i congratulate you on the new year to each other. in the first week of the war, there was a general idea that the economy of ukraine was collapsing catastrophically. but fortunately, this did not happen, due to which it was possible to maintain the financial and economic system . without work, that is, the economy definitely suffered a lot because of the war and it could not be otherwise when we have the largest one since the second world war that has survived the financial system in there is no collapse of the banks in our country, the hryvnia exchange rate has more or less held its own, it has risen, but not many times our budget has not defaulted. this is what they say, that is, we managed to avoid a financial crisis, and this happened thanks , firstly, to the fact that from the 14th year, we systematically carried out reforms that strengthened our financial stability, and here are all the programs of the imf, the increase in gas tariffs, privatization, all those things that we

did that were very painful, there were stormy discussions that caused the end, in the end, they allowed us to sufficiently strengthen the financial system and accumulate large enough reserves of gold currency so that we could maintain financial stability in this situation that russia attacked, so it is good that we made these efforts. thank god that then we went through all this and were able to prepare, we can conclude that not only the armed forces was the security sector preparing for a possible invasion? yes, well, it already happened in reality, and the economic sector, so everyone was preparing in essence. the armed forces are leading everything, our country, all our people, that is why the people were ready, including the economic bloc and the economic system, at least the financial system managed to hold its own. well, should we hope for

signs of economic recovery in the 23rd year and what might they consist of yes, because uh stress we passed, we endured and now we need to recover well, as well as recover, we need to win and achieve peace because it is clear that the economy will not fully recover and grow and develop normally until we have peace we need victory and peace well, thank god that we are already on our way to this, this is our price for the 23rd year, we have to understand this clearly and the sooner we achieve it, the sooner economic recovery will begin until then, only stabilization is realistically possible, that is, to keep steadily at it yes as we can now, but it won't be easy either. and we also have to understand this. the key to victory and peace is the way out. peace is the point at which economic recovery will begin . taking into account

international borrowing, and the question is the timeliness of the receipt of funds. well, you know the budget deficit is 20% of gdp, an unprecedented amount of $40 billion, it seems a little less than $40 billion. we need to attract more. i think that, in general, yes, at the level at which it is important for ordinary people, for you and me. the ministry of finance has its own work, its own problems and its own headache. to hold back some expenses for that and then pay more, but in fact it is their work, they have coped with it. this year, i think that the next one will cope as well from the point of view of such a global situation. i don't see any risks, well, the help is already coming, rhythmic enough, clearly enough so that you can not worry for her, tell me, do you personally have confidence that these funds will be enough

, because they were not even calculated at the end of the 22nd year, our needs for this year are on the 23rd, and probably the calculation was, well, conditionally so in quotation marks in regular mode, i.e. that the situation will be approximately the same as it was at the end of the 22nd year. well, you know. i think that uh, it will rather be enough, that is, the basic basic as mr. - this is a normal plan and every budget is actually only his plan always it is necessary to adapt to the real situation, which can change, of course, it does not predict, well, no one can tell you exactly, but as a plan, as a basis for working in the 23rd year, it is normal, it is quite the budget, if you have to make adjustments to it, it means to it corrections will be made. well, there is no other way, but in general, yes in the sum. i think it is

normal, and probably at the beginning of our conversation you mentioned that today every third ukrainian is without a job, without the main source of funding, etc. please tell me how much the real standard of living of ukrainians has decreased and is it possible and how to prevent this by tens of percent, again the exit to in the restoration of the economy that is, if it is not a peaceful armistice yes if when the armistice begins when we go where we want to go we will drive the russians away there and the artillery will stop firing, in principle, the restoration of normal economic life will begin when there will be more or less peace, something will be signed, reconstruction will begin and we will hope for the flow of serious investments in the country and it will be possible to seriously build life, in fact, at least there is such a possibility. we have a chance for this yes, but until then, one must be realistic during

the war, it will be difficult, but we understand that if we are talking about the employment of the population , then the return of citizens to the country to their workplaces is also an important factor to his home, and it is clear that this also rests on the victory of peace, and if this does not happen, then in what way is the labor resource that is available in the country now, what can it produce or can it produce more than we saw in six months, let's say 2022, we know how many people in fact, somewhere around seven million will return, maybe even more, these statistics are not even accurate, how many are actually abroad now? well, it is clear that when there is an armistice, peace, they will return, how many will return, and what are the terms of all this? we don't know, that's why i wasn't currently

