of the verkhovna rada passed away at the age of 87, you can say goodbye to him on independence square in the premises of the conservatory, stepan khmara will be buried today at the fairy-tale cemetery, he is a unique person, unique, he is choleric, he, he burned, the second one was such a black man, that , he could not walk calmly, he ran, the cloud did not run, but the cloud, as they say... the cloud is supposedly so quiet, his surname is so quiet, but he himself was a torch, he is a unique person , ukraine has lost an irreplaceable person, the whole the telekanaluso team expresses deep condolences to the family and relatives of stepan khmara. and then about the situation in the regions. the russians fired s-300 missiles at kostiantynka in donetsk region. a woman received minor injuries, she was traumatized. from the blast wave

as a result of the broken window glass, she refused hospitalization, there was a lot of damage in the place , the railway station building, a church, two private and 12 apartment buildings, 21 shops, three educational institutions, two administrative buildings and a post office were destroyed, the regional police reported. at night, the russians attacked the sleeping area of ​​kherson. hostile a projectile hit an apartment building, which caught fire. things on the balcony of one of the apartments, the state emergency service reported . firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, no injuries were reported. and at night, the enemy hit the khmelnytskyi region with mortars, damaging the infrastructure object, the regional military administration reported. there is no information about the victims. in total, russia attacked ukraine with 18 rockets at night. 16 of them were shot down. air defense forces of the air defense forces

worked in kyiv, khmelnytskyi, mykolaiv, kirovohrad and kherson regions. the enemy launched drones from primorsky, akhtarsk and temporarily occupied crimea. the attack was repelled by mobile groups, anti-aircraft missile units and aviation, the air force said. in the mykolaiv region, the debris of the downed shahed damaged the power line. five power-destroyed settlements are working on restoring electricity supply, the head of the region, vitaliy kim, said. they tried to hit our air defense. the russians attacked the southern region with tactical missiles at night aircraft from the black sea and tried to destroy our air defense. this was reported by the spokeswoman of the southern defense forces nataliya khomenyuk. two kha-31 anti-radar missiles were shot down over the black sea. the situation in... those

areas is complex and requires constant monitoring. the commander-in-chief of the armed forces oleksandr syrskyi and the minister of defense rustem umyerov visited the command posts of military units on the front line. the enemy carries out regular assaults on our positions. the situation was carefully analyzed and future steps were discussed, including maneuvering and positioning defense strengthening of individual areas was urgently decided to improve combat capability and stability. the calculation of 2,000 self-propelled howitzers, which defend our positions in the bakhmut direction, says that 20% of the shells are left in the warehouse. earlier, according to them, the warehouse was completely filled with hundreds of shells. now deliveries are much faster than before. gromaschi say that the russian invaders have five more manpower, and they press with all their weight. if the rates were constant, it would be possible

b to support the infantry and significantly improve the situation in many areas of the front. another 770 occupiers will no longer fight on our land, they were destroyed yesterday by ukrainian defenders. in general, since the beginning of the invasion , the russian army has already lost 409,000 of its own in ukraine. soldiers according to the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, our defenders also knocked out eight tanks, a dozen and a half armored fighting vehicles and 36 enemy artists during the day. two anti-aircraft systems and 28 tanker trucks were eliminated. also, the soldiers of the armed forces managed to destroy the plane and three dozen drones. data indicative - declared in the general staff of the armed forces. and about the situation at the front. the occupiers are storming the positions of the armed forces of ukraine. in

the past day, the enemy tried to break through the defenses near georgiivka pobeda and novomykhaivka in donetsk region 44 times in the mariinsky direction. this is reported by the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine. in total , 84 combat clashes took place on... the front, the enemy launched more than a hundred missile and air strikes, fired 141 rocket salvo fire systems at the positions of our troops and populated areas. heavy fighting also continues in bakhmut district, where the invaders attacked nine times, as well as eight enemy attempts to storm, were repulsed by our defenders near the village of zaporozhye. ukrainian aviation and rocket launchers destroyed 10 concentration points against. polish protesters blocked the zosyn crossing point on the border with ukraine. andriy demchenko, the spokesman of the state border service, reported this. there are 2,400 trucks waiting in line to enter ukraine.

