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Back to the conversation, now money during the war, oleksandr morchyvka is already with us. Alexander, congratulations, please. Greetings viewers, greetings to vasyl, in the next few minutes we will understand the excess profits of banks, whether they will be taxed to the state budget, and how it will affect you and us, the consumers, everything is in detail, you will wait. I am oleksandr morchivka, congratulations, this is a column about money during the war, so next year our state and the International Monetary fund will focus on economic support projects, in particular on creating opportunities for exports, in restoration of critical and social infrastructure for the provision of services to the population and business, the minister of infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov announced. Let me remind you that the bridge. Started working in ukraine on monday, is now reviewing the fouryear program of expanded financing, it is calculated for the amount of 15 billion 600 million dollars, we have already started receiving a certain part, we hope that according to the results of the work of this mission, the next part of the loan will also go to the National Bank of ukraine. From today, the managed regime began to operate in our state flexibility of the Exchange Rate, however, this means that the dollar, as promised earlier, as predicted, was allowed to float freely, experts say, the National Bank hopes that the innovation will strengthen the stability of the economy and the currency market, reduce certain risks, well, thats it, in fact, the National Bank will be present on the market, will fill the lack of those dollars that may arise during certain surges, during a certain demand for currency, but will also regulate. And at the same time not restrain the towers on the financial market. Vasyl we will not only talk about it. Joining us now is volodymyr ryaboshlyk, fulbright professor at Illinois State university, deputy minister of economy in 2005. Good evening. Good evening. Mr. Volodymyr, i would like to hear your Expert Opinion on such a term as managed Exchange Rate flexibility. In fact, there was no such panic in the banks today. The dollar went up a little by a few pennies, but this is not a panic, what do you think in the future expect from managed Exchange Rate flexibility, will i memorize this term . Well, in simple terms, it is a recognition that the dollar will appreciate, and it is a recognition that although the National Bank assures that the discount rate of 20 is a guarantor of attractiveness. Hryvnia assets are the guarantors of the reliability of the Foreign Exchange market, but in fact the instability of the Foreign Exchange market was ensured by the fact that in the last year it printed 170 billion of money, and these, and today we see the first bell, that in fact mr. Pyshnyi, he admitted that these the money printed eventually came out to the Foreign Exchange market, that he spent 30, already spent 30 billion dollars in order to maintain this, well, actually fixed Exchange Rate and what and what next he. Raises his hands, he was flooded with printed money so that he will gradually Exchange Rate release, and it is clear that it will be on the banks, on the free free market , where exporters and importers meet, it will be determined higher than today, if possible, the bank, the National Bank will intervene, but the Exchange Rate will grow, and here i am wanted now take a moment to highlight the contradictions between the statements that the discount rate of 25 is the guarantor of stability, but in fact we see that with the other hand the National Bank undermined this stability in a completely different way. It did not always affect prices and the purchasing power of the population, i. E. The dollar can have a different price, but people can buy and there is no significant inflation, so it is interesting now, if the dollar grows, does this mean that prices will also grow, and it will affect the the fact that people can simply buy less with the money they have today, well, i dont know where you heard that it did not affect prices, it is clear that exports are growing, yes, lets say, we have practically all pharmaceutical , means imports, more precisely, imports, imports, imports are more expensive, imports are more expensive, and this is clear, this price increase will happen, and besides, it is necessary, but what is not paid attention to, it should be considered in the context of what the last year, i. E. From september 2002 to the end of september this year, money, the money supply increased by 170. Hryvnias, previously, this is later, these bed swings of the hryvnia, which are up and down, are happening here, sooner or later, it will affect the prices, and lets not forget that now we are seeing the first bell that it affected the dollar Exchange Rate. Mr. Volodymyr, it is true that the money supply is growing, you said, but at the same time , the state budget is looking for funds, it is not about international