because every day you give us the most valuable gifts of life and freedom, and we have one new year's wish: victory, our soldiers. thank you. we congratulate you. when the enemy can not achieve results on the battlefield, he resorts to cynical attacks on civilians. the russian invaders want to exhaust us , break us and destroy us. to unite for them is the last chance but they did not consider one in these dark times we are united as never before we are free and strong we are ready and even in the dark we see how our victory is approaching we will overcome the

darkness together on holidays one wish victory the story about the defenders of ukraine, the ukrainian national film is based on real events , we have two options to surrender the ships or to go over to their side, the salary is four times more work, cherkasy took the same oath to such a country, i will make the film cherkasy today in marathon, the only news at 21:00 p.m. it's the first hour,

the first minute, but i'm nikita mykhailov, we're working for you, this is a marathon, the only news is now we're going to talk about another drone attack on our country, the aggressor country directed the most strike drones kyiv and the shahe region were targeted at critical infrastructure facilities, the kyiv regional military administration reports that a total of 20 aerial targets were shot down in the sky above the capital, and pieces of the downed drone fell on the roadway in the desnyan district of the capital. in the house nearby, the windows are damaged in place, all are working emergency services photos that you see now on your screens were published in a telegram by the deputy head of the president's office kyrylo tymoshenko and wrote that a 19-year-old young man was injured who stepped on a shard of glass and cut him in the foot. russia launched several waves of drones. the air alert was announced first in the south, later it moved and in the central region there is an air defense force and drones were shot down in the poltava region. the head of

the region also reported this. in addition to drones, nine enemy attack drones were destroyed in the zaporizhzhia region. russia also launched a guided high-precision missile. it was shot down on the way to the dnipro and is now in direct contact with us. nataliya humenyuk, manager of the press center of the security and defense forces of the operational command south ms. natalya good night to you thank you for being with us our congratulations glory to ukraine glory to the heroes ms. nataliya so there were several waves of so-and-so shaheds, in particular to the south of ukraine, they also flew, do you already know where russia sent from shahedis, this time the information is currently being clarified because the enemy is trying to change their tactics.

put a lot of hope on the actions of their hopes , and they really send the migrants along different routes, while continuing to use the south as a transit region , which gives reason to believe that they really continue to send them somewhere in the krasnodar territory, probably from the shores of the sea of ​​azov, but this information is preliminary. we warned that they would use combined attacks, in particular, together with drones, you will also launch cruise missiles in several waves, which is why we emphasize again and again that it is impossible to talk about the results anti-aircraft works, they are during the combat work of mrs. natalya, is it already known about the damage and the consequences of the damage caused by the victims of this latest attack by the shaheds in our area of ​​​​responsibility, there are no such results at the moment, we are clarifying the results of the

shootdown, but so far there is no information about the hit except for sparing ammunition and enemy rocket fire in the south, along the front line, the artillery is also striking. what damage has been done to the artillery and such strikes in the last day, so they continue to shell the right the coast is their main tactic, but they also continue shelling, in particular, mortar shelling, e.e., the left bank, advancing from the populated areas. in this way, they are trying to force the local population of the left bank to the so-called rescue evacuation, as they call it, in fact, this is the same deportation that they tried to carry out when they felt that they didn't have much time left on the right bank. they are trying to terrorize the local population of the left bank, including with increased

police measures, this is prolonged curfews around the yard , checks of documents and detection of pro- ukrainian-minded people precisely because deeper and deeper on the left bank they have no peace, they feel tension all the way in the direction of melitopol, berdyansk, and that is why we need to look for people who help the armed forces, the defense forces, in particular representatives movement against in relation to zaporizhzhia, yes, zaporizhzhia oblast, what do you know about the presence of heavy weapons in energodar, on the territory of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, was it allocated, and they said that last year yes, a couple of weeks ago, if i’m not mistaken, the russian side and the magathe separately talked about what will be withdrawn, whether it was withdrawn or not withdrawn, or whether part of it was withdrawn, part of it was left in accordance with the summary of the general staff, we do not record such critical withdrawals that would testify to

