TNS. The war in the East

‘The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi made a statement saying that Russian aggressive actions amount to the international tribunal.

The invaders’ actions against Kharkiv, Okhtyrka, Kyiv, Odesa and the rest of towns and villages amounts to the international tribunal.

We document all their crimes meticulously. If it wasn’t for our fearless defenders there would be far more of them. Our forces do a good job everyone! They disrupt the enemy’s agenda fighting off the attacks and do their job brilliantly. Really, this is a job. A tough one.” – The Ukrainian President said.

Good evening!  I am Tymur Miroshnychenko.

I am a new host of the new season of the most mysterious show in our country – “Masquerade”!

We read all your comments and messages.

So it took us the whole year to upgrade our show.

Our star casting was the coolest one ever.

The coolest star casting

They’ll show you their hidden talents.

They’ll sing, dance and even amaze you with a circus art!

We can’t wait to see the hunting parties,

Those who’ll unravel our superheroes along with you during next 8 weeks.

Are you ready to meet them?

Let’s welcome the 1^st hunting party – Yurii Tkach team!

Yurii Tkach, Masha Yefrosinina and Yuliia Savina!

Good evening!

Oh, great!

Yurii Tkach, the head of the team, he’s the most seasoned juryman.

His team was the winning one in the last season show!

Woohoo!

I have won at last and I dedicate this victory to my team!

Yuliia Savina. We remember her being a nice and sweett Drakosha! (A little dragon)

         Who’s that?

Who’s been masqueraded under the guise of Drakosha for 6 weeks?

And this is Yuliia Savina!

Masha Yefrosinina is new to our show but certainly she isn’t new to a show business.

Yurii Tkach team! – It’s the best team!

We’ll know soon whether it’s the best or not.

Let’s welcome Ihor Lastochkin team!

Ihor Lastochkin, Iryna Bilyk and Volodymyr Dantes!

Hello, hello!

Ihor Lastochkin is the head of the team.

We remember he was the last one to be unraveled in the previous season. – Yes.

Who is it? No, no! Who is it? No, no! Ihor, is it you? Come on! Yeah!

Finally, we met him!

Iryna Bilyk, Ukrainian superstar! You did us the honor to join us this season.

 I am very pleased myself. – Thank you. And Volodymyr Dantes.

We remember him from the last season as a stylish and flamboyant character.

Yes it was me.

Who’s there, who’s there? 3, 2,1!

It’s Dantes.

       

He’s still under guise!           

What do you think? Who will win this season?

That will be us! – We’ll win! Sure thing! – We’ll be the winners!                          

                                                                       

Lightning never strike twice in the same place so thanks for your last season’s victory, Yura.

This time it’s our turn to win.   

Yura can hit 3 times and it will be OK!

Dantes, you won almost all the spring shows!

Together with Lastochkin.             

Calm down! Let us win please!     

I brought here such a beautiful girl as Iryna Bilyk.

For the 1^st time.

She’s here for the first time.

It’s for the 1^st time in any years.

Welcome!         

What kind of people are you if you don’t want Iryna win?             

I have to win a little this season!

Let’s say “yes” to Iryna and “no” to the rest of you. – OK.

The rules are a great deal simpler this season but you’ll enjoy the show twice as much.

Every performance will present 5 superheroes. – Yes.

Just after the performance, we’re going to unravel them.

And not 1 but 2 of them! – Wow!

                 

Yes! – It’s interesting.

And the teams will decide themselves who is to be discovered.

After the competition between the teams and this is for the audience

to decide who’s the winner, the winning team can choose 2 superheroes to discover.

If you guess right, you get your 10 points and move forward.

If not, you get 0 and it’s a go for the other team.

3 of the superheroes will perform the next time.

The team, which will guess more superheroes than the other one, scores the most and wins the show.

Is everything clear? – Yes it is.

Let’s start then. You have to make sense of it because the time is now.

Are you ready for our first superhero?

Yeah! – At last!

It took more than 2K feathers to make his mascot costume.

You have to see this.

Welcome to our stage a Parrot! – Wow! Just imagine!

Parrot from Rio

2k feathers! - A Parrot?

OMG! – Wow! - What a Carnival! - That’s crazy!

Rio de Janeiro! – Louder pls!

You’re handsome, beautiful!

While you stare at his costume being totally stunned I’ll give you the 1st clue.

This colorful Parrot, a seducer from Rio, lives at everybody’s home.

You could hear and see him after uncovering his cage.

Back in the day he was a dance champion at his university.

So we begin with a dance and invite you to a Carnival!

The Parrot appears on the big stage for the 1^st time ever!

