the brothers appear to be blacksmiths, he is not only businessmen , putin’s personal banker, but also one of the biggest media tycoons, yes, kovalchuk’s channels, in particular , the propaganda first, that is, the first, are becoming more and more valuable in the kremlin’s arsenal against the background of the failures of the russian troops in the war against ukraine. he writes to the island magazine, among other things they also broadcast these channels of russia's lies about the cluster bomb, also with the help of kovalchuk. putin is strengthening his control over the internet, that is, with the help of the vkontakte social network, which is banned in ukraine. well, and in general, wall street jordan, citing the second seven billionaire and russian intelligence expert, says that since the beginning of the full-scale war, the dictator and kovalchuk often met and talked on the phone, kovalchuk proved to putin that the west is weak and that it is time for russia to demonstrate its military prowess and protect its sovereignty in hold on to ukraine, the wall street journal reports where the wall street journal is, i wonder

where this kovalchuk is now and how many passports he has in case and if they come to him to mobilize his or his children, for example, and then we have economic news. andriy yanitsky, as he does every morning, will tell us everything about money during the war. it is always very interesting to watch. we have already prepared. good morning, andriy. good morning, we will talk a lot about oil today. andriy nitskyi from economic news on the espresso tv channel live on weekdays at 8 a.m. repeat at 11:00 p.m. and when it's convenient for you , watch our program on the espresso youtube channel. video and send the link to your friends and relatives good news about the budget 25 billion dollars

of external funding ukraine has attracted since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, this will allow to close the budget deficit this year, this figure was announced by the ministry of finance in the next shortage, the estimates of the country expect less, approximately , it will be from three to 3.5 billion dollars per month, but we will not be able to patch this hole without the support of international creditors or grant-giving partners, so now the government is asking partners to provide money for the coming year, funds are needed or to maintain economic stability and continue all social payments without delay, meanwhile, ukrenergo is already drawing up an estimate to bill russia for the damaged

electricity generation and transmission facilities. for compensation, so that it would be the most effective. this was told by the director of legal affairs of ukrenergo maksym yurkov. he noted that all damage caused by russian shelling in the company is recorded in in real time, every day, the appropriate legal mechanism is already being developed, french president emmanuel macron will help ukraine with energy infrastructure, he is preparing the so-called energy rammstein, it will take place in paris on december 13 . infrastructure and combating and combating the consequences of such strikes, according to the diplomat, the non-conference will determine five priorities: energy, energy, energy, quality water, health care, transport infrastructure and the economy. well, they estimated the amount

of grain stolen by russia in ukraine, according to bloomberg , more than a billion dollars worth of grain has already been stolen, according to the agency providing the american space station nasa, experts used artificial intelligence to calculate the stolen grain, not artificial intelligence analyzed satellite images that determined exactly where this grain was collected, it is noted that the occupiers took away almost 6 million tons of wheat that was collected by farmers on free lands and almost 90% of the winter crop harvest was taken from our fields in the occupied territories of ukraine. russia took this food by ship, presumably to various countries, including libya and iran. it is difficult to estimate the full volume of the stolen goods, since the enemy hides the origin of these cargoes

. dragon capital if mr. serhiy is already with us congratulations, i saw you a week ago, we announced that from december 5, european countries will launch such a mechanism as limiting the price of russian oil that is, part of the developed countries included the embargo altogether and will not buy russian oil, and for other countries such price restrictions were introduced, after which sanctions are applied. you can say so, that is, these cargoes are not insured, it’s just that you explained to us last week whether this mechanism will work or did it work have you already determined the price today? it seems to be the fifth number. yes . today, december 5, the embargo starts today and the price ceiling begins to work. they determined it. how do you write it here? it will be $60. take it. yes, we hoped

that the price will be lower, but if they chose this option , it wouldn’t be, it’s not, first of all, it looks like homeopathy, but it will already affect some deliveries, but in fact, the most interesting thing now is to see what russia’s reaction will be, because russia repeatedly said before the introduction of this ceiling that it will not supply full market oil, as they call it in terms of oil, after the introduction, they and piskov and several other officials declared that they will not fulfill this ceiling again, and now it is just interesting whether they will make themselves a burden as with gas. we really hope that they will do or continue to supply oil. well, it seems to me that $60 is a completely acceptable price for them and the market . as far as i know, a little higher. economic that there are 80 to 85

