Humanitarian medical aid has arrived for health care institutions of Lviv region from Germany, some of the medicines are provided for the needs of other regions of Ukraine, said head of the Lviv Regional Administration Maksym Kozytsky.
“About six tonnes of medical humanitarian aid from Germany were received in Lviv region. These are insulins of different types and hemostatic. For distribution, the cargo was sent to one of the pharmacy warehouses of the region,” he wrote on the Telegram channel on Wednesday morning.
According to Kozytsky, four health care institutions of Lviv region, two of which are children’s, will receive part of the medicines. The other part will be stored in a warehouse for further needs of both Lviv region and other regions of Ukraine.
He also added that the medicines were collected in different cities of Germany and sent from the hospital of the German city of Regensburg called Merciful Brothers on a centralized basis. They organized a fundraiser for the purchase of medical rubber aid by Dr. Hubertus von Voss and Michelle Merter.
Kozytsky also said that charity concerts are being held throughout Germany, and for the proceeds from them they plan to buy another batch of medicine.
“The flow of aid to Lviv region was facilitated by the NGO Let’s Protect Ukraine Together,” said the head of the Regional Administration.
The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine has sent an official appeal to the European Commission with proposals to increase economic pressure on the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.
“Despite the already introduced restrictive measures, Russian business finds workarounds and continues to conduct operations in other countries. Accordingly, the existing sanctions do not fully achieve their goal,” the ministry said on its website on Tuesday.
In this regard, the Infrastructure Ministry proposes to the European Union: completely block land and sea transport links with Russia and Belarus; block the possibility of transporting goods and people to Russia and Belarus through the territory of the European Union and across its borders; prohibit the provision of customs services for goods delivered to Russia and Belarus.
“In particular, these measures are necessary to stop the supply of dual-use goods to the aggressor country that can be used for military needs,” the ministry said.
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The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, who arrived in Ukraine the day before, is visiting Yuzhnoukrainsk NPP in Pervomaisk (Mykolaiv region) on Wednesday.
“I’m at South Ukraine Yuzhnoukrainsk Nuclear Power Plant to meet Ukrainian gov’t officials and staff, and start IAEA technical assistance for safety and security of country’s nuclear facilities. Vital to be on the ground to provide effective support to Ukraine in these extremely difficult times,” he wrote on Twitter.
He said that he personally thanked the Yuzhnoukrainsk Nuclear Power Plant staff for their endurance and resilience during these extremely difficult times. He added that IAEA’s on-site presence will help prevent the danger of a nuclear accident that could have severe public health and environmental consequences in Ukraine and beyond.
“Staff of all Ukrainian nuclear facilities deserve full respect and admiration for keeping sites running in a safe and secure way amid conflict,” Grossi said
The third field hospital for the treatment of military and displaced persons has been deployed on the territory of Lviv region, the press service of Lviv Regional Military Administration has reported.
“The mobile medical facility is designed for 50 beds and it was transferred to Ukraine by decision of the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,” the Administration said.
The hospital includes: an operating room, resuscitation beds, an intensive care unit, an X-ray diagnostics unit, a clinical laboratory with a blood bank, and an oxygen concentrator. The hospital is also equipped with an air filtration and purification system.
As stated in the message of Lviv Regional Military Administration, the hospital can work offline on a diesel generator, and with stocks of medicines and consumables for full load operation for a year.
At present, the formation of a staff of specialists continues. The hospital will employ doctors who have left the front-line areas, as well as doctors from Canada and the United States.
“Now they are staffing the hospital, and in connection with this, they have not yet started accepting patients,” Head of Lviv Regional Military Administration Maksym Kozytsky said.
This is the third field hospital deployed on the territory of Lviv region since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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Eurobonds of Ukraine on Tuesday rose by an average of 14.4% on news of the results of negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow in Istanbul: if securities maturing in 2023 and 2024 grew in price by 10.6% to 12.5%, then growth prices of shorter and longer ones reached 17.2% and 16.6%, respectively.
According to Bloomberg at 19.00, the price of the shortest bonds maturing in September 2022 jumped by 17.2% to 62.4% of par, which corresponds to a yield to maturity of 154.7% per annum, while the previous day the rate was 221.6%.
Eurobonds maturing in 2023 were quoted at a rate of 62.1% per annum as a result of the rise in price, some 48.9% per annum in 2024, some 36.9% in 2025 and some 31.2% in 2026.
Rates on securities maturing in 2027-2029 fell to 27.7% to 22.8% against 31.5% to 26.2% a day earlier.
The yield of the “longest” securities maturing in 2032 and 2033 fell on Tuesday by 3.0 to 2.9 percentage points (p.p.) to 20.1% to 19.5% per annum.
Eurobonds maturing in 2026 were quoted with a yield of 33.8%, some 18.2% in 2030, which is 4.9 p.p. and 2.9 p.p. less than the day before.
The rate of GDP warrants on Tuesday jumped immediately by 20.6% and at 19.00 Tuesday was about 33.3% of the nominal value.
Positive results were also recorded for Ukrainian corporate eurobonds. In particular, MHP securities maturing in 2024, for which the issuer is now collecting holders’ consent for a 270-day deferral of the next coupon payment, rose by 10.7%, while their yield fell from 63.2% to 56.3%.
Eurobonds of DTEK RES with maturity also in 2024, according to information on the website of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, increased in price by 2.25%, and their rate dropped to 76.4% per annum.
Following the talks in Istanbul, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said that the delegations of Ukraine and Russia managed to achieve convergence of positions on some issues, and more complex topics will be discussed at the next rounds of negotiations between the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Ukraine.
This information was confirmed by representatives of the delegations. In particular, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, Colonel-General Alexander Fomin, said that Russia’s military activity in Kyiv and Chernihiv areas would be reduced in order to increase mutual trust and create the necessary conditions for further negotiations.
Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleksandr Chaly from the Ukrainian side said that in the presence of clear legally binding guarantees to Ukraine, which in their content and form should be similar to Part 5 of the NATO Charter, “Ukraine will be in a position to fix its status as a de facto non-bloc and non-nuclear state in form of permanent neutrality.”
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal says the government has formed strategic food reserves for several years in Ukraine.
“Food security. We have formed strategic food reserves for several years in Ukraine,” Shmyhal said at a government meeting on Tuesday.
The prime minister also said the state provided farmers with funds to purchase everything they need for the sowing campaign.
“We also help farmers with exports and will actively expand this area, as the country must earn,” he said.
