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let's observe a minute of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war that was unleashed by russia. my greetings are freedom. morning, my name is oleg galiv, and today ukraine celebrates the 32nd anniversary of the declaration of independence. on this occasion, our broadcast will be longer than usually we will try to cover many topics and talk with important people, in particular about the independence of ukraine and about the events in russia, so stay with us and do not miss how ukrainians celebrate independence day in the trenches where there are no active hostilities and in the cities where rockets are flying, the main address of the day is what president zelensky will tell ukrainians and whether the dovov regions were safe . well, what plan has the state established for the return of crimea

after the deoccupation ? of the russian region was the head of the pvk wagner evgeny prigozhin , sources close to the wagnerites and the air force confirmed his death. however, after the death of prigozhin , there are more questions than answers, whether the plane was really shot down by an air defense system. to whom is it? to whom is the beneficial death of beauty the main thing, what will happen next , i have two suggestions for you today, the first write in the comments under our broadcast what does the independence of ukraine mean to you, what do you symbolize it with , and the second, subscribe to the youtube channel of radio svoboda in order to always be aware of all the important of events well, russian forces attacked the dnipro tonight with rockets as a result of the shooting, seven people were injured, and they were hospitalized in a moderate condition . this was reported by the head of the regional military

administration serhiy lysak. a dozen objects, a bank, a gas station, a hotel, an agricultural company, an administrative building and kiosks, as well as two residential buildings, buses and cars, as a result of the attack, contact trolleybus network water and lawns were also damaged. colleagues are already in touch with us in kyiv and kharkiv on the independence square , in particular, our correspondent maryan kushnira is currently in kharkiv radio svoboda correspondent hanna chernenko colleagues good morning let's start with kyiv, first of all maryana, what will be independence day today in the ukrainian capital, actually, will there be a parade , what does the government say, how high is the possibility of missile attacks in general, today in the capital, there are no loud festivities planned , no large mass events are planned

. this was reported the day before by the leaders of kyiv of the military administration . at the same time, on khreschatyk, where we are now , such a peculiar parade has been planned, which has been going on for the second year in a row here in the center of the capital. were neutralized by the armed forces of ukraine during the invasion of the russian army on the territory of ukraine. this is kyiv region and kharkiv region and other regions where the russian army entered . this technique is demonstrated here . at the same time, the law enforcement officers are on the alert for the entire force sector and call on everyone to respond to air alarms to go to shelter because there is at the moment, the risk that the russian forces will use it as a missile weapon or possibly uavs

. it was reported earlier in intelligence that possible provocations are expected, possible missile strikes ah, so they can be in a few waves, and in the event of an air alarm, it is necessary to go down to the shelter, and this can be repeated several times. well, at the same time, ah, i am in the capital now i see a lot of people gathering on khreshchatyk street, strolling, looking at this equipment, moving on, and also in the capital , state events are planned , which are usually not announced the day before. kyiv is still bright with a clear sky , let's hope it will be peaceful until the end of the day. thank you very much, maryana. maryan kushnir from kyiv about the situation there and how the ukrainian capital will celebrate the 32nd anniversary of independence day and the article in kharkiv and how will they celebrate and whether they will celebrate independence day in general. and how did the day pass, were there in particular air

alarms, missile attacks, because kharkiv is close to the border with russia and the region is constantly under attack, hannu, i promise you with actions, as it was before the full-scale invasion, but unfortunately, for security reasons, all the festive events in kharkiv take place , let's just say, privately and exclusively in shelters, none of them are announced. we will leave the big art events for a while after the victory, today there will be events in the subway, unfortunately due to the security situation , again, i can't announce them, besides, there will be

exposures, movie screenings already the day before certain exhibitions of symbolic sights were opened, as well as yesterday, today, i think a few more days after independence day , the memory of our fallen heroes will be honored and those people who are now defending kharkiv oblast and defending ukraine will be honored, and i want to say that we are really looking forward to seeing freedom square again these holidays, which we in kharkiv enjoyed a lot, are back, they were large-scale , big and bright, while chamber and symbolic in relation to the operational situation , unfortunately for the kharkiv region, it is a day that was celebrated by kharkiv day, city day celebrated flag day, it was under shelling under rocket attacks, and even today, on independence day, two air alarms sounded in us, now fortunately it is quiet, but in terms of the region and in terms of the day , how did it pass? vovchansk, we had several fires there, but luckily we have no victims, we

