together we are strong to offer unemployment my deputy director of the department of employment policy implementation of the state employment centerukraine olena melnyk mrs. olena i congratulate you i congratulate you let's start with the basic data how many people are officially unemployed in ukraine now and how does this indicator differ from last year? as of today, 293,000 citizens are officially registered in the employment service. that is, these are citizens who have the official status of registered unemployed. that was the number, but compared to last year, we have 8% fewer people registered than there were, but this is hardly a positive statistic, because the national bank says that now the unemployment rate has reached the highest indicator is 35%, and many people simply left and did not register, or why now we have officially unemployed people less than a year ago, if unemployment is obviously higher than a year ago, there are different analysts in the calculation of how many citizens remain unemployed last and the definition of the very concept of what what so, so, who is this, or rather, the unemployed person in our s