Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko congratulated the people of Kyiv on the City Day, the press service of the Kyiv City State Administration reported.
“Kyiv… Ancient and modern. Cozy and energetic. Our city has been standing on the hills of the Dnieper for 1540 years already! Proud, rebellious, beautiful. And together we make it even better! For the soul of the city is its people! Happy Kyiv Day, dear people of Kiev! Happy birthday, our beloved city! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Kyiv!”, the press service quotes Klitschko’s words.
It is noted that on Sunday Kyiv is 1540 years old from the date of its foundation.
Japan has taken first place in the world ranking of tourist destinations of the World Economic Forum in 2021, despite the closed borders due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Demand in the tourism sector has been one of the hardest hit by the COVID 19 pandemic, leaving not only businesses but also the tourism-focused national economy hard hit by travel restrictions and international travel suspensions. Fortunately, there are now positive trends – The recovery of the tourism industry has begun, although not at the same pace around the world or in the same market segments. New factors, such as the war in Ukraine, are also complicating this uneven recovery.
According to the organization’s report, the list includes 117 tourist destinations. Japan topped the rankings for the first time, overtaking the US. Spain and France came in third and fourth respectively. The top 10 includes Germany, Switzerland, Australia, the UK, Singapore and Italy.
According to analysts, Japan ranked fourth in the biennial report on air transport infrastructure and cultural resources, sixth in land and port infrastructure, and 12th in natural resources. In terms of resilience to environmental change, the country took only 107th place.
The Travel and Tourism Development Index (TTDI) is based on 18 criteria, including travel and tourism development, business environment, safety, health and hygiene, human resource utilization and labor market, international openness, pricing policy and competitiveness, air transport infrastructure , socio-economic sustainability and others.
On the Zhytomyr highway on the M-06 Kyiv-Chop highway, traffic was partially opened for trucks on Saturday, the right passage of the destroyed bridge will be restored at the next stage, Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov said.
“The movement of trucks on the Zhytomyr highway is open. Today we opened the left lane on the international road M-06 Kyiv – Chop near Parking and resumed traffic on the highway for trucks,” Kubrakov wrote on Facebook.
He noted that with the opening of the bridge on the M-06 highway, traffic will be resumed in almost all the main strategic directions of Ukraine and promised that the next step would be the restoration of the right passage of the destroyed bridge.
“We plan to complete the work in the fall,” the minister stressed.
According to him, it took less than two months to build a temporary passage for transport on the site of those destroyed as a result of hostilities.
“It took less than two months to build a temporary span structure on the remains of old structures, arrange a monolithic slab of the span structure and lay a layer of asphalt concrete. The road markings have been updated and appropriate road signs have been installed,” he said.
He stressed that thanks to the blown up bridge on the road to Irpin in the first days of the Russian invasion, the occupiers could not move further and surround the capital.
Kubrakov also reports that immediately after the liberation of the capital region, the construction of temporary crossings and detours began.
“A temporary bridge near Stoyanka was erected in mid-April, but only light vehicles could move through it – trucks were forced to take a detour, wasting extra time and fuel,” he added.
The German Ministry of Health has decided to cancel anti-COVID restrictions for travelers to the country from June 1, the order will be valid until the end of August, the Tagesschau portal reports.
“Due to the decrease in the number of people infected with coronavirus, Germany from June 1 suspends the requirement from travelers for a digital covid certificate upon entry until the end of August,” the newspaper writes.
According to the portal, tourists during this period will not need any documents confirming vaccination, a negative test result or a coronavirus.
At the same time, travelers arriving in Germany from countries with common new strains of COVID 19 will have to undergo a 14-day quarantine even if they are vaccinated or have a certificate of illness.
Meanwhile, the head of the German Ministry of Health, Karl Lauterbach, stressed that so far no country has been identified as a zone with virus variants.
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on the Russian President for an immediate truce and withdrawal of troops from Ukraine during a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin on Saturday.
According to the service of the German government, the conversation took place on the initiative of France and Germany and lasted 80 minutes. “The Chancellor and the President of France called for an immediate truce and the withdrawal of Russian troops. They called on the President of Russia to enter into serious direct negotiations with the President of Ukraine and find a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
Macron and Scholz also urged Putin to “improve the humanitarian situation of the civilian population” and “commended the commitment of the Russian President to the treatment of captured soldiers in accordance with international humanitarian law, in particular the Geneva Conventions, and to ensure unrestricted access for the International Committee of the Red Cross.”
In addition, the leaders of Germany and France also spoke with President Putin about the global food situation, “which has become particularly aggravated as a result of Russia’s aggressive war.” “President Putin has given assurances that he wants to allow grain exports from Ukraine, especially by sea. President Putin has vowed that he will not use the demining belt created to protect Ukrainian ports offensively to allow grain exports by sea. The Chancellor, President Macron and President Putin have agreed on the central role of the United Nations in reaching and implementing an agreement on this issue,” the federal government said in a release.
In turn, the Elysee Palace also reported that Macron and Scholz, during a telephone conversation with Putin, called for the release of 2,500 Ukrainian prisoners of war from Azovstal.
In addition, Macron and Scholz called on Putin to negotiate directly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Macron and Scholz urged the interlocutor “to urgently lift the blockade from Odessa in order to enable the export of Ukrainian grain to prevent a global food crisis.” They took note of the readiness of the Russian Federation to let foreign ships into this port to export grain, the Elysee Palace said.
The Ferrero-Ukraine company informed the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection about the voluntary withdrawal from the Ukrainian market of certain batches of Kinder Schoko Bons and Kinder Surprise Maxi due to an outbreak of salmonella, reports the Main Directorate of the State Food and Consumer Service in Kyiv .
Ferrero Ukraine LLC has informed the State Food and Consumer Service of the voluntary recall of selected batches of Kinder Choco-Bons and Kinder Surprise Maxi products in Ukraine.
It clarifies that a message about an outbreak of a foodborne infection caused by Salmonella Typhimurirum, found in separate products of the Ferrero company (manufacturer: Ferrero Ardennes S.A., Belgium), exported to Ukraine by the Ferrero Ukraine company, was received by specialists of the State Consumer Service through the rapid food alert system. food and feed (RASFF).
“According to part 3 of article 20 of the Law of Ukraine “On the basic principles and requirements for the safety and quality of food products”, if the market operator believes or has reason to believe that the food products that he imported (sent) to the customs territory of Ukraine was produced, processed or which it carries out do not meet safety requirements, it immediately begins the procedure for withdrawing these food products from circulation and, within a period of no more than two working days, informs the competent authority in writing about the discrepancy found.
It adds that if such foodstuffs could potentially reach the consumer, the market operator informs consumers of the reasons for their withdrawal and, if necessary, recalls the foodstuffs if the application of other measures is insufficient to achieve an acceptable level of consumer health protection.
