about the main events of this minute in our news release. in connection with the instructions of vladimir putin, the minister of defense ordered the troops to introduce a ceasefire for 36 hours from noon on january 6 to midnight on january 7 along the entire line of contact in the zone of the president’s instructions due to the fact that a large number of orthodox live in the combat areas, therefore russia calls on the ukrainian side to declare a ceasefire and give people the opportunity to attend services on christmas eve, and also on the day of the nativity of christ, the

president gave the assignment to the minister. defense. after the appeal of patriarch kirill, the representative of the russian orthodox church called on both sides of the conflict to establish a truce during one of the main orthodox holidays in the church welcomes the decision of the president of russia but, in the meantime, the zelensky regime gave the kiev-pechersk lavra to the schismatics. they will conduct the service. in the main temple. in the assumption cathedral, the canonical orthodox church of ukraine stated that the decision of the kiev regime would be a shame for the whole country, and schismatics engaged in raiding on the direct orders of the official authorities. and here is what the head of the synodal department of the russian orthodox church for relations between the church and society, vladimir legoyda, said about this. it is difficult to assess this step of the ukrainian authorities otherwise as continuing, and the strongest pressure on the believers, the ukrainian orthodox church is the only canonical one, and the orthodox church in ukraine. moreover, i can say that this,

of course, is the strongest blow in general to the religious life of ukraine, because we we see the facts when the forces selected by the schismatics temples stand here empty or half empty, therefore, in this way, driving the situation. here, at this point, which has now come, and the ukrainian authorities are hitting, as if against the ukrainian church, millions of believers who, but do not have now, cannot not have the opportunity to exercise the right to be, uh, and go to church. we are beaten in general and religious life in ukraine well, we pray, ah, that the lord will grant strength, and to believers who are subjected to such pressure today, and from believers who take away flowers. to those belonging to the canonical church i am russia recaptured. and so her formation of zelensky lost a high 250 soldiers, officers and mercenaries, including liquidated by more than fifty militants of the battalion and less than sheikh

mansour, 17 tanks and armored vehicles, three self-propelled guns, six were destroyed, howitzers were shot down by a su-25 attack aircraft blown up, two ammunition depots. well, in the meantime, kiev, the lack of real military successes, came up with another victory. he reported about the capture of the island on the dnieper, but everything turned out to be wrong . fake video with hoisting a flag, a large potemkin, independent on the island, scattered across social networks, another stuffing that the asu allegedly took control of the territory was also discussed on ukrainian tv channels in order to refute the information provocation, accompanied by russian military personnel, we leave for the safest pier to approach the boats in the best small groups so that the militants on the right bank do not notice the movement right now about the channel of the dnieper we are sailing from the left bank, kherson we are heading to bolshoi island

potemkin. positions on the left bank. our crew is covered by russian fighters. artillery infantry spetsnaz boat, along the entire route, our first-aid kit accompanies us for safety reasons for a few minutes under the dnieper, we land on the island and fortunately. we are here, we are not retreating anywhere, we are holding the defense, we are destroying the enemy’s flag in our place, the ukrainian flag, there is not and will not be here, because we are here, any attempt by ukrainian drgs to land on the potemkin coast is stopped with heavy weapons. we are now on there is a big darkness on the island, but kherson is located a few kilometers between the right and left banks, and the flag of the russian federation is flying on the island. the territory, as before, still remains under the control of the russian army. margarita semenyuk sergey truskov. ostrov, bolshoi potemkin, kherson region. i decided to disband the mission to

establish the facts of the shelling of the pre-trial detention center in yelenivka, the official version is that there is allegedly no condition for sending a mission to the scene, however, according to other sources. vaughn do not want to quarrel with states and kiev at the end of july, the formation of zelensky attacked the detention center with captured ukrainian military from american highmars rocket systems, 53 people were killed, as noted by the ministry of defense, the purpose of the shelling was an attempt to intimidate ukrainian soldiers to damn well, you will supply ukraine with weapons for another 3 billion dollars, this is about the united states. this press will include about 50 bradley bmps in the new package. the americans, by the way, they were created taking into account the combat capabilities of soviet armored vehicles, they have enhanced protection, including against mines automatic twenty-five -millimeter cannon allows you to fire in long bursts, the command of the apu announced that they were going to use these infantry fighting vehicles to break through the front line. kyiv will also receive cars.

