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greetings, we are looking for six-year-old varia sozonova, who mysteriously disappeared on december 5, 2022 year, i immediately ask you to share this video with yours. social networks, because if as many people as possible learn about the search for the child, accordingly, the more chances we will have to find him. so, her grandmother is looking for an accident. she told us that the girl lived with her mother in kyiv. in the winter of 2022, they went to moldova, and were last in touch from the city of grigoriopil in transnistria. why mother and daughter went there, the grandmother cannot say for sure, but since december 5. the second year about the fate of the little girl

almost nothing is known about vara and her mother, i don't know how to look for them, in general, what are the possibilities that i can do, i 've already turned to wherever you want, well, i've seen during this time, well, someone should see in some school, kindergarten , to the polyclinic, where the child was more sick, and we very often ended up in the hospital straight from the ambulance, i don't believe that somewhere, well... somewhere, something is due. at the same time, the grandmother says that she allegedly has information from the police that her granddaughter and her mother crossed the border and returned to ukraine. however, here they are again, no one saw him, they did not contact him and, unfortunately, there are almost no leads that could help in the search. no one has seen them on the territory of ukraine, well, you know, at least some kind of surveillance camera that they are both...

the girl's grandmother now wants more than anything to get at least some information about the child, to make sure that she is alive, healthy, and with her everything is fine and this is how olga oleksiivna talks about her six-year-old granddaughter. oh, she is very. the girl's grandmother also told us that she has information about what her granddaughter with her mother, after returning from moldova to ukraine, they could leave for poland. at the moment, this is only a guess, but if you actually live in poland, maybe you will see varya sozonova and her mother there, or you will have some information about them, just call. us on

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the deputy injured dozens of people, what happened, that it was all because of money, a preemptive strike, how american congressmen created a fuse for trump, will it work, billions for the army or billions for roads and tiles, can they local budgets to directly finance the army , let's talk with an expert, as well as battles under

cover, a broken enemy column in the kharkiv region near sinkivka and whether mar'enka will stand up in the end with serhiy zgurets, and the eu is preparing a large tranche for ukraine, don't miss it, let's talk about everything, this is a program. great ether, my name is vasyl zima, and today we will sum up this day and this week - it is friday evening, we are starting the human and law charitable fund, together with the espresso tv channels, are collecting funds for powerful portable battery stations wellstrom. with solar panels for the 108th dnipropetrovsk separate brigade of the territorial defense forces of the armed forces of ukraine. in order to effectively destroy the enemy, military equipment must be systematically charged, and this is not always possible due to the difficult conditions at the front. battery stations are designed specifically for military needs. they replace generators and provide soldiers with energy even in field conditions. each hryvnia you listed will allow you to quickly transfer such necessary devices to the soldiers. let's protect our home, protect ukraine, we will help our army. expel the enemy from ukrainian land. i believe that by the end of this year we will make this

gift to our military. i will check how much is left for us to collect, we have collected a considerable amount, you first of all, but we will collect and close this case already this year. and now we will start a conversation with our guest and we will talk about the kherson region, oleksandr tolokonnikov, head of the press office of the kherson regional military administration. mr. oleksandr, i congratulate you. good evening. i'll start with today's enemy attacks in kherson, well, if there were strikes in the region, then you will tell me more, they hit a residential building, the market in kherson, there were two wounded, this was as of a few hours ago, maybe now there is more information, please, yes, about the market the russians struck at night around four in the morning, but there were two women already wounded, one was born in the 45th year, one was born in the 60th, as far as i remember, the 61st. and she received one medium injury and a fracture of the shoulder

joint, as the doctors reported and they sent the wounded to the hospital, it happened in antonivka, an enemy shell flew over the apartment building, there were several shells, and they were just injured there. ladies, the russians also recently covered belozerka, about an hour and a half ago, they covered belozerka with fire, there seem to be no casualties, there are no reports about it yet, but there is destruction, there are damaged cars, about 10 shells fell on this settlement, other settlements also under enemy artillery fire, there was gavrylivka, where there was... without casualties and such significant updates, now i want to ask

