Ukraine has recently lost about 17,000 gas distribution networks that have groundlessly ended up in private ownership, National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said.
“Unfortunately, we must say that recently, in some amazing way, the government has lost 16,920 kilometers of networks, which have passed into private ownership. We see no reason today not to deal with this issue and intend to find out how this happened,” he said at a briefing on the results of the NSDC meeting in Kramatorsk on Friday, July 30.
At the same time, he said the gas distribution market segment is distinguished by the monopoly position of one group of companies owned by businessman Dmytro Firtash, due to which the NSDC will instruct the Cabinet of Ministers to check their activities.
“One of the companies owns 70% of regional gas companies. This directly concerns Mr. Firtash, against whom personal sanctions have been imposed. We will also deal with this issue. By the decision of the NSDC, we will instruct the Cabinet of Ministers to check all these things in order to bring them into line with the current legislation. We will not allow someone as a state to blackmail us and distort bills,” Danilov said.
Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas in the women’s triple jump at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo has broken the best result in the world set by Ukrainian athlete Inessa Kravets 25 years ago, according to the official website of the Olympics on Sunday.
“The record, which was held by Ukrainian Inessa Kravets since 1995, was always under threat from the outset of the event. And Rojas fairly blew away the previous world-best of 15.50 meters with her massive final jump,” according to the website.
As reported, Rojas completed a triple jump of 15.67 meters ─ this is 17 centimeters more than the Ukrainian athlete at one time. So Rojas set a world record in the discipline.
It is noted that she also became the first Venezuelan woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
At a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on Friday, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky set the task to ensure the greatest possible increase in salaries of nurses, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov has said.
“Danilov said that further measures to reform the health system should be focused on adjusting the reform, taking into account the priority of solving the problematic issues that the situation with the spread of COVID-19 pandemic has revealed. According to Danilov, the President of Ukraine also set the task of ensuring the greatest possible increase salaries of nurses,” the NSDC press service said, following the results of the meeting in Kramatorsk.
It is noted that at the meeting the issue of the state of the national health system and urgent measures to provide citizens of Ukraine with medical care was considered, and an appropriate decision was made.
The export of Ukrainian ice cream for the period 2016-2020 increased by one and a half times, to 6,740 tonnes, while in January-April 2021 this figure increased 20% compared to January-April 2020, to 2,300 tonnes, the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection of Ukraine said in a press release on Friday.
“The growth of exports testifies to the high quality of Ukrainian products, which are valued both in Ukraine and abroad. It is pleasant that almost half of Ukrainian ice cream exports go to the EU countries, with which trade is intensifying in many trade positions,” Head of the authority Vladyslava Mahaletska said.
According to the authority, in the first six months of 2021 Ukraine exported 1,080 tonnes of ice cream, of which 46.8% went to the EU countries. In total, Ukraine supplies this product to more than 50 countries of the world, mainly to Moldova, China, and Israel.
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