year, so that there would also be a barge with watermelons, which we expect every year. and if we talk about agrarian oligarchs. and this is what always interests me about oligarchs, their fortunes, here in agribusiness, i am also oligarchs . we know them there. then what is happening to them, have they endured this full-scale invasion, how does their business feel? well, like everyone else, if you have a third of the prices of products, they fall, not separately for the small farmer and separately for production, but for everyone if we let's look at e the owners of large companies, the majority of them are large electrical companies, they were public, they traded on the conditional warsaw stock exchange, namely, today, yesterday, last week, they feel better than uh, before that, because uh, against the background of news about the

opening of ports, the price of their shares rose significantly i hope that it will be so, that we will unblock the ports . thank you, mr. romany, for such a thorough answer, we actually made such an agrarian study for those who do not know what ukrainian agribusiness looks like and how it is affected the hostilities affected us, there was a novel by neutra , an analyst of the food and land use research center of the kyiv school of economics. thank you, roman. and finally, i have information about the action e application. it continues to develop in action , a new service for business has appeared, so far in test mode natural persons will be able to register a limited liability company online on the portal, they are launching such a test version, not in the mobile application, so far only on the website. this was announced by the minister of digital transformation mykhailo fedorov of ukraine,

citizens of 18 years of age and older who have an additional number and one of the biometric documents, for example, an id card or a foreign passport, will be able to use the service. the introduction of this service in a digital format for the preparation of one application for registration of the enterprise took 21 minutes, so we hope that the opening of the registration of a limited company responsibility through the internet will show good results on this today all this was news of the economy during the war watch us on weekdays in the morning at eight, repeat at 11:00 p.m. and anytime on youtube i am andriy yanitskyi espresso tv channel together we will win

on the air from washington program of the ukrainian voice service time of america, i am yuliya yarmolenko. congratulations , the first lady of ukraine, elena zelenska, is being received at the white house, and although she was scheduled to meet only with the first lady of the united states, jill biden , the american president himself came to meet mrs. zelensky joe biden, further support by the united states of ukraine and the ukrainian people, in particular, and help in overcoming the humanitarian consequences of the russian war, one of the main meetings between elena zelenskyi and joe biden, which is currently ongoing in the white house, is taking part in the expansion of the discussion, among others, and the permanent representative of the united states of america, linda thomas greenfield and deputy secretary of state

victoria nuland tomorrow first lady olena zelenska will speak in the us congress at the invitation of the speaker of the house of representatives nancy polos , meanwhile the minister of defense of ukraine oleksiy reznikov this day took part in a virtual discussion at the washington center atlantic council, where he shared his definition of victory and what help kyiv needs for this, according to the ukrainian minister, russia should return all captured territories, including crimea, the urgent needs of the ukrainian military and the course of the war, minister reznikov discussed by phone with the head of the pentagon, lloyd austin, the conversation took place on the eve of the regular meeting of the contact group on defense support of ukraine rammstein 4 more about expectations from this meetings, as well as washington's reaction to the dismissal of the prosecutor general of ukraine iryna venediktova and the head of the sbu ivan bakanov, we will talk with ostap yarish, who joins the broadcast from the capitalist hill ostap vitay

really attracted a lot of attention at the beginning of the week, the dismissal of venediktova and bakanov, as he comments on personnel changes washington and taking into account what president zelenskyy called the reason for the dismissals, can this affect the cooperation between kyiv and washington, in particular, the exchange of intelligence, and the people of the state department say that these personnel changes in kyiv will in no way affect the exchange of information between the united states and ukraine and will also not affect cooperation in bringing russia to justice for its crimes in ukraine, commenting on these personnel changes , state department spokesman nad price said that the united states relies on on personalities and rely on institutions and what is really true, even though it is between, in particular, the former prosecutor general and benedictine ta are partners here in washington and certain personal relationships were broken, now he says that he will not in principle, the problem is to build the same relationship with the new prosecutor general of ukraine. as for the

