President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his condolences to the families of those killed in the terrorist attack in Jerusalem.
“We share Israel’s pain after the terrorist attacks in Jerusalem. Among the victims is a Ukrainian woman. Sincere condolences to the victims’ families. The crimes were cynically committed on the Intl Holocaust Remembrance Day. Terror must have no place in today’s world. Neither in Israel nor in Ukraine,” Zelensky said on Twitter.
At least seven people were reportedly killed in a shooting in East Jerusalem in Nene Yaakov neighborhood, and ten others were injured. The attack occurred when people were leaving the synagogue. Security forces shot and killed the assailant while trying to escape. As part of the investigation of this case, 42 people were detained on Saturday: they are being interrogated.
Initially, no one claimed responsibility for the attack, but representative of the Islamist movement Hamas Hazem Qassem said: “This operation is a response to the crime committed by the occupiers in Jenin, and a natural response to the criminal acts of the occupation.”
Change in consumer prices in October 2022
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Fighting corruption is critical to Ukraine’s post-war recovery, G7 ambassadors to Ukraine said following a meeting with the head of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC), Oleksandr Novikov.
“The G7 ambassadors met with the head of the NAPC Novikov, who briefed on anti-corruption policies and legislation. We stressed the critical importance of fighting corruption in the context of increased foreign aid and during Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction,” the ambassadors said in a Twitter post.
Movement for heavy vehicles on the public road M-15 Odessa-Reni (to Bucharest) is temporarily closed from 13:00 October 28 for a day due to difficult weather conditions, reported in the Telegram channel of the Patrol Police on Saturday.
“The traffic is temporarily blocked for heavy vehicles in connection with the complication of weather conditions (intense wet snow and rain) in order to prevent accidents and complications in traffic. Restrictions will take effect from 13:00 on January 28 until 13:00 on January 29 on the road M-15 Odessa-Reni,” the statement said.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine will increase purchases of UAVs for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2023, given the needs and demands of the Ukrainian army, about 20 billion UAH should be allocated for this segment in 2023.
As noted in the message of the Ministry of Defense, at a meeting of representatives of the Ministry of the General Staff of the AFU, domestic developers and manufacturers of UAVs, recently signed 16 state contracts with domestic manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Ukraine now has the easiest in Europe procedure for the admission of UAVs to the army, the Ministry of Defense stressed.
As a result, after the introduction of a new clearance procedure, which previously lasted a year and a half to two years, and now takes a few weeks, during the period from November 2022 to January 2023, the Defense Ministry received from the Ukrainian manufacturers 75 applications for UAVs of different types. Thirteen of them have already received codification and specifications have been approved. Three more types of UAVs are in the process of codification.
Participants of the joint meeting identified a number of tasks and steps to improve regulatory procedures. These proposals by the defense department are submitted for discussion by the Coordination Staff with the participation of the Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and the Ministry of Defense.
Slovakia’s electricity imports for Saturday rose 26.16 percent over Friday to 9,296 MWh, a new record high since it actually began in January, according to data on the website of Continental Europe System Operators Network ENTSO-E.
According to the website, imports will be 388 MW each in the 20 hours of the day and 383-385 MW in the remaining hours.
According to data on Ukrenergo’s electronic auction platform, the largest interstate cross-section capacity for imports for that day was booked by D.Trading – 450 MW for all hours of the day. In addition, 9 MW for all hours of the day was booked by Augusta Trading and 7 MW by ERU Trading. For tomorrow, the capacity booked by D. Trading and Augusta remains at the same level, with ERU Trading increasing it to 8 MW, plus 30 MW booked by DE Trading for all hours.
The cross-section price was still 0 UAH/MWh.
In total, Ukrenergo has been auctioning off 500-600 MW of cross-section capacity, which has almost doubled since January 26, depending on the hour of the day.
As reported, Ukraine, as ENTSO-E website testifies, started to receive imported electricity on January 15.
On January 15, 655 MWh, on January 20 – 220 MWh, on January 21 – 6,963 MWh, on January 22 – 6,672 MWh, on January 25 – 99 MWh, on January 26 – 3,813 MWh, on January 27 – 7,368 MWh. Total – 25790 MWh.
The most active importer is D.Trading. Besides it, ERU Trading, Nackstrade, as well as DE Trading, NAP-Comunity, Augusta, and U. Comodities booked the section in small amounts.
DTEK, for its part, said on January 25 that it had started importing electricity from Europe this month, and according to its calculations, the current electricity transmission capacity allows it to import about 500 million kWh per month, which corresponds to the monthly consumption of 2 million households.
According to the head of Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytskyy, the imports, carried out by the trader DTEK and other companies, reduce the load on the energy system, but cannot fully cover the deficit of electricity.
According to the network operators, the limits of electricity consumption allocated to the regions allow to cover about half of the necessary resource, in Kiev – about 64%.
