head of the institution for retail business, dmytro musienko, this decision will make modern digital international transfers to foreign cards all over the world more accessible to ukrainians. but ukrzaliznytsia is discussing the change in ticket prices. oleksandr pertsovsky, head of the company's passenger line, announced this in an interview with forbes. the possibility of releasing the prices for class sv tickets so that they are regulated depending on the market is under consideration. due to demand, despite the high cost, these tickets sell out the fastest, are also offered flexible pricing for all classes of intersi+, certain price ceilings can be set, - says the top manager. we will follow specific decisions. well, we will continue to talk about ukrainian grain exports. we are joined by olga trofimtseva, ambassador-at-large of the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine in 2022-23. she also took care

of food security issues and served as the minister of agricultural policy in 2019. good evening. good evening. i congratulate you. ms. olya, well, let's keep an eye on how the harvest continues actively and there are already indicators from of the relevant ministry, agricultural exports are increasing, in particular since the beginning of the new marketing year, which started in july. well, i want to talk, in particular, not so much about export figures, but about what is important now and... our agricultural sector would be more actively integrated into the european economy, well, if we do not talk about the old blocking of the border by polish farmers, how much it is necessary to improve the legislation and is it possible to do practical things with our agricultural producers? so thank you very much, really u the harvest continues and our farmers are working in the fields, and there are already more than 30 million tons of the new year's harvest, if you look at the matter. for

export, in fact, agricultural exporters also started their marketing year precisely in july, so 2024, and we can see that the figure is also quite good, and ukraine has already exported more than 4 million tons of grains, oilseeds and legumes in this first month, that's it first such official statistics, and therefore we can do. the first conclusion, that the ukrainian agricultural industry continues to work, firstly, and secondly, no easy to work, but also to work quite successfully in the export direction. as for the european union, here we should draw the attention of our viewers to two aspects: on the one hand, if we look again at these figures of july of the current year, we will see that only 13% of ukrainian, that is , grain, oilseeds were exported through land ways, i.e. across the borders with

the countries of the european union, and this 13% is accounted for by rail and road connections between ukraine and the eu countries, and not all of these products were exported precisely to countries of the european union, some, of course, we know with you that the volumes also go in transit, for example, through the same ports of romania, further to third countries, if it is profitable, and you mentioned blocking. and absolutely apt, because once again we remember that there is such a, well, let's say, diplomatically, and such a confrontation, i would call it, a confrontation primarily of polish farmers, the polish government as well, and then the french joined colleagues before , before, who came to the european commission with a proposal, and what should we do after all, we will be more careful with ukrainian exports to the eu markets, so that... no,

let's put it this way, there was no such concern for european farmers in some countries, and we remember with you that when we continued the so-called unilateral trade, trade goods visa-free for the ukrainian agricultural sector in june this year, and this was a positive in the continuation of such a duty-free regime for ukrainian agricultural products, on the other hand , we also remember with you that at the same time a new regulatory regime was introduced and were established. let's say so, restrictions, so these are the ceilings regarding the import of ukrainian products, primarily of such sensitive, i would say, yes product groups, we are talking about eggs, we are talking about meat and poultry, we are talking about some types of cereals and such another, and sugar, for example, also falls here, and nevertheless, nevertheless, we can again say that exports to the countries of the european union are carried out quite actively, here, for example, again are the next... and the numbers

official statistics of the european union show that over the last period such yes this is just the reporting period. ukraine took second place among the countries that supply honey to the european union, second only to china in this market, and this is also, you know, a very demonstrative case, when ukrainian ukrainian producers, ukrainian exporters also export other types of products, not those not only those that you and i talk about very often, here, for example, cereals, but as for changes in legislation, then here... in fact, or rather, here are the changes that are taking place in general, let's say this, in questions regulation of the market, trade and so on, and on the one hand, of course, now the agrarians, well enough, i would say yes, they are cautiously waiting for these innovations that concern taxes not

