The government of Ukraine has introduced zero quotas for exports subject to licensing in 2022 of corn, oats, buckwheat, millet, sugar and salt suitable for human consumption, according to government resolution No. 207 dated March 5, published on the government website on Sunday.
According to the amendments he made to resolution No. 1424 on the list of goods whose export and import is subject to licensing, and quotas for 2022, dated December 29, 2021, zero quotas were also introduced for the export of live cattle and its frozen meat, “meat and edible meat offal, salted or in brine, dried or smoked; edible meal from meat or meat offal: bovine meat” (Ukrainian Customs Commodity Classification Codes for Foreign Trade code 021020).
Earlier on Sunday, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the government had decided to limit the export of a number of socially important goods and the raw materials from which they are produced, but did not specify specific product groups.
Ukraine has expanded the list of goods, the export permit for which will be issued by the Economy Ministry, by five positions: from now on, the export of wheat, corn, poultry meat, chicken eggs and sunflower oil is subject to licensing. Resolution No. 207, expanding the list of exports and imports subject to licensing and quotas in 2022, was adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at a meeting on Saturday, March 5.
It is clarified that licensing has been introduced for the export of wheat and meslin (a mixture of wheat and rye, Ukrainian Customs Commodity Classification Codes for Foreign Trade code 1001), corn (1005), domestic chicken meat (0207 11-0207 14), domestic chicken eggs (0407 21 00 00) and sunflower oil (1512 11 91 00).
In December 2021, the government adopted resolution No. 1424, which extended the licensing of anthracite coal exports to 2022.
The border guards let 2,450 vehicles and containers with humanitarian cargo into the country since the beginning of the war, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reports.
“Some of them also go to the needs of people who, as a result of the war and shelling, were forced to leave their hometowns and villages and temporarily live in the western regions,” the report says.
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has said that the United States will continue to provide assistance to Ukraine.
The United States has provided constant support to Ukraine, including with the aim of strengthening its defense capabilities. Only recently, this assistance has amounted to about $1 billion, Blinken said on Sunday at a joint press conference with Moldovan President Maia Sandu in Chisinau.
He said that the United States will continue to provide assistance, including by planes through Poland.
At the same time, he again called for peace and did not say that the United States needed to maintain diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation.
He described the situation in Ukraine as the biggest challenge faced by the region, including Moldova, over the past 30 years.
He said that the United States will provide assistance to all countries that are the first to face this challenge, having a common border with Ukraine. The United States will allocate $2.75 billion for this, including assistance to countries supporting Ukrainian refugees, Blinken said.
Blinken arrived late the evening before on a visit to Moldova. On Sunday, he held meetings with the President, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova.
Ukraine insists that a special monitoring mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) should establish round-the-clock control and analysis of the situation at all domestic nuclear facilities, in particular, Chornobyl and Zaporizhia, as well as other Ukrainian operating nuclear power plants.
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine on Sunday, this is stated in a joint appeal of Energy Minister Herman Haluschenko and heads of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate Oleh Korikov and the state-owned enterprise Energoatom Petro Kotin dated March 5, sent to OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid.
According to Haluschenko, the letter contains detailed information about the criminal and threatening actions of the Russian army near and at the nuclear facilities of Ukraine themselves. This refers primarily to the seizure of Chornobyl and Zaporizhia nuclear power plants and, at the same time, the terror of personnel and residents near the cities.
The authors of the appeal called on the OSCE to immediately begin work to establish and document all the facts of the crimes of the Russian troops that threaten the safe operation of nuclear facilities and could lead to an environmental catastrophe on a global scale, the report says.
Azerbaijan has evacuated over 9,000 of its citizens from Ukraine since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said on Saturday. “About 9,500 citizens of Azerbaijan were evacuated from Ukraine as of the morning of March 5. Most of them were evacuated via the ground border with Moldova,” Bayramov said.
Some of the evacuated Azerbaijanis were to return home by plane from Poland on Saturday and from Romania on Sunday, he said.
