[000:00:17;00] 547 days of full-scale russia against ukraine continues vet news on espresso in the studio of anzhelika sezonenko, the russians once again shelled in the middle of kherson , a seven-year-old girl was injured , who was in the apartment at the time of the attack, she is in the hospital, the latter with moderate injuries to the back, arms and legs, data on other victims are being clarified, he reported the head of the regional military administration, oleksandr prokutin , an incredible special operation, this morning the gur units landed in crimea. this

was told by a representative of ukrainian intelligence andriy yusov, a battle took place there with the participation of aviation , the occupiers were killed, as well as the equipment of the invaders was damaged on our side, without losses, a special operation was carried out in cooperation with the navy, it is still ongoing. at 6 in the morning , hundreds of citizens gathered on the square near the greek-catholic cathedral to pray for the victory of our state, such an event is held already at 10 a.m. until independence day every time location different but significant for the residents of the city, this year they prayed not only in the languages ​​of national minorities, but also in english, italian and the languages ​​of other

countries that support ukraine in the war with russia . amen, for the first time we were at such an event the year before last, a completely different feeling, completely different thoughts, today, today, it is full of pain, anxiety, then on the tenth, there is a prayer for ukraine, a meeting of the sun, a dawn prayer with the transcarpathian folk choir. every year we change locations, this year we have a location near the greek catholic cathedral.

very symbolic, because really only the almighty can help us in this difficult struggle in poltava mass events were canceled due to the tragedy in chernihiv against a number of symbolic moments , my colleague anna morozova will tell you more. today greetings from poltava today, as usual, part of the citizens of poltava and guests of the city are in their favorite holiday embroidered clothes, and some are in other patriotic clothes that are to their liking, as always, of course, like last year, to be more precise our e.e. poltava soldiers in general are having a hard time these days and the mood corresponds to what our country has to go through because once again our country is forced to defend its independence

. they help bring our victory closer, they also laid flowers at the monument to ivan mazepa in the morning as a tribute to the person who took the first state-building steps on the way to independent ukraine, and they also don't forget days and about donations, for example, these days they are collecting for our intelligence unit of the wing, which in january announced the creation of its own coroner in the sutila, and in particular, they are collecting 3 million 200,000 uah, respectively, for kamikaze drones. this collection is special because the participants can receive a flag with the signature of the president, another series of events that were planned these days were postponed due to terrorist attacks and happened in

chernihiv and the events will take place already in september. first of all, the people of poltava and the guests of the city are waiting for the victory, so this is independence day in poltava. today is the studio. thank you to anna for all the details. our correspondent artem lagu will tell us about it, he is currently in kramatorsk , i congratulate artem on the holiday, so tell me if there are any official events planned in the city for today. greetings from the studio and greetings from donetsk region to our viewers with the most important holiday of our state, happy independence day of ukraine, unfortunately, here in donetsk region, there is no festive mood right now, our viewers can see for themselves that we are now in the main square of the city of kramatorsk - this is the

peace square, there are no events, no celebrations , all this is due to the fact that at the level of the regional leadership, at the level of the military regional civil administration , a decision was made to prohibit the holding of any events on the occasion of the holiday, and this is not surprising, since in donetsk region, everyone is completely are aware of the threat and treachery of the rashiv regime, which currently reigns in russia. everyone understands that in the event of a gathering of people in this territory, some russian rocket or some projectile will surely fly here, and in fact, by this time , several alarms have already sounded in donetsk region. we also know that what in the last day, the russians carried out several airstrikes in the donetsk region , more than two dozen residential

buildings were damaged and one civilian was killed today, independence day in donetsk region , an ordinary weekday, people are working, people are working are busy with their own business and at this time someone is bringing our victory closer to the front studio thank you artem artem lagutenko, a press correspondent from kramatorsk, joined our broadcast and talked about the atmosphere of not celebrating in donetsk region on independence day, because the region is being actively shelled by the russians, meanwhile, lviv is the first time hosts the sorochyn fair, our correspondent kateryna oliynyk is there, she is with us live katya congratulations, so tell me what festive program awaits the visitors, what is sold to the craftswomen, congratulations angelica, greetings to all the viewers