only in the agricultural sector, of course, but in general for all sub economic entities, and we are talking about these changes, and the second point, which is also important for them, is of course also the cost of fuel, because we understand that when it comes to diesel fuel, pure diesel fuel, here farmers are such a vulnerable group, therefore that the increase in excise duty on this type of fuel it will also cause an unambiguous increase in the price of the same sowing, an increase in the same way of harvesting, that is, it will impose additional costs. losses on farmers, in particular farmers and the all-ukrainian agrarian council, we talked in the studio with denys marchuk, i submitted my proposals regarding the excise tax on fuel, i hope, i hope that the government listened to the advice of business, because here we cannot do without a dialogue, but if we say about the future

prospects of ukrainian agricultural exports, the un is now looking for grain for south africa, which is suffering from a drought, in your opinion, perhaps it is necessary to attract... investments, in particular from the same african countries that buy our food and perhaps want to invest in the development of our agricultural exports in the future, what are the forecasts? and yes, as regards cooperation with the african continent in particular, the first thesis is that it is not easy, of course, such a region for cooperation, and the second point, which is worth paying attention to, and we started working on this back in, well, probably in 2017 . if i'm not mistaken, namely on what our, we, we, we paid attention to what our partners in african countries talk about quite often, you know, we actually have too, by the way, surprisingly, they really have good soils where you can grow good crops and be

more or less self- sufficient certain types of cereals, staples or some other crops that they need to ensure food security, so here in the country it is worth paying attention, in addition to... the aspect you pointed out, it is necessary to pay attention to such, i would say, technological cooperation with african countries, including, possibly in any cooperation with the countries of the european union, why? because china is currently very actively present in africa, we know, russia is very actively and aggressively present there in a bad sense, and in order to squeeze out such, well, not very conscientious, i would say, yes... competitors there, it is really worth not only exporting finished products, conditionally there is also grain, yes or flour, but it is worth talking to our african partners about the fact that we are ready to invest in technology, selection, we have an excellent selection of cereals, for example, and work with them so that

they can not only buy grain from us, but also grow it themselves, that is, ukraine can become an investor in african countries, absolutely, and i will tell you more than that, our companies, for example, nibulon is a great example, they are already leaving. to africa, they are already starting to work there, the only thing that is really needed here, you know, well, as in everything, probably a more systematic and long-term approach to help business, to promote business in this, for that the state also well, i answered, for example, our minister is not making his first visit to african countries, this is part of such ukrainian expansion. thank you for a really optimistic conversation, forecasts regarding growth, as investments and such promising plans of agricultural enterprises. olga trofimtseva was in touch, ambassador on special assignments of the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine in 2022-2023. well, that's the end, i'll read such an interesting piece of news from the country

of the aggressor. consequently, the price of alcohol from so-called unfriendly countries has risen significantly in russia. this will happen after the russian promotion the government of the import duty, which... now it has increased since august 1, in particular for wine up to 25%, for other spirits up to 20%, the moscow times writes. the price change on store shelves will take place before the end. 2018, experts predict, restaurants used to make certain such purchases in advance, but the stocks of alcohol accumulated by large retailers will last for several months, then the price will increase by 10-15% for one bottle of alcohol from the so-called unfriendly states in russia. by the way, i don't understand what the alcohol of unfriendly countries is doing in unfriendly russia? well you see vasyl? not all brands have left the country of the aggressor, the aggressor, and we know that even raiffeisenbank is still working, and if i'm not

mistaken, the french chain ashen still continues to feed muscovites. well , this is where i will end the column about money during the war, but the big broadcast is going on, there will be more to come, watch us! thanks also to oleksandr for... talking about money, now we will see what our art viewer lina chechenina has prepared for us, high art for a mass audience, the kyiv stage bouquet festival has started in kyiv, in just a few minutes , the performance of the telniuk sisters will begin there, alina chuchenina will tell what exactly they have prepared for the public, lin, you have a word, good evening, congratulations, vasyl, greetings to our audience, sisterhood. who can talk about their programs themselves, literally in a few seconds we will be able

