on and on garlic, a little on onion, then we know what it is, very useful useful pine tree for the work of the thyroid gland, but it has, of course, like all contraindications, it cannot be used during pregnancy, and it is also not recommended for people , who have gastritis, gastric ulcer, these are the inflammatory processes of the gastrointestinal tract, well , this is how it is sweet and beautiful and useful, and it must be used wisely... we go further and talk about the earth's magnetic field, recent magnetic storms, maybe they made someone uncomfortable, someone felt bad felt, i want to please you that they have ended, or at least temporarily stopped, and no magnetic storms are expected in the next day, so we are moving on, and actually we are talking about this heat, which i just announced, tomorrow in the western regions of ukraine. from which we usually

start our weather forecast, the maximum air temperature is expected to be +10, +18°, but the atmospheric front will decrease somewhat, this is a warm feeling, because there will be rains and strong winds, please take this into account, in the north there will be no rain in ukraine +10-15°, but the southeast wind can also reach storm gusts, be careful, the wind is stormy in the east of ukraine. the southeast direction is not expected, but it will be just moderate and in the east it will also be very warm +10 +14°. in the central part of ukraine, tomorrow , march 28, a dry air mass will prevail, but it will also be windy, the southeast wind can reach gusts of 15-20 m/s. the air temperature in the central part of ukraine is +11 +17°. odesa will be slightly cooler in the southern part of ukraine, but in general...

+14 +19°, in crimea even in places up to 20-22° above zero. kyiv: tomorrow, although no precipitation is expected, there will be a wonderful spring sun, a comfortable +15°, but a strong southeast wind is also expected in the capital tomorrow, and possibly even with storm gusts up to 15-18 m/s. be careful, we talked about march 28, on march 29 in ukraine more short-term cooling is expected in the northern part and sometimes a little rain, but on the weekend almost everywhere the air temperature will rise even more, it will be 17-22° above zero and no precipitation is expected, with sunday will be the warmest in the near future, always keep an eye out for updated forecasts on our espresso channel. good

evening, we are from ukraine. good evening, my name is myroslava barchuk, this is a self -titled program, a joint project of ukrainian pen and the espresso tv channel. you remember, even before the war , we talked a lot about how important culture is. and it turned out that during the war this culture is perhaps even more important. maybe this culture. gives strength, keeps up the spirits of many people on the front lines, border areas territories, in the de-occupied territories, and today we will talk about exactly that, and how the ukrainian pen travels with volunteer trips to the east of ukraine, to the south of ukraine, takes books to destroyed libraries and thus supports people in these territories. my guest today is tetyana teren, she is the executive director of ukrainian foam. tanya, congratulations, thank you for coming. for tetyana and i, it is important to talk

today about the overall impressions of our volunteer trips to the east, in the front-line and de-occupied territory, and we will definitely talk and mention all these fantastic, shocking stories, but tanya, let's start with what propene is, maybe no one, no one knows for sure, some people have never heard of propene and what this organization does. pen is primarily an international organization with a central office in london, and accordingly, in fact, in every country of the world there is a pen center, and it is an association of writers, journalists, cultural managers, translators, in general, people who work with the word, and what is important to say in in the context of what we are planning to talk about today, that pen generally arose in 1921, that is, it is the post-war period. the time after the first

world war, when there was a thought in intellectual communities, first in britain, but then in other countries, that in a period of such great challenges that there are in... culture, that there are in journalism, challenges with freedom of speech, very it is important that people who work with the word are united and can work together with these challenges and develop their culture and literature. even before the great war, before the beginning of the great war, ukrainian pen began to become a very influential organization, and perhaps now it is the most powerful voice, yes, the most powerful advocate, one, at least, of the most powerful... advocates of ukrainian culture in the world and actually the most influential organization in ukraine, please tell us about this our community, that is, what does the community do, what kind of community is it in the ukrainian

cultural field? you know when i talk now, especially abroad, about our work, who we are, what pen does, who our association of ukrainian authors is. very often it causes somewhat surprising, because our work is very different from what other pen centers do in other countries. it is obvious that this is connected with the war, and these changes, these disagreements, they have been there since the 14th year, because pen worked with the cases of ukrainian authors of political prisoners, and not every country has such challenges with which he has to work at the pen center, but in fact today i speak very little about what we... did before the 22nd year, because obviously our work with political prisoners, with ukrainian hostages of the kremlin continues, but of our larger ones, most of our initiatives, primarily cultural, are suspended, and then we begin the process of finding

