will immediately decide on a candidate to replace him, and here is why it can be, i mean the candidacy of viktor orbán for the position of president of the european council can be very dangerous for us, in the following information in budapest hopes that the elections to the european parliament, which will take place this year in many countries of the world, as well as in many world institutions, may become a turning point... which will help stop the war in ukraine. the minister of foreign affairs of hungary, péter szijártó, said this on his facebook page. further his short quote. this is an opportunity to establish peace, which must finally replace the war in ukraine, the supply of weapons and senseless human sacrifice. that is why it is so dangerous, i would even say, for us.

when such calls are heard from budapest, after all, it is not even a call, it is the hope that more and more such eurosceptics will come to power in the european union, and if viktor orbán heads the european council for at least six months, it will be very bad for us and the country , which is at war with an aggressive neighbor, who treacherously attacked us, but let's hope, god forbid, that president michel... becomes a member of the european parliament, a member of the european parliament, and god forbid that they immediately find a candidate to replace him. this is what the republicans and democrats in the american congress agreed on, and agreed on the country's budget for 2024. in fact, this is not even a full budget, but only a budget related to the financing of government bodies, and thus avoided the so-called shutdown, which is when there is no money to finance them. news about such an important agreement first. announced

us president joe biden, later it was confirmed by the leader of the republicans in the house of representatives, mike johnson, and the leader of the democrats in the senate, chuck schumer. the agreement sets the overall spending level, which is $1.590 billion in fiscal year 2024. this includes, in particular, 886 billion for defense and 704 billion for expenses not related to it. defense, well, probably, the question arises for ukrainians, the most important thing is whether this agreement between the democrats and the republicans will finally resolve this issue, will there be help from the congress in ukraine, will there be help from the congress in ukraine, which yes, which we have been expecting for so long, which is 61 billion dollars, i will tell you right away that these two things are not related to each other, that is, the help to ukraine is not priv' it was said before that what

the republicans and democrats agreed on, but their agreement shows that both of them know what to press for, what pain points to press for their competitors and how to be able to negotiate, so for some reason i am sure that they but literally, literally very soon they will come to an agreement, i'll just say that it's simple the time to figure out the relationship is running out, because russia is actively using any lost time to its advantage, well, in particular , the swedish defense minister and ... if you're going to talk about it, you're going to talk about it, i 'll keep quiet then, but i i am leading to the fact that the threats are increasing, if russia is not actively interrupted somewhere now in ukraine, then it will rear its ugly, stinking head somewhere else, and there are many points where it can rear its head, we understand this very well, i think , that in the usa it is also well understood that time is of the essence political show, yes, the political show, it has ended for sure, but this time has ended, it is ending, i would say so , because there are some such attempts to buy

something for something cheaper while it continues in the united states of america, i have i mean , this is precisely the trading of military aid to ukraine, and here, for example, in an interview with the american television channel cbs, the speaker of the house of representatives, and there is a majority of republicans there, the speaker is also a republican, obviously. johnson, who is still representing the trump minority, said about what i would like, ultimately, all republicans would like to ask president joe biden and his administration some questions that are waiting to be answered, but let's hear mike johnson speak directly. what is the ultimate goal in ukraine, what is our strategy, what is our goal, how are we going to properly oversee the precious...

precious american taxpayer money , these are very serious questions, the answers to which will help to send money to ukraine to help it in its struggle well, i'll tell you honestly, these are the questions indeed, it probably worries americans who read the news, in the news they hear how one ukrainian businessman can steal a billion hryvnias from the aid that foreign countries allocate for us, and therefore mike johnson is right when he asks these questions, probably we need to to be corrected, but i really hope, i repeat again , that such a vote will be taken in the near future, both in the senate and in the house of representatives, on the allocation of this 61 billion surplus aid to ukraine. we must prepare for long-term confrontation, which will continue until, until, until, as long as ukraine, as long as russia continues to violate the charter of

the united nations and the european security order. the minister of foreign affairs of sweden, tobias björstrom , said this the day before during speech at the national conference people and defense. that is why, according to him, ukraine should continue to be supported, because it is now fighting for european freedom and democracy. quote from the minister. strong, predictable and stable support ukraine is also our main opportunity to limit russia's freedom of action. and besides, mr. bilstrom assured that his country fully supports the eu's decision to start negotiations on ukraine's membership in euros. unions, and a good statement, very good. the conflict in the middle east is very dangerous because it can metastasize to other countries in the region.

