case the initiative is implemented within the framework of the program to support the economic stability of ukraine. the winners of the competition will receive funds in the amount of up to uah 114,000. the competition is aimed at self-employed entrepreneurs and fops who work in kharkiv, dnipro and neighboring regions. businesses from regions with active hostilities or high risk to life are not allowed to participate. therefore, grants will be provided in the following areas: publishing and printing, construction and repair works. car service and for fast food establishments. tax increase will increase the willingness of donors to support ukraine, according to gavin gray, head of the mission of the international monetary fund in ukraine. he says that this will be a kind of evidence for the partners of the country's efforts to gain greater self-sufficiency and independence from foreign money, because the expenses in the future are significant for ukraine. let me remind you that the budget deficit is hryvnias, if the council does not support

the government's tax package, already in september, there may be problems with payments to the military. we will talk about tax reform later to speak with oleg penzen, executive director of the economic discussion club. good evening. good evening, little remarochka. we are talking about a deficit of uah 500 billion exclusively for security and defense. ago. that you and i have a much larger deficit in reality, which is covered by borrowing, and i think that this unity of the international monetary fund with the government's initiative on taxation will increase the inflow of international funds to cover, in particular, social expenses? well, look, the international monetary fund is the same is interested in the financial stability of ukraine, and in principle he will always support any... measures that will be aimed

at increasing the tax burden and the flow of money into the budget at the expense of the economy, and not only the economy, listen, at the expense of individuals, because if you and i look carefully, then all the tax innovations proposed by the government are, well, on you and me, well, actually, the tax on the added value of the increase, it's on whom, it's on you and me, the excise taxes, which you just talked about ... but it was announced who pays, the business, no, we and, excuse me, here are the innovations in tax parcels, up to €45, and if you buy something there, in online stores, then in general any parcel is subject to value added tax, mr. oleg, i would like to focus here, because there are many questions to me, as a journalist, from the audience, in detail, what are these innovations? taxation of parcels, because we

know that now many ukrainians, for example, can send some clothes that have been used to their homeland, it actually costs a penny for this product, but you will have to pay much more, what is the essence of this initiative, is it justified and is the administration of this tax justified, well, look, according to the data of the postal divisions , we receive about 50 million parcels a year. from abroad to ukraine 50 million as of today, if the remittance is more than €150, it is subject to taxation. now they plan to reduce shipping to €45. and to tax, and most importantly, any shipments from online stores and any, say, electronic markets to... that is, dear, well,

imagine the situation, you bought some some kind of wifi device in order to, well , ensure uninterrupted communication in connection with the conclusion of electric energy, it costs there, well, i don't know there, 200-300 uah, please, you have to pay value added tax , and the most important thing is in the situation that the payer of value-added tax is an individual who has to take that multi-kilometer aiban and in return. besides all that, well, imagine an elderly person, or at least a person there, i don't know, 50 plus, and who has to do all this in order to to receive this remittance, a penny, and most importantly in that situation, we often meet with you with value added tax, but the agent for paying the tax is a legal entity that adds vat to the price of the goods, here you will pay vat, you are the person responsible for paying tax on...

a given value, well, imagine the administration of those 50 million, rummaging in those shipments from an individual to an individual, with an effort to determine the approximate value of that shipment. and if it is, for example, children's clothes, well, just imagine, one of yours is there relatives who left abroad today send you some clothes that in another country will just go, well, i don’t know, there for second hand, imagine the situation with the customs officer and with the tax inspector who will rummage through that parcel and to determine the approximate value of 45 € or more or less, well that is... look, always when you and i calculate the expediency of introducing certain taxes, there should be a clear ratio of how much the state needs to spend to administer this tax and how much it in as a result should receive, well, after the introduction

