Nova Poshta LLC delivered 222 million parcels and cargoes in January-June 2024, up 17% compared to the same period in 2023, the company said on Monday.
“We have expanded our network of branches by more than 3.5 thousand service points and already have 30,550 branches and post offices. Of these, 12,180 are branches and 18,370 are post offices… 350 new branches and post offices were opened in the frontline areas,” the company said in a release.
According to the release, Nova Poshta’s capital investments in infrastructure development throughout Ukraine amounted to UAH 3.6 billion in January-June 2024, which is 47% more than in January-June 2023.
“By the end of 2024, the planned volume of investments is more than UAH 8 billion,” the statement said.
It is noted that the companies of the NOVA group paid UAH 5.8 billion in taxes and fees to local and state budgets in the first half of the year, which is 12% more than in the first half of 2023. In particular, Nova Poshta transferred UAH 4.5 billion, NovaPay – UAH 0.7 billion, Nova Digital – UAH 86 million, and Nova Global – UAH 66 million.
In addition, in the first half of 2024, Nova Poshta delivered 30 thousand tons of humanitarian aid in the framework of the Humanitarian Nova Poshta project.
As reported, Nova Poshta increased its unconsolidated net income in the first half of 2024 by 20.1% to UAH 20.12 billion, while the company’s net profit decreased by 38.1% to UAH 1.49 billion.
In the first half of 2024, 87,655 children were born in Ukraine, which is 9% less than in the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Justice. At the same time, 250,972 deaths were recorded. The largest number of babies and deaths in Ukraine were in Dnipropetrovs’k and Kyiv regions.
The birth rate decreased by 1.5 times this year compared to the period before the full-scale invasion: 87,655 children compared to 132,595 in 2021.
The highest number of newborns was registered in Kyiv – 9,695 children, 7,923 in Lviv region, and 6,962 in Dnipro region. The number of babies born in the frontline regions is consistently low: in Kherson (221) and Donetsk (702). In the Luhansk region, no babies were registered in the last six months.
Currently, there are three deaths for every newborn citizen. This ratio is one of the key indicators of the demographic crisis. For comparison, in the pre-civil war period, there were two deaths per child in 2018-2020.
250,972 people died in Ukraine in the first six months of 2024. This is 1.4 times less than in the same period in 2021, when 349,041 deaths were recorded. However, it is worth noting that 2021 was the peak year for deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The lowest number of deaths occurred in the frontline Kherson (2334) and Donetsk (5753) regions and in Chernivtsi (5422). Anti-record numbers were set in Dnipropetrovs’k region (26,374), Kharkiv region (17,999), and Kyiv (17,449).
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Average price per hectare of land in 2023, UAH
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High jumper Iryna Gerashchenko won a bronze medal in the women’s high jump final at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Iryna Gerashchenko and Australia’s Eleanor Patterson are tied for third place. At the same time, high jumper Yaroslava Maguchikh won the gold medal in the women’s high jump at the Olympic Games.
Ukrainian athlete Mykhailo Kokhan won a bronze medal in the hammer throw final at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Kokhan threw the projectile 79 meters 39 cm. Canadian Ethan Katzberg became the Olympic champion with a distance of 84 m 12 cm, and Hungarian Halas Benze took second place with a distance of 79 m 97 cm.
