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greetings, it's news time on espresso. an air alert was declared in all regions of ukraine due to the takeoff of the mig-31 aircraft. it can carry the dagger aeroballistic missile. this is reported by the air force. the enemy plane is over the waters of the black sea. we are currently working from shelters and we urge all of you to also find and stay in shelters. deployment of roadblocks in kyiv. security exercises will be held in the capital until december 28, and will be deployed in the city temporary roadblocks , checks of transport and documents, as well as search and counter-sabotage measures will be carried out, informed the city military administration, where they explained that the main task is to improve the management system and control public safety in case of an escalation of the situation, also with the aim of working out certain measures for protection civilian population. following the cruiser

moskva, the ministry of defense admitted damage to the great amphibious assault ship novocherkask in the port of feodosia. however, it is not there called the degree of damage. meanwhile, according to the occupation ministry of health, as a result of the night attack, one person was killed and four were injured. air force commander mykola oleschuk announced the destruction of the russian ship earlier. he thanked the pilots of the armed forces of ukraine for... filigree work and posting a video of the fire in the port. the air force said that it attacked the enemy ship with cruise missiles with the help of tactical aircraft and did not suspect that the ship could have brought iranian shaheds. night attack of the shaheds, the enemy fired 19 shells drones from crimea and the russian seaside akhtar region. ukrainian defenders destroyed 13 uavs in the sky over odesa.

kherson, mykolaiv and khmelnytskyi regions, the southern defense forces inform. however, the hits could not be avoided. in the odesa region, the enemy targeted the territory of an infrastructure object, a fire broke out, in the mykolaiv region, a drone flew into an enterprise and damaged warehouses. fortunately, no one was hurt. russians killed a civilian in the kharkiv region. at night, the rashists shelled the village with artillery. an enemy projectile hit nearby to a private house, reports the state emergency service. there was a fire. during the extinguishing, firefighters discovered the body of a man who lived in this house. shelling of critical infrastructure. the russians shelled a mine in donetsk region. the company is out of power. people are brought to the surface - reported in the profile. the ministry,

the enemy also hit the energy infrastructure in the chernihiv region, 20 settlements remained without electricity. the usa attacked hezbollah facilities in iraq in response to the attack on american bases. about this said the statement of the secretary of defense of the united states, lloyd austin. in particular, it is about a recent attack. terrorists to the american base in erbil. according to the head of the pentagon, such american retaliatory strikes are aimed at undermining and weakening the capabilities of iran-linked militants who are directly responsible for these attacks. thoughts that fell on paper - this is the first collection of documentary stories by the writer myroslava ukrainsky. such a review of life in the occupied luhansk region and the story of a long way to ukraine during the great

war. the book was published in kremenchuk. it was in this place that the author found temporary shelter, work and inspiration. iryna skrypacheva will continue the topic. myroslava ukranian is the pseudonym of yakana grennychenko, the real name of our heroine, she was forced to take it because of her parents, who still live in the occupied luhansk region. sorokyne is her hometown, where she had a home and an interesting job, which in 2022 she had to leave and flee across five borders, covering thousands of kilometers on the way to a free ukraine. it was quite , quite a difficult road, but... when we arrived, arrived at the ukrainian border, finally, the first thing i did was i got out of the car, i knelt down, and i had such a quiet hysteria, and then i didn't i could hold back tears and screams

in my voice, i was happy that we did it, that we were able to come across all borders, that we are finally home in our country, from this risky journey and... the long road home begins. the first story among 112 pages of stories in the genre of documentary prose. everything is written on the spur of the moment tracks, both about herself and about others, plunging into everyone's pain - the author admits. oksana says that she was inspired to publish the collection by members of the creative union of journalists in kremenchuchyna. this is where our heroine lives, works and creates history today. she gave the materials to me, i edited them. wrote, and then we started thinking about how to name it, and then she says, you know, i really want my son's material to be here, i say, let it be, but nothing, i'm in the authors, i just say, it's okay, it will already be written who he is, and

