that there is nothing to arm, that if at least a part, for example, four or five brigades of them are ready, then it is quite possible to develop and further success of this offensive and even to carry out a very powerful fortification, by the way, it is the fortification and construction of powerful, powerful rampant defense is already in kursk region, this is a very important element, i don't know if it would be. in what form is this happening now, by the way, here i cannot help but say the following words that, in addition to engineering units, it would be very logical to establish private military units in this form companies, but we have already been talking about it for the fifth year and have three bills, which experts call quite empty and far from how private military companies should be built, and this is the possibility of asymmetric actions , including the implementation. powerful engineering

works on the already captured territory, now one more aspect, which is very important, which, probably, this offensive is also dedicated to, namely the presidential elections in the united states, and here it should be especially emphasized that there are american forces, in particular , well, two senators visited kyiv. a republican and a democrat, this, graham and blumenthal, these two senators even want to submit such a bipartisan, bipartisan bill that would provide aid to ukraine for the 25th year, this is a very important insurance against trump, let's put it that way , since the arrival of trump, experts have already analyzed the possibility of such

a promotion of such a law and say that , first of all, it would be very important if camila harris, even if she did not win, but went with trump, even better if she won , then then that would be a very important indicator for speaker johnson to consider this project to raise his own. own political stakes, because now he is completely dependent on trump, if trump wins and tells him not to do this, he will not introduce this bill, and if camila garis wins, then by november 5th he needs to introduce it and then consider it to the end december, so again the future of ukraine partly depends on the american political system and depends. from how it will flow, flow

precisely the presidential campaign in the united states, well, let's hope that camila garis will gain momentum, and to be honest, now we have a little break in communication with alatin badryuk, now we will resume it if we succeed, now, mr. valentin, the connection was interrupted a little, i would like to ask you now. extreme questions in view of the fact that time is running out quite quickly, how would you assess the enemy's actions now, how will this, this clan of putin, act now, due to the fact that he is forced to respond to the ukrainian offensive, but how, whether attempts to completely dislodge ukrainian troops from their own territory, or , relatively speaking, will be limited to this counter-terrorist operation, which in fact, well , in my opinion, is unlikely to be one that will really be able to fulfill these goals. of the ukrainian

troops, what is your forecast of the enemy's actions, here there is actually a huge danger and a huge risk associated with the fact that the seemingly simplification, yes, well, such a simplified approach to defense, and such a simplified advance of the ukrainian troops, the kremlin can create a trap, and lure the defense forces more, for example, than... 50 km deep, if this happens, and everything depends absolutely, as i have already expressed, on the presence of prepared powerful reserves, because if they exist and if they are ready, then for ukraine it is not will be a problem, and it will be possible to develop success and then, if necessary, go on the defensive, if there are not enough reserves, but...

actually, quoting ukrainian soldiers who were wounded and who were transferred from other directions literally a day before the offensive, but not directly, but indicates a lack. reserves, and if the reserves are not enough, then such a trap will be very dangerous, uh, that's why russia's actions, they seem to be now, well, just recovered from the suddenness and are starting to implement something, but they can artificially slow it down , artificially slow down precisely the preparation for repulsion, and can artificially start . the reserves are not on the contact line, but further away, say, 20, 30 km away, and of course, a lot will depend on intelligence and means of attack, ukraine has already demonstrated here, the defense forces have already demonstrated enormous power, as well as airfields, about which

you mentioned, as well as the destruction of the sniper artillery of those units, in particular, which went for reinforcements. which were overturned, and here in fact the ukrainian defense forces have much more advantages now, and indeed we see that the initiative is in the hands of the defense forces of ukraine, and precisely because of this we are observing an elevation, an increase in morale, this is a very, very important aspect in this war, and this offensive has already fulfilled its role, already, regardless of the results of maybe'. certain predictions about the enemy's actions, let's see how the practice or time will confirm your conclusions, and i will remind our viewers that valentyn badrak, the director of the army,

