Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air has deployed seven more aircraft in Ukraine, increasing their total number from four to 11.
As the airline said at a press conference on Wednesday, five new aircraft are deployed in Kyiv (in addition to the three already based in Kyiv), and two more aircraft will receive a base in Lviv (in addition to one aircraft).
Wizz Air also plans to launch 12 new directions from Kyiv, nine from Lviv, three from Odesa and two from Kharkiv in 2021-2022.
In addition, Wizz Air will have four new countries on the map of flights with Ukraine – Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
In total, the airline plans to service 117 destinations from Ukraine to 22 countries.
Siemens in Ukraine in the 2021 fiscal year (October 2020 – September 2021) has doubled the volume of orders and turnover in comparison with FY2020, CEO of Siemens Ukraine Maciej Tomasz Zielinski has said.
“Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain difficulties associated with supply disruptions, rising prices for materials 2021 turned out to be excellent from a financial point of view and the implementation of the set goals,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv in Tuesday.
Zielinski said that growth was recorded in all businesses of the company in Ukraine, including taking into account the growing demand of companies for digitalization solutions. At the same time, he did not specify the size of the company’s turnover in 2021.
As reported, the company’s initial plans for FY2021 envisaged at least maintaining turnover at the FY2020 level.
Referring to the issue of the company’s work in FY2022, Zielinski expressed his hope for the further development of all sectors.
“I hope that all sectors will develop in Ukraine. The sector where the lack of chips is most affected is the automotive industry, which is practically absent in Ukraine, and for example, the agricultural sector will develop rapidly, since it is a necessary resource for humanity, and Ukraine has a chance here [to increase supplies], including taking into account the disruption of supplies from the same Far East. And here we will continue to work, for example, with Kernel,” the CEO of the company said.
He also said that the pharmaceutical industry of Ukraine now using digital technologies can produce products at the level of European and American standards.
“I think that mechanical engineering will also develop, again due to the disruption of supplies from the Far East,” the CEO of Siemens Ukraine said.
Zielinski said that Siemens Ukraine itself continues to transform, and this year it has introduced a regime for its employees when an employee can work remotely for two or three days. According to him, today 85% of employees are vaccinated and provided with insurance in case of COVID-19 disease.
At the same time, according to him, only vaccinated or tested employees, or those with a doctor’s certificate, can work in the office.
Founded in 1997, Siemens Ukraine is a supplier of products, services and integrated solutions for energy, industry, transport, building automation and urban infrastructure. The central office is located in Kyiv, regional branches in Lviv, Dnipro, Kryvy Rih, Odesa and Kharkiv.
Education workers, unvaccinated from COVID-19 until November, will be suspended from work, the Ministry of Health quoted its Minister Viktor Liashko as saying.
“Teachers are included in the list of professions whose representatives must be vaccinated for full-fledged work. If education workers are not vaccinated against COVID-19 by November, they will be suspended from work for a period of quarantine without pay,” the Ministry of Health said.
“Vaccination for teachers is an opportunity not only to continue to work and provide high-quality knowledge to students. First of all, it is about protecting their lives and health, the safety of children,” the minister stressed.
As reported, the Ministry of Health, by its order No. 2153 of October 4, approved the list of organizations whose representatives are subject to mandatory vaccination against COVID-19.
The joint statement following the 23rd Ukraine-EU Summit recognizes the importance of further strengthening cooperation in countering hybrid threats and tackling disinformation.
According to the text of the statement published on the website of the President’s Office of Ukraine, the EU will continue to support Ukraine’s resilience, including through the strengthening of independent media and the regulatory environment, as well as sharing best practices on media freedom and literacy, strategic communications and supporting Ukrainian initiatives to tackle disinformation.
“We underlined the important role played by civil society, youth and independent media in all areas of public and political life, also in the context of disinformation campaigns against the EU and Ukraine, including notably by Russia,” the officials said in the joint statement.
The holding of the first cyber dialogue between Ukraine and the EU on June 3, 2021 is also encouraged, and the next round is expected in the second quarter of 2022.
“We emphasized the importance of deepening inter-institutional cooperation on cybersecurity,” according to the statement.
Ukraine will begin to implement an energy saving program next year, about UAH 300 billion is currently needed for implementation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
“This program [on energy saving] has been developed in absolute detail […] We see that this program can be implemented, and we will definitely implement it with the support of specialists and financial assistance from the European Union. In any case, we will start doing this next year. We cannot wait when our neighbor [Russia] threatens us with a shutdown or reduction in gas volumes,” Zelensky said during a briefing following the 23rd Ukraine-EU summit with President of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
He said that Ukraine should be truly energetically independent.
According to Zelensky, Ukraine currently needs about UAH 300 billion to implement this program.
The “Safety Seal” for hotels with fully vaccinated personnel will be introduced by the end of 2021, head of the State Agency for Tourism Development Maryana Oleskiv told Interfax-Ukraine.
According to her, the State Agency for Tourism Development of Ukraine has developed a draft act of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the approval of the procedure for the implementation of the pilot project “Safety Certificate of Accommodation Facilities”.
This Procedure establishes the regulation for monitoring and evaluating accommodation facilities (hotels) in accordance with the Temporary Recommendations for the organization of anti-epidemiological measures in hotels during the quarantine period due to the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), approved by the Resolution of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine dated May 12, 2020 No. 22.
“Now the draft act is being approved by the structural divisions of State Agency for Tourism Development. It is tentatively assumed that the implementation of the pilot project will begin by the end of 2021,” Oleskiv said.