of the espresso tv channel, the sorochyn national fair opened today in lviv. let me remind you that it was usually held in poltava oblast in the village of velyki sorochyntsi. but we talked to the organizers and they said that the fair had to be implemented because there are no shelters in poltava oblast. and there is a shelter in the lviv palace of arts will be able to protect in case of danger, we want to say that 105 participants are represented at the buzko fair, including folk craftsmen and food producers and institutions public catering, there are a lot of people, in particular, on the counters nearby, we see decoupage products, also lavender soap is sold by a craftswoman, and on the next counter, necklaces are sold, beads and handmade necklaces are sold, this is a brand from kyiv , in particular, let’s go further, again, i want to say that the selection of everything is very wide and at the last stall we see, original

ceramics are sold, in particular, hand-made tableware, and the entire program is full of very artistic events and concerts from minute to minute on on the stage we will see the actors of the gogol poltava drama theater as well as the churayvna ensemble and during the day of such events there will be a lot of concerts and creative groups from all over ukraine and i want to say that there will also be numerous master classes of the fair will last from today until august 27 and lviv residents and guests of the city can come here first of all to support ukrainian producers and also to be inspired by this poltava flavor angelika i pass the word to you thank you kateryna kateryna oliynyk she told us about the sorochyn fair in lviv, and then live the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi takes part in events

for the independence day of ukraine , our friends, mr. presidents, mr. prime minister, representatives of the diplomatic corps, today we are all together celebrating the 32nd anniversary of ukrainian independence, 32 years of continuous independence which will continue and which we will not allow to be broken and which the ukrainians will not let go of their hands here. in the very center of our capital there are many testimonies of how ancient

the history of ukrainian statehood is and there is no less to the memory of that unfortunately, how ukrainian statehood was lost, how ukrainians had to fight for freedom and independence against invaders, how our people always had enough heroism and courage, but sometimes lacked unity, how ukrainians had to fight against invaders, how, unfortunately, sometimes the invader managed to become occupiers, how they broke the lives of entire generations of our people and how ukrainians fought for their land and will for generations and how they chose their will, how they won, how they preserved themselves, preserved ukraine

and were able to achieve ukrainian independence non-stop, dear attendees, i ask you now to honor the memory of ukrainian heroes of different times with a moment of silence who fought for the freedom and independence of ukraine and gave

their lives for it , thank you, dear people, ukrainian independence from ukrainian hands we will not let go, we are all united by this feeling of memory we see what the ukrainian people have gone through, we see what is threatening , we are fighting against the enemy and we know that we know how to win and we will win. ukrainian children in ukrainian squares and streets will also

celebrate ukrainian independence. grandchildren will celebrate their grandchildren in the same way together with the friends of our state with the allies and partners of ukraine whom ukraine will choose for itself always freely and there will never be any pauses in ukrainian history again. break from the middle sell out weaken ukrainian power and there will be appropriate legislative initiatives in the near future we will protect our unity when russia invaded with a full-scale war there was not a single day that ukraine there was a lack of unity and therefore there was no opportunity for russia to use something

against us against ukraine everything now is only for ukraine ukraine hears the world supports the world majority with ukraine helps but so that this does not happen in the world ukraine must always be able to defend itself from our state for a long time there were no necessary defense industries and now they are, i thank everyone who develops them today and we will create more in the courage of our soldiers for a long time there was no experience of using the best world weapons and now our state gives ukrainian soldiers such weapons, and i thank everyone who helps us with them. for a long time, they tried to artificially

divide ukraine into camps so that it would be impossible for our state to enter the necessary alliance . ukrainian courage deserves to be only in the best world alliances. ukraine deserves to be among the leaders of the world and will be our state already guarantees common european security, such security is impossible without your strength, ukrainian soldiers without potential, ukraine without the freedom and work of our entire state, all our people, our common european home without

