power plants as reported by the ministry of energy, negotiations with bulgaria regarding the supply of reactors for new units are at the final stage. construction can begin as soon as the verkhovna rada approves the relevant draft law and construction will continue , according to preliminary estimates, possibly for two or even three years. these are the data we have. and it is interesting that there were no accidents at the southern ukrainian as, but the specialists unloaded. one energe block due to the discovery of a remark in its work, energaatom reported. in the work of one of of the station blocks, these comments were found, and they say that the situation can be corrected as soon as ukrenergo specialists restore the damaged lines and ensure the possibility of supplying current. well, today there was a lot of various information, saying that there was an accident at the southern ukrainian nuclear power plant, but in energo. many have denied the situation and

say that the whole issue is under control and will be resolved soon. well, let's talk about finances. andriy dubas, president of the association of ukrainian banks, joins us. good evening. good evening, alexander. glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. mr. andrii, well, september has started, but the summer was such a difficult period for the ukrainian national currency. for inflation indicators, there were a lot of forecasts and horror stories for the autumn-winter period, i would like to hear, in fact, how the hryvnia felt in the summer and to what extent the national bank managed to contain certain fluctuations, and the banking system to hold back? well, if we take such a segment as summer, that is, from the beginning of june to the end of august, then... june, it was quite

predictable, that is, the hryvnia at the beginning of june was at the mark of 40 hryvnias and 50 kopecks, then it even strengthened a little, became 40 hryvnias and 16 kopecks, well, that is, there were fluctuations up and down, in june we did not see any anomalies, we were most alarmed by july, you know, because in july we encountered such a rather sharp devaluation process, that is , the hryvnia weakened or... as the people say, the dollar rose in price, and this had several prerequisites, well , first of all, we recall the difficult july, the hot season, and the restrictions were restored in july for the first time, probably for some long time after a while, we remembered what schedules are, got our outage schedules and various software resources that inform, well , of course, this could not help but affect what people and business started. to buy

additional such energy-saving or energy-generating or storage capacity in simple language batteries, various batteries, ecoflow and various such things, most of them, not even most of them, all of them have a high high level of import component, what does import component mean? you need to exchange or buy a foreign one currency to bring them from abroad to ukraine, so actually there was a very serious pressure on... on currency to buy these imported things, the second, the second block in july we observed, it was connected with the first signs of lifting taxes, and we remember when information appeared in the press that new cars could increase in price by 15% due to an additional tax, and many business people who work with car imports decided to pre-purchase or contract e... new cars, to still

have time to buy them without this extra tax, and in fact imported cars, they are also similarly a product that is bought for foreign currency, and the third component, mr. andriy, we see that it was on such news that the hryvnia fluctuated, not so much economically possible, but precisely on information, for example, about tax, on the information about the difficult winter, yes, definitely, i... i don't know, we have a connection, yes, yes, i'm listening to you, yes, the third bloc, which increased these taxes, also, the period that allowed to our exporters, those who sell our goods for the border, and when importing revenue to ukraine, before the limit was 90 days, they could sell their goods and after that for 90 days, after 90 days, generate revenue, now it has been increased to 180, and in fact, in our country...

the inflow of foreign currency has also decreased , but the national bank acted in this case quite quickly, and yes, and having a fairly high level of gold and currency reserves, and repaid this one. excessive demand, and already in august we actually observed quite adequate, that is, both growth and decline, but within the limits of such a fluctuation somewhere, so on today's moment, by the way, i think that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow , the statistics on gold and foreign reserves will be updated, we will again break the maximum, that is, we will have a record, if i am not mistaken, according to statistics, gold and foreign reserves should be somewhere around 44 billion, this is too much for so that the national bank could keep the course in, if it did not sound, perhaps strange, in a normal range for ukraine. mr. andrii, whether we will still have to set such an anti-record regarding the increase in taxes in ukraine, the discussions are ongoing. yesterday, in particular, verkhovna the council did not support such an initiative to

raise such a fiscal burden for business, further adjustments will be made, but money must be found, and it is known that the imf now has a mission in our country, i am sure. is also monitoring whether taxes will rise, the bloomberg agency reported today that the fund, well, will insist that the fiscal burden on enterprises does increase, in your opinion, here, in particular, tax reform, how important are taxes for banks now, because some experts say, why not, banks have excess profits, why don't they pay more to the treasury, and first of all, banks already pay more to the treasury, any ordinary joint-stock company is not a bank, today it pays 18% income tax, while banks pay today and in the future, the following years, 25%, and moreover, last year, the banks