to hear them, so i am now on the territory of sofia of kyiv, it seems to me one of the most beautiful, most comfortable and most artistic locations for various cultural events, because it is wonderful here. acoustics and general atmosphere, when there are just too many people comes here just to sit on these chairs, many of the kayans even bring their own chairs or small ottomans, and to sit and listen to really good ukrainian music, valentin sylvestrov, valentin sylvestrov is always in the program every year, let someone, maybe consider some his works are too complicated, but here everyone is always delighted and... and i want to say that there is not only music here, but it seems to me that after all , for a bouquet of kyiv stage, music, a musical

program is the most important thing, but now you can, now we will show you a little bit of the scene, but now one program has ended, it was very, very cool, there was also field music, and sylvestrov, and a lot of other music, there was a very gentle atmosphere, now it is literally 12 minutes before the performance of galina and lesya telnyuk, now preparations are underway, the last... in general , the telniuk sisters will sing their program, which i think you have already heard, and have even been to concerts, these are songs based on the poems of taras shevchenko, and it is clear that we are rethinking taras shevchenko from, well, actively i think since the war started, since 2014, probably the biggest, such, most popular definition of it now is about. we now call taras shevchenko a prophet, and it is absolutely deserved, and let's listen to

lesya and galina themselves, what they told me about their program, first of all, they promise an atmosphere of love, and also what they said about the reinterpretation of shevchenko's poetry, and i am with them i agree that shevchenko's poems are just for any occasion. lives are suitable, and they carry any atmosphere, so let's go just listen to halyna and lesya, they told me everything, well, here is his prophecy, what you yourself said, it is felt in everyone, every person feels it in his own way, what he said and it happened, and he said it's going to happen, obviously, i think that's what's also very appealing about his poetry. and we all really need it right now, well, and they perceive it depending on

the circumstances that are now on that now, as it changes quickly, as events change quickly, in fact in such a clip state, it changes very quickly every day in us some news, and a person experiences it very emotionally, someone chooses for himself a real comfort and some lyric of it. so well almost contemplative and even so visual to his very beautiful poetry, someone on the contrary needs this strength, you know such... power, it's like going into battle, so that this battle is in your heart, to awaken yourself, your will, your heart , one's dignity, someone needs prayer, and that's all shevchenko has, well , you can see that people are already gathering, i'm

usually here, all the chairs are occupied, absolutely all the people, half are still standing, now everyone got distracted during a break, go to a bar and well, this is usually also an important component of any cultural events, i will say that at the kyiv stage bouquet, in addition to the musical program, there is always a visual program, also from year to year we see oak tree paintings, and here they are now on the other hand, maybe you have already seen them, and there are also conversations here under yasen, here there is yasyn on sofia, the kyiv one... a really big tree is already old, and different people gather under it and discuss different topics, they are listened to, and and the topics are completely different, but all important, for example, will discuss cultural genocide, this is an important topic, and to me, people who are engaged in proving cultural genocide, and they say that it

is extremely difficult to prove it, a lot of evidence is needed, and they are engaged in this, of course, they will also discuss... the issue of cultural diplomacy is also a very important story and something that we should definitely do, and finally, i will say once again that until sunday you can come here to this festival and on its territory during the day to listen to music, participate in various discussions and simply receive the pleasure of such peace in the simisin center of kyiv, if you have that much. be sure to take it with you, it will be absolutely unnecessary. thank you for the introduction and the invitation, unfortunately i cannot take a chair and leave now, but i can definitely introduce natalka didenko, who is already next to me, also with a chair, but we will stay

here. oh, vasyl, we would take these chairs and go with pleasure, of course on this beautiful one. festival and i, by the way, will tell you something about it a little later, except weather, of course, literally in a second, we will start today's meeting, of course, with greetings with clean, with clean, be healthy, and well , to be honest, you know how i feel about folk signs and in general to various such signs, yes the so-called folk... synoptic ones, but since this topic is very popular, why should we bypass it, and that's why, of course, i looked into the omens, what you can, what you can't do, eh, what different weather, so to speak, there are , if for the clean-up and then what will happen to autumn or, for example, even in winter, well, a little, let's see together what these signs are, so

