[000:00:00;00] it's true, that is, fedorov said literally on the eve of this explosion, how did he know, he even said that this is there, what is the name of this community , so, well , as if he knew, he may have known there. andriy yanitskyi will tell us. well, andriy seychuk and i will come back later. now i have a word with you, andriy . thank you, colleagues. today, we will sum up the results of march. there are already figures for what march was like for the ukrainian economy. andriy yanitskyi with economic news on on the espresso tv channel, as usual, on weekdays, we meet you at 8 a.m. if you watch us on youtube, please like it, send the link to your family and friends, so they will also see economic news and

subscribe to the espresso channel , the espresso youtube channel will then recommend you more objective honest and operational news , let's start with this: the company ukrtatnafta will transfer 687 million hryvnias of additional taxes to the budget, these taxes were not paid , the former owners reported to the security service of ukraine about the facts of payment evasion the former director of the company received suspicion of mandatory payments, he is currently in custody, earlier the law enforcement officers exposed the management of ukrtatnafta for another fact of tax evasion in the amount of uah 605 million, this money has already been reimbursed to the state and sent to the needs of the armed forces of ukraine this spring, farmers plan to increase crops spring crops, as well as onions, carrots and buckwheat , so

there will be no shortage of grain on the domestic market of ukraine, this will contribute to the availability of domestic products for the ukrainian the consumer was noted in the ministry of agrarian policy and food, in particular, first deputy minister of agriculture taras vysotskyi said about this. last year, the amount of buckwheat sown significantly increased, so today its price is half as much as in 2022, and at the beginning of summer, it is possible that even the price reduction for this cereal is gradually completed by ukraine. you its history the heating season has already stopped heating in kherson odesa mykolaiv dnipropetrovsk volyn and vinnytsia oblasts how did you survive this winter in vinnytsia oblast let's see in in the stories of my colleagues, olga from vinnytsia demonstrates the utility bill for the heating period. on average, a girl has to pay 3,000 per month for

a two-room apartment. the heating season is over. i am satisfied because at least it will be less payment for utility services and, in principle, the yard is already more or less good. the weather, so i think that it will definitely not be colder than this winter, the girl notes that this heating season was difficult for her family, the average temperature in the apartment did not exceed 17°, we did, and then simply they dressed warmly, much warmer than last winter, and a plus. they slept under two blankets under one. they had to dress warmly and save money. this winter, not only oli alla had to save

. and many ukrainians had to save. i am already so used to this kind of heating and this kind of heat, it happens that we do it because it saves more money on food and medicine, well , for me personally, it was so difficult that autonomous heating was announced in our country because somehow yes there were times there were moments when it was cold cotton wool but we survived warmer blankets warmer clothes teal bought a lot so yes we survived i live near this guys and what’s calm the relatively stable positive temperature outside the window allows you to finish the heating season ahead of time in six regions , namely in vinnytsia, kherson, odesa , mykolaiv, dnipropetrovsk, and volyn , the rainy season was extremely difficult. in

the city of vinnytsia, the enterprise worked in an intensified mode, among all the challenges that were literally seasonal, i will stop at two e especially critical ones - this is the power supply, it was connected with the disconnection of our company's facilities from such power supply, and the switch-on lasted for four hours, another challenge eh, which we currently have, this is the economic situation of the company, because as we understand, a moratorium was imposed on increase in tariffs and the state has undertaken to compensate the difference in the so-called tariffs that the enterprise currently incurs . we have a large debt for fuel and energy resources in the enterprise . a third was allowed to pass the heating season decently, in turn, minister of energy herman galushchenko assured that ukraine is coming out of the difficult winter with a surplus of power with sufficient reserves of gas and coal, but the population

is in debt. with yury gaidai, the senior economists of the center for economic strategy p yuri, i congratulate andriyya , good morning, i know that your organization, the center for economic strategy, is conducting such reports hmm on the development of the ukrainian economy both at the macro level and in individual sectors, such a thing. i rewatched it last night and i would like to ask you about it. so, this time you write that both the ministry of economy and the national bank of ukraine have worsened their growth forecast gdp for this year, what does it have to do with it? it was already small if compared to the low base of last year, yes