support, about some kind of business taxes, but lets talk with you about an initiative that is currently still , is in the middle of discussions, this is taxation, additional taxation of banks, surplus profits of banks, they are going to charge 5 of these excess interest profits to the state budget, well, i always have this conclusion, where taxes are raised, all this is transferred to consumers of financial services, and what is your opinion, well , clearly, clearly, loans for the population are already quite expensive today, that means loans to the public will be even less available, and if after the introduction of the 25 rate, they decreased by 20 billion dollars, sorry, hryvnia, then now they will decrease even more, that is, the people will only suffer from this, but there is a big plus here, a big plus in the fact that with this draft law, the government recognized the abnormality of the situation surrounding certificates of deposit, because when we talk about excess profits of banks, we primarily have certificates of deposit, which today reached half a trillion hryvnias, and for which, for this year, it is expected that 80 million, 80 million hryvnias will be paid out of thin air by a commercial bank, and the authors of the projects, first of all, mr. Gretmen, are fully aware of this problem, as they say, and they are aware of what we will say. Reduction of the discount rate, radically, lets say, go back to the 10 that were before the jump, or go to the world tradition of getting a rate below inflation, now we have inflation at 9 , which will solve the problem at the root, solve the problem of inequity of all incomes, and give the budget, if we lets multiply. If these 80 billion will be paid half as much by a commercial bank for them, it will be a profit of 40 billion dollars, my god, hryvnias, 40 billion hryvnias, and this is much more than what is expected from this draft law of 10 billion. Yes, from this legal project, the law, if it will be this initiative is a law, they really expect to receive 10 billion uah to the state budget every year, well, you see, as an expert, you name other options that can bring more funds. Thank you for joining the broadcast. Volodymyr ryaboshlyk, fulbrat professor of the university of illinois, deputy minister of economy in 2005 was in touch. And i continue to talk about banks, here is an interesting piece of information. Depositors of bankrupt banks can apply for reimbursement through the action, the ministry of Digital Affairs reported. In particular, now to return money, you dont need to go to institutions, fill out papers, you can apply in the application, that is, if your bank is declared insolvent, uh, its stavkrut, that is , everything can now be solved online and through a bank, authorized, that really works, you will be reimbursed your savings, the money that was on the card, some kind of social or universal, or those funds, funds that you had on deposits, well, this is really interesting information from the world of money, and ukrainian business in september. Restored its positive estimates, this is after two consecutive months of negative expectations, the index of Business Activity has now increased by more than 50 . The National Bank is told that such optimism of entrepreneurs arose due to the gradual recovery of production rates, establishment of new ways of supplying products, inflationary Exchange Rate expectations are also improving, but most of the surveyed Enterprises Expect in the future that their products will only become more expensive. And the new post Office Opened its first branch in hamburg, by the end of the year it is planned to open 17 more branches in germany, in particular in munich, frankfurt, on the main, cologne, dresden. In addition, in the near future, nova poshta is going to deliver parcels from ukraine to its post offices and dropoff points in german stores. Germany became the fifth country of the european union, where branches of the ukrainian private postal operator appeared. And france will insure Companies Investing in ukraine against war risks. According to the minister of economy yulia sveredenko, the French Export Credit Agency began to provide such guarantees to its enterprises, which are already preparing to invest in the reconstruction of our state we are talking about risk protection, whether it is damage to property, nonpayment of any kind, or expropriation or political violence, this is all prescribed in insurance agreements, and French Business already. Is more confidently ready to invest in our state. And the ministry of economy warns farmers about potential risks during land demining, experts recommend using the services of professionals. The process of creating a market for such Demining Services has been launched, the number of offers from Certified Companies that will be able to perform such work is only will grow therefore, farms need simple. Show patience and in no case try to clear the fields yourself or with the help of people who do not have the appropriate profession. Currently, 17 mine