forecasting labor resources there, it's simple, we understand that the situation is so not normal for the economy, the economy is in a state of war as long as there is a war, it will be in a state of war, the economy is not developing, well, let's say it will, it just supports our capacity to launch a war, the key to restoring the economy is to achieve victory and peace, you started, mr. pavlo. thank you, pavlo kukhta , acting minister of economy in in 2020, a member of the board of the humanitarian hub, i

was not the only one who joined our conversation. to live again thanks to the ukrainians to live in peace and evil thanks to you this is a story about he became nerves steel will and character hardened in the sacred fire is what

remains alive in my soul that the free history of my earth was born, where the new destiny of an indomitable country is being forged, metal in my hands and in the bodies of my enemies in the voice that promises us victory , together we make this world stronger ukrainians , a nation of steel people for the holidays, one wish , victory during the long shutdown of electricity, prepare products that can be stored for a long time without a refrigerator. keep products from the refrigerator on the balcony, this is an opportunity. make

sufficient reserves of hot water in thermoses for preparing fast food. prepare now let's defeat the darkness together oleksandr marikovsky, a member of the verkhovna rada's committee on economic development, joins our broadcast, oleksandr, congratulations, i congratulate you. so, if we talk about the 23rd year, what do you personally expect in terms of economic development ? objective reasons of martial law and russian aggression do not allow us to develop as we would like or at least to support those trends of the 21st year that were, but on the other hand we see that the state and the economy and the financial sector has to some extent adapted to the conditions in which we are forced to be, well,

personally, of course, i see prospects for the recovery of the economy in the 23rd year, they will not gain momentum at a fast pace. gdp growth from the 22nd year takes into account the scenario that by the summer of the 23rd year the war will be ended with our victory and then the economy will recover more or less after the victory. for now, what can be said is that on december 12, the cabinet of ministers signed paris signed an agreement with the world bank on cooperation on the recovery program, and this is a very good positive signal for all of us, because we will be able to focus on the money

of the world bank. of our economy, including, for example, this is logistics, this is lending according to the programs of the government programs that we have, for example, as well as the work, as well as the development of logistics skills that we have, let's say economic the process is slowed down due to the fact that there are empty trucks at our borders, the railway branch is not so efficient there, for example , our river and sea port infrastructure is not too efficient, so we will work on these directions in the 23rd year and they will allow us to use our e renewable resources are one thing that i allow you to say that

such forecasts for gdp growth are on the condition that there will be a ukrainian victory in the summer, and you will be able to talk to a lot of experts who may have made this forecast, or those who voiced what is meant by the word ukrainian victory, it is extremely important because everyone puts their own ideas into it well, we can focus on the expertise of our intelligence, in particular, the head of the wing bohdanov, and victory is meant to reach the borders on the territory of the sovereign independence of the state of the e-e model in the 91st year, oleksandr, now president volodymyr zelenskyi in his addresses often focuses on the investments involved in our country, how realistic is this? partners to invest now in the country of ukraine, where the war is going on, well, the investment

first goes as planning investment activities and then the attraction itself, and we now have a great opportunity to effectively plan how these investments will structure the funds . for example, the government is already doing this with a large financial corporation as a financial fund . excuse me, black-rock is the structuring of the funds, as they say, there is such a financing of investments according to the marshall plan that they predict will flow into those sectors of the economy that can be launched very quickly this is how the marshall plans worked after the second world war and we have every opportunity to launch them, but it requires effective planning and now the government has a number of programs for

this creation of this formation to involve already in the negotiation processes with investors, for example, there are advents or the ukraine ministry of economy, a system that takes into account many ukrainian investment projects that the government can lobby for, let's say yes , and western investors. we need international foreign currency investments because we we understand that this is an opportunity for us to create certain conditions for growth at the expense of foreign capital, as well as to create prerequisites for the export of products that such companies will sell, and export money is the most interesting for states, you know that a positive export and trade economic balance - this is a direct stimulus for the great growth of our economy, it is working now. by the way, by the