javier a large number of missiles and ammunition. and berlin said that it would nevertheless transfer a battery of missile systems to ukraine. pat a in latvia, the editor-in-chief of the sputnik news agency was detained. lithuania marat with regards to the lawyers of the journalist, she left to be released on bail, however, the court decided to send him into custody in the russian foreign ministry stressed the baltic countries have once again violated freedom of speech and escort journalists. here is what the official representative of the ministry of foreign affairs, maria zakharova, told our channel. marat kasym has repeatedly publicly stated that he was persecuted by those same baltic regimes. he spoke about this specifically with facts openly and honestly about what is happening now. i am sure it is the revenge of these same totalitarian regimes, which have long spit on

their own obligations in every possible way, their own international legal drag rights journalists. freedom of speech. what kind of protection is there? they just openly attack everything that is connected with freedom, everything that is connected with the profession of journalists who really, and not imaginary, stand up for the truth for the search for upholding their professional point of view. and this time. they demonstrated exactly the same thing, in principle, the nationalists during sam marat obliquely repeatedly said that the special services of the baltic states constantly press him and persuade him to work for them because. he did not agree earlier, we banned entry for 5 years to lithuania, here is what marata said at the international economic forum in st. petersburg. latvia why are you working for them? well, let's talk, so

sincerely. you understand who they are it's the same, well, it's not exactly people. this is such a peculiar country orcs you would yes, for sure. i could get a good job. and here in lithuania or maybe in latvia to work for our local media. you know the latvian language perfectly. come on, just put your hand on your soul. well, that's why say but i say, listen here, the way you are behaving now. this is one more time. e causes me opposition. he's such a character. if you were, but anti-semites, for example, i would designate myself as jews in front of you. just like you are zealous russophobes, then this causes me such a counter emotion, so i will continue to behave as i mean, he said good. yeah, well, you know, you're lucky you're not a russian citizen. we'd deal with you differently now. so we just shut you down for 5 years. the british authorities decided to radically

fight strikes. rishi sun's example they are preparing a law that would allow employees to be fired for participating in wheelbarrows. in addition, the time reports that it will significantly limit the right to protest in key healthcare sectors on the railways. education of the border and fire services , a wave of strikes has swept the country amid record growth. the british demand to raise salaries for anti-russian sanctions, but the authorities and businesses refuse to do so . specialists are reduced or they themselves are fired, because the workload is colossal, in some clinics. half of the staff remained, as a result, mortality increased. and also record inflation, so that the macron would change its policy, the doctors announced a strike demand to increase the cost of a consultation, insurance and pharma companies immediately point out that they are earning

billions on this situation. in 1918, this man promised to make ukraine rich and independent, but he did not keep his word. instead, he turned the country into a german colony for 7.5 months. his reign is the germans. they took millions of pounds, grain and other goods from ukraine. as a result, instead of prosperity,

local residents got chaos, devastation and rampant banditry. after the collapse of the ukrainian state march 1918, german troops enter kiev for the first time in history, a german soldier marches along khreshchatyk, tired of the

revolutionary upheavals of the local inhabitants. they hope that foreigners will bring them peace and order, along with the invaders , members of the self-proclaimed central rada returned to kiev escaped from the bolsheviks ironically, it was the fathers of independence who surrendered ukraine to the germans in order to stay in power. the central rada lived on rosy illusions. they believed that they were inviting the friendly side, which was about to come, which means that they would drive out the reds, suppress the dissatisfied, charka would stand there under them and then dissolve somewhere. the delegation of the central rada signed a peace treaty with the germans and austrians in brest-litovsk. a few weeks before lenin and trotsky, this happened on february 9, 1918. according to a government document

the ukrainian people's republic agreed to the complete occupation of their country by the troops of germany and austria-hungary. in addition, it undertook to supply the former enemies with 1 million tons of grain, 400 million eggs, hundreds of thousands of pounds, meat, lard, butter, sugar. and the manganese ore, in addition to the corner ukrainian delegation, who concluded this humiliating deal with the germans , was the austrians, who did not finish their studies, a student born in kiev. the russian bolsheviks will sign peace with the germans on march 3, agreeing to pay a 3 billion indemnity in gold, bread, ore, and other raw materials. only in as a result of the brest peace, russia lost 27% of the territory, 26% of the population, 33% of factories, 75% of coal and 32% of the grain harvest, and

the leader of the unr and the leader of the bolsheviks needed an external force that either allowed the operation to be carried out on it, or allowed them to deal with their opponents and, accordingly, not be distracted by any foreign policy challenges. for germany, the brest peace was a real gift. 4 years of world war on two fronts exhausted the safety margin of the german economy since 1916, a rationing system for distributing products was introduced in the country. bread began to be made from potato flour , thousands of people appeared with products from various substitutes. either fake hole, the population of germany, due to total mobilization and