action operators are certified, the market for such humanitarian Demining Services is planned to be launched through the prozoro platform, where you will be able to order these services and officially, qualitatively, safely, and most importantly, clear the cancellation fields. In kyiv, the rules for payment by bank cards have been changed. In public transport, now money will not be withdrawn for each trip separately, but for two together during the day, if the passenger does not use the second one, then the funds for one ticket will be debited automatically after 9 p. M. As the Capital Administration said, the new system has already been successfully tested on highspeed tram routes , now it will operate on other modes of transport, the rules will come into effect from tomorrow, well. Moldova will no longer buy russian gas on the european market, prices are lower than in gazprom, this was announced by the minister of energy of moldova, Victor Parlikov the republic managed to get fuel from alternative sources, he says, they bought it directly from european operators. Earlier, the russian gazprom stated that the debt of moldovagas for the delivered cubic meters allegedly amounts to 433 million dollars. However, after audits, the authorities of moldova reported. That nobody is guilty of anything, but vasyl likes the position of the ministry of energy, they conducted audits and everything, rejected all the accusations of the kremlin, everything. Forgiven, yes, by the way, i wanted to say the very end, because i wanted to say when we talked bitterly about the 10 billion that ukraine will be able to earn if some law is passed there, but i just looked, today, in the Second Quarter of the 23rd year, ukrainians in poland spent 14 billion 730 million hryvnias on their needs, which terrible money is now being spent abroad, on the one hand, this gives reason to say that it is not necessary , especially in poland, to think that only they are helping us, ukrainians also spend a lot of money for things that saturate the economy of poland, on the other hand, it would be great if this money were spent in ukraine, well, but they still have to be earned somewhere, precisely before the fullscale invasion, it was the purchasing power of ukrainians that was almost the main factor in the fact that our gdp grew, this is a pity, i will conclude my column with this, but the big ether continues, there will be more, vasyl zima continues, thank you oleksandr morchyvka , we continue our conversation and now i will ask Serhiy Rudenko what will be discussed in the verdict program at 20 00, serhii, please have the floor. Congratulations to vasyl, literally in 14 minutes we will start the verdict, in which there will be a veteran of the russian ukrainian war, yevgeny dyky and a colonel of the british army in the glen grand reserve, lets talk about american aid, military american aid, to ukraine. Well, today it became known that after the congress of the United States of america adopted a temporary budget for 45 days, and it did not take into account the interests of the ukrainian state, or rather help the ukrainian state in confronting the russian aggressive military machine, the president of the United States of America Joe Biden held a telephone conversation with representatives of the union. In nato and the g7 and, according to western agencies, partners in the antiputin coalition coordinated support for ukraine. Biden told his allies about what and how is happening in the United States of america and how the beginning of the president ial Election Campaign affects, including the ukrainian issue, because we know that there are questions. From washington about how the reforms in ukraine are going, how ukraine fights corruption, and of course, this is all related to the longterm perspective of supporting the ukrainian state, and this is connected with the funds that washington sends to kyiv, although most of the experts who, for the last week, have commented on the story of the United States of americas Financial Aid to ukraine in my program, say that ukraine is in order to win russia in ukraine, the americans spend about 3. 5 of the entire Defense Budget of the United States of america, but imagine, 3. 5 is what comes in the form of financial or military aid to ukraine, in order for ukraine to oppose the great russian. Military machine, we will know what evgeny dykiy and glend grant think about it literally in 10 minutes, so come to the verdict, it will be interesting, vasyl, you have my word. Thanks to serhiy, so at 20 00, the verdict program by Serhiy Rudenko, well, now lets see what lina chechenina has prepared there, the longawaited meeting with oksana zabushko, this is how this event was announced by its organizers, usually writing. Gathers large halls, tonight is no exception, chuchenins wedge will tell what zabushko is talking about this time. He, be please, good evening. Vasyl, congratulations, greetings to our viewers, i just ran out of this meeting, im near the cultural cluster, krakow, thats what its called, its somewhere