serhiy gorbachev, educational ombudsman, joins our broadcast. my greetings to you. i congratulate you. please tell me what the results of this study on the quality of education indicate, and whether the indicators in ukraine are possible be called low, if compared, for example, with other countries? well, first of all, the results are quite expected. and you, as you rightly pointed out, there is a decline in the quality of education all over the world, and the obvious impact of the pandemic and the rapid forced transition to distance learning, and as for ukrainian education, these are not the worst indicators, and i do not want to reassure anyone, i'm just stating the fact: we are somewhere in the middle of the rating, a little lower in terms of natural reading. somewhere at the average level in mathematics, and that's enough the expected result, and we have to understand that there would be such things somewhere, even if it were not for a full-scale invasion, which also significantly affected the results of success and the quality of education of ukrainian teenager