[000:00:00;00] always lasts 547 days of full-scale war russia against ukraine and the day of independence of our state holiday of free people holiday of strong people holiday-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 for this we fight chapter of the state , first of all, he thanked the soldiers for standing up for the defense of the homeland and noted that everyone is important in our struggle, when we celebrate

the independence of ukraine, everyone can feel it everyone can ask themselves. 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 ukraine independence. and how do you celebrate independence day in our indomitable mykolaiv ? liza, i congratulate you on the holiday, so tell us if there are any official holiday events planned in the city anzhelika, i congratulate you on the holiday, as well as the viewers of the espresso tv channel , today mykolaiv was banned from holding of all mass official events this was reported by the head of the mykolaiv regional military administration vitaly

kim on the eve of august 22. however, in the mykolaiv city council, oleksandr zinkevich noted that the department of culture will hold all official events, mass events after august 26 , all of this is due to the security situation. we know that russian rockets are still flying to mykolaiv, i want us and air defense is working well . however, there are still cases when the russian occupiers are actively shelling the city and the rockets are reaching residential buildings as well. i walked through the city center and saw that quite a few people from mykolaiv are now wearing vyshyvankas, they all support the traditions of celebrating independence day, dressing up in festive clothes, etc. however , there are still not many people on cathedral street in the city center. there are also not many people, everyone

is running about their business as usual. there, uh, you can feel this festive mood because of everything, because of the clothes, because of the vyshyvankas. well, um, because of such smiles of the people of mykolaiv, because mykolaiv has been held for more than a year, people are working , volunteers are working, and so are our defenders, that's why it's such a festive day today in the city for the moment, this is all the information anzhelika, i will pass the floor to the studio, thank you very much liza for conveying to us the mood of mykolaiv, today 's elizaveta krotyk, the correspondent joined our broadcast, may the day be calm in mykolaiv and all regions of our country, almost 60% of ukrainians usually communicate at home in the ukrainian language, about 30% in ukrainian and russian, and only nine in russian , starting from march 2022 , the use of the russian language in

everyday life is noticeably decreasing, these are the results of sociological research group rating adults ukrainians who want to switch from russian to the state language can attend free language courses, they are organized mainly by volunteer initiatives in an online format or face-to-face how convenient is there a demand for such training, our kateryna halko admitted. ukraine has grown to record levels for all the years of ukrainian independence, the great war became a catalyst for changes in ukrainian society supporters of the phrase "what a difference is becoming less and less the number of those learning ukrainian is increasing, the first wave of adults who decided to switch to nightingale began after the revolution of dignity. and when the russians launched a new full-scale offensive of such people

, the demand for such people increased many times. differences, why it is important to speak ukrainian, they saw and in fact what happened in the 14th year was repeated in the 22nd year simply on a larger scale and the trend is mostly maintained courses for learning ukrainian languages ​​are free and in online format ukrainian from scratch business speaks ukrainian ukrainian for physicists and lyricists you can choose a course for any taste to master the language and start communicating freely it takes at least six months , experts explain, but the problem is mainly not grammar but a psychological barrier internal lack of confidence that not all antisurzhik has been learned yet, not all accents are known , people are afraid to speak ukrainian, that is exactly this type of student with a good passive knowledge

of ukrainian, but with fear, and sometimes literally due to the lack of communication skills in ukrainian, to actively use it is the most common type of students; teachers also call the lack of a ukrainian-speaking environment and motivation from society a common problem; you should not point out mistakes and suggestions to others and switch them to a more familiar russian, it kills desire and honors, it even annoys us in kyiv, especially er, hmm , it is rare to meet a truly ukrainian-speaking environment. even now, some of my listeners say i say i speak ukrainian well, it is clear that there are hmm some shortcomings in speech and immediately your ukrainians say one russian woman immediately start speaking russian and speak russian until she says that she is sick of it . this is obvious. it is very disturbing. an important driver was also the adoption of the law on ensuring

the functioning of the ukrainian language as a state new legislation ukrainianized television , printed publications, the sphere of service, and even officials were motivated by such demands to switch to the state not only at work, but also in private communication, sharing their teachers with experience, if document circulation is not conducted in your language, courts are not conducted, they do not provide services, they do not teach you according to your condition you do not have your own country, the demand for studying ukrainian is not only among the citizens of our country, from now on it is taught in foreign universities and applications are added, adult students explain the most difficult thing for them is pronunciation, but you can deal with it. this is the second year of learning ukrainian. well, as my friends say, i have already improved my speech. well, compared to the beginning

