[000:00:00;00] can buy one pack of legal cigarettes for one price of uah 69 or two or more illegal ones if he chooses illegally the offer does not harm your health at least twice as much carcinogenic substances and other harmful substances enter his body and twice the dose of nicotine and what means that the consumer gets more used to smoking and he is the least inclined to get rid of this bad habit later, therefore the state must avoid the development of the illegal tobacco market because it is not a controlled segment, which is impossible later, in some way, it will also affect

consumers who will smoke, and the excise tax will not affect them in any way. you mentioned the initiative to introduce electronic excise tax . well, this is what i understand, not only about the labeling of cigarettes, but also about the labeling of alcoholic beverages with an electronic excise stamp. drinks as much as possible. well, not 100%, as you mentioned, it is an effective tool, but it may increase e-e control and revenues to the state treasury from the side of excise goods , in a certain way it can increase budget revenues, but i would still focus on the risks the introduction of this system and the first risk is that the consumer will not have a visual confirmation of the legality of the approval of cigarettes, because the first element by which the consumer can distinguish a legal pack of cigarettes from an illegal one is an excise tax stamp, everyone knows that a paper excise tax stamp is printed on thick, high

-quality paper. protective elements are well-known. it has a mark on the number of cigarettes in a pack. it has other data about the number of this brand and it is easy to understand just by receiving this pack of cigarettes in your hands that it is legal, what is the danger here, even today we observe that 64% are illegal products sold in kiosks and stores next to legal cigarettes, that is, the consumer is already worried that he does not get his hands on a fake, and so he sees the real one the paper optical stamp sees that the price of the product corresponds to the value of legal cigarettes today and he is sure that he received a legal product and can

consume it. brand, in order to make sure of its legality, it will have to scan its code, well, we can. well, if we were to ask the question , will the consumer scan this code every time, no, of course, it will create a certain burden for him , so he risks receiving a counterfeit for what he bought at a legal price, well, it's you an additional risk of an increase in illegal illegal sales, and consumers of illegal products, as we have already talked about, if they do not pay attention to the paper optical mark, then they will not even check the legality of a purchased pack in a special system well, speaking in general, summing up our conversation, the problem exists and it is multifaceted and it needs to be solved, here are you as an expert, what solutions can

be offered to the law enforcement authorities, large producers, legal producers of tobacco products, to coordinate their efforts in the fight against smuggling of illegal products on the market. of course, there are recipes, and here i would advise first of all to rely on those tools, the effectiveness of which has been proven by european experience in electronic excise stamp, i will tell you that its tool exists in the countries of the european union, there are two separate systems, this is the system of excise stamps or their substitutes and the system of the third detection and tracking of tobacco products along the entire chain of their supply, and the implementation of the trackin-trace system would really give the possibility to control the supply chain of tobacco products, but without negative effects. whatever i mentioned. also, an important element of strengthening law enforcement activities

, increasing the effectiveness of these measures is taking into account the purchasing power of the population and other economic factors when increasing the excise tax, unfortunately, in ukraine, the artist is raised by 20 cases every year, regardless of whether or how consumers and the illegal market may react to it, and so far this policy is not reviewed and its change is not considered no less than in poland , which we are used to teaching and studying there and positive experiences in 2021, and the rating of the oppressed did not increase at all, and in combination with other measures to combat the illegal market, this made it possible to reduce their illegal market by 4% points from nine to five percent, this was the largest reduction of the legal market in the eu and it was definitely a success, so we should not close our eyes to such

positive stories and will consider and of course develop a comprehensive strategy to combat illegal the tobacco market to take comprehensive measures, both to apply digital solutions and other tried-and-tested eu countries ' e-e means to fight against illegal activities, to change the approach to retirement , about the law enforcement system, to continue more precisely, activities on this path, i support your expert proposals here, we will monitor the market of tobacco products and i hope that this year, after all, the income from the sale of cigarettes will only grow , and this figure seems to be the same.

