BAS Motor LLC (Kyiv), whose production facilities are located in Lutsk, may supply 24 school buses with two seats for students with limited mobility to the Volyn Regional State Administration for a total of almost UAH 92.4 million.
According to Prozorro, the company was the only bidder in the procurement procedure, offering the buses for UAH 92 million 399.9 thousand (UAH 3.85 million per bus) against the expected price of UAH 92 million 400 thousand.
According to the manufacturer, the Euro 5 environmental class buses were manufactured in 2025, with a localization rate of 49.02%. The number of seats is 17 (including two seats for students with reduced mobility).
As reported, the Volyn Regional State Administration has already purchased seven regular school buses from BAS Motor for UAH 24.85 million in 2025.
“BAS Motor produces small class Bogdan buses (including school buses) using a unit base and a Euro 5 eco-standard engine manufactured by Ashok Leyland (India).
The subvention from the state budget for the purchase of school buses in 2025 amounts to UAH 1.6 billion, including UAH 112.1 million allocated to Volyn region.
Buses are purchased on the basis of co-financing from local budgets through the Prozorro Market electronic catalog.
The minimum required level of localization in 2025 is 25%.
The World Bank will provide Ukraine with $70 million in grant funding to support the stability of the national energy system, according to a statement posted on Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal’s Telegram channel on Friday.
“The agreement was signed on Thursday in Washington with World Bank Managing Director Anna Bjerde,” the statement said.
The funds will be used to purchase energy storage systems for the company Ukrhydroenergo. This will allow the creation of electricity reserves and strengthen the country’s energy security.
“We thank the World Bank and all partners for their support to Ukraine’s energy sector, which has suffered significant damage as a result of Russian attacks,” Shmyhal wrote.
The farms of the Agrain group of companies have completed corn sowing on 70% of the planned area, which will be allocated over 14,000 hectares in the 2025 season, the agricultural holding’s press service reported on Facebook.
“This year, we paid special attention to the selection of hybrids that demonstrate not only high yield potential but also good adaptability to local climatic conditions and increased drought resistance. These are key criteria in conditions of unstable moisture,” the agricultural holding said.
To ensure the effectiveness of the sowing campaign, Agrain farms use high-precision Horsch Maestro 24.70SW and Kinze 3600 seeders with the Precision Planting system. This equipment provides farmers with 100% seed separation, uniform planting depth, and soil moisture retention.
“We sow corn to a depth of 5 cm at a rate of 65-74 thousand seeds per hectare. At the same time, we apply nitrogen fertilizers: 50 kg/ha of urea or 70 kg/ha of UAN,” the agricultural holding summarized.
Agrain is engaged in the cultivation and storage of grain and oilseeds, as well as livestock farming. Before the full-scale Russian invasion, the agricultural holding consisted of 11 agricultural enterprises. It cultivated about 110,000 hectares in the Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Odesa, and Cherkasy regions.
The holding company is owned by SAS Investcompagnie (France).
Ukraine will receive €22.6 million from European partners to ensure nuclear safety, improve radiation protection, and manage radioactive waste, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources.
The relevant draft agreement on the 2024/2025 contribution was approved during a meeting of the Supervisory Board for the Implementation of the Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation in Ukraine. The meeting was held on Friday by Minister Svitlana Grynychuk together with Jan Pane, Director for Nuclear Energy, Safety and ITER at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy, and Inte Stockmann, Head of the Nuclear Safety Sector at the European Commission’s DG INTPE.
The agreed contribution agreement provides for the financing of a number of projects that are important for Ukraine. These include: ensuring backup power supply for the uninterrupted operation of radioactive waste management facilities, as well as the construction of the necessary infrastructure for the proper disposal of radioactive waste; the creation of an early warning system for forest fires in the exclusion zone; equipping a modern analytical laboratory for the analysis of radioactive materials in Chernobyl; restoring the functioning of the automated radiation monitoring system in the exclusion zone damaged by Russia during the occupation of the Chernobyl NPP.
In addition, there are plans to create a national integrated automated radiation monitoring system for the entire territory of Ukraine and integrate it with the European Radiological Data Exchange Platform (EURDEP), the European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange System (ECURIE), the International Radiation Monitoring Information System (IRMIS) managed by the IAEA; providing personnel of enterprises in the exclusion zone with adequate modern transportation and accommodation in the exclusion zone, as well as personal protective equipment and decontamination facilities in emergency situations.