paid 50% of that tax, this income tax for the 23rd year in a reversible way, that is, even retroactively, so it was inconvenient, difficult, today we were talking about you probably meant about... whether to increase again, an additional tax for banks is a profit tax of up to 50%. and we are very grateful that the ministry of finance and the national bank opposed this initiative for two reasons: the first is that last year, when this additional tax, a large 50%, was introduced, it was a one-time such action due to forced needs in addition to the budget, this and the following years, in fact , the increased amount is already paid. tax, the second point, look, we have a tax hole today in the ministry of finance in the budget about 50 billion hryvnias, if, even hypothetically , an increased tax for banks was set again for this year, it would bring only 20 billion out of the 500 that are needed, but there is a second tool,

much better for the ministry of finance, which is the issuance of new bonds of the domestic government loan, and in fact banks can, for example, lend our ministry of finance. 100, and maybe even more than billions, and this is a completely different format, and i think that this tool will most likely be used, but we actually have war, there are only three options for additional revenues to the budget, these are increased taxes, this is borrowing through the internal debt market, or emission, emission - it is natural that the road has one end and then it will be very difficult to leave it, i hope that within the framework of the first two blocks, that is... when there will be an increase in taxes for certain sectors of the economy and, for example, the involvement of the domestic debt market by banks, this will allow to cover the needs of the ministry of finance. and finally, i wanted to hear your opinion, whether it will hold inflation, the growth of consumer prices within the forecast, well at least of the national bank,

in fact, because the forecasts are now slightly different, we are actually observing an increase in prices for basic food products, for industrial goods, well, retailers... in particular , they say that and manufacturers are forced to raise prices due to the fact that they use generators, the purchase of lubricants, all this adds to the cost of goods, in your opinion, is this a real increase in price that was expected, or do we still need to save more, consumers, in particular, consumers in conditions war is definitely worth saving, and i think that this will be a good advice for today, definitely, regarding inflation, look, today we are in principle quite in the forecast stage, that is , the national bank has adjusted its forecast, it is 8.5% inflation at the end year, and for now , for example, according to the results of july, inflation is, well, this is a cumulative effect of 5.4, that is, in fact,

the revival of inflation is gradually, gradually, and i think that here, by the way, it is worth discussing two issues: in a week, the monetary committee will national bank regarding... and monetary decisions, including a possible revision, for example, of the discount rate. today it is set at 13%. we believe that the national bank will keep the discount rate at 13%. quite such a, let's say, high level, although inflation is predicted to be 8.5, and they will do it solely so that, after all , the income, for example, from deposits in the banking system, will be higher for people than inflation, and then people will be interested then keep your funds in hryvnias, for example, in banks, because they, the deposit covers inflation, and in this way the purchasing power of the hryvnia will remain at a high level, here, in my opinion , a strategic decision, we think we will hear from the committee. monetary policy from the national bank, and these were really analytical decisions from andrii dubes,

the president of the ukrainian banks association, he joined the column about money during the war, i will put an end to this, but the big broadcast continues, there will be more, watch us. thanks to oleksandr morchyvka, we continue the political topic. actually, it's time to talk about personnel reshuffles in the cabinet. yes, i can't hear you, and the audience probably can't hear you either . i will start this evening with the words of the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi , who explained his position regarding the changes in the cabinet of ministers, which began because there is freedom. people will still be appointed, but this movement has already begun, the president said that he first needs to create a new structure,

strengthen the directions and new energy is needed, how do you understand it, do you agree with the head of state on something, and himself, and then let's go to process of dismissal, someone was dismissed, someone was not dismissed for some reason, and how should it end according to the idea, please, obviously, in ukraine today there is a huge parliamentary... governmental, personnel, intellectual crisis, and it was formed by the president's office itself, which on its own stuck in the management of the country, this president said that the country is run by five or six managers, and it is, unfortunately, this green team that actually deprived both the government and the parliament of their subjectivity. we really have a government of zelenskyi shmygal, which is the first time but in ukrainian history works without a program of activities. and a question. here at war, because even before the war, the shmigel government did not manage to approve its program of activities, so

