stepan barna, currently a sergeant of the 10th separate edelweiss mountain assault brigade, and until 2023 ukrainians knew him as a people's deputy, ex-head of the ternopil regional state administration, philanthropist, entrepreneur and scientist, now instead of holding a high position. the title of defender of ukraine. recalling the past, stepan says: being a politician is not a choice, a vocation, but now he calls military service his duty. i was aware that there would be a war. all the time i was convinced that this war with russia would be full-scale. i didn't believe in the fact that russia will calmly put up with the existence of a ukrainian state. 10 years ago, when the first shots were fired in the east of ukraine

, stepan barna was engaged in politics, while actively helping the front. he says that he always understood that the priority for the development of ukraine is a strong army. it was then, in the 14th year , that oleg barna's brother volunteered to fight. instead, stepan became a reservist. this was during the formation of the brigade itself so that, while still in the status of the head of the regional state administration, i tried to popularize reserve service. and already. after he left the post of chairman, he went to a meeting of reservists and there signed the contract of the operational reserve of the first line with the edelweiss brigade. and accordingly, when the war began, a full-scale attack, there was a presidential decree on the mobilization of reservists, well, he was mobilized in his unit. he remembers that he was most worried about how to fight in winter, because he does not like it. cold, being in

a position in the middle of winter is the most difficult for a military man, but the man has been wintering at the front for the second year. our team in the first days was transferred to the border with belarus, and then already in march, at the beginning of march we were in the area of ​​zhytomyr and kyiv regions, that is, i met the war already in zhytomyr region. and since may. in the 22nd year, the brigade was transferred to donbas. the fighter says that his main motivation is to ensure peace and finally separate from russia. and if this does not happen, then there is a possibility that this is not the extreme generation that fights with the aggressor, and worst of all, dies. stepan's brother oleg barna already gave his life fighting the aggressor, a well-known and zealous politician defender of everything ukrainian, was always distinguished by his patriotism and categorical attitude towards russia. in future.

stepan barna sees ukraine as a full-fledged member of the european union in the unified nato collective security system with the preservation of national traditions and the development of new ones. so that children have the opportunity to develop here, learn, get an education, get housing , create a business, work in a field that will be comfortable and interesting for them, and so that the country will be for... from the new year, we expect a peaceful sky and ukraine's victory over the enemy, peaceful of heaven, faith in the great future of ukraine, faith that ukraine will be an independent, cathedral state, that we will become a full-fledged european country, faith that this land will be the best for... our children and for

our future stepan barna is already 21 a month in the war, he dreams most of all to return home, he says, his relatives are waiting for him here, and at the same time there is a lot of work on the consequences of the war, which must be eliminated. stepan barna, currently a sergeant of the 10th separate edelweiss mountain assault brigade, and until 2023 ukrainians knew him as a people's deputy, ex-head of the ternopil an entrepreneur and scientist, now instead of a high position, he holds the title of defender of ukraine. regional state administration, philanthropist, recalling the past, stepan says that being a politician is not a choice, a vocation, but now he calls military service his duty. i was aware that there would be a war, all the time i was convinced that this war would be full-scale with russia, i did not believe that russia would be peaceful. will put up with

the existence of a ukrainian state. 10 years ago, when the first shots rang out in the east of ukraine, stepan barna was engaged in politics, at the same time actively helping the front, he says. always understood that the priority for the development of ukraine is a strong army. it was then, in the 14th year, that my brother oleg barna volunteered to fight. instead, stepan became a reservist. it was during the formation of the brigade itself so that, while still in the status of the head of the regional state administration, i tried to popularize the service in the reserve. and after he left the post of chairman, he went to a meeting of reservists and signed the contract of the operational reserve there. in the first line with the edelweiss brigade. and accordingly, when the war began, a full-scale attack, there was a presidential decree on the mobilization of reservists, well, he was mobilized in his unit.

