there is also kherson region and zaporizhzhia region of our country, and therefore the dynamics on the battlefield in the entire south of our country, in particular in the south of zaporizhzhia region, in principle depends on maintaining the position in the volodar region, i believe. so, mr. vladyslav, one more short question that concerns the direction of kharkiv, in particular for several, probably weeks in a row, and in particular today, according to... deep state maps, we see that in fact russian troops are trying, at least to move towards kup' jan direction, yes, in particular from pishchannoy, now i opened the maps, i am specifically looking at how much of a threat there is, whether they want to actually repeat what happened after the audio event, somewhere there, if we look at the map, they are trying to reproduce something similar, but will they succeed, well... probably, if we are talking about

the kharkiv direction in general, what is the situation in the vovchansk direction now? and as for the direction of nakupinsk, in fact very disturbing news is coming from there, we are losing control over tsenkivka, and that tsenkivka is in fact, the keys to the kupinsky nodal point, the enemy continues to advance, there are mainly units of the first guards tank army of the russian federation, which seems to be the most well-known, and less well-known in the media. combining forces and means, they have progress and even ironing at the tactical level of 100, 200, 300 to 500 m per day, nevertheless the trend is quite threatening, they are now trying to make a wedge in order to reach at least one area front to the left bank of the oskil river, cutting our defenses all around in this way, and i think that under the current conditions the enemy will be able to implement it, the only thing i hope for, why it may not happen, is

the statement of general budanov that in three weeks the enemy should have these offensive capabilities of his . as for the dynamics in the north of the kharkiv region, it does not abate there, even despite the fact that the enemy transferred a considerable amount of resources from that direction to the territory of the kurp region. we know from insider sources that the settlement of shibekina is a town that is located in the direction of vavchanok is literally swarming. hurry up with russian forces and means, the entire industrial complex is filled with russian soldiers, russian armored vehicles, they often fly there in large numbers, within the framework of counter-battery artillery duels, our harmonicas will practice artillery tasks with maximum efficiency and enemy armored vehicles, enemy personnel directly on the territory of that settlement, and also in its suburbs are destroyed, but nevertheless, the enemy has a lot of resources there, again we will remember quantitative the northern group, which

is under the care of the colonel-general of the russian army lapin, there from the beginning there were 702, 75 thousand personnel, and the left part up to 55 was concentrated precisely on the territory of the belgorod region, well, it is clear why then the enemy tried to create a sanitary zone on the territory of the north of our kharkiv region, now part of those resources have been taken away, but nevertheless it is not necessary to talk about the complete depletion of the enemy's resources in this direction, because... it is too early, that is, in fact, the conclusion is this: where are you and i? did not look at the map of hostilities, combat clashes are taking place everywhere, somewhere they are more intense, somewhere less, but nevertheless three weeks, the next three weeks should probably be decisive, because the enemy is operating at the limit of his capabilities, he understands that the window of the same his opportunities are gradually closing, and therefore we have to endure these three weeks, including thanks to the support of our western partners, well, this is already... as

they say, the case of the president of our country, and diplomats, and other officials of our government, who cooperate in various formats with our foreign partners, because weapons and resources in general are a determining factor on which the situation on the battlefield depends. thank you, mr. vladyslav, for your accents. vladyslav seleznyov, military expert, former spokesman of the general staff, colonel of the armed forces of ukraine joined the new week at espresso. well, we take a step further and remind you that today we... are conducting a survey on the possibility of revenge by russian pro-russian forces in ukraine after the war, and what does our vote sound like, is it possible in ukraine's pro-russian revenge is similar to the georgian one? if so please call 0800 211 381, if you think no it 's not possible then 0800 211382, all your calls will be free and your opinion is invaluable to us. and so on... let's talk about

victory plans, peace plans, peace formulas and everything connected with this on the international track, ivanna klympush tsensadze, people's deputy of ukraine, chairman. of the verkhovna rada of ukraine on ukraine's integration into the european union, already live on the espresso tv channel. mrs. ivanna, we are glad to have you congratulations, good evening, glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. mrs. ivanna, actually, i have already started talking about the victory plan, in particular , the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi is talking about it, it is supposed to be presented in the united states of america by joe biden. kamala harris and mr. trump, well , in particular, we see that some insiders are already appearing, true, false - that's another matter, in the western press, in particular, bilt allegedly published some certain drafts, so to speak, of this plan, in that same time in the office

of the president of ukraine emphasize that this is a fake and that no one has actually seen any of these points yet. in general, what do you think about such actions of the authorities, do we really need to present such a victory plan now, will it be effective, and can there really be certain undercurrents, pitfalls, which ukrainians need to worry about? well, i think everyone would agree that we definitely would like to see... both a strategy for victory and a plan for victory from the leadership of the country, both real and mature and a responsible dialogue of the country's leadership, precisely a dialogue, and not a monologue, is constant on the part of the country's leadership in relation to ukrainian society, and you and i

