Number of dead and wounded civilians in Ukraine as a result of military actions from 24.02.2022 according to un data (per)
Data: UN
The UK is working with international partners to find ways to resume grain exports from Ukraine, a Downing Street spokesperson said on Saturday.
According to The Guardian, according to her, the UK was involved in “intensive work … with international partners to find ways to resume the export of grain from Ukraine to avert a global food crisis.”
Prime Minister of the UK Boris Johnson had a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and told him that London would work with G7 partners to ” push for urgent progress” on the issue.
During the conversation, they also agreed on the next steps to ensure “safe shipping lanes.”
President of Poland Andrzej Duda confirmed his country’s readiness to act as one of the security guarantors for Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was already interested in Poland’s potential agreement, Duda said in an interview with CNN.
“We believe that, as neighbors, we simply have to. Therefore, if Ukraine offers us to be the guarantor of security and the guarantor of peace when the war is over, and if such terms of the peace treaty are accepted, yes, Poland will participate in this,” he said.
New US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink has received a Ukrainian visa. Now she will be able to arrive at the embassy in Kyiv, said Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova.
“It is a great pleasure to issue a visa and meet with a colleague – the new US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brinks. Ukraine has always had the best leaders of the American diplomatic mission, who were not only highly professional diplomats, but also wonderful people and examples of public service. And this time, I did not exception!” Markarova wrote on Facebook on Saturday, noting that she “expects active joint work at a defining time in our struggle for independence and democracy!”
A film about Mariupol, shot by Lithuanian documentary filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius, won the Golden Eye Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the press service of the Verkhovna Rada reports.
“The documentary “Mariupoli 2″ was edited from material that the Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravičius filmed before his death. He arrived in Mariupol in March and filmed the lives of civilians. Then he died,” the message on the telegram channel says.
The jury of the Cannes Film Festival noted the film as “very radical, courageous, artistic and existential” and emphasized that it cannot be compared with any other film in the competition.
As reported, the Lithuanian documentary filmmaker Kvedaravichyus died in Mariupol (Donetsk region) on April 2. He is the author of the film “Mariupoli” released in 2016 about life in front-line Mariupol, which was presented at the Berlin International Film Festival.
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, DOCUMENTARY FILM, MARIUPOL, SPECIAL PRIZE
601 enterprises have completed relocation from areas where hostilities continue under the state relocation program, 390 of them have already resumed work at new sites in the western regions of Ukraine, the Ministry of Economy reported.
“Another 87 enterprises are at different stages of transportation. Soon another 151 enterprises will move, which are currently on the routes or draw up the necessary documents,” the information on the ministry’s website says.
According to it, the most popular areas for relocation of enterprises are Zakarpattia, Lviv and Chernivtsi. The business also finds new places to locate its facilities in Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnitsa and other regions.
The movement of equipment is carried out by the facilities of Ukrzaliznytsya, Ukrposhta or by its own resources (with compensation), reminds the Ministry of Economy.
As reported, the program to move Ukrainian production from the zone of active hostilities started in mid-March. According to the head of the parliamentary committee on finance, tax and customs policy of Ukraine, Danila Getmantsev, as of March 27, 1,120 applications were received under the evacuation program, of which 368 were transferred for transportation. By this date, the number of displaced enterprises under the evacuation program has reached 89, of which 47 have already resumed work in a new location.
The Ministry of Economy then updated the data as of April 5: the number of applications for relocation increased to 1424, relocated enterprises – up to 178, resumed work – up to 67.
According to the Ministry of Economy, as of May 12, the number of displaced enterprises increased by 510, a
