there was a quote, unfortunately, it has now disappeared from the screen, if it returns, we will finish reading it, so we will certainly inform you to discuss this process in more detail, we can now together with the adviser of the deputy head of the office of the president of ukraine, olena symonenko, be in touch with us tonight ms. olena we wish you are healthy and calm and to all of us at night, although there is still an air alert in kyiv. good evening. yes, regarding the evacuation from azovstal , we saw that some of the civilians have already returned, what can we talk about now so as not to harm it i think that we can talk as much as possible about the fact that the authorities are doing everything possible to liberate one person at a time and take them to our territory.

i was personally involved in the fact that, in different regions, they simply gathered ambulances with brigades that could go to zaporizhzhia in order to further help evacuate seriously injured people , and for me personally, it was such a discovery. well, i understand . that this is a war. i understand that everyone uh are making maximum efforts, but when the head of the luhansk region wrote that we are giving three fast three brigades from luhansk, well, there are goosebumps , you understand that word, that is, for us today , everything that is happening with the evacuation of people from azovstali is task number one and all the country is helping this issue, uh, from the regions, uh, large-sized tents are being handed over, where you can set up tents

so that it is just possible temporarily with medical specialists who go directly to the occupied territory to the point of giving maximum help to the severely wounded soldiers who are now behind bars and whom we are allowed to evacuate and civilians. that is, it all happens together, but i would like to ask you not to talk about it any more today thank you well then, let's talk about the situation in general, the situation in the occupied territories, how many settlements are currently under occupation, more than 3,000 settlements are under occupation every day we manage to liberate populated areas every day after the populated areas are vacated, they get to e-e person, the list of people with whom they continue to work. first, it is the state emergency service that carries out demining, and they take away the remains of bodies, they take away

the remains of equipment, and then immediately we start to restore, well, how can you say that that is, we are resuming the work of the police there because we are resuming the work of humanitarian headquarters there, we are organizing the possibility of reheating and providing food to the people who are under occupation there as well medical aid and then we gradually begin to restore light, water, water supply, and so on. today, we are working on such settlements that were already occupied by more than a thousand. and every day work continues in these settlements, every day for the president, we are preparing from there how far we advance in this matter , metal-plastic windows are being purchased and prepared every day, which will be inserted into the buildings that have survived and where people will be able to be accommodated. that is, it is a daily work

to restore the vital activities that we ourselves we are taking you back to ukraine mrs. olena, already on our broadcast we announced that a number of countries have decided to be patrons of certain regions of ukraine, for example , britain - this is kyiv and the region of denmark - this is the mykolaiv region of the baltic states - this is the zhytomyr region, and how closely do you currently cooperate in restoration right now in those facilities which part you named so that people could well at least have a reliable safe uh warm shelter see a few questions and i personally relate to this so i can very briefly about it tell me the first thing for those people who live in difficult areas today, in the territory of 14 regions,

special places for accommodation have been created, the portal works there, where they are waiting for you, where they are waiting for you, where you can see the availability of free places in each region, where there are no military operations today, where people can choose a location for themselves, it's not always apartments, it's most often communal facilities, that is, it's uh, kindergartens, uh, and so on. where you can stay . working history, where can people evacuate from military territories go, moreover, by cooperating with the ministries of infrastructure, e.e., in trains that evacuate people, e.g. directly conductors can help to find these places directly in the foil, that is, when a person travels by train, he can understand for himself where

in which oblast, it is better to leave in which settlement, where is it, where is it, will they be able to place it first, second, for those people who have found themselves in the de-occupied territory and who want to stay there as i already said, the state removed a sufficient amount of money in order to restore gradually in these territories, first of all, residential buildings where you can actually live now . kyiv region and we have seen that these processes are taking place and the third important thing is that we are now also doing this, it was completed literally yesterday and today it was presented at the general meeting of the office of the president and the cabinet the minister's plan for the restoration and modernization of ukraine is a huge job, which was actually completed in two weeks. i think that this could not have been done in military time in a week. we collected all the data

regarding the destruction that took place in all territories of ukraine. of these trainings, is it possible to restore it or is it necessary to build it from scratch, in fact, moreover, we have collected information about those objects that were not destroyed in principle, but they need modernization, and this restoration plan and modern ukraine includes 18 clusters from residential buildings and administrative buildings to thermal modernization to the renewal of e-e railways to the renewal of airports to the renewal of public transport to the renewal of educational infrastructure and medical infrastructure, that is, such a huge document that was developed today was presented is the total cost of this plan and the total cost of restoration and the total cost of modernization and today this is already the task of the ministry of foreign affairs of the office of the president and so on to work with this plan with

