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an unusual look at the news. good health, ladies and gentlemen, my name is mykola veresin. sharp presentation of facts and competent opinions. for example, if mykola veresin had done so, he would have gone to prison. a special look at the events in ukraine, so it is not necessary to say that the fish is rotting from the head. no, not off the top of my head. but beyond it. and then who is china? me, my heart hurts. all this in informational marathon with mykola veresny. saturday 17:10. sunday 18:15 at espresso. the will to win, that is, the will to win. this is the name of the multimedia project, which tells about the simply incredible willpower and resilience of our ukrainian athletes. despite the challenges of war, despite frequent personal losses, despite suffering, they overcome a huge number of obstacles. and demonstrate to the world, the entire

world, their will to victory. we present a series of short stories about ukrainian athletes and today on our air about yulia levchenko, ukrainian athlete and finalist of the olympic games. let's watch together. my name is yuliya levchenko, i am an athlete, i specialize in high jump. i am... a world cup star and an olympic finalist, and i also won the youth olympic games. i was born in the city of bakhmut and i really dreamed of coming there, but now this city no longer exists, i have nowhere to go.

for me, the opportunity to be on the international stage, to appear in the uniform of the national team, is a chance to show that the ukrainian team, the country of ukraine. exists that we have the right to speak, we have the right to the life that was available to us before all this terrible thing that began to happen. at the beginning, when a large-scale invasion began, i thought that my sport was all there was to it, i didn't think that i would continue to do sports at all, then after a while with the support of the whole world i managed to return to the tena. before the competition, but of course

the first attempts to return to the competition arena were very difficult, because you leave and you don't understand what you're doing here, you feel like you're not in your place, and in general it's all unimportant, it's important that people are dying in our country, that we have a war, how can it be important at all, i came to understand that each person should do what he knows best, and i looked at sports from the other side, that.. . i have to do what i know how to do, just last week i came back from the championship of ukraine and there was such a situation when an athlete was standing, preparing for his record attempt, and the siren started, and here he is standing, he will not run to the bomb shelter, because he will not have this moment in his life anymore, he needs it on the edge of life and death choosing whether to jump your record now or save your life, because you never know, right now at...

whether the rockets are sitting here next to you or not, i want to remind the world that this is not normal, that we deserve calm, quiet life, that we are the largest country in europe, and... we are very much asking for support, help, and we are waiting for our overall victory. this material, this video, was watched with us by zhan beleniuk, people's deputy of ukraine and olympic champion in greco-roman wrestling. we welcome you to our air. congratulations, we understand that you have your own memories and

impressions from the olympic games, but today's olympic games are very important for ukrainians and ukrainian athletes. differs from the previous ones precisely because of this emotional load, which is there and because of personal experiences very often connected with the war, how difficult is the competition now and how difficult is it all for our athletes? well, of course, such a phenomenon as war cannot be beneficial to any person, including. an athlete, of course you are you constantly accept for the preservation of your life, for the preservation of the lives of your loved ones, your friends, that is, when you live in such a context, well, it is difficult, it is

difficult from a moral point of view to prepare and in general to perform, but nevertheless the level the motivation of our athletes, i'm sure it's high, because... they all understand how difficult it is now for our defenders, who every day, regardless of the circumstances, choose our independence and territorial integrity, so understanding this, everyone, i think , want to show themselves as the best, so i really hope that it will work out in the ukrainian national team, there is still a lot of time to realize all their ambitious plans here at these olympic games and... i urge everyone to support ukrainian athletes, mr. we'll be looking at the next competition in literally an hour, but what do you say as a former olympic champion who was at the olympics in completely different circumstances, not in the circumstances of a full-scale war,

to those who criticize, say: you can't focus, then look somehow european vision, then watch the olympics, because it turns out that the war is for some, and others are engaged in completely... others, but when such a thing is heard, it is not the time, as they say, to watch the olympics, you have to watch the line front, what do you answer them? first of all, i definitely do not agree with that, because of course we all live in times when a war inside our country will be sharpened, we are all very worried about this and everyone is trying to be useful where they can be useful and ... about what to the olympic games, first of all, they are only two weeks away, and this, in my opinion, is a very cool platform for conducting an information war, every ukrainian athlete is currently being asked by the world media about what is happening inside our

