Transcripts For ESPRESO 20240704

A local resident was killed by the russians, shelling her town with artillery in the afternoon, as usual for themselves, unfortunately, the leader informed about it oblast serhii lysak. The militarycivilian administration is still clarifying the consequences of the attack. The president of ukraine , volodymyr zelenskyi, called on the leaders of southeastern European Countries at a twoday summit in albania to unite defense production facilities. The head of state noted that there are about 500 Defense Enterprises operating in ukraine. But this is not enough to defeat putin and his russia, so he proposed to organize a ukrainianbalkan Defense Forum to develop cooperation in the field of weapons production, and the ukrainian leader also tried to engage supporting his vision of peace in ukraine. Ministers of the group of 20 of the group of 20 are actively discussing the issue of financing ukraine, in particular the use of revenues from the freeze. Russian assets, said the head of the german finance ministry, christian lindner. Also, according to him, the ministers agree that it is necessary to increase the pressure on russia even more. Using proceeds from frozen assets in russia is a realistic, legally sound step that can also be implemented in the short term. And thats where we are right now we concentrate we have already started work in the european council. I am waiting for a proposal from the European Commission regarding the legal implementation of this idea. In International Topics today we will discuss more with yuri fizer, and now to other news, almost two years in exile from t2. The leading direction of restoration of channel rights is legal proceedings. Yaroslav yurchyshyn, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada committee on freedom of speech, answered the question about turning off the espresso tv channel from t2 digital broadcasting. He noted that. He is communicating with the authorities to find optimal solutions. According to yurchyshyn, the most pressing issue now is the involvement of other tv channels in a single marathon. However, there is no political will for this, especially among the representatives of the president ial team. In principle, it seems to me that it would be useful for the authorities to talk now with the editors of the channels that it is advisable to join the single marathon in that format, in those. Editorial frameworks that you and i are ready to agree on, and this would be a demonstration that if the government is not afraid of criticism, and in principle corrects those inconsistencies or mistakes that were made when starting a fullscale invasion, but so far its a very complicated process. In the village of lebedyn, which has been in cherkasy almost since the first days of the war, victory is forged in a small forge. He unfolded it in his own yard. Local resident mykola volyk. Half of kovals volunteers are women. Read more about the history and achievements of the koval volunteer team. A lawyer, a seamstress, a saleswoman, a housewife, a masseuse, put on gloves and began a difficult task forging. In free from the main work and time of domestic worries rush here to lebedynska kuznya to help in the manufacture of brackets, rocks, shovels, axes. We are already used to it. Meaning, there is nothing difficult, at first it was difficult, but now there was a very large demand for staples, people were tired, because the summer was such a difficult period, i came according to the announcement , tried it, it was difficult, i doubted what it would turn out to be, because it was hard to forge it not easy, well, nothing, i learned, now with pleasure, a professional welder, everyone. In his free time from work hurries from his town of shpola to swan i came here precisely because of women, because i, as a man, felt ashamed that women were doing mens work. Because of this , i called mykola and offered my services, but since i am a welder by profession, well, i found a place for myself here at the forge, because i am as efficient as possible here. The head of this project, aka logistics manager, fundraiser, pr specialist, is 30yearold mykola volyk. It all started with a request from a fellow villager, military serviceman serhii kovita. He asked for help with staples for division in his yard, mykola equipped an improvised forge and, together with his comrades , produced the first few hundred staples. When it became clear that there was a huge need for staples and other equipment, a tent was set up, the fellow villagers were asked for help, and the matter started. We made skop 160 00, boiled 127 burjuyoks, made 7400 axes , oleksandr gubin makes, he has already made a thousand axes, and 700 are people who carried axes and we. Made them, boiled them, filled them, picks 13 00, hedgehogs 800, three legs, those that cook porridge 100 of all such things, 10,000 sapper shovels were made, soldapov shovels were also demolished by people from all the fields, ordinary shovels were demolished, we cut and made small sapper shovels, and 6,700 pieces of hammers were welded, they all work for free. And they also sell manufactured products for free, of course, there is a lack of money, and this is almost the main difficulty of this work. Our work begins, this is not shackling, our work begins with the fact that we are looking for funds in order to purchase fittings, this is the beginning of our work, and today we dock, for