operational headquarters of the armed forces of ukraine, in 2017 commanded the anti-terrorist operation in the east of ukraine, which was later changed to the operation of the united forces. from may to august 2019, sirskyi was the commander of the joint operational headquarters of the armed forces of ukraine. on august 5 , 2019, he became the commander of the ground forces of the armed forces of ukraine. at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia, it was syrskyi who was responsible for the defense of kyiv, for which he was awarded the hero of ukraine. in the fall of 2022, syrskyi was one of the commanders of the counteroffensive in kharkiv oblast. the ministry of defense of ukraine named his name among the creators of the victory of the armed forces of ukraine. atilants holding the operation on their shoulders. in 2023, sirsky commanded the eastern group of troops, which fought in the hottest areas of the front. at that time, he called the offensive battle near bakhmut, where thousands of ukrainian soldiers died, a matter of principle with... right honor.

syrskyi said that the armed forces could surround the city captured by the russians. however, this did not happen. from the fall of 2023, he led the khortytsia operational-strategic group, which is responsible for the section of the front near kupyansk and lyman. here, the russians are attacking powerfully, and the ukrainians are on the defensive. oleksandr syrskyi often goes to the front line and personally meets with the fighters at the hottest areas of the front. to be in place. analyze battle tactics, identify problematic issues and support fighters. well , yes, the military results of the day have ended, and here he is, general oleksandr silsky. good evening, we are from ukraine. there is still a lot of important and interesting information ahead. today we will have an important conversation with an investor, a businessman, an entrepreneur, and a philanthropist from. we are particularly interested in the information

provided by the united states of america with aid to ukraine during the war with oleksandr morchavka, which products rose in price to record levels last year. lina chechenina with another scandal, and weather news from natalka didenko. well, now i will tell you in detail about the most important events of today. a bipartisan delegation from the united states of america congress, led by the chairman of the intelligence committee, mike, came to kyiv for an important visit. turner informed about it social networks x ms. ambassador bridget brink. she added that the delegation includes congressmen french hill, jason crowe, abigail spanberger and zach nunn. promotional visits or planned meetings have not yet been announced. the minister of defense of ukraine rustem umerov met and discussed, held the first working meeting with the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, general oleksandr syrskyi. they discussed the detailed action plan

of our defenders for the year 2024, the department reported. during the meeting, it was also discussed establishment of the logistics system and timely satisfaction of the military with the necessary needs. the focus was on the effective system of rotation and rest of the units, special attention was paid to the new type of troops of the armed forces of ukraine, created by the decree of president zelenskyi to the forces of unmanned systems. and in ukraine, they created an industrial one. the main task of the committee is to establish systematic work between weapons manufacturers, military leadership and independent experts. prime minister denys shmehal informed about this during the government meeting. he stated that he will personally head this committee, and will involve the ministers of strategic industries, defense, finance, as well as the heads of the ministry of internal affairs and the security service of ukraine. our task is to bring the ukrainian defense industry to a new level, to form a unique support system. retailers to give more incentives,

to increase the level of interaction with international companies in this field. we will also invite local authorities to join this work. in general , it is important for us to involve local authorities more in supporting the defense of our country. even more powers were given to employees territorial centers of procurement, said the representative of the verkhovna rada of ukraine in the cabinet of ministers, taras melnychuk. the government allowed the representatives of: military officers, well, now it is called tsc, to consider cases of administrative offenses and impose fines, as well as organize periodic medical examinations and psychological examinations of conscripts and reservists, and tsc can also keep records of vehicles to be transferred to the armed forces under during mobilization and in wartime, the work of the centers was transferred to a 24-hour mode, but now it is only important that there were enough employees for... to

work around the clock, because we understand that someone who works from morning to evening will not be able to work, then from evening to morning, so i hope that the financial support of these people will also be at the appropriate level, because, again , people do not work for free either, if all this is provided, then we wish success to tsc in this important work. the government appointed oleksandr porhun as the acting minister for veterans' affairs. until now, he held the position of first deputy minister, and porhun is also a participant in hostilities and a hero of ukraine. in this position, he replaced yulia laputina, who was dismissed by the verkhovna rada of ukraine the day before. and before that, she wrote an application for dismissal. " in order to help the military, ukrainian youth knit, knit, draw, or otherwise try to support our army. rhythmic gymnasts from the white church depict unusual drawings on anti-tank

