during the pain of war, sadness, suffering and tears, we so need a sign that the lord god is with us, on our side, in the holy scriptures, such a sign that god is with us is the birth of a child, and here we celebrate the birth of christ, the birth in the human body of god himself. whom the prophet isaiah calls the prince of peace, a wonderful counselor, god is with us on the feast of christmas. i wish you all a merry christmas, a good christmas, a blessed, happy, victorious new year for all of us. the war created many challenges for us.

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disabilities of ukraine enable me ucraine. christ is coming, dear tv viewers, so what, the big christmas broadcast of the tv channel in rozpala. we inform about all the most important things, now we are adding a priest, father oleh kryshtal, a military chaplain, junior lieutenant of the chaplain service of the first separate brigade. glory to ukraine, father, christ is born. glory to the heroes, we praise him. well that almost all the christian denominations of ukraine have united in one, well at least the new julian calendar has united all ukrainians, so there remains a small part of people who try to adhere to the old tradition, which in particular is supported by the moscow patriarchate, but we would like to ask you first of all about the feeling of this of religious ecclesiastical unity, in fact.

first of all, i congratulate all ukrainians, i congratulate our soldiers, i congratulate those who reserve and allow us to celebrate this christmas, truly in peaceful cities, i know that our soldiers opportunities, but also caroling their hearts on the front line, also recently returned from there and had the opportunity to carol well with the boys, glorifying god in those conditions that are terrible, but which, unfortunately, are now realistic within the framework of the war with russia. actually, regarding the question, i see that it was interesting to see how this calendar will be inculturated, implemented in life, and i see that ukrainians are actually a nation, well, a wonderful one, because without appeal, in fact , they switched to this one. european normal

calendar and celebrate christmas today like others holidays with the whole civilized world and society. father, oleg, but don't you think that, for example, it was this, you know, great trouble that united us, because we know that in general the talks about switching to a new calendar, they actually lasted for years, but it was the war, it became such a grove that ukrainians finally understood who they are. is and who they definitely do not want to be, what is your opinion on this matter, do you not think that in this situation, in fact, the great tragedy of our nation united? you probably see that every change that takes place in society, they are connected because of something, and even today such a factor, an extreme factor, a decisive factor, it really became the war, when we realized that, you know, somewhere...

we cannot live with the russian aggressor in one calendar, let alone more, ukrainians came to a historical understanding that this calendar, which is now implemented. it is really more correct and better for a christian, and therefore somewhere, probably, one of the impulses of this was also the war, or rather even a full-scale invasion. father, you mentioned about the fact that they recently returned from the front, well, accordingly, we would like to ask you about the return or conversion of our soldiers to god, we understand that... the front line, war, shelling - these are certain crisis phenomena, which extremely strongly aggravate feelings, well, actually your observations about how ukrainian soldiers become informal, but present christians, in fact

there are no non-believers at the front, as such, because in any situations, a person, even who, well, it is even. but i quote the soldiers who spoke about that, father, somewhere i did not believe in god, nor in principle, not fully interested in what christianity is and, but when you understand that a bullet does not fly into the head, but near the head, or when a mine falls near you 120 , three 120 mines and they don't break banally, and you understand that it's not just like that, well, i'm quoting the guys, and, therefore, in fact, it's obvious that there are different beliefs. it’s normal for the boys, because they have every right to do so, but really, despite the fact that a day as such is lost at the front, that is, well, ask the boys about at the front, what day is it now, well, it will probably be difficult for them to answer, yes, but somewhere this spirit

of christianity, it is in the heart, is being born, and it is very good, and they are in private prayer, it is not a prayer somewhere like this... public and private prayer they quietly find a certain such comfort, and somewhere a certain comfort, consolation, when things are scary, when you don't know what decision to make. father, how actively have you administered the sacraments of baptism to our soldiers now? eh, look, i remember, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion we always went to the training ground or to the front, and there they very often asked this question. these are the guys who said, father, i thought about that question for many years, but i didn't come to a final decision, and indeed such sacraments were administered, even such a significant event for me was when i was asked

