The spot price of gas in Europe soared above $2,700/ths. cube m for the news about the new repair on the Nord Stream highway.
The price of the nearest (September) TTF futures on the ICE Futures exchange on Friday evening reached $2,712 per thousand cubic meters.
On Friday evening, Gazprom announced that the only working gas-compressor unit of the Nord Stream main’s departure compressor station at the Portovaya CS would be shut down from August 31 to September 2 for three days for maintenance and scheduled preventive work.
The gas pipeline is capable of transporting up to 167 million cubic meters per day. m of gas, but the capacity was reduced due to the violation of the maintenance schedule for the equipment of the starting station of the sea main – the compressor station “Portovaya”. It is equipped with gas compressor units from Rolls-Royce, whose gas turbine business has been taken over by Siemens. Due to Canadian sanctions imposed in response to the military aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, one turbine did not return to Russia from the Siemens Energy repair base on time. In the meantime, the time has come for a major overhaul of other engines, both in connection with the operating time between overhauls and in connection with breakdowns.
The Cabinet of Ministers has canceled the legislative norm introduced on March 9, which allows importers of food products to import these products into the country, even if the information on the product packaging is not in Ukrainian.
Thus, food market operators can now only import products with a label in the state language, Taras Melnichuk, a representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada, said in a Telegram channel.
The government made the corresponding change to Decree No. 234 of March 9, 2022 at a meeting on Friday.
“It is excluded … the rule on the temporary possibility for the period of martial law of the sale of food products in the customs territory of Ukraine, information about which is set out in a language other than the state language. It has been established that such food products imported into the territory of Ukraine from March 9 to December 1 can to be in circulation on the customs territory of Ukraine until the expiration of the minimum shelf life or the deadline for consumption (the “use by” date),” Melnychuk said in the message.
Thus, the amended regulation retains the possibility for importers of animal feed to import these products labeled in a language other than the state language.
In addition, the legislative norm remains in force that the labeling of food and feed imported to Ukraine as humanitarian aid can be submitted in a language other than the state language.
The regulation also allows the use of leftover packaging or containers for food and feed left after the closure of enterprises that stopped working as a result of hostilities. In the future, such containers can be used for packaging similar products manufactured at other enterprises.
Ukrainian athlete Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk won the gold medal at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in the triple jump, showing a result of 15.02 m, the press service of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine and the national Olympic team reported.
“Marina Bekh-Romanchuk wins the first gold medal for Ukraine in athletics at the European multisport championship. The victory in the triple jump was brought to the Ukrainian by a result of 15.02 meters, which became her personal record and at the same time the best indicator of the season in Europe,” the Telegram channel says. .
By August 19, Ukrainian farmers harvested 23.4 million tons of grain and leguminous crops (+2.6 million tons for the week of August 12-19) from a total area of 6.1 million hectares (+0.6 million hectares), reported on the website of the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food on Friday.
It is specified that the crop was harvested from 55% of the planned areas, while a week earlier this figure was 49%.
“The harvest of 2022 continues. According to the latest data, 91% of wheat, 96% of barley, 97% of peas, and 98% of winter rapeseed have been harvested. The leaders in harvesting are Mykolaiv region – 86%, Odessa region – 85%, Volyn and Dnepropetrovsk regions – 70% each, Kirovogradskaya – 60%,” the ministry said in a statement.
In general, 17.4 million tons of wheat (+2.0 million tons per week) were harvested from 4.3 million hectares (+0.5 million hectares), 5.3 million tons of barley (+0.4 million tons) from 1 .5 million hectares (+0.1 million hectares) and 243.7 thousand tons of peas (+4.7 thousand tons) from 108 thousand hectares (+2 thousand hectares). Also this week, harvesting of millet has begun, of which 7.7 thousand tons have been harvested from 3.2 thousand hectares.
In addition, by August 19, Ukraine harvested 3.1 million tons of winter rapeseed (+0.2 million tons per week) from 1.08 million hectares (+40 thousand hectares).
According to the ministry, the average yield of wheat was 40.4 q/ha, barley – 34.5 q/ha, rapeseed – 28.4 q/ha, millet – 23.9 q/ha, peas – 22.6 q/ha. At the same time, the highest average yield of grain and leguminous crops was recorded in the Khmelnytsky region – 62 c/ha.
In turn, the agricultural producers of the Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovohrad and Odessa regions harvested over 2 million tons of grain, and Vinnitsa, Volyn, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky and Cherkasy regions – more than 1 million tons of crops each.
As reported, in 2021 Ukraine harvested a record harvest of grains, legumes and oilseeds in the amount of 106 million tons: grains and legumes – UAH 84 million, oilseeds – 22.6 million tons.
In general, 32.4 million tons of wheat, 40 million tons of corn, 10 million tons of barley, 581.5 thousand tons of peas, 191 thousand tons of millet, 110 thousand tons of buckwheat were harvested last year. Sunflower harvest amounted to 16.3 million tons, soybeans – 3.4 million tons, rapeseed – 2.9 million tons.
Imports of passenger cars to Ukraine in January-June of this year amounted to 304,083 thousand units. in the amount of almost $1.7 billion, Ukravtoprom reports with reference to the State Statistics Service.
According to a message in the Telegram channel on Friday, only 18.323 thousand cars (or 6%) of this number were new, while the remaining 285.76 thousand (94%) were used.
In turn, a year ago, Ukravtoprom published similar statistics on its website, according to which, in January-June 2021, 280.3 thousand passenger cars worth more than $2.1 billion were imported to Ukraine, including the share of new cars was 20 %.
Thus, if in the first half of 2022 the import of cars in physical terms increased by 8.5%, then in foreign currency it decreased by 19%, and the share of new cars decreased by 14 p.p.
According to Ukravtoprom, in the first half of this year, purchases of new cars cost importers $363.3 million, and the customs value of used cars exceeded $1.3 billion (a year earlier, approximately the same amount – $1.05 billion each – IF).
The main suppliers of new cars to Ukraine in January-June 2022 were China (6.61 thousand units), Japan (3.382 thousand), and Romania (1.476 thousand), and used ones were most often bought in Germany (118.758 thousand units). ), France (31.206 thousand) and Poland (20.716 thousand).
In the first half of last year, Japan was the leader in deliveries of new cars (11.2 thousand), followed by China (11 thousand) and Romania (5.8 thousand). Used cars were most often imported from Germany (46 thousand), the USA (40 thousand) and Poland (25 thousand).
The Kyiv Regional Council allocated UAH 145 million from the reserve fund of the regional budget to overcome the consequences of the war and restore the region, the head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, Oleksiy Kuleba, said in a video message on Friday.
“These funds will be used for road maintenance, as well as relevant infrastructure, territorial defense, liquidation of the consequences of hostilities and preparation for the heating season,” Kuleba emphasized.
According to him, out of 145 million hryvnias, 100 million hryvnias have been allocated for the maintenance and development of highways, as well as the corresponding infrastructure.
Kuleba noted that for preparation for the heating season, Borodyansk will receive UAH 6.7 million, Vasylkivsk will receive about UAH 19.7 million, Dymersk will receive about UAH 12.9 million.
In addition, for the liquidation of the consequences of hostilities and the restoration of the infrastructure of settlements, UAH 0.6 million was allocated to the Borodyansk community, over UAH 2.3 million to the Dymersk community, and UAH 0.255 million to the Poliska territorial community
Another 2 million hryvnias will also be directed to the work of territorial defense and other measures related to the military aggression of the Russian Federation.
