well, there are many topics today, you see, the air is interesting, tense, and now it will add tension, or we will talk about money. oleksandr's relics are with me, i congratulate you, oleksandr, please speak to you. greetings, vasyl, greetings to the audience, the next few minutes, the main thing is about the state of gold and currency reserves in the nbu , the numbers were called, we will also talk about raising taxes, the discussions are ongoing, they are hot, wait for the details in a moment. this is a column about money during the war, i am oleksandr morshchevka with you, i will be there in the next few minutes to talk about the main news from the world of money for the fourth month in a row. ukraine's international reserves decreased by almost 2% in july, the national bank reported. currently, they amount to almost 37.5 billion dollars. the long-term reduction is associated with the fact that external financial assistance does not currently cover the amount of currency that the national bank.

sells on the domestic market for ordinary consumers, for business. in order to balance the financial situation last month, the regulator took from international reserves to interbank over $3 billion, up 10% from the start of the summer. we can really see now that a certain demand for american money has intensified and the national bank is trying to balance the market, but here are these 37.5 billion dollars despite the decrease. nevertheless , our international reserves are at a record level, and this allows such interventions, such coverage of the currency deficit, to balance the financial market and maintain the stability of the hryvnia, this is important. the council of the eu approved providing ukraine with a tranche worth more than 4 billion euros within the framework of the program ucraine facility is grants and loan funds. the decision supports and will support ukraine's macro-financial stability and functioning. the development of its

state administration, the message says. the funds will be directed to the restoration, reconstruction and modernization of our state. let me remind you that the amount of support from the european union over the next three years will amount to a total of 50 billion euros. and then there is the matter of 200 million dollars, which can be confiscated for the benefit of ukraine from the former prime minister of our country, pavlo lazar. the united states of america is developing a corresponding mechanism. lawsuits regarding this money have been going on for almost 20 years. american officials note that they have already reached a decision on the final confiscation of the finances. there are still accusations against lazarenko in the american femicide despite the already served sentence. let me remind you that the ex-prime minister was detained in the united states in 1999, and he died 10 years later.

verdict, then he was found guilty of laundering 23 million dollars. half a billion hryvnias for training ranges and shooting ranges, cabinet the mini-ministers allocated funds from the reserve fund to strengthen the state's defense capabilities. people's deputy of ukraine oleksiy goncharenko reported this. another 266 million was allocated by the government to the national guard and more than 200 million to the needs of from the police and administration of the state border service. well , in preparation for the heating season , an interesting project will operate in the donetsk, sumy and kharkiv regions, according to which local residents will receive gas in cylinders as just ordinary assistance. the head of the government, denys shmyhal, announced this today. local government will collect applications from people and transfer them to gas distribution. networks will pay attention

to low-income families, veterans, pensioners, and this fuel will be brought in cylinders for ordinary ukrainians, well, it's an interesting initiative, the main thing is that the company's gas distribution networks also, well , let's talk, support this initiative, probably they will already join before that, people who live in problem areas should really save money, but entrepreneurs who join an interesting initiative will also save money: up to 3,000 per hectare, such grants will be issued for the cultivation of grapes, both the grape grower and the producer can receive money. taras vysotskyi, acting minister of agricultural policy, announced this. changes to the procedure for providing these grants, recently approved by the cabinet of ministers, should contribute to the increase. areas of vineyards

throughout our state, there is also an opportunity to receive financing for farmers who continue to work in the frontline areas. another global brand completely sold its business in russia, hugo boss got rid of property in the country of the aggressor. after the start of the great war, the german fashion house closed down its main activities in arefia, although it continued to work in the wholesale market, reuters reports. so, hugo boss sold his business to a local company. the terms of the agreement are not disclosed, but let me remind you that... muscovy demands that those businesses, international, transnational companies that leave the country, sell their property at a crazy discount, in total, by 50%, a discount by 50, for 50% of the value of these assets,

