The British purchasing agency Crown Agents delivered the first 117,000 doses out of 167,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 to Ukraine from Belgium on Wednesday.
Crown Agents told Interfax-Ukraine that the second batch of vaccine (50,000 doses) is expected on Thursday.
According to head of Crown Agents in Ukraine Tetiana Korotchenko, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was transported in compliance with all storage rules under the required temperature conditions.
In February, Crown Agents delivered 500,000 doses of Covishield vaccine to Ukraine, developed by AstraZeneca in cooperation with the University of Oxford.
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As we are preparing the draft agenda, which will be available on our website shortly, we wanted to give you a taster of what topics you can expect to be discussed this July:
ELECTRICITY DAY, 14 JULY
• Addressing current market imbalances
• Progress on implementation of the Third Energy Package
• Distribution System Operators’ modernisation
• Renewables sector update
• Ukrainian contribution to the path of de-carbonisation
• Encouraging investment in alternative power sources
MAIN DAYS ONE AND TWO, 15-16 JULY
• Strategic overview of the market by top policymakers, domestic and European regulators and leading energy companies
• Regional gas market integration
• 10 year GTSO development plan
• Expectations, obstacles and needs for the new Production Sharing Agreements
• Incentives for new investments into production and mechanisms for cooperation
• Developing offshore, deep drilling, hard-to-recover hydrocarbon production technologies
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The total public debt of Ukraine in April 2021 increased by 1.29% in U.S. dollars to $91.33 billion and by 0.8% in hryvnias, to UAH 2.534 trillion, according to data on the website of the Ministry of Finance, released on Wednesday.
According to the Ministry of Finance, direct public debt in April this year in U.S. dollars grew by 1.53%, to $81.37 billion, in hryvnias – by 1.04%, to UAH 2.258 trillion.
External direct debt in the past month in U.S. dollars rose by 3.89%, to $45.12 billion (in hryvnias growth was 3.38%, to UAH 1.251 trillion).
The state-guaranteed debt in April in U.S. dollars decreased 0.7% to $9.95 billion, in hryvnias decreased 1.17%, to UAH 276.25 billion, according to the ministry’s data.
According to them, since the beginning of the year, the total national debt of Ukraine has grown by 1.19% in U.S. dollars and by 18.33% in hryvnias.
According to the Ministry of Finance, the share of liabilities in U.S. dollars of the total structure of public debt in April increased to 36.15%, in euros – to 13.68%, in SDR – to 13.54%, while in hryvnias it decreased to 36.02% , while in the yen it remained at the same level – 0.6%.
The official exchange rate, at which the Ministry of Finance calculates the debt, strengthened to UAH 27.75/$1 in April compared to UAH 27.88/$1 in March.
The National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission of Ukraine (NEURC) at a meeting on Wednesday limited the available capacity for importing electricity to Ukraine from states that are not parties to the Energy Community (Russia, Belarus) to 0 MW until October 1, 2021. “We take this decision on the initiative of Energy Minister Herman Haluschenko, who made such a request to us. At the same time, we remember our experience and this winter, and remember the balance of interests, because we also think about consumers and about that, theoretically, the termination of imports as a market mechanism can lead to abuses and manipulations in the market,” Chairman of NEURC Valeriy Tarasiuk said.
He did not rule out that NEURC will most likely continue limiting the throughput of power lines between Ukraine and Russia and Belarus after October 1.
The regulator decided to cancel the results of annual auctions at which the capacity for 2021 was allocated in terms of interstate relations between Ukraine and states that are not parties to the Energy Community (Russia and Belarus). The regulator also instructed the transmission system operator to reimburse the auction winners for the funds paid for the capacities allocated at the annual auctions.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development have signed a grant agreement for EUR 7 million for the preparation and implementation of the Ukrainian Recovery Programme (URP), the press service of the Ministry has reported. “The signed grant of EUR 7 million contributes to the implementation of a new loan agreement – the Ukrainian Recovery Programme – in accordance with the leading international approaches and the interests of Ukrainian communities. Thanks to the URP, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, sports infrastructure and other key infrastructure in eastern Ukraine have already been restored,” Deputy Minister of Communities and Territories Development Ivan Lukeria.
The grant is provided under the EU Neighborhood Investment Platform (NIP) and complements the URP funding from the EIB.
According to the report, the URP funds will finance several hundred small and medium-sized projects at the municipal level, including the restoration of social infrastructure, improvement of utilities, repair of damaged administrative buildings. The implementation of the projects will improve conditions for 13 million Ukrainians.
“The new loan agreement from the EIB in the amount of EUR 340 million, which we signed last year, contributes to the large-scale reconstruction of social infrastructure in Ukraine. And the grant of EUR 7 million from the EU will help us to quickly implement the planned recovery,” Minister of Communities and Territories Development Oleksiy Chernyshov said.
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) will resume flights on the Kyiv-Warsaw-Kyiv route from June 18, 2021, which were suspended due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the press service of the company said on Wednesday, these flights will be operated on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
Departures from Kyiv are planned at 09:55 (arrival at 10:30 local time), from Warsaw – at 14:05 (arrival at 16:35 local time).
Currently, flights from Kyiv to Warsaw are also operated by Wizz Air, Ryanair and LOT.