gestures of goodwill at least we know that the shelling of nikopol region in particular continues. that is, it also tells us about the basic calculation of the mathematical distance that the weapons remain in the same place where they are hitting nikopol region ms. natalya the day before, you talked about the fact that the number of enemy russian ships in the black sea had decreased, and for the first time on the last day of the old year, they launched missiles from the caspian sea. and what suddenly changed in their plans, and now we really record a decrease in the number of ships in the black sea and the absence of launch vehicles on combat duty, they were recorded there for the last time on the 29th, it seems that when they released all the equipped 20 missiles that they had at that time, but then when massive

missile attacks took place already from the black sea, pieces of missiles now experts are still studying this situation , and in particular with the presence of hummingbird lamps, therefore it is quite likely that the practice of launching from the caspian sea and since every time the effectiveness of our work on the left bank complicates logistics so that the enemy replenishes supplies even in the temporarily occupied crimea , tokmak and melitopol, let's go here let's concentrate, the enemy is engaged in overturning there because he is accumulating forces. are these transit e-e settlements through which both manpower and equipment simply pass in different directions? maybe on donetska we also saw the formation of the general staff that they are trying to maneuver because they are not sure where there will be a safe place for them even at a long distance where hypothetically

our artillery could not reach, but given the fact that they are not restless even behind the parapet and there is corresponding nervousness at the military bases there, they feel danger and in our territory temporarily occupied by them, that is why they are constantly maneuvering, they are looking for places where they could at least spend the night, may it continue to be so ms. natalya thank you traditionally for joining nataliya gumenyuk, head of the press center of the security and defense forces of the joint command south, in particular , they talked about the situation in the southern direction and about the latter, as well as martyrs from the russian federation, in order to beat the enemy, the economy must be strong. so what is the situation in the ukrainian economy, or is there an optimistic forecast for this year 2023? here is our colleague oleg panyuta. we can look at the communication now, mr.

i congratulate you. thank you for the opportunity to ask a few questions. traditionally , at the end of the year, we sum up the year that is passing by. this year is unusual. it is extremely difficult. it is destructive . for you it turned out as for a government official as for a person i agree with each of your words, i would also add that this is a year of certainty, this is a year when it is clear what good and evil are, this is simply a year of colossal tension and endurance, endurance, no - not only one person, all the nations of all ukrainians ago, and it has not ended. i would say that this

year is the second, the 23rd year is smoothly passing because we do not have a dimension of time, it is simply endless, and the end of this dimension will be victory in the war, but if you remember the first days of the 22nd year, it was already completely different in perception and planning, and we forgot about what this year was like at the beginning of the year, will we remember it again? as it was in the first months before the war because the situation has completely changed now, i will say that it will no longer be like it was before the war, there will be other priorities, there will be other approaches, and the war has changed a lot, it has also changed the priorities and directions of budgeting and the directions

of policy . -th focus on supporting the army, supporting the military campaign, supporting vulnerable citizens after the war will be the focus of recovery. that is, it will already be a different reality and a different country, the war eats up a huge amount of money, money is what makes it possible to plan the life of the country as it is possible to plan the life of the country now. when we understand that the catastrophe is enough for us to cope with the aggressor on our own, is it difficult? it is really not easy, but there are people who are ready to prepare such decisions, prepare forecast expectations, indicators, prepare a budget. we have a budget for 2023, which provides conducting a full-fledged military

campaign, full-fledged financing of the army, yes , it also provides for external support from our partners, but the price of this support for the budgets of these countries, where the savings of these countries, is not compared to the price of kuma, we bear both the cost of a potential conflict for these countries , therefore, in fact, ukraine now is minimal, i consider the price for the civilized world to protect them from, uh, their inclusion in the war, it is easier for them to support us than to maintain their own armies or finance uh, military companies, you mentioned this, and in principle, it seems to me that the western world understands that their price is

