the circle of people who know is very limited. i am, unfortunately, a former diplomat. i don’t belong to this circle, but what i hear, in principle, gives reason to hope. well, that’s good, it’s good because, you know, there are no former diplomats. diplomats are uh. people with connections, and that's why i asked you this, connections that will help us, for example, where and why to understand better than er than someone else, let's listen to mr. oleksandr, two direct languages, then i will ask you a question . macron and then statement the prime minister of hungary, viktor orbán, well, let's listen after that question, russia uses energy and food as means of waging war, so i think that we need to prepare for a scenario according to which we will be forced to do without russian gas completely, and it seems to me that this is not rhetorical scenario to pass peak loads in winter, we must reduce consumption because

we must support other europeans hungary is trying to stay away from this war, we must be very careful so that it does not spilled over into the territory of our country, but we must also understand that this war continues not only on the fronts, but also in the world economy , including the european one, and part of this war is the rise in energy prices. well, mr. oleksandr, two radically opposite statements by the heads of two states that are members of the european union which are members of nato in the first case macron understands that winter can be difficult, but somehow he encourages the europeans and asks them to prepare for this difficult winter, in the second case the prime minister of hungary says that they are sorry but everything is gone that is, it is a horror what awaits us it will be a horror we do not want this well we do not want this war we are distancing ourselves from this war and well and obviously if we paraphrase his words we are generally

distancing ourselves almost in ukraine if there are such polar opinions in europe so what should we expect from this europe in the short term? isn't the support for europe weak in europe? mr. urban represents only mr. orban, the same austria in which i spent 6.5 years, which has the reputation of such a soft country as far as russia is concerned orbán er and er modern hungary and foreign policy, unfortunately, are considered as such a floor below which the european idea cannot, in principle, fall, and therefore orban well, we already have no illusions about this person regarding his position on er what to expect from him and what macron says is much more interesting and much more

representative, one must understand that germany and austria are closer to me than france, so i will rather talk about germany, although in principle the situation there is well, in germany the situation is worse than in france in germany germany decided to completely refuse to become completely independent of atomic energy and for a couple of years completely dependent on russian gas or 80% dependent on russian and nevertheless despite how painful it is to realize what a danger it was despite how polite is it to go through here and break these wrongly established ties germany is doing it austria is doing it they are doing it slowly too slowly but you understand here an unexpected partner and unexpectedly

russia itself can play in our favor, which is so clumsy, so rude, so i don't know, it behaves offensively towards germany, france, yesterday i read the world of the russian representative at the osce, who wrote well, we still don't know what we want to introduce north31 eh, but if possible the germans and the french will want to introduce a northstream plat, then maybe we will give them a little gas, and you understand, this is such a blow to the pride of europe that, in principle, well, as i see it, germany and france are both. and this is, in principle, the tandem which makes up modern europe, the modern european union at least sets the tone in it and it is moving in the right direction although, as i said, too slowly look, you served your time in austria, you know this country well and you obviously know it well

please tell me now against the background of the russian war in ukraine well, not before, do they have it ? does she still have sentiments towards russia? which is difficult to eradicate, even with such actions as russia is currently taking in ukraine . you see, i once wrote a book in which i wrote that in order to believe, eh, i have a lot of reasons, because to believe lies, namely, greed, eh, stupidity, eh, prostitution, eh, some kind of moral blindness, and only one reason why not to believe a lie, because it is a lie. people who even now continue to believe russian lies because they are so comfortable, but the vast majority, i look at my austrians, with whom i worked for 6.5 years, and they understood everything internally, but for

one of the listed reasons, they still gave some loans to their confidants and putin's russia i see how much this war was a slap in the face for them, how much russia lost these people who , despite everything, believed in russia, you understand, and i think that in germany, as i see it, it’s still the same. when i look at the economic expression of germany which means that throughout the european union, the majority of germans still say we will support ukraine we must support ukraine you understand this is huge as the germans say it is a change of times yes, the trend and this change of times is really coming and what russia has lost as a result of this war it make up well, at least 10 years for sure, maybe even more, well, god grant, god grant as much as possible so that