understand that ukrainian society does not receive such information today, we periodically receive some new pictures there once a quarter, which we are drawn and... after that they do not become reality, we are interested in it being an adult and serious conversation, and this adult and serious conversation, in my opinion, also consists in the fact that we are internally mobilized and economically, and politically, and militarily, and industrially, and well, at the moment, we do not see such internal mobilization, which would be necessary, just... even from the state leadership, well, but we hear promises about what they say the victory plan will be presented to our international partners, obviously the key international partner, and well, i would like to believe that this is really some kind of plan,

a serious, serious vision, yes, i don't just believe in a victory plan, but some serious vision and some kind of interaction, which could as a result of agreements among themselves... and to lead to a change in the situation at the front and to a change in our opportunities to put pressure on the russian federation, this is fundamental for us. could there be pitfalls? obviously, there can be pitfalls. you and i, unfortunately, know that at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, ah, the ukrainian state, regardless of how the ukrainian society acted, the ukrainian army introduced, well, some in some terrible framework. negotiations with the russian side, we will, however, learn about it from our international partners, and unfortunately, we also hear about it from russian sources. i would like there to be an equally frank conversation about what was happening there on the part of the ukrainian authorities, but since we

already have these reasons to doubt that, how will the ukrainian state behave on behalf of ukrainian society in... the ukrainian authorities, of course, i would like to avoid any pitfalls, and i would like it to be something that corresponds to the national interests of ukraine, and it really was about victory, not on, not about what will be sold to ukrainian society as a so-called victory. mrs. ivano, in general, here are these tracks from different countries, from the politicians of these countries about the settlement of the war with russia and ukraine. well, we are now talking about the information that is from bilt, we can also mention donald trump, who is interesting, uses the inversion of the settlement of the war, well, that is, an interesting wording in itself. i know president putin very well, i

know president zelenskyi very well, and i think it should be done, settle the war, and we must do it, and do it with strength and wisdom, trump says in a nutshell. address to the participants of the 20th annual meeting of the eu, this is the candidate for the presidency, let me remind you, from the republican party, and he promises to take care of the settlement of the war. we talked about scholz, there is no way orbán will finish his peacemaking voyage, or whatever it is called, i am already silent about what all jinping and beijing in general offer, see and so on. what kind of flurry of plans, settlements, the desire to bring something to fruition as soon as possible punctuation mark this war, what can it be related to? well, i think there are several components here, obviously what we're hearing from the united states,... america, this is part of the election campaign, and we see with you that

unfortunately, our war with the russian federation, in fact this is the war of the russian federation against the civilized world, and ukraine is simply a pawn in this war. it is now the subject of many internal electoral processes taking place in different countries. in fact, this is what we saw in the election, local, i emphasize, local. elections in several regions of the same germany, in thuringia and in saxony, and where local, or rather, where right-wing and left-wing radical parties just used their attitude to support ukraine as the main pre-election argument in general, and here we see similar things, which are taking place today and within the framework of discussions regarding platforms, this or that presidential candidate in the united states of america. obviously, we need to continue to work, both with the democrats and with

republicans, to find like-minded people, to find arguments, to find ways, to communicate our position so that we don't have many question marks after the elections in the united states of america are over. therefore, it is one thing that here are these election stories, they also produce such and such statements that you and i are trying to make. decipher, but while we 're trying to decipher the statements, analyze there, let's say the debate between the presidential candidates in the united states of america, i think there are much more pressing things that we we have to do today and try to advance our agenda precisely, both with our internal actions and our actions with partners, which concerns all other countries, and well, that is actually the brazilian plan, and indeed the chinese plan that we hear there. .. remember, there were south african proposals, ah, well

, orban, who is always in quotation marks of the goal of peace, who sees, sees himself as a negotiator, in fact, is only, well , trying to get a certain price for himself, also in the context of the same elections in united states of america and in the context of efforts to develop their influence among the right-wing radical forces in... the european union, all these things, i think, are a reflection of the fact that, in fact, today, the world increasingly wants to move in some way to what it thinks is normality, , and many, many people in the world want to move to this so-called normality at the expense of the interests of ukraine, not understanding and not realizing that if russia is not defeated in this war, then... the risks of military conflicts, war, they will

then refer not only to the territory of ukraine and not only our state, not only our society, but also central and eastern europe, many other regions of the world, and russia, together with its partners, this axis of evil, it will continue to undermine the entire international remnants of the international order. which we have today, so i think that this is such an effort at the expense of ukraine at a time when america is extremely focused on its internal issues and on the elections, in the electoral process, here now to advance some of the interests of ukraine at the expense of interests, some version of what seems to some to be a solution to the problem, in fact , there will be no solution to the problem without russia being defeated. in this war. mrs. ivano, in the same context, we have already talked about it in our