what the information was about, again from what can be said, because this area, which i am asking about today, is actually the line of confrontation between the ukrainian army and the enemy occupation forces on the left bank of the kherson region, we are talking about about the krynki, they write that the enemy is destroying the liberated part of the krynki, it is not a city, it is a village, well, but still, is there any information about this, is the krynki transformed into the same thing that it was transformed into? many settlements in the donbass, and kherson oblast, by the way, also, let's say, there, maryanka, please, probably yes, we unfortunately do not know such exact data, but judging by how many shells are arriving there, how many have arrived and continue to arrive , aerial bombs that the russians release their planes from the left bank, there really is probably not much left of... the wells, unfortunately, well, it really is, as you rightly said, more than one

such settlement in the kherson region, but i also want to point out that the guys who they are standing there now, bow to them for what they are not only are they moving forward and holding back the enemy, they are also taking the blow and protecting their own with their own bodies... one might even say so, children, here, elderly people, people of the kherson region, who are here now, and these projectiles, if it wasn't for the field, well, we wouldn't have flown to kryna, we would have flown to kherson, so we thank them for their strength and courage so that we understand how difficult it is for them. i will also ask, there is good information, it was possible to evacuate five children from the occupied kherson region, well, first of all , about this story. how many more of these children need evacuation, i understand that

there are many of them, well, in the occupied territory, yes, well, first of all, it is very difficult to work there, taking children there, our volunteers and secretaries are constantly working, but there are many reports that the russians are demanding for children , whom they took away, and for the fact that they will let them go, they demand money, ransom, and this is not the only problem, finding these children is also a problem to negotiate, how much is difficult to say now. because what if we talk about children who are wanted by the prosecutor general's office and volunteer organizations, who are the children there orphans, it is at least clear about how many were taken there, as far as i remember, about 40 children

were taken from kherson, also from stepanivka, she along with her pupils, with other not only children there. about 100 children , with regard to the left bank there from orphanages , the situation there is also unclear, because there is no access, all the other children who are illegally kept there on the territory of russia, and here once the russians took them there on vacation, but they have parents, these organizations also help such people to find them. and take out, but not all here parents, as far as i understand, are in contact , god, many parents are also on the left bank, the situation is so difficult, and this is primarily dealt with by the prosecutor general’s office together with organizations, and they do, and we already ascertain when they return, we can that

's enough to say, thank you very much, i wish you to protect yourself, thank you for your work, first of all, and for the comments for... our viewers oleksandr tolokonnikov, head of the press office of the kherson regional military administration, that such good information from the kherson region that by according to the information of the armed forces of ukraine on the left bank, the muzzles of the enemy's guns were torn by shells that they bought from china of the democratic people's republic of korea, this is pleasing, well , the fact that they had shells that were not suitable for hailstorms there, we have already seen how they hammered them some kind of woodwork, well, this is proof that not everything is done according to standards, as they say in... that doesn't make it any easier for us, let 's now talk about the topic i announced: can local budgets directly finance the army, how does it happen, because here are these pickets under city halls, administrations, these are the right things, very often money is spent on something incomprehensible, and on the other hand, in the last quarter of this year, financial abuses in the ministry of defense amounting to 10 billion hryvnias, i

did not see any protests there, so the question here is a bit like this, it is necessary to... ask everyone, yes , ask everyone, and not only those mayors who are not liked by someone in the president's office, there is also an open question, and skada shubekov, a deputy of the zaporizhia regional council, is in touch with us yazuk, mr. askade, i congratulate you, i congratulate you, well in fact, you know, such an informative reason for our conversation can be a story that has not been fully clarified, but actually already understood, which happened in transcarpathia, where grenades were thrown, this person who did it explained that that the local budget money. is not distributed like that, somewhere payments to the head, somewhere bonuses, somewhere allowances, and it became unbearable for this certain person who came and thus decided to establish justice, this is not the way, absolutely, this cannot be done, but we see certain we see the consequences of people who live in wartime and under stress and cannot always act adequately, on the other hand we see a lot of

pickets in ukraine, under city halls, under local administrations, they say give money for war, don't give money for tiles in... conditionally speaking, here too we need to clarify this situation: according to the law, i am not saying right now, according to the call of the heart, according to the law, can the city government, well, let's go, the city government, let the village, city government finance the army directly, if possible, how, which parts, as it is foreseen, please, well in fact, the legislation and the budget code actually prohibit local budgets from financing the armed forces of ukraine or purchasing military goods, right? distributed in the tax code and in general , the legislation divides exactly the expenses that are aimed at local development and the expenses that are aimed at defense, i.e. everything that concerns defense, it comes from the state budget, but there are peculiarities, in fact through the local budgets, city , regional budgets of settlement communities, villages, it is possible to actually purchase goods or equipment