to come to take an oath to one of the newly created brigades already at the time of a full-scale invasion, and there a man approached, he himself is from mykolaiv er... and he says: i am actually from crimea, my parents were jehovah's witnesses, but i am always somewhere he was a supporter of christianity, but he was not baptized, and it so happened that we baptized him the next day, because in a few days he was to be sent to the front, we baptized him here in lviv, in the garrison church. father, how are relations established, for example, with the representatives of the moscow church in ukraine, so at one time we remember that... military chaplaincy representatives of the higher clergy of the uoc mp. what does the history of the chaplaincy in the armed forces of ukraine look like now, is there no, well, have certain influences from the uocp remained, and in general, how is your structure developing, yes,

because recently there was information that some of the priests of western ukraine wanted to be mobilized by force. well, the first thing to mention is this law, which was adopted by the verkhovna rada in july 2022 and is a law on the service of military chaplaincy in the structures of the ministry of defense of ukraine, that is, it is the armed forces of ukraine, it is a state- special service of transport, this is the national guard, border guards, and indeed this law is currently in the course of such inculturation, implementation, has there are many challenges, but still there are... there are many priests who are currently junior lieutenants of the chaplaincy service and fulfill their service as military personnel, ee, as far as the moscow patriarchate is concerned, it is prohibited by law, that is, in

the structures of the ministry of defense, the priests of the moscow patriarchate cannot be a priori, it is interesting to find out and know this, nevertheless. we know that there are still many thousands of churches of the moscow patriarchate in ukraine, we hope that this will not be the case for a long time, and we thank you very much and all military personnel and all military chaplains for. mental and emotional support of our servicemen and we congratulate you once again on the holiday of the birth of christ, father oleg kryshtal, military chaplain, junior lieutenant of the chaplain service of the first separate brigade of the state special service was in touch with us and we talked about our own celebration of christmas already according to the new calendar and about military chaplaincy in ukraine as such, we have a few minutes break and after that we will add to our broadcast. also a competent person in this matter, ethnologist, she and i will tell more and

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positions, the left bank of the dnieper. there are our fighters, yes, who are fighting. in extremely difficult conditions, well, we continue our broadcast and add elena sherban, ethnologist, doctor of historical sciences, who is actually ready to share with us all the interesting and interesting facts about the ukrainian christmas, mrs. elena, we congratulate you, christ was born, let's praise him, you have such a very interesting outfit, tell our viewers right away, perhaps, what it's all called, and why you appeared on our airwaves today. such an appearance , i think it would be interesting to know both for us and for our viewers, thank you for such a question, i am a young lady, that is, i am a woman, not a virgin, and that is why i enter in a headscarf, i am not only wearing a headscarf today, today i am wearing festive handkerchiefs, because today is a holiday, christmas, that's why i still stuttered, because i wanted to be in the group

of carolers, as it should be today, but how much in... ukraine is at war, then i am just to myself at home, allegedly, allegedly, i am a carol singer, and that is why i am in this form today and on the air, anna is a star in the sky, so we are caroling right now in our homestead, in normal peaceful times, when, when it was possible to do it, today i personally don't have much of an urge to carol, although i scroll through all the carols in my head and wish that a carol would sound over ukraine. yes, because it also dispels negativity and drives the enemy away from us. mrs. olena, if we talk about attempts to reconstruct those true ukrainians traditions somewhere in the 16th-17th century, possibly even earlier. we would like to ask you how it can be recreated, what can be

recreated and what could not be recreated, maybe there were some very interesting rites during the middle ages. thank you for such a beautiful question and i will disappoint you a little, mr. presenter , but i will not tell you anything about the middle ages, it is the cossack period, what we know about it, i am an ethnologist, our sources are sources recorded by ethnographers, and ukrainian ethnography is quite young science, half of the 19th century, and i... i'll tell you a secret, that, unfortunately, ukrainians today do not know much about the traditions, at least of the end of the 19th century, at least of the 20th century, in particular regarding the evening holidays, regarding christmas, and we will still look into the middle ages, to start, but there is a way out, and you can start right now by asking