$, and there are contracts, uh, what can you say about this? will these 60 $ not be enough for them to replenish their budget? 85 dollars does not look very good - this is a brand, it is not a urals, it is a different brand, different brands different brands of oil yes and russia recently sold at a significant discount, so the price has fluctuated there from 52 to 70 dollars over the past few months. that is, this is just the average selling price of urols of this brand, yes, the average price, but still not the price of each contract. thus, if russia follows principle a i really hope that she will follow the principle and will stop all these insured people here, well, that is, they will not send according to the rules of this insurance, so they will simply limit their oil in the industry and do the same thing that they did on the market

gas, something that europe would never dare to radically reduce the consumption of russian gas like this from behind and once russia has done for them theoretically now if they go, they will go to the principle, they will say we are great russia, we will obey your style and limit the price will limit the supply of er-er own oil er- well, this will have a very strong impact on our neighborhood, because it will already hit the russian budget very hard. you mentioned gas. how does this market work now? i know that russia transports gas on the territory of ukraine through turkish the flow seems to be in the northern streams, something bad happened to them and they can’t use them and they were never put into operation. maybe something was being built there for china and the power is siberian, they just won’t tap the gas. the power itself was built a long time ago . they receive certain things, but they do n't even pay, and there was barter, so china gives

money for this pipe, and russia then supplies gas, that is, de facto russia receives almost nothing from china , they now have a minimum volume through ukraine much less than possible, a little less than what was transported last year and also not a big pipe that goes through turkey to europe as a result due to these two branches and again as the minimum volume and they transport they supply gas to hungary, austria, maybe partly to italy but italy has also already refused almost completely, and hungary, austria, serbia, these are the countries that are the most friendly to russia, that is, but at the same time, officially, the demand has been significantly reduced, you are simply a radical yes. and if you look at we are interested in the russian budget, first of all, in this matter, the rent from gas has decreased by four or five times, that is, it has almost been renewed, and now we can only hope that plus or minus the same process will take place in the oil market. well, we we hope for this all the more

because oil is not gas, oil can be supplied by tanks and it is easier. it seems to me to replace russian oil on the market than was the case with gas, because gas still requires a different technology, it must be liquefied, it is necessary to build terminals from the reception of this liquefied gas, let's really see. and i also heard that the price can be reviewed there in a month or two, and there are already voices saying that let's see how this $60 ceiling will work. and in two months, we'll get together and maybe determine a new one , maybe about the one that volodymyr zelenskyi says, $30 would be good, but unfortunately $30 will not immediately be provided for a mechanism that states that in one step you can lower this ceiling by 5%. oh, what about sanctions packages instead

of immediately include all sanctions as much as possible let's move step by step, but the main thing is to move in the right direction, it's good from oil, let's move on to another high-profile news, literally on the third of december in london , representatives of what is called the national crime agency of great britain came to the mansion of a russian billionaire, they say that 50 people came to that mansion and then from the photographs of that mansion, it became clear that this is the house of mikhail fridman, who is the co-owner of alpha group well and alpha bank, respectively, and that it was said that it was immediately they released him on bail, that is, no one detained him there. but why could such suspicions arise, what could this be, suspicions of money laundering could arise against a russian oligarch on the way, a really

interesting question. to look under a microscope, but they looked at friedman. thus, first of all, in a very timely manner, they transferred the alpha bank to the meaning of the bank, eh, everything happened about the students during the day, but now the question is even more open to the eyes of the conversation the pro-nationalization of alpha bank, the former alpha bank, and talks about the fact that friedman will now negotiate with the president's office and contribute $1 billion , they already look quite relevant now. well, first of all, it is unlikely that friedman will contribute a billion dollars now, when you in the united kingdom , it is a very delicate thing to have agreements with you. well, he is under sanctions, his capital is frozen, he simply cannot, of course, he has this billion, but he can not dispose of it, he cannot transfer these funds yes, it is not possible, there was a conspiracy about super agreements, which are theoretically possible, these

conversations were, of course, i do not claim that he wanted to transfer this billion, but the conversation was that within the framework of the agreement, friedman ukraine, britain can be unblocked so that he gives money here now that he has actually been arrested and then released on bail, such deals just look super incredible. well, let me remind you that in 2015, when the banking market of ukraine was being cleaned up, all bank owners promised to deposit money , and de facto this almost never happened it seems that there are only one or two cases when the owners kept their promises and invested billions of trust in all those banks that are currently working in ukraine. these are the banks where the owners kept their promises. all banks in ukraine are now clean in relation to alpha bank, more precisely, it already makes sense bank in ukraine, are there any reasons for the customers

of these banks to be afraid that if something happens to friedman there, he will be imprisoned or arrested, and something will happen to their funds in the accounts, no, no, there is no need to worry, we already have the worst the option will be the nationalization of this bank, this is already such a tried-and-tested story on the example of privatbank, everyone has seen that in reality nothing happens to the members, because more is more likely for depositors, this is a plus , because the bank has become more reliable, the same story is here. therefore, if suddenly we will be nationalized, then for sure it will not affect customers yes, i wanted to emphasize this to the clients of sens bank or the former alfa bank. there is nothing to be afraid of. in any case, the national bank will come to the rescue, supports liquidity and all your money will be saved at least i really hope for it. i believe in it . let's talk about other ukrainian businesses here, purely ukrainian without external investments. we