missile tubes. what impressed our film crew with their illustrations and what they will impress us? let's see. kindergarten teachers sports school yunist kateryna and. the shells are decorated with patriotic drawings, the girls put meaning into each of them, as the director of the school, volodymyr kornienko, says, he is very proud of his artistic gymnasts, because he really liked the idea of ​​story illustrations, he says, the school constantly volunteers and helps the military. and the initiative probably came from the fact that our polish friends sent us humanitarian aid at the beginning of the war. help, and there were drawings of polish children in support of ukraine, and this probably inspired our girls to do so here's the initiative, they're good guys, they're very talented, talented in sports, talented in art too, they're super good guys. it all started with a small sleeve

given to the girls by a volunteer they knew, they decided to decorate it, and then showed it to the benefactor. the man liked it, so he brought two more to test. beads, and later there were as many as 14 in the collection. as kateryna says, they can take three to four hours to complete one work, but it all depends on the complexity of the pattern, sportswomen are inspired by current events. the way it is now in our country war, and it is very important for everyone to remember this thematically, that it was from the east that these cartridges and tubes were transported, and it is on them that we, through creativity, somehow try to... convey to the people that we must give, we must help, that every act important, there are no small actions if it all brings our victory closer. paint metal objects with acrylic paints, but first prepare the surface. on the oak trees, you can see famous

figures, sayings, etc., for example, there is a virka serdyuchka, with everything known, a hessian from ukraine, a handsome muscovy, an expression of a song, let it will be spring also steel flowers or crimea is ukraine. in addition, others are not inferior in exclusivity. there is a tube with the signatures of the soldiers of the 72nd brigade. they asked the military to sign, write some nice words, or their call sign. many soldiers responded. some of the tubes will later be given to volunteers, others will be auctioned to raise funds for the armed forces. girls named gra have a game where everyone can, with their eyes closed. just point your finger at any city written on a tube, that's where a person will go after the victory, we also decided to try, fine and you say, op, op, op, yes, i have to go

to volnovakha after the victory, super, lyubov gerashchenko, oleksandr kuga, espresso, bila tserkva. a wonderful initiative, wonderful works and a very noble cause, you should only support such initiatives and be happy for those people who do it, well, you can’t be happy for the people, obviously, who are blocking the borders, but again, the issue is difficult, and not here what to be happy or sad, you need to understand what is happening this time, because they had unblocked ukraine's border with poland, now they are blocking it again, a total blockade, polish farmers again started strikes on... on the border with ukraine, from today they blocked traffic at one of the checkpoints of medic shagyna. the farmers' actions are taking place within the framework of the all-polish protest of agrarians across the country. at the same time, the minister of agriculture of poland, czeslaw sekerski , stated that there are such farmers, and such

actions of farmers are justified. more details in the material. a bonfire is lit, dances are held and firecrackers are thrown. about 100 polish farmers on tractors gathered in front of the checkpoint of doctor sheghini. the protestors' demands are reduced to two main ones , says roman kondruv, the organizer of the action. first. this is the blocking of the arrival of agricultural products from ukraine, the second concerns changes in the green course and climate policy of the european union. we sympathize with you, but we cannot watch how the oligarchs use you and us in that political game. it is they who earn huge money, they become rich and increase their capital. and you poor ukrainians, and we poles, polish farmers, suffer because of it. hostages of these protests are ukrainian truck drivers, who are actually

forced to live in these queues, because the drivers are responsible for the goods they carry, so they cannot simply abandon their trucks. but no one needs it, now there is a war, they just don't feel it, they think that their life is beautiful, they want to live even better, and they don't need ukrainians, at least 250 cargoes are waiting to enter ukraine. previously, polish farmers promised to allow vehicles carrying fuel and humanitarian goods out of the queue. however more time is needed to analyze how this is really happening, - says oleksandra kuchkovska, spokeswoman of the lviv border guard. in advance, this applies to the entire category of transport, namely trucks , buses and passenger vehicles, from information, according to which information. we have, then the participants of such actions on the territory of poland will allow one type

of vehicle per hour in one direction. two more checkpoints are also blocked: grebene rava ruska and dorogusk jagodin the situation there is better than at the doctor's checkpoint, the spokeswoman says. polish colleagues reported that the same actions began in front of the ravaruska-grebene checkpoint, but at this point. bypassing the blocking will apply only to cargo vehicles that follow across the state border, previously bypassing such categories as buses and passenger cars will be carried out in the usual manner. the minister of agriculture of poland, czeslaw sekerski, explained that poland and other border countries were the most affected by eu decision to liberalize trade. we understand the aid, the poles provided a lot of it and... we are conducting bilateral negotiations with ukraine about the fact that we want to establish