conversion and disarmament research center, was on etheriso, that was the main military emphasis of that day, then vasyl zima will continue the broadcast, so stay tuned to the espresso channel. thank you to serhiy zagorets, thank you to his guest, we continue the conversation, i want to say that an air alert has been declared in part of the territory of ukraine, in particular the air alert announced in chernihiv oblast, poltava oblast, sumy oblast, kharkiv oblast, donetsk oblast, luhansk oblast, there on in principle, there is always an alarm in luhansk region, but in any case, these two regions are now, and an explosion was heard in lubny in poltava region, this is reported by local sources, so be careful, residents of those regions where the alarm is now declared , regarding the threat, according to information from the air defense forces, the threat is the launch or possible launch of ballistic missiles from the territory

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your help, we need means of radio-electronic warfare against small bpols, the enemy and comikat drones, very we ask for your help, glory. ukraine, glory to the heroes, serhii zgrets today spoke about the frontline situation, so to speak, in donetsk region, in pokrovsky direction, in particular, we will talk about the humanitarian situation in donetsk region, in those cities and near those cities where hot, active hostilities are either ongoing, or where they may continue soon, as they say, where the front is approaching, alyona sobolenko, journalist of the tv channel capri, ms. alyona, i welcome you. greetings, you know, i understand that the situation is so difficult and so complicated that it is definitely not up to me to choose which settlement to talk about now from kyiv, so i will ask you to say, in general, to describe the humanitarian situation, since it is critical precisely in those populated areas or near those

populated areas, where active and rather heavy, but not quite, but very heavy battles are currently going on, in fact, the pokrovsky direction is meant first of all, and then you can talk specifically about one or the other. points where an active evacuation process is currently underway, and what difficulties are associated with it, how it is possible to carry out the evacuation of the local population, please, congratulations once again. the situation in our communities really remains tense, because the enemy does not stop its attacks, constantly shelling the front-line communities, unfortunately, of course, people are wounded and killed, and i can say that as far as the humanitarian situation, fortunately even in pokrovsk, where i live now, most of the shops, pharmacies are all are working, most of the shops only work there , some entrepreneurs are leaving, and humanitarian aid is given to residents, both to residents and to internally displaced persons, besides , residents of the torets community are now very actively coming to pokrovsk, who

they are brought here, they are in a shelter, and then they leave for safer regions by evacuation train or other means of transport, i can say that i definitely puzzled everyone and involved everyone in such an active evacuation, included the decision on the forced evacuation of children from the number. frontline settlements, i.e. novogrodivska, grodivska, selydivska, myrnogradska communities, in general, from these settlements were to be withdrawn, this decision was taken on august 5, and on august 5 , more than 4,000 were to be withdrawn from these settlements minors, as of today , approximately 2,200 minors remain to be removed, that is, this process of removal of children with their parents or legal representatives is actively ongoing, if brothers. here specifically by communities, then according to the last one, according to the latest information from the novogorodivsk community, to which

the information was literally updated this evening, that the enemy had a little more than 3 km left, and now it was already possible to evacuate all the children from the novogorodivsk community, fortunately, there are 10 addresses, which are currently being checked by the police, who may still have children, but that's fine there may or may not be such information, it is this information that is being checked that from... as for the myrnograd community, where a decision was also made to evacuate children, as of yesterday evening, on august 13, there were still 1,229 children in the community, but the evacuation process continues every day, and i am sure that tomorrow this number will be, well, maybe a couple of hundreds less, i want to tell a little about the process itself, how people are taken out, they are taken out by special evacuation crews. which include policemen, rescuers and representatives of local military administrations,

