than last year, it will be enough for own consumption and reserves, the government noted that the ministry of agrarian policy and food reported at the beginning of june that it was possible to sow 75% of last year's area, this is a record figure if we take into account the active hostilities in the spring, it will bring profit to the budget and agricultural producers, and the export of grain despite a smaller harvest than ukraine harvested last year , farmers will have something to sell on the world market despite the opposition of the kremlin, the grain agreement was extended, queues were extended and atms were emptied in the first days of a full-scale war in the past despite the difficulties faced by the banks , on february 24, the financial sector did not stop. even for a day, specialists ensured payments and access of clients to their money, and branches of financial institutions in cities and districts liberated from the enemy are resuming work, provided that the lives and health of clients and employees are not threatened now all processes are supported, all

data are protected and saved, the national bank notes that at the most critical moment of the war, the nbu fixed the official exchange rate of the hryvnia against the dollar in lviv, restrictions on implementation settlement transactions in foreign currency in order to restrain exchange rates, increased the discount rate , thus curbing the growth of prices for goods and services, according to forecasts, annual inflation will be no more than 30%. banks now offer ukrainians to place short-term deposits in hryvnias at 10-18% per annum, and long-term deposits for more than 1 year at 8:14%. experts note that this is currently a reliable option for saving and multiplying savings, the banking system continues to work both with business and with the state, in particular, it accredits entrepreneurs for the program 5 7 9 and also participates in the program of mortgage loans at 3%, annual panic, the queue at the gas station will become more than 15 liters in one tank after the russians destroyed a number of

oil depots and an oil refinery in kremenchuk ukraine was hit by a crazy shortage of fuel prices rose every hour for some time fuel almost disappeared from gas stations in order to avoid a collapse in the petroleum market, the authorities decided to take control of the process, in particular, they introduced state regulation of prices, they also abolished value added tax and excise tax, and after a while the situation was stabilized, ukraine switched to european gasoline and diesel, the army was refueled in sufficient quantities, even though the old reserves got wet, they sowed and harvested with the support of international companies, the demand was met, the suppliers saturated the market and created strategic reserves, so in the future, the state regulation of the oil products market needs there was no shortage of them, but prices remained high, and as long as the war of cheap fuel continues, it is not worth expecting. well, a lot has changed, the rules have changed

in the economy oleksandr, how did you live this year at the expense of what vasyl eh i remember the pre-war time, so to speak, when there was a flurry of criticism that the ukrainian economy was falling and growing slowly we have a very expensive dollar and we now understand how well we lived in in economic terms, in the well-being of our economy, and we see how the enemy is destroying what ukraine built , revived, restored, hmm, increased capacity, let's talk. i can only be proud of ukrainian business, i can be proud in general ukrainians, who are also part of our general economy. because the first days showed that the banking system will survive, the first days showed that we are really ready to take those liters of gasoline that were given for a little at the gas station, so

endure hours and hours of queues and still, uh, we will say this well, to keep the power in general and unite to share the gasoline that is, in fact, today it was already said in this studio that the united states gave three days if we talk about the military part, and in fact it was also given to the ukrainian economy in the first weeks, the forecasts of e-e foreign analysts, in particular those published in the bloomberg publication, gave a 50% drop in the gross domestic product, a 50% increase in consumer prices, the so -called inflation, the ukrainian economy, according to the results and according to the data of the world bank , after all, for the past year, what is passing falls at least somewhere 30 -30 percent by the tail this is an excellent indicator if we take into account the economic problems faced by ukraine

, inflation will reach the mark of 30% according to the data of the national bank. it was not the 50s that international experts and i predicted i consider this a victory, particularly an economic one. well, it is clear that we could not achieve such victories. my colleague yuriy fizar spoke about international support, particularly from the european union. we could not have achieved such economic victories without international macro-financial assistance. there are really different opinions from different countries. someone wants to finance the revival of the ukrainian economy. budget payments to ukrainians, doctors, teachers , someone with the european union in mind. the heads of governments of various countries, but the important figure with which the year 2022 will essentially end in the economy ukraine attracted $25 billion of external financing to the state

budget thanks to these funds, in fact, social payments are taking place steadily, the development of those industries that need infusions is taking place, and well, they will talk about these loans which for years, ukraine has to pay already after the victory, they say, remember how we often received loans from the imf. i want to add that the lion 's share is money - it's grants, it's grants - it's irrevocable aid, ukraine wo n't owe anything to anyone, it's money from the world community for us to win. indeed, there is loan money, but these are soft loans, these are soft loans for minor questions, we actually have time for one question, i will be the one who wants to ask a question to oleksandr, maybe you have some experience, have you seen how business works, say in

