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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Since the beginning of the harvesting campaign as of July 30, Ukrainian farmers have harvested 24.3 million tonnes (10.2 million tones more in a week from July 26 to July 30) of grain and leguminous crops from an area of 5.7 million hectares (37% from the forecast).
According to the information and analytical portal of the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine, in the context of crops, the following were threshed: wheat – 16.9 million tonnes from an area of 3.8 million hectares (55% of the total area under this crop), barley – 6.83 million tonnes from 1.67 million hectares (68%), rapeseed – 1.48 million tonnes from 570 hectares (56%), peas – 410,000 tonnes from 180,000 hectares (77%).
According to the portal, the yield of harvested wheat was 44,500 tonnes per ha, barley – 41,100 tonnes per ha, peas – 22,500 tonnes per ha.
The portal said that the leaders in harvesting since the beginning of the harvesting campaign are Kherson (the harvest was harvested from 90% of the area), Mykolaiv (74%) regions. At the same time, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson regions have completely harvested peas, rapeseed is completely harvested in Kherson and Poltava regions.
The leaders in grain yield are agricultural producers of Volyn region, who harvested grain from 21% of the area with a yield of 61,100 tonnes per ha.
Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina won the women’s singles bronze medal match at the Tokyo Olympics.
According to the website of the Olympics, Svitolina defeated her opponent, the representative of Kazakhstan, Elena Rybakina, following the results of three sets with a score of 6:1, 6:7, 4:6.
This is the fifth medal received by the Ukrainian team. As reported, earlier medals in their disciplines were won by shooters Olena Kostevych and Oleh Omelchuk, who became bronze medalists of the Olympics in shooting from a pneumatic pistol from ten meters, epee fencer Ihor Reizlin, judoka Daria Bilodid and swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk, who won bronze in the 800 swim meters freestyle.
Lack of adequate international financial support poses a threat to Ukraine’s achievement of the goal of reducing CO2 emissions by 2030 to 35% of the 1990 level, Trade Representative of Ukraine, Deputy Economy Minister Taras Kachka said on Facebook.
According to him, otherwise, the level of emissions by 2030 may increase and amount to 37% to 42% of the 1990 level.
“Comparing the horizon of commitments (ten years) and the previous experience of Ukraine, which has been suffering from a number of macroeconomic and security crises since 2014, the level of greenhouse gas emissions in the period up to 2030 may increase and amount to 37% to 42% of greenhouse gas emissions from the 1990 level,” Kachka said.
He said the goal of Ukraine’s Second Nationally Determined Contribution to Paris Climate Accord is achievable in all spheres of the economy under the following conditions: maintaining and improving the access of key trading partners to foreign markets; pursuing a sustainable and predictable trade policy and the absence of restrictions and barriers from the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Appendix I) and other countries that may apply similar restrictions and barriers; availability of access to financing for climate modernization projects from the governments of developed countries, the private sector, international financial organizations and any other donors.
