Thanks Anna. What a wonderful place. One day I will revisit the Ukraine. Slava Ukraini

Beautiful place Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Doesn't surprise me that you're fond of nature Anna - looks peaceful and beautiful. Great to see President Zelensky here again today, working hard for Ukraine. Slava Ukraini

Wow! That was really beautiful - the lake, the trees, the sky, and all so peaceful, Anna. The lake is 58.4 meters deep! I do love the gentle lapping sound of water on the shoreline. Diakuyu for taking us on this visit to your enchanting location by the lake, Anna, and I am glad it holds such happy memories for you. It was lovely that you were able to share this experience with us, it will indeed be great to visit your country after the war is over. Stay safe, Anna. Peremoha y!🇺🇦🔱Slava Ukrajina!🇺🇦🔱

🙏🕊🌻🔱 Awesome Lake Visit! Ukraine is Strong! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes! The World Stands Committed with Ukraine! 🔱🌻🕊🙏

Just beautiful Anna! Crystal clear water, the sound of the birds singing and beautiful pine trees. Glorious!! Thank you for sharing your special place with us. Slava Ukraini! 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🌻

Thanks, Anna. A very beautiful place. Heavenly. Victory and rebuilding for Ukraine 🇺🇦

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❤❤thank you Anna for sharing your wonderful memories of a beautiful Nation. Just as you mentioned about grandparents. Many if not all grandparents here in American are involved in raising their children. Slava Ukraine.

It looks like a lovely, peaceful oasis. 💛💙🇺🇦💛💙

Thank you for sharing your friend with us. It is an island of peace and serenity in the midst of war.

A place where one can breathe. Deeply. The reflection of the wide open skies on the clean water is very beautiful. 🙏 thanks for sharing this with us. Your work is very important. Slava Ukraini! 🙏❤️🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦❤️🙏

Thank you Anna! This place is beautiful and peaceful, in direct contrast to the death and destruction so close by. Being 81 years old, I don't think I'll be able to make it to Ukraine in person but be assured my heart is with you and I will be there in spirit. Love and prayers from the USA 💙💛❤🙏

Pryvit Anna, Such a nice visit to the lake. So nice listening to birds and seeing how it looks. Slava Ukraini!

It looks like like a very peaceful place

Beautiful place Anna. Clear and lovely lake. To see your beautiful country have the first priority to visit 🙏 Victory is near i hope 🙏🕊 Glory to the heroes 💙💛

What an absolutely stunning place Anna, just wow😮😊 I will be delighted to visit your wonderful country.... Thank you for sharing .... SLAVA UKRAINI 🇺🇦 HEROYAM SLAVA 🔱🇺🇦 💙💛❤️🇬🇧

Thank you for sharing this pure, clean paradise! 💙💚 What great childhood memories you have. I love & miss nature away from people, so hope to see it after the war. My partner is French but his paternal ancestors were Cossacks, so he'd love to see beautiful Ukraine. 🇺🇦💙💛

This is very touching, Anna. It is reminiscent of my favorite places in northern Minnesota in US. Many lakes, pines. And perhaps now too many people, cabins... getting crowded. Thanks for sharing this 😊

Beautiful. We need to protect our rivers, lakes and oceans no matter where you are from. Cheers!

Very beautiful. Ukraine is truly wonderful. 🇪🇺❤️🇺🇦

It beautiful place 🤗slava ukraine

I am looking forward to touring Ukraine and meeting many good Ukraine people.

Thank you for a lovely, relaxing tour of childhood memories. The child in you comes out beautifully when your shadow waves to us, and when you pan down to your shoes, and up to the treetops. 🙂 Slava Ukraini.

Thank you Anna. Please show more of Ukraine like this. I’m putting together a list of places to visit when the war is over. My wife and I wish to visit and help in reconstruction where we can, however we can, even if just by visiting and spending time as tourists. Slave Ukraini. Heroyam slava. Never forget, lest we forget and tyranny is permitted to fester in the future without opposition. Love and respect from Australia.