she does not make up for it, alexander, i have a question for you as a professional diplomat, because you are the only one in this case who will be able to answer this question, see for a few days therefore, the american embassy appealed to its citizens who are in the territory of ukraine to urgently leave the territory of our country. when is this done according to the canons of diplomacy, if there are any such canons, and somewhere, well, there are canons of diplomacy, but are they written in when is there any intelligence in ukraine about the fact that there really is a real threat or because it was like this before the start of the war when the americans asked their citizens to leave the territory of our country and now when this is usually said oh well you know it is difficult to use the word usually when it's about the war. but uh, as i understand it, the americans explain that it was a routine reminder that it's

still too early to relax in ukraine. moreover, i think that maybe they saw some kind of influx of americans here, but i wouldn't rule out that uh indeed, the whole situation has developed in such a way that putin has no choice but to start bombarding peace on peaceful cities so that people start forcing the political authorities in the country or to compromise with russia. i think that even if he starts these carpet carpet bombings, he will once again see how unbreakable ukraine is and what he once again predicted by evaluating, but, well, americans, americans, there was a huge scandal in the days of trump when they found out for what reasons americans died in libya, although there were serious signs that

the americans are in danger even now they often blow on the cold in order not to descend, so maybe it was just this case, but 100% i will tell you the ground well let's hope that they are blowing on the cold and are somehow trying to protect themselves, to protect their citizens who are on the territory of our country, mr. oleksandr, another question is being debated today. last week, the european commission proposed the seventh package of anti-russian sanctions. today debates are taking place, but on wednesday, this package, well, they can approve it, there will definitely be no gas, there will be an embargo on gold again, there are a lot of other individual sanctions. confidence that on wednesday this package will be put together, the seventh package will come into effect, you see, it is not so large-scale for

russia, it is oil and gas bargo gold, well , they will find ways to sell er gold to dupes er, it is not er- this is what is called a killer package of sanctions, and to be honest, it is a lot for me a more alarming bell was the fact that a russian member of parliament supported the war and plotnikov. it seems that his daughter published a photo on instagram of them having fun in italy and croatia, so here we need to fight with all our might so that all representatives of the russian political class and all their family members that they should be like this, that they should not be allowed into any decent country where freedom and democracy are important and not just like that, and this absolutely outraged me. to be honest, i really hope that this will raise waves in the european union as well.

he forwarded this message to his colleague in brussels or he showed it to the europeans. what kind of sanctions are these if criminals while their country is bombing civilians in vinnytsia when we are hiding a four-year-old girl oleksandra well, by the way, agree on 15 seconds that these criminals can rest in italy, it is impossible. well, thank you. thank you, mr. oleksandr, for your professional opinions and analysis. it was oleksandr shcherba, a diplomat , extraordinary plenipotentiary envoy of the first class, extraordinary plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine in austria 2014-2021 years well, due to lack of time, i am forced to finish today's program, the world during the war, he talked about with his guests, but the most important thing he wanted to talk about and received from them, and i hope you also received professional

answers, remind us, you can watch what in monday at approximately 12:00 on the air of the espresso tv channel where it has not been turned off, also on social networks and on the youtube network, whoever watches on youtube must be our favorite. well, my name is yuriy fizer. see you soon. greetings. i am andriy yanitskyi. this is the espresso tv channel . watch the news economy during the war and today, tuesday , july 19. if you watch us on the internet, please comment on this video, like it or send the link to your friend, yes, more people will see us. the council forbade the forced collection of

debts for housing and communal services from individuals , 287 people's deputies voted for this decision, the moratorium will be in effect during martial law, i will remind that during the war, ukrainians are not charged a penalty for non-payment of utility services, but paying for utility bills is still necessary. ukrainians are not exempted from major payments, such as electricity, gas, water, and after the war, debts will not be written off. confusion with gas bills continues. our journalists figured out who to pay for blue fuel and is it possible to return the money. if you suddenly paid for the wrong campaign, let's see the plot . a woman is poor. her pension is a little over two thousand hryvnias a month, and for utilities services in may will now have to be paid twice

a month, the money was transferred to my personal account in lvivgaz sales through the internet wi-fi. ms. natalya was surprised when another one from naftogaz was added to the may bill from lvivgaz sales, again for uah 400. i wanted vilgaz to return the money to me so that it could be paid for by the second organization. the supplier failed and the answer i did not get a clear understanding there the thing is that from may 1, the state automatically transferred all household consumers of lvivgaz sales to the supplier of the last hope, according to the decision of the cabinet of ministers, this function

