Polish Ambassador to Ukraine Bartosz Cichocki, Turkish Ambassador to Ukraine Yağmur Ahmet Güldere and Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas continue to work in Kyiv, the Polish Ambassador to Ukraine said.
“There are also a nuncio and a Turkish ambassador,” Cichocki said on Twitter on Wednesday.
So he responded to the media’s suggestion that he was the only Western ambassador who did not leave Kyiv.
For the period of martial law, Ukraine instructed the regional military administrations, together with the National Police, the State Consumer Service and the State Medical Service, to ensure control over the setting of retailers’ prices for a number of goods, including, in particular, wheat flour, pasta, long loaf, bread, buckwheat, oatmeal.
According to the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 223 of March 6, published on the government website, this list also includes pork, beef, poultry (chicken carcasses), milk, butter, sour cream, chicken eggs, sunflower oil and sugar.
In addition, retail prices of white cabbage, onions, beets, carrots, potatoes, ethanol (96% solution), domestic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and antibacterial drugs, A-95 gasoline, diesel fuel and liquefied gas will be controlled.
As reported, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on March 7, that the government had formed a package of decisions that should support Ukrainian businesses during the war. According to him, in particular, the government will cancel all measures of market and consumer supervision on all issues, except for price regulation and pricing control.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide the first financing package to support Ukraine’s resilience in the amount of EUR2 billion.
“The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced an initial EUR2 billion resilience package of measures to help citizens, companies and countries affected by the war on Ukraine. The bank has also pledged to do all it can to help with the country’s reconstruction, once conditions allow,” the bank said.
“Funding will be made rapidly available to support Ukrainian companies – for example, with deferred loans, liquidity support, and trade finance. Where possible, businesses will be helped to relocate so their work can continue,” it said.
“In addition, the bank’s Resilience and Livelihoods Framework will help in countries directly affected by inflows of Ukrainian refugees. Women, children and the elderly make up the majority of displaced citizens, and municipal authorities face huge challenges in managing the influx of people,” the report says.
“This package was endorsed today by the Bank’s Board of Directors and represents a first round of support. The EBRD had previously declared its unwavering support to Ukraine and its people, and condemned the aggression by the Russian Federation and Belarus,” according to the document.
“Once conditions permit, the EBRD will also be prepared to take part in a reconstruction program for Ukraine, to rebuild livelihoods and businesses; restore vital infrastructure; support good governance; and enable access to services,” it reads.
“It envisages working with international partners including the EU and U.S., as well as bilateral donors and other international financial institutions. It expects there to be a surge in investment in energy security, as well as an acceleration of decarbonization efforts,” the bank added.
The global analytical agency in the field of higher education Quacquarelli Symonds, which compiles one of the most popular university rankings in the world QS World University Rankings, has decided to stop cooperation with Russian and Belarusian institutions of higher education in connection with the war unleashed against Ukraine.
“We are outraged by the war that Russia is waging against the Ukrainian people. We believe in the power of international education to promote understanding and cooperation, but now we are seeing how university campuses have experienced destruction, and our partners, colleagues and friends have been displaced and affected by a humanitarian catastrophe,” the founder and CEO of the company said in an official statement.
The report notes that in response to the actions of the Russian Federation, the organization is taking a number of measures.
In particular, it supports, through advisory services and mobility programs, in particular through the QS TopUniversities portal, Ukrainian and foreign students and applicants affected by the war.
Also, through various platforms (during summits, through the website and publications), it organizes discussions among the international educational community about the crisis caused by the war and the search for opportunities to support the affected people, and also ceases to cooperate with new clients in the Russian Federation and suspends active interaction with Russian clients, previously collaborated with.
In addition, a decision was made not to include Russian and Belarusian universities in the new university rankings and to stop advertising Russian universities or the Russian Federation as a place to study.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said that, according to International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Peter Maurer, the ICRC will return its representative to Kyiv.
“Had a telephone conversation with the President of the ICRC Peter Maurer. Received positive signal! The Red Cross representatives are returning to Kyiv. Our top priority now is to deliver humanitarian aid to the surrounded cities and evacuate people urgently,” Shmyhal said on Twitter.
Writer J. K. Rowling will donate around GBP 1 million to Lumos, a charity that raises funds to send aid to children in orphanages in Ukraine.
“I will personally match donations to this appeal, up to 1 million. Thank you so, so much to all who’ve already donated, you’re enabling Lumos to do crucial work for some of the most vulnerable children in Ukraine,” Rowling said on Twitter.
