these martyrs and we will continue to hear their sacred words overhead and here at home. now a new story is forming related to the transfer of these exterminated 635 by the russians to iran. this is extremely disturbing to washington and israel. i think that now these two countries are planning actions that will actually limit iran's ability to acquire russian weapons, because these planes now affect the balance of power, and i think that conducting some reasonable military operations against iran in order to reduce the aviation component and strikes on these factories that manufacture drones will go together package, so we expect good news. thank you, mr. serhiy, serhii zgorets viskovets , before the director of the defense express company, was with us. well, traditionally, this moment of silence, with which we remember all those ukrainians or lives taken by russia, we will honor

the memory of ukrainian soldiers and civilians with a moment of silence ukrainians who died in the war that russia unleashed it

306 days of heroic resistance of the ukrainian people to the russian invaders continues for your attention news on espresso works in the studio angelica of the season oncom a 72-year-old woman got shrapnel wounds, she was hospitalized, the previous day, the occupiers continued to search kharkiv oblast under enemy fire, they found at least 12 settlements, the head of the regional military administration, oleg synogubov, reported that russian shelling damaged a house in the village of dvorichna. in addition, there was a fire in the territory of economic buildings with an area of ​​250 square meters, there were no casualties despite the daily firing of pyrotechnics continues to work over the past 24 hours in the region, 49 explosive objects have been neutralized, only the third tykha

night for more than 5 months in the nikopol region without alarms and enemy attacks passed in the sydnipropetrovsk region, the head of the regional military administration valentin reznichenko shared that no shelling was recorded and in the mykolaiv region, meanwhile, our defenders continue to hold the defense, repulsed enemy attacks near 16 settlements on the eastern front, this is in particular a sniper rifle plazhanka in luhansk region and soledar bakhmutske pidgorodne bakhmut kurdyumivka in donetsk region bakhmut and avdiyiv directions remain the most infernal there, the occupiers shelled the position of our soldiers in the areas of more than 20 settlements, but they did not remain unanswered, the ukrainian aviation made five strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the attackers, and

our rocket launchers and artillerymen hit nine control points, two areas of concentration of manpower and two other important objects of the enemy, the enemy continues to inflict casualties, so in the city of starobilsk, luhansk region, a hospital equipped by the military occupation forces has recently delivered about 50 seriously wounded servicemen the enemy in the city of horlivka, donetsk region , due to the lack of donor blood, all employees of medical institutions were obliged to donate blood according to the established schedule in russia, it is alarming again at the strategic aviation airfield in the city of engels that powerful explosions were heard in the saratov region, residents write about at least two explosions and in houses windows flew out near lytovshche, local snakes and telegram channels report. the ministry of defense of russia has already traditionally announced that it

allegedly shot down a ukrainian drone and admitted that three soldiers received lethal the injuries were probably from the wreckage of the uav, however, they emphasize that the equipment there was apparently not damaged in the city, there was even an air alarm, let me remind you that engels is the main base of russian bombers, from february 24 this airport became one of the main sites that the enemy uses for missile strikes on the territory of ukraine, the russians will try to put an end to it dark and difficult year for us , president volodymyr zelenskyi addressed the ukrainians with these words, he emphasized that the darkness will not prevent us from inflicting new defeats, but we must be ready for any scenarios, please look for and

remember where the nearest point of invincibility is located, tell your parents how to find the point of invincibility, if it is necessary , more than five and a half thousand points have already been opened across the country, please also take care of yourself and be ready to help others , a russian was caught, fighters of the 108th separate mountain assault battalion successfully attacked enemy positions, as a result of which they destroyed many invaders and replenished the exchange fund, namely, 10 invaders were captured at once but in which direction it happened, ukrainian defenders did not specify whether russia has the right to remain a permanent member of the un security council and the un in general, this is exactly the question our state will address today - said the head of the ministry of foreign

affairs, dmytro kuleba, he emphasized that ukraine's position towards the aggressor country is convincing but it is argued that now the representative of russia is a member of the permanent members of the un security council, this allows the russians to save resolutions that they do not like, the deputy ambassador of ukraine to the un, serhiy kislytsia, has repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that russia illegally occupied this place in accordance with the organization's charter, its permanent members are great britain , the united states, france, china and the ussr after the collapse of the latter. russia, declaring itself the rightful successor of the red empire, simply replaced the soviet union in the council of security , the curfew will also be in effect on new year's eve from december 31 to 1 in january, to protect public order, not only police officers but also national guard soldiers will be involved, they will check people's documents and

