and no one even thought about it, and they were focused only on the positive, he called me and told me that they tried to break through the territory of ukraine, but - well, the break through was unsuccessful, and they found themselves surrounded and captured in captivity, well, most likely he told me that it would be captivity. for more than two years in captivity, anna received only one letter from her husband... may 12 , 2023. the woman wrote to him regularly, but only 13 letters reached ivan. his wife learned information about his condition, except from him released brothers. anna says she did everything possible, went to rallies and appealed to the coordination headquarters, the international committee of the red cross and the european court. for a long time, ivan smetaniuk was on the lists for exchange, but he was released only on september 13, 2024. i received a message from

the coordination headquarters, congratulations, smatanyuk ivan romanovych was released from captivity, and already somewhere after 20 minutes, he called me, he told me that he is already at home, in ukraine, congratulations at home, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes. i am very glad that my husband returned home, i was very worried about him and missed him very much. ivan smetaniuk, like other ukrainians released from russian casemates, is currently undergoing the necessary examinations. in the future, he will undergo a period of quarantine and treatment, already after returning home to prykarpattia. in total, during the full-scale war, 3,672 of our fellow citizens were freed. yes, well, we

continue, and now we will be interested in which and which topics my colleague serhiy rudenko chose for his program, the verdict program starts at 20:00, and it is also interesting who will be the guests of today's broadcast. serhiy, congratulations, i would like to speak to you. greetings, vasyl, today is usually a two-hour program of verdicts, in the first part of our program there will be three guests: people's deputy of ukraine, mykola knyazhy. general mykola malomuzh and oleg rybachuk, former head of yushchenko's presidential office. let's talk about decolonization in ukraine, how ukraine is trying to get rid of everything russian, including in the names of settlements. today, unfortunately, the verkhovna rada of ukraine did not make a decision regarding the renaming of 333 settlements in ukraine that still bear and have a moscow or russian accent. accent, and this is probably

the most shameful thing that could happen to this verkhovna rada, because in the conditions when there is really a great war of ukraine against russia, and ukraine is trying to defeat the russian army, the verkhovna rada of ukraine did not have enough votes to rename these populated points, well, of course, let's talk about the fsb agents in ryas, it is meant. church officials of the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate, as well as let's talk about the situation in sumy oblast, the enemy continues to terrorize sumy oblast, and today another night the energy facilities of sumy oblast were fired upon, the situation is rather difficult in the regional center of sumy, i hope that general malomush will characterize and analyze the situation. which is currently taking place

in sumy oblast and kursk oblast, and of course, of course, one of the topics that was and remains relevant, will probably be relevant for the next six months, and this is the front pages of the world media, this is the plan for victory zelenskyi, the president of ukraine is going to the united states of america, in a week he will be in the united states of america and will meet with the president. biden will discuss the victory plan, so slowly the world media are starting to talk about what is in that plan, today one of the western newspapers wrote that zelenskyi's plan includes a clause on ukraine's accession to nato, they say that president biden is already at the end of his presidential term term may announce that ukraine will become a member of the north atlantic treaty organization.

but it is not known for sure, i hope that oleg hrybachuk will put all the emphasis on this topic for us, as well as our two political experts who will work on the air, starting: from 21:15, this is vitaliy kulyk and serhii taran, let's talk about raising taxes in ukraine, about zelenskyi's victory plan, as well as about how the president of ukraine should now unite society, because a difficult situation will develop in the economy, a difficult situation at the front, taxes are being raised, mobilization is underway, in short... what can say how president zelenskyi will speak, talking about this plan for victory, first of all to ukrainians, because ukraine knows only in fragments about these intentions of president zelenskyi, regarding the plan for the victory of ukraine, and

perhaps it is time to start a big conversation with ukrainian society, adult ukrainian society, society that in february 22... took up arms and began to defend ukraine from the russian invaders, turning the current war into a real people's war. in a word, our evening will be quite big and interesting, stay on the espresso tv channel, vasyl zima's big broadcast continues, we will be on the air in 24 hours, 24 minutes, sorry, and in 24 hours too, so don't switch, stay with us. it will be interesting later. vasyl thank you very much, sergey. at 20:00 the verdict program by serhii rudenko, quite interesting topics, interesting guests. well, it will be interesting to talk about money, to listen to oleksandr morshchevky. he is already with us in the studio. alexander, congratulations. please. congratulations to vasyl. i greet the audience. therefore, work on the draft state budget is active continues what's up with social spending and