exchange of intelligence, the press also said that the united states will continue to share this information with the ukrainian side, because this is an element of assistance, a key element of assistance , for the results for ukraine. similar opinions were also expressed there is a spokeswoman for the white house, karinjanpierre, about personnel changes in kyiv. let's listen to what she said about internal politics, and i won't do that, but i will say one thing that concerns us. we will continue to work with our partners in ukraine to help them protect themselves from russian aggression with the office of the prosecutor general of ukraine while they are documenting war crimes and atrocities committed by russian forces in ukraine, we also continue to support the anti-corruption reforms that are ongoing in ukraine ostapa already tomorrow will be the fourth meeting of the contact group from the defense support of ukraine, the so-called rammstein format, what to

expect based on the results of the meeting, and what needs are voiced by the ukrainian side yuliya, this meeting of this will take place in a virtual format, we know that all previous times three meetings after them we saw the announcement of new packages of military aid from various countries, including the united states . will apply to the possibility of tomorrow's announcement, but oleksiy ryaznikov, the minister of defense of ukraine, the day before, as you correctly said, he spoke with the head of the pentagon by phone and mr. ryaznikov said that in oh, it turned out that the usa has very good news, but the details will be made public a little later, so we are waiting. it is possible that this is really good news for ukraine. we will be able to hear the results soon tomorrow . in washington oleksiy

reznikov said that in ukraine, first of all, armored vehicles are needed for effective countermeasures. well, and also more of a system of reactive volley fire systems, in particular himers, which the united states provides for of ukraine and more ammunition for them oleksiy varshikov, commenting on the effectiveness of such systems , said that ukraine ukrainian armed forces use himers as a scalpel for surgeons. let's listen to him comment more on the effectiveness of such systems. his systems allowed us to destroy approximately 30 command posts and ammunition depots. eight himars systems and as far as i know we will get more it slowed down the russian advance a lot and drastically reduced the intensity of their artillery fire so it works we are grateful to our partners for heimers and mlrs-270 missile launchers. and in order to effectively deter the enemy, we need at least 50 such systems, and for an effective counteroffensive, i think we will need

at least 100, in this case, it can change the situation on the battlefield together. file we heard such messages from ukrainian minister ostap , the day before, a group of american senators appealed to minister osin and general mili with a request to speed up and increase the military. is it true that we saw this letter from some influential american senators from both parks? it is important from the republican party from the democratic senator to the military leadership of the united states with a request to speed up the volume and pace of providing military aid to ukraine, it is very important that in their open letter they put one of the emphasis on the hammers installations, they say that really these installations have shown themselves to be very effective on the battlefield, and that is why ukraine needs to provide more such systems so that ukraine can significantly change the situation and the course of hostilities, in particular in donbas say the senators in the kherson region and in other directions, among other things yuriy, it is also important that these

senators call on the us military leadership to consider the possibility of connecting to future packages of military aid american modern fighter jets as well as funding a program for training ukrainian pilots on such fighter jets, i will remind you that earlier many representatives approved the amendment to of the project on the defense budget of the usa, which talks about the creation of the program and the allocation of 100 million us dollars for the program training of ukrainian pilots on american fighters, in particular the f-15 tf-16, as before we heard from the ukrainian pilots themselves who were here in washington, as well as from american military experts and legislators, that in theory such a program exists if we are talking about speeding up the pace and in the conditions of hostilities e program of training and training on fighter jets can take up to six months . if we talk about speeding up the pace, then let's hope we see that now the senator is calling for this, as well as congressmen and legislators before games, thank you, let us follow the development of the