in the yard, because its simply impossible to talk inside people there, i, well, i always, when i came to the meeting with ms. Oksana, there were many people, but here, i think, everything has already been exceeded, people are just sitting on the stairs , listening, looking somewhere, taking pictures, something terrible is happening, to be honest, but if you come for dinner, example, serhiy zhadan, you will see somewhere about the same, so you know, i conclude that more and more our writers, writers, have an influence on people, people who walk. Listening to our writers is becoming more and more, i really see , how they wander to some bigger venues, it is usually pleasing, well, ms. Oksana , usually, you know how she likes to joke on. Makes an hourlong speech and then says that, you know, it was only an introduction, here somewhere approximately the same, and she will first present her collection, her essays, in particular trip, she deliberately wrote this collection for a foreign audience in order to explain to them all the origins and all the reasons for russias war against ukraine, because we need to further understand that many foreigners have no idea what is happening in our country in general, despite the fact that, of course, war this one continues live, well, and also ms. Oksana once again said that she found such a comparison that suits her from her point of view, she compares our situation, in particular in conversations with foreigners, and she speaks a lot in different countries, compares with the famous movie dont look up, dont look up, maybe youve seen it, its about such people, scientists, who determined that a huge meteorite is flying to earth and thats all, were all hooked, and they tell the president about it of the United States, but she doesnt Pay Attention to it, and in general they are faced with the fact that no one takes such a huge problem, the fact that we will soon all die, seriously, and politicians are still able to twist it as much as they can, so basically , we now look like people who they are shouting about war, but many people do not take it seriously, and she also compared tsiv now with the jesters of the past, yes, who were the only ones who could tell the truth from king to king there or monarch to another, but here she is traveling abroad with these spies and in the end, as practice shows, the language of cultural diplomacy is in many ways freer and more effective, because, for example, oksana zabushko, as a writer, can afford to, and she , too, just said about it, can afford to say much more. Even much sharper and more incorrect than, for example, any ambassador or ambassador, and that is why she fulfills this role, i repeat once again that a meeting with oksana zabushko is currently underway in kyiv, in particular , she is talking about her new book, a collection of essays, a lot of people, and to be honest, ill go in now and ill sit on the edge of the steps, looking at her from such a corner, because theres simply no room, its certainly extremely cool, so when you see. Some more longawaited meetings with the longawaited andruhovych, for sure come in advance, in order to at least take a seat somewhere on the armchairs. Vasyl, very lina chushinina from the evening, oksana zabushko told a little about what was being discussed there. I ll tell you an interesting story now, we dont have much time before Natalka Didenko speaks. Andriy portnov, the one who was with yeno, well, he was with everyone , he was, at one time kolomoisky pushed him into the political. Party of the time , he will still be there in my opinion, then he was with yanukovych, and then he was there from opzzh, well, actually, that, and then he was there at the president s office, a man who was called, i dont want to use this word, a person who was responsible to a certain extent for relations with the judicial system, and now we see those people who have certain positions, who became judges of their time thanks to andriy portnov, and so on, and so on at one time, the Anticorruption Center called him a prorussian politician and demanded sanctions be imposed on him. Andriy portno, of course , left the borders of ukraine, and he left in a strange way, because he is neither a state deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of ukraine nor any a person who had some kind of letter, well, maybe he had some kind of letter , we dont know, hes just a man of conscription age, well, a lawyer, yes, there, but he left, and no one detained him, also in a strange way, and thats all, his no, he is there or in russia or somewhere, it is obvious, and he was also indignant about it. That he was called a prorussian politician, and even more so, because of course nobody needs sanctions, you have to earn money, launder it, somehow work, here are sanctions, well, who needs them, and he sued, sued, sued the Anticorruption Center , for what he was called a prorussian politician, i read here and will quote the post of the Anticorruption Center, an associate of yanukovych, who fled from ukraine, did not