sale of medium varieties of cabbage varieties , only a few farms started harvesting late ones. cabbage in ukraine is currently more than three times more expensive than in the corresponding period last year. about prices and not only. we will continue to talk with oleg penzen, executive director of the economic discussion club. he joins the conversation. good evening. i am sincerely glad to see you. each other mr. oleg. well, i wanted to - i would like to start with the information that next year the government will not raise, will not raise the minimum salary, but before that, before your answer, i will announce the figure that was made public on the portal of the ministry of finance, so here is the average salary of a ukrainian official, a civil servant, 55,000 uah, but here is the minimum, which is 800 uah next year, they will not revise it, comment, so what?

to comment, everything is here anyway, unfortunately, it is clear, eh, look, eh, we are talking about the minimum wage, but in parallel with this, the living wage will also be frozen, not the actual one, but the one in budget, and on which it depends about 150 other payments, uh, social, that is, we have a living wage, attention, somewhere... at the level of 2,920 hryvnias, despite the fact that the actual living wage, calculated by the ministry of social policy, is somewhere around 7,200, this is after payment taxes, that is, we actually have a very large distortion, and if you and i take a closer look, we plan to spend uah 420 billion on social expenditures in the draft budget for next year, despite the fact that... in 24 in the current year, this amount

is uah 470 billion, that is, for the first time, well as far as i can remember, for almost all the years of independence, you and i have planned for the next year so much less funds for social expenses than in the current year, we have a similar situation with health care, we have a similar situation with education, health care i... more than 20 billion minus, education minus 3 billion minus. today i saw interesting research on cultural spending, so compared to the 21st year, our cultural spending has decreased by 35%. so it's realistic at the moment, but i understand why the reason, our partners, are reducing macroeconomic funding, which is the basis. of social benefits, if in the 23rd year

we received 42, 42.5 billion dollars, in the current year it is planned to receive 37 billion, next year at best 35 billion. expenditures that the state directs primarily to basic social articles. yes, you have to remember that actually. of its macroeconomic financing are financed, in particular, the salaries of civil servants, and i i think that these figures, announced by the ministry of finance, will be a very good incentive for people's deputies, and i want to remind you that we are discussing the draft budget for the next year, which has been submitted to the cabinet of ministers to the verkhovna rada, that is, the verkhovna rada is just starting its discussion, and i am absolutely sure that the people's deputies will understand

the disparities that you just mentioned, and i think that we will see an increase in social benefits and a decrease in civil service payments, i would like that to see that such changes as you are talking about were actually made public in the project, well, if we talk about income, it is interesting that in the first years of the great war , a bet was made on the income from the sale of bonds of the domestic state loan quite actively. but the ministry of finance noted that the demand among domestic investors is currently falling, and can we expect that the purchase of ovdp will bring a significant part of the income to the treasury, at least banks, for example, are ready to buy these bonds in order to only taxes were not raised for them? look, in the draft budget for next year, again we are discussing it, the difference between what should be paid. er, according to previously

sold bonds, together with interest and those involved in nov, it is only 17 billion hryvnias, i.e. 530 billion we want to issue and sell bonds for the next year, and... 513, sorry, well, we have to give for repayment with interest, that is, the situation here, well, exactly, i think that due to the bonds of the domestic government loan, now you are there, and you and i are unlikely to extract all the additional expenses that are needed in the budget, eh, there is a very interesting figure that must be said, we have 2.2 hryvnias of expenses for security and defense next year, despite the fact... that the direct revenues of the state budget from taxes and fees amount to 2 trillion, i would like to develop an understanding from the government, and at the expense of what these 200 billion will be received. the next point is very interesting, the budget foresees an increase in revenues from taxation of the fund by almost 40%

wages i have a question. we have not seen any bill on economy reservation so far. and mrs. svarodenko says that no, no, no, there is nothing of the sort laid down there, then, excuse me, by some miracle, the taxation of the labor remuneration fund will increase by 40%, despite the fact that, well, we know very well, and , that the wage fund in ukraine, as a rule, grows only under certain conditions: when the state changes the minimum wage, when the minimum wage does not change, business does not increase the legal wage with its own to the employees, i'm sorry... our prime minister, presenting the budget, said that the average salary for the next year should also increase by uah 4,500 to uah 24,000 per month, the average salary, while the minimum wage remains at uah 800 without changes i have a question, why are there such miracles, well, the numbers

