analyze the main events of this week that happened in ukraine, while we talk with our guests, vasyl pavlov, military historian, head of the expert group on internal communications. directorate information policy in the field of defense and strategic communications of the ministry of defense of ukraine. congratulations mr. vasyl. good evening. well, let's start with avdiyivka, because what is happening around avdiyivka right now is precisely, by the way, in your direct specialty, a military historian, these wave offensives, when they retreat, then advance again, remind me very much of soviet military tactics during the second world war, when it was just soviet generals and marshals, who would later be called marshals. so waves and waves of troops were sent and not looked at the victims only to fulfill the tasks of the political leadership, is it similar to avdiivka now, isn't it? here, the events around avdiivka can be combined with a whole series of events during the second world war on the eastern front, or with, say, such a well-known event as the battle for rzhev, where the soviet troop

while we will talk with our guests, vasyl pavlov, military historian, head of the expert group on internalmunications, directorate of information policy in the field of defense and of strategic communications of the ministry of defense of ukraine. congratulations mr. vasyl. good evening. well, let's start with avdiivka, because what is happening around avdiivka right now is just, by the way, special on your line. military historian, these wave offensives, when they retreat and then advance again, remind me very much of soviet military tactics during the second world war, when just soviet generals and marshals, who will later be called marshals of victory, waves, waves, er sent troops and did not look at the victims, just so that fulfill the task of the political leadership, it is similar to avdiivka now, or not so much, events here. around avdiivka can be combined with a whole series of events during the second world war on the eastern front, or with, say, such a well-known event as the battle for rzhev, where the soviet troops for almost 14 months attacked a small area precisely with wave

this is what we will talk about further, and now vasyl pavlov, the manager, is in direct contact with us of the expert group on internal communications of the ministry of defense of ukraine. mr. vasyl, good morning, good night to you, thank you for joining us at this hour. good morning. mr. vasyl, yesterday, it was built around what from. was happening in israel, despite our own war, we here in ukraine closely followed everything that was happening in israel, and maybe it is connected with the fact that our country is at war, but all that we saw in telegram channels, on television, it really resonated with us, please tell me, what was your reaction from a professional point of view and from a human point of view? well, from a professional point of view, it's such a typical gray... gray crest, it's such a phenomenon that is the counterbalance to the so-called black swan, that is, it's what everyone expects, but when it happens, nobody knows about it is ready, that is, everyone knew that there would be another escalation in the middle east, everyone knew that it could happen at any mome

within the via-karpattia forum strong with the experience of the ancestors of the participants vasyl pavlovostetskyi, volodymyr vyatrovych and maria makivnychuk, i would like to 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

one of the very distinct forms of the ukrainian state in particular, so without a doubt that, vasyl pavlovmilitary historian, head of the expert group of internal communications at the ministry of defense of ukraine, we just talked about history, this is how volodymyr vitrovych succeeded. to beat is almost incomprehensible, yes, because we are talking not only about ukrainian tradition, but about ukrainian traditions, but the key story is our current one, so what are the current ukrainian military traditions, how they are formed, where they come from, were taken and on that they were impressed and are amazing, an extremely complex and interesting topic, the topic is really extremely complex and interesting, i will try to combine in my speech... let's say theoretical points, purely practical examples of how it really works, how it happens in reality, and why in in february, march, april of the 22nd year, the russian army was actually shocked by those units that offered it the greatest resistance, in what way is this connected with the ukrainian military tradition, but at first this is just