20 such crews are currently working, that is, from these settlements in which forced evacuation has been announced, 20 crews are working, then people are taken to shelters or to pokrovsk, where they are waiting for an evacuation train, where they can to go either to lviv oblast every day, or until now evacuation continues to rivne oblast, an evacuation train once every eight days. is sent, and here in these shelters people can rest, recover, they are fed there, they are provided with humanitarian aid there, psychological, legal, and then they go to safer regions, today there was just such a flight, my colleagues worked on the railway, i’m sorry, are these special trains or people, is it or are they ordinary passenger trains, they just put people there and they feel at ease, no it’s not special evacuation train, it runs in donetsk region precisely from pokrov. first a full-scale invasion, it runs daily to the lviv region and to the dnipro, and it is absolutely

free, people only need to sign up, leave their application, their data, er, they will be told the time and place of the meeting, they will be brought to the railway station in pokrovsk in an organized manner, they will be seated there, and then they will leave, and as i have already said, once every day he goes to the lviv region, to lviv and to the dnipro . and once every eight days there is an evacuation to the rivne region, where people are also provided with places to live, either in places of compact living, these are dormitories or shelters, or if there is such an opportunity, they are resettled already in some private houses, but this is what he is doing local government, relatively speaking, whether it is city or regional, lviv oblast, rivne oblast, it is their responsibility, because as far as i know, so are hops. the local government is also involved in this and offers the residents of the zaporizhzhia

region, well, where the fighting is taking place, where there is the most need, right now it is certainly the hottest in donetsk region, so they offer opportunities and prepare, they don't just suggest that we come to the station and have a look, let's have a coffee let's decide no they are preparing some opportunities what you were talking about then again it's local government is there also activists, maybe some volunteer organizations, maybe some international foundations, non-government ones get involved, well, to roughly understand where people are going. those who take care of them there? well, i can tell you that both at the level of local authorities and at the level of regional authorities, this whole process has been worked out, for example, here i am... only on saturday, together with the residents of the novogrodivska community , there was an evacuation and we went to poltava oblast it was agreed at the level of regional military administrations that places would be arranged compact living, thanks to benefactors, thanks to their help , one of the hostels in the city

of ryshutivka was renovated, and i was there personally, i personally saw the conditions where... people, this is modern renovation, this is modern furniture, this, these are kitchens, which are equipped with everything necessary, well, with all the household appliances that are needed for life, people are also provided with psychological assistance there, volunteers from the humanitarian mission of the snowstorm work with these people, they also help to draw up documents, who, if there, lost, for example, were burned at fires during shelling, humanitarian kits were also issued to people. these are both hygienic and food, and they promised that in the near future they would help them to issue financial aid from the unhcr in the amount of uah 10,800 per person, and i talked with people who left, it was novogrodivka, and grodivka and the village of novoekonomichne grodivska hromada, and people were very satisfied with the conditions in which they

were settled. i know that the merinograd community cooperates with the dnipropetrovsk regional military administration. there and, for example, there is such is the settlement of tsarichanka, they are also setting up places for compact living there, where people can wait, maybe someone will find themselves there and rent a house for themselves, i apologize, maybe someone will go there further to relatives, someone can live there as long as there is a need for it them, well here we are, yesterday i just read the map of the hostilities and... i’m a bit oriented by the new, new situation in donetsk region, well, yes, but i haven’t looked at any populated place here, either the fighting is going on, or the front is already approaching, there it is big this arc there are also selydovo, and novogrodivka, and grodivka , and alexandropol, myrnograd, of course, new york, and i would also like to ask, well , of course, that people who remain in such a situation are obviously where the front is already going, or

here he is on the approach, that is shelling, grenade launchers, drones, everything is there, ah, there... obviously no one is doing such a thing to bring some humanitarian aid to these people, that is , you either leave, or you stay at your own discretion, i and, but it’s not even about that here, although you can also mention it, but is there information about those settlements that occupy the enemy is now in donetsk region, right now, because this is the situation, and from where people have not left, how is the enemy moving on and not staying there , not dealing with those who are here, there are some tortures, something else, something else, that is people who are again for... are now under occupation, right now in donetsk region, is it known about their fate? well, unfortunately, uh, i can't say anything about it, because, well, it's just what we can read there from some publics or testimonies of people who leave, or it's some kind of discussion in the local chats, but we understand that such information may not be 100%

