news time on the espresso tv channel. kateryna shirokpoyas works in the studio. one drone was destroyed near the building of the verkhovna rada during a night attack in kyiv. no damage was found, it was reported on the telegram channel. supreme council also , a fire broke out in an open area due to falling debris in the pechersk district of the capital. the fire with an area of ​​50 m2 was extinguished. people were not injured. the air alert lasted more than eight hours in the kyiv region. this night the air defense was shot down by russian shaheds. due to the fall of fragments of drones to one of the districts, three private houses were damaged. this was announced by the head of the regional military administration, ruslan kravchenko.

the grass caught fire outside several settlements, the fire was extinguished promptly, fortunately no one was injured. but the number of injured as a result of yesterday's rocket attack on pavlograd has increased to 74. this was announced by the head of the regional military administration, serhii lesak. the russians also struck nikopol in the dnipropetrovsk region with artillery and drones four times. previously, no one was injured. consequences. still being clarified and three people were killed as a result of enemy shelling in donetsk region, three more were wounded, the regional police reported. the russians hit turkey with guided air bombs, and also set fire to raihorodok, kurakhov, and izmailivtsi. as a result of the attacks , 29 residential buildings were destroyed, an educational institution and critical infrastructure were also damaged. seven people were injured as a result of an enemy attack in the kherson region.

the russians hit a critical infrastructure facility, a store, and residential quarters. damaged high-rise building, 11 private houses, garages and cars. the head of the regional military administration oleksandr prokudin informed about this. also, during a night attack, air defense forces destroyed seven shaheds in the kherson region. and in total, during the night , the occupiers launched 67 shaheds across ukraine. our sky defenders destroyed 58 drones within a few. oblasts, another six drones left the airspace of ukraine and flew in the direction of russia and belarus, three aerial targets probably fell under the influence of rep, the air force reported. the enemy attacked with drones from kursk, yeysk v of russia, as well as the temporarily occupied crimea. and operational information from the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine: 187 combat clashes took place at the front during the day. it remains tense. the situation in

the pokrov direction, there our defenders repelled 49 russian assaults. it is the hottest in the area of ​​novogrodivka and mykhailivka, fierce battles also continue in the direction of kurakhivka. there, the defense forces repelled 46 attacks. the russians stormed limansk 17 times and 10 times near turetsk. kharkiv region is also restless. the occupiers became active again on kupianskyi direction 27 combat clashes took place in the area of ​​stelmakhivka and synkivka, six more. battles took place near liptsi and vovchansk. during the day, our rocket launchers and gunners made 15 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel of the occupiers. two control points were also hit, two artillery systems and one important object of the brain cells were destroyed. and so that the losses of the enemy only increase, i ask you to join our gathering. funds are needed for drones and a charging station for the reconnaissance of the third sso regiment, which destroys the enemy in the area of ​​chasovoy yar in donetsk. the russians constantly attack and

try to capture the city, because it is a commanding height from which it is easier to shell other settlements. our defenders are holding the defense, but they need our help. soldiers need drones, they will help not only improve the performance of combat missions, but also save the lives of our soldiers. so your donation will increase the effectiveness of actions against the enemy. our goal is uah 890,000. so join in, you can now see all the details on your screens. international reserves of ukraine increased by almost 14% in august, this was reported in the national bank, where more than 42 billion dollars were counted. such dynamics are associated with a significant amount of income from international partners. about 8.5 million dollars were deposited into foreign currency accounts last month. therefore, ukraine paid more than 700 million dollars for servicing and repayment of the state debt. the current level of reserves allows to cover the needs of ukraine. for

