The Government of Ukraine has abolished the maximum level of the supply and marketing allowance and the trade margin of 10% for such products of significant social importance as buckwheat, granulated sugar, domestic pasta and butter with a fat content of 72.5%, while retaining the requirement to declare the change of prices.
The corresponding resolution No. 311 of March 18, was published, on the Cabinet of Ministers website on Saturday.
According to it, a 10% margin limit remains for such goods as wheat flour of the highest grade, pasteurized milk with a fat content of 2.5% (in a film), rye-wheat bread and a long loaf, chicken eggs of category C1, poultry (chicken carcass, a quarter of a chicken carcass) and refined sunflower oil. It will be valid until the end of April.
The Decree also clarified that the specified list of products of social importance concerns refined sunflower oil, and not sunflower oil in general, but at the same time, the concept of “poultry” was extended to “a quarter of a chicken carcass”, whereas previously it meant only “chicken carcass”.
In addition, the government has established that these products of significant social importance include domestically produced goods, except for goods labeled as organic products.
Another relief was the option for chains that set uniform prices for products in their stores to declare price changes once for all stores, and not in each one individually.
Smog over Kyiv on Saturday morning is the result of a burning landfill near Novi Petrivtsi and calm weather, Vadym Denysenko, an adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, has said.
“Smog over Kyiv. Why did it appear: 1. The landfill near Novi Petrivtsi is burning down. 2. Windless weather. As soon as the wind appears, the smog will dissipate from the operation of thermal power plants and smoke from fires in the vicinity of Kyiv,” he wrote on Facebook.
Denysenko noted that in the Chornobyl zone, from the point of view of the fire situation, everything is calm.
In turn, Kyiv City State Administration noted that “there is a slight smoke in the capital.”
“This is due to changes in weather conditions, in particular the wind direction. According to experts, the air quality is in line with the standards. But please do not open windows and do not leave the house unnecessarily,” according to a message on the Telegram channel.
Former British Prime Minister David Cameron is carrying donations to Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
“I’m currently driving to Poland with two Chippy Larder [British non-profit food project] colleagues to make our delivery to the Red Cross. It’s going to be a long drive, but I’ll keep you updated along the way,” Cameron wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
The global financial service PayPal has added the option to receive money transfers to bank cards of the state-owned PrivatBank (Kyiv), the bank’s press service reported on Friday.
According to the report, such a service will work for Ukrainians in Ukraine and abroad.
In addition, during the period of hostilities, the company is temporarily waiving its commission for customers who send funds to or receive funds in Ukrainian PayPal accounts.
“Clients of PrivatBank will be able to transfer funds from a PayPal wallet to Visa and MasterCard credit or debit cards without additional fees,” the bank’s press service said.
According to the statistics of the National Bank of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022, in terms of total assets, PrivatBank ranked first (UAH 582.851 billion), and Oschadbank ranked second (UAH 249.938 billion) among 71 banks operating in the country.
Approximately 270,000 refugees from Ukraine have arrived in the Czech Republic, and the authorities are already running out of resources to accept everyone who wants to stay in the country without any problems, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Thursday.
“We have to admit that we are at the very edge when we can accept [these refugees] without problems,” the Associated Press (AP) quoted the prime minister as saying.
According to the agency, the majority of Ukrainian refugees are women and children.
AP notes that the Czech government is making efforts to issue long-term residence permits to refugees in the country, to ensure their access to health care and education. Also, a plan is being discussed at the parliament to allow refugees to be hired even without documents authorizing the performance of work.
Losses among civilians from February 24, 2022, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, amounted to 1,761 civilians (in the report a day earlier 1,663), including 636 dead (596), reports the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
“OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, especially in Government-controlled territory and especially in recent days, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration,” the UN said in the document.
According to him, this applies, for example, to Izium (Kharkiv region), and Mariupol and Volnovakha (Donetsk region) where there are allegations of hundreds of civilian casualties. These figures are being further corroborated and are not included in the above statistics.
“Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes,” the UN said in the report.
According to confirmed UN data, some 127 men, some 91 women, ten boys and six girls killed, while the gender of 30 children and 372 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 1,125 injured, some15 girls and four boys, as well as 43 children, whose gender has not yet been determined.
Compared to the previous day, according to the UN, three children were killed and five more were injured.
OHCHR said that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight March 14, there were 122 (111) dead and 442 (431) injured in government-controlled territory, and 26 (26) dead and 130 (127) injured in territory controlled by self-proclaimed “republics.”
In other regions of Ukraine under government control (Kyiv, as well as in Zhytomyr, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 488 (459) killed and 553 (509) wounded.
The summary also states that, according to the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights and Child Rehabilitation, as of 09:00 on March 14, 90 (85) children were killed and more than 100 children were injured in government-controlled territory.
OHCHR also notes the report of the National Police of Kharkiv region, according to which, as of 18:00 on 13 March, 212 civilians (205) had died in the region.
The increase in the figures in this report compared to the figures in the previous report should not be attributed only to new cases that occurred on March 13, since OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days during the day, according to the document.