you can change the surnames as much as you like, unfortunately, this will not change the strategy, but today there were several dismissals, when the servants themselves were there, well, i asked that on the screen displayed, for example, the face of the minister of ecology, i am not convinced that shmyhal knows him there in the face of this minister, he is definitely not known in the parliament, and why appoint a person then who could not clearly explain how she... sees the development of ecology, the support of the environment in the conditions of war, in the same way, when you know, the servants applaud, the best ministers, the most professional, why do you then send them out of office? the refusal of many ministers to report in specialized committees and then to come to the parliament was very strange today. ukraine is moving towards the european union, and it is european practice to report. yes, that's right... you now have the minister of justice, but from there, i see, he changed, they raised

their hands like this, they showed victory, this is not a report, the report is actually something different, when you get the results of activities for 5 years, these reforms that have been carried out, well, one more very correct question of yours, this is the unification of ministries, i want to remind you, you know, mr. vasyl, that you and i have a good memory, and 5 years ago this government of zelenskyi, the next one at that time... started by uniting several ministries, it was called a reform, the ministry of ecology and energy, economy and agrarian policy, then within a year they separated these ministries, and this was again announced as a reform, and you know, now, when there is nothing to engage in equal conditions, when there is no clear strategy on how to pull ukraine out of this economic and energy abyss, will again focus on the unification and separation of the ministry. is absolutely abnormal, and we see a different development of the situation that would be correct in general, the first is a report, european

solidarity was the only party, by the way, a faction, which reported during its 5 years in the parliament, and both the parliament and the government should report on this, this is respect for the voters, secondly, this is a strategy, as we are, in the conditions of extraordinary challenges that we are currently facing the country, we see, to keep energy, the economy afloat, we do not have a reintegration policy, there is no such thing, and this is absolutely obvious, and the third is to form such an intellectual personnel team, a rescue team, which should not be united around loyalists. to the office of the president, and loyalty to ukraine, and we believe, this is my last remark, that salvation would actually be in the reformation of the monomajority, which actually does not exist, and the creation of a government of national unity. well, actually, i'm just voicing for our viewers, who may not have been following these recitations, there were no votes there, there were not enough votes for the resignation of the minister

, the vice-prime minister iryna verashchuk was removed, well for... 214,214 votes were for the resignation of voreshchuk, this resignation did not receive 225 votes for the director of the fund, the head of the state property fund, mr. koval, by the way instead of him , the head of the specialized parliamentary committee advocated, who said that he is the most professional head of the state property fund today, well , you know, in the conditions of war, if we have the most professional head, he should be kept in these positions, because the situation we have today very difficult in the economy, why should we let a professional person go, if she is a professional person, i would like to hear about her professionalism, what has been done, and these dances with tambourines are ritualistic, well , they have tired the parliament and the country, and denys malyuska, the dismissed minister of justice, olga stefanyshyn, she was fired, but i understand that tomorrow or whenever it should

happen, she will combine the positions of vice prime minister with of euro-atlantic integration and the minister of justice, it will be like this, it has been talked about for a long time, and in fact it indicates several things, firstly, about a very a short bench, ah, and secondly, about this imitation of reforms, when ministries are united and called reforms, well , with all due respect to olga stefanyshyn, i just believe that she is one of the few professional enough people in the current government team, it still has one very important direction, it heads... the ukrainian negotiation group in the negotiations regarding ukraine's membership in the eu, and this is actually the work that requires full immersion, and here it is very important to also realize, you know, to have enough for everything time and there was enough return, and it seems to me that there is a huge benefit in this, in fact, the ministry of justice would be correct if it monitored

the adaptation of legislation, compliance with eu directives, and when one person focuses all this on himself. well, believe me, here too there will be serious problems regarding the content of certain processes. yes, well, they dismissed the minister, they dismissed the minister of strategic industries oleksandr kamyshin, i understand that they hope to see him in the president's office, obviously, i want that too to say that mr. kamyshyn, one of the two ministers who visited the verkhovna rada of ukraine, and the deputies also noted that mr. kamyshyn had, you know, such contact with specialized committees, this should be welcomed, that's all, we are very objective and we treat the work of the government and the right, positive things are always ready to fly, but there is a result, we must say, well, also the minister of the environment, let's call his last name, because maybe no one knew, i guess, ruslan the shooter, and you rightly said that shmygal is also possible i didn't know