appeared, if there is not such a powerful incentive for business to legalize a part of the wages for its employees, which it pays in an envelope today. well, that is, these issues should really be clearly explained by the government for well the public, because in my opinion these are, well, very difficult questions to which i don't know the answers, well, i don't know what the incentive can be for employers, when the discussion of tax reform is still ongoing, which in essence, in my opinion, in essence many experts, i think, and you also support, may still drive a certain part of the business, on the contrary, deeper into the shadows and... the last question, i would like to hear, well, the national bank has recently kept the discount rate at the level of 13% and essentially forecasts , that inflation will stop and is forecast to be within 5% next year, price growth slows down, we just have to

wait for 2025, tighten our belts and wait to somehow survive the current year, because prices are rising, and we see this with you, in your opinion. this is such a sweet candy that next year the prices will slow down, are there any such prerequisites? well, look, the draft budget includes a macroeconomic forecast prepared by the government. the national bank can dream something there, but the control figures are prepared by the government with a macroeconomic forecast, so the government has set inflation at 10% for next year. that is, the draft budget for the 25th year, it is assumed that neither the living wage nor the minimum wage will increase with you, while inflation is expected to be 10%. and i think that in this situation the government is more right, because we

, let's not make an illusion, i am absolutely sure that in the summer of next year you and i will see another increase in electricity tariffs for us. and it will definitely not be in the amount of 2-3%, it will be substantial. apart from that, we have, well, count for 3 years in a row 7.99 per cubic meter of gas, nothing changes, although the real market is a little higher. i am absolutely sure that there will be efforts to increase this number. vodichka went up the utility line, we already know about it. there are other points that speak of that. that the state-regulated prices for the next year will rise, then excuse me, what 5% inflation is expected there, i think that it will definitely be higher, god forbid that we 10 fit in, that is, there are options that a moratorium on raising some tariffs or

will be bypassed or canceled, well, look, someone mentioned the moratorium when in the summer of this year increased tariffs for electricity, well, it seems that electricity was not included in this moratorium . gas and water supply, if i'm not mistaken, water supply has increased, water supply, tariffs are currently being actively revised and will be revised, well, look, if electricity is growing on the market, and... our water utilities with you use this electricity, then how can the tariff be frozen ? they are already unprofitable at the moment, but you and i know that the cost of water is primarily the cost of electricity the energy that raises this water is the main, the main expenses there, so i think that the tariffs for water will definitely be revised according to gas, a separate issue, again, it depends not only on the ukrainians, but also on the ukrainian government, if the aggressor will start pounding... on the gas transportation network, on gas storage facilities, if additional expenses for

the restoration of the gas transportation network in ukraine begin, i guarantee you that the question of raising the gas tariff, gas prices will definitely arise, so this question is clear, and one more moment, the moratorium refers to the price of gas as a commodity, we pay for gas transportation with a separate payment, if it increases, it will not apply to the moratorium, however, it will... it applies to gas transportation, we already pay more than 500 for it today hryvnias, and if there will be a thousand, well, please, no matter what, so the total price will increase, it is true, mr. olezh, although there is little optimism, but these are realities for which you and i must prepare, our forecasts was given by oleg penzyn, executive director of the economic discussion group club, unfortunately, the picture is not optimistic, but... this is our life with you, i will finish the column about money during the war, a big broadcast is going on, there will be more,

watch us! thank you very much oleksandr, morchavtsi, thank you oleg penzen for a very important conversation, and everything can be paid for the question that money must be earned in order to pay, and here we also need initiatives, suggestions on how to do it, this is important. because nothing comes from nowhere and does not disappear anywhere, as les poderevyanskyi, a classic of modern ukrainian literature, wrote. so, the tv channel espresso and the spring charitable fund is moving on to donations, because they also have to go somewhere, and in fact today we will donate, you will donate, we are the source of these revenues, because the fighters ask us to do it, and we will do it, we are already doing it in fact. therefore, espresso and the vesna charitable fund continue to collect funds for the purchase of modern drones and radio electronic systems. fighting for the third separate assault brigade, as well as for the 110th and 47th mechanized brigades of the armed forces of ukraine.