of this tax, well, how much the state can receive after the introduction of this tax, in particular by laying down money for administration, for working hands, so it is better to imagine how many additional workers will be needed to... ensure control over 50 million remittances, while the cost of the received funds will be copied by the state, how much will the state have to spend on additional civil servants who will be involved in your remittances, and this is an extremely important question, well, i have great hope that people's deputies will listen to the people's opinion when considering this draft law. thank you, this is exactly what i wanted to focus on during the conversation. penzin, the executive director of the economic discussion club was in touch, well, vasyl, sometimes things really get to the point of absurdity here, we follow tax innovations, yesterday you and i discussed the issue of how restaurants work in the shadows, apparently according to the opinion of the people's deputy mr. hetmantsev , we are also talking about

parcels, well, it is interesting, after all, whether such a will will really be enough for political consciousness in people's deputies to understand where taxes justify themselves? and where is the really absurd? i think that taxes should be fair, everything should be fair, and it is good that the deputies think that there is something wrong with taxes, but you clarify the issue, let's say, with money for okhmadit, because big money is always for some reason, as they say, they make a big tornado in the heads of deputies, but this is where you have to start, well , there is nothing to complain about in the mirror, if something else is wrong with a person, so let's start with ourselves, and we are only for everything to be honestly, transparently. and for the support of the armed forces of ukraine, thank you for filling the budget, this is important, i will thank the viewers, stay tuned, there will be more in the future, watch us, thank you very much oleksandr and thank you oleg

penzen, of course for high-quality analysis and for the necessary emotions in this conversation, and although it is possible money without emotions. arrive faster and lie more quietly, so until august 24, espresso is preparing a special project bright people in dark times, interesting stories about heroic people, interviews with viktor yushchenko, svyatoslav shevchuk, serhii polukhy and much more, already at 10 p.m. hours, and the documentary 10 years of war, on independence day at espresso from 8:00 a.m. to midnight, be there. well , i will say that during this festive broadcast on august 24. as well as all the events that will take place during this day, of course , will be broadcast on the tv channel. well, let 's now report again, this is a good thing and very important. therefore, the espresso tv channel and the vesna charitable fund opened a fundraiser for the purchase of modern drones and

electronic warfare systems for the third separate assault brigade, as well as for the 110th and 47th brigades of the armed forces of ukraine. the defenders in the donetsk direction are holding back enemy attacks every day, defending our freedom. and the future , it was these soldiers who stood and defended the avdiiv direction to the last in that difficult and difficult spring. the brigades urgently need flying weapons and modern means of countering enemy drones. our goal is uah 3.5 million. every donation you make is important. join, you can see all the details on the screen. good health, dear ukrainians. we, the fighters of the first assault battalion, the third separate assault brigade, who from... stand our native land on the front line, we urgently need your help, we need means of radio-electronic warfare against the enemy's mini-vehicles and komikaze drones, we really ask for your help, glory to ukraine, to the heroes, glory,

i will only give brief information, because today we are talking about sports, we have to keep in mind that dynamo capital will play today in poland against austrian saalzburg, this is a brown... playoff for the champions league, if dynamo passes this round, they will play in the group stage of the champions league. we wish you success. well, but, of course, from football, maybe somehow so our mood depends somewhere. but a lot depends on the weather, that's for sure, but natalka didenko is ready to tell us what the weather will be like tomorrow, ms. natalya, good evening, you look great, please, thank you very much, greetings to everyone, let's talk about the weather in ukraine and not only in ukraine, as always, literally in a second, we will start our meeting today with a trip across europe. uh, because, well, firstly, there are a lot of our compatriots there, secondly, uh,

the atmosphere has no borders, and it is very interesting where what will the weather be like, and what will it bring, maybe where will the heat subside, so, well, let's talk a little about the weather that is expected tomorrow, well, of course, i will mainly talk about the capitals, but nevertheless we will have an idea of ​​a general synoptic pan-european pictures, so tomorrow in london it is expected to be... +21° and cloudy, in paris it is very warm, 26° sunny, in oslo it will rain and +16°, well, so, to be honest, but in madrid it is very much like kyiv weather, almost +37° and sunny, in rome it is expected to be 32° above zero, also dry sunny weather, in athens it will shine, it will bake, even i would say the sun, because the maximum forecast is +36 there. in warsaw it is a wonderful +22 degrees and i will then