Thank you for showing us beautiful lake Svityaz, so quiet and pieceful. It is such a monstrous crime that is done day by day to your people and country. But the day of liberation and victory will come. And congratulations to the Charlemagne prize! You and all Ukrainians have so much earned it. Europe needs you! Разом ми переможемо! 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺

Thanks Anna,, for the insights and it is the perfect place. Slava Ukraine 💙💛🇺🇦😊

You have such a beautiful green country! The sound at the lakeside of the birds and the water lapping the sand was putting me right to sleep it was so relaxing. Thank you for sharing such sweet memories with us!

I was born in a city and my sisters and spent at least a few weeks each summer with our grandparents. Mom grew up on a farm and I spent lots of time there. And yes, there was lots of work to do even for children. But there were lots of opportunities to explore, go fishing or hunting, ride horses... My dad grew up in a small town. The joke was it had between 25 and 30 thousand people, but a lot closer to 25 people. It did have a bank, post office, store, blacksmith shop and cotton gin. There is a creek nearby and my sisters, cousins and I explored for miles in each direction. In my part of Texas grandparents are still very involved in raising children. When we moved to the coast we spent lots of time on and in the water. We were a three boat family. My older sister and I had a sailboat. That lake with that breeze made me want to go sailing again. That clear water made me want to go SCUBA diving there, when the water warms up. But I doubt it ever gets to be what this south Texan would consider warm. Oh well, that's why we have wetsuits. I appreciate your videos Anna. Many are hard to watch, but as you say, the world needs to know. I'm glad you got to visit a place where you have good childhood memories of. After this WAR is won by Ukraine I hope you will show us more of the wonders of your beautiful country. Slava Ukraiai!

Muchas gracias, Señorita Anna, que lugar más hermoso y tranquilo con los quinchos y las parrillas, me imagino tus vacaciones y visitas con tus familiares a ese lugar… se nota que te trajo buenos recuerdos y nostalgia de tiempos pasados…. Algún día la paz volverá a reinar en tu hermoso país y muchos llegarán a visitar y conocer. Abrazos fraternales, cuídense y gracias de nuevo por este hermoso paseo. SLAVA UKRAINI, HEROYAM SLAVA 🫶🙏🇺🇦🐈‍⬛

Dear Anna, definitly their are many people that are burning to visit your wonderful country! Ukraine is now visible, and you do a lot, to show us the good, bright shining places of ukraine. But the best, we can find in your country are brave, decent people, heart warming and nice as you! Get rid of this terrorists, that want to occupy your beautiful country. If no one could do it, you can! We still support you as long as we live! You are amazing people, Anna! Slava Ukraini 💙 💛 Heroyam Slava ❤

Nature always relaxes you, even if you're on a stressful military exercise (talking from personal experience). That lake looks far too clean to be frequented by lots of people - or maybe Ukrainians are more civilised tourists than Lithuanians ha ha ha These documentaries "from the field" are a nice change from your usual videos from your "office". Thanks, Anna. Razom do peremohi!

Road Trip! - Thank you, Anna,

Thank you Anna for taking us to such beautiful place and seeing a beautiful lake ,hope you had a relaxing time there

Beautiful lake and scenery! I also love the sound of water.

Thank you so much for taking us to Svityaz! What a great place! It looks so comfortable there. Diakuyu podruha, obijmaiu! 💙💛 Health, Safety, and Victory for Ukraine! 💙💛

I welcome everyone to the Prut valley Carpathian mountains Ukraine. Home of Bukovel ski resort.

Lovely, scenic countryside. Ukraine is a beautiful country, and I've been discovering the unique flavour of several major cities over the last two weeks. Your videos played a part in convincing me to visit, and I'm grateful for that. It might be fun to make a video on the great hand made chocolates from Lviv, if you get time. They're delicious!