much lower. of their countries, we pay with our own blood with the blood of our defenders, ukrainian defenders, but if you look at it in this context, this does not mean that minister marchenko picks up the phone and says, my dear colleague from the minister of finance of france or germany, please let me sit there millions of which i don't have enough to close the budget month of course it's not like that usually such communications don't happen in this format and hmm finance ministers are quite restrained in terms of the use of funds, that is, they are trying to save, it's normal and they don't they even give funds very willingly, firstly, because

the war started when the budgets of the countries were already adopted, no one planned to finance the war, secondly, there are no and there are no mechanisms under which countries can so easily dispose of these funds and provide them in ukraine, so all this is necessary was to speak, but first a political decision had to be made, and here, of course , the president and the prime minister played an extremely high role, who raised the level of the political discussion and showed that no help is needed and that's it. the ministry of finance daily sometimes had 10-20 calls at the annual meetings of the world bank at the imf. up to a hundred meetings could be held. the goal is to show the society in these countries in the minister of finance that we can be trusted, we are transparent, we are open, every dollar

of funds received, we are ready to report for that they trusted us again, supported us again, it is of course important trust in this context played a very big role, but this trust it was this trust ah was a creation thanks to which when you felt that you they also began to trust the relations between ukraine and the western world. i mean, in support of this war, they have changed, because as it was in the military direction, and you remember kiev, no one believed that we would be able to resist moscow's aggression in the same way, and in financial support, obviously, this moment did not come immediately of course , we are quite pragmatic, and if the promises are not translated into funds in the accounts, such promises cost us dearly. at the beginning of the war

, many promises were made, which later or took a very long time to become reality, and for for us, it was the price, including inflation, including devaluation, or in general, because these issues are postponed, downplayed, and so on, so this is, let's say, a complex decision and it does not happen all at once. i think that we felt that we had support as soon as we received the first funds grant from the government of the united states, then we understood that this is serious, it is systemic and we are ready to support us for a certain period of time while we are at war, money into the economy of the country should also come from the economy of our state, which was supposed to work, unfortunately, the war destroyed and many fates and many branches of the economy, if

we mention, for example, civil aviation, it actually does not exist now in ukraine in the form in which it was before the war, and the question is whether it will be revived and will function in this form, as a government official, do you see the danger for which branches after the end wars can have problems with recovery or with er existence, i looked more broadly at this issue. for a long period of time, the economy of ukraine was mostly in such er regressive development when we er developed as much as possible at the expense of those resources that we received in our bowels or through our land is an agrarian bloc or it was

formed by the economy of the former soviet union. that is, we gradually exhausted this resource and now i did not ask the question what have we objectively lost something? yes, we have lost the opportunities of the oligarchs. industries also lost certain and certain objects and factories, but the main thing is not that, the main thing is that we have and can er preserve human potential and this human potential will give us a post for further recovery, what will be the economy of ukraine i would i would like the economy of ukraine after the war to be er highly er productive with products manufactured with a high positive value of the intellectual economy and this will of course require internal and external investments, which of course we er

actualize these issues before our partners because any what kind of post-war recovery involves the development of business and private business, that is why i would not speak so categorically about what we lost, we lost a lot, and i thank the business that, despite everything, works in these in conditions without light, without water, without communication, e.e., relaxing production, i will stratify it with human beings, and so on. it works, business works, business pays taxes, and this is extremely important , because only through taxes and through internal borrowing can we finance our armies. there are no partner funds, unfortunately, they cannot be used to finance the military campaign, should ukraine already think about the special conditions for the existence of business, about the special relations between business and

the state, in order to recover very quickly or are such conditions necessary or is it worth talking about it now is not a simple question considering that in this context it can be about tax policy about customs policy i think that we can really improve tax administration there is work to be done there are abuses certain manifestations of corruption, but i was more inclined to look at those business problems that are more relevant, because in the ranking of problematic issues for business , paying taxes takes 7-8th place, this is not the main issue that only holds back investments

