How does a 7-year-old Ukrainian from the United States who stood up for the Mriya plane live?
'19.02.2018'
Source: Voice of America
Journalists "Voices of America" we personally met 7-year-old Zakhar Liskov, a Ukrainian living in the United States, who discovered an error in the British Encyclopedia, where the Ukrainian Mriya plane was called Russian.
After first appeal the boy, who was shared on his pages on Facebook, not only by the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States, but also by the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, the publishing house employees thanked the boy for attentiveness and promised to correct the mistake.
“We thank our keen 7-year-old reader for noticing a mistake in one of our encyclopedias. We reacted quickly and corrected this in the text for the next print run. We, of course, did not want to offend anyone with this fact and we welcome the opportunity to make amendments ”. Amanda Askew, publishing house Miles Kelly.
Zakhar's parents did not expect such attention and support from the public and especially political persons.
“All this helped to understand at such an age that not everything in the world depends on acquaintances, he can change something even as a child, with the support of other people,” says the boy's father Sergei Liskovoy.
Channel on YouTube Zakhar created three years ago. Video shot at home in the living room, according to all the rules - green screen, studio lighting. The father helps his son by performing the role of an operator and video engineer. Sasha Kordiyaka's mother of Zakhara ensures that her son does not forget the Ukrainian language, and the boy comes up with the themes and ideas himself.
“So far - it works. We do not know what will happen in a few years, maybe he will decide to do something else - we will help in this, too, ”says Sasha.
Zakhar's next videos will be about programming, the boy will record them in two languages - English and Ukrainian. 7-year-old Zakhar admits that he really wants to have his own company, the main thing is that “dad was there because he is a super programmer”. In the meantime, he loves to travel and collect Lego, read and play table football with his parents and sister.
The boy admits that he misses Ukraine, where his grandmother lives and has his own tree house. Zakhar wrote a special message to the president of his native country, who drew attention to the boy:
“I would say“ thank you ”to him and that he takes care of Ukraine.”
According to TSN, the commander of the same Mriya AN-255, Dmitry Antonov, highly appreciated the boy's patriotism and promised to take Zakhar on the same AN-255 when he was in the United States.
