[000:00:00;00] independence is separate on the day of its 32nd anniversary, 547 days of full-scale war continue, money is against ukraine , news on espresso in the studio of anzhelika sezonenko, holiday of free people , holiday of strong people, holiday of the worthy, holiday of equals , president volodymyr zelenskyy congratulated ukrainians on the 32nd anniversary of independence day, according to the president - this holiday is a value for each of us and we are fighting for this, the head of state thanked the soldiers first of all for standing up for the defense of the homeland and noted that in

our struggle everyone is important when we we celebrate the independence of ukraine everyone can feel themselves in it everyone can ask themselves and where are you ukrainian independence and what did you add to independence and how did you help independence and today i want to dedicate this greeting to you who gives independence to ukraine at night russia attacked the dnipro with iskander ballistic missiles air force spokesman yuriy ignant told the city of iskander that seven people were injured, six of them were in a moderate condition, they had lacerations and shrapnel wounds, noted the head of the regional military administration, serhiy a dozen objects in the city were damaged by lazak, in particular two residential buildings and a hotel. information about the destruction

is still being clarified . line online store informed the head of the mykolaiv regional police serhiy sheikh that events on the occasion of ukraine's independence day in america have been going on since mid-august in various states, exhibitions, festivals and promotions, however, the largest events are planned for today, august 24, which in america, due to the time difference, will begin later than the first full-scale invasion of the united states, almost 300,000 ukrainians came to the united states, how did they decide to thank the americans for their support ? she is in the usa

with her children alone with her husband they said goodbye at the ukrainian-polish border the moment when people say goodbye at the border he is probably everything life will stand in front of my eyes because it is probably the first time in my life. i saw my husband cry, he hid his eyes, hid his tears , but i saw and felt it, i help my mother , i try to help, but whose mother is coping? dad and i have a lot on this the topic we are talking about is that i should help olya and her children attend all actions in support of ukraine held in oklahoma, an art exhibition until independence day is not an exception, there are drawings of children from zaporizhzhia on the walls, volunteers turn them into postcards, sell the proceeds and send them to ukraine from the very first month, we supported more than the military, then we expanded due to the fact that many of our relatives have friends

who have suffered, families who need help , well, that is, we now help both military and civilians, similar exhibitions, actions, festivals and marches take place all over america, activists have taken up to unite the diaspora around the idea of ​​thanking the americans for their support, they prepared posters that were sent to different states, we created more than 250 gratitude posters for the united by grated project, these gratitude posters were received by 25 cities of the north america because it is very important for us to show our gratitude to all americans and to thank them personally with help. for the fact that they helped all ukrainians and continue to help ukrainians until independence day , we hear words of support from americans. ukraine ukraine has the same values, the same spirit as america, we are brothers peoples and i know that ukraine will defeat the tyranny that is currently working, glory to ukraine

. keep doing what you are doing , stay strong, fight for independence and freedom, we love you very much. congratulations, ukrainians let them continue to fight for independence, fight against the evil that is trying to take it away, even more strength, glory to the hands, glory to the heroes, and strength to the ukrainians , we will really need it, we all pay a very high price for this independence, personally, we pay the price of the fact that my children grow up and do not see their father , do not see their grandparents we are far away and this is a high price also because my child comes to me recently and says mom i miss dad so much i have even forgotten what he looks like hmm ukrainians wherever they are in

america, canada or europe believe that the next they will be able to celebrate independence day at home in a peaceful ukraine daria vershilenko behind the scenes for the espresso tv channel and once again i congratulate all ukrainians on independence day, i wish us as soon as possible victory and prosperity glory to the nation death to enemies his books are read by millions of ukrainians of his time he refused the shevchenko prize for the novel black crows as a sign of protest against the odious dmytro tabachnyk as minister of education, all this about vasyl shklyar, about the importance of humanitarian

policy, the fight against russia and our victory in he was asked by my colleague lesya vakulyuka on the espresso tv channel, we are showing you a series of interviews for the independence day of ukraine and today we have a special guest , vasyl shklyar, who can be called the author of bestsellers on historical topics , writer and public figure, mr. vasyl, i am glad to see you to see mr. vasyl, the second day of independence, ukraine is already celebrating during the full-scale invasion, is there a sense of celebration or what is your feeling about this , well, the feeling which is just like the most expensive thing what are we actually fighting for?