united states secretary of state anthony blinken said this during a visit to qatar, adding that the main task of the world community is precisely to prevent the war from spilling over into other parts of the region. at the same time, he added that now the united nations should take an active part in... the process of finding ways to peacefully resolve the situation. at the same time, anthony blinkin praised the decision of the israeli leadership to reduce the intensity of hostilities in the north of the gaza strip, but criticized the intention of israeli ministers to evict palestinians from the region. well, now a little about donald trump. if from... tomorrow, the appeals court will not recognize the right of the 45th president of the united states of america to have the right to inviolability, then joe biden will not be overflowing. donald trump wrote about it in his own truth social network. quote: if i don't have immunity, then

venal joe won't either, and with the invasion across the border into this afghanistan, not to mention the millions of dollars in foreign money sitting in his pockets, joe is ripe for... criminal accusation, this is the end of the quote: the ex-owner of the white house promised that on tuesday he would be, that is, tomorrow he would be personally present at session of the appeals court in washington to prove that he had the right to presidential immunity and cannot be subject to criminal prosecution, well , the prosecutors want to remove this presidential immunity from trump, tomorrow i will follow it closely, most likely the information will be... the day after tomorrow , but you wait, because you will be the first to know about it, and a little more about donald trump, by the way, he is already actively continuing his election campaign and promises a lot, at every meeting with his supporters, he promises something, with the last time he promised that if

he becomes the president of the united states of america in the elections in november already this year, according to the information... bloomberg, he plans to reduce taxes for the citizens of the united states of america, to reduce. i want to remind you again, donald trump is a representative of the republican party, although it is not possible to call him a republican, even with a stretch, he is not a republican, if you take it. so with regard to taxes, democrats, they are leftists, they are socialists, they always advocate that the rich should pay more, and...they always say the poorer will have to pay less, the richer should pay for them the republicans keep insisting that everyone should pay the same regardless of how much they earn, and here trump is still coming out and talking about it , that i will also reduce taxes for everyone, well

, i am afraid of something, vasyl, that after all , he may become the next president of the united states of america with a huge probability, although. we will wait for the completion of all these court processes, which are not only against him are open, but are already ongoing in the united states, this is america, this is hollywood, there is always a well, i won't say well. who of them, who , just one character seems to have already won everything, and then bruce willis appears and everything becomes different, so everything can be here, especially since we perfectly understand how much for america, the top show is a court case show , well, it doesn't happen that easily in america, in fact, it 's business, it's really so, let's move on, scandal, shock, elon musk can use, and maybe does use not only light, but also hard drugs, this was reported by the journalists of the publication. with reference to sources close to the billionaire. according to published information, this is how

the management of several companies managed by musk explained his sometimes rather inappropriate behavior. in particular, he uses drugs , they say, at private parties, where participants even sign non-disclosure agreements, or give their phones to be admitted to these parties, and people close to musk claim that he sometimes behaves in a very unclear, unclear way. .. utters words, speaks outright nonsense and the demo shows mood swings. i don't know, the wall street journal, if it writes citing sources, then probably these sources give it some information to this publication, but when you read how elon musk writes about ukraine recently, i get the impression that he is really on some hard drugs, well, i don't know, we'll see, let's move on, joseph stalin. on a church icon, his image was found on a fresco icon in

the cathedral, the holy matron in the cathedral of the georgian orthodox church in in tbilisi, the press service of the patriarchate confirmed this information, but its head emphasized that there is a different context in all this, which he did not specify. his comment caused controversy among other clerics, for example archpriest ilya chigladze reacted to it like this in... on facebook. quote. the only essence and purpose of the image of stalin on the icon of matrona is to spread among people the idea that stalin was a hidden, deeply religious person and acted with the blessing of the holy matrona matrona, that he was a christian who follows the path of by the teachings of the saint. therefore, what will happen next, but the georgian orthodox church, which fortunately has nothing to do with the russian orthodox church. is playing with fire by displaying such icons in their churches,

because, for example, on the eve in the comments, yesterday i read rasha today, the general director of the russia roc propaganda tv channel rasha today, tv channel spas, boris karchennikov, commented in an interview rasha today, the christmas service of the ukrainian orthodox church, which is actually a branch. roc in kyiv, in the kyiv pechersk lavra on january 7. that's right karchevnikov literally said the following. quote: the real, painted russian living kyiv is not broken, not deceived, it is not visible, now, it is silent, it is intimidated, sometimes it talks, it is chased, it is tortured, but it is, it stands, it is faithful to its church, and it waits on you, therefore, friends, brothers, georgians , please, you are such icons in yourselves... take away from your cathedrals so that there is nothing similar to this, we can say, by