certain quotas, volumes that we will control, if there is too much of a certain product, there will be a blockade. the polish government is trying to reach an understanding with the farmers, but so far without success. the ukrainian authorities are trying to work out a mutually acceptable formula for the two countries, for effective cooperation, and not for creating problems - noted the ambassador of ukraine to poland, vasyl. diplomat stresses that a free border is a matter of ukraine's defense capability. since ukraine is currently at war. we are defending ourselves against russian aggression. we need forces, we need resources, we need budget replenishment. we are very dependent on our exports abroad. and any restrictions on our export opportunities have a very painful effect on our economy and our defense capability. therefore, we hope that certain understandings will be reached between the polish government. by polish farmers, in order to limit this protest as much as possible in time and work out such mechanisms

of bilateral cooperation that would make it impossible to block the border in the future. the blocking of the border may continue until the beginning of march, as announced by polish farmers. and it is not only about the three checkpoints that have already been blocked. from february 12, it is possible to complicate traffic for trucks through the checkpoints of ustilukh and urgyniv dolgobychuv. this protester talked about oligarchs who make money, but in reality , small and medium-sized businesses suffer from this, businesses close, collapse, because they simply do not can receive the goods on time, and ordinary ukrainians suffer mainly from the fact that the border is blocked, the words about the oligarchs, you know, it is very good to hide some of your ambitions and not talk about them, it always works very well, but it is not always true, and we let's add konstantin zhivago to the conversation, he is an investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, mr. konstantin, i congratulate you. can you hear me, glad to see and hear, i understand that we have certain problems

with communication, but now we will restore it, what we will talk about, it is very important to understand opinion on the aid that the united states senate can provide to ukraine, i will remind you that yesterday the upper house of ukrainians, russians, ukrainians, and americans was finally voted on. legislative body for consideration of the bill on financial assistance for ukraine, it is about more than 60 billion dollars, but this is only the beginning of the story, it is good that they, as they say, opened the door, but we need to enter this door and do something. certain work konstantin zhivago is joining us, sir konstantin, i congratulate you, vasyl, i congratulate you, good evening tv viewers, well, actually, i briefly said that i reminded our viewers that yesterday the senate finally voted to consider the bill on financial assistance to ukraine, then we will have to consider the project in the senate, then in the house of representatives , well, there are certain risks that we may not wait for this

help, what consequences will it have for our country, and how much interest do you give, as a person who knows how to... think and count on what we will get anyway positive result? vasyl, thank you, this is very important, now the question is, we understand that it depends on how we are, whether the united states will give us help or not, we are all waiting for it and started talking about it at the beginning of autumn, not even talking about winter, and you remember you see, in one of our interviews, we talked about the fact that the united states is still reducing and reducing and reducing aid to us every month. and weekly tranches, and it was actually a bad signal when we initially had assistance there in the amount of billion $1.2 billion tranches, after that we started to finish the tranches of 125 million, 175 million, 200 million, that is, there were already signals in the beginning, in fact , in the fall of 2023, that the united states has its own internal problems in order to

provide financing, to provide both technical and military assistance. and economically in ukraine, so today we already have february, and february is already the 15th, that is, it is the middle of the second month of the year, we do not have a single solution, we do not have a single penny, a single cent of our aid, either military or social aid economic, which ukraine needs so much and which is ours and our budget people need if you asked me how important it is, it's very important, very important for our stability, to be able to defend our territory from ... aggression and our people and actually control the war, and in no way to have a situation where we 're weak on front, this is a very unexpected and very undesirable situation for us, we all understand this, and definitely help is very important, because without this help , the help of the international monetary fund will be at risk, as well as the help of the so-called ticket agencies, i.e.

