In another video on the YouTube channel of the Kiev analytical center “Club of Experts”, the anesthesiologist of the medical group Adonis, Mariana Bolyuk, spoke about the main types of medical assistance in Ukraine, and also analyzed the specifics of the first pre-medical aid, including the algorithms of basic life support.
“Medical assistance in Ukraine at the moment, according to current legislation, is divided into emergency, primary, secondary (specialized), tertiary (highly specialized), palliative, medical rehabilitation,” Mariana Bolyuk pointed out.
The doctor emphasized that first aid is the implementation of basic medical measures to save lives, reduce human suffering in an emergency, and prevent possible complications.
“We, medical professionals, provide this assistance professionally, but it is important to remember that the ambulance may not always arrive on time at the scene. Therefore, knowing how to provide first aid to the victim before the arrival of the rescue services may be crucial to save his life,” Bolyuk emphasized.
She also spoke about the algorithm of basic actions that should be adhered to when providing first aid:
In turn, the founder of the Club of Experts, Maxim Urakin, emphasized that according to the UN, the total number of dead and injured as a result of war among the civilian population has already reached 25,671 people, of which 9,287 people died.
“It should be noted that the real number of victims may be significantly higher, as many cases of death or injury have not yet been confirmed, and information from some areas where hostilities continue comes with a delay,” Maxim Urakin stressed.
In the expert’s opinion, journalists and media workers are among the main risk groups, as their professional activity is associated with the possibility of getting into an emergency.
“For this reason, in June, the ‘Club of Experts’ introduced an initiative to train media representatives in the basics of providing primary medical aid. And the first seminar-practical training has already taken place,” Urakin concluded.
Watch more in detail in the video on the YouTube channel “Club of Experts”:
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The cooperation between the Kyiv Boxing Federation and the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture opens up new opportunities for the comprehensive development of students. This partnership is a model of how the academic and sports worlds can come together to achieve a common goal. This opinion was expressed by Oleksandr Nehoda, President of the Kyiv Boxing Federation, and Petro Kulikov, Rector of the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, at a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency in Kyiv on Thursday.
According to Oleksandr Nehoda, the state’s support of Ukrainian athletes at international competitions is insufficient.
“The state and the Ministry (of Youth and Sports – ed.) allocate funds, and there is also support for young athletes through universities, but this is usually not enough. When we were preparing to participate in the European Games, the funding for meals per day per athlete was 410 hryvnias. With such funds, it is impossible to follow a specialized sports diet. Therefore, we (Kyiv Boxing Federation – ed.) had to purchase a significant part of the food on our own. The same applies to other supplies for the athletes,” Nehoda emphasized.
According to the KFB President, the problem of financing high-quality training of athletes requires a systematic approach from both the state and private sponsors and patrons.
In his turn, the rector of the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, Petro Kulikov, emphasized that his university has created a unique system of support for youth sports and healthy lifestyles, and is improving its sports infrastructure.
“In recent years, KNUBA has hosted several major boxing tournaments among youth and juniors. In addition, we have developed a unique system of cooperation with the Kyiv Boxing Federation and provide premises and training facilities for both accommodation and training of young athletes. To this end, when we opened the stadium, we also opened a hotel with 50 beds to accommodate athletes from different regions of Ukraine,” he said.
Mr. Kulikov also emphasized that cooperation with sports federations should be one of the main areas of development for Ukrainian universities. This is due to both the need to popularize sports and healthy lifestyles among young people and the need to create a strong training base for Ukrainian athletes to participate in international competitions.
“Thanks to our cooperation with federations, sports such as football, basketball and boxing have begun to reach students on a large scale. My fellow rectors and I are doing our best to develop sports in our educational institutions, hold competitions and build sports facilities even in this difficult time,” the rector summarized.
Oleksandr Nehoda added that thanks to Kulikov’s initiative and the existing infrastructure, KNUBA managed to keep many promising boxers in Ukraine, including the Ukrainian youth champion Bohdan Gorgol, who won all his fights ahead of schedule.
“During all of our recent tournaments, we have been proving to both juniors and their parents that the educational and sports facilities created at KNUBA allow not only boxing, but also high-quality higher education, as KNUBA provides preferential admission to students of our boxing school. So, this year 15 of our boys and girls became students. In addition, it is interesting that the leaders of the Kyiv team today are largely from other regions of Ukraine, who, thanks to the KNUBA facilities, can both study and develop in boxing,” Nehoda emphasized.
In his opinion, the development of student boxing is of utmost importance, as this sport is the foundation of both Olympic and professional boxing.
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Civilian casualties from February 24, 2022, after Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine, to July 16, 2023, totaled 25,671 (25,170 as of June 30), including 9,287 deaths (9,177), the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) reported.
“The UN OHCHR considers that the actual number of civilian deaths or injuries is significantly higher, as many reports from locations where such incidents have occurred continue to require further confirmation, while information from some locations where fighting continues has been delayed,” the document said regarding the UN data.
This applies, for example, to such localities as Mariupol (Donetsk region), Lisichansk, Popasnaya and Severodonetsk (Luhansk region), where numerous civilian deaths or injuries have been reported.
According to confirmed UN figures, 4,272 men, 2,558 women, 282 boys and 226 girls were killed, while the gender of 29 children and 1,920 adults could not yet be ascertained.
Among the 16,384 injured, 486 boys and 352 girls were injured, as well as 279 children whose gender could not yet be determined.
Compared to the June 30 figures, two children have died and 22 others have been injured.
Whereas the UN OHCHR casualty summary was previously issued daily and then only on weekdays, it became weekly from July 2022 and biweekly from the end of May 2023. This summary, like the previous one, provides data by month.
