[000:00:00;00] from the fifth of june, tuesday, thursday, friday at 5:10 p.m. on the espresso tv channel, vasyl zima's long broadcast my name is vasyl zima, two hours of airtime, andriy, hours of your time as usual in the morning at 8:10 a.m. after the news, we will meet and today we will talk again about economic losses after the disaster at the kokhov hpp and more about the agricultural sector , millions of tons of crops may be lost as a result of the explosion. as a result of the destruction of the kakhova hpp, two main types of products were grown: melon crops and grain oil crops. vysotskyi in particular noted that

several hundred thousand tons of grain were preserved on the left bank, and more than 100,000 tons of crops were already lost on the right bank. well, the first international aid began to arrive after the disaster on kakhovskoe i will remind the hydroelectric power station that it was blown up by the russians according to ukrainian intelligence and according to all other evidence, denmark will help victims of drowning in the kherson region . the country has already sent us two powerful pumps 35 tents for living, three boats and generators announced this in the ministry of foreign affairs of the kingdom, later they will hand over five loads of cargo systems for collecting and removing water from flooded areas. and generators with a total cost of

more than 900,000 euros. well, you know the consequences, they are undeniably colossal, but at the moment it is difficult to tell you unequivocally what the amount is or, you know, for example , now we will lose x percent of the grain harvest. we simply still don't know how far the water will go. so what will we have in the territories from where it will come down in a few weeks , in fact, there is also information about 150 tons of lubricants spilled into the water, as you understand, this

also does not add any advantages to the yield in our of land, etc. of course, there is a huge problem that we know and understand for sure, it is the destruction of irrigation systems, and it is in danger of losing irrigation because of this , the russians blew up the dam, there are from 200 to 600,000 hectares of irrigated land, and this is actually somewhere three-quarters of irrigated land is blocked only in the dnipropetrovsk and kherson regions. for example, in these same regions in the xxi year, before the full-scale war there, more than 14% of our entire grain and leguminous harvest was harvested, and what constitutes the basis of our agricultural sector and our exports now in the south actually remains only the network of irrigation systems in the odesa region yes. and besides, we do not know what the climate in these zones will look like, for example, in a year, and we do not

know how much drier the conditions are there. yes, yes there are negative consequences for our exports because there were elevators and port terminals on the dnieper. yes, they are now damaged or destroyed, but we will be able to talk about the scale of the destruction in detail later and as more data will be received , a lot remains in the occupied area. in principle, navigation on the dnieper remains and after the reservoir was actually destroyed and all the water spilled, does the dnieper remain navigable there, or can grain still be transported on it? to lay new routes for bars, which transported grain closer to the ports. well, this is also a very difficult issue and an important one, in fact , from what is now. in public statements, it is the infrastructure of the same and that, rather than everything that goes along the dnieper below dniproges, that

it remains for silting actually unusable for such basic shipping due to banal isolation and a rather significant complication for our export logistics for our transportation of goods to the ports of the grain agreement and that is , in general, this dam undermining will increase, you know, the damage to our city, and this applies in particular to the fact that the unearned income of our farmers will be significantly canceled, but also to the increased costs of theirs, in particular there on logistics, now it will take more time to restore the sector, more resources, because, for example , it is now necessary to conduct alternative or to rebuild the destroyed irrigation systems there, you are now urgently allocated from the budget the first one and a half billion hryvnias in order to build just such

alternative main water pipelines for for the south of ukraine, it would be trivial to technically supply people with some kind of water, because many settlements will simply be left without it, and it is possible to replace the crops that were grown there with ones that are more resistant to the sun, to grow , for example, not wheat, but hmmm, i don’t know, i don’t know which crops can be more hardy they know that in the crimea, when the water disappeared for the first time during the years of the siege, then rice, which was grown traditionally in the north of the crimea and switched to cereals , disappeared before the lack of water, you know, grain is the basis of our sector in general. yes, it is simple to say that we will switch to something, of course there will be structural changes , but we understand that it also carries additional costs and, most likely, it will not spill out one way or another. which is a plus for us, yes, it will lead to a drop

in income and an increase in expenses, otherwise, unfortunately, i will not know that your agricultural center records losses for the sector as a whole since the beginning of a full-scale invasion , how do you do it how do you calculate these losses well and what is the last figure that was recorded, i understand without taking into account the disaster at the kakhovsky hpp, yes, it is still without, that is , now we will talk about what if we cut off this tragedy at the kakhovsky hpp, but even so, the losses are still very, very small obviously, according to the latest estimates by our team at the kyiv school of economics and together with the world bank , the total amount of damage caused by the russians to the agricultural sector is already more than 40 billion dollars.