here at the end there are also his thoughts, all the stories that are collected in the stories are real, life-like, and this is their value, lesya lazorenko, editor-in-chief of the publication, myroslava ukrainska currently works as a journalist, admits that she likes the author's style. she works with topics where it is necessary to write the life story of a certain person. and this really impresses me, because today, this is probably the most precious thing that we have, not infomercials, but the history of life, interesting people, interesting personalities. therefore, if... she is currently here, she has really blended into our team, and we appreciate it very much. myroslava ukrainian's book will be presented in a new exposition about the russian-ukrainian war, which is currently being prepared at the national museum of the history of ukraine in the second world war. iryna skrypachova, mykyta litskevich, oleksandr popenko from

kremenchuk for the espresso tv channel. that is all the news for this hour, and i urge you once more before the end of the air. alarms , please stay in the shelters, i welcome you, this is an interview on espresso that we prepared for you the day before. a whole series of religious holidays, and in fact, so as not to lose most importantly, it is important to record these moments in our conversations with guests, whose opinion can definitely interest you and whose opinion will be authoritative and important for any ukrainian. i am glad to welcome serhii dmitriev,

chaplain of the military institute of the kyiv national shevchenko university with me in this conversation. i congratulate you, serhiy. father, yes, you can, as you want. yes, and, actually,... well , probably from the floor question. you are a bit of background, you are a person who made a decision for yourself in 2014, and together with the people who trusted you, your souls and minds decided to join the then ukrainian orthodox church of the kyiv patriarchate. and it was not a problem for you to join the orthodox church of ukraine and become a part of it, become its representative. in particular, at the front as well. now ukraine is on the threshold of certain changes, and we have such a transitional year when we come to the new julian calendar. still, the vast majority of ukrainians do not talk about it at all at the front, or talk about it among our defenders. well, we switched,

first of all, to a new calendar, and already a year ago many parishes celebrated christmas after the new year. calendar, and at that time i was the chaplain of the 30th brigade, we celebrated christmas already on the 25th, and it was accepted by the military personnel with great enthusiasm. because the question was definitely not in the calendar, no one wants to celebrate christmas with her enemy, everyone wants to celebrate christmas throughout the european world, and this is the first trend, and we could ask for sure such a phrase that when we will celebrate christmas, as everyone normal people, well, now this question does not arise, if everyone understands that it has already happened and should so witness perhaps isolated cases will occur among more

elderly people who are used to living in certain traditions, but at the front it is not at all such an important issue, at the front there is the issue of provision, evacuation of the wounded, the issue of the relationship between commanders, servicemen, provision of weapons. and this worries military personnel today, uh, and as for the main challenges and moments of a moral and ethical nature, i understand that there is a certain confidentiality in the work that you conduct with our military, however, i have to ask this question, as a civilian, what bothers a person the most, how did he go to defend his country and who, in principle, every day risks

coming face to face with death? well , you know, there are different categories of military personnel, there are categories of military personnel who have been in the army since the 14th year, there are professional military personnel, there are those people who left civilian work, there are also journalists, people from the services, from business. who did not know what the army was, never even served, limited fit, and everyone has their own requests, but if so the result will do the bottom line is probably more, uh, it's social security after being wounded, uh, what's next when you're wounded and you get out of the army, it's probably the usual red tape. which now we will soon hear a report on the 100 days of the new ministry of defense,

how they worked, whether there will be changes, because the uniqueness of the armed forces of ukraine today is that the reform of the armed forces of ukraine takes place right during the war, something that surely no one the country cannot afford, we are reforming the army for the better time of hostilities, you know that. a new patch appeared, where servicemen write that i am ready to give my life, but i am not ready to give dignity, ugh, this is also important, it is important that the army reform, the subordination is so parallel, not vertical, eh, because a serviceman must know what he is fighting for and why he performs this particular task, and where there is communication between. in trust, in

openness, with respect, dignity, there is success, it is important, where there is cohesion, and these are so common, probably in everyone the unit may have any problems, it's normal, because it has always been and will be, but it must be resolved, and that's all, by the service of the military chaplaincy of the armed forces of ukraine. a relatively newly created history, and extremely important, and from, you know, from the start, from birth, from immediately in the millstone of war, in fact, as this structure manifests itself now, can we say that it is also reforming on the go, as they are being reformed all the armed forces, because well, if you want to survive, it changes, well, we understand that this is a completely new structure in the army after the adoption of of the law, that surely changes

