At a meeting of the faction “Servant of the People” with the participation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky nine candidates for new ministers were agreed upon, the candidacy of First Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga is proposed for the post of the head of the Foreign Ministry.
“A meeting of the faction was held…On the agenda – personnel renewal…President Volodymyr Zelensky joined us. Based on the results of the faction meeting, we have worked out a general picture of personnel rotations to strengthen the state: the Foreign Ministry – Andrei Sibiga,” the head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arahamiya, wrote in Telegram on Wednesday.
According to Arahamiya, Alexei Kuleba, deputy head of the Office of the President, is proposed for the post of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Policy. “He will head the ministry as it works now. Subsequently, as it was conceived, it will be divided into infrastructure and regional policy areas,” Arahamiya said. He also said that Olga Stefanishina is proposed for the post of Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration – Minister of Justice.
Deputy Defense Minister Natalia Kalmykova is proposed for the post of Minister of Veterans Affairs, while Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Nikolai Tochitsky is proposed for the post of Minister of Culture and Information Policy.
They intend to appoint interim Minister of Youth and Sports Matvei Bedny to the post of Minister of Youth and Sports.
Also, according to Arahamiya, Deputy Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk is proposed for the post of Minister of Ecology.
The Ministry of Strategic Industry may be headed by the director-general of the Ukrainian Defense Industry JSC, German Smetanin.
According to the head of the Servant of the People faction, Oleksandr Kamyshyn will move to the presidential office, where he will continue to deal with the issue of arms and infrastructure. In addition, Irina Vereshchuk moves to the Office of the President, who will work as a specialized deputy head of the OP.
“Discussed the creation of a new institution in the government with the working title “Ministry of return of Ukrainians”. We are holding a discussion of candidates who could head it,” – wrote Arahamiya.
Ukrainian banks as of Wednesday issued 288 thousand cards, which will be charged compensation under the state program “National cashback”, said Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko.
“For two days our partner banks (of the state program “National Cashback”) – it is, in fact, all the largest banks in our state, issued a total of 288 thousand cards,” she said on the air of the national telethon ‘United News’ on Wednesday.
According to Sviridenko, more than 600 manufacturers have already joined the state program, registering 63 thousand goods in the system.
“At the time of the launch of the program, nine retail chains have already credited cashback, somewhere around 40 more are in the process of joining,” the first deputy prime minister said.
She recalled that the cashback program started on September 2 in beta testing mode, which is tentatively to last about a month.
As reported, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at a meeting on August 20 approved the procedure for granting “National cashback”, according to which Ukrainians will be able to receive compensation for 10% of the cost of goods purchased by them. The maximum amount of cashback is 3 thousand UAH/month, the funds can be spent on medical and utility services, sports, movies, train tickets, donate to the AFU or buy war bonds.
PrJSC Novoselovsky Mining and Processing Plant (NGOK, Kharkiv region) will pay dividends to shareholders in the amount of 0.08 kopecks per share, totaling UAH 3.4 million.
According to the company’s announcement in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC), on May 3, 2024, the annual general meeting of shareholders decided to allocate part of the net profit of 2023 in the amount of UAH 3.4 million to pay dividends to shareholders in cash.
“The amount of dividends per share is 0.08 kopecks (before taxes to be withheld and paid in accordance with the laws of Ukraine). On September 4, 2024, the company’s supervisory board decided that dividends based on the results of 2023 shall be paid in accordance with the decision of the general meeting held remotely by paying the entire amount of dividends in two parts through the depository system of Ukraine in accordance with the procedure established by law to shareholders included in the list of persons entitled to receive dividends as of September 19, 2024,” the company said in a statement.
At the same time, it was specified that the dividends will be paid between September 23 and October 25, 2024.
“Novoselovsky Mining and Processing Plant was established in 2000. It is engaged in the extraction of sand, gravel and clay.
According to NDU’s data for the second quarter of 2024, Silica Holding LLC (Ukraine) owns 94.8205% of the company.
The authorized capital is UAH 21.25 million.
Since the beginning of 2024, medicines produced in India have accounted for 8.3% of the total volume of medicines imported to Ukraine.
The State Service for Medicinal Products and Drug Control (Goslexluzhba) informed Interfax-Ukraine that since the beginning of 2024, 3213 series (32824807 packages) from 65 Indian pharmaceutical manufacturers have been submitted for state quality control, which makes up 8.3% of the total volume of medicines imported to Ukraine.
At the same time during 2022-2023 10924 series of medicinal products manufactured in India were submitted for state quality control, including 4715 in 2022 and 6209 in 2023, which is 54705914 and 51309132 packages respectively.
In addition, the State Service of Medicinal Products with reference to the data of the State Register of Medicinal Products reported that since the beginning of 2024 Indian pharmaceutical manufacturers have registered in Ukraine a little more than 100 drugs (excluding active pharmaceutical ingredients, API – IF-U), currently in Ukraine are registered 1999 drugs manufactured in India, in 2023 in Ukraine were registered 1895 Indian drugs, in 2022 – 1709, in 2021 – 1472, in 2020 – 1165.
Thus, the dynamics of registration of Indian medicinal products in Ukraine over the last five years is slowing down: if the number of registered medicinal products manufactured in India in 2021 was 26.2% higher than a year earlier, then at the end of 2023 – only by 10.9%.
In January-August 2024, Ukrainian seaports increased cargo transshipment by 1.7 times compared to the same period in 2023, up to 66.8 million tons of cargo.
“According to the operational data of the State Enterprise “Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority” (USPA), from January to August 2024, Ukrainian seaports handled 66.8 million tons of cargo. The figures are significantly higher than in the same period in 2023, when the volume of cargo handled amounted to 37.7 million tons,” the USPA reported on its Facebook page on Wednesday.
More than half of the volume of cargo handled, 41.7 million tons, was the products of the Ukrainian agricultural sector, the report said.
In August 2024, Ukrainian ports handled 6.8 million tons of cargo, more than double the results of August 2023, the USPA reported. Of this volume, 4 million tons were agricultural products that were supplied to foreign markets.
Earlier it was reported that Ukrainian ports handled 59.9 million tons in January-July this year.
The exports of soybeans from Ukraine in the season-2023/2024 reached the record level and amounted to about 3.26 mln tonnes, up 5% from the previous high of 3.1 mln tonnes in 2022/2023 MY, APK-Inform news agency reported.
“The increase in shipments was achieved due to several factors, including the significant increase of the crop harvest in 2023 and the competitive price of Ukrainian soybeans on the global market, particularly in the first half of 2023/24 MY. Thus, in September-February of the last season, the country shipped almost 70% of the total exports of soybeans,” the analysts said.
According to APK-Inform, in 2024/2025 MY Ukraine will export about 3.5 mln tonnes of soybeans, up 7% compared to the last season.
According to them, the increase in exports was mainly due to Egypt (2.1 times more), while shipments to the EU and Turkey decreased by 22% and 26%, respectively.
Experts predict that in the new season-2024/2025, Ukraine has a chance to update the record for soybean exports, given the forecast of an increase in the harvest of this crop to almost 6 million tons, which is 10% more than last year. At the same time, due to the expected increase in global soybean production, it will be harder to compete with prices in the new season, especially in such destinations as Egypt and Turkey.
According to the results of the season-2023/2024, the demand prices for Ukrainian soybeans decreased by an average of $120/ton in line with the global market dynamics and due to the increased competition. Comparing the price levels as of the end of August, this year Ukrainian soybeans of the new harvest are offered to Egypt at $427/ton CIF, while last year in the same period the supply prices on the same basis reached $545-550/ton.
