[000:00:00;00] whether it will be stopped, he omits that this may become the critical moment after which the russian army will simply fall apart , that is, for a long time, but it may be a turning point, they do not rule out. nobody is interested in information from the usa, from the president to this country, joe biden . he believes that the objects shot down over the usa these balloons that were engaged in espionage are allegedly connected to private companies and not to the state of china, which is called further, he made a special statement on thursday about this, saying quote the current assessment of the intelligence community is because the three objects were most likely balloons associated with private companies, recreational or research institutions that study weather or conduct other scientific research, biden said there is nothing at this time to indicate that they were connected to china's spy balloon program

or that these were surveillance devices from any other country, said biden well , we will talk about everything later with military experts, and for now our chief economic expert andriy yanitskyi with economic i ask for news during the war well, thank you yehor, we will really talk today a lot about agribusiness and the recovery of ukraine andriy yanitskyi with economic news on espresso as always live at eight in the morning on weekdays today we will talk about agribusiness but before that, something about the recovery of ukraine seven billion euros over the next 5 years , will provide norway with support for ukraine , the press service of the norwegian government made this decision, the country's parliament said in a multi-year program of assistance to our country

by the majority of votes, it was named in honor of nobel peace prize laureates fritjer nansen, annual contributions under the program will amount to about 50 billion kroner, and this is more than 1.3 billion euros, the funds will be directed depending on the current needs of ukraine, their assessment will be updated regularly, the norwegian government in warsaw noted an exhibition, a conference dedicated to the structure of ukraine is taking place, the purpose of the event is to establish partnership and interaction between ukrainian communities that need help from businessmen, investors and foreign partners were able to see with their own eyes the presentations of community leaders from ukraine. let's see how it all happened in our story. each of the ukrainian communities has 15 minutes to tell foreigners what damage russian aggression has caused to their cities and towns. kherson is under constant

enemy fire 24 hours a day. 7 orcs destroy the city , the heroes of kherson and our indomitable residents and in general, the head of the kherson military administration talks about the fact that despite the shelling, the city is alive and already has many urgent needs, the largest city right now needs vehicles and also equipment that absolutely everything that was in the city was taken to the left bank by the orcs, we have nothing to clean the streets, we have nothing to transport people, we have nothing to repair our power grids, our heat substations, our distribution substations, we have nothing , potential partners and investors can to see with your own eyes what the city was like, what it has become, which projects are planned to be implemented , the first priority is the restoration of housing that has been completely destroyed, that is,

apartment buildings and private residential buildings today we presented at the stand a-a more precisely, at the conference we presented the project for the restoration of the children's and youth sports school in the same way we have eight more projects at the exhibition, in particular, the stands of ukrainian communities are working until the shutdowns of kherson, dnipro, and other cities that suffered from russian aggression, all investors and partners can approach and get acquainted with the problems of a specific city or village, entrepreneurs mainly from the construction, engineering and energy spheres offer their services to city representatives and present solutions to investors may be of interest to them precisely in terms of the reconstruction and decentralization of critical infrastructure, investors and donors from all over the world at the event, more than 500 say the organizers, in addition to entrepreneurs, representatives of the authorities of the partner countries, today's meeting aims to try to unite

entrepreneurs so that they start a dialogue on the topic of how to rebuild ukraine in the future. and how to cooperate. there are still many government representatives here, so i think this is an important step in the direction of economic cooperation between europe and ukraine. the majority of european representatives countries are convinced that ukraine needs to be rebuilt now, for example, the minister of foreign affairs of denmark recently returned from mykolaiv. ukrainians are a great inspiration to me. denmark will constantly provide assistance for the reconstruction of mykolaiv and ukraine in general. i believe that private companies and entrepreneurs are the key to changing the words of lithuania already started a number of projects in the kyiv region , a school and a kindergarten have already been rebuilt there and people are already working there, and in this way they are already preparing for autumn so that children can return

to schools and kindergartens, as well as representatives the governments of germany, great britain and latvia expressed their support for ukraine and assured that they are ready to create conditions for the reconstruction of ukraine and support the economy of our country in the future . martyshev, a researcher at the agricultural center of the kyiv school of economics, mr. pavlo vitayu good morning , the main issue that worries me is the work of the grain corridor during this last week, many macroeconomist experts whom we invited to the program said that the grain corridor works inefficiently due to the fact that russian inspectors on the bosphorus do not pass, or rather very slowly check ukrainian vessels with cargo