that moment, please, not about business with oleksandr, in your story there was a mention of gasoline, about gasoline prices, especially in the first months, when there was this uncertainty of what will happen . there are gas station shelves that actually managed to fix, and our suppliers today say there is no shortage of fuel, the government says, but in fact, winter is such a seasonal factor that takes its toll, and prices can still rise and fluctuate by several hryvnias, but this is again a demand that is generated by the fact that the enemy has destroyed and continues to destroy the energy infrastructure, in essence, the demand for fuel is, well, a matter of survival, it unfortunately shapes prices, but the fact that the world is ready to supply us with fuel , gasoline, fuel oil, and diesel fuel is a fact and

supply it is happening, so there is no need to panic, the only thing i want to say is that among the victories of ukrainian business and the ukrainian economy, vasyl, the whole issue of the relocation of enterprises managed to save dozens of enterprises that were well organized on time were we able to move to safe regions with the help of the government or on our own, it is the uncle of this business that created jobs, that pays taxes and in particular taxes in advance to finance the ukrainian army with them, we have almost already lived, as they say, until the new year 2023 in our country remains there literally two minutes and i and mine will listen to the president's address, what will he tell us? it 's really important, but i want to say, well, literally a little, but we've really cleaned up mine from russian business or not, isn't it much vasyl , this year this process is happening slowly of course, these lists of companies exist, their property is seized and their assets and money

from the sale of these companies go to the support of the armed forces of ukraine, of course - this is undeniable work, why is it slow ? any business , even if it belongs to the owner of one of the owners there, who lives in russia, is a citizen of russia, er, everything must be done within the legal circle, so that after the victory there are no claims against us. i am sure that the relevant services will clean the entire business from the presence of russia, well, actually we have a minute left, we will listen to the president and supreme commander of the armed forces of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, and i want to say that we will listen today not so sure and he is not the same as a year ago it is important for me that there was such an agreement and understood the normal agreement, at least in the mass media of people-leaders of public opinion who did not say words against the president because

you know how normal life is political in our country social in our country, everyone likes to criticize when their president, the future president, is the prime minister, the goal of the verkhovna rada, but this is also the fact that the society was united, they understand who is who, who, how, who plays the role, who does what job . now we will talk about cultural injuries, cultural achievements and cultural a surge is possible, but ukrainian culture has shown itself to the whole world or has become visible, finally it was noticed, it was seen, ah, ukrainian culture showed itself to the ukrainians themselves, and ukrainian culture in principle is also obvious created a miracle that many probably did not expect from her as a cultural elite as a culture as a phenomenon survived this difficult terrible tragic but also heroic year let's see in the story stable good cinema the times when ukraine submitted to the oscars just to submit have passed finally we already have worthy

films now it's marina ergorbach's klondike, which has been constantly receiving prestigious awards throughout the year, the film is about a husband and wife who live in the front-line zone. despite her pregnancy, irka is not going to leave anywhere. one of the shells destroyed the wall the house, but this is no reason to leave it, it is better to clean everything and continue doing stunts for the winter, meanwhile, an airplane of flight mh17 is falling nearby. they call to suspend ties with russian culture, but at the same time it is necessary

to offer something of their own. the kyiv symphony orchestra, for example, had a big tour of germany they also spoke in france and spain, at the nato summit in munich , ukrainian writers spoke at the literary festival, and now also the military artem cheh and artem chay. as for serhiy zadanato, among the many and his activities, there was also a speech in the european parliament talking about how the war affected ukrainian culture, it is clear that already on february 24, theaters, libraries, bookstores and galleries , art galleries stopped working in kharkiv, that is, kharkiv suddenly became a city of empty theaters, closed bookstores and libraries that have no readers, may christmas the gaze will light up and let the face tell the path to love with joy so that you are cheerful and healthy

well, definitely one of the biggest actions of ukrainian cultural diplomacy was the concert of notes from ukraine, it was held on december 4 in one of the most famous music venues in the world, the carnegie hall in new york, and the presenters invited actress vera farmiga and director martin scorsese, which added a certain amount of media coverage to the event, and the dedicated concert was generous, more precisely, the centenary of its american premiere at the same carnegie, i will not ask anything naked because you are yura said that artem scorsese is also a ukrainian joked no, martin scorsese is not ukrainian, but many hollywood actors and actresses who previously did not even know that they were ukrainians or ukrainians or knew and did not attach any special meaning to it because

there and ukraine, but suddenly after february 24 realized all their ukrainianness and began to help, and to be proud, and often it was even sincerely enough. it seems to me that the most striking example of kunis's ability, who even during the beginning of the war after 2014, said that after all, she was both in and in ukrainian she doesn't really want to speak. she speaks russian and in general she only came to ukraine once after she left there as a child and absolutely nothing impressed her . now we see how my laconist advocates ukraine really sincerely in numerous interviews. she does it very competently and she explains it to the americans why it is necessary to help ukraine and now she has changed her point