Start guessing!

A dance champion. Maybe it’s some Vlad Yama. – Or maybe it’s Zelenskyi?

Well it’s a male. – I’d like to see the President in this show!

Wow! – Hoa!

Stop!  OMG! – Wow!

It’s not Vlad Yama! – It’s not Vlad!

How interesting!

Wow! Oh!

This is a real festival!

Wow! Oh! Ho!

Bravo!

Wow! – OMG, it’s so cool! – That’s swell!

That’s fantastic!

It’s a great beginning! – It’s totally cool! – Bravo!

Ho! Another round of applause! That was a Parrot from Rio!

It couldn’t be better for the beginning of the 2nd season!

It was a real Carnival! The Parrot from Rio!

That’s really cool! – Bravo! – It’s incredible! That gave me the creeps.

The Parrot. Let’s hear from this bright, colorful Parrot how it feels to open a season, the 2^nd season of the “Masquerade”.

Well my good and nice folk. Have I shown you who’s a real festival here, haven’t I?

Who’s the sexiest person on the1plus1 TV channel?

It’s only me being the sexiest and the most handsome Parrot.

And I know for sure you won’t be able to unravel me.

I have no idea. – This is it. You confused us!

I’d like to say the performance was incredible. It was cool.

It was fantastic! Bravo! – That was good indeed.

That was an admirable discovery for the show.

Because it was the Carnival. First I took it for Amador Lopes with his Rumbero’s group.

Because he…- He performs this way.

He performs exactly this way.

He speaks Ukrainian very well so…-Without a foreign accent.

There’s no an accent.

But he was short of breath a little. – Yeah.

It means he’s not a dancer.

When the Parrot appeared, we thought it could be Vlad Yama. – Yes.

Then, from the Parrot’s moves, we realized it wasn’t Yama.

It’s certainly a man. – Without any doubt.

I see the biceps. Yes.

In addition, the man is… - The man is in a very good shape.

Wait! – He’s physically fit.

Maybe it’s not the shape. Maybe it’s due to the feathers. May I come nearer?

So that I could see his shape from the close distance.

Just to compare one’s expectations with the reality.

What do you say, girls? – Sit down, Yura!

He looks now as if he’s your girlfriend.

Well… - We suggested earlier that it was Siniechkin.

Because when you uncover the box in the morning, Sieniechkin is like “Hey!”

I have an idea. You know what? It could be Slava Diomin.

He is in every house, every day, it means on TV.

You got embarrassed a lot and need a hint. Listen!

I am a feast. I am the Amor and every senhorita’s dream!        

Do you want to unravel me? Si.

I would think it was Lastochkin!

How do you manage doing this?

Here’s a clue. I like an entertaining life.

Let me admit without a false modesty that beautiful birds admire me.

My handsomeness and charisma drives them crazy. And I like this.

I can seduce every one of them.

I chatter with them telling different stories on weekends.

And they don’t take their eyes off me.

Tabloids recently have alleged I had an affair with the Golden firebird. It pleased me.

But I shall say no more. Well I couldn’t ignore such a bird though I was at work.

We’llLet’s not tell about it. – Let’s keep it in secret so far.

Only here I will admit to the entire country.

Let’s present other versions.

My heart is free right now. Every girl has a chance to gain it.

Well, did you recognized me?

Maybe it’s Oleh Vynnyk? – Things happen.

Look, he’s so sexy!

Maybe it’s… He dances and sings!

Maybe he’s a lovey of our…

Whom was he in relationship with? – Of our brilliant Iryna Bilyk?

I didn’t read tabloids in a long time. Is it Koliadenko?

It seems to me that team knows! - They know something! – What?

So what is your take? That’s over!

Golden firebird.

Our release-of-the-day is…  Go ahead, Yura!

It’s Dima Koliadenko! – Dima Koliadenko.

Dima Koliadenko. We heard your version. We heard the cluefro the Parrot as well.

I heard you had some assumptions, Ira.

When Dima Koliadenko steps on this stage…

She’ll guess him! – I will tell you it’s him even with his legs and arms covered!

It’s a fact! Exactly! -  I will tell you right away it’s Dima  Koliadenko!

You’ve seen him in all kinds of ways.

I’d like asking this charming bird whether we danced together in “Dances with stars” show?

I’d love to a lot but it’s a pity I was at my vacations then.

You mean it’s Dikusar . – So it’s not Dikusar.

This Parrot’s moves resemble me somebody with fair hair Kravchuk.

L-Kravchuk? – Yes.

I think it’s not him.