the most opposite checkpoints are krakowiec, ravaruska and jagodyn. the traffic of buses and cars is not blocked at any of the checkpoints. about 20 thousands of people gathered in warsaw for a rally timed to the second anniversary of russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine. most of the attendees were ukrainians, but there were also quite a few poles. initially, the event called two years of defense of ukraine and europe took place near the building of the russian embassy in warsaw. activists placed a large-scale installation in front of the entrance. it symbolically depicts the cities of ukraine, which. suffered the most from russian aggression, this installation also shows how many ukrainians were killed by muscovites. the participants of the action united to remind to the whole world, the war continues, and support for ukraine is important for all of europe. the action continued with a mass march towards

the polish diet. we want peace, tranquility in ourselves to live on our territory, on our land. we want everything to be fine, peace, we want to return the life we ​​had and the life in the country. in our country they are destroying and torturing, torturing our people, this is a day that changed my whole life, i am from chernihiv, my city suffered a lot, and all of us ukrainians must unite on this day, wherever we are, and not forget about this the day, this day that changed all of us life is forever, this is how things are for the moment, i tell you, see you at 2 p.m., at this moment the forum of volodymyr zelensky ukraine-year 2024 is going on... a meeting with journalists was called by the highest military and political leadership of the country, so let's see live: or in the frontline regions,

and there they provide, carry out combat tasks, that is, we are talking about joint work with the ministry of defense and with other ministries, because now... everything is aimed exclusively at combat operations and victory. ugh. thank you. yes, colleagues, sorry, y over time, over time there are problems, a new session is starting, so we thank all the speakers today, there is a lot of work for the work , comrades, as they said before. thank you again, we will pass the floor to the next session. mr. oleksandr, thank you for your moderation. i will remind, for those who watch on the internet or in the television broadcast, that the ukraine forum is ongoing, the year 2024, and this was

our first session, war, weapons and the defense-industrial complex. very soon we will move on to the next session. this topic is very important: ukraine 2024, sustainability and economic capacity, the foundation for victory, and about resources - this is an extremely important topic, and i would like to invite vadym karpyak, journalist, host of the nationwide marathon single news, who will moderate this session. and while vadim arrives here on this stage, and we, small adjustments are taking place, i want to remind you of the purpose of our event, this is a platform

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when there is a liver? alohol, but what for bile? alohol, it protects the liver and gallbladder, alochol, with care and respect for the liver and bile. a separate platoon of unmanned aerial systems sapsan of the state special service of transport. appeals to the viewers of the tv channel. with a request to join the collection of crown funds and technical equipment for our unit, thank you, glory to ukraine, heroes, glory, 10 years of war, war for freedom, from the revolution of dignity to today's battles. if something happens to me, if it doesn't happen to me, then... that i died for the truth. 10 years of war, the war for our existence, this is the path that changed us. in

conditions of the occupied territories of the de-occupied territories, we have losses of the order of potential 7 million hectares of land, which have not been cultivated for 2 years. 10 years of war, war for the future, what price do we pay for it? 200 of our citizens were taken to russia. depopulation is an inevitable thing. intellectuals, specialists. patriots about threats and our future in a special project for the 10th anniversary of the beginning of russia's armed aggression against ukraine 10 years of the war for independence from february 18 on espresso. thank you. and we are still waiting for mr. prime minister. he's coming so ladies and gentlemen, please

, just a minute now, we're going to wait, we're going to start, unfortunately, we may not be able to have a full question and answer session, but i'll try to moderate it so that there's an opportunity to ask something, as there will be an opportunity then, i hope, to the prime minister. to ask questions also to the vice-speakers, who will also be at the question-and-answer session, but for now we will start with the prime minister, who will enter the hall any minute now, and he will be the first to speak from this podium . short for understanding, i will tell you how it will look, there are speakers, they are denys shmyhal, prime minister of ukraine, ruslan stefanchuk, chairman of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, ihor zhovkva, deputy head. of the president's office, yulia sveredenko - first deputy prime minister and minister of economy, oleksandr kubrakov,

deputy prime minister of reconstruction and minister of community development, territories and infrastructure, and oleksiy kuleba, deputy head of the office of the president of ukraine. everything will be devoted to the issue of economic development and what we need to do to make the 24th year a good one economy as successfully as possible under martial law. i will remind you that our economy is... slowly recovering, about 5% growth over the past year, which is more than good, so to speak, when we have the second year of a full-scale invasion over and the third year underway. but now i see that the prime minister and the chairman of the verkhovna rada are already entering, and we will not waste time right away, mr. prime minister, i welcome you to our second panel, and without further ado, i invite you to the stage , and then everyone will sit down faster, including us

let's start soon. therefore, i invite mr. denys shmigal, the prime minister of ukraine, to the stage. prime minister, please! thanks, let's get started! i wish everyone good health! dear chairman of the verkhovna rada, ruslan oleksiiovych, dear colleagues, friends, partners, dear journalists and representatives of mass media, russian full-scale invasion on february 24. in the 22nd year, it divided the world into before and after, divided our lives, divided the history of ukraine, divided the history of the whole world, divided into two either, or they, or us, either they will win and destroy the ukrainian state, or we will win and preserve our independence, freedom and our european

