people who came from ivano-frankivsk region, from chernivtsi region, from lviv region, who lived there in vladivostok, and then we were invited to the island of the sea of ​​japan, and we sang to the guitar there. they started with a rifle song, kalyna, which is so popular now, and ended their performance with the national anthem of ukraine. well , tell me, please, it, our independence in the year 91, was not created just like that, it...

i remember that we toured somewhere around 25 cities in america and 25 cities in canada, and then there were already repeated tours at independence in in 93, 94, when we drove from montreal to vancouver. in canada and in america from new york to san francisco sacramento for 45 concerts per tour, we came home tired but happy that a ukrainian song is heard on the american continent.

in 1975 , a film was broadcast on estonian television, featuring a smerichka under the direction of livko dutkivskii. the film was shot in chernivtsi and ivano-frankivsk regions. the soviet authorities began to persecute the members of the team. first, it leaves the smyrichka vasyl zenkevich. then nazarii yaremchuk and levko dutkivskyi. smerichka is falling apart. according to the historian, it was the death of volodymyr ivasyuk in 1979 that pushed lyvok dutkivskyi and nazarii yaremchuk to resume the work of the collective. during these years , pavlo dvorskyi joined the ensemble.

they called me back and said that they are waiting for you with the philharmonic guitar, i took my guitar, i had an inexpensive but such a good guitar at the time, which was used in concerts in my music school, and i came here , the administrator of the philharmonic was waiting for me and invited me to the stage, i first the people sang songs. and then i was asked to sing a few songs from the repertoire of the smyrichka, i performed the songs in the carpathians, autumn is coming, a dokara song entered between us out of hand, a few minutes passed, they came to me on the stage, i said: "pavel, you were enrolled as a soloist the vocalist of the snarichka ensemble, where he sings together with nazarriy in the group, and since 1976, i worked here in september,

it so happened that after the first days of work oleksan smerichka, the first one to give me a creative hand of friendship was nazariy, so that i was musically literate, but i had no experience of behaving like an ostrad on stage. the collective, i was more, after all, the school sang academic , folk songs statically on the stage, here you had to move, you had to behave in a completely different way, so nazarriy supported, showed, i, in turn , studied musical notation and chords with him , playing the guitar, so there were many good dreams, good advice.

pavle, it's time to write new songs, and i say, nazar, the team has such beautiful songs as chervona ruta, vodogray, in the carpathians autumn is coming, it is walking among us, these are real hits, people already know these songs, they are already sung, but we need new ones, such that ukraine will sing, and he introduced me to the poet volodymyr kudryavtsev, and volodymyr kudryavtsev wrote not only poems, he could

it's very good to write poems to ready-made music, and he says, i don't care, you can write the music first, and i'll write the words, or vice versa, when i write the poems, you 'll write the music, and it so happened that i rather wrote the melody, the music of the future songs, and sang to him on the phone, two weeks later i received a letter in chernivtsi from volodymyr kudryavtsin, where it was written: pavle, i believe that all of ukraine will sing about our stozhars, zalensad was also in trouble, and we were up. and so it happened that his words were prophesied, the first executor was nazarriy yaremchuk.

45 years have passed since this song was written. were there any persecutions for their position, for theirs , of course, well, what do you think, well, there were persecutions, but they could not put, for example, in prison, it was not that time anymore, they did not want outrage. so many people smrichka was popular, dvorsky was so popular, act artists were so popular that they could not, without provoking opposition from the population, be put in prison, although there was a desire, there was no obvious persecution,

but we felt that we would like our team was so secondary, as it is meant to be, so that we become like the cheerful guys, the blue birds. flame, so that we had a russian-language repertoire, but we wanted to sing our songs, about our region, about our feelings, about what we use today using folk music, take as a basis , because how many wonderful hutsul songs, folk songs, we listened to in the villages, in the putyl region, here in the mountains, byzhny... levka tarasovych in the carpathians autumn is living water, they are based on real folklore music

of our folk songs, but used modern instruments, modern rhythms, harmony, and the songs became popular, so... it was a golden time. smyrichka existed for almost 30 years. the participants experienced moments of incredible popularity and harassment by the soviet authorities. however, smerichka stopped its activity is not because of this. in 1995 , nazarii yaremchuk died of an illness. smyrichka is falling apart. later, dvorskyi was offered to lead the team. he did not agree to this. it is still clear that each team. there is a leader, there is that person, that artist, with whom the collective is associated, its name, its successes, and it was believed that after nazarrius it is already difficult, people will not understand what

can be called smerichka, but that spirit of smerichany will no longer exist.