also have no victims in the whole of mykhailivka, this is again chugulyvchyna, a missile strike was carried out by an x3 x35 missile, experts already they installed behind the wreckage behind the cuttings was the russian army and besides, regarding buchansky , i want to say that the selection was civilian infrastructure, a medical facility, residential buildings . is taking place in kharkiv as anna chernenko prepares for the celebration there, radio svoboda’s everyman and at this moment kateryna bankova from odesa has also joined us. on the eve of the southern region , russian forces attacked with drones the day passed in odesa and how odesa is preparing to celebrate the 32nd anniversary of the independence day. i congratulate katya. i wish you a good morning and a happy holiday. this night passed without worries. so

everything is calm here. i am now near one of the symbols of our city, you see. behind me is the opera house. and i also wanted to tell you that we will have a large-scale magnificent celebration, but unfortunately, this is not planned for obvious reasons, and in fact , the celebration will be greatly shortened, of course, for security reasons i will not talk, i will only tell you that several cultural and sports events are planned, in particular, there will be a premiere of the film independence day, which was shot last year on august 24 in one day. today we will finally have the opportunity to watch this film. to the struggle for independence and the russian-ukrainian war and there will also be several musical concerts and there will be a vyshyvanka race, this is such a very , i will repeat again, a shortened plan because the war

is being waged very lavishly celebrated the day of independence, in particular, every year you organized a vyshyvanka festival in about a week, activities such as mass dictation, various master classes , exhibitions of national clothing, etc., etc., etc., etc. but it is clear that this year all of this will not happen, but i want to say that some of the traditional things are still being done. yesterday, the organizers of this vsfest organized such a favorite event of odessans and unfurled an 18-meter flag at the navorontsovsky lighthouse, so even though it is impossible to walk to the lighthouse now due to the safety of the situation, but still we it is quite visible from the city, so even until this evening there is an opportunity to take a walk and see ah, this lighthouse, which is dressed in the ukrainian flag. well, regarding that, the police have already announced that they will be on

increased duty today, in particular in potential places of crowding in parks on the roads on the coast at the roadblocks, actually, everywhere, and they also ask not to ignore the air alarms today, because there is a possibility of strikes, so i also call for myself in case of an air alarm, to be sure to go down with exposure. thank you, friends, thank you, thank you very much kateryna kateryna bakanova kortsenko radio banking correspondent of radio svoboda from odesa and we are already in touch with andriy titok - this is a correspondent from chernihiv andriy good morning i congratulate you i congratulate you valentin i congratulate all of ukraine on independence day everyone happy holiday how will chernihiv celebrate the 32nd anniversary of independence or are there any plans there are public events, of course , without announcements and details. and the most important thing is with the security situation, what the local authorities say, so look , i am now behind my back, this is

the chernihiv oblast drama theater in which 19 in august, a russian missile hit the city center. you can understand how central it is from one of my comparisons. it is as much the city center as in kyiv and the independence square. now we have the city center after the missile attack. it is like one big memorial. we have a lot of flowers that people bring to the memorial. sorry for the dead and against the background of this situation, we still had a day of mourning on august 21 and against the background of this security situation, our local authorities , the regional military administration, the city military administration decided to cancel all events for independence day, that is, they are not there will be no public events, the only thing that is traditional here on red square is that every morning at 9:00 a.m. the trumpet plays and there is a moment of silence with the national anthem of ukraine in honor of all those who died in the war with russia. this is the only such public event. traditionally takes place every day in chernihiv

itself, er, we do not have any independence day celebrations in our country regarding the security situation, how has the day gone by, what is the situation now , even during the celebration of independence day in ukraine, there were air raids well, we have as far as i can see, there was no air raid that night, and the area itself is a border area, and the fact that 70 km from chernihiv and 100 km from chernihiv is the border with russia, it is under mortar fire and artillery fire every day, and the situation there is just as restless, that is, there is no war there stopped hostilities there, they don't stop for a day, thank you to andrii for turning it on. andriy, aunt, corysment, radio svoboda from chernihiv , chernihiv, odesa, kharkiv, kyiv, how these cities will celebrate and whether they will celebrate independence day, they had the opportunity to find out about it

from my colleagues well, our correspondents, with whom we just spoke before independence day, asked the residents of their cities what for them or who for them are now the symbols of independence, so let's listen to the answers of our people, how they protect us, who protect us, our peaceful sky. i ran away from mariupol for me is generally gods, our ukrainian people who love their country , believe in their country, believe that we will be independent at last and will be very wealthy, we certainly deserve it, mr. luzhny, because he is leading our army forward and it seems to me that his political actions are correct, perhaps our military, in particular, my husband, my father, is a symbol of ukraine's independence, definitely only kharkiv , as it was fortified, as it stood, our state, our ukraine, which is fighting for its independence and

sovereignty, our soldiers, this is clearly all on them nadiya zaluzhnyk, because we are definitely very, very lucky with him. for me, the symbol of ukrainian independence is our ukrainian people, our people, because we do not know, and ukrainians prove it every day, and volodymyr zelenskyi is probably the main one of commanders, this is worthy, this is our hope, the will power, the opinion of each of us that we are one and that no one should lead us. i think that people in our country depend on people, on the decision of each person, myself and from mariupol, i only came from the front line 1.5