way. if we talk about the marshal's plan for ukraine, in recent months, there have not been particularly many news and statements from more was discussed about this, the budget official, budget support for ukraine. can we say that already after the new year and christmas holidays, the discussion is actively continuing, or is it possible that it is actually continuing here? tell me more about the marshal's plan for ukraine in and its implementation. maybe in the 23rd year. well, everyone understands that it is the financing of various structural financing, it has the first goal - the restoration of logistical infrastructure facilities to ensure rapid economic growth, this means that we have all the prerequisites, such as c- insurance to ensure against war risks e and investment programs must be

guaranteed by our state directly, therefore there must be memorandums signed agreements between the states in order for it to function, but now there is such a big preparatory stage because e-e investments like peace they like pragmatism, so that you can count on the fact that you will definitely return this investment in the form of profit and then the return of the capital, so, most likely, this is a preparatory process that is going on right now and one of the directions volodymyr zelenskyi in his address to the parliament spoke about the african republics with which we start an active negotiating position, we send 100 words there to countries where they were not even there, and this applies not only to african ones . and i personally am a member of the parliament of the black sea economic cooperation and these are the countries that have been influenced very much by russia, a little bit, let's say, the

influence of russia on these regions is already smaller, and we are ready to talk with them about cooperation, investments and exports, of course. this is all going on. now the process continues. they started, you, me, oleksandr, we continue to work, we win. oleksandr marikovsky, a member of the verkhovna rada of economic development, a comedian. he was with us in the marathon. the only news is strengthening the borders of ukraine with drones. join the meeting of the border guards. in the temporarily occupied sevastopol this is reported by the online edition of crimea realia, according to their data, in the central part of the city, from the beginning, what sounded like the sound of a rocket was heard, and then there was an explosion that reminded of the activation of the anti-aircraft system in the houses around, the panes in the windows shook from the explosion, the

enemy completely destroyed bakhmut, the city is unfit for life, and the crimean regions are not subject to restoration. according to him, the military situation in the city is not catastrophic, they are suffering huge losses there, well, you must have seen many videos of all the fields of corpses on the internet there, when a corpse is put on top of a corpse like a bag of sand in front of them, this is the real truth, they constantly call for new people, they do not throw these waves in waves, the waves go obliquely, and another, and another , and so on. the only news was told by ombudsman dmytro lubinets, he says he hopes for a new exchange in the near future, ukraine will not abandon its goal of returning all

prisoners home, always difficult negotiations with the russian federation eh and eh separate attention defender of mariupol, whom we try to return in every exchange, the only thing i can say is that we had negotiations today and we really hope that this week too, we will also have good news. an agent who worked for russia received a man from the estuary of the donetsk region have been following him since the spring, in may , they recorded how he was transmitting information about the location and movement of units of the armed forces of ukraine in the territory of the lyman community, with the intensification of hostilities, the man moved to the lviv region, but cooperation with by the enemies, as the investigators assure, he did not stop

settling near one of the energy facilities and continued to collect information for the enemy's special services. during the detention, a mobile phone containing correspondence with the invaders was seized from the suspect. now the man is openly and without the right to bail. western countries must provide long-term support to ukraine, because russia does not is going to stop its aggression, said the secretary general of nato, and genstotenberg, according to him, the measure should provide ukraine with a strong position in the event of negotiations between the two sides ukrainian forces have had momentum for several months but we also know that russia has mobilized much more forces many of them are now training all this indicates that they are ready to continue the war and also try to potentially launch a new offensive fortify the borders of ukraine with drones join the gathering of border guards meet the world with a smile

frown sweet to engrave one's uniqueness to understand the words of the teachers to forget to erase yesterday to find among the ruins tomorrow to laugh again to sing again in the evening to live again ukrainians in peace and evil thanks thank you this is a story about a

steel will and character hardened in a sacred fire this is my story that remains alive about a soul that was born a free story stronger ukrainians a nation of steel people continues our night watch to celebrate or not during the war there was a lot of discussion about this in society the day before during the new year and christmas holidays, our colleague and deputy head of the president's office kyryll tymoshenko asked about this during an exclusive interview, and he believes that during such a difficult holiday period for ukraine important first of all for children, but the format of the celebrations should be somewhat different than before, this

holiday is the most important for our children and our most important task is to allow the occupying russians to steal from our children - this holiday is very important, and according to my accurate information, the armed forces of ukraine and civilians also think so the most important thing is to give children the happiness of the new year and these holidays, of course no one wants fireworks and so on, of course the issue of installing large christmas trees in cities, we talked about it with the heads of cities, we reached an agreement in the format that small christmas trees on generators, of course, because it is not very well with electricity now, but they must be installed if the community is not allowed to let the russians steal from our children, not christmas, not st. nicholas day, not new year, in chernivtsi , running lovers met the new year with a festive run, overcoming a symbolic distance with faith