event, especially tomorrow for the conference in the format of rammstein, my colleague ostap yarysh was on the call from kyiv hill, the us state department is deeply concerned about the risks of human trafficking faced by internally displaced persons as a result of the war, as well as those fleeing from ukraine this was stated by secretary of state anthony blinking on the occasion of the release of the annual report on the state of affairs in the field of combating human trafficking, lack of food security and other deeper consequences the russian war increases the risks of human trafficking around the world, he emphasized. the report published today analyzes the year 2021. ukraine remains in the group of countries of the second category, which means that the government does not ensure full compliance with the minimum standards in order to eliminate human trafficking, but it makes significant efforts to do so, but how does the war affect the situation with human trafficking in ukraine. my colleague iryna solomko spoke with the

vice-president of the organization la strada-ukraine, kateryna borozdina. greetings, mrs. kateryna and the first question i wanted to ask is, in general, how did the war affect the situation with the fight against human trafficking, the phenomenon of human trafficking, unfortunately, did not disappear at the beginning of the war, and it increased and transformed , new risks and new channels for a-a persons who commit such crimes because such factors as uh, fear, uh, rather leave the dangerous territory here, rather, find yourself abroad, safety uh, thoughts that it is necessary to somehow provide for children. they could really influence the imprudence of a woman and uh, create this risk get right into

network of human traffickers, the number of appeals regarding human trafficking is not even much, but it has increased. if we talk in numbers, we received, well, the total number of calls is more than 17,000, and uh, 3% of these calls, uh, were related to questions a- and the prevention of human trafficking, the risk of human trafficking within our country has also not disappeared and also increased because the vulnerability of the population has increased. now we have mentioned the data of your hotline. i won't say it, but now the state is actively working on

improving the state program of the action plan to counter trafficking, and if you go back to the report that was made public today, in principle, the assessment of the situation in ukraine has not changed compared to last year, and it just says that yes that is, currently ukraine does not fully meet the criteria that the united states would like to see, but in principle the state is doing this in order to improve the situation, so you agree with this as correct defender yes, we we have fairly progressive legislation regarding combating human trafficking, we have fairly progressive structural divisions both in law enforcement agencies and in social agencies that work in this direction, and the state is trying to take measures to change certain norms

, taking into account the risks that were the last years and the pandemic 19 and now the war and not so fast it is really called but we are really trying to improve this situation of course it will not be ideal for anyone well that is uh by accepting uh today the peace complex, indeed, we can receive new challenges during the period, and this will require a review and the introduction of certain changes, and the period that will be from and to o. of course, there will be inconsistency at the level of cutting edge international organizations. there have already been statements about what is needed, that is well, this is not only the responsibility of the ukrainian side, but it is the responsibility of the country that receives these refugees , that is, do you see what is being done there, that is, in european countries, how well do they adapt to this system, how well are they ready to protect of ukrainian women and children who got into such a

situation we as a public organization literally from the very first days of the war began to actively develop together with public organizations working in foreign countries that accepted ukrainian women and children and published data of the organization, addresses, telephones, rules of conduct where to go, i.e. the most important information you have in your social networks, i.e. for those who were forced to move abroad, it is really more convenient to search for such information on e-e ukrainian sites on ukrainian social networks in an accessible language and they already have an expensive instruction such a road map, at least a small one, they really could already apply to organizations that already work directly in the state of their stay, but in

principle that there is also such an interest in the protection of ukrainian women and on the part of the law enforcement agencies of these host countries, the connection between national and foreign law enforcement agencies was established as a certain mechanism a and e before the war, and i think that our law enforcement officers use the interaction established by this well algorithm and continue to cooperate with their colleagues abroad thank you very much for the conversation at first full-scale russian invasion approximately 6 million ukrainians were forced to seek safe haven abroad more than 70,000 of them came to the united states as forced migrants from ukraine here actively hundreds of charitable funds of non-profit organizations and businesses help, among them fintext -

