[000:00:00;00] facial surgery, head and neck surgery, we will also perform several limb reconstructions for patients, the most difficult cases were selected with the participation of our colleagues , together, they were considered and an operation plan was created for several months before the operation, before this actual series of operations, everything was coordinated, so this everything is very carefully planned, behind this door a team of american surgeons is currently reconstructing the face of... ukrainian military personnel, part of the team of the charity mission is from ukraine, complex operations, i don't i will come up with nothing for you, these operations are actually very complicated, just in terms of aesthetics and plans of function of functioning, that is what is the priority for the patient, aesthetics or functioning, for example, when a person cannot open the jaw, when the jaw does not cook in order to speak normally,

to receive, to receive food, it is very important, my team... i am charged , everyone works together, we have a strong team, we do as much as we can to help ukraine in a difficult time, we supported ukraine and ukrainians and we will do it and further and to provide quality medical care to those who suffered in this war. in general, operative interventions will be performed on several dozen ukrainians, some of them have extremely complex injuries, so the operations can last from 10 to 15 hours, all medical services for them are free of charge. the competition between washington and beijing should not turn into a crisis or even open a conflict, this is the main result of the talks between us president joe biden and chinese president xi jinping at the asia-pacific economic cooperation in san francisco. chinese the leader called the relations of the two countries the most important in the world and emphasized that the planet is big enough for both countries to achieve

success without mutual confrontation. the two sides have restored direct military-to-military communication channels... to prevent escalation in the event of misunderstandings, china has promised to introduce controls on the export of chemicals from which us drug cartels make the synthetic opioid fentanyl, but no common position has been reached on issues such as gas warfare , the politics of iran and north korea, and the status of taiwan. in addition, biden at the press conference already following the results of the meeting, he again called himself a dictator, because he rules a communist country. the name is in the mmz of china. this statement absurd and provocation. well, let's add, he rules not only in a communist way, but he rules alone, and here we will talk about this and other things with oleksandr levchenko, a diplomat, and the highly empowered ambassador of ukraine in the republic of croatia for 10-17 years. we welcome you. welcome studio. regarding this condition, or the specially voiced thesis of the thesis, the term, in fact, regarding the dictatorial component, yes sidzipina, we will talk, but i would like

to start with something that is closer to us, well, closer to us is the situation in ukraine and the war. there is a statement at the level of the ministry of foreign affairs of the people's republic of china, from the representative of the ministry of foreign affairs maoning, who noted that beijing's position on the crisis in ukraine, as it calls the war, is a consistent father, in fact, this meeting between biden in no way affected their outlook and perception of the situation , the two presidents exchanged views on international and regional issues, and state that they are of common interest, including ukrainian crisis. well, and the palestinian-israeli conflict, in your opinion, but did biden still have the leverage or tools to influence this very position and worldview of xi jinping, well, only he has to indirectly, so to speak , the signal goes to beijing that let's be ready relations are improving, the idea that trump has declared that china is the number one enemy

, maybe... this is not quite the right wording, let's start with things that are simpler, it is the fight against drugs there, nanotechnology, and more practical establishment of direct military ties so, then that is, if suddenly there is a military threat, the use of serious armed forces, then the president of one state will call another on a special phone, which will... and he will pick up the phone and talk about this problem. as for ukraine, well, it would be very optimistic to believe that china will change its position in connection with the fact that the usa will offer something about ukraine there, in general, you have seen this and it was not so much sounded in the reports and so on, obviously it was somewhere in the positions

a little... further, than taiwan, than, bilateral ties, what, regulation of the situation, the south china sea, meanwhile, it was mentioned, and it was mentioned, and the chinese people 's republic itself obviously confirmed its position, which it is, in principle it condemns what is happening, yes in ukraine, about it's called a conflict, well, that's what the osce calls it a conflict, so you understand, er , the osce didn't call it a war because of russia's blockade, the un didn't call it a war either, so if china calls it too , well, according to the international, unfortunately, formulations, where russia blocks everything, so the topic was raised, we need and working with

