First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Emine Dzhaparova has accepted copies of credentials from the newly appointed Canadian ambassador to Ukraine, Natalka Tsmotsi.
According to the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Dzhaparova expressed gratitude to Canada for its significant military, economic, humanitarian assistance, sanctions pressure on the Russian Federation, as well as for Canada’s active participation in the implementation of a number of Ukrainian initiatives, in particular, the Peace Formula and the international Crimean Platform.
The Deputy Minister emphasized that the continuation and increase of military support from international partners, in particular Canada, is the key to bringing Ukraine’s victory closer.
In turn, the Ambassador assured of Canada’s determination to continue to support Ukraine in its struggle for freedom, as well as in post-war reconstruction and implementation of reforms.
“The parties discussed a number of issues on the bilateral agenda and further steps to strengthen relations of friendship and special partnership between Ukraine and Canada,” the statement said.
On September 8, PJSC Ukrhazvydobuvannya (Kyiv) announced its intention to enter into a contract with VUSO Insurance Company (Kyiv) for compulsory civil liability insurance of owners of land vehicles (CMTPL).
As reported in the system of electronic public procurement Prozorro, the company’s price offer was the lowest – UAH 1.099 mln against UAH 4.424 mln expected cost.
The tender was also attended by NJSIC ‘Oranta’ – UAH 1,143 mln and IC ‘Universalna’ – UAH 1,309 mln.
IC “VUSO” was founded in 2001. The company owns 50 licenses: 34 – for voluntary and 16 – for compulsory types of insurance. It is represented in all regions of Ukraine. It is a member of the ITSBU and the FSA, a participant of the Agreement on direct settlement of losses and a member of the Nuclear Insurance Pool.
The gross domestic product (GDP) of Ukraine after a decrease in the first quarter of 2023 by 10.5% against the first quarter of 2022 in the second and third quarters switched to growth, is indicated in the explanatory note to the government’s draft state budget for 2024.
“According to estimates of the Ministry of Economy, at the end of eight months, growth is 3%,” the document says.
According to it, “certain types of economic activities” managed to quickly adapt to the consequences of the destruction of the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP.
“Better than expected results of economic activity are due to the rapid adaptation of enterprises to the new conditions of activity together with the recovery of domestic demand, which was the traditional driver of growth of the Ukrainian economy in previous years,” – noted in the explanatory note.
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Yulia Sviridenko announced last week that the forecast for GDP growth in 2023 had been raised to 4%, but the explanatory note still says that the economy will grow by 2.8% this year with inflation at 14.7%, although it fell to 8.6% in August.
According to the explanatory note, the Ministry of Economy as of mid-June this year predicted GDP growth next year by 5% with inflation falling to 10.8% at the end of the year.
The National Bank of Ukraine in late July raised its forecast for Ukraine’s GDP growth in 2023 from 2% to 2.9%, but lowered it for 2024 from 4.3% to 3.5%. In addition, the NBU improved its inflation estimate this year from 14.8% to 10.6%, and next year – to 8.5%.
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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at a meeting on Friday amended the Regulation on the procedure for issuing driver’s licenses and admission of citizens to driving vehicles and the Procedure for state registration and deregistration of vehicles, said the representative of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnychuk.
“Introduced the practical examination for the right to drive vehicles of categories A1, A and B1 exclusively on sites for training in initial driving, and category B – exclusively in traffic conditions on routes determined by the territorial service center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs”, – wrote Melnychuk in the Telegram channel.
In addition, the functionality of the driver’s electronic account and the Diya Portal was expanded regarding the possibility of ordering electronically services for state registration and deregistration of vehicles, issuing a temporary registration card in connection with the granting of the right to drive a vehicle to another individual or a vehicle registration certificate funds in the name of another individual traveling abroad, as well as for extending the period of responsible storage of license plates of re-registered or deregistered vehicles for further assignment to other vehicles of the owner, issuing a conclusion on the possibility of applying special individual identification numbers or duplicating the primary ones identification numbers of vehicles, as well as the exchange of a driver’s license produced on a form for a driver’s license in electronic form and vice versa.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmygal said that the Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft state budget for 2024 with own general fund revenues of UAH 1 trillion 560 billion and general fund expenditures of UAH 3 trillion 108 billion.
“The key focus of this project is the defense and security of our country. We are directing more than half of all budget resources – 1 trillion 685 billion UAH. This amount is 113 billion UAH more than this year. There will be even more weapons and equipment. More drones, ammunition, missiles. Just like this year, every penny of taxes of citizens and businesses will go to ensure our security and defense forces,” wrote Shmygal in his Telegram channel.
According to the Prime Minister, the second priority is the social sphere, budget expenditures for which will amount to 469 billion UAH, which is 25 billion UAH more than this year.
“The third priority is medicine and education. For the education sector we allocate 179 billion UAH, and this is 23 billion more than in the current year. For medicine – 202 billion UAH, which is 24 billion more than the expenditures of 2023,” he said.
Shmygal noted that the fourth priority is the support of veterans, and we increase spending on this program twice – from 6.8 billion UAH in 2023 to 14.3 billion UAH next year.
“The fifth priority is the recovery of our economy. No tax increases are expected. The government continues programs of preferential lending, the program of non-refundable grants – work, support for Ukrainian startups. We also launch new programs for industrial parks, implementation of investment projects, to support the Ukrainian manufacturer”, – he concluded.
Dniprovsky Metallurgical Plant (DMZ, formerly Dniprokoks), a part of DCH Steel of DCH group of businessman Oleksandr Iaroslavskyi, produced 4.4 thousand tons of rolled products in August this year, having reduced production by 67.4% against the previous month and by 64.7% against August-2022.
According to the company’s press release, the reason for the reduction in volumes was repairs of the main equipment.
At the same time, the plant also produced 25.8 thousand tons of coke in August, while in the previous month – 30.4 thousand tons (down 15.3%).
In total, for the eight months of 2023, rolled metal output amounted to 74.1 thousand tons, which is 80.8% more than in 8M-2022.
Coke output for the first eight months of this year increased by 34% to 198.1 thousand tons.
“In August, rolling shops mainly produced mine stand and channels for the Ukrainian market. Products of coke-chemical production were shipped to metallurgical plants, ferroalloy plants, agro-enterprises, etc.”, – explained in the press release.
It is recalled that DMZ resumed production of rolled products after a three-month downtime in April 2022. Last year, the plant reduced production of rolled products by 74.2% to 58.4 thousand tons compared to 2021, coke – by 56.3% to 211.3 thousand tons.
DMZ specializes in the production of steel, pig iron, rolled steel and products thereof. On March 1, 2018, DCH Group signed an agreement to purchase Dniprovsky Iron and Steel Works from Evraz.