Such a beautiful place! I always like to 'discover Ukraine' with you. The sounds of the breeze through the pines and the water lapping at the shore. It's all so very relaxing. Thanks for sharing it with us.

This vlog is very impressive... ROAD TRIP😊. Waving at your shadow 💯 After Ukraine has won the war, I hope you will consider making more similar vlogs. Your CanadianUkrainian friend... 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇺🇦 🇨🇦

Lake Svityaz reminds me of a place my family would spend on a hot summer day when I was growing up. I enjoyed the sights and the sounds, too bad I can't get the nice smells. Thankyou for bring me there virtually, after the victory I would have it on my list of places to visit. Slava Ukraini !

Thanks for the update, Anna. Very, very nice place. Very nice video. Stay safe. Slava Ukraini!

Beautiful. Thank you Anna for sharing a bit of your life in that lovely place. And we love you too. Slava Ukraini. Glory to Heroes.

Such a beautiful place Anna, It made me feel relaxed just watching, being there must have been so much better,I am pleased that you had some time to go there.Thank you for the reminder of collecting pine cones as a child,I had forgotten about that.If the sun shines tomorrow I may go somewhere similar for a couple of hours. You have inspired me lol. You really do have a beautiful country Anna. Slava Ukraini.

Dear Anna, many people will indeed travel to Ukraine after the war and many people will continue to support Ukraine to victory and beyond! Thank you for sharing this beautiful place of 'sweet memories". Gorgeous! Your "Lisova Pisnya" ("Forest Song") . Slava Ukrayini! 💙💛

I will sure visit Lutsk and the lake as soon as this awful war is over and Ukraine wins! Thank you for showing us such a beautiful place!

Wonderful! And you get to experience more moments of 'normality'.

That look like some of the place in America very beautiful we need to see more place like this went you kick the ass of the Russia and we need to see more of Ukraine 🇺🇦

❤I love the sound of waves on a shore. Also the sandy lake bottom is beautiful! I could swim there easily 😊! Thank you for sharing Anna. Sincerely yours from Didus Richard & Evie Dog 🐕.

Lovely video and packed with information and memories! Slava Ukraini ❤

What a lovely place, thanks for the visit!

C'est vrai que le bruit de l'eau est très spécial a entendre. L'eau est très claire. Très belle endroit pour relaxer. Merci beaucoup pour le vidéo Anna. 🫡💙💛❤️🙏🏻🤞✌️

Wow. You teach us all about your country, but these special ones close to your heart mean alot. Thank you so much Anna from Ukraine. That is a beautiful lake. And big. Nice to walk with you on the dock as the waves sing their song. Very nice. Peaceful.

What a beautiful place and what a great idea to take us there!!! I think it is important to spend some time looking at what we are all defending in Ukraine, the natural beauty. Thank you, Anna, for being such a great ambassador for your beautiful country!! Much love from America!! Slava Ukraini!! Heroyam slava!!! Heroyi ne vmyrayut'!!!

What a great place for a small sailboat..So serene with just the sound of the small waves lapping on the hull. perfect.. m

Slava Ukraini ! Heroyam Slava ! Thanks for sharing one of your favorite places ! The trees and lake is very beautiful !

Thank you Anna for another nice video. I like your outdoor video's in your beautiful country. Here in the Netherland there is not a lot of nature and forest left, just to many people here I guess.💙💛💙💛

Perfect! Water lapping is *such* a soothing sound. And that birdsong too, is lovely to hear. It's nice to see water so far inland there. That's deep *and* wide, gosh! Here in the UK we are never more than (I think) something like 77 miles from the sea on mainland UK, no matter where we are here. Closer if on one of the surrounding islands of the UK. I wish I'd known my Ukrainian grandparents. I only had one alive here who I barely knew, and who died when I was a young child. I am similar to you, in that, I much prefer the 'in between' seasons when it's blissfully quiet - just the sound of nature around me... Quiet voices are okay, but I just don't get why some people have to be so loud in rural places. As children, we were always taught to respect nature by being quiet in its presence. It was exciting to think we'd get a special insight into what it gets up to when it's not frightened away from us. As dad used to say, "There's a time and a place for everything". Funfairs, discos, and birthday parties; okay... But in rural places, we were on what seemed like an adventure to discover what we would normally miss. Pines, oaks, and blueberries, perfect! 💙✌💛

I look forward to visiting the beautiful and fascinating Ukraine after the victory!