is performed by naftogaz of ukraine. of the information campaign, thousands of subscribers out of habit paid not to the new naftogaz, but to their previous gazbuts, and since may, the sales service does not provide paper invoices , nor does it send electronic invoices consumers are still here on the internet, they issue bills already for the month of june, former minister of housing and communal affairs oleksiy kucherenko is convinced that millions of consumers in all regions of ukraine have become hostages of a failed information campaign anti-ukrainian, i undertake

to affirm the position of nak naftogaz is absolutely absolute, it is not the position of the state of ukraine, it is absolutely the position of its poor management is aimed at one thing - these are huge salary bonuses of the equipment scheme, and still, it seems that the gas stations themselves could take advantage of the situation, at least in lviv, they do not show a particular desire to return overpaid money and arrange a real quest for customers, mrs. nataliya complains about the receipts as photocopies documents, the woman collected everything that the company manager asked for, but this turned out to be not enough, she provided me with a copy of the ownership certificate that i am the owner of the apartment, we certify the invoices with seals on viber of lvivgaz sales and when i called back or received from

her she said that she did not want them , according to the woman, the problem was also that the payment for gas was made through the ipay payment system, allegedly lvivgaz sales, which for years accepted money through this provider, suddenly stopped recognizing his receipts, is this really the case, and has the gas plant stopped working with ipay? we inquired on the hotline. good day, you have a website . this information will be relevant and we can provide it to you, i.e. you accept payments according to their details, and the payments are valid

, they passed, they are needed, lvivgaz sales must recognize ipay receipts. does not suit why conscientious lviv payers of communal services are forced to go through 7 circles of hell to get their money back, we asked the director of lvivgazbut, pavel maika, however, according to him, there are no problems with returning money any consumer who has made an overpayment can apply to us, write a statement, provide

the necessary package of documents, and within a certain period of time we will return these funds . at present, we have returned about e million hryvnias to our customers. the words of the director directly in the company office were refuted by this man p andriy has not been able to return his money for almost six months, he is coming to lviv all the way from vinnytsia and again without success in february. my wife mistakenly transferred the money not for the consumed gas of gas transportation in the amount of 10,000 so far, this issue has not been resolved and the money has not been transferred to us. if the state does not urgently intervene to solve the problem by the fall, the situation will reach catastrophic proportions, predicts oleksiy kucherenko. citizens should have known in advance what and to whom to pay . everything was done retrospectively, you understand because i understand. look, if

you have issued a payment without having the right to do so, this is a criminal offense. he must definitely be responsible for it. there will be queues in the offices and there will be a lot of a very unpleasant period and most importantly, i don't know when it will end. i'm not sure that it will end before this heating season, the awareness campaign and the lack of a clear refund mechanism have led to the fact that honest utility payers are forced to stand in queues for hours, and in addition to military problems utilities also have to be decided, no matter what, and the gas company controlled by dmytro firtash, even after passing over to the management of naftogaz, is similar in the future, they continue to enrich themselves, because the number the number of consumers who will not be able to get their money back remains astronomical millions of ukrainians evacuated abroad simply will not be physically able to bring their statements to the office, gas has been sold, yes,

photocopies of documents. a big story on a complex communal topic. and land use of the kyiv school and economics novels greetings to andria we talked all the time about porte export about such urgent military problems but today i propose to go to such a general overview. as they say, a helicopter view and from the height of a bird's flight on our agricultural sector, how it looked before february 24, what changed in it. let's try to describe how our farmers worked. well, for example, what are the main products in crop and livestock production e- if you can say that, ukraine before the full-scale invasion of russia. well,

if we take the plants, that is, here we can look at the seeds, that is, the state statistics service hydroported it, or in 21 years, we had somewhere around 28.5 million hectares are traditionally cultivated with agricultural crops, of which about 15 million hectares are cereals and 9 million hectares are oliynyk, that is, mainly more than that , because oliynyk was grown in grain, and among cereals there are four main crops: wheat, corn, barley, and everything de facto in animal husbandry in we have it more or less evenly within our borders. and it is farming, it is the production of chicken, eggs, it is cattle and dairy exports, and it is pig farming.