secretly tell you where in ukraine they will be tomorrow, for example, helsinki +19°, and in berlin the weather is beautiful, sunny, dry and the maximum air temperature is +25°. here is the all-european synoptic picture, 37, 19, 25, for all tastes. we now turn to behavior. the fields of the earth and now to your attention, as always, a prognostic chart that shows what will be observed tomorrow activation, that is, magnetic storms are small, but nevertheless, these are such noticeable fluctuations, so please, if you, well, before, for example, noticed that you react to such changes, to such geomagnetic activity of the earth, then take it, please , take this forecast into account, and actually our main forecast, the weather forecast for the next day and... traditionally we start it from the western regions and tomorrow we will see what

will happen there, so the air temperature is expected in the western part of ukraine tomorrow - i i would say very comfortable, what i said it was warsaw's 22°, well, maybe not 22, but nevertheless it will be 23-27, and in some places short-term rains and thunderstorms, in the north tomorrow the weather is expected to be quite er... well, contrasting, well, you can see it on your screens now , for example, in zhytomyr oblast 28, i.e. the heat will drop to 30 in kyiv oblast, but for example in sumy oblast it will be as much as +35°, and mostly without precipitation, very strong, very strong heat will continue in the east of ukraine, 35-37, 35- 38°, dry, sunny weather, and high p... danger in the central part of ukraine tomorrow is also expected to be very heterogeneous

weather in vinnytsia, the heat will weaken to +27-29°, for example, in dnipropetrovsk region to +35, but in general, as you can see, a large part of the central territory will still belong to a hot air mass, rain is not expected, in the southern part the synoptic situation of ukraine will not change practically. +34 +37° strong heat, dry, sunny, in kyiv, in kyiv tomorrow , the weather is expected to be mostly dry, but the air temperature will drop little by little, somewhere around 29-30°. well, i want to say that in the near future, this is august 22, 23 and 24 , on the day of independence of ukraine, in the west, in the north, in vinnytsia. the air temperature will be quite comfortable, somewhere around 24-29°, but the south and east will still remain in a dry

and hot air mass, and at the end of my column, i want to say, using my official position, so to speak, that i literally just now retired, left , as it used to be said to be on vacation, the long-term permanent head of the ukrainian hydromecenter. i have been with him for many years worked, and taking this opportunity, i want to thank him for this invaluable experience, for his excellent work and, of course, to wish him health and excellent forecasts for the weather and for... further life, of course, i also wish health to everyone , good forecasts and as always, keep an eye out for updated weather forecasts on the espresso channel. thanks to natalka didenko, i didn't work, well, for

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occupied new york and are losing kurshchyna. the enemy again intensified the attack on pokrovsk, increasing number. and so to a record 347 in a week, this enabled him to breach several more of our strongholds and occupy a number of villages. offensives on turetsk and ughledar were also a priority. the rashists plan to surround these cities and gradually carry out their plan, but instead they themselves got into several encirclements in kurshchyna. the occupation of new york and the battle for turkey. unfortunately, the rashists managed to occupy new york almost completely in a month and a half. which allowed them to approach turkey, not only from the east, but also from the south. it is obvious that in the near future they will try to develop success to cover the city from the east as well. battles are currently taking place here on the southern and eastern outskirts of the village of nelipivka, which covers turetsk from the south. in addition, the enemy will try to collapse our defenses in the area of ​​the villages of panteleimonivka and oleksandropil and

move along the road to kostyantynivka. however, they are currently making attempts. go to the southern outskirts of panteleimonmonivka and drive a wedge between the ukrainian defense redoubts in these villages. in toretsk itself, the line of defense continues runs through the central street and the two terekonas that rise above it. the frontal attacks of the rashists did not yield results, and therefore they are trying to bypass terekona from the north, making their way through the main dzerzhinsky street. at the same time, they are expanding their control over the villages of severny and druzhba. they try to surround in this way. the city is also from the north. the battle for turkey may become one of the most decisive in this war, because its results will affect many other areas of the front. the battle for the pokrov agglomeration has begun. the enemy managed to break through all of them by our defensive lines, which were created in the pokrovsky direction. the russians successfully used the gaps between the rivers and bypassed

