[000:00:00;00] static historical figures of israel in lviv where there was a huge jewish community that was unfortunately exterminated in the 1940s during the second world war well, we don't see any counter - reaction to reconciliation. andriy informs you. thank you, colleagues . today we will talk about how russia influenced the ukrainian economy through the banking system . i, andrienitskyi, tell you economic news and talk to guests, experts in the field of economy and finance on the espresso tv channel, if you are watching us now online on the youtube stream, for example, like it comment on this video and send the link

to your friends and family, publish it on your social networks yes, we are here more people will see a serious discussion deputy defense ministers of ukraine, russia and turkey will meet in istanbul at the negotiations on the grain agreement, the head of the turkish defense department, hulusi akar, said that, according to him, the parties are ready to extend the term of the agreement, we agreed on the meeting of the deputy ministers of defense on may 5 and planned it during the meeting we will discuss and agree on some issues with our additions in the relations between the two countries starting the grain agreement we hope to continue this grain agreement without problems at the same time europe is introducing restrictions for our agricultural products the european commission has limited the sale of ukrainian

agricultural products for export in five countries, our wheat , corn, rapeseed and sunflower will temporarily not be sold in bulgaria, hungary, poland , romania and slovakia, these measures are necessary the commission says, at the same time, products can continue to circulate or transit through these five member states. deputy minister of agrarian policy and food markiyan dmytro savych noted that such a decision is a move in the right direction because it leads to the lifting of unilateral bans from the mentioned countries . i would like to remind you that the european union is first of all, it is an economic union that conducts a single e-e foreign trade trade policy, and here it turned out that individual members of the european union unilaterally in violation of all

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. now let's talk with the experts, the editor-in-chief of деньги magazine oleksandr kramarenko. of the former alpha bank. but in order to approach this topic, let's generally remember how russia tried to influence ukrainian politics and the economy through the banking system before the start of the war until 2014. there was quite a lot of russian capital in the banking market, if you look at it in total, it is purely state-owned, there were several private banks, they had, respectively, almost eight percent of the system, they held banks that were backed by russian state capital, and approximately a little less than three percent were private banking groups, for example, let me remember that in the first group

, the classification of the largest banks was then such that there were 15 banks in total, three banks with russian capital, two of them , e. private alpha bank was still there, there was still a group, there was also the so-called russian standard, it was already the middle group, and it was later renamed forward bank, there were also bm bank and visb bank were introduced they were among the small a-a that is, it was pretty decent eh, i must say that in principle all of them were either liquidated or a little later were liquidated or joined to someone eh during the bankruptcy of the 14-16th years, the last bank was sent for liquidation eh it was

eh forward bank in february of this year potential through such financial institutions russia could influence the ukrainian economy and politics, issue, for example, not issue loans to some companies , and others have access to some commercial secrets of our ukrainian enterprises, or simply finance its subversive activities. financial institutions, something like that was once established and proved that russia was really trying not just to do business through these banks, but to do politics, and you know. i am not sure that they financed

their subversive activities through these banks. banks are, as they say now, humanity is fuel. this is a little fuel, but for example, through prominvestbank , they controlled the financial flows of the energy atom, for example, ukrzaliznytsia at one time kept account funds there, that is , large banks with such an extensive network of branches with a large number of large customers, of course, they receive the so-called sensitive information, that is, information that gives an understanding of what is happening with whom , how it is happening, where the supplies of this or that are coming from, so i think that this was a very important tool of influence, and of course, all kinds of commercial projects that had such a, you know, russian color could be financed indirectly. that is, it is, well, in general, banks are a tool , it is investment, lending, and information

, there is a lot of information. well, prominvest - as far as i understand, it is a branch of vnesh econom bank, was uh, yes if you read about it, it is not an ordinary bank , even on the russian market, it is directly an investment agency of the russian government of the russian authorities , that is, it does not obey the usual according to the requirements of even their bank center here, of course, it is suspicious that such an institution had access to our critical data. but if we talk about state banks, they disappeared quite quickly after 2014, after the invasion of russia in crimea, the annexation, the beginning of the war in donbas, something happened to them directly. i remember that then the head of the national bank was mrs. valeriya gontareva and she said that russian banks of the future, with state capital, have no future in ukraine, what

