[000:00:00;00] made of beads, different bows, different bracelets, they made something, they made proportions and sold it, and once the mother of one of the girls wrote to me, and we had a big collection for a thermal imager at that time and we gave out thermal blankets, we have girls in the village , who really want such grasshoppers and now they are collecting them for you for thermal imaging, i am transferring such and such an amount to you there, eh, and these were our first volunteers, we issued them certificates eh, and now they are mainly our friends, friends, children of ours, our acquaintances, our volunteers, about 30 children, average volunteers of the macho foundation in which, from four to 15, probably, to be honest, it is so inspiring when you see the drop

in donations from adults, that adults from...' enter into some kind of their own life, into their own problems, into their own work, and when you see that the children take a step forward and they understand these needs, it is simply inspiring, i will tell you one such story about the children who are included in this process, and i personally have a family that lives nearby, in the apartment, is a family of refugees from kherson, forced migrants. there is a little boy who he turned eight years old, and he is a first-grader, and he was given 500 hryvnias for his birthday, and he came to his mother and said: mother, i really want the war to end, but let's give these funds somewhere? our conversation even before the recording, we started with the fact that adults donate very little now, your foundation felt it, you say that other

volunteers felt it too? how much have donations decreased, how easy or difficult is it to raise funds now? you know, there is such a good saying, how difficult it is to be a volunteer now, and there are a lot of volunteers now are leaving this matter, there was such a joke even at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, when they said that only in the first month, we raked everything out of europe, and not even dollars were exchanged yet, but when people were very... included in this situation, everyone were scared and everyone was a volunteer, but now , well, i really want to believe that people still don't care, but it's just that the circumstances are such that it has become more difficult for all of us to live now, financially, but there is such and such, everything - after all, this is the date that

all absolutely volunteers say about are engaged in collecting funds, this is about february 24, 2000, the 23rd year, as it was the anniversary of the full-scale invasion , so all donations stopped, practically, unfortunately, no one can explain what the phenomenon is, but unfortunately, it is what you think manage to raise funds for the necessary things? we work with many collectives , it helps a lot, first of all, those who cooperate with us are those who know us, you said where you are known, what reputation means for a volunteer, that's all, the reputation of a volunteer is everything, because people will donate their funds, only when they trust, no one wants to be deceived, that's why the reputation of a volunteer is everything , that's why we report, we show the results of our work, the work of a volunteer, it 's free, you work constantly 24/7, you

sacrifice your private life, we...sacrifice workers' time, we sacrifice our children's time , in order to bring victory closer, because someone has to do it, you talk about the fact that certain sacrifices are made, that's understandable, because it's such a job, when you they call, when you need to find, when you call, do you have to refuse, for example, you get a call at night, or someone makes some demands on you. which you cannot fulfill, or maybe there are some certain inconsistencies, because different people are calling, do you have to refuse help and in what cases do you refuse, you know, strangers have not called us among our daughters, usually those guys call at night, with with which we have been cooperating for a long time, which got into some kind of trouble, for example, a car left 15 km from kropyvnytskyi and stopped, and there were such

cases at 2 o'clock in the morning. i raised mechanics we found a spare part for an oasis in the engine, and we repaired them and they drove on, well , it was like that, a mechanic from your charity fund? no, this is a good friend of ours, he is not yet from our fund, but he cooperates with us, sometimes they respond to some such specific requests, under what excuses would you refuse someone who addresses you, rudeness, by the way, i had such a situation, you gave such an example, you said that it also takes time from your private life, you have children, they are growing and also need certain... attention, how can you combine your work, you work, help, the armed forces and private life, family, children, we ukrainian women, we can do

