Andriy Jedzhula about war, volunteering and relationships with children: exclusive focus interview

In an exclusive interview with Fox, Andriy Jedzhula told why he decided to join volunteer activity and how to combine his new life in a volunteer battalion, which stands for the protection of the Kiev sky, with work on television. And also about how his 15-year-old son decided to live with him in Ukraine despite the fact that the country was going on a war and whether he managed to establish a relationship with his daughter, who was taken by his ex-wife to Poland.

First of all, I position myself a patriot who did not leave Kiev from the first day, defended it, and now - protects the Kiev sky and loves Ukraine from the first stones. The second is a volunteer. And the third is an actor, a TV and an absolute champion with all charitable auctions and concerts in Ukraine during the war. In addition, I am almost a professional donor. I am 6 hours on the air on the TV channel "Kyiv 24" - the leading news.

In the format, the infotament has the opportunity to comment, talk about events in Ukraine and the world. It attracts our viewers. I really like that we can talk to the authorities about things as they are, as much as possible without censorship. I consider it an incredible opportunity for the presenters to realize myself. I am almost weekly protecting the Kiev sky. Our goals are "Shahda", "Geranium" and so on.

I have gone through special training and is now a volunteer for the formation of territorial defense. There are completely different people, different professions: from a lawyer and a taxi driver, to a realtor or a truck driver. I continue to conduct charitable auctions, concerts and continue to work in my field as a professional presenter. My father has not worked for many years in Russia, call things with your names. He worked in the Soviet Union, in the territory of modern Russia. Yakutia.

In the north, where it is difficult to work, where Ukrainians worked mostly: people who are able to work in quite difficult conditions. In distant Taiga settlements, where it is literally two months of heat and the rest is a solid cold. Yes, he found an annexation of Crimea in 2014 and called it "a knife in the back. " That year, his father perceived very emotionally and no longer communicated with Russia for the rest of his life.

And somewhere I am glad that he did not see a full -scale invasion of Ukraine. You know, I grew up and changed my attitude to life. In particular, I decided that I would not comment on privacy issues. I changed a lot and made conclusions. And he decided that the private should remain private. Still, everyone is learned later. Two children. Senior Daniel, he recently turned 16. Adel is soon 4 years old. As for communication, the son lives with me now. This is his conscious decision.

He came to me in his 15 years and 24/7 is under my supervision and upbringing. Apparently, there was a moment when only the mother's attention is not enough and the attention of the father is needed. Parental education. Now we are preparing it for real life. To what a man should be. He learns a lot and "grabs". I teach him quite democratic. At the same time, I can say that it is a rather strict education. It has both responsibilities and bonuses. And he comes up with his punishment for himself.

He knows what can happen and tries not to take some steps that will have consequences. I raise my son as much as possible in male format. He is a good guy: he goes in sports in the three -headed hall, walks on karate and chess. We are friends with him. I even more took over the role of an older brother, whom he never had. We can talk about everything with him or discuss it. He now has many teenage questions. He speaks in English, began to teach German and second beloved dad, this is Spanish.

This is his strength. Wherever he is, he quickly grasps the language of the terrain and begins to speak. If you have adult children, about 14-17 years old, then you have to know-this is a difficult period. Many interests and views are changing. And all this time you have to be close to miss calls and changes to some wrong side. We all have good with this: Daniel Patriot, able to think in a non -linear way, learns to be as democratic, tolerant and hardworking boy.

I communicate with Adel three times a week. These are fixed times that I have by court decision. These days I choose myself: how comfortable it is for me and the child, not to spoil her schedule. Most often, we communicate at the same time when it returns from the garden. We communicate with a video where we can watch cartoons, play games, dance, get sick. Sometimes she is without mood and we can not talk. It happens from one minute to, my record, an hour of fifty of our communication.

That is, keep the contact as much as possible. We have a very difficult relationship with her mother. And in this situation, the distance is not easy. Such as the parents should be informative. We take care of and consult about certain moments regarding Daniel. That is, it is a relationship that should have parents who do not live together for a long time and when everyone has their own lives. The main thing that connects us is a common child to take care of.