at mom, at dad, and it will also be possible that there is such a lack of information. mation, it will all be there, you can ask your grandmother and grandfather, or even better, you see, right on the screen and the father throws a corner, who about this tradition, this tradition keeps and knew, this custom, to throw a corner to the ceiling and count the grains of tamak and the honey that has stuck there, this will later symbolize fertility for the whole year, although according to this tradition , grandmothers, not grandfathers, knew, and even if you knew great-grandmothers, not great-grandfathers, maybe we will get to the middle ages. because there must be sources in which it is recorded that cossacks, like tukutyuva, like ethnographers, i will tell you, we study history, traditions. of our own kind, and we scientists will analyze with joint efforts and maybe do it together with historians and very folklorists,

ethnolinguists, then we will make this excursion, because, unfortunately, i am not competent in the topic of tradition and reconstruction of the middle ages, this is a little not for me, ms. elena, for me today i have to wear a star, go to my parents , to my grandmothers, oh, i'm sorry, to carol, well, so that - human, scooter. with a good bonfire with honey, with kolache, with spring wheat, who knows the ritual bread that specifically celebrates the evening, well, few people, unfortunately, this is my personal observation, i want to be wrong. ms. olena, i would like to ask you something, because now i personally notice that a lot of ukrainians are actually now discovering for themselves what the holy evening is, what the 12 dishes are, kuttia, for many of our compatriots it is not theirs at all. such christmas eves are traditional, and they don't know much about it, but for example in galicia, where i was born, where i grew up, i always remember how there always had to be 12 lean dishes at home, there was no alcohol on

the table, so that it was accepted that it should be so very modest and the fast was still going on, how is it generally correct, let's say, to celebrate a holiday-evening, can there be any meat dishes, because we know that some ukrainians set the table and there are dairy ... and meat, please tell me, you put accents very, very well, you answered your own question, really galicians salute you for that, that you preserved a little more and a lot more this tradition of the spirit of christmas, when the family gathered for the holidays, and this is your tradition, i hear this very often from colleagues, from acquaintances, from everyone in our part of ukraine , transdnieper region... we are from russia , we have been for a long time, unfortunately, and this must be recognized, accepted, and we must get rid of it, on it's a pity, christmas

and new year's day were not celebrated very much, you talked about the holy evening about the fasting day, because it was fasting yesterday, but it ended yesterday, and there really should have been a fasting meal on the table, there should not have been any talk of alcohol, i i'm lucky, because i'm from a farm near dikanka, and my grandmother maria taught me, just like you, halychanka, to honor the holy supper, to honor, our family wasn't exactly so pious, bow down, as they say, in the church very they didn't beat, they respected the priests very much, well, i say it as it is, but the holy supper and the main one sanctity, which i carry all my life, is the meeting of a person with a person, that is, also with relatives, this is our legitimate time to see each other, and how about you, and especially now it was actualized in times of war, and you put the emphasis correctly, people became wondering how the price was... but christmas and christmas eve, it really is a family holiday, it is what brings together the young, the old and those who are not there, as shevchenko said, both the dead and the

unborn, everyone is here, everyone at the table, and we will remember in our family who was who, and who how prepared that holy dinner, and with which guests we went to each other, and how it was, and how we are today, and what we will pass on as an inheritance, and all this should be in the presence of children, in the presence of the family, at the fasting table. and of course without this taboo , alcoholic beverages are taboo, why are they here, they are not here, i am the one who will say that it was imposed by the eastern neighbors and deliberately imposed, they blasphemed with it, including holidays, and we must this sanctity after all, wash, clean and, and she is in the soul, she is in the heart, you don’t have to go far, but panel, we just saw the corner on the table, well, you are like in ethnology i would like to ask, what is the best way to cook a cat? so-called kutya or dry, the most correct kutya for you and for me will be the one that my great-grandmother prepared and told my grandmother, my mother’s grandmother, it can be