who he was, and another interesting story also, regarding these personnel rotations, dmytro kuleba wrote and submitted his resignation. but the council did not consider his resignation, although they already talked about his possible successors, this tochytskyi, who studied in the same course with andriy yarmak at the institute, the kyiv institute of international relations, and also sybig from, well, as far as i understand the office of the president, he is the last one there was, as far as we understand the situation, and mr. kuleba and ms. voreshchuk did not write their resignations voluntarily. ms. voreshchuk just appeared at the committee with... person and honestly answered the questions of the deputies that she was a soldier, the party said it was necessary, komsamol answered yes, and wrote this statement, mr. kuleba did not appear at our profile committee of foreign affairs, and it is very sad, because we all know dmytro , as a european politician, a professional diplomat, and in any circumstances you have to keep your face

and still report, and at this time, when the committee was going, the deputies of our faction met mr. kuleba, he... was walking his dog in the city center, well, i think it's a little bit not european history, despite, despite everything , the deputies did not torture him to write a statement, but the truth is that they did not bring it to a vote today, because i think that there were no votes among the hearers, according to our information, the servant of the people faction has now ended, where they were encouraged to vote after all, and again , according to our information , a diplomat, a staff diplomat, mr. sebig, will also be a candidate for the post of minister of foreign affairs , and the staff diplomat, the honorable mr. mykola kychytskyi, is for some reason sent by the ministry of culture and information politicians for me, this is such a clear evidence of what we started the conversation with, zelenskyi shmyhal's government does not have a strategic vision of how to move forward in all spheres of the country. there is a very

short reserve bench, unfortunately, not only professional qualities, but the qualities of proximity to the office, ah, comfort of working with these five managers, loyalty, these qualities and criteria are probably determined by such qualities and criteria. put a full stop, thank you very much for your work, thank you for joining our thread and commenting iryna granchenko, narodna deputy of ukraine. once again , i express my condolences because of the tragedy that happened today in lviv, also the day of mourning in poltava region. next, a review of sports events on the big air, stay with us, stay with espresso. on september 2, the national football team of ukraine will be in the czech republic. officially started preparations for the september league of nations matches. this tournament can be a kind of rehabilitation for our team after the unsuccessful european championship in germany. we understand why we come here,

we understand that we represent the country, a country in which there is a war going on, and we understand that we, we must give people some positive, positive emotions. of course, after, after the euro, we were in a good mood. not the best, let's say so, because i wanted to go further and achieve, achieve more. in group b-1 , the blue-yellow team will play against the czech republic, albania and georgia. all these teams were also euro participants, and georgia even made it to the 1/8, where they lost to the spanish champions. we will start in prague on september 7 with a conditional home match against albania and on september 10 away from the czech republic. although this tournament is considered by many national teams as a field for experiments with the composition and tactics. it seems that serhii rebrov will try to get the most out of every game. the paralympics are underway in paris, and yesterday was an extremely successful day for our paralympians. yury shingur won the gold in

the 100-meter backstroke. and track and field athletes yuliya shulyar in the 400 m race, oleksandr yarovy with the world record in the shot put, and nataliya kobzar in the 400 m race. and danyla chufarova's silver medal in swimming is a real feat. the fact that that i am here today. here in this hall and precisely at the paralympics, it is a great luck and it is a great happiness, because even 2.5 years ago, when the full-scale invasion of russia began, i was at home, in the city of mariupol, together with my wife, we were only thinking about whether we will be able to survive at all, and this concerned not only shelling, but also humanitarian ones. crisis and disaster that was there, we didn't have enough food, we didn't have enough, banal drinking water, and for a certain period we drank

rainwater, and water that we got from wells ukrainian tennis player lyudmila kichenok will play in the semifinals of the doubles at the grandslam tournament for the fourth time in her career. the ukrainian, together with the latvian olena ostapenko, made it to one. us open finals. today, they will play for a place in the final against chang-hao-ching from taiwan and a neutral tennis player with a russian passport, veronika kudremetova. cheer for your own. thank you. oleksandr, they write in the chat where natali didenko. i said, i will repeat it again, she asked to convey to our beloved viewers, dear ones, that she is on vacation and will return soon to works and will inform. about what kind of weather we should expect the next day, take care, pay attention to alarms, we will meet tomorrow at 18:10, good evening,