, i started studying it very recently. it is difficult because i have never studied it, i learned to speak the code word ukrainian polyanytsia, the state also carries out thorough work on the prevention of lincocide. initiatives are part of regional language programs, their goal is to help ukrainians learn more about the language law , to master the ukrainian language for free, to get information about passing exams for the level possession of the state language, support of gifted youth, etc., placement of the ukrainian-speaking environment, about the stability of the language situation in ukraine and about what a high price we manage to protect our

national interests thanks to the armed forces of ukraine. of success, gentle ukrainization is taking place successfully, the language of shevchenko and franko is now being studied by children and adults both in ukraine and abroad and on may 19, 2023 ukrainian has officially become one of the languages ​​of the document translation system of the european commission, now we are waiting for ukrainian to be spoken in the european union and at the nato summit kateryna halko yuliya belska andriy verstyuk espresso tv channel a unique concert by serhiy zhadana in the october palace combined poetry and music in the bird project gathered legendary performers who are inspired by the work of the ukrainian poet of the band braty gadyukina dead rooster kozak sisters mariana sadovska sisters tynyuk khrystyna solovya they all

sang on the same stage on their birthday serhiy zhadana in their performance, both well-known hits and new compositions sounded, the concert was a charity bird, all the profits were sent to the poet's fund, which takes care of the help of the armed forces of ukraine on the other side, and there is also a performance that some should go to in general and concentrate on this. i think that everyone they understand that today are not academic concerts , this is a screenshot of a large apartment owner when 1,500 hryvnias collected in your kitchen, well, everyone sings is already unique, that's why i think that every concert of his is unique and i think that serhiy zhadan over the years of his creative activity became

a kind of identification code of love for ukraine and deception without his lyrics and i see it, i feel it in young people, especially at this hour, i have everything lesya vakulyuk andriy saichuk more one of the largest manufacturers of tobacco products in ukraine in the spring of 2023 launched a program to support fellow soldiers-defenders care for mobilized employees is one of the company's large comprehensive measures the program is implemented jointly with the organization veteran hub support colleagues after returning from frontline help their relatives and friends. and the company also provided charitable assistance to the armed forces of ukraine in the form of products worth more than uah 41 million. we are preparing

to support relatives and family members of military servicemen . this is very important. necessarily and in particular on bringing e-e business during employment and even during e-e during regular e-e labor activity and at first full-scale war in the imperial tobacco company the focus on social care and safety of employees, employees are conscientiously paid full salary and other assistance to cover unforeseen losses related to the war from the very beginning of the war, the company adopted the principle of no layoffs and, to this day, we adhere to this principle, that is, not a single employee was dismissed on the initiative we also increased the number of jobs in general, and

in addition, at the end of the 22nd year, the company indexed the salaries of all employees. in these difficult times, the factory manages to maintain production volumes at the pre-war level and to provide even more tax deductions only in the first half of this year, the amount of taxes paid has already reached ten billion hryvnias, in total, after the factory was launched in the late 90s , 315 million dollars were invested in production, and even despite the war, more were invested in the enterprise almost 2 million dollars good morning, dear friends, we are back in avatar andriy saichuk and lesya vakulyuk, in this

studio we are working for you today on a special project of our tv channel for the independence day of ukraine the price of freedom at the beginning of our second part provided by seichuk, i want to thank you for the fact that you actively joined our collection and already added 15,000 to the amount we had as of this morning, almost dear friends, but we do not stop because our military needs us a more precisely, our military needs these platforms with turrets that will help evacuate the wounded from the battlefield and help supply ammunition on the battlefield. now you see the qr-codes in front of you, you see the card numbers and also i remind you that the qr-code is indicated on the left to the bottom corner of our tether throughout our entire ether. so please join the collection, we need to collect 1 million 760,000 uah, the start has been made

. in just one day, you and i have collected almost well, a little more than a day, almost 80,000, already 79,439 uah on our of accounts there are er, that is, we are moving little by little, but we still have a big, ambitious goal ahead of us, please join us, let's make a holiday today, if yesterday we collected 64 and a half thousand, then let's say that for today this amount will be doubled, er, maybe more let's make such a move and make a gift for our boys because they are for our boys and girls because they are the ones who defend our independence. and by the way , commander-in-chief general zaluzhny congratulated everyone on the independence day .