if the day is sunny and warm, the woman's summer will be cool, well, after this heat like... it was and will be, it's okay if there are a lot of cobwebs, cobwebs, there will be little snow in winter, i don't remember when there was a lot of it, by the way, so there will definitely be a lot of cobwebs. if it rains on this day, then september will be rainy, september will obviously be dry according to popular forecasts, fog before the mushroom harvest, well, mushrooms happen every year, so that’s the case here, and this holiday is big, of course by the way, this is one of the 12 most important religious holidays. uh, you can’t work hard, cut your hair, light a fire, well, you can’t light a fire at all, now, and it was believed that all the sins of the year are forgiven for women on the day of the fall, and also most importantly, from this day the season of weddings begins with purification, and this is of course wonderful, and now we are

moving from the rains, from the season of debut, season of debut... salt to another of our subheadings, to magnetic storms, whether they will be or not, and now we will look together at the forecast diagram, and it can be seen that tomorrow there will be some very small fluctuations, so nothing dangerous for our well-being and for the earth's navigation systems is not foreseen, so we just follow, as usual, observe and actually go to its highlight, the main highlight . of our section, actually the weather forecast for the next day. well, tomorrow, august 16, in the western regions of ukraine, from which we always start the forecast, you can see that the air temperature. is already starting, well, getting excited, so to speak, 29, 32 above zero, the heat will set in the west tomorrow, sun,

lots of sun and of course, fire danger will increase accordingly, be careful and be careful. it is already warming up in the north of ukraine. tomorrow, the air temperature will fluctuate between 26-28, 26-29°, anti-cyclonic nature of the weather, increased atmospheric pressure and much more. sun, it will not be as cool in the east of ukraine as in the west, it does not happen often, but it does happen, you see, the weather is a little abnormal, so to speak, the maximum here is only 26-29°, and also dry air mass will prevail, there will be a lot of sun, the weather in the central part of ukraine is similar to the weather in the eastern regions, because the maximum air temperature will fluctuate between 27-29°, precipitation is not expected in the southern part of ukraine. tomorrow is expected to be hot, 28-32° is expected in the south, no precipitation is expected, it will be dry, and don't forget to be careful

with fire, dry hot air. in kyiv tomorrow, the weather is classic summer, it doesn't happen often, well, you can say it's perfect, without precipitation, a lot of sun, white cumulus clouds and the air temperature is about +27°. in just one sentence, i want to say that... which i have already announced more than once, is returning to ukraine, here we have already talked about the western regions, and on august 17 and 18, the heat will cover a large part of the territory of ukraine and the thermometers will reach and significantly exceed plus 30°. well, one more such small announcement of mine, i am using my official position here, so to speak, i want to catch up with the inclusion of our lena chechenina, that on saturday at 2 p.m. there will be a concert at the festival on the territory of sofia of the bag amateur choir, in which i have the honor to sing, so come, please, i will be very happy to see you all, but do not forget,

you need to take either nice, beautiful umbrellas, or some panamas, hats, because i remind you once again, ukraine is gradually returning heat, but for updated weather forecasts, of course, keep an eye on our espresso channel. i will only say at the very end that the armed forces of ukraine entered the borders of ukraine in 1691, because suzhansk, the so-called suzhan hundred, was part of the zaporizhzhya army state in 1691 year, so that, as they say, there is something historically developed here, as muscovites like to say. thank you for being with us, it was great, i say goodbye to you until tomorrow, good evening, we are from ukraine. verdict with serhii rudenko from now on in a new two-hour format, even more analytics, even more important topics, even more top guests: foreign experts, inclusion from abroad,

about ukraine, the world, the front, society, and also feedback, you can express your opinion on the evil of the day with a telephone survey, turn on and turn on, verdict with serhii rudenko, from tuesday to friday from 20 to 22. war is a way of deception, when you can, pretend you can't, when you're close, pretend you're far, these are the words from the treatise the art of war, written by the chinese strategist sunji 25 years ago. the operation in the kursk region is a confirmation of their relevance. for the second time, the ukrainian military managed to achieve the effect of surprise by deceiving the enemy. it happened for the first time in the fall of 2022, during a counteroffensive in the kharkiv region, just like then, now... the russians were clearly not ready for such a scenario. as as a result, the lines of defense in the kursk region broke through very quickly. according to the british edition of telegram, in less than 48 hours

