is there already an agreement on the import of 35,000 tons per month, also a separate green lane for gasoline trucks has been launched by poland, which will allow us to eat twice as much transport per day, the government emphasizes that the queues and the shortage of gas stations have finally disappeared, it takes at least 15 days for now all imports are going for internal consumption, the increase in reserves will take time for the coming weeks and even months, the government has a clear plan of action, the cabinet of ministers also urges drivers to take into account difficulties with fuel, and gas station chains are asked not to speculate on prices, because they have state regulation, we see from monitoring that some gas stations set prices higher than the state regulated prices of 65-70 hryvnias per liter - from our point of view, this is speculation and i want to appeal to unscrupulous players so that there is a war in the country and such unscrupulous actions in essence as looting and the government has empowered the regional and military

civil administrations to control the set price and we will react harshly to such speculations by individual operators. india has banned the export of wheat due to the threat to its own food security, the country's government plans to curb inflation in this way. at the same time, this may cause an even greater rise in prices in the world, they are growing at a frantic pace due to russia's war against ukraine. our country is one of the largest suppliers of agricultural products in the world, but now, due to the russian blockade of our ports , export crops are almost paralyzed in your civilized country. the world demands that russia unblock ukrainian ports and prevent famine, meanwhile, ukrainian government officials, together with european partners, are working to increase exports through borders with the eu, there are already specific developments and ideas. and about them khrystyna havrysh, we have corn in this warehouse, we have the same ones in the attic, we have wheat, rapeseed, sunflower, usually at this time the warehouses of agro-enterprises are empty, they are being prepared for the new

harvest, but not this year, there are no elevators 120,000 tons of last year's grain, which was supposed to be exported, was all transported by light trucks to our ports and ships were loaded at the port. all of it was sent yesterday via the black sea to the countries of africa and asia. ukraine exported 90% by sea. agricultural products, and now our sea gates are blocked by russia, four ports are generally captured from there, the russians steal our grain and even try to export it, now we have only three small ports on the danube, from there the cargo is delivered to the romanian port of constanta and then to the destination country, but these are very small volumes of leva a share of agricultural products is transported to european ports by rail, but ukrainian wagons can not travel on european roads because our tracks are wider than those of the eu, we deliver them to the border and there

we transfer it to er or road transport. but mainly it is the railway of er european countries, but the problem is that in europe there are not enough wagons that are needed to transport the amount of cargo that is in ukraine, because of this, thousands of wagons with grain are standing at the border, some more for two weeks , we have reoriented the farmers who export grain by trucks near the border, and now i have about 40 cars going to europe to export agricultural products, and in addition, a decision was made by the owners, we will buy another 40 of cars that will go to europe, the new logistics are five times more expensive but this is not the worst before the war 2 months we managed to export about one million at this rate of last year 's harvest, and another 20 million tons of it will be needed the problem of harvesting winter crops is eternal, we still have a

very large amount transitional remains, the question is where to really store it, meanwhile, the world is facing a food crisis, and more than 40 million people are almost on the brink of starvation due to the blockade of our grain. such a statement was made at the un by all civilized the world demands from russia to unblock our ports if this grain does not go to the market, a lot of people in africa will die of hunger because ukraine is the only supplier in some countries in the eu, they have developed a plan to support our exports, they promise to eliminate bureaucratic obstacles, they call on business urgent to provide wagons and trucks for transportation of our agricultural products in the future, they plan to develop infrastructure at the borders and the government says that all this is a long-term job, maybe even for years, and the situation is already critical that we we are talking about solving the problem here and now, then this can be done only by unblocking the ports, and at least the ports around odesa, as

an option for creating so-called humanitarian corridors at sea through which it would be possible to safely export grain, it was to introduce a humanitarian convoy under the flags of the united nations nations, possibly other non-governmental organizations, which would guarantee that these ships will safely pass the steps there to the ports of ukraine, that they will not be fired upon by the russian side, but only the occupier, russia, which has been more than once spat on agreements and international law, and hunger is another weapon in her arsenal khrystyna gavrish kateryna kurbanova ictv facts - the only news ukraine plans to confiscate russian assets worth $10 billion the sanctions law on the forced seizure of objects of property rights of russia and its residents refers to the property and assets of the political and military leadership and businessmen who support russian aggression. ukraine has already

introduced sanctions against three thousand individuals and against 230 companies. as soon as the law comes into force, the confiscation may also apply to influential russian oligarchs who own factories , banks, hotel chains, and a number of oblenergo . party deputy yaroslav yurchyshyn in the ministry of economy has already compiled a list of 28,000 items of property that the russians may not account for, in particular, they may be alpha bank, prominvestbank, the international reserve bank, the former sberbank, the first cases in court can already be considered in june, the confiscated assets will be used to strengthen the ability and reconstruction of ukraine to introduce sanctions against the russian patriarch kirill and three other representatives of their orthodox church, the people's deputies of ukraine in the verkhovna rada want to register the relevant bill according to the document, the head of the russian orthodox church, cyril, metropolitan hilarion and tikhon, as well as sometimes mykola balashov systematically and actively supports the war against ukraine