Who is the host of the morning show? The actor Sashko. Oleksandr, the actor.

Look I have the assumption. You said he is at the every house.

I hear our colleagues’ version.

Don’t treat us this way! – Don’t make up to us!

…That it could be Sieniechkin. Could I make the eyeball estimate of your height?

Because if it’s Sieniechkin… - No it’s not him for sure.

Closer. – I don’t think so.

It’s not my version I supposed earlier. – What version was it, Vovchyk?

My guess was it could be the morning show host not on TV channel but on the radio. Macho and seducer

His name is Slava Diomin. But Slava Diomin…

He’s tall! – Yes! That’s why I approached him! They used to say he had the affair with the Firebird.

That’s right.

But the height doesn’t consist.

I can help you. I know every one of those who’re inside the costumes this season.

So I can give you one more clue.

Being a real macho and seducer the Parrot is not only a great

dancer and a lover of woman. It makes sense.

He also likes cooking for them. Start guessing.

Look everything points at Sieniechkin.

Sieniechkin.

No there’s Sasha, a very handsome host of the morning “Breakfast” show.

You forgot about Klopotenko.

Still I’d like to hear the explanation of Lastochkin team.

As for Klopotenko he’s a macho indeed.

Who’s the Parrot?

Let it be Klopotenko for now.

Klopotenko. So Yurii Tkach tean thinks it’s Dima Koliadenko.

I think it’s Sasha.

While Ihor Lastochkin team thinks…

To make rhyme we think it’s klopotenko!.

It’s Yevhen Klopotenko!

Let’s hear it once again!

It was the incredible and flamboyant Parrot from Rio! Thank you!

Bravo!

We thank him and bid farewell.

Look at him walking! Cha-cha 1, cha-cha 2.

The dance is not bad. – That is samba!

Maybe we’re going to find out the personality under the guise of a Parrot at the end of the program.

After all the performances of all our superheroes.

4 more superstars will perform later.

Which of them are to be unraveled – it’s for the teams to decide.

Now let’s meet the next intergalactic star.

It’s mystical and dangerous Gorgon Medusa!

You can’t look at her! – Yes! Let’s not look into her eyes!

Wow! – Holy mama mia!

Just look at this!

What a beauty!

How did you do it?

I start feeling this power!

Well take a close look at her and listen to my clue.

This mythical maiden terrifies you.

They adore and hate her because she’s a person of natural gifts.

They are jealous of her success and happiness.

She succeeded in all the spheres.

But few are aware she’s an opera genius.

Just imagine she has a vocal range of 5 octaves.

She’ll present them now.

5 octaves? – There’re few people in our country with 5 octaves.

She looks strangely at me. Maybe she’s one of my rivals.

It’s Poliakova or Dzidzo.

I beg your pardon but Olia Poliakova is bigger a little in…

Haitana! – Haitana! Exactly!

We said that!

Wow! – OMG! How beautiful!

It’s Jamala! – Asiia Akhat!

That’s right!

Yes!

Bravo!- It’s just incredible!

Bravo! – Bravo!

It was the Gorgon Medusa!

Yeah! - Yippee!

My skin crawled with excitement! It’s so great! The Gorgon Medusa!

The intergalactic star. That’s true.

How do you feel about our “Masquerade” show?

I used to perform on the different stages but this stage is very spectacular.

Well we can’t guess by the voice.

Don’t look in my face!

I can turn you into the pink stone!

Do as you like if I could go along with you on a tour.

You were charming.

That’s true. By the way, all the superheroes use their own voices while singing.

Of course, we changed them a little now.

Well, our teams, what do you say? Lastochkin! Your assumptions?

The event was excellent! 5 octaves.

We were considering some options.

I have a question. Have you ever visited me at home?

Whoops!

Many serpents used to visit you.

I am not the first and not the last among them.

The answer is “yes” then.

Many serpents.

In that case, I can guess you right away.

I used to visit you as well.

Asiia Akhat. – Asiia Akhat.

Asiia is a brilliant violinist. But she doesn’t have 5 octaves for sure.

She could do opera singing.

Pease! 5 octaves? How many octaves do you have?

Surely not 5. 3.5 I think.

3.5. Jamala says she has 4. – Jamala has more than that.

Maybe your last name is “River?”

I am the sea, the river and the ocean at the same time.

It’s important that your heart wouldn’t become a stone.

I can’t take my eyes off you!

Listen to the clue from the superhero.

I am a monster. So what? No ugliness at all.

My name is famous all over the world.

I am Medusa. I am the most famous in the Gorgon family.

Gorgon, Gorgon!