ukraine can only be an unfinished long-term development, and i thank every leader who understands this today in the morning address on the occasion of the independence day of ukraine . i thanked everyone who makes ukrainian independence so strong that it is one of the foundations of european independence . for whom citizenship is not only a passport, who works for ukraine and our people, i thanked our ukrainian teachers , medical workers, combat medics, volunteers, rescuers, sappers, firefighters to the police and energy to everyone who supports the spirit of ukrainians to our talents and to everyone who produces weapons for ukraine who provides transportation for ukraine who prays for ukrainians to our farmers of ukrainian businesses

who pay taxes and create jobs ukrainian strength is always in people in adults and children in everyone in everyone in everyone who cares about ukraine, about each other and about independence, and it is impossible to gather all our people in one square to thank, but today here in this square are ukrainians, ukrainian women who deserve personal gratitude and it is a great honor for me to present you with the state awards of ukraine on the occasion of the independence day

of ukraine . we listened live to the address of the president of ukraine on the posthumous awarding of the order of the golden star to major vitaly olegovich volodymyr zelenskyi on the occasion of the independence day of ukraine, and i would like to remind you that on the espresso tv channel there is a special project ukraine the price of freedom devoted to the independence day of ukraine for ukrainians this is a special holiday because it was just now that we are protecting our state from the aggression of the insidious enemy of the russians during the day on our air we tell you inspiring stories about a hero in modern ukraine, we think about the ukraine of the future until 21:00 above you will see an interview with a soldier of the third storm brigade, ruslan, a novelist

, a sociologist, ella libanova, a historian, serhiy plakhiem at 19:15 we are waiting for the live inclusion of vitaly portnikov from independence square in kyiv stay today from stress learn more about the price of our freedom welcome to espresso channel i am yehor checherinda we continue the series of interviews to the 32nd anniversary of ukrainian independence and today on on the espresso channel, an azov fighter of the third separate assault brigade of the armed forces of ukraine, ruslan romanov, we congratulate you , mr. ruslan well, i will say that your call sign is a bank, and i wanted to start with that, why is punk some kind of

musical preference, well, in order to somehow to start with some light topic, well, it started with the fact that, in principle, i was a banker by myself, creating two musical blood brothers, well, and by training in hairdressing , a letter, respectively. when i arrived for the azov battalion, they asked me if i had everything, i said that i didn't, they asked me what i did for a living well, i told you as ivan said. well, everything will be fine, that's without question , nothing has changed. you come from krasnodon , a town in the luhansk region, which was known throughout the soviet union for the novel krasne young guard . i apologize, do you remember your studies in

at school, when did you get a ukrainian identification card? after all, the young guards from krasnodon were still the advanced unit of the soviet soviet communist youth . starting from the fifth grade with the lessons of ukrainian language and literature, she was called our native language and native literature , the teacher herself was from the western part of ukraine , she spoke ukrainian and the office was , you know, such an answer in ukrainian she was so small, old kobzar, and there were two cases when drunken miners beat her for speaking ukrainian, she was a bender and all the rest, but in principle, my worldview changed when, well, it was about 15 years ago when i got my hands on the upa textbook then everything changed radically for me , the ukrainian rebel army, look at donbas, i still wanted to ask. i remember clearly on august 24, 1991, the day of the declaration of our independence, i was on vacation

with my now-deceased grandmother and grandfather in the city of the slavs in donetsk region, well, it's not far from the red don let's just say that i remember that then well, i followed from the very morning the deputies gathered for the parliament. they have to vote for independence there on the fourth day after the putsch. today everything should be resolved . it was obvious, but people like me were there there were very few people in slovyansk who were hurt by it, who were worried about it, who were in the context of the events , now 32 years have passed, for how long is this holiday of ukrainian independence, which at that time we thought that it just fell from the sky for how long now we have rethought it, and after nine years of war in the donbas, after 1.5 years of full-scale russian invasion of ukraine. well, how do you say? you know this. i think it's a bit of a difficult question, well, for me personally, because i, well, how did i feel about ukrainization