With the mind, with the desire not to spoil the relationship, but to the contrary - to improve. Everything is in the interest of the child. Currently, relationships are quite constructive and related to the upbringing of the child. As for my daughter's mother. Small clarification: since the marriage, Julia Leus has taken the name of Jedzhula, with whom he lives so far. Other she uses as a nickname. I am married to Yulia Stasyuk. If we use factor data, then Julia Jedzhula.

I do not have a relationship with Julia Jedzhula, we can call them "no". A small prehistory for people to have an understanding of what is happening. Two years ago, after many obstacles and inability to communicate with my daughter, made artificially her mother, Julia Jedzhula, I was forced to consult a care organ at the baby's place of residence. It was a guardian council, which gathered twice and twice sided with his father and common sense.

But she gave me the opportunity three times a week to communicate with the baby in her territory without the presence of my mother. From 3:00 pm Sunday, by 15:00 Wednesday can stay with the father without the mother. Although I did not fully exercise this right and came only in my own days, because there were many different reasons. I came all the circles of hell. However, there were some problems with this decision. Adelle did not agree.

Therefore, she herself sued me not to comply with the decision of the Board of Trustees. There was a counterclaim from my lawyers so that she still enforced this decision. In the end, both courts on the same topic, Darnytskyi district, lost. The court awarded me the opportunity to see Donma for three days. This is absolutely for European rights and canons: to see my baby without a mother's presence. Completely equal, staggered, they divided all holidays and vacations.

And if it were not for the war, it would be great. The previous courts lasted two to three hours of discussion. Because this is an important issue is not property issues, it is a child and his right to comprehensive education from both parents. And then there was an appeal from Julia, which lasted 20 minutes. And the Court of Appeal of Kiev, whose hearing lasted only 20 minutes together with time to the advisory room, made a cabin decision. In my opinion, they were engaged, it was obvious.

I was just shocked by the injustice I was watching. It should be understood that I did not try in any way to take my mother's daughter, I just wanted to raise her almost equal: four days in moms and three days in Dad. It should be added that before the first assembly of the Board of Trustees, to the subsequent courts, the mother of Adelina herself gave me the opportunity to see a child of 27/7 for three months for three months. That is, three days of full were my week and four.

That is, with a baby from 7 to 9 months I was one by one. This by the way played one of the key roles in the court's decision. That is, earlier, the mother agreed to give the baby and did not worry when the baby had a father for three days, did not cause any experiences. And here, when the child grew up and did not need to rise every three hours and some questions began here. So, the Court of Appeal gives me the most profitable decision: two days a week - Tuesday and Saturday, from 16:00 to 20:00.

4 hours. That is, eight hours a week without all holidays for several hours in the presence of the mother, with the consent of the mother. That is, at any time, she can tell us other plans, care and I would be left without a birthday, would not congratulate the baby on the New Year, nor on St. Nicholas Day. It seems that the father is an asocial element, leads an immoral lifestyle and has no stable profit.

As if a drug addict was tried, an alcoholic, a traitor of a country, a person who just got out of prison or just sits. It is impossible to call this court fair. Of course, the consequences were on our part - we went to the Supreme Court. And he, in turn, returned the decision of the Darnytsky District Court, granted the lawsuit of Jedzhula Andriy Vladimirovich and completely canceled the decision of the Court of Appeal. This decision is final and is not subject to appeal.

Therefore, from today, I have three official days that I can spend with a child without my mother's presence in my territory. All the holidays that exist are divided equally. The child's place of residence is defined as a place of residence with the mother. Despite the fact that we are still 50 to 50 raising a baby, I still cry alimony and do it on time. Why this was done, this item, I said it is not about money, I am ready to pay further, pay child support, but that my mother is not worried.

Maybe she is with me and "fights" from them. To date, after contacting the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, which appealed to the Ministry of Justice of Poland, I finally know the place of residence of my child, which until that time I did not know and could not receive it. Now gifts come to this address, I see that she receives them. I can't call it some relationship because it is not a constructive. These are forced relationships about raising a child.