and the brave, where freedom and dignity have always been the key values. a free country is a fact , objects will be destroyed, enemy designs. happy independence day, ukraine congratulates ukrainians on independence day, ukrainians and our viewers congratulate to our youtube broadcast on social networks, they greet each other on the streets . by the way, i have already seen on social networks that many people post their own posts with congratulations or with thoughts about independence day, about the price of this independence, about how important it is, and as an illustration, they post a photo of e- e statue of motherland motherland illuminated in blue and yellow colors and actually now

we will talk about this statue we will talk together with volodymyr vyatrovych, historian , publicist, people's deputy of ukraine and as a novel, a zucchini historian, journalists and a former expert of the institute of mass information, a doctor of philosophy, we will talk about whether this statue will become after that, and in fact today it is being opened with the soviet coat of arms removed from the modified one, the coat of arms of the ukrainian coat of arms was scratched, will it become ukrainian after that , when the hammer and sickle have finally gotten rid of it why have you removed this symbol only now? we welcome you, gentlemen, to our matter and offer you and our viewers to see such a short tour

. it has become the highest monument in europe. motherland-motherland was opened in kyiv in 1981 with a height of 102 meters and a cost of more than two million soviet rubles . as a result of russian aggression, the question of decommunization of the sculpture arose because it has soviet symbols on its shield. on july 13 of this year, the ministry of culture and information policy announced preparations to change the soviet in we have some technical problems, how do we deal with this, with this statue , it's not just the same, and the plot about this statue is also simple, i would just at the beginning of the conversation with i would suggest to talk in principle about this, we see that in general this statue is the former motherland-motherland in the ukrainian translation. and now officially the new name

ukraine-motherland has been approved. it is actually being promoted as a new symbol of independent ukraine and the independence of ukraine by the current , in particular, the ministry of culture, information policy. is this a good symbol and in principle, are symbols important, let's talk about it then with our guests, just now, i propose actually to exchange ideas , let's start, maybe i don't know, maybe volodymyr vitrovych will start if you don't mind volodymyr good day to you, glory to ukraine, sviatoslav, thank you for such a thoughtful and undeniably important symbols. and actually , considering how important this small one is, i am quite skeptical that everything will be very easy to rethink and reformat. i am sure that this is a soviet monetary sculpture. the motherland will remain a soviet sculpture immediately even after the trident appears. therefore

, it is obvious to me that it seems wrong to make some symbols of independence with it, as i normally treat that some part of the heritage or past can be usefully said, but it seems to me that in this particular case, talking about the sculpture, which was created with a completely different purpose, to give it almost the opposite meaning, well, it is a little inappropriate, that's why i believed from the very beginning that it should be that sculpture the soviet coat of arms was removed, and this should have been done much earlier immediately upon the implementation of the law on decommunization, unfortunately , for a very long time we were confused by the part that it is possible that this is unrealistic, that it will lead to the demotivation of the article itself, and so on further here, so it’s very good that we did it, but here’s an attempt to attach a coat of arms to it. what’s more, to transfer to make ukraine a mother with it, and even more so to make it one of the symbols of our independence. i think

it’s too far too much. self-confident and that’s what well actually i’m absolutely also a word to you also say so also is he also an employee of the national museum of the history of ukraine of the second world war which complex is also a part of the sculpture er-e fathers of ukraine mother what is the correct name now it’s called mr. roman a word to you i'm on yours opinion is this is this a successful symbol? it seems that many people liked it and perceive it as a symbol of the new ukraine, which is at war with russia. i congratulate everyone on the holiday. i congratulate journalists . and the museum of the history of ukraine in the second world war, which naturally leads to the coverage

of 100 years of the war for independence, and the actual moment is the culmination of this struggle, one way or another, i do not agree with the thesis when they talk about that what it is a symbol of russian domination over ukraine, it is a symbol of ukraine's victory over nazism, to which it also contributed. and now when it is natural in the same way for many people , the motherland is being redefined not only with a trident but with a blue-yellow backlight that she takes a defensive position, she does not attack, she looks in the direction of moscow and says don't worry, i think that this process is natural and how ukrainians have come to terms with the monument to bohdan khmelnytskyi or the monument to volodymyr

great and eh, which were put by the russians journalists will perceive this monument in the same way, they will filter out their bryshniv fears and will perceive it completely in the adequate sense of the question and i am asking volodymyr there well , for me, this is not a very correct comparison actually with the monument to bohdan khmelnytskyi from khmelnytskyi or to volodymyr the great because in this in this case, we discuss to what extent who erected it and for what purpose. what exactly was erected , regardless of who erected it in memory of bohdan khmelnytskyi, this is a monument to the founder of the ukrainian cossack state , regardless of who erected the monument to the prince volodymyr - this is a monument to one of the founders of the russian state, the baptizers of ukraine and russia, so the comparative here is not very appropriate. in general, it seems to me that this approach is about redefining. well, to a certain extent, they are too daring because we think that by simply renaming, we change the very essence of things. therefore, even what mr. roman said as a continuation of the initiative to rename or redefine this sculpture

