The pharmaceutical marketing company Euro Lifecare, together with the Ukrainian pharmaceutical distributor Konark Intelmed, handed over a modern ambulance to Kharkiv.
As Interfax-Ukraine was informed by the company, the car arrived in Kharkiv from the city of Lille (France), which since 1978 has been Kharkiv’s sister city. The car was handed over with the direct participation of patron Josseline Van Hove and the parish of the Greek Catholic Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God of Lille, its rector, Father Igor Nakonechny, and Kharkov volunteers.
“From the beginning of this difficult time for the Ukrainian people, on February 24, 2022, together with Konark Intelmed and volunteers, we set up a humanitarian headquarters based on the company’s warehouse in Kharkiv, we constantly provide humanitarian assistance in the form of pharmaceuticals. Now we have helped to purchase a modern ambulance for Kharkov and the region. We believe and hope that it will help our doctors and save more than one life,” emphasized Euro Lifecare.
Euro Lifecare is a member of the Indian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (IPMA), which brings together Indian pharmaceutical manufacturing companies that meet high international standards: US FDA (USA), UK MHRA (UK), MCC (South Africa), TGA (Australia) ), WHO GMP (WHO), GMP (Ukraine) and having representative offices in Ukraine.
The European Union sees no threat to its food security in connection with the situation in Ukraine and will try to contribute to ensuring global food security, said EU Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski.
“Fortunately, we do not see a direct threat (food security) in European markets. The main problem on them is corn, which we import from Ukraine. It is important for feed production in Europe. But imports from Ukraine are still even larger than in previous years,” Wojciechowski said on Monday evening at a press conference following the meeting of the EU Council at the level of ministers of agriculture.
The central topic of the meeting was the threat of a global food crisis in connection with the Ukrainian issue.
The problem that the EU sees, according to the official, is to organize “corridors of solidarity” for grain supplies to third countries.
The meeting also presented a forecast for the grain harvest for the current year in the EU countries. It will be “for sure more than in 2021, and in 2023 the grain harvest will be no less than in 2022, subject to the same weather conditions.”
“In Europe, we have the necessary food security. (…) We must ensure that Europe contributes to global food security,” added the European Commissioner.
Buckwheat groats have disappeared from the shelves of some Ukrainian stores due to the boom in demand for groats caused by the desire of the population to stock up on food supplies in the face of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, while after the harvest of buckwheat in Ukraine, the supply of buckwheat groats and its cost will stabilize at the level 65-70 UAH/kg.
The corresponding forecast was published on the website of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine on Monday.
According to her, the demand for buckwheat is caused by the panic of the population, which stocked up large volumes of all types of cereals during the war with the Russian Federation, while retail chains were unable to provide a corresponding increase in supply, as a result of which buckwheat temporarily disappeared from the shelves of some stores.
In addition, Ukrainians consume 3-4 kg of buckwheat per year, which is several times higher than the world average of 1.5 kg per year.
“Our harvest (2022 – IF) will provide up to 2.5 kg of buckwheat per citizen. This is not a critical situation, but we will have to wait for a new harvest. Starting from September, there will be price stability – at the level of 65-70 UAH per kilogram of buckwheat. This is if there are problems with imports. And if we provide enough imported cereals, the price of buckwheat can decrease to UAH 50 per kilogram, perhaps even less,” the NAAN website says.
According to him, in the conditions of a difficult sowing campaign during the war, Ukrainian farmers sowed enough buckwheat, and its harvest will approximately correspond to last year, perhaps by 10-15% less. However, this will be quite enough for the needs of Ukraine.
NAAN stressed that before harvesting its own harvest, Ukraine is forced to buy foreign buckwheat, which it now imports from Poland or Lithuania instead of Russian and Kazakh ones. At the same time, the price of imported cereals will be high due to expensive fuel, since it is imported to Ukraine mainly by road.
As reported, 74.9 thousand hectares have already been sown with buckwheat this season, which is 92% of the previously planned 81.6 thousand hectares.
Import volumes from Russia to Germany have continued to grow since the beginning of 2022, while trade between Germany and Ukraine has fallen, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk said.
“This is madness. Despite the Russian aggressive war, in January-April 2022, Germany increased imports from Russia by 60% (!) and transferred almost 6 billion euros more to Moscow. Trade between Ukraine and Germany fell by 11%,” Melnyk wrote on Twitter.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the world must always support proactive measures to prevent violence.
He said this on Saturday at the 19th Asia Shangri-La Dialogue Security Summit, answering a question about what can be done to counter China’s campaign of economic and military coercion against Taiwan.
“I think that today’s example of Ukraine is an example for the whole world. The world must always support any action related to pre-emptive measures so that there is no war,” he said.
According to Zelensky, “there is no positive from the war in the world. No one gets a positive, except for some political leaders who daily increase their ambitions because of their political appetite.”
“The world should decide everything diplomatically. Support states that need it. Do not leave this or that state alone with another state, which may be stronger financially, territorially, in terms of weapons. If problems can be solved by diplomacy, they must be solved,” he said.
“But do not turn on after the war starts, when there are tens and hundreds of thousands of victims. The war does not benefit anyone except the ambitions of some people,” Zelensky stressed.
According to Olivia Enos, senior political analyst at the Center for Asian Studies, the Chinese delegation left the hall during Zelensky’s speech.
The governmental emergency response team of Ukraine CERT-UA, operating under the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection, warns of a mass mailing of dangerous emails with the subject line “LIST of links to interactive maps.”
“Mailing lists are carried out, in particular, among Ukrainian media organizations (radio stations, newspapers, news agencies, etc.). More than 500 recipient addresses have been identified. Emails contain an attachment in the form of a LIST of links to interactive maps.docx document, the opening of which may result in the download of the CrescentImp malware,” the message posted on the CERT-UA website on Friday evening reads.
Experts warn that attackers are increasingly resorting to sending emails to compromised government email addresses.
Said hacking activity is tracked by UAC-0113 (medium confidence associated with the Sandworm group).
This group was involved in organizing a large-scale hacker attack on the energy sector of Ukraine in April of this year.