Thumbs up for Anna and Ukraine. Gotta love both. Slava Ukraine. From Tampa, Florida.

Such a peaceful place; hard to believe the carnage happening elsewhere in Ukraine! Never a big fan of eels (although I had fished for them), but I have become a great fan of a Japanese eel dish called unagi sushi! Also reminds me of the freshwater lakes of my childhood, although I tend to prefer brackish & salt water shores - I have almost never lived more than 45 minutes away from such shores! During my childhood, it was literally a 5-minute bike ride away! Слава Україні! 🇺🇦

Beautiful, I do love your travelogues! Slava Ukraini

May tourists from all supporting countries “occupy” your beautiful country after the war and spend lots of money in restaurants and hotels, so helping and supporting the brave people of Ukrain! ✌️❤️ a fan from Belgium.

A lovely place to unwind and leave your worries behind.

Hello Anna, fantastic vlog!! looks a very beautiful place!! keep up the excellent work!! the people in the UK stand with Ukraine!!

It's so great to see you get away for a weekend. It does look very relaxing. Thank you for taking the time show us your favorite place. It would be a favorite of mine too. Slava Ukraini!

Very beautiful lake--thank you for taking us there.

You need a friend with a sailboat. The lake looks like paradise on the water.

Beautiful, thanks for sharing pieces of your wonderful country with us. Slava Ukraine 🤝🇺🇸🇺🇦💪

Beautiful place Anna. Thank you for sharing. Slava Ukraini.

Good to see a beautiful natural place like this still accessible to the public.

This reminds me so much of lakes on the Alberta prairie.🇨🇦 Thank you for showing us, Anna. СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ! ГЕРОЯМ СЛАВА! 🇺🇦

An incredible peaceful place! Wonderful Ukraine!

Thanks Anna for sharing this wonderful place with us. It would look ans sound even better on a warm sunny day with lots of visitors enjoying it as they attended to their barbeques and ate their picnic meals. Also, would love to see it again in the summer with lots of boats on the water. Many of us would love to enjoy a picnic there with you, even if only through the medium of your excellent daily video podcasts. Thanks again.

What a beautiful place. It reminds me of the trips to our family cabin every year growing up… Up high in the mountains, close to a reservoir, surrounded by mountains and lots of hiking… And so, so peaceful. I loved it up there, and still love going whenever I have the opportunity.

It looks FANTASTIC. If there's any folklore or mythology associated with the lake, please tell us all about it! (And I completely relate- I love most nature, but I prefer it alone or with VERY few people around.)

That lake is a bigger twin to the Białe lake just across the border in Poland. I always wanted to visit Svitiaz. Unfortunately the nearest border crossing makes the journey 80km long instead of 10km from Włodawa.

Wow! This is an amazing, beautiful place! Thank you, Anna, so much for sharing this very special place with everyone out here. I would want to spend hours there just taking in and appreciating the Nature. Blessed Be, Ukraine! Slava Ukraini. Heroyam Slava. "Cap'n" Toni with my Pups Lady Coco, Lady Maya and Miss Carly, and All the Animal-Kids of the lil Haus... Pennsylvania, USA....

Just glorious! Such clean water and you had the place all to yourself!