2 years ago, we started a town near donetsk. this is family, this is friends , that's all we had, and on february 24 of last year , that's all. when you don't hang from anyone, we are free and we want to live in this country in freedom, our emblem is independence how is our freedom who choose and now this is probably the most important thing ukrainian people because god, i am talking about this and tears are rolling in my eyes, i was just walking to the square now , i wanted to buy flowers, you just put

everything on it, you look at it and you understand that the only thing that holds ukraine is this the people are everything here, the ukrainian soul. ukrainian people are the most important thing. probably what keeps us together . well, we already have the opportunity to show you a fragment of the address of the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of independence, so please pay attention the peoples of great ukraine celebrating today a great day, independence day, a holiday of free people, a holiday of strong people, holy, saintly ukrainian men and women, all of us, to our state today we celebrate the 32nd

anniversary of our independence of ukraine, this is a value for each of us and for this, we, to every officer, to every general, to you to you, to the father of a ukrainian soldier, to the mother of a ukrainian defender, to all ukrainian families who in their actions have cultivated love for ukraine and the courage to defend it with all their might, everyone is important who survived the occupation, who held the ukrainian flag in the squares, who is still in the occupation, but holds our flag so that the occupier does not find it, who waited and who will wait for ukraine, who was wounded, who lost limbs but did not lose himself, and the most important thing is that we all did not

lose you, who survived captivity in who was taken away from freedom, but not will, who did not lose ukraine in himself, who returned and continues to fight , and those who will definitely return, all who proved , all are needed, all are important, and people and actions and words, because we all did so that when one speaks the whole the world responds to heroes, glory to the independence day ukraine glory to ukraine, i will remind you that this was the address of president volodymyr zelenskyi on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary, the fragment that we were able to show you to the opposition

of ukraine is unchanged regarding the return of its territories that were occupied by russia , president zelenskyi stated this the day before to the press - the conference that he gave before the day of independence , i have a clear position, it is precisely that crimea is ukraine, we are fighting for crimea and for all other temporarily occupied ukrainian territories , we do not exchange our territories for any membership of any union, the position that any territorial concessions for the sake of ending the war are inadmissible, the day before the verkhovna rada of ukraine, the verkhovna rada of ukraine also confirmed this on the websites of the parliament and the representation of the president of ukraine in the autonomous republic of crimea. politicians of ukraine in the field of de-occupation, reintegration and restoration of the autonomous republic of crimea and the city of sevastopol, this law is written on the website

of the verkhovna rada is part of the implementation of the formula mir zelenskyi, which should become the basis for ending the armed aggression of the russian federation, restoring the territorial integrity of ukraine within its internationally recognized state border. this statement is promised to be sent to international structures , including the united nations , the european parliament, the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe, and the nato parliamentary assembly. in russia yevhen prigozhin, the founder of the mercenary wagner company, was on board the plane that crashed in the russian federation , the russian aviation agency officially reported this published a list of passengers, among whom was yevgeny prigozhin and his associate, co-founder of the pvk wagner dmytro utkin. the ministry of emergency situations of russia said that all those who were on board the plane were seven passengers and three crew members. what is known about the plane crash , as of now, the plane took off from moscow the previous evening and headed for st. petersburg , according to the statement of the investigative committee of russia , he was in the air for less than 20 minutes

. there is no official cause of the plane crash. the investigative committee opened a criminal case regarding the violation of flight safety rules, the russian ministry of emergency situations was informed that prigozhin's plane had permission to use the airspace according to reports of russian changes and fell in such a way on the territory of the tver region that north of the russian capital, eyewitnesses managed to film the crash of the plane. it is interesting that the information about the alleged death of prigozhin and the fact that he was on board of the plane appeared on russian telegram channels unexpectedly quickly, because usually the kremlin and the state media of russia are in no hurry with such news. the plane was allegedly shot down by means of air defense, namely by s-300 missiles. also, the russian mass media voiced the version that the plane was blown up from the inside during the flight, some russian telegram channels , for example, ryadovka, and after the official

