Cash exchange rates in banks of regions of Ukraine
| Region | USD1 | EUR1 | |||
| Buying | Selling | Buying | Selling | ||
| Min | 27.50 | 38.80 | 36.75 | 39.00 | |
| Kyiv | Max | 38.50 | 39.70 | 38.90 | 40.50 |
| Average | 37.91 | 39.19 | 38.13 | 39.63 | |
| Min | 37.00 | 39.00 | 37.50 | 39.50 | |
| Odessa | Max | 38.00 | 39.80 | 38.00 | 40.80 |
| Average | 37.50 | 39.43 | 37.83 | 40.07 | |
| Min | 37.50 | 38.80 | 37.70 | 39.48 | |
| Lviv | Max | 38.70 | 39.49 | 39.05 | 40.30 |
| Average | 38.34 | 39.14 | 38.62 | 39.70 | |
| Min | 36.57 | 37.57 | 37.27 | 38.30 | |
| Kharkiv | Max | 37.50 | 38.80 | 38.10 | 39.60 |
| Average | 37.04 | 38.19 | 37.69 | 38.95 |
The musicians of the American group Imagine Dragons have become ambassadors of the UNITED 24 national brand platform and will promote the direction of medical care, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
“The legendary Imagine Dragons have become ambassadors of the @u24_gov_ua platform. The group will promote the direction of medical care. And first, they will support the ambulance fundraiser launched by @FirstLadyOfUkraine,” the president wrote on his telegram channel on Friday evening.
Zelensky thanked the group for supporting Ukraine.
“In 2018, you visited our country for the first time. In 2022, you continue to do your best to make the voice of Ukraine sound throughout the world. Thank you for this!” he wrote.
As reported, on May 18, 2022, Zelensky signed a decree on the establishment of the UNITED 24 national brand and congratulated the first ambassador of this brand, the legendary Ukrainian football player and coach Andriy Shevchenko.
On June 7, the Ministry of Youth and Sports opened a special account with the National Bank of Ukraine for donations as part of the UNITED24 recovery fund initiative.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutierres, before signing documents within the framework of the initiative for the safe transportation of grain and food from Ukrainian ports, said that “the main attention in the preparation process was paid to what is more important for the people of the whole world.”
“It will bring relief to developing countries that are on the brink of bankruptcy and the most vulnerable people on the brink of starvation. And help stabilize world food prices, which were already at record levels even before the war,” he said on Friday in Istanbul .
“In particular, the initiative that we have just signed opens up trials for significant volumes of commercial food exports from three key Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea – Odessa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhny,” he said. At the same time, he stressed that “the shipment of grain and food supplies to world markets will help close the global gap in food supplies and reduce pressure on prices.”
The UN Secretary General acknowledged that “this agreement was not easy.” “From the very beginning of the war, I have emphasized that there is no solution to the global food crisis without ensuring full global access to Ukrainian food and Russian food and fertilizers. Today we have taken important steps towards this goal, but it has been a long way,” he said. .
He said, “We look forward to the Turkish government maintaining its decisive role going forward, and I assure that the United Nations will continue to be actively involved in the success of the agreement. We are stepping up efforts to ensure that the UN can fulfill their obligations.”
He also announced the creation of a joint coordinating center to monitor the implementation of the Black Sea initiatives.
According to Gutierres, as part of the initiative, “a task force led by the secretary general of the apparatus, Rebecca Greenspan, has focused its efforts on facilitating the unhindered access of food and fertilizer produced in the Russian Federation to world markets.”
“This is an unprecedented agreement between two sides involved in a bloody conflict. But conflicts continue, and people die every day, and fighting rages every day. The beacon of hope in the Black Sea today shines brightly thanks to the collective efforts of many people,” he said.
The agricultural sector of Kazakhstan has great potential and can become one of the long-term suppliers of high-quality wheat and oilseeds to Saudi Arabia, President of the Republic Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said.
“Kazakhstan ranks second in the world in terms of arable land per capita and fifth in terms of pasture resources (180 million hectares). Our country is one of the 10 largest producers of wheat and flour. We are ready to become one of the stable, long-term suppliers of high-quality wheat, flour and oilseeds to the kingdom,” Tokayev said, speaking at an investment round table with representatives of the business community of Saudi Arabia on Sunday in Jeddah.
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As of July 20, 2022, the number of refugees from Ukraine registered for temporary protection or similar national protection schemes in Europe was 3,709.33 thousand, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported on your site.
In the three weeks since June 29, the growth amounted to about 135 thousand, while in the previous two weeks – 170 thousand, and since the end of May – about 775 thousand.
Poland (about 40 thousand), Czech Republic (about 13.5 thousand), Great Britain (about 13 thousand) and Italy (about 11 thousand) showed the largest increase.
According to UNHCR data collected from national governments, the largest number of refugees with temporary protection status in Poland is 1 million 234.7 thousand, while 4.968 million people arrived in the country from Ukraine, according to the Polish border service, from the beginning of the war to , and in the opposite direction departed to Ukraine 3.045 million.
Following are Germany and the Czech Republic, where the number of refugees registered for temporary protection from Ukraine amounted to 670 thousand respectively (the data does not change from June 21) and 396.18 thousand.
The UN, referring to government data, indicates that in total in Germany, where Ukrainians are allowed to stay without registration until the end of August, 893 thousand refugees from Ukraine were recorded. Based on the data presented, a significant proportion of them have not yet applied for temporary protection status in that country.
In the Czech Republic, the situation, according to UN information, is different: almost all arrivals applied for protection status – 396.18 thousand out of 396.33 thousand.