, the defense forces established control over an area larger than the entire unsuccessful counteroffensive of the summer of 2023. preparations for this operation , unlike the counteroffensive, were conducted in complete secrecy. and so far, ukraine has not officially commented on the course of hostilities. limited to hints only. ukrainians know how to achieve their goals, and we did not choose it, to achieve it entirely in the war. russia brought war to our land and must feel what has been done to her. we strive to achieve our goals as soon as possible in peacetime under the conditions of a just peace. and it will be. one can only guess about the ultimate plan of the ukrainian command. ukrainian and for. different versions are heard in the western media, few people believe in the intention to establish control over the kurdish autonomous region, because it is too difficult a task, the implementation of which

will probably cause a sharp reaction. western allies. some assume that the goal of the defense forces is to create a buffer zone for the security of sumy oblast. observers pay attention to that one as well the fact that ukraine now controls the suja gas measuring station, through which passes the key and currently the only route for the supply of russian gas to europe. after all, control over russian territory should strengthen ukrainian positions on the eve of negotiations with the russian federation, which have been increasingly talked about recently. more often, but most likely, the main task of the operation is to force the enemy to withdraw at least part of his forces from the east of ukraine, to protect his own territory. in any case, the kursk operation has already caused putin painful image losses. the bewildered dictator called full-scale military actions on the territory of the russian federation a provocation. the west has an opportunity to once again make sure that russia's so-called red lines are a bluff. more and

more russians are aware. that their border is porous, talks about the second army of the world are false, and the russian authorities do not care about them, everything is at stake, you see what is happening, horror, just horror, just horror, we were left alone, we got used to shelling, we supported the svo. we were left with children, without a roof over our heads, without payments, without money. we left in what there were, our children are afraid to sleep at night, the court will be attacked, the court was attacked, bombed, we had no power, we had nothing, but the loss of russia is not only an image, the number of captured russians is unknown, but it is about dozens, and maybe already hundreds of military personnel, only this video shows how more than 30 border guards and

conscripts surrender to the ukrainian defense forces? which were supposed to protect the lines, and this is the result of a well-aimed attack on the convoys, which the russian command threw to eliminate the breakthrough. according to unverified information, they died dozens of soldiers, hundreds wounded. that's what 's left. damn, guys, how many guys, how many guys, like that. in addition... the russians lost several aircraft, in particular, two helicopters were hit by ukrainian drones, and for the first time we have the opportunity to see a video of unique operations to demilitarize the russian air force. according to some observers, by starting the kurdish operation, the defense forces took a risk, because for its implementation reserves were used, which are not enough in donbas, where the enemy, albeit slowly, but confidently

advances towards pokrovsk, which... bigger the risk is the reaction of the west to the fact that military operations have moved to the territory of russia, and these are no longer sabotage sorties of the russian volunteer corps, but a large-scale operation of regular units of the armed forces of ukraine, which use, in particular, western weapons, did the americans, who until now imposed strict restrictions on ukraine? the white house claims that it is not, but the official reaction of washington, by the way, as well as of brussels, for many you'. unexpectedly calm. it must be remembered that there are russian troops in the kursk region, they are stationed there are attacking ukraine from this region. you can't forget about it. we will continue to support ukrainians. they will take common sense actions to protect themselves from these attacks. what the americans and europeans say to the ukrainian authorities is not publicly known.

on may 13, 2023, the armed forces of ukraine brought the patriot system to the border and flew two mi-8 helicopters and two su-34 and su-35 combat aircraft over russian territory. there were no more such campaigns, and within a year the german publication bild reported that in washington and berlin were angered by the actions of the ukrainians and threatened to stop the supply of missiles for air defense systems. there is hope. that this time it will be without intimidation, it seems that while the allies are watching the developments, they may finally have to consider another aphorism of the chinese thinker sunzi. those who don't want to be defeated defend themselves, those who want to win attack. new week on espresso, weekly summary.