analogies with modern ones. of the russian-ukrainian war, and we will do it with our guest, this is volodymyr birchakstorian and sergeant of the armed forces of ukraine, head of academic programs of the liberation movement research center. volodymyr, congratulations. congratulations. so, our modern russian-ukrainian war, many historians draw analogies with the first world war. even yaroslav hrytsak called this war the first world war with drones. how appropriate it is to say so, how similar is this war and the first world war. well, i really agree here in certain moments, but most likely i do not support this thesis and this statement, because it is actually completely different wars first, well, i read gretsek's theses, why he thinks so, well, that is, the fact that during the first world war, in fact , everything there revolved around ukraine, and well, now the modern russian-ukrainian war, which, well, it is still obviously not the paraslavs. war, but everything is equal, that is, there are spheres of influence, say, there are the 404 countries, iran, china, and others, their allies, and there are

to an end, i will tell you one more such moment from your biography, if you google the name volodymyr birchakinformation that i was born in 1881 , i was very well preserved, yes, but your picture, and it says that you are a ukrainian writer, a literary critic, a soldier of the ukrainian sich riflemen, er, this is a relative, this is a relative, but in him, well, firstly, that he is a distant relative, that is, i researched his biography, i have an archival and investigative file, because he was once detained in was detained in prague, then imprisoned by the nkvd, but in our with him, apart from the fact that we are relatives, we have several things in common, he is a soldier of the ukrainian armed forces, i am a soldier of the armed forces of ukraine, in principle, two or two of two formations that fight for the freedom and independence of ukraine, and... he, like me, was once an archeologist, he's actually a cooler archeologist than me, although i also did archeology, well, i'm not a writer, i am actually a historian, although he is also a historian, as it is, and we also have a similarity,

historical analogies of the modern russian-ukrainian war, and we will do it with our guest, this is volodymyr birchakstorian and sergeant of the armed forces of ukraine, head of academic programs of the liberation movement research center. volodymyr, congratulations. congratulations. so, our modern russian-ukrainian war, many historians draw analogies with the first world war. even yaroslav hrytsak called this war the first world war with drones. how appropriate to say so, how similar there is. from this war and the first world war.

volodymyr birchak, volodya for me, or i know volodya a little longer, when i asked how to introduce youered me: you can just be a sergeant of the armed forces of ukraine, but from civilian life, a historian, archivist, head of academic programs of the research center. liberation movement, you can also mention that the editor of the historical truth, if not too much, i believe that it is not too much, and there are still many different pages from your life that we will remember today, and i also want to tell our viewers that i actually know volodya so closely from the summer of 2021, a little more than six months remained before the full-scale invasion, and we just worked with volodya in the same documentary project, 10 days of independence, where i was one of the screenwriters, and volodya was... my consultant and actually explained, what and why, how everything happened in the last 100 years in the history of ukraine and why we chose these 10 days of independence, because these are the days when ukrainians gained independence and gained statehood over the centuries, but then something