, if necessary, deliver them to of police stations to establish or verify identity, spokeswoman of the national police, maryana reva, said. if you are out on the street during the curfew and cannot return home in time, you should go to the heating points that work in the police stations or to the deployed mobile points of return of sasha from over hundreds of works by dozens of artists from all over the country were presented the other day in the halls of the kremenchug city gallery for the anniversary of grigoriy skovoroda, he was born in poltava oblast 300 years ago, the exhibition is called the light brought me the philosophy of free ukraine, the mysterious codes of the poet’s aphorisms, i tried to read our iryna skripachova’s kremenchug gallery in complete darkness due to hourly blackouts in the city, a choir is playing, a

composition to the words of hryhoriy skovoroda, performed by the capital chamber choir , herald, local composer serhii horinovych, began writing the piece even before the war finished on may 7, the very day when russian rockets hit the skovorody museum in kharkiv, but his monument stood, the material monument passed into spiritual that's how we ended up and then at the festival that music fs sounded this e-e work is e-e acapella choir e complex complex work the philosophy of svoboda skovoroda and 300 years later is modern because it is relevant for all generations, they read it and find something for themselves embodying it skillfully in his own work, painting and graphic works are more ancient and created this year in the exposition of the presented painting made of net fabric and buttons, one of them - the place of olga ivoshkina's scissors, created based on skovoroda's fable the snake and the frog buffon

buffon met a snake, she says that she is so beautiful, but she says very simply, i said, “i crawled through a gap and collected an old skin, let’s say you crawled through some kind of gap and decided to get your own warty skin. she just couldn't fit in, well, here, too , some kind of conclusion that it is necessary to put a lot of effort to be beautiful to create something like that in independent ukraine, everyone knew about the frying pan on its 500 uah bill, or every ukrainian knows at least several aphorisms of the poet, one of them inspired a young artist from kremenchuk to paint a painting on a war theme. in part , i was inspired to create this painting by the phrase of hryhoriy skovoroda, one must not die for the country . the philosopher's grave, he

managed his own life and was somewhat strange in this, his strength and attractiveness iryna skripachova oleksandr popenko i have the espresso tv channel at this hour, the next episode will be at 10 o'clock, then we'll meet my colleagues lesya vakulyuk and andriy saichuk will soon continue the informational marathon of the press, be with us, television , sports, music, education, free people have a choice, choose what you want on megogo, join the community with a ukrainian view of the world, become a sponsor of the espresso youtube channel, and this is access to

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andriy seychuk and i are coming back and continuing our marathon and joining it, it will be interesting and andriy, well, there is a new product, such a small one, so to speak, around the new year, christmas, etc. for the first time in 11 years, he refused to meet with his visav from russia, santa claus, the meeting took place in a finnish town for 11 years in a row. well, everything there was called christmas at the border. and he won’t give anything at all. that’s why he said that it would be good for you to give our karelia. and you don’t

take any more from us, and you’re not finnish. muscovites think and who is not? so he turned away from us, the ukrainians say you are not slavs, only mongolia remains, the principles , guys, that is your direction, but i do not know, i am not happy to see myself at all. ulang bator and ask them for forgiveness there. have you forgotten that you are descendants or not? complaints may be successful. the new year is combined with the new year in its own style . well, for now, let's talk about our affairs. yevhen dubogres, an expert in cases of ukraine and ex-deputy director of the department of financial stability of the nbu, joins us. let's talk a little about what the

russians could arrange. only massive missile attacks are on our minds, but it is also possible that there will be an attack on the ukrainian banking system, yevgeny, what do you think about it, how realistic is it, well , russians, good morning, russians, a long time ago they tell their public, official on official, that they want to hit, as they say, the decision-making centers of the banking system , destroy our banking infrastructure, what to say is much easier said than done , the banking system is ukrainian, it does not meet the best world standard in terms of calculations, in terms of the work of electronic itself of the payment system, it is surpassed, in fact, these are the best standards, we have a system even before the start of this registration