In the vast majority of other countries, the picture is similar to the Czech Republic: the statistics of registered refugees is completely or almost equal to the statistics of those who applied for protection status, which is probably due to the peculiarity of their registration and the completion of the 90-day period of stay under the visa-free regime. An exception, similar to Germany, is only Romania – 45.53 thousand with the status of 84.53 thousand refugees recorded in the country and Estonia – 30.29 thousand out of 46.73 thousand.
Italy is still in fourth place in terms of the number of registered refugees from Ukraine – 143.13 thousand, and Spain closes the top five, in which the number of registered refugees increased by 5 thousand in three weeks, to 128.89 thousand.
Bulgaria follows with an indicator of 123.36 thousand, the only one in which the number of registered with the status of temporary protection is much higher than the number of registered refugees from Ukraine – 86.58 thousand.
More than 50 thousand refugees from Ukraine with the status of temporary protection are also in the UK – 99.7 thousand, France (data as of July 4) – 92.16 thousand (an increase of 4.2 thousand), Slovakia – 85.77 thousand (growth by more than 6 thousand).
Among these countries are also Austria – 76.21 thousand, the Netherlands (data as of July 5) – 68.05 thousand, Lithuania – 59.47 thousand, Switzerland – 57.02 thousand and Belgium – 51.12 thousand.
Following are Portugal – 47.75 thousand, Ireland – 44.58 thousand (an increase of 4.2 thousand), Belgium – 48.38 thousand, Sweden – 40.45 thousand, Latvia – 35.80 thousand. , Finland – 32.67 thousand, Denmark – 29.83 thousand and Hungary – 26.93 thousand, as well as the above-mentioned Romania and Estonia.
From 10 to 25 thousand refugees from Ukraine with the status of temporary protection in Norway – 21.06 thousand, Greece – 16.80 thousand, Croatia – 16.09 thousand and Cyprus – 14.37 thousand.
The UN also indicated the countries in which refugees from Ukraine were recorded, but there is no data on their status: Turkey (data as of May 19) – 145 thousand, Moldova – 86.24 thousand, Georgia – 23.11 thousand, Azerbaijan – 4.80 thousand, Albania – 2.50 thousand, North Macedonia – 1.64 thousand, Armenia – 0.49 thousand and Bosnia and Herzegovina – 0.30 thousand. Separately, it is worth specifying Russia and Belarus, the Ukrainian border with which, respectively, 1 million 745.80 thousand and 16.68 thousand people crossed. The UN information indicates that in the Russian Federation all those who crossed the border were recorded, while in Belarus – 10.35 thousand. There is no data on obtaining the status by them, as well as data on crossing the border of Ukraine in the opposite direction.
In total, according to the UN as of July 19, 9.567 million people left Ukraine since the beginning of the war, while 3.793 million returned (without data from Hungary, the Russian Federation and Belarus). According to this information, the total number of refugees since the beginning of the war can be estimated at about 5 4-5.5 million people, including about 1.75 million people to Russia.
“Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, almost a third of Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes. This is the largest displacement crisis in the world to date. In Ukraine, more than 6.3 million people remain displaced by the war,” UNHCR points out, although an estimate three weeks ago internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine was higher – 7.1 million.
Agroholding MHP, the largest producer of chicken meat in Ukraine, in June 2022 slightly changed its economic activity compared to May of this year, reducing chicken production by 2% to 56.8 thousand tons, but increasing its sales by 4 % – up to 55.7 thousand tons, the holding reported on the London Stock Exchange on Friday.
It is noted that the agrarian group’s operating activity is still below last year’s figures due to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine: in June 2022, chicken production was 89% of June 2021, and its sales were 82%, respectively.
It is specified that in the domestic market in June 2022, chicken sales remained at the level of June 2021 – 25.59 thousand tons, which is 12% less than the volumes sold in Ukraine in May 2022. In June of this year, chicken exports decreased by 29% compared to June 2021 – to 30.1 thousand tons, but exceeded the figures of the previous month by 24%.
Thus, the share of chicken exports in June of this year decreased by 9 percentage points (pp) compared to June 2021, to 54% from 63%, but increased by 9 percentage points. compared to last month.
The average selling price of poultry meat in June increased by 19% year-on-year to $2.0/kg.
During the specified period, MHP also reduced the production of meat products and semi-finished products by 46% compared to June 2021 – to 2.42 thousand tons, but increased by a third compared to May 2022.
According to him, in June 2022, sales of sunflower oil increased by 2.2 times compared to June last year and 2.6 times compared to May of the current year – up to 22.5 thousand tons. At the same time, sales of soybean oil increased by 15% by June 2021 and 3.6 times by May 2022 – up to 4.04 thousand tons.
“Harvesting of winter crops (wheat, barley and rapeseed) has already begun and is on schedule. Spring crops are in good condition. The weather conditions are also good,” the agricultural holding states in an exchange message.
MHP is the largest chicken producer in Ukraine. It is also engaged in the production of cereals, sunflower oil, meat processing products. On the European market, MHP supplies chilled half-carcasses of chickens, which are processed, including at its enterprises in the Netherlands and Slovakia. In February 2019, the agricultural holding completed the acquisition of the Slovenian company Perutnina Ptuj.
MHP generated $393 million in net profit in 2021 against a net loss of $133 million in 2020, while its revenue grew by 25% to $2.37 billion.
The founder, majority shareholder and head of the board of MHP is Ukrainian businessman Yuriy Kosyuk.
