The fifth modular camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) was opened today in the territory of the Lviv region, the press service of the Lviv regional military administration reports.
A small town for 13 families was built in the village of Bortyatyn, Sudovyshnyanskaya UTC, Yavorovsky District.
“Thanks to the cooperation of our international partners and local authorities, today 40 more mothers with children and elderly people from the Luhansk and Donetsk regions have received comfortable and safe living conditions,” Maxim Kozitsky, head of the Lviv regional military administration, was quoted as saying in the message.
The campus consists of 10 interconnected containers – 5 residential and 5 utility rooms. The houses have all the conditions for living, kitchens, bathrooms and showers. A children’s playground has been set up on the premises.
The town was built as part of a memorandum of cooperation between the regional military administration and the Safe Pass Group charitable foundation.
At present, 4 modular camps for IDPs have been built in the region, another one is being built in the Stryi UTG, two projects are under development. Earlier, the Academy of Construction of Ukraine announced the launch of a project for the rapid construction of housing in the format of 8-apartment buildings for Ukrainians who lost their homes. The construction of such housing takes about 60 days. m, a plot has already been allocated in the Buchansky district for the pilot implementation of two houses.
“The cost of the house, including construction, engineering, exterior and interior decoration, furniture, household appliances and climate engineering equipment, will not exceed $750 per square meter. This is an ambitious figure and difficult to achieve, but we have confidence in our suppliers, thanks to whom we we can count on such a prime cost,” said Ivan Peregynets, academician of the Academy of Construction of Ukraine, director of the scientific and technical center, during a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
According to the academician, the garden partnership “Solnechnoye” in the Buchansky district of the Kyiv region decided to allocate a land plot of 0.1 hectares for the pilot construction of two houses of the “Biden” project. The sites already have engineering and transport infrastructure. Construction is scheduled to begin before July 1. According to the project, the area of one apartment in such a house is 60 square meters. m. The cost of such an apartment, including a parking space, will be about $45,000.
To finance the project, a special fund “International Construction Fund “Ukraine” was created.
INTERNATIONAL CONSTRUCTION FUND UKRAINE, LVIV, MODULAR TOWN, PEREGYNETS, АРТЕМ ГОНЧАРЕНКО
The total number of confirmed cases of monkeypox in more than 60 countries has exceeded 10 thousand cases, European media reported on Thursday, citing WHO.
It is noted that the largest number of cases of this disease occurs in Europe.
The WHO emergency committee is expected to meet next Thursday, July 21, to discuss measures to combat the spread of monkeypox.
In addition, the committee at the meeting is expected to decide on the classification of the outbreak, in particular whether the spread of monkeypox is a public health emergency.
The head of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has repeatedly expressed concern about the situation with the spread of monkeypox, called for “work to stop the transmission of the disease,” and recommended that governments of different countries carry out contact tracing of the sick.
Monkeypox is a rare infectious disease most prevalent in remote areas of Central and West Africa. Its symptoms are nausea, fever, rash, itching, and muscle pain. Earlier, the Club of Experts analyzed the situation, the experts gave their comments and forecasts regarding this disease. For more details, see the video material on YouTube channel Club of Experts:
The French company Matiere will hand over 36 lightweight bridges to Ukraine, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.
“Together with the French government and the federation of French industrialists MEDEF, we have agreed to transfer to Ukraine 36 easily assembled bridges from 23 to 46 meters long from the Matiere campaign. These structures can quickly replace the destroyed Ukrainian bridges, and subsequently replace them on a permanent basis,” Kuleba said on online briefing on Wednesday.
According to him, the French company Matiere has many years of experience in the rapid deployment of bridge crossings for road and rail transport, especially in countries where the war has destroyed infrastructure.
“Already on July 25, the company’s engineers will arrive in Ukraine and conduct a joint assessment mission with the engineers of Ukravtodor. Potentially, the company is considering the possibility of deploying the production of these bridge crossings in Ukraine,” Kuleba said.
Farmers of Bila Tserkva and Fastiv districts of Kyiv region have started harvesting grain crops this year, according to the website of Kyiv Regional Military Administration.
According to it, by July 12, some 6,800 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops have already been harvested in the region from an area of 2,420 hectares with an average yield of 28.1 centners per hectare. As for crops of winter barley, 4,600 tonnes have been threshed, peas – 2,200 tonnes.
In addition, the harvesting of winter rapeseed has begun, of which 7,200 tonnes have already been harvested with an average yield of 24 centners per hectare.
