you for this important conversation, and i will remind our viewers that our interlocutor was maksym plekhov, the chairman of the board of the union of volunteers and enterprises of the defense cluster lviv defense cluster my name is serhii zgurets, so watch our defense issues on the espresso channel, the petition demanding to return espresso to the digital air will also be interesting the fifth and direct channel received more than 25,000 votes on the website of the cabinet of ministers, ukrainians stood up to defend freedom of speech, now it's the government's turn, don't ignore the opinion of ukrainians, return ukrainian informational tv channels, digital broadcasting, so that ukrainians don't think about anything, no matter what they talk about , the war still comes first war and our victory seven days a week from monday monday seven different spheres of human activity sports culture politics eight presenters espresso journalists experts opinion leaders in real time about the most current events through the prism of war every day author's projects on espresso glory to ukraine this is a p

relevant events in life of our army and the defense industrial complex, and my interlocutor is maksym plekhov the chairman of the board of the association of volunteers and enterprises of the defense sector. the lviv defense cluster is the basis of this cluster. to you on the espresso channel good day, i will start with the fact that in the 14th year, when the first war for the russian federation began, we had a situation when there were very few bulletproof vests per soldier in fact, there was one bulletproof vest for 100 soldiers, now it is a new stage of the war and again we are talking about the fact that we need bulletproof vests, what is the general situation today with the provision of personal protective equipment for our soldiers on the battlefield, if we are talking about the situation that developed at the beginning of the war , in fact in ukraine e- in fact, the ukrainian army did not have any body armor. because starting in 2018, the state did not purchase body armor at all , some units of the national police, the security service, and others in the ministry of defense purchased

this important conversation, and i would like to remind our viewers that my interlocutor was maksym plekhov, the chairman of the board of the association of volunteers and enterprises of the defense cluster lviv defense cluster, my name is serhiy zgurets, so watch our defense issues on the espresso channel, it will also be interesting, congratulations, i am andriy yanitsky, the espresso tv channel, news of the economy during the war today is friday, july 15, if you watch this video on the internet, please like it, comment like this, more people will see us. the international monetary fund expects that ukraine will continue to pay its debts. such a statement was made by the representative of the fund, jerry rice, at a traditional briefing for journalists in washington. verbatim, he said the following: ukraine is carefully servicing its debt and we expect that this will continue upon request to explain this position the representative of the fund did not add anything at the beginning of the new phase of the war the imf granted a loan to ukraine in the amount of 1.4 billion dollars and support