everything, and you are not exaggerating, no, why, we are brought up like that, you are talking about yourself, if you you are talking about a section of society, then in principle, we can see various manifestations in society as well, here in tylovy kropyvnytskyi, we are being followed by... this train of the soviet past, unfortunately, when everyone was brought up as a gray mass, when all were equal, when all were the same, when there were no personalities, but from the beginning of the full-scale, invasion, well full-scale war, when we got involved, very active in volunteering, we got to know a lot of... people, such bright, you know, bright representatives of our nation, when you talk to people, and you see the core of them, how

cool they are, and you are proud of the fact that you are ukrainian, that you can, and we have such a cool network, but as long as there are people who do not care, who carry this attitude into society, which still drags them into this train, then ukraine will live ukraine will live forever. we have kropyvnytskyi has a very powerful volunteer movement, and in fact there are a lot of such active people, just maybe not everyone has so much time, for example, or so many opportunities, or maybe some kind of shyness, but if it goes to our foundation, it goes to colleagues, to others funds, what does this mean, one in the field is not in this means that there are still more of us, what would be the most terrible thing for you, or maybe it has already happened, as for the charitable foundation, as for the founders of the charitable foundation, indifference probably people,

you know when you look at that now it happens when donations don't come when you talk, it's just like that with average people, and what does it mean that donations don't come when you appeal, the meetings are going, but there are no funds coming in from people, this happens for two reasons: either they don't want to, or they don't they can, very often those who don’t want to, they cover themselves, they can’t with this phrase, but well, not everyone is blind, you know, just that week, i talked to one military man who called back, asked, i also told him for help , what's the turn, that's the situation, it's literally in a day, like returned from the front line, and he says, our battalion was broken, he pulled out who he could pull out, without limbs, there was still nothing, and

he says, i walked in the evening in the center of the city, i wanted to fall to my knees and cry when i saw the young , when i saw girls, when i heard... this music from restaurants, even when there was a curfew, no one stopped, everyone was walking, and he says, i wanted to fall down and cry, he says, because i just yesterday pulled out from under the shelling of his, the dead, the same young guys who would have wanted the same to sit and drink coffee, sing and dance, but they defended our country there. says: and when i apply now, and they refuse me, because i don’t have the funds, they say, it’s possible to walk around the city center in the evening, well, it’s a very big misunderstanding, if you say that

donations have decreased significantly, at what cost do you then carry out your activities, repairs cars, collection of first-aid kits, there are those who are with us, there are our beauties... people, our friends, the same collectives for whom they spoke, there are also really many of them, they collect, within their collectives, they get together, and they... they try to cooperate with us as regularly as possible, to provide financial assistance, there are those people who , nevertheless, find an opportunity, they donate less, but they find an opportunity to donate regularly, you can tell in numbers how much the fees have decreased , well , in order to repair a car, we are talking about tens of thousands of hryvnias, well , roughly 10-15 hryvnias go to one car for repair, but on average, there are different ones. there are cases, well, on average, they are so

broken, somewhere on 10-15. and, i announce the collection, i open it, take a picture of the car, explain what is wrong there, what we have to do, explain that every car is a surprise, that you remove one part, and there is another one under it, which is not visible, and it also needs to be replaced, a lot of collectives respond, well, about 10-15,000, how much, for example, since the 22nd year , a week and a half, approximately one car is being repaired, and now the money, how quickly, before it took a day and a half or two to collect funds, now the whole the period of repair, what i said, in 10 times, which allows you not to despair, ours strength of spirit, our environment, our volunteers, when we have an emotional breakdown somewhere, because we are also people, we also burn out, we have

great volunteers who do not stop, they, they pick up, go, forward, and you look, you you are also inspired, and when you see people who care, those who care about you, call and say, yulia, come, we have gathered there, we want to help, when you see that there is feedback, feedback, with people, about communication communication, how to contact the military with... you, who you help, this, usually help there someone in a unit, or maybe you have a different form, how do you choose who to help, and how do you then cooperate with them, we are on social networks, that is, anyone from the military can contact you through social networks, you do not have a permanent unit, we are not we supervise some part and everything there, anyone can contact us, absolutely , we help, they are all ours, all our defenders, they protect... you and i and the whole of ukraine, maybe they ask for