now, and even before the war, there are even more difficult issues in terms of property rights protection, judicial reform, and so on , which are preventing businesses from making investments. have chosen the path of membership of the european union allows us to quickly change the rules of the game that were an obstacle to the development of business and demands, because the european community is demanding of those orders that it offers and which it has undertaken and we are taking on obligations to join the european community, they also undertook to meet these and these

requirements. do you think it will be difficult for us to adapt to the european traditions of european rules, despite the fact that we are changing very quickly, and this has been shown by ukrainians who are extremely adaptable if we see the way and opportunities we are ready to accept the rules of the game to follow them i see no absolute problems in this i see no problems to accept the rules of the game that currently exist in the countries of the european union are, let's say, civilizational, this is ukraine's civilizational choice, we have already made it, and now it's only a matter of speed and time, how we can adapt these rules, but you know when you are not ashamed to say i'm stealing money from the state without paying taxes for a european - this is a cross on your career on

your on your moral qualities for many ukrainians or for some ukrainians it is an absolutely normal state of existence in this country when you can afford not to pay money in the form of taxes and the fact that you will not get anything for it and live with it and to feel that this may be normal, but in fact the feeling of society must change . so you steal from yourself from your relatives and friends. how can this be changed? are ukrainians ready for this? again, i will use the experience of this year no matter what, despite the problems that exist. business and business pays taxes and it is obvious that there are great difficulties, but business prefers to take advantage of the opportunity to keep itself on the map of ukraine rather than relict somewhere in a more civilized

world because ukraine is a country of opportunities about what you say and how much can be changed the psychology of paying taxes again, this year showed that without taxes for one's own army, one can lose the country. that is, this is a simple answer to the question why pay taxes, taxes are paid in order to have , first of all, a strong army, strong institutions that can defend this country, and this was not before it was obvious before. this was a question. and what do i get in exchange for? and i don't get these services . i'm not satisfied either with medicine, with education, or with culture. now, i think everyone has understood that by paying taxes, you get protection paying taxes, the next question will be if these

funds will be increased and the quality of medical education will be increased, and so on. that is, it already seems to me that i want to believe that i want to believe that we have gone through some kind of certain evil, a certain social evil of social consciousness that yesterday earlier it was a no-man's land, a country that was miraculously created upon the collapse of the soviet union, now it is a country for which every ukrainian is ready, well, at least who will die and who will shed blood and who will work so that the economy works, that is, it also changes everything, that is, now it is property. if before no one even thought about some of the population points that we are now liberating and who has never been to them and did not think that it is interesting

, now for every meter of this land we are all ready to shed some blood fight to the end and, accordingly, pay taxes, it goes in this series, if people are ready to defend their country and fight to the end, then they will be ready to pay taxes , ask how these taxes are used, they are ready to pay them transparently so that later they understand what they are getting the state for which they fought. i think so because we are going through a difficult stage, a painful stage, but it is inevitable. we probably had to go through it. they say quite rightly that this war turned the ukrainian army into the best army in the world. do you have the same feeling that people from with which you have to work and implement the budget and monitor the implementation of the budget, they have really acquired

unique qualities and their experience can also help other countries after it is called if we talk about the military if we talk about your colleagues about the financiers, well, the financiers showed themselves from the best side because it is very difficult to carry out this physical work and not. there will be many questions. and you could have done even better. and we made some improvements , so those who work with the ministry of finance have made a unique path in their own development. we are now a more

international ministry of a more international ministry, as well as others the ministry of finance in the previous period and we were more inclusive. we were focused on ourselves, we were looking for opportunities inside the country. now we are looking for opportunities to be reliable partners for our colleagues outside, and in this capacity, we and many of my colleagues have shown ourselves from the best side, you and i. we are writing the interview quite late and this is the specifics of your work as a minister and the war is also hypertrophy, how does the family perceive your stay at work ? that my family was with me at the beginning of the war,

then i was forced to return to my place of work, i actually lived here until november, and i will say that the family perceives this experience also as an opportunity, because if previously they valued in nothing what we could spend together, now we we appreciate the hours and minutes that we can spend together and it is very valuable, it is very valuable, that is why the family perceives it normally, the family is with me in kyiv.