he remembers that he was most worried about how he should fight in winter, because he does not like the cold, being in a position in the middle of winter is the most difficult for a soldier, but the man is already in his second year. winters at the front. in the first days, our brigade was transferred to the border with belarus, and then already in march, at the beginning of march we were in the area of ​​zhytomyr and kyiv regions, that is, i met the war already in zhytomyr region. and from may 2022 the brigade was transferred to donbas. the fighter says his main motivation is to provide. peace and finally separate from russia, and if this does not happen, then there is a possibility that this is not the extreme generation that fights with the aggressor, the worst - dies. stepan's brother oleg barna already gave his life fighting the aggressor. a well-known politician and an ardent defender of everything ukrainian, he was always

distinguished by his patriotism and categorical attitude towards russia. in the future , stepan barna sees ukraine as a full-fledged member of the european union in a unified system collective security. nato with the preservation of national traditions and the development of new ones. so that children have the opportunity to develop here , learn, get an education, get housing , create a business, work in a field that will be comfortable and interesting for them, and that the country is for life, from the new year he expects a peaceful sky and ukraine's victory over the enemy, a peaceful sky? faith in the great future of ukraine, faith that ukraine will be an independent, cathedral state, that we will become a full-fledged european country, i believe that this land

will be the best for our children and for our future. stepan barna has been at war for 21 months. he dreams of returning home, he says, his relatives are waiting for him here, and at the same time there is a lot of work on the consequences of the war, which must be eliminated.

my name is andrii, i'm 33 years old, i come from kherson, i went to the army in september of this year, and i immediately said that if there is

an opportunity, if there is a posting somewhere, then i am ready to go, immediately before the mobilization i was a medical doctor in the computer room. mammography, even before that , an infectious disease doctor, and even before that, a paramedic ambulance, during her registration of documents here at the kmb, i was asked. the question of who i want to be and the list of military specialties, and besides everything else, there was a specialty of combat medic, well, of course , i chose it as a specialty, like many people also have a personal life, there are also some fears, there is a war there, you can die here, this it happens, and i get captured, but i have resolved all my affairs, and at some point i just think that i need to prepare there... for these three or four, well , a little bit of physical training, i adjusted myself and

read, watched special videos, and that's it i decided, as i decided in september , so i came in september, everyone is afraid, because everyone understands that this is a war, in war they die, but this is the situation, this is what happened, and the war will continue until there is no end. this is a fear, well, not that it is overcome, but until each person learns to fight with this fear, because it remains, it is always here, even in training, and there are special corresponding training exercises to get used to and learn to fight your fear, and when the desire to end the war is fair for us, for ukraine, ours victory and de-occupation of all... our territory, then this is probably the only goal and the only

way to end this war justly, but we talked when we first arrived, several people really, just as i myself came, many by summons, and it was very a lot of talk about the fact that they took me away, i have a family there, i have a family, why do i need it, i can't, i don't know, i'm disabled, there's something like that, uh, but for sure, communication with sergeants, communicating with each other, and learning, and understanding what it can do to learn, even, i had never held a machine gun in my hands before, it is possible, it can be learned, and you understand how it is done, and now we were talking to each other, and i remember people who were with boys, who that 's what they said, why am i here, i don't want to be here, but... now they themselves start talking about how we, we will soon win, we will do

everything to win.

we are looking for ten-year-old darinka kharlova from the village of vesele, zaporizhzhia region. this settlement has been occupied since the beginning of the full-scale war, but it has disappeared. girl in june 2023, and in fact nothing is known about daryna's fate for more than six months, so i really hope that thanks to your concern, the child will be found. please look carefully at the photo and try to remember darinka kharlova's face. if suddenly someone sees the girl or someone knows where she may be, now, do not delay and dial the short number of the tracing service from any mobile operator. calls from any ukrainian mobile operator are free, unless suddenly there is no

the ability to call, write to the chatbot of the children's search service in telegram. this is just one story of a missing child. in general, since the beginning of the war, we have received almost 3,000 appeals for help in the search. fortunately , the vast majority of children have already been found, but the fate of many remains unknown. this especially applies to the temporary. areas where the work of the police is practically paralyzed, where it is impossible to leave and there are communication problems. sometimes people who can't find their own children don't even know what to do and where... to turn if if you suddenly find yourself in a similar situation and have no idea how to act, call the short number 11630, or write to the chatbot of the child tracing service in telegram, they will provide you with all the necessary advice. in addition, everyone who sees me now can already help find the missing children. take just a minute of your time and visit the

