Investment company Concorde Capital has invested about UAH 200 million in the project of cottage town “O.Krasa” in Irpen and allows further investment, the head of Concorde Capital Igor Mazepa told Forbes Ukraine.
“Under UAH 200 million (already invested – IF-U). I hope that this is all. But in fact I would proceed from the fact that potentially we will have to invest the same amount more. This is our first investment in the project from scratch since the beginning of the war,” Mazepa said.
According to him, the investment company is implementing the project together with the developer Svitlo Development of businessman Sergei Krikun and the construction group “Vidvazhnyh” ex-mayor of Irpen Vladimir Karplyuk and his business partner Vladimir Spivak.
“We came together on pure business interest. Karplyuk is a comfortable and understandable partner. The plot and the idea is his, from me – money and formation of working capital,” he explained.
Mazepa pointed out that currently 50 objects are under construction, 32 of which have already been sold. In total, the first phase includes 200 objects of various formats: townhouses, townhouses, duplexes, cottages.
“After the beginning of the war in Irpen registered 15 thousand migrants from the east of Ukraine. Now there may be more. 2 thousand houses or apartments were destroyed or damaged because of the hostilities. We proceeded from the assumption that with our offer we will be able to meet the demand of both native and new residents of Irpen. This assumption is still being realized”, – said the businessman, noting that about one third of the objects in the project are adapted for participation in the “eOsela” program.
Answering the question about cement business, Mazepa pointed out that the production volume of two plants of the company “Krivoy Rog Cement” at the end of the year will be about 780 thousand tons with a capacity of 1.6 million tons. He said that Concorde Capital plans to make capital investments of “tens of millions of dollars” in this area, including reducing the share of coal in energy consumption through processing, as well as expanding capacity to 2 million tons of cement per year.
According to LUN, the area of the cottage town “O.Krasa” is 60 hectares. In addition to housing, the territory will accommodate cafes, stores, public and recreational spaces, children’s center and school, SPA-center and sports grounds, business center and co-working, medical center “Dobrobut”.
The project was developed by the architectural bureau “Modus”. Completion of the first district of the town is scheduled for the summer of 2025.
The European Union will allocate 50 million euros to Ukraine to restore port infrastructure damaged by Russian attacks, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
“Despite the war, Ukraine continues to feed the world. You can count on the European Union in these efforts. We are continuing to expand our Solidarity Lines and will provide €50 million to repair your port infrastructure,” von der Leyen wrote on Twitter (X).
“Together we will send Ukrainian grain to the world,” she added.
Her post on the social network was accompanied by the text of a letter addressed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
On the night of Monday, November 27, moderate snow is expected in Ukraine (at night in most northern and central regions there will be heavy snow, sometimes heavy snow, snow drifts, blizzards), in the southeastern part there will be sleet with rain, sometimes ice; in the western, daytime and most southern regions there will be light snow. There is ice on the roads, the Ukrainian Weather Center reported.
Northwest wind, southwest in the eastern regions, gusts of 17-22 m/s, at night and in the morning in Ukraine, except for the western, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia and Sumy regions, 25-30 m/s.
The temperature in the western regions at night will be 4-9° below zero, during the day 0-5° below zero; in the northern and central regions at night and during the day 2-7° below zero; in the rest of the territory during the day from 4° below zero to 2° above zero, in the Crimea 1-6° above zero.
In Kyiv, on Monday night, heavy snow, moderate snow during the day; blizzards, snow drifts, ice on the roads, gusts of northwest wind of 17-22 m/s, 25 m/s at night. The temperature at night and during the day will be 2-4° below zero.
According to the Borys Sreznevsky Central Geophysical Observatory. On November 27, the highest temperature during the day was 14.4 in 1898, and the lowest at night was -21.9 in 1890.
On Tuesday, November 28, at night in the northeastern regions, in Transcarpathia and the Carpathians, during the day in the western regions, light snow, in Odesa and Mykolaiv regions light rain, in the rest of the territory without precipitation; temperature at night 5-10° below zero, during the day 1-6° below zero, in the south 3-8° above zero, in the Crimea up to 11°.
Southeast wind with a shift to the west, 7-12 m/s.
On the roads of the country, except in the south, there is ice.
In Kyiv on Tuesday, no precipitation, southeast wind, 5-10 m / s, temperature at night 6-8 ° below zero, during the day 1-3 ° below zero. There will be ice on the roads.
Forecast of unemployment rate in Ukraine according to methodology of international labor organization until 2025
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In January-October this year, Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Plant (KZHRK) reduced its production of commercial iron ore from underground mining by 28.3% year-on-year to 1,903 thousand tons.
According to the company, in October, Pokrovska mine produced 23 thousand tons of ore, Kryvorizka mine – 40 thousand tons, Kozatska mine – 10 thousand tons and Ternivska mine – 40 thousand tons, for a total production of 113 thousand tons at the plant in October.
As reported, in 2022, KZHRK reduced the production of commercial iron ore from underground mining by 32.8% year-on-year to 2.888 million tons.
KZHRK specializes in underground iron ore mining. The company has four mines: “Pokrovska (formerly Zhovtneva), Kryvorizka (Batkivshchyna), Kozatska (formerly Gvardiyska) and Ternivska (formerly Ordzhonikidze and then Lenin).
Starmill Limited owns 99.88% of the plant’s shares.
Earlier it was reported that SCM Group owns a certain share in KZHRK, while Metinvest Group has no relation to KZHRK. At the same time, SCM Group is only an investor, while Privat Group exercises operational control over the plant.
The private oil corporation ExxonMobile has delivered 30,000 tons of diesel fuel by tanker to the port of Klaipeda in Lithuania, from where it will be transported by Ukrzaliznytsia to Ukraine to provide a reserve for the stable passage of the winter season, UZ said on Friday.
“Taking into account the available diesel fuel reserves, Ukrzaliznytsia has actually provided the necessary volume for the stable passage of the winter season,” UZ said in a statement.
It is noted that the contract for the supply of this batch of diesel fuel was signed on November 17, and five days later, the shipment began in the port of Klaipeda.
According to UZ, the price for diesel fuel including delivery, excise and customs clearance is quite favorable for the company and will be approximately UAH 52 thousand per ton or UAH 43-44 per liter.
“The final price will be calculated on Monday, five days after the notification of readiness for shipment according to Platts indices,” UZ said.
It is noted that thanks to the agreement with ExxonMobile, UZ saved UAH 2-3 per 1 liter of diesel fuel, as, according to the consulting agency, its cost in Ukraine in wholesale was UAH 46/l, and in retail – UAH 55/l.
According to Ukrzaliznytsia’s calculations, the company has already saved about UAH 1 billion on diesel by reducing consumption and through direct contracts with producers.