our soldiers are in the donetsk direction every day deter enemy attacks, today it is the most hellish direction in fact, and it has remained so for a long time, they defend our freedom, our future, our lives, because i will remind you once again, between the enemy, the numerous, numerous enemy and us, there are only these heroes, warriors, defenders, defenders, exactly these warriors. did not stand to the last and defended the avdiiv direction in the spring of the 24th, when it was very difficult. our goal is uah 3.5 million, you can see the details on the screen, on the screen, and now let's listen to our soldiers. good health, dear ukrainians, we are the fighters of the first assault battalion, the third separate assault brigade, which will defend our native land on the front line, we urgently need your help, we need means of electronic warfare against maliba. poles of the enemy and komikats drones, we are asking for your help,

glory to ukraine, to the heroes, glory, yes, i said a few days ago that we have already collected more than two million hryvnias, i think that this amount has increased even more, but in in any case, we are already closer to the goal than we were before, you know, it is very important for each of us, that's when we we are talking about the front, to whom we are close. at the front, or who is at the front itself - is a completely different story, they understand, some approximately, some very clearly understand what it is, and when it is said that it is somewhere there, we are here, it is somewhere there, well if you are not in zaporizhzhia, not in kherson, not even in kharkiv, not in sumy, not even in dnipro, not in kryvyi rih, which is close to the front, and not in nikopol, but somewhere even further, you think, well, it is somewhere there, they are fighting there, they don't need it anymore, they want to seize donbas there, but that's all want to capture, the russians have always wanted to capture everything and... putin, no, he did not lie when he said that the borders of russia do not end anywhere, there is such a joke in his

words, the meme is, i will say it, in such censorious words that the borders russia will end up where russia gets the booty, so we help our soldiers so that they can give the enemy a booty, the enemy is constantly improving, this story is that there are some strange people, they can't do anything, and they burst into sarmatism in mines, well , believe me, it will take some time, maybe... not will explode, somewhere someone will help, somewhere they will steal some chips, somewhere they will bribe something, it will take off one day, it is not a fact that it will scare the west so much, but it will take off, and now it is actively helping, as we can see, according to reuters, tomorrow... this let's talk about china, creating secret projects for the production of geran-3 drones, which will fly 200 km, will be high-speed, faster than the shaheds of iran, and will carry 50 kg of explosives, so we must today give our soldiers the opportunity to defend themselves and destroy the enemy , or again, they will say, between them and us there is only this line of our defenders,

there is no one else there, and we must do everything to ensure that this line stands and moves there, not here. thank you for being with us, take care, and this was the big ether program, my name is vasyl zima, we will meet tomorrow at 18:10, and just now the weather is from natalka didenko. hello everyone, our dear viewers, we are starting another weather forecast for the next day on september 26, but first we will take a look with you. on e-e the way people react to different the weather or its change, and here i want to say right away that the human body reacts more precisely to a change in the weather, to some permanent, specific situation, even a stormy one, for example, when a cyclone, rains, cooling, etc., or vice versa,

so what meteorological phenomena can have a negative impact, it is not necessarily natural. but there is such a possibility: strong wind, i read this for the first time myself, i was very surprised, provokes intestinal colic, stomach pain and insomnia, well, you can still do without sleep to understand, frost makes it difficult for asthmatics to breathe, air humidity leads to a decrease in the oxygen content in the air and therefore excessive fatigue, drowsiness can be observed even in healthy people, an increase in atmospheric pressure occurs when clear dry weather comes after rains, hypertensives react painfully, the risk... heart attacks and strokes increases slightly, a decrease in atmospheric pressure leads, for example, in hypotensives, that is, in people with low atmospheric arterial pressure, to a sharp decrease in this arterial pressure itself, and also has a negative effect on asthmatics and cardiac patients, well, almost all weather-sensitive people suffer from magnetic storms, they complain of migraines,

blood pressure spikes and even feelings of anxiety and irritability, here i want to emphasize once again: that usually people react negatively to change weather, and not for any specific weather, and by the way, we will talk about the change of weather at the end of our column, but now there are magnetic storms, strong, powerful, extraordinary magnetic storms are not expected tomorrow, so we calmly move on to the actual weather forecast. so, what is expected tomorrow , september 26, in all of ukraine and in each of its regions. we start traditionally with the western ones. regions, so tomorrow in the west significant precipitation is unlikely 20-24°, not bad, precipitation is not expected in the north of ukraine 22-25° above zero. cloudy weather will also prevail in the east, there will be a lot of sun, 24-26°. in the central part of ukraine tomorrow

