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he works quite actively and actively on the steppe, we would like to ask you now to give a detailed description of what is happening on the outskirts of your city, but indeed , the enemy is pressing, the enemy is still trying to implement his plans , the task has been set before him, to take the city at any cost, but first of all, what they need is to disrupt our logistics and... they are doing everything for this, the nearest point - this is the steppe, and that's why they throw a lot of their own, let's say, minced meat there, they see that there is no way for the steppe to take hold in them, and that's why they still try to move in the direction of novobakhmutivka, in the direction of ocheretiny, because with solid waste they, well, how did it happen that they didn't like it a little bit, of course, that they go there their groups, ours minus them, this and that happens several times a day.

but, well, they don’t leave any reluctance or attempts to do, let’s say this, impossible logistics for us in general to the city, but the guys fight back, well, literally this morning they talked with the guys who left the steppe yesterday evening, they say, this it's just some solid cemetery, you know, it's snowing here now and... and as they say, it's snowing, but we'll see the snowdrop a little later, because there are thousands of them there, mr. vitaly, look, i'd like to see you again to ask about the situation south of avdiyivka, whether the enemy there is now trying to use the same tactics, because we understand that he is pressing to the north, but can he deploy his shoulder, actually more to the west , where pervomaiske is most vulnerable, so that in this way , what... to take the city into a ring, and actually

to cut off this corridor of life, which we are talking about, which runs through the eagle, the swallow, and so on, in this direction they constantly try to carry out their assault actions, here to say, you know, that they are more often or less used some there assaults, well, i wouldn't say that, because it's somehow so dynamic, they become more active on the cock. then more in the north and here, well, this direction is always a priority for them, because again, the main task is to surround the city, take it under their control, and of course, that uh, well, the closest point to cutting logistics is after all , the steppe district, but also the rlivka district, lastochkino , well, let's say so, in their opinion, yes , they are very uh, well, priority directions, and that's why they follow this... all the lines are thin,

to the north, in the direction of korolivka, lastochkina, they are constantly trying to carry out their assault actions there, and there is a very large number of, well , small groups that are trying to go somewhere, somewhere deeper, somewhere unnoticed to go through all our positions, bypassing them, go to the rear, and and this happens very often and almost constantly, and it is a very dynamic situation. there and well, very fierce fighting in that direction as well, mr. chief, respectively, the situation with the road and the importation of the relevant ammunition and export, for example, in particular, it is about evacuation, wounded and so on, what about the road? well, the logistics are very complicated, very dangerous, in principle, there are more and more shellings purely on the road, lately...

they are trying a lot to hit purely on the road with rockets, if mostly before they hit with artillery, hail, some kind of fp eh. drones, now they are just trying to block the road with missile strikes, and there are already a lot of such missile attacks on the way, of course, the guys there are doing the job, about the logistics of our defenders there, i probably won’t say anything, there, the less silence on this issue, the better, at the expense of the civilian population of the evacuation of the importation. assistance, it's really difficult, really, the road is broken , transport, well, it literally takes two or three days to repair it, two or three days to repair it, because the roads are very damaged and we have to drive at very high speeds, we understand, now it snowed, well, no one cleans the road, and this is also a certain

, let's say, we have a certain complication, with evacuation, we have seen in the last couple of days that people have more actively started to... at least for evacuation, now they have already left the city, it was successful to take out two people today , an evacuation is also planned for tomorrow, an evacuation is planned for the day after tomorrow, i hope that, well, we see it, almost every day the avdiivka appears in the summaries of the wounded and the dead, and these are people, well, finally, i don’t know, almost two years, in such difficult conditions, and only now... some of them, frankly speaking, have volunteered for evacuation, and when they arrive in pokrovsk, in the shelter, yes, they say, well, we thought it would be easier, quieter there , well, well, how can it be quieter in such conditions,

