A story about the military career of infantryman Oleksii Petrov on the occasion of the Infantry Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 

According to a decree issued by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on April 19, 2019, Infantry Day is celebrated every year on May 6. This day honors the strength of Ukrainian soldiers, their courage and bravery.

Infantry Day: the history of the military

Ukrainian Television Film Studio, 1988. 

The documentary film Heritage is about the protection of folk architecture monuments in Ukraine. The video shows the restoration of old wooden houses under the leadership of the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments. 

The film features the Prykhodko family from the village of Bubnivska Sloboda, Cherkasy region, residents of the village of Horodyshche, Chernihiv region, V. Nazarenko and S. Sytyi, and a former caretaker and guide of the house museum in the village of Moryntsi, Cherkasy region, Y. Kovbasenko. 

Poems by Vasyl Symonenko, Oleksiy Tolstoy, and Taras Shevchenko are performed. 

Reference: The aforementioned “Chumak's House” in the village of Moryntsi, Cherkasy region, is a sample of nineteenth-century folk architecture that represents a residential building characteristic of the Chumak way of life. The museum was founded in 1964. The goal is to preserve traditional rural housing, and the exhibits include authentic furniture, dishes, and other everyday items.  

"Heritage": Ukrainian folk housing

On May 2, 2014, during a patriotic march of football fans of Chornomorets and Metalist, there was a conflict with pro-Russian activists. 

The confrontation started in the center of Odesa and later moved to Kulykove Pole near the Trade Union Building, where separatists had been stationed for several months. As a result of the clashes, 48 people died and about 250 were injured.

On the video: May 3, 2014, commemoration of the victims near Kulykove Pole in Odesa, a queue at the blood donation point, footage from the hospital, comments by the SBU press service representative Kateryna Kosareva and First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Vitaliy Yarema.

Odesa tragedy: honoring the victims

Video of a teleconference between Kyiv and Minsk, April 24, 1990. Theme: “Our common misfortune is Chernobyl”, covering the problems of contamination in Belarus and Ukraine, interviews with local residents.

The presenter is Tamara Khrushch in the Kyiv studio, and journalist Pavel Shevchuk in Minsk. The program begins with footage of the beginning of the construction of the Chornobyl station and the laying of a capsule. Throughout the program, video footage is shown from the 30-kilometer zone in both Ukraine and Belarus.

The program is partially in russian. 

Teleconference between Kyiv and Minsk: 1990

May 1, 2014. A story about events in different cities of Ukraine. 

Donetsk: a pro-russian march with flags of russia and the so-called “dpr”, a rally near the police building.

Sloviansk: a pro-russian rally, people with St. George's ribbons, red flags and flags of pro-russian parties stand on the square near the Lenin monument.

Mykolaiv: pro-Ukrainian procession with flags of Ukraine, participants sing the Ukrainian anthem.

Kirovograd (Kropyvnytskyi): a peaceful demonstration, people are walking with flags of Ukraine and flowers. An orchestra is playing. Commentary by the head of the Federation of Trade Unions of Kirovograd region Sergey Petrov.

Odesa: a pro-russian rally, people are standing on the square with red flags, photo portraits of Stalin and Lenin.

Sevastopol: a procession with red flags and russian flags.

Kharkiv: a peaceful rally, people with posters, police near the regional state administration, social services workers, inscriptions on posters “We are for Kharkiv, we are for Ukraine”. A local resident comments on the situation and the mayor of Kharkiv.

Dnipropetrovs'k (Dnipro): a holiday fair, souvenir sales, the beach. Commentary by a local resident.

May 1 in Ukraine, 2014

2006, National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, program “The Country Begins with Borders” dedicated to the operational and service activities of Ukrainian border guards.

The video shows the working days and peculiarities of the border service, representatives of border services from different regions of Ukraine, border guards about new measures to protect the borders of our Motherland and rearmament of the Border Troops of Ukraine. Fragments: Independence Square, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Reserve, Motherland monument, field of ripe wheat, mountainous terrain (western border of Ukraine), border guards in the mountains, sea, warships, border guards on vacation, border post, Carpathian villages.

Comments: Head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Mykola Lytvyn; Commandant of the Rava-Ruska Border Guard Commandant's Office Oleksandr Kruk; Deputy Commandant of the Velyka Mykhailivka Border Guard Commandant's Office Yuriy Vovk; Inspector of the Krakovets Border Control Department Lesya Yavorska; Head of the Zolochiv Border Guard Outpost Pavlo Sushko; Oleh Lytvynenko, the controller of the Rava-Ruska border guard detachment; Vasyl Kondratylets, the head of the group of the separate mobile outpost of the Northern Regional Directorate; Yaroslav Paleev, the commander of the Darnytsia maritime guard boat; Yaroslav Derkach, a rifleman of the Cherkasy training border guard detachment; Serhiy Yakymovsky, the head of the Krakovets border guard outpost; and a cadet of the Bohdan Khmelnytsky National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

“A country begins with its borders”

April 30, 1997, Kyiv.

A plot about the attitude of Ukrainians to May Day. Independence Square, Khreshchatyk, stand-up journalist, people's blitz, spontaneous trade, public utilities, a guy playing bandura, Dnipro, river pier, ships, diplomas, Virsky ensemble, bandura players' chapel, folk instruments orchestra, Verevka choir singing “Many Years”.

Ukrainians about May holidays

May 20, 2009, Kyiv.

The video shows the VI specialized exhibition of complex rehabilitation for people with disabilities and the elderly “Invaexpo 2009”. Wheelchairs, rehabilitation equipment, prostheses, orthopedic shoes, etc., Valeriy Sushkevych communicates with people with disabilities, the opening ceremony of the exhibition, a speech by Ukrainian politician, president of the National Committee for Sports for the Disabled of Ukraine Valeriy Sushkevych.

Exhibition of complex rehabilitation “Invaexpo 2009”

May 20, 2009, Kyiv.

The plot about the choir of boys and young men of the Lev Revutsky Men's Choir of Ukraine on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its foundation. Rehearsal of the choir, singing on stage, participants in the corridors of the chapel. Comments: choristers Mykyta Solovyinko, Roman Tsyupa and other members of the choir; chorister and soloist Oleksii Ananov; artistic director of the Revutsky Boys and Young Men's Choir Aida Zaitseva.

Boys Choir of the L. Revutsky Chapel

July 12, 2004, Kyiv.

The video shows a picket of the russian Embassy by the All-Ukrainian Youth Organization “Youth is the Hope of Ukraine”. People with flags and banners, a toilet with the inscription “putin”, the entrance to the embassy, a poster demanding the deportation of russian political technologists, the russian coat of arms, cars with russian license plates.

Young people picket the Russian Embassy

April 30, 2018, Kyiv.

The video shows the announcement and signing of an order by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to replace the ATO format with the Joint Forces Operation in Donbas (JFO). 

Establishment of the JFO

November 6, 2007, Kyiv.

The video shows the Znannya bookstore on Khreshchatyk, which is being closed by an illegal decision of the Kyiv City State Administration. A shop window with red paint crosswise, a poster “Spiritual Holodomor” at the entrance, a man handcuffed to the door and reading Coelho, a bookstore inside, shelves with books, customers looking at the assortment, a bookstore employee showing documents for closure, police.