Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), has announced the launch of a mechanism for the formation of the register of oligarchs, commenting on the implementation by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky of the relevant decision of the National Security and Defense Council.
“The mechanism for forming the register of oligarchs has been launched. President Zelensky approved the regulation (presidential decree of June 29, 2022), which establishes the procedure for forming and maintaining the register,” Danilov wrote on Twitter on Thursday.
As reported, Zelensky put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council dated June 29 on approval of the regulations on the register of persons with significant economic and political weight in public life (oligarchs), the procedure for its formation and maintenance. Corresponding decree No. 459/2022 of June 29 was published on the presidential website and comes into force from the day of publication. Control over its implementation is entrusted to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
According to the regulations, the register will be maintained in an electronic form, for its maintenance, the NSDC office will determine the structural units that are empowered to ensure the performance of the functions of the holder and administrator of the register.
Information about the oligarchs will be entered by the creator of the submission through the electronic account and include, in particular, their passport details, registration address, a list of legal entities, the beneficiary of which he is, a list of individuals to whose election funds the oligarch made contributions, as well as the rationale for recognizing the person as an oligarch. Users of the register with the right to access it will be, in addition to administrators, the creators of submissions, declarants, registrars, employees of the holder and administrator of the register, the chairman, secretary and members of the National Security and Defense Council, as well as authorized employees of other state bodies.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law on the resumption of taxation of imports, including cars, from July 1, head of the parliamentary committee on finance, taxation and customs policy Danylo Hetmantsev said.
“Bill No. 7418 on the resumption of import taxes was signed by the President,” Hetmantsev wrote on Telegram on Thursday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans to hold telephone talks with Russian and Ukrainian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky in the near future, Western media reported on Thursday.
“At the end of this week or early next, I plan to have telephone conversations on the issue of the grain corridor with both Putin and Zelensky,” Erdogan said during a press conference in Madrid.
He noted that Turkey seeks to “pursue a balanced policy, not a course based on confrontation.” Erdogan hopes for fruitful talks with both leaders.
The war gave an additional impetus to the implementation of the healthcare system reform in the process of post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, Joseph Kutzin, the Coordinator for Health Financing Policy at the World Health Organization (WHO), the author of recommendations on resuming the healthcare system in Ukraine, says.
“The direction of reforms begun in 2016 is consistent with international good practice. The war does not change this; indeed, it should provide further impetus to carry the reforms to full implementation. We strongly believe in the need to continue and deepen health reforms in Ukraine,” he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
“Ukraine’s health financing reforms to date support the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals but can be taken further. Its strength is that the main funding source for the system is general tax revenues, and that all Ukrainians are entitled to services under the Program of Medical Guarantees (PMGs). The pooling of funds for the PMGs at national level in the NHSU enables the system to direct resources to where the needs are. Even before the invasion of February 24, getting better results from available public spending (efficiency) was crucial,” he said.
In wartime, ophthalmologists note an increase in the number of both military and domestic eye injuries of children, said Svetlana Tronina, Senior Researcher at the Department of Pediatric Ophthalmopathology of the V.P. Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine .
“Today, we and our colleagues in Ukraine see an increase in the incidence of injuries in children, both related directly to military circumstances, for example, with shell explosions, and an increase in the number of domestic injuries,” she told Interfax-Ukraine.
The expert noted that military eye injuries in children occur in regions close to the combat zone.
“These are mainly mine-explosive injuries, some kind of shrapnel wounds associated with ammunition explosions. Most often, this is a combination of severe injuries not only to the eyes, but also to the face and other organs,” she said, summarizing the experience of pediatric ophthalmologists in Ukraine .
At the same time, Tronina drew attention to the fact that in wartime, the number of domestic eye injuries in children increases, which the expert associates, among other things, with migration, loss of housing, deterioration of living conditions and other circumstances caused by military operations.
“Many families are forced to move with their children, they are not always in comfortable conditions. Parents are forced to deal with issues of accommodation, employment, and children are left to their own devices more than in peacetime. Access to dangerous items is greater than usual.
According to her, children’s games at this time are more aggressive, often associated “with some kind of darts, bows.”
“We see general nervousness and a desire to play some kind of aggressive games, children have more access to dangerous things. Even girls get injured with sharp objects, which usually rarely happens to them. We note an increase in the frequency of eye injuries in children,” Tronina said. .
According to her, since the beginning of the war, children with both military and domestic injuries have been admitted to the Filatov Institute. In particular, a nine-year-old child was admitted to the department, who, as a result of a wall falling from an explosion, was injured in the right temporal region of the head, face, right eye – a severe contusion of the eyeball.
Among domestic injuries with which children were admitted to the clinic, the expert named injuries due to parental oversight. As an example, she cited a case where a 16-year-old patient was injured in his right eye by a nail while playing with his younger brother, who tied the nail to the end of an arrow. More cases: a teenager was injured in his left eye by a metal fragment, hammering a metal stake with a hammer; a three-year-old patient stuck a coin cell battery under his lower eyelid and received an extensive alkaline chemical burn to his eye; a six-year-old patient sustained an explosive eye injury while playing with another child who fired a firearm.
In the list of examples of such injuries – a 16-year-old teenager was chopping wood and a wooden rolling pin bounced into his eye; A 7-year-old boy shot himself in the eye with a compressed air pistol while playing at the service station, an 8-year-old patient injured his eye with a nail …
At the same time, Tronina recalled that the children’s department of the Institute. V.P. Filatova has a wide range of methods for the treatment and rehabilitation of childhood eye injuries. In particular, the institute has a lot of its own research developments on this topic, including those devoted to the improvement of surgical techniques, treatment and rehabilitation tactics.
“Children are not a reduced copy of adults. They have different methods of performing operations, a greater amount of postoperative treatment, so it is not enough just to carry out the operation at a high technological level, you still need to properly conduct the postoperative period,” she stressed.
Without the Black Sea ports, Ukraine is nowhere close to reaching the level of exports it urgently needs, said Kate Newton, Deputy Emergency Coordinator for the World Food Program (WFP Ukraine).
“The opening of the Black Sea ports is the most important way to return Ukraine to its former positions. Without the Black Sea ports, we cannot even reach the level of exports that Ukraine urgently needs. However, we are doing our best – by road, rail and now by river – to get closer to the maximum result. At the moment it is about 1 million tons per month, we may reach 2 million. But we urgently need access to the Black Sea in Ukraine,” Newton said at a briefing at the Ukraine media center in Kyiv on Thursday.
She recalled that before the war, Ukraine exported up to 6 million tons of grain every month. According to her, in 2021, about 400 million people around the world used Ukrainian products.
“We need to try to free up storage facilities across Ukraine, ensure that wheat, barley, sunflowers and everything that grows in Ukraine can be harvested and have the ability to be exported,” Newton said.