we remember this day, it contains this great symbol of what ukraine is fighting for and has been fighting for a very long time, not since 14 , even this war has been going on for 100 years with muscovy. century, at the beginning of the 18th, it became especially acute in the 20th century, we know this ukrainian-russian war of the 17th and 22nd years , so we do not know the 40s and 50s, what a long struggle. meanwhile, there were repressions, famines,

genocide, ethnocide and so on but no constantly felt this brutal attack by the russians, and today it finally started again. it seems to me that the decisive battle is precisely the decisive battle for our independence, which, in my opinion, gives ukrainians a chance to end this several hundred-year-old battle. we talk a lot about our defeats, but the defeats were also so conditional because i often say that we did not gain independence, for example, in the 1940s and early 1950s, when the ufians were already fighting without hope of victory, only for the sake of the idea itself, which would be left to the next generation

, just like the holodoyarsks, my countrymen. they said that the forces are too unequal, it is clear that we will not defeat them, but we will remain faithful to the slogan of the will of ukraine or death, we will leave behind an idea on our graves that will not grow, which will be picked up by the next generations and that slogan ukraine or death will of ukraine or death it was then it became clear to the people of bandera, you will win the ukrainian state or you will die in the struggle for it, it is the same because of that, of course, we do not celebrate this holiday without such euphoria, but with a deep awareness that this

independence is in our hands and we will not we will give it to no one. and you mentioned the long struggle of ukraine for independence and its various stages, and it is obvious that, knowing all this history, they know it well and not so casually . either they heard something somewhere or did not hear it , they knew the history. union much better than what was actually hidden by russian propaganda and 100% predicted that there would be not just a war in 2014, but such a big war of russia against ukraine, how was it for you to live in independent ukraine all these years knowing that there would be a war maybe by warning people and seeing that they don't listen to you to the end, they don't listen to you to the end, they don't hear to the end, it was somewhere around 10 or

2011, still under yanukovych, when the novel black crow was released, it gained such publicity, i came to lviv me, then vakarchuk it was aleksandrovych, the rector of lviv university invited them to speak. i arrived and the people gathered could not fit into any hall. lviv residents remember it then, not on the street in front of the university, the maidan gathered there , they said there were somewhere around 7,000 people. at that time, there was still horkova shukhevych, the late ivanychuk, your novels such iconic personalities came, we didn't make a presentation there. you can say that the rally is so anti-authority, but that's interesting

. when i went to lviv, hmm, i would have such a tour , many speeches in many cities, and comrade ganja made me such a poster. i told them if it should be me standing in the fire and chanting let's stop the occupier here, such literate, moderate people looked at this poster and said why are you scaring people well, what kind of war is the occupier ? aspen, well, on culture, there on education

, tobacconists . i say that, i do not scare. pages of our history, this is the kholodnoyarsk struggle , after that there was a novel by marusya, because of the female image, this is the rebel struggle in the central-eastern ukraine , so it is natural.

it echoes exactly like the bander movement, it was the heirs of our struggle, the rebels had the same tactics of battle, they were the same pseudo units, even the units were called kholodnyi yar in the upa army , we have such current ones and the cold curtain brigade 103 and in the azov tank battalion it was cold and of course i showed the tenacity of the struggle to preserve this idea of ​​independence, which was passed down from generation to generation . you are cold-blooded people there, they are a gray mass who are unable to even dream of their better

fate, they think to themselves narrowly, this is my house, my garden. that is, where everything was good, it will not be good if there is no state of its own that takes care of m-m about the citizens about their well -being about their ultimately correct thinking and so i gradually reached the present day i completed this cycle with a small novel the black sun is for the people of azov well and i say once again i did what i could do in my place and i continue for the people of azov this great war is inspired you to do something. how do you write in time for a large-scale invasion, when the news feeds are literally some

kind of constant obituary writing ? frankly, it’s difficult. first of all, i’m not such a greyhound writer. i’ve been working on a novel for several years and it’s very hard for me to accept a lot of things. more that the boys, my heroes from the black sun, have different fates, different fates , many of them are simple, it would seem that the boys have now become combatants, and that’s it, i will call them by their callsigns, their surnames should be known, they

are battalion commanders, that is, they have grown up they gained experience, although, so to speak, conditionally before this war, they were pressed, they were tried. i went to these courts on bail and asked to take dmytro kuharchuk there. you blindly say that i am today. i say that the war will start , where will you be? will go to protect you, your family, your children, your children will be in textbooks, read his name in golden letters, and how will you look him in the eyes and say that i judged him for what, because he went to the presidential palace there to raise the people and so on

differently, then there is such a mystical one amazing stories, for example, an azov man called me and said, "you know what the junta is, it's loud, it's loud on the ground , he has such a characteristic, but it's not a characteristic, it's not at the level of some fantasy ulcers, it's true, when he's this warrior, he doesn't tell a lot because it's still not possible, it's related to the capture. and here he tells me how he left ilovaisk in the black sun , and he says i'm running and i don't know where to run . i don't know this city. what run straight ahead, there will be a pharmacy on the right, you run past the pharmacy, there will be a kindergarten and then a high fence, as it says, i run and it is like that , and it is like that, i look at the pharmacy, and there is a kindergarten , there is a high fence, and i feel such