, the weather is also expected to be 23-26° without significant precipitation from vinnytsia to dnipropetrovsk. of course it's warm, well, in the southern part too in ukraine, precipitation is also unlikely, dry air will prevail, 24-26° and in kyiv in the capital tomorrow it will be around +23-24°, precipitation is not expected, but, as i promised, i want to say that the change in weather, which you may you will react, but let it not be so, this change in weather is tentatively expected on september 28-20, but for now, keep a close eye on our updated weather forecasts on the espresso channel. good evening, we are from ukraine. two hours to learn about war, and how the world lives? a project for smart and caring people. espresso in the evening. greetings, it's me

olga len, these are the chronicles of the war, and without exaggeration i can say that now there are very, very disturbing news from almost all areas of the front, and the best medicine for this anxiety is help to the armed forces of ukraine, so i remind you that we continue our collection together with the vesna charitable fund for the purchase of the necessary drones and electronic warfare systems for the third separate assault brigade of the 110th and 47th brigades of the armed forces of ukraine. currently, drones on the front destroy equipment, manpower of the enemy and shoot down reconnaissance uavs. arep helps save the lives of our soldiers. therefore, we ask you to join. our goal is 3.5 million hryvnias, now we have 2 million and 1000 hryvnias in the account, that is, you see, we still need to collect 400, so

remember, every hryvnia is very important, on the screen you can see a qr code with which your funds are converted into weapons, please join, it is very, very important, and it is very important for these brigades who are fighting the most danger. good health, dear ukrainians, we are fighters of the first assault battalion, the third separate assault brigade, who will defend our native land on the front lines, we urgently need your help, we need means of radio-electronic warfare against the enemy's small bpolas and komikadzi drones, we are asking for your help, glory to ukraine, heroes, glory! so, please join this gathering. well, now let's look at the battle map and what was on the battle line for the last week. map

of hostilities for the period august 18-25. ugledar, almost surrounded near pokrovsk, and the turkish zsrf break through our defenses and advance to kurakhue. the level of intensity of fighting in the east ukraine's growth. so much so that the armed forces set a new daily record for disposal of russians, more than 1,500 people. 580 battles, or more than half of all battles on the front, took place in the kurakhiv and pokrovsky directions, where the situation for the defense forces has significantly worsened and requires difficult and quick decisions from our military leadership. the armed forces of ukraine will have to withdraw from ugladar. from the time when the russians occupied novomykhai at the end of april this year. they gradually penetrated more than 18 km to the eastern outskirts of ughledar, from where they were pushed back in the winter of 2023. the first assaults on the city have already taken place, but

nothing has come out of the nasko-whores of the russians, so they will continue to surround our defenders. during this week, north of ugledar, the occupiers managed to seize the south donbass mine number three, and for the mine number one battles are currently ongoing, with negative prospects. for the armed forces from the occupied water, from the mines, the occupiers had to break through a little more than 4 km to completely cut off the logistics to ugledar, which is now happening through bogoyavlenka. even more a dangerous situation developed to the west of the city, where the enemy finally crossed the kashlagach river and created a ten-kilometer bridgehead between prechistivka and novoukrayinka. the russians are also advancing to the western outskirts of the city, but... before that, they will undoubtedly cut the road from bogoyavlenka, to which they have less than 2 km left. if the defense forces do not launch a successful

counter-offensive in the near future, then we will lose a corner in the short term. the russians are very close to knocking the armed forces out of the ughledar bridgehead and finally securing railway connection from donetsk to mariupol. the russians are preparing to storm kurakhov. ussr after the occupation of krasnohori. managed in a few days to break 8.5 km deep into our defense in the area of ​​the village of gostre, which is 3 km from the outskirts of kurakhovo. on this section of the front, the invaders advanced in three columns along the lozova river to gostre, as well as from georgiivka to maksimilianivka. the advantage of the rashists in manpower and mechanized power was so striking that the defense forces had to retreat and build a new line of defense through oleksandropil and kurakhove both positions. are quite vulnerable, since the invaders attack kurakhove not only from the east, but also from the south. on the other hand, oleksandropol will soon also be trapped in chains from three

sides. currently, the ukrainians still have about a month to prepare kurakhov for defense. the pokrovsky front is gradually bending. the zsu has been leaving the neville pocket for the second week, leaving behind 6 km. currently, the line of defense runs through the desired second, which the rashists are already trying to get into. in small groups, as well as along the northern the bank of the lozova river, where our soldiers are still holding on to the outskirts of krasnohorivka. in the future, the line of defense should be cemented in hirnik, zoryanyi, kurakhivka and alexandropilli, as well as along the vovcha river. although the enemy will be able to storm this fortified area from three sides, it is powerful enough to hold off the invaders for several months. however, after the full occupation of the ukrainian between hirnyk and sely'. there is an offensive by the russians, which may become a threat to the defense of both hirnyk and selidovy. here the rashists pushed ours defense and made their way to the west, cutting