the people's republic of china, uh, explaining the situation that is happening, meeting here with the local ambassador, more often he says what beijing thinks about this and what kyiv thinks about it. in the context of relations with china, studio. regarding sino-us relations, how clear are you from your words that the progress made in san francisco will be lost if trump hypothetically wins the election? right? and yes, if trump wins the election, perhaps this progress will not be lost, because it was during his administration that china was determined to be number one, meanwhile, some time has passed, meanwhile, if some economic contacts work, levers that will bring, say, american companies,

profits, if it improves the situation, in the pacific region, then it turns out that it is not the proposal was completely wrong, and it is not excluded that trump can and will continue this without pouring out declarative statements, if it benefits the united states and the policy that he believes the united states should implement in the studio world, yes, but, well, you rightly pointed out that they don't have them, it just happened to me here, na eyes, so to speak cover. zaiconmist, where zelenskyi and putin are depicted, as well as xi and biden, well, we will return to that now, it is just here that it is important to say in the context of the meeting between sydzipin and biden that, in principle

, these relations, these mutual relations, are probably much better, even those , which they are, than those that were really under trump, because even trade wars, and economic is complex, a component, more precisely, defense, it is very important for both countries, leaders in this realm, then... there were wars and that's when i suffered the chinese economy, and it was then that it was discussed that the countries should still improve their mutual relations, now we will continue the topic already in the context of the european union, because the hungarian authorities are trying to get support for their anti-european and anti-ukrainian policy with the help of a manipulative referendum. the country has started a so-called national consultation, a written questionnaire of citizens, all 11 questions of the questionnaire are directed against the european union, whose policy will be... pes is trying to present it as hostile to hungarians, four of them mention ukraine financial and defense support, joining the european union and opening borders for ukrainian grain. all of them are formed in an anti-ukrainian way, they incline the participants

to refuse help to kyiv. the national consultation will have no legitimate consequences, it is rather a media campaign to promote the policies of the ruling fidesz party. however, there is a threat that her. the results will be used by the prime minister of hungary, viktor orban, as a basis for blocking negotiations on ukraine's accession to the european union. however, there is also the opposite precedent. participants in previous polls spoke against the introduction of sanctions against russia, but hungary supported them, albeit reluctantly. mr. oleksandr, what will the results of these consultations mean, will it be necessary to listen to the will of the people, so to speak. in mandatory order, well, this is a consultative thing, but of course, it is specially made in such a way that it seems that the hungarian people do not support the idea of ​​ukraine joining the european union, and this is not just

a whim of viktor orban and his party, which is in power, as it were but the voters do not see it this, he should listen to his voters and the voters, this is how they say that ukraine still needs time in order to start negotiations with the european union, it is clear that this formulation of the question is very much not quite correct, but from viktor orban another and we didn't expect, so we need to approach this situation more carefully, we need to understand that hungary is our permanent neighbor, viktor orban took over as the head of fidysh, as if he will still manage the country quite confidently.

at least three years and it is unlikely that he will be anything to change our positions, if we do not apply our argumentation, to meet with him more often or with his subordinates in the closest circle, taking into account the minister of foreign affairs sijaharto, therefore, this hungarian flight must be broken through little by little and communicate with our european partners so that they also help us with this from brussels, wanting orvan to make certain concessions, which are not really concessions, but simply a position, and for which hungary wants to extract something from the official brussels studio, by the way, on the 24th year, we will discuss about 70 election processes in the eu and in other countries, in particular, we can see the cover of the economist publication, i am pleased with such bright puzzles at the end of the year, this publication every time, in this way, mr. oleksandr, i

