“Ukrzaliznytsia announces auctions for the sale of crushed stone. The first auctions for 72.5 thousand tons of crushed stone will be held on July 24-25 on the Prozorro Sales website, the company’s press service reports.
The release specifies that the sale of crushed stone became possible due to the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers, which simplified the procedure for disposing of property for Ukrzaliznytsia and granted permission to sell it.
The company has already held a meeting with the business to discuss current issues of the crushed stone market and the prospects for selling through electronic auctions.
The auctions will be based on the English auction principle, and Ukrzaliznytsia expects active competition among the participants.
In the future, the company plans to sell almost 1.3 million tons of crushed stone through separate lots.
In January-June 2025, Express Insurance (Kyiv) collected insurance premiums in the amount of UAH 560.9 million, which is 32% more than in the same period of 2024, according to the insurer’s website.
Premiums under hull insurance contracts for this period amounted to UAH 380.4 million, which is UAH 44.9 million, or 13.4%, more than in January-June 2024, for MTPL – UAH 167.7 million (+90.6%), for other types of insurance – UAH 12.7 million.
The company reports that in January-June 2025, the total amount of insurance claims for insured events amounted to UAH 223 million. This includes UAH 176.3 million in payments to motor hull insurance customers and UAH 43.3 million to victims of motor TPL insurance.
As reported, as of March 31, 2025, the assets of Express Insurance amounted to UAH 940.6 million, which is UAH 149.1 million more than in 2024, their share in cash amounted to 89%, which ensures the company’s operational ability to pay compensation for insured events.
Express Insurance was founded in 2008 and is part of the UkrAVTO group of companies. The company specializes in automobile insurance. The consistently high speed of claims settlement in the IC is ensured by optimal interaction with partner service stations.
Since April 2012, Express Insurance has been an associate member of the Motor Transport Insurance Bureau of Ukraine.
Ukrainian producers exported 66,700 tons of wheat flour during the 2024-2025 marketing year (July-June), which is 27.9% less than in the previous season, when this figure was 92,500 tons, according to the Ukrainian Flour Millers Association.
The industry association noted that about 46% of exports in the 2024/2025 season went to EU countries. The top five importers of Ukrainian flour were Moldova (20,300 tons), the Czech Republic (15,300 tons), Palestine (10,800 tons), France (3,000 tons), and Spain (2,900 tons).
Exports of other types of flour in the 2024/2025 season amounted to 4.6 thousand tons (in 2023/24 MY – 5.4 thousand tons). The share of EU countries in terms of export volumes was 14% (27% in 2023/2024 MY). The five countries to which other types of flour were supplied in 2024/25 MY were Moldova (3.2 thousand tons), Israel (0.5 thousand tons), Croatia (0.2 thousand tons), Bulgaria, and Spain (0.1 thousand tons each).
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The German government plans to introduce stricter rules for receiving social assistance for the unemployed, including refugees from Ukraine, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in an interview with ARD television on Sunday. In an interview with ARD on Sunday, July 13, Merz confirmed that citizens in need of support will continue to receive it. However, the German government intends to introduce stricter rules for applicants.
“People who can work must work,” Merz emphasized. In addition, housing cost requirements may be tightened, for example, by introducing rent caps or checks on living space.
According to the German chancellor, there is significant potential for savings when, as part of the reform, basic income will be paid to citizens instead of benefits from 2026. “More than one or two billion can be saved,” Merz said, adding that the “change in the system” must take place “step by step.”
According to Merz, the aim of basic income should be “to ensure that those who really need state assistance continue to receive it in the future.” “I would even be prepared to increase the rates, for example in the event of sudden unemployment, so that those affected can quickly find new jobs,” he said.
In 2024, around 826,000 working citizens in Germany were unable to live on their wages. The state paid them “Bürgergeld” (citizen’s income) amounting to EUR 7 billion. Among the recipients of “Bürgergeld” in Germany are Ukrainian refugees from the Russian war.
According to DW, as of 2024, there were 1.25 million Ukrainians living in Germany, 296,000 of whom were employed. Another 211,000 Ukrainians in the country were unemployed, and 98,000 were attending integration courses.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko on Monday and offered her the position of prime minister and asked her to significantly revamp the government.
“I had a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko. There was a report on the implementation of agreements with European and American partners on support for Ukraine, which were reached at the recent conference on Ukraine’s recovery. We must implement as quickly as possible everything that can support the stability of our state and society,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram on Monday.
According to him, during the meeting with Svyrydenko, they discussed “specific measures that could strengthen Ukraine’s economic potential, expand support programs for Ukrainians, and scale up our own weapons production.”
The president noted that to this end, we are beginning to transform the executive branch in Ukraine. “I have offered Yulia Svyrydenko to head the Ukrainian government and significantly revamp its work. I look forward to the new government’s action plan in the near future,” he wrote.