tomorrow we dont have fittings anymore, we search and forge ourselves, so sometimes its harder to find funds. Actually forge, serhiy kovita smiles from the portrait on the wall of the forge, with whose light hand it all started. Serhiy, unfortunately, died, but without a doubt, the life of more than one of our soldiers was saved thanks to the efforts of the team of this forge from cherkasy region for the espresso tv channel. Wonderful people, wonderful work, in the name of victory, so we thank them a lot, respect, and it is desirable that the money is always found for those who need it. Business, well, now about what what is happening in the world, yuriy fizar is with us , yuriy, good evening, please, good evening to you, vasyl, good evening to everyone who joined today, in particular, i will talk about whether the congress of the United States of america has unblocked aid to ukraine, new tips in victors quotes orban, and who could have killed navalny according to the version of the american journalist Tucker Carlson, about this and other things in a moment in the column world about ukraine. Well , let me start with this, about what was talked about almost a week ago, today little has been developed, the deputies of the socalled of the transnistrian republic of moldova turned to russia for help, this is stated in the resolution based on the results of the congress, the socalled congress of deputies of all levels, which took place today in teraspol, this is the so called capital of the socalled pmr, the document on. Emphasizes , that the deputies were faced with unprecedented challenges and threats of an economic, social, humanitarian, militarypolitical nature, further a quote from the document, adopted an appeal to the Federation Council and the state duma of the Russian Federation with a request for the implementation of measures from the protection of transnistria in the conditions of increased pressure from moldova. In a word, a set of such key phrases from the kremlin manual talked about geno. Cit talked about oppression , asked for help, but i dont know if it was planned that way, or if they made some mistake and deviated from the methodology, they turned for help not only to russia, but also to the red cross, to the organization of the united nations, i. E. Not only putin come and restore order here, but also many other things, so tomorrow we are waiting for the speech, the address of the president putins terrorist countries to the federal assembly, which is the upper house of the russian congress. Well, lets see what he says. It seems to me personally that he will simply say well , we received a legitimate goal, the continuation of the socalled special military operation, well, that is , protection, because from transnistria, socalled , he was also motivated by this appeal to the federal assembly by the fact that in the territory lives about 200,000 citizens with a russian passport, and tomorrow putin will probably say that. We will continue the svo until there are all goals have been fulfilled, and there are already a lot of them, and in particular this goal, to help moldova. Well, well see tomorrow, thats just my guess. And lets move on american congressmen and the president of the United States of america, joe biden, agreed to negotiate, especially since they still have a few days left before a possible shutdown in the country. Representatives of both parties from both chambers of the supreme legislative body of the United States of america could not convince each other the day before, and even despite the statement of the current owner of the white house about the fact that the consequences of the lack of support for ukraine are increasing every day. More tangible, in the end, the bill on the allocation of additional funding, which includes aid to ukraine, is still hanging in the air, unfortunately for us, however, lets listen to what the leaders of both parties in the house of representatives said after meeting with joe biden, this is the lower house, well and first , Democrat Chuck schumers first direct speech. The meeting dedicated to ukraine was one of the most intense with which. I had to deal during the time in numerous visits to the oval office, the five of us, the president , the Vice President , leader mcconnell, leader jeffreys and myself, have made it clear how vital this is to the United States. We cannot afford to wait a month, two or three, because that way we would most likely lose the war. At best, nato would be divided, and allies would turn their backs on the United States of america. Yes, let me remind you, it was chuck schumer, the leader of the republicans in the house of representatives, and right after the meeting with donaldo, sorry, with joe biden, to reporters the leader of the republicans in the house of representatives, mike johnson, also came out, he is the one who is most likely under a lot of pressure from donald trump and demands, apparently, not to put the question of aid to ukraine, the unblocking of aid to ukraine on the agenda, so he. Constantly pulls , drags it out, and heres what mike johnson said, lets hear it as well you also heard, im sure, that there was a discussion about an additional spending package, and i made it very clear to the president and everyone in the cabinet that the house is actively looking and explores various options for this, and we will solve this issue in time, but again, the First Priority for the