of view, that's why you see, this is how cultural works diplomacy, in particular, and by the way, the image of our president. i know that not all of our viewers love him, and in general, there is a long-standing attitude towards volodymyr zelensky, but we must admit that his role as a father is extremely cinematic and she is extremely attractive, as he positions himself, as he positions ukraine and of course he is a very attractive image. and in this story that we saw, it was talking about cultural diplomacy, precisely about tom. what a force that russia has always used very effectively. and we were behind because culture, what is it? it’s something unimportant here. we understood that it’s the other way around. and now i’m talking, did you remember then the times they were the unr and why did we lose like that because we didn’t push on many fronts because

europe was silent and we weren’t persuasive persuasive europe and then simon petliura he decided that the europeans should send a horkoshitz to the americans because diplomacy diplomacy politics politics, but when such a cool choir performs, of course people should care about ukraine if it has such a cool culture and really then it is touring this choir had a great success, but unfortunately, it was not possible to do it brightly enough, on a large enough scale, now it is possible and now we are seeing this century of the performance of the generous man in the penalty goal, eh, it was all very uh, it was very media and very cool, and that's why we are working now about this and i want to tell you about those people who are currently engaged in cultural diplomacy. this is extremely difficult work, which is also not talked about much, because these are people who

are engaged in culture, these are artists, these are people who are cultural managers. they are currently traveling to germany, france, britain, the states and they convince people by listening 100-150 times , er, often stupid questions, stupid lines , they explain er, time after time, why we don't really perceive pushkin now, because they are asked about pushkin, what did pushkin do to you, what did pushkin do, they explain to you that not only that, but also virtues putin is his, but this is not only putin's war, they explain. well, why do we want ken to salt russian culture, but we also can't say the word cancel lety because for the world community it has become rough enough, we need to find something softer, we need to talk about what we it hurts to talk as if we don't feel anything because we need to convince all these artists of the cannes festival and so on

and so on the oscars we remember how at the island ceremony they didn't want to take volodymyr zelensky's speech because they didn't want to politicize this ceremony although it is always was politicized, but his speeches are in many other, er, at many other events , here we talked about shchedryk there, and it would also be volodymyr zelenskyi, but for zelenskyi , and everything seems to be going very well in our country, we can instead of tchaikovsky offer as they say to us now, too, you want us not to play tchaikovsky, then suggest one of your own, and our musicologists and musicians come to us and offer skoryk and, in fact, valentina salvestrov and many of our composers. and there are already some rankings of the tops of our composers that we we can position ourselves as ukrainian and gain some points. and the same

within the country. i think you noticed how many of our musicians and artists changed their colors after february 24. it seems to me that this is enough of a funny story some changed their shoes, repainted, i believe some did it sincerely enough of course not, but all this shows the reaction to social processes , society changes and is different, even the conjuncturers, of course, want to please them and change themselves at least superficially, but it still shows that they want to please the audience, meaning the audience changes. these are extremely important processes. i think they are positive. please, when developing the topic of cultural diplomacy, did you mean representatives of ukrainian culture, er, representatives who speak ukrainian in the language of ukrainian origin and thanks, of course, to them for what they are doing in the world, they are

telling the truth about what is happening in ukraine about the war that russia started on february 24, but what about the other culture of western culture, how is it now reacting to this , is there support from the representatives of western culture, we have it. it is extremely large. although i still think that maybe you mean some works of art, yes, maybe some films are already being filmed there, in general, i wanted to ask, there are documentaries which are filmed here, but still it is important for us to speak for ourselves and not for someone to speak for us although these views are also important to support us a lot and it is important for us because we have the opportunity to look at ourselves from the side because we we see ourselves one at a time, and the people who come there from france see us in a completely different way, and this is also important to understand. and

what we look like, and that's why, of course. well, there is extremely great interest, but what matters is what we are now if we talk about films, for example, and we have it turned out very well this year many films that during the year participated in a-a top film festivals in the world, and accordingly our stories were seen and as if the directors, our film crews told eh , our stories are also in the plot, too. for many foreigners, i believe, there was an absolutely incomprehensible situation, why the main character after arriving in her house, when she has one wall completely trained, why does she start cleaning, and it seems that this situation is absolutely not real this cannot happen, but we can remember how in the summer we complained that during an air

raid, people come out and start mowing the lawns and this lawnmower scares us, or now, when during these air raids, we start to do some general cleaning , etc. so on. that's why it's already a part of some of our uh, well, our consciousness, and in some mythology, which is extremely interesting in the world, because no one has such experience , and of course it's interesting to watch us right now, ah , a question, alexander, i'd like to say well, cultural diplomacy is undoubtedly important, but not a little different aspect, how far our artists and representatives who support ukraine, in particular artists from other countries, manage to attract specific funding, specific grants, or even just help materially with things for our armed forces of ukraine, is there such an exchange financial