must happen and there will be mistakes, this is also normal, but the main thing is that we correct them, so that mistakes are corrected, but today, we see more of this, probably in the model countries of nato, in the armed forces of the ukrainian pelan service, this is more , probably a model, unfortunately,... of the people's republic of china or even the russian federation there, because today under the leadership of the chaplain service, these are secular people, secular people who have no. completion of religious education, of course we understand that the doctors in our country are commanded by a doctor, the snipers are commanded by the sniper who provides there, for example there, if it is an international department, these are people there with an education in international international relations, and when today the chaplain service

is headed by former officers of moral and psychological support, those who were called. together with flights, such a service will be reformed and move very slowly and for a long time, uh, well, for sure, we understand that chaplains are also not ready to accept these positions today, they do not have military experience, but this problem must be solved, that is, it the story is not about satisfying a person's spiritual needs, but more about, i don't know , correcting the brain where it is necessary, so we...

exactly what will be the training of chaplains, how to recruit them, join the army, because not all chaplains are ready today to join the army precisely because of, let's say, such a created artificial problem that exists, well, a civilian clergyman can join the ranks of chaplains, i understand correctly, well, according to the law of ukraine, a chaplain is a priest, yes, who has graduated. has a higher theological education, has a certain experience in pastoral ministry, and so on he receives a mandate from his religious organization for the right to carry out chaplaincy activities, and he enters the army, already as a priest-chaplain, receives additional training and enters a military

unit, where he carries out his activities, and continues to study as he should. gradually entering a new team with new rules of life and military life, this is a time of course and usual preparation. and to the extent that in the community of clergy in general there are processes that are similar to the relations of military personnel with civilians, so very often a serviceman, getting into... feels, to put it mildly, uncomfortable in connection with the way civilians behave, how they live, how they shape their everyday life, sometimes forgetting to do it with a view, at least for the war, and is there such a situation in the circles of the clergy, that is , in order to want to be a chaplain and go to spiritually

support the army, it is necessary to respond to some internal challenge and... have a certain inner courage, in my opinion, are all the clergy ready to this? well, the service of a chaplain is difficult, that well, it is very different from serving in the parish, if we are talking about the orthodox , such as the traditional church, because it is a different schedule of the day, these are completely different people, we cannot impose our faith on military personnel with... their religious freedom, someone can be non-believers in your unit, some believers, and this is not a place for proselytizing, when you recruit the faithful, this is the spiritual support of military personnel, to provide them, to satisfy their religious needs, within the limits of their competence and within the limits of their

religious freedoms, of course someone, maybe there... he does not want to go to services and this right must be protected , a military serviceman must be protected, so that the chaplain is also not there, so that he does not harm his service, it is a different schedule, when you have to come to the service, you have to become a military man somewhere, but he will not turn in one hundred percent military and remain a priest, but not such a priest as in civilian life, and this balance is also difficult for the chaplain. save where, when you have to go through, let's say 50-50 of these skills, if i tell you that i witnessed'. conflict between military and civilian chaplains the priest, and the military chaplain, without restraining his emotions, asked: why can't you tear yourself away from the trough when you've already eaten your fill. i won't

say now where it happened, because it would be unethical, but the story of me, i was waiting for our conversation with you because i wanted to ask this question. this is a story about the fact that we understand that clergymen are e. they are people first of all, yes and also with pluses and minuses, but they, they try, like each of us, to be closer there, nevertheless, here it is here is the feeling that perhaps not completely our religious community in our country provides support, a comprehensive chaplaincy community, you have this feeling, uh, well... let's say that no one should provide, our our community is provided by the state, the state, the religious community in the army, is there any

special support of the chaplain within the church community, well, for me it is enough, for someone it may not be enough, and this is a question of every religious community, huh. because, for example, each religious community takes care of its chaplains and others priests who serve there in hospitals and so on, since the orthodox church is a young church, uh, a church that was constantly in repressions and persecutions, until the 18th year, we can say, and there until the 14th, the church , which i will destroy. institutions were destroyed, priests , even under the regime of yanukovych, it is very difficult