. turkey and between ukraine and turkey and the united nations organization, we agreed that we can export grain, and then what is the procedure next? every week, the sea ports of ukraine agree on the volume, quantity ships that will enter the ports and information is sent to the joint coordination center in istanbul , after that the coordination center agrees and the ships must pass into the black sea de jure, so de facto they pass very slowly now inspections both at the entrance and at the exit from the black sea this is two and a half ships during the day, on average there should

be 10-12, and we see that russia has moved away from uh-uh such threats about stopping grain water to silent uh-uh sabotage, so this is such an italian , italian strike, as they call it, that is they just seem to be working, but they perform all the procedures for a very long time and uh, i can’t imagine how it happens. they walk slowly, i just don’t know if they take a very long time for the examination, that examination of the grain is done uh, their main task. as far as i understand, see what on there are no weapons on the ships, so that is, or there are no goods that were not agreed upon. what else can they look for there? well, goods of double value are, well, this manifests itself in two uh-uh uh-uh moments, the first is that they shortened their working day in them uh-uh five working hours

day and even during working hours, when the turkish side and the ukrainian side are working, then the russian russian inspector went there to drink coffee, relatively speaking, and this greatly delays the work process itself, and the second point is that they increase the requirements for vessels, they check personal belongings of the crew, they also require some documents that are not legally regulated. this slows down everything. this slows down the passage of ships and accordingly we see such a significant delay in passing through busfor. now the queue is close 100 ships and we have to take into account that for an average ship that transports grain one day is idle - this is a loss of approximately 20,000

dollars. and how much did we lose in january due to these delays? grain, but we actually exported two times less than how much, well, we can say that since the beginning of the grain agreement, we have under-exported about 10 million tons of food. and this grain is oil crops , this is vegetable oil - it is oilseed meal 10 million tons in monetary monetary terms is a plus minus uh, well, four billion dollars, probably 4 billion dollars , our agrarians did not receive, and accordingly, we did not receive uh currency by such an amount in uh, we did not receive our gold and currency

reserves in uh, if we talk about the dynamics, we now we again found ourselves in a situation where more grain is collected in the warehouses on khm than we take out, again we will have a problem with the fact that there is no place to store that grain and now there is no such problem, look at our full-scale invasions were powers simultaneous storage of 57 million tons of grain, now 45 million tons - these are official statistics, but official statistics are also not to be trusted because, well, look, if there are two silos in the elevator complex, and in one of them there is corn, in the other, wheat, then we cannot put it in a silo where there is corn, er, fill in wheat because it will be mixed, there will be quality problems, and so on, accordingly, some silos

will remain half-filled, and it is this fact that reduces the total volume of grain that can be stored, i would say what this is approximately 40 million tons of grain that can be stored in us at the same time, now it is a little less, that is, so far we are managing . i think that before the harvest of winter crops in the summer, this problem will be solved even more if you look at the agricultural sector as a whole, what was january for agrarians. that's it the title suggests on the screen that this issue is not only about cereals, if you say a and about other crops, but it was positive in the sense that

the weather was relatively warm, there were also certain legislative changes, and the only negative is that it is still cereals deal well, in our last inclusion , a few weeks ago, you said that there was a big problem with the return of vat for farmers and that it was really, well, working capital was being laundered from businessmen. was it possible to solve this issue or is there still a delay with the return of vat for viewers, i just want to explain that exporters do not have to pay, more precisely, they have to pay value added tax, but this tax is returned to them because it is our internal tax and it is then paid in other countries, and it is the end of it first it is paid and then submitted for reimbursement , and here the state does not always return the money on time and not always at all . yes, look, there is a problem, and by the way, this problem

