The Kyiv City Clinical Oncology Center purchased medical equipment worth a total of UAH 30 million in 2022, the acting director of the oncology center Alexander Klusov said.
“In total, we purchased equipment worth 30 million UAH,” he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
Klusov said that, in particular, “with the personal support of Mayor Vitaly Klitschko, the health department of the KSCA purchased two modern powerful linear gas pedals for radiotherapy for the cancer center in 2022.”
“Thus, we already have five linear gas pedals. In order to install this equipment, two bunkers had to be renovated. Construction work is underway to renovate the bunkers to install this high-tech equipment, which is scheduled to be completed in early May,” he said.
Klusov said there are plans to create a radiology center at the oncology center in 2023.
“We are planning to create one of the most powerful radiological clinics in Ukraine, which will work at full capacity in 2023. The launch of the radiology center will increase the number of patients by almost 75% and reduce the waiting period from one month to one week,” Klusov emphasized.
As previously reported, the Kyiv City Clinical Oncology Center will admit about 30 thousand patients in 2022.
In Kiev, as part of the “Bold Blood” project, the first long-term blood storage bank in Ukraine was opened at the Kiev City Blood Center, which allows freezing and preserving rare blood groups for up to 30 years.
According to a press release from the project, the center will also allow for prompt logistics under the most difficult conditions, including at the site of military operations to rescue military and civilian casualties.
According to the acting director of the city’s blood center, Vitaly Demsky, previously such critical blood components as red blood cells could retain a maximum of 42 days, the new blood bank will make it possible to extend the life of red blood cells up to 30 years.
“Today we have new special equipment that can preserve red blood cells at temperatures of -80°C and below, as well as allowing us to freeze and thaw blood components,” Demsky said.
The project was implemented in partnership between the Ministry of Health, Parimatch Ukraine and the Kyiv City State Administration.
The Economic Court of Cherkasy region in a full decision dated February 20, 2023 granted the claim of PJSC Cherkasyoblenergo to invalidate the purchase and sale contracts of Steblevskaya and Korsun-Shevchenko HPPs between the company and the foreign economic association Novosvit in 2015.
“The property complexes of Steblevskaya HPP and Korsun-Shevchenko HPP were alienated under the disputed contracts without holding an auction, without notifying the State Property Fund of Ukraine in order to conceal illegal transactions, which resulted in significant damage to PJSC Cherkasyoblenergo and the state”, – says the court decision.
As follows from the document, assessment of the property alienated under the disputed agreements to determine its market value, in violation of the requirements of the law “On Joint Stock Companies” and the charter of “Cherkassyoblenergo” was carried out without decision of the Supervisory Board of the company to involve a subject of evaluation activities, without approval of the terms of the contract with him and establishing the amount of his services payment, as well as approval of the market value of property.
“As a result of illegal appraisal of the property of the Stebleva HPP and the Korsun-Shevchenko HPP as integral property complexes, the acting Chairman of the Company’s Board S.A. Kuzminska, who concluded the disputable contracts on behalf of Cherkasyloblenergo, artificially underestimated the market value of these two HPPs in order to avoid the prohibition, provided by the PJSC Charter, for her own decision on transactions with property with a market value of over 5% of the company assets”, the court decision says.
According to the document, the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine is currently conducting a pre-trial investigation into the criminal proceedings on the embezzlement of property of Cherkasyoblenergo on a particularly large scale, during which the conclusion on November 6, 2015 between Cherkasyoblenergo represented by S.A. Kuzminskaya and the foreign economic association Novosvit in violation of the requirements of current legislation and the charter of the PJSC.
According to the lawyer of the company “Tsypin and Partners” Marina Sutkovych, who represented the interests of “Cherkassyoblenergo” in court, the total amount of losses of the company as a result of the purchase and sale of two hydroelectric power plants amounted to 139,5 million UAH.
At the beginning of 2022, 46% of Cherkassyoblenergo shares were transferred from the State Property Fund to the Ministry of Energy. Another 25% of shares are managed by Ukrainian Energy Saving Service Company PJSC (UkrEsco).
Carpathian Mineral Waters Group of Companies (KMW), one of the major players on the Ukrainian market, plans to build another plant in the Lviv region with production capacity at the first stage of 230 million bottles of water per year, the head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration Maxim Kozitsky said in a telegram on Tuesday.