know such a company as nova poshta. everyone has heard of it, everyone uses it, but now there is an opportunity to use the services of nova poshta and abroad . of a full-scale invasion, nova poshta has come a long way from the fact that at first its owners said that it might be necessary to close down the business because there were no shipments there in march, and now they have already entered the polish market, opened in in several cities, the e-e branch promises to open next year in germany and other european countries, are there any chances at nova poshta in europe, in principle, any ukrainian service has a chance, or the services are ukrainian, as we have seen now. how to europeans have seen things - europeans sometimes work much better than european service, i have many, many reasons for this, but nova poshta is an example of such a young, new, hungry company that works very effectively in ukraine, just as effectively

it can work in europe if suddenly some european regulations do not get in the way, there is no expert here, it is difficult to say. there are simply very, very many regulations, but in view of our processes, which have been worked out, it is quite possible that they will take over the european market little by little, now it helps a lot that there are millions of ukrainians there and well, in fact, we understand that the opening in poland is an opening in the connection between ukrainians in ukraine and ukrainians who are now in poland in order for them to send something to each other there, the same from in germany, where there are almost a million people from ukraine now, as refugees, this story is about the connection between ukraine and ukrainians in germany, but in the future, if it develops, if little by little, supplies will increase, who knows , maybe nova poshta will become like that . - and such a european giant. especially since it is companies from europe recently, we remember very little, if at all, we remember the company that was fired

, if we look at the tap-stop of companies there. a peaceful life without a person of domination. without special ambitions. and here is another ambition. this is the hunger of ukrainians. the hunger of nova poshta can help them, including due to the dynamics, but the limitations that exist, why are the services in europe so not so good? they work like in ukraine because i have a lot there are a lot of restrictions, a lot of regulation, a lot of requirements for treating employees, how to work, how much to work, when you work, trade unions, and so on, will nova poshta be able to overcome this european bureaucracy, regulation, let's see. to give an example. i have relatives who now live in germany and they used the services of dhl for the delivery of various goods, so of course it is simply impossible to compare the services of the operator with the services of nova poshta, how slow it is, inconvenient, um,

i hope that the operator will not submit that i'm in court for this phrase, it's, let's say, my family's personal experience, he doesn't say it's possible about the work of all branches, but we dream of nova poshta starting up in germany and creating competition, but there's another problem, you're right, you say that's all there it's calm, it's already traditional, the same ones, for example, the germans, are used to going to the current ones and not to nova poshta. and they may not apply to the new company, not to accept it simply because of such inertia, uh, because their parents went to the activists and their older relatives there went to the activists and they continue to walk, their children will walk, how to change this european tradition, how to change their ambitions for better service, this is so cultural. it seems to me that even a challenge for ukrainians and for ukrainian companies is possible. but the germans now

they like to use uber, but their hideouts did not use uber, so if something works for a long time, it becomes popular, so all hope is for young people, for ukrainians living abroad and for other emigrants who are also hungry and thirsty for good service well, as one of my friends joked where there are two branches, where there are three ukrainians, there are already two branches of nova poshta opening right away, so this is true. well, i can say not only about nova poshta. and there are also state-owned enterprises of ours opening up. the document is working in three cities of poland, and it also surprises me that not only private companies, but also state companies can expand to western markets

. by diplomatic means to expel the russians from the nuclear power plant, here was a statement that the withdrawal of weapons and the zaporizhia nuclear power plant will become one of the mandatory points of the agreement between ukraine and russia with the international atomic energy agency, what do you think, mr. serhiyevich we will be able to hear about the next step of goodwill from the russians. what are they from the same? i would not be directly associated with the step of goodwill, that is, the russians will not necessarily leave the energy donor in order for them to give us the zaporizhia nuclear power plant, this is necessary to understand whether the retreat of the troops is wrong, but now there are really persistent rumors that we are getting back control over the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant through a megaten, and when it left ukraine it looked like what you say , thinking, we want to do it, but now we wrote very russian about it and they therefore look like it can really happen megate says by the

end of the year and it is very important because it will completely destroy putin's strategy to destroy the ukrainian energy buffet because it will add the largest nuclear plant to which half of the power from of nuclear power plants of ukraine, unfortunately, into the network, this is very, very, very important for us in this struggle, why can the russians go for it? first of all, hungary is turkey and in order not to fall under sanctions, to be able to conduct these projects, they can theoretically take this step of goodwill and they are very funny justifying it for the domestic consumer, they are preparing a justification for the domestic consumer, this is what medusa wrote and they say that they may leave or will leave later in exchange for guarantees of gas transit on the territory of ukraine and oil transit on the territory of ukraine, and this is very, very funny because gas transit is very important for us precisely on the territory