announcement of the death of prigozhin, wrote that the wagnerites allegedly gathered for a scheduled meeting and had a plan in case of the death of the leadership pvk, although the telegram channel that is associated with the adapted grayzon replied that it is obvious that if it is not worth publishing unverified information, bearing in mind that this information is unverified, it is worth noting that vladimir putin has no official reaction or statement from the kremlin or the russian security that prigozhin and utkin died in a plane crash. by the way, at the moment when the news about the alleged death of prigozhin appeared , he was on the stage in kursk to congratulate the russians on the anniversary of the battle of kursk. russian telegram reports about another plane that could also belong to prigozhin, and after the fall of the first plane, it circled over moscow and then landed at ostafiev airport in the moscow region, then telegram channels suggested that it was possible that prigozhin was on board this second one plane, but later there was a statement from the air force about his death, the crash of prigozhyn's plane happened on august 23. on this day

, exactly two months ago, prigozhyn and his mercenaries attempted an armed rebellion in russia due to the kremlin's alleged intention to dissolve the group. in the end, he announced his refusal to move on after that, the wagnerites were sent to moscow in belarus, where, according to analysts, groups of belarusian gangs were based until now in a field camp in the mogilev region, and we are now talking more objectively about the independence of ukraine and the events in russia vitaly portnikov, a journalist, publicist and writer , is already in touch with us. vitaliy i congratulate you . independence was given to ukraine

. primarily the consequence of the processes of degradation and decay of the empire itself, and even then we could talk about the fact that the independence of ukraine will have to be fought for if we want true independence and not independence at the cost of the former metropolis of the russian federation. i think that on this second day of independence during the war, we we must now realize how difficult it was for the people who created the ukrainian people's republic, who tried to protect the first ukrainian statehood on this land, and why they really did not succeed in this and held exhibitions and did not allow such a development, then, because we now see that both russia at the beginning of the 20th century and russia at the beginning of the 21st century did not agree with the possibility of the existence of real ukrainian independence, and they do not agree that ukraine from moscow's point of view can exist either simply as a territory of russia or in the shadow of russian

influence and no other position was invented for us in moscow. and we need to create such a country that would not look at how the russians think about its independence, mr. vitali , despite the occupation of a large part the ukrainian territory of the russian federation, in particular, the kremlin failed to occupy ukrainians from the inside, we know the stories of people from the occupation when they spiritually remained with ukraine, leaving there not only saved their lives, but saved for example , the ukrainian national flag yesterday we told on the air the story of a woman from mariupol who did it why did the russians, in spite of everything, and the russian authorities not succeed in occupying the ukrainians themselves from the inside? our compatriots with you are still in the political and cultural captivity of the so-called russian world, we do not know how many of these people there are now because the war is going on and of course this is not the best time to

express such positions but i am sure that after the war we can be shocked by the number people are ready to continue to broadcast similar pseudo-values ​​and it is very important for me, not that russia failed to do something, it is very important for me that the ukrainian state succeeds in becoming a real ukrainian-centric state with a ukrainian language in educational institutions, public institutions and on the streets, a state with a ukrainian understanding of history, a state with its own values , only then will we be able to guarantee that the ukrainian state will exist not only for ten years, but will always exist. the ukrainian military command is not in the kremlin, but how long do you think, how long will russia's large-scale war against ukraine last, and what

does its end depend on, the end of russia's war against ukraine depends solely on the political will of the civilized world, on its willingness to provide us with security guarantees such as those that forced the russian federation to stop its actions, a high -intensity war may not last so long there for a few more years, a so-called low -intensity war may not end at all during the lifetime of the current generation of the current generation of ukrainians, they will simply pass this war on to their children, just like the russians, and this is exactly what must be avoided , it must be avoided that war and death have become the norm of life in our country for ukrainians, so in principle i believe that if the international community finds an option under which ukraine receives security guarantees and an invitation to nato, as we have already talked about this repeatedly in washington , then it will be possible to discuss the possibility of ending the russian - the ukrainian war under any other conditions, the circumstances that may lead to its end or have

to be connected with internal processes in the russian federation or, in principle, are not visible federation, yesterday's events in russia with the incident regarding the plane that crashed. how do you explain to yourself what happened, because officially neither the ministry of defense at the moment nor the kremlin is commenting on these events, we only have a statement from the aviation department, but progodzhen died. does this mean that putin does not forgive traitors and those who is trying to assassinate him, or is it possible that this is a scenario that is played out publicly? i think that prigozhin was never a traitor to putin, but he became a sacred victim, but in russia , the construction of a totalitarian regime of a totalitarian the regime needs such victims who must convince the elite that everyone should either be on the side of the leader or in no way question his orders, i think that putin was well aware of the consequences of his demands on