Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked power engineers for recovery work after Russian missile strikes and urged the population to actively participate in the program to exchange ordinary bulbs for LED lamps
“I want to separately thank for this week our power engineers, all the employees of the repair teams, local and central authorities, who were involved in the elimination of the consequences of the Russian terrorist strike on Thursday,” he said in a video message on Sunday.
According to him, “for today it was possible to restore the technical capabilities of electricity supply. Kharkiv – with light. Zhytomyr region – with electricity. All cities and communities where there were problems with power supply have been healed again.”
“I thank each and everyone who worked for this! By the way, our program of exchanging old bulbs for new LED-lamps is being actively implemented. In total, Ukrainians have already received 12 million LED-lamps. And if we talk about energy saving, this amount allows saving up to 600 megawatts of energy. Approximately it is, for example, more than half of the generation of the most powerful nuclear power plant unit, “- he said.
14 armored ambulances manufactured by the British company Venari have been sent to Ukraine from Luxembourg, the Ukrainian embassy in Belgium and Luxembourg said.
“Already in the near future the vehicles will be sent to the front line, where they will carry out their main mission – to save the lives of our defenders defending our state, as well as civilians who constantly become victims of barbaric Russian shelling,” the message says.
It specifies that the action was realized within the initiative “Ukraine is calling”, organized by the Community of Ukrainians in Luxembourg LUkraine asbl, and supported by the embassy of Ukraine in Belgium and Luxembourg.
The aim of this initiative was to raise 10 million euros for the purchase of 112 ambulances and fire-fighting vehicles.
“We express our great gratitude to the Luxembourg Ministry of Defense, in particular to Mr. François Bausch, Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Defense of Luxembourg, Steve Tull, Chief of the General Staff and Oliver North, Deputy Chairman of the Venari Group. Special thanks to the President of LUkraine Mr. Mykola Zharov, Vice-President of LUkraine Inna Yaremenko and also to the entire LUkraine team”, the diplomatic mission summed up.
Parimatch LLC has officially ceased operations in Ukraine, the company said.
“The company’s operating activities have been terminated. The customer platform is unavailable, the website pm.ua has been blocked,” the company said in a press release published in its telegram channel on Sunday.
The company pointed out that it complies with Ukrainian law and Presidential Decree № 145/2023 of March 10.
In the press release, Parimatch said it is looking for ways to legally recover customer funds from its balance sheet and pay off debts under partnership contracts. The company also says it will terminate “labor relations with the company’s staff.”
As the company informs, the amount of actually paid taxes and license payments LLC “Paramatch” for 2023 is 485 million UAH. “We will wait for additional analysis and consideration of the situation around the sanctions of the CNBO against LLC Parimatch and hope for a future review of the decision,” the message of LLC “Parimatch”.
As reported, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky by decree of March 10 enacted the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) on the same day to impose sanctions on 120 individuals and 287 legal entities. Among them are Ukrainian LLC “Parimatch”, Financial Company “Leo”, “PokermatchUA”, “Your Betting Company” and “Play Fan Investment”.
From the Parimatch holding, the new sanctions also affected Parimatch United Investments Limited (UK) Fullgear Investments Ltd, Auspicia Limited (both Cyprus), Suncast Furure N.V. (Curacao, Netherlands), and Parimatch Foundation Limited (Cyprus), as well as a whole group of individuals abroad.
On Monday, March 13, there will be light sleet and rain in the northern and western regions at night and in the western regions during the day, but no precipitation in the rest of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Weather Center reported.
In the western, northern and Vinnytsia regions, there will be ice on the roads in some places.
The wind will be mostly southwest, 7-12 m/s, with gusts of 15-20 m/s in the western regions in some places during the day.
The temperature at night will be 0-5° below zero, during the day 3-8° above zero, in the southern part and the Carpathian region up to 11° above zero.
No precipitation in Kyiv on Monday. The wind will be mostly southwest, 7-12 m/s. The temperature will be 2-4° below zero at night, 6-8° above zero during the day.
According to the Borys Sreznevsky Central Geophysical Observatory, on March 13, the highest daytime temperature in Kyiv was 17.3 in 2001, the lowest nighttime temperature was -21.2 in 1928.
No precipitation in Ukraine on Tuesday. Southeast and south wind, 5-10 m / s, during the day in Ukraine, except for the south and east, in some places gusts of 15-20 m / s, in the highlands of the Carpathians 25-30 m / s.
The temperature at night in the western regions will be 1-6 ° C, in the rest of the territory from 3 ° C to 2 ° C, in the east and in the Carpathians 1-6 ° C; during the day 9-14 ° C, in the western regions 14-19 °.
No precipitation in Kyiv on Tuesday. Southeast and southern wind, 5-10 m / s, in some places gusts of 15-18 m / s during the day. The temperature at night will be 1-3° Celsius, during the day 11-13°.
The Italian government plans to hold a conference on April 26 with the participation of Italian companies on the reconstruction of Ukraine, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said.
“Today, together with the G7 foreign ministers, I announced that the government will organize a conference for the resumption of Ukraine on April 26 with the participation of Italian companies. Our commitment to peace and freedom for the Ukrainian people continues,” Tajani wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) allowed Tikrait LLC (Kiev) to privatize Zhovtnevyi distillery (Karlovka, Poltava region), which is part of state enterprise Ukrspirt, for 85 million and 1 UAH.
The relevant decision of March 2, 2023 is reported on the AMCU website on Friday.
According to the Unified State Register of legal entities and natural persons-entrepreneurs, the ultimate beneficiary of “Tikrait” with a share capital of 25 thousand UAH is Alexander Nazarenko. The company is engaged in activities in the field of law, consulting on business matters and activities in the field of real estate agencies. Earlier the company had no experience in privatization of alcohol assets in Ukraine.
According to the State Property Fund (SPF), the auction for the privatization of Zhovtnevyi distillery was held on December 7, 2022. The main activity of the company is the production of organic chemicals.
SPF specified that the asset consists of 93 buildings and structures with a total area of 13.5 thousand square meters. m. It includes production and administrative buildings, a distillery, granaries, cooling towers, a carpenter’s workshop, a sawmill, a chalk-and-oil station, a treacle station, alcohol storages, hangars, pumping stations, livestock farms, 23 vehicles and 506 pieces of equipment. The distillery is equipped with all necessary technological equipment and communications.
The company has seven land plots in Karlivka with a total area of 90.2 hectares, which belong to the state enterprise on the right of permanent use.
According to the SPF, Ukrspirt received UAH 58 million in revenue in 2020, UAH 162 million in 2021, and UAH 158 million in the first nine months of 2022.
As reported, the Office of the Prosecutor General in August 2021 announced the suspicion of the acting director of Zhovtnevyi distillery in evasion of excise tax in the manufacture of diluent and disinfectants in August 2020 for a total of about 182 million UAH.
The State Property Fund plans in 2023 to complete the full privatization of the alcohol industry, for which it will hold online auctions for the sale of 26 distilleries across the country.
In general, for 2.5 years, Ukraine has already held 39 successful auctions for the sale of distilleries, which added more than 2 billion UAH to the country’s budget. In particular, between September and December 2022, the SPF held 12 such auctions. The winning bidders offered more than 849 million hryvnias for these objects, which exceeded their aggregate starting price by three times. Thus, distilleries became one of the most popular destinations for investment in state property last year.
