Oleksiy Durnev: “I think I’m getting used to what’s happening little by little”

Oleksiy Durnev, a famous Ukrainian blogger, commentator of the show “Goddess of Shopping” on TET, exclusively told the infotainment show about the lives of famous personalities “Life of famous people”, how he switched to Ukrainian, where his family is now and shared his plans for the future.

Oleksiy is now actively fighting on the information front, calls on subscribers and viewers to give up everything Russian and not lose heart:

“Like everyone else, I think I’m getting used to what’s happening. To sirens, alarms. On help. On the fact that it is necessary to concentrate on victory. Fight on your front,” Durnev explained.

About the Ukrainian language

The blogger became one of the first among his colleagues who completely switched to Ukrainian, and this is why he received even more approval among the audience:

“On the contrary, people subscribe. Because somehow it happened that I was one of the first among Russian-speaking Ukrainian bloggers to switch to Ukrainian. And he gave an example. And I think people loved it. And they decided to sign up,” Oleksiy said.

Durnev recommends everyone who tries to speak Ukrainian to take 5-10 lessons from a language teacher.

Lyosha also told how his team also switched to the state team:

“They are also in the process now. When we have a shoot, I show up there in an hour or two. On the site in our studio, according to the rules, everyone must speak only Ukrainian from now on. Because it makes shooting itself easier. And everyone speaks Ukrainian in our office every Friday. And whoever speaks Russianism gets a fine of 10 hryvnias.”

Durnev not only did not stop working, but also created a new show, opened his Telegram channel under the eloquent name “God, what is finished”, where he makes fun of the Russian mir, and he also continues to watch storiz. Often in the company of other stars. One of the guests of the show unexpectedly became his namesake — the odious politician and well-known blogger Oleksiy Arestovych.

“Actually, he creates such impressions through his performances that you see when you talk to him in person. In acquaintance. That is, it is not that he is one person on the screen, but another in life. But I want to emphasize that we spent three hours together on the set. And they didn’t communicate outside of filming,” Losha shared his impressions of communicating with the politician.

Durnev has a grandmother, whom he cheers up with video greetings from famous people, which he collects himself.

Now his parents live in a nearby driveway with his grandmother, in a small village near Vorzel. As you know, it was from there that his parents flatly refused to leave in the first days of the great invasion. Durnev had to literally persuade them.

Oleksiy Durnev about Mariupol

At the beginning of the war, Oleksiy Durnev promised that after the victory he would not only visit his native Mariupol, but also contribute to its reconstruction:

“I want to start some kind of fund or something. Invite famous Mariupol people there. We will invent something. It will work.”

He has not changed his opinion on this until now, although the city by the sea is currently not Ukrainian:

“I haven’t lost hope, of course. If you imagine that the entire process of liberating the south is a computer game, then the first level is Kherson. Then — Melitopol, Berdyansk, maybe Crimea immediately. And the boss is Mariupol.”

You can watch the full interview with Oleksiy Durnev on the ZhVL YouTube channel .