true there, but, as i understand it, if, for example, we take the same avdia. and when we talked with the ochlichnyamiv city administration there at one time and said that even there humanitarian aid was then given to the residents that was brought by our boys, our soldiers, our volunteers, and that side, then its occupiers gave them, gave them to the residents, these are the same boxes that are issued to us every month, they then issued this assistance and presented it as their own. well, yes, but, but we later, you know, we even later heard this russian prisoner of war who talked about the atrocities he committed by raping and shooting families, so of course, and i’m here very briefly literally emotion, here you are now in pokrovsk, the city for which the fighting is actually going on, the enemy is understandably rushing, the enemy wants to capture and move further there, capturing donetsk region, the situation

is not easy, the defense forces are doing what they can do, i think, maybe even more, in general, the situation in the city, here's yours the feeling of emotion, well... because it is difficult to understand now, if you are not there and where there are no active hostilities, how to be in a city near which such powerful enemy forces are now gathered? well, if you talk about my feelings personally, it hurts me a lot, i am very sorry that i will probably have to leave the city soon, although i really don't want to do that, because you know, we pokrov residents have probably all come to love our own. the city, as it has never been loved, it is in this situation that you realize that you may have to go, and there are a lot of people who simply leave with tears in their eyes, but they leave... him for the sake of safety and say that even, well, not even, but when the war ends, we will definitely return and live in our native pokrovsk, we don't need big cities, we don't need that foreign country,

we want to live in our own pokrovsk, i have to end on this note, i really thank you very much for your work, for the positivity, about a very difficult situation, that you give , for the information that you give out from the city, for which it is really... for which the fighting is going on now, alyona sobolenko from pokrovsk, a journalist of the capri tv channel, donetsk about the situation there, and now we will talk about money, because, as napoleon bonaparte said, war is money, money and money again, no matter how one evaluates it, and it is true, and actually, about the prospects of the fall, about ideas regarding tax increases and the first reaction that the verkhovna rada of ukraine has, ivan kryulko, people's deputy of ukraine, is in touch with us, mr. ivan, congratulations , congratulations, glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes, i will start briefly and the question will be very short, so your colleague, deputy yaroslav dzheleznyak wrote that first the deputy, the deputy head of the council's committee on

tax and customs policy, that the council will not consider the government's draft laws on raising taxes and allocating an additional 500 billion uah for defense until the end of august, well, i will not elaborate further on that, but explain why, where to get the money and what are the expectations and preparations for the fall, which... already raises the question before us that the money will be needed, and it must be taken somewhere, first of all for the army, of course, first of all, please thanks, well, let's figure it out in turn, we heard from the government that they say that taxes need to be increased, because there is a hole in the budget, and this hole must be covered by increasing taxes, in fact, the budget adopted for 2024 is fully implemented. and it was the desire of the government to increase the spending part of the budget by 500 billion that led to the fact that

a bill on tax increases was submitted in parallel, that is, when the question arose that we need more money for the armed forces, the government did nothing but increase taxes for small and medium-sized businesses and in principle, i did not find it for citizens, of course, such actions are a challenge... but discussions in the parliament and disagreements, in particular, we, as the motherland, have a negative attitude to raising taxes, even in war conditions, because we understand that this does not contribute to the development of the economy, on the contrary, it will reduce revenues to the budget , in the short-term perspective may increase, but in the long-term the business will simply close and will not even pay what it pays today. if we are talking about the partnership of the state, business and citizens, then without a strong rear there will definitely not be. and our successes on at the front, that is, the rear must provide everything needed for the army, must work, and therefore during the war, the best option is

, on the contrary, to stimulate business through additional opportunities for its development, including through a reduction in taxes, a reduction in tax inspections, and when it was restored in tax audits to the full extent, when sufficiently high taxes have already been introduced, when the flat business survives, to impose an additional burden on it seems to me, and especially when it was not discussed with the business community, but simply such innovations were brought to parliament as a bill, certainly they could not be accepted by the greater part of the house, and what my colleague said about the lack of votes, we shall see how they come together, but i can tell you that the discussions in the parliament regarding this... will be quite lively and tough, because our position, the position of the motherland is that precisely business should feel the outstretched hand

