The final of qualification for the European Football Championship-2024 allowed to determine all 24 national teams that will fight for the Henri Delaunay trophy, the national team of Ukraine entered Group “E” together with Belgium, Slovakia and Romania, the official website of the tournament reports.
On Tuesday, March 26, after the decisive play-off matches of Euro-2024 qualification, the last three participants of the final part of the tournament were determined. They were the national teams of Ukraine, Georgia and Poland.
Georgia defeated Greece in a penalty shootout and will play for the first time in history at a big forum of national teams, Poland also defeated Wales in a series of 11-match penalty shootout, and Ukraine snatched a willful victory over Iceland.
Ukraine responded to a goal by Iceland’s Albert Gudmundsson after the break with goals by Viktor Tsygankov and Mykhailo Mudryk. The Ukrainians will meet Belgium, Slovakia and Romania at the European Championship.
The European Championship in 2024 will be hosted by Germany. It automatically got into Group A. Bundestim in the opening match of the tournament will meet Scotland in Munich.
The composition of all groups of the European Championship-2024:
Group A: Germany, Scotland, Hungary, Switzerland
Group B: Spain, Croatia, Italy, Albania
Group C: Slovenia, Denmark, Serbia, England
Group D: Poland, Netherlands, Austria, France.
Group E: Belgium, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine
Group F: Turkey, Georgia, Portugal, Czech Republic.
The tournament will begin on June 14 and end on July 14.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has congratulated the Ukrainian national soccer team on its 2-1 victory against Iceland and qualification for the Euro 2024 Championship.
“Thank you, guys! Thank you, national team! For the most important emotions for the whole country. For the super important victory and exit to the Euro,” Zelensky wrote in Telegram on Wednesday night.
He noted that with this victory the Ukrainian national team “once again proved: when Ukrainians have a hard time, but they do not give up and continue to fight, then Ukrainians are sure to win.”
“In times when they want to destroy us every day, we prove every day: Ukrainians are and will be! Ukraine is and will be! Thank you for the victory!” – summarized the President.
The Ukraine-Iceland game was held in Wroclaw, Poland.
At the beginning of the game Ukraine had an advantage in possession of the ball, but the first half hour of the game ended with a goal by Iceland.
Ukraine restored parity in the 54th minute. Viktor Tsygankov struck the bottom corner of the goal – 1:1. The second goal was scored by Mykhailo Mudryk in the 84th minute.
The other two last two tickets to the final part of Euro 2024 were won by Georgia and Poland in penalty shootouts on Tuesday.
Ukraine will play its first match at the tournament in Munich on June 17 against Romania. The opponents in Group E will also be Slovakia and Belgium, with whom the Ukrainian team will play on June 21 and 26 in Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, respectively.
JSC “OTP BANK” has the highest index “A” of financial reliability according to the calculations of the FinScore tool from YouControl for the fourth quarter of 2023. Compared to the third quarter, the Bank has risen one step in the rating, thus taking the fourth place.
The updated research includes 40 Ukrainian banks. The highest index “A” indicates a minimal probability of unfavorable financial consequences.
Bank_FinScore is a scoring index of a bank’s financial reliability calculated by the analytical department of YouControl and based on 25 indicators. Among them are NBU standards and financial ratios that comprehensively reflect the state of liquidity, capital adequacy, profitability, credit, investment and currency risks of the bank.
The financial scoring of Ukrainian banks is available at the following link.
We would like to remind you that JSC OTP BANK entered the TOP-10 banks included in the Index of the best enterprises of Ukraine with impeccable business reputation and the highest revenue for 2023 in the Banking category. In February, the Bank took a leading position in the Bank Viability Rating – 2024, compiled by the business publication Mind.
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Source: Open4Business.com.ua and experts.news
Passenger traffic on the border with Poland in both directions has increased by 8 thousand people in recent days due to the approaching Easter holidays, in this regard, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reports about queues at checkpoints “Krakivets” and “Shegini” and recommends to use other border crossings.
“For crossing the border by cars and buses travelers most often choose checkpoints “Krakovets” and “Shegini”. Therefore, in front of these checkpoints there is an accumulation of traffic. At the same time, border guards periodically record queues also at the entrance to Ukraine,” – reported in the telegram channel of the State Border Service on Tuesday.
According to the border department, the least dynamics of traffic is observed at the checkpoints “Smolnitsa”, “Grushev”, “Rava-Ruska” and “Ugrini”. “In order to reduce the waiting time in queues we recommend citizens to choose these checkpoints to cross the border,” – stated in the message. This year’s Catholic Easter will be on March 31.
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Four EU countries – Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Estonia – propose to Brussels to ban the import of waste and scrap ferrous metals, copper and aluminum from Russia.
Such a proposal was presented at a meeting of the European Union Environment Council held on March 25, the Lithuanian Environment Ministry said.
“Lithuania proposes that the European Commission assess all possibilities at EU level and make a proposal to suspend waste imports from Russia to the EU or allow Member States to adopt unilateral restrictive measures. We believe that such imports contribute to financing Russia’s war against Ukraine and should be stopped,” Lithuania’s deputy permanent representative to the EU, Ambassador Jurga Kasputene, said at the council meeting.
According to the Environment Ministry, more than 118 million euros worth of waste and scrap ferrous metals, copper and aluminum were imported from Russia to the EU in 2022-2023. Most of these imports go through Lithuania.
According to the ministry, cross-border transportation of waste is regulated by the Basel Convention and the Waste Transportation Regulation, so individual member states cannot unilaterally ban or restrict such imports.
ALUMINUM, BRUSSELS, COPPER, FERROUS METAL, IMPORTS, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, SCRAP
