, here mr. In relative terms, there are more in absolute terms, because in relative terms, only defense expenditures are increasing in our country, in fact, because it is the number one priority, but absolutely all types of these expenditures are increasing, therefore everything is for victory, as mr. Marchenko said, and lets hope that our partners will not stop giving us the help we need, which is the 43 billion us dollars that we need to invest as a deficit, and this help from partners, we understand that it is not for nothing, obviously, the relevant minister talked about the 2024 budget with the representatives of the big seven, and we must understand, at least roughly, what directions, in which directions they are ready to support us and what is needed from the outside for this, well here again there are two types of help of the main ones, this is macrofinancial, the first, and the second is military aid, aid to armaments. As for macrofinancial, we are talking about the need that the ministry of finance has every month , about 4. 56 billion us dollars, in order to repay the dep budget in order to pay pensions, salaries, various. Types of infrastructure maintenance, a lot various expenses, which today, because of the war , unfortunately, we cannot repay on our own, on the other hand , aid to armaments is no less important, and perhaps even more important, here we the United States helps the most, as the country that provides us the most in the form of ammunition, various equipment , so lets hope that the usa will now deal with their congress, elect a speaker, finally adopt a budget and start giving ukraine what we need necessary for victory, and there with the g7 countries, already in a broad sense, mr. Marchenko agreed precisely on the repayment of the budget deficit, first of all, and secondly , ensuring stability, the reserves of the National Bank in order to. Be able to support Stable Exchange rate of the hryvnia so that it does not jump in our country today. There is some news, we need you to explain, professionally, what this means for us, on the one hand, there is a statement that now ukraines gold bullion reserves have reached the highest level in history, this is the largest security cushion in history, at the same time the imf says that the state debt of ukraine will break the record in two years. How do these two news correlate with each other, do we have such a safety cushion, if there is at the same time such a large debt, well, mbu reserves, they are essentially are not used to repay debts, they are used so that the National Bank has the opportunity to intervene in the Foreign Exchange market in order to keep the hryvnia Exchange Rate stable, and already by Debt Repayment is carried out at the expense of the ministry of finance, we have a need to repay the deficit, this these figures, as i said, are approximately 4. 6 billion dollars per year and part of these funds are provided to us by partners and we and we have to take them in order to have these, what, to pay certain social expenses and others types of expenses, and part of these funds become debt, some go as grants, and part as debts, so here we are here, here we have nowhere to go, we have to take these debts, and even if. The debt reaches at some stage more than 100 of gdp, there is nothing wrong with that, well, because we dont have it, first of all, there is no other way out, because without funds we will not last long, in this war our economy will not stand, and the economy is the guarantee of victory, any victory in any war, and as for the nbu, then indeed these funds must be at a high level in order to ensure that our banking sector, our currency is stable, so that the economy can continue to develop and support our, our defense efforts. We will discuss with you another statement, the export potential of ukrainian ports has decreased by 40 due to massive russian attacks. This was announced by the minister of community development, territories and infrastructure oleksandr kubrakov. According to him, the aggressor country deliberately creates threats to navigation in the black sea, but ukrainian the military is fighting back. 17 mass attacks since the withdrawal of the Russian Federation from the grain agreement. A 40 decrease in the export potential of the ports is almost 3,000 tons of destroyed grain. This is russias attempt to deepen the food crisis in those countries that depend on ukrainian products. To date, 21 ships have used this port for export and 25 ships have entered the ports for loading. We continue to work on the expansion of the corridor this is our responsibility for the Food Security of the world. Oleksandr kubrakov, deputy Prime Minister, minister of community development, territories and infrastructure of ukraine. Regarding export by sea, is it possible to single out the main problem, the main challenge, is it about the destroyed infrastructure, or is it primarily about the danger directly in the sea from the russians . Here there is a complex of problems, both infrastructure and safety at sea, we have once again made sure from our own experience what any agreements with russia are, they, they always end with the fact that russia from these agreements refuses, begins to destroy what is that was created within the framework of these agreements, even when this shryn agreement was working, sooner or later we understood that russia would get out of it