The Executive Committee of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, as submitted by the national federations, has approved the names of the Ukrainian Olympic team to participate in the Tokyo Olympics.
“Despite the impact of the global pandemic and significant changes in the sports calendar, in particular the postponement of the games from 2020 to 2021, Ukrainian athletes overcame a tough qualifying selection, fighting for the right to represent the country in the competitions of the strongest athletes on the planet,” according to the press service of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine.
According to the message, Ukraine will be represented at the Olympics by 158 Olympians in 25 sports (30 disciplines).
Athletes will perform in badminton, boxing, freestyle (and women’s) Greco-Roman wrestling, weightlifting, cycling (highway, track, mountain bike), rowing and canoeing (rowing slalom), sports gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, judo, karate, equestrian sports, athletics, swimming, artistic swimming, archery, bullet shooting, diving, jumping on a trampoline, modern pentathlon, tennis, ping-pong, triathlon and fencing.
Adonis medical group has launched its own ambulance service.
Adonis told Interfax-Ukraine that its ambulance service has four cars now, including one reanimobile of class C and three cars of class B.
The Adonis ambulance service will also respond to calls to arrive to children aged 0 to 18 years with acute conditions, as well as for transportation to the nearest clinic or a round-the-clock children’s hospital of the clinic.
The medical network clarified that the company does not exclude further expansion of the ambulance service.
The medical network did not specify the volume of investments in the organization of the ambulance service. Earlier it was reported that the Adonis medical group plans to open four branches in 2021.
Adonis is a network of private full-cycle medical centers for adults and children. The private clinic Adonis was founded over 20 years ago. The network includes ten branches in Kyiv and the region, including two of its own maternity hospitals and a stem cell laboratory. In the branches of the clinic, doctors conduct appointments in 60 medical directions.
Since July 1, Ukraine has significantly increased the import of natural gas into the country, which made it possible to increase the volume of its injection into underground gas storage (UGS) facilities, Head of Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LLC (OGTSU) Serhiy Makogon has said on his Facebook page.
“Since the beginning of July, gas imports to Ukraine have significantly increased. Now it amounts to 15.8 million cubic meters per day. 91% comes from Hungary, 7% from Slovakia, and 2% from Poland. Additional receipts will allow increasing gas injection into UGS facilities to ensure the passage of the next heating season,” he wrote.
At the beginning of the second decade of June, Makogon said that the average daily gas import to Ukraine reached 3 million cubic meters, which is five times less than the current July import (15.8 million cubic meters).
According to the calculations of Interfax-Ukraine based on the data of JSC Ukrtransgaz, the average daily injection into the UGS facility during June amounted to 19.1 million cubic meters, while on July 1, it increased 1.8 times (by 15.1 million cubic meters), to 34.2 million cubic meters.
Maintaining such rates of injection throughout the current month will allow replenishing storage facilities by more than 1 billion cubic meters of gas and enter in August with reserves of about 17.3 billion cubic meters.
From the end of the season of gas withdrawal from storage facilities on April 29 to July 1, 2021, reserves in Ukrainian UGS facilities expanded by 6.3% (by 958.6 million cubic meters), to 16.249 billion cubic meters.
Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises increased the production of general rolled products, according to recent data, by 6.6% in January-June this year compared to the same period last year, to 9.625 million tonnes.
According to the report of the Ukrmetalurgprom association, in the first five months of the year steel production grew by 7.5%, to 10.859 million tonnes, while cast iron output increased 8.1%, to 10.79 million tonnes.
In June, 1.602 million tonnes of rolled metal, 1.872 million tonnes of steel, and 1.887 million tonnes of cast iron were produced.
As reported, in 2020, Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises increased the production of general rolled products by 0.7% compared to the previous year, to 18.344 million tonnes, reduced steel output by 1.4%, to 20.549 million tonnes and increased cast iron production by 1.5%, to 20.358 million tonnes.
Federal Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany Olaf Scholz said that Germany will seek the extension of the agreement on gas transit through Ukraine.
“We work very hard to make sure that the gas transit agreement between Ukraine and Russia is prolonged,” Scholz said in an interview with Bloomberg on Friday.
According to the position of Germany, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which runs along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, should be finished, but gas transit through Ukraine should be preserved.
According to Scholz, Germany sees its responsibility to ensure transit through Ukraine in the future, and not only for two or three years, but for decades to come.
The current agreement, according to Government Spokesperson Steffen Seibert, is valid until at least 2024, but the agreement implies that the parties will check the possibility of extending the agreement until 2034.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, whom the U.S. and EU do not recognize as legally elected, instructed the border troops to completely close the border with Ukraine.
He said this on Friday at a solemn meeting to mark the Independence Day, the BelTA state news agency reports.
“A huge amount of weapons is coming from Ukraine to Belarus. Therefore, I instructed the border troops to completely close the border with Ukraine,” Lukashenko said.
He said that terrorist “sleeper” cells, the so-called self-defense formations, had been detected in Belarus.
“Terrorist sleeper cells, so-called self-defense formations have been detected today. These cells intend to overthrow the government at a specified date. They don’t know what date yet: our nation has yet to accept it,” Lukashenko said.
According to him, Germany, Ukraine, the United States, Poland and Lithuania are involved in this.