, these church figures also legitimize the russian military invasions and genocide of ukrainians, these representatives of the rpc promote the ideologies of the russian world and lead the ukrainian direction of activity of the moscow patriarchate. the deputies propose that the security and defense council of the united states introduce all relevant sanctions and block their assets and cancel their visas. we consider them not religious figures, having nothing to do with god. and these are people who actually work for russian propaganda on a russian scale, who bring here murders, rapes, and actually destroy ukraine and support the genocide absolutely publicly about the losses in ukraine. i hear every day, but the real loss of the week can be called the departure of the first president of ukraine, leonid kravchuk. in the eternity of the first president of ukraine, leonid kravchuk, he, a sincere communist, had to put the final point in the collapse of the soviet union and restore the independence of ukraine, everyone who knew him personally and only from the

podium is unequivocal leonid kravchuk had excellent intuition, was a professional diplomat on any political battlefield and at critical moments tried to choose what would benefit him oksana mykhaileva recalls the state of the first president and his difficult decisions. ukraine in the early 1990s, the collapse of the union was already evident, raging, starving on the granite, a powerful national movement , while a large part of ukrainians read only soviet propaganda, they spoke russian , in the spring of 1991, more than 70% of ukrainians saw their the future in the soviet union, but already in six months 91% vote for independence in such a society , the former ideologist of the communist party leonid kravchuk became the president, we lived in a time when still half society went to the may holidays, the other half to the november holidays, this is the world from which led makarevich came out and it is very good that he makarevich

was on our side, on the side of this young hope, he professed and even created the ideologues of the soviet union, at the same time it was kravchuk who put an end to his history to him was not just remembered by colleagues, but leonid makarovych had a phenomenal intuition and sense of currents in society, so he knew that only an independent ukraine was ahead, the past must be done with . at first, he was still the chairman of the verkhovna rada together with the parliament votes for the independence of ukraine, despite the fact that the majority in the parliament are communists, few people know, but the very next day after that, russia makes a statement that it reserves the right to claim the territorial integrity of ukraine, sends a delegation to kyiv, but is rebuffed, on december 1, a referendum is held on independence and at the same time presidential elections, and in a week in the bialowieza forest, the newly elected

president kravchuk signs the collapse of the union, when i fear he pushed us, we will say so he said some version of the treaty on the soviet union. i can't sign it because the people recruited me. how is the leader of independent ukraine kravchuk a ukrainian, the leader of kravchuk a communist , independence was then given to us bloodlessly, but the exalted spiritual ukraine began to fall into an economic abyss, inflation in over 10,000 %, the highest according to the world bank's estimate of unemployment without money and the miners' strike, then early presidential elections are announced, and here kravchuk also shows that he supports democracy, he did not resist when he was losing power, says serhii rakhmanin, who wrote the memoirs of leonid kravchuk, he fought for power, but he did not cling to it, he tried to grab it by breaking his nails, he did not try to use administrative resources, that is, in principle, he

actually started this tradition of democratic transfer of power at the elections of leonid makarovich preceded by another leonid kuchma, recalling his predecessor leonid danylovych he says that we were rivals and like-minded people because we built ukraine together, few people know the other kravchuk that she told me in the first days of the russian occupation of crimea in the spring of 2014, if they move on, i will take up arms myself, i want him to be remembered as one of the fathers of our independence, definitely a grandmaster of negotiations and a virtuoso of compromises, definitely, but also a courageous person - the real ones ukraine is ready at a more than respectable age to stand up for her and die with a weapon in his hands, in addition to economic trials, kravchuk had to make many difficult decisions, nuclear disarmament and the basing of the black sea fleet in crimea, then he called the real military the conflict was pressing on kyiv from all sides, he had no choice what the navy managed to find

