maintaining such a deficit in the russian budget meant that by the end of this year this fund would be completely exhausted, and russia would really start to feel the lack of funds, but you see, this is what happened , the war began, the price of oil jumped, and there is no end to it, and the russians definitely get additional funds from it. mr. oleg, well now, now in this situation, when there may really be a certain shortage of oil on the world market and russia will be able to sell more bloody barrels, is there a chance, that after all, the pricecaps will revise this upper limit from $60 per barrel, well, at least to $45, as expected, will this not play a role? alexander, look, right before our communication with you, i looked at what the world media, in particular bloomberg, are writing at the moment , they claim that if the united

states does not support the europeans in reducing the pricecap, in the 18th package of sanctions, the europeans will take away the pricecap reduction, that is, there is a clear position that either everyone together or no one. so i think that if we fail to find a compromise with the united states of america today in canada, then from the 18th package of sanctions, the price cap reduction will disappear. by the way, there is a rather interesting situation there with the position of slovakia, hungary, by the way, slovakia and hungary vetoed the ee schedule for abandoning russian energy carriers. moreover, they categorically do not agree to abandon the oil that they receive through the druzhba oil pipeline, so in this situation it looks like europe will be extremely difficult to lead productive. negotiations on the 18th

package, we also do not agree to refuse, mr. olezhe, from nuclear technologies also, completely, in essence, from such an energy package. yes, actually, and as for nuclear technologies, france also has its position there, because it is she who is currently the main holder of the main contracts with rosatom, both for the supply of uranium and for the actual. spent nuclear fuel, its utilization, so let's be realistic, i think that the 18th package will be approved quite difficult. thank you for your clarifications, oleg penzin, executive director of the economic discussion club, was in touch, we are waiting, whether it remains to wait for the results of the meeting of the group of seven, the leaders of the group

of seven in canada, maybe there will really be a joint decision, although we see, oleg penzin, as always, soberly looks at the economic... world and says that a joint decision on lowering the upper limit for the sale of russian oil should not be expected yet. i will also monitor the situation. i am following, in particular, such consumer market in ukraine. let's move on. 22 enterprises have been selected and can now count on financial support of almost 100 million uah. this is the total amount. the funds within the program are grants for processing enterprises. that is, this is non-refundable money, the ministry of economy said. the initiative is aimed at modernizing or expanding production within the framework of the policy of supporting the national product, according to the made in ukraine program. among the winners of the grant programs are manufacturers of furniture, building materials, plastics, metal, wood, food and agricultural producers. but meat prices in ukraine have broken records, in particular in may.

beef tenderloin cost an average of uah 336 per kilo, which is 20% more expensive than it was a year ago, chicken also increased in price, fillets became more expensive to uah 222 per kilo, which is + 39% increase over the year, analysts of the ukrainian agribusiness club reported. experts explain the significant increase in product prices by a partial increase in agricultural companies' costs for... feed, but, for example, beef is becoming more expensive due to limited supply, this type of meat is now becoming scarce, unlike chicken and pork. well, i did this review of the business day during this time today, but the big broadcast continues, there will also be a review of cultural news, sports, vasyl zima will continue the program. watch us, stay with us.

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deputy of ukraine. events of the day in two hours, vasyl zyma's big broadcast, a project for smart people and those who care. in the evening at espresso. hello, we continue the search for five children who mysteriously disappeared in the kherson region, these are 14-year-old twins vitya and vitalik, little six-year-old yan and their sisters, 12-year-old karina and 15-year-old diana kvyatkovsky, contact with them was lost during the occupation of the kherson region and, unfortunately, nothing is known about them yet. back in february 2025 , the grandfather of the missing children, mr. vitaliy, contacted us with the help of a search warrant. then he said that vitya, vitalik, yan, karina and diana were during the occupation