startup restart, which, among other things, helps offering temporary shelter to refugees with housing at one of the ranches in texas details in the story of oleksiy kovalenko legal advice searching for sponsors to participate in the united for ukraine program temporary housing banking assistance services that as part of the social initiative provides ukrainian refugees with an online bank restart the company was founded 1, 5 years ago, as a mobile banking service for immigrants from the countries of the post-soviet space , the company launched numerous projects in support of russia's large-scale aggression in ukraine ukrainians that in america it is necessary to have a status, it is not necessary to have a status in america, it is not clear to everyone that it is necessary to have a status in america, it is not possible to be illegal, it is not allowed to break the law, the immigration component, the first part, where we help, immigration lawyers are now 120% busy. this is a really big problem here, another problem

with which we are trying to help. since we are here in texas and we have a large community and american investors, we are trying to help find sponsors so that we can come under the united for ukraine program to move ufo u here the founder of the restart, denys larionov, left russia and moved to the usa seven years ago. he does not support the politics of russia and calls putin a war criminal. the restart cooperates with other charitable organizations, together with which they launched the wog for ukraine campaign. kilometers passed , the more donations we collected and our sponsors , investors, sent from themselves, contributed and sent to the ukrainian foundation, the organization cooperates with other volunteer foundations and non-governmental organizations that help ukraine, among them the liberty ukraine foundation, a non-profit organization from texas that collects money

to support ukrainians, victims of the war, ukrainian military and medical workers, fairly new partners, they joined us, we had a big event in austin, highland eveson direction uh, they gave us their premises and helped organize a cultural ukrainian uh event uh, with the purpose well, as always, all ukrainian events, the price, well , it's always fundraising, i always want to get involved another audience and highlidayson, that is, they have their own customers, they have their own group of people , and for us it is a completely new audience, the largest project among ukrainian initiatives, the resettlement of ukrainian refugees on the ranch of one of the co-founders of the startup in texas, the project is planned to be launched already this summer up to 140 people will be able to live there for six months. we are preparing ukrainians.

we have gathered contacts who want to come and we are trying very hard that this week or next our sponsors, investors and patrons will make statements on resources and then we believe that you know this right away and, for example, 100 sponsors who will be able to bring these 100 families here, and we already have a place to place them, we are building the infrastructure to support them there while they are waiting for a work permit, for example, in this we expect that this there will probably be children and women when they have the opportunity to work. they can move to a big place, for example, polina shabarova herself is from sevastopol, after the annexation of crimea she moved to kyiv and then to texas. her parents live in buch and forced to leave home again during the occupation by russian forces, a volunteer from ukraine, tetyana gorzei, worked with polina on the project and settlement on the ranch, and we are now engaged

in raising funds and finding the entire management, etc. for this project, in order for people to be there six months and all their needs are provided after they are there , this is the period we want them to have the opportunity to fully become full members of american society find that the period allowed by the state to carry out the project of settling ukrainians on a texas ranch , volunteers attract american charitable investors oleksiy kovalenko dmytro savchuk voice of america and the following our story about the help provided to victims of the russian war in latvia, volunteers in riga have created a special center for refugees that helps those who were forced to leave their homes not to feel lonely and lost in a foreign country , says yurii mamon at the building of the former railway station in riga, the flag of ukraine in relation to

at the beginning of the russian invasion of ukraine, this ancient building was empty, it was being prepared for restoration, now here every corner is to be occupied, to create a center, they decided to create this center so that when a person comes to latvia, which is a foreign country for many, he receives help by visiting refugee centers, and most importantly, after after she got out of here, she did not get lost alone , the founder of this center for ukrainian refugees had previously organized exhibitions of modern art in latvia, however, this year due to the war in exhibitions have been canceled in ukraine, so now they are carrying latin language to refugees, many nuk version for his once - this is an apartment, many apartment houses, people are being killed, people are being killed in europe. it is very close. it is simply terrible and this incredible cruelty that is happening and the rest of the