the way, that the suburbs of moscow are freezing now, and we we can say that the real russia is what it is now occupied by muscovy, around moscow , it freezes, but it lives, it waits , it burns a fire, warms itself and waits for it to be freed from the horde kremlin power, well, in principle, you can also send such a message, you can, but it’s better to freeze, well well, that's all i have in the world of ukraine section. well, that's all for today, because as i said, the week starts tomorrow, and there will be much more in the following days and much more will be in our future broadcast, so don't switch. well, let's thank yuri fizer krasno, and now the plot will be brought to your attention, paid for her own kindness, the farmer of zalchevsk, kateryna tarasenko, at the beginning of the russian invasion. began helping people fleeing the war to the west of ukraine. on february 22, she set up a shelter for displaced persons in

a rented premises in lviv region. however , now a criminal case has been opened against the woman. details in the story of katryna oliynyk. labor exploitation and human trafficking. two residents of the shelter made such accusations against kateryna tarasenko. in 2015 the resettled zaovchevska settled in lviv oblast. in the first days of the great war, the woman arranged. in a rented premises, a shelter for ukrainians fleeing russian shelling. this place was symbolically called the roof over the head. residents shared household duties among themselves. we cook ourselves. we clean ourselves, we do everything ourselves, in addition , we are on the land of the cooperative farm, we grew vegetables ourselves, we bought 100 chickens, which we fed ourselves, eggs here, there are four showers, there are five toilets, and we

organized centralized food from the very first day, by year and nine months, 450 ukrainians used the system. in june 2022 , a family from kramatorsk with two children moved here. we were visited by two alcoholics who lived in our shelter for no more than 5-7 days, i don't remember how long, and they were evicted for drunkenness, fights, and quarrels, but their children remained. here, these are two girls, then they were 11 and 13 years old. after their parents beat my husband on june 8, we opened a criminal case because two ribs were broken and the head was pierced. in a few months the police closed the case about the beating of ms. kateryna's husband without explanation, while the spouses from kramatorsk accused the woman of labor exploitation. the main

police department in the lviv region has already opened criminal proceedings on this case. they came to the shelter with a search. i was deprived of the opportunity to contact a lawyer , i was not allowed to call a lawyer, this is the first thing, and secondly, when i felt sick, they continued to put pressure on me, they forced her to sign the protocol, that is the documents, it shocked me, you understand, a person in such condition to sign documents without reading them, and i was also shocked by how the documents were handled. most of the residents of the shelter are people with disabilities and kidney failure, they deny being forced to work, well, in general, no one checked which people were walking normally, who was cooking, who was there so that, for example, one person does not have to pay, he cleans the toilets and corridors there washes, according to ms. kateryna, according to lawyer

andriy petryshyn, and there is no evidence of human trafficking. case this case is falsified, i think so, she wears time will tell the sign of order, who is the customer in this case, most likely there is an attack on a possibly operating business, or a plot of land that is expensive, which is owned by ms. kateryna, in recent years kateryna and... produces goat cheese milk that he buys from a local cooperative, owns a plot of land in carpathian village, where he plans to open a goat farm, i appeal to the public to protect me from police raids, unprecedented, impudent raids that do not have any reason

grounds espresso journalists wrote an information request to the office. the commissioner for human rights did not comment on the situation, but the main office of the national police in the lviv region informed us that a pre-trial investigation of a separate criminal proceeding is ongoing, so we will continue to monitor the development of the situation. kateryna oliynyk, vitaly kolekha, espresso tv channel. hello, this is svoboda ranok, an informational project of radio svoboda. top guests every day. this is the shipping district, kherson. turn on live. we are somewhere in the vicinity of bakhmut. we tell the main thing. on weekdays at 9:00.

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morshchevka, congratulations, this is a column about money during the war. so, there is a blockade of three checkpoints on the border in poland : rav ruska, grebenne, krakowiec korchowa and jagodyn dorogusk. about 2,000 trucks are waiting in line to enter our country. this was reported by the spokesman of the state border guard services andriy demchenko. the shaghini medica checkpoint is open, but due to heavy traffic there was also a traffic jam there. well, vasyl, there was really positive news, just in time for the weekend, i hoped that the unlocking of the shegeni-medika checkpoint would lead to the unlocking of other checkpoints. well, they say, i think so, the government, the new polish one, has already made a corresponding decision in... well, the blockade of those 10-50 people, if we take all the points in general, will simply be canceled and everything will return to the way it was, well there you see other

threats, well, as if they agreed with the farmers that they will make concessions, but on the other hand, we already have the european commissioner, to speak, and you don't know what threats will arise again now, oh, vasyl, i don't know, here first ukrainian grain, now trucks, it's still possible, i'm sure there's russian the hand will find something. standing on is not missed, and this in such frosts. the polish european commissioner for agriculture, janusz wojciechowski , is threatening to block trade preferences for ukraine. we are talking about the suspension of the free trade agreement with our country for 2024-25. like, it should be in it poles' proposals regarding trade restrictions for kyiv are taken into account. wojciechovsky wrote about this in an official letter addressed to the president of the european commission. on trade issues, he noted, tomorrow in brussels , interdepartmental agreements regarding the extension of the free trade agreement will be completed, we are talking about