, the russians could have taken them out. i found out through people who lived there , through their godfathers there, that the russians had brought them in, taken them out to an unknown destination. before the full-scale invasion, the children lived in the village of kachkarivka in the kherson region with their mother kvyatkovska iryna and grandmother kvyatkovska natalia . after the de-occupation of the village, the whole family, including the mother and grandmother, disappeared without a trace. now they are also officially wanted. mr. vitaliy says that the children grew up in a loving atmosphere, were well-mannered, studied well and had their hobbies. the man

talks about his grandchildren with great warmth. the children are very beautiful, very well-mannered, and study well. these are two twins, iryna, she named them in my honor, vitya and vitalik, these are twins, diana and karina, uh, well, somehow, they are beautiful, obedient children, they studied well at school, they fished, they loved to fish, with fishing rods, fishing and... diana and karina, they danced, they were engaged in dance groups. all this time , mr. vitaliy does not stop searching, he says, he is ready to do anything, just to find my grandchildren as soon as possible. i really want them

to return, to return them to ukraine, and i will do everything to return them, if i have to go to russia to search there, i am even ready to go there. and although it is very likely that the children were actually taken to russia, for now this is just an assumption, because there are no facts that would 100% prove it, so mr. vitaliy appeals to everyone who sees this video with a request not to remain indifferent and help him find his grandchildren. if you at least knowing about these children, and you know their location, or you know where they are. uh, how they were taken out, report to the child tracing service. i really ask you to help me in tracing these children. i really want them to return to ukraine, because they belong, they are ukrainians, they were born in ukraine.

the last time mr. vitaliy saw his grandchildren was a few months before the full-scale invasion began. that's when he took these... photos, of course, now the brothers and sisters may look a little older than in these in the photos, but i really hope that one of you will recognize the children and be able to help in their search. if you know at least some information about vitya, vitalik, yana, karina and diana, or about their mother and grandmother, do not hesitate and immediately inform us on the hotline at 11630. if you cannot call, write to us in the chatbot, the children's search service in telegram. we have created a resource through which you can report any crime against a child. in any. city at any time, just go to site and let us know, and we will launch

all possible mechanisms for punishing the criminal, stop crime ua. glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is serhiy rudenko, i greet everyone and wish everyone good health. over the next two hours we will talk. about ukraine, about the world, about the war and about our victory. of course, we will talk about the latest events in ukraine, about the massive russian strike on the ukrainian capital, and not only on the ukrainian capital, and also about how the group of seven summit is taking place in distant canada, and how trump fled from this summit. so, before we start our big conversation today, i suggest you look at. to the aftermath of another russian terrorist act tonight kyiv suffered one of the most massive

air attacks. russian terrorists attacked the capital with drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, killing at least ten and wounding dozens more civilians. one ballistic missile destroyed the entire entrance of a nine-story building. odessa, kherson also suffered powerful blows and other cities of ukraine. mosya on the consequences of russian terror. these are rockets with cluster bombs,

such small balls are inside in order to maximally damage people. "terrible consequences, rescuers together with all services, june 18 in kyiv has been declared a day of mourning in memory of the victims of the massive russian attack on the capital, eternal memory to the dead and death to the russian occupiers. friends, i remind you that we are working live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our platforms. on facebook and youtube, for those who are watching us live there now, please subscribe to our pages,

and also take part in our survey, today we are asking you the following: do you expect increased western support after the russian strikes? yes, no, please vote with the appropriate buttons on youtube, if you have a separate opinion, please leave it in the comments under this video. if you are watching us on tv or on streaming platforms, take your smartphone or phone in your hands and vote for the numbers. 0800 211 381 no 08021382 all calls to these numbers are free of charge, vote, at the end of the program we will summarize the results of this vote. i would like to invite our guest to the conversation, this is roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine, secretary of the parliamentary committee on national security, defense and intelligence, colonel of the security service of ukraine. colonel, i wish you health, thank you for being with us today. i wish you health, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes. colonel, how would you answer

the question that we are asking our people today to viewers and tv viewers: do you expect increased western support after the russian strikes? it's a difficult question, especially when i look at the latest reports of aid coming to us, and you know, when the united states used to be there, first the united states, then there was no one for a long time, and then some other countries started, so somewhere now it has already leveled out, and it's not because european countries started giving much more, so... it's difficult to say, and these countries are european, first of all, and the united states have been behaving quite unpredictably lately, but i still hope that europe will take over , replace the united states, at least be able to purchase ammunition, and we will receive not only an increase, but at least no less than it was there