dual-purpose, like a drone, and there are some anti-drone handguns. infrastructural things that can also serve as support for the army, in fact, what in principle a large number of territorial communities have been doing all the time since the period of full-scale aggression by the russian federation, that is, through their local programs, they bought their balance, in fact, initially they took these things that are related to the provision of the army and then handed them over to specific military units or units that can to accept them on the balance, that is, with, but the process itself zakopilieru. was directly the local council, also the local council can actually provide targeted subventions to one or another unit and then depending on whether the unit has, let's say, qualifications. well, part of the personal income tax from local budgets was taken to the central budget, it is the security forces,

the army, the state emergency service, it is clear there, but the personal income tax remains, there is also a tax on enterprises, there is a tax on land, well, there are other taxes, but now we are talking about the tax on the income of an individual, how much percent of that pdfs that were received earlier, let's say, zaporizhzhia region remain, and what does this money go to? well, look, zaporizhzhia region will spend more than a billion hryvnias next year from the withdrawal of military personal income tax, that is, in fact, we must understand that personal income tax is a key budget-forming tax, well , for almost all regions and for all territorial communities, because it is split as follows : 60% of personal income tax, military, civilian, it doesn't matter, all those who receive wages go to local budgets, another 15% go to regional budgets budgets, and already the remaining 20... actually goes to the state budget, i.e. by taking away the military pfdfo, and we understand that in such front-line regions as the zaporizhia region, there are the same chernihiv, sumy, and kharkiv regions,

where economic development has fallen very significantly , in general, it is very difficult to talk about any kind of economic development, the very presence of the military was a very big foundation, including for filling budgets, therefore , of course, such an area as zaporizhzhya will lose very significantly from the fact that the military pdf was taken away, plus another important... an important aspect is, of course, the defenders of this logic, that the state budget pays the salaries and wages of the military, that it makes sense to take these taxes back to the state budget and direct them to the defense sector, there is a separate logic in this, however , we must understand that the innovations that have been implemented since october of this year and will be in the next year, they affect not only the military, they actually take pdfs from the entire security sector, including the workers of the state emergency service, and these include the police. actually on it personal income tax, it has always been a part of the local budget, and the local budget counted on this personal income tax and could cover social guarantees for the local population as a whole

, support the livelihood of its territory, and now this tax, which is a very large amount, in fact, which is also being collected today to the state budget, so in fact, of course , the state is preparing safeguards there in the form of targeted subsidies to the territories, but we must understand that they will in no way be at least approximate... and to those losses that, for example, receive front-line territories. well, and now, if, let's say, you take those personal income tax returns that, well, you won't receive them yet, i mean next year, but the expenses have already been pledged, the revenues have already been pledged, promising, possible in this budget, how many percent can go, let's say, to military needs, but a decision was made in kyiv, it is again not for the army a billion hryvnias, there the expenditure part of the budget of kyiv is 85 billion, the income is 72, well, the billion is for needs and related to defense and so on, it's very difficult there written, but conditionally speaking, everyone understands that it is a billion for the army, that is 85 billion and a billion for the army, this is so that we understand

that there is such a thing now, but if we talk about the budget of your region, how many percent can be allocated so as not to affect the social sphere , medical, well there and so on and so on and so on, everything for what the communal sphere there and reconstruction, because this also requires money, no one will give it, as much as can be spent on needs. armies, the purchase of drones and others, many other things. i will tell you frankly, it is very difficult question, because in fact, and conditionally speaking , today a small part of the budget for the 24th year, i mean, if we take the budget of the region directly, because it is small due to the large occupation of the territory of the region, and only conditionally, about 5% goes there on defense infrastructure, i mean of a civilian nature, that is, there are defense structures and so on, most of the budget of the zaporizhzhia region today... is directed precisely to the support of social infrastructure, i mean today it is medical infrastructure, these are hospitals, this is educational infrastructure , that is, the regional budget, it actually does not deal

with issues of tiles or any other things there, we actually only support the functioning of critical infrastructure, and even under these conditions, the regional budget will actually have a large deficit, again due to the withdrawal of military personal income tax, so if we talk about the budget of the region, the situation there is quite complicated, and they clearly regulate all funds. expenses, i mean, expenses are regulated by the regional military administration, every expense is for today day, it passes a special commission, and even there those communities that are in the controlled territory of the zaporizhzhia region, they cannot make purchases without the approval of this commission, that is , today in the zaporizhzhia region it is precisely the territorial communities, except for the city of zaporizhzhia, they are completely subordinated to the regional military administration, all purchases are made in this way, a large part of the budget in fact. budget funds, again, this is in the city of zaporizhzhia, as far as i am not mistaken, last year several hundred millions of hryvnias were also allocated to support the army in the city budget,