it's simpler, everything is clear to everyone, well, it's been a long time , look, mr. chief, well, you mentioned that the enemy is trying to hit the road with missiles, is this ballistics, will they actively use... aviation, and in general, what is the situation in the sky now? these are cabs, these are mostly cabs, if they are in the city, they have been hitting for probably the last couple of months, maybe even a little more, most of them 90% are cabs 500 fly, before that very often they used 250, then on the road they beat purely 250 kabas, they understand that there are 500 of them no need, they throw five hundred. just on buildings, on urban development, aviation on average somewhere around 20, sometimes a little more aerial bombardments per day, this is purely on the community, of course, in terms of positions, it is much more there,

we have been recording shelling for the last few days, well in area 50, there are 45 to 50 mass shellings during the day, this is purely in the city, in positions, of course, which is less there. more, but there are only hundreds to thousands of massive shellings during the day. if we talk about the dynamics of shelling, i.e. these are the numbers you gave, are they more or less than, for example, until recently? well, if we talk before the new year, then it was less, on average then we had around 30 shellings in the community, now, well, up to 50, 40, 45, up to 50, sometimes there are 50. mr. vitaly, what i wanted to ask you is, do you know, maybe you do, about the drones that the russians have started making now, they've started making these drones that have auto-targeting, respectively, experts say that it's very difficult for the

deal with such drones, do you already know the information that it is possible that somewhere in the avdiyiv direction in your city, the enemy has also started using such drones and how massively? well, so far there has been no information from the guys that they were spotted somewhere in our direction, but the guys really know about these drones, we constantly talk and communicate with our buarov people, they say that they are there, even one of their colleagues told them from other directions, so to speak, for example, they took them apart, looked, well, for now that in our... direction, i don't have such information that they were, maybe there were, the information just hasn't arrived yet, well , accordingly, speaking of the intensity, your feelings, and in general, maybe there is some non-classified information that you received when communicating with our military,

what should the residents of avdiyivka, and in general, our group that is there, expect from the enemy, or the intensity, in particular, when it comes to air strikes and... about artillery, is it shows that the enemy is preparing to intensify precisely on avdiiv direction? unequivocally, yes , it will be, ah, if it was there a few days ago... the weather conditions did not allow them to use the equipment, today is the second day of very low temperatures, well, now, for example, it is 15 minus, of course, what is the soil, if it 's minus 2-3 there, it's there and almost, well, i don't know how long the soil will freeze there, so if we had such frosts for a day in the region of -5-6, it almost reached -10-12-15, at night it was up to 18 in certain places there, so the soil freezes and freezes very quickly, and there is an understanding that

in the near future they will go more actively with equipment, of course the commanders are ready for this, they are also considering the directions, and some work is underway to prevent such things, yes , nevertheless, it will definitely be a little more active now, and they will also use aviation more , because they have, let's say so. this is not a very serious problem, but there is a certain problem with the refuseniks, who still refuse to go now on assaults in the avdiiv direction, well, plus the weather conditions, the same frosts, they too, well, even with the boys, we say that it is most likely now they will surrender a little more, because in such conditions it is very difficult for them to carry out their assault actions, activities , etc. everything

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glory to ukraine, mr. danylo, we congratulate you. glory to the heroes, congratulations. well, i would like to talk with you about money, and in general about the macro-macro-financial stability of our state, for example, yulia sveredenko, the vice-prime minister, in matters of economy, so to speak, lightly hinted, well, everyone was extremely tense , if the event if they don't give money, then there are possible delays in pensions and salaries of civil servants, so we understand what financial hopes we place on foreign aid, both from the united states and the european union, we would like to ask you now... mr. danyla, to provide the relevant information, how is the money situation? thank you, well, first of all, i want to reassure everyone, it is difficult for me to comment on the statement of the deputy prime minister, but in fact we have good financial balances from last year, there is accordingly a revenue part of the budget already from january, february, and corresponding revenues from