last year, of this assistance, during this night... both kyivans and other residents of the cities of odessa, kharkiv, zaporizhia, kherson, also suffered from massive strikes by the russian occupiers. president zelensky stressed that the whole world, the united states of america and europe must finally react to russian terrorism in the same way that a civilized society reacts to terrorists. it is bad when the powerful of this world turn a blind eye to this, we are contacting all. partners at all possible levels so that there is an appropriate response: it is the terrorists who should feel the pain, not normal peaceful people. at the same time, the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, andriy sybyga, stated that putin deliberately inflicted a massive blow on ukraine during the g7 summit . he is sending a signal of complete disrespect to the united states

and other partners who called stop the killings. putin's goal is very simple. to make the leaders of the g7 look weak, only decisive steps, real pressure on moscow can prove him wrong. what, colonel, is the kremlin dictator trying to achieve by inflicting massive blows on residential areas and civilian infrastructure. if we talk specifically about today's blow, then here i agree, i can agree with the minister for... affairs, we understand that putin is trying to humiliate our western allies there, showing that he, regardless of to their statements, we remember these statements by macron, scholz merz and the british prime minister,

who gave an ultimatum to putin, and where is that ultimatum, they do something, they do nothing, no action at all ... it happens, just empty words and putin has already understood this, and putin continues to play, and look where i can go, and look, i can do even more, and you will not do anything to me, well, it's like in the style of the russian federation, so this is specifically another slap in the face to our western allies, despite the fact that they the world's largest economic countries are meeting at this summit, putin is simply for... there are terrorist attacks on ukraine, despite the fact that trump is the only one who promised to end the war, three other great leaders who gave an ultimatum and also talked about a 30-week truce, and tried to end something, so everything else, what, what we, this is specifically about this attack, before that putin also made some attacks on him there were

after we conducted the security service, operation spiderweb, which will destroy a third of the nuclear triads of aircraft, meaning the russian federation, some kind of just systematically strikes there, bringing them down, when they accumulate these drones, so this is a tactic, intimidation, and at the same time coercing us through our population through people who are really tired of the war and also live under constant shelling, so that... people put pressure on the authorities and demand that the authorities make concessions to us, this is his desire, because on the battlefield he cannot achieve significant success, there the defense forces are holding, beating his them, they suffer great losses, and well, the battlefield is a battlefield, there you don't really show off, especially when there are no real successes,

here you can show that when you put pressure on the civilian population, they usually experience it. more, let's say, the consequences are more critical than when you hit the soldiers who are on the battlefield, but, colonel, it's true that putin always uses this chechen scenario, when he tries to demolish everything he sees in his path, villages, cities, residential areas and in this way to force those against whom... this aggression is directed to surrender, that is, how likely is it that what putin did with avdiivka, with bakhmut, with other cities that simply... disappeared from the map, the ukrainian map, that one way or another this same method will be used against large cities that are

in ukraine, i mean according to the same scenario that was with mariupol, well now under the threat of such a scenario is primarily kherson, which putin has already, well, practically since the day of its liberation on november 11, 2022. at the beginning not like that, but now there, as you know, such russian hunting is not allowed, if that's the right way to put it, they are there because they train their soldiers, and not just looking there, like normal soldiers, like honest warriors, looking for a military target, they train them on civilians and mature people, flying into civilian houses, destroying civilians. civilian transport, they just staged terrorism, well, and just from there from a certain distance from the ar they shoot

him with artillery, yes he is not destroyed there, but plus the cabs that fly there, and they are constantly terrorizing him, now they want to do the same scenario for sumy, but fortunately the defense forces are there, the enemy has made some minor advances there, but let's say... i hope that we still have enough reserves, forces, means, and correct management decisions to not only prevent the enemy from advancing further, but also not give them the opportunity, but also to squeeze him out, to knock him out of our territory, the enemy has gone as far as possible there, well, according to my information, 7 km there, it's certainly bad there, but it seems like all is not lost yet, and it is possible to make a normal management decision. to knock it out of here having the right resources and good reserves there, so let's hope and we cannot allow the enemy there to come within

artillery range of sumy and destroy it, terrorize it, well, like he does with kherson. well, you mean, colonel, until the russians reach khotyn and yunakivka, two settlements that are already almost on the... line of combat contact, until the russians reach these positions, the sums are not threatened by the use of artillery and drones, do i understand correctly? that's right, but i don't think that these are even these settlements in order to use artillery, they need to come even closer, because well, artillery hits well , on average 20 km, but for that you have somewhere else... artillery, it can't stand right on the front line, it has to be somewhere 5-7 and sometimes 10 km in the rear, because it will be destroyed, in order for the sums