future. the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi initiated these important panel discussions so that today we... could look back at the path we have traveled and talk about where we are going next. today, i will talk about the challenges we faced and the tasks we set for ourselves, about the victories over the past two years and plans for the next year. the first challenge is defense and defense capability. we have withstood the first blow, we are radically transforming ukrainian defense, the production capacity of the defense industry tripled, the production of drones increased 100 times. rockets. artillery, projectiles, new production, equipment and weapons, all this appeared on a scale that is painfully felt and will be felt even more by the enemy. the second is the economy and financial stability. they held the economy in 2023, economic recovery began, gdp increased by more than 5%. for 2022-23, we negotiated and attracted

$74 billion in external funding. formed a global financial coalition to support the budget, thanks to this we can spend all our internal resources on the defense of our state. government programs to stimulate the economy had a powerful effect, more taxes in the budget, which means more money for the ukrainian army. the third challenge we faced was to implement social programs and help our people. during these two years, the ukrainian government never delayed a single pension. nor other social benefits and payments. we are already planning the third indexation of pensions, increasing teachers' salaries, increasing subsidies, and helping ukrainians who need it most. the fourth challenge for us was russian energy terrorism. sometime in december 2022, russia thought that the light in ukraine would disappear forever, they spent thousands of missiles and

drones on it. last winter was particularly difficult, and... light defeated darkness, repairs are carried out 24/7, three levels of protection of energy facilities, as a result today ukraine and ukrainians have light and heat. the fifth challenge: the russian blockade of ukrainian seaports. at the beginning of the war, it was a very big blow to our economy, in response we increased the transshipment of the danube ports in six times, developed ways of solidarity together with european partners. in 2020, ukraine won the battle, ukraine won the battle for the black sea. we have launched a new sea corridor and thanks to this we reached export volumes comparable to the pre-war level. the sixth challenge - large-scale destruction and reconstruction of the destroyed , it was fundamentally important for us to start reconstruction now, without waiting for the end of the war. we have already

restored 23,000 high-rise buildings and private houses, almost 900 medical and... more than 600 educational institutions, 9,200 objects critical infrastructure, we created a coalition for the recovery of ukraine and convinced partners of the importance of starting a rapid reconstruction. the seventh challenge was the issue of food security, we conducted two sowing companies and two wartime harvesting companies . in 2022, 72 million tons of grain were harvested, and in 2023, 79 million tons. we provide ourselves and other countries around the world with food. finally , the eighth challenge was how to speed up ukraine's accession to the eu despite the war. in 2022, we received five so-called visa-free with europe: energy , transport, economic, customs, digital visa-free, received the status of a candidate state for

eu membership, fulfilled all recommendations, launched large-scale european reforms, as a result of our successful work, the european council decided to start negotiations on ukraine's accession to the european union . what we have managed to achieve is not a constant and does not give us the right to stop. ahead is difficult. the path to war will be won by the one with a stronger economy, more reliable allies, and the ability to efficiently direct as many resources as possible to destroy the enemy. on the first panel, a lot was said about the defense-industrial complex, it is the foundation of our power. our goal is to produce as many weapons as possible ourselves. we are grateful to our allies and partners and do not doubt their support, but we must be as self-sufficient as possible in this matter. our second task. is to provide ukraine with financial resources, we are constantly working with partners, we are talking with everyone, from japan to the usa, the imf, the world bank, the european

investment bank, the ebrd, all other financial international institutions, organizations, we are in dialogue with everyone, we are looking for financial resources to cover our need of 37 billion dollars for this year. the third goal is the confiscation of russian assets, which is also directly related to za'. the sintering of ukraine with financial resources. 300 plus billion dollars of russian funds in the west is an incredible resource for our resilience and recovery. this year, the minimum plan is to switch to the use of income from these frozen assets. the fourth goal is also related to financial resources - economic recovery. uah 45 billion was allocated to the budget this year to help businesses. grants, preferential loans, industrial parks, large investment projects, military insurance. risks, new markets for export. all this is necessary to ensure the survival of our state and to ensure the development of our economy and business. the fifth goal is logistics, without which