strength that i jump over it the fence, and there is a dog like that, says the dog owner, he is looking at me, and i already say so, i walk past him more slowly, he did not squeal , he just looked at me like that, he says that the dog was on our side, he did not bark, and this guy knows him very well, presentations, even black sun together spent time with the azov people, i went there to see them there, met in mariupoli, near mariupol, at their bases, urzuf yuriy, who suddenly calls me and says, do you know, he was burned in captivity in

reindeer herders, it was hard to accept such news , but after a while, a phone call confirmed his name, i so with trembling hands i take it, i think someone from my relatives wants to tell me something , i pick up his voice, i say where are you, where are you from, he says, well, you know that i can even get out of hell, he came out of that hell, and i will not tell you the details simple and long. maybe one day we will write it down somehow, a fictional story, a fictional story, again without fiction. i don’t like to fantasize a lot when it comes to too serious

things, that is, there will be a sequel, i don’t know, because i have several tasks. they fight among themselves , then someone wins and m -m, because now i have another job there, little by little, but it’s all recruiting, recruiting hmm, you are a best-selling author, and now i am huge, huge demand for ukrainian in the whole world, the whole world is discovering ukraine and ukrainians for themselves after a full-scale invasion, or your books

became more frequent to translate into some languages , if any, then which ones in particular. that person destroys words by coming there for meetings and communicating with a foreigner , i will tell you yes, translations abroad are ukrainian, they go in two ways, the first way is the easiest - it is for grants, they negotiate privately through organizations, they give money to them they publish everything there. i'm a lonely writer. lone wolf, what's the name of my novel, and it's one, and they apply to me only when the translators come to me . i really liked this book. i want to translate it. well , please, let's continue working. that's how i published it in

britain and before. i published things in portuguese in brazil, black crow, where nothing ukrainian was published yet, only a few poems by franko are published there, well, this is not about that , but about the attitude towards us. we have a special literature for it you also need to have a soul, just like the ukrainians and there were if there was such a closer communication, i had the biggest problem with the publication in german of the black sun about the azov people, you know that moscow propaganda did everything to create an image for them of such

extremists, such terrorists well and their symbolism, in general, the germans immediately dazzle their eyes, this sign is similar to the swastika, the idea of ​​a nation, ugh , everything and the nation . it’s them. the translation was ready, the translator did everything ready for printing and well, how did azov, well, and then the price of azov stopped, this drama just happened and these foreigners began to see through a little and as shevchenko wrote, i began to see through little by little, so they began to work little by little, i say, listen

, what are they extremists, the main character of black sun. he was a teacher of german . he taught your language. he is an artist. here was his exhibition in lviv. he sends them a video. here he is singing the mariupol aria on the stage of the theater. does he look like some kind of terrorist to you or something? it was a little easier later on denisa prokopenko, commander of azov, the appeal was in english, the guys are all smart or not, philosophers . well, this book was published. you remembered the times of yanukovych and remembered your meeting in

lviv, which turned into such a small maidan. and you said that then all the government was not ukrainian, not in ukrainian hands, what has changed since then? has everything changed since then? can we say 100% that under the government? different bodies, because now the ukrainians will say oh, everything is against the president , well, in power, are there people with a ukrainian soul everywhere, lord, if we all had people with a ukrainian soul, then we would have long ago built such a ukraine that no one dared to come here, where

no one would look at the spit, it is not the same as going to i'm just watching with horror how many traitors how many swindlers how much bribery i don't know and you understand that it's especially crazy that they are released under arrest you stole a billion you under there 100 million are released and then these people are unknown somewhere between in fact, they have never seen real teeth, and this is at absolutely all levels . at all, and the prosecutor is a judge, you understand that the more their salaries are raised, the more the appetite for this profit grows, here something must be radically changed, because i don't even know how

i was there is no other way to martial law and a death card. well, there is simply no rubbing. we are talking about treason at the highest levels. i am not a researcher, but there are many things i believe. we see many things with the naked eye, and the worst thing is that our state is not honest, it is not honest in relations with society, uh, the bureaucracy just runs amok, you understand, it allows itself in times of war, again , because of such complete impunity, what do you mean by the fact that the state is not honest with

people, what do you mean by honesty to do m- m to create everything so that the responsibility and this burden that fell on the ukrainian society so that it has a solidary god, you understand, one cannot receive this exorbitant salary. yes, we know what these are and another teacher from his last ones from that one a meager salary was deducted for the war . it cannot be like this. for an official to receive for