so, we are watching yuriy andruhovych today. the first six months of the war, and the invasion of ukraine and russia, the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine, and we ask famous ukrainians what this day means to them. we start with a question to everyone equally, what is independence for you personally, i will allow myself to expand this question a little to give such a context to the 21st year on the eve of a war about which not everyone guessed. what is the greatest value for them when they talk about ukraine and uh, there were very different answers, but more than 80% of ukrainians in the east and the west said that the most indisputable value for them is the independence of ukraine, and the invasion itself showed that the war showed that these were not empty words indeed, ukrainians were ready, as it turned out, to shed blood for this independence, although probably different people put different understandings into it, i meet i meet, for example, with the opinions of volodymyr dubrovsky of the znesen group recently wrote about that if ukraine becomes nationalist, it will not be

thank you very much for this conversation with us was yuriy andruhovych and actually, we also congratulate everyone on the independence day of ukraine, which is approaching, eleven-year-old sasha marchenko, who disappeared at the beginning of march in mariupol, managed to find the boy, his uncle, who lives in the territory controlled by ukraine, the man told where is his nephew now and what horror did the child have to go through? so sashko lived in mariupol with his mother, grandmother and grandfather. when the war started, they tried to evacuate, but unfortunately they did not manage to leave the city. sometime on the 22nd, they went up to the apartment in order to take some food and take some today uh, after that there was a whistling and a strong explosion, a crash , here is the actual photo of the house where sashko lived , the explosion was very powerful and then a big fire started, they all ran together to the uh balcony before that it started very quickly, the fire was very strong. he says that it just broke out at one moment and a very strong fire started. little sashko, his mothe

there will be natalka vorozhbitele na stiazhkina, serhii zhadan, oleg kotsarev, oksana zabuzhko, yuriy andruhovychcourse. in addition to their works, i think they will also talk about ukraine, tell something, it is possible to answer the questions of people who will come there, if you want to come there and support ukrainian writers, be please register on e-e on e-e in actually, on the sites of the frankfurt book fair, you can just send an email and you will be invited, well, and about the rooster, roosters berdyansky rooster now and at the gunia brand released earrings, pendants and brooches with these roosters with the quote e-e this story acquired a symbolic meaning, the rooster together with the kitchen cap became the personification of the stability and indomitability of the ukrainian spirit. take the price from uah 4,000,200 to uah 8,800. these are the prices. i can say that after the famous photo with the roosters, even more after they were given as a gift to boris johnson, the price of the figurines themselves , not the decorations themselves, has increased on various sites, they were sold