chevrons approaching victory. although we are not always. next to his relatives, but what we do, makes it possible for our children to be safe and immerse themselves in the fairy tale of the winter holidays. we protect our country and restore its transport infrastructure, so that we can all give the greatest gift to our children, our victory. merry christmas and happy new year 2024. power. will and perseverance have been passed down from

father to son for centuries, and i am the one who carries the cossack strength and cossack glory etched in my heart, i am the one who carries the glory of freedom-loving ancestors, whose unyielding will lives on to this day. i am the one who for centuries carries in the spirit of struggle and ideas, the one who will never bow down to the enemy. i am a warrior of ukraine, indomitable and unconquered, i will defend the land given to me by god and always believe in my invincibility.

good evening, public news summarizes the results of tuesday, vyacheslav afutin, tetiana zhurkova and lada sokolyuk are with you, see below. the bill on mobilization, what changes are the parliamentarians preparing? another successful military operation in the temporarily occupied crimea. the air force of ukraine replenished the submarine fleet of the russian aggressors. when the medicine goes on minutes of the first full-scale russian invasion, police helicopter crews rescued thousands of wounded fighters. on monday evening, parliamentarians registered a government draft law on changes to the order of mobilization of military registration and

military service. the document is posted on the website of the verkhovna rada. prime minister denys shmyhal is listed as the author. in an explanatory note, he indicated that the adoption of the bill would create conditions for the proper staffing of combat units. our correspondent anna zhelezniak studied documents and can tell the details. so anya, i congratulate you, tell me. what should we expect? congratulations, yes, indeed, during the day i followed the statements of officials regarding the new draft law, regarding mobilization, and also talked to several people's deputies, and now i can tell you what changes we can expect in the event of the adoption of this draft law. first, the military can count on demobilization if this draft law is adopted. who served 36 months, as well as military personnel who

participated directly in hostilities for 6 months, can count on two months of vacation. the conscription age was also lowered. she used to call from the age of 27, now it can be done from the age of 25. it is also proposed to cancel the fixed-term service, it will not exist at all as such. instead , there will be general military training in educational institutions, which citizens of ukraine from 18 to 25 years of age will undergo. also , certain restrictions may apply to... citizens who violate the law on mobilization, for example, they will not be able to conduct transactions with their property, in particular with real estate, and also will not be able to drive their own transport and get a driver 's license, as well as the limited-fit term,

they propose not to use it anymore and that it does not exist at all, after passing the vlk, there will be two possible conclusions, it is fit for service or unfit, as well as a summons with a summons to the police station can now be received through the deputy's electronic office or by e-mail. military personnel who have been released from captivity are offered the opportunity to take a 90-day vacation with salary. today at the press conference. commander-in-chief valery zaluzhnyi answered questions about this draft law. so let's hear what he thinks about the 36 month lifespan? there will be enough time to prepare the human resource that will be needed for the replacement, and for this demobilization situation not to affect the state we

are in, we strongly understand that, but the government must also understand that if we lead talk about 30. six months of demobilization, then it is most likely to start this process it will be necessary to recruit people and prepare for the next year. talking about exactly how many people the army needs. valery zalozhenyi did not name 400 or 500 people, as we heard from president volodymyr zelenskyi at the final press conference of this year. he said that... they express a general need for mobilization, about which the government is constantly informed, and that they do not imagine mobilization as a one-time thing, it will be an ongoing process that will continue throughout the year, we also talked with people's deputy oleksiy hinchurenko from the european

solidarity faction, he said that he had some comments on this. bill, so let's hear what they are: this government bill finally proposes to set the term of service, although not 18 months, but 36, which in my opinion is too much, now the government proposes to give the right, after serving 36 months during martial law, to give the right to such mobilized and contract workers who have served 36 months for demobilization. the government... agreed that the duty should be defined by law military command to rotate. the government is proposing no more than six months at zero, roughly speaking, followed by at least two months for recovery. the head of the batkivshchyna faction, yulia tymoshenko

