Nova Poshta Global, which is part of the Nova Poshta group of companies, resumes delivery from the online store AliExpress (China) directly to Ukraine from June 15, the press service of the NP reported on Tuesday.
“This is the most anticipated resumption of delivery that the Ukrainians have been waiting for. We held dozens of meetings with our partner to assure him that we are working as usual and have already restored the pre-war speed. Now users can once again order delivery of goods from AliExpress directly from the site to a convenient branch or “Nova Poshta” post office. To do this, you need to specify the AliExpress Standard Shipping option and select the nearest operating branch / post office on the map, “Novaya Poshta Global CEO Yuri Benevitsky is quoted.
The postal operator notes that before the war, AliExpress headed the TOP of the most beloved foreign online stores of Ukrainians. On average, Novaya Poshta customers ordered about 2.6 tons of goods from AliExpress per day.
Currently, the updated AliExpress platform app is not available to users in Ukraine.
The pharmaceutical marketing company Euro Lifecare, together with the Ukrainian pharmaceutical distributor Konark Intelmed, handed over a modern ambulance to Kharkiv.
As Interfax-Ukraine was informed by the company, the car arrived in Kharkiv from the city of Lille (France), which since 1978 has been Kharkiv’s sister city. The car was handed over with the direct participation of patron Josseline Van Hove and the parish of the Greek Catholic Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God of Lille, its rector, Father Igor Nakonechny, and Kharkov volunteers.
“From the beginning of this difficult time for the Ukrainian people, on February 24, 2022, together with Konark Intelmed and volunteers, we set up a humanitarian headquarters based on the company’s warehouse in Kharkiv, we constantly provide humanitarian assistance in the form of pharmaceuticals. Now we have helped to purchase a modern ambulance for Kharkov and the region. We believe and hope that it will help our doctors and save more than one life,” emphasized Euro Lifecare.
Euro Lifecare is a member of the Indian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (IPMA), which brings together Indian pharmaceutical manufacturing companies that meet high international standards: US FDA (USA), UK MHRA (UK), MCC (South Africa), TGA (Australia) ), WHO GMP (WHO), GMP (Ukraine) and having representative offices in Ukraine.
The European Union sees no threat to its food security in connection with the situation in Ukraine and will try to contribute to ensuring global food security, said EU Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski.
“Fortunately, we do not see a direct threat (food security) in European markets. The main problem on them is corn, which we import from Ukraine. It is important for feed production in Europe. But imports from Ukraine are still even larger than in previous years,” Wojciechowski said on Monday evening at a press conference following the meeting of the EU Council at the level of ministers of agriculture.
The central topic of the meeting was the threat of a global food crisis in connection with the Ukrainian issue.
The problem that the EU sees, according to the official, is to organize “corridors of solidarity” for grain supplies to third countries.
The meeting also presented a forecast for the grain harvest for the current year in the EU countries. It will be “for sure more than in 2021, and in 2023 the grain harvest will be no less than in 2022, subject to the same weather conditions.”
“In Europe, we have the necessary food security. (…) We must ensure that Europe contributes to global food security,” added the European Commissioner.
The United States authorities intend to send about $1.5 billion a month to Ukraine to support the work of the government, Dereck Hogan, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, said.
He said at a seminar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington they had already allocated $1 billion for these purposes through various mechanisms and intended to send about $1.5 billion more monthly during 4-5 months.
The official noted that direct support for Ukrainian authorities is one of the priorities of the administration of President Joe Biden.
He said that the US should take into account the medium and long term, and now the US efforts should be focused on ensuring the work of the government of Ukraine.
The United States and NATO allies are continuing massive arms and ammunition deliveries to Ukraine. Mykhailo Podoliak, the adviser to the head of the Ukrainian President Office’s, said earlier that Kyiv would like to receive 300 multiple launch rocket systems from the West.
At the same time, US officials, both former and incumbent, warn of the need to establish control over the use of aid provided by the United States to Kyiv.
The UK and Polish governments were the main suppliers of medical assistance to Ukraine in the past week, the press service of the Health Ministry of Ukraine has said.
The ministry said that the UK government and the Strategic Reserves Agency of Poland were the major suppliers.
The Health Ministry also noted assistance of the Embassy of Bulgaria in Ukraine, the Direct Relief international humanitarian aid organization, the Kyiv School of Economics Charitable Foundation, the Center of Volunteering and Protection charitable organization, One Ukraine, and Americares global non-profit organization.
The ministry reported that it received six ambulance vehicles, 1,000 packs of hemostatic gauze, 125 patient monitors, 7.5 tonnes of antibacterial agents, 153.5 tonnes of various medicines, 26.5 tonnes of drugs for Covid-19, 60 tonnes of personal protective equipment, and 5 tonnes of syringes from volunteers and partner countries over last week.
JSC Ukrzaliznytsia plans to receive 40 General Electric locomotives, engines for locomotives, etc. under the Lend-Lease program, Head of Ukrzaliznytsia Oleksandr Kamyshin has said.
At the same time, with the beginning of the active phase of the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine, the company managed to keep almost all of its rolling stock, unlike in 2014, when a significant part of the rolling stock remained on the lost territory, Kamyshin said in an interview with Forbes Ukraine.
According to him, in particular, out of 30 GE locomotives, 29 were taken out. The company failed to take one, as it was being serviced in a non-working condition in the Melitopol depot.
The head of Ukrzaliznytsia also said that the company is counting on increased state support, compensation from the Russian Federation and the Lend-Lease program.
“We have shaped a large list [for Lend-Lease]. Of the important, there is a request for 40 GE locomotives worth $250 million, engines for the modernization of our other locomotives, special vehicles for infrastructure restoration, and so on. Further, this list is approved by the working group. Let’s see what we can get it,” Kamyshin said.
He also said that now is not the time to raise passenger tariffs, but the compensation mechanism from the state still needs to be improved. At the same time, regarding tariffs for freight transportation, according to Kamyshin, the dialogue in the government is still ongoing.
The head of Ukrzaliznytsia also said that the operating gap in the company today is UAH 2-3 billion per month, and if the ports do not open, the company will not be able to close it on its own.
“We received a support program for UAH 10 billion from the state budget. It ended in May. Now we are talking about the second round of state financing before the end of the year. It will be bigger,” Kamyshin said.
He said that in the first days of the war, the daily load on the railway was reduced from 700,000 tonnes to 150,000 tonnes. In March, Ukrzaliznytsia transported 257,000 tonnes per day, in April – 295,000 tonnes per day, the company ended May with volumes of 300,000 tonnes per day.
