Ukraine is preparing for any scenario of the development of events associated with an artificially created migration crisis on the border with Belarus, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk has said.
“We in Ukraine are preparing for any scenario of the development of events. Now there is no influx of migrants to the borders of our state. At the same time, we see that the tactics of actions related to illegal migration from Belarus to the EU countries are ambiguous, every day something changes in it,” Stefanchuk said at the 11 session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Verkhovna Rada, the Seimas of Lithuania and the Senate of Poland in Warsaw on Monday.
He said that Ukraine is strengthening the border with Belarus and constantly consults at the ministerial level with the Polish and Lithuanian sides.
“The Ukrainian side takes extremely seriously the situation on the EU border with Poland and Belarus. Today we are in complete solidarity with the Polish side: the migration crisis is artificially created by Russia and Belarus. What is happening on the EU’s eastern border is a challenge not only to our countries, but also a challenge to the entire civilized world. We are talking, among other things, about checking the ability of the EU and NATO to be consolidated in confronting modern challenges and threats,” Stefanchuk said.
According to him, Russia’s absorption of Belarus and its transformation into another Russian military base on the borders with the EU and NATO poses an immediate threat not only for Ukraine, but for the entire region.
Think Plus International Engineering and Consulting Company LLC became the winner in the tender for the development of design estimates for the reconstruction of the airfield of Kyiv Sikorsky International Airport, offering a price of almost UAH 17 million, according to the ProZorro electronic system.
The customer of the works was Kyiv International Airport. The expected cost was UAH 19.7 million.
According to information on ProZorro, the tender was announced on November 9, 2021. Institute Ukrdorproekt LLC, offering a price of UAH 17 million, and Dniprovsky Design Institute state enterprise, offering to perform this service for UAH 18 million, also participated in the tender.
The system also indicates that currently the complaint of Institute Ukrdorproekt LLC regarding the bidding procedure is still pending.
The work will be completed by June 30, 2022.
Think Plus International Engineering and Consulting Company LLC was founded in 2017.
According to the information on the company’s website, its core business is the comprehensive development of design and estimate documentation for the construction, reconstruction and repair of highways, transport interchanges, bridges, overpasses, flyovers and other artificial structures, engineering and survey work, rebuilding engineering networks and providing engineering services.
Ukraine has registered 8,655 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) and 467 related deaths in the past 24 hours, the press service for the Ukrainian Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
“Over the past day, Ukraine has recorded 8,655 new cases of COVID-19, including 716 children and 200 medical workers, while 188,758 people have been vaccinated for COVID-19, including 73,097 who received their first shot and 115,661 who completed their vaccination. In the past 24 hours, 1,349 persons have been hospitalized, 467 have died, and 22,878 have recovered,” the ministry said on Telegram.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Ukraine has seen a total of 3.511 million COVID-19 infections, including 3.083 million recoveries and 88,986 deaths.
As of this day, 13.826 million people have been vaccinated for COVID-19, including 13.826 million who received the first dose and 11.922 million who completed their vaccination.
The users of modern smartphones are 18 million subscribers of the network of the mobile operator Kyivstar.
According to the press service of the company, the data are for the third quarter of 2021.
According to Kyivstar analytics, the number of network users who already have smartphones increased by 8% compared to the same period last year. Among them, about 16.6 million devices support 4G.
“For several years now, smartphones from Xiaomi (32%) and Samsung (27%) have been leading in popularity among Kyivstar customers. The next most common smartphones are Apple (13%), Huawei (9%) and Meizu (2%). Other phones make up 17%,” the report says.
At the same time, the company notes that only 1.4 million subscribers have smartphones that do not support 4G technology. Compared to 2020, there are half the number of such phones.
Ukrzaliznytsia plans in 2022 to effectively use funds from the two-stage increase in freight tariffs approved in the second half of 2021 and refrain from their additional growth, chairman of the board Oleksandr Kamyshin said.
“Those two increases that have already been adopted seriously hit business. We have no plans to raise freight rates for 2022,” he said at the European Business Association’s infrastructure day in Kyiv.
According to him, the increase in tariffs is $ 1.5-2 per tonne for certain cargo and is quite tangible for their sellers.
Kamyshin emphasized that Ukrzaliznytsia sets the task of properly using the received resources and investing them in infrastructure, in particular, in electrification, which cuts transportation costs three times.
“We have to do our homework,” he said.
He recalled that the tariff increase adopted in 2021 was aimed at converging tariff classes, but the tariff system still requires work “by itself.”
After such a setting of the tariff system, Kamyshin noted it is advisable to switch to linking tariffs to the industrial price index and automatically change them without manual intervention.
As reported with reference to the order of the Ministry of Infrastructure dated October 29, with the beginning of 2022, tariffs for the transportation of a group of goods of the first tariff class by rail will increase by 9%.
– At present, no Omicron strain causing coronavirus (COVID-19) has been found in Ukraine.
According to the Health Ministry press service, Minister of Health Viktor Liashko announced this information at a conference call to prevent the spread of COVID-19 disease in Ukraine, chaired by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.
