US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin plans to visit Ukraine next week, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said at a briefing on Tuesday.
“Secretary [Austin] and his team will be preparing for a trip to Europe next week. Stops will include Georgia, Ukraine and Romania and it will conclude this important visit with allies and partners in Brussels for the NATO defense ministerial,” he said.
The meeting of the heads of defense departments of NATO countries in Brussels is scheduled for October 21-22.
In September, the mobile operator lifecell connected 377 more settlements to 4G, where a total of 134,000 people live.
According to the company’s press service on Monday, out of the indicated number of settlements in 376 settlements up to 5,000 people live and in one – up to 25,000 people.
The operator also notes that as of the end of September, the operator’s 4G coverage is available in 12,889 settlements, where more than 28 million Ukrainians live.
With the network roll-out, the consumption of mobile Internet has also increased: last month lifecell subscribers used 56% more 4G traffic on an annual basis.
In September, lifecell users spent 11% more time on social networks, 31% more watched videos on YouTube and 42% more often communicated in instant messengers, compared to the same period in 2020.
At the same time, Ukrainians did not cut their calls to each other: the amount of voice traffic in lifecell network grew by 6% on an annual basis.
In Ukraine, lifecell is the third largest mobile operator.
Ukraine should remain a gas transit country, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said at a press conference in Kyiv.
“It is clear and constant for the European Commission Ukraine is and must remain reliable gas transit country,” the European Commission’s president said.
A diagnostic and treatment center with an ambulance substation was opened in Kyiv by the Adonis medical group.
According to a press release from Adonis, the new clinic will receive both adult patients and children around the clock, in the 24/7 mode. It will also have a center for children and adults, a diagnostic department (CT, MRI, X-ray, dental computer-aided tomography, ultrasound), a laboratory, a women’s consultation, a surgical department for adults and children, dentistry for children and adults, a department of oncology with oncosurgery, and a department of orthopedics and traumatology.
As reported, the Adonis medical group launched its own ambulance service in 2021.
Adonis is a network of private full-cycle medical centers for adults and children.
The private clinic Adonis was established over 20 years ago. Its network includes ten branches in Kyiv and the region, including two of its own maternity hospitals and a stem cell laboratory. In the branches of the clinic, doctors conduct appointments in 60 medical directions.
Head of the State Agency for Tourism Development Maryana Oleskiv believes that tourist facilities of state importance should be transferred to local communities and state subventions should be allocated for their development. “The most important thing is that today every community leader, developing a strategy for a long-term period of seven years, understands the significance of a historical monument, understands the importance of any objects located on their territory, that this is primarily an opportunity for their development,” Director General of the Regional Policy Directorate at the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development Viktor Podorozhniy said at a press briefing on Tuesday in Kyiv.
According to him, communities do not need large investments for such a process, at the same time, coordination of local authorities, business and central authorities is needed.
“When we talk about territorial communities, then, indeed, some objects are state-owned with different subordination, there are municipal facilities, and there are also state-owned, but regional ones,” Oleskiv said.
According to her, this leads to a number of problems, as all these objects are part of the tourist route, and there is no interest for a tourist to come there and these objects to earn money.
“Therefore, the issue of decentralization and development of communities, if we are talking about such objects that have state subordination, must still be transferred to communities, if they are not strategic state objects, and we should think about some subventions for their development,” Oleskiv said.
According to her, it is necessary in each individual case to stimulate development and attract tourists, without harming such objects.
Ukrainian banks’ cash exchange rates on 12/10/21
Source: Interfax-Ukraine