According to them, 74 civilians died in the first 16 days of July. In June, the number of deaths rose to 184 from 174 in May, 180 in April, 181 in March and 143 in February.
The deadliest month for civilians, the UN points out, remains March last year, with a minimum of 4,154 deaths. In April 2022, according to an OHCHR publication, the number of civilian deaths due to war fell to 817 in April, 544 in May, 429 in June and 385 in July. There were 374 deaths in the first five days of the war from February 24 to February 28, 339 in August, 405 in September, 309 in October, 187 in November, 206 in December and 201 in January this year.
The number of injured for the half of July reached 342, compared with 681 in June, 685 in May, 494 in April, 592 in March, 457 in February, 541 in January this year, 617 in December and 541 in November last year. In October, the number of injuries dropped to 795 from 982 in September, when it was up from August’s 920. Prior to that the number of wounded exceeded a thousand each month, July 1,129, June 1,108, May 1,139, April 1,896, March 2,999. In the first five days of the war last February, 469 people were wounded.
The UN OHCHR specifies that in July, large-area explosive weapons killed 72 people and injured 326 others, while mines and explosive remnants of war killed two and injured 16 (4%).
Government-controlled territories accounted for 88% of casualties in July, according to the UN.
The summary traditionally states that the increase in figures to the previous summary should not be attributed solely to cases after June 30, as during this period the Office verified a number of cases from previous days.
The Pechersky district court of Kiev on July 13 decided to recover from the former owner of Commercial Bank Financial Initiative PJSC, Oleh Bakhmatyuk, as guarantor, more than UAH 1.8 billion in favor of the National Bank of Ukraine on one of the refinancing loans provided earlier and not returned.
“Unfortunately, it is too early to put a dot in this case, but the court’s adoption of this decision is a defining event for the restoration of the violated rights of the National Bank. We are convinced that in case of its appeal, it has every reason to remain in force,” the NBU quoted in a press release on Monday the comment of the director of the legal department, Oleksandr Zima.
The National Bank recalled that in 2014 it concluded an agreement with Financial Initiative on a refinancing loan to maintain liquidity in the amount of UAH 2 billion, and Bakhmatyuk vouched for the proper fulfillment of the bank’s obligations to repay the loan funds. Since both the bank and its owner failed to fulfill their obligations, in 2017 the National Bank filed a lawsuit with the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv to recover the debt from him. During the consideration of the case in court at the expense of the pledged property provided by the property guarantors to ensure the fulfillment of the obligations of the bank there was a repayment of the loan debt in the amount of about UAH 200 million.
Now six more cases remain under consideration by the Pechersky district court of Kiev on claims of the NBU against Bakhmatyuk as a guarantor for the debts of PJSC “VEB Bank” and the bank “Financial Initiative” on other refinancing loans, and the total amount of debt Bakhmatyuk as a guarantor to the National Bank is almost UAH 8 billion, the NBU said.
It specified that it classified VIB Bank as insolvent on November 20, 2014, and Financial Initiative Bank – on June 23, 2015.
Bakhmatyuk rejects the accusations of the National Bank and puts forward counter accusations. In particular, in 2020, he obtained a decision of the Supreme Court to recognize the National Bank’s actions to withdraw Financial Initiative Bank from the market as unlawful. The businessman, who has been living in Vienna for the last few years, has also repeatedly declared his readiness to compromise with the National Bank on the issue of sureties, offering to conclude an amicable agreement with a seven-year installment period with the possibility of increasing the bail to the NBU, but to no avail.
Ukraine has created a legislative basis for priority cross-border passage of goods placed under the joint transit procedure, and also made it possible to carry out internal transit of goods using the NCTS, similar to the Union transit provided for by the EU Customs Code.
So the Ministry of Finance on its website commented on the main innovations of the law “On Amendments to the Customs Code of Ukraine on the use of customs declarations and electronic transit system provided by the Convention on the procedure of joint transit (NCTS – IF) for transit under the terms of this Code” (No. 9014-1) adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on July 13.
“The adopted amendments to the Customs Code create favorable conditions for Ukrainian businesses to open T1 declarations in internal customs, which, combined with the electronic queue at the border, will unload customs checkpoints and reduce the time of customs clearance for NCTS users,” the Ministry of Finance pointed out.
The ministry added that the law also provides for the introduction of additional transit simplifications, in particular, the status of authorized TIR consignor and authorized TIR consignee and the registration of a single transit declaration for goods that are or will be moved in one vehicle (container or package) from one customs office of departure to one customs office of destination.
Other simplifications include bringing in line with the EU customs legislation and the provisions of the Convention on the Joint Transit Procedure the requirements to seal all transit movements or, if sealing is impossible, to ensure identification of the relevant goods
The draft law was developed in fulfillment of Ukraine’s European integration commitments in the customs sphere, the Finance Ministry said.
Earlier, roundtables were devoted to customs reform, where the event’s organizer and moderator Maksym Urakin stated that the State Customs Service accounts for 35-40% of state budget revenues, and these figures have remained stable in recent years. That is why customs reforms are so important for the country.
The State Property Fund of Ukraine has received the right to form separate pools of state assets for further privatization, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted a corresponding resolution on Friday.
“The main purpose of introducing the new mechanism is to increase the interest of business to invest in state assets. Pools attract more attention of investors who are interested in the implementation of large projects and can make large-scale investments,” the FGI said in a press release.
The Fund added that the pools of privatization objects will be formed from enterprises operating in one sector of the economy, the products of one of them may be raw materials for another.
“Thus, pools are an opportunity to privatize vertically integrated businesses instead of buying disparate objects,” the privatization agency explained.
It specified that the new mechanism can be used in both small and large privatization.
Currently, the Federal State Property Management Service puts state assets for sale by individual companies.