it seems close to me... these are small funds, but we also have to understand that, specifically , 200,000 internally displaced persons are concentrated in the city of zaporizhzhia today, which means that this is a burden on the social infrastructure , on medical infrastructure, and in fact the city currently directs these funds to support, including internally displaced persons, that is, i would still not consider the budget of the city of zaporozhye as a budget which is directed to tiles or something else, because, well, in fact, in zaporizhzhia , not much is done. somehow related to public works, rather than other things, that is , the majority of the budget is directed specifically to critical infrastructure, and today the city will also lose a large amount of funds due to the withdrawal of the military personal income tax. well , i think i have literally two minutes, if they don’t tell me anything now, then what will i ask about, how to monitor the rational use of funds here now, because i don’t know anyone here now accusing, because i don't know, but a strange story, let's say, it's just as an example, you know, a small dot on the map, in chornobayivska hromada 50,200 uah.

was given to an entrepreneur, well, for the performance of certain works or certain activities, and she registered her business activity 16 days before she received this money, a question already arises, there may be many such questions, because it is possible to perform work for one amount, receive another amount, well, everyone understands everything, but how to fight with this, or now, as they say, you can fight only by situation? in fact, speaking, i can speak about the zaporizhia region, i will return to this question, that in the zaporizhia regional military administration, a s... social commission was created, which actually does not allow overpayments, does not allow certain payments and projects to be made, if they do not want the approval of this very commission, which includes representatives of the regional military administration of specialized structures, also separately in each region of ukraine, this is already according to general state trends, working groups have been created, transparency and accountability, which includes representatives of the military administrations, the security service of ukraine, the state security service, the prosecutor's office, the police, who actually also monitor these issues, this is what

concerns the state... i mean investigators, representatives of the mass media, because a large number of purchases today exposed at the expense of such public activity, it is very good that the prozoro system has worked, that is , it obliges budgets of all levels to publish projects in them, and tenders, this is very important, and at the expense of just such public infrastructure is also receiving a lot of attention today... these procurements are being allocated, and some procurements are actually stalling at the stage of simply announcing tenders. thank you very much for participating, thank you for your comments, and skada shurbekov, a deputy of the zaporizhia regional council, explained to us a little the situation with whether the city government can finance the army, the city, village government cannot directly cannot, there are certain nuances, so and one must always understand that a part of personal income tax is now taken from the communities, again to the center, and there are also certain duties that

must be fulfilled, for this too. i need money, relatively speaking, i want to drink tap water from the state, but here the issue is also important, so that someone does not steal from it, i will now, before handing over, serhiy zgurets, next to me, congratulations, serhiy, congratulations , congratulations to our viewers, i will make one remark now, and then we will start the military summaries of the day, this is about mobilization, and rustem umerov, while in lviv today, said that even the head of the village now has the right to personally form and sign summonses, according to the statute. my number 352, other issues are currently being worked out legislatively regarding mobilization, after the adoption of the verkhovna rada, the decisions will be announced, so to speak, we will immediately begin, well , we will start the conversation about the military results of this day and week literally in a moment. so, i am glad that serhiy is with me, and we will

now ask him questions that... worry not only me, but all of us. the week was not easy, sometimes we lost maryanka, sometimes we didn't lose marinka. in the kherson region, putin said that he had already defeated everyone, ours are holding on, krynka, and so on, and avdiyivka, all this is worth discussing, but putin said, yesterday he spoke before the population, i will always say the population, because it is not the people, the people do not behave like that, it is the population, but he was speaking before the population , and says that the plans for the war have not changed in russia, the tabloid is german from its own sources, but we understand that these are russian sources, wrote that... putin wants to continue the war until the 26th year and seize kharkiv, the dnipro and zaporizhzhia, but seems to be ready to give up odesa, as to evaluate these plans, this is manilovshchyna in putin's style, to build a bridge from manilovka to moscow, are these any real, real prospects? well, of course, these are not real prospects, but first of all, we understand that putin and the russian federation have not given up their plans to completely seize ukraine, and that's how.