thin for me, and it can be thick for you, i won’t blame myself to take this super responsibility and say that you should cook only thick, because you can make any, any thick, liquid by pouring it with a concoction, who likes it, there is no arguing about tastes, the most correct, the most correct. shakutya is the one your mother used to cook for you, read a prayer at the same time, honored the evening star, my father put my grandfather to sleep, and my mother in a new pot, because this is exactly the topic of my research, earthenware in the culture of food, prepared a corner, my mother said, kutya is ready to stare out her eyes, and in my family, that is, boiled, and in my family, here is a well-boiled kutya, in my family, the correct kutya, when it is thick, we add a lot of honey, a lot of poppy seeds, a lot of ... nuts, because these are the bounties of our house, our estates, we always had plenty of it, we didn't we even put raisins in the corner, we can flavor it with dried fruits from the mixture, that's what i did.

my grandmother maria, i also do that, and it’s a habit , it’s very tasty, and my children will do it that way, because i will teach them to do it, so the most correct kutya, which is on the table and with whom to eat, may god grant ukrainians to there was someone to cook that kutya, because at the moment not everyone tastes it, well, you understand, but by the way, you mentioned that children need to be blinded like this, but if we are talking about adult ukrainians who were not brought up like that, do you think not late, let's put it this way now for... to reveal to myself all the traditional celebrations of ukrainian christmas, the real ukrainian christmas, and what do you think, can we, as journalists, perhaps as a state, conduct our information policy in order to reach all ukrainians as much as possible, who may not have known what a traditional ukrainian christmas looks like, they still knew about it, and already this is the right kind of our native people passed it on to their generations, like you today,

who make my heart happy with your questions, you already give the answers yourself, just that is yours work and our work - popularization , the wider the popularization, the better, the wider the pr campaign of our kryvyi rih carol, and who among us has heard it so beautifully and often, almost no one, it should be popularized, talked about, well, only today, if it is honestly known already on december 25, if we talked about it with you at least on december 19, 18, in november we were preparing people, we will definitely do it next year. so the role of the state will be put in the first place, in the priority, the most priority place ukrainian traditional culture, and we will create it later new, latest, modern, then ours will be some kind of, well, some additions, but everything must start from the family, everyone asks in his own way, we exchange information, our eternal symbols rule the world, our eternal grandfather

, sneb, zbizha, in we are growing, ours is a spider there , the same kutya, in a pot or in a mist, a thick row, caroling is a must, honor, family, honor, child, bring the same dinner to the elders, the elders will treat the little children, give it aunt, we will find a good firewood, give grandma or aunt a fiver, or a golden fiver, that fiver not like that, that is, if you teach to respect yourself, we have no problem with that now, i’m not saying that you need to...reform, you need to be interested, and i’m dumb, but we have literally one minute left, we would also like to ask you to carol a little for the tv viewers espresso tv channel, your favorite christmas carol, slobojanska, our landlord has new gates, heaven has opened, heaven has broken, christ was born, the lord himself poured in, and the gates are new, and the hundred owls, and behind those...

tables, saints are sitting with pens, speaking with words, paradise has developed, paradise has developed, right christ was born, but the lord himself rejoiced, victory to ukraine, peace, let the christmas carol sound in ukraine, even in this terrible time of war, let hearts rejoice, let us live, let us live for our own happiness, for good, let us be fruitful, healthy, morally high-spiritual, and for us not victorious, i to you. because with god christ is born, we were contacted by olena shcherban, an ethnologist, a doctor of historical sciences, calling to you, dear tv viewers, from our beautiful poltava region. yes, and antin and i are already talking today, we are telling you, i already want to go and you understand, already this corner to try, and we say to you all, goodbye, tomorrow we will see each other in the same studio, on the same air, we will have new guests, and for now we leave you to celebrate.

it's christmas and andin and i are going to carol, eat kutya, so we'll see each other tomorrow in this studio, we'll continue the espresso informational marathon. greetings to everyone from espresso, i'm naeva melnyk and the news team will tell you about the most relevant events at the moment. went to the store and came under fire. the police evacuated a wounded man from krasnohorivka in donetsk region husband enemy shells hit the store and exploded next to a 60-year-old local resident. he suffered multiple shrapnel injuries.