Participants in the grain market and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine have set the maximum export volumes for wheat in the current 2021/2022 marketing year (MY) at 25.3 million tonnes, compared to 17.5 million tonnes in the previous marketing year. According to the ministry’s website, the corresponding addition to the memorandum of understanding for 2021/2022 was signed on October 19.
The ministry recalled that it is organizing the signing of such memorandums on its platform, starting in 2011, to ensure food security, in order to avoid the use of export restrictions, to ensure a predictable grain export regime and to stabilize the grain market in Ukraine.
“The practice of signing memorandums is successful in terms of compliance by the signatories with the conditions on the possibility of exporting grain volumes,” the department noted.
At the same time, this year the heads of the Ukrainian Millers union, the Ukrainian Bakers’ Association and Ukrkhlibprom withdrew their signatures to the memorandum, considering the export ceiling without dividing wheat into food and fodder as highly inflated.
Shakhtar Donetsk has lost 0:5 to Real Madrid, Spain, in the third match of the group stage of the 2021/22 Champions League.
The score was opened in the 37th minute by Serhiy Kryvtsov, who scored an own goal while trying to interrupt the long-distance pass to Karim Benzema. Vinicius scored a double in the second half (51, 56), Rodrigo scored the fourth goal (65), and Benzema scored the final goal (90 + 1).
In another match of Group D, Italian Inter beat Moldovan Sheriff at home with a score of 3:1.
Thus, after three rounds, Real Madrid and Sheriff are leading the group with six points, Inter with four points is in the third place, and Shakhtar closes the group with one point.
In the fourth round on November 3, Shakhtar will go to Madrid, and Inter to Tiraspol.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal has said the government has no plans to introduce a full lockdown across the country.
“We do not plan to introduce a full lockdown across the country and stop the economy. But as the president said: the only alternative to lockdown is precisely mass vaccination,” Shmyhal said at a government meeting on Wednesday.
The prime minister also said that several more regions may soon fall into the “red” zone.
Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of October 20
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 20/10/21
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine in October expanded the network of medical facilities to provide medical care to patients with COVID-19 to 422.
“As of yesterday, the network of medical institutions for providing medical care to patients with COVID-19 has been expanded to 422 medical institutions,” deputy head of the National Health Service of Ukraine (NHSU) Anna Fenchak said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.
She said that by the end of October, the NHSU will conclude contracts with all the medical institutions that will meet the requirements of the National Service, in particular, regarding the provision of oxygen and the availability of the required number of doctors.
“The NHSU concludes contracts with all medical institutions that meet the requirements. They will be signed by the end of October, payment for actually rendered medical services will be made in early November,” Fenchak said.