and start creating problems for all parties to this agreement, so it would probably be much better if we never entered into this agreement, but immediately started making such corridors through the territorial waters of our neighbors romania and bulgaria. All the way to turkey, or to lay roads on, through Land Transport, railway and such others, maybe by this time we would have much better established communication routes, instead today we have a destroyed infrastructure of ports, we do not have the best established routes through the territorial waters of the allies or Land Transport links, thats why its difficult for us today, our export potential is falling, as the minister says, so lets hope that this potential, it will still recover through the alternative ways above, yes it is, it is a big problem because when this grain deal was in place, it was bringing us up to a billion us dollars a month in Foreign Exchange earnings, it it allowed us to seriously fill the budget, today these revenues are in, however, there is potential to restore them, we just need to work with our partners in order to find alternative transport routes, andrii klymenko, this is the project manager at the institute of black sea strategic studies, the head of the Monitoring Group on sanctions and freedom sinoplanstva, monitors the situation in the black sea, and here he writes for saturday, which has already ended, that it was a record day for ukrainian grain cor so many ships had not yet entered one day to our port, here are these conditions, the war, the danger in the black sea, what peculiarities are imposed on this grain corridor, on the shipowners, on the recruitment of the crew, on the cost of grain, who bears these losses, the situation here is very difficult, in first of all, because there is such and such a particular need for cargo insurance, because we have, we have one firm, in fact, that deals with insurance, it is the loid company. In london, which accordingly substantially increases the cost of insurance whenever certain risks arise, primarily related to military actions, therefore, in order to insure a boat moving in the black sea, today, it is necessary either a lot of money or a willingness to take on the risk, today we see that, after all , Certain Companies take on this risk take they, as you said, and are preparing their teams for this, that there may be certain, certain consequences, well, but i am sure that with the right position of our partners and such big countries, such as great britain, the United States, which can help us here by entering our territorial waters allies, close to bulgaria, romania, and these and these named countries, they. Could provide a relatively safe corridor here, it is another matter that today we ourselves can guarantee this security by our own efforts by what we are now expelling the black sea fleet of russia from sevastopol, they must move today, swim to novorossiya, this is a very, very good signal, by the way, in the western press, i have come across a lot in the past weeks that various observers evaluate the overreach of the black sea fleet of russia from crimea to others places as a great victory for ukraine, because ukraine, in fact, not having a navy, today wins this naval battle in the Russian Federation, and one of the consequences of this victory is the restoration of trade and economic ties. Here we will hope that our military will help us restore our economic potential in the black sea. Well, lets go back to our partners, ukraine from the outside and their decisions, so the group of seven countries froze 280 billion of russian assets, finance ministers and heads of Central Banks pledged not to unfreeze them until russia compensates for the damages caused to ukraine. This is stated in the statement of the financial representatives of the g7 countries. They also promised to implement sanctions against the aggressor country so that it loses the opportunity to wage war. It is worth noting that the problem with the use of russias sovereign assets is that they legally belong to the state, unlike private assets, there is no mechanism for their confiscation, so the United States, together with european countries, is already working on creation of the necessary legal framework, in plans to make it possible to use the frozen assets of the Russian Federation, in particular for the restoration of. Ukraine. Alexander, to freeze is not the same as to transfer. Can this step be considered a breakthrough, or at least a step in the direction that we will receive funds from russia . Unfortunately, there is no breakthrough here yet, because this has been discussed literally since the first day of fullscale war, and the assets were frozen, while when these first serious economic sanctions against russia were introduced, it was just. This is, uh, the end of february, in the 22nd year, and since then, this possible mechanism of how these funds can be transferred to ukraine has been discussed, there are certain, certain persons who are pushing this topic, for example, the same joseph borel in the european union, he has many times said that we will look for this mechanism , but we have not found it yet, because in reality it is very difficult to take assets from one sovereign state and transfer them to another, there must be a certain legal status of this state. Russia should be recognized as a country terrorist, cut all ties with