Prices in the Ukrainian industry in December 2020 increased by 14.5% compared to December 2019, the State Statistics Service has reported.
As previously reported, in 2019 the growth in prices of industrial producers amounted to 7.4%, in 2018 to 14.2%, in 2017 to 16.5%, in 2016 to 35.7%, and 2015 to 25.4%.
The service clarified that within Ukraine the prices of industrial producers in December 2020 compared to December 2019 increased by 9.7%, for supplies outside the country by 36.1%.
Prices in the Ukrainian industry in December, compared to the previous month of 2020, increased by 1.8% after growing in November by 2%, in October by 3.8%, in September by 1.7%.
At the same time, the State Statistics Service indicates that the average annual decline in prices in industry in 2020 (January-December to January-December of the previous year) amounted to 1.6%, while in the previous years, prices increased, in particular, in 2019 by 4.1%, in 2018 by 17.4%, in 2017 by 26.4%, in 2016 by 20.5%, and 2015 by 36%.
Prices in extracting industry in December 2020 (compared to December 2019) increased by 29.5%, due to an increase in prices in the extraction of metal ores by 44.6%, oil and gas by 28.6%, and in production of coal they decreased by 7.3%.
In processing industry, prices rose by 15.7%. In sugar production they grew by 59.6%, production of bread and bakery products by 9.9%, meat products by 2.9%, dairy products by 6.5%, beverages by 2.6%.
In addition, prices in metallurgy in December 2020 from December 2019 rose by 25.2%, in production of intermediate consumption goods by 21.9%, in chemical industry by 20.9%, in production of non-durable goods by 18.7%, woodworking by 10.5%, pharmaceutical production by 10.4%, mechanical engineering by 2.1%.
In the supply of electricity, gas and conditioned air, prices increased by 3.9%, in production of coke by 1.8%.
Ukraine’s neighboring countries are in the “red” zone on the situation with COVID-19, according to data on the website of the Ministry of Health as of Monday.
Among the closest neighbors of Ukraine, the “red” zone includes, in particular, Slovakia (674,500 cases of COVID-19 incidence per 100,000 population), the Russian Federation (340,900), Poland (316,700), Belarus (279,800), Moldova (264,410), Romania (253,080) and Hungary (242,730).
The “red” zone includes countries with an incidence rate per 100,000 population over the past 14 days higher than in Ukraine (106,800). There are 78 countries in total.
Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovenia, UK, Switzerland, U.S., Sweden, Israel, the Netherlands, Latvia, Denmark, Portugal, Georgia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Spain, Turkey, France, Canada, Belgium, Norway are also among the countries of the “red” zone.
The list of countries of the “green” zone includes, in particular, Greece, Japan, India, Egypt and Australia.
The pharmaceutical company Interchem (Odesa), the double liability company, is developing a new anesthetic drug, preparing an international dossier for it, Director General of Interchem Anatoliy Reder has said.
“The drug will be an anesthetic. It is original, completely new, it is a new molecule. We have been deeply studying it for three or four years,” he said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
Reder said that the company will develop a dossier for this drug in accordance with international standards.
“For us in this project, it is important that we first thought about how to form an international dossier of the new drug. For one reason or another, we always had a dossier, either Soviet or Ukrainian. Today we understand that an international dossier is needed, and we want to try making it for this drug,” he said.
Reder said that the company has begun collaborating with an international research organization that will conduct preclinical trials of the new drug.
According to Reder’s forecasts, the development of the new drug could take one and a half or two years.
“We hope that within one and a half or two years the pills will appear in Ukraine,” he said.
Interchem is one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the country.
According to preliminary information, there were no Ukrainian citizens on board the Sriwijaya Air passenger plane that crashed in Indonesia on Saturday, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleh Nikolenko said.
“According to preliminary information from the Ukrainian Embassy in Indonesia and Sriwijaya Air, there were no Ukrainians on board the SJ182 flight, which crashed near Jakarta,” Nikolenko wrote on his Twitter page.
The Sriwijaya Air passenger plane, which took off Saturday from the Indonesian capital Jakarta, crashed north of it into the Java Sea, official Chinese media reported.
According to a statement by the captain of the coast guard ship Trisula, the sailors found aircraft wreckage and body fragments. Life jackets and spilled aviation fuel were also seen on the water.
Earlier, the Indonesian authorities said that dispatchers had lost contact with a Sriwijaya Air passenger plane, which flew from the capital of Jakarta to Pontianak on Kalimantan island.
There were 62 people on board the Boeing 737-500, including six children.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, as part of the implementation of presidential decree No.53 on the concept of combating terrorism in Ukraine dated March 5, 2019, approved a new action plan for the implementation of this concept, which refers to increased state control over the import, registration, production and use in the country of unmanned aircraft systems.
The relevant document was made public on the government website.
“To take measures to implement, within the competence, enhanced state control over the import, registration, production and use of unmanned aircraft systems in Ukraine in order to prevent the use of such systems for terrorist purposes,” the Cabinet of Ministers said in the plan. According to the text of the document, these measures were instructed to be carried out by the State Customs Service, the State Aviation Administration, the State Border Guard Service, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine (by agreement), the Foreign Intelligence Service (by agreement), the Economy Ministry, and other interested public agencies (by agreement).
More than 7,500 entrepreneurs throughout Ukraine have already used the Affordable Loans 5-7-9% program, and in 2021 it will continue and expand, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said.
“As of now, more than 7,500 different businesses across the country have received more than UAH 17 billion. A mechanism of government portfolio guarantees for small and medium-sized entrepreneurs has been introduced, when the government provides up to 80% of the loan. Tax holidays for private entrepreneurs of the first group also continue. Until June, they are exempt from paying a unified social contribution,” the prime minister said on Thursday.