magnolia children's tracing website. here you can view all the photos of the missing. who knows, maybe you will recognize someone and eventually help them find them. i also want to remind you that they are ongoing search for ten-year-old artem kholodny, who disappeared in the kharkiv region in september 2022, his mother asked for help in looking for the boy. imagine that a woman has not seen or heard from her son for more than a year. i am appealing to everyone who can see or know any information about my child, my son, cold, artem. andreyevich, if anyone has seen or heard any information, please provide it, i am asking you to do so, because the mother’s heart is breaking, and the fact is that artem kholodny’s parents are divorced and live separately, yes it happened that when the war started, the boy was

with his father in the city of kupyansk in the kharkiv region, on the third day of the full-scale invasion , the city was completely occupied, and... later the connection was lost there. for almost six months , mrs. elena did not have any news about her son and only in september 2022 she received a short message from him in viber. it was september, around september 10-13 last year, the 22nd. let me remind you that in september of last year, the soldiers of the ukrainian armed forces liberated kharkiv oblast from the occupiers, and it was during this period that the son of ms. olena got in touch. of course, the woman at... tried to call artem, wrote him more than one message in response, but all attempts turned out to be useless, the connection with the child was mysteriously lost again, and it is not known where artem kholodny is now, so your help is very important , take another look at the photo and remember the boy's face, he is a very active boy, fair-haired,

with such a lean build, he is now in the 50th grade, light-eyed, gray-blue eyes, active, kind, a good boy. if suddenly someone has seen artem kholodny, or knows where he might be now, do not delay and immediately call us on the hotline of the magnolia children's search service at the short number 11630. calls from any ukrainian mobile operator are free. if it is suddenly not possible to call, write to the chatbot of the child tracing service in telegram. any information is important. we have created a resource where you can report any crime against a child, anywhere, anytime, just go to the site and report, and we let's launch all possible mechanisms to punish the criminal. stopcrime.ua.

studio, well, dear friends, good morning to everyone, we are already in ukret, the russians are making sure that we do not leave the basements, they want to give us a restless morning and a restless day. for those who are just now trying to understand what is happening, there is a large-scale, powerful, large-scale attack, with rockets and shahedas, all over the territory of ukraine, explosions have already been heard in lviv, kharkiv, cherkasy. other cities are also under threat, so we are experiencing a difficult morning today, a difficult night, but we are going through it together and we are moving on, dear friends, we will now try to contact bohdan tkachuk, a deputy of the kharkiv district council, there were eight flights there today, and

we also see that the russians intend to do something else and with kharkiv, and with the rest of ukraine. let's try to contact him to ask where it flew to and what the russians are trying to achieve this time. in lviv, mayor andriy sadovy confirmed two hits, they did not specify where exactly and about the consequences, nor about the victims or victims. reported in the same way. we are waiting for the clarification of the situation regarding lviv in cherkassy , ​​we also know that there are explosions recorded. in a word, we keep our hands on the pulse here, there is still a danger, there is still a danger of incoming missiles, you see, for sure. about the fact that the entire map of ukraine is now red, the map of ukraine, at 6:48 there was a message that cruise missiles were moving in the direction of poltava region, they

also flew over the zaporizhzhia region in the direction of the dnipro , pavlograd, so the missiles are still moving , in particular in the direction of kropyvnytskyi, therefore, bohdan tkachuk, deputy of the kharkiv district council, mr. bohdan, is already in touch with us. good morning, i see, yes, yes , now they heard, they heard, mr. bohdan, please tell me what is happening in kharkiv, at 5 am they hit, well, i counted nine, nine rockets, as they wrote there, most of them it was an s-300 from the belgorod region, ah, they were shevchenkivskyi district and kyivskyi district, well , i just live here, so it was... very audible, very powerful, and at 5 o'clock in the morning they started somewhere behind 7 minutes are over, these are over dents, i personally counted nine, although

they write somewhere eight, but there were nine, then, so what can be said, nothing is written about the damage, but all this was part of the shevchenkivskyi district, there and kyivskyi is already the center of the city, well, i live almost in the center in the shechensky district, so i confirm. that's all about the injuries, there is no information about the victims, he wrote that there is no information about the victims, that is, there are no casualties either, what else can i add, it worked for us, it did not work, by the way, the air alarm, the siren she was silent, and she was also silent from the fight, what happened to her, i don't know, at least i didn't hear, the next. let's say the phase started at 7 in the morning, and at this moment i counted 10 explosions, but they were already somewhere further away, not in the shevchenkivskyi district, but somewhere in the city