international organizations with international agencies with countries and other countries and in order to show what problems are in ukraine today. our country, why is it important to do it today, even though there as some experts say that the war is not over yet and that there may be new destructions, but we understand, first of all, that physically, people need somewhere to live, this is the first, er, second, er, people have to er, understand that not only the state supports them, what is needed, supports them, in fact, we are the lives of our people, volyn, children , women, old people, we protect european values, therefore, today it is very important, including victory for the spirit of ukraine, to receive international support for the restoration of our country, mrs. olena,

thank you for joining us this night before our broadcast , olena symonenko, adviser to the deputy head of the office of the president of ukraine, was with us to discuss ukraine's application for membership in the european union in june. it will be at the same level heads of state and governments of the eu member states. this was reported by the representative of the french ministry of foreign affairs. it is this country that currently presides over the council of the eu. currently, ukraine's application is being considered by the european commission. the french ministry of foreign affairs also emphasized once again that ukraine is part of the european family. i will remind you that on may 9, ukraine completed filling the second and final part of the questionnaire for obtaining the status of a candidate country of ukraine's accession to the european union will not be instantaneous and our state is ready to go through all the stages together with the countries that are already candidates for this stated the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine dmytro kuleba, at the same time he noted that europe must be consistent and confirm its readiness to accept ukraine into the european family by granting the status of a candidate for eu membership granting ukraine the status of a

candidate for membership in june this year is a test that will demonstrate that all these your words were only words and in fact no one is waiting for us anywhere and is not ready to translate beautiful, correct, important words into real action or this will be a confirmation that when europe says something, it means exactly that i don't mean granting ukraine the status of candidates for membership in the european union will kill the hope that exists in the ukrainian people, and bohdan feran, an expert on international issues, joins our broadcast. bohdan, good night. thank you for being with

us. candidate for the european union, how close is it in the time perspective? is june possible? well, there are such forecasts and discussions are ongoing . colleagues from the european parliament next week at the government level. that is, we are doing everything to make this happen already, i.e. granting candidate status in june there are certain risks , of course, because even from this statement that was made by the ministry of foreign affairs in france, that is, the question will be discussed with you. it is important that the issue has already been resolved directly at the summit in june, and this candidate status has already been granted to us, and there is a risk that it will be discussed, it may again be in principle in time, but as far as i am concerned, there are quite

positive trends taking place that will help us acquire this status after all, we do not need to forget that apart from us there are other countries that also submit their applications and that also submit their questionnaires in our country. there are also georgia and moldova, although we, as ukraine , always declare that it is worth it, after all, we will say so, taking into account the situation in the war, there is a separate such track to determine and accelerate at all levels at which it is possible well, mr. bohdan, we are in our on the air, they talked about the fact that georgia and moldova intensified their actions, so to speak. when they saw that officials from the european union were coming to kyiv, and when we received copies of the questionnaire, but here is an important point. and why right now is there such a discussion around only candidacy, well, paraphrasing the well-known phrase

to promise does not mean to accept and we are only in the status of a candidate. that is, we get the right to become in the future and this future, they say, may be in years and that some years you are very, very true about i would have noted this, by the way, i would have hoped more not for tens of years ago, because in fact then this candidate status for us is, well, it is more of a symbolic thing, you understand . it is clear that we have to win, we have to end the war, so we have to restore our country, build and rebuild the institutional capacity, but there really are such precedents and already examples when there are countries and serbia itself. for more than 10 years in candidate status, but it is not a member of the european union. i would like

our country to go in a different direction and such a perspective would be more realistic. closed, that is, yes, politicians sometimes believe that society, their internal elections, is not ready to expand and expand the european community, and we should not forget that the european union cannot be closed to itself either the club of the most, let's say, successful countries still need to open up, open their borders, we saw that as citizens of the european union, and especially our neighbors opened their homes to ukrainians during this crisis period, and this is precisely where solidarity and support are manifested. and we, for our part, have shown that we can work effectively to fill out questionnaires, there is already a lot to fill out , that is, certain reforms have been carried out and we have