first the vovcha river, and then the zhuravka. this allowed them to get closer. resort to the first cities of the pokrovsk agglomeration and begin their assault. on the other hand, the pokrovsk agglomeration, which consists of five cities and a number of villages in three districts, had a population of 385,000 before the war. this is not an easy target for the russians, which they will be able to seize from the jump. the battle for pokrovsk can last many months, or even longer over a year so far, the enemy has been stopped 10 km from the city. the offensive on grodivka has been going on for the second week, but... without advancing, so the occupiers began to bypass the city from the south, advancing along the zhurafka river, captured the village of the same name and approached the outskirts of krasny yar, however, here they are waiting for... a system of water barriers , and therefore the offensive slows down, the rashists will again look for gaps in the ukrainian defense, probably near novogrodivka, or further south. currently, their

offensive is directed mostly to the south, where the russians still have an advance. here they occupied zhelanny and mykolaivka and entered novozhelany and zavitne, as well as completely displaced the defense forces from the left bank of the vovcha river, north of the karliv reservoir. in the card itself. these armed forces have been on the defensive for several months without retreating a single step, but a blow from the northern flank, from where the russians are advancing, moving in the direction of kalinov, could be a threat to them. if the enemy is able to break through our defenses in the area of ​​komyshchyvka and kalinovoy, then the armed forces of ukraine will have to withdraw from karlivka and to occupy new positions along the line in front of the ukrainian and selidov. the threat to the environment of the coal dealer is becoming. more real, as expected , last week the occupiers did manage to cut the road near the village of kostyantynivka and approached the southern outskirts of the village of vodyane.

also, the enemy has several more areas north of vodyanyi, where he can potentially cut this route and create a threat to our defense from the other flank as well. in general, at the moment, the farmer still has a road that provides the main supply, but also in a direct way to it. only 7 km, and this is already a significant danger for defense forces on this part of the front, on the other hand, russian resources are on the verge of exhaustion, and their offensive is gradually fading, especially considering the situation in russia itself. buffer kursk region. as of august 20, ukraine admitted that it controls 93 settlements and 1,263 km2 of territory in the kursk region. the exchange rate operation has already paid off by 200%. however, as it continues , new horizons and perspectives appear: even more prisoners, even more killed, and even more

territories between the sejm and psl. instead, the russians flee. at least 120,000 have already fled independently, about 60,000 more were evacuated by the authorities. this is approximately 18% of the population of the kursk region. the fsb totally evacuates the population of lhovsky. arilsk districts, as well as partially in three other districts of the region. in the eastern part of the front, the armed forces tried to expand it and enter the belgorod region in the area of ​​the villages of demydivka and kolotylivka. however, the russians have a lot of troops and well-developed logistics here, so both attempts failed. however, further west, the situation is better for us. to the southeast of the suja , the defense forces continue to advance along year of both banks. psel the russians report the ukrainian presence not only in divination, but also in huria and bilitsa. the russians made most of their attempts to counterattack along

the kurskja highway, in particular between the villages of velike soldatske and martynivka. but they ended in failure. instead, the armed forces are developing an offensive on the e-38 road, rylsk-kursk. she is the key to the transfer of russian reinforcements to the north of the front in kurshchyna. however. the entire route is fired by the artillery of the armed forces of ukraine, our drones are actively working on it, so there is a high probability that the ukrainian military soon they will enter the road somewhere between rylsk and lhov and cut off the logistics . exactly where this will happen is difficult to predict at the moment, because the armed forces are moving to the north along the route to lhov and parallel to it through villages and intersecting forest roads, for example, recorded strikes by russian artillery on villages ... zhuravli and novoselivka, and therefore ours is there. instead, our artillery is already hitting lhovo, where the railway station was recently hit. even further to the west