Do you hear that? My snakes are whispering my first clue now.

Close your eyes and try to guess right.

I used to live on the island near the mysterious ocean.

The rulers were always afraid of us, Gorgons

and were trying to drive us away as if we were some crackenes.

Fight for freedom of the monsters and our traditions made my scale unbreakable and my clutches sharper than a blade.

Sharper than a blade, sharper than a blade.

But I am not alone at this battlefield.

When I sing I hear the voice of my ancestors. Guess me!

Well you heard the clue. Lastochkin team says this is…

The idea Medusa has implied…I know you think about this as well…

It was before the hint!

Perhaps it’s Jamala but I know this show.

You’re so good at confusing people!

You lead us down the unknown paths!

Iryna thinks it’s Asiia Akhat, I thought it was Yevheniia Vlasova.

Well.

Ah, you mentioned that river. – She has a wide vocal range.

She’s a fantastical singer!

But because of the recent clue I think it’s Jamala.

Your thoughts, Tkach team?

Please tell me Gorgon. We used to meet and be the rivals with some person in a number of shows not once.Medusa Gorgona

But that rivalry was a source of pleasure and pride.

Did we compete with you in some shows?

Don’t think of me as Tina Karol.

I’ll give you 1 more clue.

Although she was a monster, Gorgon  Medusa still has found her love. Who is it?

Gorgon do you have kids? – How many?

I am a mother of many children.

You gotta be kidding me! – Medusa with many children.

Here we go again!

I thought it was Jamala but...- Is it 3 and more?

But she has 2 kids!

A family is considered to be multi-child in Ukraine…

With no less than 3 kids. – With 3 kids.

Being the author of her songs, she could think of them as children.

It’s Karol? – She is in the show…

“The voice. Children”? – Yes.

It could be Nadia Meikher.

Nadia Meikher is doing opera singing now!

How many children has Nadia?

Nadia has 3 kids.

This is Meikher.

Have you lost some weight, say, 10-15 kilo recently?

This question is so awkward that I can just turn you into a stone!

Calm down girls, don’t bicker. Everything is OK!

Are you making a scandal now or what, Medusa?

All my life is a scandal.

All her life is a scandal.

We know already…

Dear friends, our hunting parties, what’s your final reply?

Let it be… - Jamala!

Jamala.

Your version is Asiia Akhat.

Karol. – Karol!

Tina Karol? – Yes!

Very well! We heard you.

Let’s say good bye to Gorgon Medusa with a storm of applause!

Mother of many children.

I was confused by this fact. – They did this on purpose!

Tina’s released the song “A scandal” recently.

I don’t understand anything at all.

We got great answers from our teams. First we heard the name of Asiia Akhat.

Then they changed it to Tina Karol.  

And you think it’s Jamala!

Exactly.

What about our audience?

Who is closer to the truth?

Who votes for Yurii Tkach and his team?

Thanks a lot.

These claps are in the favor of Yurii Tkach and his team version.

Those ones are for Ihor Lastochkin team version.

Perhaps at the end of the show we’ll find out who is hiding under Gorgon Medusa outfit.

The winner of the team competition would get the right to choose 2 superheroes they recognized.

This will be later.

Meanwhile we have to meet 3 more outstanding superheroes.

The next hero stands for our national character.

It’s the unbelievably fancy handcrafted outfit.

Get ready being astonished.

Because Mavka steps on the stage!

Wow!

A wizardess.

Mavka.

Wow!

She’s so nice!

Wow!

I want the same costume! – What a beauty!

She’s marvelous!

As usual, I’ll give you a clue while you’re looking at her.

Mavka! She’s an eco-friendly wild beauty of a girl.

She fights against global warming.

Few people know she’s a multi-instrumentalist by avocation.

Today Mavka will play her first live concert.

Try to guess her! Good luck!

Mavka

Multi-instrumentalist.

Timosh or…

Multi-instrumentalist.

Onuka?

Let’s check it out.

Onuka is eco.

What a doll!

I think I know who it could be. Katia Chili.

Katia Chili. – Maybe.

Bravo! – Bravo!

Bravo!

It was Mavka!

It’s delightful!

It’s very beautiful indeed!

She conjured up a rain on our stage!

Like a fairy tale! Very nice!

Mavka played live to start with.

Playing live was her condition.

One could see that.

Right now on this stage!

Good for her!

Bravo!

I never heard our legendary song “Chervona ruta” sound like this.

It’s magical.

Mavka breathed a new life into it!

Tell us how it feels to perform on our stage.

I was sleeping. Who woke me up?

We did it. – It was us.