5 months, the department noted. and iran transferred short -range ballistic missiles to russia. this was reported by the wall street journal. we are talking about the supply of hundreds of ballistic missiles. with a radius of about 800 km. it is noted that europe and the usa are currently working on sanctions in response to iran's actions. and lithuania will transfer 10 million euros to ukraine. these funds will be used to purchase the latest ukrainian drone missiles polyanytsia. oleksandr kamyshchin, minister of strategic industry, stated this at the end of the ramshtein meeting. one rocket-drone, a rocket, costs 1 million dollars. the allocated funds will be enough for... 10 such shells. let me remind you about the successful work of the ukrainian poles reported for the first time on independence day. however, the characteristics of the latest development are currently kept secret. the reform of school meals is not only about what children will eat in kindergartens and schools. it should

help them to be healthy and make choices in favor of a balanced diet. yes, said minister of health viktor lyashko. innovations gradually continue to be implemented, in particular this applies. and retraining of cooks, as it happens in practice, see our report. the reform of school meals, which started in 2020 year on the initiative of the first lady olena zelenska, is being actively implemented even in the conditions of a full-scale invasion. it is aimed at providing children with high-quality, useful and complete lunches. for this, they changed the school menu and the standards that dragged on. since the time of the soviet union, they are also renovating canteens and retraining cooks in special culinary hubs. the program of the ministry of education and science for the training of school food cooks is 90 hours. but since it is very difficult

to take a cook out of school for three weeks, it is very difficult schools, so we specially prepared for them different courses of different durations for 9 hours by 30 hours so that they could complete all the courses in such blocks. culinary training takes place mainly during the holidays, groups of 20 people come to the hub, who go through theory and practice, they are told about the reform, the hasp system, forms of nutrition, etc., after which they move on to preparing dishes according to new recipes, work as in modern, and traditional equipment. in april of this year yevhen klopotenko with the team. chefs and technologists, they have formed a new collection that has more than 600 dishes, in more detail, it will be 621, which contains more than 80 dishes of foreign origin and 80 dishes, which is very important at the moment, without gluten-free and lactose-free, according to

of this collection, we choose a certain list of these dishes and directly based on them we make a menu for our cooks, as denis says, mostly they come to them... cooks who have a long experience of working in food units, however, not all of them give positive feedback about reform and are ready for radical changes, but they have no way out, so they retrain. the oldest cook was 72 years old, that is, they were still cooking on wood, they were just there, that is , this food was introduced, that's all, she has been working in that kitchen for about 50 years, and she was also interested in cooperating with us, because at the moment, then we conducted field courses, we came... to their food block and held these courses on the basis of their dining room, she helped us in everything, she also shared some of her tips with us, they also learned something new from us. mrs. valentina works as a senior cook at the village school, where more than 140 children study, says that the old menu was technologically

easier, but the new one has many interesting dishes. it is difficult, but children perceive the desire differently, children are not used to it. a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit, a lot of vegetables, little salt, little sugar, but we try so little by little, you see, before we cut the fish, put it to bake or fry, but now it is marinated, breaded, poisoned, and well, well, that’s it yes, let's say it's a long process, from time to time the menu for learning in the hub is changed, for example, school cooks are asked to cook the dishes that they want to implement... in their institution, at the end of the courses , they always taste everything to understand whether it is tasty and whether the children will like it? our film crew was also offered to taste dishes based on new recipes, and this is what we have here: vegetable salads, couscous, fish racks, stew with green

peas, as well as paella, semolina pudding with berry coulis, apple and carrot casserole, and the usual compote for everyone . so, shall we taste? it's delicious to me, and to you oleksandr, ugh, as you can see, also yaroslav hopatsa, oleksandr kuga, especially for espresso. to find out more interesting and relevant information, follow the updates on our website espresso.tv, as well as on our social networks, we will see you at 12 o'clock. two hours in the company of favorite presenters, presenters who are like family to many, as well as distinguished guests of the studio, events of the day in two hours, vasyl zima's big broadcast, a project for

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today, i am visiting a person who is extremely dedicated to her work, this is oleksandra balyasna, she is the head of the board of the association of parents, of children born in communion, early birds, and more she is a member of the advisory board of the european foundation for the health of newborn children. sasha, i welcome you here today. studio, hello, thank you very much for the invitation, it is a great honor for me to be on the air, on your program, look, i want to talk with you today about your experience of the war. we understand that on february 24 , 2022, although the war has been going on for more than 10 years in our country, it was this date that changed the lives of many ukrainians, and that is what i want to hear today. your experience, because it is very important, because it is the same during the war children continue to be born, and even more so