am addressing you , study it, please, you can see this picture again, please study it, you have a couple of seconds, and take it for yourself and understand how you see it, well, actually this picture, this puzzle, what is it for you opinion would mean, because we see four leaders here, so volodymyr zelenskyi and putin are facing each other, there are ballot boxes , and below we can also see sidzepin and biden, they... are turned away from each other, but the election march and the election process, in principle, they are in one of the first places, yes there are these hourglasses turned upside down and filled in different ways, please let me know what you think about it, thank you for commenting on everything, because the studios did not include something, i can't see you, i can only hear you, so but it's good that you described everything, what is there and so on,

so the situation is that. that the principle is that no matter who wins the elections in poland, in hungary, in slovakia, in the united states of america, we must work with them fruitfully, openly, intensively, trump will win, so we must work with trump, won, well, the pro-ukrainian coalition in poland , we will work, but while she has not taken over, we must work with the one who is in power now, because the border is blocked. i'm sorry, what number does it come from? november 6, what date is it today? and the question has not yet been resolved, but what are we waiting for? here is the question, we lose millions, hundreds of millions of dollars for these downtimes, and it even affects the situation, because military and technical supplies are also being sent

to the situation at the front. well, in the grand scheme of things, this is an unacceptable situation , it must be de-escalated in advance before it gets to such an aggravation, that is why elections will always be held in the countries of western democracies, parties there will always change power, but kyiv, official kyiv, with all parties must mother more or less rough relations. constructive and solve issues in the interests of the ukrainian people and in such a way way for the other party to perceive our arguments studio. well, of course, thank you for joining our broadcast, oleksandr levchenko, diplomat, extraordinary plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine to the republic of croatia was with us for 10-17 years. the broadcast continues. the number of ukrainians who save on food has more than doubled over the past two years. this is stated in the inflation report of the national bank, according to the regulator's survey, in 2021

, more than 12% of ukrainians saved on food, in 2022, almost 20%, and in 2023, more than 26%. that is, this is a quarter of citizens, the share of those who have enough food, but need to save on clothes and shoes , has not changed over the past two years, while the number of those who can afford any purchases has increased by 3.5 times, but such ukrainians only 1.7%. we will definitely discuss this topic more than once with our guests, but by and large, you know, olya, no matter how much we are given forecasts and the percentage ratio of prices and compensation, indexation, subsidies, increases in pensions, salaries in the next, in several stages, c next year in this year, after all, there are feelings that we seem to be constantly catching up with this price, price growth , and in reality, with each, well, if not a month, then probably several times a year, we feel that

we have a lot of money, well there is less, there is not enough for the same purchases as six months ago or a year ago, and no matter how hard the state tries, well, it is absolutely objective in... we have a war and it is quite difficult, the biggest part of the budget is external borrowing , but still, well, little by little it becomes more difficult, and it probably will the first question for our guest, and vasyl furman, doctor of economic sciences, joins our broadcast, we welcome you, i congratulate you, mr. vasyl, we are talking about the fact that more and more ukrainians who save on food, they cannot even afford to eat as they need, say, until the war ends, this war will continue, and the difficult question is, i hope that this trend will stop, but there is indeed a study by the national bank of ukraine, which says that the number of ukrainians who save for

travel has more than doubled compared to, for example, the 21st year, and in my opinion, this is the main factor - this is the war. because if there was no war, well, it would be strange, i guess, and then we would have to really look at what the problem is, there are even other problems, they recede into the far, far away plane, that is , first of all, it is a war, although together however, the national bank also noted in its research that the number of those who can afford any purchases increased by 3.5 times, that is, the number of people who work, earn, well, in general. i would say that our incomes of ukrainians today, they are growing thanks to budget support and an increase in the economy, if there is an understanding of who these people are, the 1.7% of people who can afford absolutely everything, and who have increased by 3 half of the time, well, there is no