country is our border and its defenders. And i have to tell you that the democrats understand this as well, that the border of the United States of america with mexico, of course it is a priority, but this speech by mike, this statement by mike johnson did not convince them, and lets listen to another direct speech from chuck schumer, who we already heard a little earlier. There is logic in solving the border issue, we also want it, but now we need to deal with ukraine, because. This can be done quickly due to a broad preparty consensus, the border issue needs additional attention, and we are ready to work on it, but at the same time we are not ready to delay the draft law on ukraine. Well, when donald trump gives this goahead to mike johnson and says thats it, let s not drag anything, lets finally put this issue to the vote and finally vote, because really, russia is advancing and we need to help ukraine, by the way, on this meeting, yesterday the director of the Central Intelligence agency was also present. Administration of the usa, william burns, and he just told the people present there that russia has certain advances on the battlefield, and precisely because of the delay by congress, the unblocking of financial and military aid to ukraine. And by the way, its also interesting, i found information that the group that met yesterday was not included in the American Military. Also joe biden was called the big four, oh well, now god give the big four some sense so they finally unblock the bailout. It is worth avoiding rhetoric that could only lead to further inflaming the tense situation surrounding the russian war in ukraine. This was stated by the official representative of the secretary general of the united nations, stefan duzharic, during the briefing. Yes he is. Commented on the statement made the day before yesterday by the president of france , emmanuel macron, that it should not be ruled out that at some point western countries may send their troops to ukraine. Mr. Dujarric also called such a statement an attempt to add fuel to the fire. But it was a statement from the un, and we know that at the un very often somehow they make such strange statements, a completely different attitude to it, and a different statement, and they leave the capital. Lithuanians, in a different way, perceived emmanuel macrons statement there, and the following quote lithuanian officials are considering the possibility of sending troops to ukraine to train ukrainian. Soldiers, the adviser to the lithuanian president , kyastutis budris, said in an interview with the lrt publication, but at the same time he added that support in the form of weapons and ammunition remains the main priority at the moment, but even so, saying about the possible sending of western troops to ukraine, mr. Councilor added another quote from him we are talking about this possibility and we are doing it quite openly, there are many nuances regarding what might happen. And under what conditions, well, now a comment from the white house on this issue, on the statement of emmanuel macron, and one more quote the possible deployment of troops to ukraine is a sovereign decision that each nato ally would have to make purely independently, but in the United States of america and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization previously gave to understand that they have no such plans, about that. During the briefing, the coordinator of Strategic Communications of the White House Security council, john kirby, said in response to a question about whether the United States can send its troops to ukraine for a purpose that is not directly related to the conduct of hostilities. The admiral answered what exactly we are listening to in direct speech. No, in ukraine, only those American Military personnel who are connected to the embassy, ​​they are part of the apparatus of the attache from the. Defense and they do important work, helping us with security accountability of weapons and systems provided to ukraine, the president made it clear that there will be no us troops in ukraine, but here is a person who stubbornly continues to call herself an official representative of the ministry of Foreign Affairs of russia, whom i stubbornly continue to call just a spokeswoman, Masha Zakharova on it answered that if on the territory of ukraine at a certain point in time. Western troops may appear, then this will only fan the flames, and this will be considered by russia as an escalation of the conflict, well , what an even greater escalation of the conflict. So what . Viktor orban, you may ask, but what, and this is not even surprising, the Prime Minister of hungary simply repeated the position previously expressed by the hungarian authorities that, as he called it, the conflict in ukraine can be ended only through negotiations , and not on the battlefield. He also added that official budapest provides humanitarian aid to kyiv, which excludes the sending of weapons and troops, and at the same time called it a bad position, according to which one of the parties should be recognized as guilty and wrong in advance. On his orbanivske deeply convinced that the issue of guilt should be resolved after the end of the war. And then we will listen pragmatically. Peacemaker viktor orban in direct speech. Hungarians see that russia will not defeat ukraine, but ukraine, which is supported by the west, will not defeat russia either. In