, children in a hurry, who do not ask anyone and are also born, and they need even more such, let's say, specific medical care, so i want you to share your experience today, tell all this to our viewers, and let's start exactly from this date, what did you do on this day, where was your... family and how did this date change your life? for me, february 24, as well as for all ukrainians, was enough of a shocking change, we in our family did not prepare for this, of course, there was a lot about it conversations, there was a lot of context in such a space of information, but at the same time no suitcases were collected, because they did not believe that this could happen in the center of the city, in the center of the country, and in any case , crisis decisions had to be made on that day. er, and for the whole team to ensure safety, security, so that everyone moved to a safer

place, for each family, it was the right decision for some, for some not so much, and they ended up in more noisy areas near kyiv, but in any case a certain time, it took a few days, a few weeks for everyone to feel more stable, they also worried about our colleagues in mariupol, when the green window didn't light up for a very long time until mid-march. i was very worried about our colleagues in dnipro, those who had not been in touch for a long time, tried to settle down, find a plan b for them, where they could feel safer, protect themselves and their children. actually, for the first time , they were engaged in this chaotic process of moving people and at the same time tried to rake out the as a private message, as they say, all the messages that poured in were of a completely different nature, from somewhere there was a shortage of drugs, somewhere there was a shortage. some kind of vaccine, somewhere it was necessary to help with logistics, that is, the requests were

of absolutely different calibers and this, on the one hand, brought us together more, i tried to do it around the clock, on the other hand , it was very discouraging, because when you run in different directions at the same time, it also affects you doesn't help you orient yourself, but i think that's what most people did at this point in order to to help as many people as possible, but it's good that... this period then moved into more organized processes, and where we can be more efficient, organize our work more systematically. i know my next question is going to be, well... who is it to you, because you don't really like to talk about it, because you love your country very much, and you understand how much you are needed here, but nevertheless, your help to your country has not decreased, it has only increased, and this is a new experience that you have received because you now you live abroad with your daughter, and there are a lot of women like

you, social activists who were quite active in our country, when they found themselves ... abroad, they suffer incredibly and talk about the fact that they are not are able to fully realize themselves, how are you doing with this, what do you feel, and tell about this experience of yours? this is really a difficult topic for me, because i have always felt and still feel very connected to my native country, but i am very grateful for the good times that taught us to work remotely, almost the entire team has changed place of residence, but this does not prevent us from having a call every week, every day you... work with colleagues wherever they are, so the processes remain as active when necessary, i go home and try to do it as often as possible, and i build my, let's say, additional strength and advantages from my stay abroad in such a way that i just learned the language, for example, at the level that i could understand the local population, i build social contacts and

a bubble that helps to send aid, that is, for this year opened charity fund, which we are engaged in to send... humanitarian aid to centers for helping refugees, we have several partners in ukraine, accordingly , i believe that this is such an additional mechanism of assistance where we can be useful, where we can be helpful, and this is building international partnerships, attracting donors, this is advocacy, so that there are no questions, and you still have a war going on, when i hear these questions, i understand that we still have a lot to say so that other political processes on the arena did not interrupt the voice. ukrainians, and for us this is an important topic of advocacy, that our children, our doctors, hospitals continue to work under sirens, under terrible challenges, at the risk of life every day, and it is important to me that this voice sounds truthfully, with the highest possible quality in the european arena, i trying to do it the way i can do it by getting partnerships and help, and we're going to need that help to

rebuild, when the war is over, we 're going to need that help for a long time, so i think it's... i can say maybe it was not always my choice to live where i am, but i am trying to transform it into a positive channel and use it in this way, well, if we are talking specifically about help and about difficulties, if they have to explain to europeans that and the war is still going on in our country, this aid has somehow decreased, we need to tell them more, we need to do it more loudly. more often compared to when at the beginning it was in 2022, of course, of course, the controversy has changed very much and it has changed, as expected, in principle, dramatically, it changed somewhere around this first emotional period, when everyone helped on all issues, there was practically no control or there was no such, let's say , such strong verifications, then

the process went on, help was strongly and selectively chosen, where it goes, already in sequence. that it should be systematic, that it should be transparent, i believe that in principle it is very correct that it should be controlled, but on the other hand , i would like more support for important issues, especially on the topic of newborn children, because some processes still not now closed, it seems to me that now every life of a newborn child is extremely important, i'm not saying that it wasn't important before, but now with the birth rate having fallen by more than 30%, that many very negative consequences for... health of newborn children of each family, i believe that it needs more publicity and support. when i go to international forms, i see that there is a block about war, and there are no recent statistics or there is no impact of war on the health of newborn children in the perspective of any there, if we talk about the future, about the cut, then i want it to be there, and we understood what generation we will get in