the selidove hirnyk road from with the prospect of going to tsukurin, in order to further gain operational space for the development of the offensive, this will allow them to get behind the defenders of the two cities, and then the russians can also go to the northern outskirts of kurakhovo, so it is precisely on this part of the front that stabilization measures need to be taken urgently. to the north of selidovy zsu, the russians continue to be held back in the surrounded marynivka, but the creeping advance of the invaders to the south of novohrodivka will sooner or later lead to an enemy attack on north. city, unfortunately, the armed forces of ukraine could not consolidate the defense along the vovcha river in the grodivka area. last week, the enemy forced the river and in the following days developed his offensive towards mykolaivka, which is the last village before myrnograd. our defenders in the villages of krutyy yar and krasnyy yar found themselves sandwiched between two armies, and will probably move towards mirnograd in the near future. the russians broke through to the center of turetsk. after

the zsu. counterattacked in new york, where they managed to unblock our military, which held the central part of the village, for a few weeks later, the russians managed to push the defense forces back to the northern outskirts of new york, and at the same time they advanced in a northerly direction along the h20 route, which leads to kostiantynivka and kramatorsk. on the adjacent part of the front, the enemy continues to carry out assaults to encircle turetsk from the north and south. there is dew on the southern flank. occupied a significant part of the territory east of nelipivka and approached the outskirts of the village. in turkey itself , the enemy occupied all terekons in the eastern part of the city, developed an offensive from iron and north to the central areas, where he managed to gain a foothold in the area of ​​the intersection of the central dzerzhinsky street and shakhtariv avenue. in the northern regions of the city, the invaders expanded their control in the krymskyi direction and almost completely occupied the village of druzhba. in

times yar and klishchiivka. despite a large number of attempts to break through the siversky dinets canal, both north and south of the city, the defense forces managed to repulse all the assaults and eliminate all the temporary bridgeheads of the russians. the enemy is still trying to expand the exit zone to the channel so that it can be forced in many places. if last week they made the main emphasis on the northern flank near kalynyvka, then recently the most assaults have been south of ivanovskoye and in klyshka. although klishchiivka has long since been erased from the face of the earth, the armed forces of ukraine hold the dominant heights west of the village, which makes it possible to deter the enemy, but recently there has been a steady tendency for the enemy to advance precisely in the area of ​​these heights, some of them have now turned gray, nobody not a controlled area. we are losing the last villages in luhansk region. the occupiers intensified their attack on makiivka and nevsky, villages on the left bank of the zherebets river, which the enemy wants

to force. to move further to oskol. at this time, the mentioned villages are actually lost, and the armed forces of ukraine are conducting stabilization measures to prevent the river from being forced. after the occupation of makiivka and nevsky , a few practically destroyed villages remained in the territory under our control in the luhansk region. further north, the russians continue to advance from pischannoy to oskol and have come close to the village of kruglyakivkiv on the eastern bank of the river. the storming of the village will begin in the near future. and thus the expansion of the bridgehead along the river to the south and north, the main target in the next six months on this part of the front will be the city of borova. deoccupation of vovchansk. units of the main directorate of intelligence vacated the last of the 30 buildings of the aggregate plant in the central part of vovchansk. this object was key for the enemy, so it is likely that after its liberation, the russians on this part of the front will begin a creeping retreat to their

borders. don't call kurshchyna. not when ordered putin. the most interesting news on the kurdish front is the one no one is talking about. our soldiers keep informational silence, and the russians are ashamed to admit their defeats, although even they loudly declared that they repelled dozens of attempts by the armed forces to break through the border in other areas, and not only in the kursk region. it is unlikely that their information is true, so we are waiting for official reports. on the section of the front east of suzhi, the enemy continues its offensive. after. the russians tried to attack the battlements, but our soldiers repulsed the assaults. further north the russian military has expanded the gray zone near the big soldiers' and krom's bulls, however, part of the enemy's formations still remain surrounded in shpetukhivka, kiriyivka, and cellars. to the east of korenevoy, the russians tried to advance from oleksandrivka in the direction of vitreny. however, they collapsed. the enemy tries to attack.