next year, these are the plans of the european commission, but poland is again adding fuel to the fire, unfortunately. due to severe frosts in ukraine , emergency power outages are possible. in kyiv , energy experts said that today there is no deficit in current, but here... not consumption kilowatts can overload the entire power system. planned outage schedules are not currently in place, but there are network outages in some areas. experts emphasize: ukrainians should now save electricity during the day, use such complex appliances, electrical appliances preferably at night, in order to avoid current shortages. let's hear the expert's opinion. the situation is difficult, but controlled, and on the one hand, it is safe to say that the

preparatory measures and homework done during the warm months are paying off the results are unequivocal, and the shelling that was currently aimed, including in many respects at the energy infrastructure, resulted in the moscow terrorists... they said to sashko, i want to say that really, if you want to do laundry, it is better to do it later, when this is how people connected things, plus there are boilers somewhere to heat water, to wash, well, the important thing is not that there is no overload of the system, because it can knock out the light to everything, well, it can not only knock out the light, but it can also damage such failures, and these devices that you are if you use them, they will simply spoil. well , ukraine will certainly receive financial assistance from international partners, but it is necessary to get through january and february at the expense of its own resources. about this in an interview with the publication.

k ukraine, said the chairman of the financial committee of the verkhovna rada, danylo hetmantsev. according to him, there is now a good reserve for this in the single treasury account, money from foreign aid will be in the best case in march or possibly even in april. as hetman noted, it was ukraine that received political commitments from our partners. we are promised 122 billion dollars by 2027. donors include the international monetary fund and the world bank. the governments of various countries, the european commission, well, vasyl, i’m just here from the forecasts of the head of the tax committee , well, i’m happy, because it’s possible in march, maybe in april, but you will somehow pass there without social pension payments without social payments, somehow pass january-february , teachers and doctors somehow survive without salaries, and there will somehow be, well, what reserves do we have, well, but we can’t do without help, very philosophically,

vasily, you know, i just looked at... this year, well, last year, they bought 138,000 cars from the showroom, before the war it was a little more than 100,000, well, if we have the opportunity in our country, many people buy cars from the showroom, plus, as danylo hedman said, he is the head of the specialized committee of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, that during the war everyone gets poorer, but when you look at what certain people buy for themselves, well, i think vasyl, these are not pensioners, teachers and doctors , who are waiting for money from international croatia, some more businesses are started, you understand, and you ask, why should pensioners and teachers suffer like this now. there are no answers, but at these prices you can live without a salary for a month, two months without a salary, now 500 hryvnias in the store, and once 50 before the war, well , honestly, this is, if you put your hand on your heart, a rather difficult situation, and here are statements have not been determined already at the beginning of the year, when salaries should already be accrued, to state employees, well, that ’s enough, it seems strange to me, let’s move on, the national bank stated that the military they now have enough leverage to fight

against... the nbu calls the financial repression announced by the government an uncivilized way. this was announced by kateryna roshkova, the first deputy head of the national bank. according to her, the state cannot financially limit those who are hiding from mobilization with the initial legislation. a person can be tracked by phone number and for this it is not necessary to look at the bank card and where and how the transactions take place, - added kateryna. export growth is expected this year goods and services from ukraine by 9%, as well as the launch of marine insurance. this will make transportation cheaper. this was announced by the minister of economy yuliya sveridenko. according to her , the foundation for increasing exports has already been laid. in august, our state launched an alternative sea corridor through which grain, metal and other goods are exported.

by the way, that's it. in 2023, this corridor provided transportation of almost 15 million tons of products, mainly food. for one and a half years of operation of the program, there is work, the state has invested 6.5 billion hryvnias for the development of small and medium-sized businesses, this was reported to the ministry of economy. we are talking about grant funds, this is non-refundable financing for starting or... expanding one's own business. more than 11,000 ukrainians received financing. in this way, more than 35 new jobs were created. this year, the cabinet of ministers plans to significantly increase the amount of funds for the initiative. well, let me add, there was a figure that last year the state compensated more than 180 million for the employment of displaced business people.

employers who took on the work of people, internally displaced persons , we are talking about such 14,000 ukrainians, well, if we talk about business, then more than 300,000 new fops were opened last year, this is more than the pre-war indicator, as reported by the open data service open data boot, and the most popular business among ukrainians , there is now a sphere of trade, like retail. as well as the wholesale, it industry and the provision of various individual services , kyiv remains the leader in terms of opening businesses, and dnipropetrovsk and lviv regions are also in the top 3. well here it is were selling counterfeit goods in kyiv and the kyiv region, the bureau of economic security together with law enforcement officers exposed the production network.