ukraine because while there is gas in the gas transportation system, it helps to pass the winter period more easily from we need much less imported gas and this is simply our stability . then we would have to rebuild the system of the west , the east, these are man-made risks, these are technical risks, and there are a lot of problems, especially now when it is cold, because we have never stopped this transit. of ukraine - these are guarantees from ukraine to hungary in order for it to agree to the oil bark also, we would never undermine or put at risk the fact of the introduction of oil banks in relation to russia, because what they are talking about the transit of oil and gas is all for the domestic consumer to somehow justify er, will they tell in er, now they are only preparing this consumer, but the

preparation is conditional yes, he says that it is quite real, of course we will still have the risk of what they will transfer, they may and will transfer it to the energy atom, but they will break the networks and it will be a simple thing, of course there is such a risk, mr. sergiu. thank you for the explanation. serhiy fursa, an investment banker who represents the investment campaign of dregang capital, was with us, but they talked mainly about oil and gas, but also touched on other topics mykhailo fridman, a russian oligarch, they talked about nova poshta's expansion into european markets and the zaporizhia nuclear power plant. i'm andrii nitskyi with economic news on the espresso tv channel on weekdays. see you tomorrow at 8. this happens only once every four years. 32 national teams will meet on

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, serhii rudenko and the guests of his program will talk about all this, people who have information and shape public opinion, people who defend ukraine and are creating the future right now the main and interesting thing in the program is the verdict by serhiy rudenko monday through thursday at 5:10 p.m. repeat at 9:30 p.m. we continue our broadcast by his daughter-in-law hanna valevska monday, december 5 and a statement from french president emmanuel emmanuel macron, who the day before you remember he said about the need for a security guarantee for russia in order for it to start negotiations on ending the war, this time he gave an interview to sbs to our colleagues of snews and said that he thinks that the russian leader putin is necessary prosecuting for war crimes and committed in ukraine

, he did not say that russian missile attacks on civilian infrastructure are a war crime. this is a war crime, macron said when asked by a journalist whether putin should be prosecuted for similar crimes. macron answered that we must collect all the evidence of war crimes and that what are we doing by sending police officers and experts to ukraine, we have to launch all legal initiatives, that's why my answer is yes, at the same time, macron continues to remind us of the need to support an open dialogue with putin and a guarantee of security for putin's personal russia, one way or another. how to understand macron is still the riddle of our roboxi. danilov said that there are guarantees for putin, because gaga does not foresee a death sentence, that is, in any case, putin will remain alive and his head will not be felt. there are guarantees, yes, and justice, which is

respected by the rest of the civilized countries, not such as russia, these are guarantees for russia, which behaves well, i don’t even know how to call it, you don’t recognize any jurisprudence, no judges inside this country also does not have any legal field. therefore, this is a guarantee for them, but after they did this, it is a big question, well, if macron said that there should be guarantees not to expand nato - this is a song that we heard even before the full-scale russia's invasion of ukraine and if now nato says yes , yes, yes, we will not expand. takes people out of in the front-line regions, the conductors of the evacuation trains see dozens of refugees. sometimes they calm them

down, feed them, advise them where to return and contact them further, tell them about the daily life of ukrzaliznytsia employees who work on the daily zaporozhye-lviv route, let's watch the story together nataliya kudrych has been working as a conductor for 18 years february 27, a woman wore working uniform and replaced in the first zaporozhye-lviv evacuation train. it was very scary to go, scary for myself and for my family, but we went because this is our job explosions also started and there were many people who were just scared, scared so much that they threw themselves under the cars, the cars could go for 36 kopecks, we took 200-250 people, so you understand, there were 12-14 people in each compartment, not counting luggage, but animals. we also took luggage. we took luggage as much as possible. during the shelling,

we also had to travel following special rules. shelling and you know for sure that there is no stop because as soon as we started to gain speed the passengers began to panic that we were stopping and what will happen now they somehow thought that the stop was all nataliya remembers march when russian rockets hit a building near kyiv's main station and the lights were turned on it is a dark night and they, like those poor butterflies, were knocking on the windows, begging, asking to take everyone, they were able to take me, they took a certain number of people and just went on each train, thousands got on ukrainians, parents sometimes sent their children off by themselves, staying on the platform, and when a child of eight or six years old was going, and they were small, without their mother, they were going. they were like little kittens, they sat in the box and calmed each other down. our railway connected and