country, and how they prepared, i.e. , what obstacles they went through during this preparation, and i'm being honest. i think that there has never been such attention as it is to ukrainian athletes among international snakes, and i personally made sure of this, because every day, i try to give his comments to all the international community, explaining that the war inside the country continues because the international coalition and if the citizens of those countries that are our allies, they put pressure on the leadership of their countries... they more actively helped ukraine with weapons, with everything necessary, because the lack of the necessary weapons is including the lives of our military personnel, the lives of our civilians, who also die every day due to terrorist attacks of the russian federation, so

i think it is important, and our athletes, they know their mission right here, i think that they cope with this task, in terms of promoting pro-ukrainian narratives precisely at the olympic games, using... this site for this very purpose, in addition to the fact that they also win medals. mr. jean, you were at the olympics, which was a little different in terms of the general vibe and atmosphere, here every day there were discussions with... gave, just finished one with the option of what to do with those transgender people with their victory, how the next one was decided again in the same way, and then the athletes start talking, look, these transgenders could not prove at other levels of competition that they are transgender persons, but they were admitted to the olympics, and they beat the women in the final, well, this is only yesterday's story, that's the kind of discussion. i don't know if this is now a new new feature of the olympics so that lgbtq plus rights

dominate as the main olympic principles, or how to explain it? well, scandals accompany every olympics, i remember it, i was in rio, and in tokyo, there were no spectators in tokyo, to be honest, so maybe it's not like that there, well the country is so eastern, so maybe they are a little... calmer, but i remember that in rio there were definitely a lot of scandals related to various things about transgender people, well the fact is that this situation, it is not worth any attention, because she is sucked out of the finger, as they say, because this italian boxer, she has already apologized to her opponent, whom she accused of being allegedly a man, although in fact this is an athlete, she is not the first times, including speaking. at the olympic games and loses, including to women, she just is

the fifth number in the world ranking, in contrast to the italian, who is the 55th in the world ranking, who basically refused to participate in this duel after the very first shot, well, this is her right, in the sense that once in this an athlete from algeria, she did have too much testosterone, but that happens to women and... uh, well, as far as i understand, she was allowed in because the situation was dealt with, and in principle, quite a good piece of writing on the tribune resource, where they explain this whole story chronologically, what kind of problem is there anyway, so to be honest, of course, that the hype, of course, that everyone is worried that a man allegedly beat a woman at the olympic games, but this is not so, here, and in order not to lead... to loud headlines, you just need to understand the situation and delve a little deeper by reading the relevant materials.

for us, for us, for ukrainians, it cannot be said that this is not a scandal, the fact that some russians and belarusians, their athletes do participate in the olympic games under a neutral flag, is this allowed, or did you see a chance for us to convince the world not to approve of this, or did we have a chance? you know, well, first of all, if the struggle continues until now, but the result that we have at the moment, that only 15 so-called neutral athletes are present here, among 10 thousand, today i went to the olympic village, here 10,000 athletes from all over the world, that is, to find ... all 15 is difficult enough, even if someone had such a desire, and when we started this

struggle, when the international olympic committee gave new guidelines a little more a year ago, regarding the possible participation of such representatives under a neutral status, to be honest, i did not expect that we would have such a result that only 15 athletes would be present here, of course, that we are generally against their presence in general, but this is a worthy result if we will remember the last olympic games... the russians were represented by more than 300 athletes, currently only 15, so i believe that this is definitely a positive result for us, we definitely continue to fight and, of course, to follow all the recommendations that were developed by our state in relation to the representatives of these countries, terrorists of russia and belarus, we are not showing any signs. respect, that is, we generally avoid any provocations, because we know that russia is capable of these provocations and