those areas, those roles, priorities, where we can be the most useful as a community. today, our community consists of 163 ukrainian authors, writers, and journalists. rights activists, cultural managers, and today we planned to talk with you about volunteer trips, and i think that this is precisely the experience that has largely determined what we do today, if you try to summarize it somehow, so highlight some directions, i would first of all talk about the support of this community, the fact that we can live together, such a complex, difficult experience in our country, in the life of every family, every person, and this support is also very practical, palpable, since we introduced scholarships, yes, public , closed scholarships to help individual families, individual authors, artists in ukraine, and on the other hand, even this year we

continued our festival for young authors of the script with the aim of continuing the literary process in the country, yes, to be kept here is this endurance between generations, on the other hand, if... we go more to volunteer trips, then i would say that we are also engaged in recording the experience of war, we work and collect new poetry, we collect diaries, documentary literature, and on this is based on our books in the library of ukrainian pen series, at the same time it is not just a fixation, it is a documentation, this is what surprises other pen centers, that our organization works with the documentation of war crimes against... culture and against the media, we we have such an important area of ​​work, and this primarily happens in volunteer trips, yes, when we go to the front- line territories, not released, and based on these materials that we collect, we are already preparing our reports, preparing materials in other languages

​​that we can spread to our entire international community, as well as hundreds of other pen centers, and for sure i will also single out the continuation of the cultural one. life in ukraine, even in such a difficult time, i see it as a great priority, culture cannot stop, cannot to stop the development of culture and endurance, and in addition to the fact that we constantly travel to other regions, we organize events, we support libraries, in addition, just in february of the 22nd year, the space of ukrainian pens in kyiv begins to work, and for us it is already on today it is such an autonomous project and part of our work, i believe that it is one of the most active cultural centers in kyiv today. even this week, there are six public events that take place every evening, with different formats for different audiences and with a mandatory gathering in support of the ukrainian army these are probably the most important things

to document and support our community and culture. now let's once again return to volunteer trips, where actually on the one hand. we support libraries, we take books to the most destroyed areas, that's what we call unbreakable libraries, and this initiative is also from another point of view. on the other hand, we take many western intellectuals, western writers, and it started in june 22nd, yes, actually these trips are voluntary, and we have a video, this is a trip to kherson, it is already december, it is december 22nd, but it's just that, i understand that this was peno's first trip to kherson, so i want to start with it, especially in this video that you and i selected before this conversation, before this one. the conversation is viktoria amelina, who was still alive then and whom you meet at the railway

station in kherson, let's see, please, it is december 22, and pen's trip to kherson.

a collection of gramophone records, lps, so people came here to listen to this moz, it was very interesting, very useful, various poetic communities held meetings here, there was such a documents are a center of such a literary and artistic life, there were unique editions here, well, as far as i understand, rare editions... healer, at least that's what they told me, as in reality, what do you remember from

this trip, and you were a participant in it, and now i was watching these shots and realized that, in addition to the fact that victoria is no longer with us, and victoria is such a great motivator for me that these trips began, she supported me in the idea of ​​going to kharkiv, this is our... first direction, the beginning of june 22, and then victoria, since she begins to document crimes, work with trushauns, begins to write her book in english, she always tried to travel with us, and this was an interesting story, because she learned about kherson at the last moment, she was abroad on an advocacy trip, and she just writes to us there a few days before that, friends, and i have to... go to ukraine, but i want to come to you at least for one day, to be with you in kherson, and that is why

she is coming to us by train right on that day, just two days on the road, but for to be with us, she is going to kherson. victoria is not there, and there are also shots of oles gonchar's library, here in these shots it is damaged, but after that we remember that this library already last fall, in fact we say that it is destroyed, it is not just that.. . damaged, and it was destroyed by the occupiers, and what i remember about that trip, i remember, of course, a certain inner anxiety, those were very difficult days, and we know that the situation in kherson has not changed, and on that day in the city was constantly shelled, especially closer to the dnipro, and honchar's library is actually right on the shore, and literally from the windows of the library we saw another, different bank of the dnieper, on which the occupiers were standing, this feeling was just in the air, because a few days before that there had been shelling, maybe pam you see