taxes? more on that in just a moment. this rub'. about money during the war, i'm oleksandr morshchevka about the most important thing in the world of money today. so, he left the hammer. the state hotel ukraine was sold in kyiv for 2.5 billion hryvnias. the auction was held online for the first time in the transparent sales system. three participants competed for ownership rights to the object, which is located on maidan nezalezhnosti. the winner of the auction was a ukrainian businessman, maksym krippa. he must pay off salary debts, all loans, and save visible the four-star hotel ukraine is the first high-rise building in the capital, it was opened in september 1961. work on the main state budget is actively underway. the cabinet of ministers, while working on the draft state budget for the next year, did not

count on the so-called economic reservation. at the same time, according to estimates, it can still bring uah 100 billion of additional revenue to the treasury. this was reported by the minister of economy yuliya svyridenko, she emphasized that the authorities will return to the issue of economic reservations only after how it will be clear that the army has enough resources to continue the fight. the main task now is the defense of the state and the provision of the armed forces of ukraine. and then there is the issue of economic booking - says the government official. let me remind you that now there are several options for how to make economical reservations, different technologies. actions, but so far we see that there is an urgent need, this is the financing of the armed forces. the national bank is against raising the income tax for banks for the second year in a row, the first deputy head of the institution kateryna reported this roshkova in an interview with forbes ukraine. this

can lead to capital problems - says a financier at two state-owned banks, so it will require billions of budget expenditures for refinancing. also, the first deputy head of the nbu stressed that the banking system is able to provide the necessary amount to cover the budget deficit without raising the military levy to 5%, in particular, to bring funds into the treasury through bank purchases of domestic state loan bonds. well , today nina was a guest on the broadcast yuzhanina, people's deputy of ukraine, and she spoke about the fact that the national bank is currently preparing alternative proposals. where it is really possible to earn money for the state budget without raising taxes for banking institutions, for the second year in a row, in particular, the imf insisted on only a one-time action, it was already done last year, and also the national bank offers various options in order not to increase

to such a really significant 5% military levy of such a mark, well, discussions continue in october, we hope for a final decision, y deputies have several weeks to work on tax innovations. in the state budget for the following year, expenditures on the social sphere have been reduced. this statement was made by the first deputy minister. social policy daria marchak. this is due to the difficult financial situation and limited financial resources provided to ukraine by international partners. pensioners are mainly financed with their funds. the official adds, these are not grant money, loans. that is, the state is currently financing the social sphere through debt. also, marchak added, the ministry of social policy will conduct an inspection financial and property status of citizens, when to provide. they receive various social benefits and social services, well, let me remind you, yes, so

to speak, this is a so-called verification, a check of the property status, and really, whether that family or a specific person will need social benefits or the same subsidy, if he has , for example, the income is above the norm, then this money will be given to people who really need help from the state, well, but... it has already been repeatedly discussed that in march of next year, the indexation of pensions payment is planned, insignificant, but it should take place, well, at least the cabinet talked about it. let's go further: more than a million ukrainians have already opened cards to receive payments under the national cashback program. testing of the initiative will continue until october, then a full launch will take place. program, almost 200,000 products have already been added, the initiative is financed

by funds from international donors, so consumers can receive 10% compensation every month, this is roughly up to uah 300 so-called cashback for simply buy domestic goods in markets, and there was already a question, when will these payments begin and the minister of digital transformation, ivan fedorov... announced that payments will begin as early as october 20 for those purchases you made in september this month. and during the year of operation of the grain corridor in the black sea, ukraine exported 70 million tons of cargo. more than 25 ships left our ports, president volodymyr zelenskyy announced. despite the war and russian terror, kyiv continues to be a donor of global food security for... dozens of countries around the world, our grain is received by the ports of asia, africa, europe and america, and