point of view of what kind of ukrainians there are, whether it is a floodplain, or exactly groups, that is, it is a survey, what kind of activity do they have? but i should also point out that a full-scale war clearly affects the labor market, if i remember, on 24-02, that is, literally the first half of last year, our unemployment was quite high, under 30% , that is, unemployment, that is, people who do not have a job, it is clear that they do not receive, well, they save in them, but as of now, for example, unemployment in our country is decreasing and amounts to... there is a little more than 18%, that is, under 30%, as of now 18%, and according to forecasts, for example, next year it will be unemployment will make up less than 16% there and will continue to decrease, so this indicator, of course, affects, well, let's say yes, on the incomes of ukrainians, on their concessions, to save there, to buy, for example, and

so on, if we are talking, for example, about real wages, then this year it will increase by 18% according to... the assessment of the national bank, in it will grow by 16% in the 24th year, and by 13% in the 25th year. finally, it should also be noted that the growth of the average salary, that is, as of now, it is about uah 17,17,200, and it is growing, that is, in general , the average annual growth this year is 20 5%. due to increased demand for labor, employment gradually... in our country, however, the situation is difficult, both with the reduction of unemployment, that is, in principle, the indicators are quite high, i talked about them, and with the search for qualified personnel, that is, we know that there are very, very many businesses are facing labor shortages today, but we also understand that

economic recovery is supporting employment growth and wage increases, but the labor market will remain backward for a long time due to the effects of the war. well, of course, war is war, but still, well, it is possible here there are tools that in different years, at different times and different governments resorted to in the context of deregulation, price fixing, look, the specialized bank for food and agribusiness, there is such an organization, they state that the demand for food, it is about 24 as the year progresses, food stocks will remain weak as consumers continue to face economic challenges. including high general inflation, interest rates, there's a lot more text to go on, but shouldn't it be possible to focus here on fixing prices, maybe on basic products, let. there are imported, imported goods or goods from, well, let's say, from some exotic link of the list, they remained

objective with prices, and the state would regulate some basic products, well, so that this did not apply at least to eggs, bread, which is also constantly grown there sugar, etc., introduce pre-burn cards, look, i am categorically against any regulated prices, if we are talking, for example, there are the prices of eggs, you said, that is, if you look at the year, the price of eggs are falling, the price of buckwheat is falling, but before that they rose to 70 hryvnias per dozen, and i understand, well, this is a market, you understand simply, that is, but about fixing prices, well, let’s go back there to 30 there 5 years ago, the soviet union when nothing about prices or price regulation in the conditions of war, that’s how i asked the question, listen , we’ve been at war for two years, and you today, well, let’s be honest, that is, difficult periods, especially last year there, that is, a huge plus there for the government, other state bodies that were able to provide

that is, we did not have a problem with a shortage of products at all, but this is the first, that is, as far as concerns, well, here we need to think about the economy and its stimulation, well, in principle, in conditions of war, for example, there is the state, there is a program 579, tens of thousands of ukrainian enterprises received loans on very favorable terms, there are loans at 0%, and at 5%, there at 7.9%, for example, and for the total amount there, so you understand, these loans were issued there at 180 billion hryvnias, a huge number, and therefore there are programs, there is a home, for example, when the state encourages ukrainians, there are various programs under three or under 7%, such as buying a house, for example, there are a lot of grant programs, so our task with you is not to look at what to freeze, you understand, our task today is to think about what in a way, well, for the economy to work, because today... natural and legal entities of ukraine pay taxes and these funds go to support the war, salaries of military personnel, for victory,

the military-industrial complex, for example, this is where the funds go, that is, external funds the international financial aid we receive, there is one thing, but we cannot direct it to the military-industrial complex, well, everything related to the war, so our task today is to think about how to increase the ukrainian economy, it , well, again, if we are talking about this year, that is, i remember that at the beginning of the year the economy, the forecasts of almost many forecasters consisted of the fact that the economy will grow up to 1%, now the economy this year has been revised forecasts are already under 5%, that is, the economy is growing, before that, i mentioned numbers where there is an increase in wages, but we need to think about how to increase the employment of the population, we need to understand that there is a large number of people abroad, according to various estimates, more than 6 million, and they need to be returned, that is... but you will return only when people, well, firstly, the key risk of any forecasts we are talking about is war, and it is clear that