on the decision to base the russian black sea fleet in sevastopol was a change to slow down the action, but then kravchuk managed to minimize the risks of a military clash. last year, leonid makarovich frankly admitted to journalists that his biggest mistake was trusting russia, unlike most ukrainian politicians, he knew how to admit mistakes and at the same time was a brilliant diplomat and an incurable lover of life to overcome no one has succeeded and will never succeed in bringing ukraine to the truth by the strength of the ukrainian people. oksana mykhailova ictv facts, the only news. in an interview with ictv journalist

volodymyr oruntsya, us chargé d'affaires in ukraine kristina told that the us embassy has already partially returned to kyiv and plans to fully resume work soon the main american diplomat in ukraine says that now she feels relatively safe here, kyiv is gradually returning to normal life, the process is evidenced by the fact that many western ambassadors have already returned here, including the american embassy. it's just that we are now in the residence of the american ambassador. important things about the russian-ukrainian war with the us chargé d'affaires in ukraine ms. kristina quinn how do you like to return to kyiv it is very nice to be back i already go everywhere i talk to my with friends and acquaintances, i catch up with everything i missed , in fact, nothing could be better than being

here again and meeting people in person, i am very glad that now i can do it. we will unpack everything in the day everywhere and now you feel safe i feel that i am moderately safe when the air alarm starts sounding i do what i have to go either to the basement or to a protected place so considering that i am doing this it is reasonable to say that i am safe already working in the usual way regime not yet i came back with

a very small group of diplomats we wanted to start small to assess the situation to understand what we need to do here so that we can eventually work in safety the idea is that gradually we will increase the number of our people in the meantime our employees and local employees are working remotely as during the previous three months, but consular services such as visa applications are provided here in kyiv or not no not yet no we have a very limited range of services for citizens of the united states who for example need a passport or something yes and even this is us we do not do visas and passports here, we do it mostly at our embassy in warsaw, so we have not returned our consular services here yet, we hope to return these services here soon, but not ukrainian yet

the military says that there is still a belief that the russians may want to capture kyiv again , western intelligence says the same, what will happen if it happens again, what successes have been expected so far. it is difficult for me to imagine that they are able to suddenly return to the kyiv region, but at the same time, we are assessing the situation all the time and if we felt that the situation was extremely dangerous, and we would first of all ask our ukrainian colleagues about it, then we would have already decided what to do . relations with most of the main ministries of ukraine, we talk to them all the time, we even give them information and assessments that we have, in your opinion

, ukrainians are doing well in the face of russian aggression, i always knew that ukrainians are strong, brave and able to defend themselves but i have to say that i admire the ukrainian spirit very much, you know, they don't hide, they go out and fight , they can't fight on the battlefield, they do it in a different way, they express themselves on social networks, collect money for weapons or food, aid or medicines for people. they are looking for ways for people who are stuck in some places, elderly people or people with limited

mobility . signed a new law on loan visa, what is its essence, in general, there are two major mechanisms for providing assistance, which we are currently considering, one of them is a lend-lease, which was just signed by the president, so it is definitely already there, and the second - this is a $40 billion aid package that has already been approved by the house of representatives, but it still has to go through the senate and then go to the president. however, it seems to me that it will happen with a high probability. these two things together help to support ukraine even more than now, and i think so far our the support was significant, so what money can be spent on security support, budgetary support, humanitarian aid, the fight against hunger caused by russian

aggression. thus, the money is spent on aid all over the world, so these funds will solve all these problems for the president, the opportunity to supply the necessary things to ukraine more easily and quickly without the need to obtain permits or go through procedures as usual, this gives the president more flexibility, she gave aid to ukraine, provided weapons and other equipment, can you explain in simple words how the ice forest works many ukrainians do not know how the us military system actually works or whether its adoption means that suddenly ukraine will need some powerful guns, they will get them right away, of course there should be a discussion and also of course it is important that it is in the united states and that they can transfer

as far as i understand the very essence of lend lease is that instead of going through the process of acquisition and procurement and then sending it to ukraine if you can just lend it to ukraine and then ukraine will be able to pay for it years later you know about this there is no in a short period of time you don't need to have money right away to pay for it so you don't need to go through all these processes that usually go through when purchasing something, it makes a way for providing aid is much easier, we now see the unprecedented sanctions applied against russia in action, but president zelenskyy asked to introduce them even before the start of the war, but the west was in no hurry to make this decision. do you not think that if they were introduced then it would prevent putin from carrying out this invasion er, then it’s straight to ukraine