support and where this money settles cultural funds. what is happening now, well, in general, our producers and artists have learned not only to look for grants somewhere, but also to seriously cooperate with foreign colleagues, having our part of the money, we will join forces with someone else, the italians, the french , and we will do something of our own. by the way, the italian film ukraine was released at the box office, that is, the ukrainians together with the italians made the film cosa nostra with the vitov company , a wonderful comedy. of course, now a lot of money is allocated to support ukrainian artists from europe and the united states, and of course they use it, but still, many of our people who are engaged in production, they insist

that we should not just take money grants that cannot be returned and we must position ourselves abroad as serious people, as people with whom it is profitable to cooperate, it is profitable to make some kind of joint product on which you can later earn money. they have different connections because they speak different languages. they know how to find some business partners, so they travel not just to talk about ukraine, but to find some partners to do something with them later to produce and earn money, in particular, not only to spend it. damn, thank you, uh, we talked about cultural phenomena, some possibly unexpected things, perhaps expectations, but then, at the moment, culture has grown over this year. i think that our culture has become stronger, it has simply become

different and it feels different in the world, it sounds different in us, but in ukraine, and now we will talk about ordinary ukrainians. by the way, i do not take the word of ordinary people, because i do not know. well, it is not very clear to me, it is just about ukrainians, what kind of people are we, we all do not have higher and lower. it's just that we ukrainians are in this war, they are ukrainians, we all showed extraordinary strength, resilience, and the most important humanity is love, which we already talked about today, and one of thousands of these human stories. i think they will be told someday all but here this story will be told right now about how the community in kyiv region turned a medical center into a real hospital without looking kyiv region - the picturesque village of velikiy karachyn in the makariv district, the russian occupation bypassed this settlement however, the war was very close in the neighboring villages, so the community became a reliable humanitarian

rear, in particular, local residents on the basis of the medical center deployed a real multidisciplinary hospital, there were a lot of patients with shrapnel wounds, also civilians and they were also severe, there were also those with somatic forms that came from the basements, uh, there were a lot of purulent i was impressed by a woman with practically phlegmon of the back, a very severe such injury , mine was administered for almost a month. paramedics and nurses working in the capital have a saying: you want to know a person when you get into trouble with him. and here is trouble, this is an all-ukrainian national trouble

. in order to help the people of this trouble, the local residents already brought here after two hours bandages, non-material and alcohol, even mattresses and bed linen were also here, that is, everything was already ready and in five rooms such small mobiles were created as rooms for receiving victims and medicine local residents themselves brought whatever they could from home, and we started working here in just a few days. the medical center turned into a volunteer hub. volunteers brought mental aid to us, and medical workers distributed it to the surrounding villages. medics came from the surrounding villages. collected help and our employees also went out to help them, worked in extreme rolling from the frame

, carried water as needed, turned on the generator, washed the floor with antiseptics, and even created conditions for receiving patients suspected of in parallel with covid, doctors conducted tactical medicine classes for territorial defense volunteers, went to local homes and received 700 outpatients in one and a half months, if god forbid it happens again, so that other people don’t talk, i will do the same again, i will come here to another place where it will be necessary already last year it was said that great people were raised in kyiv, indeed, kyiv is the capital of great people, and here is the story about great people i remember, i think that well, all of ukraine just so that kyiv is the capital yes of course, mrs. nataliya, i think you know more than one story, but this story we saw and heard is really impressive and someone has your special view on these events to hear and see and how did you see

in a new way, maybe you discovered ukrainians for yourself, well, this story really impressed me, i was so little it is related to him because the doctor in question is a good friend of mine and we have known each other for a very long time and i always knew about her high professionalism and such humaneness and because well, what can i say here, often electricians can be professional, but they are very cold to us they are such a symbiosis and i was simply amazed when, well, actually one person with the help of a few nurses, they just saved well, i’m there, this number is probably not appropriate at all, but they saved several lives , she is not a professional doctor, she even did it to me she said, it seems, well, like the sun, she had an operation there, uh, well, that is, she did do things that she should not have done at all, but as a result, they saved lives, and she

herself said this opinion about what actually happened in those first days. these are terrible and ukraine held on on such simple old men, such simple as we call uncles, he is sick himself, he filled an old car every day with some necessary things or medicines and drove through a russian checkpoint well, just putting his life in danger, he was told every time where are you he he says yes girls, i left , that is, people are absolutely for me, just all of them, all of these, all of these months, these are our holy people. well, as they say, a person is happy only when he lives not only for himself and for someone else, i think each of us has a lot of such examples in fact, this war still showed despite all this horror. how did it highlight so many such exploits? i call such people heroes because, well, they are never themselves . first of all, they never recognize themselves as heroes, and well, this is one of my such simply such upheavals are for