Excuse us, we didn’t want to.

I am fascinated with this forest, this sky and stars.

I am stand listening to the spring.

I am Mavka. Don’t you recognize me?

Me? I have some assumptions. May I?

Go ahead.

It’s the most fabulous event today.

The most charming. – It’s incredible.

The most entrancing.

Our beautiful Mavka told us her love story with Lukash who betrayed and abandoned her.

I know several female multi-instrumentalists but not all of them personally.

I know Onuka, Jerry Heil.

Only these girls prefer using electronic things more.

Look there’s some electronic thing there.

Only one. There’re mostly genuine, acoustic instruments there.

Did we meet face to face at least once?

Nature inspires me.

Her lips are moving.

I hear different voices.

I can communicate with you as well.

I don’t know. I am not sure.

Do you want a clue?

Yes we do! – Yes!

Right.

Listen then.

Oh my mountain, I will be fine here.

If you want to catch the forest Mavka, just listen to the hint.

I am the forest Mavka of Ukrainian origin.

Remember how the wind plays with tree branches,

How the tired leaves and spring grass whisper.

Ruslana? – 100%.

I am a musical director of all these things. Oh dear! I am in love with woods!

I know!

In those fast waterfalls.

I recognized her!

My nature inspired even Lesia Ukrainka to write her ever-living creation.

Each and every school goer knows me.

Immerse yourself into the fairy tale.

You’ll guess it soon.

Do you have any ideas? Come on.

Tell me pls Mavka.

It seems to me I meet you in the forest sometimes when we go for a walk.

Do you like jogging almost every day?

You cover very many kilometers.

I like to fly above the forest.

Be careful. I can practice witchcraft.

Why everybody wants to enchant me today?

My soul flies. I feel the sky with the stars and fall asleep. And fly.

It means she’s running.

She flies.

I used to see Ruslana in the forest.

I walk looking like a polar bear in my down parka and sock cap.

Do you live in the forest as well?

Yes, we live in the forest. – No more questions then.

It’s 15 centigrades below zero and she runs wearing an U-shirt.

Her good-looking arms, legs land abs. It’s Ruslana!

Don’t you think it’s too easy?

I know another performer of that type. It’s Katia Chili.

Katia is such a delicate girl I think. She’s frail.

Have you ever taken part in the “Voice of a country” contest?

I am the voice of everything. I was, I am and I will be.

She said she used to be in the “Voice”.

Katia Chili was there!

If Lyzhychko played these things, she would use that in her concerts.

But I didn’t see it.

She could. Ruslana always… - She could learn…

I understand now why I am in a women team!

She could have learned! – They will gobble me up!

Well, Yurii Tkach team, your final version.

Let’s do it this way.

Who is it?

I see you are not for Chili.

My choice is Ruslana. – I think it’s Chili. And you’ll have to choose.

Why? No!

Let it be Ruslana! – Let’s choose Ruslana.

Let it be Ruslana!

So Ruslana. We heard you. Now Ihor Lastochkin team.

Who is this Mavka?

As the head of the team I’d like some of you to decide.

Let it be Katia Chili.

I agree.

OK, we heard your versions. So Yurii Tkach team thinks it’s Ruslana.

Ihor Lastochkin team thinks it’s Katia Chili!

Chili!

We’re grateful to Mavka!

You’re so obvious.

That’s what I said.

Let’s do it once again.

She’s confusing us.

That was Mavka! Put your hands together for her! Thank you!

You can’t do this! It’s not fair!

Lastochkin, let’s discuss this as heads of the teams!

They just make us fail!

She said we didn’t guess, but I think we guessed somebody for sure.                          

Look at her walking and moving. It’s Katia Chili.

The applause sound thunderous!

You heard our teams’ versions. Who’s closer to the truth?

Tkach team with their version.

Ruslana! – Ruslana.

No, they don’t think so!

Or the team of Lastochkin with Katia Chili?

Look, Tymur!

Look this wing is for you and this one is for you. 50-50.

We’ve already seen 3 superheroes. There’re 2 more left.

Welcome at our scene the Egyptian Goddess – Female cat.

Wow! – I can imagine that!

Female cat

Wow!

Wow! Listen to the clue while you’re looking at her.

She holds the top position among all the cats.

The entire world including the Queen of Great Britain gave her a standing ovation for her talent.

Today she’ll make you wild.

Meet the Circus Art star, the Egyptian Female cat! (38.58)

It’s certainly some female athlete!

She’s 100%a sportswoman. – A female Gymnast.

A gymnast. Rizaddinova.

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переможцем автоперегонів став депутат міськради

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