An exit poll conducted by Ipsos UK for Sky News, BBC, and ITV News predicts that the opposition Labor Party will win 410 seats in parliament, the BBC reports.
“If the prediction is correct, Sir Keir Starmer will become prime minister with 410 Labor MPs, slightly less than Tony Blair’s total in 1997,” the report says.
It is noted that the Conservatives may avoid the defeat predicted by some opinion polls, but their predicted result will be a crushing blow to the party after 14 years in power. According to exit polls, the Conservatives will win 131 seats in parliament, the lowest number in history. The Liberal Democrats are expected to take third place with 61 seats.
In addition, according to exit polls, the number of Scottish National Party MPs will decrease to 10, while Reform UK is projected to gain 13 MPs. The Green Party of England and Wales is expected to double its number of MPs to two, and Plaid Cymru will get four MPs. Others are projected to win 19 seats.
The exit poll is based on voter data from approximately 130 polling stations in England, Scotland and Wales. The poll does not cover Northern Ireland.
The UK election took place on Thursday, July 4. Most of the results will start coming in on the morning of Friday, July 5.
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Change in prices of food raw materials from Ukraine (forecast up to 2025), %
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Registrations of new commercial vehicles (trucks and special vehicles) in June 2024 increased by 12% compared to the same month in 2023 – up to 1198 units, which is also 6% more than in May this year, Ukravtoprom reported on its Telegram channel.
According to the report, Citroen became the leader with 291 cars registered, pushing Renault into second place (223 units). The top 5 brands of the market also include: MAN – 143 units, Scania – 79 units and Ford – 65 units.
As reported with reference to Ukravtoprom’s data, in June last year, 1068 trucks and special vehicles were sold in Ukraine (2.5 times more than a year earlier). The top five leaders were Renault (356 units), Scania (127), Volkswagen (67), Peugeot (60), and Mercedes-Benz (53).
According to the Association, in January-June 2024, more than 6.2 thousand new vehicles were added to the Ukrainian truck and special vehicles fleet, which is 20% more than in the same period last year.
At the same time, the AUTO-Consulting information and analytical group, analyzing the segment of trucks with a gross vehicle weight of more than 3.5 tons, noted on its website that it grew by 7.5%.
“This is a good signal. The market for trucks for business or infrastructure maintenance is still growing,” the experts say.
According to the group, the leader in June was MAN, which was chosen by 17% of consumers, followed by Scania with 16.7% of the market, and Peugeot trucks, which are now replacing outdated Russian-made vehicles, took the third position.
It is noted that sales volumes are also growing in the middle segment, due to Hyundai, Isuzu, Foton, and in the segment of heavy trucks with a gross vehicle weight of more than 16 tons, Scania was the leader, chosen by almost a third of customers.
“The results of the first six months are also encouraging. In total, customers purchased 2.4 thousand trucks, which is 5.8% more than last year,” the statement said.
As reported, in 2023, according to Ukravtoprom, registrations of new commercial vehicles in Ukraine increased by 65% compared to 2022 – up to 11.3 thousand units. At the same time, the segment of trucks over 3.5 tons, according to AUTO-Consulting, increased by 56.5% to 4853 units.
Number of vacancies as of 30.04.2024 (thousand units) according to data of state employment center
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Yumji Kaolin LLC of Rinat Akhmetov ‘s SCM Group has won the auction held by the State Service of Geology and Subsoil of Ukraine for the sale of a special permit for the Ivankivetska primary kaolin deposit (Zhytomyr region).
The Ivankivetska site is located near the city of Berdychiv, near the border of Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia regions. Thenearby kaolin sites are controlled by companies from theQuarzwerkegroup (owned by German citizen Lindemann-Berk Robert Otto), as well as Zhezhelivskyi kaolin owned by French citizen Erio François Thierry Roger and Turbivskyi kaolin plant owned by Roman Polishchuk.
As a reminder, Ivankivetska was put up for auction with a starting price of UAH 4,445,440.
Three bidders registered for the auction, and their final price offers are as follows:
The exhibition “Treasures of Crimea. Return”, whose exhibits were on display in the Netherlands at the time of the occupation of Crimea in 2014 and for the return of which Ukraine has been fighting for 10 years. According to the official website of the President of Ukraine on Thursday, the exhibition was opened by First Lady Olena Zelenska. “Our struggle for the return of Crimea and the return of its scrubs began simultaneously – 10 years ago. It took 10 long years of courts and brilliant work of Ukrainian and foreign lawyers, museum workers and diplomats for culture, historical justice and cooperation of free people to win,” Zelenskaya’s press service quoted the president as saying. The exhibition “Treasures of Crimea. Return” will be presented at the National Museum of History of Ukraine until the final de-occupation of Crimea. Then the collection is planned to be moved to the peninsula. It is noted that the unique exhibits of this exhibition belong to the cultures of different peoples who lived on the peninsula, including Greeks, Scythians, Sarmatians, Goths, and Huns. They were created in the period from the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD. More than 550 exhibits from four Crimean museums were on display in Amsterdam in 2014, when Russia occupied Crimea. For almost 10 years, our country has been trying to return them. Finally, a year ago, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands decided to transfer the collection to Ukraine. The return of the exhibits took place thanks to the joint work of representatives of a foreign law firm who cooperated with the Ministry of Justice and Ukrainian lawyers, as well as teams from the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, the National Museum of History of Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ukraine.