millions of people in ethiopia, somalia, yemen and sudan received the necessary food. and he spoke with the deputy chairman of the all-ukrainian agrarian council, denys marchuk, who said that the grain corridor still performs such a strategically important function, despite the fact that the so-called dry areas are developing in our country. viable grain corridors, but still this is already in the background, their carrying capacity is much smaller, although we do not exclude their advantage in exports, in the export potential of ukraine. and the drought in the black sea region, in particular in our country, has slowed down the harvest of winter crops, which make up a significant part among cereals, according to bloomberg analysts. wheat production. in ukraine, it is about a third lower than the pre-war level, after russia seized part of the territories, while

the temperature has been above normal since the beginning of september, and this is worsening the conditions for the work of agrarians. the area of ​​sown fields is about half of what it was at this time of the year the past the weather really complements, the weather is complemented by other labor difficulties for farmers, including the contamination of land with mines, the shortage of workers. forces due to mobilization, analysts of the bloomberg agency write, well, this is what they are talking about, in particular, the industry associations of agricultural producers, the situation is indeed difficult, but internal problems with grain are not predicted, and this is important. and the very end, the international monetary fund has canceled the start of work in moscow, said oleksiy mozhin, executive director of the fund from the rfi. it was supposed to be the first full-scale mission war but they say that they will not go to the aggressor country because of such technical, technical

unpreparedness. let me remind you that the fund's plans to visit the russian federation were criticized both by ukraine and by a number of european states, and the president of the kyiv school of economics, tymofiy mylovanov, also said that this visit simply destroys the reputation of the international monetary fund, and it is important that the imf ... . listened to the global voice not only of our state, but also to the voice of the representatives of the european community, so far it seems to me that there is nothing for the imf to do. this was the last news from the world of money for today, i will say goodbye, the big broadcast is going on, watch us! thank you very much, oleksandr, morshevts, it's good that the people have understood that in russia, serious structures, civilized

structures have nothing to do, because something is happening there, some processes are taking place, some... have nothing to do with it, but our army is doing everything so that this anti-civilization does not win this war, but is removed from our land, and therefore we will donate to the needs of the armed forces of ukraine to strengthen our army. tv channel espresso and vesna charitable foundation continues to collect funds for the purchase of modern drones and electronic warfare systems for the third separate assault brigade, as well as for the 110th and 47th mechanized brigades of the armed forces of ukraine. the defenders in the donetsk direction hold back enemy attacks every day. they defend our freedom, future, our life with you. it was these soldiers who stood to the last and defended the avdiiv direction in the spring, when the situation was critical, remember, there was a lack of ammunition, and then only the heroism and skill of our soldiers and the sacrifices of our soldiers saved us the situation and you can see all the details on the screen, please join. yes, and, well,

we have more. material for you: 79% of ukrainians did not leave their homeland even if they obtained citizenship of the european union or the united states of america. polling of the kyiv international institute of sociology for september 1-6 this year. the maximum error is 4.1%. but what does the state offer these people? and despite the active discussion of the demographic problem and loud statements about the creation of a specialized ministry from returning to the draft budget do not predict for next year. there was no existence of such a department, moreover, it was not financed in any way. in addition, in the 25th year they plan to reduce those programs that will directly affect the number of ukrainians in ukraine and their quality of life. mykola knyazhytskyi, people's deputy of ukraine, analyzed the estimate for the 25th year. let's look at the people's deputy's blog together.

there will be no ministry of return of ukrainians. the authorities, which just two weeks ago pathetically announced the creation of a separate departments for solving the demographic problem in the draft budget for 2025 did not foresee this, it did not foresee the existence of such an agency. i have this document in my hands now, there is no mystery here, everything is clear and transparent. the problem of the modern ukrainian government is that the pr component often absorbs any changes and values. this is what happened this time too, instead of formulating the goals of the state in the field of demography and presenting ways of achieving them, the government is taking care of it again. only posts in telegram and loud names of future ministries, and as soon as it turned out that the political-technological topic had already been worked out, the tick was ticked, and it was put aside, it can be forgotten. the ministry is not in the draft budget not because there is a lack of money, but because for the government itself, the problem of refugees and the demographic crisis is somewhere far on the periphery of priorities. back in the summer, i