world cannot to stop this at the moment it is very, very difficult for me personally to come to terms with it, it is impossible for me to come to this lesson and oleksiy, he is from odesa, during the russian attack on ukraine, he was in moscow there, he studied opi after the beginning war decided to leave russia on february 24 arrived in latvia from moscow on the last flight aerofotok february 24 flew to latvia from moscow i understand on the last flight of the air force, i was expelled from the university for my stance against the war for supporting ukraine in russia somehow i studied there at the baun mdtu after university oleksiy dreamed of working on oil rigs somewhere in europe or the persian gulf, the war at home changed the boy's plans for the future, now i want to continue my studies in latvia. then after graduating from university and

after the end of the war, he returned to ukraine to rebuild the infrastructure as an engineer, the schoolgirls traveled very hard, we were traveling under shelling, we were leaving. by chance, we met volunteers from nizhyn. they brought a humanitarian woman and said , if you want 10 minutes, get ready, let’s go count. natalie and her children fled from chernihiv via lviv, poland and lithuania. she smoked fish in a supermarket in latvia, takes care of children, says such centers for refugees help to distract children, they run and relax of course, what is it already were left without shelling from under shelling without all this, the children's bodies gave up and started these panic attacks and everything else and everything else this center exists on donations latvians bring here all

the necessary things for refugees iryna brought clothes and is ready to work here as a teacher of the latvian language iryna's relatives also fled from kharkov, it is definitely a shock because what happened to me is of course a shock. i did not believe that something like this could happen in europe in the 21st century, but as we can see, everything has happened, and it seems to me that this is a threat to all of our civilization insulting our civilization , the founders of the center say that when russia attacked ukraine, they simply could not continue to live a normal life then and created their own little world here, playrooms for children, office space for parents and a library with computers, a store with free goods, psychological support, even s yoga has its own laundry and specially released ice cream made in latvia, however with thoughts about ukraine yuriy mamon vladyslav andreev - voice of america when on february 24 russians close approached sumy to prevent the enemy from taking over

the place, its residents helped, so the local forge immediately began to manufacture anti-tank hedgehogs , staples for dugouts, to supply sandbags , the owner spent all the materials he had previously purchased for the expansion of the enterprise for the defense of the city, now he is collecting funds for the purchase of cars for the needs of the armed forces of ukraine, so retooling their story of koval from sumy will be told by olena adamenko and mykhailo zayka. this small enterprise in the city of sumy was involved in the production of metal loft furniture for 7 years until on february 24, their customers were hotels and restaurants in ukraine, turkey, france, and england . for the first time, the day of the full-scale invasion of russian troops into ukraine, it turned into a defense enterprise of the military. there was no police. i also did not see. the defense of the city was taken up by guys who did not even have

they didn't have any idea about weapons, defense, or any tactical skills, they didn't know anything, they had only one desire and one goal - to stop the enemy, and in order for the guys to do it, we did it everything that was required of us, we did everything to clean the metal, anton's enterprise, the hares , used the sand that came in handy for the construction of roadblocks. then people started calling and we need a burg, we need hedgehogs, we need everything that can be put on the road to stop these scoundrels when we spoke with anton, a soldier of the stereo defense came to his enterprise, each burghuika is a dugout, and likewise, the fasteners for dugouts are also his work. thank you very much. i went to talk with him for

borzhoka yes, we will give you a wife right now, no, i’m just, or really, because he’s already gone so much to his place, it’s a shame that the peasants ask him . anton found one. and they also issued staples for the dugout before the russians invaded sumy. anton planned to expand production and build another for this, the shop bought materials for uah 700,000 and used them for the defense plant in the first six months of hostilities in the region, then people began to carry on us, bring, bring , drag, dragged everything possible, one guy, eh what a kilometer, five, six, on my own. this is a plus, the snow brought 20 kg of electrodes on foot, many people said

that what can we do? the task is to close the front of the metal so that the radiator and the engine can not be damaged, then we will protect the wheels and make the frame for the awning so that it is possible to tighten the speed so that the fighters can drive there or transport things as needed, this car we bought it with the funds that were collected on our instagram page, people helped with funds , now we will also improve it a little, it will also go on combat missions in our region, in addition to helping the military during the russian invasion of sumy, anton had another alone