our bilateral lenders who add aid, when the united states adds aid and... the imf gives to your question, how much interest do i give for that, unfortunately, today , as i see all this happening, i only give 25% of what that we get any help at all from the united states this year, that is, there is such a huge chance of 75%, and i am not the only one, this is how economists, brokers and including investors, everywhere in the world, be it london, new york, tokyo or hong kong, they rate it the most at 25%. and they, along with me, are still optimists, there are a lot of people who say today that aid will not come at all from the united states this year, and ukraine will have a huge hole from the united states and from these so-called ballot collaterals, that is, bilateral creditors, which , together with the united states, unfortunately, will not provide aid to ukraine, and this is very bad, bad from all points of view, it is very bad for the war,

for the military situation first of all, because without military aid i don't even want to think that it can ... take place at the front, i i am afraid and frightened to think what will happen with the amount of blood that may be shed additionally, and certainly this is a different situation, the second post-war situation, what will happen to the budget, what will happen to our national unit, what will happen to inflation, what will happen to exchange rate of the hryvnia to the dollar and all other hard currencies, well, ukraine received clear assurances that there would be help, we know that... warned putin, do not attack, because we will give help, support sanctions and so on, and so on and so forth, well, it will be a shame if we don't get exactly what we hoped for, because actually ukraine would not have started, well , i don't know, maybe the situation would be different if we understood that on some at this stage, we simply will not have weapons, there will be no money, but in any case, there is money in the world, there may not be as many weapons as in the united states of america, but there is money, and there is a possible

plan b to attract funds, it is possible to borrow this money on the domestic market in ukraine, and it is possible. to borrow them from those people around the world, in what kind of money is this, are these not options , because we will not find such cheap money, but regarding plan b, does it exist or not, please, thank you, vasyl, you know, the question is not cheap, this money is cheap , these are expensive , that is, today the question is whether they will give them to us at all, or they will not give them to us, that is, it is a question of the value of money, it is a secondary issue today in these circumstances, i generally very much... agree with vasyl in your statement regarding the fact that we would probably behave differently if we understood which ones resources we can count on, and what arguments we really have in this conversation, military. the conversations we have with the aggressor country russia, i certainly don't like it very much and it's not credible, in fact, believe me, how scared countries like south korea or japan are today when

they see that the united states cannot to help ukraine, then they ask themselves questions and scratch their heads and say, what will happen if tomorrow china with its ambitions together with russia, god forbid, attacks on south korea or attack japan, and then what will happen to... the united states, because what the congress and these so-called crazy republicans, who are so far-right, who are giving the opportunity to vote for aid to ukraine, and they are all republicans, are doing today so crazy, that is, there are 10-15 of them there, but in fact today they hold the entire congress as, that is, the state national parliament, the state legislative body, as such, which cannot vote for aid to ukraine, although it is the most. and really hard in the interests of the national security of the united states of america, that is, america presents itself as an unreliable credible country that promises something, then cannot

fulfill its promises, and this is generally bad for america, first of all, because a lot of people in the world will reconsider , how to conclude which military alliances by the united states, and after that, how to count on these alliances, because, well, believe me, you remember, as soon as ... this aggression, the war with the russian federation began, we have received clear signals from the world and from the united states as the leader of the world that we will get as much aid as we need and we will fund the war as much as we need and it is not even limited to any time it is necessary, and after a year of war, a year and a half of war, after the so-called partial, excuse me, some confusion in this situation, that the war does not end, additional costs that the budgets of various countries bear, we came to the statements of america, that we will you to support as long as we have

money, and today we ended this conversation with biden and the leaders of the united states saying that we can't support you because the basket is empty and we don't have the money to support you, that indeed, as i told you, it is very unfortunate for us, and i hope that the conjunction will be after all. the states will find strength in themselves, this is a great, great country, this is actually the leader of the free world, this is a great country that sets democratic rules in the world, that is actually a model of democracy, that is actually democracy is embraced all over the world and i am sure that it will find all the strength to overcome these so-called republicans who have their daily political, that is, the situation with the... agenda regarding the united states election, they will give everything aid to ukraine, and taiwan , and israel, and in general we to all those countries when they have already, that is, announced that they

will provide aid, only in order to support democracy, democratic values ​​in the country, that is, so that these countries are not in any case, we did not become dictatorships, because you can imagine what we risk as ukrainians, in terms of how we fight against russia, what we... south korea, looking at everything that is happening in north korea, we understand , what is happening and can happen in taiwan, if tomorrow there is an aggression against them and they are attacked, god forbid, china, which, unfortunately, no one in the world considers democratic, it is very unfortunate, so in this situation, in response to your the question is whether we will get help, i said what interest, on sorry, only 25, i hope that after all , america will live up to our expectations and the expectations of the whole world, that america... was and will remain the leader of the free world, the democratic world, but in this situation, of course, we must have a plan b, and a plan b for us, it is not so very easy, it