help again, of course there is , there are guys with whom i am constantly in touch, i don't know them, i know them i have never seen it, but every holiday, not a holiday, there is one in the hospital now , i keep asking him what is wrong with your hand, how is the recovery going, he says, oh, it’s painful, i say, bear with it, cossack, he says, but they don't ask me, well, yes, of course, the guys they helped, they even write themselves how your affairs are, our favorites. volunteers, is it possible to calculate the help you have provided in artificial or monetary terms? well, we probably already have about 50 repaired cars, bought and handed over about 30, another one bought already in england also has active fees for four cars. tell me how many tactical medical kits you send to zero. in a month about 30, plus or minus may... may be more, because some

unit may shoot, it may be 60-70, and this is constant help, which, frankly, is recorded by our doctors, very large volumes , in fact, what concerns the medicine , and it is seasonal, because the medicine is given in the winter, it is one thing, in the summer it is another, please tell me about this wonderful hedgehog, who throughout the conversation, he present with us, this is one of the characters that, well, it happened, since i already know how, i make them, eh, this hedgehog will go to britain, eh, you know that our people are everywhere, and in britain lives a wonderful a family of ukrainians, this is denys rotveliashvili, this is my classmate, his own brother, he works there as an itishman, and this year he is for... with the funds we used there to purchase a pickup for one of

the divisions, and two more engines for resuscitation two machines, and as a sign of thanks, one was sewn for them, and now another hedgehog is being sewn, it will be a girl, he has two children, daughter and son, and this will be a memory for them, and you yourself sew, these are unique handmade works , nowhere like this... there will be no more of them in the world, and this will be, you know, all the toys that are sewn by me, we say, that this is a winning collection, and some people who have been with us since the very beginning of our activity already have a collection of such toys. in social networks , in order to collect funds, you need to come up with something every time, one of the forms, as you have already said, is these raffles, and also, who is responsible for this creative direction, how to present the collection in order to influence people, brainstorming, we sit together in the kitchen and come up with some idea in order to encourage

people, to interest them, we try to present that charity is not only give, because it is necessary, you know how, hello . and charity can be interesting, so we also have such gifts that olya sews by hand, it can be an incentive, it can be branded cups, it helps to collect more funds. i won't say that it has a direct impact, but it creates an atmosphere, it's also a form of gratitude to a person, that we see him, that we celebrate him, a person can simply be with us for a certain period of time, we see all these funds that go to volunteer cards, and we can simply make some kind of gift for the person there, and just make about her post, note that here we see you, we thank you very much, and you said, you are meeting in the kitchen, you are sisters, and probably the last question, why is the fund called machok for

our viewers, tell us, because we are machok, it is ours maiden name, and when we from... already actually came to the creation of the fund, we have the question didn't even arise, but you know, a cat is a small poppy flower, and that's what we called it, now dad is very proud, and now there are already more cats, yes more cats, his department and his faculty and even the whole university, many teachers join to our initiatives, you know, it's so inspiring, i thank you... for the conversation, we talked about the machuk charitable foundation together with the founders sisters olga storozhuk and yulia kulish.

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is normal, like children, like a mother, i have more or less everything, well, almost, of course, that fatigue, of course insomnia. and by no means feel because the strength is here, inside us, and in those who are close to us, let's overcome everything, by all means , the war exacerbated everything, emotions became sharper, actions are the same, the best thing that saves me is long walks around the city, to my favorite music, and most importantly, as they say in our village, it's agro-fitness, it's not good, plant potatoes, it became easier in the beet parade, the main thing is not to sit within four walls, because then the slippers, i even thought about whether to start a flower bed in the city, and at least hollyhocks on the balcony , want to learn how to help yourself and others, go