I would also like to visit Ukraine, it sounds as if it would be like a home from home destination, 🇬🇧🇺🇦SLAVA 🔱KRAINI🇺🇦🇬🇧

Svityaz is on my bucket list. I have to go there when the war is over. 💙💛

I loved this segment. Thank you Anna. I will joyfully come to an Ukraine to celebrate your (our) victory over evil. May that be soon. I want to visit Lake Svityaz. It looks amazing. I just wish you had mentioned the best inns on the lake. I remember you took us to another lake many months ago and showed us an old converted bus that is used for accommodation. I would have loved it in my youth. I am now a retiree. I’m not staying in that bus. Can you show us some alternatives of a completely different kind? Sending heartfelt support for Ukraine from the US. Slava Ukraine.

I love you back! Save a place for us for a visit after the war and reconstruction. Ukraine is beautiful!

A beautiful lake, shown by beautiful Anna. From Britain, the moment Ukraine is restored, my wife and I WILL be coming for a holiday. There should be a party, with you, Denys, Jake, Juzzi, Artur, Vlex, and all the many people that we foreigners have come to regard as really good friends. Just imagine, Volodymyr and his gorgeous wife ,Olena, and all the General Staff, and the many HEROES as honoured guests. We shan't wait until it is rebuilt, when the last Orc is kicked out, I shall be sobbing with utter JOY !

WOW, Anna, that's a beautiful lake.... I agree that it's a very pleasant place and relaxing (without people). I myself love smoked eel.. one can wake me for that dish in the middle of the night, so to say. Слава Україні! Героям слава! 💙💛💙💛

Thank you Anna! 🙏🙏

What an absolutely beautiful lake, the water looks so clean 💛💙💛💙

That lake looks like a great place for sailing a Hobie Cat or Sunfish!! 😊

I like your Travel log today. Keep them coming . Let the clean air and water keep you healthy. Looks like a nice place to visit when this awful war that Russia started is won by Ukraine. Peace!

Anna, your Ukrainian Special Operators trained next to our city at the Stennis Space Center. The land is very similar, also we have a similar lake called the Pontchartrain; named after a local Aboriginal Leader.

I want to thank Anna for her: "learn a Ukrainian word each day" program. I am particularly keen to see the upcoming: "Kontrnastup." Perhaps it has already begun around Bakhmut. And I would put in a request to have Anna teach us more military vocabulary -- eg rifle, bullet, grenade, fighter jet, drone, anti-jamming radar, tank, artillery, etc.

Thanks for that beautiful trip ,great photography and beautiful bird song : I felt like I was there .Also good to see you relaxing a bit . Peace n love ,slava Ukraini ,J.

Pryvit, miy druzhe Anna, I loved living near the lake. It was a little different-Lake Michigan City of Chicago area. Early in the morning, I would walk to the beach with my coffee to watch sunrise. I would say I needed quiet time to hear God’s whisper. Then on with the day. Thank you for sharing this beautiful area. Oh! I am attempting to practice your words of the day. I appreciate your sharing Ms. Anna. Slava Ukraine!!🇺🇸💪🇺🇦🔱

Hello Anna , it is good to see you in the outdoors. Sometimes you just have to get away from the modern world and clear your head and in your case you have an extra reason to seek some peace and quiet. I once travelled on a navy ship at night and to get some space I went to what they call the focsle (front of the ship) and laid down on the deck. I looked up at the stars , we were going very slowly as the ship was navigating through the Great Barrier Reef and it was wonderful to drift through the stars as that was what it seemed like. One of the most glorious sights to behold and one I will never forget. regards Wally.

Beautiful lake... 🙂...I can't wait for you to take us back to the Carpathians. You almost had me sold on the last one. I'm thinking it's time to build a treehouse...

Je voudrais venir et découvrir Ukraine après la victoire

Thanks for showing such a scenic spot. I'd like to hear the water while I eat my donut.

You grew up in a very beautiful region ❤

Wonderful place Anna. Thanks for introducing us to a Ukrainian place of such beauty. We seem to see so much that the orcs have destroyed.

Thanks for sharing this beautiful lake and lovely trees. You always have such great taste. Every thing is so beautiful. Always glad to see your vlogs. God bless you my lady .Gene