, a supermarket in the center of kherson, and just in the air, there was such tension in the air, but at the same time i remember an amazing meeting in the shelter of the theater named after mykola kolish, and representatives of the cultural community gathered in this shelter, librarians came, people who work in museums, mostly people who stayed in the city in order to... save funds, stay, as it were, responsible for what is important to them. of course, i remember these stories, i remember these voices, i remember the librarians who, in order not to cooperate with the occupiers. mini went to work, but did not want to lose contact with readers and published books from their own home libraries. i remember what the theater experienced, i remember the story of alexander the book, and probably the biggest shock for me was, of course, the story of the art museum, the story of the museum, with which the occupiers stole most of

the exhibits and funds, this is so much a physical feeling, of a huge loss of some kind. of your culture, and also the local history museum, also next to the local history museum, we then only got into the art room, the shelling began and right next to the art museum, i remember this long conversation, i remember that we went down to the funds where the these works, it was just a feeling, as if there is a physical body of your culture, and as soon as you see how some of the organs have been taken from this body, as if it was such a great physical pain, but on the other hand, these people... we then went to the volunteers and these volunteers are also a professor of history, a scientist, people who created their volunteer community, and they continue to work, to distribute humanitarian aid , to help the military. actually, these trips, you know, on the one hand, they always have this kind of pain in them, because you listen to people, you see wounded cities, you

see damaged or stolen cultural heritage, but... on the other hand, it's every time gives strength, and strength is given by the example of these people, their history, the way they hold on, how they will continue despite everything, and to protect their cities, protect their land and develop, yes, their cities and their villages, this is such a level of strength, such resistance, that every time you come back and it's like you've been there for several days without sleep and on the road, you have the strength to move on, you know, i have the same feeling... that you have these people that we come to , and indeed the cultural communities of these front-line territories, it seems to them that we are coming, to support them, and we always tell them that it is they who support us, and i always, no matter how physically exhausting these trips are, because we always have many communities that we visit, but you arrive

physically tired , but just terribly, terribly somehow inspired by what you see. actually, well, an example of these people, yes, resilience, courage. we now watched kherson in december 2022, yes, we have another video, eh, and this video is already quite fresh, this video is two weeks old, we went to kherson with by the pen group, to open such bookshelves in shelters. just imagine that kherson, which is located behind. now all the time it is just under continuous shelling, there the local community wants to have in shelters, in the basements of their houses, at least, at least bookshelves with ukrainian literature and ukrainian-language literature. and there is such a kherson youth initiative called books in shelter, and together with these people we went not just

to the right bank of the dnieper, but also to the korabel district, where there are places to... quite dangerous, yes because of the shelling, we went to an area called ostriv, and this area is just a few kilometers from the russian position, 3-4 km, maybe 2 km, and people live there, and they want to open bookshelves in their basements houses in order to read books and have a community of their own, today these people will join and we will... listen to them separately, but here is the video that was taken, taken by this community of books in the shelter, let's let's see how they record this, this action of the transfer of pen books. hello, today i will tell you our story. to be honest, we didn't even think that this story would reach such a scale, but we are

pleasantly surprised by how people can help each other. history. creating this mini-project is quite interesting, but more on that later. yesterday was a very emotional day for our team. together with penklub ukraine and the kherson state regional administration, we visited the underground shelters located in the city of kherson and officially opened three new book shelters. this small project was the start for ours teams, in order to create much bigger and grander projects in the future. i hope that the books in... covered will help the residents of the city, who are still under fire, to stabilize their mental state and take a break from real events. i think the beginning has been made, and more to come. even such small guests were at our opening, and we sincerely hope that the book will become your safe haven. with this very project, we want

to preserve the book fund of kherson, because against the background of shelling from the russian army constantly unfortunately, the city's library is in ruins. despite everything , we were able to make a safe library. we hope people will enjoy reading books with us, exchanging and bringing. we sincerely thank ponclubbrain for the fact that you were able to visit us, also for the fact that you brought many of your books and took part in the opening of new booksellers, thank you, so you saw that volodymyr yarmolenko, the president of ukrainian peno, was on this trip, literary critic, and tetyana ogarkova, a beautiful poet, kateryna kalytko, so for kherson and for us it was very, very importantly. and we want to include kherson now, we hope that we will succeed. volodymyr klyutsevskyi, the deputy head of the kherson oda for humanitarian issues, is in touch with us.

