State Oshchadbank (Kiev) in 2022 issued 2.4 thousand car loans at 1.6 billion UAH, which is three times in number and 2.5 times less in volume compared to the figures in 2021 (7.2 thousand car loans at 4 billion UAH), said the head of the bank Sergey Naumov.
“Car loans in Oshchadbank last year enjoyed significant demand (2,421 loans totaling 1.6 billion UAH): the most popular car brands were Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Skoda and Toyota,” he wrote in Telegram on Friday.
He pointed out that 119 car loans worth 90 million UAH have already been issued in 2023.
Oshchadbank was founded in 1991. Its only owner is the state.
According to statistics from the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), as of November 1, 2022, Oschadbank ranked second by total assets (UAH 270.806 billion) among 67 operating banks in the country.
Structure of Ukraine’s GDP in 2021 (production method, graphically)
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Corum Group engineering company (“DTEK Energy”) manufactured and delivered a high capacity scraper conveyor to Metinvest’s Pokrovske mine, the company said on Facebook.
“The scraper conveyor is designed to transport coal, including in conditions of high concentration of dust and gas,” the statement said Friday.
The length of the conveyor – 120 m, power capacity – 2×85/250 kW, the load – from 1320 t/hour.
The company specified that a number of improvements have been made to the conveyor-loader’s design to increase its reliability; in particular, the construction of the chutes, the drive frame and the side group has been improved. The cost of the equipment was not disclosed.
Corum Group is Ukraine’s leading manufacturer of mining equipment and is part of DTEK Energo, the operating company responsible for coal mining and electricity generation from coal within Rinat Akhmetov’s DTEK holding.
As previously reported, as part of the relocation of Corum’s Druzhkivka Machine-Building Plant (Donetsk Region) and Svet Shakhtyora Plant (Kharkiv), production sites were created in Dnipropetrovsk, Volynsk and Khmelnytskyi regions.
In May 2022 the company manufactured its first roadheader after its relocation at the combine assembly plant in Dnipropetrovsk.
As of December 2022 (for 10 months of war) the company produced 133 units of mining equipment, eight combine harvesters and 454 units of spare parts and components.
Net sales of dollars by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) increased to $714.9 million in the third week after falling slightly in the second week of the new year to $652.5 million from $674.7 million in the first.
According to the National Bank on its website, it bought $7.5 million from January 16 to 20, the same as usual buying volumes during the war, while it sold $722.4 million, up from $659.0 million a week earlier.
On the cash market, the dollar depreciated by about UAH 0.15 during the week to about UAH 40.35/$1, while the spread remained narrow.
As we informed, the volume of interventions of the National Bank in December increased to $3.16 billion from $1.57 billion in November and $2.03 billion in October.
International reserves of the National Bank in December increased by 1.9%, or $536.4 million to $28.491 billion due to currency receipts from international partners, which exceeded the NBU interventions to sell currency to support a fixed rate. For 2022, they decreased by 7.9%, or $2.45 bln.
Last year, the NBU bought $3 bln 268.0 mln and EUR111.0 mln on the market, and sold $26 bln 380.6 mln and EUR1 bln 789.1 mln.
The January 20 meeting of the contact group participants in Germany on providing Ukraine with military assistance will strengthen Ukraine’s resilience, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
“Today is the day of ‘Ramstein’ and defense news for Ukraine, which week after week brings our diplomatic marathon… Overall, we can summarize that today’s ‘Ramstein’ will strengthen our resilience. The partners are principled in their attitude: they will support Ukraine as long as it is necessary for our victory,” Zelensky said in a video message.
Thus, according to the president, it was possible to significantly strengthen the Ukrainian “artillery fist” with guns and shells, there are also good results regarding armored vehicles. In particular, the arsenal was replenished with several hundred combat vehicles.
In addition, Zelensky noted, significant results have been achieved with rockets for MLRS.
At the same time, according to him, Ukraine still has to fight for the supply of modern tanks, but every day Ukraine makes it more obvious that there is no alternative to the decision on tanks.
He thanked all the partners who clearly supported the Ukrainian position in the discussions.
Forecast of dynamics of changes in GDP in % for 2022-2024 in relation to previous period
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