to how are you.com, congratulations, you are watching public interview, my name is olga gerych, today our conversation will be with azovets for mariupol, who was held in russian captivity by svyatoslav the gray for almost a year. svyatoslav, i congratulate you, thank you for finding the time and opportunity to talk with us, please tell me how and under what circumstances you got into the azov regiment? before the start of the full-scale war, i headed in lviv, i was the head of the staff of the lviv branch of the national corps, this structure is closely connected with the veteran movement of azov, at that time i had many friends in azov itself. and in the 20th year he decided for himself to go to azov as a military unit and at the beginning of the 20th year he passed the basic course of combat training and began to carry out military tasks already in the composition of the ozsp azov at that time. and please tell us about the beginning of full-scale integration, where

were you at that time and did you expect exactly such a development of events? at that time i was in the village of yurivka, near mariupol. we had a base there. personally, i didn't believe until the last one, but i didn't believe that they were making decisions there people are so depressed that they decide to commit such a genocide, such a tragedy here in ukraine. we considered various options of events between the guys, i.e. there is an escalation of the conflict in the east, there is a really possible military deployment, i.e. it was clear that there would be some kind of escalation, well, i personally did not expect such a scale there, and we were ready for it, but we did not expect it in in the plane of thoughts, because always be prepared, yes, look further, whether it is necessary or not, we went this way, and when the alarm sounded, we were already gathered, ready, we succeeded very ... quickly, quickly combat formations, it is in my unit to go to mariupol and organize defense there. about the first days in mariupol, what

were they like? there, from the first days, massive artillery fire began on the left bank of the city, and it was clear that, well, let’s say, the main blow would come precisely from the left side, from the side of the so-called dnr there and from the border with russia, and absolutely no one expected that in general, it can happen that we are literally less than a week away from the start. their invasion, lock us in a ring, and we will be on the defensive in the worst, in the worst conditions imaginable. svyatoslav, tell me, please, can you remember the day when you were injured, what was it like? it was april 20, the enemy infantry managed to get into the adjacent room almost a room from where our guys were observing, they asked for reinforcements so that someone would come and clear the room and repel their assault, i was in this group, i was still with three guys, decided to reinforce them and on the way

enemy artillery fired, after which the two of us was wounded, we managed to give ourselves first aid on the spot, we crawled back a little so that, let's say, they didn't finish us off , because the artillery fire continued, we gave ourselves first aid, i managed to get to our nearest position and report that in general it happened that an evacuation was necessary, and then we were getting out for a long time, almost surrounded , it was enough... there was an evacuation, if it happened there around two o'clock in the afternoon, then i got to the hospital around eight in the evening, the defense of mariupol lasted 86 days, tell me please tell me directly about the atmosphere that prevailed in azovstal, and what helped people to survive in those conditions, and what were those conditions? well, in general, the atmosphere itself, it was on the one hand tragic and heroic at the same time, because there was almost no evacuation, local residents, if we, at least plus or minus, understood what could happen, how it could all happen, well, local residents in general

, they were not even close to being ready for such a thing, they could not imagine in their wildest dreams that the enemy army would simply destroy the city, kill very many of their relatives, acquaintances and, in principle, the civilian population, that is why it was twofold, and i can say that it is only willpower, character, its boys, managed to defend the city for so long, carrying out the order, the one that was given, that is, everyone was ready to the end to carry out the order, to defend the city, which in principle they proved. and about what the conditions were like in azovstalia itself, what did you miss the most there? the conditions were critical, because there were almost no reserves, those places where there were reserves, they were destroyed were overwhelmed by the enemy, that is, we all knew that every time food, water, and other supplies were brought to us in the hospital, we knew that at that moment someone was risking his life, because the territory of azovstal is quite