militarization, was fully involved in the war economy. this led to the fact that the standard of living of german citizens was continuously declining until 1918, in some regions people began to starve, which, of course, made the war very unpopular in germany . it led to the collapse of the eastern front. the february revolution and the october revolution put an end to the combat capability of the russian the army of the german coalition had a chance to seize huge stocks of food and other valuable property in the russian depths untouched by the war. here, since 1917, there was a fierce struggle for power

between the bolsheviks of several socialist parties and ukrainian-philic organizations shortly after the fall of the russian monarchy. it was headed by the famous historian mikhail grushevsky, he proclaimed a course towards the creation of a ukrainian national territorial autonomy as part of a federal russian state. but after in february 1918 the troops of the kharkov soviet republic took kiev as a member of the rada. i had to flee. the only tool to return to power they saw the german and austrian bayonets. this is how the brest treaty appeared, according to which germany and austria-hungary received

otrada the legal right to plunder ukraine in their own interests to continue the world war, they go there in order to ensure their tasks, but rejoice. in the spring of 1918, german and austrian troops occupied the entire territory of ukraine. products that could be bought here without any ration cards shocked the starving german army. each soldier of the occupying army received the right to send a parcel weighing 12 pounds or almost 5 kg to germany every week. a

professor of ethnography and anthropology from petrograd, who lived at that time in kiev. nikolai mikhailovich mogilyansky left a detailed memoir about the stay of the germans in ukraine in 1918. he wrote. it was necessary to see. with what greed the german soldiers pounced on the delicious little russian fat, eating it. here on everyone's mind is just without bread. when in a provincial town my brother offered a glass of tea with milk to a german soldier who was frozen on the night guard, a healthy fellow burst into tears, like a child, our sick children had difficulty getting milk. we haven't seen him in years," he said. general hermann von ein was appointed commander-in-chief of the german in ukraine, this is the footage of his meeting at the

kiev railway station. starting to develop a new territory, aegon very quickly became convinced that the central rada had no real power , after that he decided to act on one's own. first of all, the german commander ordered all peasants and owners of large farms to sow land on a mandatory basis. in april, he issued a second order on the creation of german courts-martial in ukraine. in response to this, on april 28, the central rada gathered for an emergency meeting to adopt the constitution of the ukrainian people's republic and elect its president. but a desperate attempt to assert their

rights to power failed. the germans have already written off rada as waste material. samo the overthrow is happy, but stretched out for 2 days. on the first day of april 28, in fact, the germans occupied the premises where the rada met, to disperse it. nobody became her. it simply means that the german lieutenant demanded the arrest of three rada ministers and the rada has the same lieutenant. here he seized grushevsky directly, and the documents. that is, it was not such a crackdown, but in general, such a resounding, slap in the face, ukrainian statehood is some kind of lieutenant. these great men are put in their place on april 29. the central joy self-destructed along with newly minted president grushevsky. on the same day, in the kiev circus of krutikov, a congress

of landowners and wealthy land owners elected a new ruler of ukraine, the hetman. pavel petrovich skoropadsky, his candidacy was approved by the german command. in reality, of course, the germans were not going to transfer full power to skoropadsky, in fact. they simply created a protectorate, where a person with such semi- dictatorial, semi-manaristic powers stood over this territory. he kept exclusively on german bayonets, he did not completely controlled and at the same time, in many respects, the policy of the gateman was very contradictory in social, cultural and in their aspects. it was not by chance that the germans made a bet on skoropadsky before the revolution. he belonged to the elite of the russian empire in 1918, he was 45 years old in public, he invariably appeared in

elegant cherkessk with a dagger and the order of st. george of the fourth degree. his family took possession of huge land plots in the poltava and chernigov provinces and was considered one of the richest little russia. petersburg porcelain manufacturer pavel petrovich skoropadsky made a brilliant career. during the russo-japanese war, to which he volunteered for participating in the hostilities of skoropadsky, he was awarded five orders and golden weapons with an inscription for courage on the eve of the first world war, he was appointed commander of the life guards cavalry regiment, promoted to major general and enlisted in the

