Mobile network operator Kyivstar handed over 55 Biomed JAY-10 oxygen concentrators to 12 hospitals in Kyiv city, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia, Poltava, Luhansk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad and Khmelnytsky regions, the operator said on Thursday. “Big business is helping society to overcome the coronavirus pandemic. I am glad that we continue providing the necessary equipment to combat the pandemic,” the press service said, citing President of Kyivstar Alexander Komarov as saying.
He also recalled that in 2020, Kyivstar donated 10 Savina 300 Select ventilation and respiratory monitoring devices with consumables for them, 20 Vista 120 patient monitors and 6,851 reusable protective suits for medical workers from 30 referral hospitals.
The project is being implemented in partnership with the Tvoya Opora Charitable Foundation, which monitored medical institutions that receive patients with coronavirus.
According to the report, the charitable organizations with which Kyivstar cooperates have undergone thorough international checks by the VEON parent group regarding the ethics of their business.
As reported, during the quarantine, Kyivstar provided assistance with bonuses to the accounts of almost 70,000 doctors, and for three summer months they were given access to unlimited Internet. The total amount of support provided by the operator totaled approximately UAH 80 million.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has allowed Viktor Bazilchuk, who is listed as director of Agrolife GmbH on the website of the German supplier of animal feed and additives Agrolife GmbH, to buy more than 50% in Agrolife’s partner company Svit-Agro (Kyiv), which supplies feed additives and veterinary medicine.
The relevant permit was issued on January 28. The acquisition is planned indirectly through Austinola Limited (Cyprus).
According to the public register, the largest owner of Svit-Agro Trading House with 75.1% is Oleksandr Tymoshenko, who in late 2019 – early 2020 applied for the position of head of the State Fisheries Agency of Ukraine and had the highest score in the evaluation of candidates.
In addition, the company’s beneficiaries include Oleksandr Schnir’s Bridgewater Holdings Corp with 16.6% and Alarico Ltd (Belize) with 8.3%.
In his declaration, Tymoshenko indicated 25% in meat processing complex Stolychny LLC where 75%, according to the public register, belong to Bazilchuk. According to the data on the website, Stolychny has been exporting chicken since 2017, annually exporting about 2,600 tonnes of poultry meat.
According to the committee, the buyer’s group is engaged in the production and wholesale of animal feed, wholesale of grain, meal, cake, eggs, meat and meat products, pharmaceuticals and veterinary drugs, as well as provides processing and storage of grain, rents real estate.
Agrolife GmbH, according to the information on its website, is a supplier of oilseeds, cereals and feed additives for livestock in the markets of Germany, the EU and Ukraine. Agrolife GmbH together with the Danish Fermentationexperts AS are the founders of European Protein Ukraine LLC (Kyiv region).
In July 2018, the committee allowed Agrolife GmbH to acquire the Cypriot Cotone Investments Limited, which owns 100% of the shares of the feed manufacturer PJSC Kyiv-Atlantic Ukraine (Myronivka, Kyiv region). In the public register, the beneficiaries of Kyiv-Atlantic Ukraine through Agrolife GmbH are Natalia Bazilchuk with 56.33% and Borys Skyba with 18.78%.
Ukraine in January 2021 reduced electricity exports by 92.6% (by 645.3 million kWh) compared to the same period in 2020, to 51.9 million kWh, according to the data of NPC Ukrenergo. According to the calculations of Interfax-Ukraine, in particular, supplies from the Burshtyn TPP energy island in the direction of Hungary, Slovakia and Romania fell by 89.7% (by 448.9 million kWh), to 51.9 million kWh.
Electricity was not supplied to Poland and Moldova last month, while in January last year, 151.2 million kWh and 45.2 million kWh were exported in these directions, respectively.
Ukrainian electricity also was not exported to Belarus and the Russian Federation in January 2021 and 2020.
In addition, in January 2021, Ukraine reduced electricity imports by 52.4% (by 292.4 million kWh) compared to the same period last year, to 268.3 million kWh, including Belarus supplied 180.6 million kWh, Slovakia – 78.3 million kWh, Hungary – 6.9 million kWh, and Romania – 2.5 million kWh.
In addition, as Inter-Transmission Compensation mechanism associated with the parallel operation of the IPS of Ukraine with the power systems of neighboring countries and power supply to dead-end areas, 6.26 million kWh of electricity was imported from the Russian Federation last month and 0.01 million kWh from Belarus.
Emergency supplies from Belarus amounted to 3.13 million kWh, and 0.08 million kWh to Belarus.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal says that Ukraine wants Ukrainian business to have more access to European markets, and negotiations will allow increasing the volume of trade quotas.
“We are talking about the further liberalization of trade between Ukraine and the EU. This will help increase our mutual trade and further convergence of economies … We want Ukrainian business to have more access to European markets, and hope that our negotiations will allow increasing the volume of quotas provided for our agreement with the EU,” Shmyhal said at a joint briefing with Executive Vice President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis in Brussels.
Shmyhal stressed that Ukraine intends to use 2021 for solid work, the result of which should be an actual approximation to EU standards.
KSG Agro agricultural holding in 2020 increased export of agricultural products to African and Asian markets by 46%, to 7,770 tonnes, the holding’s press service has said.
“Last year, we expanded our presence in export African and Asian markets. In the context of the quarantine crisis, the issue of diversifying supplies and expanding the range of products supplied is especially acute,” Serhiy Kasyanov, the head of the board of directors of KSG Agro, said.
According to the agricultural holding, in 2020, the export of wheat flour to Libya increased by 3.6 times compared to 2019, to 3,000 tonnes.
It is clarified that KSG Agro exported 172 tonnes of sugar to Libya, 4,000 tonnes of corn to Malaysia, 600 tonnes of barley to Oman.
KSG Agro is a vertically integrated holding. It is engaged in pig breeding, production, storage, processing and sale of grain and oilseeds.
For the nine months of 2020, the agricultural holding received $ 4.77 million in net profit, which is 52% less than in the same period in 2019, revenue decreased by 17%, to $ 14.67 million.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Greek President Katerina Sakellaropula for agreeing to assist in obtaining vaccine against COVID-19 and invited her to the celebration of the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence
“I wish health to the Greek people. Grateful to President of Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou for helping obtain more COVID-19 vaccine. I invite you to the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. Glad to facilitate the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Greek revolution where our Odesa played an important role,” he wrote on his Twitter page.
