specificity of uh

, carvers , their hands start to hurt a little. give an injection in your hand to relieve tension and spasms and it is warm, you know, it warms you and when you do it you never repeat it, that is , you have done one job and you will not do the second job like this one, the only one in the world, let's say so matryoshka the japanese invented it well, she they are carved, they have very thin walls and it is very difficult to cut it, you have to somehow drill a coconut because you can't take it with a cutter , well, there are wooden breastplates. i smoke. i haven't smoked my equipment here for 30 years it is burned and then it is already painted with paints, well, this is my soul, these are plates - this is a woman who does everything there with tweezers well, there is not a drop of glue, it is pressed into the varnish, so they did not get the volume

a woman who makes easter eggs from grain well, she is not a master at in the world, who came up with this technique on clay, they know it somewhere in the 60s in the countries of the world epicenter new easter tree of life here i have a fish sacred symbol and in general to love the symbol of the tree of life here i have such a ee well, just say the tree of life from flowers when did this start your project but don't drag the first in i had a tree of life made of poppies, matia as a symbol of our fallen soldiers. my wife and i lived here two weeks ago, and it was very scary in the area where we live. let's say that the radius was about 100 m. there were five or six flights

and the windows knocked out the light. there was no light. and we didn’t go around with flashlights for a very long time. i didn’t sleep on a folding bed. the woman slept there. there was an air mattress on it. there’s even a raft to the point that we have a horn here . it ’s not just a pioneer’s throat . well, it's like that. well, i really like it i like to make jugs, because if miniatures are like that, you know. well, ukrainian privitism is like that. yes, they go for salt and chumaks and the village is a support , well, 150 kilograms in my hands. i changed many professions during my life. i worked as an engineer , dj, worked on television in

the radio department , opa woman. they left with the woman because mayakovsky is coming to us, at first i sold her work, and then i started doing more and more of my work, here we came so that my back wouldn't hurt, here is where the fountain is inserted, it works, she wants to come here and listen to the sound of the water, what patriotic music is good, well, i’ll say it. somewhere from the mid-90s until today. we are engaged in folk art when i work in the square. well , somehow, when we exhibit there, yes, people

come to see what i do. what is it not just no resale of some kind and even often. people come with their children and ask to be taught. when a craftsman sells his work himself, it is completely different than when a man who sits and sells your products says, “this is the price, why is it so big? it’s an idea. and you have to pay for an idea.” i.e. every year i held master classes on piesankarst, both traditionally and not so much. when the lockdown happened, of course, this did not happen, but the day before the day before, it somehow happened. a bright thread like this fell on my whims. this untethered project appeared and each easter egg revealed exactly that period. when it was done

, it appeared in the style of maria priymachenko . that is, it is exactly when we remember that the museum of maria priymachenko was burned down, and this is ours national pride and that's why i have such motives, such a king is a beast, which well, he is not like what mary has. it's just an inspiration against the background of the universe, only such where , oh , there are trees. that's all, that's all. what's so much? some girl stood looking at your work. i say, girl, do you like this work? yes, i'll give you a gift and the road is straight with the same forehead, and he immediately calms down

even more and goes out. first, we do volunteering and then go somewhere. i really want my hometown. although i don't condemn people who leave for girls with, er, grandfather, small children. well, their choice should be protected after everyone has left. i almost remained one of the examples in the city of zaporizhzhia when the war started when there was a panic, people ran and bought food. thank god we didn't give up at that moment, all this, even though they enter your territory, violate your borders, and then something like this initiation happens in our country. something happened in our country during

the war. that to protect one's own, they even handed out weapons. there were so many people near the circus. i already looked there and understood that they will not give zaporizhzhia, they will give it to our city . you should not think that someone owes you something. i believe that the greatest happiness in life is when a person earns a living by doing what he likes, where is it realized , where is this god's spark that is in him, it has its continuation for me. an army alone without war aviation

will not defeat the karasenkovs or whatever he says there. that all the aviation was destroyed, i can tell him to deny it in us and it happened more to you, how did you manage to save the planes, my goals are needed , they were boiling, what is the value of this task to the enemy, they will lose, as it is written in them, to the people, how it happens with a big difference, there is no level of tension, one is wrong movement and you can bury yourself in the ground. what are the feelings? the main people will be very surprised by the kyiv area. when passing through one of the clouds, lightning struck him. how does this happen? we try not to be high. to rise for some reason, we are planning heights, we are afraid yevhen bulatsak - ukrainian air force pilot, first class, commander of the seventh brigade of tactical aviation, petro franka, since the beginning of the russian-ukrainian war in 2014, he has flown more than 50 combat sorties

as the commander of the su-24m crew after a full-scale invasion, continues to fly in combat, in particular took part in the rescue operation from azov , the bombed-out city of kherson region , full knight of the order for courage awarded with the cross of military merit by the order of bohdan khmelnytskyi of the third and second degree, you so sensitively when you walked to the meeting, touched the plane, introduce it, this is our legendary su-24 modification of the bomber designed to destroy the enemy's ground surface equipment, its defensive lines, as well as important military-industrial state and facilities both on water and and on the ground you look at them with love this is my life in flight work for 24

years you talk to your plane yes what are you saying how do you say hello how does it happen just coming even so hello friend come on let's fly there today. for example, after the flight. thank you for a good flight. have you had any scary situations like this? well, that's all. it's all backwards and you see how the fuel is running out, that it's leaking somewhere, and you still have a long way to go. no, he made it, we still had a fire again 3 km from the airfield, but even then, he allowed us to sit down and made it, then we completed the task and we’re still flying for a long time on this plane, so many

flights have already been flown, and everything still works reliably and ensures the rescue of the crews in any situations as far as it is in his power, we owe it to him even if missiles hit him , it gives the opportunity to return to the airfield or escape, that's why we love this car in 2014, when you made a flight and a missile hit your side, it such a situation was how did you fly we have such situations and this machine withstood and we flew for almost 300 km and completed the landing . she allowed it to be done, what is the purpose of this task to the enemy at this moment, the goal was the extreme road that had not yet been taken into the ring sloviansk and when we brought the photos of the video shooting, they were hit, and the next day or so. two days later, they were released

, the release of sloviansk was announced. on july 5 , there were other different incidents that cannot be explained, but the crew returned alive and whole , not the lord to us that's why oh, in the distant ninth or 10th year, for example, the plane usually performs tasks for combat use at the povodsk range, when passing through one of the clouds, it was hit by a close-range missile on the plane , the radio-electronic equipment failed, but the engines were working. the crew made a decision to return to the airfield. when they returned, they sat down and turned off the plane. after that, we couldn't start it. the cables were re-soldered. all these cables burned out. we don't know how all the engines in this one didn't fail in the air, but he drove the crew home how important reliability is and

due to which we have a pilot , this is our engineering and technical staff, this is the people who serve him, look at them, prepare for departure, work on them and carry out regulations i am personally proud of our personnel, who in a short period of time were able not only to prepare the planes for flights, but also to restore such a number of planes that we did not have even before vinnytsia in 2014. konasenkov or how is he there? he tells that the entire aviation was destroyed, i can tell him