Veteran Myroslav Gai currently serves in the ranks of the First Separate Special Brigade named after Ivan Bohun. And his project, the winner of the #VARTO competition, is called “Bandera’s Eye”.
And his nearest ambitious plans include ousting Russian propagandist content from Ukrainian YouTube. Myroslav Gai is a veteran, journalist, actor, volunteer and public activist. At one time, he was an active participant in the Revolution of Dignity.
On May 2, 2014, as part of the 1st Reserve Battalion of the National Guard named after General Serhiy Kulchytskyi, he participated in the first battle near Sloviansk. On May 14, 2014, it was Myroslav Gai, together with the paratrooper of the 95th Zhytomyr airborne brigade, Serhiy Shevchuk, who raised the Ukrainian flag on the Sloviansk TV tower near Karachun mountain.
Now Myroslav is back in the army. Recently, he was awarded the Order of “Bohdan Khmelnytskyi” of the III grade – for personal courage and selfless actions shown in the defence of the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and loyalty to the military oath.
“Bandera’s Eye” is a YouTube project that posts short videos twice a week. In those videos, they explain current political and social phenomena and events in simple terms.
The goal of the project, as Myroslav explains: “Is popularising everything Ukrainian in the global informational space, countering fakes and manipulations. It is important to engage in the cultural education of the population. Every citizen should know basic things about the world, society and his country. They should understand the laws under which society exists, what are international organizations and why they were created. This will contribute towards the formation of a civil society of our nation. It is necessary to destroy the attitude of apoliticality, in order to make people engaged in the social life of the country. We want to supplement the cultural sector of audiovisual art with high-quality, Ukrainian-language content.”
Myroslav and his team won a #VARTO competition for the development of Ukrainian-language content in order to overcome the Russian monopoly in the media field.
They plan to develop the YouTube channel as a business project, attract advertisers, create jobs for veterans, organize charity events for the Armed Forces, popularize charitable initiatives, etc.