. well, in fact, andriy, this revision took place again. turn on the consequences of the shelling on the fact that the ukrainian economy suffered from blackouts and interruptions in the supply of electricity. now, in fact, we already see that, in addition to metallurgy, the energy industry itself , maybe a little bit of small retail trade, which was the most dependent on blackouts, other sectors are not suffered well, in principle, the squatting in the fourth quarter was quite small, so you can expect actually now, uh, already views in the other direction, in fact, i talked about this before, uh, and

the deputy head of the national bank, that he expects quite significant growth, well, actually, it is better, better than predicted , so a little overdue. i apologize, we will show you what your report looks like, we will not dwell on individual slides, not for those who are interested, you can go to the website of the center for economic strategy and find this review here. the slides and the description of these slides are written in very detailed and understandable language that the main thing is that not economists can understand everything literally quite easily yes p yurii i’m sorry, you can continue, you say that they can improve and improve now even forecasts yes yes in fact yesterday the national bank released yet another update of its survey based on which it builds such an index of expectation of business activity where the national bank actually surveys and asks questions

by sector between the answers, they display an index, i.e. for example, if the index is 50, then the same number of entrepreneurs expects improvement and deterioration. well, that is, it is neutral, this index is more than 50, so the majority expects an improvement, and for the first time since last year, at the beginning of a full-scale war, this index has actually come close to reaching an almost neutral level, and we see that already in industry and trade it is more than 50, that is, the majority of entrepreneurs expect the actual uh, we see from surveys also expects an increase in turnover in trade and industry, for example, 32% of entrepreneurs expect an increase in orders and only 18 expect a decline. and what is most optimistic is that the majority of enterprises also

expect a slowdown in the growth of prices and their suppliers and their own, the only e-e so far most do not plan to increase the number of employees involved even a little on the side of layoffs yes, in the description there you have very interestingly marked this process in terms of the expectation of business activity that they have increased to almost the maximum indicators but since the beginning of the full-scale invasion that is, we are not yet talking about business expectations until february 24 , 2022, but if we take the year of the great war, then businessmen have improved their expectations. what can you relate this to? emphasize once again maybe i missed uh why entrepreneurs began to perceive their perspective better i think this is uh, well, first of all, this is a typical story when in january it

calms down a little bit, then it is such a uh, seasonal decline, and here the regional optimism actually pricks spring plus there are no problems with energy, we actually see that if we go to the industry analysis , we see that there have been practically no outages for the past 8 weeks, with the exception of certain areas , where there was limited almost no electricity import. optimism, i.e., in the same metallurgy, they have resumed work. girnyk is a beneficiation plant that has not worked since last summer, for example, assets of metinvest, and there zaporizhstal is launching a new furnace, several more metallurgical assets have also become operational.

economy. that's why here everything is quite good here. yes, choose above , in addition to metallurgy, energy, also write about agro and the it sphere. industry or mechanical engineering. so, do you separate energy, metallurgy, agro and it? well, you have already said two words about energy and metallurgy. and what is there in agro and it? these are the biggest sources of foreign exchange earnings, which have the most positive effect on the balance of payments, which is important, energy is like the economy, respectively, there are four key sectors that can be looked at in agriculture, in fact, the acreage of this

year will decrease there by about 25%, maybe even a little more, but what’s good is that it’s already in february. so far, there are no accurate march data. but in february, for example , exports have already exceeded what was last year in in 2022, more than 6 million tons of grain were exported there. well, what if it was very good, but this time , almost half of this product went not by sea, but by river transport and railway . that is, this is actually a logistical coup. took place this year while we have restrictions on alcohol. well, what does it give reasons for optimism that the government and all the negotiators and diplomats actually achieved that the grain agreement was extended again by 120 days, this is important. well, because the russians pressed . they wanted to extend it by a month or two. but it is clear that the longer