happened to them? i understand that they had no problems with liquidity, they could to exist and fulfill all the requirements of the national bank for quite a long time and to increase its share in the market. nevertheless, they were somehow removed from the market . sanctions were introduced against russian banks with state capital, this is primarily about vtb bm investment bank and so on, but but , for example, you were liquidated in 2018, by the way, there were problems with liquidity and so on. bm bank was itself liquidated

there was such an opportunity. he simply put a license, as they say, and there was an eu bank in which the fate was. well, he bought it through a mediocre structure there, e.e. sberbank of russia, they sold it and it was absorbed by the group, and that is, he completely stopped communication with everyone then, that is, in principle most of the banks left in 17-18 years, but they were talking about manvest for quite a long time, they tried to sell it to a new investor . by the way, the last of such investors was the tas group of mr. tihipka, but it was finally liquidated at the beginning of 22 before the invasion by the way, as far as i understand, these banks had customers, there was a customer base, and there were also some commercial companies that placed their deposits there, took loans , there was a package of government bonds on

the balance sheet, and all this could not be simply crossed out and somehow forgotten about it, that is, there were some assets, and these assets, well, in one case, you explained that they were bought by the same group and somehow or other they were transferred somewhere for sale, but in general, as far as i understand the strategy, the strategy was not to let them develop and hope that they sometimes somehow, the little things are drying up, little by little, they will reduce their presence. well, they will close, or did that happen? there was not even a real estate worth millions of dollars. i think. well, in the center of kyiv . i remember that vtb bank building , which is luxurious, right across from it. the house next to maidan nedienka was built and the situation was as follows on the one hand back in the 14th year, a number

of banks are parent banks not ukrainian parent russian banks which are state -owned state banks through which they controlled these ukrainian ones that you and i mention were subject to, for example, sanctions from the united states, and by the way, hmm, the reason was nexia of crimea , that is, the formulation of sectoral sanctions, such and such russian banking groups , and the reason was crimea, but ah, we remember what was this banking collapse was a situation when banks left the market in droves and the state had to finance the deposit guarantee fund, the financial situation was quite dire, i would like to remind you that at the beginning of the 15th year , we had foreign exchange reserves of someone's net national bank about 0 and yes, i am young

so to speak, the total reserves there were approximately, it seems that 8 or 7 billion dollars is very little. and therefore, of course, there were some sharp movements . well, they were afraid of them. the sanctions that were originally from the very beginning consisted in the fact that they forbade the withdrawal of e-e loans previously received from parent structures and e-e hmm dividends to be transferred, that is, they could not transfer anything to moscow from ukraine and what did they do for that to chase what you are saying about er there is more or less er solvency it was in a certain way formal including because they converted the loans they

received there earlier for several years for 5-7-8 years from their they turned the mother e-e of russian structures into capital. that is, it improved reporting, but it hardly improved the situation in real life. well, of course, and they were really kept . e period when they started it they began to withdraw licenses to put them, well, it was after the 17th year about private russian banks, now let’s talk about the real thing, we got to alfa, er, alfa tried to somehow renounce its russian roots , changed its name to mean that it was clear that this bank was for sale, that an investor had already been found, were rumors that the owners of this bank and russian-israeli e-e businessmen

are ready to finance the bank and pour in 1 billion dollars, it seems that such an amount was mentioned, it's all some kind of smoke screen, that it's just to save the bank, or did they really try in some way to leave e-e bank without the attention of our regulatory bodies so that we can already detach ourselves from it so that it works for itself as a simple business . you know, i would prefer, i would prefer to share the problem of the bank itself in ukraine, and the problem is that its owners, its influence are under sanctions a- and of course the bank has developed all these years. i want to tell you that in hryvnias well, if you don't take into account the exchange rate there, but simply in hryvnias, the fact is purely formal , for example, hmm, as far as i remember ,

the amount of funds increased by three times, almost three times legal entities in alfa bank er, from january 1, 2014 to the present time , the amount of money of individuals in this bank has increased by approximately four times , that is, the bank has been developing quite actively all these years. on the one hand, this is a ukrainian bank with a large number of ukrainian clients, and on the other hand, there are mr. friedman kosogo v and others who are there with russian passports and who are under european and american sanctions, and so on and so on and so on ukraine couldn't just pretend that nothing is happening and we can continue to touch it quietly and everything is okay

