for this conversation petro burkovskyi executive director of the democratic initiative fund, i am ilka kuchereva, god did not talk with us about how radically , absolutely radically, in a year, the views of ukrainians on such things as healthy nationalism, the figure of bandera, and the attitude towards ukrainian of the orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate, where ukrainian in this word combination still remains under a big question. and this still needs to be carried out to such radical changes, in fact, and it is the war that incites, besides, the great war opens new and new heroes among ukrainians, they put the interests of the country above their own, they liberate the occupied lands and all for the sake of returning the life that was taken away from us - the russians take away the story of a marine who from the first days stood on the defense of mariupol and passed the russian our anna morozova is ready to tell about the captivity and with the beginning of the russian-ukrainian war in 2014, maksym has been a marine for 8 years , his main profession is military now, this is my

interlocutor today is maria zolkina , an analyst at the democratic initiatives foundation named after ilkangratulations . thank you very much for joining today's program. i am waiting for your professional answers that will allow me to understand the questions that for me personally and for my viewers sometimes seem difficult to understand. i already have some with mr. mykola spoke about the referendums that took place, the so-called referendums that took place in the territories that russia now considers its so-called own . ms. maria please tell me what we need to prepare for, what we need to wait for. in the coming weeks, maybe months, it is obvious that this will be a victorious advance of the armed forces of ukraine, but what else we need to wait after that. well, we have to understand that russia has actually used all its diplomatic, economic, military, and blackmail methods not only of ukraine in order to force ukraine to cooperate with russia, but also the tools with which it could pressure the west, and therefore, in fact, russia only had the only argument on which they now emphasi

interlocutor today is maria zolkina, an analyst at the democratic initiatives foundation named after ilkary much for joining today's program. i am waiting for your professional answers that will allow me to understand the questions that, well, for me personally and for my viewers, sometimes seem difficult to understand. on the territories that russia now considers to be its so-called own please tell me, taking into account everything that happened after the referendum with the recognition of its so-called results by putin, then the so-called the annexation of these territories to russia ms. maria please tell me what we need to prepare for, what we need to wait for in the next weeks, maybe months, it is obvious that this will be a victorious advance of the armed forces of ukraine, but what else do we need to wait for after that? well, we have to understand that russia has actually used already all their diplomatic, economic and military methods and blackmailing not only ukraine in order to force a victory not with russia, but also the tools with which it could put pressure on the west and

internet, petro burkovskyy, that means the director of the democratic initiatives foundation named after ilkade of ukrainians to their soviet past, to what extent is the attitude to the processes of decommunization changing, to what extent is the attitude to those who, for ukrainians, were initially associated with soviet history changing, to what extent? as with the enemies of ukraine, with the advisers of ukraine, er, and now that we are reclaiming our history and the true, true history, so to speak, er, these people who are the personification of the struggle for ukraine, how much will the attitude to what nationalism is also change actually, let's talk about it well. that is, we conducted a study, it was part of a larger one, there were many questions, and one of the blocks was canceled , we wanted to see how it actually was. the hypothesis was that the war had a significant impact on the assessment ukrainians of the soviet heritage, where we remember that the soviet heritage is one of those points of the kremlin that they used to justify aggression both inside the country and in the west