of the state in order to have the motivation to pay taxes, in order to perform accordingly your duty, in order to help the front and contribute to the armed forces of ukraine, and this should be done through a joint dialogue, not a monologue, when you are just... thrown at you, and everyone has to accept it, so it is undeniable that as a promotion the military levy needs to be discussed from 1.5% to 5%, and there is no doubt that the increase in the tax burden for small businesses, which they simply cannot bear, is also a big question mark, how many businesses will we have left in ukraine, well, there is a hole, about which was said to be 500 billion, plus it can be increased, our military is being mobilized every day... of course, complex, complex battles, we are expanding the front somewhere, trying to counter the enemy, act asymmetrically, it requires, well, excuse me, when several brigades

go further and fight somewhere, it is... except the fact that the salary is also fuel, food and many, many other things, well, this is a lot of money, but again, if we do not give this money, then another army will come, we all understand this perfectly well, but here is the hole 500 billion, and again it is said that this issue will have to be resolved, if not, if taxes like that, the society will understand the increase in taxes, everyone who can, will pay, who can't, well, that's the story, you know, we'll just lose business, what you're right about, a small business that can't pass, it'll just close, well, he can't, he doesn't have these possibilities. on the other hand, you can quickly find money in the shadows, when we see 4 million euros in the trunks of cars, this is a penny for 500 billion, but it is still symptomatic, people have a question, so maybe there is some money somewhere that is also worth it would be possible to get it from some schemes, and we understand that this is gray import and many, many other things, this issue can be solved effectively and quickly in order to take the money somewhere not only from taxes, but maybe there is somewhere else where

you just need to and... to reduce some programs, perhaps which are not needed now, perhaps some expenses which are not really relevant now, but to solve this, again, in the period around september, the beginning of october, and not before, and not before this, and not until the new year, please, i will give you a very specific example, in 2021, in january in a temporary investigative commission was created in the parliament, and the parliament assigned me to head it, which dealt with the issue of tax audit and customs audit, so they studied the issue of the so -called problems with the value added tax, that is, tax evasion, and in addition , the vat that was returned not a legitimate way. so, thanks to our work, this temporary investigative commission, we were able to return to the state budget within six months, and this, by the way, was also confirmed by the conclusions of the ministry of finance, to...

of the state budget is more than uah 50 billion, only because we managed to put things in order in the tax block and correct those mistakes that allowed unscrupulous taxpayers to avoid paying taxes and carry out so-called tax evasion, i.e. 50 billion and more, this is only due to of the work of one temporary investigative commission of the parliament, that is , it was a concrete result, so i can tell you for sure that... that this is a major direction that the government continues to pursue, and the law enforcement agencies must do the same, because funds in this particular component, where there is a so-called shadow circulation of money, where taxes are not paid, where there is evasion of payments, it should be the first direction that the government should deal with. the second issue is the issue of the work of the customs, its transparency, transparent activity and increase, just the income to

the budget from the effective work of the customs, this is the second component, if today we were to deal with this seriously, and not only, you know, in some conversations, but objectively, i believe that ukraine has the potential to find additional funds during the year, and which ones would not require an increase in taxes for small and medium-sized businesses, therefore... in my opinion, this direction is precisely suffering, the effective work that should be done by the government is not carried out here, and it should be done, and on the other hand, of course , that we should analyze the state budget by the end of its year, what could have been cut today and there are unnecessary or unreasonable expenses, they should obviously be reduced and everything should be given to

the armed forces of ukraine at the front here... no hope, well, i also hope that they will consider the banning of the russian church, or rather, let's say, the russian agency in ukraine, because all russians, well those priests who are now in the uoc mp, so-called, can transfer to the ocu, no one forbids them to do , but we hope that this will also be the result, but again we hope for the effectiveness and coherence of the work of the verkhovna rada in these matters despite the various political differences there, thank you very much for joining, thank you and take care, good evening, ivan krulko, the people deputy of ukraine. was the information that hospital doctors were killed by an enemy drone, their car was hit in the kharkiv region, eternal memory and honor, well, only sympathy here. well, about other news, literally in a moment on the big air. greetings, this is svoboda live on radio svoboda. we have already come to the snake itself. the following shots may shock you. news from the place.