we are from ukraine. 300,000 children plan to return to school this year. according to the ministry of education, as of now , ukrainian schools have more than 10,000 shelters. 570 students will study in the capital school number 199 this year, among them 58 first graders, the educational institution has its own point of invincibility and shelter, to which during an air raid, not only students of the school, but also pupils of the neighboring kindergarten come. previously, it was just a basement filled with sand, but now it is a comfortable and equipped shelter that has been fully functional for two years. before that , it was just a basement, now we have zoned it and divided its sectors. right here is, you see, every class is signed in, uh, and every class knows where it should be during the state alarm, and here are the rooms, in this room, for example, we have fourth- and fifth-grade students,

you can pass here, the projector is turned on, the video is turned on, and the children can rewatch the video, and apart from anxiety, we also use it as a room for watching educational videos, for lessons. during the air raid in the shelter , the children continue their studies in full. a super cool shelter that accommodates all the kids, meets all the conditions, plus there is also direct, emergency lighting if the lights go out, battery operated lights, which ensures that the children are not in complete darkness, in addition to we will see an additional exit here, the nodes themselves, plus water, plus everything we need here, and this is the 42nd capital lyceum, it is already fully ready to receive schoolchildren, more than 130 first-graders were recruited this year, in general, the school almost 200

students study, the shelter of the educational hall of the institution covers about 3 thousand square m2, the elementary school has its own separate part, in addition, a separate shelter is placed on the territory of the lyceum for everyone who needs it, the lyceum is ready for emergency power outages, the educational institution has two powerful generators there is a separate place where the children study, there is a separate place where the children can rest, because we can never predict in advance how much time we will spend in the shelter, so there are also toys for ... and the ability to go to the toilet and refill stockpile of water from their alarming backpacks, or we keep such a stock separately, because not all children can find their way around and take this backpack with them in time. in principle, absolutely safe, completely isolated. he knows about the critical need for shelter from his own experience director of lviv oriyana lyceum. during a missile strike on december 29, 2023

, russian terrorists damaged part of the building of the educational institution, then this shelter protected almost a thousand people, now it can accommodate almost 1,300 students of the lyceum and 132 employees. last year , another toilet was installed in the shelter, a light with spotlights was installed, which is powered by a generator during blackouts, and wi-fi was also connected. at the signal of the air alarm , absolutely everyone descends into shelter, both children and adults, and it does not matter whether it is rockets or could this is the safety of children, these are minor children, and 100% absolutely everyone goes to the shelter and is in the shelter until the call off, before the air alarm call off signal. out of more than 1,400 students and employees , only 240 people can be accommodated in the shelter of the lyceum named after vasyl stos. that is why the educational institution concluded a cooperation agreement with the frankiv district administration and the nearest shopping

center. in the shelters of these buildings in... sum , more than 700 people will be able to stay, but this is not enough for all the students of the lyceum to be able to to study face-to-face the entire primary school in our school is a full-time school, that is, they go every day, all the others in order to fit in the number of shelters. our fifth-grade children have one day of distance learning. this is the shelter of one of poltava's lyceums, in which classes are held in the event of an air raid. it is large, it was divided into several halls for elementary, middle and high school. all our shelters accommodate 1,000 children, 1,000, provided that the school has 1,500 children. we have drawn up such a working regime, the working schedule of the educational institution, so that we worked for the most part, all the same we work at school, for two weeks, all parallel classes

work at school. it was found. this is a sheltered place for physical education classes, this year they even set up an office here for the subject defense of ukraine. the teacher says that there is an air alarm, let's gather, then we collect our things, leave the classroom, wait for the teacher, and go down to the basement together with the teacher. it happens five times, sometimes a day, and sometimes very difficult. due to constant attacks by russians in kharkiv , offline education is prohibited. them schools. the past 2016, some students were able to sit down at real desks only in underground and metro schools. this year, educational institutions will work at six metro stations and one underground school will open its doors. three of the same are already under construction, three more are planned for 2024. the city authorities have also set up two anti-radiation shelters in operating schools, and classes are held there as well. yes, every 10th student who...