5, 10, 20 years, it is important to think about it today. sasha, well, you are talking about the fact that... the birth rate actually fell by 30%, and if we talk about children born prematurely due to the fact that there is a war in our country, has there been an increase in such families in which children in a hurry, can you still say that compared to 2015, 16, everything is the same as it was. it is difficult for me to rely on some statistics, because they have to be official, so that i do not name any incorrect data, i know from various sources that the statistics do increase prematurely... but somehow the ministry of health does not name a specific figure, so it is difficult for me to rely on it, from the conversations that i know from the medical category, well, let's say, when i talk to doctors, what i hear... the condition of the beneficial ones has worsened a lot, they get examined untimely, sometimes they are in very bad conditions, there are not always logistical possibilities to simply get

to the hospitals, that's why which, for example, are broken roads, or it was, for example, an occupied territory, and the pregnant woman cannot receive this assistance in time, the child does not receive screenings in time, for example, during or during pregnancy, or already after the child is born, respectively, any such delay precisely from our category, with our nosology, it is. it is very important, and it will later affect the quality of life as a whole, therefore also the psychological state of the pregnant woman, this should not be forgotten either, well, the psychological state of the pregnant woman, i would say that even childbirth, when there was no war, is premature, it is very stressful, just recalling my experience, or my colleagues who found themselves in various stories, where the children also got some difficulties after the apologies, but now during a full-scale invasion, where it is also sirens and, for example, there is no partner nearby, if the partner had to go ... and cannot be at a partner birth, or god forbid there are, unfortunately, such situations when the news comes and the woman is pregnant, and unfortunately, the information

comes that there is no longer a partner near her, these cases are extremely difficult for managing such pregnancy and such cases a lot, that is, requests for psychological support and for financial, for example, help, because this, let's say, has a strong effect on stress, these requests have become extremely numerous. is there any possible psychological help in your organization when women who live in ukraine, yes, maybe in the de-occupied territories, maybe somewhere in the front-line territories, who call and want advice, to be told what to do, where to go, and which actually find the words, because it is probably very important, and very difficult now in such conditions, i would said that the international community helped us a lot, because here i would separate our women who went abroad and gave birth prematurely abroad, because this is such an additional emotional layer

of problems, because in addition to the fact that a woman gives birth abroad without support, without understanding language very often, without understanding the system, where to turn, what to do with such a newborn baby in any country in the world, for example, there or in switzerland, whether it is poland or whether it will be spain, very often they turned to us from other countries for ... in order to receive information in one's native language, and that is why we are very grateful to the international community, which acted as partners in this, in order to promptly transmit this information or distribute booklets, as well as this informational and psychological assistance worked in ukraine and works like this only, the only thing is that these are often not calls, but still messengers, which are more convenient, also due to the fact that, first of all , such mothers do not always have the opportunity to speak by voice during the day, they are quite busy in the hospital. .. with different procedures, and it is a traumatic experience when mothers find it difficult to express their emotions, because they are usually in a state of stress, and at the stage when they need to talk about their,

specifically this situation, that she just gave birth to a baby prematurely, there is such a as they say, the trauma of the feeling of guilt that she did not deliver the child, that the child has difficulties, and our psychologist works with this feeling of guilt, yulia oleksandriv manages the psychological service for us, we have our couples. organizations that work with us and when we we can't cope, we send to more professional help, and when we need help with crisis communications, we also know where to turn, so i am very grateful to colleagues and partners who will provide consultations with this pool, and i will not name everyone now, so as not to forget anyone , but in fact, this pool of partners helps us to cope with difficult situations when they arise, therefore, for us, informational psychological assistance is the basis of... dreams, because this is the layer where most problems can be solved at this level. sasha, well, actually speaking, about the impact of the war on families with prematurely

