Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has hailed the strengthening of Ukraine-Belarus relations at both central and regional levels, as well as that of ties between certain businesses in the two counties.
“A forum like this strengthens the partnership between our countries in all spheres. And, which is highly important, this is not only at the level of capitals – Kyiv and Minsk – but also at the level of our regions and individual businesses,” Zelensky said at the 2nd Forum of Regions of Ukraine and Belarus in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr on Friday.
Commercial contracts valued at $500 million have been signed during the forum, he said.
The prices for construction and assembly work in Ukraine in August 2019 decreased by 0.9% compared with July, while the increase in prices in July 2019 compared with June 2019 was 0.4%.
According to the State Statistics Service, these figures are given without taking into account the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol and part of temporarily occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
According to the service, the rise in prices for construction and assembly work in August 2019 from August 2018 was 5.3%.
According to the report, in general the growth in prices for construction and assembly work in January-August 2019 compared with January-August 2019 amounted to 8.3%.
The decline in construction prices in August 2019 compared with June 2019 was recorded in all areas of construction.
The prices for construction and assembly work grew by 23% in 2018, and growth in 2017 was 13.4%, 9.2% in 2016 and 27.1% in 2015 compared with the previous year.
The State Migration Service states that since January 2016, Ukrainians have already drawn up 4 million ID cards.
“Friends, today the four millionth ID card has been personalized. This means that already 4 million Ukrainian citizens have drawn up new-type documents that meet modern international security standards. The Migration Service has issued such a number of ID cards since January 2016, from the beginning of the issuance of biometric documents in Ukraine,” the agency said.
The Migration Service notes that recently ID-cards are gaining more and more popularity, “more and more often not only young people want it, but also older people.”
In September 2019, 10% of departure flights from the Kharkiv international airport (MAX) were serviced with deviation from the timetable, and the rest of the flights – in line with the timetable, the press service of the airport has reported. “In September 2019, 90% departure flights were serviced in line with the timetable, 4% within the 15-30 minute deviation from the timetable and 1% with over two-hour deviation from the timetable,” the airport said.
Belavia, Ellinar and YanAir Airlines are leaders of the punctuality raging. They serviced their flights in line with the timetable. SkyUp Airlines (96%), Pegasus Airlines (94%), Turkish Airlines (94%) and Windrose Airlines (92%) had small deviations from the timetable.
As reported, in August 89.53% of flights were serviced in line with the timetable in the airport.
Changes in currency exchange, UAH/EUR, 31.07.19.-30.09.19.
Ukrainians registered 23,000 imported used passenger cars in September, which is 3.2 times more than the registrations of new passenger cars in the same month, the Ukrautoprom association has reported.
Compared with September 2018 registrations of imported used passenger cars grew 2.3 times, and their share of the primary market grew from 60% to 76%.
The most popular car was Volkswagen Passat (1,460 cars registered). Renault Megane with 1,315 cars, and Skoda Octavia with 1,203 cars was third.
Volkswagen Golf with 912 registrations was fourth and Ford Focus with 789 used cars registered was fifth.
The association said that since the start of 2019, 321,600 imported used passenger cars have been registered in Ukraine, which is 4.5 times more than a year ago. The new passenger car market over the period was only 61,700 cars.
On September 12, 2019, the Verkhovna Rada repeatedly postponed the application of fines for owners of cars with foreign license plates for 90 days.