, said in her facebook post that she is not going to vote for this draft law in its current form, and we also spoke with the people's deputy of the voice party, solomiya bobrovskaya, she noted, that even a member of the defense committee, of which she is one, did not have time to publish this draft law to get fully acquainted with it, and now she continues to do so, studies this bill and already has some questions, in particular, she is waiting for the ministry. defense explanation about the electronic cabinet, because she herself was in the military, and she still does not understand how to use it, so let's listen to her direct speech: a number of new innovations that relate to the electronic electronic cabinet, conscript, reservist, man as in a

mask, and these powers and summons are in that cabinet, and i, for example, also have them reservist and want to understand. how to register there and what, in principle, this office gives me, how it can be used or not used, this is not at all clear at the moment, it has not been communicated even to us deputies. tell me, when the new changes, these new rules can come into force? in particular , straw herself, solomiya bobrovska deputy, said that the reading of this draft law, its consideration is scheduled for... the first weeks of january, it is around the 10th, but she, in view of the comments of her fellow people's deputies, is not sure because the adoption of this... bill will be quick, because first there will be a first reading, according to her, it should be accompanied by such debates, and a second

reading, where the bill will already be considered with all amendments from all factions, and then the bill must be signed by the president volodymyr zelenskyi, and only then it will enter into force, as well as deputies from the servant of the people faction, allegedly... should not comment on this draft law, ukrainian pravda newspaper reported this with reference to its own sources, and to us in the press service of the faction the servants of the people said that first the military should comment on this topic, and only after them the people's deputies, in particular the deputies of the servants of the people faction, while the public, in turn, tried to get comments from the military... experts who usually comment on similar topics, we turned to four , and none of them agreed to comment on this bill, we also approached seven

servicemen from different units, and none of them agreed to comment on the bill on mobilization either. that's it for me that's all, colleagues, you have a word. thank you, anya. this was our correspondent. zoloznyak on changes to the law on mobilization, military registration and military service. well , defense minister rustem umerov talked about mobilization earlier in an interview with the public. see the full version immediately after the news release, then an excerpt of this conversation, just about mobilization. we have, unfortunately, demonized these processes for ourselves, and now we want to decompress so that... it becomes clear, what i want to do is to make it clear, first of all, first of all, who should serve, in our country

, unfortunately, it is perceived that serving one's homeland is a punishment, and for me it is an honor to serve one's country, firstly, to take stock of all the categories that we will offer after that. the public , we want to outline how we will report , so that we do not report it on the streets , as it is happening now, that is, in a civilized, civilized manner, that is, report, after this report, we want that in this category of people that we will ask to mobilize so that they pass theirs medical examination, and after that we explained to them where they could choose their profession. i.e. recruiting, these are electronic notifications, i.e. we analyzed various databases there , nine somewhere

, collected something from various ministries, looked, then we look at these databases, how to treat, because it is a conscript or a military serviceman, because the population or people are not they completely understand who is obliged, who is a military serviceman, who is a veteran, that's why we say how to make a database... how to account for them? well, is it possible to return it? men who went abroad, we will tell about it a little later in the issue. the southern defense forces in a telegram showed what remained of the russian large amphibious assault ship novocherkask, under the photo they wrote minor damage, or rather, minor remains, in quotation marks. earlier, the russian ministry of defense wrote that the ship was damaged. details of damage to the duty officer. at night , an explosion rang out in the port of temporarily occupied feodosia,

