The producer of tobacco products PJSC “Philip Morris Ukraine” in cooperation with DTF agency organized five social spaces “Spheres of the Sweet” with working areas in Kyiv, Odessa and Lviv, equipped with generators and Starlink satellite communication systems.
According to Philip Morris’ press service on Tuesday, the social spaces can keep you warm, recharge your devices, work and drink hot tea. They will be open until Dec. 30 and can accommodate about 100 people each at a time.
“We work for a large international company with offices and stores in many Ukrainian cities. Like all Ukrainians, we look for communication during blackouts, sit in shelters during alarms and worry if we can’t contact our families. We believe that resilient companies can help to survive a blackout together, so we organized autonomous stations with electricity, internet and heat”, – the company quotes the general director of “Philip Morris Sales and Distribution” Dmitry Zinchenko.
According to him, from the first days of the launch, social spaces have been very popular among city residents and help out in very unexpected situations.
“Employees of different companies during blackouts often make a field office with us. In Odessa, for example, during a blackout, girls from a nail salon nearby moved into the sphere. And in Kiev, our space even became a place for a wedding ceremony”, – added Zinchenko.
Social spaces are located in Kiev on Lesya Ukrainka Square, 1 (Central Election Commission) and Kontraktova square (near the Ferris wheel), in Odessa in the Park of enthusiasts (Akademika Zabolotnogo 66/2v) and in the Square “Ray” (Levitan 95a), and in Lviv on Vinnichenko Street 24 (Powder Tower).
Philip Morris International, which includes “Philip Morris Ukraine” is one of the world’s largest tobacco manufacturers. It operates in Ukraine for more than 20 years, owns a factory in the Kharkov region. Before the Russian armed invasion the company employed about 1.3 thousand people. Before the war, the factory was an export hub for more than 20 countries, in particular such major markets as Japan and Egypt.
The U.S. dollar is getting cheaper against the euro, the pound sterling and the Japanese yen in trading Tuesday afternoon.
The ICE-calculated index showing the dollar’s dynamics against six currencies (euro, Swiss franc, yen, Canadian dollar, pound sterling and Swedish krona) lost 0.73% in trading, while the broader WSJ Dollar Index lost 0.64%.
The yen was up 3% against the dollar at 132.73 yen/$1 as of 2:10 p.m., compared with 136.91 yen/$1 at Monday’s market close.
The Japanese national currency was actively growing after the Bank of Japan unexpectedly decided to increase the borders of the band within which the yield of ten-year government bonds may fluctuate to plus/minus 0.5% from plus/minus 0.25% at the end of its regular meeting that ended on Tuesday.
According to the regulator, this decision will improve the stability of the existing monetary policy, but many economists took this step as laying the foundation for the exit from the ultra-soft monetary policy (MP), maintained for a long time, writes Bloomberg.
At the same time, the Bank of Japan left the main parameters of MP unchanged: the short-term interest rate on deposits of commercial banks in the Central Bank remained at minus 0.1% per annum, the target yield on ten-year government bonds – about zero. This coincided with the expectations of most analysts.
The euro/dollar pair is trading at $1.0635 compared to $1.0609 at the close of the previous session.
The pound has fallen in price to $1.2148 against $1.2145 at the close of trading on Monday.
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Hotel operator Ribas Hotels Group (Odessa) started construction of WOL.GREEN Polyana complex in Zakarpattya, Ribas Hotels Group founder Artur Lupashko said,
“We are implementing our new project WOL.GREEN Polyana together with the Arena Bud development company in Zakarpattya. Construction has already begun,” he said on Facebook.
WOL.GREEN Polyana – is a complex of 78 apartments with own SPA and swimming pool, co-working place, fitness-centre, equipped sportive zones in the open air.
Lupashko reminded that the format WOL home+hotel, realized by the operator, suppose the possibility of short-term and long-term rent. In this case investors are offered to become a co-owner of the complex, to buy an apartment, which will be managed by the company Ribas Hotels Group.
“We are constantly moving and developing our hotel industry and country in all conditions and we see that the Ukrainian investor is ready to invest in the future of our country”, – added Lupashko.
Ribas Hotels Group cooperates (management, franchising and booking) with 26 hotel and restaurant properties (city, beach and ski hotels). The company’s portfolio includes business hotels Wall Street by Ribas and Bossfor by Ribas, hotel Wol.121 by Ribas (Odessa), ski hotel Ribas Karpaty (Bukovel, Ivano-Frankivsk region), beach complex Richard by Ribas (Gribovka, Odessa region). Hotels in Lviv, Kyiv, Odessa and other cities, as well as in Poland are now at the design and construction phase.
The total room stock of the network is more than 1 thousand rooms in different forms of cooperation in eight cities and resort locations in Ukraine.
Zaporizhzhya municipal enterprise “Zaproelectrotrans” on December 16 announced its intention to conclude a contract with IC “VUSO” on compulsory civil liability insurance of owners of ground vehicles, according to the electronic public procurement system Prozorro.
The expected value of the purchase of services was 398,974 thousand UAH, the price offer of the company was 319,7 thousand UAH.
As it was reported, several years in a row the winner of similar tenders was IC “Motor-Garant”.
IC “VUSO” was founded in 2001. The company owns 50 licenses: 34 – on voluntary and 16 – on obligatory kinds of insurance, it is presented in all regions of Ukraine. It’s a member of MTSBU and UFSI, a member of the Agreement on direct settlement of losses and a member of the Nuclear Insurance Pool.
Kyiv is supplied with electricity by less than half, while a significant deficit remains in the energy system as a whole due to Russian terrorist shelling, NEC Ukrenergo said.
“As of this morning, there remains a significant capacity deficit in the energy system. Less than half of the consumption needs in the capital are being met, the priority is to supply power to critical infrastructure,” Ukrenergo said in its Telegram feed on Tuesday.
At the same time, the company expects that on Tuesday it will be possible to turn on certain equipment that will somewhat improve the level of supply reliability, reduce the power deficit in the capital’s power grid and power more consumers.
They drew attention to the fact that UAV bombardment of main grid facilities in the central region, which occurred on the night of December 19, as well as shelling in eastern Ukraine led to further damage to energy infrastructure and worsened the situation with power supply, in particular, in the central region and Kiev.
“Repair crews of Ukrenergo, generation and distribution system operators are making every effort to improve power supply,” the NEC noted.
As reported, the general director of the power supply company YASNO Sergey Kovalenko said Monday evening that the needs of the population in the capital can be met only by 20%, as a result, according to him, 10 hours without light in the capital – the reality at the moment.