damages, that is, everything related to physical physical destruction, for example, our agricultural machinery, equipment, infrastructure, storage of crops, fertilizers, seeds, and so on, the amount of such damages, according to the latest estimates, is almost 9 billion dollars, and it accounts for half of this amount just for the destroyed agricultural machinery, moreover, according to their habit, the occupiers are very fond of stealing. and just in the agricultural sector of our farmers , they robbed somewhere worth 2 billion dollars i want to interrupt them, and you mentioned the er agricultural library. and i remembered such a funny , well, not very funny, but still interesting case when russian propaganda spread a video that they supposedly destroyed ukrainian leopard tanks, and then er, autumn, er, investigators , well investigators who are familiar with open data found out that they were not leopards but what were our combines and tractors eh

equipment and foreign foreign equipment john deere which is expensive in fact quite expensive eh so you say that the equipment was destroyed and stolen uh, grain, occupiers, what else what other losses do you know they steal yes they steal everything i also remembered somewhere at the beginning of the invasion there was a story that the russians in the occupied territories were taking out equipment and so one farmer also found his rather expensive modern combine with a gps tracker somewhere there schoolboy w and such a story and in order for the authorities to be able to record their frequencies against the background of ukrainian companies. yes, but there is another side to the damage caused. in addition to these direct physical destructions, yes. and these are the so-called indirect financial losses that we have not had for a long time the ports were opened in general, i.e. they were closed for export, now they are not working

at full capacity , and there is no access to a significant amount of land . sometimes banal does not have physical access to them yes and all this leads to the fact that our farmers lose billions of dollars, our estimate is now that russia has caused our farmers some 31.5 billion dollars of indirect losses are all the lack of income and increased expenses of our farmers, and about half of this amount is precisely the crops that we should have received, we should have received if the war was not full-scale, and the situation with the kakhov hpp will only worsen this situation , increase the estimate, safely extend it for a longer period this is some kind of abstract calculations. is there still hope to get this money? well, it is possible first from the ukrainian state from the budget as

compensation, and then through such a chain from the aggressor state shall we wait only when russia already loses and begins to pay compensation in view of such huge losses, the most important question is how ukrainians have been harmed, it is good that the authorities have won, that justice must be established, and this question, if we are honest, relies very heavily on the legal plane, if we take compensation from the budget right now and that right now is a defense, everything is for victory. therefore , we need to turn to some ways to take back to russia what they need , yes. dollars of the resource of the frozen assets of the russian central bank in civilized countries in the countries, this is, as it were, the main accumulation fund from which we would like

to receive funds, but for now, at least it is difficult to confiscate it directly for compensation . one of the more realistic options that are currently being talked about is the use of such a resource as pledges to finance the reconstruction of ukraine , i.e. do not direct these funds to be used as pledges. from the russian federation, what is possible after our victory, one of the popular options that is spreading in the information space is a deduction for our reconstruction for compensation from the russian side with theirs and with their such a main financial artery from the export of oil and gas, but it is really a matter of time this is also a question of legal mechanisms and, most importantly , of political will, such unprecedented tragedies require unprecedented decisions and political will to establish comprehensive

justice. well, you mentioned that farmers bear huge losses, but what i know about ukrainian agriculture is that it is quite centralized, that we have large agro-agricultural companies, such agrarian oligarchs and some are even represented in the verkhovna rada , and here are the farmers in this european sense, small entrepreneurs who work directly for there is not so much land. maybe i am wrong. tell me how our agriculture is doing. do we really have such a small owner, uh, a farmer who takes care? well , as we see in american films, a person has a man has his own small business on a ranch, and hmm, it’s a family business, well, there are a few hired workers who work around it, it’s not an oligarch, an ordinary person , a common man, thanks for the question, look, in fact, in ukraine