local residents filmed the stop of fire from different angles. in the morning, air force commander mykola leshchuk reported in telegram that ukrainian pilots hit a large landing craft'. novocherkassk, and thus the attack on the russian warship, was commented at the press conference by the spokesman of the air force of ukraine, yuriy ignat. the event of this night is the destruction of a russian warship. the ship itself was completely destroyed, well, maybe some port infrastructure, maybe some support vessels that were nearby, well , maybe and impossible, exactly the crew of the ship. the question of which missiles hit the ship novocherkask yuriy. ignat did not answer, but at the same time reminded that ukraine now has long-range missiles storm shadow and scalp. the ministry of defense of russia confirmed the damage to novocherkassk, but denied the complete destruction -

reports tas. also, the defense department of the occupiers noted that their air defense allegedly shot down two ukrainian su-24 aircraft during these strikes, but the spokesman of the air force of the armed forces of ukraine ignat denied this. novocherkask is a large amphibious ship of project 775. it was built by order of the ussr in poland in 1987. this ship can carry up to 300 troops and more than 450 tons of cargo. by the way, the armed forces hit novocherkask not for the first time attack time in berdyansk on march 22, the armed forces of ukraine completely destroyed the large amphibious assault ship saratov, and novocherkassk was damaged, but it managed to sail away. according to our military command, this ship could transport ammunition or drones of the shachet type for the russians. nikita halka, valery ratoshnyuk. social news. this latest destruction of putin's fleet shows that those who believe that the war in ukraine has reached a stalemate are wrong. this is how

the minister of novocherkassk commented on the destruction of the russian amphibious ship on the x network defense of grand sheps. they failed to notice that 20% of the russian black sea fleet had been destroyed in the last four months. russia's dominance in the black sea is now being challenged, and a new coalition of naval capabilities led by the united kingdom and norway is helping ukraine win at sea. this year, the ukrainian military carried out a series of attacks on objects. of russia in occupied crimea, starting from the missile attack on the headquarters of the black sea fleet in sevastopol and the destruction of russian ships near the ship repair plant in sevastopol and the shipbuilding plant in kerch. how did these attacks affect the situation at the front? muslimurov understood. on july 17, at three o'clock in the morning, a powerful explosion on the kerch bridge left him without

two flights of a car. it was a planned operation of the security service of ukraine, which used its own development of sea drones sibaby. military expert pavlo lekichuk says that this was a serious blow to russian logistics, because the so-called crimean bridge was an important artery for transferring equipment and weapons to occupied crimea, and from there to the southern front. you can compare how the bridge worked in 2022, or even in the 21st, how it works now. well, actually speaking, he has. this is a kind of traffic regime, because of the danger, even because of the threat of strikes, because of the mere threat of changing weather conditions, and the bridge from mostan in our usual understanding, when we approached and drove on, turned into a kind of checkpoint, here the demori stands, for nothing, and this is the night of september 13 in sevastopol.

explosion, local people film a fire at a sub-repair plant, later it became known that two ships were hit, which at that time docked in the docks, the amphibious assault ship minsk and the submarine rekoto-carrier rostov-nanu, it became the first submarine in history to be destroyed by a cruise missile. we have now destroyed a russian submarine in the active, and also destroyed expensive equipment and injured professional manpower that was involved in... repairing and restoring these enemy vessels, so these are significant results. on november 4, explosions rang out at the ship repair plant in kerch. according to gur, one of the most modern ships of the russians, a winged carrier, was damaged kalibr, askolt missiles. that's how the disruptions began.

blast, blast in the city center. and so, on september 22, the people of sevastopol reacted to the attack on the headquarters building of the black sea fleet. in intelligence, this special operation was called a crab trap. at the time of the attack , a meeting of the fleet leadership was taking place there, and it was a blow not only to the russian headquarters, - says andriy yusov. this, such a subject of mountains of pride and zombification of the russian population. here, glory. in the clutches of the russian fleet, and of course, such a devastating blow, the actual destruction of the headquarters and buildings of the occupiers in crimea, is definitely a reputation an information defeat that is difficult to cover with anything. in general, 2023 has become a turning point for the displacement of the russian fleet in the black sea, says military expert pavlo lekichuk. after the strikes of the ukrainian defense forces, the black sea fleet relocated its ships from sevastopol, mainly.