our partners, who will allow us these two months before... receiving the appropriate help to calmly and fully fulfill our social obligations and fulfill them, so there are no problems and no tension in this situation today. if we talk about the financial situation in general, it is really quite difficult, we really depend on the help of our partners, you probably know that we... 60% of the state budget expenditures are expenditures on security and defense, and actually we even use our own taxes and traditional we do not finance everything that we need for the war with sources, everything that is not military expenses, we finance at the expense of our partners, our donors, and we are very

grateful to them for this, there is a certain discussion, there was a certain discussion in the united states... america and the european union regarding the procedure for providing aid for 2024, this discussion is still ongoing, but i want to draw your attention to the fact that neither party of the united states congress has ever declared that the aid is not appropriate, that is, the aid will be provided, both parties of the united states congress, the same like the countries of the european union as well... the necessity, we are only talking about certain internal political discussions in the united states and tying the provision of this aid to other funding, such as, for example, the issue of the mexican border, and if we talk about the european union, then there is well, such is the exceptional position of hungary, which forces either to negotiate with this

country with one vote. or seek alternative ways to help us, but in any case, both in and with the united states and with the european union, the question of whether or not to help is not at all considered, help we definitely. well, here the question is also about the size of this aid, and in general, what is the situation with the national bank, our ukrainian, well, because people in public transport on... are talking about the fact that they can turn on the machine, yes, well accordingly, people begin to worry and ask from time to time about such a situation, well, i am redirecting, this is a question from the people to you, look, well, if we are talking about the 37.3 billion dollars that we expect in the next year, then taking into account the decision of the united states of america

and the european commission, no matter what the decision is from the european commission, whether it will be the yokrane facility, whether it will be... the extension that we received this year, we receive sufficient funding. in addition, we are in a program with the international monetary fund, you know that we received 500 million in december within the framework of this program, we will receive them in the future. we are also in a program with the world bank and we also have bilateral relations with the governments of the g7 countries and other countries of the world that we also help directly, for example, the same itself, that's why there is enough money, taking into account the political commitments that the great party took on, we must by the 27th year. to receive 122 billion dollars with you , at the same time the situation is quite dynamic, the order and rhythm of providing this money,

they are in the plane of agreements that the government, the president, the minister of finance, are constantly conducting with our partners, at the same time, these are the scenarios that they like to discuss and the mass media, especially these pseudo-experts on... social networks, there is print, hryvnias or emission or, sinvestr of the budget, really in the theory of finance, in the theory of finance, these are two bad and very bad scenarios that are theoretically possible if we don't get this help, but i want to emphasize the word theoretical, i want to emphasize that... that we come from a positive base the scenario when we will receive help, for this there are all the preambles and all the political commitments of our partners, so

i would not even consider this scenario, an extremely negative scenario, and he is actually chasing social networks with the sole purpose of getting hype and likes from subscribers of some pseudo. mr. danilo , we would also like to discuss with you the labor code and the amendments that the ministry of economy is preparing to it, and actually it says that various employment will be available, remote, home, non-fixed working hours and so on and so on, i would like your comment on what changes are waiting for ukrainians, whether they will be significant, whether they will be noticeable, what can you tell us about it? we do not comment on documents that we do not receive. in the verkhovna rada, let's wait until the cabinet of ministers, as the subject of the legislative initiative, will submit the relevant documents to the verkhovna rada, but i want to remind you that

during the wartime, we adopted the reform of the liberalization of labor relations in the 22nd year , where we greatly exercised and the procedure for the dismissal of employees, where we allowed perform their function remotely. labor remotely and removed a sufficiently large number of these elements, which we still inherited from the soviet union and significantly hindered the development of modern capitalist labor, market labor relations, which should develop in our country, regardless of our soviet past, therefore the adoption of the new labor code is indisputable, because it is time to adopt it. a law that would regulate these relations not only in the perspective of wartime, but would regulate them permanently, but for sure this document will be discussed, for sure this