her and then transfer her assets to us. There are very big risks here for the european union, for others, for those countries in which these funds are stored, because then other countries of the world can say, and what you took from them, you can also take from us, so we do not want to keep these funds, although on the other hand there may be a counterargument that you took from them and can take from us if we behave the way they do, that is, this story has a logical continuation, truth . Yes, yes, everything is logical here, but for this we need to find, we need to give russia some kind of status, firstly, secondly, so that it is a Legal Mechanism acceptable to all parties, so far there is no such thing, so far ukraine, those who they help us, they cope with the help with their own resources, however, i think that sooner or later this mechanism will be found, they will transfer these assets to us. Especially if there is, the war will drag on, and the United States, europe, and other countries will have less resources for help us well, but probably the last question, regarding how this freeze will affect the russian economy, because we have already discussed the transfer issue, but the fact is what happened. Well, these same assets have been frozen for a long time, here only what was here has changed. The term of this freeze was determined, yes, they said here that until the ukrainian economy recovers, until russia pays for what it has done, then these assets will not be transferred, in fact the assets themselves, they are not for the use of russia from the very beginning a fullscale war, therefore, there will be no changes for russia in essence, it was simply told once again that you will not see a penny of money until you leave ukraine and pay the reparations that will come from you. Oleksandr, thank you very much, oleksandr chupak, an expert of the Analytical Center of the ukrainian studio of strategic studies, was in direct contact with us. The risk of losing the fleet will force russia not to block ukrainian exports through the black sea. This is what British Intelligence suggests, according to its data, after a series of strikes in august and september, the black sea fleet most likely doubled its defense. Russia transported ships and submarines from sevastopol to novorossiysk. The Intelligence Officers emphasize that russia is forced. Defend against surface drones, drone attacks and missile strikes of ukraine, however, the black sea fleet continues to launch missiles and can probably do so from the eastern part of the black sea as well. Natalya humanyuk, head of the joint Coordination Press Center of the Defense Forces of southern ukraine, captain of the first rank , is in direct contact with us. Mrs. Natalya, we congratulate you. Glory to ukraine, i congratulate you. Glory as a hero. Hero slava, which you are now watching with the russian fleet in black and azov. How do they behave, where are they, in the end . They are really redeploying, it is obvious that there is a movement from those bays that they considered to be different harbors, and now they are returning to the historical shores, they are really gravitating towards novorossiysk, but the rotation in the black sea and the deployment of the ship group are kept in a stable order, we are now recording 13 ships, 12 of which yesterday. Sea, one in the azov sea, they expose the surface the situation, they can also carry unmanned aerial vehicles, of the reconnaissance type, which are also actively launched to study the situation, and there is one missile carrying submarine that can be equipped with up to four missiles of the caliber type, and in this case we always emphasize that the air alarm , when it sounds, it is necessary to react promptly, you, forgive me, you said about 13. Ships, but how has this number changed since february 22nd . In principle, the ship grouping, they tried to keep it deployed as much as possible, in from 20 units, there were such cases, and several missile carriers often went out of service. Lately weve seen them gravitate towards numbers of 10 to 12 in such and occasionally deploying 17, but that was more due to just the same redeployment as they were going from one port to another. The southern section of the front, the operational situation there, because we understand that it is not only, lets say , the black sea, the black sea and everything that happens there, does it affect the operational situation, like in the south . Yes, indeed, ours the front line is specific, it is the dnipro river and around it. There is a counterbattery attack, both from one side and from the other, the enemy continues to put pressure on the civilian population, on the right bank, in a terrorist way, continues to use aviation, it is characteristic that they switched the air strikes more to the night time, i. E. Again emphasizing their terrorism , when people are resting, they try to terrorize as much as possible, most of all goes to residential areas, civil infrastructure. In particular , agricultural enterprises, that is the enemy is trying to destroy everything that can give the region the opportunity to develop and prepare for winter. Artillery shelling also continues, but they have significantly decreased in volume, that is, the amount of ammunition that the enemy uses even for the same number of shellings, if we say the average is 60, it has decreased by one hundred and a