“Preliminarily, construction will begin as early as this spring. Construction of the first start-up complex will be completed in the spring of 2024,” he wrote after a meeting with representatives of KMV.
According to him, the group has already finished the preparatory documentary procedures for the construction of the plant.
It is assumed that after the first start-up complex for 230 million bottles per year, three more start-up complexes will be built, 300 people will get a job, and the company will pay about 110 million hryvnias of taxes annually.
According to information on the company web-site it started its activity on the mineral water market in 1996 with bottling of the mineral natural table water under TM “Karpatska Dzherelna” and in June 2002 it was reorganized into mineral water and non-alcoholic drinks production plant “Karpatskie Mineralni Voda”. In 2002 the production of sweet carbonated beverages under Fruktova Dzherelna TM and Sokovinka TM was launched, and in 2016 – energy drink under Dragon TM.
In 2019-2020, Karpatskie Mineralnye Vyody LLC’s annual revenues slightly exceeded UAH 100 million with net profits of UAH 33 million and UAH 14 million, respectively. For the 9 months of 2021 the revenue was 87.6 million UAH with a net profit of 21 million UAH.
President Vladimir Zelensky would like to hold a summit of Latin American countries and Ukraine to convey his position on the peace formula.
“Latin America is very important, I would very much like to do a conference, I would like to do a meeting, a summit of Latin American countries and Ukraine,” Zelensky said at a press conference Friday.
He said it’s hard for him to leave the country, but that’s the kind of meeting he would go to.
“I would be able to convey to them, their media, their society,” Zelensky stressed.
The president also said that Ukraine needs to make steps toward a meeting with the countries of the African continent.
“We worked very badly for many years, we did not pay attention – this is a big mistake. That’s why a special program was adopted to expand the ambassadorial presence in the region,” he added.
Zelensky reiterated that Ukraine would like to involve both India and China in the peace formula
“There is a point of fixing and the end of the war, we need security guarantees. When there is fulfillment of the points – then there is also respect for the people, for the Ukrainians,” Zelensky said.
The National Agency for Detection, Search and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption and Other Crimes (ARMA) has finished accepting applications from candidates for the position of asset manager of mineral water producers and sellers, in particular, Morshynska produced by IDS Ukraine holding.
According to the agency’s website on Friday, six companies applied to ARMA. Their representatives intended to participate in the competitive selection of a manager for the seized assets of producers and sellers of mineral waters.
The agency specified that it would consider the proposals of potential managers and would decide on the results of the selection after a thorough examination of the documents submitted by them to determine whether they meet the requirements of the tender. Information on the outcome of the tender will be made public immediately after the decision.
The agency reminded that on February 9 it announced a competition in which the participants were proposed to manage the corporate rights of the company-producer of soft drinks and mineral water in the form of 100% share in the authorized capital of this legal entity in the amount of 8,8 million UAH. Furthermore ARMA is looking for the manager of corporate rights of a foreign company, namely the shares in a legal entity specializing in the wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco products, with a total nominal value of UAH 4.5 mln.
As reported, on February 10 ARMA announced a competition for the selection of a manager for arrested assets of IDS Ukraine, which produces and sells mineral water under brands Morshynska, Mirgorodska and Borjomi.
Earlier, Marko Tkachuk, the general director of IDS Ukraine, said in response to Interfax-Ukraine news agency inquiry that the transfer of corporate rights of the company worth more than UAH 10 billion to ARMA will not affect the economic activities of the group. He also reminded that the decision about the transfer of corporate rights of the sanctioned IDS shareholders with Russian citizenship to ARMA was made by Kiev Shevchenko District Court on November 9 and 11, 2022.
On November 23 last year, the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine (BES) reported about the arrest of corporate rights of the Russian shareholders of IDS Ukraine in order to avoid their withdrawal from Ukraine of the assets of seven enterprises for the production and sale of drinking water. According to the BEB, these enterprises are actually owned by them through a non-resident offshore company under their control.
IDS Ukraine is a Ukrainian group of companies founded in 1996, the largest national producer of bottled water. The holding includes Morshynsky mineral water plant “Oskar”, “Mirgorod mineral water plant”, the distribution company “IDS” and water delivery operator “IDS Aqua Service”.
GK owns trade marks Morshinskaya, Mirgorodskaya, Alaska and Aqua Life.