of kharkiv, they were almost as powerful as at 5 in the morning, but their there were 10, what kind of systems , someone writes about the s300 again, if they are specific, well , i don’t have any information, where they got into, there’s nothing else to say either, the electricity isn’t yours, it’s there, even i saw the window from six o’clock the street lighting was working, now it ’s all turned off by excess loads, but at least we can talk to you in the apartments , there is electricity, there is heating , i don’t have any other warnings about what kind of damage, well, i think you do too , because the information does not come so quickly, well, terikhov wrote the mayor that in general , as far as i understood him correctly, there are already 12 arrivals in kharkov, that is, eight during the first wave and four in the second wave, mr. bohdan, and for information outdated,

the first wave is nine, and the second is already 10, i.e together 19, 19, yes, mr. bohdan, and for those who are not from kharkov, the shevchenkivskyi and kyivskyi districts, is this the center, or is it closer to some sleeping areas, no, this is the center and... this is the northern part of the city, they are these the areas stretch from the center to the north, this is in the direction of russia, these are the same areas that have been shelled since the beginning of the war, and the impressions here are quite powerful, well, this is almost , here you find almost the center, this pavlovo field is so- called, this is the unofficial name of the area, ah, and the arrivals of the first wave, the second, i can’t confirm where it was, when...... in the last before that was an attack on kharkiv, if i am not mistaken, there was an attack two weeks ago, they also hit with 300, it seems that there were five

arrivals, and i also saw information from the morning in the public about the departure, yes, a video recording of the departure from the belgorod region, and there, judging by the explosion, some kind of rocket both took off and fell there, well, that doesn't make us very happy. but still, what is the situation at the moment? well, now i don’t hear explosions, everything is more or less stable, people, i understand, are reading the information, looking at what’s next, whether there will be an alarm response or not, but still very strangely the alert system doesn't work, at least in the area i'm in, ugh, so you know about the air alert with some kind of app. yes , telegram is public, there is facebook, where there are messages from tirikh, from sinegubov, the head of the military administration, but there is no sound accompaniment, what is the problem?

it is difficult for me to say, since 5 o'clock in the morning, as it is written , there have been explosions, i have never once heard an alarm or a reverberation, that is, that is, somehow it is a little strange, and what is the mood in general, i do not know whether there is a feeling in kharkiv residents, that on the eve of the new year, actually, was there any such premonition, because i honestly confess to you, yesterday i went to bed and thought that there was some kind of relative comfort, what is meant by attacks on... on the civilian part of ukraine, on civilians , and i had a feeling that something would happen, mr. bohdan, well , you know, i don't have such feelings about the reaction of the people of kharkiv, well, what i see now on the monitor, well, there is only one reaction, well, let's say it's obscene, and to the enemies of ukraine, there, well, i won’t list all the emotions that people are expressing now, as far as, well

yesterday, i was in the evening. well, already in the evening i stopped by two supermarkets , there everything is being prepared for the new year, many people were shopping there, they bought some gifts, some were festive there, some alcohol, some candies, there were corporate parties, well, people were shopping, not that it was until the 24th, until the 22nd year, but still the city lives with such, well, let's say, maybe inferior, but with such new year's worries, and therefore no what, what... there was no panic, there were a lot of cars , many people, traffic jams, that is, well, you already know the life of kharkiv , this is how it is being adjusted, it reminds me a little of israel, which is being shelled, they carry out these commands there, but life does not settle down, it follows its own schedule, people are already used to it, and kharkiv residents are already getting used to it, do their business, do their own business, there are children, by the way,

today my daughter is 12 years old, you... they congratulated her, well, animals, just say it already, we congratulate your daughter, not like the russians, we wish that finally peace came and that her childhood was such a childhood as it is in normal countries, calm, safe and without worries, and so that our children's children no longer have to go through what we and our children have had to go through, we must thank you. to the country, and then, i think, our children and grandchildren will live normally. well, thank you for this conversation, bohdan kachuk, deputy of the kharkiv district council, told us what the current situation is in kharkiv, as many as 19 flights have arrived in kharkiv this morning, and the missile threat continues now, as it does throughout the territory of ukraine, yes there are already explosions recorded in odessa since the very morning, and since yesterday as well since the evening, and yes, we will move now. to

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