registered a draft law that provides for the creation of an effective ministry of demography and diaspora. and we also wanted to create an effective recovery fund and, most importantly, a state strategy: take, use, yes no, more details about all this are here at the link, but in the 25th year they also plan to reduce those programs that will directly affect the number of ukrainians in ukraine and their quality of life: they will cut spending on the ministry of education, the ministry of social policy, the ministry of foreign affairs . let's look at the numbers, in particular at the implementation of the budget program of the ministry of health. financial support for ensuring ukraine's international positive image, support for the activities of the ukrainian institute, measures to support relations with ukrainians who live outside ukraine, the government proposes to allocate uah 65.2 million for 2025, which is 15 million less than the financing of the corresponding program in 2024. at the same time

, expenditures for the ministry of internal affairs are increasing - 438 billion instead of 351, which is plus... 5%, prosecutors - an additional 18 billion, which is another 24%. nabu, nazk, army, the bureau of economic security by 44%, by 44% more. the actions of the authorities once again differ according to her words. recently, the new minister of foreign affairs stated that the preservation of the identity of ukrainians abroad, ties with the diaspora, will become a priority in the activities of the ministry of foreign affairs. it is logical that expenses should increase in this case, but the cabinet of ministers decided otherwise and reduced them. i understand, the diaspora may not be interesting, because those who live permanently abroad do not vote at all, and those who left recently are probably not going to vote for the current government, instead... the government believes that the return of ukrainians should be a problem of the european union, and not themselves, it is time to really ask questions about the european union's development of programs for the return

of ukrainians home, of course, for this they have to create appropriate conditions for security, medical services, housing reconstruction, but it is certain that this should be on the agenda. it sounds strange, because the european union should not develop programs for the return of ukrainians, they should be written in ukraine. this should be done, in particular, by the ministry, which the government refuses to create, and already then, with ready-made projects , you can go to the european union and offer them a partnership, including a financial one. and believe me, we definitely would not have been refused there, they would have allocated money, because feel the political pressure of their citizens who want to reduce the cost of receiving our refugees, but to go... the way is to be less interested in pr and more deeply into the essence of the problem. i have been dealing with this topic for two years. my proposals for getting out of the demographic corner that putin

is driving ukraine into are included in draft law 11424. if this document is adopted , the state will receive a correctly formulated and discussed demographic policy with society. it will be implemented by the ministry and the recovery fund demographic potential. they will take care. not only the return of ukrainians, but also the encouragement to live, work, and raise children here in ukraine. i suggest the name: ministry of demography and diaspora. maybe it doesn't sound as pretentious as the ministry of the return of ukrainians or the ministry of unity, but this name conveys both the specific functionality of the ministry and the scale of the problem. he will have a wide range of powers, one of which is coordination in issues related to demography. today, these functions are distributed among dozens ministries each of them works with demographic problems in their own way, after the adoption of our law, all state bodies will at least be coordinated and focused on achieving specific demographic

policy goals. i really hope that the government will finally move from words to action in these demographic issues, and the first step for this should be support for draft law 11424. good evening, we are from ukraine. well, we 're coming back, and the one you 've been waiting for, natalka didenko, and the weather forecast you've been waiting for, because now the situation is when you don't know what to expect, tomorrow, cold, warm, rain, i don't know what can happen, ms. natalya, good evening, please have a word, congratulations, vasyl, congratulations, our dear viewers, of course you and i will definitely talk about the sun, the rain, and not only that, literally in a second. since it was raining in kyiv today, which reminded me of autumn, so melancholic,

elegiac, there is still a lot of green, i thought, why don't we dilute our meeting today with poems about autumn by our famous, wonderful poets, well, of course, this is a famous poem by pavel techyna, with which i want to start: autumn is so sweet, autumn is glorious. "autumn brings mother food, borscht in a pot, porridge in a handful, a slice in the bosom, pears in an apron, autumn is so sweet, autumn is glorious. the character of ivan franko's poem is completely different. the autumn wind, which with a mighty moan, moans over the forest, as if over a son mother, you chase the clouds fiercely, as if you want to drive away winter, sleep and death. and of course, the wonderful lina kostenko, i really liked this poem. chirping like frightened hedgehogs, last night the jay screamed from the cliff, last night the crow said abchhi, last night the flower asked the flower, what is it doing, explain, only yesterday it was still