The local authorities clarified that in 2022 it is planned to harvest early cereals and legumes on a total area of 271,300 hectares, including winter and spring wheat – 203,300 hectares, barley – 50,300 hectares, rye – 10,800 hectares, oat – 2,900 ha and peas – 4,000 ha.
The money supply in Ukraine (aggregate M3) increased by 1.4% in June, or by UAH 30.5 billion, to UAH 2 trillion 151.6 billion after a decrease by 0.1% in May and growth by 2.4% and 2.6% respectively in April and March, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) reported.
According to his data, deposits over the past month increased by 2.4%, or by UAH 35.1 billion – up to UAH 1 trillion 520.2 billion, while in May their volume increased by only 0.3% after an increase of 3. 2-3.6% in April-March.
Unlike previous months, this happened both due to hryvnia deposits, which increased by 1.8%, or by UAH 18.9 billion – up to UAH 1 trillion 39.8 billion, and due to foreign currency deposits, which increased by 3.5% , or by UAH 16.2 billion – up to UAH 480.4 billion.
In May, hryvnia deposits decreased by 0.2%, while foreign currency deposits increased by 1.4%, while in April and March, hryvnia deposits grew rapidly – by 4.7% and 7.5%, respectively.
The NBU indicates that the monetary base (reserve funds) in June decreased by 1.3%, or by UAH 9.6 billion, to UAH 729.4 billion, after a slight increase of 0.4% in May.
At the same time, cash in circulation outside banks (M0) over the past month decreased by 0.8% (in May – by 0.9%), or by UAH 5 billion – to UAH 629.4 billion.
Reserve money of banks, which grew by 8.8% in May, decreased by 4.4% in June to UAH 100 billion.
Over the past month, banks increased investments in certificates of deposit from UAH 163.4 billion to UAH 189.4 billion, slightly reducing funds on correspondent accounts – from UAH 57.3 billion to UAH 56 billion and cash at the box office – from UAH 47.3 billion to UAH 44 billion
The volume of loans after an increase in May by 0.8% in June decreased by 1.3%, or by UAH 13.7 billion, to UAH 1 trillion 26.9 million. At the same time, as a month earlier, both hryvnia loans decreased by 1%, or by UAH 7.5 billion, to UAH 777.4 billion, and foreign currency loans, by 2.4%, or by UAH 6.2 billion. up to UAH 249.5 billion
In general, over the first half of this year, the money supply in Ukraine increased by 3.9%, the base – by 10.1%, cash outside banks – by 8.3%.
Deposits in hryvnia for January-June increased by 2.5%, in foreign currency – by 1.3%. Hryvnia loans increased by 5.4%, while foreign currency loans fell by 14.4%.
As reported, the money supply in Ukraine in 2021 increased by 12%, the base – by 11.2%, cash outside banks – by 12.5%.
The deposit portfolio of banks last year grew by 11.9% due to a jump in hryvnia by 21.4%, while in foreign currency it decreased by 4.1%. The loan portfolio of banks in 2021 increased by 9% due to an increase in hryvnia loans by 23.7%, while foreign currency loans decreased by 16.2%.
Ukraine, while active hostilities with the Russian aggressor continue, is in survival mode, and during this period it is too early to take on billion-dollar projects for decades, Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov believes.
“Now we need to launch a lot of low-cost and small projects that will help us and our trading partners to implement them quickly and concretely,” he said in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
“Instead of planning completely destroyed hospitals from scratch, I prefer to focus on repairing hospitals with broken windows and damaged roofs,” the minister explained.
Among such priority projects, he named the rapid repair of bridges, roads and railway lines, which are key for the army and economic recovery, as well as all projects related to increasing the country’s export capabilities.
“Honestly, we are not talking about billions, but millions and many other small projects. New, more efficient checkpoints on the border with Poland, Romania and Moldova, new railway lines from the nearest cargo points in Ukraine, which use the European standard track instead of the Russian wide track,” Kubrakov explained.
According to him, global reconstruction in Ukraine will begin with the end of the war. The Minister of Infrastructure noted the need not just for the reconstruction of old Soviet bridges, but for the construction of new ones using modern technologies.
“Instead of repairing Soviet bridges, we should seize the opportunity to create new ones using the latest technology. And we should at least convert and electrify railways from the Soviet wide track to the European standard one in such a way that all the country’s important cargo hubs are directly connected with Europe,” the minister said.