we continue the struggle, because the policy of the international olympic committee, which from our point of view looks like flirting with the aggressor, we already went through this in 1936, when hitler was given the olympic games in germany, we know how it all ended, so we believe that no such manifestations of flirting with the aggressor should not be... there should be a hard, clear answer, they should be blocked, as they were blocked immediately after the full-scale invasion, and after a year, we cannot at all... understand what the reasons are for this decision to cancel, because the situation would not in any way, if it had not changed, that is, russia continues to occupy our territory, kill ukrainians, carry out terrorist attacks, and so on and the like, that is , there was no reason to allow them to somehow participate in international competitions , but

the international olympic committee for some reason tries to balance, well, if we fight against it. yes, sir, we have half a minute, literally just your forecast, actually, as an olympic champion, olga harlan has a medal, serhiy kolish has a medal, where else and from whom can we expect? i think that a lot of people, to be honest, right now i can't list them all in 30 seconds, but you definitely have to root for everyone, because in such conditions even obtaining an olympic license and the fact that ukrainians take part in... competitions, this is already our victory, i am sure that there will be more medals, here you show yaroslav the mighty, this is the main contender for the gold medal, who recently set the world record in the high jump, ugh, thank you for being with the audience espresso, zhan belynyuk, the olympic champion in greco-roman wrestling and a people's deputy of ukraine was with us, today is already the eighth day of the olympics, so yes, half

of the competition has actually already taken place, today 11 of our ukrainian athletes are participating in the competition, literally in half an hour there will be next performances of our athletes, we will cheer, meanwhile we will talk about economic issues with our next guest, oleg penzyn, economist and member of the economic discussion club, joins our conversation, mr. oleg, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, we are sincerely glad to see you, we are also always glad to see you on our airwaves and listen to your analytics, about price increases, this... every season, there is probably a story that something is getting more expensive, something is getting more expensive, and now we are coming back to this issue again, but they say that it is not significant, not everything will become more expensive by autumn by 3-5% per some goods, this is about the agricultural sector, what you are talking about, well, look,

it is really difficult to say now, because it is not yet clear how the late varieties reacted. to the abnormal heat that was, in fact, i think that somewhere by the middle of august it will be clear that we will harvest there, it will certainly be better than it was last year, because last year was generally very productive, but i still want to remind you for of all viewers, that ukraine is a large agricultural country that is completely self-sufficient in food, and the reduction harvest, the increase either decreases or increases the export potential of ukraine. at the moment, we are completely self-sufficient. chams and therefore there will be no problems in this regard, there will be something missing there, that ’s for sure, it’s not about ukraine, and we provide ourselves with approximately 92% of the food we transport, we transport fish, we transport exotic fruits, so far bananas don't grow on christmas trees in ukraine, but if the weather is like this summer, well, i don't know,

it's quite likely, so those things, actually they that's exactly what gives those percentages up to 100. and what is actually the main consumer basket of ukrainians is their own production, and this year it is completely enough to provide ukrainians with food for the winter, so from this point of view there really won't be any significant changes , the only thing is that if the price of grains will increase, and objectively they may have to increase a little, you and i will see an increase in milk, an increase in the meat group, actually. not with a fodder base, so actually the 3.5% we are talking about is from this there should be a position, but when you and i are talking about inflation, which is an index of the growth of consumer prices for all types of goods, then state-regulated prices will undoubtedly have a very large value there, in fact, we have already had an increase in electricity prices for the population,

actually from on september 1, we will change the prices of oil for the oil refinery. materials at gas stations, we will probably see an increase in the prices of alcohol and tobacco, and this will undoubtedly add to inflation in other items not actually in the food basket, but nevertheless we will definitely pay more for it. sir olezhe, the discussion, in general, with the strategy for a year or two, boils down to two main lines. and those who criticize the actions of the ministry of finance and the government say so. look, even pritzker came and tells you to cover the double bass and the hole you made on the western borders, and well, to confirm her words, there is a massive one. smuggled goods that pass through, it is not known how and who makes money from it, it can be found even in large metropolitan supermarkets, this is their first argument, the second, they say