did not just happen like that, it is also connected to the problem of not returning foreign exchange earnings to the country why is this not returned because the exporters are forced to sell currency at the official rate of the national bank of ukraine, which is much lower than the market rate, so they try not to repatriate foreign exchange earnings, leave it somewhere offshore in other places, and that is why the state wants to bind refund of vat to exporters until the fact of receipt of foreign exchange revenue from the sale of their grain, amendments are made to the tax code that you pay, you return the currency by exchanging it and then you register a tax invoice and you are refunded vat, but so far

there are no changes as far as i i understand that this is such an informal agreement between the tax office and the farmers that they are trying to promote, uh, they see these numbers, they understand, that is, they understand that some amount of currency has been suspended abroad, i am not coming back, or do they guess that this is possible? to be uh, they guess and know, too, it is not difficult to calculate, just take the expert price of grain, multiply it by the volume, and these schemes are in principle known to the government. and here you can understand the government that wants to receive foreign exchange revenue for ukraine and farmers who do not want to exchange currency for exchange rate of 36.6 when it is in exchanges for 40 and actually lose a large part of their profits in such a situation , all other exporters are in the same situation, including exporters of services, for example, our programmers

who sell their services for currency and many of them are trying to leave the country to work from abroad. this problem will be solved only when the hryvnia exchange rate is released , and it will definitely not happen even this year, i suspect. do you have any expectations that it will happen sooner? there are other options. there are options. what will other exchange rates do for a separate group of exporters? in argentina, the so-called soybean dollar program was in effect for soybean exporters . there was a different exchange rate for the e-e peso. so something similar can be done in ukraine, how will it be done e-e export of agricultural products more

profitable and eliminate the problem of non-return of foreign exchange earnings and the problem of non-reimbursement of vat, we know that a lot of territory was liberated last year in kharkiv oblast and kherson oblast, is it possible not all of it unfortunately, kherson oblast right bank but can we say that in the liberated territories , farmers have restored their work that the fields have already been demined what is going on there is the field work going on or is it too early to rejoice ? the low progress of demining in the kherson region and we can say that the spring sowing there will er-e may not take place at all because we simply will not have time to demine and it is further complicated by the fact that there

are still hostilities, i think that the only option is to carry out sowing in the kherson region it is still autumn for winter crops. well, by the way, it is worth mentioning that the kherson region is mainly the cultivation of wheat, barley, not corn and not sunflowers, therefore it is important for the state to support farmers in the kherson region itself oblast well, plus vegetables. as far as i understand, greenhouse vegetables are also kherson region. i hope that our sappers will work and it will be possible to demine these fields and it will be possible to restore agribusiness there . the last question is, what are the farmers waiting for, what important changes, maybe in the legislation or on what important decisions of the government are expected by farmers in 2023? we will mark it and mark it, and then in our next programs we will monitor the extent to which these

promises or the hopes of farmers are fulfilled . well, there were many promises. changes in the 23rd year, first of all, this is the minimum tax obligation on the land market, this is, roughly speaking, it forces those who own or use land to pay taxes, so for those agrarians who work in belarus, this does not change anything are also being restored m-m from the noun duster, this means that you can track information on land parcels, e-e, automatically register leases there, also, e-e, it is planned to continue the preferential program for farmers 5 7 9 e-e hmm, these are the vat changes we are talking about

we talked and we can also say that there will be preferential loans for the restoration of the infrastructure itself, that is, not for sowing, not for any operational activity, but for the restoration of elevators, the restoration of ferum, and so on , that is, the main emphasis is on the restoration of the agricultural sector after damage due to causal factors, mr. pavlo, we will follow these pavlo martyshev, a researcher at the agricultural center of the kyiv school of economics, talked about how agribusiness and the agricultural sector worked in january. let's meet. my name is andriy yanitskyi, the host of the economic news program. we will see you on monday at 8 a.m. live