the economy cannot survive. we are deploying the capacities of our ports, launching new checkpoints, continuing to build a pragmatic partnership with our neighbors, modernizing railway, including through the construction of the eurorail. the sixth task is to continue housing restoration. energy, critical infrastructure, schools, hospitals, humanitarian demining, we will scale up the recovery program, we will protect the energy sector, we will provide schools and hospitals with shelters, we will accelerate humanitarian demining. the seventh key task for this year is our european integration. now we have a window of opportunity, and we will use it, start negotiations with the eu, about our accession, form a negotiating team. the eu as a goal and the eu both ways are equally important, it makes our country stronger, it opens access to european markets and resources, in this

matter we have a very good level of mutual understanding with the verkhovna rada. i personally thank ruslan oleksiyovych, the people's deputies for the really great work in terms of the european integration laws that were recently adopted by our parliament. dear colleagues, friends, dear ukrainians, we passed these two years of full-scale war with dignity. i thank our soldiers who bore and bear the brunt of the trials of war. eternal honor and memory to those who gave their lives for our homeland. thanks to the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, zelenskyi for his leadership. thank you to everyone who does not give up, works, treats, builds, fights for a better ukraine. let's fight and win, thank you for your attention, glory to ukraine. thank you, mr. prime minister, and i invite mr. ruslan

stefanchuk, chairman of the verkhovna rada, to speak. the scene is yours. dear ladies and gentlemen, first of all i want to thank you for this opportunity to report today, if possible, and... to read the priorities in the activities of the parliament and briefly shed light on the issues of parliamentary diplomacy during the war period. first of all, i would like to start with the fact that, probably, as for all of us, for the parliament of ukraine, february 24 was the date that divided life into before and after. and it is a new stage. interparliamentary diplomacy began, i am deeply convinced of this on february 24, when in the evening from one of the basements

of the verkhovna rada i made... the first war call to the then speaker of the united states congress, nancy pelosi, and then for the first time we heard clear, understandable words of support from congress of the united states, and we started a completely new page, which had its own priorities, and i would like to briefly say that in my opinion we succeeded during this period, first of all, it seems to me that together with the president of... ukraine with the government, the verkhovna rada of ukraine, as the only legislative body, during this period was able to very significantly unite the international parliamentary community, which today actively works for and helps ukraine. it manifested itself in various stages, including the speeches of the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky in the parliaments of a large number of countries around the world, some parliaments did.

this is the first time in its history, some for the first time in this century, this is the arrival and speech of parliamentarians in the halls of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, this is a high level of the so-called iphone diplomacy that exists today between speakers all over the world, and this is the first very important stage that gave its the results first, they were manifested in the fact that we received a number of very important political decisions. this is the decision to condemn the aggression of the russian federation, this is also decisions related to the recognition of the russian federation as a terrorist state or a state that supports terrorism, these are decisions of the parliaments regarding the application of sanctions, and the blocking and confiscation of assets of the russian federation, these are decisions related to the investigation of committed crimes and their prosecution. in addition to activities with

parliaments, we very... actively organized activities with parliamentary assemblies, and already today the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe, the osce parliamentary assembly, pachas adopted those decisions where russia is no longer a member of these organizations. and such parliamentary isolation is very important so that the issue of ukraine does not leave the agenda. the second important stage and the second important result, it seems to me, was... the result of joint support together with the president of ukraine, with the government of issues related to material support of ukraine. you know very well that in the vast majority of countries such decisions are approved precisely by parliaments, and our cooperation with the congress of the united states, with the senate, with other countries, shows that despite the political processes that exist in many parliaments, the issue of support.

ukraine is the only system-forming component in the parliaments of the world, there is no other opinion, except that ukraine should be supported. the third, as it seems to me, very important result is the key role of the parliament in the matter of ukraine's integration into the european union, as denys anatoliyovych already said, the parliament adopted and supported all the necessary legislative acts, which were put to us as a demand, regarding ours. tion membership in the european union, these acts were adopted both at the stage of obtaining candidate status and at the stage of opening negotiations, and just a few days ago we adopted the final legislative act that removes all obstacles to the approval of the negotiation framework, this is the lobbying law, it was adopted by the parliament just a few days ago, in addition to this, i would separately

emphasize that in the context of our european integration, we can note another achievement of the ukrainian parliament, which is unprecedented cooperation with the european parliament there is no doubt that a whole series of circumstances and such a quick accession of ukraine to the european union contributed to this, but i especially want to mark it and thank the presidency of the european parliament, roberta mezzoli, everyone. parliamentarians for the fact that during this period we received a completely new quality of our cooperation, it was expressed in many ways, first of all, in the memorandum of cooperation that we signed last year with the president of the european parliament, and this means that in ukraine and in brussels offices as european will be opened accordingly parliament and the verkhovna rada of ukraine. ukrainian deputies can get the status of observers.