brought our legislation closer to the law of the european union and are ready to continue to read, we are limited in time, but the question is still why now is the same right for a possible potential then the next right of admission, it does not guarantee uh, you do not have such a procedure that we receive in june the right of candidacy and in june of next year there should already be a review necessarily in relation to us, because this is the european union, there is, in principle , always a discussion, for this you need to be calm many countries have many interests and it all needs to be balanced with respect to the skeptics well, of course, there is germany, there is france, there are other countries about who do not say, but there can also be quite skeptical voters, citizens, for example, in the netherlands. we remember the situation today about the association, when there we held a referendum so

that there would be no ratification of this agreement. therefore , a lot of work needs to be done, but still, i would remain optimistic and hope that there will be enough strength for all the leaders of both the european union and individual member states to approve this decision because we are paying a super-high price for this perspective. what you mentioned is not only the membership for perspective of membership, and we will continue to move forward , there will be new and serious tasks at our level of cooperation. euro-automist bohdan ferenc was with us an expert on international issues. ukraine's border is now the main window to europe through it, we receive humanitarian aid , and through it imports take place and export of goods and not only how ukrainian customs works in war conditions, how our customs officers cooperate with colleagues from neighboring countries, how many cars from europe did ukrainians manage to get under the simplified procedure

customs clearance, these and other issues my colleague vadym kolodyachuk previously discussed with the head of the lviv customs danylo menshikova the only news together we are strong will support the ukrainian army with money scan the code daniel menshakov the head of the lviv customs continues to join our broadcast mr. daniyil i congratulate you good evening i wanted to start with a statement which last thursday, the president of poland, angeli duda, said that the border between his country and poland and ukraine will not actually exist, as it is currently happening, in the lower situation and if to talk about yours, about your customs service, uh, if we talk about the lviv customs service, we, our polish colleagues, are very effective at the moment, and we work together,

helping each other, and this was especially evident during the martial law, when the sea borders ceased to function and the air and western border has become three western gates that connect europe and other countries and ukraine, our state. polish colleagues are helping us more and more, understanding our situation and the six checkpoints of the lviv customs take on the lion's share of all cargo that comes to us both from europe and from other countries, and i can cite several really effective examples of our side's cooperation with polish partners, please, this is the first situation that is really being discussed everywhere now, this is the fuel crisis and

the passage of gasoline trucks from the territory of ukraine to poland in order for them to refuel and back to our country and to us in our border service of ukraine. i have an agreement that regularly every 30 minutes we are from the queue that is formed in front of in poland, for departure to europe, we pull out these fuel trucks, and without queuing along a separate corridor, we take them to the border, where they are quickly processed and leave for europe in order to refuel. the same happens from the polish side with our polish colleagues. they also create a so-called green corridor for gasoline trucks entering ukraine, polish colleagues create green corridors for all, including car carriers, and they enter our country as quickly as possible.

this is the first example of an effective cooperation with our polish partner, let's give the other two that you said a little later. here it is important to clarify whether the customs are coping now, because the shortage of fuel, in particular, is felt in the capital , and we hear from the government that we should soon reach the necessary levels of supply that were before the war and obviously, this will now fall on gas trucks, that is, their number at the borders and at the customs will increase. more definitely we are currently coping and will cope with any amount that will come to us from across europe from europe after the customs office and lviv customs officials work 24/7 and process this group

of goods as quickly and efficiently as possible because we understand what is happening in the country and everyone in his place, he understands that it depends on him how much this crisis will be, whether there will be fuel, well, returning to the other examples that you wanted to tell about the effective interaction between ukrainian and polish customs officers, polish on their part, the partners have recently developed a website called papers of ukraine, dot gov.ua, on this website, all carriers of humanitarian aid can register, fill out a short questionnaire, and receive a certificate confirming that they are indeed carriers of humanitarian aid, then the drivers of humanitarian aid print out this document and go to the polish border crossing with the ukrainian border and by showing this document to a polish

border guard or policeman, he gets the right to move unhindered along the green corridor to the border with ukraine, where ukrainian customs officials quickly go through this process and go to those cities of our country where it is expected to need this humanitarian aid. this is another effective example of our cooperation with a polish partner , that is, i understand correctly that this initiative online access to the database and registration, and it was, it arose due to the fact that huge amounts of humanitarian aid were coming to ukraine, and i have the numbers, by the way, you previously announced 164 thousand tons of aid was brought to ukraine. it is through the lviv region, not in general, but only through the lviv region at the beginning of a full-scale invasion of russia. hmm. can we say that