, the renaming of my museum also seems inappropriate, because in fact it is a museum of the great patriotic war, which is now overcoming the path turning into a world war museum is a very difficult path, i fully understand that the museum is creating infrastructure at the very beginning as a museum of the great patriotic war, and it is very good that its team did a lot to move in the direction of talking about ukraine in the second world war rejecting those soviet myths and stereotypes, instead, such a radical next step that let's call this museum the museum of the war for independence. it seems to me that he does not turn it into a museum of independence , even though in the exposition of this the museum of vroslav, for god's sake, a lot has been done and materials have been collected that tell about relative independence. i am sure that the museum of the war for independence will have to be a completely separate object for which we have to discuss, think, design, maybe not now, if you give birth if there is a lack of resources

, but not to move along the path of simple solutions of simple overpopulation, you, volodymyr, i wanted to clarify with you because a lot of people , when they talk about the second world war, and now we are rethinking our own history, well, who so much is now starting to rethink it, someone earlier eh and actually people say and what should we do with the second world war, ukrainians already fought eh against nazism and many ukrainians lay down and now we say that it eh soviet union was criminal and fighting on the side of the soviet union was not quite right. how can people emphasize the role of ukrainians in this struggle and even in this context, which you are now announcing? i am sure that ukraine should have a museum of the history of ukraine in world war ii. war in order to show all the diversity of ukrainians in

this war. so we absolutely must not give up the fact that ukrainians were among those who defeated nazism. we must not forget about ukrainians who fought in the red army. about ukrainians who led in the ukrainian insurgent army. in the ranks of the allies. so we must remember even that in this war, unfortunately, ukrainians were on different battlefields on the other side of the front, shooting at other ukrainians because the ukrainians did not have their own state and were forced to fight for someone else's interests and this should be the key message of the museum and all the memorials that are dedicated to world war ii , so it's easy to forget. it's just to reject the history of world war ii. this is categorically wrong. romanovych wants to react, of course. i want to say this is the situation when we see that in the construction of the first modern museum that can appear in ukraine, this museum of the holodomor has been reserved. the funds allocated for the completion of this museum talk

about museums for independence when it will please let him put it instead, let's use what we have, why not use and see what is there, there are collected materials about the first world war and the second world war, and so that you understand from the 14th year to the 22nd year e- the museum in which i work has collected 12,000 artifacts about the war in the east and in the crimea after february 22, 2022. more than 10,000 artifacts have already been collected in the de-occupied territories. in chernihiv oblast and kyiv oblast took this year called the museum oscar in london and i do not agree with the fact that we cannot

or will not be able to show this century-old war against the moscow invader in the existing materials, see as such a question that interests me also is that this image of the motherland is part of such poster art or poster poster propaganda from the soviet union i think to deal with it and it was very replicated a little bit in different sometimes national clothes in general in- in these republics of the so-called former soviet union there is, in addition to the well-known of volgograd, but there is no motherland motherland in russia, which is probably the original, because even its author is the same author who started it, but death did not allow him to finish it.

in tbilisi itself, the motherland-motherland was until recently the motherland motherland in riga , which was demolished. all the same, the problems of mr. roman in your opinion. i believe that since in many ways this monument is associated with ukraine and many people in the world do not know about the existence of the yerevan chilean motherland, people come here to see it very often , er, it is used in in various music videos, etc. that is, she has already become the image of ukraine within its current

limits . by itself even perhaps unwillingly, one should look at ukraine, look at its struggle and associate its ukrainian struggle now with this monument and also want to remind you that i'm sorry but there are similar monuments in the dnipro and in kherson, the kherson monument is a girl throwing a wreath in the dnipro a symbol of the resistance of kherson in march 22. so why should it be removed because it is part of the monumental complex commemorating the second world war, nor is it the main monument of the country , it deserves to be preserved and redefine so the main main monument of the country p. volodymyrech, do you agree with this wording? isn't this