uah yes, the treasury did not receive , well, the figure will only decrease. a little bit ordinary ukrainians for the armed forces of ukraine well, there really is such a shortage . thank you, ms. tetyana, you are tetyana koshchuk, an expert on tax issues from the growf-institute , we were in touch. i am finishing my interview, but i am not finishing monitoring the markets during the war, watch espresso . you are always relevant there. good luck to fm galicia . russian hackers attacked fm radio. galicia tried to break into the air, and it was also reflected . well, february is impressed by your cyber such

radio fm galicia has prepared its answer. and they heard our armed forces promised a spring counteroffensive of the occupier, so fm radio galicia will be in the formation of an informational spring counterattack, you will hear and even see life goes on, the war is going on, galicia is not enough for the russians, for ukrainians, the war in ukraine is the main topic for ukrainians, victories and losses , analysis and forecasts, politics and geopolitics , serhiy rudenko and the guests of his program will talk about all this, people who have information and shape public opinion, people who defend ukraine and create the future, the main thing is now

and the interesting thing in the program is the verdict by serhiy rudenko from monday to thursday at 1:00 p.m. repeat at 6:00 p.m. well, just now, the marathon is going on at espresso, which we continue to conduct together with andriy saichuk for you, and we have prepared a lot of things for you , we are also waiting for a visit, all calls to this the chinese leader, the president and the head of their party , who for the third time re-elected the chinese in moscow, let's see what will come of it, what will be brought in, or will a world axis of evil be formed before our eyes and everything will turn into the third world war, so be it if in do they have such intentions, will there still be some new format, maybe russia will become a satellite of russia , uh, china, officially, putin will get down on one knee or two or his double in front of the cympin, let's see what this day will bring , we will have an interesting visit, we will specially

comment on it and also, of course, very interesting information from the institute of war research about what seems to be the most recent or their attempts to take bakhmut, and in general about something to get some kind of breakthrough on the eastern front, well, for the russians, it is western, of course, and in in principle, it has already ended, and if they succeed, they will run out of strength and opportunities will open up for the ukrainian counter -offensive . is this really the case ? we don't hear, we think it's necessary , first of all, let's say that glory to the heroes and

... there are such signs that the katsapnya is trying to pervert the city, trying to surround the city, trying to destroy the city of bakhmut, as early as the 22nd of the year, it is causing huge losses there, and yet it covers all of this, it can cover the edges very tightly with artillery , e. squared destroys settlements that, along with the contents, now there is such a mix of these mobs , mobs of these bagner prisoners , they have been replenished, so to speak, with regular troops of katsapi. in general, they are not considered for anything, they are just cannon fodder that is destroyed, because we have even recorded cases of those bagnerov prisoners and they were given there almost without weapons. well

, just like the disposal, er, they were destroyed accordingly, they move like that the groups are relatively small, there are 5 to 7 people, well, again, it depends a little on the direction, there have been recorded cases of 5 to 7 people, and they go in a tight group, which is always uh very soothing for our boys task that one projectile we from the svoboda battalion are now on combat coordination, now the guys from the fourth brigade of the operational assignment of the frontier are firmly holding their positions, and other units of the national guard of the city's armed forces are holding their positions very firmly. very quickly, i am very convinced that uh , quickly, uh, their potential is draining it to zero and we will hit very hard with our announced spring mood by the fact that they are draining and

decreasing. but at the same time, if you look i'm going to bang some video, then there's a constant audio track and it's banging all the time, which means that the orks want to go unarmed and these wagnerites are going, then russia still has enough shells with which to cover our positions. what can you say about this? by the way, i'm not saying that they all go unarmed and that they don't have enough weapons, unfortunately, they now have about five times more weapons than we have, i'm talking about the fact that there are certain units of these gunmen who have been there since late or somewhere which are completely thrown into water, but in most of their weapons there is a lot and artillery, they cover very tightly, uh, now they have decreased a little, but in principle, if before they covered square kilometer by square kilometer, they destroyed, we just

burn this piece of land, uh, a piece of land, now they cover a little less is somewhere if someone is at the time of year, this square is divided into 9 and 11² - it is 333 m² by 333 m². after that, all that remains is simply filled land . i am not saying anything about the infrastructure in bakhmut . they just burn the ground almost into a funnel and leave it after all this, now it’s no secret for anyone that there is basically a hidden mobilization going on in me, i don’t know how to call it partially or there is another way, but less so and they are now trying to act as a conveyor belt to replenish their ranks. so to speak, the ranks of the occupiers are cheap. i would call them rapists even there . they are not military men