half. This means that they are starving for shells, we continue to work on it and in the past day we can say that another control point, the enemy, the command post and the bpp control post was destroyed again. In particular, the activity of enemy reconnaissancetype drones in our area of ​​responsibility is very high, and the sky is saturated with them, they also use drones to drop cluster munitions and try to hit places where people gather, including. Oh, how this night went. On that part of the front, which is loyal to you, is there already information, or is it too early . Well, the night was quite restless, we are still tallying up the results, but we can say that if during the day the enemy carried out two air strikes using two cabs, then at night suyom, they are trying to gather information about, for the future actions of the Defense Forces and deploy their observation points on the islands, let me remind you, there is a complex geography, a complex landscape, a lot of straits and rivers, and without surface transport it is actually impossible for them to get there, that is why they are sailing on these boats that are constantly losing and therefore need their renewal. I can also say that over the past day, we destroyed 29 invaders and four largecaliber guns, which they used to fire on the right bank, a good result. Thanks, that clarified whether we can still talk with you about the president s visit to odesa, mark rutte, the Prime Minister of the netherlands, was coming there , which, the main result of these visits, the biggest result for us, is probably the understanding by foreign partners of the importance of protecting this direction and the support of the Port Infrastructure itself, because you spoke with the previous speaker about the capacity, the capacity of the ports is there, the opportunity to work in the ports is there, but the Defense Forces provide the security component, based on those available forces and means, and it is obvious in the analysis of those attacks used by the enemy to strengthen air Defense Systems, and this understanding and agreements were reached. Well, by the way, there was a decision on the part of the netherlands regarding antiaircraft defense. Aryuty spoke about this precisely in odesa, in general, if we look at the challenge of the near future , how it looks for the south of ukraine, because, for example, in the kyiv region, we have noted for a certain period there the absence of air alarms, the absence of attempts to attack, but we understand that it is not it just happens like that, here we obviously refer to the ukrainian intelligence, and the british also said about it that the russians would simply accumulate. Does it look the same or different in the south . The situation in our country looks like this, while they are accumulating what will come next, they still continue the terror with what they already have, and they already have drones, they have attack drones, with which they attack in particular, without sparing the number, if we take the analysis of previous attacks, these are from 15 to 30 drones, and they direct them to densely, realizing that in this way they are overloading the air Defense Systems and hope that they will have a chance of success, but the main thing for us now is the understanding that not only the frontline territory will be under attack in the southern regions, the enemys terror by aviation over the black sea also requires obvious intervention, without being able to pressure ships and boats, they use aviation, so we need such an air Defense System that will relieve this tension in the form of the destruction of aircraft, and in addition, both Port Infrastructure and energy remain a priority, since our region is specific, it is saturated with similar objects and needs powerful protection. The russians, in addition to hitting with kababs, they also use combat drones and hit the population in cars and funeral processions, how can this be tolerated . We deploy a real air Defense System in various directions, based on the assessment of the situation, including actively using mobile fire groups, since it is impractical to counter drone attacks with very powerful means of air defense in conditions where they are not enough, thats why we are talking about the biggest countermeasure shelter and evacuation of the civilian population so that they dont suffer, and other combat work will be performed by the Defense Forces. Natalya, thank you very much for joining us so equally, nataliya gumenyuk, head of the joint Coordination Press Center of the Defense Forces of the pivnia of ukraine, a captain of the first rank was in direct contact with us, in fact, we also have a shift its already over, it is, we wish our audience a fruitful sunday, a calm day, mainly, so that it looks exactly like this method, well, remember that you will find out operational news, thanks to. Information verified, checked, in particular, the only news marathon. Thank you all and have a peaceful sunday, see you soon. Chevrons approaching victory. Help your child not to fall into a trap on the internet. The first and most important rule is to talk to your children about cyber security. Dont be a controller and dont ban. Be the adult who helps and protects the child. The prohibition method does not work. Trust is effective. Read more tips in the kib section. 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