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russian widows has found a continuation, do you remember the heroes of the novorossic people who were ceremoniously presented with fur coats, and here are these women? well , fur coats are not enough they were then selected, so it turned out that not all of these women are widows at all who were filmed in these videos and in these photos . so, anna babinets is the founder of the investigation info, more we in the investigation info decided to identify these widows and heroes of novorossiya during their lifetime, women were given a fur humanitarian bag among almost two dozen women whose photos were published by the russians with fur coats, we found only four widows or mothers of killed separatists, as it turned out, the others were all just a mass , one of the participants of this action, valya, told us about it. here she is in the photo greedily hugs her fur coat, the fact is written in red pencil that it will be taken from her very soon so that she says that she is not a widow herself, it is still insulting to her that her fur coat was taken from her, and among other women, according to her

, there are only five or six widows, the rest are simply women from makiivka who were driven away by the russians as a mask for filming valya suspects that many other women were filmed and photographed with their fur coats, but it seems that no one got them here and what should be used, but fur coats were taken away from real widows, valya writes that she herself is not a widow, it’s a horror, you can just say oleksandr samoilenko, the head of the kherson regional council, mr. oleksandr, welcomes you greetings, good morning, we can't hear well, please, a little louder that we heard you or open the microphone, i can hear well, it's better, mr. oleksandr, good morning again, please tell us what the situation is like in the kherson region now, how are you? did the night

pass peacefully, well, in the regional center, the night did not pass quite peacefully shelling continued, luckily, well, you know, unfortunately, yesterday evening we had three dead and seven wounded over the territory of the kherson region. i mean , it was liberated from the occupiers overnight. they somehow chose him again as a new target, the occupiers who are on the left bank, but luckily no one was hurt overnight , well, you know, the people of kherson have already learned to live in those conditions when the shelling goes on and as soon as the shelling stops, life returns to the city. we continue to work, the infrastructure works in the morning, let's say so all the shuttle taxis left for e-e routes, so life in the city continues, well, in kherson itself, the day before

, a russian shell killed a 70-year-old woman, and the pier and the botanical garden were also shelled there are also wounded, what is known about the fate of these wounded people , mr. oleksandr, in honor of oleksandr, we will say that they are not in a critical condition today, and this and yesterday, as i said, seven people were already wounded, this is on the territory of the entire liberated kherson oblast, except this woman who calmly went to the store. this is really a 70-year-old woman who was going to the store. the store was fired upon and she died just on the street. hail in order to take the life of this person there, in addition to that from an enemy projectile, yesterday a young family died in a young family died

in the village of zmiivka, this is boryslav district, well, to a more picturesque village in kherson oblast. again, i don’t even have any strategic thoughts. can it acquire such significance for these the occupiers, so you know what to say about your previous story about what they think of a fur coat. i think that they don't think at all, i think that it's just a horde that broke out of their forests and they're trying degrade everything that lives, everything that doesn't live according to their laws and their desires, and i think that the only means of combating this horde is destruction, the problem here is that they don't even see anything wrong in such filming when, well, that's not enough that she is not a widow, she still says, well, she writes to ani babinets, our colleagues, i understand that when they took away from me, i am not a widow

, and here is a poor woman, you understand , well, this is just a disaster, a woman from makeivka who is not a widow, who starred in a commercial with fur coats which were distributed to the widows of the heroes of novorossiya and and no one sees in this any, well, i don't know, well, i just don't know what to call it, do you understand, well, this is a fall, this is a complete fall , already some kind of human, this is this, this is not understood at all, you know well, there is such a russian folk art, as they say, a ball, they are they deeply bring it into life and they are not real, it is drawn in such a way, you know, it is designed for people to perceive reality as such as i , who, well, when they teach on this uh-uh television, we will tell them the so-called in their information plane, so for them it is it's normal, but for and to return to kherson, i will say that it's normal for

the people of kherson, etc. to do everything to wait for the fact that our right part of kherson oblast, which is located on the right bank of the dnieper, was liberated because, well, not only you know shelling of not only botanical gardens, or is it the destruction of infrastructure, it is the destruction of historical monuments there, which are , nevertheless, kherson - this is the first city that was built in the south of ukraine, which really became the beginning of the development of southern cities, so you know, we have a very many historical places and they are connected with the cossack history, let's say it's easier to say it's the motherland of sichi, and that's why i'll say that they really have a desire to simply lower this history, falsify it and turn it into a really sly thing like that, as you know