retinue of his imperial majesty in this rare photo, skoropadsky accompanies nicholas ii during his trip to the crimea. i think pavel skoropadsky was brave, who fought for the empire in the russian japanese and in the first world war. he just wasn't in the right place. he could not resist the temptation to take power over this very ukrainian state, which , in fact, turned into a caricature. the cheerful experience of ukrainian statehood at the beginning of the 20th century, that the war of er, that the directory, that the gate of skoropadsky’s manat is one big continuous caricature. during the first world war, skoropadsky fought against the germans in east prussia for which he was awarded. order of st. george, 4th class february revolution. pavel skoropadsky met in the position of head of the thirty -fourth army corps, already being a lieutenant general of the russian imperial

army. in 1917, on behalf of the supreme commander-in-chief lavr kornilov, he carried out the formation of his corps in ukraine, turning it into the first ukrainian one . in october 1917, the chigirinsky congress of the free the cossacks elected pavel skarapatsky as their military ataman. in addition, he became the commander-in-chief of the troops of the central rada, but real water in the world between the former tsarist general and members. there has never been a self-proclaimed rada. the figures are glad he feared. they generally did not like everyone who wore shoulder straps vinnichenko called the military. eh, an officer purely

in the bolshevik way. well, he's a social democrat, and rather leftist. and all the more they feared that he would be a bonaparte there. so he's in charge of the armed forces. here he, therefore, can overthrow them. well, they were right in this case. the day after the disappearance of rada on april 30 , 1918, hetman skoropadsky addressed the people with the first grenade. in it , he stated that he took power into his own hands in order to establish order and tranquility in ukraine. the ukrainian people's republic was abolished instead, a new ukrainian state was proclaimed, all the laws adopted by the central rada were changed. the old administrative division into provinces, uyezds and volosts was being restored. all executive and legislative power passed into the hands. however, the independent

hetman's power was only on paper in the field, the real power belonged to the heads of the german garrisons and commandant's offices. in kiev itself, the hetman and his ministers were controlled by the generals eigorn and graner, the house of the former governor-general, in which skoropadsky settled with his whole family, he guarded the german ship around the clock. even at night, a german sentry stood at his bedroom door as the cornerstone of the political program. hetman, became restoration of private property rights, as well as free sale and purchase of land. this meant the dissolution of the land committees. and return to the landlords from property selected after the seventeenth year, including land, livestock and inventory. the only thing that was

unlucky for skoropadsky was his phosphorus, because his ukrainian state, as it began to be called. immediately dubbed the skoropadey. well, here, as you call a yacht, so it will float, its social support was, first of all, the bureaucracy, the landowners, and the bourgeoisie, the financiers. well, what was called kulaks, then here are the reliance on these forces. well , uh, mainly of course on the germans, because the germans pursued their own policy in ukraine, and often does not mean, do not even pay attention to the hetman's governments. on june 2, 1918, berlin officially recognized skoropadsky as the head of the ukrainian state by austria-hungary and about 30 other states that expected to snatch their share of the ukrainian loaf. according to the agreements, the hetman's power had to fully pay for the military assistance of the

german patrons of the germans themselves they were only interested in how many poods of grain and for the promised million tons they would be able to withdraw from ukraine to germany. in addition, the german troops took away property stored in the warehouses of the former southwestern front. tarpaulin tents, linen , car tires, leather, shoes, and actively exported any metal products, including door handles, samovars, and copper utensils. odessa mayor vladimir mustafin , recalling that time, wrote the germans disposed of the country as they please, regardless of governments, neither by the courts nor in general by the laws of the country, its interests and customs, the german

government intended to disguise the export of fat foodstuffs necessary for starving germany. bread and fat of dairy products in that the entire collection and withdrawal will be carried out by agents of the local ukrainian authorities, giving the character of an exchange commodity for window fabrics necessary for the country and the like. the germans supported the hetman's policy aimed at establishing the power of large landowners , since large farms it was much. it is easier to export food than from small ones. in order to fulfill the promises made to the germans, skoropadsky returned the twelve-hour working day and banned any rallies from tachka, which led to the fact that in june 1918 a general strike broke out in ukraine, in which

about 200,000 people took part. beginning in may, the country was engulfed by peasant uprisings. only to suppress the rebellious peasants of the nezhensky district of the chernigov province, the german command sent two regiments and a cavalry brig captured in captured by the insurgents, the german soldiers were shot with steamed floors or sent to forced labor to drain the swamps in poland rarely, where the germans behaved correctly in remote corners. they took everything at an arbitrary price and behaved in a rudely cynical manner and this led to conflicts that ended very tragically for the killed comrades to the germans of style.