A parliamentary delegation of the Republic of Korea visited the Kyiv region, head of the regional military administration Oleksiy Kuleba said.
“Today, a parliamentary delegation of the Republic of Korea, headed by the chairman of the ruling party of the Republic of Korea” Power of the People “Lee Jun Seok, paid an official visit to the Kyiv region. The foreign delegation visited the burial sites of tortured civilians in Bucha and examined the destroyed residential areas in Irpin,” Kuleba wrote. on the telegram channel on Sunday.
It is noted that during the visit, the Ukrainian and Korean sides “discussed areas of cooperation and joint projects in the framework of the restoration of the Kyiv region after the Russian invasion.”
KOREA, KYIV REGION, PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION, REPUBLIC, VISITED
Ukrainian farmers during the period of the Affordable Loans 5-7-9% program and portfolio guarantees opened for them until May 31 had attracted UAH 38.507 billion in total, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported.
“Credit funds were attracted by 18,078 farmers. Most of the loans under the portfolio guarantee program 80% were provided by state-owned banks,” the release says.
According to it, PrivatBank issued such agricultural loans for UAH 8.243 billion, Ukrgasbank – for UAH 4.355 billion, Oschadbank – for UAH 2.814 billion, Ukreximbank – for UAH 2.285 billion.
The top 5 regions in terms of attracted financial resources included Kirovohrad (UAH 4.712 billion), Kyiv (UAH 4.942 billion), Vinnytsia (UAH 3.289 billion), Odesa (UAH 2.940 billion) and Dnipropetrovsk (UAH 2.937 billion) regions.
They are followed by Poltava (UAH 2.407 billion), Volyn (UAH 2.117 billion), Lviv (UAH 2.094 billion), Khmelnytsky (UAH 1.758 billion) and Ternopil (UAH 1.527 billion) regions.
The ministry reminded that according to the terms of the program, farmers could attract up to UAH 60 million at 0% per annum for up to 6 months. Purpose of lending is an investment loan for the purchase of agricultural machinery, a loan for replenishment of working capital for the purchase of seeds, fertilizers, fuels and lubricants.
The size of the loan guarantee from the state reached 80% of the loan amount. A pledge of 20% of the amount could be A loan object, movable, immovable property – commercial real estate, special equipment, fixed assets, including bought for credit funds, as well as grain.
“One stage has actually been passed, but ahead – the periods of harvesting and selling the harvest are no less important. Therefore, the government will continue to work to ensure that farmers are provided with affordable financing – this is a basic condition for their development and competitiveness,” First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Vysotsky said.
A draft law on writing off debts on consumer loans granted for the purchase of movable and immovable property that was destroyed by the war will be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada within a week, Danila Getmantsev, head of the relevant parliamentary committee, said.
“On behalf of the president, we agreed with the head of the National Bank and the prime minister on the development of a bill to write off debt on consumer loans for the purchase of movable and immovable property that was destroyed during the hostilities. We will submit the bill to VR within the next week,” he wrote in a telegram on Sunday.
“A person should not pay a debt for a non-existent object,” Getmantsev added.
Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk will speak at the European Parliament and possibly meet with French President Emanuel Macron.
“First of all, in France, I will work on the parliamentary line…. A possible meeting with President Macron is being worked out, if the schedule allows,” Stefanchuk said on the air of the national telethon on Sunday.
According to Stefanchuk, in addition to Paris, he will visit Strasbourg and speak at the European Parliament.
“We will also work in Strasbourg, in the European Parliament. I will have a meeting with the leadership of the European Parliament and a speech in the European Parliament, and meetings with the main political groups of the European Parliament in order to enlist their support at this final stage,” Stefanchuk said.
He also did not rule out meetings with heads of other institutions of the European Union.
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, FRANCE, PRESIDENT, UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT
The seventh package of EU sanctions will include Russian gas and an expanded list of banks, head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak said.
“The seventh package of sanctions against Russia is our priority. The EU has already begun work on it. New restrictions should apply to Russian gas and expand the list of banks that will be disconnected from SWIFT, in particular, Gazprombank,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. on Saturday evening with reference to the Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, Pavel Yablonsky.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has completed its second mission to Chornobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) and the exclusion zone after completing planned nuclear safety activities, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.
“This week’s combined IAEA safety, security and safeguards mission succeeded in achieving all its objectives, despite the significant logistical challenges in travelling and working in Ukraine. It was the third such mission to Ukraine since the conflict began and it will be followed by others in the coming weeks and month,” Grossi said.
“The Director General is now also continuing his efforts to organize an IAEA mission to Ukraine’s largest NPP, Russian-controlled Zaporizhia, to carry out important nuclear safety, security and safeguards activities at this site in the country’s south,” the IAEA said on its website.
“With respect to safeguards, the transmission of remote safeguards data to IAEA headquarters from the Zaporizhia NPP stopped on May 30. With the assistance of the operator (Energoatom), the IAEA is continuing technical attempts to re-establish the data transmission. The IAEA continues to receive safeguards data from its systems installed at the other three operational NPPs in Ukraine,” the report says.
At the same time, Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Boiko noted that the IAEA’s efforts could be more active, in particular in the issues of liberation of Zaporizhia NPP from Russian occupation, and expressed opinion that it is impossible for its head to visit this station in such conditions.