mr. volodymyr, i congratulate you, can you hear me? yes, i congratulate you. very well heard. myroslava mr. volodymyr, first of all, we remember you and remember with admiration, and your kherson initiatives. please tell us about initiatives and promotions. which are currently being held in kherson regarding books, regarding the collection of books, and these are your wonderful ideas about vilni read ukrainian and russian book on the occupier, thank you so much for the opportunity to reveal this information, we really took the initiative before the birthday of our great kobzar. to implement a series of book promotions throughout ukraine, which was supported by the ministry of education and

science, supported by the commissioner for the protection of the state language, taras kremin, and actually everything started with the initiative project of our youth, books in shelter, who developed this project. and took the initiative to open book shelters in our warehouses in the city of kherson in order for people to be able to read ukrainian-language books, the authorities supported this initiative for us, and now we are collecting books from all over ukraine as part of the one student, one book for kherson campaign. the ministry of education and science asked all higher education institutions of ukraine for students to bring books and send them to kherson, so that we could

thus fill our shelters by creating such book shelters in the corners, because when the orcs were there, more than 150 thousand ukrainian books were destroyed, and we want to replenish these funds. uh first of all, in shelters, er, we also have an action supported and implemented and promoted by the authority to protect the state language, i.e. free-read ukrainian, which involves the collection of books for the library funds of those regions that have suffered its destruction due to the armed military russian aggression sumsk, kharkiv. zaporizhzhia, kherson, and mykolaiv regions, and we also have one within the framework of these two promotions, if people bring

russian-language books, we also take them, but we hand them over for processing, and within the framework of the promotion, a russian book on the russian occupier, we will donate to the appropriate bank. we will help the armed forces of ukraine, that is, russian-language books help our boys win this war. so, you see, from the usual youth initiative, i thank them for being caring and creative, non-standard in their decisions, we made such a large-scale campaign. thank you very much, we will now try to include these beautiful young activists from kherson, who are just now delivering books, we will try to connect them just in the process of delivery

ukrainian in kherson, volodymyr klyutsevskyi, the deputy head of the kherson oda for humanitarian issues, was in touch with us today. tanya, this is what, what mr. volodymyr is saying, these are hundreds of libraries that have been destroyed in ukraine, these are hundreds of cultural monuments, these are hundreds of some museums. the irony is that pen, the main idea of ​​pen, was based on the fact that cultural heritage and culture is a field of understanding, and it is inviolable, especially during armed conflicts, whether a warrior, eh, how people from the west react, yes , western intellectuals, the writers we bring here, how do they react to what they see in these regions of destruction? and you know, i now thought about my first advocacy trip abroad, it was may 22, america...

new york. and i remember, simply, how i was picked up at the airport by a taxi driver who just recently learned about probucha, about kyiv region. and he told me then that you know, i understood why you are so worried about what is happening in ukraine, why it is so close to us, because when i see footage from buchi or zerpenya, i recognize these houses and these streets, they are completely for me, well, even if they are american, they are mine, i understand what i see. in this footage, and that's why what i see there is so painful for me, and i can draw a parallel here, because i have a feeling that when we talk about destroyed cultural heritage, these footage, these photos, these videos, they are the same , excite and touch those people who see it, because we are all shaped by culture, we are all shaped by the space of cultural objects around us, and therefore, let's say, when these first terrible eyes appear

photographs. for example, a destroyed library in chernihiv, or when a photo of a damaged temple in kharkiv appears, i remember that our entire international community published on their websites, started various congresses and international events with these photos, because a destroyed library or a damaged temple is what resonates in everyone is what is next to you, but there is a country in europe where it is currently being destroyed, it is obvious that later... when the full-scale war has been going on for more than two years now, and when the european, international the audience saw a lot of these photos when there were more than a thousand damaged monuments, it's not hundreds, it's already more than a thousand damaged objects, and today photos or our videos, they may not work, so that people feel and understand what is happening here, so we realized quite early that it is much more important to really bring

intellectuals here. and when we bring them, we always go to kyiv region, we go to chernihiv, there are those delegations that agree to go to kharkiv, and they are really shaken by it most of all, what they see around them are destroyed houses, destroyed architectural heritage, temples, libraries, museums, and just as they are touched by people's stories, but destroyed or stolen cultural heritage is something that cannot but affect a person, because it in which is inside, yes, that is, it is a part of education, some kind of foundation on which every person stands. well, we have already seen what a destroyed culture is over the centuries, we understand what a destroyed culture leads to both in the physical and spiritual sense, and i promised that young activists from kherson, actually activists who implement this initiative of books in the shelter, will join. to

us, or we, or we can hear maryna chizhova, alita gorbanova and anton novikov. good day. anton, new, anton, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, friends, we are very, very happy to see you, today on the air, tell me, tell me, please, we have already told a little about this initiative of yours, tell me what you are doing now just at this moment and why these books for you... what does it mean to you? at the moment we deliver books already to the shelters, in which we have installed shelves, for us the project itself means saving human lives, with the help of books that people can read in the shelter, that is, the book is a kind of shelter for people. yes, and we also want to popularize it in the south.