The most important thing I want to convey: I did not plan or plan to take a baby during the war. Because Yulia told that with this decision she would be forced, de facto, to take a baby every three days a week and bring me to Ukraine. In principle, if I wanted, it is most likely to be. But I do not want to spoil the baby her mood and do something dangerous for her. This solution solely for the moment when the martial law is over and I will be able to live a normal life with my child.

In the meantime, I insist that in those days that are mine by court decision, I will freely turn on the phone I will communicate with the baby. So it is now. Well, when I am in Poland in my volunteer affairs or auction performances (I was there once last year), they give me a child without interruption. This is one of my requirements. Yes, I joined in the fall in the DFTG "Dream" - it is the formation of a territorial community.

The main requirement of our voluntary formation is, first, mandatory retraining. Even those who come from the war zone have to take a two -week course again. The unit provides an opportunity to take a good military training course. Based on the general requirements, I have passed a young soldier's course many times. However, given our personal requirements, I pass a tactical training on firefills every week.

If you say for the main purpose of our unit is to monitor your sector in different parts of Kiev. Everyone has their own sector in which Shahamed should not fly. But we are very restrained in the ability to open fire because there are restrictions. For example, at the point where I stand now, one kulimeot is a restriction of 50 degrees, and the other has 40 degrees for shooting. I can no longer turn the machine gun, neither in left nor in right. Because we are in a densely populated area.

We will now have some changes. We move to more open planes where we will have the opportunity to shoot some weapons 360 degrees into the sky. So we will have more chances to impress the hostile "Shahaned". My first military training took place since March 11, 2022 at Zhulyany Airport. When I came to the guys who defended this airport and said I could squeeze well and seriously tuned. I was told that they would be taught.

And it was there that I passed a very simplified version of military training: tactics, weapons, shooting and TAKITAL MEDICINE - Mother of all military disciplines. I have passed for a while and I train once a week with another initiative group. Rifle preparation, tactics, weapons, coordination. This is necessary for your brain to switch quickly between tasks. And before the direct entry into the DFTG "Dream" we were necessarily sent for two -week training. Learning there was a little wider.

There was a tactic daily. There I was able to study my favorite subject even more - tactical medicine. In addition, there was an engineering-sapl. In the exam, I was the first to conduct my group through a replaced field. We had more than 80 stretch marks from teaching grenades and 20 mines. My group went well. We went 20-30 meters about an hour. We have also undergone topography and study in an interactive dash. There we were taught to shoot NLAW, Stinger and Javelin.

In 2022, I received a summons with which I came to the shopping center, where I was arranged with the words: "And you are aware that only for our unit did you collect 1. 5 million UAH for our unit and how many Mavicians we bought it? It is bigger here. " Therefore, I can agree with the thesis that when you can do more in the rear, you have that exactly. But you have nothing to do anything at all. You should have a priority - the help of the army.

I have already become a blood donor, I protect the Kiev sky, I have charity auctions, which raised tens of millions of hryvnias. I also visit the hot spots as a volunteer. We went to the Kharkiv direction, under Bakhmut, to Zaporozhye, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Sumy region. Therefore, I believe that the issue of mobilization is still relevant. Yes, the methods of the Tax Code are terrible, but if we do not have people, and if people think that the war is not about there, it will be the biggest mistake.

After all, if everyone else is over, the war will come to you. The biggest mistake, having time here, while in the rear, do not prepare - not to learn to own a weapon, not to learn to provide first aid, first of all, my brother. I have given my diplomacy nine years. I studied at the Institute of International Relations at the Kyiv National University. Taras Shevchenkan Faculty of International Law. After that, as a profile diplomat, I got to the Foreign Ministry.

He was engaged in human rights and racial discrimination, the rights of women, children, illicit trafficking of psychotropic and narcotic substances, the rights of national minorities and the Crimean-Tatar people. He visited the UN Headquarters in Vienna, Geneva and New York. But at one point, I realized that what I wanted to do so was nomenclature, non -emotional and not mine at all. All romance ended with very gray weekdays. My wage attaché was 69 UAH 82 pennies. Then it was about $ 30.