well, here we can only thank the businesses that, after all, they lose money and lose cooperation , fortunately, with the aggressor country for their own sake. reputation in the first place. next we talk about taxes. oleksandr bondarenko, managing partner of the bureau of investment programs, joins the conversation. good evening. greetings, colleagues, greetings to you. mr. oleksandr, well , an interesting discussion is still going on between business, the authorities, and the expert environment. in fact, what is more important now is the increase in the military levy, or should we return to the issue of raising the value-added tax rate. now thoughts, as for me, are divided, and, well, in fact, have the government and parliament listened to the proposals of business, i will remind you that last week there was such a big meeting of entrepreneurs with officials, but it seems that there is no common, common result, yes, at the moment, all

the leading business associations, we, as a bureau investment programs, we are also against raising taxes, both for business and for citizens, in fact. they often forget about families and citizens, as individuals, they advocate simply canceling this increase for business, but what about the family people also cannot forget about the social effect, and at the moment there is no decision on raising taxes, but the bill is ready in the parliament and from week to week it can actually be adopted and... and now two dates for raising taxes are being considered: september 1 or 1 october, in fact, on the sidelines of the verkhovna rada, so the question of when and the question of how much of these taxes that have already been determined will raise the military

levy for citizens and/or legal entities, excise taxes will definitely be raised from september 1, we talked about it, and the question of this 1%. current the ban for those who work for the simplified taxation system, this applies to both the efop, the first, the second group, and the third group as well , and the people who work for the simplified taxation system, this is actually a very large tax burden, a large percentage, so economically it is wrong to do now, we have already discussed it with you, but politically, well, i think, after all, they are pressed and will accept it. this approval, because unfortunately the cabinet of ministers does not see other sources of filling the budget, it wants to, well, for now, the issue of tax on the added value of raising the rate has been postponed, but they say, in particular, roksolana the rascal insisted that they can still return to it,

this will mean that they will squeeze everything to the maximum with maximum taxes, the maximum increase, because we will still return to vat, is there still a difference here and well... this rate can affect something else, in contrast to the military levy and in particular for fops 1% of the turnover, explain this situation, and the logic there is really not that simple, oh, you don’t want 5% of the military levy, ok, then we'll include vat extra percent, and the potential increase in the revenue part of the consolidated budget is calculated. the ministry of finance, there, the ministry of economy, and there is an explanation of how much the budget revenues will increase, how much this hole in 500, there is 550 billion uah, whether it succeeds or fails to be closed in this way, that’s all, that is, there is

such a juggling act with various types of taxes, depending on , which is pressured by business lobbyists who are against raising such taxes, and... as such more, well, it's not not direct, but in america it's a sales tax, we've always said for the last 10 years that it's time for us to switch from vat to... sales tax, we have it, and this more hidden tax for exporters generally works as a refund, so we switched to a less radical option of increasing the vat rate, although i also think it will not help to collect those 500 billion, the maximum is uah 50-60 billion, the increase in the vat rate will allow, that is , the problem will not be solved, but noise, homelessness, inconvenience, and again loopholes for taxes. more will be opened for abuse and corruption, therefore, i think the overall effect for

the country will be negative when the rate is increased vat, and i would not advise you to touch it at all, it is time to cancel this tax and introduce a percentage of sales, as in all normal ones, if we raise, for example, excise taxes according to the requirements of the european directive, if we step into europe, then we can really raise the tax sweet water also according to international experience, then indeed this... from sales will also be such an experience in our economy. thank you oleksandrenko, the managing partner of the bureau of investment programs was in touch. we monitor tax changes. i think the debate continues until the parliamentarians leave to the session hall, there will be more heat about these fiscal changes. i will say goodbye for today, but a big broadcast is going on, there will be more to come. stay with us. thank you to oleksandr moshevka, thank you to the guest, these important topics must

be discussed now, you know, so as not to end up in a situation where something needs to be changed already, as we have done many times, it is a little late, as they say, and you can suffer greater losses somewhere, so you should prepare , talk about real numbers, real possibilities, and of course do unreal things, as our army does and the whole conscious ukrainian... people who are waging this war, each in their own positions against the enemy. well, now i'm adding to shuchenin's conversation what cultural news she has prepared for us today. lina, good evening, please speak to you. vasyl, good evening, i congratulate the viewers of espresso. andriy and i are with the cameraman at the premiere of the film about nazarry yaremchuk, and i have already seen this film, and i will tell you very briefly about it in a second.

