ancestors of the participants vasyl pavlov, volodymyr skorostetskyi, volodymyr vyatrovych and maria makivnychuko take this opportunity to thank those structures that helped us to organize work at this year's viakartya forum, so thank you, the forum is being held with the financial support of the ukrainian cultural foundation, we thank the ukrainian cultural foundation and those who created it at the time, the international revival fund for all the help, and of course the literary and artistic meeting was supported by the word in the war financially, the ukrainian institute of the book, we thank the institute of the book and thank those who created it, well, what about maria makivnychuk, volunteers who help the ukrainian army and there is also a certain very clear ukrainian, a peculiarly ukrainian volunteer tradition, i think that such meetings and such discussion panels in the vaya carpathians should be held for two hours, because there is a museum of the upa hideout of the ukrainian insurgent army at the top of the fatherland, and now interest in these things has increased a lot museum, becaus

so, the word of maria makivnychuk, we have 3 minutes left. culture, modern present, hutsul culture. ah, i would like to say a few more words. to famous people, whom we should also bring to the world, because when i opened the pyotr shikrik donykkov museum, i was asked what this such, no, people did not know that it was such a pet petroshyk, in order to bring this culture of famous people to the world, we ourselves must know them, we must understand them , put monuments somewhere or there, the boards, so that we ourselves know and appreciate these people who... made our culture great, then we will be able to carry it to the world, value it, love it , and the world will then accept it. regarding our culture in the hutsul region, there is an education system , which you want to change, people are actually very flexible, yes, they want to learn, our young people are very loves and appreciates our traditions, sundays, go to church, we honor holidays, we have thunder holidays, we fast, we... believe in god, and thanks to such a firm faith, faith in

and it will work today. on the discussion panel maria makivnychuk, head of the verkhovyna goa kvitka karpat, deputy of the verkhovyna settlement council, national coordinator of the shelter of ukraine project, volunteer. well, when the armed forces of ukraine became truly the armed forces of ukraine. we understand that the process formally began in the early 1990s, but at that time the soviet army was still transitioning into the format of the ukrainian national army. this process was very difficult. quite complicated, yes, well we understand that it was difficult to do, to turn a soviet officer into a ukrainian officer, yes, but we saw that the ukrainian army matured, matured for dozens of years, so that in 2014 it became clear that our army is, ours, it is said , actually about the private ukrainian army, well, during the full-scale invasion, the russian special services simply did not expect how much ukraine... has our army, but the key story is what traditions we rely on, because very often, well, the impression was created, so that we are from the soviet army jumped into the ukr