like our material, where we call portov a prorussian politician and demand that sanctions be imposed on him, it is emphasized that portnov expects that society has a short memory, let me remind you that exactly portnov, exactly a week before the fullscale invasion, said the thesis that putin repeated almost verbatim before the attack on ukraine, about the foreign administration, about the bad event, about the us embassy, ​​which controls anticorruption bodies, courts and stateowned enterprises, and we have not forgotten how portom also talked about the fact that all there, parahabots and nationals are registered as nationalists, that there will be a separate conversation with them later, well, it will be amazing, by the way. It is interesting to wait for the hearing of this court on this lawsuit. Natalka didenko will tell us about what the weather will be like in ukraine tomorrow. Lets watch and listen. Congratulations to vasyl, congratulations dear. Viewers, we will talk about the weather for the next day, but first some statistics and recent results last month, the central geophysical observatory, precisely according to its data, said the following about kyiv, what it was like synoptically, usually in the synoptic relation in september, here according to the observations of the weather station, precisely at the central geophysical observatory, the average monthly air temperature was 18, 8, well warm, of course, which is almost 4 higher than the climatic norm , this years september has become the warmest for the capital since 1881, just imagine, three temperature records were set in the capital in a month, and there are also such fluctuations, the worst was 10 september, when the minimum was 9, the warmest on september 24, the maximum temperature was almost 30 29. 1. Eh, it rained, according to the observatory on science avenue, only 8 mm fell at this weather station , that is, it is 14 of the climatic norm, in a word, this years september became the 12th among the driest since 1891, that is, after all, not the driest, but one of , well, but in very warm, we pass from this beautiful autumn picture, to the nostic diagram of magnetic storms, and now you will see that the situation of the next day is predicted relatively calm, a little activation in the morning, but in general, the situation is quite stable, i hope that no one will have a headache, so we move on, from Magnetic Fields to the behavior of the atmosphere in ukraine over ukraine, and now we will see, of course, what the weather will be like on wednesday, we start traditionally the Weather Forecast from the western regions of ukraine, so tomorrow in the west of ukraine, the air temperature is expected to be comfortable, well, you see, from 19 to 23, which is not bad for october , to put it mildly, but the atmospheric front, which will pass through ukraine, will cause light rains in places, they will be really small, local, that is, it may even be limited to denser clouds somewhere, in the north of ukraine, the same atmospheric front that is expected tomorrow will also probably cause light rains, in places, air temperature 1920, 1920. Well, i also want to say that tomorrow such a characteristic sign of tomorrow, for example, for the north, is a gusty to strong wind. Be attentive and careful. In the east of ukraine, luxurious weather, anticyclonic nature of the weather, air temperature from 19 to 21, dry, without precipitation, a lot. The sun in the central part of ukraine, the maximum air temperature is also high, from 19 to 23, cloudiness will increase in some places, but heavy precipitation is unlikely to cover the central part of ukraine. In the south, in the south, it will be mostly sunny tomorrow, of course, without precipitation, the air temperature is 2024 above zero, almost summer. Well, the weather in kyiv tomorrow will be different from everything else. For example, because the clouds are increasing, a little rain is likely in some places, but to be honest, not much small, very in places, i. E. Without particularly significant precipitation, but there is such a possibility according to the forecast, because an atmospheric front will cross us, the air temperature remains quite high so far, tomorrow in the capital it will be about 20. This is the nearest synoptic perspective for kyiv and for the whole of ukraine. Watch the run carefully. We will clarify the weather on the espresso channel and we will monitor together the development of meteorological events. Good evening, we are from ukraine. Glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is Serhiy Rudenko, i congratulate everyone, i wish. Good luck to everyone, health, today in the program. Will america continue to help . The pentagon has warned that money to replace weapons for ukraine is running out, and biden has called on congress to continue funding. Will there be a solution . On the contrary, unprecedented aid from the eu. The European Parliament can create a special fund for ukraine worth 50 billion euros. When will it happen and where will the money go . A bribe 2