PJSC Ukrnafta in January-June 2021 saw a net profit of UAH 1.585 billion versus UAH 2.596 billion of a net loss for the same period in 2020.
According to the company’s statement in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission, its net income in the first half of the year increased 1.5 times (by UAH 5.069 billion), to UAH 15.042 billion, gross profit – 3.3 times (by UAH 4.608 billion 607.785 million), to UAH 6.571 billion.
Ukrnafta is the largest oil company in the country. NJSC Naftogaz Ukrainy owns 50% + 1 share in Ukrnafta, a group of companies associated with the former shareholders of PrivatBank – about 42% of shares. Ukrnafta has 25 drilling rigs, 1,891 oil and 162 gas well. The company owns 537 filling stations.
SoftServe, one of the largest Ukrainian IT companies, opens a new office in Dubai to support clients in the Middle East region, the number of which is growing rapidly.
According to the press service of the company, the new office of the company is located in the business center Dubai Internet City.
SoftServe said that the company has been operating in the Middle East since 2018, supplying solutions for large business conglomerations in the areas of trade, finance and the energy sector. The Middle East today is a hub that is rapidly developing and attracting investment, and due to the increase in population, opportunities are opening up for activities outside the oil sector. Therefore, this region occupies a key position in SoftServe’s growth strategy.
“Today, we are seeing an increase in demand for software and digital transformation in this region and are pleased to be able to provide our expertise. Our new office will better serve and support our customers by developing innovations in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud solutions, and digital banking solutions. We expect to build long-term and sustainable relationships in the Middle East, providing the most relevant technological solutions and services. Our presence in the location is another evolutionary step in the development of key markets in the region,” the press service said, quoting Executive Vice President EMEA at SoftServe Volodymyr Semenyshyn.
According to the company, the new office of SoftServe in Dubai will offer clients a full range of services – from consulting to project management, implementation of solutions and their ongoing support. In addition to the business development direction, developers will also work in the office.
The company said that the Dubai office will become a place for frequent visits by employees, customers and partners. In general, in 2019-2020, 150 employees of the company traveled to the UAE for business purposes.
“SoftServe is partnering with Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure to showcase expertise across the region that is recognized by global corporations – from cutting edge technology solutions, big data management, cloud architecture to AWS best practices for business and solutions based on Microsoft technologies,” SoftServe said.
SoftServe specializes in software production, development services, quality control and support of information systems and business solutions. To date, about 10,000 employees of the company work in 38 offices. The main offices of the company are located in Lviv and Austin (Texas, the United States). The company’s development centers are located in Lviv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernyvtsi, Sofia (Bulgaria) and Wroclaw, Bialystok, Gliwice and Warsaw (Poland).
Head coach of the Ukrainian national football team Andrey Shevchenko announced the expiration of a five-year contract with the Ukrainian Football Association (UAF) and his resignation.
“Today my contract with the Ukrainian Football Association expired, I spent five years with the main team of the country,” Shevchenko said on his Facebook page on Sunday.
He thanked the UAF President and the Executive Committee for working with the Ukrainian national team.
“I am grateful to every player, every person who helped and was involved in the team. Many thanks to all fans for their support and criticism. Together we managed to show that our football can be competitive, productive and interesting,” Shevchenko said.
As reported, Shevchenko became the mentor of the national team in 2016, when his candidacy was unanimously supported at a meeting on Friday by the Executive Committee of the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU). The contract with Shevchenko was signed for two years with the possibility of extension for another two years.
In July 2012, Shevchenko announced the end of his football career. In November of the same year, then FFU President Anatoliy Konkov offered Shevchenko to become the head coach of the Ukrainian national team, but he refused.
In March 2015, Shevchenko received a coaching license of the highest category – “PRO” – a UEFA diploma, which gives the right to work as the head coach of a club or national team. In mid-April 2015, by decision of the FFU Executive Committee, he became one of the three first deputy heads of the FFU Committee of National Teams. On February 16, 2016, Shevchenko became an assistant to the head coach of the Ukrainian national team, Mykhailo Fomenko.
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Ukraine, in accordance with the Second National Determined Contributions of Ukraine (NOV2) to the Paris Agreement, shall reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 65% from 1990 levels by 2030.
This goal was set and approved by a resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at an extraordinary meeting on Friday.
“The Cabinet of Ministers has approved Ukraine’s Second National Determined Contributions of Ukraine to the Paris Agreement. By decarbonization and the development of renewable energy sources, we intend to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 35% of the 1990 level. Ukraine goes side by side with the EU and the United States in the fight against climate change,” Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal wrote on his Twitter page.
Ukraine’s initial contribution to the Paris Agreement, adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers in September 2015, aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030, i.e. up to 60% of the 1990 level.
The indicator of emission reduction by 65% by 2030 was obtained based on the calculation that in 1990, Ukraine’s emissions, taking into account land use and forestry, amounted to 884 million tonnes. At the same time, in 2019, according to the inventory, CO2 emissions amounted to 332 million tonnes – 37.6% of the 1990 level.
According to an explanatory note to the draft resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers, NOV2 will allow integrating environmental components into the updated development strategies of the state, taking into account the national circumstances of the development of the Ukrainian economy while implementing international obligations, and improving the image of Ukraine in the international arena and in climate negotiations.
According to the note, NOV2 will contribute to attracting additional technological and financial resources to modernize and transform the economy towards the implementation of the European Green Deal and mitigate the effects of climate change.
The document is to be submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Climate Change Convention in preparation for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), which will be held on November 1 through November 12 in Glasgow.
Two citizens of Ukraine and one citizen of Germany, as well as 24 companies associated with them, have added to the sanctions list of smugglers of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), council’s Secretary Oleksiy Danilov has said.
“At one time we started to work with that category of people who are popularly called smugglers. Not all of them were included in the preliminary lists. These lists were supplemented. This time, the list was formed not by the State Security Service of Ukraine, but by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, headed by Minister Denys Monastyrsky,” Danilov said at a briefing following the NSDC meeting on Friday evening.
According to him, the list includes three individuals: a German citizen born in 1986, Alexander Akst, citizen of Ukraine, born in 1974 Valeriy Falkovsky, as well as a citizen of Ukraine, born in 1984, Vladyslav Studenets. “In addition, some 24 companies affiliated with these gentlemen were also included in this list,” the NSDC secretary said.
He said the NSDC does not intend to stop its work to combat smugglers. “We will track them, and whoever will continue to deal with this shameful case, he will fall under the sanctions of the National Security and Defense Council,” Danilov said.
PASSENGERS CARRIED IN JAN-MAY OF 2021, IN MLN