Attention will also be paid to harmonizing Ukrainian legislation with Euratom standards as one of the conditions for Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
All measures are planned to be implemented over a period of five years.
In January-March 2025, DTEK Energy invested about UAH 1.2 billion in repairs and restoration of thermal power plants that suffered from massive enemy shelling.
“This is a third of the total investment in the restoration of TPPs over the past year,” the company said in a press release.
DTEK noted that the repair campaign is ongoing as the level of damage caused by the aggressor’s attacks remains extremely high.
As reported, as of the summer of 2024, 90% of the company’s thermal generation was damaged or destroyed. Although the power engineers managed to restore more than half of the capacity on the eve of winter, another massive shelling in November and December caused new serious damage.
“Our main task today is not to stop but to continue the reconstruction work. We are working hard to be ready for the summer peak loads and the upcoming heating season,” said DTEK Energy CEO Oleksandr Fomenko.
In 2024, the energy holding invested UAH 3.6 billion in the restoration of thermal power plants and another UAH 7.5 billion in the development of domestic coal mining.
Last year, the Russian Federation launched 13 massive attacks on the Ukrainian energy sector, dealing a serious blow, in particular, to DTEK Energy’s thermal power plants. In total, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the company’s TPPs have been attacked 205 times. As a result of the attacks, 56 power engineers were wounded and four were killed.
“DTEK Energy provides a closed cycle of electricity generation from coal. As of January 2022, the pre-war installed capacity in thermal power generation was 13.3 GW. The company has established a full production cycle in coal mining: coal mining and enrichment, mechanical engineering and maintenance of mine equipment.
Over 1.7 thousand people have already been added to the list in the first two months of 2025
Almost 13 thousand people have been included in the Register of Problem Gamblers as of early March, according to the Commission for Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries (CRGL). Over the past year, the number of problem gamblers on the list has increased 3 times. Almost 1.5 thousand more people were removed from the list due to the expiration of the restriction period. Overall, last year, on average, 780 new people were added to the Register every month.
12,807 Ukrainians are currently on the Register of Gambling Problems. The list has increased 3 times over the year. Over the past year, the Register was replenished by 9,389 people, and 1,496 were excluded due to the expiration of the restriction period.
In total, 14,979 people have been added to the Register since its inception, of whom 2,172 have already been removed.
99% of all entries in the Register are voluntary applications. People apply for self-restriction themselves to deny themselves access to gambling facilities and participation in gambling for a certain period of time. The term of such restriction is from six months to three years.
Only 1% are people who have their access restricted by a decision of the CRGL. There have been 169 such decisions since the registry was created. Almost all of them took place last year – 140 decisions. But not a single person has been included in the Register by a court decision.
“It is indeed easier to apply for self-restriction than to submit a third party to the registry. Moreover, people are becoming more aware of this possibility. Accordingly, the number of people in the register is growing. So our goal is to give people the most convenient tool for self-restraint and to promote its use,” comments Hennadii Novikov, head of the state agency PlayCity.
This year, the Cabinet of Ministers liquidated KRAIL and created the state agency PlayCity instead. Now, this agency will be responsible for regulating the gambling and lottery market and maintaining the Register of problem gamblers.
On average, 780 people were included in the register every month last year, which is 2.8 times more than in 2023, when the list was updated by about 280 people per month. The highest number of applications for self-restriction was received in April – 1,041, and the lowest in June – 524.
In the first two months of 2025, 1,719 people have already been added to the Register, which is an average of 860 per month, which is 10% more than in 2024.
It is worth noting that Ukraine currently has no clear statistics on the actual number of citizens with gambling addiction, and the figures from the relevant register do not reflect the full picture – in particular, people who play in online casinos.
The head of the newly created agency, Gennadiy Novikov, believes that the existing register fulfills its function – it consolidates information about people who are restricted from participating in gambling so that gambling organizers can verify a person and, if necessary, prevent them from playing. At the same time, it is important to understand that this registry is in a trial mode and does not have all the necessary functionality that needs to be implemented for the convenience of citizens and the market.
“We plan to create a full-fledged product on the Diia.Engine platform. The new registry will meet all the requirements of the legislation on personal data protection and other aspects, as well as contain additional functionality for gambling organizers.
The process of applying for a person to be included in the registry will be automated and much more convenient. A person will be able to add themselves to the register in a few clicks to restrict access to the game,” comments Gennadiy Novikov, Head of PlayCity.
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