Poltava Bakery Plant was bought by Lim Service Group LLC (Kyiv) for UAH 37.2 million, according to the Prozorro electronic public procurement system.
The State Property Fund of Ukraine put the plant up for sale in July 2023 with a starting lot price of UAH 24,337,940.
The purchase agreement for Poltava CPP was signed on September 5 with the regional office of the Fund. “Lim Service Group was the only bidder.
Under the terms of the agreement, the company is obliged to pay Poltava CPP’s debt of more than UAH 130 million and not to dismiss its employees. The plant’s accounts have been arrested.
“Lim Service Group now owns the plant in Poltava and its production branches located in Petrivka village and Skorokhodove town (Poltava region).
The property complex of Poltava Coke consists of 168 buildings with a total area of 75 thousand square meters. The facilities to be privatized include warehouses, mechanical workshops, a weighbridge, a mill, a chimney, an elevator and a process dryer.
The total area of the company’s land plots is 28.3 hectares. The vehicle fleet includes 22 vehicles. The company employs 70 people.
In the spring of 2018, the company conducted an audit of its warehouses, which led to the discovery of the theft of 3,500 tons of grain. The case is being considered by the High Anti-Corruption Court.
Poltava CPP is one of the oldest in Ukraine – about 150 years old. In the middle of the last century, the plant milled hundreds of tons of flour and could store 25,000 tons of grain in its elevators. The plant had its own railroad locomotive to transport products to the Poltava railway station.
Lim Service Group LLC was founded in 2021. It is engaged in leasing property and works in the field of law. The authorized capital of the company is UAH 2.2 million. The beneficiary is Nazar Taranenko.
DTEK Energo’s thermal power plants have increased electricity production by 28% over the past four months compared to the same period in 2022, the energy holding company said in a press release on Wednesday.
“In August, when consumption held at record highs for summer due to the heat wave, power engineers generated 35% more electricity into the energy system than in August last year,” the company said.
In total, in January-August 2023, the company’s thermal power plants released about 9.9 billion kWh of electricity, which is equivalent to the average consumption of about 3.3 million households during the year.
“Power engineers do their best to, on the one hand, repair, restore and prepare the plants for maximum load in the fall and winter period, on the other hand, to reliably maintain and insure the energy system during other peak periods as well. For this purpose, just last week we put two power units of our TPPs into operation after repair, with a total capacity of almost 400 MW,” DTEK Energy CEO Ildar Saleev was quoted in the press release.
DTEK Energy currently operates six of the nine TPPs remaining in the unoccupied territory of Ukraine: Burshtynska, Dobrotvirska and Ladyzhynska TPPs (DTEK Zakhidenergo), Prydniprovska and Kryvorizka TPPs (DTEK Dniproenergo) and Kurakhovska TPP (Vostokenergo LLC).
According to information from the State Enterprise “NAIS”, Ukraine continues to observe growing dynamics in the registration of new physical persons-entrepreneurs. To date, the number of registered FLPs in the country has reached the figure of 2,052,326 people. Despite the negative effects of the war, the sphere of small and medium business continues to develop, even exceeding the previous indicators.
The data source, Opendatabot, quoted statistics from the State Enterprise “NAIS” as saying that a record 31,477 FLPs were registered in June this year, the highest number in the last three years. On average, about 25 thousand new entrepreneurs are registered every month.
Between April 2022 and September 2023, 290,910 entrepreneurs closed their doors, with an average of 17 thousand closures per month.
The impact of war is clearly felt in frontline areas and where hostilities continue. For example:
– Donetsk region lost 8.2 thousand entrepreneurs,
– Kharkiv region – 7.1 thousand,
– Kherson region – 4.5 thousand,
– Luhansk region – 3.7 thousand,
– Zaporizhzhya region – more than 2 thousand entrepreneurs.
Nevertheless, there are regions where the activity of FLP has intensified:
– Kiev was the leader with an increase of 12.9 thousand new entrepreneurs,
– Lviv region increased by 12.3 thousand,
– Dnipropetrovsk region increased its indicator by 8.6 thousand FLP.
Source: https://opendatabot.ua/
The actual selling price of oil and condensate used in determining the royalty for subsoil use in August 2023 amounted to UAH 19,775/tonne, which is 15.1% more than in July (UAH 17,178/tonne). The relevant data is published on the website of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine.
As reported, in January 2023, the actual selling price amounted to UAH 13,297/tonne, in February – UAH 13,251/tonne, in March – UAH 12,522/tonne, in April – UAH 15,515/tonne, in May – UAH 14,158/tonne, in June – UAH 14,673/tonne, in July – UAH 17,178/tonne.
The Verkhovna Rada has supported the introduction of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the appointment of Rustem Umerov to the post of Minister of Defense of Ukraine.
In general, 338 deputies voted for the adoption of relevant draft resolution No. 10004 at the plenary session on Wednesday, said Yaroslav Zhelezniak, a member of the Holos faction.
“The Parliament has appointed Rustem Umerov as the Minister of Defense of Ukraine. All the factions supported it,” the parliamentarian wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to Article 106 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine submits a motion on the appointment of Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs to the Rada.
Rustem Umerov has been the head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) since September 7, 2022. Before that, in 2019, he was elected an MP of the IX convocation from the Holos party (No. 18 on the list as an independent MP) and became a member of the faction of the same name.
In the Ukrainian Parliament, he held the position of Secretary of the Committee on Human Rights, de-occupation and reintegration of temporarily occupied territories, national minorities, and was also a deputy member of the Permanent Delegation to the Council of Europe and co-chairman of the parliamentary inter-factional association Crimea Platform.
In September 2020, Umarov joined the group on the development of the state strategy for the occupation of Crimea and Sevastopol under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC).
Umerov is a Ukrainian politician, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, a member of the Ukrainian delegation at negotiations with Russia, a delegate of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people.
Africa’s population growth rate threatens that the continent’s resources will no longer be enough to meet the needs of its inhabitants, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday.
“On the African continent, we will reach the 1.6 billion mark within a few years. Africa is abundant with resources, but they cannot help everyone,” Arab news quoted the president as saying at the first Global Congress on Population, Health and Development, which runs from September 5 to 8 in Cairo.
He noted that the congress should be held annually due to the urgency of the problem.
According to the president, the number of Egyptian citizens reaches 105 million, and in addition to them, there are another 9 million people in the country, but the Egyptian government, unlike some other countries, manages to cope with the related challenges. At the same time, al-Sisi clarified, the ratio between national resources and population growth has become less optimal over the past 75 years, and this has affected the health and education system.
For his part, Egyptian Health Minister Khalid Abdel Ghaffar emphasized that demographic growth is the most serious challenge for the country. Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala El-Sayed noted that although the birth rate has declined, Egypt’s population has grown by another 25 million people over the past 10 years.
Earlier, the Experts Club project released an analytical video about economic relations between Egypt and Ukraine.
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