summer, and today it is already autumn, this is such a wonderful poetry about the autumn of our outstanding poets, of course, there are a lot of these poems within my column, they will not all fit, but read poetry, it still makes us bright. and the best, well, we are now moving on to our traditional sub-heading magnetic vortices, now for your attention a prognostic chart, from which it is clear tomorrow there will be small fluctuations, some at the beginning of the day, well, insignificant activity, but still, in general, the situation is more or less stable, so we will not linger here, but move on to the actual weather forecast, and we will see what will happen, we will start from the western regions, what will happen in the west of ukraine on... september 19, therefore, in the western regions of ukraine, dry, sunny weather will prevail with a comfortable air temperature of 20-23°, but

for example, in transcarpathia, ivano-frankivsk region, in chernivtsi there may even be below, +18, +22°. there such, such an island, cool, i would say. in the north of ukraine, the air temperature will be uniform everywhere, from zhytomyr oblast to sumy oblast, 22-24°. clear sky, lots of sun. in the east of ukraine, the anticyclonic nature of the weather will also prevail. you and i will somehow remember what an anticyclone is, who? the day will be warm, not the warmest in ukraine, by the way, from the 23rd to the 26th, here luhansk will be the warmest, in the central part of ukraine tomorrow no precipitation is expected, the maximum air temperature will be from 23 to 25°, the wind from the east may be gusty and sometimes even stormy gusts. be attentive and careful. in the southern part of ukraine. tomorrow , the east wind will also be gusty, sometimes up to 15.20

m/s. dry, clear weather will be observed mainly in the south, but here in odesa there is a possibility of local rains and even thunderstorms. and in kyiv, the weather will be quite warm tomorrow, it will be warmer than today. around 24°, 23-24°. it won't rain anymore. mostly, the sun will shine, the weather will be dry. and in the coming days, and until the end of the week i want. to say that this will prevail in ukraine this anti-cyclonic nature of the weather, there will be no precipitation, a lot of sun, a lot of beautiful white clouds and the air temperature is also comfortable, 20-26° above zero, of course, if there are any changes, be sure to follow our updated weather forecasts on the espresso channel . thank you ms. natal snidenko for

the information about the weather, i will give you some sports information at the very end. and today there was a postponed match in the premier league, the ukrainian premier league, kyiv dynamo at the valery vasiliyovych stadium lobanovsky received guests from poltava. the poltava vorskla team was always quite combative, and against dynamo they showed good football. in the first half, kyiv managed to score twice. novachok stood out first. kyiv defender ceballos scored with a header from a corner, and after that oleksandr karavaev scored for dynamo. in the second half , the vorsklas nevertheless managed to restore the intrigue of the poltava vorsklas and went, the player of the vorskla team managed to close the pass from the wing with his head, a pretty good ball, well, but as a result of the desire to play back and to play a draw played a bad joke with...

between the experienced, obviously the guest of poltava made a mistake on the way out, the vorsk goalkeeper made a mistake, he simply lost it when kicking the ball and did not kick it out and did not give a pass, but went far from the goal, this ball was the first pihalonok made it, who with a shot from 30 meters simply threw the ball into an empty net, so the score is 3:1 3:1 and the kyivans remain, in my opinion, the only team in and in no, not the only one, but the only team in... this year, which did not lose a single point, that is, the kyivans never lost and they have never played in a draw, i think this is the fourth or fifth match, i will get confused here now, who played kyiv, but, well, today shakhtar donetsk is playing with italian bologna in the group tournament of the champions league, so far the match has just started, the score is 0:0, we wish the ukrainian team success, we mean the donetsk miner and victory in this

confrontation. thank you for being with us, i will say goodbye to you until tomorrow at 18:10, i remind you that literally in a few moments the verdict program, serhiy rudenko will be on you wait, be with espresso, take care, goodbye, good evening, we are from ukraine.