, they are not warriors. that there it is constantly banging banging because in they are constantly being replenished with this cheap meat, there is a constant delivery of bc and that there is really a lot of it, so it is old, so it is soviet. well, they have a lot of it . we are very much waiting for our announced stands to reach us as soon as possible from our partners and to our comrades from the fourth brigade and to us as a battalion of freedom and to other units and we have guys who know how to use it, we have guys who know how to do it very well and know and do their job very well and yet we need more weapons more bull and all that damn these cheap slaves, they will lay down in geometric progression, the latest polls by levada, the center of the most independent sociological association in russia , show that russians today support the war in ukraine no less than a year ago, that is,

the majority of russians are about 70%. they further believe that they support the actions of their armed forces. what does this mean for you ? do you think that all this means that the war with russia will continue to be very long and we have to kill those 70% of russians ? how will the war end on our terms? it's quite difficult for me to comment on what's there in those conditions, let's call it biomass, it 's very difficult to comment. still , i must give credit that propaganda works very hard in them and that the people are the people there. if that's what you can call it let's call it the totality of peoples. they are completely satisfied and if they send their son to

an occupation war where he will die with a 99% probability, then the propaganda machine is working. and the 70%, i am convinced that there is such a thing as shoelaces they all they are lashing out and everyone will later say that they are not to blame, someone is to blame, not all of you, and i am convinced that there should be a punishment for the whole of russia, this federation , that is why the punishment is the legal, financial punishment, those who are coming here now for them, the punishment is life, but whatever what kind of punishment can they impose? i am convinced that it will happen and must and it must be, well, at least this is a fair russian word, this, this, this, russian , that, the oligarch and the owner of a private army, prigozhin

said that he intends and will do it 30 that he is mobilizing another 30,000 mercenaries for money, not even prisoners, but from various poor regions of russia, and those wagnerites, new recruits, will be on the ukrainian front somewhere at the end of may, what do you think about it ? well, i think that in katsapland, the of pensioners vlad kalin eh without airbags eh if you can say so and here i hope once again that they are in those mad countries and they are fighting there themselves they are somewhere in kubints than in five days to die under the bahmut eh but still, if there is some fool there who will kneel for power and give his life well, what to turn off ukraine, we destroyed you here thank you mr. roman konan , lieutenant of the freedom battalion of the national guard of ukraine was from we are now adding serhiy zgurets, a military expert, director

of the defense express company, mr. serhiy. good morning to you , mr. serhiy. somehow, against the background of all that is happening, the actor in the bahmut became more active . putin came to mariupol. the meeting should be well, it was previously planned cdnp by him what kind of spring activity is this? well, when we talk about putin, he probably wants to remind us that she is still alive and has an influence on something and that he seems to feel safe that he came there or something else, i think that it will simply be supported in the format of the information efforts of the russian federation, that their commander really monitors what is happening on the fronts if we remember that yesterday he also had

a meeting with the chief of the general staff there of the russian federation, but the situation on a more local level does not look very good for the russians, of course, because you are better off if we look at the situation on the front line , the enemy's offensive has already been going on for a month and a half , the offensive is quite active in five directions and there are some more or less tactical changes are taking place around bakhmut and around avdiivka, but all these changes are such that they affect the front line. and by the way , today there were conclusions of the institute for the study of war, which asserts that russia is exhausting its offensive potential. i agree with this agree not partly because it is still difficult to determine the remnants of the regimes of the russian army. but if you determine that the reserves are kept there within the limits of 30,000 plus or a little more, that means that such rates of offensive operations have been delayed by the directions of the russian federation, i think they can continue

there, well, up to three weeks before month, and in fact the entire potential of the 300,000 mobilized in september has actually been exhausted , and further waves of mobilization, if they will take place, will have an effect only there . after four months, so in any case we understand that now the calls for negotiations that the russian federation can implement due to china's position are actually in favor of the russian federation, but we understand that the plan actually is such that it does not fix the main thing, first the withdrawal of russian troops from the territory of ukraine, and then all the talk about there is a desire for territorial integrity there and a request from the united nations organization that first there should be troops and then we can talk about any peace plan that is currently offered only to the chinese community e

p serhiu has information that a million shells will be supplied to us by the end of the year by the european union, is it a lot or a little? i calculated that simply dividing it by 365 days yields less than three thousand shells. and we are firing them. well, they say that somewhere around 5,000 is not enough, but during a counterattack, it will have to be there, for example there are 10, 20, 30,000 per day to shoot, including good information or bad, and the second question is actually ammunition for our defensive and offensive operations, in fact, now the situation at the front level is such that we use five times less than we need, that is, when different people say that we use 100,000 rounds of ammunition per month and the need is 500 plus, then all