program, and we would also like to talk about it with you about the possibility of using long-range missiles on the territory of russia, is this a top topic or one of the top topics that we are discussing and that are being discussed in international communities. we are now actually seeing such a situation of uncertainty when, on the one hand, there is supposedly information from the west... media that this permission is already there, or at least it will be, on the other hand we see official statements that we are not given this permission yet, at the same time. there are a huge number of politicians, including those who were former senior officials, including five former uk defense ministers and an ex-prime minister, have called on the current uk prime minister, starmer , to still allow the missiles to be used

stormshadow on the territory of the russian federation, in this context. in your opinion, do we really get the closest sometimes this permission, is there at least some kind of consensus that will allow us, conditionally speaking, to respond, will also allow us to fight, because what we have now, well, it is such a rather shaky situation for our country, here is a question for you from the point of view of the interstate i.e. from the point of view of the current vision of the politicians of other states? well, look, here again there are several components: one is, of course, related to obtaining this permission, and here all, it seems to me, all politicians of ukraine who work with foreigners, as much as possible included in this process, as well as government officials, parliamentarians, and our public

organizations, there is a lot about this as well as about the advocacy of this decision. i am convinced that it will be adopted in one way or another, but always these decisions, like the decision to train our pilots to work with f-16 fighters, or, for example, to provide us with tanks, or to provide the same long-range missiles when we just started to provide both atakamsa and storm shadow, it all took much longer than. i would like for the effectiveness of conducting military operations from our side side, from our defensive military actions, it's one thing: i think we'll be able to break this resistance to giving us this permission, but at the same time i wouldn't expect that, you know, there the united states of america and

great britain make this decision, for example , and they announce and say, moscow, dear moscow, we... from tomorrow, from zero o'clock, we allow ukraine to hit your military targets for so many kilometers, hundreds of kilometers, so please, let's move all our logistics chains or airports and so on. i would like the partners to hold this strategic uncertainty, at least for the russian federation, and then when they decide on this decision, they will still provide it not ... emphasizing, it is for the kremlin, and then it will give us much more efficiency, since when we had hymers, you remember, their first use, it was extremely effective, because it was an element of surprise, surprise for the troops of the russian federation as well, and i would like

it in this way keys happened this decision, even when it happens, let it be a de facto surprise for the russian federation. mrs. ivana, and using the opportunity, at the end of our conversation, i would like to talk exclusively about parliamentary affairs. apparently, ukrainians are waiting for some changes in the rules of taxation in our country, at least today there is news that the tax committee of the verkhovna rada approved the decision and prepared for the first one again. the next version of the government bill on tax increases, and there will be changes to the 2024 budget, information reasons last week were a little terrifying for ukrainians about the possible suspension of all social spending and expenses at the time, as well , for the marathon, for example, there are

quite a lot of funds left, but that's more about the coverage, i would like you to notice now. .. only it will be difficult for ukraine, as of now and as of the coming year , to reconcile the debit with the credit, and what measures must be taken in order to succeed, i don’t know, run over hot coals, probably yes, or the increase in taxation now for ukrainians, it there is an optimal way out, at least in that the format that is offered, please, well, you know, unfortunately, these are again these decisions, which are about... they are evidence of the lack of this strategic approach and analysis and painstaking, painstaking work on those opportunities, and where can be taken. funds, for example, we, on the part of the european solidarity faction, very, very carefully analyzed the changes to the budget in the 24th year, and, well

, in literally small parts from various expenses, we proposed how we can redistribute to the defense forces, for example, an additional 18 billion hryvnias, but none of these proposals, it was not taken into account at the same budget committee, obviously we will try to defend these proposals. and in the hall in order to have other ways to cover the deficits we have. obviously, we can see that the government will go out there for internal borrowing, counting on receiving external additional financing, but when you hear that the government made a mistake in its calculations by 500 billion hryvnias, because they decided with... now they see partners in because the partners said they calculated that their forecast was that the war would end by the end of the summer, and that is why they did not

add money to the country's budget to pay for the country's defense until the end of the year for four months, well, this speaks of the complete unfitness of these government officials, as a bonus. samperedom, you know, they rearranged the chairs there, and reassigned ministers from one position to another, in fact, it was necessary to drive this prime minister around the neck for a long time, together with his ill-conceived decisions regarding tax increases, again, for some reason, we do not see that, for example, the government would finally try to put a complete order in taxation and control of what happens in the gambling business that they allowed, and they are now happy that for some amount million increased,