, it was completely decentralized, that is, all servers where data is stored, all like you, all data centers and provide work precisely with the payment system, precisely mutual settlements between banks, between ukrainians, between ukraine and abroad, they are all dispersed, they are taken outside the borders of even ukraine, they are concentrated in different regions, therefore, er, not by any single blow or massed this system cannot be destroyed with a blow, so i immediately say that these risks, that the russians will strike at something and the banking system will collapse, they are completely exaggerated, this will not happen , the banking system is now absolutely safe and what were we not strikes what were we not massive attacks banking system banks they will work and ukrainians well, we will all be able to pay if there is internet

if there is access to bank branches to banking services to shops so there is basically nothing to worry about banks will work until victory, mr. yevhen , how stable is the financial system now, not only financially, but also the economy of ukraine as a whole. including those er blackouts, power outages. i understand that in the last month , we could have lost up to 2% of gdp. there was such a forecast of the national bank, it just seems to be due to these lok er blackouts, so how are we looking at 2023 ? with optimism is very significant why because you mention what we all thought at the beginning of march she at the end of february that the economy will fall by at least

50 percent that nothing will work there will still be a huge bank collapse hyperinflation what we are seeing now that we have a drop in gdp a big shower very large, but somewhere around the level of t-30-32% this year, but the economy is all working, the devaluation is very moderate in our country, which is about 33%, in principle, this is compared to most world currencies and those countries that are not at war even inflation in our country is 25.6%. it's a lot, it's a lot, but let's compare, for example, with the same poland and inflation of 17%, a country that does not fight, a normal economy. where do they remember the rockets? that's why our economy is compared to what we expected a year ago. but that's normal. treason, everything is bad compared to what we expected in the spring, we had a huge victory, we

persisted in exporting to us, the exchange rate stabilized in our banks, if there are already banks, switch now perhaps in the best condition in terms of liquidity in general in the entire history of ukraine, that is, the bank has enough money to settle with depositors, to give deposits, to make payments, to simply work efficiently, most of our banks are operationally profitable, and that is, now their expenses are much less than their income they receive at the expense of the operation for the emergency service with so light apparently mr. yevhen dubogrez 's electricity went out, so the sun didn't shine for a long time, we prayed for a short time, i suspect that our energy workers did something incredible to us, incredible, these two days i don't know how it is in your regions by the way, write to us how were you with

electricity, at least yesterday we went to one of the sleeping areas of lviv, where we are now temporarily living, and as a rule, it is a sleepy area of ​​lviv. these are the ones in the dark . light in their homes, christmas trees lit up with holiday lights on the windows , also garlands, i suspect that some of those garlands are not powered by electricity, but are powered by batteries, because even in stores, when you try to buy a holiday garland on batteries, you say, “are the girls telling the saleswoman that they have been there for a long time?” already sorted out well, in a word, these were the holidays, and we thank our energy workers for that, for the fact that, after all, they did not add to this festive mood, they helped people prepare christmas eve, actually yevhen came back to us, there was a power outage in

as you can see, as you can see , literally a few seconds there and everything is fine with the system, yes of course the banking system works, it is liquid, it has money to pay with fins, we all see it even during such severe blackouts, yes , there are no problems where there was internet, where there were terminals, it was not possible to pay by card is it easy to pay for a service, that is, the same here in any hard blows , our banking system will withstand them, therefore, in terms of the economy and especially in terms of banks, for example, i am a very big optimist, we are in this we enter the year perhaps with a destroyed infrastructure, but with great hopes that it will start to recover again and the banks, especially, have adapted to these

bad working conditions. what if they had ready plans, prepared even for such extreme things, and what if heroes and a person who is currently under investigation well, but this is not even what i want to say now in our previous hour in andriy yanitsky's program about news and economy, we are one of his viewers or a viewer wrote to him and said that everything is very good but why they are not raising the pension, will the pension be raised already in 2023 or not, and andriy fursa, who was just the same interlocutor, serhii furs andriy joked quite a bit that we have a war in general and it is hardly a good idea to say, mr. biden, you gave us more than 40