so, nazarii yaremchuk, the incomparable world of beauty, this, this film was named after one from his songs, i think you've heard about it, and i think maybe you've watched our broadcasts, it's not the first time we've talked about this tape, i think it's extremely important, and i hope. what it will collect at the box office, as for a documentary film, which usually collects a little less than a feature film, quite a lot, why, because this period in general in music, the 70s, 80s, became very popular, a few years ago it all started with of the documentary mustachioed funk, which, if you haven't seen it, be sure to watch it, as well as on vitaly gordienko's youtube channel a film about volodymyr ivasyuk was released, and it... also got a lot of views, and people actually started talking about this period, very often

various parties and concerts are organized, where they play all this music, which before many people, almost everyone, especially young people, was considered an absolute navtalin, here suddenly she became terribly fashionable, of course, nazarii yaremchuk, one of this constellation of pop music, which now they are already trying to stop calling pop music, because this word also scares many people, soviet, and now they are looking for what to call it is it pop music or punk, even music. and the tape about yaremchuk, well, first of all, it was produced by his daughter maria, but as the producer told me, she did not interfere in any work process at all. to me personally, the character and the very figure of nazarii yaremchuk in this film seemed so too, too good, too ideal, but many people told me that... nazarii yaremchuk was basically like that, he was such a sunny person, which

he is was so positive, so reacted to everything, and this obviously has to be accepted, himself the film, i think, is made very interestingly, it is a very entertaining film, where there is a lot of music, his daughter speaks a little, as i was told, she does not really want to shine, yes, but there was a lot of his second wife, who told many such some very cool personal stories with him, as he proposed to her. to get married quickly, how they got married, how they met, completely by chance and unexpectedly for her, also usually told his story, how he, that is, his establishment as musicians. as a singer, and a lot of time was devoted to how women liked him, and this is understandable, because just looking at his photo, it is clear that he is a very handsome, attractive man, and there are even excerpts from an interview where the journalist , well, she just doesn't hide that she likes him, and it looked very funny, and the hall, when i watched this tape at the mykolayuchyk open festival, about

a month and a half ago, the hall laughed a lot, because things were really very cute, and funny in... at night, and also of course we know what nazarii yaremchuk fought with a patient, he had oncology, and this is also such a large layer , a large, large part of the film, of course, and we are told how he fought with this, how he steadfastly fought with this patient, and in general, of course, in general this period and the figure of the same yaremchuk, like many other performers who took place during the soviet union, they are still for me. moreover, for the younger generation, they are largely unstudied, unknown, and perhaps, to some extent, covered by this and that style of the soviet union, and i am very happy that our young filmmakers, young bloggers are trying to show them in a completely different way, from the other side, as people, as interesting people, as people who created music, how exactly

this music was created, how these musicians tried to the times of the soviet union, when in... it was not allowed to do anything fashionable, and everything had to be utilitarian, how they tried to make their creativity more interesting, and how they developed further, how they further put sticks in their wheels, all this is ours story, it is very interesting and cool that it is is beginning to be shown, so i will remind you, yarimchuk is not an incredible world of beauty, an incomparable world of beauty, and the film has been in theaters since thursday. be sure to go and watch it, i'm sure you'll enjoy it, thank you very much lina for the detailed story, of course i encourage everyone to visit the film, watch, watch the tape yaremchuk incomparable world of beauty, i

love it both now and when he was alive listen to this, really gold, one of the best gold. voices of the ukrainian variety show, well, now not one of the best, but the best weather forecaster of ukraine, natalka didenko , is with me, good evening, please, i 'm in a hurry, good evening, i greet all our dear tv viewers, now we will talk with you, of course, about the weather, of course, about magnetic storms and about something else interesting, literally in a second. i start our meeting today with such a fresh memory of mine, how yesterday i went to our kyiv botanical garden and waited there on a bench i knew, and there they installed such very stylish benches made of metal, and i just noticed that they were so stylish opinion obviously a developer, but i, for example , couldn't sit there at all, i got off all the time, and it all ended with me terribly, well