thanks to this resource, which you just mentioned , it will obviously happen faster and that aid which, unfortunately, ukraine and various towns and cities of our country still need, it will arrive many times faster and it can be more, indeed, after this resource was launched, we see that humanitarian aid reaches us faster volumes have become larger volumes - this is effectively said in this process, but let's not forget that there are a number of factors that speed up the receipt of humanitarian aid to our state, that is, there is a government decision that was made earlier, which simplified the processing of humanitarian aid as much as possible, if you know now in order to process humanitarian aid at the border, you need to fill out a single simple

declaration, do not specify the sender, the carrier, the recipient and what group of goods and its volume, and you can even do it yourself at the border later the government went further, it made this declaration electronic, and even from a phone or laptop you can fill out this declaration, get the identification number of this declaration, and upon arriving at the border, the driver only has to say the identification number, this number to our inspector, this declaration is pulled up and the registration takes place instantly, that is, if that is, we see that our government and the actions of our partners have now simplified and improved the reach of humanitarian aid to those cities that really need it, mr. daniil a another uh novel from the government that many ukrainians have decided to take advantage of is um zero customs clearance including cars and here is an important

point, i will make an important announcement with your permission that um now because of the large number of these cars there was uh passenger cars will be able to clear customs at only three points, this was decided by bydomish in lviv oblast, ustylug in volyn oblast, and maly berezny in transcarpathia. they will pass correctly, i understand the events that import eh passenger cars that they bought in europe for free circulation for themselves eh, now they will go to the checkpoint of the lviv customs of russia there will be a building and there are also two checkpoints determined by the order of the cabinet of ministers, one for volynsk and one for volyn at the transcarpathian customs and these

checkpoints themselves are defined by the order of the cabinet of ministers of ukraine, we as an executive service carry out the order of our government, that is , there will be no exceptions for citizens who want to drive a car from europe to ukraine, you need to be more careful and understand which checkpoint they are going to, so absolutely correct. i want everyone to understand that there is a war going on in our country and, first of all, there is fuel that goes continuously to our state, then there is humanitarian aid that everyone expects and these groups of goods are the most important now for our state, for our citizens, we can beat the intermediate results of zero customs clearance because it has been in effect for a little more than a month, so during the validity of these tax and customs simplifications, the customs office has already issued

about 13,000 cars for citizens who imported cars for themselves, the record holders are because i am preparing for this conversation, i saw how volunteers published data where well, we will not call it personal information, but data where dozens of cars were imported by a specific legal or physical person yes, of course, i have some statistical data on the activities of the lviv customs office, there are 6 citizens of ukraine who imported more than 10 wheels for themselves . in the last month, of course, there are expensive cars, but i will tell you that it is a few percent of the total

volume of those cars that are exported to our country in this situation, in which the country found itself, we can also see it in the government. this was also reported by prime minister denys myhal, in particular, that the deficit of the state budget is currently 4.5 billion dollars per month and the important issue of receipts from customs is how they are currently performed and at what level they are if compared with other similar periods well, i at the lviv customs office can analyze at the moment only the activities of the customs forces. there is no one there for the budget from the lviv customs office. i have some information and have prepared e.e. for today, receipts in the state budget from the lviv customs office for may amount to almost 900 million. during april,

more than 2 billion were directed to the state budget of ukraine thanks to the work of the lviv customs officers uah, and this is uah 700 million more than in march, but this is only 73% of what was in the 21st year , but at the same time, almost uah 900 million has already been paid in may, which is 117% more than the same period in may of the 21st year p. danylo and finally, if we are talking about the border, about its crossing, what about smuggling, what is the situation now, and if you find it like that, is it transferred to charity or there for the needs of the armed forces of ukraine, unfortunately, conscientious sections and during the war, during the martial law of our country , so we record cases when, under the guise of humanitarian aid, they try to import

consignments of goods, but our customs officials conscientiously perform this work and these attempts intersect. i have some interesting examples, for example, yesterday they tried to export cigarettes to poland, our customs officials worked quickly , this car was detained and in the coming days this car will be handed over to the armed forces of ukraine, and i have many such examples, how we also handed over a truckload of persimmons to the armed forces of ukraine, after them they were killed and cheese, that is, there are such cases, indeed there are, but our customs officials record it. all these things are seized and instantly. we try to hand them over to our military, our armed forces of ukraine.