billion again more than we asked for. because it seems to me that they asked for 38 even at the beginning, but give a little more so that we can also raise pensions in the meantime, what am i saying all this for, and maybe it makes sense to also revise the tax fiscal policy now. and how do you feel about the idea that taxes should not be reduced, but perhaps even on the contrary, they should be raised during the war, because pavlo sheremeta, the former minister of economy, wrote about this, reminding us that , for example, during the second world war, taxes in the united states were close to 90%. for example, if you think about it us us we need to show our partners that not only they help us, but also we as an economy. yes, we are doing everything possible to ensure that the economy functions at our own expense where we can, that is, by and large , that we need to show that we can at

our own expense at the expense of our taxpayers to finance us, they say, not military expenses, i.e., pensioners, public servants, doctors , educators, and all, and internally displaced persons, and we can do it through taxes . the economy and we can't, we won't be able to do it in full, keep giving us money, we're here. i'm sure there is a consensus in the world that ukraine should be helped, but if we really have to raise taxes, it's possible and we'll have to. that's it, we'll do it, it's absolutely sobering idea, but at the moment it is impossible to say that we we need to raise taxes unequivocally do we need to make some kind of radical reform in our country right now everything is changing very quickly from the fact that i see this communication with

colleagues for communicating with government officials that there is an understanding that it is necessary to change the tax system and there are constant consultations with our international partners those who give help how to do it or should it be done radically remove all taxes maybe no is it necessary to immediately raise taxes no that's all will be done organically in response to the challenges that the war poses to us, so there is no clear answer as to what is the right thing to do, because tomorrow the situation will be completely different, but the understanding that we it is necessary to change the tax landscape, we need to give more incentives to businesses to develop, to provide jobs - this is definitely here with a guarantee, well, from my communication with businesses, for example, in lviv , this is very similar to the data given by the tax office, well, in the dpa about what in fact , the payment of taxes has even improved, and the

business business also says that we pay because we understand that it actually goes to finance the army, now pay- pay- pay taxes well, who can, pays and but there are the same things that are probably true negative and they are just not coincide with official data, let me remind you that at the end of the year, the cabinet of ministers reported that our unemployment rate even decreased, that our unemployment rate is the lowest since 2007 or something like that, but i understand that this does not correspond to the reality of the current unemployment situation how does it affect the economy, it is difficult for the economy, of course, the official data that we have, they are calculated .

shares during the war from what the business says, it is really a problem that unemployment is more. and many people left the country and it is possible, and that is why this share of unemployment decreases here during the war, in principle, unemployment how should it increase, why is it falling because fewer people are registered as officially unemployed, well, there are different ones for different reasons. but there really is a problem and that's why i want to see more initiatives from the government that strengthen and speed up the development of business. this does not mean lowering taxes right here and there. now to zero, this means simplifying some regulations, acts, simplifying documentation , simplifying access to funds in order for the business to pay taxes itself, the business itself to work well, it simply does not need to be hindered by a bunch of papers and other regulatory acts.

for example, what the national bank is doing now, it simplifies certain regulations for so that especially in the liberated territories, banks could lend faster and could make decisions on granting money faster. made it easier to work. well, in general, we can still say that some kind of deregulation continues even during the war, or vice versa, some other processes are taking place now . i would say that the movement is rather in the direction of deregulation, especially in the direction of simplifying transactions, that is, simplifying calculations, simplifying access to money, but in

some moments, for example, from the same customs really creates problems in business with interaction with customs clearance and over time how it is done, therefore, the general direction is, of course, correct for us, where is the regulatory one. but it seems to me that in certain areas there should be more deregulation, to give clear instructions , to give clear guidelines in terms of time. what, for example , is this document that such customs clearance must take place within i don't know there 2-3 actions if it did not happen, it is considered that this product is automatically an action it took place regardless of what is written in the documents well customs remains co-corruption, a genetic factor in this country, in your opinion, during the war, customs in our country has always been perceived as something very corrupt. in fact , again, it depends on how that specific point works.