and defense support , help from the congress is urgently needed, the head of the national bank andriy pyshnyi told me about this in an interview, and the minister of finance janet yelen pointed out that the alternatives are actually a step away from there is no congress. let me emphasize, we are absolutely committed to supporting ukraine against the brutal russian invasion, there is no substitute. is acting in congress to provide both military and direct budget support to ukraine, and i am very hopeful for progress in congress. it cannot be replaced. however, i fear that russia is beginning to see signs that the us and its allies are getting tired, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to find ways to support ukraine. and this gives them hope that they can wait us out, wait for our determination to crumble. and ukraine needs more support, a constant stream of support, and so we're focused on releasing the economic. value and create a flow of resources from russian state assets and from those 285 billion dollars that are immobilized. oksano certainly talks a lot about the possibil

but gold and foreign exchange reserves are a kind of financial cushion, and the head of the nbu andriy pyshnyi says that really having such record reserves does not mean that we will cover currency shortage, making so-called interventions on the interbank market in order to stabilize the exchange rate, well, yesterday i just had the opportunity to talk with a rather good specialist, mr. dlihach, and this is advanter group, he said that, well, we have to decide here, because we leave this stability, which... who is appointed by the national bank, not the fact that it, the purchasing power remains the same as a result, or we give a little to the economy, develop the economy and allow permissible inflation, permissible devaluation, well, permissible, it is not something like that, what is a dollar today there are 38, and tomorrow it will be 62, well here, well here actually the government and the national bank, as far as i understand, are now conducting this dialogue, conducting this dialogue, how, how, how to act here, but here it is simply so that there is no such thing as now people will rush

such financial assistance. our state can count on this year, said the head of the national bank andriy pyshnyi. according to him, only in march we received about 9 billion dollars from our partners, which made it possible to increase international reserves. now they are almost 44 billion. currently, the government is strengthening its own resource base, increasing the involvement of the domestic market, domestic investments, and foreign ones, that's why so far, this is a reserve of economic strength in ukraine. yes, and by the way, it is precisely because of this margin of economic safety, the national bank made an important decision today, it reduced the discount rate by as much as a whole percentage, now it is 13.5% per annum, well , in fact, a certain strengthening of the hryvnia was taken into account, now it is against american, essentially shows a stable position, due to the decision of the united states to continue supporting our country, this news strengthens the national currency. also income, as i have already mentioned, from various foreign countries that support ukraine, they are t