, the office seems to us. no, it wouldn’t have stopped putin, it wouldn’t have prevented his invasion. there are two reasons why i was in a hurry to impose sanctions. first, sanctions should be a punishment for wrongdoing and apply punishment for something that has not yet been committed. it seems to me that this would not have the desired effect, but instead telling him not to do this because we will do something in response would have more effect when sanctions have already been imposed, then there is already a feeling that there is no longer an incentive not to do wrong things secondly, we had to make sure that if we are already introducing sanctions , then the rest of the countries of the world will also introduce them . actions and thanks to the fact that we waited and cooperated with

europe when he started doing what he is doing we introduced such powerful sanctions not only from the us but from europe and europe is very important because they will do more business with russia than the united states, so we think that in common sanctions are very important, it is also very important to maintain unity among allies and to act only in response to the actions of president putin. any situation can be resolved diplomatically. president biden said that he believes that putin has driven himself into a situation from which there is no way out, but there will still be an end to this, probably still through diplomatic means. what do you think, how will it be resolved? that's right, the rightists really wanted to see a diplomatic way to resolve this, but it is obvious that there cannot be a diplomatic solution in which ukraine loses and russia -

will win because this is not an acceptable option for the end of this unilateral aggression. it seems to me that russia and ukraine are still talking, the negotiations are not very lively , but they still exist. i would like russia and ukraine to reach a peace agreement that ukraine would recognize in the final analysis, this should be an acceptable peace agreement, acceptable for ukraine, and if it is, of course, the united states will support it. do you think that the time may come when president putin will be honored that they will shake his hand again? international leader of i think it will be very difficult and frankly , president putin has made himself an outcast on the world stage, now he is in the same league with the north korean leader, the syrian leader and

the iranian leader, he is in the category of the worst autocrats of all time, how to get out of this it is difficult imagine i would not like to assume now who will shake his hand and who will not, but now it seems difficult for me to believe that he can return to the status he was in before who he is, what he is doing is unacceptable after what happened in buch, irpen, gostomel in other places after what is happening now in mariupol even if there is peace or some form of armistice will he be able to regain his reputation of course no of course i do not

believe that he can regain his reputation in front of the united states i think very it is difficult to imagine that he will be able to regain his reputation in front of the rest of the world because the world saw what happened, we have already determined that he committed war crimes, he did terrible things that the whole world saw, and i don't know how anyone can say oh, we will ignore this and work with this person will no longer do business with usual. is there such a place where he would come and there he would be considered a capable world leader? it is so difficult for me to imagine what you think, whether the world will call what is happening in ukraine a genocide against of the ukrainian people, in order to call something a

genocide, there is a legal procedure, there are courts that deal with it, not that i am saying that this will not happen, but it should be given a legal definition, but president biden has already stated that in his opinion this is very similar to genocide. we do not want to do conclusions to the legal process but we will not be surprised if this is recognized as genocide. that is, someone should go to court in the united states and apply for recognition of this as genocide. i think it should be the international court of justice. i don't think it's just a court in the united states and it seems that such a decision should also be followed by certain sanctions, so it seems to me that lawyers should figure it out. i'm not a lawyer, but the terrible

things we saw in buch. it seems to me that there should definitely be an appeal to court. but i can say that the united states agrees with what was obviously committed war crimes we help to deal with this, we allocate people, money and resources that will help ukrainians to conduct investigations and submit materials to international courts properly thank you for this interesting discussion thank you very much we had a chat on may 15, we celebrate family day, welcome to them like odesa, beautiful like vinnytsia, steadfast like kherson, brave like mariupol

, hospitable like lviv, strong like kyiv, united like the whole of ukraine, together we are a big ukrainian family, together we are strong, we will rebuild the parash, we will win, what are you not news together we are strong unconquered cities of ukraine odesa, a picturesque city on the shores of the black sea since ancient times, the territory of modern odesa was a delicacy of the ottoman empire and the russian empire of nazi germany and today of the fascist in russia, don't get on my mother's nerves. she has a

ukrainian heart. odessa is unconquered. ukrainian superheroes who have become legends today. army in 2022, extremely effective combat actions to preserve the position of our army are capable of carrying out until our victory, glory to the heroes, glory to ukraine, ukrainians from the military

our dear relatives, i am addressing my daughter, mother, father, hello, a big greeting from all of us, care for everyone , i wish you health with support and will be well, we will win with a big component of this victory is your love for us, a strong front and a strong rear, only victory, only forward glory to ukraine, hardened, united, unbreakable ukrainians are a nation of heroes, we will intercept the defeat, we will win, whatever you want