, ukrainian troops not only entered korynevo and pushed the enemy out of the central area parts of this settlement, but also bypassed it from the south and from the north, taking the road to rylsk under fire control. from the north, the armed forces of ukraine advanced through the villages of olhivka and vitryno and entered tolpinsky, located without... directly on the narylsk road, from the south they occupied the villages of snagost, apanasiyivka and began the battle for komarivka. earlier, the armed forces captured 102 russian soldiers, in particular from the akhmat special forces in the checkpoint area, in the village of gordiivka, and continued their movement along the border. presumably, in the near future, the russians, who found themselves surrounded in korenevo, or will surrender, or they will be destroyed, because they can escape by swimming through the seym, which is spread out in these places. they won't be able to. in the end, the defense forces created a large trap for several thousand rashists, on an area of ​​250,000 km, who were surrounded between.

the ukrainian border and the seim river. to do this , three bridges over the seim in the villages of karizh, zvane, and hlushkovo were destroyed by airstrikes of the armed forces of ukraine. attempts by the russians to build pontoon bridges also end in the destruction of equipment that tries to cross them. russian troops in tetkino and other checkpoints on the border found themselves in a stalemate. they retreat they cannot, and soon there will be nothing to fight. therefore , in the near future we expect that... that the entire glushkiv district will come under the control of the defense forces, as happened on the territory of the russian federation between the border of ukraine and the seim river, northeast of tyotkino. despite all these losses of military territory, the russians are in no hurry to transfer troops from donetsk region to kursk. currently, they plan to recruit five to six battalions from other directions, mostly from kharkiv oblast, luhansk oblast, zaporizhzhia and kherson oblast, as well as transfer

troops from kaliningrad. like putin set the task of ousting the armed forces of the russian federation from the territory of the russian federation by october, but it is unlikely that they will succeed with such support. we win daily, death to enemies. yes, this is the situation, and we will talk with anatoly hrabchynskyi, he is the deputy general director of the company for the production of electronic warfare equipment and an aviation expert. we already have him in contact. i congratulate you, mr. anatoly. congratulations. you know, let's start with the drone strike on moscow, now it's being called the biggest of all those that once existed, 11 as if the russians say that drones were intercepted somewhere and something like that, and tell me how it affects in general, how it fits into the general strategy of these active actions of ours now, because well, drones on moscow in parallel, we constantly saw before that, somehow, there were strikes on oil depots, on other objects.

but there were no drones in moscow for a very long time, why suddenly now? let's start with the fact that, in fact, if we are talking about strikes on moscow, then we are talking about the possibility of striking such industries as tactical missile divination, these are those who manufactures rocket means, manufactures ipc modules for guided aerial bombs. also, one should not forget about the important chikalovsky airfield, which is located in the moscow region, and it is the airfield where most of the transport planes are stationed. passenger planes on which the command structure of the armed forces of the russian federation can relocate, and there is also a doomsday plane on which putin can leave moscow in the event of a nuclear threat there, so in principle i would note here that there are actually a large number of such targets , which must be destroyed, of course the main goal is the tactical missile armament, which is located in korolev, and it is this

enterprise that produces missiles of the class... kh101, kh55, kh-69, kh-59, all of these are missiles that fly into the sky of ukraine. ugh. well, by the way, about these missiles, you have already started talking about them, here too, yesterday an interesting thing happened, commander-in-chief sirsky, at the congress of local, local authorities, made public a whole series of interesting data, and in particular, regarding missile raids and. .. uavs for ukraine, according to the general ones, he called the general ones information from february 24, 2022, until today, 12,000 different missiles were launched at ukraine, oh, different, no, that's 12,000 expressed objects, half of them civilian infrastructure, half, well , about half military er

, the russians used 9,500 missiles and almost 14,000 drones for strikes, and the most interesting thing there is actually how our air defense forces were destroyed and that's all, and he indicates that, for example, for calibers x55- 101, r500, rka iskander, damage percentage 67%. for rockets x 59 35 31 - this is 22 percent of the total defeat of them, in relation to drones, 63% of the defeat of missiles, and so on, there are even such types of missiles there, there is point u, iskander, which are only 4.5% defeat, and finally the s-300 s-400 air defense system , which are already working directly.