this situation, it is necessary to save lives, so peace talks should be held as soon as possible. This is the hungarian position. Well, some nonsense, not a position. It is frank to say that it is not possible to find the culprits in the war that russia started aggressively. February 24, 2022, i at the same time, the Prime Minister of hungary goes to the journalists and says that no, no, let s not look for them, lets wait for the end of the war, and in order for the war to end, in his opinion, it is necessary to simply put ukraine and russia at the table, not to give ukraine arms, and thus the war will end, well, chinas special envoy for eurasian affairs, lihui , will visit russia, ukraine and germany again this week for negotiations. Regarding the russian war in ukraine, regarding the search for ways to end it peacefully. In addition, a visit to brussels is also planned and a meeting with the leadership of the European Union. Lihueys trip, hereinafter the quote, is the second round of shuttle diplomacy aimed at finding political ways to end the war in ukraine. Yes, it was commented on by the ministry of Foreign Affairs of the celestial empire. According to the statement, the special envoy will also visit france and poland. Lihui already. Went with such a tour, i call it that last year, to try to act as a mediator for a possible end to the war, but then it did not give results. Well, there is another interesting statement from the heavenly representative of the ministry chinas Foreign Affairs minister said today during a briefing that relations between russia and china have reached historic heights, and indeed russia. Trades well with china, china trades well with russia, well historically, and at the same time they they say on macrons proposal to introduce nato troops into ukraine, they say there is no need to increase the degree of tension. As we need, then everything will be very like this, so that everything constructively ends like this, constructively and carefully, eternal chinese wisdom, it is said, yes, well, lets move on, we, that is, ukraine, can be guilty of death of the russian oppositionist oleksii navalny, well, at least according to the version of the american journalist Tucker Carlson, this is quite serious, he said in an interview with his colleague. And i will remind you that Tucker Carlson went to moscow a few days, a few weeks ago in order to record an interview with putin, from his mouth it sounded like an assumption, but it sounded, according to carlson, ukrainians can stand behind it, because this may bring them, that is, us, profit in the war. Well , next, a quote from carlson they, that is, the ukrainians , killed the daughter of alexander dugin, darya dugin in moscow, so it is quite possible. He called the kremlins involvement in navalnys death absurd, and thats why, as he explained it, it would be inappropriate to kill him during the munich security conference. Well, starting a war during the Paralympic Games is appropriate, it is appropriate. Yes, and finally, he cried during the press conference, but it is not known whether he cried out of pity or fear. Head coach. The north korean Womens National Football Team did not hold back tears after the loss of their own wards of japans football players, it was a qualifying match for the summer Olympic Games in paris, and the athletes from north korea had every chance to qualify for the olympics in case of their victory, but they did not succeed, they lost with a score of 1 2. At the same time, ryula, which is the name of the north korean coach, promised to show the best results of his team in the future, so the only question is whether the coach of the north korean team has a future. Well, thats all i have in the world about ukraine section, thats all for today, there will be more tomorrow there will be more in our next broadcast, so dont switch. Verdict with Serhii Rudenko from now on in a new twohour format, even more analytics, even more important topics, even more top guests, foreign experts, inclusion from abroad, about ukraine, the world, the front, society, and also feedback, you you can express your opinion on the evil of the day with the help of a telephone survey, turn on and turn on, the verdict with serhiy rudenko, every weekday from 20 to 22 at espresso. Good evening, we are from ukraine, we have one long economic block, now we will talk with oleksandr morchivka, and then we will continue the economic topic, indeed with reference to the history with poland. Oleksandr, good evening, please. I welcome the audience, thank vasyl for his word, in the next few minutes i will talk about the funds that continue to flow to ukraine. You will also learn that the ice has finally broken in financing the reconstruction of our state thanks to russian frozen assets, all in detail in a moment. I am oleksandr morchyvka, congratulations, this is a column about money during the war, i will start with an important one todays figures ukraine received 760 million from japan and norway, the ministry of finance reported. They say that the funds will be directed to partial compensation of state Budget Expenditures not related to the sphere of security and defense, in particular, the funds will go to pension funds. As well as payments to Civil Service workers in emergency situations and teachers wages. I will remind you once again that it is clear that International Funding does not go to the defense sector, to the