, we have many small farmers, about 65% of all agricultural enterprises are small farms there up to 250 hectares of land but in rural areas there are generally three quarters of the population . they are engaged in agriculture, but the small farms of such people are not even enterprises, but rural families, they give more than 30% of our total agricultural production, that is, in fact, small farming. we have an important player and it should not be underestimated . of course, we have large agricultural players and they are actually exporters of our products, but let's not demonize them too much, because we do not forget that agricultural exports are even before the war, it gave us about 40% of foreign exchange revenue. and this is actually a guarantee of our currency stability, price stability, and actually economic growth in general in relation to the political influence of these big players as

he already said this question. i think it is so structural or systemic in the agricultural sector, but rather about the rule of law in ukraine and the law enforcement sphere. they hit the roadblocks hard, just as it does for other farmers, it cuts off a significant amount of their income, and for example, according to the latest surveys of the food and agricultural organization of the united nations, 90% of farmers reported a drop in income during war, on the other hand, as i already said, the price of fuel, seeds, and fertilizer will increase for them, these are all key components of the cost of production, in addition, many small farmers also experience the problem of the physical availability of these resources, especially in the front areas, and besides, this is a significant problem

in fact, even now and for years to come , our lands are contaminated by mines and unexploded ordnance, according to such a survey in the frontline regions . explosive, these are colossal numbers of our small farmers, and this is probably the last question that we will have time to consider. someday, our farmers will become such a powerful political force. someday they will realize themselves as the only such social group that will be able to influence state processes, as we can see in poland , the polish were dissatisfied. farmers because ukrainian grain goes through poland and sometimes remains there in gray schemes as if in transit but remains on the domestic market, they went out to protest and we see that the polish he had to resign as the minister of agriculture and a new person came in who had already solved this issue and

even poland, contrary to european european norms, imposes restrictions on the supply of ukrainian grain, it is clear that this is an influence precisely on this farming community in poland , our ukrainian farming community on today, it is not so united. when will it change? first of all, i think that we are in general in this matter. we do not need to depart from the position of the poles in this matter. it is worth understanding that elections are really on the horizon in poland, therefore for politicians the protection of their voters , among whom there are also farmers, becomes such a question of political expediency, you need someone to protect, yes , to be popular, therefore, to put it mildly, the polish argumentation on the issue of banning our e-e of agrarian imports, it is, well, quite biased by fezki, who allegedly interfere with our grain due to lower prices, but then according to logic

, the processors of our agrarian raw materials, who can buy cheaper, should come out resource yes consumers who may not work or for whom products are cheaper in stores yes besides and it is the same now in relation to such political power of agrarian here it is difficult for me to comment as it is not a political scientist not a political scientist yes but what i understand right now it is important for us to focus in order to help the sector right now, in view of all the problems i have listed, we need very coordinated support from international partners and organizations, we need to provide both direct monetary and direct goods support where it is necessary, but for this, for example, it is very important to be registered as a farmer in the state agrarian register , this is now the main channel for receiving assistance , but unfortunately, more than 20% of our farmers, some

in some regions, do not know about its existence at all, so there is such a thing you know, the homework for our authorities is to increase the information and business of felling. why is it important, why is it important to be registered in the agrarian register, what are the advantages - it will bring thank you , sir, and thank you, mr. igor, we will call farmers to register in the agrarian register in order to receive payments and aid to the state from the state ihor piddubny, a researcher at the kyiv school of economics, in particular, and the game of the center of the kyiv school of economics was on the air of the espresso tv channel. well , andriy yanitsky, the host of this program, see you on monday at 8:10 together we will overcome events, the most important events, events that are happening right now and affect our lives, of course, the news feed reports about them, but it is not enough to know

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territories in berdyansk, two 17-year-old boys, tigran-aganesyan and nikita khanganov , were indicted by the investigative committee of the russian federation, the teenagers are accused of allegedly preparing sabotage in melitopol railways, which was supposed to prevent the armed forces of russia from receiving supplies, this information about the persecution of ukrainian children was made public by the media initiative for human rights , human rights activists assume that the nearest 17-year-old tigran aghanisyan and nikita khanganov face a show trial, and the article they are charged with provides for up to 20 years of imprisonment. the charges were preceded by several months of abuse of children and their families, detention and torture , brutal interrogation by investigative bodies and the use of beatings and electric torture. local lawyers were appointed to the children , one of whom offers to turn himself in

. the russian investigator is in a hurry to take the case to court; in fact, the boys were left to fend for themselves with the russian repressive machine, the attempt of the tigran's parents to return to him from germany and take the boy out of the occupied territory failed. this family was arrested in taganrog in the fall of 2022. when oganessyan's tigran were first kidnapped by the russians , we told you about this story and the terrible tortures that the guy had to survive , they kept the teenager in the correctional colony number 77 - this is really a very infamous place that is called a merciless torture chamber, there the russians illegally receive mostly residents of the occupied territories, men as it turned out even children, repression against minors, their illegal detention and placement in non-liberty places is a gross violation of the un convention on the rights of the child, the universal declaration of human rights and the geneva convention on the protection of the civilian population