small, the enemy constantly has eyes in the air, is constantly under artillery fire, the snipers have already approached the distance from which they can work effectively, both during the day and at night, and every time we were brought there once a day to eat, we understood that the people , in order for us to eat, they risk their lives and not all of them returned, there were cases when the guys went out to get certain supplies and then their bodies were brought to the hospital or seriously wounded, and we knew and understood that, and every time supplies were delivered, we appreciated it very much, there were even moments when almost always, when it was brought into our bunker, everyone applauded, of course, that it was completely unsanitary, especially at the moment of the beginning of the negotiations and at the very moment of the negotiations, the hospital was very actively bombed, it was flooded more than once, we were dug out for 5 hours, at that moment in there were about 500 seriously wounded in the hospital, almost 300 of them were completely bedridden, and the atmosphere in the hospital was truly

terrible. the order to leave zzustal, when you actually received...' this order and how did you perceive this news then, what were your expectations? i took it terribly, because, no matter how it sounds, there is extraction, evacuation, as it tried to present at the time , yes, well, conscious adults understand that this is surrender, surrendering to azov as a prisoner is the worst option that it can happen for him, because azov has always been the main one an ideological enemy of russian propaganda, and how did events turn out, where were you then? then we were staged in olenivka, i was in olenivka for two months, we found out that there was a list of people who were going to be taken away, these people were already taken away, i found out when i got there, that these people were being taken to the donetsk prison, and

on july 15, my name was called in the morning, i went out the gate with the small package of things that i had until that moment and went, first to the interrogation in donetsk prosecutor's office, then through their local ivs and at donetsk sizo, where i was already until the day of the exchange. if you can tell us about the conditions of your stay in polonia, what were they like? when we went out, we were told, clear agreements, through which we go out. that is, it's three or four months, it's good conditions, it's some kind of connection, that is, to sum it all up, it's compliance with the geneva conventions, that's just compliance with humanity, so i can say with full responsibility that none of these agreements were fulfilled there that one aside, the only thing that was accomplished was that we got out of azovstal alive, that group , that number of people that remained, the mariupol garrison, got out of the zovstals alive,

everything else, that, that was absolutely a lie, horror, not true, and all the unpleasant things that are connected with the circumstances of the capture, especially for the azov residents, for the commanders , for the gunners, for those who had a previous background there and, it is not even half finished, that is, to date about 700 conscripts are still in the hands of the enemy or in the so-called republics, or in part, in part on the territory of russia already, and if the first months, when there are forceful measures from their side, there are beatings, other things, well, you think to yourself that at some point they must get tired, but they must get fed up at some point, and then the second, third, fifth, seventh month passes, you understand that they do not get completely tired, they will not get tired,

therefore, over time, the horrors of these terrible circumstances do not stop, but to which actually... the russians resorted to more psychological or physical pressure there, morels we were starving, dying of thirst, there were days when there was no water for a very long time, and this is the worst , because you really go crazy, you wake up in the middle of the night, because you dream that water is dripping from the roof, you go down, you start to slow him down, spin, because you think she is there, but she is not there, soon she does not appear, they started giving us her bottles of water until... that day when there was no water, and it came out at first 100 g per person, and of course, beatings and stress in that sense, it is not so scary when you are beaten as it's scary how you can hear your friends being killed over there in this corridor, and you hear their voices, you hear their screams, it's the scariest and hardest thing of all, during interrogations, other moments, or when you're being taken somewhere, when you start to say that you are wounded, they ask where you

are wounded, i say, conditionally in the leg, and they start hitting the leg. that is, it is better to show that you are healthy and to be silent, even if something hurts you very painfully, it is better to bear it, because it could have been worse, let's say, azov decided to roll with theirs by the law enforcement system, the prosecution system, in order to destroy both morally and physically, well, i couldn't even think about it, imagine that in the 21st century people could be kept so terribly, which helped you to stay there in such conditions... conditions, the fact that we were our own, almost always azov collective , we supported each other, because we all deliberately came to this unit, we all went through a certain selection, and we were united there by the strength and character that our unit carries when you came back from captivity, did you know, let's say, when that day would come, were there