the conversations are conventionally saying that they will give us a million shells, this means that it is for two months of effective combat actions, because when conducting offensive operations, we would need even more scopes today, by the way , a meeting of the european commission is scheduled to take place, which should adopt this framework plan for the allocation of funds to stimulate the production of ammunition in european countries, but the most optimistic for now is that europe's capacity is about 600,000 munitions of 155 mm caliber per year, 600,000 per year, and our needs are at least 500 per month. so, in any case, we understand that if europe will slowly expand its production, then our main let's put it this way, the supplier of ammunition will of course be the united states, which to date has supplied us with a total of one million rounds of ammunition . during this entire period of hostilities, europe

supplied us with 350,000 s-shells of caliber 155 mm, and we understand that now the demand for ammunition is enormous, because in some directions, our guys who are defending in bakhmut say that for some types of ammunition, the supply times have decreased by 10 times. there, according to aggressors, other ammunition is 10 times less than it was at the beginning of the companies for the protection of bahmut, that is, there are risks and supplies. of course, now it is a factor that will affect the front line and now it is on the perspective. world war for example, they produced 10,000 projectiles a year. well, simply, well, again, i will take , for example, the united states of america, there were 86 enterprises that produced ammunition, now they have reduced it to 16, and now they are reinvigorating

the production of power in 2025 to reach the volume of 90,000 per month. that is, we understand that the americans will produce 90,000 ammunition per month, while our need is 63 million. so that we understand that the issue of the passing cold is really important, it is important and no less important , how will the consolidation and speed of renewal of the ammunition production capabilities of different countries take place? the leader said that ukraine should use this opportunity to contrast this year, because if it suddenly fails this year, then it will be more difficult

to get help from allies, e.e. financial military, and in addition to all that, hanna hopko also wrote about the fact that in the united states of america they are talking about what ukraine says all the time. she says give money, give money, but does not think about switching to some kind of wartime economy, or is it some kind of fatigue already starting from the ukrainian war well, here the question of the holy side is complicated, but all the conversations with the military and foreign experts also say that this offensive that is being prepared by the ukrainian army this year will really be decisive and will radically affect the course and distribution of forces after the completion of this military operation, indeed, military experts say that the actual accumulation of forces that we are carrying out for the contrast on o-o is sufficient until the end of the year to

conduct one powerful operation and beyond . everything will move from them precisely because of the result of this powerful military action , therefore, with such attention of the american general, our general is now engaged in planning , new packages of military aid are expected . but in any case, we understand that the stockpile of military equipment training staff, it's all the same, they won't allow the same amount to be generated there again in a short period of time, so in any case, this year is one offensive operation, but we understand that this is one offensive operation does not mean that the war is ending because it will be only an important component of the military campaign and then everything will be the same. we are counting on the help of our partners from the united states. because, relatively speaking, there is another reality, there is

a statement by the polish ambassador in france that if ukraine does not survive this war, then need a nato country will be included in the hostilities, and the americans and nato understand this, that effective and long-term assistance to ukraine is actually the main safeguard against the start of hostilities directly due to the participation of nato countries, and that is why i think that this is a multifaceted combination that will have an impact on that that despite the fear that last year the situation will worsen with the supply of weapons, in any case, if it becomes a little less , it does not mean that it will stop. we hope that this operation will be successful enough this year so that these scenarios is it a little optimistic or alarming that they simply did not materialize and our offensive

was really decisive and effective? it reminds me very much of the situation at the end of summer at the beginning of autumn. this will not be the end, ukraine lost the war and there is a lot of pressure and everyone said that they are not starting yet. well, why are they not advancing yet? the window of opportunity is already closing, but the ukrainian headquarters is diligent and they kept on keeping on holding this pause and they did it at the right time with minimal losses and that too and conducted a brilliant operation, let me remind you, in the kharkiv direction, which no one expected, and we really hope that this time it will be like that now. it seems that everything is obvious that we need such a field, but we understand that behind this obviousness there should be such a plan that actually will not allow the russians to take advantage of the deep defense that they will build along this part of the front. and by the way, the zaporizhia front has already begun

to guard yours, and raids are already being made there. the actions of our military are taking place, reconnaissance is being carried out by combat, strikes are being carried out deep into the enemy's territory. i think that the period of such formation of the future battlefield is already beginning, somewhat reminiscent of the operation to liberate the right bank of the kherson region, and i think that this process is already beginning. the expert director of the express company was with us, well, but every counter-offensive means a lot of loss, and let's all those who unfortunately lost their lives because of the fact that in russia there is no calm down with your imperial ambitions