in time of war, fortunately six months ago, thanks to public resonance and publicity, the tigran was released and they left him alone, but unfortunately the russians fabricated such accusations and now the child faces up to 20 years in prison media initiative for human rights ukrainian human rights defenders and child tracing services magnolia we call on the international community to do everything possible to free tigra oganissian and nikita khanganov from the persecution of the russian authorities as soon as possible and ensure their unhindered departure to the territory controlled by ukraine or to third countries. we believe that the maximum publicity of this situation and the attention of the international community can to help save the seventeen-year-old tigran and nikita, and unfortunately tigran became far from the only child against whom the russians commit crimes in the occupied territories only in our

programs, we have repeatedly told you about similar stories , and even in april 2022, the russian military kidnapped and held 16-year-old vlad in captivity for 90 days. bandages were there, well, there were cotton balls with blood. also, we told about the story of 17-year-old andrii kachanovsky, this boy was kidnapped by the russians in the mykolayiv region and he remained in captivity for over a month . when they arrived, the soldiers came and said where your sons are not sleeping, look for them here handcuffed, they came out on the move, who gave things there, they did things quickly, handcuffed, now they twisted their handcuffs, the car was thrown like a sack of potatoes, luckily, vlad buryak and andriy kachanovsky managed to be released from captivity, and to a large extent thanks to publicity and public resonance, such stories are really very important not to be silenced and draw attention to them in every possible way

, i also want to note that if you know about any crime against a child, in particular about abduction or deportation, do not remain indifferent and immediately report it to the police or report to our site stopkrayem.ua, you can do it even anonymously and at the very end, as always, please go to the website of the child tracing service, many more boys and girls are wanted and we hope that with your help we will be able to find them, so if if you recognize any of them, please call us on our hotline at 116,000 from all mobile operators, free of charge, we have created a resource thanks to which you can report any crime against a child in any

city at any time, just go to site and let us know. and we will launch all possible mechanisms to punish the criminal of the ua countries. i welcome the program of the ukrainian voice of america service to the air. the new package includes additional ammunition for the petri air defense systems hawk and missiles for them artillery shells unmanned systems puma missiles with laser guidance and other assistance are allocated according to the program that provides for the purchase

capabilities of manufacturers. that is, it is aimed at strengthening ukraine in the long-term perspective, and at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the united states provided ukraine with military support of almost 40 billion dollars. at the same time, the white house reported that moscow not only received hundreds of iranian drones, but also cooperated with iran to produce them inside russia this indicates the deepening of the military partnership between the two countries , said the representative of the us national security council, john kerpy, in an interview with the voice of america, we will continue to work with our allies and partners in the un and outside the un to make sure that we put enough pressure on iran to stop these destabilizing activities their ballistic missile program continues to improve this is a clear threat to the region certainly to our friends in the region and now some of these possibilities are not necessarily ballistic missiles, but it is also about drones, this technology is used inside ukraine to kill innocent ukrainians, and now we know

that iran is cooperating with russia regarding the potential the construction of a manufacturing plant or the conversion of an existing plant that will be used in russia to actually produce unmanned aerial vehicles designed by iran, meanwhile, the american media report evidence that the dam of the kakhova hpp was destroyed by an explosion , the new york times writes that american satellites with infrared sensors recorded the explosion at the kakhovsky hpp before its destruction was told by an official of the us government on the condition of anonymity in in turn, norwegian researchers in an interview with nrpr radio also confirmed that seismic stations recorded explosions on the morning when the dam fell. the us government has not yet officially blamed russia for the explosion, but they emphasize that it was russia that occupied and controlled the kakhovsky hpp at the time of the tragedy, but president biden said that confident that the usa will provide funding for ukraine as much

as it will be needed, despite some skeptical voices in congress, before that, the speaker of the house of representatives, kevin mccarthy, said that the sanatoriums' proposal for additional financing for ukraine in the house of representatives will not consider more about this and other things, let's talk with our congress correspondent kateryna lisomowa, katya. i congratulate you. thank you for joining the broadcast . congratulations. so, what is this statement? funding for ukraine's support for this medic is essentially money for ukraine, it is already prescribed in the defense budget of the united states of america , but some republican senators, in particular senator lindsey graham, emphasize that these funds is not enough and they demand approval of an additional bill on the allocation of additional funds for defense and, in particular, for aid to ukraine, in turn, the main republican in the house of representatives, speaker kevin mccarthy, said that the sanatorium initiative will not pass in the house of representatives, here it is worth noting that kevin mccarthy did not say that he is against aid whether additional