, i'm just probably laughing so hard, because i really couldn't sit on them, and i became interested in general on this topic, what are the benches, benches? what is their history, what is their origin, in general, how many years or centuries are they, well, and you know, in fact , i found out very interesting information, well, in europe, it is believed that the first benches were created in the 19th century in britain, and then they became widespread, but in general the history of the appearance of benches is hundreds of years old, the first mentions generally refer to ancient rome, because there, well, we know, at least there from the drawings, that benches were part of public places and theaters where people rested, because the performances were very long, well, in general in the territory of europe already in the middle ages, they appeared later, when public gardens and squares appeared, well , for example, there is also such a tradition of putting them in public places, in parks, but also on the streets and in some such premises as well, i myself saw benches that were donated to the community people, and on such benches they usually hung

a small memorial plaque, well, such names of benches are like bench, bench, donkey, donkey, it is very similar to ours, uslinets, skamnytsia or sitochka, well, that is what benches are called, in ukraine, in ukraine of course, this is an indispensable attribute of a ukrainian house, it was usually covered with rugs, well, the benches were used not only for sitting, since the families were large, but also for lying down and sleeping, well, when a guest entered the house, of course he was immediately invited to sit on the bench at the table , but for example, lying under a bench was connected with drunkenness and there was even a saying that he was both on the bench and under the bench, that is, a person experienced both honor and shame, well, the design of benches and benches is simply amazing, to be honest, that only the people... come up with, but still in my opinion opinion, in addition to beauty and design, it is very important that they are comfortable. we move, sitting and relaxing in

our comfortable chairs in the studio, to the behavior of the earth's magnetic field. now for your attention is a prognostic diagram, and from it we will see that tomorrow the situation, well, relatively calm, some kind of completely insignificant activation at the beginning of the day, but in general there are no sweat... strong or even moderate storms, so actually we return to the highlight of our column, namely the weather forecast, well, traditionally we start from the western regions, and now we will look at the air temperature together, will it rain therefore, tomorrow in the west of ukraine, well , there will be no significant precipitation, but in some areas there is a possibility of local rains, the air temperature is more than comfortable, well, ideal, i would say. in the north of ukraine, the tail of atmospheric tomorrow the front will also affect the northern regions, these are

zhytomyr region, kyiv region, chernihiv region and sumy region, and these sunny clearings that you see on the map can also alternate with light rain, the air temperature is 25-26°. in the east, in the east of ukraine , the air temperature will be a little tomorrow. but not very strong, so to speak, 27-29° without significant precipitation, towards the end of the day, tomorrow evening in the kharkiv region there is a possibility of short-term rain and even a thunderstorm, in the central regions of ukraine tomorrow the air temperature will not change significantly, it is expected in the range of 25-29° without significant precipitation, and maybe some local rains will come in the afternoon, but in general it will still dominate. dry air mass, it will traditionally be the hottest in the southern part of ukraine, the highest air temperature is expected, it is expected there from 28 to 31°,

there will be no precipitation, there will be a lot of sun, and in kyiv, the capital tomorrow , the air temperature is expected to be comfortable, around +26° , as you can see both sunshine and rain at the same time, on our map this happens, that is, tomorrow in kyiv there will be sun. but there is also the possibility of short-term rain and possibly even a thunderstorm. here's the nearest synoptic outlook, of course, keep an eye out for our updated weather forecasts on the espresso channel. well, i will remind you at the end, in the evening address, the president of ukraine , volodymyr zelenskyi, announced that in kharkiv as a result of an enemy attack, we have tragic information: one person died, 12 people were injured after an insidious attack by the enemy in the shevchenkiv district of the city of kharkiv. my sincere condolences. and also today

