Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi intends to arrive in Kyiv, Head of state-owned enterprise Energoatom Petro Kotin has said.
“But the date of the visit has not yet been set,” Kotin said on the air of the #UArazom (together) unity marathon.
He also said that Ukraine needs more active actions from the IAEA, in addition to the concerns expressed.
The government has provided an opportunity for enterprises to pay wages from blocked bank accounts, Minister of Justice Denys Maliuska said on Facebook.
The corresponding order of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 212 of March 11 was published on its website on Saturday.
According to it, legal entities – debtors for the period of martial law are allowed to make debit transactions from accounts, the funds on which are seized by the state executive service, private executors, to pay salaries in the amount of not more than five minimum monthly wages per employee.
In addition, the document allows to pay taxes, fees and a single contribution for obligatory state social insurance from these accounts.
“The verification of compliance with the requirements of this order when making payments is entrusted to officials of the legal entity – the debtor. This order is valid until the termination or cancellation of martial law,” the document states.
Negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian delegation continue uninterrupted in video format, special working subgroups have been established, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak said.
“Negotiations with the Russian delegation are now ongoing in a continuous video format. Special working subgroups have been created. Ukraine’s positions are determined by the previous directives,” Podoliak said on Twitter, attaching a joint photo with Head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak.
The Government of Ukraine introduces a ban on the export of fertilizers from Ukraine, Minister of Agrarian Policy Roman Leschenko said on Facebook.
“In connection with the martial law, in order to maintain balance in the domestic market of significant mineral fertilizers, the government introduces a zero quota for their export. That is, a de facto ban on the export of fertilizers from Ukraine,” he said.
Leschenko said that this applies to nitrogen (TN VED code 3102), phosphorus (TN VED code 3103) and potassium (TN VED code 3104) mineral or chemical fertilizers.
According to him, this list also includes complex fertilizers – containing two or three nutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilizers; goods of this group in tablets, packages with a gross weight of not more than 10 kg (TN VED code 3105).
“I emphasize that this ban is of forced and temporary nature and is used to restore the balance of certain goods in the domestic market and ensure the sowing campaign, which is extremely important in order to prevent a food crisis in Ukraine and the world,” the head of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy said.
As reported, a few days earlier, the government added fertilizers to the list of critical imports, for the purchase of which it is allowed to buy foreign currency.
During the period of Russian military aggression, Ukraine should allow the import and sale of fuel of the Euro-4 ecological standard, director of the A-95 consulting group Serhiy Kuyun said.
“It is necessary to temporarily allow the use of fuel of Euro-4 standards. The equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not notice this at all. Tanks, ZILs, diesel locomotives and others will go easily – this equipment is not new for the most part,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
“Civilian transport will also survive. Strict European fuel requirements are mainly for environmental purposes. Now there are much more serious threats to our life and health than the exhaust in traffic jams from refugees’ cars,” Kuyun said.
According to him, there are interesting price offers for Euro-4 on the foreign market, which will increase the filling of the Ukrainian market with fuel.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine by Decree No. 252 of March 11 approved the procedure for the formation and execution of local budgets during the period of martial law.
“This resolution simplifies budgetary procedures at the local level in order to ensure the functioning of the public sector and the vital needs of territorial communities during the period of martial law,” the Finance Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
The agency said that, in particular, the document makes it possible to promptly respond to the needs of financial support for territorial defense measures, protecting the security of the population and the functioning of the public sector, utilities during martial law.
“Temporarily, for the period until the cessation or cancellation of martial law, checks by the State Audit Service of the implementation of local budgets are not carried out, and the ongoing checks are stopped,” the resolution also says.