that, in principle, if these gray schemes, then there is no need for the government to talk about a budget deficit of half a trillion and about the need to move along the path of yes, we will raise excise taxes, now we will raise taxes and freeze salaries and social benefits. so in this discussion, place the emphasis, how do you see it, who is right, who is wrong? well, the fact that we will freeze social benefits from 100%, because today they are financed by macro-financial assistance, and it is problematic for next year, so if we look carefully at the budget declaration for the 25th-27th year, then there we have a clear freeze social standards, that is, it will not be under... despite the fact that inflation of 10% is expected only in the 25th year. when you and i

talk about overcoming the shadow economy, in my opinion, only a lazy person did not point a finger in this direction, with us, 40% of the ukrainian economy is shadow, these are the sectors that do not pay a single penny of taxes, on average, if if you look at it year by year, then the shadow sector of ukraine... does not pay 750-800 billion uah in addition to the state budget, that is, it is much more than what is currently not enough for security and defense, on the other hand, listen, all the governments of ukraine fought against the shadow sector, it actively survived in that fight and even increased, the main problem, excuse me and as humor, was in the process, let's say... researches did not come out on their own, unfortunately, and in that situation, this government, it is no better, we see in reality extremely

big problems, which are both with smuggling and with other directions of the shadow sector, so i have an extremely high hope that before the arrival of mrs. pritzker, there were huge problems with the wall, but after it, such a thing a clear, apt statement. i don't think that will happen, and i think that the most likely increase in government revenue will come from increasing taxes on those who already pay them, because it must be clearly understood that all this tax pressure that is being talked about today is enough a big discussion, and actually all the innovations of the government are all taxes on you and me, on those who pay legally, those who go to legal shops, those who... the products are not there in the shadow sector, in legally and pay through there are electronic payment systems that are tracked and so on, that is, all

this tax pressure will again be on those 60% of the economy, which is already barely making ends meet, unfortunately, this is the paradigm in which we live, and i do not think that anything will fundamentally change there after 10-15 days until the moment of the final, well, at least at least consideration. of this draft law, which we are now mentioning to you in the first reading. we still have about two minutes to talk, and we have had problems before with finding a good, professional person, for example, a plumber, or some craftsman who can do something somewhere to repair now in different cities, in different regions of our country, they say, there are no workers, there are no narrow specialists, enterprises simply teach, for example, women to drive large vehicles for free, because there are not enough drivers, men. how will this

lack of personnel and the fact that many people now have to retrain will affect the economy and its further development. well, demographers literally say that we need to bring in 350,000 foreign workers, or labor migrants, from other countries every year. and this directly says on the highest state level. at the moment, you and i need to bring labor migrants here, even in order to provide the economy, which is labor resources. when you and i talk about how we can get something right there right now, let's be honest. only a lazy person today does not talk about economic reservation, and only a lazy person does not mention that five draft laws have been in the verkhovna rada since may, and none of them made it to

the first reading. to the session hall, but about taxes we are talking very quickly, about excise taxes, about the military levy, by the way, we have heard that it is quite likely that you and i will also see the value added tax, which will increase, and we will be promised that the vat will increase by 15%, yes, mr. leger , thank you for the clarification, we need more time for this conversation, we must continue it, next time, the economist and member of the economist. oleg penzyn of the powerful discussion club was on the air of the tv channel, now there is a short pause, later we will return with even more information. there are discounts until independence day on bionorm detox. 10% in psarynyk, bam and oskad pharmacies. do you want to wake up as if you were a child with your grandmother, full of strength and energy? then the new product from matrats market is just for you. meet the dream life pillowcase mattress. the

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what we were talking about. we always talk about great western support about politicians and the interstate level, and much more attention is paid in the european union during this war to the support of, let's say, civil society and not so non-state, as they are called ngos, and accordingly support independent ukrainian media that remain for them proper in the common denominator between us and the european union and the controller from... who control, who lay the foundation for the restoration of ukraine and successful european integration, as they say, not in word, but in deed. well, together, we act, together we, europe, is the name of the communication campaign about the support of the european union, civil society and the media in ukraine, and this is the essence of our cooperation, how this partnership is implemented in our daily work, that is, in our next material.