tax revenues from the gambling business increased for this year compared to last year, but these figures are not comparable to the volumes that are currently circulating in this area, and this again indicates that now instead of searching real... resource, and the burden of further financing the war is transferred directly to the citizens of ukraine. moreover, next year, in the proposed budget for the 25th year, all social standards, minimum wages, pensions and so on are completely frozen, and this means that with an increase in taxes, taxation, a large number of white businesses that today continue to support our economy will be forced, and again, partially into the shadows, and this will not

solve the issue of funding the armed forces, of the defense forces of ukraine, and this, on the contrary, will create additional problems for the next budget of ukraine, so you know, all these slogans and the obvious readiness to accept the proposal of the bank under a visor. which are introduced from the government and the impossibility to work it out seriously and thoroughly together with colleagues and to be in dialogue in order to come to some solutions that will be acceptable for the country, well, this is what we see today, we will work tomorrow in the hall, on this week, next week, when these issues will be discussed with the to try to at least partially adjust the policy of colleagues, if we manage to reach them. thank you, mrs. ivanna, thank you for including and for your work, we will closely monitor the parliament, despite the fact that it is difficult in the regime of martial law, but less

so, ivanna klympoch tsintsadze, people's deputy of ukraine, chairman of the verkhovna rada committee on integration of ukraine into the european union, well, continuing the topic, but first of all reminding you that today we are asking you whether a pro-russian revenge similar to the georgian one is possible in ukraine, if you think if possible please call 0800 211 381 if you don't think it's possible under any circumstances 0.800 211 382 all your calls will be free we really want to know what you think about this account and we'll get on with it about what, to be more precise, depends on the life and well-being of our citizens, because everything that concerns the army, of course, taxes... excises, the budget, is what concerns our lives. therefore, we are adding konstantin zhivago, entrepreneur, philanthropist, to the live broadcast. sir

konstantin, good evening, we are glad to welcome you to the espresso tv channel. good evening. the first thing i would like to talk about with you is probably the raising of these or the introduction of new excise taxes on fuel. in fact, new excise taxes were introduced retroactively from september 1. we saw that these rates rose for gasoline, diesel fuel, and gas. we see that already at the gas stations the prices are slowly starting to rise, and here is the question for you, that is, after the president signed this law, after actually, by the way, the same increase in these excise taxes was announced from january 1, this is not a one-time increase, well, there are many , many stages, in your opinion, how will it affect the state of the economy and whether in general...

correct now to take such actions on the part of the ukrainian authorities, the ukrainian government? thank you, i want to tell you that my understanding, as an economist by profession, by education, any increase in excise taxes on fuel, on energy carriers in any case of a peaceful state, when there is no war, it definitely always has a very negative effect on the economy, very negatively. affects the cost price of manufactured products, and everything is paid for by our compatriots who buy products, be it bread, milk, butter, any other products that they buy for their consumption anywhere, and of course industry suffers from this, if it produces products either for internal consumption for other businesses or for export, because

the cost increases, there is no reimbursement ... excise, and that is, the higher the cost of production, the less competitive it is, but we have to to understand now that we live in ukraine, which is at war with the aggressor the russian federation, for almost the third year, it will soon be in february next year, as it happens, it is dramatic and generally catastrophic for both the economy and business, and in this situation we understand that we as a state must have resources. to finance its armed forces of ukraine in order to fight, to defend its independence and indeed to defend the future of our people and in our territory, which is recognized in the international borders that have been recognized and recognized by all but of the russian federation. in a situation where we need resources to conduct military operations and defend ourselves against russian aggression, of course we need to increase taxes,

various taxes, which is what the verkhovna rada is talking about today. speaks and passes laws, and we understand that today it is better to pay more to both the economy and business, but to remain an independent nation, an independent state, than to allegedly pay nothing, have no resources for military struggle and, god forbid, lose both territories and our own population, therefore in this situation it is necessary to take a balanced approach to increasing taxes, they must be increased in this situation in relation to... we are increasing them in no way more there than in other european countries in general, that is, today we are only tightening up, equalizing the level of excise taxes that ukraine is introducing today to the level that is introduced in all the countries of the european union and which is introduced in general in many european countries that are not members of the european union, and this is in a situation when they are not at war, but when we are at war, then of course, if

we don't have other resources, unless we make chips like taiwan or make iphones like apple, then we have to collect taxes where we can collect them, but of course it has to be done head on so as not to kill the business, not to kill manufacturers, so that they still remain competitive, because they provide jobs and taxes for our state. mr. kostyantyn, i will allow myself to ask you, actually we understand that tax increases should balance the situation with holes. should be provided in the budget the ukrainian army with everything necessary and should generally guarantee us that we will be able to continue fighting against a powerful aggressor. at the same time, i am reminded of the words of ms. pena pritzker, until recently the united states special representative for our recovery, in particular, who noted that before she naturally resigned from that position, she noted that

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