, a victory in in memory of all the dead ukrainian soldiers, in particular, the race was dedicated to chernivtsi andriy borshchak, who saved four brothers from the battlefield, and ivan syretskyi himself died, tell more about starting the new year, several dozen decided to do well instead of festive tables, the citizens of chernivtsi chose a traditional new year's run, which this year was 2023. the event was dedicated to the valiant ukrainian military, and it was also conceived purely as a fan run to shake everything we ate on the 31st. now it has reformatted its meaning a little. today we run in honor of all the fallen -th in the russian-ukrainian war and especially in honor of our friend andrii burchak, this is a race without prize places and fixation of the result, the main thing is great company and a good mood , many participants came in the new year

costumes or with festive paraphernalia unfortunately , as the war in russia, that is, santa claus, does not exist in our country, that is why santa claus and papa do not like alcohol before dinner, i make money, that is why i started celebrating with like-minded people every year for three or four years where are some of our friends who are currently in the armed forces, so they can join us today, but we are running behind them to the finish line, runners who completed the distance faster encouraged those who were a little behind. and in general, people who completed the 2-kilometer course distance, they say that they are charged with positive energy for the whole new year, well, it's hard, it's hard after the celebration, salads and cakes make themselves known, but we try to somehow keep ourselves in shape and thanks to the company, something comes out a little bit, you can start with the positive. that's how to finish it, that's why children and grandchildren are running, we involve everyone in

of an active lifestyle, the main thing that the runners emphasize is thanks to the armed forces of ukraine, without whom this race simply would not have taken place, russia is planning a long-term attack by drones to exhaust air defense and energy of ukraine. president volodymyr zelenskyi said this in his evening address to ukrainians. he thanked the units that protected the sky from russian attacks and are currently on combat posts . i wish you good health, dear ukrainians . only two days have passed since the beginning of the year. the number of downed iranian drones over ukraine has already increased. 8 and in the near future, this number may increase, because the nights can be quite restless, we have information that russia is planning a long-term attack. our people, our ppu, our energy industry, but we

have to do it and we will do it, we promise, the terrorists' goal failed like all the others. i want to celebrate today the successful defense of the sky these days by the air command center south and east, and especially the fighters of the 96th kyiv 208 kherson 138th of the dnipro anti-aircraft missile brigade of the 31st nikopol anti-aircraft missile regiment of the air force, as well as 39 soldiers from the copper missile regiment, dry wax, i thank you, of course, by the spawn of the pilot , we are exterminating and promised mobile fire groups now, at a time when everyone involved in the protection of the sky needs to be especially attentive , the russian regime needs mobilization emotions, something that they want to demonstrate to their country in order to lie further, as if everything with them is going according to plan, our task is to give

ukraine successes and achievements every day. let the victories not fly away over a terrorist to his friend every downed drone every downed missile every day with electricity for our people minimal graphics will turn off these are just such victories every step of our military at the front is forward every saved position is such a success that they have. now we have to increase the strategic importance for the terrorist state as much as possible. well, the new mobilization is like in each of our soldiers who provides it. thank you to everyone who stands under the bahmut . thank you for the luhansk region for the south, if it wasn't difficult, now you have to endure everything so that at the end of this winter it will be easier. i spoke today with the president of the european commission , usulu gonderlyan.

the conversation in the new year took place precisely with the head of the european commission, we equally understand the challenges of this winter for ukraine and the whole of europe, we discussed financial support for our state already in january, we expect the first tranche of macro-finance as agreed last year, this is extremely important right now when russia is trying to gather new forces for aggression , they also talked about preparations specifically for ukraine. the eu, which is to be held at the beginning of february, believes that already at this summit we will be able to outline the key new steps for this year for our community