can not be implemented very easily, and it will actually entail a lot of such difficult decisions and very unpopular decisions both in relation to the budget, and in relation to the budgetary sphere and in relation to business and taxes, but if we want to survive i want if we want to... to meet the anniversary and not only the 35th , but also the fortieth, and the 50th, and the hundredth anniversary of ukraine as an independent state, we should go all out for it, and what we should do, of course, is what the government understands, we will have to increase taxes, we talked about this last time, and apparently we should increase taxes on both income and wages, and make it so that businesses that are working and making a profit, even forced... to buy war bonds for some percentage of their profits in order to finance the armed forces. the second is that we will definitely have to cut, whether we want it or not, public spending, that is, the spending

that we have today, we will have to... we will cut, it is unpopular, but we see what happened in previous years and on the 22nd and on the 23rd , there are a lot of things that in fact we would rather not finance, finance the army, but we did it, and it must be finished, if we do not have money and help, then in this situation we have to do it with blood and sweat all so that we win in this country, protect ukraine, protected our sovereignty, protected our people, the ukrainians, and the third issue, which we will definitely have to... do is to try to borrow it somewhere on the domestic foreign markets, it will be impossible to do it on the foreign markets, and this is not what i said about the cost money, we can pay more for it, and it is generally just the availability of money, when no one finances us in this situation, because there is a war in our country, and we are financed only by interstate programs, such as between states and these bilateral, that is, international financial institutions such as imfa,

therefore, financing will be possible only on... the domestic market, but it is limited, we cannot take more than we have on the market today, the banking system has some liquidity, the population has some liquidity, that is, money to invest in bonds, but i'm sure it's not going to be even a third of what we 're going to lose if we don't get funded by the united states along with other financial institutions, which is what we're counting on, so there are tough decisions ahead in this situation, but plan b must have well, you actually preempted my third question, i was just about to ask how to increase budget revenues, you actually talked about it, i will tell you very briefly, please, is there a threat that the standard of living will decrease significantly, the purchasing power of the population will decrease significantly, the exchange rate of the national currency can jump, and usually only up , to the extent that it can be a serious shock , because you know, some people understand this, and a lot of people in ukraine live thinking that

there is no such thing. will be very surprised when will they see any inflationary processes, or that the dollar is no longer at 37, but at some other price? vasyl, you are 100% right, and these issues are the main issues that concern society, today the first issue that worries us is security and military security, that is , the list of all issues that we have, but secondly, even under these conditions, it is necessary to survive, we have to somehow feed the children, we have to somehow support... families, we have to live, because we have been in the war for two years and almost 2 years of the war and in the war, and we will now have this anniversary february 24, 2024, and we understand that life, unfortunately, in this situation, that is, it does not pass in one minute, wars continue and we have to live even during

wartime and... this situation in order to feed countries, to feed families and do whatever is necessary, yes, of course the government will be forced to cut spending, meaning we may face job cuts in the public sector and wages there will be frozen, in some cases even reduced, we will to watch and see the situation when the government will be forced to print money, as it was at the beginning of the war, if we have a deficit in our... that is, in the account of obligations to finance the budget, roughly between 20-22 or 18 or 17 billion, that means to me that we have to will print approximately another 400 billion hryvnias, which were printed at the beginning of the war by the national bank of ukraine, and this is approximately 10 billion dollars , which will entail a fall in the national currency rate and inflation, which means that it will also beat on vital

level people, this will affect the level of consumption, the possibilities of consumption, that is , the volume of consumption by the society of our economy and citizens of all goods that are currently present on the market will decrease, and thirdly, what will we have if the state introduces new taxes on business, tax on income, additional taxes on wages, we said about this that a person earns more than 20 thousand, then the tax should be increased a little, but if a person earns more than 50 thousand. hryvnias, then the tax should be radically increased, because if a person can to earn, then in this situation, it is better for a person to receive 40,000 hryvnias and pay 10,000 hryvnias to the state, and we will hold on and remain a sovereign state and celebrate the 50th anniversary of our independence, than someone will try to get 50,000 today, but we we will just stay with you , god forbid, without a country, because believe me, this money will not bring happiness to anyone all

the time. years we tried to have a sovereign'.