the reduction of security risks will encourage people to return, another factor is that they must be stimulated, i.e. they already work there for example, conditionally in poland or germany or in the czech republic, if a person returns here, that is, he will compare, that is, except for the housing that they have here, but of course it is important for them to have a job, comfortable working conditions, and then, well, our the task of ukraine is to ensure the return of ukrainians, that's why everyone, well, our people, human capital is one of the first things that will influence the growth of gdp, especially in the post-war recovery, let's talk about the course with you, let's talk about the course, yes, hryvnia strengthened by 11 after the weekend kopecks, the national bank has set the official exchange rate for monday at the level of 36 hryvnias 14 kopecks per dollar, the euro will cost 39 hryvnias 26 kopecks in exchange offices traditionally more expensive than the dollar will be from 37-77 kopecks per euro more than

405 hryvnias. mr. vasyl, to what extent does the exchange rate depend on ours, on international aid, because we understand that there is a direct proportion to foreign currency income. congress did not vote to help ukraine, we are dependent on american funds, what will happen next, because there are different forecasts and some of them we will not receive until december, well, there are indeed different forecasts, we must to say that we thank our international partners who help us both with weapons and finances, because thanks to these two components we reliably keep the defense, and it is extremely important if we talk about weapons, that is, their increase for our victories, and with regard to finances, it is extremely important that it comes in rhythmically and in the amounts agreed upon, for example, if we are talking about last year , ukraine received about 32 billion dollars of external international financial aid there,

if we are talking about this year, 45 billion dollars according to the forecasts of the national bank, we should receive this year, if we are talking about next year, then we are talking about the fact that , as far as i remember, the deficit in the state budget next year is 41 billion dollars, we are talking about what we need attract at the expense of external international financial aid, what are these funds, who can give them, i.e. well, first of all, these are the funds of the international monetary fund, it is planned to be 5.4 billion dollars, then these are the funds of the united states of america, i.e. in general, what is the aid including there this year, it's 11.8 by the end of next year, in the next year, if we make a tranche, then we are talking about the amount of 8.5 billion dollars, the eu - 18 billion dollars, in total we come out for 32 billion dollars, the delta, this is 9 billion dollars, well, according to the estimates of infin, that is, we

we can receive from our partner countries, such as canada, norway, japan, south korea, and the world bank, for example, is the political leadership of our country conducting complex, i will say so, work on various issues, but if we dream now about finances , that is, in this matter it is also extremely difficult, but i am an optimist, i hope that we will be able to attract the funds that we agreed with our partners, despite the fact that yes, it is difficult, that is, there is a political process, well, we are simply observing it, but everyone understands, well, about the fact that funds are extremely important for ukraine. because i have already read the us government officials, you remember when they said that the funds provided to ukraine, the external international financial aid, it is conditional, everything that is not related to the war, simply and funds that she earns herself ukraine, that is, well, i mean the taxpayers that we pay there, that is , individuals and legal entities - these are the funds that go to support the military-industrial

complex, the ukrainian army, the salaries of military personnel, simply and the more of these... funds, the more ukrainian business will earn, the better, because we will have more weapons, we will have more opportunities to approach, thank you, thank you, vasyl furman, doctor of economic sciences. shihor that the victory is approaching, and another year when we do not celebrate, but choose our own independence, and one more day when they try to deprive us of the right to be ourselves, and

one more fleeting moment of a terrible war that has been going on for centuries, but the whole... the world is already convinced: our independence will not be destroyed, drowned, burned, shot, and the greater our hatred, the stronger our independence, the closer our victory. we prove independence every day. ukrainian gives freedom. the occupiers tuck their tails. having heard about ukrainian cotton wool and cotton, and we have not yet mentioned words with 30 letters, ukrainian is the language of the free. hrobchik, how are you? i feel it's hard for you, maybe you're confused and you feel like nothing's going right now, you know what i do when i'm confused? i go to the mirror, look at myself, remember what i have already

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