roman vashchuk, business ombudsman in ukraine, was on radio svoboda.l, we continue, once again let's discuss this topic directly with business representatives, oleg horohovsky, co-founder of monobank, joins our broadcast, i congratulate you, good evening, congratulations, good evening, thank you for the invitation, yesterday, yesterday andriy yarmak announced a meeting of business with government officials, it was supposed to take place today, i wanted to ask you whether the meeting took place and whether you were there? yes, the meeting really took place, i was present at it, and tell me what they told you about, how they convinced you that taxes should be raised and whether convinced, look, eh... a very wide circle was at this meeting, all the main stakeholders from the state who propose these changes were present, i mean the prime minister, the finance minister, the chairman of the tax committee, the vice-prem' era on the economy, the head of the president's office, the council of entrepreneurs was also present, the meeting was very meaningful. we a

, roman vashchuk was the same pavlo sheremeto says, he said this at the beginning of the war, and now he repeats it, that the only... way to bring back the people who left is to create better conditions for business here in those regions than in those countries where they are now, is it realistic at all, or can it be done during wartime? it is definitely possible, well, that is, even during the war, even security factors, there are other factors that did not allow us to develop, well , let's face it, we were not such a prosperous, rich country before... for example, instead of, firstly, i believe that purchases should be from ukrainian enterprises, not turkish or chinese or any other goods there, that is , preference should be given to ukrainian enterprises in order to... so that they have jobs, so that the people who work there have jobs , they paid taxes and so on, then crediting is necessary, they, well, now their funds have already run out, loans under the 579 program are not given to everyone, and commercial credit today is about 20%, uh, that is, no one can now during the war to

, chocolate, it. chocolate is not will affect your figure, and you know, i will also say that roman vashchukhe ukrainian ombudsman and the ombudsman, a person who protects the rights of business, and the business ombudsman, yes, who was, himself, he was born in canada, he was the ambassador of canada for a long time in ukraine, it seems to me, maybe because from that background he understands ukraine very well, the specifics of ukrainian politics, business, in principle, our way of life. and recently he was in lviv, he was, by the way, a guest of our studio, and he posted such a photo, a picture that he is sitting somewhere in some lviv coffee shop and he is having coffee there, chocolate, as they say in lviv, and he says, and he wrote in english for his audience, he wrote that some stereotypes should not be debunked, on the contrary, supported, but here it is... this thing that is like lviv, you know, the center of chocolate, is it fair or the best chocolate in lviv? and lviv is the richest city with chocolate cafes, they rarely produce chocolate themselves, and they buy ready-made chocolat

the studio, you know, simply, miss, your colleague is also a diplomat, who, actually, roman vashchuk, was canada's ambassador to ukraine, lived here for a long time, and continues here continues to live, it often happens in ukraine, since he is now a businessman from business, the authorized representative of ukrainian business affairs, and here he once wrote a very important article, in fact, when he was already drawing up the credentials of a diplomat and his hands were, so to speak, open yazyna, he wrote a very good article about the fact that the west understands ukraine very poorly, i know the second thesis, that ukraine understands the west very poorly, but they are probably related to each other, so if you do not understand one, the one and the other he probably doesn't understand well, so his main thesis was...well, i don't know if it's the main one, but what is important in our context of our conversation was that ukrainians have a rather dichotomous, i.e. black and white vision, so to speak treason-victory, here, for example, if there are 10 points of volodymyr zelenskyi, th

roman vashchuk, business ombudsman in ukraine. congratulations. good day. good day.tical question. if the verkhovna rada meets soon and they accept all the government's proposals. taxes are now being raised, military fees are being raised for buying and selling cars real estate there and so on. what will happen?