the duration of the grain agreement the greater the confidence of grain traders in exports, and this also affects the prices at which farmers can sell their grain. therefore , this is a positive thing in it. in us, this year , the first decline is by 9% in the export of services, but it’s still the same the second best result ever and this year there will be a bit of pressure here, the global situation itself has no reason to expect real growth on global markets in the whole world , quite a lot of it workers are being laid off right now, and here we should probably expect the same uncertainty this year , including for our it, that is, it won’t be much better in order to stay at the current levels , you write a lot about the budget in the report, what about the budget, is it being filled at all, where does the income come from, who is the main payer? i understand that

there is a lot of foreign aid, but if we ignore at this moment, it seems that we will receive more than half of the budget in the form of aid in the form of all kinds of grants, loans, but there is also an internal payer. who pays taxes to andriy, well, first of all, this is actually vat, it is a value added tax and from of domestic production and the same for imported goods, respectively, it is also all of us who go to the store and see in this receipt the calculation of 20% vat, absolutely yes. this is the first time. well, that is, in any case, it is all of you and me. that is, there with e- e from filling the budget of such not ours you probably know that rent payments, that is, what companies pay for the use of nadra, which actually belongs to the people, are primarily related to the extraction of gas and iron ore. and actually, right now, in february

, for example, these payments were at a historically low level, primarily due to gas extraction and in the end, the demand for iron ore was quite small, and that is why, in fact, all of this vat is personal income tax, including this pd, of course, from the financial support that is paid in the army. doesn't know vat is a value added tax it's exactly on goods and services it's imposed from above and personal income tax and personal income tax, well, suddenly someone doesn't know and that means it's taxes on salaries yes well, but i have to say that we really cannot forget about our foreign partners because they finance a significant part of more than half of our expenses there. and here it is precisely important that this very first tranche of the imf program of 2.7 billion us dollars has already arrived yesterday

, as reported by the ministry of finance it's a four-year-old program for 15.6 billion dollars, and in fact, these funds will also be very appropriate, because today not all of the deficit is financed, that is, after the last increase in expenditures, when more than 500 billion uah were added to the army, at the moment it is not financed yet that the deficit is somewhere around 20 billion dollars and probably about half of it we borrowed on the domestic market, so it is very good that we now have additional funds there from the imf and there, canada recently also provided us with additional funds, this is important it will be for our stability, it seems from canada, it is also not a small amount there, 1.8 billion or something like that, and besides, we talked with you for several weeks in a row about the fact that the gambling business did not pay

enough taxes last year due to tax benefits. well i did not pay extra because i could not pay extra because there were benefits, but also because of various evasion schemes , e.e., sanctions were imposed on the campaign, several banks suffered from the fact that they participated in this in these wedding rings, one was liquidated altogether, the other was fined. i understand that others received some non-public reprimands and punishments that the press did not write about, but did it somehow change the situation on the market, or did it have a result , or do we see an increase in income from this area? the growth of tax revenues there, er, yaroslav zheleznyak, the deputy chairman of the tax committee, wrote about hmm yesterday about 420 million hryvnias in march , the amount there will most likely be even, well, significantly

higher, because it does not yet take into account individual tax components, so i think that this will be closer to 500 million hryvnias. and how much was there? to compare , i don’t know whether to compare everything in february, for example, for the entire previous year, 730 million hryvnias were paid, we receive almost 500 million. the influence is not only not so much sanctions against russian business over there against parimatch which stimulated others to pay taxes here rather uh the national bank took up the matter, that is, according to some, a little more than a month ago just on the anniversary of the invasion uh, the leadership of the national bank gathered

bank managers were very convincingly asked to take up financial monitoring and, first of all, fintech , which ihorka works through. has now consistently engaged in illegal business that competes with the legal slide because only if this competition from the illegal business is removed can the licensed gambling business continue to pay at this level taxes because they will already feel it after this thank you mr. yuriy yuriy gaidai, senior economist of the center for economic strategy , we talked about the results of march for the economy of ukraine. i am andriy yanitskyi, the host of the economic news program on the espresso tv channel. see you tomorrow morning at 8:00