. we had to introduce some kind of sanctions and we tried to do it. well , it seems that it was in the fall of last year, and the first attempt was in october adopt a law, but there was such a thing that a systemically important bank could be nationalized if it lost its liquidity, and there was such a very, well, in my opinion, interesting rule, the possibility of capitalizing such a bank at the expense of the budget well, if it is not solvent there, then it needs to be catalyzed, and here there was such a thing that the bank would be solvent and use its nationalization in order to avoid its fall in capacity , it was simply not possible, by the way, now the bank

accounts for approximately 2% of legal funds and approximately 4.5% of the funds of individuals in general if you look at the system. this is about his role and place in the banking system of ukraine, as they say the last attempt at nationalization sens-bank or the former alpha-bank did not have enough votes for the parliament, what exactly did they vote for and why were there not enough , what were the arguments of those who did not vote against , it seems that no one spoke so openly, simply, well , there was not a single vote against anya in the first anya in the second reading well opzzh changed dramatically. at first, they were almost all in favor, then they were absolutely all against or abstained , it is clear why in the eu, uh, there was a different situation, they uh, they were against it at the beginning, and

now i had european solidarity i did not like the procedure, i.e. the decision of the security council instead of the usual normal system, as they call it, which was introduced in the 14th year, when there through the court through all kinds of such mechanisms , they believe that the current proposed system is not very successful and insist on it change and they say that if you bring it to order, as they understand it, they will vote for the servants of the people. i think there were some internal contradictions, but i want to say that they mostly gave the majority of votes. and i wouldn't say what's there well, of course, they reduced the number, but it happened, that is, i think that if these, in my opinion, well, mostly technical problems will be solved, then everything will happen, but of course

there is a lot of speculation around this , a lot of p oksano, we will follow this story thank you for the inclusion oleksandr kramarenko chief the editor of the magazine деньги was on our air, they talked about russian banks in ukraine, but how russian capital through the banking system tried to influence ukrainian politics and the economy, collect confidential commercial data everything worked out. i'm andrii yanitskyi, the host of the program with economic news on the espresso tv channel. see you tomorrow at 8 a.m. live. together we

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drink a gift from the infantry, then he will try everything from the face of the earth, and we have a current example - this is bakhmut, where the infantry is not allowed they are just trying to wipe it out so that there is no one there at all, but their tactics are a bit strange, in fact, we have a prisoner recently during the planned assault several servicemen of the russian federation were captured and a 22-year-old boy explains that they are not even allowed to carry out the rotation because somewhere in the back there is some unit of the kgb that will shoot them in the event that they carry out the rotation without their permission , well, that is how i understand it now, the complete

russification of the destruction of one's own russia the people don't understand this tactic, it's possible. then i decided somewhere to reduce the number of the russian people, in principle , they already had enough of the enemy, but unfortunately for the children, they are actually a people, but they are still, as a rule , shadow peoples that russia has occupied, and there are villages there already. and there are no men left. this is about the first thing, it is about the beets, about the yakuts, this guy is from where in moscow, he is a student at the medical university, yes, well, when they offered to surrender there, they did not surrender, because they were told that we would

treat them cruelly. actually, i will tell you this somehow it's strange and funny when a prisoner who we took weighs 70 kg and he goes home 90 kg , you know, and when he comes to russia later and with such er, with such a pike, full of pike in physical form. what is in the heads of the russians, instead of telling the truth, you know them. even so, people will not publish the truth. those who remained here in the military service of the russian federation because they understood the essence of this war and they understand that this is some kind of stupid policy of putin, what kind of cancer is there the whole brain is already there

the world is praying. he has finally conquered the earth. people are just in shock and the military is also in shock now. they are not allowed to change. they are not rooted . they are not allowed to buy food . they bring two bags of food there to the village and then spread it around their positions, it’s ridiculous, lord, the second army of the world, which was not announced, is now fully progressing to the point that soon the military of the russian federation will turn around and shoot these kgb units and go to moscow themselves, well it's a bit of nonsense because every military person, like us, has it the enemy is waiting at home and mother and wife and children and loved ones and the military already understand that they are what to say boy we were abandoned well and they ask why you didn't surrender because

before we take the position an officer works with them who explains that you can't surrender because we are planning to commit atrocities on 2. it's better to either blow yourself up with a grenade or get yourself stuck. these are the instructions of russian officers for young infantry , dear russian officers and soldiers , into the beast. nurture and cherish what can you say about what the russians are doing with our military men whom they take as pows how do they return thin wasted exhausted physically and psychologically tortured and these photos of pictures where they are holding apples are in fact and these apples look like something incredible, some kind of exotic fruit for our military, moreover, actually from apples . they have to start because they