salaries of military personnel, it is mainly the reconstruction of ukraine and the financing of social expenditures spheres the eu will direct revenues from russian Financial Assets to the purchase of weapons for our state. The president of the European Commission, ursula funderla, announced this. We are talking about interest from funds and securities that are currently in european banking institutions, it cannot, ursula fondelain says, there cannot be a more powerful than this, there is no more powerful symbol than this or a more appropriate use of this money to make ukraine and all of europe a safer place to live, well, experts say that a change in attitude towards the frozen assets of russia is now happening quite quickly, as well for conservative europe, but for our country, which needs a solution now, the process is too slow. Its time to Start Talking about using excess profits from frozen russian assets to jointly purchase military equipment for ukraine. There cannot be a stronger symbol and greater benefit from this money than to make ukraine and all of europe a safe place to live. Indeed, if for conservative europe it is a really fast process, but ukraine needs specific solutions already today for today, then they are already. Appear, the belgian state Development Agency will start implementing projects to restore critical and social infrastructure in ukraine in march. The agency finally got funding. We are talking about 150 million dollars, which went to an account in belgium from frozen russian assets. The specific amount is 150 million dollars, this money will be in ukraine. And this is a victory, vasyl. Well , yes, absolutely. And here is the government. Really needs money to fill the coffers, and in particular, we are talking about funds from stateowned companies. Six jointstock companies have until february 29 to provide an advance transfer to the state budget, not less than 50 of the dividends for the state share from the activity for the past year. According to the ministry of finance, this will ensure the receipt of 3 billion hryvnias into the treasury. Such a decision concerns naftogaz, ukrzaliznytsia, ukroboronprom, ukrhydroenergo, the Ukrainian Energy Machines Company and nizhnyodniprovska hpp. The decision of the government, as a shareholder, is conditioned the need to fill the budget in conditions of a major war in order to finance current expenses, explains the ministry of economy. The polish government has promised to find those who scatter ukrainian grain. Warsaw considers such actions to be unavoidable, polish minister of internal affairs martin kerwinski said on polish radio. Assured that the police are responding, the culprits will definitely be caught and punished, because this is a crime. At the same time, the minister denied the information that cargoes with military and humanitarian supplies for ukraine are having problems at the border. He emphasized that transport with such goods passes normally thanks to the work of border guards, customs officers and the police. Well, despite everything, poland can introduce a ban on the import of new ukrainian goods. This will happen if the European Union does not offer an effective way to protect polish and european markets under threat, namely eggs, fruits and meat from ukraine. This was announced by the Prime Minister of poland, donald tusk. During the last week, farmers have been protesting at the border, including those who yesterday in warsaw held an action against the European Green Exchange Rate and the influx of ukrainian agricultural products, are going to repeat their move again on the sixth. March the accrual of cashback under the buy Ukrainian Program can be similar to the service, there is support when ukrainians received funds on a virtual bank card. This was reported by darina zarivna, adviser to the head of the president s office. You can then spend this accrued money exclusively on goods produced in ukraine, experts say. In addition, the main issue of the implementation of the new initiative of the president is to attract a response to it. Days of funds. By according to the senior economist , economist of the center for Economic Strategy yuriy gaidai , theoretically, the socalled cashback can really increase tax revenues in the budget, stimulate import substitution, that is , produce more ukrainian goods, sell more ukrainian goods, respectively, improve the situation with the hryvnia and gold and foreign reserves. Lets go further. Ukrzaliznytsia will not raise tariffs for. Passenger and freight transportation within the state, the chairman of the board of the company, yevhen lyashchenko, announced. Financially such changes are not expected this year, says the top manager. As for foreign transportation, now there is joint pricing with international partners, if there is an increase in prices, then it will be insignificant. Let me remind you that last year ukrzaliznytsia announced that it was reducing discounts and harmonizing prices for international flights, accordingly, this will allow the update to continue. Fleet of cars, reduce the total losses of the stateowned company. Well, the director of one of the departments of ukrnafta was detained at the kyiv Railway Station while receiving a bribe of uah 160,000. It was reported in the capital Prosecutors Office according to the investigation, in 2018 he offered an acquaintance to use 30 hectares of land owned by poltavnaftogaz. For it