to build such a structure, for example, as the roman catholic church, which has its own funds, support funds, structure, and in general , religious life in ukraine was destroyed, and we are still rebuilding it. . religious spirit, precisely the free religious spirit of ukrainians, this is also important to know, because and that, well , it will constantly arise, and secondly, the moscow patriarchate made us such a surrogate of religion, we have not seen anything except a sample of this, because in ukraine it is the majority was a religious majority that destroyed other religions. notes and they gave such a religious surrogate, we see the life of the monks of the kiev obsheka lavra and how they behaved, we have beautiful brothers

in the greek catholic church, who gave this example of his service, and as an example, probably this the ukrainian catholic university, which we see, as there are, what are the fruits that good work gives. of the church that it leads at the exit , and if we are talking about the orthodox church, then it is only being rebuilt, it is difficult to do, and of course, we want everything, but we cannot do everything, and then we have to tell our faithful and these people who want to do it, come and do it, no one, some uncle with a beard will do it for you, huh, that's why i became a priest, because... i wanted the ukrainian church to develop social service, that's why i do social service, so that i, for example, dream

of a chaplain that i want to see, so i can become that chaplain and try to be that chaplain that i would like to see, and the church is a community of people, so whatever what kind of person can come and bring about change, as in the state, as in the church, and in any... institution, how difficult is it for you, or do you understand during these periods when you are with our military on front, in fact, and when you return to the rear, you react as her representative of the clergy, or you you react as a serviceman to what you see, still, as a priest, as a priest and a citizen, uh, of course, that i belong to the community of servicemen, but a priest is a representative of uh after all.

such peace, peace, this is a spiritual friend , this is the spiritual leader of the unit, but he is still not a military serviceman to the end, that is why he can be such a mediator between civilian life and military life, ugh, and sometimes intervene and say something, and okay, and now... the world is in a state turbulence, and this is not only about the russian-ukrainian war, we see how the situation in the middle east is developing in particular on a religious background, for example, this is how we understand the persistence of the conflict between muslims and jews in the territory of israel and those territories, which were to become palestine, and

karl volog. i once noticed, i say, i look at all this, at the awakening of certain anti-semitism, such movements around the world in connection with the situation, and not only that, and sometimes it seems to me that ukraine is like some kind of oasis, an island of common sense exactly in this sensei, because first of all, our people, and it is also multi-component in context. we have representatives of both muslims and jews, and not only that, and it all works, it all works in the context of one army, it all works in the context of one state, but what do you think, does ukraine really have a chance to become a stronghold of such a healthy sense to the whole world, at least as an example, that this can be the case when we win and when we... forge

victory, we will be one of the most powerful states with a lot of experience, and today there is a probability that we can also lose, to lose this religious freedom, because there is , i call it, i call the moscow patriarchate, for example, christian fascism, when... a totalitarian state uses the religious factor in its interests, it can also be said the east, what is happening there now with israel by palestine, because a priori any religion is a religion of good, like judaism, like islam, and christianity, this, the concept of love for a person, do no harm and so on, but we see when totalitarians come... the leader and

he begins to lead a religious community, this community becomes aggressive, and it is possible to return as, as you want, do what you want, and the main thing is that we do not become like that, that we preserve that religious freedom and understanding, why, what is there faith at all, ugh, and what, so that... a tendency appears, what can be believed, what can not be believed, and inflame the conflict very easily between people, and the main thing is not to let it happen, i think that it is precisely the common goal of victory that allows people of different views to gather and connect, but the enemy does everything to keep us disconnected as well, and

he does that too... as within our the army looks like cooperation where it is appropriate , where it is possible, whether it exists at all , representatives of christianity, islam, judaism, we understand that the spiritual needs of our people, they can be different, because of different religions, and that is also normal . how is it, how does it fit together, do you have , relatively speaking, friends, colleagues, and, please, please, friends, colleagues from another faith, another religion, and how it all gets along in one army, well, yes, recently i was , chaplain in the command of territorial defense forces, this the largest number of chaplains in their kind of troops, it is about 80 chaplains.