also, there was a lot of egg production in ukraine, and i hope it still remains, but i don’t know how much it has decreased. we will talk about it separately , and we also had dairy production. this is no longer livestock farming, it’s already a campaign . agrarians to some derivative products, yes , then there is another question, how was this market structured, were there huge agricultural holdings, or were small and medium-sized businesses working there, maybe just private households grew all this and sold it well, it depends on the specific culture because if we talk about conditional vegetables, about the production of vegetables , households are completely dominant in many categories, i.e. if we

take the conditional production of potatoes there, 95% of this potato production is made by ladies, the same is the case for cabbage. if we talk about more commercial production a if we take the production on an industrial scale and look at the distribution of registered farmers , then we will see that odesa is half of all registered economic producers , it processes about uh, about 2% of that of labor that are processed by commercial court-producers , that is, they still blamed big business for e-e in the agricultural sector, if you look at the money and if you look at the land that is cultivated by farmers , agribusinessmen, yes, that is, 10% of the biggest targets

are producers, but it is all worth understanding, this is a large agroholding - this is someone who has more than 1,300 hectares , that is, in fact, everything is quite moderate in ukrainian there, small producers and 10% of the largest, he cultivated all 75% of this area that was cultivated by commercial enterprises. but at the same time, in we have several million hectares, they are cultivated precisely by sole proprietors, that is, by these owners. who has a share, but who decided to cultivate his land on his own, and in these statistics, these are the sole proprietors. they may simply rent out their shares, or hmm , the statistics reflect exactly non-owners. and those who work in the fields and - and it could be that these people who did not officially hand over their share were leased, that is, perhaps there is an official transaction, but still a significant number of such

sole proprietors are directly sole proprietors they work directly on this land, the main owners of the land, if you say until february 24, is it the state or private, is it private, is it private players in our country, it is approximately 40 million hectares of agricultural land, they have 3 million ha a there were private and 10 million hectares of public land, but in our country, along with this, the land was transferred from state communal property, that is, it was transferred to the communities, when it was transferred, it turned out that it was not 10 million hectares of state land, approximately 6 took place as a life in process inventories, mice ate ukrainian land, that's right. it 's just for the years of the moratorium. and you couldn't officially buy a private topic. but you could, ah,

allocate state land, it becomes private, and it belongs to this state, this land. you could already freely buy and to sell, well, residents of big cities know how fields are turned into residential complexes, apparently , they simply change the purpose of the land by the decisions of local councils and in this way they are built up, so we are left without agricultural land sometimes this is appropriate sometimes no, but if we talk about the invasion on february 24, did it somehow significantly change the rules of the game on the agricultural market and the working conditions for ukrainian agribusinessmen, it changed the working conditions, it is worth understanding that if the world prices after the invasion , they are more up ukrainian local producers of that wheat and corn receive they write down the sunflower and now we have a new crop coming in and the walls are being repaired here because there is no

such demand for such a quantity of products and this already creates significant risks for the functioning of agribusiness because now uh, if you want sell your harvest directly from the field and collect it and immediately sell it because it is separate we have a problem with the storage of the harvest, so it is better to write down that you do not cover your production costs, that is, if we do not unlock exports where there are already positive developments, then we there is a big risk that we will have a significant reduction in the necessary reasons to sow ana's reproductions this year or this year. well, this is only about grains or, in principle, about all crops, because i imagine such an average farmer who has greenhouses, for example, with cucumbers tomatoes, but he probably shouldn't change anything. after

all, it affected us too. if we are talking specifically about agribusiness, the majority is like more acreage. that is, there are 25 million 208.5 hectares, all of which are grain. and oils, and this is the backbone of our business, if we are talking about the production of eyes, about the production of some auxiliary crops. and most likely, nothing will change except that part of the area was occupied, and if we look at the conditional production of vegetables, and there 28% of all those who had in in ukraine, they produced these in the kherson region or there about 30% of pepper, so that something like that, that is, we will be local, and this will make it a more attractive option to grow the product in those territories that we have. well, we are all waiting for kherson watermelons, and we hope that the zsu will help er this year to also be

barzhaskans, which we expect every year. and if we talk about agrarian oligarchs and this is what always interests me about oligarchs, their fortunes, there are also oligarchs in agribusiness, we know there er the verevski family and the bakhmatyuk family and so on and what about what is happening to them, did they endure this full-scale invasion, how does their business feel? well, how does everyone feel, if you have a third of the prices of products, they fall not separately for the small farmer and separately for the network, but for everyone if we look at the e- the owners of a large company, the majority of them are large electrical companies, they were public, they traded on the conditional warsaw stock exchange, namely today, yesterday, the last week, they feel better. and before that, because