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monday to thursday at 1:00 p.m. repeat at 6:00 p.m. good morning, dear friends. part of the marathon and we want to say that the fighters of the 110th artillery brigade , who are fighting in the difficult avdiiv direction, have turned to you and us for help. push us away from donetsk qr-code as you can see, the card number is also important in the context of this announcement, which is made by andriy, and actually let us remind you that in the fierce fighting the guys lost almost all the transport that currently restricts their movement, they also need two drones to adjust the fire.

you know that it is extremely important to have these drones, this is in order to butusov says, so that it is not people with machine guns somewhere on the front line who introduced this intelligence, but in order for drones to do it , we are losing drones, we can still buy them, we are not we can, if they are not there, then we need to send people there, and when we lose, you yourself understand what we are talking about - these are the tears of mothers, er, in a word, in order not to contribute to the actual situation, not to put our soldiers under bullets and er shells, then let's we will try to complete this collection already, we need to collect 400,000, we have already collected a third of that money , almost that's how you know, a little more than yesterday 54,000 dripped well, it 's very, very cool yes 57,000 58 even 54 54,299

uah 45 kop i don't know well, the guys have started from 99,000, we had 99,000 ago in the past for sure, yesterday's stage was sorted out and then during the day, dear friends, well, listen, not half, but not a third, but we need to close it as soon as possible, let 's be a little more active today, yesterday was monday, it was a difficult day, so far everyone was rocking, but today we will make an effort and that we need to collect those 400,000 once and have already done everything, especially such a noble and beautiful goal of helping our defenders nazarii yakysha - commander of the machine gun unit of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade joins us of our etaru, nazarii, good morning to you. good morning, mr. nazariv, where are you, what is your situation, as usual, ugledar

, but our situation is stable, the enemy sometimes tries to carry out some actions there, preparing for assault actions . to say that there is full control, that is, the situation is now stable, you can say yes, the situation is stable and controlled, we now understand that unfortunately the weather conditions have worsened, it has become colder, it has become, uh, an hour longer to stand on position, but nothing to do with it, if we are already coping, we have been fighting for a year already, and we are already used to it, you know, it somehow becomes everyday you understand that it is already like your job, you have to go to the position and you have

to stand, and you know that you they have to change, because you also have to rest, call your relatives, and get some sleep, do the laundry, or continue to get organized. that is, it is already such a usual job. i didn’t want us to drag it out for many years, but the war forces it . unfortunately, uh, get used to everything and to we are also ready for different situations because we are infantry the infantry of the black zaporizhzhyas, we know that the military well, i think we don't need much money there, we are on the front line, but it is also important to understand that there is a normal provision for the families who stayed at home in the rear. is everything okay now with payments for military personnel with payments ? according to the schedule, everything goes systematically from the salary, the bonuses also come

, that is, we have no problems with this, there is a problem with volunteer transport, sometimes these pickups are a little lacking, because if an average jeep a pickup truck lives for two or three months, it’s at the perfect time of the year, in the summer, then in the winter, it lives for a month and a half and no longer, well, it’s iron, it also breaks like people, but what what, what now, what does this pickup mean for there, i don’t know the division of the department, its presence or its absence, well, it’s also comfort, it’s the comfort of the soldiers because it’s easier for me to give the car and i know that she will make an extreme trip because she can no longer drive there due to her bad condition, but i know that my boys will not walk 5 km there and it will be easier for them

even to stay idle for those two or three days you understand the position where the task is set for them, so if i were an opponent, they would call me and say we will buy you a car, i am an opponent of buying new cars , we need to repair the old ones because we import them, we buy them and the war will end anyway and then our government as always, everyone who transported these cars will be teased and ask questions about where they are. well, first of all , the unit commanders will be responsible for these e-e cars that were put on the balance sheet, so here, too, you need to turn your head on and think correctly tactilely in order not to create more problems for ourselves in the future . well, somehow we live like this, but we are ukrainians. we are strong, that's why we will get out of any of