? in principle, there is ukraine, in principle, everything that is simply connected with the word ukraine , i felt like i was in a fistfight, there was an incident when i was riding a trolleybus, i still had a small coat of arms on my jacket here, and you can imagine a trolleybus , well, it's not a small bus, so evening three the drunks saw from the other end that i have a trident there. well, accordingly , the conflict began, uh, that's how it was there, in principle , if now they wear a vyshyvanka here and they don't even know the genetic code that's drawn there, then what kind of vyshyvanka is there, well, really were killed in the 14th year after the revolution of dignity, you ended up in the ranks of azov, so at that time it was still a battalion of the azov battalion, tell us about it, what was the main

style of going to war then, in principle, in a relatively peaceful country at that time, there was only one and how, in principle, during a full-scale invasion why did i leave the second time voluntarily, the first time voluntarily due to the fact that i was kicked out of my home illegally, i would even say violently, that's why i had an incentive and priority was volodymyr, it was to vacate the home in accordance with each year, because even during the anti-terrorist operation, i began to communicate more and more with people to learn what ukraine is, to learn the history of our native land and, in principle, in general , what our ethnicity is, and so on, and because of that understanding what we stand for, what i personally stand for but i grew because of this, there was a stimulus not only

vacate the house and, in principle, drive all this to you, you are their steppes, swamps. well, if you were 14 years old and you were still young enough then, as a boy, there was no fear then to take a weapon and go into open battle. no, you know, i’m just . maybe not then i was aware of something like that. well, i see films there, and accordingly, but films are films, as practice has shown, there are two realities when you really imagine when a film is being shot, then maybe i was guided by some kind of feeling, i almost don't know, it can take revenge simply for my native home besides, i'm a plus i chose the battalion. well, when i moved to mariupol in the 12th year, i moved to mariupol just in time for the revolution of dignity, so i got to know the football-related movement

. yes, they were the ultras of the mariupol football team, so because at that time when there was still a battalion , two people had to speak for you, well, they said that he is a really normal person, that we accept him to us, so that, well, without that, at that time, they still wouldn't accept him. at the moment i was just in kamianets-podilskyi and i was recruited by a milk company. what are you doing anyway? where are you just so and so? i don't know what to do. it's like something is happening. well, how should i sew there or whether to fight or not to fight? i didn't serve. well i don't know how to get a machine gun in my hands and take it there. how to hold it. what's it like? well, it's real, how it is, and come to us . i'll explain everything to you very quickly. the hairdresser, the stylist, who is there , first holds a comb and scissors in his hands, and then takes it

hands aka, what are the first emotions after that? well, the first weapon i had was the rpk. well, you know, it's very interesting. well, you're still 21 there, 22 years old, and you're still like that at events. wow, the blood is boiling there, plus there's brothers there, everyone there tells you so and so and so and so. you are somehow on the same wave, you are supporting each other. you just have an understanding that they will really cover your back . well, because of this, you know such family communication and such mutual relations, such brotherly, real cossack opivsky , well, there was no fear, fear is already coming after the battle, that is, during the battle, well, you are nervous, you think , but personally, everything came to me already after the event . that is, you are sitting there smoking, i realize that how did i survive? well, i read your interview, you say

about what azov - this ukrainian brotherhood and azov, ukrainian justice, why exactly justice , well, look again, now i would like to place it a little bit. here is the azov brigade - this is an ngo, there is a third separate assault brigade - this is the armed forces of ukraine. endu is the national guard. and accordingly, i am in the third separate assault brigade, he is currently wounded. so now let's talk about the wounding. after all, i am talking about this brotherhood and cossack cossack justice, what is so interesting? well, you know, i have been asked this question many times . i don't even know how to answer it. well, the correct answer is simply that why am i asking? because it is about justice in our society right now , well, there are questions and people really ask for fair courts, this is the first request of society, how is it resolved

at the level of a military unit? one is treated accordingly, that is, any unit is different in them, there is a different mess, i was in them, too, and in the ngu and in the zsu, i was in the marines . that is, well, the other units are the army, and that is , well, i can’t be there, but the armies of the entire soviet union he gives me a specific yes, accordingly, now there is already a change, when there was, that is completely different. and so to tell that we are some kind of justice. i think that we are simply fulfilling our duty, hysterical, and because how else from the battalion called it that for me it was so they took it from the best way to say it and put it together, and now it turned out something for the events of this time and when there was still ato well, and accordingly, you know me very well, set a positive note when there is not only engaged