dynamo kyiv will play another champions league qualifier against glasgow rangers. we wish success in the ukrainian team. stay with us, stay with espresso, stay safe. good evening, we are from ukraine. war, and not only for territories, it is also a war for minds. we are engaged in propaganda. russia is throwing millions of oil dollars to turn ukrainians into little russians. ukraine will become russia. countering russian information attacks in the chronicles of information war project with olga ley. tuesday, thursday at 17:15, repeat, tuesday, friday, fr 22:00. hello, my name is yuriy fizar, and this is an espresso interview. i usually invite interesting guests to this studio in order to

talk with them about interesting topics. and my interlocutor today, extraordinary and authoritative, is the ambassador of the republic of estonia to ukraine, anneli kolk. i will talk to her about important things, about the relations between estonia and ukraine, about the help we received, continue to receive, and i am sure we will continue to receive from our brotherly country, and about many other things. ambassador, i congratulate you very much thank you for joining me today, for coming here. thank you, thank you so much. for being invited. thank you. look, the first question will be, estonia is a relatively small country, if compared with other european countries, of course, there are smaller ones, but estonia is small. but with all this, we... received a lot of help from your country, both financial and military, in what, i don't know, paradox is possible, why is it so, is it because of the knowledge

of history, or is it possible that? another hides in this, yes, of course, one of the main reasons is that we have a common history, we were occupied by the soviet union, we lived together under the conditions of occupation, we know what assimilation, de-russification is, and the soviet union tried to erase, to eradicate our language, our culture, and we know what our common neighbor will do, of course, this was one of the reasons, but i think the main reason why estonia is helping, has helped and will continue to help ukraine is that they love ukrainians very much, we admire them

by... how you behave against this russian evil, how you bravely and decisively fight brutality, genocide, war crimes, and i think this is the biggest reason why estonia wants to help ukraine, and this brutal war has been going on for more than two years, and... er, the fascination of estonians for ukraine grows even more, grows because you continue to defend your country, fight for your people, for your cultural identity, and all this is very dear, and very close to estonians, well, on the one hand , it's bad, because this is the common history you're talking about mentioned that it unites us, and on the other hand it is good that it unites us, because we feel how close we are to

each other, even though... that we are separated by some, some kilometers separate us , and none the less, but still speaking about aid, are there any statistics on how much aid, for example, military or financial, we have received so far from the republic of estonia, yes, of course, there are very reliable statistics, estonia provided with of the beginning of a full-scale invasion of more than 26 million euros. aid and it is as a government aid state aid, aid from the private sector and ordinary ordinary citizens. as for military aid, it has burned more than 500 million now. if we compare with gdp, then estonia provided aid for more than 1-3%

of its gdp. this means that we are one of the most active countries that support ukraine, in addition, the government of estonia decided at the end of last year that they will allocate for the next four years, annually, 0.25% of our gdp for ukraine, specifically for military aid for reconstruction, therefore our help. it will definitely continue, and so will estonia will do everything possible to increase humanitarian and other aid to ukraine. well, i can only answer that in estonian, i 'll try, madam ambassador, don't criticize my accent too much and nantei dvaga for all that estonia does for us. well, but look, one more point, a few months ago, the parliament of estonia passed a law, and then the law was ratified by the president of estonia, which...

the law allows for the use of frozen russian assets to compensate for the damages that russia has caused in this war of aggression in ukraine, several months have passed, it seems two months have passed since this law came into force, have there already been any transfers, this is the first question, to ukraine, i mean, and the second question is whether other western countries have followed the example of estonia, because estonia was the first western country to pass such a law. yes, of course, estonia was one of the first countries that started talking about the need to use frozen russian assets to rebuild ukraine because the aggressor has to pay a price for it, and we were one of the first countries that two years ago , said that we need to start.