there to be under military control, they have to come 15 km there to the city, preferably 10 km to the city, then of course they will be able to place artillery in the rear, well drones of course also such distances to cover the entire city, that's approximately the range needed, so i say again, we will... hope that now all reserves will be involved, all possibilities to prevent the enemy from getting closer to this, the center, the regional center. colonel, we see how hostilities are currently unfolding in the middle east between israel and iran, and judging by trump's behavior, his statements that he will be in the situation room, they are... expecting an escalation of events in the middle east, like what will happen between israel and iran, if this continues and

large-scale hostilities unfold , how will this affect the russian-ukrainian war, does this mean that putin has additional opportunities, this window of opportunity, when, against the backdrop of a major war in the middle east, he will try... to do his best on the russian-ukrainian front and increase pressure on ukraine in order to... to persuade the ukrainians to sign a peace agreement that is disadvantageous to them? you know, you are right here, what exactly will depend on how events will develop, they can develop in different ways, if iran capitulates there and says that we are abandoning our program, we are ready to close it and then the conditions will be dictated to them. and including, i think, regarding cooperation with the russian federation, this is of course one scenario,

another scenario there, if they continue to... exchange blows and exhaust each other, and of course, iran is a resource for the country, with the support of the same russian federation, and north korea, and on the other hand, of course, israel will be, the united states will support israel and resources will be sent there, well, we have understood for a long time that israel has serious , let's say, serious lobbyists in the united states and serious support there, starting from the 50s of the last century, the united states has always supported them, this is a country that gives them the opportunity for such regional leadership, and there, even when there was a war with egypt, somewhere they didn't support it at first, but then they still reconciled and they always had israel's support, and this could mean

that... those ammunition, those shells, well, we're not talking about shells here, until other countries entered the war, but the air defense systems that are very important for us now, uh, air defense, the same patriot systems, with pak-3 missiles that can shoot down ballistic missiles, there aren't that many of them, but they can be sent there, and thus, uh, we 'll lose the ability to shoot down ballistic missiles or we will have limitations. capabilities, the same aviation and support, of course, this can thus be very negative, if there is a further escalation of the conflict, negatively affect not in our favor in the war with ukraine from russia. colonel, how will the ability of ukrainians to strike with long-range weapons, their own long-range weapons, affect the russian-ukrainian war, why am i asking about this, because just a few

days ago... so president zelensky announced that successful tests had taken place the ukrainian ballistic missile sapsan is still being developed for its mass production . the readiness of this missile or the fact that this missile could soon be in mass production was discussed back in june 2013, when they said that 65 to 70% of it was actually... this missile is already ready. to what extent do our capabilities now provide a prospect of giving the russians a worthy rebuff to such attacks that we witnessed literally last night? well, these are still limited capabilities, you understand that what we, what we have tested, is something reached, these are all the first samples that we still have to put into

series, and this is a very... complicated story and build up, this is the first option, and a lot of work needs to be done here, i know about missile programs, we often go to the committee , i can't tell you everything, there were really problems with this missile, uh, with some of its parts, uh, well, according to the latest information, i don't have it, but i don't think the president is saying unreliable information, unless he was given unreliable information. i we definitely in the committee, we often hear about the missile program, we hear how far it was, well, did the missile really fly, where it was, because the main question was, it flew, that's all, but the question is how accurately it can hit, because if it's a nuclear warhead, you're plus or minus 500-600 km , it doesn't matter, if it's a warhead

made of a conventional explosive, like hexane or tnt, then of course the deviation can't be more than five or 10, five or 10 m, then it's effective, everything else is whoever says it roughly, it doesn't work like that, it has to fly clearly, just like the iskander flies, just like the russian caliber flies and we can't afford to hit worse, and then there's the drawback, when we say a decent response, well, i don't think that this is still a decent response, why, because... we have to cover the range with ballistics at least up to 1000 km, what, well, this is a legal, well, let's say this, this is the sapsan missile, this is the missile that was thunder, it was made for export, there are restrictions on export, so we need develop ranges here, there we can kill at 300 km, there, even if we hit at...