born children, you and i have already talked before the broadcast, and you told me such stories, what these families faced, what are the main problems, and we are talking now not only about medicine, because these seven well, there the mother and the child return home, and they also have a problem. there are certain problems, they have to somehow solve them during the war, can you tell about it and what do you advise in such a situation? in fact, we can advise you to be proactive, learn about your rights, and that's why this is the year for us very important, we release a lot of information products, because very often parents simply do not know about their rights, for example, we recently conducted a survey whether parents know about guaranteed non-guaranteed services in the health care system, and we will be... a little shocked , that 80% of parents do not know about their rights, that is, they marked, for example, from the category of marking from one to five, how much you have information

about services guaranteed by the state, that is... 80% started one, that is, they do not know, or for example, only 10% knew what to do in in the event that rights are violated, what should be done in such a case, and when we say, this is our project called guaranteed with our partners, patients of ukraine, and when we talk about what is important to do in this or that situation, it is important for us, so that parents still know where to turn, be proactive, have this clear position that it depends on me, how my future will develop, for example, there is a medical history, where i receive this service, to whom i can turn, don't be afraid to ask, that's why it's important, look, this topic is actually very important, and that's why you can say exactly what rights you're talking about, so that women and men, families, in general, who will hear us now, can understand what rights they really have, what are you talking about when we conduct trainings, we even start with the following question: do you know what nszu is, and very often we have such answers that we do not know what nszu is, and this

has been going on in ukraine since 2016... medical reform, and there are 44 packages of medical guarantees, these are packages, we can say classified by various diseases, by various problems, now i am not talking only about prematurely born children, or only about pregnant women, or about the topic of children's rehabilitation, these are all problems in general, these include strokes, which also affect many families in ukraine, and cancer. and even now four packages have been added about, for example, artificial insemination, about, for example, or organ transplantation. that is, it is any disease that can fall into any of these packages, and you need to at least understand these packages, whether there is a disease or a problem which concerns this or that patient, whether it is included in the list of those packages, before you run to a private clinic and decide for yourself that you need to quickly solve this issue, understand your rights, and we teach this at trainings, we spend on this consultations, we explain in detail how to do this, if the service was to be provided

by a state body. a public clinic, for example, there or, i don't know, a women's consultation or a perinatal center, but was provided for a fee, how to compensate for these costs, and there are also such cases, that is, this our standard practice is how we advise and help, because we manage to convey the main idea now, if families know that the services are covered, that the pregnant woman can count on the fact that they are guaranteed by the state, this includes tests, management of a complicated pregnancy, and childbirth. and child management. after discharge, then there is no such stress and level of anxiety that everything has to be paid for from one's own pocket, let's imagine a situation where the family had to leave the de-occupied territory, has to rent housing, for example, the husband went to front and there is no stable income, the mother has a prematurely born child with a million questions, because it is a normal situation that there are many questions, and that is why we guarantee guaranteed services, we tell you that at least there is this

support, to reduce worries. and stress for this family, and therefore it seems to us that the informational front of our work, of our organization, is now important, and we are trying to keep it, it is also work with peer groups, when families who have already gone through a difficult stage of parenting can share your dating experience with other families who are going through this experience now, for example, we had a survey, we asked 90 families about those cases when the family had to. to swaddle, i.e. hold a baby weighing less than 2.5 kg skin-to-skin on the chest, without separating moms or dads, if the mother could not swaddle the child for physiological reasons, to what extent this process took place in different regions of ukraine during the full-scale invasion, more more than 90 families have shared their stories, some of them very moving, about these firsts with us bondings that took place for each family,

how touching they were you... us, and for some painful stories where they did not have the opportunity to touch the child, where they were not told about this method, how important and useful it is, especially now under the time of the absence of stable electricity, so for us such information products, projects and the opportunity to unite families, make groups equal, they are now tools for us that, in our opinion, can fulfill, well, our dream, that children are born healthier, give them the best start in life. well, returning again to the families in which a child was born prematurely, that in this package from the national health service there is something for them that they should know about this free on a free basis, and when they were discharged, i understand that when they are in the hospital, that's one thing, but when the mother has already returned home, she has to, again, as we said, be alone with the child.