document will communicate with society, and we will definitely accept it transparently, like everything we we do, that's why i wouldn't make any news from that document, which not even submitted to the verkhovna rada, well , in any case, we heard about other initiatives, for example, well no... they want to reduce the number of our higher educational institutions from approximately 170 to a hundred, and accordingly, as far as we understand, similar scenarios can unfold in other areas as well, i.e. it looks like, despite the approved budget for the current year, we are still moving to a regime of great savings, yes, and maybe there is some information, maybe the budget will be revised in the direction of savings or redirection of those or other additional funds for... the needs of the armed forces of ukraine? well, come on, if you want to talk about higher education institutions, let's talk about them. i am a professor at kyiv national university, and i

have been teaching financial law since 2000. look, i mean, i know, i know this siren issue. undoubtedly, no one will make a decision to liquidate certain educational institutions, higher educational institutions. this will not happen, but the fact that educational institutions should... compete with each other in market conditions and provide the appropriate quality of education, and not simply, but to me it seems that these are obvious things for the country , the european union, where exactly such rules work, and it is necessary here, and, by the way, we held a joint meeting with the committee on education, where we expressed our concerns to the ministry of economy, it is necessary to change the principles of the state. because if during the war we increase the number of orders, the volume of orders for lawyers and economists or managers, and at the same time we do not...

increase orders for labor specialties or military specialties, well, this is definitely wrong, and the state must to more effectively manage their state order, stimulating the training of those specialties that are needed by the market, that the market requires from the state, and not those that draw on their requests the same higher educational institutions that proceed not from the needs of the market, but from the needs work education of our teachers and giving them the opportunity to earn some money from specialists that the market does not need at all, we have overproduction of lawyers, we have overproduction of managers, we need real engineering specialties, production specialties, it, that is, these are the specialties of the future, the near future, even, even tonight, and not those specialties

that we, well, let's say, are not in demand in the market, so this is really a problem, and and the ministry of economy needs to work more deeply on this problem, i.e. the saving of budget funds, what is caused, that is, the corresponding reduction of higher educational institutions, is it not caused by the saving of budget funds? look, we are certain items of expenses are protected, on which we are not we are saving money despite the war, and indeed i started with the fact that... we are forced to finance them at the expense of the help of our partners, but we certainly do not yet have such a need to sequester the budget and to reduce these expenses, but, but in more efficient spending we need public funds regardless of the war, and this and that must be done during the war, must be done yesterday and without expecting any changes, without waiting, without

spending. no time mr. danilo, we have literally two more minutes with you, if you can, please respond to expanding the powers of tax officials, expert circles already believe that this will give rise to new corruption schemes and so on, so if you have something to say on this topic, please have a minute and a half. to be honest, i don't know what kind of extension of the tax authorities' powers they are talking about, these are probably the same pseudo-experts who just gave birth to other myths about the hryvnia issue or about something else, we have a state tax service that exceeded the revenue plan together with business for the year 2023, for which we are grateful to both business and tax officials, we we have deep enough changes within the state tax service, both personnel

and anti-corruption, we have a process of... digitization, which is in the 23rd year, it seems to me, faster than all the previous 10 years, exactly, that is why the reform of the state tax service is continues, and i would like the reform of other state institutions to proceed in the same way, especially in the field of public finances, so i do not know what ideas are actually about expanding the authority to access bank accounts and information of relatives. on this matter in the verkhovna rada today there is no if you are talking about access to bank information of taxpayers, then this is an item from the national revenue strategy, which was approved by the cabinet of ministers, all tax services of european countries, including the united states of america, have similar powers, but we will definitely not do this yet in wartime, this is a question for after the reform of the state tax service takes place, and we open...

thank you, mr. danylo, i'm sorry, but we have to finish danylo hetmantsev, people's deputy of ukraine, chairman of the finance committee of the verkhovna rada, and we are already giving the floor to iryna koval, because the news editor has already prepared a fresh issue, so iro, we are giving the floor to you, and tell me what will be in this issue. thank you marta, of course i will tell you about the most important events, including the shelling of our territories by the russians, so please wait. it's 3 p.m. in ukraine and we have a news release on the espresso tv channel for your attention. in the studio of iryna koval. greetings to all viewers. the russians hit kherson with various types of weapons as a result.